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combated

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of Combat

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Religion has two principal enemies, fanaticism and infidelity, or that which is called atheism. The first requires to be combated by reason and morality, the other by natural philosophy. Thomas Paine

I came into a place void of all light, which bellows like the sea in tempest, when it is combated by warring winds. Dante Alighieri

[B]efore Descartes, some of the ancients made the essence of matter consist in solid extension. But this opinion, of which all the Cartesians have made much, has at all times been victoriously combated... Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Only what you have combated for will last. Yoruba Proverb

Hume shows that even light skepticism leads to crushing doubts about the world which - while they ultimately are philosophically justifiable - may only be combated through the non-philosophical adherence to custom or habit. Source: Internet

In 1973 the ACLU created the Sexual Privacy Project (later the Gay and Lesbian Rights Project) which combated discrimination against homosexuals. Source: Internet

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