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Stronger together is, I think, a preposition and a comparative adjective, but it's not really an action verb or what it is.

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Mark Shields
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 25
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Weymouth
Massachusetts
Mark Stephen Shields
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You want a leader, Western leader, English-speaking? Mitt Romney.
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There is always strength in numbers
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If Mitt Romney had got the percentage Ronald Reagan did of Hispanics, he would have defeated Barack Obama.
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