Obama, throughout his career, has faced a challenge in how best to manage his political antecedent.

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The necessary antecedent to those powerful rules was, naturally, a congressional investigation: the Pecora Commission.

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The map, at least, has no historic, real-world antecedent the constellations on the table's surface are entirely her own.

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' So you know people do have a historical antecedent to this.

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By this time next year, WikiLeaks itself and the personal fortunes of its editor-in-chief may be less relevant as news and more significant as historical antecedent.

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This contrasts sharply with the short legs and long arms of the Turkana boy's antecedent "Lucy" (Australopithecus afarensis), who lived in Ethiopia about one million years earlier.

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What Dr Nedelcu and Dr Michod did was to look for an antecedent of regA in a single-celled creature, in order to find out what its job was.

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The final paradox concerns Britain's booming industry, now turning out 2m cars a year, back up to the output levels of the 1970s, before the unions started demolishing Rover's antecedent, British Leyland.

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Nowhere does the IOSCO report even begin to address the fundamental antecedent issues: (a) Is Shariah-Compliant Finance intimately and inextricably tied to the theo-political-legal system of Shariah? (b) If so, is Shariah at war with our Western legal, political and financial institutions?

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But to use this an antecedent to his questions, it would put him in a position if the president admitted shaking hands with someone, then under this truncated deposition, or definition, he could say or somehow construe that to mean that that involved some sort of sexual relations.

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