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"clear-cut" Definitions
  1. definite and easy to see or identify
"clear-cut" Synonyms
clear unambiguous unequivocal plain unmistakable explicit definite indubitable manifest straightforward evident unambivalent categorical definitive distinct express nonambiguous specific lucid luculent special precise exact appropriate particular actual complete detailed certain given specified proper defined accurate literal scrupulous meticulous positive conclusive dependable irrefragable undisputable reliable undoubted undoubting unquestioned convincing guaranteed unchallengeable undisputed exhaustive fixed incontestable easy effortless simple painless unchallenging uncomplicated unproblematic breezy elementary obvious quick rudimental attainable facile mindless smooth uninvolved untroublesome basic strong compelling effective cogent coercive persuasive powerful sharp firm incisive influential telling assured authoritative efficacious hard and fast binding rigid set strict stringent cast-iron established immutable inflexible invariable rigorous unalterable unchangeable unvarying incontrovertible unchanging acerb acerbic acid biting caustic cutting drilling laconic mordant sarcastic sardonic satirical scathing severe slashing tart terse trenchant sole deliberate exclusive especial alone lone one only single singular unique purposeful peculiar perfect correct true spot-on textbook dead-on faultless flawless picture-perfect whole bang on reasonable sensible rational logical reasoned intelligent just fair practical sound equitable wise commonsensical credible judicious acceptable decent objective realistic sober concise succinct curt brief short pithy crisp compact epigrammatic compendious aphoristic summary thumbnail condensed monosyllabic apothegmatic elliptical sententious chop fell flatten level chop down cut down hack down bring down saw down clear-fell bring to the ground cause to fall hew raze topple floor blast ground blow down More
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Or is it going to be a clear-cut winner, and if it's a clear-cut winner, who is it going to be?
And number two, the other thing it tells me is there's a vacuum of leadership within the party and there's no clear-cut leader in the Democratic Party, there's no clear-cut choice.
But some experts warn that the picture isn't clear cut.
On election interference, though, Pence's case is less clear cut.
What makes someone male or female isn't so clear cut.
How the investment bank has performed is less clear cut.
But the reality of it isn't nearly so clear cut.
This section of Romans is quite controversial, not clear cut.
But the second issue of obstruction is less clear cut.
The case against Pelosi is by no means clear cut.
It isn't quite as clear cut as that in France.
But another controversial decision by Trump is less clear cut.
"  "To me it's clear-cut — Joe Biden is our superstar.
Some argue its environmental benefits are not so clear cut.
That wouldn't seem as clear cut as it does now.
A clear-cut, universal problem that could happen on any show.
Jordan himself suggested that the term "abuse" is not clear-cut.
But the situation in many places is far less clear-cut.
But Lee's reporting suggested things might not be so clear cut.
The parallels between 1964 and 2017 aren't clear-cut, of course.
Sudan: The effort here isn't as clear cut as in Libya.
We don't have as clear cut a story this time around.
Ben Stein: Well to me, the lines are absolutely clear cut.
This was, she continued, a clear-cut case of "love jihad".
When he said yes, the decision was clear cut for me.
Sessions was clear-cut before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week.
But after college, she finds herself without a clear-cut direction.
Evidently, the issue wasn't as clear-cut as ESA made out.
The end result was a clear-cut unanimous win for Miller.
In fact the distinction is not as clear-cut as that.
The results were not as clear-cut as we had hoped.
In fact, it was almost exactly the opposite: not clear-cut.
Even German cuisine has a clear-cut identity: beer und sausage.
But this, too, may be less clear-cut than it feels.
But for parents of young adults it's not so clear cut.
There is no clear-cut hero and villain in Tiger King.
But for streaming companies, the answer is not as clear-cut.
When it comes to defining wealth, there's no clear cut answer.
The polling on the issues is not so clear-cut, however.
In the field of three, Ellison remains the clear cut favorite.
"It's a pretty clear-cut example of impropriety," he told CNN.
But director Peyton Reed isn't interested in a clear-cut villain vs.
But the politics are not as clear-cut as the moralistic language.
In states where there is no clear-cut legislation, there is confusion.
There is no clear cut evidence that these were made by biology.
The case for social media as a discovery tool isn't clear-cut.
The 52%-48% Leave victory in 2016 was narrow but clear-cut.
However, taking his grievances to court may not be so clear cut.
"She has emerged as the clear-cut person to beat," he said.
The central battle is as clear-cut a fight between good vs.
Yet here, too, things are less clear cut than one might suppose.
None of it, however, will be as clear-cut as it looks.
Not all body parts under the thermographic lens are as clear-cut.
It's hard to find a more clear-cut case of securities fraud.
"There isn't a clear-cut way to be a parent," she continued.
Yet any decision to reduce allocation may not be so clear cut.
Tarantino is too smart to make this all that clear-cut, though.
There, police brutality was understood to be a clear-cut LGBTQ issue.
Still, Trump's team sought to portray the results as clear-cut wins.
There could be benefits there, but they are not as clear-cut.
To many commenters, the sides in Black Panther aren't so clear cut.
The next president will not find such a clear-cut playbook waiting.
This coming season looks wide open and without a clear-cut favorite.
Under U.S. domestic law, concluding wars is not a clear-cut process.
Trump's clear-cut opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership made a difference.
He took on all of them and he clear cut the field.
Not many colleges have clear-cut rules on cryptomining in the dorms.
Maybe, although it was nowhere as clear cut as many are pretending.
The outcome outside the capital is likely to be less clear-cut.
"It's not 100 percent clear-cut one way or another," Mackowiak said.
Needless to say, it was a clear-cut win for the Pole.
To his credit, Mr. Harper does not set up clear-cut dichotomies.
The short answer is likely yes — but it's not so clear-cut.
The end result, then, was a clear-cut decision win for Prazeres.
But I was "lucky" — an unmistakable case with every clear-cut symptom.
Their mission will be clear: cut off Trump to save the Senate.
To Chand, though, the issue of hyperandrogenism in sports is clear cut.
One of Dr. Zitter's compelling patient narratives teaches a clear-cut lesson.
The foresters say dead wood must be clear-cut for safety reasons.
Other Catholic moral theologians say the church's ban is not so clear-cut.
But the public isn't as clear cut on whether that's unfair to Trump.
Startups aren't afforded the discretionary time to make for such clear-cut decisions.
And yet the relationship between unconventional musical success and stardom isn't clear-cut.
The trigger could well be a clear cut indication of a Trump victory.
Whether or not everyone with a vagina can squirt is less clear-cut.
The answer to that question is a clear-cut "no" under US law.
Goes Cube has spent over a decade defying any clear-cut genre descriptions.
Many suspect that clear-cut sexism has given way to more subtle discrimination.
"As a songwriter, that's a clear cut challenge," Amos says of the offer.
It was the first time for me to be the clear-cut star.
When it comes to the real-world construction, things aren't so clear-cut.
Meanwhile, the terrain in Somatik's home state is also not as clear-cut.
Sorcerers can bend reality because of this clear-cut, if extremely esoteric reason.
The MLA's protections include clear-cut guidelines for bank and non-bank lenders.
That kind of choice is rarely clear-cut, and it isn't for Amal.
Relationships used to be more linear, with clear-cut "commitment phases," Knopp says.
"I don't think there is a clear cut, formalised divestment process," Eusman said.
Getting rid of spam is not as clear-cut as everyone might think.
The US has had more clear cut successes squeezing North Korea's overseas revenues.
The extent of the political fallout in November will be less clear cut.
The economy itself may not provide a clear-cut picture for Fed watchers.
Have the rules explained in a clear-cut fashion and enforce it consistently.
Since then, while no clear-cut criteria have ever quite emerged, certain patterns
Other policymakers have said the case for a cut is not clear cut.
But other factors leading to the 2018 rate increases aren't so clear-cut.
The race for the second Wild Card spot, though, was less clear-cut.
Its first clear-cut expression was not Trump's victory but Britain's Brexit vote.
But Tara Lachapelle of Bloomberg Opinion argues it isn't a clear-cut winner.
But the role of dealer is far less clear cut than lawmakers envisioned.
Ms. Alqasem's credentials as an anti-Israel activist are far from clear-cut.
But it's a great (and timely) topic because there's no clear-cut answer.
Often, reasons aren&apost clear-cut, but you should generally follow your gut.
Whether Catholic identity will play any role in politics is less clear cut.
Ric Edelman, founder of Edelman Financial Engines, says the answer isn't clear-cut.
But this time feels different, maybe because it's so simple and clear cut.
Trish Maselli, founder and CEO of Clear Cut Accounting Services in Ivoryton, Conn.
But bold campaign rhetoric does not always translate into such clear-cut action.
"For the first time ever, the numbers are really clear cut," Masters said.
Plagiarism is often more clear-cut in nonfiction, but there are murky areas.
But for members of the opposition, the issue is not so clear cut.
"It's not clear-cut whether Amazon will be overwhelmingly powerful here," said Larke.
What were defined and seen as clear cut boundaries remain brittle in Cambodia.
But for people who identify as men, the findings were not as clear-cut.
The returns to education, even for the high-skilled, have become less clear-cut.
Ric Edelman, founder of Edelman Financial Engines, says the answer isn't that clear-cut.
In the Amazon rainforest, one soccer field-size area is clear-cut every minute.
"I think people often expect any genetic test to be clear cut," she said.
"There are clear-cut abuses and problems in TANF regarding its implementation," he said.
But the thing is, the benefits of this new rule aren't so clear cut.
But this is not a clear-cut tale of villainous police versus righteous activists.
"There are clear-cut abuses and problems in TANF regarding its implementation," he says.
However, Citi believes the case in health care is not quite so clear cut.
And scientists don't expect clear-cut answers to this year's icy mystery anytime soon.
Most of the time the effects of gravitational lensing are not so clear-cut.
In Serbia, another aspiring EU member, support for the bloc is less clear-cut.
On the manufacturing issue, the case for a recession is far from clear-cut.
Nope. But matters of the heart (and the pussy) are never so clear cut.
So many of the previous allegations have involved clear-cut cases of workplace harassment.
And unlike the last Cold War, the answer is not clear cut and immediate.
But when it happens with a friend, things are a little less clear cut.
Well, not everything is so clear-cut when it comes to wireless gaming mice.
Things are not quite so clear-cut on the other side of the Atlantic.
Our editorial bent is more clear-cut: How much money is going into startups?
"It's a pretty clear cut example of impropriety," Bell said in a phone interview.
However, this is not clear cut, says Jonathan Loynes, chief economist at Capital Economics.
A critical look at the evidence suggests that things aren't quite so clear-cut.
But the reality is a bit more clear-cut: Brown's attack isn't off base.
" But Wang called China's response to North Korea's nuclear activity "clear cut" and "responsible.
"This case is clear-cut and demands immediate attention and action," Abu Baker added.
First, Cramer found no clear-cut reason for the pullback that began on Friday.
Moments later, Matthews had a clear-cut breakaway but was stopped again by Hutchinson.
Eberhardt may have rejected a conventional life, but Tabouret's portraits are less clear-cut.
But the opposition won neither a real victory nor a clear-cut moral one.
That's when I knew it had to be not ambiguous and very clear cut.
Peraza's indictment shows "how serious and how clear-cut this case was," Schoen said.
But the job of a startup's board is less clear-cut and more problematic.
The metrics for presidential success aren't as clear cut as return on equity either.
Dortch feels the lawsuit is clear-cut and that precedent is on Huffman's side.
Each of those matches was a clear cut above the rest of the show.
Of course, the report is nowhere near as clear cut as McConnell frames it.
This was not as clear-cut a choice as a lot of people suppose.
We want clear cut answers, but see through a glass darkly, as Scripture says.
The evidence doesn't have to be 100 percent clear-cut, but it should exist.
The misleading about drinking happens to be unusually clear-cut rather than unusually significant.
The relationship between the number of officers and lawful behavior is not clear-cut.
But support for Abolish ICE as an actual policy idea isn't as clear-cut.
Upon first glance, this illustration looks like a clear cut burst of colorful patriotism.
But her fate in Minnesota was not as clear-cut as she had hoped.
But dealing with this issue is not as clear-cut as it might seem.
