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  • 111comprise —     Beneath Sequoia is the Bechtel Group, a holding company comprised of three main operating arms (New York Times). Not quite. It is composed of three main operating arms, not comprised of them. Comprised ofisz common expression, but it is… …

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  • 112comprise — [[t]kəmpra͟ɪz[/t]] comprises, comprising, comprised 1) VERB If you say that something comprises or is comprised of a number of things or people, you mean it has them as its parts or members. [FORMAL] [V n] The special cabinet committee comprises… …

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  • 113comprise */*/ — UK [kəmˈpraɪz] / US verb [transitive] Word forms comprise : present tense I/you/we/they comprise he/she/it comprises present participle comprising past tense comprised past participle comprised formal a) to consist of two or more things be… …

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  • 114comprise — com•prise [[t]kəmˈpraɪz[/t]] v. t. prised, pris•ing 1) to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several republics[/ex] 2) to consist of; be composed of: The advisory board comprises six members[/ex] 3) to form or constitute: Seminars and …

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  • 115CANADA — CANADA, country in northern half of North America and a member of the British Commonwealth. At the beginning of the 21st century, its population of approximately 370,000 Jews made it the world s fourth largest Jewish community after the United… …

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  • 116DEMOGRAPHY — This entry is arranged according to the following outline: introduction size and geographical distribution of world jewry major geographical shifts of world jewry up to world war i 1914 TO 1939 the shoah 1948 TO 1970 1970 TO 2005 dispersion and… …

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  • 117HAIFA — (Heb. חֵיפָה), port in Israel and commercial and administrative center of the north of the country. The city extends over the northwest side of Mt. Carmel and the coastal strip at its northern slope, and over the southern end of the Zebulun… …

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  • 118HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… …

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  • 119CULTURAL LIFE — Introduction The movement for the return to Zion which emerged as a force at the end of the 19th century was based on a variety of motivations, including the political – the demand for an independent homeland where the Jews could forge their own… …

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  • 120ISTANBUL — ISTANBUL, city in N.W. turkey , on both sides of the Bosphorus at its entrance on the Sea of Marmara (for history prior to 1453, see constantinople ). Constantinople was taken from the Byzantine emperor in 1453 by the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II… …

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