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The brothers 'solution was a tad uncon-ventional: they dumped the idea of shoot-ing on an existing freeway and built their own.

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For more than a quarter century, Karl rove has employed a simple, brilliant, counterintuitive campaign tactic: instead of attacking his opponents at their weakest point, the con-ventional approach, he attacks their strength.

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The primary purpose of SAAS-MOD is to provide information regarding con-ventional ammunition assets to tactical commanders during wartime conditions.

FM 9-6 Appendix United States Army 1998

Mach, attuned to the con - ventional mode of the first game, would find himself up against a totally different creature in the second.

Robot Adept Anthony, Piers 1988

In an entirely different sphere the rules of courtesy became the orders of chivalry, and in this indirect way were to transform the art of war: the “Tournament,” whose prize was the love of a woman, shows the con - ventional model of the “battle array,” that is to say,

LOVE DENIS DE ROUGEMONT 1968

Socrates himself, with his uncon - ventional manners, his appearance, and his ironic style, is as much a comic as a tragic character.

SENSE OF THE COMIC EDWARD G. BALLARD 1968

Page 433, Volume 3 fied formulations quickly won acceptance as the con - ventional terms for the popular discussion of Oriental religions.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas CARL T. JACKSON 1968

Cicero, influenced by Polybius, is again content to repeat the conventional Greek classification of states — monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy — and the con - ventional criticisms of each.

DEMOCRACY STEPHEN R. GRAUBARD 1968

The secret weapons were inadequate for such an assignment, but thanks to the efforts of Speer, Goebbels, and Himmler, the "con - ventional" forces might just do the trick, for by late autumn he had accumulated a reserve of seven Panzer and thirteen Volksgrenadier divisions, and by the end of November this figure had risen to twenty-eight.

Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

It is discouraging to see the problem to-day examined almost exclusively from the point of view of its relation to patriotism and conventional ventional commercial morality ....

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