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Example sentences for: broached

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It was Lindsay, Broker says, who first broached the idea of having a senior volunteer attorney program, which is flourishing today.
There is no doubt that family names often provide a source of amusement, and some well-known place names persist in their references to things and activities otherwise rarely broached in polite conversation--you know, those places in Pennsylvania.
And the NYT seems thrilled to relate that the deal was first broached over duck and oysters beside the pool at the Four Seasons Hotel.
There's other news today: The NYT reports that the Communists are threatening Boris Yeltsin with impeachment if he renominates Viktor Chernomyrdin to be his prime minister (a story first broached earlier in the week by the LAT ); the WP and NYT report that government security guards in Beijing brutally hauled away the wife of a jailed dissident to keep her from delivering a letter of protest to the visiting U.N. commissioner on human rights.
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.