The government has little compunction about curbing freedom of expression.
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However, he had no compunction about invoking the death penalty.
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Soon enough, such official compunction was decidedly on the wane.
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For example: Breaking the rules and having no compunction about it.
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Messrs Modi and Shah have felt no compunction about filling the void.
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So far, the state has shown little compunction about soaking the rich.
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Jordan has no compunction, whatsoever, about sharing his feelings about the world.
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It is a place of thought, elation, frustration, compunction, wisdom, and growth.
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Trump seems to feel absolutely no compunction to explain how anything would work.
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IBM's Watson supercomputer evidently doesn't have the same compunction about working with the feds.
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Célestine's employers, the Lanlaires, feel no compunction about taking out their frustrations on her.
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And when his memoir reaches his professional zenith, Sonnenfeld's compunction for oversharing pays off.
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If he made that calculation, he'd have no compunction about holding a legitimate trial.
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In an interview in March, he had no compunction about threatening the kingdom's survivability.
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Out there, black folk are killed without comeback or compunction, sometimes by the police themselves.
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It has shown little compunction about blocking or banning companies that will not play along.
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The moral compunction that he showed the world that he felt, he didn't really feel.
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Drugs temporarily block Charlotte's compunction, decades in the making, to perform perfect femininity at all times.
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And unlike Daenerys, the Night King will not have the slightest compunction about dropping the bomb.
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Artur Mas, the nationalist president of the Generalitat, at first had no compunction about applying austerity.
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And given the ubiquity of AI, what use might terrorists, devoid of compunction, make of it?
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But sceptics note that he showed no compunction about gaming term-limits when mayor of Davao.
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He has certainly shown no compunction about pushing the Department of Justice to investigate Hillary Clinton.
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Perhaps to his own detriment, he's an outlaw without compunction or apology–and boundless self-confidence.
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Some have little compunction about recommending violence as the most direct route to achieving their agenda.
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It's invention run amok, marketing gone mad, the odoriferous emblem of commercialism without compunction or bounds.
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They demonstrate little compunction about art-washing predators whose business models are as antisocial as Tony's.
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And certain players in cannabis have shown no compunction about enlisting erstwhile enemies to help their cause.
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But the Trump administration may not feel any compunction about using an immigration database for voting purposes.
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This attack would be just the latest from an administration that misleads the public with no compunction.
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Burnett may have wanted to downplay his friendship with the President, but Trump felt no similar compunction.
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Krauthammer harbored no compunction about calling out those in power, whether they were Democrats or Republicans or conservatives.
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"Republicans who oppose that strategy will feel no compunction vocalizing that," said one Republican strategist, citing Cheney's remarks.
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Such thoughts would remove any compunction about going ahead—but it is impossible to quantify the relative probabilities.
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There are certain atheists who have no compunction about dismissing fervent believers as victims of delusion and hallucination.
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"So proud of @ABCNetwork for having the ethical compunction to cancel #Roseanne despite the show's huge numbers," she tweeted.
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Johnson, in particular, has shown no compunction about sabotaging the policies of the very government he was serving under.
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"So proud of @ABCNetwork for having the ethical compunction to cancel #Rosanne despite the show's huge numbers," Driver wrote.
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Trump viewed that as a betrayal and appeared to have no compunction about publicly complaining about his own Cabinet official.
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The military dictators of the 1970s had little compunction about flooding vast areas of forest and displacing thousands of families.
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And because the ideas are unpopular, even red-state Democrats have felt no compunction to pull punches in their opposition.
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This is beyond corrupt and they will destroy the president and his family in the process with no compunction whatsoever.
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Trump demands apologies anytime he is impugned but shows no compunction or remorse when he does the same to others.
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But at least policymakers back then felt some compunction to demonstrate that Pax Americana would live up to its name.
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We have politicians who feel no compunction, even, misusing the story of a sacred virgin birth to ignore child molestation.
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That impeachment failed could mean he will feel no compunction about asking foreign governments for more help in the future.
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He is constantly thinking about how to solidify his political support and has no compunction doing what is necessary to win.
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I missed Prinz and Muckl very much at that moment" — Wolf has no compunction about describing America as "a racial cesspit . . .
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Some politicians and pundits lament the instability and, even without medical degrees, feel no compunction about publicly diagnosing various mental maladies.
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For if Kim Jon-Un and his lackeys murder their own people, they will have no compunction in mass-murdering our people.
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If Trump feels no compunction doing this to Cohn, what's to stop him from behaving similarly with, say, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis?
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Mr. Cruz, 47, a onetime Tea Party acolyte, has never shown any compunction about blowing up the courtly traditions of the Senate.
