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- The press has let the country down. It's taken a very amoral stand, in that essential issues are often portrayed as simply… — Bruce Springsteen
- And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability… — John Thorn
- By focusing on such a narrow slice of Nepali life, Ms. Spray and Mr. Velez have ceded any totalizing claim on the… — Manohla Dargis
- The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the… — Lord Acton
- It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of… — Ann Druyan
- The Constitution is not a law, but it empowers the people to make laws... The Constitution tells us what shall not be… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
- A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease… — Neil Abercrombie
- Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and… — William H. Seward
- And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any… — Diane Setterfield
- After four centuries of Spanish rule, Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States in 1898. Residents were granted U.S. citizenship in… — Pedro Pierluisi
- Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was… — Neil Abercrombie
- Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect is information. — Thomas Harrison