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  • The brothers 'solution was a tad uncon-ventional: they dumped the idea of shoot-ing on an existing freeway and built their own.

    The Matrix Makers 2007

  • For more than a quarter century, Karl rove has employed a simple, brilliant, counterintuitive campaign tactic: instead of attacking his opponents at their weakest point, the con-ventional approach, he attacks their strength.

    How To Beat 'Cut And Run' 2007

  • The primary purpose of SAAS-MOD is to provide information regarding con-ventional ammunition assets to tactical commanders during wartime conditions.

    FM 9-6 Appendix United States Army 1998

  • Mach, attuned to the con - ventional mode of the first game, would find himself up against a totally different creature in the second.

    Robot Adept Anthony, Piers 1988

  • In an entirely different sphere the rules of courtesy became the orders of chivalry, and in this indirect way were to transform the art of war: the “Tournament,” whose prize was the love of a woman, shows the con - ventional model of the “battle array,” that is to say,

    LOVE DENIS DE ROUGEMONT 1968

  • Socrates himself, with his uncon - ventional manners, his appearance, and his ironic style, is as much a comic as a tragic character.

    SENSE OF THE COMIC EDWARD G. BALLARD 1968

  • Page 433, Volume 3 fied formulations quickly won acceptance as the con - ventional terms for the popular discussion of Oriental religions.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas CARL T. JACKSON 1968

  • Cicero, influenced by Polybius, is again content to repeat the conventional Greek classification of states — monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy — and the con - ventional criticisms of each.

    DEMOCRACY STEPHEN R. GRAUBARD 1968

  • The secret weapons were inadequate for such an assignment, but thanks to the efforts of Speer, Goebbels, and Himmler, the "con - ventional" forces might just do the trick, for by late autumn he had accumulated a reserve of seven Panzer and thirteen Volksgrenadier divisions, and by the end of November this figure had risen to twenty-eight.

    Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

  • It is discouraging to see the problem to-day examined almost exclusively from the point of view of its relation to patriotism and conventional ventional commercial morality ....

    An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker Cornelia Stratton Parker

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