| The first public announcements from our new alien overlords were supposed to have already occurred. |
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| That's supposedly the day that you colonial types won your freedom from us cruel European overlords. |
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| Average Americans may yet roar loud enough to take back the power from their corporate overlords. |
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| Forgive me if in the 21st century I don't want to be celebrating our former feudal overlords. |
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| Fortunately, reason prevailed, the feudal overlords decamped, and no-one was killed. |
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| This is exactly how evil overlords laugh and I know how to spell it due to my illustrious television writing career. |
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| I'm so stoked to hear that government agencies are spying on us for our corporate overlords! |
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| Most of the possible moderate candidates were ruled out early, vetoed by the country's religious overlords. |
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| He traced the origins of the Order in Ireland back to their arrival with their Anglo-Norman overlords and patrons in the twelfth century. |
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| Let the toiling masses on both sides make common cause against their avaricious overlords. |
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| Last week by one of those strange political dispensations we accept from Cabinet overlords, he granted another million euro plus grant to his native constituency. |
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| If only Charlton Heston had been there to shriek something about overthrowing our ape overlords. |
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| Republican forces of liberation rose up in March 1848 against their Austrian overlords and held the city for over a year before it was reconquered after a bitter siege. |
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| It's a real-life cat haven, where dogs are reportedly banned from entering and monuments to the feline overlords are plentiful. |
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| They have gone from being lippy underdogs to tubby overlords in less than a decade and are now part of the establishment to which they once posed a potent challenge. |
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| Other conservative groups claim to have faced the threat of shutdown from the Facebook overlords, too. |
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| The internet didn't just smash industries and supplant human jobs with our new server overlords. |
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| But it was first and foremost an attempt to wake up America from the torpor of the daily grind under its meritocratic overlords. |
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| Vast tracts were unpopulated, roads were extensive, but easy for brigands or local overlords to cut or tax, and often impassable in the wet season. |
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| Regret about the abolition of droit de seigneur and the right of feudal overlords to flog peasants may be comic, but it is hardly an interesting political philosophy. |
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| Some of these arrangements may represent colonial impositions, others the continuation or adaptation of tributes and services owed to pre-conquest overlords. |
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| These peasants were often subject to noble overlords and owed them rents and other services, in a system known as manorialism. |
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| In 1294 the castle was damaged during the uprising against the Norman overlords, led by Madog ap Llywelyn, and again in 1316 by Llywelyn Bren. |
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| During the negotiations, a Hun in service of the Romans named Chelchel persuaded the enemy Goths to attack their Hun overlords. |
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| On 8 October they were attacked by about 1,000 local people, who, being defeated, appealed to their Manchu overlords. |
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| Some of the Germani who Caesar mentions did stay in Gaul under its new Roman overlords. |
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| Ever since our benevolent overlords, the Japanese, began to panic everything has been all turned around. |
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| There was initially much hostility between these Norwegian settlers and their new Danish overlords. |
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| Pannonian Croat duke Vojnomir of Pannonian Croatia aided Charlemagne, and the Franks made themselves overlords over the Croats of northern Dalmatia, Slavonia and Pannonia. |
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| But those socialist overlords are only interested in flimflamming them into keeping them in the positions of power for which they so capaciously slaver. |
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| Although Penda does not appear in Bede's list of great overlords it would appear from what Bede says elsewhere that he was dominant over the southern kingdoms. |
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| Again there was fighting and the natives called in their Manchu overlords. |
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| Kings of Essex were frequently subservient to foreign overlords. |
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| There is evidence that the Saxons, as well as Slavic tributaries such as the Abodrites and the Wends, often provided troops to their Carolingian overlords. |
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| Many of the overlords enjoyed their powers for a relatively short period. |
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| They are often being beaten over the head, berated into submission, absurdly dehumanized by senseless and mean corporate-style overlords, most of them barely literate. |
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| Control of castles allowed the nobles to defy kings or other overlords. |
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| Nonetheless, surviving manuscripts of Cyfraith Hywel recognize the importance of the lords of Aberffraw as overlords of Wales along with the rulers of Deheubarth. |
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