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Such a dynamics is upper-bounded by a function of the state and input. The results are obtained for the case when the time-invariant nominal dynamics is perfectly known while its time-varying deviations together with the nonlinear dynamics are not precisely known and also for the case when only the nonlinear dynamics is not precisely known. Either the controllability gramian of the nominal linearized system with constant linear parameterization or that of the current linearized system (which includes the time-varying linear dynamics) are assumed to be non-singular. Also, some further results are obtained for the case when the control input is eventually saturated and for the case when the controllability gramians of the linear parts are singular. 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