People who have supported them by investment or as employees have shared in that wealth to a considerable degree.

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To a considerable degree, that is the case, but much of this is relative to defensive technologies rather than new offensive tactics and capabilities that can serve to better accomplish missions and shorten conflicts.

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It also found that Mr Dickinson's ministry had been seriously impaired "to a very considerable degree, by the actions and inactions of members of the kirk session".

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Artists, hardened on the frontlines of the Pacific war, brought a considerable degree of realism to their drawing.

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