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Dr. Daphna Golan, Professor of Law at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, explains in Haaeretz today why the academic establishment in Israel should oppose the Gazan assault,
Daphna Golan on Israeli Students, Academics : Law is Cool 2009
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Most of the cases dealt with in Phoenix were common assault,
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Despite his advancing years and his stint in prison for assault,
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Despite his advancing years and his stint in prison for assault,
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Before the police could arrest him for this last assault,
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It was this refusal by a black man to obey an order that had insulted the policeman's "white pride" and led to the assault,
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It was this refusal by a black man to obey an order that insulted the policeman's "white pride" and led to the assault,
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-- A general assistant of the Johannesburg Hospital had been treated in hospital for injuries sustained in an assault,
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His protective force had been withdrawn, and he knew he had only precious instants to act before Celeste's mind would be pulverized beneath the Messulethe's relentless assault,
The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983
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And that the Moabites were in great fear of him, and were not able to sustain his assault,
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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