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Hirst and Perry too have courted their fair share of controversy.

Bill Clinton courted Mixner and his expertise at the outset of his run for president.

So, Cline officials courted state legislators and hired lobbyists.

NBC reportedly aggressively courted The Daily Show host to front Meet The Press.

And always in the background, evanescent but, in the end, accountable, is Rupert Murdoch—courted, feared and sometimes loathed.

His reputation extended over the whole continent, and his presence was courted by the sovereigns of Europe.

Whatever his secret care might have been, it was now passive; he was a general favourite, and courted in society.

By one person, however, Portland was still assiduously courted; and that person was the King.

Mrs. Chester married the man who had courted her before she fell in love with her school-master.

Death in its most horrible shape would have been courted joyfully by me in preference to it.