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  • And they aren't "pavers" - they're a brick that, based on it's design allows water to permiate back into the soil, reducing runoff and helping to maintain groundwater, etc.

    Aurora Police Headquarters | Insert Feedback Here 2009

  • Don't you know that Kipling has long been banned as against the social good, along with Twain, Conrad, Melville, and a host of others because people that are far more sophisticated than us can see all the racism, sexism, and every other - ism that permiate these works?

    Discourse.net: UM Opens a New Online Store 2009

  • Thats why so many dem are going to leave the party over the foul attitudes that permiate the Obama camp.

    Indiana and North Carolina: Where basketball and politics meet 2008

  • To those in miserable spirits out there - regardless of their cause, upon this next close of day, regardless of the chaos or hardship you may be enduring, do something simple for me - upon sunset, go out there and enjoy it; drink it up; whether in the country or city, lay down the bagage of the soul and simply let it permiate you.

    Happy at Home 2007

  • Like a bad stench, they permiate into every crack and hole getting everywhere and causing discomfort to all.

    Think Progress » Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a former tobacco lobbyist, 2006

  • Stories still permiate of how the baseball diamond manufactured for that film has now become a place of pilgrimage for people who want to remember the glory days -- for parents to show their kids what it used to be like before sponsorship and high wages took hold -- in effect, the film itself has drifted into reality.

    Feeling Listless - "Taking the credit for your second symphony." 2004

  • So there are millions of these ignorant sheep wondering to the countless malware websites, volunteering their craptops to organized crime and crooks to use their Windows zombie machines to permiate the Internet with billions of spam, identity theft and what not.

    MacDailyNews webmaster@macdailynews.com 2010

  • It would take a generation for the loss of that center to permiate, but once manifested it would be irreplaceable.

    Neptunus Lex 2009

  • But the other thing that upsets me is just the god damn ignorance that has come to permiate our culture.

    Tiny Cat Pants 2008

  • I can't say how happy I am that you seem to have grown up more or less immune to the weird psychic poisons that permiate the Hudson area. "

    Joy to the world! The teacher's dead.... youareokok 2004

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