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Examples
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However, instead of just destroying the filibuster outright, they restored the cloture rule (from the First Senate) with an onorous requirement on 2/3rds majority to end debate.
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Fight fire with fire; every time you have to email the onorous bitch c.c. some Supernintendo in.
Yeah Yeah Yeah « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007
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Of course, I still think the Vermont rates are onorous on small businesses and self-employed inviduals.
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And, as onorous as the statement "created by white men for white men" may be to modern sensibilitirs, that was in fact the philosophy of the foubnders of the nation, as evidenced by their treatment of the natives.
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An attempt was made to influence the legislation of another, and compel her submission to the most onorous impositions and burdens by federal troops.
Journal of the public and secret proceedings of the Convention of the People of Georgia : held in Milledgeville and Savannah in 1861, Georgia. Convention of the People 1861
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Announcing a consultation on reforms to employment law, Vince Cable said that the Government wants to "deregulate to reduce the onorous and unnecessary demands on business."
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011
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Jane Foley, senior currency strategist, pointed out that both targets are less onorous than the government's previous goals.
The Guardian World News Graeme Wearden 2011
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Ignorance of usury laws and allowing businesses to issue predatory loans with onorous conditions are only making the issue worse than it has to be.
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And while I'm thanking people, I should give a special shout-out to my former Clarion student Traci Castleberry, who very kindly donated all of Wednesday to driving Kathy and me about Coronado Island and San Diego Harbor, where among other things we saw HMS Surprise, from the movie Master and Commander, and clambered about in a Russian submarine, which featured perfectly round hatches in the bulkheads, unlike the oblong ones in Western subs, which made going through them more onorous than strictly necessary.
Conzilla Walter Jon Williams 2006
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