The abortion debate would no longer be an absolutist position on one side against an absolutist position on the other.
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But now, for good reason, the absolutist ethos is over.
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My mom, like Roz's mother, is decisive and an absolutist.
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You are at the fulcrum between the absolutist inane positions.
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She is also an absolutist on gun rights and abortion.
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Many Germans -- regardless of their personal politics -- dislike Turkey's absolutist leader.
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Republicans and Democrats have increasingly taken absolutist positions on the issue.
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Trump, though, is by his nature drawn to simply delivered, absolutist rhetoric.
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I don't consider myself an absolutist about anything — except for free speech.
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And so I would just caution against an absolutist perspective on this.
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"It&aposs not as draconian and absolutist as defense argues," Sewell said.
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But his support for gun rights has not always been so absolutist.
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But on that point, Snowden remains a kind of First Amendment absolutist.
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As a journalist I'm sort of an absolutist on the First Amendment.
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But I'm also not an absolutist 230 defender or a defender of platforms.
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But even Scalia could not live up to the absolutist position he espoused.
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But in truth, we've always known this about people of an absolutist bent.
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Trump is similarly changing his mind after campaigning as a Second Amendment absolutist.
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We are in real trouble if we apply blunt weapons to this, absolutist solutions.
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My conclusion so far is that you cannot take an absolutist view on this.
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"This is absolutist and totalitarian," opposition leader Carlos Legrand told local newspaper La Prensa.
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Even post-Charlottesville, some legal experts say the organization should maintain its absolutist stance.
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But, he said, technology executives who are "absolutist" on the issue are just wrong.
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For years, big tech companies have had a near-absolutist understanding of free speech.
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Now newly emboldened congressional Democrats have taken an absolutist stance against building a wall.
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Above all, they resent the charge that Sanders is an "all or nothing" absolutist.
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Your simple minded embrace of an absolutist stance on guns is part of your grassroots.
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"My conclusion so far is you cannot take an absolutist view own this," Obama said.
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"[M]ore than half of US adults take a non-absolutist position," according to Pew.
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That's a win for Sanders, who had called for absolutist opposition to the death penalty.
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"My conclusion so far is that you cannot take an absolutist view on this," he said.
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"The president of the college is committed to an absolutist position on free speech," said Mullen.
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Even I've caught myself taking photos in portrait lately, having once been a landscape photography absolutist.
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"My conclusion so far is you cannot take an absolutist view own this," the president said.
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This calls on us to address many challenging ethical and moral complexities that defy absolutist positions.
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The power of the Freedom Caucus, the House's most absolutist anti-tax faction, has only grown.
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You have to wonder: What will those who hew to a more conservative, absolutist line think?
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And maybe that's true, since he's been an absolutist on political speech since he started Facebook.
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Many Westerners gave a negative answer, thinking Islam is just too rigid and absolutist to secularize.
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Maybe they have had a total change of heart, after eight years of absolutist opposition to Obamacare.
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They dig deep into the realm of absolutist sonic realism, and they're unlikely to disappoint true purists.
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You can take absolutist positions and paint the country and the world as simpler than it is.
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The absolutist approach to allegedly dangerous information doesn't suggest progress toward a safer and more factual internet.
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Kirk of Illinois and back down from an absolutist obstructionist position and allow a hearing to proceed.
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They knew he was within his absolutist rights to use them if they dared "advise" too freely.
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As the country becomes less white, support for the absolutist view of the Second Amendment may weaken.
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Apple's absolutist position on encryption earned it bipartisan scorn at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in December.
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Condoleezza Rice became a self-described "Second Amendment absolutist," because of her experiences growing up in Birmingham.
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Millions of people have staked their lives in the years since on this rejection of absolutist rule.
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"Unfortunately one of the things with sugar is wine, but I'm not an absolutist about that," she says.
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Multiple polls have shown that the majority of Americans disagree with the absolutist nature of the Alabama law.
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President Obama echoed those remarks on Friday, saying technology executives who were "absolutist" on the issue were wrong.
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"I'm a First Amendment absolutist and believe in two things completely — the First Amendment and boobs," Travis said.
