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  • There is no re-sisting so strong a tide: so let them take their course.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Miss Grandison would do me the honour of as-sisting me, and dismissed

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Each CDL battal - ion had a headquarters company, a service company, and three medium-tank companies, each with three platoons con - sisting of six CDL tanks and one standard fighting tank.

    Steel Victory Yeide, Harry 2003

  • A ventilator was as - sisting his breathing, and a plethora Of plastic tubes snaked in and out of him.

    Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995

  • Hammadi texts is like that given by the church writers in that a great deal of variety was present; some docu - ments are Valentinian, others Sethian, some even con - sisting of the non-Christian Hermetic writings.

    GNOSTICISM ROBERT M. GRANT 1968

  • All behavior, he believed, was sensori-motor, con - sisting of stimulus-response units.

    BEHAVIORISM R. S. PETERS 1968

  • Although there is very little continuity and development to be found in this history, it can be seen as containing four major chapters, each con - sisting of a counterattack against a different enemy.

    ART FOR ART'S SAKE IREDELL JENKINS 1968

  • For twenty years, too, Dr. Carlos Finlay of Havana kept in - sisting that yellow fever was spread by the bite of a certain mos - quito, the female of Culex fasciatus, now called Aedes aegypti.

    Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ] 1943

  • Some beefsteaks and half cold potatoes were set before me; and while I dined upon these, she sat opposite, watching me (as I thought) and endeavouring to sustain something like a conversation – con - [Page 17] sisting chiefly, of a succession of common-place remarks, expressed with frigid formality: but this might be more my fault than hers, for I really could not converse.

    Agnes Grey 1931

  • Professionals at KPMG in the United States are playing a valuable role, as - sisting both companies that are consolidating and governmental organizations • provided assistance to the charged with overseeing and regulating the system.

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