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grammaire anglaise > groupe verbal
verbes à particule adverbiale,
verbes à préfixe // verbes à particule adverbiale
équivalences
downplay // play down
Nominee Plays Down Remarks on Quotas and Abortion
November 16, 2005 The New York Times
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 - Seeking to tamp down a political uproar over a 1985 document in which he denounced racial quotas and said the Constitution did not protect the right to abortion, Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. told senators on Tuesday that the sentiments were simply the views of "an advocate seeking a job." Nominee
Plays Down Remarks on Quotas and Abortion,
Alito Downplays '85 Abortion Statement
November 15, 2005
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito distanced himself Tuesday from his 1985 comments that there was no constitutional right to abortion, telling a senator in private that he had been ''an advocate seeking a job.'' Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., an abortion rights supporter and the only woman on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said she asked the conservative judge about a document released Monday showing Alito in 1985 telling the Reagan administration he was particularly proud to help argue that ''the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion.'' Alito
Downplays '85 Abortion Statement,
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