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The media are agog over the latest accusation that Republican presidential candidate and unabashed and shameless co-opter of all that is 9/11 Rudy Giuliani may have hidden costs for security details guarding him whilst "trysting the night away" with his then putative paramour and now wife, Judy Nathan, at her Hamptons love shack.

Lionel: What Rudy/Judy Really Did That Was Wrong 2008

Nevertheless, let's consider the factors in common: First, Bush is to some degree a co-opter of the rhetoric if not the exact policies of his political opponents -- that was the point of "compassionate conservatism."

Balkinization 2004

When old the wormd was a gadden and Anthea first unfoiled her limbs wanderloot was the way the wood wagged where opter and apter were samuraised twimbs.

Finnegans Wake 2006

He is more a follower and reviver of Reganism than a co-opter of Clintonism.

Balkinization 2004

As a president, he was the great co-opter of recent decades.

Hating the President. Ann Althouse 2005

Nevertheless, let's consider the factors in common: First, Bush is to some degree a co-opter of the rhetoric if not the exact policies of his political opponents-- that was the point of "compassionate conservatism."

Balkinization 2004

He is more a follower and reviver of Reganism than a co-opter of Clintonism.

Balkinization 2004

Gould and Lewontin later garbled the argument to discredit any hypothesis that any trait is an adaptation: they hid the operation of natural selection behind evasive verbiage about "co-opting" and "reusing" spandrels which never identifies the co-opter or reuser.

'The Blank Slate': An Exchange Pinker, Steven 2003

Après avoir rencontré de nombreuses fins de non-recevoir auprès des maisons d'édition et ne souhaitant pas opter pour des éditions à compte d'auteur, j'ai choisi, parce que l'on écrit avant tout pour être lu (!), d'avoir recours à l'auto-édition.

Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas Marie Lebert

"Il faut opter," says M. Blaze de Bury, one of her latest biographers, as if the peasant household of 1412 had inhabited an Alsatian cottage in 1872.

Jeanne d'Arc Oliphant, Mrs. 1896