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  • adjective continuing through life

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Examples

  • 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?

    Boustany rebuttal: start with what we 'agree upon' 2009

  • 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 2009

  • 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 2009

  • A younger generation may not share this view, reflecting larger changes in Japan, where the "womb-to-tomb" employment system has collapsed.

    Made in Japan 2009

  • 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."

    CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2007 2007

  • One critic faults France's womb-to-tomb social programs for public complacency.

    CNN Transcript Aug 25, 2003 2003

  • 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.

    An American Life Ronald Reagan 1990

  • 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.

    An American Life Ronald Reagan 1990

  • 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.

    An American Life Ronald Reagan 1990

  • 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.

    An American Life Ronald Reagan 1990

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