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- adjective Intended for publication or attribution.
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Examples
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And so I ask that the Senate move swiftly forward on making on-the-record voting permanent law this year.
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I want to thank Representative Nathan Ballentine for continuing the fight he and I started together as deskmates, as well of the rest of the House for following his lead and passing his on-the-record voting bill unanimously the first week.
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Mr. Bernanke's predecessor, Alan Greenspan, conducted one on-the-record television interview shortly before the 1987 stock-market crash and never did another.
Bernanke to Open Up as Fed Embarks on Era of Glasnost Jon Hilsenrath 2011
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A Pentagon cable from July 1995 provides the only on-the-record account from the Guatemalan military that connects Mr. Pérez to the case.
Guatemala Opens Inquiry Into Disappearance of Ex-Rebel Fighter Nicholas Casey 2011
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They were expected to return Tuesday morning, when Blockbuster lawyers plan to publicly appear in a courtroom and begin a formal auction, with bidders competing in an on-the-record forum.
Blockbuster Auction Draws Liquidators Mike Spector 2011
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Regardless of their previous and on-the-record views on the subject.
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Geltzer not only reviewed the public record — speeches by Presidents Clinton and Bush, and by other key actors such as former Vice-President Cheney — but he also conducted a number of on-the-record interviews with intelligence officials and counterterrorism policymakers from both the Clinton and Bush Administrations.
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It features some on-the-record quotes from someone who knows more about what the now-scrapped torture regime (how amazing it feels to write those words) actually was:
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Once it's said, it's there forever, and subjected to truth-telling standards appropriate to all on-the-record utterances.
Pamela Haag, Ph.D.: The Bullshit Paradox Ph.D. Pamela Haag 2011
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Given the relative closeness of the first PREB vote (there were many on-the-record dissenters), as well as the influx of conversative appointees since then, it is very doubtful PREB will be granted (or cert. later granted).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Ninth Circuit Upholds “Under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance, 2010
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