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  • We don't see him in Egypt observing a test of the weapons he wants to buy, quasi-legally, a test that went comically awry.

    Lance Mannion: 2008

  • It turns out that, because of the Communist Bloc's relaxed views on copyright, Poly Play is one of the few arcade machines you can quasi-legally enjoy in your own home.

    amuchmoreexotic: Ossi goes skiink amuchmoreexotic 2007

  • It turns out that, because of the Communist Bloc's relaxed views on copyright, Poly Play is one of the few arcade machines you can quasi-legally enjoy in your own home.

    Ossi goes skiink amuchmoreexotic 2007

  • His cringe-inducing description of meals with women he said made him feel he was "breaking bread with the witches of Eastwick" included a cast of characters he described thusly: "[t] he flame-haired Maureen Dowd, the lithe and lissome brunette Jane Mayer (then at The Wall Street Journal), and the quasi-legally blonde Alessandra Stanley."

    Julie Klausner: Vanity Fair Celebrates Women in Comedy: But, There's a Hitch 2008

  • The flame-haired Maureen Dowd, the lithe and lissome brunette Jane Mayer (then at The Wall Street Journal), and the quasi-legally blonde Alessandra Stanley were the ones.

    Why Women Still Don't Get It Hitchens, Christopher 2008

  • " "Maybe I'm wrong, but I think he might be the sort of educated functionary who likes to steal so long as it can be done quasi-legally.

    Mission to Moulokin Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1979

  • Like the business themselves, Bradford is operating quasi-legally in making the art.

    Aspen Times - Top Stories Stewart Oksenhorn The Aspen Times Aspen 2010

  • Sullum has it correct when he asserts that what the anti-drug types hate most are the headshops that operate quasi-legally by offering their goods for dual uses.

    The Legal Satyricon 2009

  • Like unsupervised children, they often try to grab as much as possible as fast as possible legally, quasi-legally or criminally.

    The Union - All Categories 2008

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