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Most of the Diversity Course was taken up by some hand-wringers from Headquarters who agonised over which [...]
January « 2009 « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Who knew Komen's pink-clad army was run by such anti-choice, right-wing hand-wringers?
Mark Morford: From M.I.A. to Susan G. Komen: How to Be Outraged in America Mark Morford 2012
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Sure, the hand-wringers will say that nobody remembers who loses the Super Bowl.
Could Green Bay Win by Losing? Jason Gay 2011
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He will attempt to narrow the conversation to a few showcase districts in Afghanistan, use a lot of aspirational language "What we're attempting to do," instead of, "What we've done" and assure the hand-wringers among the congressional hawks that he'll be happy to suggest to the president that they stay longer in Afghanistan if that's what he thinks is best.
Derrick Crowe: Pentagon Assertions of "Progress" In Afghanistan Are a Bad Joke Derrick Crowe 2011
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Most of the Diversity Course was taken up by some hand-wringers from Headquarters who agonised over which was the more serious offence committed by a fictional member of staff.
If It Looks Crazy And It Sounds Crazy………….. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Criminologists, Politicians, liberal theorists and hand-wringers need to wake up to the fact that some of us believe in prison sentencing because we actually have a professional knowledge of thugs and killers like Sonnex.
Sonnex and Farmer – only a matter of time. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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I guarantee that in this country the hand-wringers would be bleating about ‘executions’ – to the US public he got what was coming to him. on December 6, 2009 at 2: 00 pm Stonehead
‘Single Crewed’ In Ruralshire « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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It's clear from Straw's article what constituency he is attempting to attract; the presumption is that only middle-class hand-wringers are bothered about civil liberties.
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No wonder Mike Stock and other tabloid hand-wringers are so eager to jump on the bandwagon.
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The editorial also said that many of the same critiques of the Comcast-NBCU deal were voiced in 2001 by hand-wringers nervous about the AOL-Time Warner merger – worries that came to naught.
As Comcast-NBC try to tie up merger, news editorials differ on consequences Cecilia Kang 2010
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