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  • According to the current rumors, the Akron AWOL took on an entire legion of Juvey-cops, outsmarted the national guard, and liberated half a dozen harvest camps.†   (source)
  • He wasn't in the mood to turn somersaults, though he couldn't deny experiencing a sense of liberation.†   (source)
  • He didn't know what to do with the liberated words.†   (source)
  • Michel and Christiane were journalists working for Liberation, a left-leaning newspaper.†   (source)
  • Ye noticed a copy of Peter Singer's Animal Liberation.†   (source)
  • After this, forensic network investigators in China were able to unravel a chain of events that included a splinter group of their own Peoples' Liberation Army unleashing a cyberattack on the US.†   (source)
  • Then slipping the serving fork between the fish's spine and its flesh, she deftly liberated the filet.†   (source)
  • Perhaps liberation is coming.†   (source)
  • They spent many hours talking together about the changing world and the dawning of independence and liberation movements across the African Diaspora.†   (source)
  • The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.†   (source)
  • I have been praying all night for liberation.†   (source)
  • It felt liberating to have money that was mine.†   (source)
  • John's education had led not to liberation and progress but to violence and tragedy.†   (source)
  • What are we now, then, the House-Elf Liberation Front?†   (source)
  • There was no direction to my liberation.†   (source)
  • They adopted many of the techniques that Mohandas Gandhi had used to liberate India from British rule.†   (source)
  • I find it liberating.†   (source)
  • I played out the nightmare over and over in my mind—the last day, the last hour, the last minute, liberation so close, then my luck would run out.†   (source)
  • I had heard from adults that this was a revolutionary war, a liberation of the people from corrupt government.†   (source)
  • Cherbourg has been liberated, Caen liberated, Rennes too.†   (source)
  • He grew up on Close Encounters and E. T. and Star Trek and totally bought into the idea that the Others had come to liberate us from ourselves.†   (source)
  • The Tunisian campaign became "Leper's liberation"; the bombing of the Ruhr was greeted by Brinker with hurt surprise: "He didn't tell us he'd left the ski troops"; the torpedoing of the Scharnhorst: "At it again."†   (source)
  • One of the heroes admired by all, who helped Chairman Mao liberate China from oppression and defeated the Americans in Korea.†   (source)
  • At university, where Robbie discovered that he was cleverer than many of the people he met, his liberation was complete.†   (source)
  • I thought at first they were just another crazy Animal Liberation org.†   (source)
  • And I happen to have a machine whose sole purpose is liberating oxygen from CO2.†   (source)
  • Each year Tita prepared it in tribute to her sister's liberation and she always took special care in arranging the garnish.†   (source)
  • That is an extraordinarily liberating example.†   (source)
  • He capered toward Bill, and the mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness.†   (source)
  • "We prayed for liberation," I said.†   (source)
  • When the camp had been liberated in 1945, Gitl weighed only seventy-three pounds because she had insisted on sharing her rations with the children.†   (source)
  • As for Seymour, well, Mr. D liberated him from a Long Island garage sale.†   (source)
  • Part I. The absurd does not liberate; it binds. — ALBERT CAMUS†   (source)
  • On the table in front of me, open to the first page, was a copy of a book about animal rights called Animal Liberation.†   (source)
  • I'm almost as afraid of liberation as I am of anything else.†   (source)
  • Ironic for someone in the Mud People Possession Liberation business.†   (source)
  • "Well," said Mr. Fyde, "the vinegar acts as a liberating agent, which releases the gaseous carbonate radical element of the sodium bicarbo —"†   (source)
  • We thought eventually they'd get around to "liberating" us too.†   (source)
  • His lips started to form a word that would free the slave, and his arm, newly liberated from the splint, rose.†   (source)
  • The country had been liberated from Saddam Hussein and his army with the fall of Baghdad on April 9 of that year.†   (source)
