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    foisted


    1. I never could figure out why Nezahualcoyotl foisted it on us


    2. She never stopped seething over how Mike and Jack had foisted me off on her


    3. If you succeed, we ask only that you remove the blight of a prison foisted on us without our knowledge


    4. This is true whether they are foisted upon us by the church or by


    5. In other words, “How in the ‘bleep’ did we get here?” It’s all well and good for those who need such to assign all the credit (thus, all the accompanying blame, as well) to whichever Supreme Being, All-Powerful Creator or Heavenly Parent of any gender one fancies or had foisted upon one by one’s earthly antecedents


    6. “Lord,” “God,” “Yahweh,” “Allah,” or any of hundreds (thousands?) of other fancy handles dreamed up for the ringers they foisted on us only proves how spurious is men’s claim “He’s” one of “them”!


    7. “Only those based on empty words, those foisted upon us for the sole purpose of manipulation


    8. foisted upon the world by the Church


    9. Then children will divorce their own parents before their parents die just so they will not have the sins of their parents legally and unfairly foisted upon their shoulders


    10. You must remember that Democracy had been foisted upon the Germans after they lost the 1st ww and the King had abdicated

    11. � Parental figures foisted that higher purpose on us, and they do not question or apprehend the meaning perspective from which this higher purpose arises: the maintenance of and our obedience to the dominator model itself


    12. They foisted onto her exactly what she did not want, and denied her the only two things she did want


    13. Scripture, not by falsehoods foisted by human tradition


    14. Consequently, the supposed immediate state of happiness or misery is a farcical deception, foisted upon the credulous public, and perpetuated through a misapprehension of the sacred text


    15. Military officers destitute of military knowledge; naval officers with no idea of a ship; civil officers without a notion of affairs; brazen ecclesiastics, of the worst world worldly, with sensual eyes, loose tongues, and looser lives; all totally unfit for their several callings, all lying horribly in pretending to belong to them, but all nearly or remotely of the order of Monseigneur, and therefore foisted on all public employments from which anything was to be got; these were to be told off by the score and the score


    16. Besides, though taste latterly had deteriorated to a degree, original music like that, different from the conventional rut, would rapidly have a great vogue as it would be a decided novelty for Dublin's musical world after the usual hackneyed run of catchy tenor solos foisted on a confiding public by Ivan St Austell and Hilton St Just and their genus omne


    17. A woman with fingerless gloves approached, and Mercer had foisted a handful of pocket-change on her before he recognized her as his erstwhile colleague, the one with the giant handwriting


    18. "If you think she is to be foisted off on me, you are greatly mistaken," Miss Minchin gasped


    19. And there, as soon as I go in yesterday, the first person I meet is ce petit espion, whom he has foisted on my father


    20. But I know just as surely that the common sense of the Russian nation will not permit this false, artificial system of instruction to be foisted upon it

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