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Leslie Newbiggin reflects the dominant position within the World Council of Churches when he says, `` We must claim absoluteness and finality for Christ and His finished work, but that very claim forbids us to claim absoluteness and finality for our understanding of it ''. | forbids | {
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Leslie Newbiggin reflects the dominant position within the World Council of Churches when he says, `` We must claim absoluteness and finality for Christ and His finished work, but that very claim forbids us to claim absoluteness and finality for our understanding of it ''. | claim | {
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Newbiggin 's qualification on the Christian claim is of considerable significance. | is | {
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The Roman Catholic Church has excommunicated one of its priests, Father Feeney, for insisting that there is no salvation outside the visible church. | excommunicated | {
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The Roman Catholic Church has excommunicated one of its priests, Father Feeney, for insisting that there is no salvation outside the visible church. | insisting | {
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The Roman Catholic Church has excommunicated one of its priests, Father Feeney, for insisting that there is no salvation outside the visible church. | is | {
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In mentioning this under `` salvation reconsidered '' I do not mean to imply that Roman Catholic doctrine has changed in this area but rather that it has become clearer to the world community what that doctrine is. | mentioning | {
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In mentioning this under `` salvation reconsidered '' I do not mean to imply that Roman Catholic doctrine has changed in this area but rather that it has become clearer to the world community what that doctrine is. | reconsidered | {
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In mentioning this under `` salvation reconsidered '' I do not mean to imply that Roman Catholic doctrine has changed in this area but rather that it has become clearer to the world community what that doctrine is. | mean | {
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In mentioning this under `` salvation reconsidered '' I do not mean to imply that Roman Catholic doctrine has changed in this area but rather that it has become clearer to the world community what that doctrine is. | imply | {
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In mentioning this under `` salvation reconsidered '' I do not mean to imply that Roman Catholic doctrine has changed in this area but rather that it has become clearer to the world community what that doctrine is. | changed | {
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In mentioning this under `` salvation reconsidered '' I do not mean to imply that Roman Catholic doctrine has changed in this area but rather that it has become clearer to the world community what that doctrine is. | become | {
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In mentioning this under `` salvation reconsidered '' I do not mean to imply that Roman Catholic doctrine has changed in this area but rather that it has become clearer to the world community what that doctrine is. | is | {
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People came in and out all evening to see the baby and hold it. | came | {
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The room filled with smoke, and Maggie 's head throbbed with excitement and fatigue, but Stuart had such a happy, earnest look of proud possession on his face that Maggie could n't bear to do anything to quench it. | filled | {
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The room filled with smoke, and Maggie 's head throbbed with excitement and fatigue, but Stuart had such a happy, earnest look of proud possession on his face that Maggie could n't bear to do anything to quench it. | had | {
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The room filled with smoke, and Maggie 's head throbbed with excitement and fatigue, but Stuart had such a happy, earnest look of proud possession on his face that Maggie could n't bear to do anything to quench it. | do | {
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Little Anne rapidly outdistanced her mother in recovery. | outdistanced | {
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In two months she became a fat highly social baby, with a fuzz of flaxen hair all over her head. | became | {
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She stopped flying into rages and started digesting her food ; she developed a peaches and cream complexion and a sunny disposition, and she asked for nothing more of life than that she be kept dry and comfortable and fed huge amounts of food at stated intervals and be carried to where she could watch activity going on... | stopped | {
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She stopped flying into rages and started digesting her food ; she developed a peaches and cream complexion and a sunny disposition, and she asked for nothing more of life than that she be kept dry and comfortable and fed huge amounts of food at stated intervals and be carried to where she could watch activity going on... | watch | {
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She was so heavy that Maggie 's arms shook from lifting her and taking care of her. | was | {
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Maggie could n't seem to get her strength back or catch up with herself with all she had to do : there was the big basket of clothes to be coaxed through the rackety old washer and lugged out and lugged back ; there was the daily round of household chores in which Maggie insisted on participating. | get | {
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Maggie could n't seem to get her strength back or catch up with herself with all she had to do : there was the big basket of clothes to be coaxed through the rackety old washer and lugged out and lugged back ; there was the daily round of household chores in which Maggie insisted on participating. | had | {
