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Instead of building up an organization, it's been busy revetting all its employees and ensuring they comply with a complex new lobby policy.
The Lobbyist Wars 2008
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I have seen nothing about this movie before seeing it online…even the trailer is revetting….cant wait to see it..
Must Watch: Miramax's The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Trailer « FirstShowing.net 2008
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COOPER: The city attorney denied the FEMA deadline is a factor and insists changes have been made to improve the process, including a revetting of the entire list and written confirmation of the status of the house.
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COOPER: The city attorney denied the FEMA deadline is a factor and insists changes have been made to improve the process, including a revetting of the entire list and written confirmation of the status of a house.
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Each of them has a process for revetting their forces.
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In Nubia such rings are generally built of stone, but here brick was used instead for both the rings, which do not appear to have been the revetting wall for a rubble filled tumulus, and the offering chapels placed on an axis parallel with the orientation of the grave cut.
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Def Stores: Start w/basic Id; additional revetting materials will fol as time and tac sit permit.
First Clash Macksey, Kenneth 1984
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The men were very quick about getting down, and after the first night they were practically working in safety for the remaining four or five days necessary to complete the sandbag revetting.
The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919 David Douglas Ogilvie
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The sand was so soft, no amount of ordinary sandbagging or revetting would make it stand up, and all the trenches were made by sinking complete wooden frames into
The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919 David Douglas Ogilvie
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There is nothing more important than the supports used to keep revetting in place.
Military Instructors Manual Oliver Schoonmaker
chained_bear commented on the word revetting
In castle architecture, facing applied to a wall or bank.
August 26, 2008