  • Public buildings, statues, monuments, even trees, met the evening in their original bland colors and reemerged the next morning painted in the sparkling "liberation colors" of red, black, and green.†   (source)
  • We also watched Methuselah, who after four months of liberation still hung around our house mumbling.†   (source)
  • When Auschwitz was liberated in January 1945, George Brady was seventeen years old.†   (source)
  • Although perilously exposed, we assumed that the rocky cornice which had defied gravity for millions of years would last a few more hours as we bathed, relaxed, shouted echoing hallos until we were hoarse, and generally acted like children liberated from school.†   (source)
  • When teachers came to Briarcrest from the public schools, they often felt liberated, and took great pleasure in advertising their Christian faith.†   (source)
  • I had been in Baghdad just one day when President Bush declared Saddam Hussein and his Ba'ath Party had fallen, and my colleagues swiftly captured, that same day, Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Front, which attacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean in 1985.†   (source)
  • Will summer be warm and rich and liberating or hot and dusty and stifling?†   (source)
  • She was liberated from bad behavior.†   (source)
  • Maybe we would still be in Holland when liberation came.†   (source)
  • A war of national liberation or simple aggression?†   (source)
  • Can't you imagine how liberating it is for a pit builterrier to be capable of running seven hundred miles an hour?†   (source)
  • Less than ten years after the liberation of Dora-Nordhausen, von Braun was giving orders to Disney animators and designing a ride at Disneyland called Rocket to the Moon.†   (source)
  • I was driving to the West Coast to celebrate my liberation from a state of whoredom.†   (source)
  • In East L.A., a group calling itself the Chicano Liberation Front had allegedly planted bombs in power stations and government buildings.†   (source)
  • It is liberating suppress ed material.†   (source)
  • I'm a liberated woman, Jess Aarons.†   (source)
  • Spring had finally come, and now there could be no doubt that the Allies, who had spent the winter making suitable preparations, would attack Germany simultaneously from France, Belgium and Holland, break through the Siegfried Line, take the Saarland, Bavaria and northern Germany, conquer Berlin, and liberate Warsaw that summer at the latest.†   (source)
  • You look over at the next player and say, 'Wow— Napoleon Bonaparte was the original inspiration for Beethoven's Third Symphony, but as legend has it, the composer's opinion of the man changed when he saw the liberator become a tyrant.†   (source)
  • Liberating.†   (source)
  • Liberated bodies, breathing freely, showed themselves for what they were.†   (source)
  • "The chairs are liberated but quite safe," Hawat said.†   (source)
  • You've been liberated …. and we have no plans this weekend, as you refuse to go to the prom with me.†   (source)
  • The freedom was liberating, but the house seemed cavernous and empty, even with the kids bouncing off the walls.†   (source)
  • He had the time and the clarity about suffering to embark on the upward path of liberation, which would take him many lives to follow.†   (source)
  • So philosophy gradually liberated itself from religion.†   (source)
  • But liberated from claustrophobic closeness by day, exploring apart, they converged with more warmth at night, even if sometimes this warmth felt like that between relatives rather than between lovers.†   (source)
  • Fidel, his brother Raul, and Ernesto they call Che had entered Havana and liberated the country.†   (source)
  • He also did some reading about the branch of Catholicism called liberation theology, which Romero had been murdered for preaching.†   (source)
  • People who are mentally ill would regard death as a form of liberation, wouldn't they?†   (source)
  • Watching Papa bounce and weave and shout in front of me, I was almost ready to laugh with him, with the first bubbly sense of liberation his defiant craziness had brought along with it.†   (source)
  • It wasn't much—an eleven-year-old Toyota Corolla with more than a hundred thousand miles on the engine, a dent in the rear door, and more than a few scrapes—but for Sophia, who'd grown up walking or riding the bus everywhere, it was liberating to be able to come and go as she pleased.†   (source)
  • But Evelyn hasn't liberated us like she thinks—she's just made us all factionless.†   (source)
