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  • A high-tech magnate attending the Herzliya conference was candid about his negative views of the religious settlers not unlike a Manhattanite might scornfully refer to "Bible Belters" and told me, "Just because something is mine, doesn't mean I have to exercise that right."

    Traveling in the West Bank (Part 2) 2011

  • "Belters" look different from Earthmen—tall and skinny from being brought up in low gravity.

    In Brief: Science Fiction 2011

  • Similar patterns were seen in the U.S. where eugenics was most popular among secular progressives and least popular among Bible Belters and Catholics.

    Matthew Yglesias » Far-Right European Posters 2010

  • What he finds on one run, a hijacked spaceship with no survivors, sets off the latent hostility between Earthmen and Belters.

    In Brief: Science Fiction 2011

  • Somewhere around twenty thousand full-throated Black Belters—fully two-thirds of the crowd—made it inside Wrigley that afternoon.

    Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010

  • Yet Belters are supposed to be strong-willed men, very individualistic.

    Minnesota Menage Jack Swenson 2010

  • Somewhere around twenty thousand full-throated Black Belters—fully two-thirds of the crowd—made it inside Wrigley that afternoon.

    Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010

  • Mr. Jennison was contacted by an agent of Loren, the organlegger, who intended to sell transplant material to Belters.

    Minnesota Menage Jack Swenson 2010

  • Somewhere around twenty thousand full-throated Black Belters—fully two-thirds of the crowd—made it inside Wrigley that afternoon.

    Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010

  • Somewhere around twenty thousand full-throated Black Belters—fully two-thirds of the crowd—made it inside Wrigley that afternoon.

    Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010

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