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Fox Home Entertainment announced Tuesday that there is yet more of Cameron's Pandora to "glimpse," as if answering some great blue hue-and-cry from a public pining for even more hours in the animated land of the Na'vi.
The Rant: Yet more 'AVATAR'? Stop James Cameron before he thrills again! Michael Cavna 2010
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Economic theories and schools of thought come after the popular hue-and-cry.
Credit Bush for Recovery?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The hue-and-cry routine is nothing but a brake on progress and when politicians indulge in it, as they seem to do ever more often – so much for the "new" politics – it makes for an embarrassingly bad fit with the show they make of searching for new ideas.
Why drown Ken Clarke in this tidal wave of phony anger? | Rachel Cooke 2011
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In the end, the hue-and-cry the Post raised enabled McCaskill to reduce not only ANCs, but every tribal business, to a lower class of contract, with more hurdles than for non-Native firms.
Stephanie Woodard: The New Indian Fighters: Lt. Col. McCaskill and Major WaPo Stephanie Woodard 2010
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Economic theories and schools of thought come after the popular hue-and-cry.
Credit Bush for Recovery?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In the end, the hue-and-cry the Post raised enabled McCaskill to reduce not only ANCs, but every tribal business, to a lower class of contract, with more hurdles than for non-Native firms.
Stephanie Woodard: The New Indian Fighters: Lt. Col. McCaskill and Major WaPo Stephanie Woodard 2010
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In the book, the killing results in a furor among the East German people and a hue-and-cry after the agent.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why the Neglect of Communist Crimes Matters 2009
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Do you think there would have been the hue-and-cry from the birthers if he became President?
Editorial Diatribe from the Catacombs: Racism Chuck Wells 2009
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Whereby Sir John, and the keeper, and the steward, and the gardener, and the ploughman, and the dairymaid, and all the hue-and-cry together, went on ahead half a mile in the very opposite direction, and inside the wall, leaving him a mile off on the outside; while Tom heard their shouts die away in the woods and chuckled to himself merrily.
The Water Babies 2007
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Tom was quite right about the hue-and-cry not having got thither; for he had come without knowing it, the best part of ten miles from Harthover; but he was wrong about getting down in five minutes, for the cottage was more than a mile off, and a good thousand feet below.
The Water Babies 2007
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