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Examples
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I can't really elicidate why that strikes me as being so jarring, but I can't shake the feeling that Greenhouse is looking for a way
"There seemed little prospect that either the Louisville, Ky., or Seattle plans would survive the hostile scrutiny of the court’s new majority." Ann Althouse 2006
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I can't really elicidate why that strikes me as being so jarring, but I can't shake the feeling that Greenhouse is looking for a way to convey is that in Brown, the court struck down bad classification by race, and in these cases, Greenhouse wants to the court to uphold good classification by race.
"There seemed little prospect that either the Louisville, Ky., or Seattle plans would survive the hostile scrutiny of the court’s new majority." Ann Althouse 2006
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