If we were a genuine republic, one of our leading businessmen would not have dared to obsequiously accept a knighthood from a British monarch. |
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Expecting Herbert all the time, I dared not go out, except when I took Provis for an airing after dark. |
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The workers were frightened out of their wits, they knew that this meant death to whoever had dared to disturb the tomb. |
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He flinched each time she tugged a knot out of his hair, but hardly dared to protest. |
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Rather than do the sensible thing of pocketing it, he drew attention to it and then dared everyone to gob on it. |
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After cutting his beard as close as she dared, she lathered his face and shaved it clean, as she'd often done for her father. |
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Sent to pacify Ionia, after several Ionian repulses, he dared not return to Susa and so departed for his Thracian project. |
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Animal liberationists have dared to question the right of our species to assume that human interests must always prevail. |
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Would those conservatively-dressed women have dared to step out in leopard print shoes had their mentor not worn them? |
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His is a mission of which an Antichrist of old would barely have dared to conceive. |
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On my plate was some melon, sweet and fragrant, and a star-shaped pastry so light and flaky, I hardly dared pick it up. |
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It stuck around even through Margaret Thatcher's reign because nobody dared tinker with it. |
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However, they dared not discuss these romantic attachments with their parents. |
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The only reason she has not been is that her release has been in the hands of politicians, who have not dared take on the tabloids. |
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During the authoritarian era, people dared not speak out about the abuse of power or privilege, no matter how angry they were. |
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Rain fell like so many saltless tears and not a person in the entire city dared to go leave the shelter of their home. |
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Abe, Bart, and Cody stood tall and proud as they dared the Governor or Milton to stared yelling at them. |
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The hills were awash with frost and snow and yet nobody dared wear anything but the clan tartan. |
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Verizon doesn't want to be bested by Qwest, an upstart fiber jockey that once dared to buy a Baby Bell. |
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My companion greatly enjoyed the schnitzel, saying she rarely dared order veal in Bulgaria. |
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Ten years ago, I would have scoffed at anybody who dared to speak such blasphemy. |
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The magazine even dared to say the poncho was suitable for all body shapes, flattering curves and disguising hefty hips. |
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Their bodies were left to sway with the sea breeze in order to serve as a reminder to anyone who dared fight the Spaniards. |
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In one small room a grey-haired jobsworth barked angrily at three tourists who'd dared to point their fingers too close to a minor masterpiece. |
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Some of the more secular trends in humanism dared to defend happiness in the here and now. |
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Tyler spoke in a quiet, menacing voice, his tone threatening anyone who dared defy him. |
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Instead the black-haired woman kept her gaze focused on him, coiled to act if anything dared threaten her. |
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Officers standing on the shore could hear his cries but dared not enter the water because of the dangerous tidal currents. |
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It was only when the entire draft translation was complete that I had dared show it to him. |
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But the British Museum caused a sensation in the early 1800s when it dared display the Elgin Marbles. |
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On one occasion the men dared Daniel T. Potts to charge a buffalo armed only with a tomahawk. |
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Mallory had always wanted a tattoo, but since our mom was so set against them she had never dared. |
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It wasn't until he heard the first mewling cries of his child that he even dared to look up in wonder of that miraculous sound. |
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There had been talk among their generals to bring her here before, but none had dared to touch her. |
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The fearsome, spotted creature was a kitten in his hands and ruthless to anyone else that dared to touch her. |
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It would be cruel, but a pirate who ever dared such trickery and deceit would ask for no better. |
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I simply tossed my long curls over my shoulder and practically dared them to try me. |
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I dared to look at Kelly a few minutes later and saw her giving a triumphant smile. |
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Always eccentric, Dietrich put on trousers, tuxedos and men's suits long before other women dared. |
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The Federal ships blockading the port closed as near as they dared and managed to shoot a cannon ball through the Denbigh's wheelhouse. |
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And if the ultraconservatives who headed his Liberal Democratic Party dared to stand in his way, he pledged, he would take them down, too. |
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If anyone in her neighbourhood dared to question what I was doing there, or why I took photographs, she gave them a mouthful. |
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Peter Jackson undertook what seemed like a fool's errand and dared to film the unfilmable. |
