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  • It is also a first step in controling your reaction to things that make you uncomfortable.

    Wisconsin Middle School Class Dissects Deer 2009

  • It is also a first step in controling your reaction to things that make you uncomfortable.

    Wisconsin Middle School Class Dissects Deer 2009

  • With the acceptance of that condition began a period of fifteen years during which Saunders Lewis succeeded in controling the Party's policies.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • They do seem interested in controling both non-Catholics as well as Catholics, but I don’t know why they want to do that.

    Holding hostage a city and its services « Dating Jesus 2009

  • Wow, that must be where he gets the idea of controling weather.

    Damn Interesting 2008

  • He is a thug, who orchestrated this with all of the campaign donations, I witnessed his staff outfiited in clothing with his image on it moving freely illegally from caucus sites to caucus sites, 'controling' delegate packets.

    Will Philly's Hillary Voters Hand McCain the Presidency? 2008

  • Linda Bacon derides some important controls for such an experiment as this though not for their inclusion but rather the reasons for their inclusion; such as controling for confounding factors like smoking.

    On The Most Recent “Fat = Death” Study 2006

  • It seems to me that in general they believe that the government "controling" for want of a better word the medical profession would be bad for them, and they side with the devil they know.

    differences 2006

  • It also means that BVD workers and funds are spent removing trash instead of focusing on reviving the river in other ways, such as controling shoreline erosion.

    theadvertiser.com - 2010

  • So are they 'controling' themselves with religion too???

    Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com 2009

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