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  • I'm curious to know what precisely is wrong with the concept of popular resistance to aspects of the Obama administration's policies? the Obama/Geithner/Pelosi axis of extremism is exactly the kind of European-style tyranny the framers of the Bill of Rights and Constitution had in mind when they made it implicitly clear that the people had the right to protect themselves against infringements on their personal and proprietal rights.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • *Even Ireland is not cheap anymore, or as easy to gain proprietal rights to the kinds of homes sought.

    It's nothing. Just something I learned over in Scotland. Ann Althouse 2007

  • Terry was not pleased with the presence of the two giggling girls, but he occupied the front seat with an air of proprietal indifference and ignored the silly outbursts of whispers emanating from the back.

    Prayers To Broken Stones Simmons, Dan 1990

  • Terry was not pleased with the presence of the two giggling girls, but he occupied the front seat with an air of proprietal indifference and ignored the silly outbursts of whispers emanating from the back.

    Prayers To Broken Stones Simmons, Dan 1990

  • How could they do that proprietal justice and grant that religious liberty for which the country had been struggling?

    Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry Thomas Osborne Davis 1829

  • It came into power at the end of a half century of which the beginning was a civil and religious, social and proprietal persecution, combining all the atrocities to which Ireland had been alternatively subject for four centuries and a half.

    Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry Thomas Osborne Davis 1829

  • And once you decided to take a proprietal interest in me, you made sure no other single male would come near me!

    American Bedu 2010

  • I'm curious to know what precisely is wrong with the concept of popular resistance to aspects of the Obama administration's policies? the Obama / Geithner / Pelosi axis of extremism is exactly the kind of European-style tyranny the framers of the Bill of Rights and Constitution had in mind when they made it implicitly clear that the people had the right to protect themselves against infringements on their personal and proprietal rights.

    Spectator Live 2009

  • To clarify, no I don’t, never have had, have any kind of ‘proprietal’ feelings, nor does it irritate me when Petite talks about men.

    sleeping with ghosts 2006

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