It follows that areas constituting things like "Cowboys Country" are utter bullshit.
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That is particularly true of the 19 countries constituting the monetary union.
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In 1989, the withdrawal was completed, constituting a full Israeli withdrawal from Sinai.
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Instead, they tended to be a collective cultural project, constituting particular social markers.
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WWE made USA, constituting the most lucrative part of its catalogue for years.
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Constituting an overwhelming majority, 76 percent of Americans want and support net neutrality.
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But Barr repeatedly defended Trump's actions as not constituting criminal obstruction of justice.
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He has described this shtick as constituting about 7% of who he really is.
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From these, an international jury selected 100 images across 18 categories, constituting the touring exhibition.
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They tend to treat irreversible loss of all of the brain's function as constituting death.
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I went for long weekend runs (constituting some of the 232.75 hours I spent exercising).
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" And more stairs, too, constituting "a different way of moving around from room to room.
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There are 2,600 such stars constituting a gallery of misfits, menaces, and even alleged murderers.
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"Certain elements constituting genocide" - a rare designation under international law - may be present, it said.
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Women make up the overwhelming majority of tabloid magazine subscribers, constituting 77% of Us Weekly's subscribers.
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And so they leave, constituting one of the largest outflows of women workers in the world.
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He added that there was some concern about the attacks constituting a new kind of warfare.
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The occasional spat or tiff has arisen, but nothing constituting anything close to a trade war.
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Black women make up 28 percent of maternal deaths despite constituting only 11 percent of births.
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The fourth quarter is especially crucial for prestige fragrances, constituting almost 45 percent of annual sales.
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"Constituting an official commission that might study the question?" the pontiff asked, according to National Catholic Reporter.
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He found 20123 total credible accusations between 22012 and 22012, constituting a few hundred ballots at most.
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He found 35 total credible accusations between 2000 and 2014, constituting a few hundred ballots at most.
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Levitt found 25 total credible accusations between 2000 and 2014, constituting a few hundred ballots at most.
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The land punctuates this great expanse of sea, constituting a mere 0.035 percent of our sovereign area.
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Levitt found 21.8 total credible accusations between 22.75 and 22008, constituting a few hundred ballots at most.
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Levitt found 35 total credible accusations between 2000 and 2014, constituting a few hundred ballots at most.
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He found 35 total credible accusations between 2000 and 303, constituting a few hundred ballots at most.
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Levitt found 35 total credible accusations between 20133 and 2014, constituting a few hundred ballots at most.
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The EU signed a free-trade agreement with Japan, constituting the largest free-trade bloc in the world.
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For many industries, trade works comparably, with only a few major players constituting the bulk of the competition.
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I call these "flavours" to avoid implying that relationships can be exclusively pigeonholed as constituting just one form.
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The season's structure — with the present-tense action constituting a season-long flashback — has its plusses and minuses.
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Most bureaucratic work is siloed (with each agency, or even bureau within an agency, constituting its own silo).
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It has the largest density of vehicles in the country, with two wheelers constituting nearly 69% of the vehicles.
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Similarly, men make up nearly three-fourths of all board members, despite constituting 49 percent of the U.S. population.
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More and more, empathy seems to test the shaky limits of liberal exhaustion while not constituting any actual work.
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As it now stands, the academy has about 8,400 members, with women constituting 28 percent and minorities 13 percent.
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The matter was settled with an agreement on the conditions constituting legitimate self-defense in anticipation of an attack.
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This continued escalation in repressive measures has been described by independent human rights organizations as constituting crimes against humanity.
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The U.N. refugee agency says Lebanon hosts more than 1 million registered Syrian refugees - constituting a quarter of its population.
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Franz Josef Land is a Russian archipelago located in the Arctic Ocean and constituting the northernmost part of Arkhangelsk Oblast.
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He did not consider remarks he made to the reporter as constituting sexual harassment, the ministry said in the statement.
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McCarter is fully inside the Hamilton bubble, in other words, and is quite dogmatic about the show constituting a revolution.
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Many governments have sought to sign bi- or multilateral free trade agreements constituting an agreement to mutually lower these barriers.
