Word: branching
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...news about the U.K.'s housing market is enough to make the front pages. When British TV channels aren't airing advice on buying or selling homes, they're offering lessons on how to do them up. "Domesticity," Emerson noted, "is the taproot which enables the nation to branch wide and high...
...from 2000 that passed with over 60 percent of the vote, voters chose to define marriage as between a man and a woman. Whether or not one agrees with that definition, the court cannot and should not strike it down without a legitimate reason. The role of the judicial branch in protecting minorities extends only to assuring that their constitutional rights are not violated...
...wearing a rainbow T-shirt and her cousin's rainbow belt to school. But soon after, when the school board prohibited expressions supporting equal rights for gay people at the school, Heather's mother, Ardena Gillman, decided more serious action was called for. She talked to the local branch of the American Civil Liberties union, which pursued the case on the grounds that Gillman's First Amendment rights were being violated. This week, in a two-day trial that resulted in a rare, immediate ruling from the federal bench, Gillman won her suit against the Holmes County school district...
...island of Leros, near the Turkish coast. They arrived in Greece without their parents, a worrisome pattern immigration experts say is increasingly common. Most of the 121 children held on the island are from Afghanistan, but there are also Palestinians and Eritrians, said Sophia Ioannou, spokeswoman for the Greek branch of the humanitarian aid group Médecins du Monde (MdM). She said all the children were crammed into a single facility without enough beds or toilets...
...imagine someone working very hard to not branch out very much, but I don’t think that will be the norm,” he said. “If, as I expect, it’ll be one in 300, I’m just not going to worry about...