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We forget that beyond the beltway - most Americans aren't concerned about space - So, the space community at large should carry the torch for human space exploration - fight for NASA's efforts and keep the goal ahead clearly in sight - That is, to keep America THE preminent space power it can be again.
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He ranks with Hobbes, Montesquieu, and Locke as one of the preminent thinkers/writers during the Enlightenment period.
Waldo Jaquith - Should D.C. residents have a House vote? 2007
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And, by the way, I was Obama's student at U of C, where he occupied the same position (senior lecturer) as Judge Posner, widely recognized as the preminent legal scholar in the US.
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We have lost it and the Beeb cannot be touted as the guardian of our preminent position in this area as it often is
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Do we mean that some preminent saint, called Jesus, responded with such "signal readiness" to the Divine Voice, "and realized more worthily than any other man 'the Divine idea' of human excellence, so that to Him, by a laxity of phrase not free from profaneness, men might thus ascribe a so-called 'moral Divinity'"?
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And why should not this innocent and elegant luxury take its preminent stand ahead of all those addressed merely to the senses?
Letters 1760
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Out of the East Hailed as one of China's preminent experimental artists, the Hong
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Rubbia has been a preminent CSP advocate for a long time, and was forced to leave ENEA in 2005 after strong disagreements with the Italian Government and its lack of convincing R&D policies.
Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk 2010
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2 When we choose our partner, often the unconscious plays a preminent part.
il blog: School for parents, round #4 Decio Biavati 2006
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2 When we choose our partner, often the unconscious plays a preminent part.
Archive 2006-12-01 Decio Biavati 2006
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