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Personal taxes constituting only 0.4 percent of GDP, with nearly 95 percent of the population not subject to income tax.
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Americans owned $2401 trillion in IRAs at year-end 26, with Roth IRAs constituting only $2622 billion of that total.
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Federal prosecutors said they will seek a forfeiture judgment for billions of dollars constituting the cartel's illegal drug-trafficking proceeds.
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With labor constituting 44 percent of GDP, that would mean about $80 billion worth of higher wages for American workers.
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Almost 19 million of the registered voters are millennials and Gen Z, constituting around 31 percent of the potential midterm voters.
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But he promised that if elected he would fight against "the wall of the powerful" constituting the superwealthy and the banks.
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His testimony before Congress became famous, constituting one of the biggest controversies for the White House of former President Ronald Reagan.
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The U.S. trucking industry generated more than $4.053 billion in revenue in 24.05, constituting 23.76 percent of overall U.S. freight revenue.
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And there are a huge number of them – over 31.5 million, constituting nearly 30% of all production and non-supervisory jobs.
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This included an attack that killed two Americans and one British servicemember, constituting a significant uptick in activity on that front.
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Legal experts said it was too early to tell whether the Lindholm Island project would cross those boundaries, constituting illegal confinement.
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Just last week, a Turkish court tried nearly 500 defendants on conspiracy charges, constituting the largest coup-related trial to date.
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Central to Pylypchuk's practice is the notion that the discards constituting his artworks are not elevated by their proximity to us.
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The Three Sacred Treasures, constituting proof of the emperor's legitimate claim to the Chrysanthemum Throne, are the nation's essential royal regalia.
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Extreme confrontation and polarization cannot seize common conscience and peace, constituting borders and barriers to understanding and peaceful and democratic coexistence.
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He said his firm owned shares of Facebook, Amazon and Alphabet, with the last constituting 4 percent of the fund's assets.
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According to the Treasury Department, Assad continues to buy "a great deal of oil" from ISIS constituting millions of dollars in trade.
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Amitiza drug brought in sales of $53 million in the first quarter, constituting nearly 22% of the drugmaker's generic drug unit sales.
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Today, 2628 million American jobs are supported by NAFTA, with Canada and Mexico constituting around $28503 billion in American imports each year.
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Despite constituting roughly one percent of the population, Jews were the victims of more than a third of hate crimes in 2017.
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One possibility: arguing that an infection had worked its way into a building's ductwork, constituting "physical loss and damage" to the workplace.
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The Aymara, despite constituting a large part of the population, were poor and politically disenfranchised, unwelcome in some neighborhoods of La Paz.
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Nevertheless the nature of the healthcare sector reflects a fairly rigid expenditure structure with staff costs constituting about 60% of total expenses.
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The nation accounts for around half global pork consumption, with prices for the meat constituting around 4 percent of its consumer price index.
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Technology re-engineers humanity in part by affecting human capabilities and in part by shaping and constituting our values, beliefs, and shared commitments.
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The civil aviation sector accounts for roughly $1.5 trillion annually to the national economy, constituting 5.4 percent of our entire gross domestic product.
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The statement was signed by 187 prominent evangelicals, constituting something like a last stand as gay marriage continues its march to mainstream acceptability.
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"Coming into existence, far from ever constituting a net benefit, always constitutes a net harm," Benatar argues in Better Never to Have Been.
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In 2015, for instance, African Americans accounted for 51 percent of all homicide victims despite constituting just 13 percent of the national population.
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The study also found that a whopping 14 billion fraudulent email messages are sent worldwide daily--constituting one out of every 20 emails.
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Eisenstein was immensely enthusiastic about Disney's creations, which he saw as constituting a modern revival of animism with deep roots in mythical thought.
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" U.S. lawmakers last month cited intensive surveillance of a minority Muslim population in the western part of China as possibly constituting "crimes against humanity.
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The nature of the higher education sector reflects a rigid expenditure structure with staff costs constituting, on average, about 65% of the total expenses.
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In an October 2018 earnings call, Raytheon described its business from Saudi contracts as constituting about 5 percent of that year's revenue so far.
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Israel defines itself as needing to constitute a decisive Jewish demographic majority [and] thereafter describes all those Palestinian refugees as constituting an existential threat.
