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Displacing someone from their home, especially in the name of religion, is an injustice that needs to be corrected.
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Displacing hundreds of thousands of active military personnel — with varying degrees of PTSD and CFS — into an economy that is only creating jobs in health care and social media (for an ongoing net job loss) is a recipe for electoral disaster. '
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Rummaging through the belongings of untried airmen, combat veterans would lay claim to various articles, explaining that they planned to retrieve these items when their owner was shot down and insisting that this event was inevitable. 15 Displacing their own feelings of vulnerability and powerlessness onto the newcomers, veteran airmen also vented their hostility toward men who did not share their fears.
Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008
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Displacing environmental responsibilities in this manner could be perceived as an attempt to circumvent the Polluter Pays Principle, adopted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and European Community (EC)
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Displacing someone from their home, especially in the name of religion, is an injustice that needs to be corrected.
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Displacing it isn't a matter of piecemeal reformation, but wholesale transformation - in other-words, a revolution.
Keith Harrington: Death by Growth: What the Climate-Bill Autopsies Missed 2010
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Displacing 2. 9-liters, the newest Boxster's flat 6-cylinder "boxer" engine develops 255-hp.
Steve Parker: Ten most significant import cars, 2008 and beyond 2010
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Displacing 2. 9-liters, the newest Boxster's flat 6-cylinder "boxer" engine develops 255-hp.
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Displacing it isn't a matter of piecemeal reformation, but wholesale transformation - in other-words, a revolution.
Keith Harrington: Death by Growth: What the Climate-Bill Autopsies Missed 2010
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Displacing Orkut in Brazil may turn out to be its ultimate popularity contest, but in the meantime Facebook faces tough battles elsewhere.
The Facebook Effect David Kirkpatrick 2010
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