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Loftily invoking legal scholar Alexander Bickel ( "We like to re-read Bickel to get our Constitutional bearings"), the Journal differentiates itself from the New York Times, which "decided last week to expose a major weapon in the U.S. arsenal against terror financing" (but please note how different that is from how the WSJ "published a story on the same subject on the same day").
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Loftily expecting BushCo to appear before him, with the ‘evidence’ to contradict his assertions?
Think Progress » Defense Department Disavows Santorum’s WMD Claims 2006
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Loftily, they all kept back from her by a distance of several rods, with newcomers doing the same as they arrived, and forming a great semi-circle around her with both ends close to the river banks, effectively cutting off her escape.
Si'Wren of the Patriarchs Roland Jon Cheney
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Loftily viewing the case, a wrong has been intended by Arcite to Palamon, but no wrong done.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various
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Loftily pierce the tall white minarets into the quivering heavens, while the solemn cypress throws its shade below.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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"Loftily shall the Serpent carry me tonight when I steer her north into Denmark!"
Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age Robert Leighton
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Loftily ignoring each other, the two speakers went to the desk and attempted to conduct the business of the house.
The Agrarian Crusade; a chronicle of the farmer in politics 1923
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THE NYMPH: _ (Loftily) _ We immortals, as you saw today, have not such
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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Loftily, he made as though to skirt them and reach the canoe.
Further Adventures of Lad Albert Payson Terhune 1907
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Loftily on both sides climbed the mountains cloaked in laurel and timber.
The Call of the Cumberlands Charles Neville Buck 1904
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