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• His attorney, Gary Weintraub of Huntington, has filed a motion to dismiss the charges, saying that the village code neither defines what a noxious or offensive odor is nor how it constitutes a public nuisance.
• Grover Norquist, noxious anti-tax enforcer for the noxious anti-tax right, once said his goal was to "shrink government down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub". —  CounterPunch
• Steven Taylor: nor do I want the virtual orchard to be overgrown with the kind of noxious weeds that I see elsewhere in blog comment threads. —  Fruits and Votes
• Geoffrey Wheatcroft, writing for the Washington Post, shows the kind of noxious numbskullery that only an intelligent, well-informed person is capable of. —  South Dakota Politics
• The judge rejected the prison governor's argument that there was a common law right to destroy the phone because it was of a "noxious or harmful" character, as it had probably been smuggled into prison anally, and said there was no evidence to suggest this was how it had been brought in. —  EDP24 News

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