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  • And making an actual talkathon type fili occur would soon trigger the minority to do the above and stop the senate from doing about any kind of work.

    Matthew Yglesias » A Flawed Stimulus is Better than No Stimulus 2009

  • Let's see the Obamas on it for a few years, then we talk again .... oh yeah, and Pelosi and her family too! nicole fili

    Obama: 'Act now' on health care 2009

  • Between the Sanders' fili-Bernie and the late-night tax votes in the House, it was must-see TV.

    Winners and Losers of the Lame Duck Congress Chris Cillizza 2010

  • They saw political rights for women as detrimental to the Greek nation (ethnos) and the race (fili).

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

  • It doesn't mean that President Obama is going to have a fili -- filibuster-proof majority on every piece of legislation he sends up there.

    CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2009 2009

  • There are fewer motets, but in that area his achievement has been boosted by the discovery that the powerfully expressive Absalon fili mi, long thought to be a work of Josquin's, may in fact be by la Rue.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009

  • Opinions vary, however, about the authenticity of many of the works attributed to him in 16th-century sources; doubts have even been cast over pieces that were once thought to be firmly his, such as the motet Absalon fili mi, which has now been tentatively reassigned to Pierre dela Rue.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Lu 2009

  • Nescis, mi fili, quantula sapientia gubernatur mundus?

    Latin Quotations | Impact Lab 2007

  • Hanc autem exhortacionem supplicacionem et preceptum tu, fili ceterique successores nostri prestanti animo complere curetis, si nostram benedictionem habere velitis, una cum benedictione filii summi Regis, qui filios docuit patrum voluntates in bono perficere, asserens in mundum se venisse non ut suam voluntatem faceret sed paternam.

    The Abbot 2008

  • Ma la vera domanda rimane: chi è il nostro burattinaio e dove sono nascosti i fili cui siamo attaccati?

    No Fat Clips!!! : Jeffrey Lewis Band – End Result 2008

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