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  • Obviously, this was written in reaction to some quiry or statement that the impact would dislodge the moon from its orbit or permanently disfigure our big companion.

    Today's Video and Twitter Blooper - NASA Watch 2009

  • There was a full-dress en - quiry covering the administration, medical services, food, nursing care, the lot.

    She Closed Her Eyes 2010

  • My reflections on the event of yester — day, yield me the more pleasure, as I have, on en — quiry, understood that he will do well again, if he will be ruled.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Robert I. Sherman, in Free I.quiry 8: 4, Fall 1988, 16. 23

    The God Delusion Dawkins, Richard, 1941- 2006

  • Those four claymen clomb together to hold their sworn starchamber quiry on him.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • “Aristotelian” alternative of finding in objects of in - quiry both actual and knowable aspects (“form”) and also as their ground, still mysterious potentialities and powers (“matter”), was certainly also present in the seventeenth century — to some extent in Newton's con - fidence that he had discovered real forces operative in the world combined with his uncertainty as to what their precise nature was.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas HAROLD J. JOHNSON 1968

  • Bacon did not succeed in carrying out any of his numerous projects for a reformation of cultural institutions, but he insisted at length on the public, democratic, and collaborative nature of scientific in - quiry.

    BACONIANISM PAOLO ROSSI 1968

  • In the twelfth century William of Malmesbury goes beyond the humdrum in that, while carrying his en - quiry back for centuries, he transcends the scissors - and-paste methods in his handling of earlier chronicles.

    HISTORIOGRAPHY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968

  • Methods, how - ever, had to be devised which governments would accept and utilize, and an array of alternatives appeared — arbitration, conciliation, mediation, in - quiry, and good offices.

    INTERNATIONAL PEACE WARREN F. KUEHL 1968

  • Page 444, Volume 1 as modern capitalistic society replaced the medieval and post-medieval hierarchy, Adam Smith, in his In - quiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of

    CLASS LEWIS A. COSER 1968

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