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  • Instead, he turned his need into rage and threw out the-one suspicion, the single accusation that he knew would hurt her the most.

    Undercover Vows Lind, Judi 1996

  • The United States contended that the Canal de Haro was the widest and deepest channel; that it was the-one usually shown on the maps in 1846; and that, as it washed the shore of Vancouver Island, it was the channel that "separated it" from the mainland.

    The Oregon Boundary Question 1911

  • We mean Louis Bonaparte, on the-one hand, on the other, the party of the allied royalists; of Order, and of the large bourgeoisie.

    Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Karl Marx 1850

  • MADDOW: Well, one of the-one of the-I think there's a divide, in political science.

    Crooks and Liars Heather 2011

  • President Obama's administration, by the Justice Department-and I believe today there will be one of the-one of the lawsuits will be heard in federal court.

    Democracy Now! 2010

  • Because on the-one of the things we're doing is we're keeping pressure when we're completing these on the offsets.

    Cabot Oil & Gas CEO Discusses Q3 2010 Results - Earnings Call Transcript -- Seeking Alpha 2010

  • One of the-one of the major proposals of the Bolivian government, what they're saying now is that they don't want to be an exporter of raw materials anymore.

    MyAntiwar.org keyvan@myantiwar.org 2010

  • In terms of the radicalization, one of the-one of the difficulties of US policy-we see this, I think, in Pakistan, as well-is that, you know, what is our endgame in the war on terror?

    Democracy Now! 2010

  • One of the-one of the major proposals of the Bolivian government, what they're saying now is that they don't want to be an exporter of raw materials anymore.

    MyAntiwar.org keyvan@myantiwar.org 2010

  • President Obama's administration, by the Justice Department-and I believe today there will be one of the-one of the lawsuits will be heard in federal court.

    Democracy Now! 2010

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