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Drudge took it on himself to reveal operational information about an individual soldier – information that, not merely potentially, but in all foreseeable likelihood, would expose both him and his unit-mates to a considerable increased risk of attack – information the Defense Ministry considered so sensitive that they perhaps over-protectively felt they had to pull him from the region to protect his life after it was printed.
The Right Wing: Supporting the Troops, As Usual « Lean Left 2008
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Then there is the fact that the characters are talking about how hard it is to find 'real' coffee, to the point of cradling his mug over-protectively as he steps out of the company kitchen.
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We got in touch with the team behind iSlate to see if they'd had any contact from Apple as regards renaming the app and our enquiry was met with a "nope", so it seems Apple is not acting over-protectively towards the iSlate name.
Pocket-lint.com 2010
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We got in touch with the team behind iSlate to see if they'd had any contact from Apple as regards renaming the app and our enquiry was met with a "nope", so it seems Apple is not acting over-protectively towards the iSlate name.
Pocket-lint.com 2010
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