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I have my views about gradualism, but I draw the line at actively assisting the initation of force.
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I have my views about gradualism, but I draw the line at actively assisting the initation of force.
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Like my father before me I was sworn into Xhefelag in my youth, went through the whole initation rite.
Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007
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Like my father before me I was sworn into Xhefelag in my youth, went through the whole initation rite.
Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007
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RE: #298 – RE: The initation of alarmism – Let us not forget the “eco pop culture” fiction books during the 70s such as “Ecotopia,” “The Monkey Wrench Gang,” and “Greenhouse” among others of this genre.
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Bryant's rejection of this age-old ritual has the NFL community buzzing today and, perhaps more significantly, it has jump-started the debate on the merits or pitfalls of rookie initation, or at least how far it should be taken.
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This was an initation for the younger boys, as this was the first time they'd worn their masks on.
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This was an initation for the younger boys, as this was the first time they'd worn their masks on.
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The whole design, initation, development, and disciplined application of this false "tea party" cabal smells strongly of skilled, heavily funded propaganda methods and cynical manipulation of a sacred American national-attitude story: The Boston Tea Party.
Salem-News.com 2009
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"We have a lot of different gangs, MS-13's mostly which are more violent than others," he said, adding however, that the likelihood the attack was a gang initation is
WUSA-TV - Vodcasts 2009
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