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• “PS: Tom Delay's aide said he probably won't meet with me because I don't "comport" myself properly.”

  Cindy Sheehan: Tired to the Bone

• “The conclusion reached in the foregoing pages that the animal sculptures are not "exact and faithful copies from nature," but are imitations of a general rather than of a special character, such as comport better with the state of art as developed among certain of the Indian tribes than among a people that has achieved any notable advance in culture is important not only in its bearing on the questions previously noticed in this paper, but in its relation to another and highly interesting class of sculptures.”

  Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 117-166

• “The States and their officers are bound by obligations imposed by the Constitution and by federal statutes that comport with the constitutional design.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Conservative Assault on the Constitution

• “So the idea that reunification caused per capita GDP in Germany to crater, while it has a surface plausibility, does not appear to comport with the data.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Revisiting the Manzi-Chait

• “Despite the extensive examinations of the issue offered by CRS and the Indiana Court of Appeals, WND has apparently chosen to ignore them because they don't comport with WND's anti-Obama agenda.”

  The Huffington Post: Terry Krepel: WorldNetDaily's Natural Born Misleaders

• “Mr. Browne, the police spokesman, maintains that the stop numbers "comport by race with victim-crime reports.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Stop-and-Frisks Hit Record in 2011

• “Mr. Browne said the data also show that stops "comport by race with victim crime reports.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Quinn Hits Police Over Stop Policy

• “The bottom line is, everybody's got to comport themselves," he said.”

  The Wall Street Journal: More Injured by Bicyclists

• “Positive law that does not comport with the natural law (law intended to protect natural rights of individuals) always and everywhere, without exception, ends in the Rule of Man — via the Miracle of Selective Enforcement if via no other means.”

  Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Exxon is Not the Audubon Society

• “Although the Catholic hierarchy says that the prohibition on abortion is both "unchanged" and "unchangeable," this does not comport with the actual history of abortion teaching.”

  The Huffington Post: Jon O'Brien: Five Myths About the Catholic Vote in Election 2010

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