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pirate 1. a person who commits piracy 2. a. a vessel used by pirates b. (as modifier): a pirate ship
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Regarding the THY highjack, Turkish TV initially quoted police sources saying the plane had been seized in protest at a planned visit to Turkey next month by Pope Benedict, who offended many Muslims with a speech last month linking the spread of the Islamic faith to violence. Keeley warned that dirty air might highjack germination cues, prompting seeds to sprout at times when seedlings couldn't succeed. Perhaps it was the very weirdness, the very craziness of that statement, that got me started in the direction of a possible solution to the problem of reducing (a) the financial cost of funerals and (b) the spiritual cost that churches and bereaved families have suffered from this campaign to highjack the funeral experience and place it under the "firm control of the funeral directors. |
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