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The Republicans need only to step out the way, keep saying no, and the Democrats will be led over the cliff and to their doom by this incompetent president and their own lemming-like stupidity.
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No one really liked Pirates 4, but we keep going out of a lemming-like herd instinct/habit to see event movies -- and thanks to 3D and higher ticket prices, Hollywood still makes its money.
John Lopez: Is the Next Spielberg in Your Neighbor's Garage? John Lopez 2011
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Why could they not take the time to seek out actual Indian people to "sweat" with, rather than to leap lemming-like into some phony's quasi-religious top hat?
another native opinion on the sedona incident. karnythia 2009
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Seems that Dr. Hunt is showing his lemming-like behavior by refusing to hold any politician with an “R” after thier name to any kind of accountability or responsibility.
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In my opinion, a good portion of the Treasury buying is lemming-like ie, if I'm a money manager, and I'm measured against an Index, then I need to buy Treasuries since they constitute 30%+ (I think) of the Index, AND all my peers are doing so.
Bond Market, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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No one really liked Pirates 4, but we keep going out of a lemming-like herd instinct/habit to see event movies -- and thanks to 3D and higher ticket prices, Hollywood still makes its money.
John Lopez: Is the Next Spielberg in Your Neighbor's Garage? John Lopez 2011
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The hypocrit clearly laudes his/her lemming-like following of the Republican party and in lemming-like fashion claims to be a proud member of the party of no. wow!
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Rather, it looks to me like a preposterous, lemming-like dash by the industry to compete for the highest, most dangerous piece of footwear on the planet.
The Higher the Heel, the Harder the Fall Tina Gaudoin 2011
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* Hoping that lemming-like Congressional Democrats have worked through their little collective freakout over the course of the day and can get back to work with their historic majorities in both houses tomorrow.
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Perhaps most ominously, in a stepwise, lemming-like march of folly in our relations with Ankara, a regional power of crucial importance and one which, if heeded, could have helped head off the First Gaza War, we have come dangerously close to effectively declaring a state of war with Turkey.
Bradley Burston: The Second Gaza War: Israel Lost at Sea 2010
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