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enter the lists

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enter the lists
Fig. to begin to take part in a contest or argument. He had decided not to stand for Parliament, but entered the lists at the last minute. The family disagreement had almost been resolved when the grandfather entered the lists.
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So I request that Hardy Myers, Oregon's attorney general, enter the lists on behalf of those retirees, somewhat as he did against the tobacco companies.
The very last man on this earth with whom I would enter the lists to combat with gentle compliments and masked faces, is Mr.
That so many male members of the non-noble elite found it socially and politically indispensable to be thought capable of "giving satisfaction" strengthens McAleer's argument; satisfaktionsfahig was not simply a warrant of social entitlement, but an acknowledgement that its bearer possessed a quality of masculinity made up of the courage of knights, the loyalty of liegemen, and the temerity of husbands sufficiently gallant to enter the lists in protection of their womenfolk.
 
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