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It accounts for the fact that only the critical zone--a zone that requires the highest fraction of ventilation air in its supply air--will produce fully vitiated air (where fully vitiated air is air from zones that receive exactly the minimum ventilation rate required by the standard, and ventilation air is a combination of outdoor air and recirculated return air that is not fully vitiated).
Measurement and analysis of vitiation of secondary air in air distribution systems (RP-1276)
Autocratic, anti-democratic and -socialist Protestant Prussia's unification of Germany vitiated the German ideal for American embodiment.
Becoming Old Stock: The Paradox of German American Identity
Now, a vitiated, secularized Europe prepares to open the gates and welcome the invasion.
Muslim immigrant riots, part deux: arson attacks escalate on the anniversary of the deadly 2005 riots, while French politicians mimic American politicians with tough-on-immigration rhetoric
The claim of Julius's bar on West 10th Street to be the city's oldest gay bar is vitiated by the fact that during the purge one could only gain entry to Julius's if one was accompanied be a member of the opposite sex
A New York riot before the black cat
When Swiss emigre Robert Frank set out to document America for his laconic if pathos-laden photographic series "The Americans" in 1955, he encountered a society in the grip of postwar consumption, vitiated by racial inequalities and rampant class division.
Liu Zheng: Yossi Milo Gallery
But the bill was vitiated by allowing some forms of cloning.
Senate passes embryonic stem-cell bill
The ongoing debate [on conversion] and the atmosphere has been vitiated as a result of the court ruling," said Bishop Frank Marcus Fernando, president of the Roman Catholic bishops' national commission on catechetics.
Conversions spark violence
Out then the ideological innovation of a quite different and contradictory ideal, that of sustainability, formed the basis, he notes, for 'a new self-confidence amongst western urban planners,' which in Britain, at least, was vitiated by the way Thatcherism had established a pattern of chronic under-investment in all public services.
Planning the Twentieth Century City: The Advanced Capitalist World
This case is before the Court, however, because the court below vitiated that remedy, finding first that the overpayment statute was inapposite and further that Minnesota law provided a constitutionally sufficient predeprivation remedy, to wit: the assessment protest statute, which had never before been extended to cover the non-discretionary act of calculating tax bills.
In The Supreme Court of the United States No. 01-1061 Programmed Land, Inc., Et Al., Petitioners, v. Patrick O'Connor, Treasurer and Auditor, Hennepin County, Et Al., Respondents. On Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court of Minnesota Brief Of Amicus Curiae Tax Executives Institute, Inc. In Support Of Petitioners: Interest Of Amicus Curiae
While this focus generates som e fascinating readings, most notably of the nonsense logic of Feste's song ending Twelfth Night, the value of Booth's criticism to his peers is vitiated by his assumption that he need not engage with the extraordinary body of scholarship on Jonson or Shakespeare published over the past two decades.
Precious Nonsense: The Gettysburg Address, Ben Jonson's Epitaphs on His Children, and Twelfth Night
Standard arguments for narrow mechanism are vitiated by various closely related fallacies, including the "equivalence fallacy" and the "simulation fallacy.
JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY Vol. 97, No. 1, January 2000
But because of the war on drugs, the Fourth Amendment has been practically vitiated.
A Sane Drug Policy

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