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What he did was cite a Pew poll released two weeks ago showing that people around the world, including in closely-allied countries like Great Britain, believe the U.S. is the greatest threat to peace.
Think Progress » Murtha Attacked by the Right For Quote Falsely Attributed to Him 2006
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"The Eleven", which is a wonderful take-off on a closely-allied form, the nursery rhyme;
Nonsense & Whimsy in Robert Hunter's Lyrics David Dodd 2005
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That the resemblance is not accidental is sufficiently proved by the fact, that in the North of India, where Papilio coön is replaced by all allied forms, (Papilio Doubledayi) having red spots in place of yellow, a closely-allied species or variety of Papilio memnon (P. androgens) has the tailed female also red spotted.
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During the day we saw several guanacos, and the track of the closely-allied species, the Vicuña: this latter animal is pre-eminently alpine in its habits; it seldom descends much below the limit of perpetual snow, and therefore haunts even a more lofty and sterile situation than the guanaco.
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During the day we saw several guanacos, and the track of the closely-allied species, the Vicuña: this latter animal is pre-eminently alpine in its habits; it seldom descends much below the limit of perpetual snow, and therefore haunts even a more lofty and sterile situation than the guanaco.
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The formula may be true to this extent, that the conditions favoring the appearance of one species may have equally favored what we call a closely-allied species.
Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright
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But it proves nothing in the way of original progeny, nor can we, by any actual data before us, satisfactorily determine, under this formula, which of the two closely-allied species preceded the other.
Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright
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The Luangwa regions, as already mentioned, are occupied by the distinct but closely-allied Senga language.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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The law is thus stated by Wallace: "Every species has come into existence coincident both in time and space with a pre-existing closely-allied species."
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant
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Close observers find among the aboriginal tribes resident far up on the north-west American coast peculiar habits and customs, having closely-allied types among the Chinese.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various
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