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It wasn't long, however, before the sheep-herding European settlers put a bounty on the head of these long-jawed predators because they assumed the animals were a threat to their sheep based on their wolf-like appearance.
David Mizejewski: Bizarre Animal Persecuted to Extinction on False Assumption David Mizejewski 2011
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The lab also launched the sheep-herding epic "Sweetgrass".
Living in the Past, Fearing the Future Steve Dollar 2011
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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It wasn't long, however, before the sheep-herding European settlers put a bounty on the head of these long-jawed predators because they assumed the animals were a threat to their sheep based on their wolf-like appearance.
David Mizejewski: Bizarre Animal Persecuted to Extinction on False Assumption David Mizejewski 2011
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It wasn't long, however, before the sheep-herding European settlers put a bounty on the head of these long-jawed predators because they assumed the animals were a threat to their sheep based on their wolf-like appearance.
David Mizejewski: Bizarre Animal Persecuted to Extinction on False Assumption David Mizejewski 2011
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Maybe no one asks that question in Republican sheep-herding circles.
The Obama Campaign Expands Its Communications Team - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Though it's not strictly a documentary, it fills the same celebration-of-the-natural-world slot that the sheep-herding epic "Sweetgrass" did last year.
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There are swimming lessons, a twice-a-week agility class and, on a recent Saturday, a sheep-herding course.
American Parents Going to the Dogs After Human Kids Leave the Nest 2010
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Fascinated by the freedom of sheep-herding nomads, Mr. Bessac pledged himself a knight of Ghengis Khan while visiting a purported tomb of the Mongol emperor.
An Odyssey Through Wartime China Stephen Miller 2010
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Who would have thought, for example, that dogs could be bred for sheep-herding skills, or ‘pointing’, or bull-baiting?
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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