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If he dared score lower in an examination or for some reason had a slip in his grades, Kevin had to face the comparison risk. |
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She relived her experience in her sleep every time she dared to slumber, and her nights were becoming progressively worse. |
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I barely dared hope for half-way decent clothes boutiques, music stores and fast food joints. |
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Society had a very conservative outlook on clothing, and anyone who dared to wear snazzy dresses was looked down with contempt. |
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He fought tooth and nail for the bracero system as no Republican governor of an agricultural state dared to do. |
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A single striker was aided by breaks from the wide players whenever they dared. |
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They once again set out to explore the vastness of outer space, going further than any other humans have dared go. |
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It was a beautiful dream, a path to digital nirvana we had all hoped for but never dared to expect. |
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It was verboten to interrupt Johnny, and you wouldn't have dared anyway, just from the tension that surrounded him. |
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Since then, no party has dared to get involved in family planning work, considering it politically suicidal. |
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A woman who dared defy this tradition was despised by her family for staining the reputation of her in-laws. |
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And when a reporter dared ask what the new newsroom efficiency committee was all about, it was as if a cat had coughed a hairball out on the rug. |
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The American ship stood in as close to the shoals as she dared and then fired a shot across the steamer's bow. |
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Rolling left to lie prone, I shoved the rifle stock to my shoulder and dared to reconnoiter by peeping over a twisted root. |
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This is the voice of Eamon's sister who dared to speak about the ordeal of her younger brother. |
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What would happen to any politician who dared to confess that he or she hated pop music and liked listening to Mozart's string quartets? |
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I was the last person on earth that anyone dared to sit beside, only because I had been outcasted from the school population. |
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One reason that no one ever discovered their hideout was because no one ever dared to stray too far into the forest. |
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With a sneer she finished and straightened up, adopting an air that dared me to challenge her. |
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Luna could feel a presence around Tiamat that dared people to challenge her. |
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Deadly with a rifle and lightening fast on the draw with a pistol, few dared challenge him. |
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The management of this chic Fifth Avenue fashion store had dared to rearrange the artist's installation. |
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In the panic and rush to establish bona fides, no one even dared to suggest that the public might be better off knowing about such matters. |
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Four of them had never been in Thailand before, but they all like the place and they even dared to taste the hot Thai food. |
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Some cynics even dared to advance the theory that parsimony on the behalf of the home management had stayed their fingers on the on-off switch. |
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Someone dared to broach the subject of seasickness at the breakfast table, and a few pasty faces glowered at the culprit. |
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Stories of athletes who've dared to come out of the closet will also be featured. |
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He dared to sneak a quick peek at the judge and saw that there were tears in her eyes. |
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The fog burned away as the morning drew on, and Bahzell's heart rose as his ill-assorted party moved more briskly than he'd dared hope. |
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Laurent Joubert directed his wrath against those who dared to trespass into the realms of medicine, despite an ignorance of physic. |
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It favours those who have never made a mistake, or never dared to challenge their indoctrinators. |
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Officers at the prison murdered him because he dared to complain about the inhuman conditions and the poor quality of food. |
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He enslaved the Congolese in their homeland, subjecting them to forced labor, and meting out inhuman treatment on those who dared defy him. |
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Who of us has dared venture close enough to feel the air convect in our ears? |
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With the increased risk of being caught, people no longer dared either to cop a free ride or to carry a weapon. |
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It was, as Freedom of Information documents revealed, solely because he dared to publish this book. |
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Ken arrived at the front door, which had always denied his presence and flung him back forcefully if he dared touch it. |
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Just over a year ago, few would have dared to float a retail business in Hong Kong. |
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Layers of dust covered its surface as if no one had dared look at their reflection in it in a very long time. |
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Now that he had free range over his powers to do whatever he wanted with them, the men dared not cross him. |
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After suing anyone who dared to cross him, Douglas was finally imprisoned himself for libeling Winston Churchill. |
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Jade the Heartless showed no mercy to any cur of a man who dared to cross her path. |
