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  • 21Chrystal Macmillan — Chrystal Macmillan …

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  • 22þingian — wv/t2 w.d. to beg, pray, ask, ask favor, intercede for; covenant, conciliate, compound with, settle; prescribe; wv/r2 to reconcile oneself (with); determine, purpose, design, arrange; talk, harangue wv/t2 1. w.d. to beg, pray, ask, intercede for …

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  • 23Insanity defense — For similar defences in Canada and Australia, see mental disorder defence …

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  • 24Civil disobedience — For other uses, see Civil disobedience (disambiguation). Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a figure known worldwide for advocating non violent civil disobedience. Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and …

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  • 25Political positions of John McCain — U.S. Senator John McCain (R AZ), a member of the U.S. Congress since 1983, a two time U.S. presidential candidate, and the nominee of the Republican Party in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election, has taken positions on many political issues… …

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  • 26ZIONISM — This article is arranged according to the following outline: the word and its meaning forerunners ḤIBBAT ZION ROOTS OF ḤIBBAT ZION background to the emergence of the movement the beginnings of the movement PINSKER S AUTOEMANCIPATION settlement… …

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  • 27appeal — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. entreaty, plea, begging, petition; resort; attractiveness, attraction. See request, lawsuit. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A plea] Syn. request, plea, bid, claim, suit, submission, solicitation, petition,… …

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  • 28urge — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. solicit, plead, importune, advocate, exhort, incite, instigate; press, push. n. impulse, desire, ambition. See necessity, request, cause. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To present favorably] Syn. favor,… …

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  • 29prayer — prayer, suit, plea, petition, appeal mean an earnest and usually a formal request for something and their corresponding intransitive verbs pray, sue, plead, petition, appeal mean to make such a request. Prayer and pray imply that the request is… …

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  • 30Abbé Pierre — Infobox Person name= Abbé Pierre caption=Founder of the Emmaüs movement quotation= birth date=birth date|1912|8|5 birth place=Lyon, France dead=dead death date=death date and age|2007|1|22|1912|8|5 death place=Paris, France L Abbé Pierre (born… …

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