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Examples
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Italian lawyers are already on war-footing over moves to include measures in the package to open up the legal profession to greater competition.
Greek PM Papandreou wins confidence vote - November 4 2011 2011
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If you get a decent amount of warning about a looming threat, presumably you can put your country on a “war-footing”, cancel some vacations and retirements, and use your productivity per hour to crank out whatever you need.
Matthew Yglesias » The United States Has Always Been Rich 2010
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Establish a "war-footing" focus on harnessing the energy and idealism of young learners to develop ways of conserving energy; hold contests, nationally, state-wide, and locally for "best ideas" developed by students to deal with such issues as obesity, over-consumption and wasted resources.
Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Is "Green Education" Possible? 2010
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That this has coincided with an almost continuous war-footing or active troop engagement.
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The perpetual war-footing between India and Pakistan is one reason India's trade with its South Asian neighbors remains paltry, although smuggling and trade routed through third countries belies the official data.
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That this has coincided with an almost continuous war-footing or active troop engagement.
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The perpetual war-footing between India and Pakistan is one reason India's trade with its South Asian neighbors remains paltry, although smuggling and trade routed through third countries belies the official data.
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The perpetual war-footing between India and Pakistan is one reason India's trade with its South Asian neighbors remains paltry, although smuggling and trade routed through third countries belies the official data.
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A full awareness of the terrorist threat in the mid 90's would have forced Clinton into George Bush's war-footing, something Clinton was constitutionally unprepared for.
In Letter, Albright And Berger Demand Kean Get ABC To Kill Film 2009
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He determined to put himself “on a war-footing here and tighten the hatches… and just try to work steadily the next four months.”
Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009
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