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Some initial coin offerings that originate in Mexico could violate the nation's law of markets and securities, constituting a financial crime, the authorities said.
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Far from constituting the principal opposition to President Emmanuel Macron, a promise she made last year, her voice in the National Assembly is inaudible.
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The play, with Ellen Burstyn and Charles Grodin constituting the opening-night cast and Gene Saks directing, ran for almost three and a half years.
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The bulk of EHL's revenue stems from the university's own business activities, with education fees (net tuition fees) constituting on average 40% of total revenue.
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Yet in another study, methane ice may maintain such a steepened structure if the individual CH4 ice grains constituting the collective ice are large enough.
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Suspended in mid-air, 30 mask-like faces meet the viewer at eye level, constituting a wave of varying skin colors, facial features, and expressions.
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The book breaks down the $5.2 billion of projects awarded to the Department of Defense, constituting for 76.5% of the total earmark costs in 2017.
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In Britain, we're experiencing levels of avoidable drug-related deaths not seen for decades, constituting almost a third of all drug-related deaths in Europe.
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In June 1981, three other Republicans joined with Percy and Boschwitz to vote against Lefever's nomination, constituting a majority of Republican senators on the committee.
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These results indicate that emotions expressed by others on Facebook influence our own emotions, constituting experimental evidence for massive-scale emotional contagion via social networks.
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But none have personas: the masks, constituting society, that we consciously or unconsciously devise to convey some aspects of our selves and to hide others.
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"Whatever the solution with Brexit, this does not prevent the parliament from regularly constituting itself when the time comes and starting its functioning," Hubner said.
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Net farm income is down 6900 percent from just three years ago, constituting the largest three-year drop since the start of the Great Depression.
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In a release on Monday, the company said its cuts will affect 110 people across multiple departments, constituting about 6 percent of the company's global workforce.
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In 2015 Britain exported £225bn-worth of services (constituting 44% of all its exports) and imported just £138bn, whereas in goods it ran a sizeable deficit.
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In August 2012, Obama had described the use of such weapons as constituting a "red line" that, if crossed, would force the US to consider intervening.
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The wind power industry produced 111 TWh from combined onshore and offshore capacity of just under 60 GW, constituting 20.4 percent of total German power output.
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But the bill provides real measures that might have made a difference, constituting the most useful response to last year's events that we've seen so far.
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The number of families on the waiting list for public housing, 227,000 — constituting half a million people — outstrips by far the total number of units, 178,226.
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That study only chalks up 13 percent of job loss to trade during that period, with automation constituting a major portion of that remaining job loss.
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Turnout wasn't the issue here, with African Americans constituting 22016 percent of the midterm electorate, flat from 22 and the highest-ever recorded for a midterm.
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Together, Mr. Rutte's and Mr. Wilders's parties look set to make up only 33 percent of the Parliament, with 11 more political parties constituting the rest.
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According to Rabobank, Portuguese banks borrow almost 25 billion euros from the ECB, with Portuguese government bonds (PGBs) probably constituting a large proportion of the collateral used.
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By comparison, total local TV spending grew 10 percent with close to $3 billion in political ads constituting just a small chunk of the $23 billion market.
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In 2018, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received more than 18 million reports to their CyberTipline, constituting 45 million images depicting child sexual abuse.
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Indonesia is a net oil exporter, with oil and natural gas constituting around 15 percent of merchandise exports in 2014, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
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A former senior security official with the U.S. State Department told Reuters he did not regard the Hyde text messages as constituting an actual threat to Yovanovitch.
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That's a legitimate transaction, constituting an actual sale to an actual consumer, provided the amount people buy is reasonable and does not pile up in their garages.
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A former senior security official with the U.S. State Department told Reuters he did not regard the Hyde text messages as constituting an actual threat to Yovanovitch.
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But also the very concept of the body doesn't resonate that much with me, because in my work, I'm attached to all the layers constituting a person.
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One study by Loyola Law School professor Justin Levitt found just 35 credible accusations of voter impersonation between 2000 and 2014, constituting a few hundred ballots at most.