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Maggie could n't seem to get her strength back or catch up with herself with all she had to do : there was the big basket of clothes to be coaxed through the rackety old washer and lugged out and lugged back ; there was the daily round of household chores in which Maggie insisted on participating. | participating | {
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Maggie and Stuart pored over figures every night, trying to find how they could squeeze out a few pennies more. | pored | {
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In desperation Maggie consulted Eugenia one afternoon : | consulted | {
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`` Do you think you could find me something I could do here at home to make some money, so I could still watch the baby and do the rest of the things ''? | think | {
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`` Do you think you could find me something I could do here at home to make some money, so I could still watch the baby and do the rest of the things ''? | do | {
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`` Do you think you could find me something I could do here at home to make some money, so I could still watch the baby and do the rest of the things ''? | make | {
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`` Do you think you could find me something I could do here at home to make some money, so I could still watch the baby and do the rest of the things ''? | watch | {
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`` It seems to me you have enough to do as it is '', Eugenia said. | seems | {
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`` It seems to me you have enough to do as it is '', Eugenia said. | have | {
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`` It seems to me you have enough to do as it is '', Eugenia said. | do | {
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`` It seems to me you have enough to do as it is '', Eugenia said. | said | {
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She had been watching Maggie go from the washing machine to the baby to the stove and back again. | watching | {
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`` I have plenty of odd moments when I could be doing something '', Maggie said. | have | {
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`` I have plenty of odd moments when I could be doing something '', Maggie said. | doing | {
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`` I have plenty of odd moments when I could be doing something '', Maggie said. | said | {
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`` It would make me feel a lot better, but the Woman 's Exchange is n't taking baked goods any more and I can n't leave the baby with Grandma because she is n't strong enough and the baby 's too young to be put in a nursery ''. | make | {
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`` It would make me feel a lot better, but the Woman 's Exchange is n't taking baked goods any more and I can n't leave the baby with Grandma because she is n't strong enough and the baby 's too young to be put in a nursery ''. | feel | {
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`` It would make me feel a lot better, but the Woman 's Exchange is n't taking baked goods any more and I can n't leave the baby with Grandma because she is n't strong enough and the baby 's too young to be put in a nursery ''. | taking | {
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`` It would make me feel a lot better, but the Woman 's Exchange is n't taking baked goods any more and I can n't leave the baby with Grandma because she is n't strong enough and the baby 's too young to be put in a nursery ''. | is | {
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`` It would make me feel a lot better, but the Woman 's Exchange is n't taking baked goods any more and I can n't leave the baby with Grandma because she is n't strong enough and the baby 's too young to be put in a nursery ''. | put | {
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`` I should think so '', Eugenia said. | think | {
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`` I should think so '', Eugenia said. | said | {
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`` For one thing you can stop keeping that child in starched dresses and changed from the skin out nineteen times a day ''. | stop | {
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`` She 's so beautiful, and I do like to keep her looking nice ''. | 's | {
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Maggie said. | said | {
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She picked up the baby and nuzzled her fat warm little neck. | picked up | {
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She picked up the baby and nuzzled her fat warm little neck. | nuzzled | {
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`` She 'll be just as beautiful in something that does n't have to be ironed '', Eugenia said. | be | {
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`` She 'll be just as beautiful in something that does n't have to be ironed '', Eugenia said. | ironed | {
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`` She 'll be just as beautiful in something that does n't have to be ironed '', Eugenia said. | said | {
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] | [
"say%2:32:00::"
] |
`` Evadna Mae Evans said she did n't put a thing on her child but a flannel wrapper until it was nine months old ''. | said | {
"name": "say",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"the chance to speak",
"express in words",
"report or maintain",
"express a supposition",
"have or contain a certain wording or form",
"give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority",
"speak, pronounce, or utter in a c... | [
"express in words"
] | [
"say%2:32:00::"
] |
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