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Capable of being freed from confinement, violence, danger, or evil.

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  • Fianna Fail minister Seamus Brennan feels the constitution is still "rescuable" and says Ireland should not make a decision on the issue until the European Council has met.
  • Hmmm. The first part is rescuable: You could reflect on being lost in a moment and say I did not notice that there were people passing me but yet there must have been...
  • NOTE: Certain exceptions are only rescuable from the ApplicationController class, as they are raised before the controller gets initialized and the action gets executed.
  • The decline into "social housing" began in the 1960s when councils committed to "slum clearance" (often of perfectly sound or easily-rescuable stock) to make way for...
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