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Our Constitution meant to ensure that no one person in American life would ever have sole unlimited power.

From Salon

"To approve the request would have meant a continued life in captivity and a return to public entertainment."

From BBC

But they did not, which meant the ensuing single did not tie the score.

Staffing shortfalls, the report said, meant too few employees were trained in essential roles of alert and warnings planning, and situational awareness.

The way the contracts were written meant providers were incentivised to put asylum seekers in hotels rather than bedsits as they could earn "eight times as much profit" due to the higher costs, Kohler said.

From BBC

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

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