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She is also an absolutist on gun rights and abortion, a major issue in a deeply religious state.
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I have wondered for some time how many absolutist single-payer acolytes there really are within the Democratic Party.
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Each regime upheld an absolutist conception of power that left little room for public dissent, least of all satire.
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The upshots of adopting such an absolutist facade can be strung together into a fateful parable of sunk costs.
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Cusk's assertion that "autobiography is increasingly the only form in all the arts" is an extreme, even absolutist, position.
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Viewed from an absolutist Christian viewpoint, anything that isn't Christian is Satanic, since it stands in opposition to Jesus.
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American interests in 2018 should no longer be connected to an absolutist regime with no regard for human rights.
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To get anything passed, I thought, it would be necessary to separate some Republicans from the absolutist N.R.A. position.
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Most notably, Smith's advocacy of free markets and free trade were not nearly as absolutist as is often supposed.
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To make headway in negotiations, Mr. Trump will almost certainly have to soften some of his absolutist foreign policies.
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These positions are so absolutist as to be a danger to the country, and Congress needs to respond forcefully.
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It is also a liberal democracy and a beacon of rights in a sea of deeply conservative absolutist regimes.
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But on the issue of political speech—arguably the most important part of free expression—Zuckerberg remains an absolutist.
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If I'm unhappy with Apple for anything, it's for talking about data security and privacy in such absolutist terms.
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"I am a First Amendment absolutist and think anyone should be able to say anything they want," said Sessums.
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Surely The Economist should not support such absolutist claims by pointing to individual crime cases, however horrendous they may be.
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The law, with its absolutist standards for schools, was a bust, and its harsher provisions were often waived under Obama.
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It was rumored that Louis XVI was even forced to wear it following the overthrow of the French absolutist monarchy.
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More from Tonic: Pronouns produced a similar distributional pattern as absolutist words across the forums, but the effect was smaller.
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Some take an absolutist stance: it is morally wrong to take a deliberate decision to eliminate any species, however unpleasant.
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Today, the zero-sum game of absolutist taste has thankfully faded, leaving electronic producers free to openly praise the 'gaze.
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State of the Art From its earliest days, Silicon Valley has been animated by near-absolutist understanding of free speech.
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In his testimony on Capitol Hill last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave what sounded like an absolutist policy on hate.
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The return of authoritarianism in Russia, and the growing power of absolutist China, has undermined the argument at the geopolitical level.
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He also reintroduced the "Ratchasawat", a basic code of conduct for those in royal service rooted in the old absolutist court.
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In what may be an ominous sign, President Obama condemned what he called an "absolutist view" of encryption by privacy advocates.
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Although American foreign policy often sounds absolutist — "you are with us or against us" — the successful practice of diplomacy requires compromise.
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He pitched that as a counter to the visions of other Democratic candidates, who he implied are too pugilistic and absolutist.
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But don't listen to the security absolutist and tweetshamers who are gloating over what is admittedly a mistake on behalf of HEMA.
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But he spoke broadly about the need to balance privacy and security, and warned that absolutist views on both sides are dangerous.
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Nevertheless, the prevalence of absolutist words remained significantly greater than that of controls, but slightly lower than in anxiety and depression forums.
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The French Revolution, in particular, dispensed with absolutist monarchy in France and plunged all of Europe into a time of political instability.
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In contrast to Scalia's confession of fainthearted originalism (which Scalia himself repudiated in 2013), Gorsuch professes to be absolutist on the matter.
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But in Queensland and elsewhere, one variant of this new absolutist activism, anarchism, is testing the limits of the right to protest.
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But Philbin argued that the House managers failed to live up to the absolutist standard of evidence they had established for themselves.
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While The Favourite is a deliriously warped portrayal of an absolutist power structure, The Death of Stalin is about the reverberations of one.
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I'm wondering if you think people have become less absolutist about the First Amendment when it comes to the internet and content moderation?
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This absolutist rigor is precisely why we accord the status of "right" only to those claims that are essential to individuals' well-being.
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Like any country, Israel is a varied and complex place, and a real understanding of it will never come from an absolutist portrayal.
