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Or Depo-Privations? yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Primate Worship?
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Consider the following response to the suggestion in our OPED, Primate Worship: or Depo-Privations?, that over $6,000 a month for an Austrian chimp might be pushing the boundaries of excess in the animal rights movement.
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Privations hadn't changed the procurator, but she bent with the wind when she had to.
Lord of the Isles 1997
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Privations do not admit of more and less when they deprive us of something altogether, as we said of death and darkness in Q. 73,
Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas 1954
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_ Privations and inflictions must be its natural, habitual products, with ever and anon, terror, torture, and despair let loose to do their worst upon the helpless victims.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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Arrival -- Reinforcements sent out -- Lieutenant Beale is Delirious from the Privations he has undergone -- Gen. Kearney and his Command finally reach and join the other American Forces in California, 274
The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself de Witt C. Peters
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Life in the Rue de Tournon -- Privations and despair -- Friendships
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Roughness of the Country and the Privations to which the
The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself de Witt C. Peters
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Privations had developed our bumps of Provincialism; the claims of
The Siege of Kimberley T. Phelan
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Privations and dangers frequently attended these itinerating journeys.
Robert Moffat The Missionary Hero of Kuruman David J. Deane
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