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The Bastard in me rejoices at what will be an expensive and salutory lesson.
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This, combined with term limits, would no doubt have a salutory effect on our government. 12-year limits in both houses would be about right, with pay limited to a stipend to cover member's wages lost (to a limit of national average) during the annual 3-month service period plus expenses for housing and travel (to/from Washington 3 times annually).
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We think that this is a very salutory development to the cause that our leaders and my friends who died many years ago stood for, Mitee said.
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It would be a salutory moment for the Graun if one day it became an independent newspaper - rather than an English-language version of Izvestia, joined at the hip to the Labour Party, and spouting tosh to order.
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There's nothing like humiliation before one's peers that is salutory.
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Also it was a salutory reminder for the younger (and not so young!) in service to think when you put them on. on September 29, 2008 at 4: 29 pm | Reply Simon Walsh
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The despot employs merely a "salutory fear" that supplies "the defects of government"; he must rule by sheer force that excites a constant yet mystified sense of fear in his subjects
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Dalgliesh had a momentary and impious picture of his detective sergeant punctiliously attempting to determine and record this essential information about a victim in an official crime report and reflected that Miss Willison's nice distinction between police work and real life was a salutory reminder of how other people saw his job.
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Yes well there is one devastating answer to that if someone will just have the cojones the minute it leaves McLame's mouth to point out that it had no salutory effect on his moral structure.
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Hopefully this poll will have the salutory effect of keeping us from getting to complacent.
atz413 commented on the word salutory
This is a common misspelling of the word "salutary," which means having a beneficial effect.
September 16, 2009
atz413 commented on the word salutory
This is a common misspelling of the word "salutary."
September 16, 2009