proximates

How are we, as a matter of policy, looking at the Middle East in any way that proximates rationality?

CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2006 2006

(Owing to the loss of my papers when captured, necessity frequently compels the use of proximates.)

Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906

The ultimates of Nature, -- her simple elements, it there be such, -- may indeed combine in definite proportions and follow classic laws of architecture; but her proximates, in her phenomena as we immediately experience them,

Memories and Studies William James 1876

Where is their underlying dualism, or something which sufficiently proximates such a dualism, such that a non-theocratic, non-totalitarian and non-dictatorical form of governance can be conceived in a manner that does not abridge Islam’s most basic tenets, such as it’s seeming social/religious monism?

The Volokh Conspiracy » Conversion from Islam: 2007

[Footnote AC: The process of boiling employed by the Indians in this case, extracts from the moss its gelatine, which serves to supply the waste of those tissues into which that principle enters; but as the moss contains little or none of the proximates which constitute the bulk of the living solids and fluids, it will not, of course, by itself, support life or strength.

Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific Gabriel Franchere 1824