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Every singal person in this great country wether they be a life long inmate, an illegal, or the average working american, is responsible for their own actions.
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I don't think you can take that much away from the on-field performance of the team because they might have swiped a singal or two.
... 2008
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Saturday night open thread - another fundie singal...
08/18/2007 2007
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Viewed that way, it becomes a matter of semantics whether you want to call the steepness of this blade “singal” or “noise”.
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Gen Janse van Rensburg, to whom the singal had been addressd, said if that was the case then the signal had been sent to the wrong person at the wrong address because the secretariat had never been involved in any covert, dirty cloak-and-dagger activities.
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Maj-Gen Janse van Rensburg acknowledged this could be true but said "such language" was not used at the secretariat and he had interpreted the singal to mean the three men should be detained for a long term.
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In doing so a groan caught her ear and advancing to the corner from whence it issued, Helen perceved a sort of pallet bed streached on the floor, covered with a singal blankett.
Daisy Ashford: Her Book Daisy Ashford 1926
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But for the present the results are apt to sound grotesque, when the traveller, who expects a train to start at the appointed time, is told: "_tren late hai, lekin singal down hogaya_" (the train is late, but the signal has been lowered), or the criticism is passed on a popular officer: "_bahut affable hai, lekin hand shake nahín kartá_" (very affable, but doesn't shake hands).
The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir James McCrone Douie 1894
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+Corrected from the Macmillan edition misprint "singal."
Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1 Walter Pater 1866
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Be it tax breaks, to free/low cost loans. as far as I can see this low interest has not created one singal extra job.
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