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  • "stricted" the grain as it came from the separator; -- and it was hinted about among the farmers, that "Moss would bear watching."

    When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine 1887

  • The fact that the same nuts are accepted by the US which is my opinion has far stricted are much more science based methods reaffirms that EU bureacracy is largely a random fiefdom building affair.

    Britain 'turns blind eye to faulty EU laws Serf 2007

  • I'd wager that Fergal was as knowledgeable about such re - stricted treats as anyone else here.

    Nerilka's Story McCaffrey, Anne 1986

  • Voltaire and his successors did some service by raising the issue — by talking about criticism — but their own con - stricted outlook would have prevented their solving the problem even if they had had the patience to carry out the detailed work that was required.

    HISTORIOGRAPHY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968

  • Protestant and nationalistic prejudices which had con - stricted it down to the time of Bishop Burnet's His - tory of the Reformation which began to appear in

    HISTORIOGRAPHY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968

  • This nervous tension became a marked characteristic of the later balance of power system; but Guicciardini, envisaging the con - stricted area of the Italian peninsula, would be far ahead of his time if he were held to be recommending in this passage a formula of general policy.

    BALANCE OF POWER HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968

  • In the seventeenth cen - tury English interest in the national past was not re - stricted to political theory, nor was it confined to any particular group — it spread into various circles con - cerned with diverse realms of enquiry: royalist and parliamentarian, Puritan and Catholic, aristocratic and popular.

    CONCEPT OF GOTHIC WAYNE DYNES 1968

  • The common property therefore is not re - stricted to any place or date and hence is entirely different from a material object.

    IDEA GEORGE BOAS 1968

  • World hypotheses are distinguished from the more limited hypotheses of the special sciences by being “unre - stricted” in their subject matter or in the scope of the evidence the hypotheses are expected to cover.

    METAPHOR IN PHILOSOPHY STEPHEN C. PEPPER 1968

  • If some form of the root metaphor theory for unre - stricted hypotheses is combined with a form of para - digm theory like Kuhn's for restricted hypotheses, it would suggest that the basis of all productive empirical theory is in principle metaphorical.

    METAPHOR IN PHILOSOPHY STEPHEN C. PEPPER 1968

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