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  • Of course, neither Iran nor Pakistan are exactly models for democratising if that is a word, since one ended up with a "theo"-cracy and the other with what is effectively an oligarchy.

    Egypt: Dangerous games | Editorial 2011

  • The whole subject has been complicated by the rise of so-called theo-conservatives -- GOP activists who want a more moral dimension to public life.

    Trickle-Down Hate 2008

  • When Theo (and what does "theo" mean?) asks Kee who the father of her child is, her first response is to jokingly tell him that it was a virgin birth.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Lou Anders 2007

  • When Theo (and what does "theo" mean?) asks Kee who the father of her child is, her first response is to jokingly tell him that it was a virgin birth.

    Compare and Contrast: Children of Men with The Da Vinci Code Lou Anders 2007

  • Atheism is fine but it has the root "theo" Greek for God, and I prefer to avoid all reference to "him".

    Nica Lalli: On Being Nothing 2008

  • This year is the seventieth anniversary of the publication of "A Humanist Manifesto," the theological statement if you'll forgive the "theo" of a group of progressive religious and philosophical intellectuals whose ideological heirs have just released a brand new manifesto.

    Philocrites: April 2003 Archives 2003

  • okay i used to hate my name as a kid, used to remind me of 'theo' or something, and im a girl.

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2010

  • Then, if the Dems are tossed from office, these people can go back to cheering on the neo-cons, theo-cons, and pseudo-libertarians with all their heart as our country plunges into a second depression and their kids are sent overseas to fight a war in Iran.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: February 18, 2010 2010

  • Catholics were the uneducated mobs following the theo-kleptocracies in Europe that the protestants wanted to get away from.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews? 2010

  • So, given we all eventually fall into some theo-philosophil black hole larger than a Renaissance cathedral what's to make of alien abductions or other such probings into the universe out there, or even in here pointing to his head?

    Suppose, I ask my friend Ed Higgins 2011

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