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  • I am currently thinking on a Plan for Universal Health care which is minimal-invasive and Cost-suppresive. lgl

    Bartlett and Krugman, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • How many other games have suppresive fire that really works on other people?

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Today’s Comic: Gears of War 2006

  • The escort helicopter continued to place suppresive fire in the area, and transmitted a request for a rifle platoon which was launched and was over the area in about 15 minutes.

    McMurray, Fred H. Jr. 1991

  • Nadia spoke so pasionately about her religion, and this. together with the enjoyable visual images of the exhibition, really opened my eyes to a religion i once, very ignorantly thought, restrictive and slightly suppresive towards females.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2009

  • Finding a cunning route onto the objective whilst the MBTs were putting down suppresive MA fire.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • "suppresive persons", sort of their sci-fi version of people possessed by evil or the devil - as part of a vast age-old conspiracy of which psychiatry is a part, intending to do harm to humanity and to undermine scientology.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • "suppresive persons", sort of their sci-fi version of people possessed by evil or the devil - as part of a vast age-old conspiracy of which psychiatry is a part, intending to do harm to humanity and to undermine scientology.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • "suppresive persons", sort of their sci-fi version of people possessed by evil or the devil - as part of a vast age-old conspiracy of which psychiatry is a part, intending to do harm to humanity and to undermine scientology.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • "suppresive persons", sort of their sci-fi version of people possessed by evil or the devil - as part of a vast age-old conspiracy of which psychiatry is a part, intending to do harm to humanity and to undermine scientology.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

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