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On the other hand, he notes that hate propaganda, although political, involves “ideas anathemic to democratic values.”
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Or what it is about candidate B which is more anathemic to XYZ than candidate A?
McCain: Obama Has Nothing In Common With Hamas -- But The Voters Think It Should Be An Issue, Anyway 2009
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And the worst “tortillas” I ever saw were some canned disks distributed under the anathemic Old El Paso brands, that I optimistically bought in a Safeway in Putney, South London, in 1979.
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The very idea that in 2008 a legislative body would pass a bill so utterly anathemic to every concept of personal rights and privileges and so intrusive on personal dignity and privacy is repulsive.
Florida: America's daddy state Sinfonian 2008
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Perhaps my somniferous friend was not in line before the last roll of the drum next morning with feathers ruffled, with bad thoughts in his heart, and anathemic English on his tongue.
Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906
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