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Rich is most definitely an Obama supporter, yet his analysis seems to be objective when disusing Obama.
Every Good Story and Presidency Needs a Theme CRCHAIR 2010
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Also disusing on how to become a more successful Sportsman.
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Quakers denied the authority of the rite altogether, and gave good reasons for disusing it.
Uncollected Prose 2006
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But we are not disusing day night outside of polar regions.
Hits « Climate Audit 2005
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God did not preserve His Word in the ` disusing 'but in the
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But how this can be avoided entirely I know not, but by disusing their Goods and letting them perish in their Hands.
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 8 September 1777 1963
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What a hushing of voices and cleansing of wits and disusing of oaths was there after my little lady came to our rough Habitation!
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There is a partial liberty which tries to realize itself by denying various realities as real; there is a higher liberty which really realizes itself by conceding such realities as real and by using or disusing them as occasion may require in the interest of the self at its best.
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From an internal desire on the part of the creature disusing it, to be quit of an organ which it finds troublesome.
Life and Habit Samuel Butler 1868
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And finally, it is now near two hundred years since the Society of Quakers denied the authority of the rite altogether, and gave good reasons for disusing it.
Uncollected Prose 1832
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