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This dove-tailed nicely with what we learned of Gandhian non-violence, brought into the movement by Bayard Rustin, a gay strategist for the Civil Rights Movement.
Archive 2009-08-01 Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2009
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This dove-tailed nicely with what we learned of Gandhian non-violence, brought into the movement by Bayard Rustin, a gay strategist for the Civil Rights Movement.
Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters "the horror" in Rwanda, Eastern Congo and Palestine/Israel Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2009
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Murray's successful arrival in the last eight without dropping a set even dove-tailed nicely with the departure from the men's singles draw of the last German representative, Daniel Brands.
Wimbledon 2010: Weight of Britain's expectation falls on Andy Murray 2010
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But his suggestion dove-tailed with a thought that had been niggling at me, so if I make a significant change to that plot line which is proving awkward, it may work to fill in the element that needs more elucidation.
It’s all “maybe” at this stage kateelliott 2008
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I got a double-clutch when I suggested that our rally should have dove-tailed with efforts to get Coakley elected.
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Whoever you were, you could never be nailed, planed, sanded, dove-tailed to cross or crib.
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In a timber-rich environment, a common design was the maison de charpente, a rectangular, single-pitched, post-and-beam house, with a heavy frame, carefully mortised, pegged, or dove-tailed together.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Vance's humor is dove-tailed into the story so that you don't feel beat over the head by it.
The Dying Earth by Jack Vance Dark Worlds Club 2008
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Aware that their growing conservatism dove-tailed with his own political views, Murdoch changed the paper's political cast from left to right.
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Whoever you were, you could never be nailed, planed, sanded, dove-tailed to cross or crib.
December 2006 2006
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