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So we're going to devote six-sevenths of this week's talking points to refuting the "CW" claim.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Class Warfare? Hardly. Chris Weigant 2011
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So we're going to devote six-sevenths of this week's talking points to refuting the "CW" claim.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Class Warfare? Hardly. Chris Weigant 2011
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It's scriptural, which speaks to the hearts and backgrounds of six-sevenths of America, and nearly half the world.
Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb: 14 By 14, A Biblical Emissions Mandate: 14 (Percent Reduction) By (20)14 Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb 2012
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It's scriptural, which speaks to the hearts and backgrounds of six-sevenths of America, and nearly half the world.
Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb: 14 By 14, A Biblical Emissions Mandate: 14 (Percent Reduction) By (20)14 Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb 2012
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It's scriptural, which speaks to the hearts and backgrounds of six-sevenths of America, and nearly half the world.
Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb: 14 By 14, A Biblical Emissions Mandate: 14 (Percent Reduction) By (20)14 Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb 2012
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For every $1 of toxic assets that they buy from the banks, the FDIC will lend up to 85.7 cents (six-sevenths of $1), and the Treasury and private investors will each put in 7.15 cents in equity to cover the remaining balance.
Jeffrey Sachs: Will Geithner and Summers Succeed in Raiding the FDIC and Fed? 2009
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I take it back: Next year, there will be Halloween in the Hollywood Division I had erroneously convinced myself that Hollywood Division has Halloween only five-sevenths of the time rather than six-sevenths.
The Volokh Conspiracy » L.A. Halloween Silly String Ban 2009
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Being a town proposition, slums would concern six-sevenths of the vote.
Swan Song 2004
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Britain, which was to rid itself of unemployment in the ways suggested, was the only important country in the world which had to buy about seven-tenths of its food, and of whose population well-nigh six-sevenths lived in Towns.
The Silver Spoon 2004
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It employed those six-sevenths in producing articles in some cases too dearly for
The Silver Spoon 2004
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