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  • I consider myself an ardent feminist, butfor the record I loved (and still love) the traditional Disney films and I was never a “tiara-wearing maniac”.

    2010 February « There’s More to this than Waves 2010

  • The NKVD, for one example, employed some of these methods notfor purposes of interrogation, butfor the sake of inflicting pain and destroying the humanity of the victim — thereby crushing the spirit of anyone allied with the victim.

    Definitions 2009

  • I consider myself an ardent feminist, butfor the record I loved (and still love) the traditional Disney films and I was never a “tiara-wearing maniac”.

    The Oh-So-Scary “Princess Phase” 2010

  • No social objective is served by “punishing” the mentally ill who would have commited a crime butfor their lack of mens rea.

    Man Not Criminally Responsible for Greyhound Bus Beheading; Victim’s Family Call for Punishment : Law is Cool 2009

  • Obama does not in anyway want to work in the interest of those that elected him to the job, butfor the big banks andsuper crooks of Wall Street. by

    The Real Obama: Sticking it to the Working Stiffs 2010

  • This is not easy to say butfor better and worseover the past twenty years, we parents have been subtly extruded from our kids lives.

    Childhood Unbound Ron Taffel 2009

  • Formerly perhaps the motive of the perpetratorswas simplyto obtain the loot of'the money ', butfor the last couple of centuries this has selectively changed as corporations were acquired and merged, the prime motive becoming an exercise to acquire' the power 'over the rest of us.

    The Most Evil Corporations, Industries and Orgs 2009

  • This is not easy to say butfor better and worseover the past twenty years, we parents have been subtly extruded from our kids lives.

    Childhood Unbound Ron Taffel 2009

  • Those who are gay have some breathing space – at least in the cities, if you move in the right circles, you know the gay bars and that sort of thing, butfor the others, the tunnel is darker.

    India's Lonely Honeymooners Shantanud 2008

  • It is a fanastic shoe and i would like to buy this shoe for my son as it is a vacation gift to him. fdghjk: So simple, butfor some reson not the first solution that comes to mind.

    OhGizmo! 2009

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