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  • George Bush the first and his asinine assisters, made a big deal out of Willie Horton.

    Huckabee defends decision to commute Washington police shooting suspect 2009

  • The assisters are treated as criminal suspects, and while that provides them with some protections, it also means they have the cloud of criminal prosecution hanging over them.

    Assisted dying: we need a more humane law | Charles Falconer 2012

  • We are at a change point in Iraq, where we've got these brigade combat teams that are enabled to be combat advisers, assisters of their Iraqi counterparts.

    CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2009 2009

  • Imagine something between an enormous loft and an old press room with a warren of open, half-walled cubicles clustered at its heart and filled with toiling interns, fact-checkers, and assisters of various sorts.

    Katrina vanden Heuvel, the Media on Speed 2006

  • It is a mere mienerism of this vague of visibilities, mark you, as accorded to by moisturologist of the Brehons Assorceration for the advauncement of scayence because, my dear, mentioning of it under the breath, as in pure (what bunkum!) essenesse, there have been disselving forenenst you just the draeper, the two drawpers assisters and the three droopers assessors confraterni-tisers.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • The Reformer errs when he tells Mrs. Locke that the Regent outlawed “the assisters” of the preachers.

    John Knox and the Reformation Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 1905

  • Foods were regarded from various standpoints: as general invigorators, growth assisters, and egg producers.

    The Diary of a Goose Girl Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

  • Some such vague theory as to spiritualistic manifestations may be a far more rational as well as pleasing explanation of these modern marvels than to suppose that our dead friends come at any medium's summons to move tables, talk bad grammar, and play accordions; or that angels, good and evil, are allowed to be employed in mystifying or terrifying the frivolous assisters at a seance.

    My Life as an Author Tupper, Martin F 1886

  • The Reformer errs when he tells Mrs. Locke that the Regent outlawed "the assisters" of the preachers.

    John Knox and the Reformation Andrew Lang 1878

  • Hopefully, what happens is that the Iraqi forces, with American advisors and assisters backing them up, drives them back into their holes.

    Murdoc Online 2010

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