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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Very hard indeed to distinguish from the cutting-off kind of silence.

    Fear: for caregiver, for disabled. And dying. Elizabeth McClung 2009

  • The cutting-off of funds to women's shelters and sexual assault crisis centres.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Dave 2008

  • 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!

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • JOHN MCCAIN, (R) PRESUMPTIVE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: I am not advocating cutting-off relations with Russia.

    CNN Transcript Aug 13, 2008 2008

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