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	Learn more about Grammar in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		A generative grammar for a particular language specifies, for each string of words, whether or not that string constitutes a grammatical sentence in that language.
		In other words, context accomplishes the same role as declension and conjugation.
		Because Latin words are quite (though not completely) self-contained, a sentence can be made from scattered elements.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /g/gr/grammar.html (742 words)

	Roman Catholic Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Additionally, Catholic writers list a number of references which point to at least a 'first among equals' status for the See of Rome from the very earliest times.
		The Catechism of the Catholic Church, 85 states that authentic interpretation of the Word of God is entrusted to the living Magisterium of the Church, namely the bishops in communion with the successor of Saint Peter.
		The British bishops taught that the Bible must be approached with the understanding that it is "God’s word expressed in human language", giving proper acknowledgement both to the word of God and its human dimensions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church (8316 words)

	****************** - International Labour Conference
		The Chairperson clarified the arguments that it was not necessary to use the word "immediate" in connection with "prohibition", but that the wording "progressive elimination", as proposed in the sub-subamendment, would not do justice to the general consensus in the Committee on the need for urgent action to eliminate the worst forms of child labour.
		The Worker members were pleased with the wide interest that had been shown in education and the intention to remove obstacles to it, but preferred a subsequent Worker amendment on "access to basic education", as a criterion for defining the worst forms of child labour.
		The Worker members submitted an amendment to delete the word "after" and replace it with the word "through" to ensure that the importance of tripartite consultation in exercising this requirement of the Convention was clearly understood.
	www.ilo.org /public/english/10ilc/ilc86/com-chil.htm (18965 words)

	First Lady - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although the words "first lady" were previously used in combination to refer to women, use of the title to refer to the spouse of an executive is credited to the United States where it was first widely used in 1877 to refer to Lucy Webb Hayes, popular wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes.
		For example, Henriette Conte, the wife of Lansana Conte, the ailing President of the Republic of Guinea, has recently abused her power to illegally acquire private property in Conakry, the capital of Guinea.
		When challenged in the courts in May 2006, she first had the Minister of Justice dismissed, then arranged for the papers confirming court's decision regarding the true ownership of the property to be "mislaid".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_Lady (988 words)

	E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore
		In presenting this list of over nine hundred words, [revisions increase this number to 1,178] either coined by Edgar Allan Poe or rightfully to be ascribed to him as first instances in print, I wish to open up a field of study for further investigation which has been virtually uncharted, untapped, and even unimagined.
		The lists that I am offering to you as well as the very large corpus of criticism and creative writing, poured out in about twenty years, are proof of Poe's basic consecration of his energies to refining his thought and that of the writers whom he was evaluating into more effective expression.
		These words, called "Ostrom" in my text, therefore were not published in Poe's time and could not influence usage at all, as was the case obviously with a word such as "litten," Poe's invented archaism which became a Victorian favorite.
	www.eapoe.org /papers/psblctrs/pl19741.htm (4939 words)

	E-Mail ... Overused, Abused & Invaluable
		Widely published in the industry and trade press, he is an accredited member of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA).
		Since e-mail lacks the immediate feedback and verbal nuances of the spoken word don't use it when you are joking or are angry.
		Since there are so many different e-mail and word or presentation packages around it is also difficult to make certain the recipient has the same software (and version) you do so they can open and view the attachment.
	www.marcommwise.com /article.phtml?id=15 (1621 words)

	Word Play
		The list of words and phrases chosen annually by Lake Superior State University as banished from the Queen's English for mis-use, over-use or general uselessness.
		Lists from previous years are available in their archive to view or to print as a poster.
		Word morphing is changing one word into another by changing one letter at a time with each change resulting in a valid word.
	www.wolinskyweb.net /word.htm (4506 words)

	The Concept
		Although this type of "list" functions the same from the person/organization that constructed it, i.e., sending the same message to multiple recipients, the recipients cannot always "reply to all." However, in many ways, the purpose is indeed similar.
		ESU has over 200 mailing lists and none of them are classified as "public." Thus, assuming other universities and government agencies have "lists" that are not public, the actual number of lists has to be far higher than 100,000.
		Once you have the list, which is a text file, the simplest thing anyone can do is bring it into a word processor and use the "find" tool to look for lists or explanations that match your interests.
	www.emporia.edu /idt/seguin/it743resources/concept.htm (1305 words)

	Words
		The object is generally pointed out in English by word order, but at the beginning of a relative clause the object may come first.
		Ensorcelled: This excellent word was used by a witchfinder in 1541, and again by Maureen Dowd in 2001 in the newspaper, where the reading level is supposed to be age 11.
		A word with a possibly interesting etymology is the term "bigot." This is now used pejoratively to describe a person with prejudiced views of other people or their activities.
	www.du.edu /~jcalvert/humor/words.htm (4851 words)

