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  • Popular government, therefore, is in itself iniquitious, and less abominable than monarchical despotism.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Talking of the iniquitious EU, BBC Have Your Say currently have a poll on the EU.

    Will the LibDems Speak With One Voice Over Coalitions? 2007

  • "They should not remain silent when the legislator puts unjust laws on the statute book or the executive performs iniquitious acts."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • It allways appeard a most iniquitious Scheme to me-fight ourselfs for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.

    Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 22 September 1774 1963

  • O'Brien and his associates, that the authorities should attempt to carry into operation the iniquitious law they had passed; the arrest of

    Speeches from the Dock, Part I Various

  • First it was their salaries - castrated almost overnight by the iniquitious and disengenuous spin about the comparable values of decimalisation - followed by the debasement of their sons 'education (which became little more than a casual' information service ') and the slow grinding degradation of public sector services, broadcasting et al.' Freedom is not a right - it is a privilege to be daily fought for 'my Father believed.

    UnderwaterTimes.com News of the Underwater World 2009

  • It was bad enough that we couldn’t videotape football games without written permission — although, to my knowledge, there have been no smoke-filled speakeasies involving clandestine game watching and secret passwords, perhaps because the participants have remained circumspect about such iniquitious dens.

    Without Written Permission : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2007

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