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They had made a video of the Tour and showed different clips and then we had a formal dinner and people stood-up and spoke and it was good.
Complete transcript: Paul Kimmage’s interview of Floyd Landis 2011
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Not a single male legislator has stood-up and said that insuring equitable access to women's reproductive health care, including abortion, is requisite to health care reform.
You Weren't Elected to Congress to Bargain Our Rights Away and Make Deals 2010
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Not a single male legislator has stood-up and said that insuring equitable access to women's reproductive health care, including abortion, is requisite to health care reform.
Rebecca Sive: You Weren't Elected to Congress to Bargain Our Rights Away and Make Deals 2010
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Not a single male legislator has stood-up and said that insuring equitable access to women's reproductive health care, including abortion, is requisite to health care reform.
Rebecca Sive: You Weren't Elected to Congress to Bargain Our Rights Away and Make Deals 2009
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Meanwhile, not a single Democratic woman Senator, not one, has stood-up, in this week since Senator Nelson's anti-abortion bill was defeated, and said to him: Enough already.
Rebecca Sive: Ben Nelson is My New Hero: At Least He Has the Courage of His Convictions 2009
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Dear Cindy, no matter what you do to twist the truth, not matter what vile words hiss through your lips, no matter what you have convinced yourself to believe and not matter who you may think is your audience for this slander - nothing will ever change the fact that Obama has been a statesman and gentleman and while he stood-up for himself, he has maintained his integrity and his dignity.
Did Cindy McCain Suggest That Her Husband Voted To Defund The McCains' Own Son In Combat? 2009
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But continuous raids by the Americans and the newly stood-up Iraqi army and police, trained and equipped by the Americans, gradually put an end to the insurgents 'operations.
The Coming Normalcy? 2006
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Ugg the Caveman gets meat but since he stood-up, clanged his big brass ones together, and then personally stabbed the Mammoth in the eye with a pointy stick he then gets to keep the tusks.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Not The Best of Times Because, Why? 2008
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But continuous raids by the Americans and the newly stood-up Iraqi army and police, trained and equipped by the Americans, gradually put an end to the insurgents 'operations.
The Coming Normalcy? 2006
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Republican southerners were outraged; when the Convention Chairman gaveled Nixon's "unanimous" victory, the Louisiana delegation stood-up, booed and walked out of the hall.
Reese Schonfeld: What Do Obama/Clinton, Kennedy/Johnson and Nixon/Rockefeller Have in Common? 2008
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