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It's very easy to lob hand-grenades at an opponent if you are a consultant/manager because the public blames all PR backfires on the candidate, not the man behind the campaign.
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Dissident groups have recently deployed command-wire explosive devices, van-mounted weaponry, car bombs and vehicle booby traps, as well as more orthodox military equipment such as hand-grenades.
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He eschewed ornate formal uniforms for sweaty combat fatigues and a distinctive floppy hat decorated with the ring-pulls from hand-grenades he had thrown in combat decades before.
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Unlike aerosol hand-grenades, pepper spray, and rubber bullets (all traditional methods of protest suppression also used at the G-20 protests) the damage from sound cannons is entirely internal, and can only be preserved on video, but even then, the deafening noise cannot be fully appreciated unless one hears it in person.
Allison Kilkenny: Police Experiment With New Weapon on Protesters During G-20 2009
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What ought to be done is horseshoes and hand-grenades.
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In Doctor Who – The Green Death, the UNIT air support proves to be a two-man helicopter, with the words “Twycroft Helicopter Rentals” or something like that painted on the side and a man leaning out and dropping hand-grenades!
Why Television Sci-Fi Sucks « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2007
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Rockets, hand-grenades just yesterday. 12 brand new Iranian rockets.
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It appears that a large number of villagers from Devarpalli were shelled with hand-grenades, as they approached the SJ camp at Dornapal.
Archive 2006-07-01 Abhay N 2006
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Yes, last night, I had to go to the hospital after being mercilessly attacked by my own immune system, dropping histamine hand-grenades all over my body and leaving every inch of my skin completely covered with itchy, scratchy, hateful little hives.
Archive 2005-11-01 2005
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Yes, last night, I had to go to the hospital after being mercilessly attacked by my own immune system, dropping histamine hand-grenades all over my body and leaving every inch of my skin completely covered with itchy, scratchy, hateful little hives.
We Interrupt This Trip for a Newsflash! Allergy Attack! 2005
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