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I admired my literary monkey-wrenching for a moment, shoved the copies of the switched book in the "Relationships" section and walked out the door feeling quite proud of myself.
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I admired my literary monkey-wrenching for a moment, shoved the copies of the switched book in the "Relationships" section and walked out the door feeling quite proud of myself.
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I'm fervently hopeful that they all got busy during the rut and passed on their inferior genes to the next generation because I can get into that kind of evolutionary monkey-wrenching ...
Survival of the Weakest? Dave Hurteau 2009
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That same month, Tim DeChristopher goes on trial in Salt Lake City for monkey-wrenching oil and gas auctions by submitting phony bids.
Bill McKibben: We're Hot as Hell and We're Not Going to Take It Anymore 2010
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The territory we covered was vast and yet focused, theoretical and yet personal, starting with progressive working practices and how the car company Volvo has indirectly/directly effected art production today and moving to the "hypocrisy equation" in social projects and even straying into Sabrina the Teenage Witch and monkey-wrenching talking cat toys.
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This is the monkey-wrenching Edward Abbey/John Muir axis of the group.
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » The hazards of misanthropic environmentalism 2008
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Earth First was a group in the ` 80s, and they were involved in something called monkey-wrenching, the most notable of which was putting spikes in trees ...
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Switters, if the truth be told, was as enthusiastic about geopolitical monkey-wrenching as he'd ever been, but now, two inches removed, was no more attached to the end results than he'd been to the outcome of the rain-gutter boat races against the Art Girls.
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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Switters, if the truth be told, was as enthusiastic about geopolitical monkey-wrenching as he'd ever been, but now, two inches removed, was no more attached to the end results than he'd been to the outcome of the rain-gutter boat races against the Art Girls.
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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Eventually, after his monkey-wrenching of the bids was discovered, the newly-installed Obama administration pulled 77 of the land parcels back, negating their sale and their use for exploiting energy reserves.
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