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I know that usage is important, but is it all-sufficient, or does logic matter anymore?
Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar 2009
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Your only claim can be that it is the best possible artifice for the perpetuation of life, or that it is the only perfect, all-sufficient, and all-satisfying arti - fice that man can devise.
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The only thing that matters is the final correlation number—one clean, simple, all-sufficient figure that sums up everything.
Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street Felix Salmon 2009
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That was one of the Archbishop's favourite Welsh hymns: 'Jesus, Jesus all-sufficient'.
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And some minds are indeed ill - I am not one who advocates reaching for the chemistry set as a reflex, but there are some folks around for whom meds are a necessary but not all-sufficient tool if they are to survive and do so in anything but abject misery.
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The only thing that matters is the final correlation number—one clean, simple, all-sufficient figure that sums up everything.
Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street By Felix Salmon 2009
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Questions about how selection theory can claim to be the all-sufficient explanation of evolution often go unanswered by today's neo-Darwinists, perhaps for fear that any criticism of the evolutionary paradigm will encourage creationists and proponents of intelligent design.
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For myself, indeed, though in life my daily store were scant, yet would it be all-sufficient, but as touching a tomb I should wish mine to be an object of respect, for this gratitude has long to run.
Hecuba 2008
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For myself, indeed, though in life my daily store were scant, yet would it be all-sufficient, but as touching a tomb I should wish mine to be an object of respect, for this gratitude has long to run.
Hecuba 2008
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So they threw her down and he ceased not to beat her with grievous beating, whilst she cried for help and no help came; then she no longer implored aid but fell to saying, “Allah is my sufficiency, and He is indeed all-sufficient!” till her groans ceased and her breath failed her and she fell into a fainting-fit.
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