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They might have spared themselves a decade of angst, or at least found a better way to oppose him, if they had recalled that America’s founders disliked democracy.

Higher education institutions have also not been spared.

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Hogg, who joined Exeter from Glasgow in 2019, was spared jail time when sentenced in Selkirk Sheriff Court in January and was instead ordered to complete a community payback order with one year of supervision.

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Justice Kennedy might have spared the country a prolonged fit of insanity by plumping the other way in Obergefell and letting voters hash out the issue themselves.

Barry Josephson, a Hollywood producer whose home near the fire’s origin was among a few spared total destruction, said “it’s very satisfying that a culprit will be brought to justice.”

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

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