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He broached the subject when saying he felt no trepidation about working with Ridley Scott on the upcoming “Gladiator II” film.

President of baseball operations Andrew Friedman did the same when Buehler broached the topic at the ballpark.

In 1986, Baker first broached the topic in a note to the cardinal after Mahony appealed for priests to report inappropriate behavior, according to internal church records.

Head teacher Emma Murray said broaching issues like misogyny and sexism with young children could be "really challenging", but that it was a topic teachers had to be prepared to deal with.

This matters, as Hayes cites, because Faulkner broached the question to give Trump a chance to retreat from his fascist rhetoric and he refused to take that hint.