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  • Your contention that one who is opposed to abortion of babies has no right to use asterisks to substi….

    Evangelical Ignorance At Its Finest « Lean Left 2007

  • True to his promise to Pepe Huerta, the substi - tute whom management had picked up on the cheap from Guadalajara, he allowed the young aspirant to place the second pair of sticks, having himself messed up the first pair.

    Mexico Michener, James 1992

  • When these special characters are found, the PRIMOS command processor substi - tutes the value of the item for the item itself.

    Introduction to the Primos Operating System by Violence of The VOID Hackers 1989

  • When their substi - tute symbol was ground into the dust, only I. of many thousands of me, escaped destruction.

    The Moment Of The Magician Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984

  • When their substi - tute symbol was ground into the dust, only I. of many thousands of me, escaped destruction.

    The Moment of the Magician Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984

  • When their substi - tute symbol was ground into the dust, only I. of many thousands of me, escaped destruction.

    The Moment of the Magician Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984

  • When their substi - tute symbol was ground into the dust, only I. of many thousands of me, escaped destruction.

    The Moment Of The Magician Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984

  • In other words, they substi - tuted for Engels 'metaphysical monism an ordinary epistemological realism which at least had the advan - tage of being compatible with the procedure of the natural sciences.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas GEORGE LICHTHEIM 1968

  • Simultaneously, in place of the fluctuating this - worldly ideas of the goals of Israelite history, it substi - tutes the expectation of a cosmic catastrophe that leads to the end of the old aeon and of its master, the Devil, and passing through an eschatological period of re - demption yields to a new world of absolute and perfect salvation.

    ESCHATOLOGY WALTER SCHMITHALS 1968

  • Rituals of expiation were devised, centered on the totem as the “father substi - tute.”

    ORIGINS OF RELIGION S. G. F. BRANDON 1968

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