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When you have David Morrell and Margaret Coel talking about perseverance too, when Tony Hillerman talks about successes and failures, you realize that the one common demoninator is determination and an unwillingness to give up -- no matter what the odds.
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POSIX and the Internet have taught us to work with strings of bytes as a lowest common demoninator, which is terribly unfriendly to users; they end up being exposed to character encodings and the like.
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Instead of having an intellegent debate, they stoop to the lowest common demoninator on the intellence scale.
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SHE is the fraud being perpetrated on the American people that should be exposed for what it is; an appeal to the lowest, most ignorant common demoninator among the enlightened of the world. laura Naperville, ILLINOIS
Palin calls for Obama to boycott climate change conference 2009
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Once again it seems that the GOP is appealing to the lowest common demoninator by reaching out to its rurual, white, religious, gun toting base.
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Publishing is at a wretched low stupid books pandering to the lowest common demoninator, and the industry is losing money and sinking
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Before you add 1/4 to 1/2, you have to first create a common demoninator - the delegate is that common demoninator.
Rendell: Isn't Popular Vote As Important As Pledged Del Count? 2009
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Yes, a higher stated capacity would, in essence, inflate the demoninator of the ratio making for a lower proportion of riders.
Cost Comparisons of Transportation modes « Stephen Rees's blog 2009
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#124 To make everything fair you would have to lower everything to the least common demoninator and make it worse for the majority of people.
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"The common demoninator here, other than a patent lack of qualifications for the presidency, is likeability."
"The common demoninator here, other than a patent lack of qualifications for the presidency, is likeability." Ann Althouse 2008
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