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  • As I wrote in the Sunday Telegraph at the weekend, Damian McBride's vile emails sent from a Government address and the heavyhanded arrest of Damian Green both reflect a dangerous belief that the public interest and party political interest are identical, co-terminous.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • Jones was appointed to the NATO post of Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) and the overlapping, essentially co-terminous one of Commander, United States European Command (COMUSEUCOM) in the first Bush term and is part of the two-thirds of the Obama administration's foreign policy triumvirate – National Security Adviser, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense - inherited from the preceding administration.

    Global Energy War: Washington's New Kissinger 2009

  • I will substitute "assumed without valid grounds" and in place of "you", "the atheist scientific community" (which, please note, is not co-terminous with "the scientific community").

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • As I wrote in the Sunday Telegraph at the weekend, Damian McBride's vile emails sent from a Government address and the heavyhanded arrest of Damian Green both reflect a dangerous belief that the public interest and party political interest are identical, co-terminous.

    A fractured covenant 2009

  • Simon Hoggart likened the politician who talks about ‘co-terminous stake-holder engagements’ to a child with a bit of Lego.

    Cutting through the jargon 2009

  • Simon Hoggart likened the politician who talks about ‘co-terminous stake-holder engagements’ to a child with a bit of Lego.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • Simon Hoggart likened the politician who talks about ‘co-terminous stake-holder engagements’ to a child with a bit of Lego.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • We were later than we intended as Jean had thrown up earlier in the day etc... so Al and Lionel had to drive to the terminous whilst me Simon, Lynne and Jean rode in the open air carrages.

    Snell-Pym » Trains, Boats and Swimming 2008

  • It seems to me that the set of those who are "convinced that the evidence overwhelmingly supports their position" will be co-terminous (or very nearly) with the set of those who are convinced (or, at least, have convinced themselves that they are convinced) that "the evidence" "speaks for itself."

    Confirmation Bias and ID 2006

  • The ability to obtain a conviction using certain information is not even close to being co-terminous with the legality of how the information was obtained.

    Balkinization 2007

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