This, local leaders agree, has been an essential factor in getting women into office.

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An essential factor on a mountain as significant as Everest, Bunting says.

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The Clinton team has argued that such steps are justified since an end to U.S. underground testing is an essential factor in dissuading would-be nuclear powers to give up their ambitions.

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