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Example Sentences
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Since thousands of ICE and Border Patrol agents arrived in the Minneapolis area in recent months, the city has become a stage for rising tensions between local and federal law enforcement.
When federal officials said local police weren’t needed at the scene, O’Hara ordered his officers to remain anyway.
A federal judge ordered investigators to preserve evidence in the case in an emergency order after state and local officials sued, citing concerns over evidence collection at the scene.
Previously, Bovino and his crew had been refused service at a local Speedway gas station, and swarmed by hecklers.
The SDF heeded Barrack’s advice, and just after midnight local time on Jan. 17, announced it would withdraw its forces from eastern Aleppo.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