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She fumbled with her keys, blinking to keep her eyes clear of the fogginess that had dared to creep upon her. |
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He had a hot temper and a weekly column in which he could publicly tear to shreds anyone who dared gainsay him or meddle with his works. |
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So far, nobody has dared to suggest that European politicians could be the culprits. |
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As only God was considered to be perfect, nobody dared to throw the first stone. |
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Nobody in his country dared to befriend him because of his important status. |
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It was a rainy, bleak, and dark midsummer night, when nobody dared even to step through the door. |
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But nobody had dared to link the Prime Minister with what was being done in his name. |
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Redfern said he doubted the law would be overturned and dared anyone to challenge it. |
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Her dance instructor was one of the few who dared the wrath of the king, and spoke to the young girl, whom he pitied. |
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His wood brown hair was gelled into spikes as usual and not a hair dared to venture out of place. |
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None of his generals dared order reinforcements without his permission, and no-one dared wake him. |
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These traps were laid to snare the bare feet of any poor poacher who dared to trespass and steal the landed gentry's game of fish. |
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Then she's at a public hearing, decrying the woman who dared to take her husband to task for sexually abusing their daughters. |
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She dared me to go for some red lipstick, so I smoothed some chapstick on, then glided the blood-red stuff onto my lips. |
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Nobody in power dared a debate on the merits and demerits of computerisation in a vast country with millions and millions of unemployed youth. |
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It said his name in a mocking way, provoking him to an anger that he dared not express in front of such a fiend. |
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And I never dared to ask my parents or teacher for fear of being termed mentally deranged. |
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He rubbed at his neck, the pulled muscle had caused him agony all night but he hadn't dared to show it. |
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There was ne'er a gossoon in the village dared tread on the tail of my coat. |
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The ground was mostly barren with just short grass, where no vegetation dared to grow. |
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But in the end, it was an eventful journey for all those who dared to participate. |
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And that because our airport authorities dared to insist that he pay additional charges for excess baggage. |
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Anytime he asked somebody not to eat or make order, that body dared not move near a cooking place talkless of taking food. |
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I can't imagine how they dared break the rules, with all those regulatory whackers waiting to pounce. |
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The journalists dared not transmit anything for which they might be called to account later. |
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Numair applied all of the salve for the bleeding that he dared, but Kefari's blood all but refused to fully clot. |
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Although its taste is barely acceptable these meager rations were all the station dared supply. |
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Words I would never have dared to say to my father before, whenever he annoyed or aggravated me. |
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He dared to be honest and have integrity and do what a real journalist is supposed to do. |
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It was an ability that made those who hadn't dared to try think themselves accursed, holding their manhoods cheap. |
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I told myself that skydiving or mountain climbing were within my realm, but in truth, I never dared to take even a step toward that world of adventure. |
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He subsequently asked a reporter to accompany him as he dared to share his story with the police for the first time. |
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His sister and Charlie were still on their honeymoon, and he very much doubted that Leanne would be much of a comfort if she dared to come at all. |
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He could not bear to think that a young man dared to stand up to him. |
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While not completely immune to the rightward pull of his party, Graham has dared stick his nose outside the Republican tent. |
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Like children at a funfair, we are dared to continue to ride. |
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Grandpa would, in essence, teach me to be afraid, to understand the humiliation that awaited me if I dared shed tears or demonstrate some other unmanly behavior. |
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Jonathon's tepid gaze defied her, dared her to lose her temper. |
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Skewered on a pikestaff high above the city, the silenced heads spoke eloquently of the fate awaiting those who dared plot against rulers of city and country. |
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There were no doubters in the prisons and gulags, where dissidents spread the news, tapping to each other in code what the American President had dared to say. |
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Nobody dared speculate yesterday as to what that margin might be. |
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None of these officials has dared to contradict Carter on this. |
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And with the dogs of war in full cry, no politicians in their right mind dared come out in favor of allowing tax dodgers to stick their hands in Uncle Sam's pockets. |
