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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

  • I don't understand how someone could look at that and think: "expendable."

    Bye Bye Beauty Brooks of Sheffield 2008

  • He learned through the experience that anyone in this league can become "expendable."

    USATODAY.com - Rice still has taste to play 2003

  • 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

  • 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

  • By their logic, they are making the lives of human embryos 'expendable.'"

    Dakota Voice 2008

  • By their logic, they are making the lives of human embryos 'expendable.'"

    Dakota Voice 2008

  • By their logic, they are making the lives of human embryos 'expendable.'"

    Dakota Voice 2008

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