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1. a deliberate Red Herring, designed to put any putative Watcher off
2. Recent events, however, have revealed a very disturbing trend; extending membership to ―former‖ antagonists whose ‖democratic‖ institutions and putative reforms remain problematical and its designs, (largely) untested
3. Bush‘s (putative) conservative credentials to begin with
4. Although such programs are not (directly) encouraging teenage promiscuity, its putative ―inevitability‖ seems to lend implicit support to (sexual) conduct that ―conventional wisdom‖ otherwise considers the ―norm
5. Addendum to the above: The most contemptible of all are our putative (political) leaders
6. The State of California has taken an certain step backwards in its putative efforts to secure our nation‘s borders when its feckless governor (Davis) signed a bill into law extending driver‘s licenses to illegal aliens
7. With Dawley being Intelligence Officer, and the Prince being the putative next of kin of a head of state; I guess you could say that old Sakahaji asked a lot of questions
8. Indeed, although the Gospels show that Jesus had brothers and sisters, the Roman Catholic Church suggests that they were the children of Joseph, the putative father of Jesus, by an earlier marriage
9. proves nothing, except that my putative father had red hair and was as white skinned as you are, whereas, as you must have noticed, although you’ve never mentioned it, I am not just Alison Brown, but light brown
10. The American Foreign Service Association, our putative union, also is at fault by not pressing senior management to seriously address these concerns
11. A few shot up putative Indian rustlers would be a powerful deterrent to others of the same persuasion
12. The remnants of abandoned chickees were the only reminder of putative encroachment by man and were abandoned long before the cottonmouth was born
13. Joe Billie owned this wilderness and had a five hour lead on his putative nemesis but Samson knew his olfactory percipience made finding them academic and if it remained intact he would find them
14. Turning from the putative commander, Samson ambled to his truck, leashed JY and walked to the front of the main entrance near the spot where the ―spy‖ entered the cornfield
15. ‖ The verbiage smacked of putative complicity but nothing specific so maybe no one had questioned the doctor mentioned in the accounts
16. He wanted to cut his trail behind any putative posse so he could determine how many and what kind, if any, were after him
17. The putative conclusion of living weeks or months in this God forsaken swamp with a filthy, deranged murderer was not her vision of suburban life
18. ―What are you doing?‖ she said, averting her gaze to stare at the putative shelter
19. As the refreshed nurse neared, Can gestured with his opened hand toward the putative picnic set amongst the detritus of the hammock
20. He’s owned it since before World War Two! One presumes he lived here- probably with the putative Mrs
21. The low breast cancer mortality rates in Asian countries and the putative anti-estrogen ef ects of isoflavones
22. Modern-day Macedonians, desperately looking for their ancient roots in a region hostile to their nationhood, have latched onto their putative predecessor with a zeal that defies both historical research and the howls of protest from their neighbor, Greece
23. And Modi its putative emperor
24. “Don’t sell yourselves short!” Merlin shook his head and then half lifted her over a particularly difficult section of the putative trail they were following
25. Mr Samgrass was a genealogist and a legitimist; he loved dispossessed royalty and knew the exact validity of the rival claims of the pretenders to many thrones; he was not a man of religious habit, but he knew more than most Catholics about their Church; he had friends in the Vatican and could talk at length of policy and appointments, saying which contemporary ecclesiastics were in good favour, which in bad, what recent theological hypothesis was suspect, and how this or that Jesuit or Dominican had skated on thin ice or sailed near the wind in his Lenten discourses; he had everything except the Faith, and later liked to attend benediction in the chapel of Brideshead and see the ladies of the family with their necks arched in devotion under their black lace mantillas; he loved forgotten scandals in high life and was an expert in putative parentage; he claimed to love the past, but I always felt that he thought all the splendid company,
26. Mercer’s putative reason for not confronting William about this—that he was too traumatized by everything else that had happened that night—had meantime come to seem like an excuse
27. Little, or no, attention is paid to other points of view and the particular factors needed to understand the dynamics driving individual companies, particular industries, control persons, and putative control persons, as well as creditors
28. Thus, despite putative differences in connectivity and function, the ACC
29. In contrast, BM-induced inactivation of the lateral OFC, which is the putative
30. that may harbor the putative genetic risk variant and one that is the marker with
31. Now I will speak of another putative comprehension of Christianity, which interferes with the correct comprehension of it,—the scientific comprehension