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  • His favorite Baby Bush dropped the ball during Katrina and the Heads of States of other countries re-acted quicker than that of the supposed Head of this Country, so he has to critize President Obama because he responded quickly to deflect the past faux pas.

    Think Progress » Limbaugh stands by his Haiti remarks, tells critical caller she’s a ‘bigot’ with ‘tampons in her ears.’ 2010

  • The way the main character re-acted to the twist, or should I say did'nt re-act by barely questioning it and accepting it made the last half of the film almost unbearable for me to sit through.

    Video Interview With Moon Director Duncan Jones | /Film 2009

  • Did you see how she re-acted when thinking they had lost, when told they had not had any orders from the stores?

    The Apprentice : This Time It's Personal juliette 2009

  • Yes, they re-acted because finally they had to obey alaw (thank you Congress) which stated that downed cows should not go into the food chain.

    Big Is Not Better 2008

  • Horses re-acted by not wrapping gifts for any human caught trying to steal these tricks of the trade.

    Tackling Idioms kludge 2007

  • Horses re-acted by not wrapping gifts for any human caught trying to steal these tricks of the trade.

    Archive 2007-02-01 kludge 2007

  • And it chanced that the direction of my scientific studies, which led wholly toward the mystic and the transcendental, re-acted and shed a strong light on this consciousness of the perennial war among my members.

    The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 2004

  • After two hours we passed another maritime village, where the farce of yesterday evening was re-acted, but this time with more vigour.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • When we add to these conditions, the changes, hardships, and enforced separations of the frontier as frequent concomitants, we have exactly a state of society which is fruitful in romantic incidents -- brides torn from their husband's embrace and hurried away; but restored as suddenly and strangely; two faithful lovers parted forever or re-united miraculously; and thrilling scenes in love's melodrama acted and re-acted on different stages but always with startling effect.

    Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler

  • But there were other and humbler states in Europe, whose very pettiness had brought more fully within their vision the whole machinery and watchwork of pauperism, as it acted and re-acted on the industrious poverty of the land, and on other interests, by means of the system adopted in relieving it.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Various

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