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  • Never mind that huge majorities support Obama's domestic and foreign policy agena, which includes pulling out of Iraq, talking to hostile foreign leaders, making health care available to everyone, hiking taxes on the rich, combating global warming, etc. etc.

    Bush: "We're A Center-Right Country" 2009

  • I know, for sure it's alexis bledel and keiki agena, they used to have a ton of scenes together all the time and now even this episode tonight was awkward between lane and rory at the baby shower.

    Blind Item: Friends On Screen, Not Off | the TV addict 2007

  • Never mind that huge majorities support Obama's domestic and foreign policy agena, which includes pulling out of Iraq, talking to hostile foreign leaders, making health care available to everyone, hiking taxes on the rich, combating global warming, etc. etc.

    George W. Bush 2009

  • We need a govt with a long-term view that will discuss these types of issues without a hidden agena.

    Our Green and Pleasant Land Glyn Davies 2007

  • It is just the reverse if a man is wanting in these formal qualities, but has, on the other hand, knowledge of such a kind that it lends value to his conversation; this value, however, will then entirely rest on the matter of his conversation, for, according to the Spanish proverb, mas sabe el necio en su casa, que el sabio en la agena.

    Essays of Schopenhauer 2004

  • Spanish proverb has it, mas sabe el necio en su casa, que el sabio en la agena — a fool knows more of his own business than a wise man does of others.

    The Art of Literature 2004

  • Y para remedio dello, el año pasado comencé á ponello en latin, para siendo examinado y aprobado, imprimillo, dando por cosa agena y no mia todo lo que anduviese en vulgar y escrito de mano.

    Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

  • Y para remedio dello, el ano pasado comence a ponello en latin, para siendo examinado y aprobado, imprimillo, dando por cosa agena y no mia todo lo que anduviese en vulgar y escrito de mano.

    Fray Luis de Leon Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James 1921

  • Tachas á nadie pueden faltar sea por la fragilidad propia, ò por la malicia y envidia agena que combate principalmente los altos lugares.

    The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 William Hickling Prescott 1827

  • It is just the reverse if a man is wanting in these formal qualities, but has, on the other hand, knowledge of such a kind that it lends value to his conversation; this value, however, will then entirely rest on the matter of his conversation, for, according to the Spanish proverb, _mas sabe el necio en su casa, que el sabio en la agena_.

    Essays of Schopenhauer Arthur Schopenhauer 1824

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  • This word - agena - was used in a crosswrd puzzle and the clue was "satellite launcher" What do you think? Is there such a thing as an agena?

    March 31, 2009