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  • Now Dick and Liz Cheney along with Rove will appear on FAUX news and pump-up their MacCarthyist hype-up the hate and fear agenda.

    Administration critics slam civilian trials for 9/11 suspects 2009

  • "Sport and politics have always been linked, indeed it has been suggested that the poor result of the 1979 referendum was in large part due to a loss of confidence after the hype-up and let-down of the Scotland football team in the '78 World Cup."

    Is Murray a political tennis ball? Jeff 2009

  • Sport and politics have always been linked, indeed it has been suggested that the poor result of the 1979 referendum was in large part due to a loss of confidence after the hype-up and let-down of the Scotland football team in the '78 World Cup.

    Is Murray a political tennis ball? Jeff 2009

  • His statement that a nuclear Iran could put the region "under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust" conjures up his images of a "mushroom cloud" in the hype-up to Iraq.

    Marjorie Cohn: Bush Plans War on Iran 2008

  • Which is therefore strange that President Chavez should wish to give his detractors the air of publicity in his TV show -- which most of his political opponents avoid like the plague anyway -- other than, perhaps, to hype-up his own political profile ahead of the November 23 local and regional electionss.

    Fanatics who want to help that great "Christian," Pat Robertson to "eliminate" Chavez from the face of the earth! 2008

  • His statement that a nuclear Iran could put the region "under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust" conjures up his images of a "mushroom cloud" in the hype-up to Iraq.

    Bush Plans War on Iran 2007

  • Khoa học được sử dụng để hype-up làm việc của Crichton.

    ideonexus.com »2005» tháng hai 2005

  • A strong contrast to the cheap pursuit to any kind of fame that fuels so many creative lives in our hype-up media environment.

    Alfredo Zalce died yesterday afternoon 2003

  • I understand it's all about business, but that doesn't make it any less discouraging, especially when you have to hype-up every little house party show you've done in order to to hide the fact that club owners never bothered to open up your package, let alone listen to a CD.

    HM Doug Van Pelt 2010

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  • On the screen McNulty's rumpled hyped-up features appeared.

    - P.K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.

    March 26, 2012