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    McCain: CIA secrecy story just beginning 2009

  • However, various protestations were made and dubia sent in to the Congregation by those who considered that the Decree might infringe the legitimate liberty of teachers in schools that were less "Thomist", to hold other opinions.

    The Society of Scholastics -- online courses about to start 2009

  • But weren't we led to believe these "discussions" would be by exchange of "papers" or dubia rather than formal talks?

    CONFIRMED 2009

  • Many nomina dubia come from geological units where there are no named valid taxa.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Cryptic dinosaur diversity, ‘real taxon’ counts, curse of the nomina dubia, and the holy grail: matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization

    Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Other rare plants include the sedge Machaerina rubiginosa, the aroid Cyrtosperma merkusii, and floating water plants such as Hydrocharis dubia and water chestnut (Trapa maximoviscii).

    Western Java rain forests 2008

  • The waters edge is sometimes dominated by shrubs of the camu-camu fruit (Myrciaria dubia) that not only survive the long flood season, but seem to flourish.

    Iquitos varzea 2008

  • Servilianus (Consul U.C. 612) punished his son for dubia castitas; and a private soldier, C. Plotius, killed his military Tribune, Q. Luscius, for unchaste proposals.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Of 108 named British dinosaur taxa (representing the valid species and the nomina dubia), over 50% are nomina dubia (that is, based on remains that lack autapomorphies [unique, diagnostic characters]).

    Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Then there are unnamed taxa: specimens that can be identified to a clade but remain unnamed because, like nomina dubia, they lack autapomorphies.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006

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