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Confining yourself to a small space is not a good way to fend off the zombie hordes.
Joe Waters: How Nonprofits Can Stop a Zombie Apocalypse Joe Waters 2011
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Confining them would be like confining race cars, weasels, tornadoes.
The Kitchen Daughter Jael McHenry 2011
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Confining yourself to a small space is not a good way to fend off the zombie hordes.
Joe Waters: How Nonprofits Can Stop a Zombie Apocalypse Joe Waters 2011
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Confining an electron to a smaller space within an atom increases the certainty of its position.
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Confining our civilization solely to our planet of evolutionary origin would be foolish and could lead to the eventual extinction of our species.
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Confining yourself to a small space is not a good way to fend off the zombie hordes.
Joe Waters: How Nonprofits Can Stop a Zombie Apocalypse Joe Waters 2011
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Confining them would be like confining race cars, weasels, tornadoes.
The Kitchen Daughter Jael McHenry 2011
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Confining ourselves to the white people, over fifteen per cent of the white children six to fourteen years of age, or 2,253,198, did not attend school during the school year 1909-10.
DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004
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Confining what's acceptably literary to "realism" is an efficient way of dispensing with all those quarrelsome writers who break the rules, who think literary art is necessarily "impure" insofar as its possibilities are still being discovered.
Realism in Fiction 2008
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Confining sex to marriage was universally seen as essential to strong marital unions and secure families, and thus to the very fabric of civilization itself.
HOW EVIL WORKS DAVID KUPELIAN 2010
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