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  • And interestingly enough a large majority of otherwise wellinformed people have bought into the idea that AWOL Bush is simply a he-said/she-said thing.

    Midterm Roundup 2009

  • If I had been a reasonably wellinformed person choosing a name back near the turn of the century, the positive connotations of “Trojan” would have made it a reasonable choice.

    languagehat.com: TROJANS. 2004

  • The President has also expressed a desire, in view of her continuing role and the fact that she'll be doing more briefings, that he wants to ensure that she has maximum access to him and to others within the administration; that's it's important when someone comes out to this podium to talk to you all that that person be wellinformed, well-briefed on what's going on inside.

    Briefing By Gergen Gearan ITY National Archives 1993

  • There are concerns that the health care reform plan, although it does many things for rural communities and rural families, that it may put some of these children with chronic conditions and disabilities at some risk of losing some of the benefits, which if the families are wellinformed and the system is responsive, they've been able to receive it at this time.

    President Rural Health Nm ITY National Archives 1993

  • Eisenhower was politically very astute but not wellinformed in terms of U.S. domestic politics, and he used Clay, I think, as the conduit through which American politics was explained to him and personali ties and whatever.

    Lucius D. Clay: An American Life 1990

  • It has enabled consumers and the consumers 'representatives in legislature to gain a better understanding of complex matters, thus enabling them to take an intelligent and wellinformed stand.

    Lessons from Current Miseries 1983

  • First I should say something of how it works, although this is pretty generally known, particularly amongst such wellinformed and earnest Canadians as follow the addresses given from this rostrum.

    Dinner in Honour of His Excellency, the Right Honourable Roland Michener C.C., C.D., Governor General of Canada 1970

  • Although I believe myself to be reasonably wellinformed on such matters, I was positively astounded at the progress which has been made and the degree of modernization which has taken place in Taiwan.

    Red China—Five years of Dramatic Events 1965

  • [JAY] To the People of the State of New York: IT IS not a new observation that the people of any country (if, like the Americans, intelligent and wellinformed) seldom adopt and steadily persevere for many years in an erroneous opinion respecting their interests.

    The Federalist Papers 1788

  • The possibility of particular mischiefs can never be viewed, by a wellinformed mind, as a solid objection to a general principle, which is calculated to avoid general mischiefs and to obtain general advantages.

    The Federalist Papers 1788

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