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  • "Obedient" opposition would have suited them better.

    Democrats Can't Even Win Successfully 2009

  • Obama the Obedient (health care) is suddenly Obama the Calculating (though Rahm, as usual, failed his maths).

    Matthew Yglesias » Two Retirements 2010

  • Unlike any creature she had seen she knew it was in danger and braved the currents to his place of origins, depositing him on the dry land from whence he came where his Digital Obedient Guardian brought him back to his colony to search for the one who saved him.

    SciFi Fairy Tales: The Little Mermaid goes to Mars 2009

  • Mr. Adolphe recently finished a cantata — "The Obedient Choir of Emotions" — based on passages from Dr. Damasio's new book.

    A Pioneer in the Private Life of the Brain Robert Lee Hotz 2011

  • Akhil Sharma, a writer based in New York, is the author of An Obedient Father.

    Greece After The Fall Akhil Sharma 2010

  • Over a dinner of duck and grilled carrots, author Jonathan Franzen held court at his table, listing three of the best books he's read this year: "The Art of Fielding" by Chad Harbach, "An Obedient Father" by Akhil Sharma and "Leaving the Atocha Station" by Ben Lerner.

    'Lamb' Author Lands Novel Prize Mike Vilensky 2011

  • Perhaps I may be wrong in sending this to Dryburg, but as Edinburgh is beyond the destination, I have ventur'd to suppose that this sheet will be soon, and favourably, received by your Lordship, from your most Obedient Servant,

    Letter 86 2009

  • Akhil Sharma, a writer based in New York, is the author of An Obedient Father.

    The Two Continents Of Istanbul Akhil Sharma 2010

  • Obedient picture editors blurred the focus of scenes so as to make any inconvenient placards and banners unreadable.

    Red Star Over Russia: A Visual History of the Soviet Union 2010

  • Akhil Sharma, a writer based in New York, is the author of An Obedient Father.

    Existential Shanghai 2010

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