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"It's legitimate for the government to say we will take a tighter view, as a proper, reasoned, good faith attempt to rein in what we think Article 8 covers and what it doesn't."

Sharks were creatures of the deep ocean, he reasoned, and he surfed in the shallower bays.

It wasn’t “a reasoned argument,” Mahan wrote in a scathing opinion piece in the San Francisco Standard.

Officials reasoned it would be best to install when no one was living there and that its completion could spur the return of homes and businesses.

“I said, ‘I’m gonna text her and see does she fancy playing a few gigs,’ because as musicians that’s the best way to see your friends,” he reasoned.