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rek tuh fahyd

  • v  math: determine the length of
  • v  reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities
  • v  bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
  • v  set straight or right
  • v  make right or correct
  • v  convert into direct current
  • s  having been put right

  • We'll try to get this rectified in the 2004 budget year or before.
  • His biggest scandal is that his voice was overdubbed with another guy's singing in High School Musical (he rectified that in the second).
  • Cliff: If lawlessness cannot be rectified at the highest levels of our society, then it cannot be rectified at all.
News & Articles

  • Increased Adoption of Variable Frequency Drives Promote Uptake of Harmonic Filters, Finds Frost & Sullivan
    MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The use of variable frequency drives create multiple levels of harmonics in the system, which cannot be rectified or cleaned up without a harmonic filter. ...
    June 12, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
  • Dining Out: Lindenhof delivers high level of comfort
    Buffets can be hit or miss. And with once-a-week servings, it’s hard to get a baseline reading. Consider that part of the reason that the long-running Friday night dinners offered by Peoria’s German-American Society at the Lindenhof, 7601 N. Harker Dr., have slipped under Dining Out’s radar for so long. But after a recent visit, it’s a mistake we’re glad we rectified.
    June 12, 2013 - Peoria Journal Star
  • Burial mix-up prompts reader questions about money sought in lawsuit, others take cemetery to task
    “Well, the amount is insane however, the attitude of the people at Mt. Ever-Rest brought it on,” Fibergal said. “Had they just rectified the situation when the dug the site for the mother, and paid to have either the father's body moved to the correct site or the headstone moved and the mother buried next to her husband, this could have all been avoided. But to tell the family that they had to ...
    June 11, 2013 - The Kalamazoo Gazette
Quotes

  • Stephen Harper in Winnipeg Free Press
    I've instructed the minister to look at what options are available to us to rectify the situation because it should be rectified,Harper said.
  • Rene Preval in Washington Post
    Many mistakes have to be rectified in order to bring help to the people who need it,President Rene Preval complained to reporters.
  • Stephen Conroy in Melbourne Herald Sun
    I am satisfied that Telstra has . . . sufficiently rectified the problems I identified in January, including handheld handset coverage, customer information provision and the availability of equipment and services,Senator Conroy said.

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