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Alexander Skarsgard steals every scene he is in as Louisiana's vampire 'sherrif', Eric, especially when paired with Kristin Bauer as his second-in-command, Pam.
Archive 2009-09-01 Adam Whitehead 2009
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Alexander Skarsgard steals every scene he is in as Louisiana's vampire 'sherrif', Eric, especially when paired with Kristin Bauer as his second-in-command, Pam.
True Blood: Season 1 Adam Whitehead 2009
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There is a new sherrif in town, holding the free market accountable.
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Example, in the old western movies the sherrif, the mayor, big business men who had power spent hours on end with women in brothels and so forth.
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The sherrif enforces laws that pertain to entry into the USA, if you do it legally you have nothing to be afraid of, only the people who ILLEGALLY enter the US need worry.
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Here in rural Missouri, the county sherrif has announced in the newspaper that they have noted threats against census workers and have put plans in place to protect the workers.
Think Progress » 170 House Republicans rebuff Steele by voting to ban RNC’s ‘Census’ mailer. 2010
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For the record, I am hopeful about our future now that there's a new sherrif in town.
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The problem with High Noon is that the people the sherrif is defending were townspeople and farmers who were depicted as peaceful and not capable of defending themselves; Outland shows the population the marshall is defending is a bunch of hard-drinking, stripper-ogling miners, the hardest of the hard, and the idea that he couldn't walk into that bar and say, "You, you and you, you're my deputies," just wrecked the film for me.
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And in 1983 a Texas sherrif was found to have violated prohibitions on torture for waterboarding.
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Maybe high sherrif Daniel Eisenberg could enlighten us on the ad hoc posting by time staffers?
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