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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
officialize .
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The main difference is it was "officialized" in 1913 and made into a permanent structure that operated 24/7 rather than in crisis as it did in 1907, 1893, 1873 ete ete when a major panic started.
Why Bernanke Should Be Canned, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Then, re Richard Land's position that waterboarding is torture and torture is immoral practice during intelligence-gathering, what will be his position as to whether Bush Administration officials who "officialized" torture should be prosecuted?
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We have finally discovered the first good reason known to humankind to resurrect debate over Quebec's formal or, as Mr Ignatieff would have it, "officialized" status in the constitution.
Peace, order and good government, eh?: November 2006 Archives 2006
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In addition, they were widely respected as they had set up community services in many cities, with some of these "institutions" later being absorbed, passed on, or officialized.
William Ayers On George Orwell and John McCain - Swampland - TIME.com 2008
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In 525, Dyonisius the short officialized the date and called this year: year 1.
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There is still some small confusion about whether my degree will be mailed to me promptly afterwards, or if I'll have to wait a month or two to get all officialized.
(conditional) WOOT! hth_the_first 2006
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I was in Montreal, thanks in part to Jason's counterfeit ID, waiting for my immigrant status to be officialized and assisting at an outpatient clinic in Outremont.
Spin 2005
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Christian era, but especially to those oriental cults, which, flooding down upon the shrivelled, officialized, and dying worship of the Roman or Hellenic-Roman world, fertilized within it whatever potentialities it yet contained of purity, prayer, emotional religion, other-worldliness generally.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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One might say that the modern business man has officialized the ministering angel -- perhaps some other forms of angel as well.
Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906
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When the pairing was first officialized in a New Moon Rising, there was a certain amount of backlash for it.
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