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  • Administration line were such considerations as whether a Communist Vietnam could project its power into Thailand or Burma or whether Ho's ensconcement in Saigon would augment or instead fragment the Communist bloc.

    Congress, the President, and the Battle of Ideas: Vietnam Policy, 1965-1969 1999

  • A change of apparel, calling into requisition Mexican _ponchos_ and other picturesque garments, with a smoke beside a roaring fire, completely obviated all dangerous consequences; nor was it without feelings of great satisfaction that B. and myself watched tranquilly from our comfortable ensconcement the beatings of the storm on the encircling forest.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 Various

  • But before he had time to execute a hasty departure, the scraping of a chair at his table and the ensconcement of a fourth cloaked figure foreclosed the possibility of retreat.

    open source theology - Comments 2009

  • In the spasm of western Islamophilia that followed the terrorist attacks of 2001, the myth of medieval Muslim learnedness and medieval European illiteracy gained strong new power for the Left whose acolytes have disseminated it with vigor from their ensconcement in the colleges and universities.

    Assyrian International News Agency 2009

  • In the spasm of western Islamophilia that followed the terrorist attacks of 2001, the myth of medieval Muslim learnedness and medieval European illiteracy gained strong new power for the Left whose acolytes have disseminated it with vigor from their ensconcement in the colleges and universities.

    Gates of Vienna 2009

  • In the demonic self-aggrandizement of the incipient étatiste regime in the District of Columbia, from whose marshy precincts the cronies of Big Government today seek to rule rather than to govern, as the Constitution directs; and in the self-righteous diktat-style of the European Union, its bureaucrats ordering people around by non-appellate edict from their cozy Brussels ensconcement: In these conditions - might I modestly submit - our world currently and obviously does suffer (and suffers daily, hourly) from the arrogant superbia of wealth - and freedom-destroying madmen who, when they look in the mirror, see looking back at them

    The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2009

  • In the demonic self-aggrandizement of the incipient étatiste regime in the District of Columbia, from whose marshy precincts the cronies of Big Government today seek to rule rather than to govern, as the Constitution directs; and in the self-righteous diktat-style of the European Union, its bureaucrats ordering people around by non-appellate edict from their cozy Brussels ensconcement: In these conditions - might I modestly submit - our world currently and obviously does suffer (and suffers daily, hourly) from the arrogant superbia of wealth - and freedom-destroying madmen who, when they look in the mirror, see looking back at them

    The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2009

  • In the demonic self-aggrandizement of the incipient étatiste regime in the District of Columbia, from whose marshy precincts the cronies of Big Government today seek to rule rather than to govern, as the Constitution directs; and in the self-righteous diktat-style of the European Union, its bureaucrats ordering people around by non-appellate edict from their cozy Brussels ensconcement: In these conditions - might I modestly submit - our world currently and obviously does suffer (and suffers daily, hourly) from the arrogant superbia of wealth - and freedom-destroying madmen who, when they look in the mirror, see looking back at them

    The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2009

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