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Those people are the natural enemy of any new labs not to be located in their baliwick.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Your Idea Sucks — Here’s Your Money 2009
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If people who are marginalized by the hegemonic culture want to make themselves more visible by claiming a role on the public stage, with facepaint to match, that is their baliwick and may they make the best of it.
Pushing Beauty Boundaries With YouTube « Gender Across Borders 2010
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Now, big ideas are not really my baliwick as a writer.
sometimes when i take a peek outside of my little cage everyone looks so asleep ashacat 2007
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So declassification may not have even been in Cheney's baliwick.
Joshuah Bearman: Cheney's Trial Balloon Already Popped? 2008
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It could be DOJ and the FBI thought it was in there baliwick and were so adamant about it top leaders threatened to quit.
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You would further suppose that he would not feel it was his baliwick to determine what others did with said information.
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Is it within M&Ms baliwick to undertake that debate?
Whitfield SubCommittee: Witnesses to be questioned « Climate Audit 2006
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Is this the skeptics giving awards to themselves or does this body/uni have some general recognition and baliwick?
Article on M&M Wins Dutch Science Journalism Award « Climate Audit 2005
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Yes, we don't want the Supreme Court to be the baliwick of Ivy League graduates, but by the same token, we don't want just anyone to sit up there.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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But the eldest, a boy of thirteen, named Benedict Plösch, is at Mörigen in the baliwick Nidauw, staying with his deceased father's clientage.
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