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  • noun Plural form of dissolution.

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Examples

  • Packed around the account of his experience are descriptions of the life of the abbey and the monks he does exchange brief conversations with, as well as an account of the history of the monastery, which seems to have been fraught with dissolutions, attacks and disasters.

    On Silence « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • But people familiar with the situation say Puea Thai emissaries and senior military officers have been discussing how to manage the outcome of the elections for weeks in order to guide Thailand out of its cycle of elections, coups and government dissolutions.

    Ex-Leader's Party Wins Election 2011

  • But ideally, in the future all states will allow same-sex couples to get married and to parent children, and all states will adjudicate the inevitable dissolutions in the same manner as the straight ones.

    Frederick Hertz: "Non-Bio" Gay Dad Prevails in Texas Parentage Battle Frederick Hertz 2011

  • Toler: Starting next season I'll be doing dissolutions of cohabitation — in other words, for people who are shacking up.

    Divorce Court Makes Judgment Call with New Format 2011

  • He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

    Independence Day (Blog for Democracy) 2009

  • But ideally, in the future all states will allow same-sex couples to get married and to parent children, and all states will adjudicate the inevitable dissolutions in the same manner as the straight ones.

    Frederick Hertz: "Non-Bio" Gay Dad Prevails in Texas Parentage Battle Frederick Hertz 2011

  • Over the years of my practice I have handled dissolutions of same sex relationships where there has been a commitment ceremony and I have filed a civil action through either fraud or unjust enrichment as a way to give someone legal redress.

    Henry Gornbein: The New York Laws Regarding Same Sex Marriages What Will it Mean ? Henry Gornbein 2011

  • First off, I'm amazed by the wrong-headedness of some of the commentary about this; if you want fixed term parliaments, you simply have to decouple votes of confidence from dissolutions in more or less this way.

    So, that coalition then loveandgarbage 2010

  • Over the years of my practice I have handled dissolutions of same sex relationships where there has been a commitment ceremony and I have filed a civil action through either fraud or unjust enrichment as a way to give someone legal redress.

    Henry Gornbein: The New York Laws Regarding Same Sex Marriages What Will it Mean ? Henry Gornbein 2011

  • He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

    The Declaration of Independence 2009

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