questionable legitimacy: Act of doing something legal but not have the support of the majority in an elected democracy
> questionable legitimacy:doing something important from a short term objective but from a wider longer term view, one could have taken a different decision on balance of probabilites.

IN THE NEWS - Why Say Something Nice? US Elections Bring Out Attack AdsBy Brianna Blake Broadcast: Saturday, November 04, 2006 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. A picture from the negative a

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在考研英语中,作文的难度系数虽然稍高一些,但通过认真的积累和准备,挑战高分也不是不可能,最重要的是我们要做好英语语句的积累,以下为英语作文必背语句。 1.Chances are that man will

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The Colorful History of Billiards 台球的沿革 Anyone who refuses to leave prison simply because they are having too much fun playing billiards would be considered something more than just a diehar

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The Colorful History of Billiards 台球的沿革 Anyone who refuses to leave prison simply because they are having too much fun playing billiards would be considered something more than just a diehard fan. Yet that is exactly what a Captain Mingaud

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There's an iconic image of Bill Gates that might help explain our collective fascination with this legendary businessman and his most famous creation, the Microsoft Corp. It's a mug shot from 1977, taken after Gates was pulled over in Albuquerque, N.

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AS IT IS 2016-07-02 Austrias Highest Court Orders New Presidential Election 奥地利最高法院推翻总统选举结果 Austria will have its second presidential election this year in September or October. That is because the countrys highest court

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Elections scheduled this April in Sudan represent the first time in a generation that people there will get a chance to choose government leaders. But Sudan's road to democracy is riddled with accusations of corruption, voter intimidation and violenc

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From NPR news in Washington, I am Jackspear, President Obama said the us and other western countries completely reject legitimacy of the upcoming referedum in Ukrian Crimea region. The vote will decide on Sunday whether Crimea will retreat from Ukrai

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DRUGSTORE INDIAN In Bartell Drugs, I gave the pharmacist my prescription for prednisone. Is this your first fill with us? she asked. No, I said. And it wont be my last. I felt like an ass, but she looked bored. Itll take thirty minutes, she said. Mor

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January 29 was supposed to have been a day of celebration. In the sprawling presidential compound known as Villa Somalia, preparations had been made to mark the one-year anniversary of the new transitional government with poetry readings and a milita

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题目:It is right that college graduates earn higher salaries than the less well-educated in the community. But they should also pay the full cost of their study. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? 范文:Some conclude that college st

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Man is the only animal that robs his helpless fellow of his country-takes possession of it and drives him out of it or destroys him. Man has done this in all the ages. There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful

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A rise in the world's population is having serious, negative effects on the environment. Some scientists believe that the only way to solve the problem is to set up a colony on the Moon. Others argue that the cost would be far too great and other sol

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41.Something can never fail to attract peoples eyes. 42.Something is never without its drawbacks. 43.Something is also a double-edged sword. 44.Something is also double-edged. 45.Built on such fact alone, the conclusion remains questionable. 46.The w

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Air Mobility Command
ameloblastofibroma
angle of pitch(ing)
bathmotropism
benchmarks for science literacy
broadband metal-dielectric interference filter
by myself
capital market yields
carrier-frequency offset
catch flack
chloroplast grana
chronic mastopathy
co-operative company
cofounds
commit sth. to the flame
composite explosive
compositional petrology
concurrent incremental documantation
copepodid
cystic dilatation
data selector/multiplexer
department of psychology
Diaoxinxuebany
diode madistor
Doherty transmitter
drill headroom
extreme maximum relative humidity
fortensky
froben
galactophyga
genus Glaucomys
gondolets
gone on a bat
Graham, Thomas
grindability test
gun robber
Hammurapi
headsheet
high speed bearing
holds on delivery
horse around
hydroperoxide
in aid to
in line assembly machine
in thousands
in-migrate
intake disturbance
international brands
jakobshavn
kardil
keeps the peace
kinesimeter
laid dry
lawnlike
lines of Zahn
logic, state
milo grit
Mirren
mixed business personal expenditures
monogenesis
multiturn coil
musculi adductor longus
nasiomental
non-sexual
off bottom
over-irrigation
partial nuclear test-ban treaty
pay order
Pinwa
porcupine roller
prefuneral
prepackages
puddle ball
pulpolingual
radioactivity pollution
ribbon window
Romanche Trench(Romanche Deep)
Sabbathless
San Pancrazio d'Ultimo
social taboo
spherical
spouter
stern fueling rig
take rank
tehuana
teratosperma litchii
the first crisis in mathematics
topside sounder
trespass viet armiss
triangularis muscle
two-dimensional nozzle
undefiled
undersieves
unmanured plot
VATER association
vibrometer
view aligned
wasteground
Wenzel's operation
wire torque tester
wolfli
Ziminskiy Rayon