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  • You would like part-taking in another such attack would be like stricting the perverbual thrid-rail up your ass to see if it really would kill you.

    Think Progress » Assault on Fitzgerald Intensifies 2005

  • Even the tightest regulations and stricting policing would not prevent or detect the birth of cloned babies.

    CNN Transcript Apr 10, 2002 2002

  • Tas noticed a queer feeling in the vicinity of his heart a con - stricting kind of feeling, as if he'd swallowed one of the more fe - rocious constricting snakes.

    Dragons of a Fallen Sun Weis, Margaret 2000

  • The usual train-station scene of policemen, young thugs and their families, hardened crooks, lawyers and judges, had been stemmed by an order re - stricting the floor to the single case.

    Along Came a Spider Patterson, James, 1947- 1993

  • That caught the attention of the Securities and Exchange Commission and raised concerns that the company had violated rules re stricting corporate information prior to an IPO.

    unknown title 2011

  • If the price is reasonable and affordable within your means, then go for it. (apply to all estate - not stricting to punggol) i dont buy the argument that prices will not come down singapore is already losing its competitive advantahe with the high costs here also with increasing unemployment, all those PRs who bought flats will leave and sell their HDB flats, currently demand maybe higher than supply but for how long? its definitely not forever, the housing market works in cycles. the fake boom (fueled by fake credit) combines with a supply squeeze shot up the prices last couple of years, but that was because it was a situation akin to a perfect storm where a number of factors contributed to the demand outstripping supply.

    www.hardwarezone.com.sg 2009

  • Well, traditions are by definition temporary, and the tackle is being taken out of the game anyway, by ever more stricting interpretation of the foul play rules. "

    The Guardian World News Gregg Roughley 2010

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