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  • Do it, he thought, calculating the consequences: the girl's outrage, feigned or not; her mother's indignation, her brethren's wrath.

    Appearances vic fortezza 2011

  • Since the 1970s, some of the "sundered" Friends groups have reunited, a process that has generally been accompanied by a recognition by "programmed" Friends that their "unprogrammed" brethren's beliefs about the lack of creeds, confessions of faith, and leaders/preachers should be accepted (or at least tolerated) and that what really matters is the various Friends 'testimonies, especially our peace testimony.

    Blind Faith? 2009

  • Do it, he thought, calculating the consequences: the girl's outrage, feigned or not; her mother's indignation, her brethren's wrath.

    Appearances vic fortezza 2011

  • Under the Exxon Hardball approach, BP would follow its oil company brethren's approach to the Valdez spill.

    Robert Weissman: Closing BP's Escape Routes 2010

  • I think if you were intellectually honest and put the same amount of background into your own party or idealogical brethren's talking points as you do with those that you ostracize, castigate, and villify, you'd gain more respect and more acclaim ...

    Your Right Hand Thief 2008

  • Wary and watchful all their days that their brethren's day may be long in the land.

    The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2009

  • Massive beef recalls and books like Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation have impressed upon readers 'minds the image of the modern beef cow, packed tightly in an enormous feedlot, standing in a cesspool of its brethren's manure as it gorges itself on an excessively medicated mix of corn and rendered animal protein.

    The American Way of Beef 2007

  • Massive beef recalls and books like Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation have impressed upon readers 'minds the image of the modern beef cow, packed tightly in an enormous feedlot, standing in a cesspool of its brethren's manure as it gorges itself on an excessively medicated mix of corn and rendered animal protein.

    The American Way of Beef 2007

  • Without Countrywide Financial and its brethren's data in the mix, you will always choose only from firms that have survived.

    Michael Martin: The Case of the Missing Stock Data 2009

  • Wary and watchful all their days that their brethren's day may be long in the land.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Fred Kiesche 2009

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