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• But on the whole, the circulator is a tremendous asset and a great deal for city residents as it is funded mostly by the 2008 increase in the parking tax. Candidateblogs.baltimoresun.com Blogs
• Brother Jonathan," then just published by Blackwood in three large volumes, was read to him every night for weeks, and greatly to his satisfaction, as I then understood; though it seems by what Dr. Bowring -- I beg his pardon, Sir John Bowring -- says on the subject, that the "white-haired sage" was wide enough awake, on the whole, to form a pretty fair estimate of its unnaturalness and extravagance: being himself a great admirer of Richardson's ten-volume stories, like The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865
• These analyses were, on the whole, applauded by fans. Times, Sunday Times
• In classical episteme, the understanding of the same tragedy category is different to some extent because of in different time and space, but they are similar on the whole.
• He took to antiquarianism, which is a sort of philtre, driving its votaries mildly insane, and filling them with emotions which, on the whole, are probably more often happy than grievous. Hawthorne and His Circle
• But folk art, on the whole, stood for a democracy of aspiration. The Times Literary Supplement
• Good love makes u see the whole world from one person while bad love makes u abandon the whole world for one person.
• The outcome of better science should be the betterment of society, on the whole, and an improvement in every individual's life.
• New guidelines to independent appeals panels call for them to take into account the impact on the whole school of bringing back excluded pupils, and not to reinstate pupils on a technicality.
• On the whole the maxillopodan groups Ostracoda and Cirripedia and the Malacostraca have left the most significant fossil records.