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Example sentences for: franchise

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The 11-year-old action franchise "begs for a mercy killing" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). Many critics even wax nostalgic for the psychological acumen of earlier Lethal Weapon installments.
Just about every state in the United States, in fact, has strong franchise laws that limit the size and scope of dealerships, effectively regulate the allocation of vehicles to dealers, bar large-volume discounts, and prevent dealers from selling across state lines.
The preface begins with this characteristically Shavian sentence: “This book by Professor Wilson is one in which I should like everyone to be examined before certified as educated or eligible for the franchise or for any scientific, religious, legal, or civil employment.”
Had he done so, it would probably not have surprised the commentators who saw the $311 million purchase of the franchise by Murdoch's News Corp. as final evidence of the sacrifice of the national pastime to the greed and disloyalty of players and owners.
Having been through those huge postwar sci-fi voting machines, and then those infernal punch-card contraptions seemingly designed to deny the franchise to the bottom nine-tenths of the bell curve, we especially enjoyed the new technological breakthrough adopted by the election board (or whoever) here in suburban Seattle.