Westerngarb, his coat draped over his arm, and relaxed on his walking cane, the subject is clearly confident in his surroundings.
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There the reform ideal was also dressed in marketgarb.
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Our analysis simply avoids clothing syntactic distinctions in semanticgarb.
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The neat, form-fitting, relatively unadornedgarbfigured forth not sexlessness, but marriageability, and not classlessness, but respectability.
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Still, a religious democracy (albeit not a theocracy in democraticgarb) is to be preferred.
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Inevitably, this switch from a more static traditionalgarbattracted the notice of their superiors.
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Numerous researchers have since shown that dressing it in thematicgarb, that is, putting it in a social context, increases the percentage of logically correct answers.
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Servants often acquired clothing in this way, and as well as their workinggarbthey were also given ornate dress for important household occasions such as weddings, births and funerals.
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These are old questions in new garbs, with the result that we are now facing a virtually inextricable conglomerate of interdisciplinary theories with context-dependent key notions for confusingly different concepts.
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In this newgarb, its benefits accrued not so much to individuals as to the collectivity in the form of reduced crime rates, lower official corruption, and better governance.
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Even when the bell-like silhouette produced by the crinoline skirt was at its greatest width, the essence of the horsewoman'sgarbwas a lean, understated, and almost masculine simplicity.
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Broad in scope and vague in content, the law of conspiracy was a tool, wrapped in publicgarb, easily available for the gain of private interests.
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Medora, in her warriorgarb, is no usurper of masculine privilege but rather a worthy surrogate for the hero when he is temporarily removed from the action.
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Does he not accept that a redundancy is a redundancy however it may be cloaked and garbed by his statement?
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Prisoners are now taken from one prison to another in ordinary clothes, not in prisongarb.
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