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  • However, this 'peace drain' from the country appeared to be counter-productive back-home, with a resulting cut in government funds for peace programs and a drift back towards aggression and militarism.

    Alyn Ware: No Longer Number 1! Alyn Ware 2011

  • The visit to Miami certainly went well, and first-year Miami Coach Al Golden would provide a back-home lifeline of sorts.

    Osbourn's Dominique Terrell Ponders Miami, U.Va., WVU Preston Williams 2011

  • However, this 'peace drain' from the country appeared to be counter-productive back-home, with a resulting cut in government funds for peace programs and a drift back towards aggression and militarism.

    Alyn Ware: No Longer Number 1! Alyn Ware 2011

  • The entire spending bill wraps together six other individual spending bills and in addition contains more than 5,000 back-home projects sought by lawmakers in both parties.

    Senators prepared to vote on government funding bill 2009

  • And I can't help imagining that such suggested programming would be less for Korean consumption and more for back-home reassurance — we may be going to Pyongyang, but we're going on our terms.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • And I can't help imagining that such suggested programming would be less for Korean consumption and more for back-home reassurance — we may be going to Pyongyang, but we're going on our terms.

    The illegitimate nephew of Napoleon Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • Mr. Boehner's back-home advisers include a real-estate developer, a direct-mail printer, a lobbyist and a candle maker who supplies Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

    Amid Upheaval, Boehner's Business Ties Cut Both Ways 2010

  • People from all over the world live here so no matter where you come from you can always find a "back-home" accent.

    Ellen Sterling: Living Las Vegas 2009

  • A river trip is a great equalizer and if you also try to impress everyone with your back-home prowess and stature, you will be jettisoned intentionally and unanimously into the current.

    Kimberly Bonnell: Urgent July Communique 2008

  • Thirdly, we say that for troops returning from theater and returning to a normal, back-home life, that we will extend their coverage under the military health care program from the existing 60 days to 180 days.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Ellen Beth Gill 2006

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