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limbo

1
Christianity the supposed abode of infants dying without baptism and the just who died before Christ

limbo

2
a Caribbean dance in which dancers pass, while leaning backwards, under a bar
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limbo

place or condition of neglect and inattention (from Dante). [Western Folklore: Espy, 124]
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Inferno

A distributed operating system from Vita Nuova Holdings Limited (www.vitanuova.com) that is a spin-off of the Plan 9 system developed at Bell Labs. Inferno uses fewer resources than Plan 9 and includes its own virtual machine (Dis) and concurrent programming language (Limbo). Inferno can also run on top of other operating systems, including Windows, Unix and Plan 9. See Plan 9 and distributed operating system.
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Anon Motion Pictures was created by Nine Ladies Films the production company that produced In Limbo as a distribution company for all of it's films, but also to promote new Indie Film from developing filmmakers from around the world.
Puentevella said he welcomed other politicians who were in limbo in the MKK group but he can not assured them if they will be given priority.
Included in most of the articles are the voices of persons caught in limbo situations.
Katherine (Alley), who's never loved anybody but her late dad, gets mowed down in the street by a bike and, instead of getting up and brushing herself off, wakes up in Limbo, where her immediate superior is no-nonsense Rogers (Lynn Redgrave).
"Many real estate deals are in limbo now because sellers are waiting for possible changes in the capital gains tax law, also sellers are waiting to see if our new Governor will change the Cuomo tax," Heistein said.
HIS CAREER in limbo the past four months, Philippine Azkals goalkeeper Neil Etheridge finally found a new club in English League One side Oldham Athletic which signed him to a shortterm deal Thursday.
Perhaps the most interesting reason given by the commission is simply that Catholics have ceased to believe in limbo. For whatever reason, the sensus fidelium, the general understanding of the faith among God's people, has by and large judged that banishing infants--the epitome of innocence, original sin or not--to a secondary celestial tier while all of us actual sinners get eternity in God's presence isn't really worthy of the God revealed in Jesus.
Belief in limbo remained fairly common in the Catholic church until the time of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) when, as the late Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner put it, the council "tacitly buried" it.
Redknapp feels "in limbo" as he waits to hear from Pompey chairman Milan Mandaric.
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