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• Later, these tractors would be used to tear down the fence and open the way for Hamas’s death squads.
  — Assaf Orion, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2023
• But even if his campaign goes nowhere, his words could open the way for others.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2023
• But even if his campaign goes nowhere, his words could open the way for others.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2023
• The second episode of And Just Like That... season 2 contains a lot of endings that open the way for change.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 23 June 2023
• In some wars, a deadlock might open the way for peace negotiations.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2023
• Low pay and lax supervision open the way for corruption.
  — Changdong Zhang, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022
• The city docks project has been in its engineering phase; the county commission’s formal acceptance of the grant should open the way for bidding in the months ahead.
  — Lawrence Specker | , al, 27 Mar. 2023
• The two proposals would open the way for sports betting, but in strikingly different ways.
  — Dallas News, 23 Sep. 2022
• Fortunately this trial happened and can open the way for more trials.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2022
• In the short term, moves like these could reduce Twitter’s costs and increase its revenues, and that could conceivably open the way for a return to the public markets in a few years’ time, via an I.P.O.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
• For labels, this has simplified a lot of their A&R work and could open the way for promising talent to unlock their actual potential.
  — Anto Dotcom, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2023
• Any clear classification as culture would open the way for governments across Europe to fund video game titles, as film and TV.
  — Callum McLennan, Variety, 10 July 2023
• The idea that objectivity might be poisonous seems to open the way to a kind of brain-melting relativism, the end of the possibility of knowledge itself.
  — Hari Kunzru, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
• The idea that objectivity might be poisonous seems to open the way to a kind of brain-melting relativism, the end of the possibility of knowledge itself.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 14 June 2022
• Plus, the idea of studying mouse sperm as a distinguishing characteristic could open the way for future studies to go even further in depth, and apply the same analysis to even more species.
  — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2018
• Related:Will special education debates open the way for school vouchers in Texas?
  — Talia Richman, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
• Related:Will special education debates open the way for school vouchers in Texas?
  — Talia Richman, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
• By allowing scientists to control the timing and length of sleep, Donlea’s flies should open the way for all sorts of fascinating new experiments.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2011
• Our current proof-of-concept study shows promising results that open the way towards the use of haptics for human-canine communication.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 July 2019
• It is designed to test the compatibility of rendezvous and docking systems for United States and Soviet spacecrafts in order to open the way for future joint flights.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 6 May 2021
• Russia says seizing Bakhmut would open the way to fully controlling the rest of the strategic eastern Donbas industrial region, one of the main objectives of its invasion a year ago.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 2 Mar. 2023
• The arrival of legal, adult-use sales in 2018 in California — the nation’s largest pot producer and the world’s fourth-largest economy — was seen as a breakthrough that would help open the way for federal legalization.
  — Gene Johnson, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2023
• The arrival of legal, adult-use sales in 2018 in California — the nation’s largest pot producer and the world’s fourth-largest economy — was seen as a breakthrough that would help open the way for federal legalization.
  — Gene Johnson, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2023
• Any flaws in the process, such as not triggering a gene or stimulating it too much, can open the way for biological imbalances and possible disease.
  — Brian Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Jan. 2023
• The humanitarian deal could soon open the way for a restart of negotiations in Mexico, say Western diplomats tracking the process.
  — Kejal Vyas, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
• Buried deep within the Inflation Reduction Act’s drug-price negotiation provisions is language that could open the way to a new era of biomedical breakthroughs and smarter health spending.
  — John L. Marshall, STAT, 11 Oct. 2022
• In a strategy not possible with rogue groups that take hostages, the U.S. typically has diplomatic channels with foreign governments that open the way for negotiations.
  — Louise Radnofsky, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2023
• The exemption to Dangote Cement is seen as a softening of the government’s position on a border closure that started in August last year, and could open the way for other businesses to fully resume exports across the country’s land barriers.
  — Emele Onu, Bloomberg.com, 9 Nov. 2020
• Morales' detractors fear a MAS election victory could open the way to the former president's return to Bolivia and his political rehabilitation.
  — Carlos Valdez and Christopher Torchia, Star Tribune, 25 Sep. 2020
• In a state that already places strict limits on abortions after twenty-two weeks of pregnancy but allows terminations in other circumstances, the Kansas ballot initiative was an effort by conservative activists to open the way to a total ban.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Oct 2024