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"This court hopes that by the time the convict leaves prison, he would have learnt that abusing people in the name of getting content is bad," she said.

From BBC

His witch hunt had to be conducted in the name of saving the country from communism.

From Salon

Justice and free speech are getting crushed in the name of “justice” and “free speech.”

From Slate

One civilization is authoritarian, which claims to rule in the name of the people; the other is an anarchistic society in which everyone looks out for one another.

Such contributions by right-wing or Republican entities and candidates were often made in the name of Salame or other FTX insiders “as straw donors to conceal the identity of the true donor, Bankman-Fried,” as FTX asserts in a lawsuit seeking the return of $3.5 million from the Senate Leadership Fund, a PAC devoted to securing a GOP Senate majority.

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

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