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The city council was notorious for voting down any measure t
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The city council was notorious for voting down any measure that would restrict its ability to wield power, so that it ______ a bill aimed to narrow the ambit of its jurisdiction was surprising only to the small few who had come to believe that the council would pull an about-face.
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29 Dec 2018, 05:51
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can someone explain to me why "took exception to" rather than "discard"? my guess is that so far "discard" means "get read of smth that is no longer necessary but the bill is smth completely new. what would you say? btw, "take exception to" means challenge, right? where do you recommend to check the translation of phrases?
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13 Jun 2019, 06:40
Carcass wrote:
The city council was notorious for voting down any measure that would restrict its ability to wield power, so that it ______ a bill aimed to narrow the ambit of its jurisdiction was surprising only to the small few who had come to believe that the council would pull an about-face.
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05 Jul 2019, 00:33
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The blank should be equivalent to something that the city council voted down. The correct answer would be took exception to and objected to. It cannot be discarded as it is too strong, the council took a collective stand against but it did not get rid of the bill already.
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