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Dispensed from the obligation to deliver a crisp narrative arc and a prescribed dosage of thrills with each installment, today’s TV hit-maker is riding his own wild license across the ranges of space.
Lost In Space 2009
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Dispensed from the obligation to deliver a crisp narrative arc and a prescribed dosage of thrills with each installment, today’s TV hit-maker is riding his own wild license across the ranges of space.
Lost In Space 2009
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Dispensed total prescriptions in 2006 (in millions):
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Email a copy of 'California: Freebies Dispensed to Illegal Ingrates' to a friend
E-Mail 'California: Freebies Dispensed to Illegal Ingrates' To A Friend 2007
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Dispensed by the pope from his vows, he married Agnes of Poitiers, and when the birth of a daughter, whom he married to Raymond Berengar IV, Count of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Dispensed with [134] several for the people's sake.
England's Antiphon MacDonald, George, 1824-1905 1868
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Dispensed without favoritism, a Lacedamonian justice.
Man of Uz, and Other Poems Lydia Howard Sigourney 1828
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Dispensed from labour, his body amasses humours; destitute of desires, his heart feels a languor; deprived of activity, he is obliged to participate his riches, with beings more active, more laborious than himself: these, following their own peculiar interests, take upon themselves the task of labouring for his advantage; of procuring for him means to satisfy his want; of ministering to his caprices, in order to remove the languor that oppresses him.
The System of Nature, Volume 1 Paul Henri Thiry Holbach 1756
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Dispensed with a warm, wry warble - he's like indie rock's Kermit the Frog, in the absolute best possible way - Barzelay's lyrics have a way of hiding humor in melancholy, and vice versa.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Dispensed with a warm, wry warble - he's like indie rock's Kermit the Frog, in the absolute best possible way - Barzelay's lyrics have a way of hiding humor in melancholy, and vice versa.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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