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Obama's decision to gradually withdraw US combat forces from Iraq was fully consonant with Bush's policy.
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It is telling that, down through the years, the final consonant has gone missing.
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And on Israel, American Jewish disapproval of Obama is fully consonant with the views of the general public.
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Ironically, all of these policies are consonant not only with Israel's strategic needs, but with the US's own strategic interests.
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You can see the frequency and intensities of each vowel and consonant.
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He indicated that he regarded her as a fellow spirit, even while still running for president, with rhetoric that was consonant with her activities.
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Names that display a consonant-vowel-consonant pattern are often easiest to say.
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From north to south, the country is thickly planted with consonant-rich grapes like Pecorino, Asprinio, Fiano, Pigato, Catarratto and Grillo, to name just a (very) few.
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The whistled language replaces each vowel or consonant with a whistling sound: two distinct whistles replace the five Spanish vowels, and there are four whistles for consonants.
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They attacked the problem directly by composing a series of new melodies featuring explicitly consonant and dissonant patterns of notes, and playing them to a series of volunteers who had agreed to be scanned.
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Consonant-poor Hawaiian has just thirteen phonemes.
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It's really very consonant with what used to be done in sort of Victorian and post-Victorian England and Germany and in the United States, which was the idea that children have to be sort of trained to go to the toilet, and the sooner it's done, the better the training and the more efficient it will be, and that was kind of the practice.
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