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  • She could've vated for her dad as an independent, couldn't she?

    An early Fathers Day gift for John McCain 2008

  • But now, Sir, I have told you the whole truth I have not aggra-vated the failings of Captain Anderson; nor wish to do so; for the man that once I had but the shadow of a thought to make one day my nearest relation, is intitled, I think, to my good ivishes, though he prove not quite so worthy as I once believed him.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Cross town on an "El" vated platform, someones trying to feel warm.

    youneverwin Diary Entry youneverwin 2005

  • But Dany did not see himself as a Rudi, nor was the March 22 Movement anything like the German SDS, which was a highly moti - vated and organized national movement.

    1968 the Year that Rocked the World Kurlansky, Mark 2004

  • Individually they were intelligent, moti - vated, and aggressive.

    Flint, the King Kirchoff, Mary 2003

  • After all, with the gateways reacti-vated, the strategic value of the wormhole will plunge to nothing.

    Demons Of Air And Darkness DeCandido, Keith R. A. 2001

  • He said the bombing was part of a politically moti! vated terror campaign, but declined to say what the focus of the investigation would be.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • His eyes flicked up to that wondrous sea-green gaze that had so capti - vated him.

    Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995

  • Individually they were intelligent, moti - vated, and aggressive.

    Flint the King Kirchoff, Mary 1990

  • We see here a similarity to the life advo - cated by the Greek Cynics, but cynicism was not moti - vated by a desire to expiate an inherited primordial sin.

    PRIMITIVISM GEORGE BOAS 1968

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