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While those state proposals largely failed, new legislation has been couched in similar fears.

Far from a rant, her tone throughout is cool and methodical, and her critiques are couched more in sorrow than in anger.

As anybody who has read histories of the British in India or Africa, an imperial grab couched in such rhetoric is hardly news.

They once would have seemed full of attitude, couched in almost illegible forms.

In his 35-minute address, Cruz pushed familiar Republican policy prescriptions but couched them in the concerns of Mother Teresa.

It was a refusal couched in terms as little polite as they were equivocal.

But he meets only with an offhand denial, couched in words of scant courtesy.

He accordingly took no notice of her letter, and received a second and a third couched in the strongest language of affection.

There was no limit to the extravagance of Unionist demands, most of them ultimatums couched in Kruger-like terms.

But all I could see was the form of my tall aunt couched half-moonwise in Elton Reeve's lap.