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The thought of a witch-hunt, involving the loss of inspector gadget, and other officers, both serving and retired of his ilk is anethema to those who look for the overall picture.
Hayley Adamson is dead but Northumbria wins Gold! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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Being for anything is anethema to their mission, and anyone who tries to take charge or create a coherent proposal is going to be their first target for a purge.
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Kevin Leahy, Managing Director of Climate Policy at Duke Energy, recently gave a presentation in Columbus in which he opined that "Moderates are the new endangered species in Washington", adding that sane national energy policy requires tradeoffs and compromises that can only be achieved by crossing party lines -- which is traitorous anethema in the current political environment.
Richard Stuebi: The Petroleum Industry: Past the Tipping Point? 2010
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And anethema to anyone working for an insurance company.
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That and an insistence on including value education norms in public schools that are anethema to some Americans.
America The Stupid 2008
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"Thinking is anethema to religion" according to Dawkins.
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Kevin Leahy, Managing Director of Climate Policy at Duke Energy, recently gave a presentation in Columbus in which he opined that "Moderates are the new endangered species in Washington", adding that sane national energy policy requires tradeoffs and compromises that can only be achieved by crossing party lines -- which is traitorous anethema in the current political environment.
Richard Stuebi: The Petroleum Industry: Past the Tipping Point? 2010
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This is anethema to you for one reason - nature is presumed to be without purpose.
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Further, his somewhat liberal stances on hot button social issues make him an anethema to the xtian right conservatives who vote en masse in primaries.
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Not only is Obama anethema to a media that thrives on the adrenaline rushes of divisiveness [reporting ringside on an endless wrestling match, which the Clintons, by accident or otherwise, prefectly embody], but Obama is anethema to a corporate world enjoying regulation-lax profit-making in the shadows of that divisiveness.
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