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- adjective continuing through life
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Examples
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How about instead, we first check the Constitution to see exactly which enumerated power grants the Congress the authority to provide womb-to-tomb medical care to the nation?
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Will this great "compromise" bill cite specifically WHICH enumerated power in the Constitution grants the Congress the authority to provide womb-to-tomb nanny-state medical care for every citizen?
Key Democratic committee to unveil health-care bill next week
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We hate big liberal nanny-state womb-to-tomb programs, intentionally designed to keep people poor and dependent upon their big government slave masters for their very existence.
Movement 'coming from the soil of America,' conservative says
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A younger generation may not share this view, reflecting larger changes in Japan, where the "womb-to-tomb" employment system has collapsed.
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Barbara in California: "The whole country needs to worry about becoming womb-to-tomb victims who are unable to cope, and totally dependent on government handouts, socialism, other people's values, and a basic loss gumption, common sense, and resolve."
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One critic faults France's womb-to-tomb social programs for public complacency.
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I think my political transformation began with my exposure to the business-as-usual attitude of many civil service bureaucrats during the war; then came the attempted Communist take-over of the picture business, which a lot of my liberal friends refused to admit ever happened; next, I had a brief experience living in a country that promised the kind of womb-to-tomb utopian benevolence a lot of these liberal friends wanted to bring to America.
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I think my political transformation began with my exposure to the business-as-usual attitude of many civil service bureaucrats during the war; then came the attempted Communist take-over of the picture business, which a lot of my liberal friends refused to admit ever happened; next, I had a brief experience living in a country that promised the kind of womb-to-tomb utopian benevolence a lot of these liberal friends wanted to bring to America.
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I think my political transformation began with my exposure to the business-as-usual attitude of many civil service bureaucrats during the war; then came the attempted Communist take-over of the picture business, which a lot of my liberal friends refused to admit ever happened; next, I had a brief experience living in a country that promised the kind of womb-to-tomb utopian benevolence a lot of these liberal friends wanted to bring to America.
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I think my political transformation began with my exposure to the business-as-usual attitude of many civil service bureaucrats during the war; then came the attempted Communist take-over of the picture business, which a lot of my liberal friends refused to admit ever happened; next, I had a brief experience living in a country that promised the kind of womb-to-tomb utopian benevolence a lot of these liberal friends wanted to bring to America.
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