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- verb Present participle of
repatriate .
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Examples
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Such a change could, among other things, go a long way in repatriating the Canadian talent pool currently fuelling American cultural enterprises.
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With the assistance of the military authorities, UNRRA succeeded in repatriating six million people by the autumn of
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At the present time our Defence Departments are fully occupied in repatriating the soldiers, sailors and airmen from overseas and demobilizing those that they have brought back from Europe and from the Far Eastern theatre, so that they may occupy their appointed place in civilian life.
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Some large multinationals defer paying taxes on foreign profits by keeping them abroad and not bringing them home, which is known as repatriating them.
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The same thing as calling repatriating Jews to Israel a “colonization effort.”
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The same thing as calling repatriating Jews to Israel a “colonization effort.”
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Feith, Dunlavey said, resisted the idea of repatriating any detainees whatsoever.
The Green Light Sands, Philippe 2008
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Tell you what- I am all over the idea of repatriating those funds to the Treasury.
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She floated the idea of repatriating suspects being held with little evidence, but said the handling of those detainees remains an issue.
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Despite a growing willingness within the EU to help Mr Obama to close Guantánamo, he is still confronted with enormous popular resistance abroad to the idea of repatriating as many as 200 inmates overseas.
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