But many European countries would only agree to a common policy if it approximated to their own tough line.

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He approximated that the average collegiate GPA for a self-made millionaire is 2.76.

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They approximated the brazen panache of Kirk, the relentless logic and calm of Spock and the brilliance and crankiness of Bones.

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As such, we decided upon a simple set of metrics that best approximated real-world threats, that is, to try to test for attacks actually used by attackers.

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Warhol prided himself on speed of execution and approximated that of one of today's electronic-options trading houses. (I'm exaggerating.) I bought this piece in the early '80s and used it as our corporate logo.

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Recently, the spread has approximated 8%.

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The book is a tour de force, showing, for example, how the potential contribution of biofuels can be approximated from just three numbers: the intensity of sunlight, the efficiency with which plants turn that sunlight into stored energy and the available land area in Britain.

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During parties and there were many many parties in those long-ago seventies days, before Washington Heights was Washington Heights, before the Bergenline became a straight shot of Spanish for almost a hundred blocks some drunk relative inevitably pushed Oscar onto some little girl and then everyone would howl as boy and girl approximated the hip-motism of the adults.

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