In the Sweet case (1925 26), he won acquittal for a black family that had fought against a mob trying to expel it from its residence in a white neighbourhood in Detroit.
His foreign policy, for example, calls for ostracizing Russia for its undemocratic ways by expelling it from the Group of Eight industrialized powers, a hard-line position that he took long before Russia's war with Georgia this summer.
Delicious as the prospect is, they must expel it from their minds, as their captain, Alastair Cook, advocated.
Compared with 1991, the coalition did more (conquering Iraq, not just expelling it from Kuwait) with less.
However, most Arab countries, rather than following Egypt's lead, ostracized Egypt and expelled it from the Arab League.
The stock car drivers of Nascar, that bastion of good-ol-boys, expelled it from the racetracks.
The humiliating defeats that the Russian army suffered at the hands of the Germans, who expelled it from Poland, lowered the prestige of the monarchy further.
Some American politicians have threatened to expel it from the Group of 8 industrialized nations, to abolish the NATO-Russia Council and to keep Russia out of the World Trade Organization.
Italy, Luxembourg and the European commission all talked down the prospects of punishing Greece or expelling it from the Schengen system.
It is a story from my youth, and I feel that in writing it I am expelling it from myself, and that later I will feel bereft of something strong and pure.
