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To me the Foch war seemed only an exterminative variety, no more absolute than another.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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So destructive and rapidly exterminative had been this disease among the Indians from its first introduction that its appearance brought on a spirit of frenzy and desperation.
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Into Mrs. Heth's gray eyes had sprung a kind of glitter, the look of a commanding general about to make an exterminative rush upon the enemy.
V. V.'s Eyes Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905
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Ex-marshal Matt Dillon encountered the die-hard wrath of the Even today, the issues are not completely resolved. between cattlemen and the sheepmen that lead to the exterminative Pleasant Valley War.
Movies Talk and Shops admin 2010
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Primum non nocere -- the first principle of Hippocratic medicine -- opposes any exterminative kind of medicine that seeks to "solve" sickness (or some other problem) by killing the sick, and any exploitative kind of medicine that uses people (such as very early human lives) destructively.
MercatorNet Anthony Fisher 2009
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