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  • It came after a Navigation Act, a Stamp Act, and others called the Intolerable Acts that actually closed Boston Harbor in retaliation for the famous Boston Tea Party.

    The Freedom Fighter's Journal Ronbo 2010

  • One of the so-called Intolerable Acts passed by the British Parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party; this bill closed the Port of Boston until restitution was made to the King's treasury and the East India Company.

    LewRockwell.com 2010

  • One of the so-called Intolerable Acts passed by the British Parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party; this bill closed the Port of Boston until restitution was made to the King's treasury and the East India Company.

    LewRockwell.com 2010

  • A succession of Acts of Parliament which virtually assured revolution and war were what were called the Intolerable or Coercive Acts. The TARP and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Acts are more massive in scope than any of the Intolerable Acts -- which were mercantilist in nature, not socialist -- but not dissimilar from the British Acts in their specific ends: to achieve a captive economy intended to serve statist purposes.

    The Dougout 2009

  • Parliament, outraged by the blatant destruction of British property, enacted the Coercive Acts, also known as the Intolerable Acts, in 1774.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2009

  • PM Gillani calls latest US Drone Attack That Killed Taliban Leader 'Intolerable' - Adnkronos international Al-Qaeda-friendly militants operating in Karachi, warns top advisor - Adnkronos international Bush Hails Georgian Revolution Ahead of Talks With Medvedev - Washington Post AQ-linked al-Shabaab fighters enter Somalia pirate town and plan to attack - Telegraph Russia's Gazprom to stop winter gas deliveries to Ukraine over debt -

    ThreatsWatch 2008

  • "Intolerable," I heard myself repeating like a parrot that knew no other word.

    Seven Men Max Beerbohm 1914

  • OpEdNews - Quicklink: Olmert: Arabs Suffer 'Intolerable' Discrimination

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Olmert: Arabs Suffer 'Intolerable' Discrimination 2008

  • "Opposing View: Iranian Bomb 'Intolerable'" -- headline, USA Today, Nov. 20

    From the WSJ Opinion Archives James Taranto 2007

  • In fact, "Intolerable Risk" analyzed the hazards of 23 agrichemicals found in common fruits and vegetables consumed by American children during the first six years of life, and considered the cancer hazard, toxicity to the central nervous system and inadequacies in the pesticide regulatory system designed to protect public health.

    Wendy Gordon: The True Alar Story Wendy Gordon 2011

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