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"ref": "2000, Efraim Karsh, Fabricating Israeli History: The \"new Historians\", page 152",
"text": "The war was seen by the Foreign Office as a golden opportunity to undo the UN Partition Resolution and cut Israel down to size'.",
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"ref": "2003, Gordon Donnell, Starliner, page 10",
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"ref": "2015, Anita Anand, Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary, page 87",
"text": "If Arthur Oliphant's aim had been to cut them down to size, it worked: photographs taken at Somerville College in 1888 show Bamba and her sister looking diffident.",
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"ref": "1995, Sidney Winter, Small and Medium-size Enterprises in Economic Development",
"text": "There is, however, another general approach to cutting the potential client population down to size: establish criteria, grounded in the Bank's basic strategy, that restrict the range of enterprises that the Bank tries to reach.",
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"ref": "2007, Vannessa Goodship, Introduction to Plastics Recycling, page 55",
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