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- proper noun Alternative form of
Anu .
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Migrant Detention in South Texas: 'An Extreme Depressive State' yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Migrant Detention in South Texas: \'An Extreme Depressive State\' '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: South Texas immigration attorney Jodi Goodwin agrees with a United Nations report that states: "overuse of immigration detention in the United States violates the spirit of international laws and conventions and, in many cases, also violates the actual letter of those instruments."
Migrant Detention in South Texas: 'An Extreme Depressive State' 2008
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An adaptation of a command of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount: Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth; but I say unto you, that ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Turn the other cheek 2002
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An excellent supplement to _The Rape of the Lock_, which pictures the superficial elegance of the age, is _An Essay on Man_, which reflects its philosophy.
Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909
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P. 186 -- An explanation of the meaning of the number seven may be obtained in _An Outline of Occult Science_ (see advt., front page).
Christentum als mystische Tatsache und die Mysterien des Altertums. English Rudolf Steiner 1893
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Instead of "An Ode to Virtue," by Dr. Morris Saxby, it is _An Ode on Virtue by a Young Author, dedicated to Dr. William Saxby; with a Preface and Notes, Critical and Explanatory, by a Friend_ -- "Mens sibi conscia recti" -- A good intention.
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And the other, An Act intituled, _An Act of Explanation_, etc.
Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry Thomas Osborne Davis 1829
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[An Arte.] +An Arte, to be a Methodicall cõplete Doctrine, hauing abundancy of sufficient, and peculier matter to deale with, by the allowance of the
The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara John Dee 1567
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An official in Chung Wa Dae said, ¡°An A4 size letter sent from the White House was delivered to participants of the US-Korea summit, including Kim Sung-hwan, presidential secretary for foreign affairs and security, and Cheong Wa Dae spokesman Lee Dong-kwan earlier this month.
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RAND, MCNALLY & COMPANY for "An Arkansas Planter," from _An Arkansas
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) Various 1887
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I just had a question, Carla: was the title An Ecclestiastical History of the English People given to the work later, or is that what Bede called it?
Bede: the Father of the Footnote Carla 2007
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