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  • On my travels I note the newly de-mined roads being re-paved.

    Ru Freeman: A Few Peas Short of a Full Pod: Hillary Clinton & Tamil Nadu's Jayalalitha Ru Freeman 2011

  • The 43-year-old works as a maintenance director for an Italian-Egyptian oil firm 209 miles away in the desert; the company's plant and access roads were all de-mined long ago.

    El Alamein's new desert battle as mine victims search for justice Jack Shenker in El Alamein 2010

  • # Betsyon 15 Jan 2008 at 1:14 pm 1. Went sledding on a trash bag on a de-mined section of the 1986 Sarajevo Olympic ski hills.

    Ten (More) Things I’ve Done You Probably Haven’t « Whatever 2008

  • Plumes of smoke rose over the valley from Serb houses that had been set on fire by the K.L.A. The field had not been de-mined, so the F.B.I. investigators climbed carefully out of their army vehicles and approached the farmhouse along the tire ruts that had been left by previous cars.

    The Forensics of War Junger, Sebastian 1999

  • Mocambican authorities in the Moamba area have, however, already taken over 56 hectares of land de-mined by Krohn.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • "The Jordanians have completely de-mined their site on the other side," Or said.

    Thestar.com - Home Page LINDA GRADSTEIN 2011

  • Targeting Europe's eastern edge, they went for Greece's newly de-mined, north-eastern flank.

    The Guardian World News Helena Smith 2011

  • Of these, 717.19 kanals were de-mined and handed over to the people at a ceremony in Pallanwala on Tuesday.

    Analysis 2010

  • Of these, 717.19 kanals were de-mined and handed over to the people at a ceremony in Pallanwala on Tuesday.

    Analysis 2010

  • At 6: 30 a.m., the Marines disembarked from their trucks, which had been parked single-file along a de-mined path cut through a muddy field seeded with homemade bombs.

    Veterans Today Bob Higgins 2010

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