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  • However, if the term “navigable waters” overarchingly includes all navigable bodies of water, then once a pollutant is in “navigable waters”, moving it around between individual bodies does not change the amount of pollution in “navigable waters” overall.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Court Upholds “Unitary Waters” Regulation: 2009

  • So now, because of this, you have a large majority (though not the whole) of his 10 million-person email list overarchingly organized around the celebrity Barack Obama – not really around issues (though certainly people can like Obama and support specific issues).

    2008 December | SorenDayton.com 2008

  • If the FCC came back and said, it's not the distilled spirits, it's the beer and the wine that's the real crux of the problem, would the President then say, if there's a problem with teenage drinking and it's beer and wine, then we ought to act overarchingly?

    Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry ITY National Archives 1997

  • It's a way of attempting to inject at least some humour in this overarchingly humourless gaming experience.

    SPOnG.com 2010

  • It's a bit messier and at times overarchingly cute or melodramatic yet honest and true.

    An Angry White Guy in Chicago 2009

  • I find the language of Eternal Concious Torment to be week exegesis based on the limited connection to OT views of the afterlife (the worms crawl in the worms crawl out) and the overarchingly destructive praxis that follows the belief throughout history (colonialism, genocide, fear-tactic evangelism, and legalism come to mind).

    DeVine Theology 2009

  • Most electoral contests will take place without an overarchingly powerful national issue or platform pertaining to programmes and policies.

    rediff.com 2009

  • While I don’t like to think of her as a doormat, that moniker may have a ring of truth to it only because the concept of family is so overarchingly important to her.

    HerScopes Charlene Lichtenstein 2000

  • While I don’t like to think of her as a doormat, that moniker may have a ring of truth to it only because the concept of family is so overarchingly important to her.

    HerScopes Charlene Lichtenstein 2000

  • While I don’t like to think of her as a doormat, that moniker may have a ring of truth to it only because the concept of family is so overarchingly important to her.

    HerScopes Charlene Lichtenstein 2000

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