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While imperfectionists affirm, that such language is in the scriptures, applied to persons imperfectly sanctified, they have never applied or dared to apply such language to such individuals. |
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Supporters of conspiracy peddler Alex Jones are FURIOUS that I dared to note his dismissal of the Apollo 11 mission. |
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In short, Bianca Del Rio is exemplifying what only one show has dared to ask of its contestants. |
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Everybody knew what the answer was, but nobody dared to speak up first. |
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Two ambulances had appeared from somewhere behind the tanks and were bumping and bucking as fast as their drivers dared take them across the broken ground. |
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Although they enthusiastically supported the party's general programme, the bolder among them dared to point out the gap between ideals and actualities. |
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Those that dared to complain were punished with bad shifts, demoted, or even fired. |
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With very few exceptions the patriots of this country are all timid adventurers led by ambitious intriguers, avid speculators who never dared to take up arms in our favour. |
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France may have crashed dramatically at the 2002 World Cup but, going into the competition, we would not have dared compare our players pound for pound. |
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Keeping her head penitently bowed, Allie murmured silent good byes to all she could remember in the heat, while tears dared to brink her dark lashes. |
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No one in the audience bothered, or dared, to challenge him. |
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But this rather ignores the deterioration of law and order and stories of torture and beatings suffered by those that dared to protest during matches. |
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Uber recently threatened to use the personal data of a tech journalist to destroy her because she dared criticize them. |
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He had never dared to tell her his love, but he composed many songs, rounds, and virelays about the agonies of one who adores and is not loved in return. |
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If you dared touch her you are as good as dead and that is by my law! |
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She is another A-Lister who dared to put scissors to their locks of hair. |
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Her voice was laced with as much bitter anger as she dared use. |
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He had not written, but had dared to print, a seditious pamphlet which justified the right of rebellion against the king. |
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With that in mind, I have shot from the hip and dared people to respond. |
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Flames licked out, consuming the spiritualists who dared to challenge God. |
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They dared to point out the fact that the emperor, Mahmoud Abbas, has been running all over ramallah without clothes. |
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You have dared to imprint us with your own image knowing that we are only human, inviting us to be fully human by revealing your presence in us to everyone we meet. |
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Brigid herself was the only one who dared to cross this woman. |
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The early part of the 1990s, when monarchism dared not speak its name and supporters of the Crown felt as though they were a beleaguered minority, seems like a bygone age. |
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There was only one thing that it was truly concerned for and that was to kill and to destroy any individual that dared to come against his liege, the Dark Master. |
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He was an actor who dared to tread the boards at the York Theatre Royal in the 18th century, when it was known to host one of the most raucous and truculent audiences around. |
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In any case no-one would have dared to go anywhere near Princess Esther. |
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She'd just watched her mother die of pneumonia and her father was trapped inside a caved in mine and no one dared risk their lives to pull him out. |
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He dared reporters to chase him when he was rumored to be frolicking with a paid party girl, Donna Rice. |
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Look how the channel has blackballed artists who dared to speak in opposition to the war, while also organizing pro-war rallies across the country. |
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Nobody wanted to go up against that inner circle, and few in the government dared. |
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No one dared ask about the circumstances leading to his sacking. |
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Only a slight, chill wind dared to slip among the crumbling buildings. |
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His memoirs were his posthumous revenge on enemies he dared not take on alive. |
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Under the first 358 shareholders, there were many small entrepreneurs, who dared to take the risk. |
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From then on the people of Ye never again dared speak of the River God taking a wife. |
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No one would ever have dared do that with Big Pun or biggie. |
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But pardon, gentles all, The flat unraised spirits that hath dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object. |
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Reading my assignment wrong, however, I thought I was going to National Philanderers Day and was eager to see who dared to show up. |
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Yet, bad as that was, nobody in the Kremlin dared to criticize the nashi. |
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Instead of delving into the writer's well-shrouded personal existence, Reed dared to occasionally revise and reinterpret Poe's works. |
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The history of wikied novels isn't pretty, and no one has dared wiki a jazz song. |
