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  • President Obama did not listen to either of the two speeches today but gave his own address, which was met with howls of derisions by many conservatives in the United States.

    CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2009 2009

  • For a minute our friend let us in on what it's like among schoolteachers, where it's all harmony and understanding, sympathy and trust abounding; no more falsehoods or derisions, golden living dreams of visions, mystic crystal revelation, and the mind's true liberation.

    Red states, blue states — the United States! Ann Althouse 2009

  • The derisions that Sen Obama is "whiny" or "not ready for prime time" seem glaringly at odds with the evident reality of the extent to which he has put the Clintons on their marks.

    Obama Memo: Hillary "Pulling Out All The Stops" To Win South Carolina 2009

  • On the other hand, UD is an ID blog, and Darwinists have plenty of their own, where they are given free rein to state the most hateful insults and derisions they can think of.

    Dave Scot Strikes Again! 2007

  • The necessity to publish, then, precluded such derisions of women's roles as literary "gate-keepers" and cultural producers.

    FEATURE ARTICLE: "THAT ALL OF US MAY WRITE BETTER" EILEEN 2009

  • "For a minute our friend let us in on what it's like among schoolteachers, where it's all harmony and understanding, sympathy and trust abounding; no more falsehoods or derisions, golden living dreams of visions, mystic crystal revelation, and the mind's true liberation."

    Red states, blue states — the United States! Ann Althouse 2009

  • The derisions that Sen Obama is "whiny" or "not ready for prime time" seem glaringly at odds with the evident reality of the extent to which he has put the Clintons on their marks.

    Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Obama Memo: Hillary "Pulling Out All The Stops" To Win South Carolina 2009

  • For a minute our friend let us in on what it's like among schoolteachers, where it's all harmony and understanding, sympathy and trust abounding; no more falsehoods or derisions, golden living dreams of visions, mystic crystal revelation, and the mind's true liberation.

    Red states, blue states — the United States! Ann Althouse 2009

  • On the other hand, UD is an ID blog, and Darwinists have plenty of their own, where they are given free rein to state the most hateful insults and derisions they can think of.

    Dave Scot Strikes Again! 2007

  • Media derisions aside, Iraq really is getting better

    Archive 2008-02-01 Lindsay Stewart 2008

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