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You might argue that it's a sign of progress that these writers felt no compunction in writing about troubled, lonely gay characters.
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G.O.P. lawmakers have brazenly dismissed the will of the people in this election and have shown no compunction about curtailing civil liberties.
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Ms. Le Pen and her party still show little compunction over using tried and true National Front strategies that stoke racial fears.
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Iranian authorities have shown less compunction about violent crackdowns, leaving more than 208 protestors dead, according to the latest figures from Amnesty International.
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They have less moral compunction against getting involved in the black market because they're less likely to believe in the ideals of socialism.
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Such unlikely stable mates are less uncommon than you might think: Parties are weak in Peru, and politicians have little compunction about switching sides.
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But if you go all back in history, we have never had much compunction about killing each other, especially if you couldn't fight back.
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That wasn't always possible, and Smuts had little compunction about using the police and army to put down rebellions — white as well as black.
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From the Central Park Five to the present day, Donald Trump has had no compunction about jumping to the wrong conclusion on the law.
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Mark, we all recognize your talents in the field, Matheson would offer with fake compunction, but renewals are a matter for personnel and management.
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Clearly, Kaine has no compunction about getting their viewpoints into the hands of policymakers—or, in a Clinton White House, maybe straight to the president.
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And even after the company regained its financial footing in the early 2000s, Jobs had no compunction about killing an old product for something better.
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Another target was Mr. Bloomberg, who spent millions of dollars on ads attacking Mr. Trump and had no compunction contrasting his wealth with the president's.
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He never seemed to me entirely at home in his domicile of deception; she dwells without evident compunction in a gaudier fairyland of grander fictions.
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A trio of Senate Republicans who are not running for re-election have gone rogue and feel no compunction to fall in line behind him.
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But many experts doubt that theory, as he had no compunction about using deadly chemical vapors to kill millions of people in the death camps.
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Since seizing power from Fulgencio Batista in 1959, Fidel and Raul have embodied global revolutionary Marxism, defying U.S. opposition and repressing domestic dissent without compunction.
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There's no compunction to pretend that children have no effect on your life, your schedule, or the number of days you have to work from home.
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Although there is no evidence he orchestrated the violence, he has shown no compunction about capitalising on the popularity it won him in Hindu-nationalist circles.
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If Trump does feel some compunction to reach out to the other side of the aisle, he can do it without without losing any edgy toughness.
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The previous generation, including men like his father, had been white supremacists who felt little compunction about the fact that their wealth came from dispossessing blacks.
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A famously defiant figure, he will likely feel no compunction to leave the race no matter what effect he is having, or whoever asks him to.
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Yet even if psychological compunction is the main explanation for Mr Trump's unusual defence, it also appears to make tactical sense in a variety of ways.
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From that play he also draws the basic story of a crafty political wife who has no compunction about conniving to achieve outcomes she considers favorable.
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History has shown Filipinos that those who believe they own the land, who've "been doing this for a long time," have no compunction about harming it.
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Mr Trump's intense hostility towards the "mainstream media", for what he perceives as its bias against him, means that he is unlikely to feel any such compunction.
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Priebus is left trying to play referee when his boss is always going to have the bigger whistle and no compunction about stepping in to use it.
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But when the facts don't back up a Trump view or claim, he has zero compunction in creating his own "truth" that works better for his purposes.
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Few observers would have described the banking sector as a hotbed of ethical compunction, but even by the jaundiced standards of the industry HSBC's transgressions were extreme.
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A man whose word is worthless when it comes to his legal contracts will have no compunction breaking his political promises, no matter whom his daughter married.
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So it's an exercise grounded in an attempt to make voters forget that these are the same irresponsible congressmen who had no compunction about mortgaging our future.
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Remarkably, he criticises the public too, who "want to be reinforced in their beliefs", and so choose to inhabit partisan bubbles and forward fake news items without compunction.
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Trump, who demands absolute loyalty from his aides, has shown no compunction about leaving any of his lieutenants out in the cold when it is convenient for him.
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And, unlike most politicians, Trump simply doesn't feel any compunction about saying one thing one day and something totally contradictory the next day -- or even the next hour.
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Trump admires dictators and strongmen; he dismisses the press as fake news and ethics rules as unnecessary niceties; he lies without compunction and delights in self-serving conspiracy theories.
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The landlord was obliged to ensure only that his renters had third-party liability insurance, but beyond that they were under no compunction to cover themselves in any way.
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If you mistakenly think resistance is an attribute of people, on the other hand, you will have no compunction about using antibiotics, provided they seem to have some effect.
