J. next year once it becomes a full-fledged member of the Big East Conference?

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And although the United States still refuses to become a full-fledged member of the International Criminal Court, it has begun to play a supporting role.

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Later on, Souter became a full-fledged member of the court's unabashedly liberal caucus, featuring yet another Republican, John Paul Stevens (appointed by President Ford in 1975), who remains a member of the court to this day.

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Russia, recall, is now a full-fledged member of the World Trade Organization, proof that it is broadly comfortable with the liberal international economic order, an order which the Soviet Union fought tooth and nail until it collapsed.

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We said we would engage Iran and give them an opportunity to take the right path, a path that would lead to prosperity and opportunity for their people and a peaceful region, and one in which they would allow themselves to become a full-fledged member of the community of nations.

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Within a year Germany was reunified as a full-fledged democracy and member of NATO.

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