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off-the-books
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of off-the-books in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of off-the-books in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of off-the-books in a Sentence
My personal opinion is that Tyson Gay names should be wiped off the books altogether as if Tyson Gay never competed, i'm worried about the image of our sport.
As one of our elders said at one time, 'Just as they wrote us off the books, we will write ourselves back in,'.
These sanctions, on paper, would quarantine the North Korean economy from the international community, but it’s possible that what may happen, is North Korean trade with China is simply moved off the books, it’s really implementation and enforcement that remains the critical sticking point.
It is a classist, sexist, anti-democratic, anti-child, anti-family policy whose premise did not come to fruition, it did not accomplish what it set out to accomplish. So it’s appropriate to take it off the books.
If you can walk into a store and steal something, that law is no longer enforced in San Francisco, that which at one time was a felony, has now been reduced to a misdemeanor. And now the misdemeanor is not not being enforced or for that matter, the police won't even take a police report because it happens so often. It's those laws have been taken off the books and the criminals know it.
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