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Seems like they've had the same talking points (taking away guns, socialism, "big, instrusive govt") for ages.
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Congress needs to go back and write a new bill that does not involve an expansive and instrusive growth in government.
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A certain, non-instrusive, entirely Constitutional search — all the kid had to do was wait, and for less time than a doubleheader, at that.
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It's instrusive and interferes with a doctor-patient relationship.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES VOTES TO INVESTIGATE WOMEN WHO HAVE A MISCARRIAGE 2008
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However, it insisted that questioning would not be “routine or instrusive”.
Gordonomics - The state wants to know how much you drink in order to get jobseekers allowance. FIDO The Dog 2009
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Remember the good ole days when Republicans used to actually want a smaller/less instrusive government?
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Simple politics would have had *anyone* in power just then doing everything feasible to increase security including pushing through instrusive, unconstitutional acts past an intimidated nation...
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The researchers in global warming claim that their conclusions require us to make extremely costly and instrusive changes in our lives.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Data Sharing and Climate Change Research 2009
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Nobody knows when, quietly and away from the instrusive eyes of the media, he goes there just to pay his respect.
Monday, February 13, 2006 As'ad 2006
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Nobody knows when, quietly and away from the instrusive eyes of the media, he goes there just to pay his respect.
Tuesday, February 28, 2006 As'ad 2006
olof1935 commented on the word instrusive
This word was used by Edward de Bono in his Thinking Course book to modify the word evidence. In trying to find a definition, I found none. However, there were all sorts of uses of it in discussions regarding advertising that is now going on in the web.
July 11, 2009