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  • Stand up against the protestors who presumably are not adversed to using violence?

    The Wrong Kind Of Snow « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • Daily bathing with a soap made from the fruit of copalxócotl (cyrtocarpa educalis) was a common practice among the Nahuas, a custom that astounded the bathing-adversed Spaniards in the sixteenth century. 18 Moreover, the purifying effects of bathing were an important therapy in ancient Mesoamerican medicine.

    Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

  • Im not ... adversed to adoption if my husband like REALLY REALLY was wacked out and wanted kids though.

    dailycomic Diary Entry dailycomic 2008

  • I refer completely with the reasons anti evolutionism of the great professor Giuseppe Sermonti,a man by the time adversed by the academic mafia pro Darwin

    Of Form over Substance: a review of Sermonti - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • You like music all over the map and aren't adversed to listening to some Top 40 here and there.

    bebelua Diary Entry bebelua 2003

  • All these mountains were platted, and 'adversed,' and litigated.

    Heart's Desire Emerson Hough 1890

  • Collective conflict is hardly a new idea - James Madison invoked it in the Federalist Papers, defining factions as citizens "united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community."

    NYT > Home Page By NANCY FOLBRE 2011

  • Now that the flagging auto companies are finnaly making some crumbs/dough; the Unions greed again want to send a shot to the bow, and Torpiedo the vary companies that once made America great, with additional lazys and socio-bloat, not adversed to using thier Chicago gutter grudge strong arm tactics and legal manuverings........

    unknown title 2011

  • By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.

    The Federalist Papers 1788

  • By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.

    The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton 1780

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