Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wearing a cockade.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Wearing a cockade.
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- adjective Wearing a
cockade .
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Examples
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They tell three seemingly unrelated stories — about a deaf woman in Los Angeles, a first-century Jewish sandal maker, and a red-cockaded woodpecker — that illustrate how well-meaning laws can end up hurting the very people (or animals) they were created to protect.
Freakonomics in the Times Magazine: Unintended Consequences - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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In fact, the cockaded paper really cannot speak to the most important issue facing species right now – frontier land destruction occurring on an urban fringe.
Freakonomics in the Times Magazine: Unintended Consequences - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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GP's move will help safeguard drinking water for millions of people, while also protecting several threatened species, including the Red-cockaded woodpecker and the carnivorous Venus flytrap.
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GP's move will help safeguard drinking water for millions of people, while also protecting several threatened species, including the Red-cockaded woodpecker and the carnivorous Venus flytrap.
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A paper by the economists Dean Lueck and Jeffrey Michael, “Preemptive Habitat Destruction Under the Endangered Species Act,” argues that the E.S.A. has actually hurt the plight of the red-cockaded woodpecker by incentivizing property owners to make their land uninhabitable to the bird.
Freakonomics in the Times Magazine: Unintended Consequences - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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They tell three seemingly unrelated stories — about a deaf woman in Los Angeles, a first-century Jewish sandal maker, and a red-cockaded woodpecker — that illustrate how well-meaning laws can end up hurting the very people (or animals) they were created to protect.
Freakonomics in the Times Magazine: Unintended Consequences - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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A paper by the economists Dean Lueck and Jeffrey Michael, “Preemptive Habitat Destruction Under the Endangered Species Act,” argues that the E.S.A. has actually hurt the plight of the red-cockaded woodpecker by incentivizing property owners to make their land uninhabitable to the bird.
Freakonomics in the Times Magazine: Unintended Consequences - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Red-cockaded woodpecker Picoides borealis had been observed nesting, but has not been seen since the early 1980's and the species has probably become extinct due to fire suppression.
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The red-cockaded woodpecker is an endangered species.
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The red-cockaded woodpecker is an endangered species.
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