BASILECT
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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BASILECT. 1. The variety of language in a
POST-CREOLE CONTINUUM most different from the
STANDARD or
SUPERSTRATE language: for example, Jamaican Creole as opposed to standard English
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2. The least prestigious variety of a language, such as
Gutter Glasgow in Scotland and
Brooklyn in New York City. See
DIALECT.
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An Appraisal of Abraham's Role in Postexilic Covenants
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...religion, and in a special way to the Abrahamic pact as a...view that P's Abrahamic covenant became a catalyst for theological...and Apocrypha dealing with covenant virtually all presume the priority of the Abrahamic covenant.5 Freedman and Miano propose...representing the Abrahamic and Sinai ...
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Partner pacts stop raids on clients. (non-compete covenants)
Magazine article from: Accounting Today; 3/18/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...are the profession's way of guarding against...partners, has a noncompete covenant. "It's a positive...relying on noncompete covenants to keep their firms...smoothly. The typical covenant for accounting firms...client. Noncompete covenants "are effective. They...retirement benefits by ...
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Covenant House celebrates new facility, helps youths
Newspaper article from: Michigan Citizen; 9/2/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Citizen 09-02-2000 Covenant House celebrates new facility...as though there was no way out. Two years ago...streets. That's when Covenant House stepped in. With...full-time jobs. "The way to independence is to...of 17 kids, more than half are currently working...
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Wordsworth on covenants, "heart conditions," primogeniture, remains, and the ties that bind in "Michael" and elsewhere. (William Wordsworth)
Magazine article from: Criticism; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; 1. Covenants When Peter J. Manning...a tale about broken covenants told by a narrator apparently...turns on such broken covenants. The financial failure...man to default on a covenant of sorts: a contract...but little less Than half his substance,(4) or he must find some way of raising ...
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Shelter Residents Defend Covenant House Priest
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/10/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...residents at one of the Covenant House shelters that he...once sought shelter at Covenant House-are "con men...spoken New Yorker who said Covenant House counselors helped...t for Father Bruce, half of us would be dead or...Warrick, 19, on her way to a job interview to...
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Resident's bid to overturn neighborhood covenants rejected in Black Forest
Newspaper article from: The Gazette; 6/29/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...in mind. More than half the owners have horses...selectively enforcing the covenants and harassing him...fences in violation of covenants mandating wood. Manure...pick and choose which covenants you want to enforce...people buy houses in covenant- controlled communities...board can govern ...
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Restoring the shine to a tarnished covenant: Presbyterians are called to live out the church's confession.(THE PATH TO HEALING: covenant)
Magazine article from: Presbyterian Record; 2/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...statement calling for A New Covenant with Aboriginal Peoples...spiritual meaning of covenant-making, the essence...people often describe our covenants, the treaties, as...respect each others' ways, and to live, as the covenant chain reminds us, forever...have gotten the raw half of ...
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"COVENANT MARRIAGE" MEASURE CLEARS HOUSE.(FRONT)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 2/5/2003; 700+ words
; ...partners upgrade to a ``covenant marriage.`` It would...for couples who choose covenant marriage include: Signing...Slow down on your way to the divorce lawyer...Louisiana four years ago - half in covenant marriages, half out. ``The legal...
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CLIMATE CHANGE : COVENANT OF MAYORS: "REAL CHALLENGE COMES NOW".
Newspaper article from: European Report; 10/5/2009; 700+ words
; ...100 cities joined the Covenant of Mayors, bringing...The start-up of the Covenant of Mayors was exciting...Neumann, member of the Covenant of Mayors Office (COMO...indirect source of more than half of greenhouse gas emissions...explaining ours are the best way to develop a mass movement...
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 "Omaha World-Herald (Omaha, NE)")
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Residents split over covenants.
Newspaper article from: Omaha World-Herald (Omaha, NE); 11/20/2006; 700+ words
; ...growing their grass a half-inch too tall and hires...enforcing the Eagle Hills covenants -- rules that set standards...several portions of the covenants, including a prohibition...countersuing the board. The way she reads the covenants...to find a reasonable way to deal with home ...
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Covenant Marriage
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
COVENANT MARRIAGE A legal union...that concluded almost half of all first marriages...to enact the first covenant marriage law in the...dissolution, and a covenant marriage , which imposes...marriage law saw it as a way to strengthen marriages...
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Half-Way Covenant
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Half-Way Covenant a doctrinal decision of the Congregational...extended. The measure, to which the nickname Half-Way Covenant became attached, provoked...J. Bibliography: See R. G. Pope, Half-Way Covenant (1969).
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Half‐Way Covenant
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
Half‐Way Covenant. The Half‐way Covenant, as it was called by its eighteenth...percent had adopted the practice, allowing them to discipline half‐way members while, coincidentally, the number of...
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Half-Way Covenant, the
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Half-Way Covenant, the. A doctrine current in 17th- and 18th-cent. American Congregationalism which was held to express the relationship to God of those (especially baptized) members of the community who had had no describable religious experience.
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Puritans
Book article from: American Eras
...salvation. God also made covenants with groups of people...groups and employed covenants throughout their society...All of these specific covenants added up to the society ’ s covenant with God, who was quick...officially sanctioned a Half-Way Covenant whereby ...
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