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Just imagine what we would lose if the pronouncements of the Jeremiahs were the only opinions voiced!
Life Upon the Wicked StageFreedom of Artistic Expression 1994
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Therefore when Eric Abetz refers to Liberal moderates as "Jeremiahs" he is unwittingly paying them a compliment, and also inviting unflattering comparisons between people like himself and the stiffnecked, corrupt, idolatrous rulers of Judah in the 6th century BCE.
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For all his ridicule of the climate change "Jeremiahs", he does actually get it!
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Therefore when Eric Abetz refers to Liberal moderates as "Jeremiahs" he is unwittingly paying them a compliment, and also inviting unflattering comparisons between people like himself and the stiffnecked, corrupt, idolatrous rulers of Judah in the 6th century BCE.
Larvatus Prodeo 2009
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Through the 1800s, “American Jeremiahs considered it their chief duty to make continuing revolution an appeal for national consensus,” Bercovitch wrote.
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Through the 1800s, “American Jeremiahs considered it their chief duty to make continuing revolution an appeal for national consensus,” Bercovitch wrote.
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Mr. Woodward tells us, as so many Jeremiahs have, that the United States is in decline and, abruptly, that it will break up because the Soviet Union did so.
Life May Differ In Your Region Michael Barone 2011
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More than a few Jeremiahs are using the anniversary to lament the supposed stagnation of progress against the disease, but this is more accurately a moment to celebrate the rapid and ongoing U.S. revolution in cancer diagnosis and treatment.
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You'd never guess it from the rants of America's talk-radio Jeremiahs, but U.S. immigration policy isn't really a disaster.
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Perhaps that's because Democrats have lost touch with their own inner Jeremiahs.
Mark Souder and an American tradition: moralize, scandalize, apologize James A. Morone 2010
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