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Greenberg emphasized that blaming Tuesday's setback on any lack of energy or a hangover from the Duke win was "a coward's excuse."
Inconsistent fan support adds to Virginia Tech's senior night disappointment 2011
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I wanted to throw one meaty fist into his face before he took the dirt nap, the coward's way out, before he did the Dutch and gypped me out of his comeuppance.
1997: What I Wanted Thomas Pluck 2011
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It, too, is a lie, at best the coward's smug compromise
Chapter 37 2010
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And the other choice I had was a coward's choice -- never something for me.
Scottie Thomaston: An Invisible Minority Scottie Thomaston 2011
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Doing nothing is a cop-out and a coward's way to play the game.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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If Maryland decides as a matter of law that heterosexual couples can marry but homosexual couples must enter civil unions, then it will be taking the coward's way out and declaring that separate but equal is an acceptable public policy.
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Without fixing the fundamental causes of rising health costs, the trigger concept is just a coward's way of implementing the public option but not have to take responsiblity politically. mk
Nelson expresses support for using trigger on public insurance 2009
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"I could have taken the coward's way out and not run him today and I thought about it when it went to 'heavy in places', but he needed the run," said the trainer, who has never attempted to play down the regard in which he holds the horse, which won over hurdles for the sixth time.
Peddlers Cross heads for Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham after easy win 2011
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Doing nothing is a cop-out and a coward's way to play the game.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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This coward's argument is being adopted by more and more powerful forces.
Paul Blumenthal: The Chamber of Commerce as the Cowardly Lion Paul Blumenthal 2010
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