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  • The title Eminent Domain: The 400 Year Battle Against Native Americans for Every Square Mile of North America was intriguing.

    Pacific Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times - Progressive opinion, dissident news 2010

  • All this we knew from Lytton Strachey’s biting and elegant 1918 portrait in Eminent Victorians, a book that’s famously debunking; Strachey had a keen eye for Nightingale’s acerbity and a relish for describing it, but also plainly admired her achievements and her courage.

    Cover to Cover 2009

  • All this we knew from Lytton Strachey’s biting and elegant 1918 portrait in Eminent Victorians, a book that’s famously debunking; Strachey had a keen eye for Nightingale’s acerbity and a relish for describing it, but also plainly admired her achievements and her courage.

    Cover to Cover 2009

  • I've been part of a project run by the International Committee on Jurists from Geneva called the Eminent Jurist Panel.

    Dealing in Justice 2008

  • Well, except for the Court's Kelo v the City New London case where the Left side of the court decided that it was OK for governments to confiscate people's homes and property and hand them over to Mall and Real Estate developers, expanding the idea of Eminent Domain to transferring private property not to the government, but to another private citizen.

    Surely this is just my imagination... Steven Barnes 2008

  • JUST LIKE that word Eminent we shot Down remember?

    Think Progress » Embedded TIME Reporter: Bush Lied In Speech Yesterday About Iraqi Security Forces 2005

  • A group of elder statesmen known as the "Eminent Persons" has drawn up plans to give the 54-member Commonwealth a more active role in its members' internal affairs through reforms including the appointment of an independent human rights commissioner.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011

  • The final report of the so-called Eminent Persons Group (EPG) will be presented to the Prime Minister and the leaders of 53 other nations at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Perth next week.

    The Australian | News | 2011

  • A group of elder statesmen known as the "Eminent Persons" has drawn up plans to give the 54-member Commonwealth a more active role in its members' internal affairs through reforms including the appointment of an independent human rights commissioner.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph James Kirkup 2011

  • Inaugural address by jagdeesh Shetter Minister of rural Development and panchayat raj Govt of Karnataka Eminent speakers like Pandurang Hegde who spear headed the

    WN.com - Articles related to Four new tea clones developed in Assam 2010

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