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Example sentences for: broached

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Mr. Stoat has successfully broached the barricades of words.
But no one broached these questions at the hearing.
In a 1995 encyclical, John Paul II broached the possibility that, in the interests of Christian unity, he or his successors might "find a way of exercising the [papal] primacy which, while in no way renouncing what is essential to its mission, is nonetheless open to a new situation."
The matter was first broached by a USAT story last March revealing just how few non-whites clerk for the Supremes: only 2 percent of the 394 clerks ever hired by the current crop of Justices.
A story on the LAT front reports further on the increasing difficulties with U.S. intelligence's explanation for why that Sudanese plant must have been producing components for nerve gas (difficulties first broached last week by the NYT ). According to the LAT , German and British officials have quietly expressed the belief that possibly pharmaceutical products were made there.