	The Unabomber's Manifesto
		By their own account, violence is for them a form of "liberation." In other words, by committing violence they break through the psychological restraints that have been trained into them.
		In other words, a society is a system in which all parts are interrelated, and you can't permanently change any important part without change all the other parts as well.
		In practice, the word "abuse" tends to be interpreted to include any method of child-rearing that produces behavior inconvenient for the system.
	www.thecourier.com /manifest.htm (21201 words)

	Iran
		The Government campaign against satellite dishes continued, although enforcement appeared to be arbitrary and sporadic, varying widely with the political climate and the individuals involved.
		Accurate information regarding the extent of the problem was not widely available, although the issue received greater attention as a result of the public's growing interest in social problems.
		A widely used model marriage contract limits privileges accorded to men by custom, and traditional interpretations of Islamic law recognize a divorced woman's right to a share in the property that couples acquire during their marriage and to increased alimony.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27927.htm (11437 words)

	Challies Dot Com: Translating & Translations (Part 1)
		A person who regards the Bible merely as human words, or even as the thoughts of God given through human writers will regard the importance of an accurate translation far differently from one who believes that the text of the Bible is the very words of God.
		The meaning of a passage cannot be separated from the words, therefore the job of the translator should be to translate those words, not a perceived meaning.
		A Concordance is a list of words and a reference to where they may be found within the Bible.
	www.challies.com /archives/000652.php (1828 words)

	The Standard Bearer: April 1, 1999
		His words had been perverted and, thus perverted, had been brought as a testimony against Him, when He was tried before the High Priest and they found nought wherein to condemn Him.
		Perverted as is the judgment which they cast in His teeth that He would destroy the temple, so erroneous is the conclusion they sarcastically draw with respect to Him that is suspended before their eyes on the accursed tree of Calvary.
		List five ways the trial of Jesus by the Jews was illegal.
	www.prca.org /standard_bearer/volume75/1999apr01.html (14775 words)

	Open Directory - Society:Religion and Spirituality
		It is widely recognized that a large portion of early Christian doctrine (and therefore its descendents) were developed in reaction to these other ideas.
		In modern times, Gnosticism is a widely abused term, giving rise to many conflicting ideas as to what precisely is meant by it.
		Wide variations are found in both the form and the intensity of mystical experience.
	www.dmoz.org /Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/desc.html (6141 words)

	Centerfield: A few last words regarding Miers
		I was sceptical from the word go, and explained why in two posts here and here.
		Words have no meaning if such broad opposition can be ignored to presume a national consensus.
		Having expended around 5000 words in this thread, most of it on substantive points, I'm delighted if the majority of your complaint appears to be discomfit with my inexplicable pluralization of the title of this blog.
	www.centristcoalition.com /blog/archives/002606.html (7855 words)

	Reginheim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		To make it a bit easier I shall give an example of this, the root syllable is the first syllable that is pronounced in a word; so for instance the word "grandfather" consists of three syllables; "grand-fa-ther", of which the root syllable is "grand".
		I shall give an example of this; the English word "adventure" is a French loanword that is pronounced according to the French (Romanic language) pronounciation rules instead of the Germanic ones; thus "ad-VEN-ture", when we would have applied the Germanic pronounciation rules to this word it would have been pronounced as "AD-ven-ture".
		The Low German languages are Dutch, English, Frisian, and the dialects spoken in northern Germany, this languages have developed from the dialects that were spoken in the coastal areas of western Germania.
	www.geocities.com /reginheim/language.html (962 words)

	SBF Glossary: B to BayMG
		Basic English is a careful and systematic selection of 850 English words which will cover those needs of everyday life for which a vocabulary of 20,000 words is frequently employed.
		Thse words are not the words most commonly used, as determined by word-counts; but all of them are common, and more than 600 of them are constantly used by an English or American child of six.
		Basic English was the invention of an ingenious scholar of Cambridge in England, C. Ogden (1889-1990), who devoted a long and industrious life to the simplification of expression and particularly to this particular simplification.
	www.plexoft.com /SBF/B.html (12169 words)

	Altercation: Clinton, Gore & ’08 - Altercation - MSNBC.com
		If Lieberman wins and keeps his word to his Democratic supporters by remaining part of the Democratic caucus then it really doesn’t matter so much who the senator from Connecticut is. What matters is who controls the House and the Senate.
		It's clear by this list that it's not the quality of the opinions they hold that got them on this list, but their qualifications external to those opinions.
		In the weeks leading up to Tuesday's primary, A-List D.C. pundits were writing columns portraying Lieberman's possible defeat as some sort of cataclysmic event that might foreshadow a dark new phase in American politics — as though voters choosing new representation were on a par with abolishing the constitution or condoning political violence.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3449870 (14501 words)

	English 1 - College Prep Reading List
		This widely acclaimed novel tells the story of a young Indian American struggling to reconcile the traditional ways of his people with the demands of the 20th century.
		Abel was raised to heed the voice of the land, the changes of the seasons, and the lessons taught by peyote.
		It is a tale of love and courage, of power abused, and of the terrible choice between family loyalty and justice.
	www.ouhsd.k12.ca.us /lmc/ohs/read/Engl1.htm (4114 words)

