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  • By contrast, broadcasting is based upon non-reciprocal interest.

    Zac Hill: The Intimacy Gap Zac Hill 2011

  • By contrast, broadcasting is based upon non-reciprocal interest.

    Zac Hill: The Intimacy Gap Zac Hill 2011

  • Gaga also manages to create a sense of intimacy and reciprocity in what is traditionally a non-reciprocal relationship, constantly attributing her success and happiness to her fans.

    John W. Whitehead: Lady Gaga and the Pornification of America 2010

  • General Petreaus here is demonstrating fidelity to the grandest American military traditions, plainly invoking the historical examples of General Washington, and of President Lincoln, both of whom insisted upon a strict standard of humane treatment, and an absolute prohibition on cruelty, even in the face of brutal and indiscriminate — that is to say non-reciprocal — treatment of our troops by our enemies.

    Balkinization 2007

  • General Petreaus here is demonstrating fidelity to the grandest American military traditions, plainly invoking the historical examples of General Washington, and of President Lincoln, both of whom insisted upon a strict standard of humane treatment, and an absolute prohibition on cruelty, even in the face of brutal and indiscriminate — that is to say non-reciprocal — treatment of our troops by our enemies.

    Balkinization 2007

  • In that sense, we believe that those who want gay marriage to be universal through forced reciprocity can only avoid hypocrisy by requiring states to recognize many other currently non-reciprocal acts such as fire-arm possession ownership/carry laws an actual enumerated right.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Where Cheney Is to Obama’s Left: 2009

  • General Petreaus here is demonstrating fidelity to the grandest American military traditions, plainly invoking the historical examples of General Washington, and of President Lincoln, both of whom insisted upon a strict standard of humane treatment, and an absolute prohibition on cruelty, even in the face of brutal and indiscriminate — that is to say non-reciprocal — treatment of our troops by our enemies.

    Balkinization 2007

  • General Petreaus here is demonstrating fidelity to the grandest American military traditions, plainly invoking the historical examples of General Washington, and of President Lincoln, both of whom insisted upon a strict standard of humane treatment, and an absolute prohibition on cruelty, even in the face of brutal and indiscriminate — that is to say non-reciprocal — treatment of our troops by our enemies.

    Balkinization 2007

  • General Petreaus here is demonstrating fidelity to the grandest American military traditions, plainly invoking the historical examples of General Washington, and of President Lincoln, both of whom insisted upon a strict standard of humane treatment, and an absolute prohibition on cruelty, even in the face of brutal and indiscriminate — that is to say non-reciprocal — treatment of our troops by our enemies.

    Balkinization 2007

  • General Petreaus here is demonstrating fidelity to the grandest American military traditions, plainly invoking the historical examples of General Washington, and of President Lincoln, both of whom insisted upon a strict standard of humane treatment, and an absolute prohibition on cruelty, even in the face of brutal and indiscriminate — that is to say non-reciprocal — treatment of our troops by our enemies.

    Balkinization 2007

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