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• “In a deadly error of judgement, Dziekanski grabbed a stapler (which, in another lapse of police procedure, was not recovered from the scene) and held it up to his chest -- he didn't "brandish" it or "wave" it -- in what could well have been an instinctive defensive move.”

  Archive 2009-02-01

• “Now his is not going to "brandish" it, just have it out in plain site, in his hand, ready to use.”

  Obama Volunteer On Scene Disputes Fox News' Suggestions That Black Panthers Are Intimidating Voters

• “Only it having been always accounted a very rational and allowed way, to judge what may be by what has been, you may remember that about forty years since this word popery served such as brandish it about the ears of the government now, as an effectual engine to pull down the monarchy to the ground, to destroy episcopacy root and branch, and to rob the church, and almost all honest men, to the last farthing.”

  Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.

• “brandish' of Fielding's Constitutional pen, on October 26, 1748, his oaths had been received as a Justice of the Peace for Westminster.”

  Henry Fielding A Memoir

• “If a product is going to brandish a “Made in USA” label, however, one requirement is that at least 75 percent of its manufacturing cost be incurred in the USA.”

  Simon & Schuster: The English Is Coming!

• “Brown was always going to brandish their budget before Republicans as an example of what might end up being the product -- with none of the various fiscal and regulatory reforms they supposedly want more on the "supposed" part in a moment -- as part of his late stage negotiations with them.”

  The Huffington Post: William Bradley: Jerry Brown's Big Budget Veto, and Where It Goes From Here

• “While riding the bus a couple of days ago, I watched an older lady brandish a copy of the current Willamette Week and say, to another lady across the aisle: Look!”

  Beau Breedlove supports the Adams recall (Jack Bog's Blog)

• “They rap about rape mostly the rape of white girls, sometimes the rape of corpses and other various acts of violence, they brandish the swastika and call themselves Black Nazis, and there's no lack of homophobia in their songs.”

  The Huffington Post: Yasi Salek: The Past, the Present, and the Odd Future

• “You want to party and brandish weapons on the anniversary?”

  Think Progress » Michigan Militia plans ‘open carry’ gun tea party to ‘take the stigma out of the word militia.’

• “Brett, do you really believe the Ninth Amendment secures your right to brandish a firearm if the tax authorities are coming up your walk to collect an unjust tax, or if the tax assessor wrongly overvalues your property?”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Deadly Force in Self-Defense Constitutionally Protected, Nondeadly Force Unprotected?

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