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"Those children that you speak of that become pregnant, they did not choose to become pregnant as children," Stockton testified, raising her gaze from her prepared remarks to the lawmakers before her.

Residents in Rothesay are quick to speak of their pride in the Syrians.

He has taken Emerson’s nostrum about consistency being “the hobgoblin of little minds” to its acid-flashback extreme: no consistency, no mind to speak of, but one hell of a hobgoblin.

Trump was careful to couch his plan in humanitarian terms, as do Israeli officials when they speak of expelling Palestinians, employing euphemisms like voluntary departure or voluntary migration, but make no mistake: It would involve the forced displacement of some 2 million people.

I think it’s playing into Trump’s nationalist worldview to speak of “national character.”