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Through connecting again with the victims of the 2010 earthquake, the dry bones that result from our own self-protecting isolation have come to life as well.
Rev. Mark Hollingsworth, Jr.: Remembering Is Important: The Second Anniversary Of The Earthquake In Haiti Jr. Rev. Mark Hollingsworth 2012
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Through connecting again with the victims of the 2010 earthquake, the dry bones that result from our own self-protecting isolation have come to life as well.
Rev. Mark Hollingsworth, Jr.: Remembering Is Important: The Second Anniversary Of The Earthquake In Haiti Jr. Rev. Mark Hollingsworth 2012
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Through connecting again with the victims of the 2010 earthquake, the dry bones that result from our own self-protecting isolation have come to life as well.
Rev. Mark Hollingsworth, Jr.: Remembering Is Important: The Second Anniversary Of The Earthquake In Haiti Jr. Rev. Mark Hollingsworth 2012
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Through connecting again with the victims of the 2010 earthquake, the dry bones that result from our own self-protecting isolation have come to life as well.
Rev. Mark Hollingsworth, Jr.: Remembering Is Important: The Second Anniversary Of The Earthquake In Haiti Jr. Rev. Mark Hollingsworth 2012
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Through connecting again with the victims of the 2010 earthquake, the dry bones that result from our own self-protecting isolation have come to life as well.
Rev. Mark Hollingsworth, Jr.: Remembering Is Important: The Second Anniversary Of The Earthquake In Haiti Jr. Rev. Mark Hollingsworth 2012
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Through connecting again with the victims of the 2010 earthquake, the dry bones that result from our own self-protecting isolation have come to life as well.
Rev. Mark Hollingsworth, Jr.: Remembering Is Important: The Second Anniversary Of The Earthquake In Haiti Jr. Rev. Mark Hollingsworth 2012
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The pleasant and polite girl behind the check-in counter did offer up one final surprise before I could go collapse, as she handed me my massive brass key, which looked like it would handily open a bank safe, should I have the need, or – at the very least – use as a self-protecting weapon should one of the holy cows stray too close.
Powerless Hotels in Kathmandu » Dave Brosha Photography 2009
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On its black bosom arose one of the earliest, if not the earliest, of self-protecting civilizations, which grew so mightily that it still furnishes superlatives to thinking and speaking men.
DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004
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With its large, well-spaced buttons and self-protecting flip design, the Taho seems like a smart choice for any basic phone user.
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Mission change does not mean the troops stop firing their rifles to protect themselves, it means they have a different goal from command on down, which is to get out and leave the cuontry to the Iraqis in an orderly and self-protecting fashion.
chained_bear commented on the word self-protecting
Another example of a rather pedestrian word with a spectacular definition:
In tiddlywinks, "said of a pile which can easily be gromped or bristoled to squop nearby opponent winks."
August 27, 2008