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(Definition of quotation from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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(Definition of quotation from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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get/give sb/ask for a quotation Get at least three quotations for the work.

(Definition of quotation from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Further quotations from this source are cited parenthetically in the text. 14.

If the quotations collected in other studies are not representative of the universe of annuity sales, the results and comparisons may be biased.

Sections of the participants' words were highlighted as potential quotations.

The great majority of the above modern quotations are from speakers who are likely to be regarded as in some sense authoritative.

Instead, it presents inside view through a mixture of direct, indirect and half-direct quotations.

In the light of these quotations, the identification between literalism and fundamentalism seems doubtful, and probably wrong.

None of his references and quotations are connected to his end of chapter bibliographies; this is more than a minor irritation.

There are, for example, instances of the excessive use of quotations in support of merely one argument or contention.

The quantitative analysis is simply a tabulation of the proportion of scriptural quotations, and its contrast with the proportion of patristic, scholastic and philosophical citations.

Two quotations may help to make his thought clear.

All quotations in this article have been modernized except the titles of printed books.

They derive this on the basis of quotations from relevance theorists like the following.

Illustrative quotations have been selected from the data, and the objective was to present as many different perspectives as possible, both positive and negative.

Patient quotations are drawn only f rom recorded fully transcr ibed data.

Illustrative quotations are used in the findings to elucidate the key themes.

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The second distinction indirectly expressed in the above quotation, states that only analytic judgments are explicable in terms of relations between concepts.

Like quotation marks, direct quotation is a means through which the journalist indexes other voices and positions himself or herself with respect to those voices.

The present position as regards the famous quotation, "location, siting and design" is totally unacceptable.

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