"Of course," O'Neill said of added pressure in having the clear-cut Derby favorite.
Your hope was to maybe have two guys, clear-cut, step up and dominate.
If it was predation, it wasn't the most clear-cut, the most vicious kind.
Not all the issues are as clear-cut as not having an oven, though.
The end result, then, was a clear-cut unanimous decision win for the champ.
Certainly, stories with clear-cut heroes and villains can be a lot of fun.
Despite this loss, however, he remains a clear-cut member of the featherweight elite.
And in many cases, the implicit assumptions underlying harassment are far less clear-cut.
There are about "538 genes with clear-cut influence on intelligence test scores," Zimmer writes.
Republicans who heard the same information were insistent that it was not so clear-cut.
Colorado Civil Rights Commission, as a clear-cut issue of LGBTQ rights versus simple bigotry.
Like many people with mental health issues, he did not get a clear-cut diagnosis.
So the traditional divide between the law and suspects isn't so clear-cut down there.
And when you've got a thousand scientists being so clear cut you can't ignore them.
Suddenly, the difference between 19 and 16 isn't as clear-cut as it initially seemed.
But Audrey Wells' screenplay isn't your average Y.A. fare, with clear-cut good and evil.
And I just am not a real clear-cut division of labor kind of person.
"There is no clear-cut policies where to go and what to do," Allawi said.
In Brooks' world, there are no shades of grey, just clear-cut good and evil.
In Turkey, the case for action is more clear-cut given a recession-hit economy.
O.J. Simpson last year, there's no clear-cut favorite going into this star-studded category.
A clear-cut issue with 3D printed guns is where they're outright breaking the law.
It was an unexpectedly wide-ranging and clear-cut ruling, and it has enraged China.
Brexit was less clear-cut since the consequences of a Leave vote were not obvious.
If so, that offers a clear-cut rationale for moving on that few would question.
Parenting is difficult, and there's no clear-cut right or wrong way to do it.
But she at least avoided a clear-cut defeat at her left-wing rival's hands.
Democrats are demonstrating that this will be a clear-cut issue in the 85033 elections.
This clear-cut warning completely overshadowed the rhetoric about unity and it was vintage Trump.
The line between legally protected free speech and outright incitement to terrorism isn't clear cut.
But issues like how the brain processes trauma are unfortunately less obvious and clear-cut.
She figured that her case was clear-cut when she went to the sidewalk court.
San Diego was less clear-cut, he said, but does have biotech and defense clusters.
Was it frustrating for you to know that you wouldn't have a clear-cut ending?
It seems like something they should come around about because this is fairly clear-cut.
It clear-cut an apparent path to success through the messy thicket of my life.
But in Britain, with Brexit just five months away, things are much less clear cut.
" But Randall W. Jackson, now a defense lawyer, said, "I don't think it's clear cut.
Job growth was healthy, but Mr. Trump's role in it is not so clear-cut.
What you'll find on his feed is clear-cut advice on how to do so.
I don't believe the alignment is as clear-cut on any other computer I own.
But for now, Bruce has focused more on the clear-cut statistics behind his hitting.
Lesser issues that aren't so clear cut, like I noticed TNT didn't fire Samantha Bee.
For fans of the novels, this seemed like a pretty clear cut scene to adapt.
Look, things don't make sense in a clear-cut way during an Azealia Banks gig.
Initially, what happened appeared clear-cut: young boys were mocking a peaceful Native American elder.
But there are no clear-cut or neatly defined answers in We Wanted a Revolution.
The answer may not be as clear-cut as we previously thought, a new paper suggests.
And the question of what Facebook owes to journalists and researchers is not so clear-cut.
The consequence of all this number-crunching is not as clear-cut as environmentalists might hope.
Campbell's earliest GMO label, which you can see above, is actually a pretty clear-cut example.
In the end, things weren't quite so clear cut, even after several seasons of relentless excitement.
This concept of a drop and immediate rebound only works when there's a clear-cut favorite.
"Unfortunately with the Chinese policy, it's never clear cut....there's lack of clear policy," he said.
He felt that Ohlin's model disagreed with Haberler even if Ohlin himself was less clear-cut.
But like everything that he and Manchester Orchestra have written, it's not clear-cut in context.
But, he said, moderation is no clear-cut concept in a nation of 330 million residents.
But the reality of Reddit's unique visitors is not as clear cut as you might think.
We flew over acres of clear-cut land and through plumes of smoke from burning trees.
Which is fine, except for the fact that most sexual assaults are rarely so clear cut.
That there is some clear-cut divide that pits younger and older feminists against one another?
Garner's sister, Ellisha Garner, said the video was clear-cut and the officers should be fired.
Garner's sister, Ellisha Flagg, said the video was clear-cut and the officers should be fired.
However, abortion isn't necessarily the clear cut topic that it appears to be from those numbers.
Nonetheless, Trump's lawyers and political supporters called the end of the investigation a clear-cut vindication.
Frankly, proponents on both sides often get this wrong by portraying the issue as clear-cut.
The United States doesn't normally hold such parades unless there is a clear-cut military victory.
But burnout means different things to different people, and the symptoms are not so clear cut.
So, manipulating this system produces the kind of clear-cut response that scientists can work with.
"There's no clear-cut path on how you're going to go after him anymore," he said.
I found that this time around, Wendy's breakfast menu has some clear-cut advantages over McDonald's.
Mr. Moonves made his name as a programmer of shows with clear-cut villains and heroes.
President-elect Trump, thank you for your warm friendship and your clear-cut support for Israel!
These days, a lot more people get frustrated when art doesn't have a clear-cut moral.
That clear-cut approach is evident before a single living person sets foot on the stage.
Or teams may not want to hold a guy back, if there's one clear-cut way.
That shocked career scientists who were asked to publicly reject clear-cut science, the emails show.
"It was really cool, but there wasn't a clear-cut way to get involved," she said.
The Australian prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, seemed to think the matter was not so clear-cut.
The fact is that, as far as Trump's behavior goes, there is no clear cut answer.
The cause and effect may be a little more clear-cut for the New York Times.
But it's important we understand the meaning of the data, because it's not so clear-cut.
But when he looks back, he doesn't see the clear-cut triumph portrayed in press releases.
Rather than prioritizing efficient, clear-cut, quantifiable rules, this would instead politicize the process even further.
That's because it is very open-ended, and it does not have a very clear-cut answer.
It's one that doesn't have a clear-cut answer and that I am often ashamed to ask.
There may not be any clear-cut answers here except for this one: Yes, absolutely he is.
The biggest clue that "The Ice Dragon" gives us, therefore, is that nothing will be clear cut.
There are not clear-cut partisan end-points for most of what we are dealing with here.
But for the foot soldiers who actually fight in the political infowar, it's not so clear-cut.
But the boundary between long-term structural unemployment and the temporary, cyclical kind is not clear-cut.
The series star, Bryan Cranston, has a pretty clear cut answer though, as Entertainment Weekly reported Tuesday.
Still, as it applies to businesspeople, this category is not as clear-cut as the "professional" license.
As we wrote in our report last week, this is a clear-cut positive for Tyson Foods.
As a result, the average consumer now has numerous financial relationships, each with a clear-cut purpose.
Fair use protects transformative works, Becker says, but the line for what defines transformative isn't clear cut.
Web companies would have up to one week to decide on cases that are less clear cut.
Wal-Mart: Without a clear-cut strategy to beat Amazon, Cramer would rather sell than own it.
These promotions made them the clear-cut favorites to succeed Buffett once he departs from his post.
"This marks the first clear-cut easing event over the past two years," the Vienna Initiative said.
However, advertisers cautioned that some of Facebook's statistics may not be as clear-cut as they seem.
But, the line between winners and losers from the deal is not immediately obvious or clear cut.
In the past, all attempts to divide the world into clear-cut nations have resulted in war.
Yet most of the questions about content moderation that YouTube wrestles with are much less clear-cut.
It has 6GB RAM, a Snapdragon 636 processor, and a 3,000mAh battery; a clear cut midrange device.
"I don't think the current study provides any clear cut evidence of causation," DiBaise added by email.
Normally, when the Fed starts loosening policy it does so amid clear-cut signs of economic weakness.
She continued with "Born This Way," one of the most clear-cut LGBTQ anthems in her repertoire.
"It gave our guys a clear-cut reason to get to yes," one senior GOP aide said.
Less clear-cut content will have to be removed within a week if shown to be illegal.
Fifteen feet up a hickory, I watched a tree line at the edge of a clear cut.
It's not a clear cut case that a trade deal necessarily helps the economy in either country.
There were, for instance, far fewer witnesses, and what they actually saw was not as clear-cut.
A clear-cut solution for misinformation might be appealing, but DiResta has found that it doesn't exist.
Few of America's battles over truth have been fought over such direct and clear-cut moral issues.
Dennis Jullens, lecturer in accounting at the University of Amsterdam, said the rules were less clear-cut.
A disruption to an oil pipeline has a relatively clear-cut impact on the price of crude.
At a hearing on Tuesday, a military judge said the evidence so far was not clear-cut.
But as von der Leyen's call for reform indicates, this hasn't been as clear-cut in practice.
It's not as clear-cut as some of these cases are, and that's why they're so tough.
There's no clear-cut evidence Blac Chyna was wielding a knife when she allegedly threatened her hairdresser.
"China's position is firm and clear cut," Shuang told media at a regular press briefing in Beijing.
The National's new songs defy the idea that maturity means settling down and discovering clear-cut choices.
The mixed verdict showed the difficulty of prosecuting terrorism cases when the evidence is not clear-cut.
Ms. Brown appeared on NBC's "Today" show and described Mr. Conyers's conduct as clear-cut sexual harassment.
In a dynamic global labor market, that is not a clear-cut forecast of 4.3 million layoffs.
Several works playfully call Casa Triângulo's institutional framework into question, overwhelming clear-cut categorizations and discrete aesthetics.
To be honest, I'm struggling to understand how it's not already a clear-cut case of discrimination.
But that is because there is a clear-cut way to judge quality on the basketball court.
Although Beauty Generation won top honors last season, it was not a clear-cut case of superiority.
"There are clear-cut abuses and problems in TANF regarding its implementation," he told me in May.
This time, however, the impact of any block on rare earths may be far less clear cut.
But those with deep knowledge of N.C.A.A. rules say that the case is not so clear cut.
"It's not so clear cut," said Fabienne Lambert, the internal investigator at the United Nations Population Fund.
The rules for private health insurance that covers most working-age Americans aren't nearly as clear-cut.
But while his focus is on social justice and reducing poverty, his ideology is hardly clear cut.
Buddy, if you think reality is that clear-cut, you picked the wrong show to star in.
"This is a clear-cut decline into massive famine that is man-made and avoidable," he said.
Most are promising a crackdown on migrants, with admission reserved for clear-cut cases of political persecution.
What looks like a total disaster to one person seems like a clear-cut victory to another.
One idea underpinning the mortgage boom was that homeownership was a clear-cut route to building wealth.
Those earning at least $1 million in income seem to be a clear-cut case as well.
As you know better than I, the Scriptures themselves indicate that the Resurrection wasn't so clear cut.
Does this constitute clear-cut evidence of collusion or conspiracy on the part of the Trump campaign?
The Ukraine matter is also relatively clear-cut and easy to explain to the public, lawmakers say.
The things that are not so clear cut are what need to be confronted, on whatever level.
In this particular fight, who had the political leverage in a shutdown fight was less clear-cut.
A president sleeping with a White House intern, by contrast, is clear cut-and-dried sexual harassment.
EST, says that contrary to popular belief, it's not super clear-cut what constitutes an issue with alcohol.
While blindness, HIV and incarcerated parents are either afflictions someone has or doesn't, autism is less clear-cut.
But finding a good online tool to work with may not be as clear-cut as you think.
The debate around land transfers is exceedingly complex, but suffice to say that it's not so clear-cut.
But as Golshan notes, the question is not clear-cut, and legal scholars are divided on the issue.
MDMA needs to be administered by trained professionals in special settings with clear-cut safety parameters, he says.
The situation is not as clear-cut in Pakistan, which has been the largest recipient of Chinese investments.
All attempts to divide the world into clear-cut nations have so far resulted in war and genocide.
