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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Digression.
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A company can fire an employee who gets ill, at the disgression of THE INSURANCE GIANTS!!!!!
Romney praises Afghan surge, slams confusion about timeline 2009
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If bipedal herd beasts in other countries (and I include European countries where hunting is restricted to elite landowners) prefer to have decisions made for them and beg for crumbs, they have my pity - not respect - but I will not have my rights at someone's arbitrary disgression.
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If bipedal herd beasts in other countries (and I include European countries where hunting is restricted to elite landowners) prefer to have decisions made for them and beg for crumbs, they have my pity - not respect - but I will not have my rights at someone's arbitrary disgression.
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Bonnard regarded Varian steadily, waiting for the point of her disgression.
Cattle Town 2010
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If you start charging per food item, you'll start seeing some disgression.
More on Activist Medicine, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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It mean I put who is voting for who at my own disgression.
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(Fair Warning Alert: rambling, somewhat incoherent, and rather long disgression behind the cut - read at your own risk) 17 comments
The Immersive Writer kateelliott 2007
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Worth to mention that it seems also to be the position stated by Stephen Rees in some of its posts and other disgression ...
Green group questions economic sense of hydrogen buses « Stephen Rees's blog 2009
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I leave that to my own personal disgression (sic).
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But it does nullify the lame Borkean proposition that the primary virtue of originalism is that it removes judicial disgression and solves legal indeterminacy.
The Volokh Conspiracy » More Bench Memos Boys v. Balkin: 2007
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