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Absolutist, or all-or-nothing, thinking, isn't a healthy way to cope, and is common among those with depression, researchers found in 2018.
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On the one hand are browsers like Safari and Firefox, browsers with code that increasingly take an absolutist stance against cross-site tracking.
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President Obama on Friday cautioned against adopting an "absolutist" stance on encryption, amid a heated battle between his Department of Justice and Apple.
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Both sides have taken absolutist positions that leave no room for the kind of split-the-difference compromise that usually ends budget impasses.
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And in Texas, that can lead to only one set of views when it comes to guns: the most extreme, absolutist stand, Scruggs says.
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There's an inescapable he-said/she-said dynamic, but one need not be a "believe all rape allegations" absolutist to find her claim persuasive.
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Made up of cabinets with newspaper clippings and other ephemera, it looks to juxtapose different fallacies and absolutist claims about current affairs through collage.
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"I am a free speech absolutist," he told Refinery230 in response to whether or not a comic's actions had disqualified them from future shows.
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President Barack Obama cautioned Friday against "absolutist" views on public safety and data security amid an encryption dispute between Apple and the Justice Department.
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Open-ended, pluralist, anti-hierarchical—the supposedly totalitarian document of absolutist Enlightenment thought turns out, in every sense, to be a manifesto for freedom.
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They received a vote of confidence from Mr. Obama on Friday, when he said the "absolutist" position taken by companies like Apple is wrong.
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It is unfortunate for Sanders, who seems infinitely sober and sensible, that some of his surrogates and supporters present themselves as absolutist and doctrinaire.
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But the legal system itself is not immune from the same extreme and absolutist language and views that has come to characterize our politics.
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The Freedom Caucus's absolutist demands have obscured a more fundamental point on which it and the Republican leadership agree: downsizing and hollowing out Medicaid.
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Sasse wrote that while he believes as "a 1st Amendment absolutist" it is Maher's right "to cross hard lines," though he should have spoken up.
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He might play footsie with the gun control lobby, but he knows his absolutist Second Amendment stance played a big role in his election victory.
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Putin has set himself up as the guardian of an absolutist culture against what Russia sees as the predatory and relativist culture of the West.
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And the National Rifle Association stays calculatedly quiet for a day or two, then truculently reasserts its absolutist opposition to any form of gun regulation.
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During the French Revolution, the fasces was adopted in order to validate the use of violence in the overthrow of an unjust French absolutist monarchy.
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You don't have to be a anti-copyright absolutist to see that this nigh-century of copyright is too long—not commercially helpful and actually harmful.
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This country cannot afford a justice on the Supreme Court who is likely to support the gun lobby&aposs extreme, absolutist interpretation of the Second Amendment.
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Whereas the continent had absolutist rule, the Napoleonic code and endless internecine wars, Britain had peaceful constitutional evolution, protection of individual rights and a globalised economy.
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Kerslake said that Cummings is a "very arrogant, absolutist, adversarial person" whose personal qualities would have a "negative" impact on the functioning of the civil service.
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The UX of the app makes room for exceptions, but still pushes users to reduce time on those sites, a big differentiator from more absolutist options.
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"We have engaged the tech community aggressively, and what my conclusion is so far is that you cannot take an absolutist view on this," he said.
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"My conclusion so far is that you cannot take an absolutist view on this," he said at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas.
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While he continued to claim the company was about bringing people together, he also made a free-speech absolutist case in defense of his life's work.
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"I consider that the Claimant's view, in its absolutist nature, is incompatible with human dignity and [the] fundamental rights of others," he wrote in his judgment.
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Following their amiable exchange, Cruz turned to Tribe, the liberal lion who agrees with conservatives that the Second Amendment protects individual rights but challenges the absolutist view.
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The 55-year-old conservative is a copyright absolutist who sees himself as someone who is defending artists and journalists in Europe against huge American tech companies.
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But now Sanders has taken a more absolutist position on charter schools, ramping up the stakes in a policy debate that often goes overlooked in federal campaigns.
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Now Pelosi is threatening that if voters give Democrats even a taste of that power, they will bring the same absolutist mentality to the halls of Congress.