Cost of goods sold normally covers raw material and labor expenses, but also other, less clear-cut expenses.
Compared to this convoluted web of nonsense, the Ukrainian leg of the expedition is almost remarkably clear-cut.
"It's really a very clear cut concept on what is a planet and what is not," he said.
"It gave our guys a clear-cut reason to get to yes," one senior GOP aide told CNN.
Tesla's autonomous parking capabilities are fairly limited to clear-cut spots like those in lots or in garages.
" It said they were instructed to be "reliable in politics and take a clear-cut and firm stance.
Today, there are no clear-cut guidelines regarding the privacy of the data, nor its ownership and control.
So his struggle to answer wasn't BS — it was a struggle because there isn't a clear-cut answer.
He may not be a clear-cut No. 1 overall quarterback, but he's definitely in the right tier.
"Thank you for raising that question, it's really important and there's a very clear-cut answer," Stein responded.
The ethical problems with the various small creatures we stuff into cages and tanks are relatively clear-cut.
But even in cases where wrongdoing is clear-cut, the maximum statutory penalty under the FDCPA is $500,000.
Specific numbers aside, however, Trump wakes on Wednesday as an even more clear-cut front-runner than before.
It has a clear-cut message: The leveraging of sanctions against Iran has lost its credibility and effectiveness.
Of the many drugs that I am infused with, some have familiar, clear-cut effects: Benadryl, steroids, Ativan.
He beat Hollywood, the GOP establishment, he clear cut the whole field -- PAYNE: A race to 43 percent.
As Politifact points out, the definition of terrorism in the U.S. is not clear-cut across government agencies.
Some have set about to heal these wounds by purchasing clear-cut lands and attempting to restore them.
While there is no clear-cut, universally accepted legal definition of consent, the jury instructions offered one version.
His positions on energy and NAFTA are less clear cut, but past statements have spooked many business leaders.
Yet prosecutors say obstruction is not a clear-cut matter and corrupt "intent" would have to be proved.
You write that debates over the kowtow and their supposed effect on future relations are not clear-cut.
"We have a clear-cut case of coldblooded murder against the Negro," the district attorney told a reporter.
As the movie explores the consequences of what she learns, nothing is as clear-cut as it seems.
Studies using observational data tend to be weaker, messier, and less clear-cut than experimental studies like RCTs.
Israeli experts say, without any clear-cut proof, that Iran was behind a pair of recent purported attacks.
"I couldn't bear to see everything clear-cut and knocked down and thrown into the heap," she said.
And for more than a century, coal companies have clear-cut hollows to burrow into the earth below.
You'll then receive some clear-cut suggestions for your next steps, based on up-to-date CDC recommendations.
Some people had presumed that more videos would hand juries clear-cut answers to accusations of police misconduct.
In fact, his opposition to those views has not always been as clear-cut as some might wish.
The trajectory of the relationship between the Trump White House and the press has never been clear-cut.
In Ukraine's protracted conflict, there is no clear-cut black and white, no easily identifiable heroes and villains.
The central mysteries in The Half-Blood Prince are pretty clear-cut — What is Draco Malfoy up to?
Indigenous reserves serve as a bulwark against destruction, green islands amid industrial soy fields and clear-cut ranchlands.
But Gabbard herself, more so than several other candidates, actually presents a clear-cut rationale for her candidacy.
The FBI general counsel at the time, James Baker, told Congress it was not a clear-cut suspicion.
"In a lot of societies, it's not clear cut that it's either female- or male-dominant," Strauss said.
It should be said that not every case of excessive police brutality is as clear-cut as Jordan's.
"My understanding is that obviously if it's a clear-cut wrong decision then it can get overturned, but I felt like I definitely got the ball so therefore I don't think it was a clear-cut wrong decision," Risdon said, arguing there seemed to be "a bit of a gray area".
Nor is the relationship between central-bank independence and economic performance as clear-cut as conventional wisdom has it.
"When we started this, my husband was given very clear-cut guidelines on how he could participate," she said.
There is no clear-cut way to get a raise or a promotion, you just have to wing it.
Plus, it typically ends in a clear-cut winner, whereas the popular vote can be a little more dicey.
But it means that real-world clinical trials on diet tend to be messy and not so clear-cut.
Kevin Pillar is in the top 10 in centre, but not a clear cut No.1 one or two.
There's so much information and so many things that drive that information, that it's difficult to be clear-cut.
The difference between the good guys and the bad is no longer as clear cut as it once was.
Ellis is arguing that it's an "extremely clear-cut example of fair use" that YouTube is choosing to ignore.
But there's a chance that the clear-cut labeling that Vermonters saw won't be implemented on the national scale.
Yet even if there were proof that they had, Zindel's heirs might find that the case isn't clear-cut.
Hedge funds' dollar bets look more stretched, especially now that the Fed's path next year is less clear-cut.
But because there's no clear-cut answer, anti-vaxxers opt for the simplest: that MMR vaccinations are to blame.
Conservatives very clear-cut requests will be difficult to accept while maintaining the more centrist members of the conference.
The wording of the president's remarks today was less clear-cut than hints he has dropped in the past.
It's a lot more clear-cut over a long period of fight for a judge to score a fight.
While Gray was convicted of rape, indecent assault, and battery on a minor, Elliott's case wasn't so clear-cut.
Tuesday was an election night where the biggest figures on each side were not clear-cut winners or losers.
A separate experiment with the closing price process on zinc, meanwhile, has generated a far more clear-cut result.
Mr. Mosko's situation was somewhat less clear cut, according to two people briefed on the circumstances of his exit.
While television provides us with clear-cut views of the speeches, photographer Martin Parr shows us the convention, unconventionally.
Recent weeks have seen two incidents which appear from the outside to be clear cut cases of self-censorship.
For more clear-cut examples, like our morally bankrupt pharmaceutical executive, the question is how we might curtail it.
Anything less than a clear-cut win for her is likely to be seen as a positive for Trump.
Where a Hollywood equivalent would almost certainly punish George, "Bang Gang" refuses to designate clear-cut heroes and villains.
"Truevine" isn't as clear-cut as that, even though it, too, takes race as one of its main subjects.
However, any clear-cut pattern has been broken by a slightly bewildering sequence of cancellations, reverse cancellations and "arrivals".
In congressional races, too, races with a host of Democratic candidates may deprive the party of clear-cut wins.
That changed my brain around; I'm able to hear 7/4 in a very clear-cut way that's beautiful.
Continuing this dance with them, trying to pin them down in a clear-cut case of denialism, is pointless.
That was more clear cut than a close 22-22 vote at the Monetary Policy Committee's meeting in June.
So shouldn't/couldn't Facebook move faster on this stuff, especially when it's a clear-cut case like this one?
It needs to figure out some way to monetize carbon sequestration in those forests, lest they be clear-cut.
Then all of a sudden, you get signals that racialize you, and you realize it's not so clear-cut.
That data is more clear-cut, and Saudi Arabia buys plenty of American bombs for its war in Yemen.
The term is a clear cut above the "marshal" title held by North Korea's current leader, Kim Jong-un.
It is, indeed, remarkable to see such a divided and partisan response to something that seems so clear-cut.
And as understandings of gender change, the distinction between male and female grooming markets is becoming less clear-cut.
This creates another problem: Crimes aren't always clear cut and offenders who break the law aren't always un-redeemable.
"It makes sense for us to focus on that so that it's a clear-cut understood example," said Rep.
The 2019-20 season is now likely to begin with no clear-cut juggernaut for the pack to chase.
And if I was in the same situation again, I'm not sure the decision would be as clear-cut.
There was something inscrutable about him, that was my feeling—a tumultuous heart, in which nothing was clear-cut.
But "theft" of patents is less clear-cut, since U.S. patents generally do not apply outside the United States.
It's a clear cut example of the alliance between the powerful and the people tasked withholding them to account.
Hagner argued the upsides for House Democrats were concrete while the chance this helps Trump isn't so clear-cut.
It is not entirely clear-cut, in that some people support some aspects of the bill but oppose others.
In Serbia, another aspiring EU member, support for the bloc is less clear-cut, but opinions are strongly held.
Her images are direct and simple, the juxtapositions are clear-cut, but they never resolve into an easy narrative.
And the dangers aren't entirely clear-cut: note that the exposed rats actually lived longer than the unexposed rats.
His budget, just to be clear, cut or proposed to cut lots of funding for the U.S. science agencies.
That said, it's important to recognize that the connection between religion and abortion in America isn't that clear-cut.
But as Vox's Andrew Prokop explained, who has the advantage in the Electoral College is not so clear-cut.
First, the case against college football is not as clear-cut as the case against the National Football League.
Even if the advantages to workers are not clear cut, support for organised labour is rising again (see chart 3).
"You'd expect things to be more clear-cut if this really was a dominant way people choose partners," Wyatt says.
The new research, led by Christiana Scheib from the University of Cambridge, suggests it wasn't as clear cut as this.
But other polling and Republicans' ability to continue passing anti-abortion laws suggest that it's not a clear-cut win.
But the report turned out to be far less clear cut, especially on the obstruction issue, than Barr let on.
The boundary between that sort of long-term structural unemployment and the temporary, cyclical kind is anything but clear-cut.
What's a clear-cut example of what Clear — no pun intended — will offer me if I signed up for both?
The frustration around the McGowan incident is magnified by countless of stories of Twitter dismissing reports of clear-cut harassment.
Fairy tales do have clear-cut villains and good guys, and the fairy godmother — you know what she's there for.
However, when it comes to "unnatural" or "artificial" methods of keeping somebody alive, Catholic social teaching is less clear-cut.
But it's not easy to stand up against illegal loggers and oil companies who want to clear-cut the tropics.
The way Deck Nine celebrates the budding romance between Chloe and Rachel is so clear-cut that it feels revelatory.
Forecasting the American presidential election usually relies on a clear-cut approach: first, modellers construct polling averages for each state.
All of these issues will determine the extent of the fines and of Facebook's liability, which is not clear cut.
Still, some experts argue that the picture isn't clear cut as warming waters could also bring new predators and diseases.
But some 14 months after AirPods shipped, there's still no clear cut competitor that's truly better at the important stuff.
TURKISH AXE, NEW BRITISH PM In Turkey, the case for action is more clear-cut given a recession-hit economy.
Having a clear cut plan on exactly what you'll be wearing is key to making packing a low-stress task.
The paper concluded that folic acid has the strongest evidence support, followed by vitamin D, which was less clear-cut.
The politics Which is not to say that on a political level the settlement issue is at all clear-cut.
"I let people know these things aren't always clear-cut, and often it's the lowest-ranking guy who gets blamed."
The days of clear-cut, satisfying victories overseas, like opening up China or tearing down the Berlin Wall, are over.
Among supporters of the president on Tuesday, opinion was clear-cut that the congressional deal alone would not be sufficient.
When your romantic entanglements grow too messy to bear, consider drafting a clear-cut list of relationship dos and don'ts.
Botstein, conducting the American Symphony, reined in the ecstatic excesses of Korngold's orchestration, establishing a more sober, clear-cut sound.
That's why it is not clear-cut that a millionaire is a lot happier than someone making a lot less.
Sotomayor's "hard question" about women "who would feel intruded upon" suggests she does not see the answer as clear cut.
The same is true of America's huge financial burden for global security, although the picture there is less clear cut.
The immediate politics for President Trump aren't clear cut, but they seem to be for the rest of the Republicans.
In Vietnam, rather than clear-cut enemy lines, combatants were fighting in close combat in city streets and dense forests.
Who this affects and how is not a clear-cut fact but something campaigns and pundits will squabble about endlessly.
That case was fairly clear-cut, but there are plenty of examples across sport that are less easy to categorise.
The has enjoyed a sizable rally this year, but one chart-minded trader sees a clear-cut top in store.
Energy Information Administration and EPA records of import volumes and RIN generation numbers show that the problem is clear-cut.
None of this is clear-cut, and the definition of what's secure and what's not depends on who you ask.
"It's a clear cut victory," Mr. Dodik said in Banja Luka, the capital of the Serbian autonomous region of Bosnia.
But other reasons for the rise in cesarean deliveries, including the readings from a fetal monitor, are less clear-cut.
For the vegetation on the peaks, he speckled the lines with countless perpendicular hyphens, each one a clear-cut act.