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None of the students dared to talk back to the crotchety old teacher. |
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How can anyone imagine that the fathers would have dared to affront the wife of Aurelius? |
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No admiral, bearded by three corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial. |
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What fifty men dared not have done, one woman did! a painted, patched, fucused, periwigged, bolstered, Charybdis, cannibal, Megaera, Lamia! |
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Una stood with a hulking man pressing as close to her side as he dared, and a dapper clerkling squeezed against her breast. |
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I had been double dog dared. Maybe if Edward had just dared me, I could have chickened out. Now, there was no turning back. |
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You grew up under dictators who would have put people to the sword if they dared hand them their hats and invite them to buzz off. |
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The rather loose-handed ways in which Wilson presented his history and the generalizations he dared to make are also visible in later years. |
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The Doctor belonged to a set of critics for whose applause I had not dared to hope. |
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They knew that my lord of Arundel had grown so orgulous that he had lately dared to marry the Earl of March's sister, without license. |
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The crusty old professor was overlord of the history department, and few dared to cross his will. |
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This served as a lesson to the rest of the confederacy of the fate in store for those who dared to stand against Rome. |
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Following the crackdown, no one in the country dared to defy the king and John saw no further conspiracies during his reign. |
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As voting was by show of hands at a single polling station at a single time, none dared to vote contrary to the instructions of the patron. |
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The Government dared not hire men to care for its 50,000 head for fear of being accused of strikebreaking. |
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Not only did he gleefully garotte anyone who dared get in the way of his grubby little operation, he even killed The Elephant Man. |
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Although everyone was aware of this irrational practice which demotivated actors and cultivated complacency, nobody dared touch it. |
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Which is why no carpet bagger has so far dared stick his head over the parapet. |
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One of the Ch 4 twats was gobsmacked recently that an owner had dared to step up on the podium for his prize without. |
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Walpole agreed to withdraw the bill before Parliament voted on it, but he dismissed the politicians who had dared to oppose it in the first place. |
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This was not that he had a bad command of captains but rather that British mastery of the seas was so complete that few enemy ships dared to sail. |
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That day Arya quickened their pace, keeping the horses to a trot as long as she dared, and sometimes spurring to a gallop when she spied a flat stretch of field before them. |
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I was worried the supply teacher would be some grumpy-pants who liked sending kids out of the room if they dared to interrupt while they were speaking. |
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He then dared me to write a script that I thought should be banned. |
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Casper Van Dien boldly goes where Star Trek never dared in the original bug-eyed sci-fi satire from director Paul Verhoeven, on tip-top RoboCop form. |
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He dared to rebutter his bread with the original flavor of his stoicism, the western, but has once again left such films behind to die and has moved on. |
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While nearly as dangerous and deadly as becoming a pirate, colonialism in the Americas offered those who dared, a chance at changing their socioeconomic place. |
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The consul Quintus Lutatius Catulus had not dared to fortify the passes, but instead he had retreated behind the River Po, and so the land was open to the invaders. |
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She dared not raise her eyes above the level of the tea-table, and she almost expected to see a spot of accusing vulpine blood drip down and stain the whiteness of the cloth. |
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Modi, who was speaking at a function organized here for the youth, said he dared to say so even though his image as a Hindutva leader did not allow him. |
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He probably felt more than he dared acknowledge, even to himself. |
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These are the pioneers of the suppressed and scorned Americans who dared to oppose the relentless bichromatism that entrapped white and black Americans alike. |
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If only he had dared to photobomb US Vogue editor and Ball host Anna Wintour like he did U2 at the Oscars, he would have been the hero of the night. |
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And men are leading the way in the exhibitionist stakes with one in five having sunbathed starkers while just 11 per cent of women have dared to bare all on the beach. |
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France had no infantry that dared to face the English bows and bills. |
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Vaughan Williams had no wish to follow in the traditions of Stanford's idols, Brahms and Wagner, and he stood up to his teacher as few students dared to do. |
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Pacheco is professor emerita of history at George Mason University, author of The Legacy of George Mason and co-author of Three Who Dared. |
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Bright, radiant, glad eyed, clean souled seraphim, Whose genius would at once from heaven bethrust, Dared they to purity unfaithful prove. |
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