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The two behemoths have delivered some brutal beat-downs, like Brazil's 7-0 thrashing of Peru in the 1997 semifinals.
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There are the beat-downs in McDonald's, where the young lose all control and the old fear to intervene.
Après le Déluge, What? Peggy Noonan 2011
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Lobo, non-mainstream but a cult-favorite DC character, is a seven foot tall, blue-skinned Czarnian bounty hunter who travels across the galaxy on his flying motorcycle spreading his brand of trashy behavior and beat-downs.
Guy Ritchie to Direct Lobo Movie « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009
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He loved the gunfire, drugs, the beat-downs, the money, the hoes and the jewelry.
Hidden Secrets, Hidden Lives J. Leon Pridgen II 2010
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He loved the gunfire, drugs, the beat-downs, the money, the hoes and the jewelry.
Hidden Secrets, Hidden Lives J. Leon Pridgen II 2010
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Their job is to report the news, not give one-sided beat-downs to all you blind Obama supporters who'll lap up anything tossed to them like a hungry dog.
Clinton says she expects lead in popular vote, primary delegates 2008
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How would all those beat-downs have affected his longevity?
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From the verbal beat-downs we apply to modern racial rabble-rousers like Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin or Glenn Beck (I specify "verbal," lest any of these folks mistake me for just some Black thug like Barack Obama who inspires Black violence against White people), to the daily debates we engage in over controversial race-based social policies like affirmative action, school desegregation or health care.
White Friends, Black Friends: The Personal Nature of Racial Politics 2009
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Watching Tyler and Jack's parking-lot brawls creates a new form of therapy for men, and as we well remember, they organize their beat-downs into the movement and philosophy of "Fight Club."
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Not like we can do anything about it though, unless we want to go around constantly dispensing beat-downs.
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