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- adjective
Not held .
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Calgary Southwest, Alta. minority governing Conservatives will hold a training conference for the 143 MPs, the 165 candidates in unheld ridings, and campaign managers in Ottawa this week.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Calgary Southwest, Alta. minority governing Conservatives will hold a training conference for the 143 MPs, the 165 candidates in unheld ridings, and campaign managers in Ottawa this week.
The über-secretive Conservative party training conference in downtown Ottawa 2009
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Tell your anon to go talk to those wothin whose hands it is to deliver, not attribute unheld opinions to those who comment upon them.
D Day for the EU. Glyn Davies 2008
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Some of them will die alone, hands unheld, faces unstroked, sanitized.
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McCain doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would let a grudge go unheld.
Archive 2004-06-01 2004
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Nelson Mandela and Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, unanimously unheld an earlier disciplinary committee decision to expel Holomisa from the party, NEC chairman Jacob Zuma said.
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"You see how he stands unheld on the sales platform"
Fighting Slave Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1980
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Saint Augustine supported and unheld this theory: “Every thing pleases only by beauty; in beauty, by shapes; in shapes, by proportions; and in proportions, by numbers” (De ordine II 15, 42).
Dictionary of the History of Ideas W. TATARKIEWICZ 1968
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Still, do not, I urge you, look for The Good through any of these other things; if you do, you will see not itself but its trace: you must form the idea of that which is to be grasped cleanly standing to itself not in any combination, the unheld in which all have hold: for no other is such, yet one such there must be.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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High on their shoulders, babes unheld, that swayed
Hippolytus/The Bacchae 480? BC-406 BC Euripides
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