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In the imagining that we can “get out” what was “put in”, all we are really doing is cutting-off import in the hope that when we have cut enough off we will be left with a hard certainty.
Archive 2009-07-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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In the imagining that we can “get out” what was “put in”, all we are really doing is cutting-off import in the hope that when we have cut enough off we will be left with a hard certainty.
Notes on Notes Hal Duncan 2009
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The word “decision” is chose for the connotations in the root sense of the term (echoed in “incision”, “concision”, “circumcsion”, “precision”), the sense of cutting-off.
Archive 2009-07-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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The word “decision” is chose for the connotations in the root sense of the term (echoed in “incision”, “concision”, “circumcsion”, “precision”), the sense of cutting-off.
Notes on Notes Hal Duncan 2009
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I think he is right to believe that forcing cutting-off of funds will be benefit the Republicans.
Boehner Sets Deadline For "Surge's" Success: Two To Three Months 2009
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I know that's a lie, not supporting the troops is cutting mental health benes, sending them over for a war that started from a lie, but so many of our people are just stupid and all they will see is Read cutting-off fudning.
Reid: "We Now Have The Timeline The Republicans Have Set" 2009
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Very hard indeed to distinguish from the cutting-off kind of silence.
Fear: for caregiver, for disabled. And dying. Elizabeth McClung 2009
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The cutting-off of funds to women's shelters and sexual assault crisis centres.
Archive 2008-01-01 Dave 2008
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Whoso be minded to look upon the punishment of such an one, the thief, and the cutting-off of his hand, let him be present to - morrow morning at such a place!
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JOHN MCCAIN, (R) PRESUMPTIVE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: I am not advocating cutting-off relations with Russia.
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