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Kosovo will not be held hostage by a small group of violent religious extremists whose absolutist interpretation of Islam is overwhelmingly at odds with our secular tradition.
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Along the way, I want to make a plea for thinking about the debate over education reform in a more nuanced, less absolutist way than often happens.
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Neoliberals typically work within this more pessimistic tradition of liberal philosophy, and share the same idea of the absolutist state as offering the a priori framework for freedom.
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Yet neither that reverence, nor its enforcement, were self-evident necessities to the reformers who, in 1932, replaced a long line of absolutist kings with a constitutional monarchy.
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But many observers worry that an absolutist king and his courtiers are putting Thailand on course for a fresh round of protest—and the inevitable bloody put-down.■
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This week's Twitter war over Clinton's supposed lack of liberal credibility has signified that the political revolution Sanders promises will be an uncompromisingly strict one, if not outright absolutist.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bill Gates said on Monday that no one was an "absolutist" on either side of the digital privacy debate, but the co-founder of Microsoft Corp (MSFT.
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""My conclusion so far is that you cannot take an absolutist view on this," Obama said, characterizing advocates for strong encryption as "fetishizing our phones above every other value.
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Therefore, their greater tendency for absolutist thinking, even when there are currently no symptoms of depression, is a sign that it may play a role in causing depressive episodes.
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Yet here is the paradox: "I feel like" masquerades as a humble conversational offering, an invitation to share your feelings, too — but the phrase is an absolutist trump card.
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While ... ceilings range from medieval Granada to Rajasthan and Turkey, there is one age that dominates: the age of absolutist authority in Europe, of prince-bishops, popes, and kings.
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It's consistent with the absolutist use of "occupation" as defining Israel itself and with the view that the sea is a pretty good place for Jews to end up.
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Thanks in large part to interest groups like the National Rifle Association and the Federalist Society, the mainstream conservative pro-gun position has become absolutist and intolerant of any reform.
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"Khamenei does not rule over an absolutist system; although Iran's highest authority, he must nevertheless bend to the wind in order to preserve the regime," RAND's Alireza Nader points out.
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Even some of M.B.Z.'s admirers in diplomatic circles say that he can be too absolutist and that he has waded too deep into conflicts whose outcomes he cannot control.
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His work countered the philosophy of Carl Schmitt, a prominent conservative German political theorist who had sided with the Nazis and used his theories on absolutist authority to defend Hitler.
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With his gray hair long enough to brush the edge of his collar, Mr. Yokoyama recalled how he grew frustrated with journalism and what he saw as its absolutist lens.
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And even though Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said the wall is "off the table," earlier this week, Democrats described that as more of a negotiation posture than an absolutist position.
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And if the Kaepernick ad doesn't exactly fit the singular athletic greatness aspect, it does fit within the singular, absolutist, carved-from-salt message that Nike has been pushing for decades.
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I have always considered myself very nearly an absolutist as regards free speech, ironically for reasons that Moskowitz ably identifies in a book arguing that free speech is a bogus category.
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"Absolutist words"—which convey absolute magnitudes or probabilities, such as "always", "nothing" or "completely"—were found to be better markers for mental health forums than either pronouns or negative emotion words.
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But many said they worried about a return of the harsh political tactics, ideological zealotry and absolutist pronouncements that fed the fury of the Red Guards, Mao's teenage political shock troops.
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What's missing from these important conversations is a critique of our near-absolutist protection of hate speech in our justice system as seen in Supreme Court cases such as Whitney v.
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It's only at this point in the pathway that religion enters the picture, or rather an absolutist, all-explaining political ideology that is the weed that grows up next to religion.
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They are therefore destined to clash with those who study these things in depth, whose world, in Mr. Colvin's phrase, "is far more nuanced" than the absolutist worldview on display recently.
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While a number of Republicans said they had reservations about the transfer, key Republicans have not yet echoed his fervor in calling for absolutist language to be added to a continuing resolution.
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They worry that additional testimony might further undercut the absolutist insistence of Trump's defense team that "the president did absolutely nothing wrong," as White House Counsel Pat Cipollone told senators on Saturday.
