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Apparently because they should have known that faking their way into the white house and acting respectfully was ‘serious’ even though no amount of study of the law books would have distingushed it from events that would be taken as a minor matter.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Criminal Charges for the White House State Dinner Crashers? 2009
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You also ignore that he was talking about United States citizens as distingushed from resident state citizens.
The Volokh Conspiracy » No “Person(s) Posed in an Immodest or Sensuous Manner” on Alcohol Ads: 2009
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What difference does it really make at the end of the day we all have the distingushed right to be called Americans!
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As a former, yet congressionally mandated US Navy Chief Petty Officer, that retired in 2003 from a 25 year honorable and distingushed career, I am deeply saddened and outraged at the ALMOST complete and total pacifism of the United States Citizens of this country.
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But before the end of the seventeenth century Sir William Temple distingushed between “high flights of wit” and “the pure native force or spirit of genius.”
Dictionary of the History of Ideas RUDOLF WITTKOWER 1968
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P. Antistius; for no age whatsoever has been distingushed by a more numerous progeny of Orators.
Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| Page 11: distingushed amended to distinguished; Semminaries |
As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century Marian Gouverneur
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Sunday by distingushed men of all States and all denominations, and was regarded by the University community as the peer of the ablest visitors.
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He had a voice decidedly individual in quality, readily distingushed, easily followed.
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There was a norful crowd at every sta-shun, wot had cum from miles round, to see us distingushed cityzens.
The Bad Boy At Home And His Experiences In Trying To Become An Editor - 1885 Metta Victoria Fuller Victor 1858
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