"It was the most unwavering, clear-cut and almost personal dismissal that I've ever heard in federal court," he said.
That moment was the most clear-cut example of Orange Is the New Black swerving wildly outside of its lane.
The case of the N.R.A. and One Nation is a clear-cut case of foreign intervention in our democratic process.
The show's characters have always thrived on nuance, contrast, even contradiction — characteristics that render clear-cut heroes and villains obsolete.
Maybe, even, to make this clear cut, the Waffen-SS actually confirms that you'll be exempt from front-line service.
In another, a Douglas fir tree—the second largest in Canada, in fact—stands alone in a clear-cut forest.
White House allies objected that there were no "fact witnesses" and the committee leaders insisted the evidence was clear cut.
And the presence, and mobility, of hundreds of museumgoers jars Ms. De Keersmaeker's clear-cut choreography, and Grisey's music too.
The film offers no solutions and suggests no courses of action; maybe that's because there are no clear-cut ones.
Though it has never been established as a clear-cut science, experts have tried to understand the mechanism behind hypnosis.
Such clear-cut corruption damages and diminishes our institutions of government by making them tools of a personal political vendetta.
But tragedy strikes, and what looks like a clear-cut legal situation according to the laws becomes muddied by reality.
It's not as clear-cut as I'm making it sound, and not as binary, but it's a big cultural moment.
"It's a clear-cut victory for the president," Ron Nessen, Gerald Ford's press secretary, told an NBC reporter after one debate.
So far, the U.S. is taking a cautionary approach to regulating cryptocurrencies and ICOs, issuing more statements than clear-cut regulations.
Weapons no longer need to be upgraded using arcane materials, while clear-cut questlines make earning the best stuff more accessible.
These studies make for compelling headlines, and may seem like a clear-cut case against open offices on health grounds alone.
Fox News hosts did not demand protesters have a clear-cut set of policy demands before deeming them worthy of attention.
With no clear-cut rules for just how far a citizen could and should go, Squire has made up her own.
It turns out that a major piece of conventional wisdom on Wall Street may not be so clear-cut after all.
"It's not something you can say is in the gray area — it's a clear-cut fraudulent activity," he told BuzzFeed News.
They're considered the clear-cut favorite in the National League East and are off to an impressive start to the season.
"She has emerged as the clear-cut person to beat," he told The New York Times in an interview published Friday.
That's interesting to hear because Star Wars presented these very clear-cut morals that harken back to the Second World War.
Sagehen was clear-cut in the mid-nineteenth century to help build the railways and mines of the gold-rush era.
He resents the idea that, because he is trans, he should only tell stories that are clear-cut, positive, and affirming.
Confusing Resolutions and Pixel DensityOne aspect of your TV, phone or laptop that isn't quite as clear cut is the resolution.
All this is not so clear-cut as the original BuzzFeed claim that Trump "personally instructed" Cohen to lie to Congress.
It's certainly an achievement after just two years since Teams launched, but Microsoft Teams versus Slack isn't a clear-cut competition.
The SEC has taken note, pursuing clear-cut ICO fraud cases in which operations and potential returns were misrepresented or exaggerated.
Earlier this month, BuzzFeed News found 27 instances of what appears to be clear-cut harassment that were dismissed by Twitter.
But it's not final at all, it's dancing around a much more offensive question, and one with a clear-cut answer.
It seems clear-cut: Eating disorders are messy and unhappy, and wellness is a way out of that anxiety and disorder.
Another one where I wish I could give you a clear cut answer, but, alas, this is also up for debate.
In other words, the shift during the 1980s and beyond, after Chambers' research was published, is more tentative than clear-cut.
You can't comfortably pin clear cut labels on Cora, her usually quiet, repentive demeanor often subsumed by moments of incredible boldness.
The totality of his abuses—which continue coming to light with stunning regularity—establish a clear-cut case for his impeachment.
That sounds pretty clear-cut, but the U.K. parliament will have its say and could make May's authority difficult to maintain.
That possibility has alarmed advocates for disclosing the pages, since there was no clear-cut avenue for Congress to do so.
Ted Cruz (R-Texas) Cruz was not so clear-cut a loser as the others, but he had an indifferent night.
"Eye for an eye" justice sounds great, and maybe, in some clear-cut cases, it brings comfort to people seeking retribution.
In April, 61 percent of Dutch voters rejected the association agreement with Kiev, in a clear-cut, if nonbinding, national referendum.
The answer's not as clear-cut as it should be, largely because those $125 disbursements are initially capped at $31 million.
Still, it was refreshing to have a CEO give us a clear-cut lie that was impossible to weasel out of.
The clear-cut preserve was once part of the Atlantic Forest, whose species richness is comparable to that of the Amazon.
I'm glad I got my genes tested even though it didn't give me the clear-cut answer I was hoping for.
It was a clear-cut win for Superlek with all three Thai judges scoring the match 21-47 in his favour.
The provisioning of each character with a clear-cut trauma to explain a current-day political stance does get tiresome though.
Smarter Living: Even in the wake of #MeToo, there's no clear-cut "right" way for victims to respond to sexual harassment.
"Ideally, a combination of more comprehensive neuropsychological testing and brain magnetic resonance imaging would give some clear-cut answers," Fisher added.
If you don't know Utah, you might think it's pretty clear-cut: Mormons and non-Mormons, but not on the edge.
The term is a clear cut above the "marshal" title held by North Korea's third and current leader, Kim Jong-un.
What I want is a clear-cut invitation without the long email back to them with all the information from me.
But the political benefits for the conservatives of a racially charged campaign are not as clear-cut as they once were.
Polls have shown that half of Americans now want Trump out of office (though it's not clear-cut in swing states).
The parliamentarian is supposed to stay above the fray of politics in order to give clear-cut decisions on Senate rules.
And she's broken with the president in unexpected ways, which suggests the changeover to her administration would not be clear-cut.
The laxness in which Equifax has gone about disclosing the breach highlights the needs for clear-cut standards on breach reporting.
" Later that night Biden put out a more forceful statement saying if the allegations are true, it is "clear-cut corruption.
For the vulnerable freshmen, it's a more clear-cut example of potential abuse of power than what was uncovered by Mueller.
The report also states that YouTube promotes these videos in its "up next" box, but the evidence is less clear-cut.
Even though Trump's reflexes toward Russia are sound, the White House lacks a clear cut strategy vis-à-vis the Kremlin.
But "us-against-them" nature of the sides have never been as clear cut for the ESA outside of those issues.
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Football versus baseball, in other words, is not the obvious, clear-cut decision that some might have once thought it was.
"There's a very clear-cut pattern here — that PG&E is starting these fires," Judge Alsup said to a packed courtroom.
Of the problems he addresses — those based on his experiences as a queer black male — none are given clear-cut solutions.
GM's decision to downsize has many merits, but the advantages of getting bigger are much less clear-cut for its European counterpart.
Even The Bachelor's language of love is expressed in clear-cut progressions, timed to culminate in an "I love you" during hometowns.
Her clear-cut prose, which has been translated from Spanish into English by Thomas Bunstead, confers some serenity onto the narrative commotion.
Barring a clear-cut favorite, sportswriters, as storytellers, are going to cast a vote for the player who makes the best protagonist.
On the website, these four topics are laid out with clear-cut statistics and graphs to help the reader understand the trajectory.
More recent research, however, has suggested that the effects of saturated fat on health may not so clear-cut, says Tuft's Mozaffarian.
Each episode's takeaways, while certainly less clear-cut than its more characteristically smarmy apathy, are now measured, sincere, elusive, and bafflingly balanced.
And yes, you can definitely argue that this was never as clear cut as some wanted or made it out to be.
As the game wore on, Italy's moves became more rushed and their passing increasingly sloppy and the clear-cut chances dried up.
Founders like Villig and Mazzella have also in recent months decried the lack of clear-cut rules on stock options across Europe.
Dr. Schneier says to spend time reflecting on your fear, and breaking it down to something clear-cut and easy to define.
" The Israeli prime minister tweeted back: "President-elect Trump, thank you for your warm friendship and your clear-cut support for Israel!
In fact, it just might be pretty clear cut — believe it or not — that purchasing an annuity is a very good decision.
But the issue isn't so clear-cut; many financial experts and Wall Street observers say there's nothing to see there at all.
And its business plan seems more clear cut: by spinning off Waymo, Google abandoned its previous plans to make its own cars.
And if they don't follow the rules, they're the ones at fault; they weren't strong enough, vocal enough, or clear-cut enough.
In games like CryptoKitties, ownership of the token is clear-cut because each CryptoKitty is a newly developed piece of intellectual property.
While the OPCW has a " working relationship " with the U.N., the situation is less clear-cut than with UNESCO, UNIDO or UNCTAD.
The 1948 constitution is less than clear-cut: it says the president appoints the prime minister and "on his proposal, the ministers".
But how this translates into real-world designs is not always clear cut, as the recent breach at the Cincinnati Zoo attests.
Given the absence of clear-cut shoreline features, scientists aren't entirely certain that a grand northern ocean once graced the Red Planet.
Nothing is ever clear-cut, we live in a world of grey areas, where ideas of good and bad are all relative.
Still, he said, "I do not see any clear-cut scientific reasons for denying the option that nonneural organisms can actually learn".
"As advanced voting continues and is enthusiastically embraced, there is no clear-cut favorite," polling company Angus Reid said in a statement.
If Apple is hoping to show off its willingness to stand up for customers' privacy, this case is also not clear-cut.
After a bit of biblical confusion, there is now a clear-cut formula to calculating the date that Easter Sunday falls on.
Legal experts say Sessions may have indeed violated his own recusal standard, though the unusual issue is by no means clear-cut.
Physical interactions are clear-cut; microaggressions, to people of a certain age, sound ridiculous — even though they're very real and very damaging.
Though Aquarius is known as a chill and logical, Mars' retrograde through this sign won't be easy or clear cut for you.
In policy areas where expertise is less clear-cut, we find that anxiety tends to benefit the party that "owns" the policy.
PORT MORESBY (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Dimitry Medvedev warned against growing protectionism and argued for clear cut and transparent rules on trade.
A similar drug developed by BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc was rejected in January, without any clear cut voting questions in the panel review.
The Vioxx signature, for those that remember the Vioxx [recall], there's a clear-cut signal that says Vioxx was causing a problem.
Mueller's findings provide a clear-cut strategy for House Republicans seeking to chip away at the Democratic majority in the next election.
I, too, had to make a heartbreaking choice 10 years ago, though my case was not as clear-cut as your own.
Many regional word variations — such as "y'all" and "you guys" — mark clear-cut differences in the language of US states and regions.
EURCZK1YV= Central bank board members have spoken of a clear-cut end to the cap - a sudden move, with no strings attached.
There often is no clear-cut answer on this question of benefit, which is a good reason to consider not executing crosses.
"There are rarely issues that come before our committee that are so clear-cut, but this is one of them," Cummings said.
But like a third of other vegetarians and vegans, those supposedly clear-cut mealtime morals fall by the wayside when I'm drunk.
There's no clear-cut answer to that — but according to Watson, getting men to speak up is a big part of it.
Mycelium, of course, can't spare a forest from being clear-cut, and in B.C., this type of logging has a long history.
The fight was not nearly as clear-cut as I remembered it and whatever dominance there was in it was hardly Leites's.
That's the best scenario, for you and Jessica both, when there's a mutual attraction that goes beyond clear-cut escort/client roles.
Britain wants to limit it while the EU says any clear cut-off date attached to the backstop would defeat its purpose.
The less clear-cut it is, the more potential there is for resentment to fester over your child remaining dependent on you.
There isn't a clear-cut answer to why some people have them while others don't, but scientists do have one particular guess.
But as Bergman shows, motives aren't always so righteous and clear-cut; revenge, wrath and other impulses have ways of sneaking in.
Much of the land on which the city was built was clear cut for development, but the Grove retained its subtropical lushness.
"There's a very clear-cut pattern here — that PG&E is starting these fires," Judge Alsup said at a hearing in January.
"We don't know what we're looking for when we pick up a book, no matter how clear-cut the genre," she said.
There's no clear-cut definition of "pre-existing condition," so this list goes on and on, affecting Americans of all political stripes.
