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  • Why didn't the government introduce a rent control and make the speculative by to let landlord pay for his own mess rather than the poor tennent who had no control over it.

    New poll casts doubt on whether Britain wants to be a 'big society' 2010

  • I cannot disagree with the basic moral tennent of your statement, but I would ask you to possiblly consider that Yoo may have considered the moral quandry and found another moral path that he believes serves the greater good.

    Think Progress » Shame on Yoo 2005

  • That's a basic tennent of fundamentalism -- the First Commandment, no less!

    scary 2006

  • And farther we affirme, that whosoever denies unto them ayde, their counsell and comfort, quhiles the Princes and Rulers vigilantly travell in execution of their office, that the same men deny their helpe, support and counsell to God, quha, be the presence of his Lieu-tennent, dois crave it of them.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • So over the course of the last 2000 years or so, a small time religious splinter group, broken off of another small monotheic sect, grew to become the single largest religious tennent in the world.

    Neanderpundit Navvet55 2009

  • Damage caused by a tennent can be identified without contention and repair costs correctly allocated.

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

  • What’s new is that the government is following the lead of the private sector — Since units occupied by smokers cost twice as much to prep for the next tennent, banning smoking can be justified as a business decision, similar to a “no pets” policy.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Hands Off My Fresca: 2009

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