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At what point will the torture-loving right begin agitating for those methods to be applied to domestic law enforcement.

Matthew Yglesias » The Real Torture Debate 2010

* Eleanor Clift loses one of her uncountably many demerits in agitating for Howard Dean to HHS.

Saturday Night « Gerry Canavan 2009

Over the past decade, when big investors begin agitating in this way, share buybacks have soon followed, the report adds.

Now Is The Time To Buy Stocks, Argues A Bullish Merrill Lynch Chris Barth 2010

I think the Gaylaxians do a lot of good work in agitating for visibility of queer representations in SF, and help ensure that space is made for those issues within the larger mainstream SF fandom world, at Worldcons and etc.

Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2004

This undercuts the federal amendment badly, especially when the fundies are again agitating for a House vote on the amendment around the week of September 20.

08/24/2004 2004

Which is fitting, since churn is defined as "agitating with violent motion."

CNET News.com 2011

But it only matters if the people doing the agitating are his constituents.

THE NEWS BLOG 2005

Dear reader, do you recall the agitating moment when you pass the film through the hypo – and hold it up to the light – and nothing happens?

The House of Arden Edith 1923

I'm not saying that Bill and Hill or their surrogates are actively "agitating" in this direction (so Clinton folks, don't get your undies in a bunch); but there seems to be a growing statistical basis for the winking suggestion (should anyone wish to make it) that Obama is "little more" than Jesse Jackson on steroids.

Rasmussen: Obama Ahead By 14 In Racially-Polarized Mississippi Primary 2009

Last month a Swedish appeals court overturned the conviction of a Christian pastor charged under hate laws of "agitating" against homosexuals in his sermons.

FIGHTING FOR GOD 2007