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Now combine that with values much more likely associated with a sensibly-shoed audience gathered on the state-house lawn in their Uncle Sam hats and Tea-Party T-shirts.
Dr. Peggy Drexler: Hot Women Of The Republican Right Dr. Peggy Drexler 2011
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Now combine that with values much more likely associated with a sensibly-shoed audience gathered on the state-house lawn in their Uncle Sam hats and Tea-Party T-shirts.
Dr. Peggy Drexler: Hot Women Of The Republican Right Dr. Peggy Drexler 2011
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While the birthers and state-house hacks obsess over his convoluted neonatal underpinnings, far greater matters percolate at the President's behest.
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A modern state-house news bureau would address at least both markets.
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The slope on which it is built faces the Hudson, and is crowned by a large state-house, the place of meeting for the legislature of the Empire State.
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Then, in 2002, his chief of staff discovered him on the floor of his state-house office, unable to stop crying.
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And when some people mobilized and tried to march to state-house, whistling and singing,
Simon Chimbetu 2005
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And it is stated, that his two daughters were publicly married out of the prytaneum, or state-house, by the city, which decreed each of them three thousand drachmas for her portion; and that upon his son Lysimachus, the people bestowed a hundred minas of money, and as many acres of planted land, and ordered him besides, upon the motion of Alcibiades, four drachmas a day.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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He then dissolved all the distinct state-houses, council halls, and magistracies, and built one common state-house and council hall on the site of the present upper town, and gave the name of Athens to the whole state, ordaining a common feast and sacrifice, which he called Panathenaea, or the sacrifice of all the united Athenians.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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In the governor's mansion, or the state-house, I forget which, the minister pointed to a deep scar in the banister of the broad staircase, made by a tomahawk hurled by a long-dead Indian.
Borrowed Finery, A Memoir Fox, Paula 2001
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