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- noun grammar A case of verbs, found in the Uralic and Northern Caucasian languages, used to indicate motion to a location; in the Northern Caucasian languages, the lative also takes up functions of the
dative case.
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Examples
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Up until last year, China was doing pretty well, lowering the re lative use of energy by 14.4%, the government said.
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As Madoff appears to have pulled off the biggest scam in financial history, he shares at least this super-lative quality with Trollope's colorful flim-flam man.
Richard B. Woodward: Bernard Madoff and Anton Chigurh: the Con Man as Serial Killer 2009
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Vermeer would certainly have been used to the sight of pregnant women and he may have even liked the contemplative, peaceful glow of pregnancy.
Archive 2008-12-01 Hels 2008
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Vermeer would certainly have been used to the sight of pregnant women and he may have even liked the contemplative, peaceful glow of pregnancy.
Were Some of Vermeer's Models Pregnant? Hels 2008
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They are the main link between observation and speculation (since specu - lative writers had a way of relying on them in large part and often exclusively), and at the same time they reflect, in their commentary, contemporary inter - pretation with considerable faithfulness.
LINGUISTICS HENRY M. HOENIGSWALD 1968
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God, freedom, and immortality are ideas which specu - lative reason can form but cannot prove.
DEATH AND IMMORTALITY JACQUES CHORON 1968
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In the assembly of the centuriae (comitia centuriata), the main legis - lative and electoral assembly, wealth was the main criterion for the classification.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARNALDO MOMIGLIANO 1968
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Creator and Ruler by religious faith, should not be identified with the cosmological First Cause, a specu - lative Absolute, or even a divine spiritual Force within nature.
IDEA OF GOD SINCE 1800 LANGDON GILKEY 1968
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In her remarks, she referred to "differences of opinions," and like Obama ticked off legis lative victories like the health care overhaul and broad reform of the U.S. banking and financial sector.
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HELENA - Two bills to help transfer 26,000 acres of Plum Creek timberland to state ownership and create a loan fund for the struggling timber industry cleared another legis-lative hurdle this week, but not without some changes to the loan-fund bill.
billingsgazette.com 2009
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