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The Soviet Union had repressed or destroyed every vestige of civil society – professional associations, religious groups, charitable societies, the independent media – the types of social organizations that would normally help to limit widespread government corruption.

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That's a vestige of when people used to think about oratory and rhetoric in these sorts of spatial terms.

It wasn't until the turn of the 19th century that our blinders were removed, first, with the publication of James Hutton's "Theory of the Earth," in which he told us that the Earth reveals no vestige of a beginning and no prospect of an end; and then, with the printing of William Smith's map of Britain, the first country-scale geological map, giving us for the first time predictive insight into where certain types of rocks might occur.

It was recognizing that public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.

I like a movie that has at least a vestige of a story.

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