  • And, since this was the Village—the place of liberation—Rufus guessed, from the swift, nearly sheepish glance the man gave them as they passed, that he had decided that Rufus and Leona formed the couple.†   (source)
  • I spoke and echoed his sentiments: clearly, the repression of any one liberation group was repression against all liberation groups.†   (source)
  • "We didn't find out he was dead until after the liberation.†   (source)
  • With liberation just a few minutes away, everyone is smiling.†   (source)
  • Kacanik was one of many towns in southern Kosovo that became battlegrounds in the 1990s in the struggle between the Serb-dominated Yugoslav army of Slobodan Milosevic, which was trying to assert Serbian control over the mostly Albanian-inhabited region, and the Kosovo Liberation Army, the ethnically Albanian militia that was fighting for independence against Milosevic's iron rule.†   (source)
  • But he didn't know that Doro, in what she called a joyful liberation from the past, had given Caroline the deed to this old house.†   (source)
  • It's how you can be sure that the world's most liberated women are not liberated at all.†   (source)
  • It was a Wednesday, only an hour before Liam and the others were meeting to discuss a new camp liberation strategy, before Clancy was finally ready to see me.†   (source)
  • It was incredibly liberating to instead tackle the trick of making each day fly more quickly.†   (source)
  • But Marko wanted to earn whatever he received on his own merits, not to be remembered as an appendage of the "liberator" of Lithuania.†   (source)
  • But even though most of mewas a new, liberated Pattyn, traces of the old, conservative Pattyn lingered, hard to shake off.†   (source)
  • Zainab spoke of how betrayed she had felt when her supposedly liberated mother rushed her into an ultimately abusive marriage with an older man she barely knew.†   (source)
  • Aidid received help from al Qaeda and the Palestine Liberation Organization.†   (source)
  • With effort, I manage to liberate myself from the tight corset.†   (source)
  • Larry experienced the same liberating freedom from his own debilitating guilt and failure as a father.†   (source)
  • Now there were only a few People's Liberation Army guards andsome old cargo planes left.†   (source)
  • It became the territorial jewel that the Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) fighters they branded terrorists could not be allowed to wrest from India's crown.†   (source)
  • But if the future did not arrive, the present did extend itself, and the uncomfortable little boy in the Packard went to school and at twelve met the boy who not only could liberate him, but could take him to the woman who had as much to do with his future as she had his past.†   (source)
  • Some troops in World War II will have the honor of liberating Paris, others Manila.†   (source)
  • Before we declare our consent we must carefully examine-- Liberation is just the means of attaining freedom; it's not synonymous with it!†   (source)
  • Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.†   (source)
  • Only in 1951, when Mao Zedong's armies finally liberated jiangyong County, did the practice end in the nu shu region.†   (source)
  • Which felt kind of liberating, even if I had to analyze Jem and Scout's relationship for fifty minutes without having read the chapter.†   (source)
  • Think about fetishism, and all its amazing possibilities to liberate the psyche.†   (source)
  • It's an intrepid act-maybe his first since arriving here— that, somehow, seems to liberate him.†   (source)
  • He considered music a liberating force: it liberated him from loneliness, introversion, the dust of the library; it opened the door of his body and allowed his soul to step out into the world to make friends.†   (source)
  • Liberating, I wrote down.†   (source)
  • When, a few years later, the Emperor annexed the land, the Eritreans at once began a guerrilla war for their liberation.†   (source)
  • Liberate yourself from my viselike grip.†   (source)
  • Mammary Liberation Day!†   (source)
  • The bodhisattva in Buddhism promises to wait for liberation until all who suffer have been freed.†   (source)
  • Our objective here is to liberate Qurong's daughter.†   (source)
  • This was liberating for him.†   (source)
  • James Otis, in his famous speech on writs of assistance in 1761, had called for the immediate liberation of the slaves.†   (source)
