Example sentences for: davis

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  • 209, the California ballot measure outlawing racial and gender preferences in state hiring and college admissions, and that Davis would not do this.

  • On the positive side: It's a compelling document "of a life marked by high seriousness, good conscience and an utter refusal to submit to evil and oppression" (Jonathan Groner, the Washington Post Book World ), and upon reading it you "become persuaded that something about his combination of seeming innocence and moral honesty has the power to move if not mountains then those who have the most power" (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, the New York Times ). But complaints against the book are uniform: 1) This volume "feels anti-climactic" (Duane Davis, Denver Rocky Mountain News ) when compared with his first because it lacks the kind of compelling events that shaped his early life.

  • The NTSB recommended that the seats be redesigned, and Gov. Gray Davis, D-Calif., promised to re-examine a school bus seat-belt law passed by the California legislature earlier this month.

  • Davis surveys disaster stories set in Los Angeles, but he's an insecure literary critic, and his emphasis on the fairy tale aspect of natural disaster undermines the facts that have gone before.

  • Lanny Davis (The public's rating: -1 )


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