Not quite. The answer is C.
Which of these were the verbs Justice Kagan used?
The cautious versions. "Attempted to remove" and "did not have" report what happened without letting you see it, and "superiority" is a noun doing a verb's job.
These verbs report events without painting them. "Intended to rob" and "was damaged" are flat, and "victories" turns the action into a noun.
Her set. "Sought to strip" shows Congress reaching for something it wasn't owed. "Captured," "sailed" and "ran aground" put a pirate ship in front of you.
In two basically identical statutes passed in the early 1990s, Congress sought to strip the States of their sovereign immunity from patent and copyright infringement suits. . . .
In 1717, the pirate Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, captured a French slave ship in the West Indies and renamed her Queen Anne's Revenge. The vessel became his flagship. Carrying some 40 cannons and 300 men, the Revenge took many prizes as she sailed around the Caribbean and up the North American coast.
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