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But then as more and more congressfolks got swept-up in the far-right maw, they became convinced that this bit of base pandering was going to deliver them to electoral nirvana.
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A friend and former colleague, along with posting a disgusting picture of a swept-up hairball: “Why you shouldn't get a husky.”
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And in that time, essentially, he was swept-up and he was brainwashed in an almost cult-like environment and then they sent him forward on his mission and it happened very quickly.
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The damp sawdust and ash were then swept-up with conventional Street
How to remove ash? 2009
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Casey was wearing a conservative pantsuit and a new swept-up hair do.
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When all of the “dissidents” are rounded-up, placed in internment camps that will eventually lose track of what happened to their prisoners - there will be a huge cry from the very authorities that made these sweeps as they find out many of their own loved ones were also swept-up - although the lists will remain as confidential as possible.
FEMA Official States Bush Is Planning To Implement Martial Law 2008
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So swept-up in the moment were we that we ignored an important fact: even decent-minded straight people were having difficulty grasping the concept of "gay marriage."
Gary Cohan: Premature Emancipation? A Pragmatist's View of the Gay Marriage Struggle 2008
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The man in the video is the captain of a very swept-up, very high-tech, very fast coastal passenger vessel operating out of northern Vancouver Island.
Archive 2008-08-01 West End Bob 2008
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So thin, so blond, so beautiful in her swept-up hairdo — my husband, slouched on the couch next to me, muttered something along the lines of, "She is not ugly."
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However some, like my associate Carla who had misplaced a crush on a colleague for professional passion, get swept-up in the culture of the "corporation."
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