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  • So continues the Evanite/Mainstreamer legacy of backstabing.

    Sound Politics: The Politics of the Gadfly 2006

  • But it could be more complicated when you take into consideration the moving the other sword away and the backstabing response of quickly turning your sword off and then quickly back on .

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Reclaiming the Blade 2008

  • If you mean playing by the rules of the game then "backstabing, double-crosses, and downright dirty tricks" are within the realm of fair play. if however you are appealing to a higher moral than I don't think that you will find too much of that in these games.

    The Fallacy of War 2006

  • The truth is that she is a lying, backstabing politician who has her eyes set on a VP slot or to be a Senator.

    Archive 2005-12-01 2005

  • It's a pity John Grogan and his lying, backstabing Labour colleagues did not honour their election promise of 2005.

    Rss news feed for Morning Advertiser 2009

  • I ended up with the idea of a desert-island survival game where you or your group collaboratively control a randomly generated group of highschoolers that have to balance gathering food and materials to survive with complex social networks and backstabing.

    theRPGSite 2008

  • Considering that that minimum assumed that Joe ‘backstabing b*stard’ Lyingberman would play nice, Obama et al. should have had plenty of practice by now. geg6:

    Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » There Is Your Opening, President Obama 2010

  • With their lies. deceit.corruption, spin, backstabing, dodgy docs, ect have made this country the laughing stock of the western world they were'nt john major and his bunch of feckless spivs. back to basics remember that used the lawyers to cover up the fact he was shagging edwina curry pass the mental bleach bit like dave will get in cause he's not cyclops laughing stock of the western world fraid not silvio has that title cyclops team did'nt even make the play offs

    Army Rumour Service 2009

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