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However, Pragmatism can often overstep its bounds, and it is up to the strict Constitutionalists to ensure that the freedom on the American people is not impuned.
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Meanwhile you call Stodder a liar with no supporting evidence and Althouse is forever impuned or some such nonsense because some guy-Beauchamp who has nothing to do with the subject at hand might have lied about the small stuff which means we should believe he is telling the truth about the big stuff.
"Obama held his tongue when asked what he thought about Ortega's speech. 'It was 50 minutes long. That's what I thought.'" Ann Althouse 2009
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Besides that, her character has been impuned by the suggestion that she expects a free pass because of her lineage ...
Is Hillary Clinton Behind Caroline Kennedy's Bad Press? 2009
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I threw him out with the trash the first time he impuned Sen. Obama and Sen. Obama's supporters would do well to remember those who were personally offensive during this campaign.
Hillary Ally Says She Authorized Him To Launch Campaign To Make Her Veep 2009
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I would also generally say that the role ISAF/NATO has been seriously impuned.
Afstan: Three views 2007
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But he's very, very concerned in the sense that his reputation is being impuned.
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Kolbe needs to have his character further impuned to keep Quazimodo from being sent back to the bell tower.
Think Progress » Rep. Jim Kolbe was a “problem” with pages, 2006
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His courage was impuned, a man who served this country with great honor, a man who never (UNINTELLIGIBLE) also said he didn't have the courage to lead.
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ANC, "it might have impuned the position of the commission".
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However, not long after ratification of the Amendment Congress by statute had impuned the continuing validity of the poll tax as a qualification in state elections and the Supreme Court had voided it as a violation of the equal protection clause.
Latest Articles Constitution of the United States, via FindLaw et 2009
GHibbs commented on the word impuned
The word impuned is the past or past participle of the verb impune, 'to attribute the blame to ...'. The examples agree with this meaning.
February 26, 2014