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The Trumps launched crypto firm World Liberty Financial in the middle of the presidential campaign last year, drawing questions about potential conflicts of interest as he became entangled in a industry he would be poised to regulate.

From BBC

The court could be poised to go further and take that decision nationwide, leaving only the DOJ to sue to protect voting rights, hardly a priority in this and other Republican administrations.

From Slate

Now he could be poised to assume the mantle of best player in the world, handed off from Kobe Bryant to LeBron James, Lakers both.

But could Glasgow be poised for a similar boom in tall buildings?

From BBC

Democrats will be poised “to highlight” those sorts of cases, Carrick said, imagining the script for a campaign ad that practically writes itself: “He was sentenced to X number of years. Trump let him out of jail, and look what he did.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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