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This means I can use the environment by having them fight in abandonned libraries, get thrown through old diner windows, hide themselves in the back of old banks or in freezers, etc.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » StarE’s Review Forum 2009
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This seemed very stupid to me and I hope this idea has been abandonned everywhere.
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He simply abandonned his office for four or five days to go off and play with his little Argentine tart, without even turning over the government to his Vice Governor.
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Escape pods have been studied and abandonned in light of the additional weight.
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Bak2530, either it will go back to the date when they ARRIVE or it will go back to when they were already there, and well see them pottering about like noones business in the Barracks (which is conveniently abandonned …).
The Tail Section » Your Voice: A Wild Speculation of the Remainder of ‘Lost’ 2008
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The video was shot in two abandonned houses north of Montreal.
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Anyway, it seems pretty obvious to me that the ownership claim of abandonment must be … abandonned (rimshot).
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We all remember Europe, right, where national health care systems were build in the postwar period only to be abandonned in the late 1970s still in place across the board.
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I do know however that I abandonned my stunningly non-successful attempts to teach my older son Portuguese and then shortly after realized the attempts had been short-circuiting my fiction writing in English — which has so far contributed material though far from stunning economic advantage to their upbringing.
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If you believe people should have the right to use force to protect their property, even after the would be thief has left your property having abandonned his intention to steal, then do you believe it is also acceptable to use force when one teenager shoots the kid who tried, and failed, to steal his Ipod?
You Have The Right To Be A Victim « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009
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