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There is no imme diate sign that wage growth is accelerating, he added.
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We did take imme-diate steps after Walkerton to improve water safety but Justice Dennis O'Connors in the two reports he has just released, provides a very clear road map to safety and we've pledged to follow it.
The Ontario Budget 2002
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He wanted imme - diate satisfaction for this outrage, and Vesper could see he was just itching to go after Milo.
Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995
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Locke and his successors it came to denote the imme - diate apprehension of sensory qualities, colors, sounds, tastes, for instance, plus the ideas of pain and pleasure or of anything known only to oneself.
IDEA GEORGE BOAS 1968
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In imme - diate sequence to God is Providence, which the Greeks called Nous and which is the intelligible essence of
FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE VINCENZO CIOFFARI 1968
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It was an age that emphasized, above all, imme - diate experience, personal and human autonomy, this-worldly values, and a critical or skeptical attitude towards all social, historical, and cosmological beliefs.
IDEA OF GOD SINCE 1800 LANGDON GILKEY 1968
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He advo - cated an “organic criticism” which is intuitive, imme - diate.
LITERARY CRITICISM REN 1968
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During the formative stages of their rational - ity, even still in Plato, the Greeks reacted to this difficulty by investing the word apeiron with both meanings in one, and they added a range of interme - diate and proximate meanings too.
INFINITY SALOMON BOCHNER 1968
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Their leaders knew what was needed at the time, however, and the whole future question of authority in the Church would seem to have been decisively affected by the fact that (for the imme - diate purpose) so much was realized to depend on the evidence of eyewitnesses, and the primacy was natu - rally given to these.
CHRISTIANITY IN HISTORY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968
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We have to recognize transitional or interme - diate forms like the essay, biography, and much rhe - torical literature.
LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES REN 1968
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