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It would be a breathtaking pirouette, a ground-shaking reversal of his initial agenda - but it is what candidate Obama promised.
Alex Castellanos: A Long Fall From an Ivory Tower Alex Castellanos 2010
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Yotam Ottolenghi, the owner, with partner and chef Sami Tamimi, of London's eponymous, vegetable-forward Ottolenghi, writes a regular cookery column for The Guardian, and recently published one of those ground-shaking vegetarian cookbooks --- Plenty --- that only comes around only once in a very blue moon.
Elissa Altman: The Brits and Their Veg: Can the Sunday Roast-Loving English Change the Way Americans Eat? Elissa Altman 2011
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It would be a breathtaking pirouette, a ground-shaking reversal of his initial agenda - but it is what candidate Obama promised.
Alex Castellanos: A Long Fall From an Ivory Tower Alex Castellanos 2010
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Yotam Ottolenghi, the owner, with partner and chef Sami Tamimi, of London's eponymous, vegetable-forward Ottolenghi, writes a regular cookery column for The Guardian, and recently published one of those ground-shaking vegetarian cookbooks --- Plenty --- that only comes around only once in a very blue moon.
Elissa Altman: The Brits and Their Veg: Can the Sunday Roast-Loving English Change the Way Americans Eat? Elissa Altman 2011
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Gage slows to a stop and looks up just as a fireball comets through what remains of the night and slams into the earth with a ground-shaking whoomph.
Black Dust Mambo Adrian Phoenix 2010
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What we are looking at here is embarrassment – not ground-shaking disclosure that reshapes the world, except in one respect: it further weakens US authority among states that do not tolerate FoI requests and lock up Israel whistleblowing citizens or murder – the authoritarian list is too long – those they judge to threaten national security.
Do Wikileaks cables help us understand what is being done on our behalf? Michael White 2010
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Caused by the ground-shaking demagoguery of the age (Islamism, global warming, Marxism, etc), the mob is a terrifying inhuman wave that rises every generation or so to engulf culture, and once risen, like a tidal wave, cannot be turned back.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2010
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Caused by the ground-shaking demagoguery of the age (Islamism, global warming, Marxism, etc), the mob is a terrifying inhuman wave that rises every generation or so to engulf culture, and once risen, like a tidal wave, cannot be turned back.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2010
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I don't think we will see explosions, big bad robots and ground-shaking sound effects hopefully!
Indie Trailer Sunday: Clay Liford's Indie Sci-Fi Film Earthling « FirstShowing.net 2010
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Yes, pragmatism is admirable, but give me some idealism too, give me some deep-seated moral conviction and the powerful, ground-shaking words to express it.
Peter Daou: Neda's Martyrdom and the Pitfalls of Obama's Chronic Pragmatism 2009
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