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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
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"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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Khoa học được sử dụng để hype-up làm việc của Crichton.
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A strong contrast to the cheap pursuit to any kind of fame that fuels so many creative lives in our hype-up media environment.
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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
yarb commented on the word hype-up
On the screen McNulty's rumpled hyped-up features appeared.
- P.K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
March 26, 2012