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Levin's book is much stranger than that because here's the thing: Linda Taylor actually was a scam artist who cheated the system quite prolifically and without the slightest compunction.
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Political leaders in several Western countries feel no compunction about staking their careers on white nationalist themes that are typically anti-immigrant, often anti-Muslim and sometimes anti-Semitic.
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As many unicorns have found out, to their embarrassment, larger financial institutions have no compunction about writing down the value of a struggling frustratingly-slow-to-be-listed portfolio company.
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Emboldened by the egoistic philosophy, they had no compunction about shooting and killing people if that was the fastest way to get what they wanted, and not just class enemies.
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"He had no compunction, no hesitation about testing himself against the biggest, the fastest, and the best in whatever he came across," Palmer, now an attorney in Seattle, told CNN.
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The president's favorite show had no compunction about defending the El Paso shooter's manifesto, in effect broadcasting his message to more than a million viewers — including, most importantly, the president.
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" Brennan accused Trump of "lying routinely to the American people without compunction, intentionally fueling divisions in our country and actively working to degrade the imperfect but critical institutions that serve us.
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We have established that the Democratic candidates running for president have little compunction about taking positions that alienate moderate voters, especially when doing so is as easy as raising a hand.
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His supporters expected him to be a firestarter: a maverick with no regard for the old ways of Washington and no compunction about doing what he wants, the way he wants.
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Media outlets that would never knowingly publish documents stolen by a hostile Russian power have had no compunction publishing documents stolen by a hostile Western power and then laundered through WikiLeaks.
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But I feel no compunction in exposing the dark side of something I love; I feel honored by the trust of these riders I so respect, and inspired by their bravery.
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Well, not much, at least if you're comfortable with a political dispensation in which a senior White House official can stonewall without compunction and expect everyone else to yawn and shrug.
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Many of these voters admitted, with little compunction, that they wanted to implant his brash persona in the seat of power to shock the system, because the system deserved a shock.
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Saudi Arabia and its allies seem to have little compunction about slaughtering children as long as more bombs can be bought, so it's up to the enablers to call a halt.
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Other senior FBI leaders have already been purged, and Trump's shameful treatment of Peter Strzok, Bruce Ohr, and others has made it clear that he has no compunction about ordering further purges.
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When the US government first imported that Paperclip war booty, it at least had the compunction to keep "our Germans" under wraps until pressured to unveil them at the end of 1946.
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" While gathering intelligence and blackmail material on residents, Soufan explains: "ISIL would begin concentrating its fighters in the area — typically foreigners who would have less compunction about killing or subjugating the natives.
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"Saudi Arabia and its allies seem to have little compunction about slaughtering children as long as more bombs can be bought, so it's up to the enablers to call a halt," it said.
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Second, the allegiance of many white Democrats and independents is difficult to predict — cross-pressured as they are by the conflict between unsavory Trump positions they are drawn to and conscience or compunction.
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This demonstrated that al-Qaeda could carry out gruesome acts of violence thousands of miles from its base in Afghanistan, and that it had no compunction in killing as many civilians as possible.
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LOIS BLOOM, WILLIAMSBURG, VA. To the Editor: Even the most poorly informed Trump voters knew full well that he lied on the campaign trail and in the presidential debates repeatedly and without compunction.
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More than anyone else, even Putin, Soleimani was an example of a leader who had no compunction about ignoring what rules might exist and unleashing bloody mayhem to suit his ambition and agenda.
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Even Justice Clarence Thomas, who often shows little compunction about abandoning age-old precedents when they depart from his view of a constitutional rule, believes the courts are "the final arbiter" of the constitution's meaning.
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His political rivals, meanwhile, showed no compunction about taking advantage of this travesty: the victorious candidate for governor, Anies Baswedan, took to campaigning in the white shirt and black skullcap of a pious Javanese Muslim.
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A further disturbing fact is that, given the nature of India's police force and its courts, it is perhaps natural that poor villagers should feel little compunction about taking the law into their own hands.
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With only a vague verbal agreement in place, Kuchar felt no compunction about paying David 'El Tucan' Ortiz only $5,000 from his first prize of nearly $1.3 million, evidently feeling he was being rather generous.
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Whatever compunction he had about the plan disappeared as the ball fell through the net again and again and again and... "I was on automatic, and by the fourth quarter, I was exhausted," says Heater.
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While the two countries routinely hail their friendship and criticize the reach of Western power — witness the joint statement they released last month — China has exhibited little compunction over encroaching upon Russia's traditional sphere of influence.
