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  • It is an event that is the antithesis of Creation as recorded in the Bible; and like its direct op­posite, which is relived weekly with the Sabbath and yearly with the Torah, it must be remembered from generation to gen­eration. "

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009

  • In early 2008, the balance of opinion was the op posite: 41% named the U.S., while 30% named China.

    Friend or Foe? How Americans See China Andrew Kohut 2011

  • An Atlas jet created a sensation approaching Miami International Airport in February, when a 17-foot chunk of com posite material, used to cover some flight-control surfaces on one of its wings, broke off and plummeted to the ground.

    FAA Proposes Civil Penalty Against Atlas Air 2010

  • Andrea was the op-posite; if anything, she apparently cared too much.

    Motherhood And Murder 2007

  • As the "prelude" of the event of appropriation, which essences as com-posite, already indicates, the noncreative human labor is itself a cocreating within the occurrence of Being.

    Archive 2007-01-01 enowning 2007

  • Unles you want to posite that effectively ALL weather stations are sheltered from diluting effects of wind, to a degree that nearly completely mitigates any dilution, then this tells us that moving large masses of air from outside and through urban areas does not affect the TREND.

    Letter to NAS « Climate Audit 2006

  • “Unles you want to posite that effectively ALL weather stations are sheltered from diluting effects of wind, to a degree that nearly completely mitigates any dilution, …”

    Letter to NAS « Climate Audit 2006

  • On the other side of the doors, pressed against op-posite walls, the soldiers waited for command.

    The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

  • With a per-fectly trimmed and unpainted claw he pointed in the op-posite direction.

    Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995

  • He became aware of another psychic presence on the op-posite side of the glittering column of light.

    Floating City Lustbader, Eric 1990

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