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Example sentences for: poisonous
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Having packed these two poisonous assumptions into the word "voucher," Gore is now injecting that poison into Bradley's health-care proposal by applying the same word to both contexts.
(To Molina's list of bugs, sun, and windblown salt, I add cold; rain; thorns; poisonous plants; days or weeks without showers; steep, rugged terrain; snakes; lack of roads; lack of water ...)
In court, they argued that the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act limits the FDA's regulatory powers to drugs and medical devices that provide medical benefits . The tobacconists' perverse logic held that poisonous products like cigarettes, for which no health claim is made, should fall outside government regulation.
It was caused by "a poisonous mix of greed, liquor, jingoism and bad taste," writes Frank Hannigan, the group's former executive director.
Other highlight: A visit to the "most poisonous place on earth," a Nevada nuclear-test site.