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ICE has said that this year - even after the news of Guerrier's death - its goal is to deport 700 Haitian "criminal aliens", a term wielded to prevent the public from distinguishing murderers from traffic-law violators, and drug-users from people charged with crimes but never convicted.

The Guardian World News Mark Dow 2011

That aside, I am more than a little worried that the Commerce Clause seems to be once again wielded as a tool of force by Congress rather than as an instrument to ensure commercial fairness between the states as I (personally) believe it was intended.

Senate health bill clears last procedural hurdle 2009

But the sharpness of the words being wielded is causing the fight to be not about those issues, but instead about … well, the fight itself.

The haunted house on Capitol Hill 2009

Terrors (July/August 2004), a review of Simon Sebag Montefiore's new biography, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, historian Robert Conquest considers the surprising influence Stalin wielded over intellectuals in the United States.

Facing Up to Stalin 2004

Terrors (July/August 2004), a review of Simon Sebag Montefiore's new biography, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, historian Robert Conquest considers the surprising influence Stalin wielded over intellectuals in the United States.

Facing Up to Stalin 2004

While yet his word wielded the friend of the Scyldings, 30

The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous

One of Wired magazine's most popular features is "Jargon Watch," an up-to-date list of slang wielded by the digerati.

Silicon Valley Talk 2008

And America is not -- yet -- a country that can be ruled from horseback or by the sword wielded in the name of the sovereign.

Confirmation of the Peripheral Role of the Theocratic Element in this Bushite Regime 2006

It seems that the sword wielded by the protagonist of my Servant of the Manthycore series has just come up on ebay :

Bronze Age Sword michael 2006

It seems that the sword wielded by the protagonist of my Servant of the Manthycore series has just come up on ebay :

Archive 2006-06-01 michael 2006