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  • They are essentially irremoveable, even if they aid and abet the slander and libel of 44 students and the attempted railroading of three students into 30+ year prison terms.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Strange First Amendment Decision: 2007

  • Up to the time of this affair, Haj Mousa had been an irremoveable governor.

    Travels in Morocco 2003

  • Architects who give measurements for ordinary doorways, do not contemplate such emergencies as testimonial candelabrums or irremoveable caps and plumes: and the door of the Glyndewi ballroom had no notion of accommodating a lancer in full dress who could not even be civil enough to take off his hat.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various

  • To the social eccentricity of the irremoveable hat and the singular pronoun, and to the civil eccentricity of the refused oath, George Fox and his disciples added a series of protests against the most venerable customs of Christianity.

    William Penn George Hodges 1887

  • United States, with an Executive responsible to the nation at large, and irremoveable for a term of years.

    Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) William Henry Hurlbert 1861

  • The man might abdicate; but the magistrate was irremoveable.

    The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

  • There appeared to be some deep-seated, irremoveable, hopeless cause of anguish, never for one moment permitted to be absent from her memory: a chronic oppression, fixed and graven there, only to be removed by death.

    The Phantom Ship Frederick Marryat 1820

  • If he loved her, what was that irremoveable bar to his happiness, which obliged him to relinquish her?

    Caroline; or, the Diversities of Fortune 1787

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