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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Goals: To provide individuals and organizations with an opportunity to speak out and show support for a wall of separation between religion and government, and against erosion of our legal rights on this front.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
THE Haneef inquiry emerged briefly into daylight yesterday to hear the former chief justice Sir Gerard Brennan express concern that security laws are causing’ ’ too great an erosion of our fundamental rights’ ’.
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In the British National Corpus:
This isn’t, like some people have felt, about a religious day and keeping Sunday there for people who want to go to church, but it’s about the principle of a further erosion of workers’ rights and we all know they’ve been eroded far enough already.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Anwar was also party to the erosion of states’ rights, press freedom and the powers of the Malay sultans.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
From foreign policy and? creating healthier? relationships? with other nations, insuring economic priorities that again will assist average Americans, and stopping the erosion of our civil rights, this is more than? just another? election.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
As a Member of Parliament and a citizen of this great country, I am deeply concerned about the erosion of our fundamental rights by these quasi – judicial human rights commissions.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
As someone who takes his laptop everywhere, this is chilling news about the ongoing erosion of our rights :
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
John McCain knows we must empower working families and stand with them against the erosion of our constitutional rights, the corruption of our school systems, the weakening of our families and the taking of human life – born and unborn.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
A vote for McCain equals a further erosion of woman’s rights.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Which seems to me to be a pretty serious erosion of our legal rights.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
These horrific abuses are in conjunction with the admitted erosion of our constitutional rights by the justices of the state behind closed doors in secret ceremonies referred to as’ ’ judicial conferences.”?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
We just wish his notion of’ ’ limited government’ ’ included getting the federal government out of the reproductive decisions of women, arguing against the Supreme Court decision that established the right of privacy, and removing the federal government from a decision on what constitutes marriage and the myriad other ways that he has supported the expansion of federal government authority and activity in our lives, particularly in the erosion of our Constitutional rights in the name of homeland security.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
A vote for McCain equals a further erosion of woman’s rights.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
“For us to ignore these religiously – & racially – targeted crimes against American citizens, would further the erosion of our constitutional rights and freedoms that our military service men and women are told they are protecting,’ ’ continued Ms. Woods.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
We’ve seen enough erosion of our rights under the “Patriot Act!
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
While, I too, am concerned about rising crime here in Wisconsin, I am more concerned about the erosion of our rights as American citizens.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
A vote for McCain equals a further erosion of woman’s rights.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
A vote for McCain means more of our money being funneled to the military industrial complex, more wars, and the continued erosion of our constitutional rights.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
For years, we have told Alberta and industry of our concerns about the erosion of our rights through ever – increasing development and the lack of proper planning for resource development.
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