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  • I suggest the delegation should comprise the Maori King (mana) Dr Sharples (cabinet minister) and Lt Col (R) Wira Gardiner. (emminent Maori leader and National Party member)

    Global Voices in English » Bloggers react to NZ Maori Party’s proposed trip to Fiji 2009

  • Well Pat, you already know she is wiser than you are because she is a Latina woman and she cannot distinguish between the words emminent and imminent so I guess that leaves you pretty far down on the totem pole in terms of judgement and smarts so you will have to excuse me if I chose to ignore your conclusions.

    Leahy on Sotomayor: 'Stop the racial politics' 2009

  • Only emminent domain trumps private property rights.

    Tyler on the Problems of Libertarians, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Maam, i came across ur blog while looking for opinion of emminent Indian feminists on the farce going in Banglore.

    Sense & Sensuality 2009

  • The TTC project is especially scary, as it plans to use the concept of emminent domain to grab land for the massive Mexico to Oklahoma corridor.

    Dusk Before the Dawn » 2007 » May 2007

  • The gods placed both redwhite&blue organizations in the "eye of The Beast" to set up this Situation, ensuring failure was emminent and positionable.

    DesignerBlog Will 2008

  • Now that failure has been positioned as emminent:::Don't listen.

    DesignerBlog Will 2008

  • The gods placed both redwhite&blue organizations in the "eye of The Beast" to set up this Situation, ensuring failure was positionable and emminent.

    DesignerBlog Will 2008

  • During Mao's 'Great Cultural Revolution' which gripped China forty years ago like a collective dementia, one of the most demented of its images was film of an emminent and frail Chinese professor being paraded through the streets in a rubbish cart wearing a dunce's hat and a placard which apparently proclaimed he had 'erred' in some academic opinion.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Remember when it looked emminent that they were going to begin selling men on female abuses such as cosmetics and plastic surgury?

    DesignerBlog Will 2008

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