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No longer will robot-like police officers, devoid of emotion or ulterior motives star in hypothetical arrests.
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No longer will robot-like police officers, devoid of emotion or ulterior motives star in hypothetical arrests.
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I miss the good old days, when an apology was heart-felt, rather than just a script someone states in a robot-like fashion in a lame attempt to dodge some of the shame or blame they so very much deserve.
Defiant Wilson raises more than $200,000 after outburst 2009
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No longer will robot-like police officers, devoid of emotion or ulterior motives star in hypothetical arrests.
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Perhaps he does not understand those attracted to the phrase because he does not perceive the mindless, robot-like mentality leading one to fall back on cliches.
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Appears to be a futuristic Metropolis-inspired lavatory, with robot-like supersized Oscars and giant black and pearly-white tiles.
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Or, as he and Kline concluded half a century ago: "The purpose of the cyborg ... is to provide an organisational system in which ... robot-like problems are taken care of automatically and unconsciously, leaving man free to explore, to create, to think, and to feel."
50 years of cyborgs Caspar Llewellyn Smith 2010
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And, so it may simply be counter-productive, and a huge waste of time to estimate, and to regulate our lives with rules which which demand some sort of perceived (robot-like) symmetry of ourselves; as well because the historic civil, cultural, social and personal aspects of living seem to be dynamic, this may also be an incorrect, or consistently destructive endeavor!?
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They've become Stepford People because their love of God has given them a common sense lobotomy and replaced it with robot-like obedience.
David Fagin: Tim 'Tea Party' Tebow David Fagin 2011
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No longer will robot-like police officers, devoid of emotion or ulterior motives star in hypothetical arrests.
Criminal Law 2009
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