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  • Revenue Bill for 2005, Manuel further cautioned provincial governments not tise be funded by another sphere of government.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • There were a number of jockeys who could run a race as well as Stile, but none matched his total exper - tise.

    Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980

  • There were tenures expiring in all age ranges, for serfs could enlist at any age, but the older ones generally lacked the drive and stamina for real exper - tise in the Game, and the younger ones lacked experi - ence and judgment.

    Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980

  • There were a number of jockeys who could run a race as well as Stile, but none matched his total exper - tise.

    Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980

  • There were tenures expiring in all age ranges, for serfs could enlist at any age, but the older ones generally lacked the drive and stamina for real exper - tise in the Game, and the younger ones lacked experi - ence and judgment.

    Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980

  • Thus Hume, for example, had assigned a crucial role to imagination in his account of the foundations of empirical knowledge, and he had even found it possible to refer to “the Understanding” as “the general and more established properties of the imagination” (Trea - tise [1739], Book I, Part IV, Sec. 7); while Kant's con - temporary, J. N.

    METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION MICHAEL MORAN 1968

  • In the afternoon, with Hotspur still flying along at a speed often reaching eleven knots, the look-kut reported a blur of land, low-wying, fine on the port bow, as the coast-tise shipping — hastily raising neutral Portuguese and Spanish colours at sight of this British ship of war — grew thicker.

    Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

  • One time, while he was editin ', a publisher sent him an adver-tise-ment of a book that told all about how t' run a newspaper and pa he set right down and wrote 'm back they might as well try t' sell a book of travels t 'th'

    The Fotygraft Album Shown to the New Neighbor by Rebecca Sparks Peters Aged Eleven Frank Wing

  • Onct a hair tonic company offered her a pile of money -- most a hunderd dollars -- fer her pitchure fer their adver-tise-ment, but she wouldn't.

    The Fotygraft Album Shown to the New Neighbor by Rebecca Sparks Peters Aged Eleven Frank Wing

  • A'mighty's chas-tise_ments_ in the devil's delights.

    Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884

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