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This prevailing narrative underrates Ms. Sears and her political chemistry.

But the prevailing mood was one of exhaustion.

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A Reliance Industries spokesperson said the company purchases crude oil from several sources, including the Middle East and the U.S., and bases its decisions on prevailing market conditions.

They argue that in the chaos of the post-revolution period, the facility was "the safest place" for Mas'ud and the other agents, given the violence and anti-Gaddafi sentiment prevailing at the time.

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The ultimate number of majority-Black districts in Louisiana is not only a question of constitutional principles applied to prevailing facts.

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

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