She is also, of course, hoping to resurrect an England of long ago, of material solidity and a clear-cut social structure.
But there hasn't been anything quite as clear-cut as hard evidence of the president telling a witness to lie for him.
But Ms. Lim's visit may not have been the clear-cut propaganda victory for the North that it seemed at the time.
"Cuccinelli's appointment fails to comply with the F.V.R.A. for a more fundamental and clear-cut reason," Judge Moss said in the ruling.
"It is frustrating, but —" Buttigieg said before Donchess cut in and said the New Hampshire primary results should be more clear-cut.
If ownership of the equity market was equally distributed, the strength of the stocks would be much more clear-cut good news.
With that, Flannery will reduce GE's hard-to-understand image to that of a clear-cut industrial that makes engines and turbines.
His paper garnered so much attention precisely because its clear-cut anti-establishment narrative aligned so neatly with the anti-establishment times.
It reminds her of modern dance, in which meaning isn't always clear-cut, yet can still wash over you like a sensation.
Democrats said they had a clear-cut case against Mr. Trump and were determined to hold him to account for his actions.
Even a seemingly simple question like "how much do different people pay in taxes?" doesn't have a clear-cut and unambiguous answer.
" Mr. Netanyahu wrote a quick response: "President-elect Trump, thank you for your warm friendship and your clear-cut support for Israel!
But the effect of climate change in the shorter term is less clear cut, and a populationwide decline is not yet apparent.
"The amount of enforcement activity has declined, but the bureau is focusing on the things that are pretty clear-cut," Kaplinsky said.
The legislation NAEI supports to that end is clear-cut, seeking to help tribal governments provide jobs and opportunities for their members.
However, one complication is that it's possible some of the missiles came from the west, so the matter isn't so clear cut.
Entry-level jobs usually have more clear-cut salary data, so men and women alike know what a specific position is worth.
In ecology, a predator is an animal that kills and eats other animals, and the threat it poses is relatively clear-cut.
So Republicans are still the most likely to support these measures, but it's not as clear-cut as the official platform suggests.
Yet underlying each strenuous track is a clear-cut, old-fashioned pop structure: verses and choruses, tension and release, matters of the heart.
The researchers weren't able to find a clear-cut benefit of moderate drinking for heart health, though, something that other research has found.
You'll still find a few people who think that they might have done it, even though the DNA evidence was so clear cut.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was ecstatic: President-elect Trump, thank you for your warm friendship and your clear-cut support for Israel!
A new study tackles these grim questions, but the answers aren't as satisfying or clear cut as the researchers would like to believe.
A follow-up investigation suggested that the bombing was not necessarily a clear-cut example of an attack on a group of civilians.
They're sure that if they can sit the other person down and get clear-cut answers, it will be easier to move on.
Uber and Ola are "economical and efficient and [...] you also get a complete tracking of distance and clear-cut billing," the official added.
Instead of the usual relatively clear-cut rundown of evidence, the facts in this case seemed to step all over the battle lines.
"Puzzle people like to put the world in order," Mr. Shortz explains, noting that life's problems generally do not have clear-cut solutions.
But if there's one clear-cut reminder that London is not for you, it's the density of private members' clubs in this city.
Talon's case was clear-cut; his death certificate cited septic shock due to his hospital-acquired Pseudomonas infection as the cause of death.
So I do think that the real-world connections—and this is how conspiracy theory works—they don't have to be clear-cut.
It's pretty hard to select a clear-cut favorite among students, but if we had to take a guess it would be Instagram.
It turns out there is no clear-cut path to landing in the CEO suite of America's 10 biggest companies by market cap.
Indeed, they're far more clear cut when it comes to the president's involvement with Cohen's hush-money payments, which violated campaign finance laws.
Sex is also vastly different from partner to partner, so there's not necessarily a clear-cut way to tally and compare your numbers.
And "selling timber" doesn't have to mean an ugly clear-cut down the side of the mountain, or razing the backyard to stumps.
The process was not clear cut -- that's why it ended up taking 78 versions of the film before we reached the final edit.
More important, though, when there is no clear-cut wrong being done, a crackdown on a corporation could do more harm than good.
But as a whole, we're not so sure lumping data from your doctor in with your hypochondriacal Google searches is so clear-cut.
Her recent unsuccessful rider targeted the 22019 plan to dismantle its direction to transition out of clear cut logging of old growth trees.
Unlike departing one apartment for another, there isn't always a clear-cut protocol for moving on from one personal email to the next.
"  Asked on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" if Donald Trump planned to concede if Clinton was the "clear-cut winner," Trump Jr. responded: "Of course.
I THINK THAT'S A CASE WHERE YOU WON, BUT IT'S NOT REALLY CLEAR WHETHER -- CLEAR-CUT WHETHER THE RESULTS WERE ALL THAT POSITIVE.
It eventually forced Andrés Iniesta, Barcelona's captain, to handle the ball inside the penalty area to stop a clear-cut goal-scoring opportunity.
A president asking the FBI investigator to drop an investigation into the president's associate is a clear-cut case of obstruction of justice.
Yeah, especially with Amazon buying Whole Foods and getting into the brick-and-mortar game—how is that not a clear-cut case?
The decision each must make over where to list comes as the advantages between New York and Hong Kong become less clear-cut.
He's had a safe floor as the clear-cut top receiver and should stay there with Sterling Shepard still out with a concussion.
But due a bit of visual trickery, those sharing the viral image on Facebook are having trouble arriving at a clear-cut answer.
McDavid Fatigue™, which is plaguing some people who have grown weary of him being the clear-cut favorite for so long.. 3.
That said, there is no clear cut answer here, but this does ensure that your money is going to someone who needs it.
On the contrary, there's a very clear-cut case right now: the Chinese company ZTE, which makes cheap phones and other electronic goods.
The Associated Press called California for Sanders as soon as polls closed, indicating that he's in line for a clear-cut victory there.
But the policy was less clear-cut on handling cause-based ads, raising questions about how to determine when an issue becomes political.
For example, he's charged with not reporting certain bank accounts and with not registering as a foreign agent — these are clear-cut crimes.
You might even see more progressive policies happen, like they do sometimes in more clear-cut red states like South Carolina or Tennessee.
However, there is currently no clear-cut regulatory or industry standard for 'sustainable' investing, a gray area policymakers are concerned could mislead investors.
Experts said government policy on such reviews was not clear-cut, so it was hard to predict whether a review would be required.
Unfortunately, the Trump administration is threatening to expand destructive clear-cut logging by proposing to exempt the entire Tongass from roadless rule protections.
Mr. First, the law professor, said the search issue isn't as clear-cut as the question of whether Google has restricted rival apps.
It's a clear-cut abuse of power — telling scientists to base their communications with the public on the president's whims, not the evidence.
But the history of big intra-party battles in Massachusetts — going back to 1962 — is clear-cut: The insurgent or younger candidate wins.
As a freelancer, things can get even more difficult, as pay isn't always clear cut — freelance pay often fluctuates depending on the job.
And a fundamental problem with the current law, according to critics, is that what constitutes a dealer is not all that clear-cut.
That's pretty clear cut, but importantly it does not exonerate any other, perhaps even worse additives that may not have been so widespread.
Students were incredulous at the shortsighted and callous ways in which European settlers polluted their own waterways, clear cut forests and destroyed ecosystems.
The long new stretches of a wall, with clear-cut "enforcement zones" to the south, could prove an impediment to many little fliers.
So, while there were both big winners and big losers of the group this year, Cramer found health care winners to be clear cut.
That's because vulnerable students had not been given clear-cut promises of confidentiality or protection from retaliation — a concern the students themselves have expressed.
Morse calls this the "clear cut" problem: Where the defendant's mental and behavioral state are obvious, you don't need neurobiological evidence to support it.
But being intersex is way more of a spectrum than a clear-cut classification, and people like Odiele are trying to change that misconception.
Express Scripts recently announced that it will now offer employers the option of plans which provide clear cut drug prices, without a rebate structure.
But as long as prices stay level and the administration's tax policy changes are clear-cut, the market will maintain its run, he said.
The Trump administration a year ago began sending American businesses a clear-cut message to get out of China, CNBC's Jim Cramer said Friday.
In official documents, Homeland Security presents the issue as relatively clear cut, but seems to leave the door open for restrictions on larger phones.
There is still no clear-cut answer on how we should handle the return of men whose lives were momentarily paused by #MeToo allegations.
Kavanaugh's record on abortion, however, isn't as clear-cut as the pro-life right had hoped, especially given his background as a devout Catholic.
New reporting requirements with three different measurements, demanded by the Democratic National Committee, and technical breakdowns sowed confusion and no clear-cut early winner.
The Pac-12, with Stanford, Washington, Oregon, and UCLA, has a better chance of beating itself up than having a clear-cut top team.
For example, he needs things to be simple, so when Virgin launches a financial service they don't use jargon; they keep it clear-cut.
They are generally not prescribed until a patient is 16 (though they can be prescribed as early as 14 in select clear-cut cases).
They urged, therefore, that the PLO, controlled largely by Abbas, immediately cease payments in "clear-cut" cases of murder or attempted murder of Israelis.
What's next: The U.S., unlike most countries, has a clear-cut policy against using weapons that target and kill people without any human input.
Yes, this does seem like a pretty clear cut ending to the Toy Story saga, but what about the toys' new life with Bonnie?
So Weinstein's arrest is a turning point, yes, but it's also a clear-cut exception to a rule that's more difficult to reckon with.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings said at Monday's hearing that it was "clear-cut" that Conway was required to comply with the subpoena.
She has maintained a consistent view on the subject since reclaiming the Speaker's gavel, arguing it would have to be clear-cut and bipartisan.
Clinton attacked Mr. Sanders by saying he voted against the auto industry bailout, though Mr. Sanders's record is not as clear-cut as Mrs.
"It's pretty clear cut why Trump endorses people like Renacci and Barletta, because they were with him early," said a former senior GOP aide.
And yet there are hundreds of websites about toxic and fraudulent romance that dispense advice about "narcissists" as if the term is clear-cut.
The picture in the United States is a little less clear cut, but still points to a general trend of home-grown deal-making.
Allowing substituted compliance between the SEC and CFTC swaps data reporting rules would address current overlaps and create clear-cut efficiencies for market participants.
Officers also disregard reports of sexual assault from sex workers, who are particularly vulnerable to assault — even when the evidence is very clear-cut.
"Hungary's stance is clear-cut, we are a pro-Ukraine government, so we stand behind Ukraine," Orban said in response to a reporter's question.
There's no clear-cut answer, as the strategy depends on the client's tax situation, asset and income levels, and attitudes toward debt and investment.
The start and end of these accumulation and liquidation cycles are clearly identifiable in retrospect, but are never so clear cut at the time.
There is no clear-cut evidence that air travelers have been put in danger so far because of staffing changes caused by the shutdown.
But things haven't been quite so clear cut in St. Louis or Pittsburgh, where we've seen controversial mid-series switches that were coach's decisions.
Anna Bradshaw, a London-based lawyer specializing in unexplained wealth orders, said the authorities were most likely addressing the most clear-cut cases first.
"This is a very clear-cut case because she was targeted and burned for being a woman and for being a migrant," Palazzo said.
Even so, Tiger King is not a clear cut depiction of a "good guy" and a "bad guy" in such black and white terms.
But sitting, 50 years later, on the clear-cut knoll beneath the former flophouse window, Young knows no bullet could snuff out King's message.
But he didn't give representative John Radcliffe quite as clear-cut an answer as he wanted about an ongoing hold on aid to Lebanon.
" Asked whether there had been signs the man might have been radicalized in prison, Mr. Geens said it was "not a clear-cut case.
Hong Kong, he said, had reached "an important stage of suppressing turmoil with an even more clear-cut attitude and even more effective measures".
"President-elect Trump, thank you for your warm friendship and your clear-cut support for Israel!" he wrote, adding Israeli and American flag emojis.
As he looks out across the globe one year in, the President finds both friends and adversaries -- though the distinction is rarely clear-cut.
She has resisted pressure from the left to move more quickly; if a Ukraine shake-down is clear cut, she'll direct the impeachment action.
Even on a relatively clear-cut issue like charter schools, he has been both for them and against them when it has suited him.