  • Liberated and able to talk, she found herself at the telephone with the receiver in her hand.†   (source)
  • The Seabees who lived at the compound were firing up the grill to cook steaks and lobster tail they had liberated from the chow hall.†   (source)
  • For me, reading has always been a path toward liberation and fulfillment.†   (source)
  • She had finally liberated them from the folder she had taken from the Consul's office.†   (source)
  • My liberation has weakened this outsider, but he is still lurking about—unaccounted for and still possessing the Book.†   (source)
  • The noble Hizdahr is of the blood of Mazdhan the Magnificent, Hazrak the Handsome, and Zharaq the Liberator.†   (source)
  • The experimental Liberator bomber in which he is flying explodes over England on August 12, 1944.†   (source)
  • We did not know whether we'd live to see the liberation of the world or whether we'd have to leave our battle and our secret to the next generations.†   (source)
  • Lazily, she ran a finger along the back of his hand, making him wonder why any man would object to the benefits of women's liberation.†   (source)
  • She unbuttoned her raincoat, then flung it open with sudden violence, sudden liberation.†   (source)
  • His four sisters and my recently liberated grandmother got into a loud argument over whether to pay the men two or three rupees to carry the coffin up the steep slopes to the cemetery.†   (source)
  • The captain put to sea, but two days out of Lomboko a British cruiser on slave patrol overtook his ship and liberated all aboard.†   (source)
  • There is a mutualism that at its ideal is both powerful and liberating.†   (source)
  • He is said to be linked with the Japanese Red Army, the Organization for the Armed Arab Struggle, the West German Baader-Meinhof gang, the Quebec Liberation Front, the Turkish Popular Liberation Front, separatists in France and Spain, and the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army.†   (source)
  • The gracious one has ushered me to this spot because my destiny is to invigorate the armies and liberate the world from common rabbits and scrugs.†   (source)
  • The time has come to march through this nest of vipers with fire and sword, to liberate every slave.†   (source)
  • In Boston, on January r, 1831, William Lloyd Garrison published the first issue of his antislavery newspaper, The Liberator.†   (source)
  • It feels so liberating that I suddenly feel like running around the store.†   (source)
  • I'm a liberated woman now, and I want Adam for a friend-friend, not a boyfriend.†   (source)
  • We liberated some Pennsylvania whisky; aint much left.†   (source)
  • She never could understand why I could not ("Since you know all about such things, Manuel dear") steal phone service as easily as we liberated power.†   (source)
  • The liberation of Jerusalem, he said, was high on his agenda.†   (source)
  • And so, no doubt, he would have, had not the Communists liberated Manchuria in the fall.†   (source)
  • I remember, for example, shocking myself with a thought I had about that friend who was imprisoned in the seventies upon suspicion of having been involved with a political murder: I shocked myself by thinking that even if he were guilty, he might still perhaps be helping the future to be born, breaking the repressive forms and liberating new potential in the only way that worked, that is to say the violent way - which therefore became, by extension, the right way.†   (source)
  • Nobody told us that the Revolution (the Liberation) was against girl slavery and girl infanticide (a village-wide party if it's a boy).†   (source)
  • He might've been amused with a place that was yet to feel the trickle-down effects of such notions as civil rights, evolution, and women's liberation, but I was not.†   (source)
  • A sense of exultant liberation flooded through me.†   (source)
  • "The Allied liberators," he reminisced, "arrived, unfortunately, before we could gather enough data.†   (source)
  • And that was a whole year and a half after the Russians liberated that camp she was in.†   (source)
  • It was headlined "The Ancestors Shriek," and was issued by something called the Liberation Army.†   (source)
  • In the hypothetical usual case he feels a certain trifling longing for experience with women he is not married to--because a wife is a great responsibility, and that very sense of liberation, escape from parents, norms, old chains, which made sex an adventure when he married his wife, has become for him now a jailhouse.†   (source)
