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Margery Williams's "Velveteen Rabbit" (1922), William Steig's "Yellow & Pink" (1984) and Russell Hoban's supernal "Mouse and His Child" (1967) have been existential discourses.

They stressed that it would be "highly irregular" that neither the FBI or the personnel office would have notified the counsel about a "flag" in Porter's file that could have been "existential" to his ability to get a clearance.

Although, the use of FSOPs for crude transshipment has been existential in the logistics industry, yet no work has so far addressed the management of such units for crude oil handling and transportation.

For the Kurds in Syria, the fight against IS has been existential.

Given that the critical victory of the Right has been existential rather than political, any countervailing project must highlight the existential.

While doing without Ms. Swift may not have been an existential threat to Spotify, having the biggest pop artist in the world withdraw from the service surely had some effect.

Since Lord Baker's 1988 Education Act ended their autonomy, universities have been plunged into existential doubt.

Past Ivanovs have been diagnosed with existential angst and intellectual ennui.

Dowling added, "At a certain point, I just asked myself: Is this worth it?" Knicks fans have been asking this existential question for years, to no productive end.

As militias have proliferated, rivalries, particularly over land use and tenure and over access to markets, have been turned into existential battles in which local interests can only be protected by armed force.

He says: "These feelings of insubstantiality and inauthenticity that plagued me as an adolescent have been transformed from existential fears into something to be revelled in: a great, bounding game of role playing, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, sometimes grave, but never earnest, always with a knowing sense of the absurdity and the fiction inherent in the idea of identity.