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With this innovation, the Mary Rose made the historic transition from a vessel that was capable of carrying guns on its deck to a warship expressly built to permanently house a battery of cannons.

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“Bring it home — for Kwei,” he mutters in an elaborate creature language invented expressly for the film.

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"The President's unlawful federalization of the National Guard violates the Tenth Amendment, which 'reserves to the States' any powers not expressly delegated to the federal government in the Constitution," Immergut wrote.

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As the Supreme Court has held repeatedly since federal pollution-control statutes displaced federal common-law claims, such disputes may proceed unless they are expressly pre-empted by or otherwise in conflict with federal law.

But it expressly disavows any right for minority groups to receive representation proportional to their share of the population.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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