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  • Wealth production must be understood to be a small part of a greater whole,

    Ten Millennia Ago a Seed Was Planted 2009

  • Having an essence meant that human beings could be placed within a larger whole,

    Existentialism Crowell, Steven 2008

  • In his thinking about how best to administer a state as a whole,

    John Stuart Mill Wilson, Fred 2007

  • Latin universum, from neuter (neuter) a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine) of universes entire, whole,

    truth in religions 2007

  • The fact that we are capable, through reason, of thinking infinity as a whole,

    Kant's Aesthetics and Teleology Ginsborg, Hannah 2005

  • In line with earlier decisions continually to strengthen management capacity in government and the public sector as a whole,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • If one may give credit to the weekly histories of Monsieur Roderigue, the finest writer among the moderns; not only des chasses brillantes et nombreuses des operas ou les acteurs se surpassent les jours des Saints de L.L. A.A. E.E. serenissimes celebres; en grand gala; but to crown the whole,

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • In fragment 17, apparently speaking of the physical world as a whole,

    Empedocles Parry, Richard 2005

  • Right fain were I to learn this knight were whole,

    Idylls of the King 2004

  • On behalf of our national government and our people as a whole,

    Speech at the funeral of KZN MEC Dumisani Makhaye 2004

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