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Weaver and others have long warned that WikiLeaks has no compunction about publishing information stolen by foreign intelligence agencies who want to use the group as a bullhorn to damage another government — or another political party.
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More dramatically, Canadian law professor Joel Bakan has made an analogy between corporations and psychopaths, arguing that corporations act as pathological, fantastical "individuals" shorn of any moral compunction, driven by the absolute imperative of profit alone.
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Woods had largely been eschewing his driver in the previous two days to avoid Carnoustie's daunting rough, but on Saturday, he had no compunction about pulling out the longest club in his bag on the tee.
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If a man who campaigned on respecting the margins of the presidency can suddenly discard something so central to his platform without fear of condemnation, what of those who have demonstrated no such compunction to begin with?
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" Obama argued that today's generation is the most diverse, "conditions that are ripe for exploitation by politicians who have no compunction and no shame about tapping into America's dark history of racial and ethnic and religious division.
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But there was one hitch: Whereas FATCA forced foreign governments to reveal American accounts abroad, the US was under no compunction, legal or otherwise, to share information on non-Americans opening up accounts in the US proper.
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By contrast, 31 House Democrats voted to open the impeachment inquiry into Mr. Clinton and many members of his party felt no compunction about condemning his behavior even if they did not support removing him from office.
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MORE, famously avoided reference to radical Islam, but Pence had no compunction about calling out the threat we face: Radical Islamic terrorism knows no borders – targeting America, Israel, nations across the Middle East and the wider world.
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It also sent out this very powerful deterrent message to anybody else in the regime who might be thinking about growing their own power base: I have no compunction of getting rid of anybody, even my own relative.
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The protesters have little chance of toppling the clerical leaders, who appear to be retaining control of the military, police, and security forces and have no compunction about using them, according to one U.S. official following the developments.
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It's also very troubling, she said, that wireless carriers, which have legitimate use for location data, have so easily turned it over to "shady middlemen," who seem to have little compunction about how it used, or by whom.
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For some, Father Ratzinger embodied a musical perfectionist who sought success above all else, while others recalled him as being quick with a slap, and having no compunction against throwing a chair or music stand into the choir.
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"[He] has shown highly abnormal behavior by lying routinely to the American people without compunction, intentionally fueling divisions in our country and actively working to degrade the imperfect but critical institutions that serve us," Brennan writes of Trump.
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You see, strangely, a league that has no compunction about fining players for wearing the wrong socks, shoes or twerking after a touchdown is suddenly silent about whether its employees must stand during the playing of the national anthem.
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Asshole hackers with no compunction have published more than 25,000 photographs of patients at a Lithuanian cosmetic surgery clinic, the Guardian reports, after the clinic refused to pay out 300 bitcoins (currently worth nearly $700,000) in ransom earlier this year.
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But since it's obvious to her date that she really does want to stay, he feels no compunction about pressuring her — and she's also more than happy to be given an excuse to do what she wants to do anyway.
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"Unfortunately, there is little doubt that ISIL continues constantly to kill and endanger civilians, committing war crimes without any compunction whatsoever," U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said in a statement, using an alternate acronym for ISIS.
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And so we've a really bad situation that the public square, which is — you know, the proverbial public square — is now owned by private billionaires, and they have no ... I'm going to say ability or compunction to fix the situation.
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Conflicts over future public health hazards like the Dakota Access Pipeline demonstrate that the government has no compunction whatsoever about moving forward with projects that endanger its populace — to say nothing of extending the brutal legacy of seizure by force of Native lands.
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As Rick Hasen writes in "The Justice of Contradictions", his new book on Justice Gorsuch's predecessor, Antonin Scalia made grand overtures to the sanctity of the legislative process while striking down laws with little compunction—and sometimes even with disdain for legislators.
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We know that Trump's incompetence is only matched by his malevolence—that he has no compunction targeting some of the planet's most vulnerable people, and that he is using executive orders with all the care and precision of a giant vindictive child.
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But the idea of a deep state, similar to the idea of a rigged election or a fraudulent vote count, could cause a more fundamental threat: Each presupposes the government is actually controlled by hidden hands that ignore the law without compunction.
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Conner agrees that it will either take an improvement in battery technology to increase capacity or reduce charging times, or a driver with less compunction about breaking the law, to achieve a better run time — which is not to say it won't happen.
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Taylor, who acted on network crime shows in his early career, has no compunction about using the compelling structure of tacky TV to hook in viewers, so he can introduce them to his take on the American experience — and its erosion in modern history.
