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  • Those pedophiles in the Catholic church at least did not stand up and profess their preversion, to the cheers of the congregation.

    Democrats' late night session falls short on MI, FL delegations 2008

  • Innocent unitl proven guilty, full stop, and without "specialised" juries for alleged rape which would be a preversion of justice as dispesned elsewhere.

    No Means NO ! Newmania 2007

  • So, where did all this supposed need for the 14th Amendment arise I understand the issue of freed slaves being denied their rights, etc. but that was a preversion of law to start with?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Background reading for Supreme Court’s new 14th/2d Amendment case 2009

  • Yeah, that's a real thing, they've been around for decades barely surviving as a weird and obscure preversion.

    Rest-Day Roundup: Stealing Seconds and Stealing Bikes BikeSnobNYC 2008

  • “I think General Ripper found out about your preversion, and that you were organizing some kind of mutiny of preverts.”

    Think Progress » Lebanon offensive will last ‘weeks.’ 2006

  • My bet would be that the email was key evidence of a cover-up and preversion of justice, but not of the sale of honours.

    EXCLUSIVE: The Reason for the BBC Injunction 2007

  • I love her re-reading leviticus blog, what a genius this woman is, jsut a beautifull case of preversion, lovely !

    byline and plug - Danya Ruttenberg 2005

  • It is you who are responsible and preside over the murder of children and issue the policy of ungodly preversion thats destroying our people, one of the letters said, in childish penmanship riddled with errors.

    Archive 2003-06-01 2003

  • It is you who are responsible and preside over the murder of children and issue the policy of ungodly preversion thats destroying our people, one of the letters said, in childish penmanship riddled with errors.

    Eschaton 2003

  • We passed on to contrast the manner in which their lives had been spent, with what God and society required from them; their miserable preversion of God's gifts, with the design for which He gave them, until we were led on to speak of hope and of faith; of Him who

    Famous Islands and Memorable Voyages Anonymous

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