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disease is allowed to run its course
If the disease is allowed to run its course, the bird grows weak and eventually dies.
— from The Veterinarian by Charles James Korinek

distinction insofar as this record is concerned
There is this distinction insofar as this record is concerned.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 3 by Various

dangerous inasmuch as the right is conveyed
If it was modified so as to oblige him to have his plans ready for this House when they are asked for, I should be satisfied; but to establish a legal right in an officer to obtrude his sentiments perpetually on this body is disagreeable, and it is dangerous, inasmuch as the right is conveyed in words of doubtful import, and conveying powers exclusively vested by the constitution in this House.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress

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