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They were fully-armed, and shook their stone-clubs and lances to drive away devils while they asked God (Montezuma, I believe) for a blessing on Sonsee-array and, presumably, me.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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In both places, the doors were closed and we could see fully-armed riot police and militia watching the people from behind the fences.
A blog entry from Iran.... GayandRight 2009
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At that time, the military scrambled to launch at least four fully-armed F-16 fighters, but that was so late that they never got off the ground before the airliner was finally re-contacted.
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In both places, we could see fully-armed riot police and militiamen watching us from behind fences.
'The Fear Is Gone' 2009
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Not one news story about this week's latest chapter in the administration's ongoing effort to gin up a crazy war with Iran -- the so-called "provocation" caused by Iranian naval speedboats approaching within 200 meters of a US destroyer -- mentioned that the US, which sits some 7500 miles away from Iran, has sent a whole fully-armed armada into the Persian Gulf just off Iran's coast.
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And wouldn't my child and I be just as dead if he'd tossed one of those fully-armed pipe bombs through the synagogue window when we were inside?
A bomb-making factory is discovered in a Columbia professor's house — 3 blocks from where I live. Ann Althouse 2008
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He wouldn't want to let any of those NRA-types imagine for a second that any amount of senseless killing could possibly shake his commitment to a fully-armed populace.
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So we stand today with a still fully-armed nuclear arsenal among many countries around the world, but a very different set of circumstances.
Irwin Redlener on surviving a nuclear attack Irwin Redlener 2008
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Americans understand and sympathize with it to such a degree that it can be employed to justify such counter-intuitive concepts as a fully-armed populace and preemptive nuclear war, as Bush and Cheney have discovered.
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A few simple speedboats -- against a fully-armed US destroyer!!
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