In many authorities, of course, not the slightest effort is made to disguise their objective, which is to appoint political zealots to key council posts.
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The zealots for fluoridation might better employ their energies arguing for more direct health care, based on ways of improving the nation's oral health.
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I believe things have got out of proportion and the zealots have got completely out of hand.
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The announcement that we have just heard will please no one but the placemen and the zealots.
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However, these days he is surrounded by zealots and has succumbed.
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They resisted all the zealots who told them that they should not settle for second best.
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To me it is too redolent of earnest-minded, professorial zealots and long-haired intelligentsia.
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The misappropriation of funds must also be investigated, and the activities of the misguided religious zealots must cease immediately.
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I extend our sympathy to those who were the innocent victims of zealots.
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Whatever one might say about compromise, it will be bitterly opposed by zealots on all sides.
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The zealots for a tariff inevitably are disappointed four or five years after it is introduced, because it defeats itself.
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There are zealots of other kinds who are in unions but who are not strongly wedded to them, and who cause trouble within unions.
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A great mistake was made because people were concerned with a few zealots.
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Suppose that first they show an amenable attitude towards the language zealots.
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They are no more than a totem pole around which the zealots dance.
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