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  • Then there is another viewpoint, not just a question of ethics but a question of ourown survival.

    Ecology & the Human Heart 2010

  • Then there is another viewpoint, not just a question of ethics but a question of ourown survival.

    Ecology & the Human Heart 2010

  • LOOK IN THE MIRROR PEOPLE. if obama had made similar comments about going after black people out of work and on welfare what would you say. i HIGHLY doubt you would just brush it off as politics. we are ourown worst enemy

    Clinton touts support from 'white Americans' 2008

  • Rather than give up, we did what any self respecting scientist would do - we created ourown science cookie cutters!

    Meet Dexter 2008

  • Our eyes face forward so that we can see through objects, whether ourown noses or clutter in the world around us (X-ray vision).

    ‘The Vision Revolution’ 2009

  • A renewal product, at that, is being outsourced in order to build bridges between nations, while stripping this countries citizens of self-sufficiency, jobs and one of ourown historic export bases in the process.

    U.S. Serial Wildfires: Foreign Trade Agreements And Corporate Profit The Cause? 2009

  • A renewal product, at that, is being outsourced in order to build bridges between nations, while stripping this countries citizens of self-sufficiency, jobs and one of ourown historic export bases in the process.

    U.S. Serial Wildfires: Foreign Trade Agreements And Corporate Profit The Cause? 2009

  • But there is a strong reason not to do that even though the British did in WW-II: uniformed POWs tend to belong to militaries that abide by the Geneva Conventions on POW treatment, and torturing them would lead to torturing of ourown.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Radio Host Waterboarded, Says It’s Torture: 2009

  • But, it is insulting ourown religion and is indirectly insulting thegod.

    What A Shameful Communal Riot In Orissa! 2008

  • All were enjoyable, although The Uplift War was the one I remember best---by "then" we had brought up chimps and gorillas as ourown client species, and the chimps (being chimps) still enjoyed drinking, slumming and eating their (and our) alien enemies, which they described as "tasking just like chicken!"

    Preclassic Maya Finds 2006

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