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Since there are no regulations in the US requiring that shell companies identify their true owners — known as "beneficial owners" – American states have been under no compunction to try to peel back who may be behind the anonymous shell companies mushrooming across the country.
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For President-elect Tsai Ing-wen, this incident creates a challenge, as she will have to continue negotiating with a regime that has no compunction in breaking the rules and which is keen to extend the reach of its laws to include Taiwanese citizens, wherever they are.
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Rick CrawfordRichard (Rick) CrawfordRepublican Congressman: DNI Nominee committed to declassification transparency The Hill's Morning Report - Attacked repeatedly, Biden fires back Politicians cheer USWNT over defeating England, qualifying for World Cup final MORE (R-Ark.), for example, evidently has some compunction about the combination of catfish and capitalism.
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A Sean Hannity interview with President Donald Trump is always a curious spectacle: The interviewer has disavowed journalistic ethics, and the subject has no compunction about lying, so the entire affair has the atmospherics of a news program but the substance of a partially improvised drama.
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Never content merely to gild what he was given (even if what he was given was a magnificent Renaissance edifice) he had no compunction about radically changing the shape of rooms, whether by manipulating furniture or building walls that he then lacquered, frescoed and layered with texture.
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"The defendant is free to proclaim that he has never remotely admitted the terrible wrongs alleged by the SEC; but, by gosh, he had better be careful not to deny them either (though, as one would expect, his supporters feel no such compunction)," the judge wrote.
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While the administration felt no apparent compunction about making a radical last minute change, it did feel obliged to offer some direction to companies affected by the expansion of the new rule, and how they might manage to adjust their operations in a cost-effective way.
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Then Sandberg spun into P.R. fifth gear, outsourcing the nasty business of protecting her company's image to a Republican-run opposition research goon squad that felt no compunction about trafficking in anti-Semitic memes (George Soros is behind anti-Facebook activism!) while simultaneously charging Facebook's critics with anti-Semitism.
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As for the rest of the Republican Party, they believe they can squeak to re-election with a president who extols scoundrels, defames heroes, lies without compunction, holds to no higher principle than his personal gratification and thinks he can always get away with it, because he always does.
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There is ample reason to think that a President Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE would feel no such compunction.
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Making matters yet worse is the compunction to go forward only when a multi-agency "consensus" is reached, which forces agencies with national security equities affected by a transaction to present inflated risk analyses to garner the assent of all of their CFIUS colleagues to a recommended course of action.
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He's exempted Canada and Mexico from new steel and aluminum tariffs for the time being, but threatened that if an update to the North American trade deal cannot be reached, he'll withdraw the US. As with TPP and the Paris climate agreement, he's shown no compunction about withdrawing the US from international deals.
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Trump appointees can't be trusted to be objective when dealing with internal issues because the president appears to feel no compunction about attacking people for disloyalty — as his sustained attack on Attorney General Sessions for recusing himself from the investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and the Russian government has made painfully clear.
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And even though your generation is the most diverse in history with a greater acceptance and celebration of our differences than ever before, those are the kinds of conditions that are ripe for exploitation by politicians who have no compunction and no shame about tapping into America's dark history of racial and ethnic and religious division.
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Until we get to public financing, which I wholeheartedly endorse, and we have this crazy system where you have to go out and raise the money, then if Democrats unilaterally disarm and say, "You know, we're holier than Caesar's wife, and we won't say or do anything that might raise a question" — there is no compunction on the other side.
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Just because succession of power in our fragile democracy isn't denied by dictator or compelled by coup does not mean that the majority of Americans who voted for someone other than Trump, and view his ascension as an offense, should feel any pressure or compunction to bear witness to the pomp and pageantry surrounding the installation of a demi-fascist and full-blown demagogue as president.
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And even though your generation is the most diverse in history, with a greater acceptance and celebration of our differences than ever before, those are the kinds of conditions that are ripe for exploitation by politicians who have no compunction and no shame about tapping into America's dark history of racial and ethnic and religious divisionAppealing to tribe, appealing to fear, pitting one group against another, telling people that order and security will be restored if it weren't for those who don't look like us or don't sound like us or don't pray like we do, that's an old playbook.
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The past 24 hours of news in President Donald Trump's various legal imbroglios — the replacement of outgoing lawyer Ty Cobb with Emmet T. Flood, who represented Bill Clinton during his impeachment as president, and the admission of Rudy Giuliani to Sean Hannity (subsequently confirmed by Trump on Twitter) that Trump did in fact reimburse Michael Cohen for a $130,000 payment made to porn actress Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 election — are powerful reminders of something that can't be said often enough: Trump and his White House lie all the time, without apparent compunction.
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