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A similar debate around honoring Bardot played out among French politicians in the wake of her passing.

From Salon

The game was played out amid a boisterous atmosphere in a stadium packed with Algerian fans in a crowd of 18,522.

From Barron's

Ultimately, though, the match was played out as an off-season exhibition.

From BBC

Typically, that meant lifting early injunctions that federal district judges had issued to keep the policies on hold while the lawsuits played out.

From The Wall Street Journal

Roth paints a dreary portrait of how that scenario could have played out, but the horrors are resolved by something of a deus ex machina rather than by any one character’s bold, heroic actions.

From Los Angeles Times