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  • And then, there is this movie called "Requiem for a dream" (a great movie in fact), but it's completely differend story.

    One Twilighter’s 2009 Wish List For Robert Pattinson » MTV Movies Blog 2009

  • Unless I do a differend kind of math he is closer to finalizing this then she is.

    Clinton slightly narrows pledged delegate gap with Obama 2008

  • The terminology here is always alert to the possibility of undoing this internal separation--'return or reconciliation' as Hegel puts it--as if the severance is no differend, but that between two rational agents who have, unaccountably, fallen out.

    This unhappy consciousness Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • The terminology here is always alert to the possibility of undoing this internal separation--'return or reconciliation' as Hegel puts it--as if the severance is no differend, but that between two rational agents who have, unaccountably, fallen out.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • The ocean is restless in the way all the natural world is restless; in the sense that rest itself is a differend wholly alien to the natural scheme.

    Restlessness Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • The ocean is restless in the way all the natural world is restless; in the sense that rest itself is a differend wholly alien to the natural scheme.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • Fri 03/02/07 12:41 AM is it the same character from the first one because if its not im not going to the movies and spend my money on some differend characters that dont know how to act i want duke,brenda,bobby,the dog,and the baby plus same faces if not im not spenting my dam money check THAT and write me BACK bicth.

    Trailer Blazer: 'Hills,' 'Hostel,' 'Hamiltons' | EW.com 2006

  • Fri 03/02/07 12:41 AM is it the same character from the first one because if its not im not going to the movies and spend my money on some differend characters that dont know how to act i want duke,brenda,bobby,the dog,and the baby plus same faces if not im not spenting my dam money check THAT and write me BACK bicth.

    Trailer Blazer: 'Hills,' 'Hostel,' 'Hamiltons' | EW.com 2006

  • I have pictours about differend situations in my head over the days.

    foryourtime Diary Entry foryourtime 2004

  • Well, eef the party underground was my frien ', and I knew his fam'ly, and was sure the money was belong to him -- I'd do differend -- perhaps.

    The Desert and the Sown Mary Hallock Foote 1892

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  • A different end.

    May 26, 2010

  • Lyotard's concept. "Differends are conflicts that cannot be resolved, because of lack of common perspectives between two parties" (Ninnes & Mehta, p. 4).

    September 20, 2011

  • Does my bum look big in this concept?

    September 20, 2011