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...should] use this committee as a framework on which to organize a logical decision on both sides," McCormack said...
Cole said that the Cambridge spectrum of political debate on big issues is much farther to the left than the national spectrum. "The issues are discussed within a very liberal framework," he said...
Though Columbus was already a first-rate practical sailor, his idea of the unexplored Atlantic was formed as much by books as by navigation: writings of the ancients (Pliny, Strabo and especially Ptolemy), medieval cosmographers, collections of "marvels." These gave him a framework in which to sell his plans to patrons: his letters to Ferdinand and Isabella, King and Queen of Spain, begging their patronage for the "Enterprise of the Indies," are full of appeals to the authority of older writers...
...bring peace to his country. And high time too: a civil war involving the government and leftist guerrillas has left 75,000 dead in the past 12 years. Two days later, after 17 months of U.N.-brokered talks, the government and the rebels signed an agreement setting out a framework for reintegrating the rebels of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front into society and offering assurances for their safety...
Adolescent girls start to feel the imposition of "a framework not of their existence, based on the psychology of men," Gilligan said