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In early April an editorial in a major Pakistani newspaper, the Daily Times, expressed a decidedly un-orthodox view about drone attacks.
Sam Black: Striking the Right Balance: The Utility of Drone Attacks in AfPak 2009
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I think it's a combination of his striking me as being a little too impressed with himself with some distinctly un-orthodox aspects to his theology.
seven quick takes, vol. 090123 Sara 2009
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In early April an editorial in a major Pakistani newspaper, the Daily Times, expressed a decidedly un-orthodox view about drone attacks.
Sam Black: Striking the Right Balance: The Utility of Drone Attacks in AfPak 2009
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In early April an editorial in a major Pakistani newspaper, the Daily Times, expressed a decidedly un-orthodox view about drone attacks.
Sam Black: Striking the Right Balance: The Utility of Drone Attacks in AfPak 2009
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In early April an editorial in a major Pakistani newspaper, the Daily Times, expressed a decidedly un-orthodox view about drone attacks.
Sam Black: Striking the Right Balance: The Utility of Drone Attacks in AfPak 2009
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Seriously, though, it is nice to see people thinking about these issues in un-orthodox fashions.
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But the church opened her arms to receive the dismembered son of Mars (a parson with a cork leg, or two wooden ones, or indeed without a leg to stand on, was not un-orthodox), and F-z-y was soon inducted to a valuable benefice.
The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life Robert Cruikshank 1828
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It is a little un-orthodox that she choose to be a mom without a husband.
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The Fact that Armenian has been defeated and rejected throughout history is what makes this review not only un-orthodox but unbiblical.
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He helped to make the unbounded after-dinner drinking of a previous period unpopular and socially un-orthodox; he encouraged in his more youthful days and always enjoyed the pleasures of dancing; he introduced very largely the popular fashion of a cigarette after dinner in place of endless heavy cigars and their accompaniment of liquors; he did much to encourage and popularize a love for music; he led the fashion in the matter of men's dress and, upon the whole, society in most civilized countries has to thank him for simple and dignified customs in this respect; he supported the race-course with courage and persistence and not only made racing more popular but helped to establish its code and operation upon a high plane of honour -- by far the highest and cleanest in the world; he made charity and the support of its varied public institutions popular and fashionable; he showed the gilded youth of a great social world that work was a good thing for a Prince and a peer as well as for a peasant; he, with his beautiful wife, presented for many years a model home and family life to the nation and they, together, discouraged many of the petty vices and small faults which creep into all social systems from time to time.
The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V 1893
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