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  • A story like this is impossible to disprove (how do you prove a negative?), but it should probably not be taken at face value, as many students in Dines's audience seemed to take it.

    Feminists Against the First Amendment 1992

  • A story like this is impossible to disprove (how do you prove a negative?), but it should probably not be taken at face value, as many students in Dines's audience seemed to take it.

    Feminists Against the First Amendment 1992

  • In addition there was an instrument called a Dines anemometer which supplied interesting tracings of the force, duration, and direction of the wind.

    South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917 2006

  • Dines kart hick was lucky to be included as the last man replacing the recovering Sehwag.

    Extraordinary people - Dean du Plessis - The blind cricket commentator Norfolk Blogger 2009

  • John Dines, a professor at Columbia University's School of Journalism in New York, said the controversy over the prize revealed differing ideas about press freedom in Latin America.

    Hugo Chavez awarded journalism prize in Argentina 2011

  • Finally, there is Renee Rebecca Dines, a paleontologist who ends up sitting next to Lili on a flight and confides, "While other girls were guessing each other's favorite color and putting little plastic barrettes in each other's hair, I was constructing a geodesic dome out of my brother's Lego set."

    George Heymont: The Never-Ending Search for Self George Heymont 2011

  • "I compare it to Levittown, without the shoddy design part," said Rachel Dines , an analyst at Forrester Research, referring to the mid-20th-century planned community in New York that gave rise to the mass produced suburb.

    Data Centers Boom Ben Worthen 2011

  • Gail Dines and Samantha Berg have flatly refused to publicly debate with those who don't share their views, even going so far as to demand that sex worker activists be disinvited from events where they were asked to present a non-abolitionist viewpoint.

    Monica Shores: Prostitution "Experts" Versus Prostitutes: Why Don't All Sex Workers Deserve a Voice? Monica Shores 2010

  • I will be buying Dines' book and trying to rage against what is a monstrous machine.

    Letters: Pornified language 2011

  • Not simply to refute Dines, who seemingly wrote a book about the ails of pornography without talking to any porn stars or watching any porn; not because I actually think that a blow up doll can be a great way for a man to learn how to be with a woman -- or certainly a step above other options I can think of; and not because I think coffin-sex sounds kind of kinky.

    Emily Southwood: Adventures in Pornland: Not So Adventurous Emily Southwood 2010

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