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Given the rhetoric, the SOPA bill could just as easily be called the Slavish Oblivious Politicians Act.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Art Brodsky 2011
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Attracted by handbills, immigrants came: English and Irish, then Italians and Hungarians; then Poles and Slovaks and Ukrainians and Croats, the "Slavish," as they were collectively known.
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"Slavish," "servile," with us connote moral rather than intellectual deficiency, I suppose.
The Memorabilia 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874
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Slavish in its idolatry of 80s funk-pop, it was both spectacularly garish and fiendishly clever, rebooting the most revived and reviled arena of pop with love.
Chromeo: Business Casual Kitty Empire 2010
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Slavish devotion to rules does not promote the kind of freedom and respect for individualism that I thought our country was made of.
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Slavish devotion to ideology — and politics — as well as a culture of scandal and abuse of power have done nothing to shape character or fuel the idealism of our children.
An Inaugural Address to Bring Tears to Your Eyes: Dee Dee Myers Myers, Dee Dee 2009
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Slavish support for Israel's sadistic, murderous policies.
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Slavish adherence to current scientific vogue is the surest way to produce a novel that goes stale within five years.
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Slavish support for American Neocon policies in the Middle East has nothing to do with Liberal Internationalism or Liberal interventionism (noticeably lacking in Darfur just as in Rwanda for instance).
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The Hungarian and Slavish people put their arms around one another and weep.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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