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Synonyms for harbor

something that physically protects, especially from danger

to give refuge to

to hold and turn over in the mind

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Synonyms for harbor

a place of refuge and comfort and security

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maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)

secretly shelter (as of fugitives or criminals)

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keep in one's possession

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hold back a thought or feeling about

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The Harbors Department issued warnings to all ships and small harbors that have vessels to take precautions to deal with the weather, putting all staff at full readiness in case of emergency.
But the very phrase biblical theology would only be a quaintly familiar harbor for a hermeneutical event, where, in his language, something unknown is stirring.
2005-31 provides safe harbors for determining the finality of the adoption of a foreign-born child and the tax year of finality in which to take the adoption credit or to exclude the adoption assistance income.
Although archaeologists knew much about the two cities and Phoenician civilization, they have long debated the sizes and locations of the ancient harbors, says Christophe Morhange, a geoarchaeologist at the National Center for Scientific Research in Aix-en-Provence, France.
If the EAT holds the property for more than 180 days, the transaction falls outside the safe harbor, thus subjecting the transaction to general tax and legal principles of exchanges without regard to Rev.
Glennie referred to several recommendations in the joint TEI-ABA-AICPA simplification project that would affect business taxpayers: the permanent enactment of the so-called extenders package, a safe harbor for corporate estimated taxes, and the repeal of the corporate alternative minimum tax (AMT).
The law therefore provided that unless the landlord commenced holdover proceedings within three months of learning of the pets, the tenant was free to continue to harbor the pets and no violation of lease would take place.
The result of the mandate in the fifth category was issuance in 1991 by OIG of 11 "safe harbors":
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A taxpayer's primary reason for the sale or exchange is deemed to be unforeseen circumstances if one of the following safe harbors occurs during the taxpayer's ownership and use of the property: