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Deer and other mammals are routinely culled; badgers, argue farmers, are ludicrously over-protected.
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If you've been over-protected, then you're not ready to face the challenges of life.
Urging Lebanese Women to Aim Higher Brooke Anderson 2011
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There is no doubt that women and children have suffered throughout human history from being over-protected and controlled.
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Ted Olson’s federal lawsuit for gay marriage: 2009
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During the Georgian and Regency period, poor, over-protected Princess Victoria grew up in a somewhat dysfunctional family.
Archive 2009-05-01 Victoria Janssen 2009
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During the Georgian and Regency period, poor, over-protected Princess Victoria grew up in a somewhat dysfunctional family.
Kate Pearce Guest Post: The Regency versus The Victorian Victoria Janssen 2009
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QUOTED: Frankly, fidelity towards the source material is ludicrously over-protected by comics fanpeeps who seem to be missing the bigger picture.
John Malkovich and Anne Hathaway as Spider-Man 4’s Vulture and… Vulturess? | /Film 2009
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Stevens has for a long time argued against the Court reviewing cases in which a state court has arguably over-protected constitutional rights.
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Frankly, fidelity towards the source material is ludicrously over-protected by comics fanpeeps who seem to be missing the bigger picture.
John Malkovich and Anne Hathaway as Spider-Man 4’s Vulture and… Vulturess? | /Film 2009
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Alfredo Jam, head of macroeconomic analysis in the economy ministry, said Cubans had been "over-protected" by a system that subsidized food costs and limited the amount people could earn, prompting labor shortages in important industries.
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Which, by my recollection, is entirely accurate about everyone except Lisa, who had by now grown into a relatively sunny, albeit over-protected, child.
Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007
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