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The Davises are the spokesfamily for this year's Tree of Hope campaign, DSC's main fundraiser.
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I'm not sure the apostrophe is acceptable here unless we are reading it as a contraction of 'Davises'.
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"Yes, there are the Davises and Crippens, but we have a lot of other cases that never get any media coverage."
Miscarriages of justice are going unchallenged by watchdog, says QC 2011
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But not far behind him are those who have come to be known as "Raymond Davises."
In aftermath of shooting, rising skepticism about American presence in Pakistan 2011
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Pasha demanded the U.S. identify "all the Ray Davises working in Pakistan, behind our backs," the official said.
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Davis himself implied a racial component his execution when he said the same day--"The struggle is for all the Troy Davises who came before me, and all who will come after."
Elizabeth Nicholas: Georgia on my Mind Elizabeth Nicholas 2011
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But not far behind him are those who have come to be known as "Raymond Davises."
In aftermath of shooting, rising skepticism about American presence in Pakistan 2011
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Last week, the chief of Jamaat-e-Islami, a religious party, told a gathering of tribal elders that there are "thousands of Raymond Davises."
In aftermath of shooting, rising skepticism about American presence in Pakistan 2011
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He didn't believe in anything except sugar stocks, horse-breeding, and that his grandfather had been a fool in not collecting a few Isaac Davises and John Youngs and brass carronades before he went to war with Kamehameha.
SHIN-BONES 2010
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Last week, the chief of Jamaat-e-Islami, a religious party, told a gathering of tribal elders that there are "thousands of Raymond Davises."
In aftermath of shooting, rising skepticism about American presence in Pakistan 2011
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