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the correctives

adjective

Of or pertaining to correction; serving to correct

  • As the currents were changing rapidly, the captain had to make many corrective course changes.

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Are we putting in the correctives?

The correctives followed, and were met eventually with another Thompsonesque thumping (Jeffrey Meyers's 1996 "Robert Frost"), which a sympathetic portrait by Jay Parini rebutted three years later.

Yet when Jefferson expressed his own view on the branches of morality (true religion), he did not mention belief in an afterlife.[12] His 1814 letter to Law (13 June) mentions belief in an afterlife merely as one of the correctives to lack of a moral sense, along with self-interest, the approbation of others upon doing good, and the rewards and punishments of laws.

And the theology of both parties forbids precisely the correctives that might return social life to normality.

But camps like Occupy Charlotte's have had to make their way very much in the dark, without the correctives that constant media attention can bring, without the steady flow of donations and celebrity cameos.

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The corrective would be welcome if anyone needed correcting, but who mistakes Angelico for a cloistered Grandma Moses?

The corrective measure allows reduction of the herniated encephalocele and correction of the craniofacial deformity in the same operation procedure.

He then explains the corrective.

The corrective procedures are not cheap.

"Avedon Fashion: 1944-2000" is the corrective, the first museum exhibition devoted exclusively to his fashion work.

Naturally, Fassel was not about to announce the corrective measures the defenders have taken this week.

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