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When I heard President Obama announce The American Jobs Act, I mistakenly thought the Republicans wouldn't dare vote against "American jobs".

They say the gay soldier's gender-identity crisis in the "don't ask, don't tell" military reached a crescendo that caused him to act out, mistakenly believing that by pouring secret government documents and video onto the Internet, he could change the way the world viewed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – and, perhaps, all wars.

Closely related with this conflation of intensions and extensions is the fact that we mistakenly act as if the word 'infinite' is a "number word," because in ordinary discourse we answer the question "how many?" with both (PG 463; cf. PR §142).

Many times, both girls and guys will mistakenly act nonchalant about school and work and seem like they are too bored to truly care about the tasks they need to complete in every day life.

For instance, one might argue that delusions are acts of imagination mistakenly taken by a person to have belief status (Currie and Ravenscroft 2002) or empty speech acts with no intentional import (Berrios 1991).

Barclays said that its internal investigation led by law firm Simmons & Simmons had concluded that Staley acted "honestly but mistakenly" in trying to track down the authors of the letters.

The three, Vice President Dumitru Mazilu, Prime Minister Petre Roman and President Ion Iliescu, acknowledged to the full council on Wednesday that they had acted hastily and mistakenly under the pressure of a screaming mob gathered on Victory Square one week ago.

When it's brought to our attention that a video has been removed mistakenly, we act quickly to reinstate it".

When it's brought to our attention that a video has been removed mistakenly, we act quickly to reinstate it," said the spokeswoman, whom Reuters did not name.

She made the most of the anguished aria in the final act in which Adriana mistakenly believes that Maurizio, in a gesture of rejection, has returned a faded bouquet of violets she had given him as an avowal of love.

I started out as the music critic at the Toronto Sun in the early-'90s and was frustrated at the prospect of only writing about the kind of acts that some editors (mistakenly) assume tabloid readers are interested in (basically whatever the equivalent of Britney, Nickelback and the Jonas Brothers were back then).

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