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• Figures due out on November 21 might be instructive but a merger deal is not thought likely to figure in the statement.
• In fact, our lunar friend provides an instructive example of how a vulgar and dogmatic notion of ‘science’ can be quite compatible with the most arcane fantasies.
• They even visit Canterbury on their way, but the tales they tell (mostly to us, not each other) are the bitter-sweet flashbacks of memory, not episodes of instructive fiction.
• It is instructive to consider also the origin of avifaunal elements at the level of Family. Birds from Coahuila, Mexico
• What's instructive is to look at how the Obama campaign responded: challenge the facticity and factiousness of the ACORN story -- and get it explained about how ridiculous it is, and let the pictures of the McCain/Palin supporters diffuse themselves across the i-net. Colin Powell Endorses Obama
• While it's uncertain whether the protest and subsequent meeting will prevent cuts, the way the governor's staff handled the whole affair is instructive: I'm told that technically they could have been arrested for blocking the way.
• More instructive was watching how quickly the experienced NCOs jumped and ran at any bangs from the drive bells.
• The US system of rank badges and insignia, introduced in the early 19th century, is highly distinctive, and instructive.
• It is a fearsomely complicated one, and I would never dream of showing it in a non-technical book about science if my intention was to be instructive.
• There's another instructive paradox in skeleton bob and bobsleigh. Times, Sunday Times