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have at

verb

  1. archaic.
    intr, preposition to make an opening attack on, esp in fencing
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Idioms and Phrases

Attack; also, make an attempt at. For example, Urging the dog on, he said , “ Go on, Rover, have at him ,” or It's time to have at straightening out these files . [Late 1300s]
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The fundamental law of motion of cybernetics is that if you have a control system, it has to have at least as much complexity as the thing it's trying to control.

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But what we have at present, across the world, is a management system that just doesn't listen to its customers, or doesn't listen to its voters, in anything like the way it used to.

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“But we didn’t think specifically about the effect it would have at the time. We were just kind of figuring out where we were going with it, what we were doing and how to get all this information out while we’re there in the car.”

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It’s recommended to have at least one trained facilitator present during the session who can also be available for the integration process afterward.

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County’s 10 million residents either are foreign-born or have at least one immigrant parent, including about 800,000 people without legal status.

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