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Since then it's become selfabsorbed and self-promotory - typical white blog reactions to success I guess.
White people like to publish Torill 2008
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Since then it's become selfabsorbed and self-promotory - typical white blog reactions to success I guess.
Archive 2008-05-01 Torill 2008
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Pointe du Hoc was a promotory which -- as you can see on this chart -- which housed German artillery positions that dominated both those beaches, Utah and Omaha.
Briefing On D Day And Its Commemoration Events ITY National Archives 1994
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Mediterranean, from the river Eleutherus in the north to the promotory of Carmel in the south, about 120 miles in length.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
chelster commented on the word promotory
This is a typo for "promontory" (q.v.).
January 7, 2011
mollusque commented on the word promotory
In scientific usage, it's an antonym of inhibitory.
January 7, 2011
mollusque commented on the word promotory
None of the sequences showed a gradual linear change from inhibitory to promotory responses . . . .
--New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research 25: 517 (1982)
January 7, 2011
bilby commented on the word promotory
"I would have preferred to tour the nuclear wasteland by bicycle, but Prolagus wanted to take me for a spin in his new electric Maserati. Eventually I agreed - on the condition of being allowed to pack the picnic basket - that our mode of transport would be promotory."
January 7, 2011