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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
advert .
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Senator Feinstein adverted to this fact indirectly when she said that she had a suspicion as to why Alito was "willing to say that you believe one man, one vote is well settled and you agree with it," but could not say that same thing about Roe: "If you say one thing, you upset my friends and colleagues on that side.
Balkinization 2006
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There is one point to which I have not yet adverted, which is, Whether the question of emancipation is likely to produce a separation between the Northern and Southern states?
Diary in America, Series One Frederick Marryat 1820
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To point out in a clear manner the spirit of the second money transaction to which your Committee adverted, which is represented by
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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Since you earlier adverted to Professor Barnett, I quote from an excellent article he wrote on this verytopic:
The Volokh Conspiracy » Was the Individual Mandate a “Republican Idea”? 2010
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Now, for reasons to which I have previously adverted on this blog,* I rarely get to see grown-up movies during their first-run cinema outings.
Guy Ritchie, Holmes (2009) Adam Roberts 2010
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Now, for reasons to which I have previously adverted on this blog,* I rarely get to see grown-up movies during their first-run cinema outings.
Archive 2010-07-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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Since you earlier adverted to Professor Barnett, I quote from an excellent article he wrote on this verytopic:
The Volokh Conspiracy » Was the Individual Mandate a “Republican Idea”? 2010
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In fact, our current economic crisis could have been adverted if Summers had paid attention to Brooksley Born, then chairwoman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Amy Siskind: The Obama Old Boys Club -- Does the White House Economic Team Have a Woman Problem? 2010
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In fact, our current economic crisis could have been adverted if Summers had paid attention to Brooksley Born, then chairwoman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Amy Siskind: The Obama Old Boys Club -- Does the White House Economic Team Have a Woman Problem? 2010
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