Yet the Italian judicial system is complex, with foreclosure that can take up to 10 years, and estimating loan recovery is rarely clear-cut.
That is the key now with offering an alternative to what's out now, to have a clear cut message and be clear about it.
The trouble, he claims, is that THC in the body isn't as clear-cut of a sign of impairment as it is with alcohol.
Hillary Clinton has a clear-cut answer about her relation to President Obama: She will be his political heir, consolidating and building on his legacy.
But the extent to which nearly all blockbusters and pop sensations owe their success to this may be less clear-cut than is generally believed.
And given that the victims were at a gay club, it would have made it a clear-cut case in favor of progressive politics. Sen.
But the Constitution forbids something much more specific— and Trump's attempt to host foreign leaders at his personal resort is a pretty clear-cut violation.
We buy into some version of the intentional fallacy: the notion that art is about having a clear-cut intention and then confidently executing same.
If you think these decisions are tough with clear-cut situations, imagine how tough it will be for self-driving cars amidst chaotic road conditions.
Others maintained that Trump's known acts simply weren't as clear-cut examples of obstruction as, say, urging witnesses to lie under oath or destroying evidence.
The EFF believes this interpretation, which it calls "legally and technically misguided," would turn a previously clear-cut safe harbor into a disastrously muddy guideline.
Argentina's center-right ruling coalition suffered a resounding defeat Sunday in regional elections, but the lessons ahead of October's presidential vote are less clear cut.
I also tried to situate genetic treatment within the economics of their world: the positive potential of genomics isn't clear-cut in a struggling NHS.
YOU HAVE NEUTRAL UNDERTONES IF… If you feel like your skin isn't clear-cut warm or cool, you may fall into the neutral undertone range.
Astrology is not a simple system, so don't turn to it if you want a clear-cut answer about what stone to call your own.
And for me, as it is for so many people, that decision was not a simple or clear-cut one based solely on my health.
But while the debate across the internet is broadly concerned with the external politics of the firing, the internal politics are much more clear-cut.
Why it matters: Hacks are not always going to be clear-cut at first disclosure, a reminder to be cautious of first accounts of breaches.
As much as they hoped to avoid it, Republican senators considering their tax-cut votes now face a clear-cut choice between faith and evidence.
Both of these instances (and other less clear-cut examples) show how Trump has gotten aides to provide false statements to investigating authorities and Congress.
While Thursday's OPEC meeting also failed to agree any production limits, or indeed a clear-cut strategy for the group, there were some encouraging signs.
In the early 2000s, he bought 160 acres of land on Cortes—90 acres of intact forest and 70 acres that had been clear-cut.
And the final section was a control group, where they planted trees in the clear-cut soil and simply let them grow on their own.
I think many people have this misconception of who trans people are because we all come from different backgrounds, and things aren't always clear-cut.
You probably can't draft any of these TEs, but it would be interesting of one of them becomes a clear-cut winner in camp. 3.
Other officials offered more clear-cut warnings to elderly Americans about traveling and convening in large groups than Trump has been willing to offer himself.
"They've filled in lakes that have been around forever just so they can build on them, and clear-cut trees like nobody's business," he said.
Research has yet to establish something as clear-cut as blood alcohol concentration (BAC) as a legal standard, and it's not clear it's even possible.
For tech startups, the path to funding can seem clear-cut, but it's less obvious for food and drinks companies or beauty and lifestyle brands.
It was the first clear-cut evidence that Mr. Comey believed the bureau needed more resources to handle a sprawling and highly politicized counterintelligence investigation.
"There is a longstanding and clear-cut constitutional principle that individual states cannot regulate the actions and activities of the federal government," the company said.
That's how journalists approach this challenge — careful reporting and clear-cut corrections are ways to gain and regain the trust and confidence of the public.
The road could get even bumpier for investors in the next few weeks as the contest draws near with no clear-cut favorite to win.
"Such clear-cut corruption damages and diminishes our institutions of government by making them tools of a personal political vendetta," Biden said in a statement.
Brooks acknowledged that changing the law to require mandatory reporting of harassment accusations against lawmakers to the House Ethics Committee isn't a clear-cut answer.
There are few issues that have provided as clear-cut evidence of what the long-term implications are of united Republican government than the courts.
Che Dalha, Tibet's governor, said the government would "hold a clear-cut stand against separatism, resolutely strike against the Dalai clique's damaging and separatist activities".
But if the evidence is not clear cut, they say, he will not feel compelled to tell a story just because it involves the president.
The end result then, was a pretty clear-cut two rounds to one for Campos, who was awarded a unanimous decision win as a result.
"I think they lose simply because it's a pretty clear-cut case," Brigham Young University law professor Clark Asay told VICE News correspondent Dexter Thomas.
In his view, rather than "racist" being "a descriptive term with a clear-cut definition," we have turned it into a "fixed derogatory putdown," an insult.
Promotions and job-searching have a lot in common: They're often a multi-step process, with no clear-cut path or "right" way to score one.
There's no clear-cut favorite, with fans wondering whether top golfers Jason Day or Jordan Spieth or Rory McIlroy might emerge as the winner on Sunday.
The results came in promptly in New Hampshire on Tuesday — unlike in Iowa's caucuses last week — as voters rendered their first clear-cut verdict of 2202.
It is unclear, however, whether the two secretive countries have reached a clear-cut agreement on the border line or have simply agreed to fudge it.
"Kara has been the most clear-cut, outright victory against the establishment so far by an economic populist," said Green, of the Progressive Campaign Change Committee.
But at the time, for me, this was high-end storytelling: tween Jackie Collins with clear-cut villains and the neat and basic morality of children.
And still, two years after the site redoubled its efforts, a concerning number of reports of clear-cut harassment still seem to slip through the cracks.
"The detention and expulsion of the BBC team is a clear-cut case of violation of press freedom," said Nicholas Bequelin, Amnesty International's East Asia director.
"What I recommend is really just whenever you can fit it in; I don't think there's a clear-cut optimal time of day," Dr. Kline says.
But despite clear-cut cases of rule-breaking by France, Portugal, Italy and Spain over the last five years, the Commission never sanctioned any of them.
"I've been so used to getting anti-Muslim comments over the years, but this was the first clear-cut threat and also the nastiest," Mustafa said.
The divides are not always clear-cut: Slovakia, Slovenia and the Baltic states are euro members, and dislike being lumped in with the more intransigent easterners.
Lee would eventually gain control of the Raines family assets, including the 1,000-acre, sustainable tree farm, which was sold, clear-cut, and subdivided for development.
While we can't point to clear-cut causes for the increase without deeper analysis, it's apparent this is a bullish indicator for the Texan startup scene.
The thing is, even when there is a clear-cut policy and procedure in place, reporting sexual assault or harassment can be incredibly difficult for survivors.
Ferguson is believed to have invented the Milly Rock in the music video for "Milly Rock x 2 Milly," but Horning's case is less clear cut.
I'm starting to feel bad about the Pixel being bullied at its favorite game, so here's a clear-cut Pixel 2 XL win to balance matters.
There is no guarantee that the result, in the messy seven-party political environment of today's Germany, will be any more clear-cut than the last.
The origins of ISIS are not clear cut, with the group one of several burgeoning Islamic militant movements in the Middle East in the 21st century.
Rather, it exists as a blameless reality of an unsolvable problem of the digital age — presenting unknowing consumers as clear-cut victims of Big Bad Tech.
If you read any of the most popular wellness books or blogs, you could be forgiven for thinking that the case against gluten was clear-cut.
Nowhere is Trump's scandal-proof teflon more apparent than the shocking number of cases of clear-cut, old-school corruption that have gone almost entirely unpunished.
While "biographical" might imply a clear-cut set of personal facts, Williams's work communicates a personal history that's a bit blurrier and less easy to define.
Then it was reported he had rejected the option of the punt when he'd in fact not made a clear-cut decision, according to multiple sources.
But what about the much less clear-cut case of an Islamic cleric preaching about "jihad," which can mean both holy war and an internal struggle?
As individualism and inclusivity have become marketing tools, custom fit seems like a natural next step, but until now, there hasn't been a clear-cut solution.
So it proved in 2014, when Suarez was kept largely quiet "in general play" only to cannon his two clear-cut chances into the England net.
This prospective pairing would mark a huge fight for both men, and would also produce a clear-cut number-one-contender for the champ Dos Anjos.
"It was such a clear-cut case of fair use, which YouTube claims to care about and to uphold, but functionally they do not," Ellis said.
Europe, U.S. and China all managed to co-exist in 4G and to some, the concept of winning in 5G may not be so clear cut.
Other copyright experts say the case isn't so clear cut and that the Okada estate might have a basis for asserting continued ownership over the novel.
It's always difficult to navigate the trade of a player who committed to a franchise; it's more clear-cut if the player was done wrong by.
And the process by which the government reaches out to private landowners is generally clear-cut — and markedly one-sided in favor of the federal government.
For investigators — the Nucleo Investigativo Carabinieri of Rome, officers who are part of the same paramilitary corps as the victim — it was a clear-cut case.
Alissa: You know, I thought it was pretty clear-cut when I first saw it, but I started to waffle once I began writing about it.
Removing roadless protections from Tongass National Forest would open broad swaths of pristine, old-grown rainforest and ancient, irreplaceable trees to clear-cut logging and roadbuilding.
It is a reminder that it has been a long time since a clear-cut set of larger-than-life gangsters controlled New England's criminal underworld.
Is the play too tidy, too well made, too clear-cut in its morality to fight for a place in the first rank of American theater?
But in what the ACLU calls a clear-cut violation of his constitutional rights, Lynch's defense team was not allowed access to the other men's photos.
But the process might not be as clear-cut for this prominent jurist who was also subject to a misconduct complaint in 20093 involving computer pornography.
"This is a very clear-cut requirement from our side," European Commissioner for Justice Vera Jourová told The Hill after the end of this week's meetings.
The bitter political dispute over Kavanaugh's nomination and confirmation means that no element of the case for or against him will be treated as clear-cut.
At the Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries reserve, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, illegal logging has clear-cut more than 3,200 acres of panda habitat.
Instead of the clear-cut positions and movements of Newtonian physics, we have a cloud of probabilities described by a mathematical structure known as a wave function.
After the executive order, "I talked to different lawyers, and nobody had any kind of clear-cut answers to me as to what would happen," Shamshirsaz said.
Some airlines are also weighing extending aircraft leases and bringing back idled planes, but with unclear MAX timing, no option is clear-cut or cheap, consultants said.
With the unanimous decision win, Thompson establishes himself as the clear-cut dance partner for the winner of Robbie Lawler and Tyron Woodley's UFC 201 title fight.
Having clear-cut policies that state what "creator-on-creator harassment" looks like could be a way to move those policies forward and set them in stone.
The messaging then was clear-cut: "Yep, I'm gay," DeGeneres's 1997 Time cover read in big red lettering with the star squatting and flashing a big smile.
It's a relief to read a book that acknowledges that pain comes in many forms and that such pain is real even if it's less clear cut.
Inspire has praised spree killers like Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hassan, even if Hassan's possible terrorist loyalties are not exactly as clear-cut as those of Mateen.
"Even if it's on the fence, I have to be clear-cut better than everybody for me to even get a look," Durant said during the interview.
Tech and its money certainly can't fix everything, and debates about the best solutions to the housing crisis make it tough to have clear-cut positive impact.
This briefing, which took place three months prior to Bergdahl's rescue, is clear cut evidence that Congress was on notice that the administration would explore that option.
Lack of clear-cut rules and secrecy about pay for top jobs mean that candidates have lots of leeway to negotiate, says Benjamin Frost of Korn Ferry.
President Donald Trump's trade war comes with an aggressive and clear-cut strategy but a fuzzy endgame, namely that it's unclear just what victory would look like.
Most data leaks are still the clear-cut, old-fashioned kind — data was accessed by someone explicitly not authorized to use it, whether an outsider or insider.
Of course, if you want more clear-cut, architectural lines, your best bet would be to visit a salon professional who has experience with bold color trends.
Snapchat is less clear cut in disclosing MAUs but last summer founder Evan Spiegel said it had close to 100 million daily active users in "developed countries".
