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  • Western capitalist societies, especially the United Kingdom and the United States, are currently in the process of spooling time backward to the pre-Victorian era, for the benefit of a small group of elites that excludes the working and middle classes who benefited most from the Victorians' social, economic, and political reforms -- let alone the poor.

    Naomi Wolf: David Cameron's Great Expectations Naomi Wolf 2011

  • Western capitalist societies, especially the United Kingdom and the United States, are currently in the process of spooling time backward to the pre-Victorian era, for the benefit of a small group of elites that excludes the working and middle classes who benefited most from the Victorians' social, economic, and political reforms -- let alone the poor.

    Naomi Wolf: David Cameron's Great Expectations Naomi Wolf 2011

  • Western capitalist societies, especially the United Kingdom and the United States, are currently in the process of spooling time backward to the pre-Victorian era, for the benefit of a small group of elites that excludes the working and middle classes who benefited most from the Victorians' social, economic, and political reforms -- let alone the poor.

    Naomi Wolf: David Cameron's Great Expectations Naomi Wolf 2011

  • But were still far away from the pre-Victorian ideal of private sexual behavior being kept in the private sphere.

    Fernando Espuelas: What We Don't Need to Know About Elena Kagan 2010

  • Clarke, however, will not necessarily cut back on new building projects and has talked instead of using the new capacity to close "old and inefficient" jails, some of which are pre-Victorian.

    Prison-building programme in doubt as jail population levels off 2010

  • Here we've got the various developments of and from popular pre-Victorian, Victorian and post-Victorian fiction.

    Of Genres and Sub-Genres Hal Duncan 2008

  • Clarke, however, will not necessarily cutback on new building projects but has talked instead of using the new capacity to close "old and inefficient" jails, some of which date back to pre-Victorian times.

    Prison population predicted to hit record 88,500 by 2016 2010

  • The slowdown approach will aim to calm the process by restoring a pre-Victorian pattern of winding watercourses, alongside existing work on blocking fellside drainage "grips".

    Cumbria's natural landscape may be restored to ease flooding Martin Wainwright 2010

  • This was pre-Victorian and a time of romantic dalliance.

    "Bright Star" The Movie - What would poet, John Keats be like today 2009

  • Mr. Morrissey lives four blocks from City Hall in a house he calls a "pre-Victorian cottage" that he bought for $14,000 in 2003 and rehabbed himself.

    Mayor of Illinois City Hopes Against Hope for U.S. Funds 2009

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