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Examples
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Franklin there is no doubt in my mind that Viveros-Fauné voluntarily walked into a mine-field.
Ethics by Artistotle EAGEAGEAG 2010
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Cameras are attached to their Humvees and carried in their hands as they take us on a mind-molesting mine-field of monotony that turns into an eruption of violence and leaves viewers sitting as anxious as nervous fingers on a loaded gun.
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This makes fidelity a mine-field for those in the public domain.
Giles Slade: John Edwards, George Washington and Hypocrisy 2008
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Between the professional attractions, the ones for kids at zoos and museums, and the abandoned buildings bought up by charitable organizations, Pittsburgh, home of the zombie, is a mine-field of folks jumping out and going âbooâ!
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2005
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I understand the potential mine-field of trying to shoe-horn FACE-like experimental results even onto same-species ring-width series.
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I loved the way the whole house galvanized against his whimpering pity-tactics and trod all over his pitted emotional mine-field, even if it sort-of backfired against them in the end.
Another LCS post 2004
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(That is, if they can make it through the mine-field of voter fraud that maimed them in the last two elections.)
The False "Cut and Run" Argument and the Republican plan to "Dump and Run" 2006
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And how come he had dared venture, so soon, into the mine-field of Torah and Koran?
Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006
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The mine-field was activated and searchlights swept and probed the waters.
Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003
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There was no way to get out of the mine-field if the engine failed.
Chickenhawk Mason, Robert 1983
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