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  • In an uprecedented move, the agency that oversees public broadcasting has stepped in to arrange distribution for a TV documentary on Islam that PBS had rejected as unworthy.

    Sunday, June 03, 2007 As'ad 2007

  • "Zimbabweans and the international community should note with grave concern that through Morgan Tsvangirai, the MDC is promising to unleash 'uprecedented violence' and death of unspecified people in place of the democratic process," said Jonathan Moyo, Minister of

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • In an uprecedented move, MLC leader Jean Pierre Bemba late last week signed the ceasefire document, but threatened to withdraw his signature if the RCD did not sign in seven days.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • It has become a criminal organization with uprecedented powers.

    Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha Shalom Hamou 2009

  • So writes Alexander Solzhenitsyn, adding: "This was uprecedented in remembered history."

    Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com 2009

  • Having both models gives Amazon uprecedented and unequaled in ecommerce network effects that I believe are fundamentially unwinding the network effects that built eBay over the last

    eBay Strategies 2009

  • Add to all of the above this 10th player who today laid seige to the State Assembly in an uprecedented act of vandalism.

    DesiPundit 2009

  • RTÉ Radio has won an uprecedented ten awards at the New York Radio Festivals 2008.

    RTÉ News 2009

  • King, who was left fuming today after his the voting flip-flops, said the episode shows Big Labor's uprecedented [sic] clout at the Capitol these days with Democrats firmly in control of both chambers of the legislature.

    Mount Virtus 2009

  • You can’t say that Tea Partiers are responsible for spewing political hate speech of uprecedented nastiness when we have the proof that you are lying.

    ‘Nice’ list of Bush-era protest photos… | RedState 2010

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