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Rejecting on the one hand the theory of the plurality of worlds in the sense implying that all existing worlds are inhabited, and on the other hand the theory of but one world, we should accept a theory which might be entitled the Paucity of Worlds, only that relative not absolute paucity must be understood.
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(Even before Mr. Schur, I had always intended my first novel to be called A Paucity of Dearth.
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(Even before Mr. Schur, I had always intended my first novel to be called A Paucity of Dearth.
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So far, however, at least when it comes to the most important domestic issues facing the country -- the stimulus package, the bank bailout, health care, climate change -- President Obama has shown a Paucity of Audacity.
Miles Mogulescu: Obama Needs to Show Less Paucity of Audacity 2009
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Paucity of action under the Bush administration was to be expected, given that administration's ties to the oil industry.
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Paucity of quantifiable peace can cloud the judgments in the market place.
OPEC AND OIL PRICE: STABILIZATION GOOD FOR AFRICAN ECONOMIES 2009
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Paucity of debate means also that the deputy leadership election is shaping up to be a drab parade of stunted ambition, a conference sideshow of apparatchik introspection with nothing to add to the conversation about what direction the country, rather than just the Labour party, should take.
Stunted ambition 2007
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Paucity of women on mastheads and now political blogs? by Jill on December 4, 2006 - 9: 59am
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Paucity of women on mastheads and now political blogs? by Jill on December 4, 2006 - 9: 59am
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Paucity of rainfall has long been considered a principal cause of arroyo formation in the Southwest, and Douglass (1935, p. 49), with his tree rings before him, sees a succession of droughts down through the years.
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