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  • Read more: Sarah Palin Protective Order, Palin Restraining Order, Sarah Palin Stalker, Sarah Palin Restraining Order, Sarah Palin, Palin Protective Order, Palin Stalker, Politics News

    Sarah Palin Gets Restraining Order Against Alleged Stalker The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Protective, that is to say discriminating, export, import, or excise duties, harbor and registry dues, subsidies, tax exemptions and trade preferences, and all the like devices of interference with trade and industry, are unavoidably a hindrance to the material interests of any people on whom they are imposed or who impose these disabilities on themselves.

    An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation Thorstein Veblen 1893

  • "Protective" parents aren't concerned that the library does not respect their world view; they're worried that it respects others 'as well.

    Bagging our principles Roger Sutton 2007

  • Both the Good Dan and Scary Dan have run off potential mates of mine due to being "Protective".

    miss-k2 Diary Entry miss-k2 2008

  • Think of all the tears, trauma and family destruction that Rick Perry and an out-of-control Child "Protective" Services caused when they pulled that CRAP.

    Lone Star Times 2009

  • I don't want to tell you what you'll see from schools and Child "Protective" Services should the Rights of the Child Treaty be fully incorporated, but its most elegant feature is that children have the right to grow up in a "gun free community" which of course means that only criminals and police will have them.

    Latest Articles 2009

  • "His fame," says his biographer, "must rest not so much on what he did or said in Parliament as on what he did and proposed to do out of it -- on his consistent and to a great degree successful efforts to expose the fallacy of the miscalled Protective system, and gradually, but effectively, to root it out of the statute-book, and thereby to free the universal industry of

    Canadian Notabilities, Volume 1 John Charles Dent 1864

  • In 1917 an investigator for the Juvenile Protective Association attended a “largely Irish” dance at the Thirtieth Ward Woodrow Wilson Club in Chicago.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • There are steps that will be taken to protect an Orion capsule (such as the "Boost Protective Cover" which covers it for the first few minutes after launch) but there are also risks to the Orion capsule landing in the water.

    Trying To Spin The Facts - NASA Watch 2009

  • Protective sentiment also flowed into options activity in Finisar as its shares fell $1.97, or 9.6%, to $18.46.

    After Rally, Tech Stocks Awash in Bearish Bets Chris Dieterich 2011

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