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  • noun Plural form of pillar.

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Examples

  • Nothing you touch today will have more bloodshed, suffering and woe attached to it than the innocuous twin pillars of your salt and pepper set ....

    Book review: 'At Home' by Bill Bryson Louis Bayard 2010

  • Nothing you touch today will have more bloodshed, suffering and woe attached to it than the innocuous twin pillars of your salt and pepper set ....

    Book review: 'At Home' by Bill Bryson Louis Bayard 2010

  • And since security concerns are tightly linked to privacy concerns (they are twin pillars undergirding public trust in technology), it will be important for lawmakers to ensure that data stored the cloud enjoys the same legal protections as data stored on personal computers.

    Robert Holleyman: How Will Hackers Fare in the Cloud? Robert Holleyman 2010

  • One of its fundamental pillars is that its citizens live free from the fear of ordinary crime and criminals.

    Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith: Book summary 2010

  • Many of them might see the Nordic state as an alternative to the EU, but Wetterberg actually argues that it should be one of the main pillars within the EU.

    Is a federal Nordic state on the cards? Eirikur Bergmann 2010

  • Ever since Deng Xiaoping dumped the Marxist half of Marxism-Leninism some 30 years ago, the Chinese regime has depended on the twin pillars of economic growth and nationalism for its legitimacy.

    China's Aggressive New Diplomacy 2010

  • And since security concerns are tightly linked to privacy concerns (they are twin pillars undergirding public trust in technology), it will be important for lawmakers to ensure that data stored the cloud enjoys the same legal protections as data stored on personal computers.

    Robert Holleyman: How Will Hackers Fare in the Cloud? Robert Holleyman 2010

  • When one of these pillars is broken or dysfunctional, the child suffers.

    A Call to Support Mentoring From Verizon « 2010

  • She clasped her hands over ringing ears as the thin pillars of light began dancing around her, some searing white, some deep blue, some variegating through all colours of the spectrum.

    365 tomorrows » 2009 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

  • And since security concerns are tightly linked to privacy concerns (they are twin pillars undergirding public trust in technology), it will be important for lawmakers to ensure that data stored the cloud enjoys the same legal protections as data stored on personal computers.

    Robert Holleyman: How Will Hackers Fare in the Cloud? Robert Holleyman 2010

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