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" But Trump campaigned in 2016 as a Second Amendment absolutist, warning his base of supporters that, if elected, Democrats would come for their guns while calling expanded background checks a "slippery slope.
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Cruz's absolutist approach was most clearly on display through his repeated attempts to shut down the government in an effort to re-litigate policy debates that Democrats have (rightly or wrongly) already won.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May is making Brexit minister David Davis's job of delivering Brexit harder because of her "absolutist" approach, according to his chief of staff who resigned last month.
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North and Weingast point out that from 1603 to 1714, when the United Kingdom was ruled by the absolutist Stuarts, the crown found it enormously hard to persuade bankers to lend it money.
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"What most people don't realize is that the 'absolutist' version of free speech is not supported by the US Supreme Court, which has ruled that a burning cross is not protected speech," adds Daniels.
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In recent decades, as the N.R.A.'s political power has grown, it has also taken on more of an absolutist position against any new regulations and politicians largely have bowed to the group's stance.
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Then again, this absolutist, obstructionist strategy is precisely what made Republican voters so angry and resentful over the past decade, and this anger fueled the popularity of Cruz and Trump in the GOP primary.
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Conservative news outlets on television, radio and the Internet had convinced the Republican political base for seven years that cooperation with him was a "betrayal" and that "maximalist absolutist" positions were advantageous, Obama said.
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Extremists' attempts, in the Middle East and Africa, to establish an absolutist state ruled by a rigid and twisted interpretation of Islam resonate most in societies where the existing state has failed its people.
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It wasn't entirely shocking to see certain bands promoting such absolutist views in the 90s, especially since black metal was still caught in the throes of a decade marred by extremist posturing and actions.
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Erickson, who is now 41, is a conservative absolutist who made his name in the mid-2000s by "blowing up" — in the Twitter parlance he jovially employs — Republican leaders he viewed as insufficiently principled.
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Oracle, a company headed by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs's longtime friend Larry Ellison with deep ties to the intelligence community, raised questions about taking an absolutist position in this case, according to sources.
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In fact, the tendency to justify or condemn violence by drawing upon absolutist terms such as good or evil masks more complex relations and avoids difficult but necessary questions about our shameful compromises. 8.
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Courtiers and royal guards are ordered to recite from memory the "Ratchasawat" or basic code of conduct for those entering royal service rooted in the old absolutist court of King Rama VI (225-20173).
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But change that one word -- device -- to weapon, throw in an absolutist notion of the Second Amendment, and mix it with a lot of lobbying by the National Rifle Association, and the debate changes. Automatically.
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Compared to 19 different control forums (for example, Mumsnet and StudentRoom), the prevalence of absolutist words is approximately 50 percent greater in anxiety and depression forums, and approximately 80 percent greater for suicidal ideation forums.
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The president and his supporters sometimes complain of "Trump derangement syndrome," which, they say, is when absolutist opposition to Trump prompts his critics to anathemize everything he says or does regardless of its objective merit.
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B.E.: What if someone were to argue that the concept of evil itself is philosophically and politically compromised, as it necessarily leads to such absolutist moral proclamations that leave no room for discussion or deliberation?
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"I'm really having a lot of trouble because you want to say, if it's not a legal proceeding, you can say anything you want," Jillette, who describes himself as a "free speech absolutist," told Hill.
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As HuffPost's Ariel Edwards-Levy writes, much of the blowback to the law is due to the fact that even those who oppose abortion broadly do not want to take such an "absolutist" stance on it.
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That's in part because it takes aim at the regulatory state and at credentialed experts (economists, climate scientists), and so aligns with absolutist anti-governmentalism as well as with those who view expertise as intrinsically elitist.
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Highlighting the essential paradox of his absolutist stand, Telegram temporarily became a preferred app for Islamic State to distribute its violent propaganda, including taking credit for the Paris attacks in November that left 130 people dead.
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We fight over abortion in absolutist terms, deadlocked in a battle in which we hurl rhetoric about choice and life, while remaining distracted from the reality that so many women have far too little of either.
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If Senator Elizabeth Warren is indeed so worried about protecting her left flank from Senator Bernie Sanders that she won't support a less absolutist "public option" plan, then the Democratic Party should choose a different candidate.
