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It also fell to Kosygin to fill in the disillusioning details of the ninth Five-Year Plan, which Brezhnev had expounded in glowing generalities at the start of the Congress.

From Time Magazine Archive

And yet the attack upon 'mixed governments,' which Bentham had expounded in the Fragment, has a real force which Macaulay seems to overlook.

From The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

Furthermore he imprisoned those who had devised his destruction with lies and leasing and gave him full leave and license to pass judgment upon the Interpreter who had expounded to him the dream.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 11 [Supplement] by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

It is the case of Samson when he had to give thirty changes of raiment to those who had expounded his riddle.

From Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854) by Griffiths, Julia

No answering flame burned in his heart as it had burned that evening by the bridle path in Jackson Park when she had expounded another idea.

From Windy McPherson's Son by Anderson, Sherwood