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“All the chickens are coming home to roost,” said opposition leader Antonio Di Pietro.

Since John F. Kennedy, the GOP has ruled the foreign policy roost at election time and beyond.

And past traumas and tribulations come home to roost for one reason only: so you can finally release them.

As House Majority Leader, DeLay ruled his roost with an iron fist that makes Nancy Pelosi look like Mary Poppins.

But now the chickens are coming back home to America to roost.

And from my roost I could note the passing of anything bigger than a buffalo yearling, within a radius of at least six miles.

All the little children have been gathered up by the nursery-maids, and are taken down to roost below.

He had found the lost chick, and clucked low notes of supreme content as he brought him back to the roost.

Nothing would please her more than to see Austria broken up into a number of little States and Hungary ruling the roost.

But from where he sat on his favorite roost in the tall pine-tree he could see that provoking egg, a little spot of shining white.