FOI


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FOI

abbreviation for
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) freedom of information
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
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Ma foi! you have not seen a drove of Nithsdale raiders on their Galloway nags, or you would not speak of loving them.
Ma foi! it is rough soldiering, and a good school for one who would learn to be hardy and war-wise."
But ma foi! lay hand on his wool-bales, or trifle with his velvet of Bruges, and out buzzes every stout burgher, like bees from the tee-hole, ready to lay on as though it were his one business in life.
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In a word, without going over all the journals in the world, there was not a scientific publication, from the Journal of Evangelical Missions to the Revue Algerienne et Coloniale, from the Annales de la Propagation de la Foi to the Church Missionary Intelligencer, that had not something to say about the affair in all its phases.
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"Ma foi, I can hardly tell, but I was alluding to those who wrote the letter; you received one, did you not?"
"Ma foi," said the young man; "was it possible there could be two answers to such a question?"
"Ma foi, monsieur, you have touched upon a tender chord."
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A precious pleasure, ma foi! For my part, I don't regret it at all.
" Ma foi! I no longer comprehend anything," murmured Porthos.
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Ma foi! I refused, pretending that I could not sell them for more than nine hundred livres.
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Independent councillor David Paterson has made 14 FoI requests, the SNP's John Mitchell 11 and Lib Dem Catriona Bhatia submitted seven.
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