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  • But if you think that the Liverpool game was a goal fest, and that the Liverpool match is an abberration in the usually defensive minded Champions League, you would be wrong.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Matt Johnston 2009

  • And that's why you would have to be STUPID to presume that Obama should be the nominee to write off WV or Appalachia as some minor abberration that doesn't matter. 14% have a bachelors degree. 48th state in median income.

    Clinton Camp: Obama Shouldn't Get Away With Writing Off West Virginia Loss 2009

  • The Dean in those clips is like some horrible abberration.

    TheTVaddict.com Interviews Eric Kripke | the TV addict 2007

  • And that's why you would have to be STUPID to presume that Obama should be the nominee to write off WV or Appalachia as some minor abberration that doesn't matter. 14% have a bachelors degree. 48th state in median income.

    Poll: McCain Beats Obama And Hillary By Equal Margin Among Working Class Whites 2009

  • I am lucky in that I know that the Mexico I experienced in Aqua Prieta that night was an abberration.

    The First Time You Saw Mexico.... 2006

  • And it's not just a logo embellishment - the game insists on using that bizarre abberration of spelling throughout the length of its insipid and uninspired story.

    PoPoLoCrois Post-Mortem Greg Tannahill 2006

  • Actually, they're not being brainwashed nor are they being influenced other than to step in to understand what sort of prejudices their gay classmates face . . . whether you are personally gay or gay-friendly or even a non-gay gay-unfrlendly type, gays are everywhere and there is increasing evidence that homosexuality is indeed part of a biological construct and not merely a choice and therefore cannot be condemned as a social abberration.

    Imagine a world . . . . . . oh, sorry, imagination not allowed . . . . . . gay sex syllabus sparks inquiry 2005

  • Actually, they're not being brainwashed nor are they being influenced other than to step in to understand what sort of prejudices their gay classmates face . . . whether you are personally gay or gay-friendly or even a non-gay gay-unfrlendly type, gays are everywhere and there is increasing evidence that homosexuality is indeed part of a biological construct and not merely a choice and therefore cannot be condemned as a social abberration.

    Life of Brian: 2005

  • We make small deviations, to see the remarkable towns, villas, and curiosities on each side of our route; so that we advance by slow steps towards the borders of Monmouthshire: but in the midst of these irregular motions, there is no abberration nor eccentricity in that affection with which I am, dear Wat,

    The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

  • But because it's going to be close, there is one element to consider when looking at this quadrennial abberration that our American neighbours go through - that is the third-party candidacy of Alabama's George Wallace.

    Canadian-American Relations 1968

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