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The Solons are a perfectly competent (7-6 as of Monday) Division II Vermont basketball team and were willing, at least the first time the two teams met, to run and gun with the Tigers.
Addison County Independent - Covering the 23 towns of Addison County, Vermont 2009
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The Solons are a perfectly competent (7-6 as of Monday) Division II Vermont basketball team and were willing, at least the first time the two teams met, to run and gun with the Tigers.
Addison County Independent - Covering the 23 towns of Addison County, Vermont 2009
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The unrest in Cairo has various media Solons attempting to explain why Egypt's authoritarian regime is under attack while the Chinese Communist Party's hold on power remains secure.
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And who would be these Solons who would run our government, but the good-willed and otherwise unemployable, content to suck at the government tit, and spout trash for a living—e.g., that one may disrespect an absent sushi chef by an incorrect method of eating his California roll, or that a proportion of races in the workplace differing from the proportion of races in the populace at large is de facto evidence of discrimination?
Liberal Tax Dodgers and the Disrespected Sushi Chef David Mamet 2011
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Oh, to be a fly on the wall when the Solons of the GOP debate the fine points of economic theory to decide whether or not President Obama really qualifies as a socialist intent on imposing communist-style collectivism upon America.
Jacob Heilbrunn: The GOP Needs Its Own "Secret Speech" Repudiating the Cheney Era 2009
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Why bother to get a mere 50% of “the little people” to agree with your cause when you can shove it down their throats by only convincing 5 black-robed Solons of your cause?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Ted Olson, Law vs. Policy, and the Role of Courts vs. Counsel: 2009
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Compared with these people, even Westminster seems as though it must be populated by latterday Solons.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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Borris: “Why bother to get a mere 50% of “the little people” to agree with your cause when you can shove it down their throats by only convincing 5 black-robed Solons of yourcause?”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Ted Olson, Law vs. Policy, and the Role of Courts vs. Counsel: 2009
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Compared with these people, even Westminster seems as though it must be populated by latterday Solons.
Are You Smarter than the US Congress? Almost Certainly. 2009
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Our wise and couragous Solons practically wet themselves in their eagerness to vote for it.
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