  • But now, his liberated eyes stayed on this side, he saw and became aware of the visible, sought to be at home in this world, did not search for the true essence, did not aim at a world beyond.†   (source)
  • "One who teaches the way of liberation," he replied.†   (source)
  • This was even more important than to liberate himself.†   (source)
  • My father didn't tell me until the Allies had liberated Paris, but by then I already knew.†   (source)
  • The Oracle must be liberated from the monster Python.†   (source)
  • The most distilled possible form of liberation.†   (source)
  • Let's hope they will run off and let the Russians liberate the camp.†   (source)
  • Liberated from censorship and the need to be inventive, they proceeded cautiously.†   (source)
  • I untied the power line, liberated the drill bit, and returned to the rover.†   (source)
  • I will give every drop of blood in my body to work to liberate all of mankind.†   (source)
  • All the streets liberated in the uprising are being destroyed by fire.†   (source)
  • To Paul it was the most liberating sound he had ever heard.†   (source)
  • You have no idea how liberating it is to be rid of all that mumbo-jumbo.†   (source)
  • Are you saying, sir, that there will be no effort to liberate the rest of Holland?†   (source)
  • Only now did Zeitoun know liberation, and it was everything.†   (source)
  • But me, I burned my apodesmos and got liberated.†   (source)
  • But what kind of liberation movement shoots innocent civilians, children, that little girl?†   (source)
  • Early in 1945, we knew that the Soviet army had liberated Auschwitz and Krakow.†   (source)
  • Or else she slept through the last hours of the war and the city has been liberated.†   (source)
  • This one night would, like, liberate you.†   (source)
  • We imagined them liberating Angola and marching right on up the Congo River to vaccinate us all!†   (source)
  • The Marxist analysis, which liberation theology borrowed, seemed to him undeniably accurate.†   (source)
  • Might the invaders liberate me from this nightmare?†   (source)
  • Mercy is most empowering, liberating, and transformative when it is directed at the undeserving.†   (source)
  • The Marines were flooding up the road, marching north to liberate the country from Saddam Hussein.†   (source)
  • It's this sort of nonsense we must liberate ourselves from.†   (source)
  • They understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought.†   (source)
  • Along with Hermes and that other groovy liberated chick ….†   (source)
  • You belong to a liberated generation; you believe in freedom of information.†   (source)
  • But before Liberation my father used to be an apprentice.†   (source)
  • The teachings of Jesus therefore represented a liberation from the orthodoxy of Judaism.†   (source)
  • There's just one catch: Liberating hydrogen from hydrazine is …. well …. it's how rockets work.†   (source)
  • He was already attracted to liberation theology.†   (source)
  • But what we are now thinking about is the liberation of Europe.†   (source)
  • "I know you must be wondering about the Liberation Army soldier," she said.†   (source)
  • I had liberated the sides of the rover and the trailer.†   (source)
  • "It's an ology, after all," he had written to me about liberation theology.†   (source)
  • I can see no point in dead people being liberated.†   (source)
  • I liberated a spare water hose from the water reclaimer.†   (source)
  • Let me lift your leg," the Liberation Army woman said in her gentle voice.†   (source)
  • Liberation theologians had a similar answer: "You want to see where Christ crucified abides today?†   (source)
  • My uncle worked in one of his factories before Liberation, and he knew all about Old Rong.†   (source)
  • The couple escaped across the Rhine, under German fire, shortly before Holland was liberated.†   (source)
  • If I do it in an oxygen atmosphere, the hot and newly liberated hydrogen will explode.†   (source)
  • They were called that because before Liberation we had to import them.†   (source)
  • When the Liberation Army woman saw my back bend, she just loved it.†   (source)
  • She was Comrade Li from the Central Liberation Army Arts Academy.†   (source)
  • And you will not be allowed to be a member of a Liberation Army performing troupe.†   (source)
  • Mom's office was in a building that had been a big house before Liberation.†   (source)
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