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According to Rabobank, Portuguese banks currently borrow almost 25 billion euros from the ECB, with Portuguese government bonds (PGBs) probably constituting a large proportion of the collateral used.
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The Semiconductor Industry Association says U.S. companies have about half of global semiconductor market share, constituting the United States' fourth ranked export behind aircraft, refined oil and automobiles.
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Pinewood Finco's bond is guaranteed by group entities constituting around 81% of total assets, 86% of turnover and 89% of adjusted EBITDA (12 months ended 30 September 2017).
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Points in the conflict Borders: There was keen interest in whether Hamas would make official its stance on which borders it would recognize as constituting a Palestinian state.
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Ms. Gardner said that some of Mr. Greitens's lawyers had threatened her in an effort to make her drop the case, possibly constituting tampering with a judicial officer.
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As often as not, flu victims were finished off by pneumonia, a secondary infection that followed closely upon the flu virus's trail, constituting a lethal one-two punch.
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At the same time, Apple's dependency on the iPhone for earnings has declined, with services and wearables now constituting 27% and 37% of profits, Morgan Stanley pointed out.
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But faced with accusations of treachery from hardline nationalists, he instead pushed the Catalan parliament to pass a resolution "constituting the Catalan republic as an independent and sovereign state".
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In terms of removals, the Commission found YouTube removed 85.4% of reported content, Facebook 82.4% and Twitter 43.5% (the latter constituting a slight decrease in performance vs last year).
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Der Spiegel magazine said the government plane's entire communication system malfunctioned, constituting a serious emergency, with the crew forced to plan the landing using an on-board satellite phone.
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The little touches, like the use of Kewpie mayo in the "Bayside Burger," or the coconut milk-waffle and Korean-fried chicken constituting "Tori's Fried Chicken," speak to that.
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That professor told Papadopolous about "thousands of emails" constituting "dirt" on Hillary Clinton months before any such emails from her campaign or the Democratic National Committee were leaked publicly.
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In contrast, the next canvas, "Untitled (Love)" is painted with four narrow, evenly spaced blue stripes, constituting a severe disruption of the uniform color intervals in the previous painting.
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"This reflects a marked and ongoing shift in the revenue model of trading venues, with market data now constituting a significant and increasing share of their income," they added.
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Broadcom has nominated six members to the Qualcomm board, constituting a majority of the 11-person board, to be voted on in March when Qualcomm holds its annual meeting.
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The populist parties constituting the new government won the most votes in a March 4 election, promising a sweeping crackdown on the illegal immigration that helped fuel their ascent.
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And coupled with Turkey's economic growth under Erdogan, it has built him a loyal, right wing constituency, including Turkish nationalists, conservatives and Islamists, constituting the other half of the country.
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The law also allows the FBI to search through the NSA's database without a warrant, constituting what critics like Democratic Senator Ron Wyden call a backdoor to the Fourth Amendment.
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At least the government has stepped in to protect those doing public-sector work; Carillion had about 450 government contracts, constituting about a third of the company's revenues in 2016.
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But this time seems to me to be different — in ways that could point either toward eventual compromise or to a deep transformation in the process of constituting the court.
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Parker Hannifin's engineered materials business is part of its larger diversified industrial unit, which reported sales of $11.98 billion in 2018, constituting about 84 percent of the company's overall revenue.
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The findings also revealed that women of color were more vulnerable to maternal mortality, with black women constituting 11 percent of births in Texas but 28 percent of the deaths.
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The Missouri Court of Appeals declined to rule on the nature of his sentence—Johnson has argued that the length is disproportionate to the crime, constituting cruel and unusual punishment.
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She says that she&aposs "confident" that the foundation will hit its goal of women constituting an average of 20203% of the overall gender makeup of business school by 2020.
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" Mr. Parry considered himself a pariah in the eyes of politicians as well as the major established news organizations, which he viewed as constituting a kind of parallel "permanent government.
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If games are about engaging with a world built for you by someone else, modding is about reaching into that world and taking a more collaborative role in constituting it.
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A producer takes a presentation to distributors for other countries—a script, maybe, and images from the film, possibly a trailer or some early footage, all constituting a kind of pitch.
