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  • Aye he is doing a great job for the opposition and exposing the Labour party as the vane, vacuos and power grabbing entity it has become.

    News from Berlin -Derek Draper is New Labour's Poster boy - Mandleson's pal, a fantasist - and currenty the Labour Party's Communications Advisor! Alan Smart 2009

  • And now look at the mess we are in - and it all started with electing the vacuos Blair that Obama seems so alike.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • A vacuos and empty but well presented pop song in 1997 and a performance by an extremely odd and plain looking woman backed by six more attractive colleagues winning it for Serbia in 2007!

    Finland Rocks! 2007

  • Ah, yes, the classic creationist rote answer - faced with a question they cannot possibly answer because it would show how vacuos their statements are, they ask the same thing back, in hopes of diverting the attention.

    Behe Reveals the DI's Latest Talking Points - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • 'Omnes homines, patres conscripti, qui de rebus dubiis consultant, ab odio, amicitia, ira atque misericordia vacuos esse decet.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Nam Christus ipse Matt.xiii. 20 et Luc.viii. 13 ac deinceps, triplex praeterea inter temporarios et veros fideles discrimen manifesto constituit, quum illos dicit semen recipere in terra petrosa, hos in terra bona, seu corde bono: illos carere radice, hos radicem firmam habere: illos fructibus esse vacuos, hos fructum suum diversa mensura, constanter seu perseveranter proferre.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • (Vefpcr crat facer ifte Petro) fremitufque canentito Szpe tholos implet vacuos, & inane locorum.

    The Works of the English Poets 1779

  • Solet etiam ab eis obtineri, quòd excogitato ingenio super equam quæ nuper foetum ediderit, imponentes homines duas de ligno cistulas, seu cophinos nouos, vacuos, et apertos à lateribus dependentes propè terram: hanc famelicam dimittunt vt se pascat ad herbas in montem: Quam formicæ videntes solam salientes et iocantes, colludunt ad eam et ad eius confines pro nouitate: et quoniam eis est naturale, vt circa se omne vacuum implere conentur comportant certatim aurum suum in vasculis suis mundis.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Solet etiam ab eis obtineri, qu騞 excogitato ingenio super equam qu� nuper foetum ediderit, imponentes homines duas de ligno cistulas, seu cophinos nouos, vacuos, et apertos � lateribus dependentes prop� terram: hanc famelicam dimittunt vt se pascat ad herbas in montem: Quam formic� videntes solam salientes et iocantes, colludunt ad eam et ad eius confines pro nouitate: et quoniam eis est naturale, vt circa se omne vacuum implere conentur comportant certatim aurum suum in vasculis suis mundis.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • »rba Qon ad novos quoslibet, & gratia ci vacuos diriguntur, fed ad eos, qui aa - itores verborum ejus necdum fuerint om -

    Analysis operum S.S. patrum et scriptorum ecclesiasticorum 1790

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