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It's about the long-simmering debate over whether it's fair for top-shelf NCAA talent to play for free (or nearly free) and whether the NCAA has become reckless in its absolutist defense of that bedrock principle.
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Just as the widely accepted "rape and incest" exception shows that abortion is not always murder in the eyes of its opponents, so does the latest polling suggest that supporters do not take an absolutist either/or position.
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Much has been written about the group's evolution from an occasionally pro-regulation sport-shooting club to an absolutist political lobby, culminating in a leadership putsch by more radical activists at the group's 27 annual meeting in Cincinnati.
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From absolutist positions on equal pay to whispered glee when the women's team failed to medal at the Rio Olympics this summer, the federation surely knows that a fan base divided against itself is not good for business.
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It found that the position of Maya Forstater, a 45-year-old tax expert who was sacked for tweeting that sex is immutable and cannot be changed, was "absolutist" and "not worthy of respect in a democratic society".
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By bringing the most absolutist members of Congress into his administration, such as Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, Trump divorced himself from his own presumptive strength — wheeling and dealing in a steady flow of dollars.
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The extremist-friendly social media site's reappearance was made possible by two companies and the men behind them: digital security provider Cloudflare, helmed by self-described "free speech absolutist" Matthew Prince, and domain registrar Epik, led by Rob Monster.
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Addressing a crowd full of SXSW Interactive tech festival attendees, President Barack Obama made a full-throated pitch for increased civic engagement in the tech sector and condemned what he called "the absolutist view" of encryption by privacy activists.
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Wilson writes: If society thinks someone is doing something wrong, and if law enforcement can get a warrant, there should be a mechanism to get access to our devices […] I am saddened by the tech sector's absolutist approach to this issue.
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While the nation's largest gun lobby champions the latest bills in its press releases, local lobbyists who take the NRA's absolutist rhetoric at face value find themselves chafing at its corporate model of working hand-in-glove with Establishment politicians.
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ALLAN HAUERCorrales, New Mexico Recall that the spread of scientific inquiry under Denis Diderot, Jean d'Alembert, and other figures of the 18th-century Enlightenment helped undermine support for absolutist rule in France and contributed to the end of the monarchy.
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The curtailment of mass subsidies on utilities and lavish public spending marks a change, as the Arab state has previously been generous in redistributing its massive oil wealth — partly as a means to stave off public restiveness with absolutist rule.
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The step is one of several that Twitter said it would take to crack down on white nationalists and other violent or hateful groups, which have become unwelcome on a service that once took an absolutist view of free speech.
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"My conclusion so far is you cannot take an absolutist view own this," Obama said at South by Southwest last month during the fight between Apple and the FBI over unlocking the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooting suspects.
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Seeing people try to squeeze Tlaib into the parameters of an absolutist, Twitter-driven debate about what is "right" or "wrong" to say about the Middle East is yet another feature of our contemporary political conversation that everything has to be simple.
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" President Obama said the encryption issue won't be settled with an "absolutist view," but he also said we are living in a world that is equivalent to all citizens "walking around with the equivalent of a Swiss bank account in our pockets.
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The Justice Department, led by William P. Barr, had also weighed in, writing in court filings that Mr. Vance's subpoena should be blocked for now but not adopting Mr. Trump's absolutist view that a sitting president could never be subject to criminal investigation.
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It was a peculiar era in which to be a teen-age girl, equally prudish and decadent: the era of Trump Tower and cocaine, AIDS and "Just Say No." It also made me a free-speech absolutist, wary of any clampdown on expression.
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Earlier in the year, he'd asked why the World Economic Forum was listening to her at all, and approvingly shared a Quillette article which called Thunberg a fanatic and "absolutist" and which argued adults had a duty to correct her childlike naiveté.
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And they raise an eyebrow at the contrast between the apocalyptic, absolutist rhetoric with which these schemes are regularly defended and their actual details, which seem mostly designed to enable the globe's statesmen to greenwash the pursuit of economic and political self-interest.
