After his term ended, Republican leaders instantly disowned him as an unwanted reminder of their flirtation with ideological moderation.

In the early 18th Century, enlightenment ideals persuaded men to stop wearing irrational fashions like high heels, and later the French revolution banished these unwanted reminders of the aristocracy until the mid 19th Century.

"As displaced people they go uncounted and unrecognized, unwanted reminders of a war most Peruvians would like to forget."

There are also unwanted reminders of last year's garden that must be removed.

In professional football, injured players are considered a distraction, maybe even an unwanted reminder that bones and muscles and brains do get banged up.

This is particularly true in Mr. Dole's case, as his visit to New York provides an unwanted reminder that Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has not endorsed his candidacy.

Yet to the couple, such questions are unwanted reminders of their problems.

Blue shadows lay in the street like the dead, or unwanted reminders of' 'the disappeared"-those people taken by the military in its zeal to ferret out a group of young radical terrorists.

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And the victims who survive are unwanted reminders of that truth.