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If this were for multiple-usage, it would be much better .. for personal safety also – is 30 minutes enough if a person is god-forbid! stuffed in a trunk or lying in a crevice?!!
Disposable Pre-paid Mobile Phone by Shirley A. Roberts » Yanko Design 2009
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More people ought to be taking Metro, and we ought to be making it conceivable that someone might want to ride the bus or (god-forbid) ride their bike in from PG to downtown.
Matthew Yglesias » DDOT Decides That Speedy Cars are More Important than Pedestrian Safety 2009
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That is the lesson that Spitzer himself provided to these women, but god-forbid they should actually learn it.
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I have a hard time seeing how this pick will ultimately help either politically or in governing (if god-forbid, McCain were elected).
McCain-Palin 2008
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Within minutes of McAuliffe (god-forbid) clinching the nomination, sleaze like Roger Stone and Karl Rove and Mary Matalin will be crawling through McAuliffe's long, long record of mixing business and politics in oftentimes seedy fashion.
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Cause, god-forbid we should use correct facts and terms when engaged in a nationally broadcast discussion.
Ewan McGregor Praises Polanski’s Direction; Meanwhile Polanski May Return Willingly to US | /Film 2009
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And god-forbid, our god would let the right-wing pundits, left-wing corporates, or our own administration send us a bill of goods!?
Sean Penn: Piano Wire Puppeteers: The Constitution, Media & Dennis Kucinich 2008
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You see, for three hundred years in America, no important white man was ever publicly criticized, or god-forbid, punished, for sullying the honor of a black woman.
Stacy Parker Aab: This Day in Black--No, American--History 2008
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As for the fretting of the George Will's that a billionaire might god-forbid be inhibited from giving or spending even more money for their favored candidates, exactly how does it advance First Amendment values to allow a few very wealthy people or interests to spend millions of dollars to drown out the voices and contributions of millions of average citizens?
Mark Green: Ms. Speaker, After 100 Hours, Let's Enact "Democracy Funding" of Campaigns 2008
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It's all about fear and the fear of what some right wing Republicans will do with a picture of Barack Obama and, god-forbid, a Muslim, shaking hands or, heaven-help-us, hugging at a fundraiser, or a rally, or a town hall meeting.
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