The school exists to this day - although it is now based at RAF Cranwell in Lincolnshire - and over the decades has cemented its reputation as a global centre for flight instruction.

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As a quid pro quo, the new law would have cemented the Orthodox monopoly over conversion.

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Gore, a bevy of 5-4 rulings broken down into ideological camps, and increasingly partisan confirmation standoffs over the past few decades have only cemented this transformation.

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