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- noun Alternative spelling of
fig leaf .
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Examples
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But all that was really lost was the fig-leaf of appearance.
Charles H. Green: How to Recover from Trust Lost: Part I Charles H. Green 2010
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But all that was really lost was the fig-leaf of appearance.
Charles H. Green: How to Recover from Trust Lost: Part I Charles H. Green 2010
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Williams 'presence on air was a fig-leaf for much broader and deeper diversity problems at the network.
Farai Chideya: What Everyone Is Missing About NPR's WilliamsGate Farai Chideya 2010
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Williams 'presence on air was a fig-leaf for much broader and deeper diversity problems at the network.
Farai Chideya: What Everyone Is Missing About NPR's WilliamsGate Farai Chideya 2010
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Williams 'presence on air was a fig-leaf for much broader and deeper diversity problems at the network.
Farai Chideya: What Everyone Is Missing About NPR's WilliamsGate Farai Chideya 2010
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Williams 'presence on air was a fig-leaf for much broader and deeper diversity problems at the network.
Farai Chideya: What Everyone Is Missing About NPR's WilliamsGate Farai Chideya 2010
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To be sure, sometimes public ownership can be a mere fig-leaf for control by a private interest group.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Debate Over Eminent Domain “Empty and Incoherent”? 2010
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To be sure, sometimes public ownership can be a mere fig-leaf for control by a private interest group.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Debate Over Eminent Domain “Empty and Incoherent”? 2010
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Addendum: “preemption” as such is not a “legalistic fig-leaf,” but given the overall practical, existential matters as applied to sovereignty that the feds have failed to address (and repeatedly so), from any more sound policy pov, preemption can in fact be viewed as little or nothing more than a legalistic fig-leaf.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Feds May Sue Arizona Over Immigration 2010
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Williams 'presence on air was a fig-leaf for much broader and deeper diversity problems at the network.
Farai Chideya: What Everyone Is Missing About NPR's WilliamsGate Farai Chideya 2010
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