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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
phase .
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Phased transitionThe president says his decision is consistent with what he called a phased transition process.
Obama Tells VOA US Will Not Abandon Afghanistan Despite Troop Cuts 2011
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Phased transitionThe president says his decision is consistent with what he called a phased transition process.
Obama Tells VOA US Will Not Abandon Afghanistan Despite Troop Cuts 2011
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Phased transitionThe president says his decision is consistent with what he called a phased transition process.
Obama Tells VOA US Will Not Abandon Afghanistan Despite Troop Cuts 2011
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KORB: Well, I think what you're going to see, the Baker-Hamilton group is going to recommend what we call a phased withdrawal, that you will begin to take some of the troops out.
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Today the mayor of New Orleans will announce what he calls a phased repopulation.
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And I tell you all this because the mayor, Ray Nagin, today is going to announce what he calls phased repopulation.
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said in Senate testimony this week that the Pentagon is seeking $8.4 billion for missile defenses under what he described as a phased plan to shift the focus from larger ground-based long-range interceptors to shorter-range missile defenses, like the Navy's SM.3 ship-based missile interceptor.
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Lamont's also said he'd support the plan for longer-term phased withdrawal favored by most Dems if that's what party consensus dictated.
CT-SEN: Lieberman To Characterize Lamont As Favoring "Immediate Withdrawal" From Iraq 2009
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Jack Murtha's plan, which he calls -- he calls phased redeployment, would at least, by one account, take people off to Okinawa without regard to battlefield victory.
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However, the ANC favours the long-term phased reduction of tariff protection, subject to a careful assessment of the effects on employment, output growth and inter-sectoral linkages.
gerbert commented on the word phased
to do or introduce gradually: the redundancies will be phased over two years
October 29, 2008