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Coates

[ kohts ]

noun

  1. Eric, 1886–1957, English violist and composer.
  2. Joseph Gordon, 1878–1943, New Zealand statesman: prime minister 1925–28.


Coates

/ kəʊts /

noun

  1. CoatesJoseph Gordon18781943MNew ZealandPOLITICS: statesmanPOLITICS: prime minister Joseph Gordon. 1878–1943, New Zealand statesman; prime minister of New Zealand (1925–28)


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The Case for ReparationsTa-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic Two hundred fifty years of slavery.

Yet for writers like Coates, somehow none of this is enough.

Coates chronicles and pays his respects to this kind of proposal but seems to feel that they would be mere genuflection.

Coates argues that we need this as “the price we must pay to see ourselves squarely.”

According to the decision, “Both Dr. Coates and Dr. Schultz expressed their opinions that Mr. Allen did not sexually abuse Dylan.”

In answering the last question, you referred to a memorandum in your file from a Mr. T. R. Coates to you, is that correct?

He also succeeded in unhorsing Coates, by hurling, with great dexterity, the empty pistol at his head.

Why, Mr. Coates, that wall must be higher than a five-barred gate, or any stone wall in my own country.

"I take you for one sufficiently alive, in a general way, to his own interests," returned Coates.

We will now make inquiries after Mr. Coates and his party, of whom both we and Dick Turpin have for some time lost sight.

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