And then, be confronted with someone who would tear it down by false testimony, by lies under oath.
Do you admire and celebrate exceptional achievement or do you impugn it and seek to tear it down?
"I believe they bought this building to tear it down, " Mr. Williams said.
Whether your preferred variety of exceptionalism is religious, ethnic, or species-based, the Martians are here to tear it down.
Build it up, cheer its success, profit from the stock rise and then tear it down for the very things that helped build it up.
You have to tear it down and start over again.
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The man who could use a fresh wad of donations from Wall Street as 2012 approaches is not going to align himself with those who would tear it down.
Cultural tension boiled over when Herod planted Rome's golden eagle atop the Temple's entrance, an abomination to Judaism that made people tear it down only to be caught and burned alive.
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MoMA says it expects to tear down the folk-art building by the end of the year.
As long as it makes commercial sense, Mr Lo hazards that the mainland may well tear down a lot of the ugly buildings it has thrown up during the past 20 years and start again which is exactly what happened in Hong Kong.
It is another to tear down distinctions between democratic and despotic governments, ignoring profound differences of principle in the hope that appeasing and engaging, with maybe some cash thrown in, will bring peace.
It is one thing to tear down a wall that imprisons people within a tyranny.
It's designed to tear you down, to destroy your dignity and your pride.
But by all means, if it makes people feel better, tear the statue down.
In 2006 78 of them came to tear down his wall of pictures, smashed it, trashed it, left it like a bomb site.
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And in the 9-11 Commission, we recommended that we create a Director of National Intelligence to break down this bureaucracy, to cut it, to reduce it, to break down the layers, to tear down the stove pipe so information could be shared.
People have since reckoned that, if China's leadership were prepared to shoot down civilians, it might also be prepared to tear up its promises to Hong Kong.
Mr. Kumar: One of the most interesting things about F1 yes, the technology is really put under test in that kind of environment but it's also the way we set up and tear down the network in a four-to-five-day period.
If the protein could tear off cholesterol plaque in patients who were already sick, it might cut down on heart attacks.
The liberal project, to me, is a project to tear down the false humanity of oppression and prejudice and try to replace it with a deeper humanity.
And concede that sometimes it takes both overwhelming force -- and a touch of diplomacy -- to tear down a wall.
The Conservatives have already promised to match the government's big boost in spending on the NHS, but Mr Portillo argued that it was just as important to encourage more people to take out private health insurance and "tear down the Berlin Wall" between the public and private sectors.
Without that tear, without the bird that tears off Ahab's hat, would it mean as much when Ahab goes down with his ship?
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