• Essentially, he insinuates a plural number of art works for a single piece of text.

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  • Under EU law, member states have the right to block foreign takeovers only if they threaten a plural media, public security or a country's financial system.

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  • To share a development that is mindful of the planet's needs and potentialities, humanity must break out of a predatory growth cycle and recommit to a plural approach in which cultural diversity comes into play as a wager of success.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • Some agencies in the U.S. intelligence community, perhaps not realizing that MICE is already a plural word, insist on adding an S to the end for sex.

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  • It is, and when Mr Berezovsky last week called a press conference by video-link from southern France to name the lucky 163, he explained why: Mr Putin, whom he helped bring to power, is going back on his promises of further reform, and is squeezing Russia's still weak attempts at a plural society.

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  • Nor does the supreme leader's largesse extend to allowing a more plural society.

    ECONOMIST: Iran

  • Dumky is the plural of Dumka, a kind of folk song that some Czech composers adapted for their classical works.

    NPR: Family Affair, and Dvorak's Invited

  • The real divide is between liberal-minded secularists and Muslims who want Turkey to blossom into a more plural, liberal democracy, and illiberal secularists and Islamists whose intolerance is inimical to democracy.

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  • The Tax Court thought so based on a singular versus plural statutory analysis.

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  • We need new skills to live and work together, and new forms of citizenship for a rich and plural environment.

    UNESCO: THEMES

  • Although the papers collected here are wide ranging, they reveal the emergence of the concept of a common heritage and plural identity.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • Not so, now, as the low rates have already lasted for years (plural) and another year and a half is promised, or should I say threatened.

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  • Syria is a multi-ethnic and religiously plural society.

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  • China's ballistic-missile sub (singular, not plural) hasn't been to sea for a year and would be sunk in minutes in a battle with a U.S. attack sub.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia

  • In order to have a partnership, you need partners (plural).

    FORBES: Partnership Needs More Than One Partner

  • It is English, not Latin, that decides whether the plural of some word ending in -um is -a or -ums.

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  • Edinburgh Festival is a singular event most accurately referred to in the plural.

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  • The participants to the meeting hence decided to acknowledge the existence of such a movement, yet suggesting putting it in the plural tense.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • The Presidents -- plural -- noted the significant progress that had been made since they spoke last a few weeks ago.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Mr Rose, who as an historian of the book belongs to a growing sub-discipline, has written a masterly account of the way in which the British working classes (and that term must remain emphatically plural, since Mr Rose moves from the landlocked rural poor, to London's Jewish East End, to the clattering factory towns of north-western England) have taught, soothed and entertained themselves through their own intellectual resources.

    ECONOMIST: Cultural history

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