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No, the phrase "barbarian for" is not correct or usable in written English as it stands.
The term 'barbarian' is often used as a noun to mean a person who is considered uncivilised and uncultured. For example, you could say a sentence such as "The Romans considered the ancient Celts to be barbarians." If you were intending to use the phrase 'barbarian for', you could use the phrase 'barbaric for' instead. For example, you could say "The Celts' treatment of prisoners of war was barbaric for its time."
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Everything he said was funny, especially "Conan the Barbarian", for some reason.
There are far too many jags and scribbles in "Dave the Barbarian" for it to be sweet and to promote giggles.
The astonishing thing is that Elizabeth chose a hair colour that had typified the barbarian for centuries, since the time of the ancient Greeks and their encounters with the tribes living around the Black Sea.
Becky Cloonan is currently the artist on Conan The Barbarian for Dark Horse Comics and just released the self-published The Mire after the widely successful Wolves.
To begin, he wanted to compose simple but powerful melodies, and looked to Basil Poledouris's score for the 1982 film Conan the Barbarian for inspiration.
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Arguing to end abortion in most cases, he said future generations will "call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies".
No doubt if the movement becomes bigger, the mainstream media will duly represent students as barbarians for breaking a fence, or throwing paint balloons.
Throughout history political strategies have divided humanity into the fully human, the lesser human and the inhuman; for the Greeks the barbarians, for the Christians the heathen, for the nationalists the foreigners, for the colonialists the uncivilised.
Philip Pullman has defended the study of the arts, saying "they're of incalculable worth in what it means to be a human being", and slamming the UK's government of "philistines and barbarians" for failing to understand this.
Accordingly, ex-Trotskyites in France consider us barbarians for imposing the death penalty on a mass murderer, though more prisoners in French jails committed suicide in the past year than were executed in the U.S.
In an article in National Review, in which Jim Geraghty lays out the case that "Marco Rubio Is Plenty Conservative," he quotes Rubio in the first Republican debate: "Future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies who we never gave them a chance to live".
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