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• The willingness of these two sociologists to educe social change from cultural expressions and to turn the tables on colleagues who require ideas to achieve material success before they will notice them offers a lively example of the recovery of utopianism and the rising credibility of the imagination. Utopianism and Joanna Baillie: A Preface to Converging Revolutions
• He could hear her breath quicken, her moans deepen, as her hands fought to find access to his groin where she could turn the tables on him.
• By the mid-eighteenth century the British were to turn the tables completely on the Dutch and win an unchallenged supremacy among Europeans in Asia.
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• Carrie in "Carrie" (Sissy Spacek): This girl geek doesn't just turn the tables — she upends the entire friggin 'prom. ‘Juno’ Writer Diablo Cody Picks Her Top 10 Movie Badasses » MTV Movies Blog
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• And so, with great delight, the two close friends set out to prove they have lost none of their pluck or zest for life and through various assignations and mistaken identities turn the tables beautifully on Falstaff.
• Defenders of seignorial rights tried to turn the tables on the Physiocrats by contending that these rights were "natural" properties acquired legitimately through contracts freely entered into by tenants. Food That Tastes Good and is Good For You, Too
• He still itched to grab one of her daggers and turn the tables on her.
• Charleton tried to turn the tables on those who were calling atomism atheistic by declaring that, so far from being impious, atomism actually was a proof of the existence and power of God. Dictionary of the History of Ideas