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The Incredible Hulk well, it was an i,provement on the Ang Lee version!
The Movie Blog’s Top 20 Sequels Of All Time | The Movie Blog 2008
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Assuming he'd shown no im-provement by then, she'd have no choice but to call for a medevac.
The Howling Stones Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997
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Well, that was an im-provement after eighteen months of silence and darkness.
The Black Hole Foster, Alan Dean 1979
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The object of the Royal Commission, over which I have the honour to preside, is to strengthen the foundations and pillars of justice by drawing blueprints for im provement of the laws of Ontario as they express the power of the state in its relation to the individual.
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The only question was whether, and how, that “endless progressive im - provement” could be brought about.
PERFECTIBILITY OF MAN JOHN PASSMORE 1968
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Fiske because he spoke as both a biologist and a pio - neer sociologist, projected on the basis of his reading of evolutionary theory a similarly progressive im - provement of human nature.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MERLE CURTI 1968
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One ought to live within his own class, according to the social standards of that class, and efforts at individual im - provement of one's style of life or social position cannot be condoned.
CLASS LEWIS A. COSER 1968
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And indeed our affairs are already showing signs of im provement.
Modernizing Britain 1965
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I. I.provement in Bracciolini's means after the completion of the forgery of the last part of the Annals.
Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852
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The Scent & Care division, and especially the application area Fine Fragrance and the luxury segment of Personal Care, benefited noticeably from the im-provement of the economy.
Presseportal 2010
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