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“In the course of trying to figure it out, we realize that there’s a reason why it doesn’t quite make sense to us. It’s because it doesn’t quite make sense.”

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On Thursday the Justice Minister Naomi Long today attended the Northern Ireland Prison Service Annual Memorial Service at the Memorial Garden at Hydebank Wood to remember officers who lost their lives in the course of duty.

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It’s evident they are close, often completing each other’s sentences in the course of the interview.

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That constitutional clause, subsequent actions and the language of the Declaration of Independence are among the facts that caused Abraham Lincoln in 1858 to declare that the founders put slavery “in the course of ultimate extinction.”

“The idea of the commissary in our culture, particularly for moviemakers — it’s almost in comparison to the commonality of communal life that Peter lived in ’74 where he has friends who come by and visit and he’s on the phone with five or six people in the course of the day.

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