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  • Emergent is about being a safe place where hard questions can be debated without fear of repurcussion.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Andrew Beckner 2008

  • Emergent is about being a safe place where hard questions can be debated without fear of repurcussion.

    Emergent Village Looks Ahead Andrew Beckner 2008

  • What Limbaugh and Shanklin were doing was pointing out how a liberal could say things like this all day without repurcussion, but as soon as a conservative breathed the word "negro" he was labled a racist.

    Candidate For RNC Chair Sends Out CD With Song Called "Barack, The Magic Negro" 2009

  • Messages such as to where to meet a courier on the underground railroad could be sung as a hymn in plain English, within earshot of the overseer without repurcussion because the slaves understood subtle changes of syntax and re-appropriated vocabulary that the overseer didn't.

    Dean on Understanding Language - Anil Dash 2005

  • He asked that his name not be disclosed for fear of repurcussion.

    Kansas City Star: Front Page 2010

  • He asked that his name not be disclosed for fear of repurcussion.

    Kansas City Star: Front Page 2010

  • Like I said, when you can violate your own provisions, rules, bills, or legislations without remorse or repurcussion, then who are you beholden to?

    Snapped Shot captainfish 2010

  • He asked that his name not be disclosed for fear of repurcussion.

    Kansas City Star: Front Page 2010

  • TOKYO/NEW DELHI -- China's increasing regional influence will keep Asian governments from pressuring the world's fastest-growing economy into letting its currency strengthen for fear of economic or political repurcussion.

    China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper 2010

  • He asked that his name not be disclosed for fear of repurcussion.

    Kansas City Star: Front Page 2010

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