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  • For example: in many elections the Brahmins have terrorized low-caste voters by threatening to "out-caste" all who should not vote the Brahmin ticket, thus making them "Pariahs" -- untouchables, with no rights in Hindu society.

    The New World of Islam Lothrop Stoddard 1916

  • The ancient natives, however, who were called Pariahs, formed a class of despised and miserable slaves and never could hope to be anything else.

    The Story of Mankind 1921

  • It increases the position of the US and partly the UK, as global Pariahs in the financial war mongering, and war mongering, leagues.

    [sedition] if you blog, you're seditious 2009

  • In Joe Klein's piece on the DLC, "Political Pariahs," I was nodding along with much of his analysis until I came to a section where he accused Al From of picking "silly fights" and then said this:

    New Donkey Strikes Back - Swampland - TIME.com 2007

  • Of Thickie Pariahs and Books by the Yard (17/8/05)

    Archive 2005-10-01 Sharon Bakar 2005

  • Of Thickie Pariahs and Books by the Yard (17/8/05)

    Index: On The Pleasures and Perils of Reading Sharon Bakar 2005

  • Right Wingers See Themselves as Pariahs yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Right Wingers See Themselves as Pariahs'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Right Wing leaders and politicians KNOW their endorsements are the kiss of death.

    Right Wingers See Themselves as Pariahs 2005

  • Right Wingers See Themselves as Pariahs yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Right Wingers See Themselves as Pariahs'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Right Wing leaders and politicians KNOW their endorsements are the kiss of death.

    Right Wingers See Themselves as Pariahs 2005

  • On his arrival at Hell's Gates he was a marked man — a Pariah among those beings who were Pariahs to all the world beside.

    For the term of his natural life 2004

  • And these were a particularly interesting set of demons, most likely one of the demon monastic orders, such as the Twelve Pariahs or the Assassins of Galt.

    dark mirror Craig Shaw Gardner 2004

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