The bank has already clawed back some bonuses and Mr Winters said that it would do so again for "clear-cut cases of malfeasance" or "gross negligence".
It would be up to European banking authorities to decide whether Carige qualified as having systemic importance and there are no clear-cut criteria for the decision.
There's no clear-cut answer to whether online or in-person shopping is better for the environment, but there are some practices to consider when doing either.
"I don't think that there is going to be any clear-cut drift back to Trump, because I see other issues that are countervailing," Mr. Farmer said.
What is evident is that a campaign that has largely been a referendum on Mr. Trump — particularly since the first debate — is now not so clear-cut.
Indeed, the battle against Islamic State quickly became a complex web of rival rebel groups and international powers with shifting allegiances making it far from clear cut.
Life doesn't always have clear-cut starts and stops — often we have one foot in one life and one in another as we try and navigate transition.
Sabres rookie Dan Catenacci had a clear-cut chance in the slot, but his backhand shot was thwarted by Luongo's stick and sailed high over the net.
Zimbabwe lacks clear-cut policies and targets for renewable energy, and is still developing a feed-in tariff, deemed key to attracting investor participation in the sector.
At one point along the road, the forest opens to a clear-cut area of several acres, sliced into healthy pine groves, though near a burned patch.
Instances like what weve been going through this past month where its not even a clear cut bank credit issue or a dollar funding issue per se.
That being said, as soon as White Power became a clear-cut genre with a hateful agenda, most of us instantly boycotted it and the accompanying mentality.
The clear-cut divisions in generation and gender reflect the changes that both the art world and our cultural landscape have undergone over the past 50 years.
But when your child is performing an unusual yet soothing behavior that lacks a simple cure, the choice of how to move forward is not clear cut.
Similarly, the boards used for the floors came from oak trees that were selectively cut, and not clear-cut in a way that might devastate a forest.
When reports that someone burned a pride flag on a university campus surfaced in February, it seemed like a pretty clear-cut case of close-minded bigotry.
Because there is no clear-cut answer, I would caution against reading too much into lower court rulings on the matter, no matter how they come out.
While the motive behind the hacks involving anti-doping groups and organizations probing Russian poisonings were more clear-cut, the decision to target Westinghouse was less apparent.
Clear-cut expanses soon gave way to a uniform crop of oil-palm groves: orderly trees, a sign that we had crossed into an industrial palm plantation.
Then again, other arguments they presented during the trial would let presidents get away with almost anything short of the most egregious and clear-cut of crimes.
Democrats will need a forceful response, making a clear-cut case that they can do better and that only their party can ensure these good times continue.
But in this potential battleground state, on a campus where staunch Trump supporters mix with die-hard liberals, the chalking debate has been anything but clear-cut.
"This is a clear-cut decline into massive famine that is man-made and avoidable," said Jan Egeland, the Norwegian Refugee Council head who recently visited Yemen.
There are three big impeachable offenses: treason and bribery are pretty clear cut, but "high crimes and misdemeanors" leaves room for argument, which leaves room for politics.
Of course, when Israel encounters a clear-cut case of Holocaust denial, or of persecution of Jews, it does not shy away from making its voice heard.
The application of the roadless rule was particularly important to Alaska where decades of federally subsidized clear-cut logging have harmed our air, water, and wildlife habitat.
WASHINGTON — An impeachment investigation to potentially try to remove the president of the United States for high crimes and misdemeanors would seem to be fairly clear-cut.
One interesting aspect of entertainment is that there is no clear-cut answer, and everyone reaches an answer through their own experience to which they find satisfying.
So far, M5S has opposed the center-right's choice of Paolo Romani for speaker of the upper house, however, meaning Friday's vote is far from clear cut.
The tricky part is figuring out which ones do, which ones don't, and how we should determine the difference – and there are no easy, clear-cut answers.
The Founding Fathers were not sturdy believers in the democratic ethos but élites adrift without a clear-cut hierarchy, who propped themselves up by disparaging the poor.
Finally, I came across Credit Karma&aposs tool, and I got exactly what I was looking for: a clear-cut number on how much I could borrow.
The study is not yet final, but Jack said the basics of kitchen pollution science are clear-cut from his work and that of many other scientists.
But whatever divides exist about invoking the take care clause, this is the extreme case in which it is clear-cut that the clause has been violated.
But the fight over the wall is far from clear-cut, and neither Republicans nor Democrats can articulate what it is exactly that they are sparring over.
That may be a clear-cut play, but regulators had previously forbidden any one company from owning enough broadcast stations to reach more than 39 percent of homes.
Fog of war hangs over tanker attacks The question of who is behind Thursday's attacks may not be quite as clear cut elsewhere as it is in Washington.
"The marketing for Prevagen is a clear-cut fraud, from the label on the bottle to the ads airing across the country," Schneiderman said in a press release.
Why is he here: Lodeiro averaged 68 passes per game, produced 102 clear-cut goalscoring opportunities, provided 12 assists, and scored nine goals in the MLS this year.
That might not be as clear-cut ... Johnson finished his career with less than 10,000 rushing yards and just 55 TDs -- numbers that haven't always gotten guys in.
The difference this time is that the main threat to their vote is the Liberal Democrats, whose position on Brexit was much more clear-cut: Scrap it altogether.
The statute seems to provide a clear-cut case to bar Mr Kushner, who is married to Mr Trump's daughter Ivanka, from a job at the White House.
The findings are clear-cut: two-thirds of voters, regardless of gender and party, want lawmakers to change the law to better prevent and address workplace sexual harassment.
While the legality of ripped game files, known as ROMs, is pretty clear-cut, the legality of emulator software is less so; it's never been decided in court.
Forced to impose the clear-cut categorisation required by tax codes onto a world that resists such easy classifications, tax lawyers can end up tying themselves in knots.
Gertz: On agriculture, it's a bit more clear-cut: The US exports lots of corn, soybeans, fresh fruit and vegetables, and meat and poultry to Canada and Mexico.
When it opens later this year, its exhibits will include archaeological remains, historical documents, textiles and "heritage" household items; there is no sense of clear-cut curatorial strategy.
And, because videos of executions and other extremely graphic violence are clear-cut violations of the platforms' rules, they're low-hanging fruit for the platforms to take down.
But issues of health are not so clear cut, and the Health at Every Size movement offers a legitimate critique of narrowly focused weight-based approaches to health.
There's no clear-cut answer to that question, which has played out in various forms throughout 20th century Black activism, and the movie doesn't attempt to give one.
But for the rest of the movie, it was a lot more clear-cut in terms of what we thought an audience would be able to hang with.
All this amounted to a "veritable smorgasbord of classic, clear-cut" violations of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), a law governing how agencies are to undertake regulatory changes.
"I don't think the risks are as clear-cut" as Smith-Bindman contends, said Mass General's Brink, vice chairman of the board of the American College of Radiology.
I would love to say that there's a clear-cut defining moment that I chose to, but this album came quicker, I think, than the other ones did.
The difference in Android requirements isn't as clear-cut, largely because Fortnite is only available for iOS devices right now; that said, PUBG runs on Android versions 5.1.
FYI, NCAA honcho Mark Emmert recently said paying players ain't the answer ... but also didn't offer a clear-cut plan to fix all the corruption in the league.
I asked other members and they didn't understand my question – they said yes, of course we should work with them, but it's still not clear-cut for me.
Parties are big, complicated organisations made up of lots of people and hold positions on a multitude of topics, so it's rarely a clear cut thing for me.
It's not necessarily as clear cut as say medicine so we're just trying to be clear about what they're doing, whether or not that constituted being an app.
Over all, the study found, the leopard's range had decreased by 63 percent to 75 percent, with the difference representing areas where the data was less clear-cut.
From divvying up assets to asserting parental rights, the details of divorce that can be more clear-cut with heterosexual marriages are creating complications for same-sex couples.
She said that she is taking a thematic approach to investing at CRV by focusing on areas of interest, like developer tools, instead of clear-cut financial information.
Newly released documents from the 85033 Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden contain clear-cut evidence that Iran provided funds, staffers, and coordination to al Qaeda.
MARK RIENZI, PRESIDENT, THE BECKET FUND: I think is a clear cut case, and actually I agree with Governor Huckabee the decision is a really good first step.
And as you can also see, it's far from clear cut — officers use both types of language in both cases, but over time a statistically significant pattern emerges.
I think I struggled mainly because talking about it helped me see the facts: that what had happened to me was clear-cut and not confusing at all.
She tells me she won't be able to give me a clear-cut answer since using drugs is a subjective experience and effects differ from person to person.
Pestering your hookup about an ETA, asking for a bargain, and canceling an order-last minute are obvious taboos—but not every wrong move is that clear cut.
Even if he's the clear-cut No. 2, as expected, he should have no problem topping the 65 targets he received last year, when he finished as WR46.
Products like American soybeans or corn are pretty clear-cut: They are grown and harvested in the U.S. by American farmers, in states like North Dakota and Iowa.
This popular mobilization lacks the clear-cut victories of a judicial process, but also constitutes a more durable form of anti-Trump activism than counting on the judiciary.
"It seemed clear-cut to me that there was a lot of atoning and apologizing that needed to happen that just didn't," Mr. Hammer said, his voice catching.
While there's no clear-cut rule that dictates when to include your GPA, most career experts say to only keep it on a resume if it's over 3.5.
Clear-Cut Majority Shareholder Emerges: China Evergrande Group's (B+/Stable) sale of its entire holdings of 1.6 billion A shares in Vanke to Shenzhen Metro Group Co., Ltd.
There's no clear-cut answer to feeling less guilty for just existing, but a good start is to take time for yourself that isn't organized or easily optimizable.
Shopping is no longer a clear-cut matter of driving the car to the supermarket and loading up; it carries a host of ethical, political and aesthetic considerations.
It calls for "obviously criminal content" to be deleted or blocked within 24 hours, while companies would have seven days to remove posts that are less clear-cut.
How they choose to exercise their votes will be a clear-cut case of whether investors in the ESG age will put their money where their mouths are.
"The merger parties presented an improved and clear-cut structural remedy to complement the divestment of LCH S.A., which addressed the commission's specific concerns," the London exchange said.
THEN YOU HAVE IN THE MIDDLE ONES THAT HAVE SOME KIND OF USER FEE POTENTIAL THAT MAYBE IT'S NOT AS CLEAR CUT AS IN THE COOKIE CUTTER MODELS.
Recently-passed laws in Germany give social media networks 24 hours to delete or block obviously criminal content and seven days to deal with less clear-cut cases.
And without a clear-cut exemption process, the move , aimed primarily at punishing China , now risks leaving U.S. allies from Japan to the EU caught in the crossfire.
These are generally clear-cut examples of copyright infringement, since fair use is harder to prove in instances where a person is making money off someone else's work.
The dark humor is clear-cut and seems to give people a chance to laugh before they snap their photo, heave a sigh of resignation, and move on.
The fight was caught on surveillance video, but there's no clear-cut evidence BC was wielding a knife ... and no witnesses ever came forward backing the hairdresser's claims.
They claimed the evidence against him was not as clear-cut as recent cases in which white police officers killed unarmed black people, faced similar charges and walked free.
He, like other lawmakers featured on the Organizing For Action "climate deniers" list, said the debate over climate change was not as clear cut as Obama's allies depict it.
There's still no clear-cut way to define class in America, because class can be defined by things like education and occupation in addition to income and net worth.
The status of green card holders, along those refugees already in transit, was something two GOP aides said they had been told was more clear-cut than originally perceived.
According to Friday's Odoxa poll, the preference for Macron over Fillon was clear-cut among left-wingers as well as supporters of the anti-immigrant, anti-EU National Front.
A BuzzFeed News report from last July showed clear-cut harassment cases were getting through the cracks, despite the social media network making abuse its focus for the year.
The only clear-cut political correctness I see going on is by candidates who insist a person can't call the public's attention to their appeals of bigotry and repression.
But in the not-too-distant future, that clear-cut cause will evaporate as more vehicles take over more driving tasks, creating more and more data as they do.
"There should be a clear-cut process for accepting, assessing and ruling on former students' complaints that they were defrauded," said Bob Shireman, a former top Education Department official.
But while Porter is improving, he most certainly isn't a franchise player yet, and the Wizards already have clear-cut 1 and 1A scoring options in Wall and Beal.
