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Chris -- 2018-04-11
You’d think anyone who could spell ‘which’ would be equally familiar with ‘witch’, but I suppose the idiom ‘witch hunt’ might present problems if English is not your first language. A ‘which hunt’ does make some sort of sense – a search for ‘which’ party might be the guilty one perhaps?
I want to tell you about a which hunt which is taking place in the Netherlands now and which turns the country upside down and in utter confusion. ...
www.foucault.info/Foucault-L/archive/msg08280.shtml – 12k – Cached
Not to start a which hunt but hopefully to persuade breeders to check further back than the actual paper that the pedigree is written on and to suggest that …
www.gsdhelpline.com/epilepsy2.htm – 13k – Cached
“The generals who…. plundered the country for 28 years … were said to be secure in the knowledge that Obasanjo would not start a which-hunt of his old …
www.graftwatch.org/archives/olorode1.html – 32k – Cached
To start with they automaticaly assumed that the police force made a mistake, they started a which hunt even before we knew what was going on. ...
time-blog.com/theag/2007/ 04/virginia_tech_campus_massacre.html – 78k – Cached
Society is not served with a which hunt against public authorities and civil servants. The arguments against the criminal liability of the State are dealt …
dissertaties.ub.unimaas.nl/abstract/10824.pdf -
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