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115) A dispositive rule amounting to "commercial speech is not First Amendment speech", is not consistent with the holding in Fox--no amount of distinguishing past cases, or tergiversating about the rule, would make that judgment possible.
A wobbly balance? A comparison of proportionality testing in Canada, the United States, the European Union and the World Trade Organization
58-60) when he decides to invade that country, suddenly persuaded by the tergiversating Count of Artois that he now has a valid claim to the French throne (1.
Royal carnality and illicit desire in the English history plays of the 1590s
He wrote to Glover in May 1933 that he mistrusted Curnow, that 'loose-thinking tergiversating snooping sex-mad bastard with his bloodshot ego-centric eye on the editorial chair which he couldn't fill & won't if I print Phoenia'.
'Bliss was it in that dawn ...': from Phoenix to New Poems 1932-34

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