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The ossifying Republican opposition has prompted Democrats to accuse Mr Johnson and others of bowing to pressure from Mr Trump, who has urged his Capitol Hill allies to kill the bill.

The proposed cleanup and redevelopment of this ossified power plant joins a growing collection of such projects across the nation.

Nor can you, apparently, be a successful, divorced, outspoken biracial American career woman and thrive among the hierarchically ossified, stiff-upper-lip royal family.

“It’s an ossified bastion of stodgy old engineers,” he said.

They would be astonished at the rank unfreedoms justified by invoking their names and saddened by conservatives' efforts to ossify the Constitution in an imaginary past.