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I have watched many honorable men and women perish as a result ofthose who inhumanely consideredthem to be nothing more thantest animals and, therefore, "expendable."
Never Forget The Lessons Of Yesterday For The Sake Of Tomorrow 2009
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I don't understand how someone could look at that and think: "expendable."
Bye Bye Beauty Brooks of Sheffield 2008
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He learned through the experience that anyone in this league can become "expendable."
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Someone who's had experience with this kind of political mess, he thought, stopping short of using the term "expendable."
Prison Of Souls Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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Wall Street Journal, Rep. Griffith "was miffed by the Obama administration's decision not to deploy a missile-defense system in Eastern Europe; much research for that system takes place in his district," and that he felt that he was "expendable."
American Thinker 2009
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By their logic, they are making the lives of human embryos 'expendable.'"
Dakota Voice 2008
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By their logic, they are making the lives of human embryos 'expendable.'"
Dakota Voice 2008
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By their logic, they are making the lives of human embryos 'expendable.'"
Dakota Voice 2008
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