The mountainsides were clear-cut, and the living ecosystems of the cafetales became barren rows of bushes, with nowhere for birds to nest, berries to ripen, orchids to bloom.
Even for Zeichner, the director of cosmetic and clinical research in the department of dermatology at Mount Sinai Hospital, declaring a clear-cut DIY acne mask solution is tricky.
But Mr Zingaretti has also insisted on a clear-cut break with the past, which could be a veiled attempt to exclude Mr di Maio from the next cabinet.
The upshot is that HDL's function isn't so clear-cut as being "good," rather, its benefit to the body depends on a balance between its positive and negative effects.
Ahead, we've pulled out some of the most clear-cut lyrics that practically read like diary entries, and finally reveal just how long-coming this Bieber reunion actually was.
For example, the clear-cut world of video games is not only easier to train AI in, because well-defined scoring systems help scientists assess and compare different approaches.
Fast Company reported in April that Amazon Prime's Insider newsletter was sending users monthly "shopping horoscopes," a pretty clear-cut example of spiritual practice being turned to capitalist ends.
While some civilian deaths are clear-cut -- as when a 2014 U.S. strike on a wedding party in Yemen killed 12 -- others involve targets whose identities are less clear.
Another obvious choice for Mighty Mouse is Joseph Benavidez who, on the heels of a five-fight streak, has established himself as the flyweight division's clear-cut number-two.
Moreover, the authors of the new study aren't suggesting that children be encouraged to take up these habits, saying there's no clear-cut evidence of a true health benefit.
When asked if the PLO could cease payments in "clear-cut" cases of murder or attempted murder, Shaath said that was something which could only be resolved in negotiations.
This was not the "leading from behind" approach of the Obama era, but a return to a more traditionally assertive US foreign policy based on clear-cut national interests.
I wouldn't say it's clear-cut that the loyalists or the opposition will accept the conditions, because remember: The ceasefire was supposed to happen last week and it didn't.
The investigation of Tamir's death stretched over 13 months, and was handed from agency to agency, frustrating activists who saw it as a clear-cut case of police misconduct.
While the first two sections of the history are clear-cut accounts that cover large periods of time, Part 3 — released Thursday — feels like more of a narrative story.
"Now with the Insurability Score, we've taken another step in personalizing that knowledge so consumers have a clear-cut and actionable way to positively impact their own insurance health."
Speaker Nancy Pelosi still refuses to support impeachment hearings against Trump, defying both the growing calls in her caucus for accountability and the clear-cut evidence that justifies it.
The report suggests that immigration is not a clear-cut issue in which one side is right and the other wrong, but that there are both costs and benefits.
Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said there is no clear-cut evidence that the federal programs have actually helped the lives of individuals receiving those benefits.
Here's where I'm going with it: Notwithstanding the confusing and contradictory claims that characterized President Trump's campaign, he did make a few clear-cut promises to the American people.
If President Trump is committed to his populist political-economic agenda, then tactics that promote market competition among U.S., EU and China firms, should be the clear-cut strategy.
It seems like this is a clear-cut case of this bizarre conspiracy theory fitting exactly into that definition but still being recommended "millions of times," according to Chaslot.
Dedicated to the history of the witch from the pre-Christian era to the modern day, the museum (and its docents) tell a very clear-cut, if simplistic, narrative.
Most small claims courts only offer consumers monetary awards in clear-cut cases and aren't able to weigh in on bigger issues of alleged fraud, negligence and actual harm.
The immediate narrative of the scandal was clear-cut and easy to understand: Obviously Kanye, swigging Hennessy on the red carpet, was in the wrong for rushing the stage.
A handful have, but party leaders resisted calls from members to begin a formal impeachment investigation until they believed they had a clear-cut case and enough public support.
In 1910, the National Guard clear-cut a mountaintop in Rockland County for the purpose of establishing the " Finest Rifle Range in World ," as a Times headline put it.
But Dr. Schuchat, pointing to several studies, said the C.D.C. had found no clear-cut evidence that tighter prescribing played a role in the rising use of illicit opioids.
"Improving children's health should be a top priority for the USDA, and serving more nutritious foods in schools is a clear-cut way to accomplish this goal," she said.
A more clear-cut example of a liberal who has won bipartisan appeal by criticizing his own party is former Atlantic columnist and now public relations specialist Ron Fournier.
Whether intended by the framers or not, one benefit of the Electoral College system is that a clear-cut winner is determined on Election Day or relatively shortly thereafter.
The line for what is considered stealing in music has never been clear-cut, and it continues to be a hotly debated topic both in and out of court.
While European governments have been battling to save the Iran nuclear deal, clear-cut evidence that Tehran was behind the attacks could drain the political capital sustaining their efforts.
While her two children attend school in French and her husband is also French, the language situation is less clear cut at home where English and French blend together.
Texas election law prevented a clear-cut outcome for many of the most heavily contested primary elections in the state on Tuesday, the start of the national primary season.
In less than two days of searching, VICE News found numerous Facebook pages promoting or attacking Democrat and Republican candidates that were clear-cut or potential campaign finance violations.
Though Trump uses the "active-shooter" cases of Fort Hood and Chattanooga as anecdotes to argue that service members "are helpless without guns," the reality isn't as clear-cut.
However, the issue isn't so clear cut, and many trans rights advocates are concerned this classification will add the additional stigma of disability to an already very marginalized population.
"We have a very clear-cut stance about peace talks: all the foreign occupying forces would need to be withdrawn," Mullah Abdul Manan Niazi, Rasool's deputy, told Reuters on Monday.
Samsung's new dual camera module isn't even a clear-cut winner against last year's iPhone 212 Plus, not to mention whatever new handsets Apple is planning on announcing next week.
While there's no clear-cut evidence that these drugs didn't merit approval based on their trial results, there is the possibility that biased advisers might overlook a drug's potential risks.
It's ugly, but it seems like a fairly clear-cut case of parody to me — although as the story notes, Twitter's policy bans depictions of symbols associated with hate speech.
But perhaps, most important, she demonstrates almost perfectly what it means to be young and figuring it out, and that stage of life is seldom stain free and clear cut.
Facebook says it reviews more than 2 million pieces of content a day and aim to have a response within 24 hours, depending on how clear-cut the case is.
"This is the most powerful, clear-cut example that we should reconsider junk DNA," said John Rinn, a cellular biologist at Harvard University who was not involved in the research.
Her research shows that you're more likely to get back with an ex if you still have feelings for that person and if the breakup was less than clear-cut.
Most Americans assume there's a clear-cut line between legal immigrants and unauthorized immigrants; between noncitizens and citizens; between immigrants who have been naturalized and citizens who were born here.
While the patterns here were somewhat less clear-cut, the researchers observed that developing cities devote somewhat greater proportions of their adaptation economies to agriculture, forestry and the natural environment.
But if the story were less clear-cut, her plan would fit one of Philip K. Dick's recurring tropes: the reassuring, empty rituals that help characters survive in grim realities.
"When I joined the cancer hospital, I started checking blood, hair and nail samples of cancer patients and found they have very clear-cut symptoms of arsenic poisoning," Ghosh said.
In a series of mock jury trials in England in 2013, many jurors said that acquaintance rapes were "less clear cut" and "more difficult to prove" than rapes by strangers.
In other words, for both artists and critics, the intermingling of artistry and critique can act as a hedge against taking the clear-cut, thorough positions traditionally characteristic of critique.
As with most phenomena that are rooted deeply in complex cultural and religious traditions, the issue of when caste references in bhangra become harmful is by no means clear cut.
That's in part due to a lack of clear-cut national policies for driving renewable energy use in industry, which consumes 64 percent of the national power supply, he said.
It frustrated political scientists and ambitious presidents alike, precisely because it was not so clear-cut, and it complicated leadership in ways that wouldn't happen in, say, a parliamentary system.
While the acquisitions have been McDonald's most clear-cut drive-thru investments, the fast-food giant has been making many behind-the-scenes tweaks to speed up drive-thru times.
Nobles, the airline executive, warned Trump the $1 million makeover he wanted each plane to undergo would do little to attract new customers, pointing him to clear-cut survey data.
There is no clear-cut favorite in the Democratic race, which is likely to pit at least a dozen candidates against one another, with most competing for liberal primary voters.
Skeptical of the company's decision to pour cash into brick-and-mortar rather than clear-cut e-commerce, Wall Street sent shares spiraling down in the wake of the announcement.
In a competitive art world system that often perpetuates (and perhaps even necessitates) clear-cut distinctions between the roles of cultural producers, Mani da's words can provide much needed clarity.
In the three previous seasons of the playoff, three of the five power conferences had clear-cut, one-loss or undefeated teams that went on to win their championship games.
Kennedy's retirement, he said, could provide Democrats with a clear-cut argument in November for the importance of retaking Congress in case further court vacancies arise during the Trump administration.
It's a way of mocking what is in fact a serious allegation, of muddying the waters of what is a clear-cut question that Mr. Mueller is working to answer.
Last spring, in one of his administration's most clear-cut foreign policy achievements, Mr. Trump helped secure the release of Aya Hijazi, an Egyptian-American aid worker imprisoned in Egypt.
While someone living with type 1 might find out what insulin dose they should administer before a workout with the help of a CGM, my takeaways weren't as clear cut.
Qizhala also pledged that the government in Tibet would "take a clear-cut stance in the fight against the Dalai clique", a reference to exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.
So if you clear-cut a forest, it's not just going to bounce back in a couple years, fully stocked with all the original organisms acting out their original relationships.
Many investors face a clear-cut savings shortfall — and a bewildering array of investment alternatives — and are challenged to accumulate sufficient wealth to meet the needs of longer life spans.
I have argued that the datasets are not globally representative, because biologists don't spend time monitoring habitats that have been destroyed… in corn fields, clear-cut forests, or urban habitats.
It is hard to imagine that the prospect for eco-tourism will be enhanced if a quarter of the state has been clear-cut for the construction of one road.
And can he establish himself as the chief standard-bearer of moderate Democrats — a goal that would require him to administer a clear-cut defeat to Buttigieg and several others?
However, if someone were to drop in from Mars and read Ms. Alexander's essay, he might easily conclude that this is a clear-cut case of Palestinian good guys vs.
While perhaps not quite as clear-cut as those four, "Green Book" shows a black pianist making a stand for civil rights by bravely touring the South in the 21984s.
Without Russell in the offer, the Nets have some talented young players, but none who look like clear-cut future All-Stars and they just traded their 2019 draft pick.
So no, there was never going to be a clear-cut good guy, bad guy situation or even a character who does bad things but has a heart of gold.
Probably the single most clear-cut opportunity for corruption that Alexander reveals concerns the International Automotive Components Group, a conglomerate Ross created by merging several formerly separate automotive interior companies.
LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) - Two of the European Central Bank's top policymakers pressed Britain on Friday to provide a clear-cut plan for leaving the European Union, to prevent more economic damage.
Georgia comes in looking like the clear-cut favorite in the SEC East after dismantling Mississippi State 31-3 as freshman quarterback Jake Fromm passed for 201 yards and two touchdowns.
Epic also has clear-cut method for pricing: skins can cost anywhere from $5 to $15, while emotes will never cost more than $8 and often cost either $3 or $5.
Car companies and tech companies are joining forces, but even these lines aren't so clear cut — and what's still a mystery is who will be left standing to call the shots.
The new details in the report show that the operations at COBALT, opened in September 2002 "as a practical response to a clear-cut and urgent operational need," were a disaster.
In the two years of the Playoff's existence, the committee has yet to face this kind of decision, because the choices have been fairly clear-cut and spread across the conferences.
While the word "terrorism" does have a criminal definition, its social and political meaning is less clear-cut, leaving many to wonder why it's only used when the perpetrator is Muslim.
With opinion polls split three ways between the center right, the center left and the maverick 5-Star Movement, there is unlikely to be a clear-cut winner in the election.
Although clear-cut data are lacking on the effects of marijuana on breast-fed infants, the drug can get into breast milk and the guidelines discourage marijuana use by nursing mothers.
Another critical step Dr. Kilmartin learned from his work is that men need routine practice stepping up in situations of harassment and assault before that clear-cut, super obvious moment strikes.

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