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  • There are 5 patches of desert and each of us is doing all of them, randomly selected as to whether each is suited or non-suited.

    MDRS-88 sol 8: Picking cotton on Mars 2010

  • The luck of the draw was that I was scheduled for one non-suited trial and four suited.

    MDRS-88 sol 8: Picking cotton on Mars 2010

  • I did the non-suited trial at the beginning of the mission, and today I did two of my four suited trials.

    MDRS-88 sol 8: Picking cotton on Mars 2010

  • Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi - "have non-suited themselves by failing to file any affidavits at all".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • For example, when a dispute arose in 1848 between John Connell and John Power of Brigus South as to the amount of saltfish Power had transported to St. John's on Connell's behalf, the combined weight of the testimony from the defendant's two female witnesses (Catharine Dooley and Sarah Greene) overrode that of the lone male witness for the complainant (Robert Power), and the plaintiff was non-suited and ordered to pay court costs.

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • In a third case, the landlord plaintiff was non-suited.

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • These eleven complainants met with varying success: four won their suits (all rent recoveries only), while another two were settled by the parties; two other female landlords were non-suited; one matter went to arbitration, and the result was not recorded; one matter was continued with no further indication of the outcome; and the remaining matter appeared in the records only in the form of the writ issued.

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • “Their recommendation,” Shannon recalled, “was that the case be non-suited.”

    Every Breath You Take Ann Rule 2000

  • The former of these exceptions hath been already non-suited, and that by some of the ablest patrons themselves of the cause of perseverance; where we were taught from a pen of that learning, that

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • His suit at Rome was immediately determined against him; and nobody doubted but his opposition to the pope, at so critical a period, was the true cause of his being non-suited at Rome.

    Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs John Foxe

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