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Example sentences for: lays

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Although it is the presenter who has ultimate control in the encounter--a control he may legitimate in terms of the interests of the “listeners out there,” their right to be entertained and to be protected from offensive views--the listeners who call in may challenge the norms he lays down in various ways, from dogged pursuit of a “personal relationship” with the presenter to equally dogged resistance to the “containment strategies” presenters employ.
Finkelstein carefully sets forth Goldhagen's distortion and disregard of the secondary literature; Birn masterfully lays bare his gravely flawed use and interpretation of archival sources.
Murakami lays several plot lines and, both consummate miniaturist and committed pessimist, appears to develop each carefully while keeping the mix unstable.
Nonetheless it lays groundwork, both personal and substantive, for further talks.
McPhee lays out a picture of young men who happened to go to Princeton and to possess gifts (a good eye, discipline) not unlike his own.