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  • It would be nice to get someone progressive in office (Dem or Rep) who utilizes more of California's renewable natural resources, and starts implementing education plans that teach people to fish insteading of handing them the fish.

    Villaraigosa to make announcement on Situation Room 2009

  • While the US government may not be interfering, since Day 1 the supposedly "free" and "independent" US media has attacked Iran's government continually insteading providing unbiased coverage.

    Obama: Iranian accusations of U.S. interference 'false and absurd' 2009

  • It is also time for ALL MAJOR CORPORATIONS to start paying their share of the tax bill insteading of hiding within loopholes and offshore accounts.

    Obama touts financial reform, says GOP stance 'deceptive' 2010

  • We could have a pure insurance system if our welfare system wasn't so massively dysfunctional, but insteading of addressing that, governments tend to bend the EI rules so that seasonal employees are spared the humiliation and poverty.

    A Charter case over EI benefits - Canada - Macleans.ca 2010

  • But, insteading of pissing and moaning, why not help some young hunter have a good experience in the field while at the same time helping the way of life we love endure.

    Why We Finally Stop Hunting 2008

  • Hillary needs to be saving her canpaign money insteading of producining last minute ads ...

    Last minute Clinton ad: 'What has happened to Barack Obama?' 2008

  • I know that you have so much you can give, if only the society listened to where the knowledge and wisdom and learning was, insteading of requiring an able bodied person to be the one to give it.

    Loss: the 'real' Bucket List Elizabeth McClung 2009

  • Now that its editor has annihilated my poor little theory, it is his duty as a great public educator and charter member of the Markhanna Illuminati, to inform me what the hades a nation does pay for its imports with, insteading of permitting me, as he seems inclined, to "burst in ignorance."

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

  • More to the point, why isn't the media DEMANDING the release of these tax returns insteading of repeating unsupported claims like trained spokespeople?

    ABC News: Top Stories 2012

  • "Blood-Stained Hands: Past Atrocities in Kabul and Afghanistan's Legacy of Impunity," the Afghan government, United Nations, and international supporters including the United States (as part of it's "war on terror") have long supported human rights violators, war criminals, and drug-traffickers insteading of prosecuting them.

    Blogger News Network 2009

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