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Examples
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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."
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"Belters" look different from Earthmen—tall and skinny from being brought up in low gravity.
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Similar patterns were seen in the U.S. where eugenics was most popular among secular progressives and least popular among Bible Belters and Catholics.
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What he finds on one run, a hijacked spaceship with no survivors, sets off the latent hostility between Earthmen and Belters.
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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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Yet Belters are supposed to be strong-willed men, very individualistic.
Minnesota Menage Jack Swenson 2010
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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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Mr. Jennison was contacted by an agent of Loren, the organlegger, who intended to sell transplant material to Belters.
Minnesota Menage Jack Swenson 2010
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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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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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