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  • noun Plural form of Mennonite.

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  • Less than a week later, the son of Pennsylvania Mennonites is fighting for his professional life, and cycling — the drug-plagued sport for which he had just become the symbol of a rebirth — was reeling again.

    USATODAY.com - From spotlight to suspicion: Landis' drug test a blow to cycling 2006

  • Within the first ten pages I was cracking up, engaged, and hooked on Janzen's easy breezy style, and sublime use of words - like calling the Mennonites "turbo-dorks."

    Kari Henley: Mother's Day Reads: Featuring a Mennonite, a Mother and a Goddess 2010

  • One of the things that made me wary of the Mennonites was the traditional practice of obstaining from voting.

    Mennonites on voting at Hugo Schwyzer 2004

  • The Mennonites are the largest and most significant group of non-resistants.

    Introduction to Non-Violence Theodore Paullin

  • Among the peculiar views of the Mennonites are the following: repudiation of infant baptism, oaths, law-suits, civil office-holding and the bearing of arms.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • North Sea, but were best known in Holland and Lower Germany, where they were called Mennonites, from the priest, Menno Simons, who, a hundred years before George Fox, had enunciated the same principles of duty founded on the strict interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount.

    A History of American Christianity Leonard Woolsey Bacon 1868

  • These communities were to be found throughout Protestant Europe, from the Alps to the North Sea, but were best known in Holland and Lower Germany, where they were called Mennonites, from the priest, Menno Simons, who, a hundred years before George Fox, had enunciated the same principles of duty founded on the strict interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount.

    A History of American Christianity 1830-1907 1897

  • He joined the Anabaptist movement in 1536 and his writings and leadership united many of the Anabaptist groups, which were nicknamed 'Mennonites'.

    The Mennonites: a Dutch heritage in Mexico 2003

  • He joined the Anabaptist movement in 1536 and his writings and leadership united many of the Anabaptist groups, which were nicknamed 'Mennonites'.

    The Mennonites: a Dutch heritage in Mexico 2003

  • Larger North American society tends to lump "Mennonites" and "Amish" together but in fact, though they come from the same roots in the 16th-century Anabaptist reform movement, they are two different groups.

    Bethel College News 2009

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  • Chuck, Emerson and Ned confronting three lawyers

    (from Pushing Daisies episode “Water and Power”):

    Emerson: … We’re investigating the death of Roland Stingwell.

    Ned: His assistant said there was a heated legal dispute between Mr. Stingwell and your clients, the Fits and Giggles Novelty Company.

    Chuck: And we know that Mr. Stingwell was about to make public that one of your client’s factories was illegally disposing dangerous chemicals into the Papen County dam reservoir.

    Lawyer 1: These are baseless allegations.

    Lawyer 2: Our client did not, nor would they ever dispose of any kind of chemicals into the reservoir. This is a categorical denial.

    Lawyer 3: Maybe once.

    Lawyer 1: And one time only.

    Lawyer 2: Once, we may have inadvertently allowed a small amount of chemicals into the reservoir. But it was a long time ago.

    Lawyer 3: It was Tuesday.

    Lawyer 1: Very, very early Tuesday. Nearly Monday.

    Chuck: What kind of lawyers are you?

    Lawyer 1: We are Mennonites, which would not normally be a liability were it not for our own personal commitment not to lie.

    January 1, 2010