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  • 111Stability — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Stability >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 stability stability Sgm: N 1 immutability immutability &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 unchangeableness unchangeableness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 constancy constancy Sgm: N 1 stable… …

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  • 112Khartoum Resolution — The Khartoum Resolution of September 1, 1967 was issued at the conclusion of a meeting between the leaders of eight Arab countries in the wake of the Six Day War. The resolution, which formed a basis of the policies of these governments toward… …

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  • 113Resistance — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Resistance >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 resistance resistance stand front oppugnation Sgm: N 1 oppugnancy oppugnancy Sgm: N 1 opposition opposition &c. 708 Sgm: N 1 renitence renitence …

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  • 114List of Watch Tower Society publications — This article is about literature produced by the Watch Tower Society since its inception. For additional information about literature used by Jehovah s Witnesses, see Jehovah s Witnesses publications. Part of a series on …

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  • 115freeze — Synonyms and related words: KO, abide, anesthetize, anhydrate, appall, arrest, awe, balance, ballast, ban, be cold, be still, bedaze, benumb, besot, bite, bitter weather, blast, blast freeze, bleak weather, blight, block, blunt, brake, brine,… …

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  • 116hold out — Synonyms and related words: abide, balk, be proof against, be unflappable, be unmoved, be unwilling, bear up, bear up against, beg off, bide, boycott, carry on, come up fighting, continue, continue to be, decline, decline to accept, defeat time,… …

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  • 117stability — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Permanence Nouns 1. stability; immutability, unchangeableness, constancy, firmness, equilibrium, immobility, soundness, vitality, stiffness, solidity, aplomb; establishment, fixture; homeostasis;… …

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  • 118HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… …

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  • 119resistance — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I n. recalcitrance (see resistance); impedance (see hindrance, electronics). II Active opposition Nouns 1. resistance, opposition, oppugnance, renitence, stand, front; recalcitrance, obstinacy; impeding …

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  • 120hold — hold1 [hōld] vt. held, holding [ME holden < Anglian OE haldan (WS healdan), akin to Ger halten, Goth haldan, to tend sheep < IE base * kel , to drive, incite to action > Gr kelēs, swift horse, L celer, swift: prob. sense development:… …

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