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  • Gee, if people had this much passion when it comes to yelling at Congress and our elected Officialdom about all the things that need fixing at NASA these days, maybe we'd actually begin to get the space program back to where it belongs.

    Mike Griffin Doesn't Seem To Miss NASA Watch - NASA Watch 2009

  • Officialdom, however, had no impact as Stokes secured his second goal of the night.

    Celtic 4-0 Hearts | Scottish Premier League 2011

  • The folks working the market begin exchanging glances, and Josh reacts by adopting the Voice of Officialdom, a caricature of a bullhorn-enhanced announcement, part entreat and part command.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • The folks working the market begin exchanging glances, and Josh reacts by adopting the Voice of Officialdom, a caricature of a bullhorn-enhanced announcement, part entreat and part command.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • The other problem in this trial seems to have been the fundamental disconnect between the forces of Officialdom and Law and the benevolent misrule that characterizes Internet culture.

    After the U.K.'s Twitter Joke Trial verdict, we need a sarcasm mark Alexandra Petri 2010

  • The folks working the market begin exchanging glances, and Josh reacts by adopting the Voice of Officialdom, a caricature of a bullhorn-enhanced announcement, part entreat and part command.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • The folks working the market begin exchanging glances, and Josh reacts by adopting the Voice of Officialdom, a caricature of a bullhorn-enhanced announcement, part entreat and part command.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • Officialdom has not banished the violent fanatics from the Western Wall Plaza; instead it has banished the WOW and the Reform and Conservative congregations.

    Women of the Wall. 2009

  • When Officialdom fired him from his job at the Refugee Center, or when they threw him out of the Church he had built up in Miami, he had founded his own grass-roots, Veye Yo, watch group organization to continue to give voice to the downtrodden, hungry and homeless.

    Haiti: Ezili's HLLN blasts Miami Herald's coverage of Jean Juste Memorial 2009

  • Friday's citizenship ceremony was a reasonably banal exercise in officialdom (not High Officialdom, but certainly not minimal either).

    A Party melted_snowball 2007

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