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But can the jurists in the state Supreme Court’s majority resist invitations to yield to autocratic impulses?

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However, at a critical angle, the forces keeping the sandpile together yield to gravity: the pile breaks down and starts flowing, acting like a liquid.

The governor said California must balance the state’s strong worker protection laws with its status as a leader in technological innovation: “We reject that one aim must yield to the other, and our success disproves this false binary.”

Constitution’s supremacy clause, writing that it “declares that state law must yield to federal law when the two conflict.”

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The male driver failed to yield to officers and was involved in a traffic collision near 4th Street and Cherry Avenue, less than a mile from the start of the pursuit, according to Hannah Ortiz, spokesperson for the Long Beach Police Department.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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