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Rev. Jim Wallis��� most recent book ��� ���God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It��� ��� struck a chord this year and became an instant best-seller.
Van Jones: Spiritual Activism: The Religious Left Fights Back ��� On All Fronts 2008
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It can have the same truth conditions as a scoped sentence something like, ˜It might have been the case that: for some x, x is the famous humanist most closely associated with the Italian Renaissance and
Rigid Designators LaPorte, Joseph 2006
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It is therefore not a matter of indifference whether ˜Socrates does not exist™ is rendered as ˜(Socrates) does not exist™ or as ˜It is not the case that (Socrates exists)™.
Existence Miller, Barry 2002
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It is commonly quoted as, It is better to give than to receive.
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The next one was beautiful, but not It -- not _It_ -- not the Right
Four Girls and a Compact Annie Hamilton Donnell
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The next one was beautiful, but not It -- not _It_ -- not the Right
Four Girls and a Compact Annie Hamilton Donnell
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The next one was beautiful, but not It -- not _It_ -- not the Right
Four Girls and a Compact Annie Hamilton Donnell
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It always introduces a substantive clause, and is equivalent to _that which_; as, _It is WHAT (that which) he wants_.
Practical Grammar and Composition Thomas Wood
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_ It was the _men_, _women_, and children's lot, &c. or, _It was the lot of_ the men, women, and children.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham
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"It would be more polite to make Andy _It_," said Owl.
The Cat in Grandfather's House Carl Henry Grabo
Jubjub commented on the word It
"It hasn't been tagged yet." Then how did he get to be it?
November 28, 2009