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in tuh may shuhn

  • n  an indirect suggestion
  • n  a slight suggestion or vague understanding

  • They still encounter an occasional intimation of cannibalism.
  • When asked about Condoleezza Rice's intimation that time is running out for Maliki to save his government, the Prime Minister responded: "I don't think that we're on borrowed time.
  • As the spokesman put it, the earlier assurances in the letter "were specifically to ask for Hashem's surrender there was no intimation of any further guarantees while in Gen .
Quotes

  • Jim Tracy in SI.com
    Performance is everything,Tracy said. "You have to make sure the person that you're talking to hears it loud and clear, and that there's a serious intimation to what's being said. You're hopeful that at some point and time he realizes...
  • Pawan Kumar Bansal in Express Buzz
    There is intimation from China that it will only carry out run-of-the-river projects, which would not affect the flow of water from the Brahmaputra in India,Bansal told IANS in an interview.
  • Asif Ali Zardari in Hindustan Times
    The government of Pakistan will never negotiate with terrorists, but we fully intend to engage tribal leaders who have been abandoned by the previous government and have been co-opted by extremists by intimation and coercion,Zardari said.

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