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  • Left to their own devices, those who control the reins of power will seek to not merely tilt the playing field in their favor, but to make it an actively vertical climb up a razorwire covered wall to unseat them.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Licensing is Anti-Competitive — This Time, Its Personal 2010

  • Some kindly soul has given me their cold and my throat feels like rusting razorwire.

    Archive 2008-11-01 DAVID BISHOP 2008

  • Some kindly soul has given me their cold and my throat feels like rusting razorwire.

    Snow, Sports and Sore Throats DAVID BISHOP 2008

  • Did the internees there vote themselves behind razorwire?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Iran, Iraq, Israel: 2007

  • We wanna see Britney do something really dangerous, like perform I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman live on a stage made of electrified razorwire while being repeatedly kicked about the jaw by an angry horse, or something dangerous like that.

    Pregnant Naked Britney Spears Too Sexy For Tokyo 2006

  • The house and garden complex was surrounded by a moat and twin lines of razorwire fencing patrolled by security guards.

    Dead Famous Elton, Ben 2001

  • Vryburg High - surrounded by razorwire - was closed by North

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • The ululating, whistling crowd errupted into cheering as a smiling Mandela took at 15 minute walkaround to greet the people kept at bay behind razorwire and steel barricades.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • A vine as thin and dangerous as razorwire dropped down from a branch and struck out at Jyrbian like a snake.

    The Irda Baker, Linda P. 1995

  • Kasrils ran through a gap in the razorwire cordon laid by

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

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