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    vaunted


    1. Sorely lacking in our vaunted State Department under the aegis of Hillary Clinton


    2. Vaunted Sun King of seventeenth century France


    3. That, of course, is in complete accord with the aspirations of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the vaunted „Palestinian Authority," to say nothing of Iran and other radical Middle Eastern states


    4. ruthlessness that had made her so feared by the Unity and so vaunted by Carter and Jackson


    5. Technology wise we used frequency hopping radios in the 1970s already and our locally adapted Kfirs (Cheetah) outflew the much vaunted F15 Strike Eagle on exercises


    6. What is there to lose if you try? Your vaunted pride? If you don’t do it now, there’s every chance we are going to miss the next fireball and that might be our last! Do you want to die here? Use the keystone! Find a way in!”


    7. The men of the vaunted Thorax regiment were still trying to put on their monstrously over-sized armor; they were huge burly men encased in thick sheets of plate metal, almost impervious to arms, even against steam rifles


    8. And what of their vaunted attempts at gaining knowledge, Amonas mused with aggravation


    9. “No need at all! Our God has spoken clearly enough even for Pharaoh! Look at all these self-serving tokens of Pharaoh’s vaunted greatness,” he said, pointing at the many, grandly worded inscriptions


    10. vaunted greatness,” he said, pointing at the many, grandly worded inscriptions

    11. vaunted between the rows of seats in the terminal


    12. “Sadly for man,” said the seer, “the diversity of life won’t lend to encapsulate dharma into a vaunted mantra to grant him moksha


    13. From what Christiane Amanpour had told her in a later exchange of emails, her reports from Tehran had resonated like the ringing of church bells around Washington and the rest of the country, while Israeli officials were said to be livid at this proof that their vaunted air force was far from invincible


    14. How different was your response to that of Benes before Munich? What of Poland’s much vaunted courage; her reputation as the one state never to bow to force majeur?’


    15. By nightfall on June 6th the much vaunted Atlantic Wall had been breached on a front of eighty kilometers


    16. After England joined the ensuing Eighty Years War in support of the Dutch it defeated the vaunted Spanish Armada in a surprising historical military upset


    17. Charles started sweating profusely as he reminded himself that such armored men had reputedly massacred with ease the vaunted Vikings


    18. Sexual Dysfuncion and the clinic vaunted about having a 95% success rate


    19. It was in that confused state of mind that I dusted the much vaunted Bhagvad-Gita for an understanding of life and death in philosophical terms


    20. but now there is artificial irrigation and we have the much vaunted

    21. ' And he told me the story of the boastful man who had vaunted the loftiness of his rooms to a man poorer than himself except in wit; and the poorer man, weary of this talk of ceilings, was goaded at last to relate how in his own house the rooms were so low that the only things he could ever have for meals were flounders; and though I had heard the story before I took care to exhibit a decent mirth in the proper place, ending by laughing with all my heart only to see how the Professor laughed and wiped his eyes


    22. This led to the claims that Hong Kong’s reputation as a world financial centre, carefully built up over the years and repeatedly vaunted, had been seriously tarnished


    23. Their government’s practice of ‘pressing’ any able-bodied poor male into slavery for life: into their vaunted, obscene slave-system of a Navy was just one visible example of how the masses were used by the English aristocracy by calling involuntary slavery by another politically correct term


    24. This is the kind of human filth we all worship today as the seed of our own vaunted Western traditions


    25. This is where our vaunted Western traditions come from


    26. All the buried truths of our vaunted, glorified civilization is so rotten, so stinking with rot: that only carrion flies, only the lowest scavengers, only the lowest inhuman filth flourish in it


    27. In short: our vaunted selective awareness is precisely what prevents us from any true, deeper understanding of anything


    28. As for the roof he vaunted, he might have found _that_ shutting out the sky in a new way--to wit, for ever, from the eyes of the bodies into which its lead was fired, out of the barrels of a hundred thousand muskets


    29. Or the vaunted glory and growth of the great city spread around me? --no; But merely of two simple men I saw to-day on the pier in the midst


    30. Vaunted Ionia's, India's--Homer, Shakspere--the long, long times'

    31. I knew at once that they were speaking of Don Gaspar Gregorio, whose comeliness surpasses the most highly vaunted beauty


    32. It was a subject of regret and absurd as well on the face of it and no small blame to our vaunted society that the man in the street, when the system really needed toning up, for the matter of a couple of paltry pounds was debarred from seeing more of the world they lived in instead of being always and ever cooped up since my old stick-in-the-mud took me for a wife


    33. Will only thought of giving a good pinch that would annihilate that vaunted laboriousness, and was unable to imagine the mode in which Dorothea would be wounded


    34. Being slammed with the knowledge of helplessness had broken her vaunted self-control


    35. To his credit, there wasn’t so much as a hint of recognition in his eyes—only a slight nervousness that was hardly uncommon when faced with the head of the vaunted ISI


    36. Some of the vaunted knights of old were desperate cowards by comparison


    37. Proclamations, in which the wisdom, charity, and magnanimity of Napoleon were vaunted, inviting the inhabitants to return home, and follow their various occupations in peace, produced no effect whatever


    38. We had vaunted of paying off the national debt, of retrenching useless establishments; and yet had now become as infatuated with standing armies, loans, taxes, navies, and war, as ever were the Essex Junto


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