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Setting aside high-faluting homilies about sovereignty, realistically how sovereign is a state deeply in debt?
Sandeep Gopalan: A Hybrid Conservatorship Model for Greece? 2010
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Young reporters are all named "P. Laurence Butterfield Jr." and they arrive at their first newspaper jobs fresh-faced and competent, straight from New Haven, Conn., with their high-faluting Princeton educations.
Stet // 2008
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The only clothes this New York Times photographer is interested in -- even at the high-faluting Manhattan fashion shows -- are clothes that women can wear on the streets of New York.
Stewart Nusbaumer: Film Review: Bill Cunningham New York 2010
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The only clothes this New York Times photographer is interested in -- even at the high-faluting Manhattan fashion shows -- are clothes that women can wear on the streets of New York.
Stewart Nusbaumer: Film Review: Bill Cunningham New York 2010
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Young reporters are all named "P. Laurence Butterfield Jr." and they arrive at their first newspaper jobs fresh-faced and competent, straight from New Haven, Conn., with their high-faluting Princeton educations.
June 2008 2008
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Setting aside high-faluting homilies about sovereignty, realistically how sovereign is a state deeply in debt?
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Although it wasn't necessarily a high-faluting scholarly success, J. H. Merle D'Aubigné's History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century proved exceptionally popular with evangelicals; some of my later Victorian novelists mention being indebted to it.
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Although it wasn't necessarily a high-faluting scholarly success, J. H. Merle D'Aubigné's History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century proved exceptionally popular with evangelicals; some of my later Victorian novelists mention being indebted to it.
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An old acquaintance of mine in San Francisco heard that I was the first iPod silhouette ever and immediately paused at his high-faluting finance job to search out my ad.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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It's not identical to the difference between de facto and de jure, but perhaps very similar to it: just accept that you won't defeat it and stop fighting, whether or not you send a delegation of diplomats and jurists with high-faluting titles.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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