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Even Apple, with its gorgeous platform and swanky marketing had to succomb to x86 to keep going.
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Those that do don't have the benchrest mentality "one ragged hole" we Americans so often succomb to.
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We can only hope that enough House Dems arrive at a personal calculus that they must hold out for their version of the perfect and not succomb to the siren song of the merely good–which is to say, what we would call the very bad and the truly awful, with no particular preference as to which is which among the Senate bill and the proposed Reconciliation.
Sen. Hatch to House Dems: If you Pass it, You Will Have to Vote on it Again | RedState 2010
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Excellent that you didn't succomb to consensus morale and popular mythology.
Blind Spot on Vimeo 2010
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In fact I have come up with my own label for leftists and the politicians who succomb to their PC ideals ....
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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An emphasis upon the "all too human" motivations any privileged class can succomb to, forms of insularity that can result, forms of still more presumptive/insinuating privilege that can result - e.g., status-seeking in the role of epistemic gatekeepers, informal and formal hierarchies related to that gatekeeping role.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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An emphasis upon the "all too human" motivations any privileged class can succomb to, forms of insularity that can result, forms of still more presumptive/insinuating privilege that can result - e.g., status-seeking in the role of epistemic gatekeepers, informal and formal hierarchies related to that gatekeeping role.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Obama is using the politics of hope to tell the country that we need not to succomb to the fears and that we need to stand up as patriots and not give in to fears.
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Now you want those of us who are politically astute enough to discern he is the best candidate to succomb to your informed judgment based on your 'physics' and 'ivyleague' experience despite it's inabilty to see through SlickWilly's artifice.
Obama: It's Me Against The D.C. Foreign Policy Establishment 2009
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It remains to be seen whether they'll succomb to the inevitable conciliatory sweet talk from the abuser that always follows the violence this time, but I'd say its at least even money they won't.
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