" If the court strikes down Obamacare, Rosen argued, Roberts' "stated goal of presiding over a less divisive court will be viewed as an irredeemable failure.

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He really believes Earth is headed for irredeemable climatic catastrophe.

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The discovery that fewer people are victims of violence can thwart cynicism among compassion-fatigued news readers who might otherwise think that the dangerous parts of the world are irredeemable hell holes.

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Fugard is an enormously generous writer, and in Tsotsi, he gave the filmmakers a framework that lets them find what he always finds in his best work, hope and humanity in characters that society writes off as irredeemable.

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Independent publishers like Dynamite and Boom Studios are also putting out great stories (Dynamite publishes the popular Warlord of Mars series, Boom publishes the break out hit Irredeemable), which is terrific because they help keep the big boys honest.

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With the passing of stamp and butterfly collecting into the obscurest realms of irredeemable geekdom, accumulating (and drinking) rare, unusual and generally very old whiskies has emerged as one of the more surprising--if less than headline-generating--trends of the 21st century.

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Junon is suffering from cancer, and both of them suffer from their children: the endlessly grieving Elizabeth (Anne Consigny), the frankly irredeemable Henri (Mathieu Amalric), and Ivan (Melvil Poupaud), who is holding steady, despite the fact that his wife loves somebody else.

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