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Renault has decided to be absolutist with the materials used in the Trezor (which you can be when you're talking about a concept car that's in no danger of going on sale anytime soon), opting for only aluminum, carbon, leather, and wood on the outside.
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Worried that the term "free software" and Stallman's more absolutist philosophy would make their ideas less palatable to businesses that wanted to keep some of their code proprietary, the group settled on the label "open source," coined by Christine Peterson, to distinguish its aims.
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"This coup would be a most crucial step for Erdogan to replace Turkey's parliamentary democracy, which he has twice declared 'de facto over,' with an absolutist presidential system in which the legislative, executive and judiciary powers are virtually monopolized by the president himself," they added.
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The Trace's Adam Weinstein explains: While the nation's largest gun lobby champions the latest bills in its press releases, local lobbyists who take the NRA's absolutist rhetoric at face value find themselves chafing at its corporate model of working hand-in-glove with establishment politicians.
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But in essence, the department declined to adopt Mr. Trump's absolutist argument for immunity from criminal investigation, and instead urged the appellate court to have Judge Marrero take a closer look at the burdens a subpoena from a local prosecutor would impose on the president.
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For Qaboos, there was no contradiction in finding common ground with both the leaders of Israel and their sworn enemies in Iran or Palestine, just as there was no contradiction between his unusually absolutist monarchy and the modern, liberal and highly diverse society he governed.
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Digital combatants know that once speech goes up, we are loathe to moderate it; to retain this asymmetric advantage, they push an all-or-nothing absolutist narrative that moderation is censorship, that spammy distribution tactics and algorithmic amplification are somehow part of the right to free speech.
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The near absolutist position on gun rights, which leads lawmakers to pass bills like the one in Florida that makes it difficult for doctors to ask patients whether they have a gun at home, is the product of a particular moment in the history of gun ownership.
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" Locks told me that she and Lew were well aware that the painting was challenging, like a lot of other works in the show, and that they would have some difficult questions to face, but, she said, "we didn't think the response would be so absolutist.
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As they have in the past, Democrats framed the bill, as well as another proposal requiring background checks for gun buyers no matter where they purchase the weapon, as a commonsense measure for fighting terrorism that could only be opposed by those with absolutist opposition to gun control.
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Like many aspiring politicians before him, including Ted Kennedy, Al Gore, Dennis Kucinich and even Bill Clinton himself, he has turned away from any concerns for the life of the unborn child and embraced a full-throated absolutist position on abortion rights for the sake of his political advancement.
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Heller, Justice Kavanaugh joins other justices who have expressed absolutist views on the Second Amendment — Justice Thomas, Justice Neil Gorsuch and Justice Samuel Alito Jr. In 2011, then-Judge Kavanaugh, serving on an appellate court, wrote a dissent in a follow-up case to Heller that signals his views.
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" Mr. Taccone described Mr. Albee as an absolutist and a risk-taker, and said that "he would have his characters talking in his head for three months, and if he could have them talk in his head for three months, then they'd stay as viable characters to be written on the page.
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What's more, if the Senate takes seriously Mr. Trump's absolutist position, the chamber will be establishing a startlingly dangerous precedent: that Congress lacks the constitutional authority to investigate effectively criminal wrongdoing within the highest levels of the executive branch, in this instance, allegations of bribery and misuse of government office for personal gain.
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And it is in part because of Republican extremism on this issue — evidenced by the recent abortion ban passed in Alabama, for instance — that Democratic politicians, strategists and commentators are arguing, as if it is a natural conclusion, that Democrats ought to respond with a similarly defiant, absolutist approach on the issue.
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The Al Sauds have survived by making three compacts: with the Wahhabis to burnish their Islamic credentials as the custodians of the holy places of Mecca and Medina; with the population by providing munificence in exchange for acquiescence to absolutist rule; and with America to defend Saudi Arabia in exchange for stability in oil markets.
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When I talked to him about it, the genesis of the idea seemed to have more to do with drawing attention to the plight of homeless people rather than a exaggerated version of an NRA talking point—though he is also a Second Amendment absolutist who had extremely harsh words for the Parkland shooting survivors.
