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  • You know, dressed in a traditional type garb, foreswearing the evils of modern life, etc.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Dark Worlds Club 2010

  • You know, dressed in a traditional type garb, foreswearing the evils of modern life, etc.

    I want to chat... Dark Worlds Club 2010

  • By foreswearing future use of the weapon and joining the Mine Ban Treaty, the U.S. can help ensure the long-term success of this crucial humanitarian endeavor that has already saved tens of thousands of lives and limbs.

    U.S. Would Be More Secure With the Land-Mine Treaty 2010

  • By means of this agreement the UAE policy of foreswearing uranium enrichment and reprocessing for plutonium has been converted into an international legal obligation in the most binding possible form in a bi-lateral nuclear agreement.

    Thomas Graham: 123 Agreement for Nuclear Energy in the UAE: An Unprecedented and Responsible Step 2009

  • For as long as people have been foreswearing meat, they've also been sneaking the occasional corn dog.

    No More Sacred Cows 2009

  • One might imagine the antidoxic priests not just as apostate critics foreswearing the temples, but as actually serving a function within them, as devil's advocates, doubters whose role is to reject, subvert, revise.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Hal Duncan 2007

  • Wasn't it just a month or two ago she went on that trendy cleanse diet, foreswearing caffeine, alcohol, sugar, wheat and dairy for a full 21 days?

    Elaine Liner: Oprah Hits 2-0-0: Media Say "Oh, No, No!" 2009

  • One might imagine the antidoxic priests not just as apostate critics foreswearing the temples, but as actually serving a function within them, as devil's advocates, doubters whose role is to reject, subvert, revise.

    THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FIVE Hal Duncan 2007

  • Wasn't it just a month or two ago she went on that trendy cleanse diet, foreswearing caffeine, alcohol, sugar, wheat and dairy for a full 21 days?

    Oprah Hits 2-0-0: Media Say "Oh, No, No!" 2008

  • First, foreswearing permanent U.S. bases in Iraq would strengthen the nascent Iraqi government by underscoring its autonomy and U.S. confidence in its long-term ability to achieve effective self-governance.

    Susan Rice: Iraq: We Should Leave When We're Done 2008

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