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  • noun Plural form of corollary.

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  • These men understood America and the principles upon which she stood: self-evident truths; liberty, with its twin corollaries of limited government and individual responsibility; the embrace of Judeo-Christian values; and a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Democratic Strategist misdescribes some legal issues 2010

  • Most types of music rap, rock, jazz, classical have independent and major-label corollaries, but not so with electronic music — it is almost entirely an independent-label world.

    Disquiet » Dark Ambient, Down Under 1997

  • But the transistors on a chip are really only the tip of the iceberg; along with processing power we have exponential growth in hard drive capacity, network speed, and other related measures - what we're calling corollaries to Moore's Law.

    ZDNet News - News Page One 2010

  • Since these matters relate to deductions or inferences which naturally follow as results of the Decision they are properly referred to as "corollaries" to the Decision.

    Sound Military Decision 1915

  • I suspected all along that the Single Tax would require several able-bodied "corollaries" to enable it to effect much of a reformation, to usher in the Golden Age.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

  • The "corollaries" could then talk about the overwhelming propensity to try to extend the use of resources rather than transforming to sustainable non-use.

    The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future 2009

  • Muslims cherish this freedom and see the corollaries in Quran and strongly wish that the Muslim nations follow the Madinah treaty where Jews, Christians and others were treated as one community; the treaty reads the Jews have their own religion as Muslims have their own to practice.

    Mike Ghouse: Islam, America and July 4th Mike Ghouse 2011

  • Muslims cherish this freedom and see the corollaries in Quran and strongly wish that the Muslim nations follow the Madinah treaty where Jews, Christians and others were treated as one community; the treaty reads the Jews have their own religion as Muslims have their own to practice.

    Mike Ghouse: Islam, America and July 4th Mike Ghouse 2011

  • Muslims cherish this freedom and see the corollaries in Quran and strongly wish that the Muslim nations follow the Madinah treaty where Jews, Christians and others were treated as one community; the treaty reads the Jews have their own religion as Muslims have their own to practice.

    Mike Ghouse: Islam, America and July 4th Mike Ghouse 2011

  • This might well lead to other disturbing corollaries.

    The Opiate of…The Capitalists? « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009

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