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  • Louisiana Tech athletics director Jim Oakes is disappointed the three teams traveling to Ruston for Sunday's first-round games are not from the area.

    USATODAY.com - Notebook: Practice comes first for Irish player 2003

  • As such, in his opinion, the provision is no longer saved by Section 1 of the Charter, having not met in full the requirements of the so-called Oakes test set out in paragraphs 223-224 of the ruling, with his detailed analysis following.

    The Lemire decision 2009

  • At exactly one minute into this clip, I describe the Canadian legal test that governments must meet before they're allowed to override freedom of speech -- it's called the Oakes Test.

    The limits of free speech, and the power to order me to apologize - Ezra Levant 2008

  • At exactly one minute into this clip, I describe the Canadian legal test that governments must meet before they're allowed to override freedom of speech -- it's called the Oakes Test.

    Ezra Levant: January 2008 Archives 2008

  • Here are the opening lines from the elegy by Oakes, which is quoted from in most of the books on American literature: “Reader, I am no poet, but I grieve.

    Preface James Weldon Johnson 1922

  • Here are the opening lines from the elegy by Oakes, which is quoted from in most of the books on American literature:

    The Book of American Negro Poetry James Weldon Johnson 1904

  • A man told police that he and two others went to the park and when they pulled into a parking spot, he saw a man, later identified as Oakes, in a green Jeep Cherokee performing a lewd act.

    tcpalm.com Stories 2009

  • Queen’s Own Hussars) and an Englishman with the surname Oakes (RAVC).

    Doug Nix 2010

  • Queen’s Own Hussars) and an Englishman with the surname Oakes (RAVC) (probably

    Work Camp Frantschach 2010

  • In part two of our interview we discuss with Oakes the other Borgia show, what it's like working with Jeremy Irons, cast pranks and Juan Borgia, the musical.

    Morgan Glennon: The Borgias' David Oakes Interview: Part Two Morgan Glennon 2011

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