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: Congressional Democrats bowed to political pressure and agreed to let the ban on offshore oil drilling expire,
Political Resonance 2008
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Butchered to make a Roman holiday — All this rushed with his blood — Shall he expire,
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As well, Zimbabweans who had allowed their passports to expire,
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Rightwinger Willem Ratte intended ending a second hunger strike in prison on Saturday when his jail sentence would expire,
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On the twenty-fourth of December my time it did expire,
Row-Dow-Dow 1997
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Cruz, and the time of some four thousand of them being about to expire,
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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But when the feast is finished, and the lamps expire,
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Ben Duggan and Jack Denver, too, he caused them to expire,
Saltbush Bill, J. P. 1902
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Fitful gleams in clay that perish, little sparks that soon expire,
AE in the Irish Theosophist George William Russell 1901
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Oui, dans ces jours d'automne où la nature expire,
The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Alfred Biese 1893
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