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• These spirals were three and four years long each, so for all intents and purposes they were blocks.
• The state militias were organized into the 'National Guard' and for all intents and purposes 'federalized' over 100 years ago in Title 10 of the US Code (Militia Act of 1903) - that's when they started calling it the 'National Guard' ... BlueOregon
• This thing is a venomous bird for all intents and purposes. Times, Sunday Times
• This thing is a venomous bird for all intents and purposes. Times, Sunday Times
• Japan is, for all intents and purposes, our strongest ally in Asia at the moment.
• Individual adherents however, may turn out to be, for all intents and purposes monotheists (i.e. choosing a specific special deity for themselves -- monolatrism). Planet Atheism
• The displayed info can be customized to a certain degree but for all intents and purposes the overall design is static.
• 'Cathar' (apparently first used in the middle of the twelfth century by a group of heretics from Cologne, or so Eckbert of Schönau wrote in his Sermones contra Catharos of 1163) is, and always has been, deeply misleading and applied in such an indiscriminate way by modern historians as to make it, for all intents and purposes, a useless term. Popular Comments Across MetaFilter
• This allowed pirates for the first time to reproduce what was for all intents and purposes an exact copy of an original.
• The fMRI is a valuable tool in all branches of psychology, but it needs to be remembered that for all intents and purposes, it can only tell us WHERE something is happening. Archive 2009-01-01