Word: exist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rival the Mirror warned families to lock up their daughters. The government immediately appealed, and Parliament rushed to replace the defunct law, indeed to raise the age of consent for both genders to 17. Nevertheless, at a moment when much of Western Europe is scandalized over pedophilia, doubts now exist over the legal status of six other Irish men imprisoned for statutory rape - who, as a judge pointed out last week, were being held for violating a law that no longer existed. For their victims, who struggled through torturous legal processes over periods as long as 10 years, that...
There's no doubting Crane & Co.'s experience or its patriotic heritage. In 1775 Stephen Crane sold paper to engraver Paul Revere to print the colonies' first paper money. (A national currency did not exist until 1862.) In 1806 Stephen Crane's son Zenas began producing notes for a local bank. It's an art that the company has perfected; its "tree-free" paper lasts longer than any other paper currency in the world...
...term civil war does not exist in our dictionary...
...treatable illnesses have become weapons of mass destruction. According to the IRC, which has conducted a series of detailed mortality surveys over the past six years, 1,250 Congolese still die every day because of war-related causes--the vast majority succumbing to diseases and malnutrition that wouldn't exist in peaceful times. In many respects, the country remains as broken, volatile and dangerous as ever, which is to say, among the very worst places on earth...
...though the course will not be taught next year, Siner said the group will continue to attract students. “It will appeal to a wide base of people still. Harvard students being overstressed and depressed won’t change because the course doesn’t exist,” Siner said. Many of the students who have expressed interest in the group have not taken Positive Psychology, according to Siner. Professor of Psychology Ellen J. Langer, one of the group’s faculty advisers, said she thinks that the group will fill a void...