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  • This dove-tailed nicely with what we learned of Gandhian non-violence, brought into the movement by Bayard Rustin, a gay strategist for the Civil Rights Movement.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2009

  • This dove-tailed nicely with what we learned of Gandhian non-violence, brought into the movement by Bayard Rustin, a gay strategist for the Civil Rights Movement.

    Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters "the horror" in Rwanda, Eastern Congo and Palestine/Israel Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2009

  • Murray's successful arrival in the last eight without dropping a set even dove-tailed nicely with the departure from the men's singles draw of the last German representative, Daniel Brands.

    Wimbledon 2010: Weight of Britain's expectation falls on Andy Murray 2010

  • But his suggestion dove-tailed with a thought that had been niggling at me, so if I make a significant change to that plot line which is proving awkward, it may work to fill in the element that needs more elucidation.

    It’s all “maybe” at this stage kateelliott 2008

  • I got a double-clutch when I suggested that our rally should have dove-tailed with efforts to get Coakley elected.

    Joe The Nerd Ferraro: Insult to Injury to Healing 2010

  • Whoever you were, you could never be nailed, planed, sanded, dove-tailed to cross or crib.

    Two poems for Christmas 2006

  • In a timber-rich environment, a common design was the maison de charpente, a rectangular, single-pitched, post-and-beam house, with a heavy frame, carefully mortised, pegged, or dove-tailed together.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Vance's humor is dove-tailed into the story so that you don't feel beat over the head by it.

    The Dying Earth by Jack Vance Dark Worlds Club 2008

  • Aware that their growing conservatism dove-tailed with his own political views, Murdoch changed the paper's political cast from left to right.

    Marilyn Nissenson: When Rupert Bought the Post 2008

  • Whoever you were, you could never be nailed, planed, sanded, dove-tailed to cross or crib.

    December 2006 2006

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