	ALAN Review - Fall 1999 Volume 27, Number 1
		Diana Mitchell's presentation of her latest list of 100+ YA novels is certain to draw a big crowd, eager to use her handout as a shopping list.
		We suspect her books are popular with some readers because they follow a formula and have short chapters from various points of view, from which readers gain insights into a variety of characters.
		We were surprised at the number of times the students used the word "encourage"-usually as an antonym for "force" or "require." Clearly students appreciate teachers who support them as readers by nudging, cajoling, seducing, and enticing, but as soon as they sense "force" on their radar screens, they are likely to resist.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/ALAN/fall99/wilder.html (3477 words)

	Pope Benedict XVI's Short Homilies 2006 -- Part 1
		The reason was that Jesus' words aroused disturbing questions: He spoke of the world's hatred of him and of his own, he spoke of his mysterious departure; much remained to be said but at that moment the apostles were not able to bear the weight (cf.
		Tangible expression of this is found in their leadership of peacekeeping operations, generous assistance with aid projects, and readiness to contribute to the requirements of international stability and security necessary for social and economic advancement across the globe.
		The words he pronounced on that last occasion were as a synthesis of his magisterium, evidencing that devotion to Divine Mercy is not a secondary, but an integral dimension of a Christian's faith and prayer.
	www.penitents.org /PBShort06P1.htm (13018 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Elements of Style: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The author strongly argues that the main elements of correct English style are “cleanliness, accuracy, and brevity”, with a very strong emphasis on the latter.
		It is a unique book that you must obtain whether English is you mother tongue or just another language that you speak, because it will teach you elementary principles of style that should be common to all human languages.
		Among the pieces I re-read on a frequent basis is the list of commonly misused or abused words and phrases.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/020530902X (1523 words)

	Grammar Guide
		It's here...the new update is in place, with another list of misused and abused words and phrases.
		There are other links, relating to words and phrases that used to be trouble, but have come into more acceptable usage; plus a list of frequently misspelled words.
		Your words are not etched in gold, nor are they carved in stone.
	hometown.aol.com /DangerMom/guide.html (2056 words)

	Amazon.com: Words of the Witches: Books: Yvonne Jocks,Maggie Shayne,Rosemary Edghill,Lorna Tedder,Evelyn Vaughn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The mystery she solves basically tells her in not so many words that it's time to do so, whether she wants to or not.
		That's why it was such a pleasure to read "Words of the Witches," a new anthology edited by Yvonne Jocks.
		The tales are diverse and unfold from a sweet tale of cross-cultural acceptance to a somber story of what happens when you meddle in practices beyond your knowledge or ability.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0425184978?v=glance (2820 words)

	CWE - CWE List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		By leveraging the widest possible group of interests and talents we hope to ensure that the CWE elements are adequately described and differentiated.
		Use an appropriate combination of fl lists and white lists to ensure only valid, expected and appropriate input is processed by the system.
		Use an appropriate combination of fl lists and white lists to ensure only valid and expected input is processed by the system.
	cve.mitre.org /cwe (5506 words)

	Lake Superior State University :: Banished Words List :: 2004
		MARIE, Mich. - Hardly looking 'metrosexual,' a 'shocked and awed' Lake Superior State University Word Banishment selection committee emerged from its spider hole with its annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness.
		This year, words and phrases were pulled from more than 5,000 nominations - a record.
		On the 2003 list we included 'frozen tundra' as being redundant and heard back from many people who pointed out that tundra does not mean 'frozen land.' Green Bay Packers fans were especially adamant, even though sportscasters frequently use the phrase to describe their home turf.
	www.lssu.edu /banished/archive/2004.php (1236 words)

	Open Directory - Society:Religion and Spirituality:Gnosticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Apologetics (apol-o-get-ics): (1) systematic argumentative discourse in defense (as of a doctrine); (2) a branch of theology devoted to the defense of the divine origin and authority of Christianity.
		The word "apologetics" comes from the Greek word "apologia", which means, roughly, "a verbal defense, a speech in defense." Thus, the famous defense which Socrates gave of himself before the people of Athens is recorded in one of Plato's dialogues called "The Apology."
		The word "apologia" occurs in the Greek New Testament in the following passages: Acts 22:1 & 25:16; 1 Corinthians 9:3; 2 Corinthians 7:11; Philippians 1:7, 16; 2 Timothy 4:16; 1 Peter 3:15.
	dmoz.org /Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Gnosticism/desc.html (1077 words)

	"Khrushchev's Secret Speech -- Full Annotated Text"
		Translated into English, possibly by Russian speakers working in West Germany for the CIA, it was disseminated widely outside the Soviet bloc.
		You might reflect on Lenin's plain words, in which expression is given to Vladimir Ilyich's anxiety concerning the Party, the people, the state, and the future direction of Party policy.
		The vicious practice was condoned of having the NKVD prepare lists of persons whose cases were under the jurisdiction of the Military Collegium and whose sentences were prepared in advance.
	www.uwm.edu /Course/448-343/index12.html (17913 words)

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