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  • The only time we believed any piece of news was when the govt issued a "dementi" -- denial)

    Poll: Same Number Know About Edwards' $400 Haircut That Know Saddam Didn't Have WMDs 2009

  • "dementi," in which he virtually calls the German Military Governor of

    The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 Various

  • Within a few hours, an authoritative dementi came from Cairo.

    For The Attainment Of Peace 1970

  • The only way possible out of the difficulty was to employ the machinery of the official dementi, and this was accordingly done.

    William of Germany Shaw, Stanley 1913

  • Thus in the preceding year (1913) under the nomenclature of "affairs in China" the text of a dementi regarding the President of China's Imperial aspirations had been published, -- a document which Japanese had classified as a studied lie, and as an act of presumption because its wording showed that its author intended to keep his back turned on Japan.

    The Fight for the Republic in China Bertram Lenox Simpson 1903

  • At all events I should have to come to some personal understanding with him on the subject before a performance is given in Vienna, just because this is a matter of importance to me, and the performance ought not to be a dementi of the preceding ones.

    Letters Liszt, Franz 1893

  • The little advantages of taking a regiment or two prisoners, or cutting another to pieces, are but trifling articles in the great account; they are only the pence, the pounds are yet to come; and I take it for granted, that neither the French, nor the Court of Vienna, will have 'le dementi' of their main object, which is unquestionably Hanover; for that is the

    Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733

  • The little advantages of taking a regiment or two prisoners, or cutting another to pieces, are but trifling articles in the great account; they are only the pence, the pounds are yet to come; and I take it for granted, that neither the French, nor the Court of Vienna, will have 'le dementi' of their main object, which is unquestionably Hanover; for that is the

    Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1759-65 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733

  • Researchers in the United States have linked male sterilization surgery to a certain form of dementi ...

    THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010

  • The church is entirely destroyed to-day, together with many other buildings, including a strong fortress called S. dementi, because the Duke

    The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8) Giorgio Vasari 1542

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