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  • There are websites marketing royal wedding sick bags, T-shirts bearing the word "Commoner" and coffee mugs carrying slogans calling for the abolition of the monarchy.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • There are websites marketing royal wedding sick bags, T-shirts bearing the word "Commoner" and coffee mugs carrying slogans calling for the abolition of the monarchy.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Reading the early Erhlich and Commoner is truly chilling.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Absurd Argument of the Day 2010

  • This impact has been expressed in what has become known as the Commoner-Ehrlich Equation:

    Technology, Affluence and the Optimum Population Trust James 2008

  • This impact has been expressed in what has become known as the Commoner-Ehrlich Equation:

    Archive 2008-02-01 James 2008

  • Told in the voice of Haruko, meticulously researched and superbly imagined, The Commoner is the mesmerizing, moving, and surprising story of a brutally rarified and controlled existence at once hidden and exposed, and of a complex relationship between two isolated women who, despite being visible to all, are truly understood only by each other.

    The Written World 2008

  • If Bolingbroke was the first, and perhaps the most brilliant, of the great line of parliamentary debaters who have made debate a moving power in English history, Walpole was the first of that line of statesmen who, sprung from the class of the "Commoner," have become leaders of the English Parliament.

    A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4) Justin McCarthy 1871

  • "Commoner" might confuse some with the noun, which may be why

    Libertarian Blog Place 2009

  • "Commoner" sounds a bit odd, but I would never say it's not a "word."

    Libertarian Blog Place 2009

  • Most notably, William Jennings Bryan, “The Great Commoner” and the fieriest critic of the new concentrations of wealth and power, fused fundamentalist religious fervor and political radicalism, culminating in his famous “Cross of Gold” peroration at the Democratic National Convention of 1896.36 The phrase “What would Jesus do?” was popularized in a bestselling 1899 novel by Charles Sheldon, a Congregational minister in Topeka, Kansas, as an appeal to overturn economic inequality.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

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