Any administration regards its positions before the court as political sallies as much as legal assertions.

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Mr Gore's sallies against big business help shore up his left wing against the challenge of Ralph Nader and the Green Party.

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Sometimes his sallies went nowhere, but often he would be right.

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He is not a team man, and has a disarming habit of making impulsive, off-the-cuff sallies which look only slightly better in opposition than they would in office.

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It's a good joke, from a slightly unexpected source (neither the rapper nor his possibly even more famous partner, Kim Kardashian, are best known for their self-deprecating sallies, although the title Kanye is supposed to be contemplating for his new album, I Am God, is said to be "half tongue-in-cheek").

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