| We began by having a heated discussion on the use of apostrophes and whether the contractive use and the possessive use can be combined. |
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| Like the previous budgets of the past seven years, the spending plan is austere and is even likely to have a contractive effect on the economy. |
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| In some cases, a solid industrial base helped economies to escape the dilemma of either chronic disequilibria or contractive deleveraging. |
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| Scarcity and abundance of resources are contractive and expansive of life's possibilities and probabilities. |
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| Heart block is caused by disease of some portion of the pathway over which the contractive impulse travels through the heart. |
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| The second principle represents a policy of openness to the world, and engaging in regional contractive regional and international construction. |
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| This is typically the beginning of the contractive phase of a populist cycle of this kind. |
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| The spirits are simply the expansive and ghosts, the contractive forces of the world. |
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| The possibility of contractive remedies in the form of price undertakings has been explored. |
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| The system design for the coding of monochrome images is shown using iterated contractive transformations. |
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| An automatic stabiliser is hard to find when it, in that growth rates and levels of employment. case, should be both expansionary and contractive. |
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| During a year like 2001 when the growth rate in most countries will be lower than expected, policies might be judged as appropriate or turn out to be too contractive. |
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| In hardwood trunks the reaction wood is called tension wood and forms on the upper side of the lower trunk and exerts a contractive force that tends to pull the tree toward the upright position. |
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| Jobin, in contrast, opens up the strictness of the ballet vocabulary that is inculcated in the dancers of the Ballet du Grand Théatre de Genève to produce an expansive and contractive body composition. |
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| During the Volcker disinflation, the FOMC interpreted increases in member bank borrowing as contractive because nominal interest rates initially rose. |
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