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This is another example of what French writer Alexis de Tocqueville observed of the United States when he visited in the early 19th century: “Scarcely any political question arises … that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.”

From Slate

It was de Tocqueville who famously argued, “Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.”

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Scarcely any directors at all represented multiple marginalized groups.

There were scarcely any women of colour in gymnastics in the 1980s when Ms Moore was a young gymnast.

From BBC

He concludes his remarks by saying that if America fails to have a true racial reckoning “there is scarcely any hope for the American dream, “because the people who are denied participation in it, by their very presence, will wreck it.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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