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Even some animal rights groups, while sympathetic to DxE's views, set themselves apart from its absolutist approach—targeting ostensibly conscientious businesses like Whole Foods and Chipotle, along with the very worst animal rights offenders—and acknowledge that, in a world where meat consumption has increased for decades, an incrementalist approach may be more effective.
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It isn't, but the Twitter conversation around the shooting clearly illustrated the simmering tensions over how platforms navigate content : there are those who hold an absolutist view on free speech and believe any moderation is censorship, and there are those who believe that moderation is necessary to facilitate norms that respect the experience of the community.
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I would have assumed he was fighting a straw man here, but one thing I've learned is that a certain class of liberal doesn't approach job loss from trade with a regrettable sense of the trade-offs, but instead a more absolutist belief that Americans don't have any claim on the jobs that go away anyway.
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How Right-Wing Social Media Site Gab Got Back Online | WIRED Speaking of the de-platformed being re-platformed, Gab found a new host: The extremist-friendly social media site's reappearance was made possible by two companies and the men behind them: digital security company Cloudflare, helmed by self-described "free speech absolutist" Matthew Prince, and domain registrar Epik, led by Rob Monster.
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"Senators have been elected to debate and amend, not simply take absolutist positions and expect everyone to come to them, If our members won't even let us debate our own bills on the floor, especially to accomplish something we've been promising for seven years, it's difficult to understand why they are here," said one GOP aide who is close to the process.
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"We are at a moment in history where technology, globalization, our economy is changing so fast," he said to a packed room at the Long Center in Austin, TX. Read MoreObama: 'Absolutist' views on encryption don't work He acknowledged that his past political campaigns were known for, "having really cool technology, and social media," and defended his work in the White House.
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"I conclude from this, and the totality of the evidence, that the Claimant is absolutist in her view of sex and it is a core component of her belief that she will refer to a person by the sex she considered appropriate even if it violates their dignity and/or creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment," Tayler added.
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"Whatever the Trump campaign claims is the current version of its Muslim ban, the original absolutist language of a 'total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States' — along with other bigoted statements — reflect a systematic and toxic use of Islamophobia that has had a tremendously harmful impact on the lives of ordinary American Muslims and on the unity of our nation," Mr. Awad said.
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Like numerous adherents before and after—the American poet-critics J. V. Cunningham and R. P. Blackmur, the English poet-critics Thom Gunn and Donald Davie, and the future U.S. Poet Laureates Robert Hass, Robert Pinsky, Philip Levine, and Donald Hall—Williams had been spellbound by Winters's authoritative tone and by a set of absolutist convictions relating not just to Anglophone poetry but to literature as a whole.
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"I will urge all of my colleagues who are standing in this contest to embrace the concept of compromise ... going to parliament with a hard line absolutist view and daring parliament to accept it is quite a dangerous strategy," he told BBC TV. Hammond said he could not support a no-deal strategy but declined to say what he would do if there was a vote of confidence in a government which adopted that policy.
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"I will urge all of my colleagues who are standing in this contest to embrace the concept of compromise ... going to parliament with a hard line absolutist view and daring parliament to accept it is quite a dangerous strategy," he told BBC TV. Hammond said he could not support a no-deal strategy but declined to say what he would do if there was a vote of confidence in a government which adopted that policy.
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But the worry is that Absolutist interpretations of complete central bank independence may both undermine the pursuit of new central bank objectives and fray the political support that currently exists for central bank autonomy in their core monetary policy function This blogger has had a few pops at central banks himself, largely on the grounds that they ignored the financial risks pre-crisis and that post-crisis, they have failed to meet their inflation targets, while quantitative easing (QE) has had a distorting effect on markets.
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Liberal intellectuals like Lord Byron both supported the rights of individual Catholics and assailed the absolutist dimensions of Catholicism itself; George IV's initial refusal to grant assent to the 1829 bill raised the question of the ultimate source of power in a parliamentary democracy; English Catholics desired increased freedoms and standing but didn't like being associated with Irish Catholics seeking the same, a divisive dynamic that also played out along class and lay-clerical lines; Protestant opponents wondered what it meant for Catholics to serve in a Parliament that had decision-making responsibilities for the Church of England.
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