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  • ROBERT ZIMMERMAN, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: May 6 will be the defing moment of this race.

    CNN Transcript May 2, 2008 2008

  • That's what it comes down to, that's the defing characteristic that when voters go in the polling, booth, who is ready to lead?

    CNN Transcript Nov 2, 2008 2008

  • It is also important that we defing love in a biblical sense.

    Hating the sin, while loving the sinner? – Grasping for the Wind 2006

  • PAWLENTY: Yeah, but on some of the big defing issues of our time, federal spending, the surge, drug importation from Canada, torture, nuclear arms containment and disarmament, on down the list, he has stood up and parted -- the surge -- parted very visibly, very courageously and boldly from President Bush.

    CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2008 2008

  • And Jessica, you know, they knew this convention would be a huge defing moment for the Obama candidacy.

    CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2008 2008

  • JOHN ROBERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Governor, one of the defing moments of the converage of your campagin, has been your conversion from being quote, "effectively pro choice" now to pro life.

    CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2007 2007

  • The line defing the rectangle will probably be in open water; nonetheless, build a wall from the sea floor to maybe fifteen feet above the surface †a total of maybe 50 feet high.

    Should New Orleans be rebuilt? « BuzzMachine 2005

  • The line defing the rectangle will probably be in open water; nonetheless, build a wall from the sea floor to maybe fifteen feet above the surface — a total of maybe 50 feet high.

    Should New Orleans be rebuilt? « BuzzMachine 2005

  • I am not the one claiming extraordinary powers for the duration of the conflict and not defing the end point of the conflict.

    Lean Left » Blog Archive » President As King, Again 2006

  • Democrats say not it's not, it's a distraction from the war on terror and we need to bring our troops out of there and I think it would turn Iraq over to chaos and to terrorists who would be an enemy in the "war on terror," that would be a mistake in foreign policy, but it is clearly one of the defing issues in this mid-term election.

    CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2006 2006

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