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Unveiled by council leaders and the co-chairs of the task force, the preliminary recommendations range from restoring Pell grants for justice-involved individuals to fully constituting the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
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India has the world's largest population in the 18-35 year age group at 440 million people, constituting nearly half of its workforce, global consultancy Deloitte said in a recent report.
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" The brief suggested that if the 7th Circuit really wants a discussion of the issues, it should consider appointing "a neutral advocate among the many talented lawyers constituting this court's bar.
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The judicial source said the executives were suspected of creating a "climate of extreme stress" with the aim of making employees want to leave, constituting a "dangerous degradation of working conditions".
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Motivate's contracts with partner cities include a clause that allows cities to unilaterally terminate the program should the company be bought, the person said, constituting too large a risk for Uber.
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Offspring of the former guerrillas occupy key posts of the Pyongyang government, constituting a core elite buttressing Mr. Kim's rule and living with luxuries ordinary North Koreans can only dream about.
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Despite the media narrative about the American demographic transition, noncollege educated whites remain the largest electoral bloc in the country by a significant margin, constituting about half of the voting public.
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Azoulay reads images of conflict or atrocity as constituting a more interwoven set of actors, displacing the question from one of voyeurism, and even of empathy, to one of participatory citizenship.
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" Sol Wisenberg, a leading white-collar attorney who was deputy independent counsel during the Clinton-era Whitewater investigation, said the "tweets alone do not come close to constituting obstruction of justice.
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The Business 20 — the official dialogue of the G-20 constituting more than 700 members of the world's business community, including many U.S. companies — agrees: Trade rules need to be enforced.
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In the meantime, at least five states (Arizona, Colorado, California, New Jersey, and New York) already have legislation on the books that allows for constituting wage boards by industry or occupation.
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"This creates the possibility of a gram-scale wafer, carrying cameras, photon thrusters, power supply, navigation and communication equipment, and constituting a fully functional space probe," the Breakthrough Starshot website explains.
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"This creates the possibility of a gram-scale wafer, carrying cameras, photon thrusters, power supply, navigation and communication equipment, and constituting a fully functional space probe," the Breakthrough Starshot website explains.
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"The acts committed by this criminal gang qualify as terrorism, constituting clear and flagrant attacks against democratic institutions," Reverol said, adding that Pérez's followers "opened fire" during surrender negotiations, sparking the firefight.
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"Energean has received a notice under its ... contract with TechnipFMC in relation to the travel restriction constituting a force majeure event, potentially entitling TechnipFMC to claim an extension of time," Energean said.
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Salesforce's five biggest acquisitions before MuleSoft were all in the areas of digital marketing, online advertising and e-commerce software, constituting what the company now calls its Marketing Cloud and Commerce Cloud.
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The stroke he saved after tapping in for par wound up constituting his entire margin of victory, encapsulating the story of the tournament: unlike his rivals, Mr Woods refused to beat himself.
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Despite constituting less than 20 percent of Australians over the age of 14, super consumers, according to the report, account for more than 74 percent of all alcohol consumed yearly in Australia.
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The first problem with the notion of the Facebook accounts' constituting proof of a stolen election is that not all of what was being promoted on them was aimed at helping Trump.
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Lastly, with its theme of Black artistry constituting a crucial part of the development of abstraction in the US, this exhibition should be significant to the inhabitants of a majority-Black city.
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What it has found is that for the Rohingya population that remains in Myanmar, the situation is serious enough that there is a real risk that acts constituting genocide might take place.
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While other candidates have promised to raise taxes on the wealthy, Warren's plan goes further than any of her competitors, constituting "the biggest tax increase since World War II," a moderator said.
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Political adviser Benjamin Sparks: On 21 counts of battery constituting domestic violence, 211 counts of second degree kidnapping and 1 count of sexually motivated coercion, according to 8th Judicial District Court documents.
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"I can only confirm that information constituting state secrets was found in the course of Whelan's detention," Zherebenkov told journalists at a Moscow court where Whelan was attending a pre-trial hearing.
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The second—emboldened by new evidence about Gareth Grimes' true identity—was thrown out on account of Grimes not constituting a deciding factor in the case, completely contradicting the ruling of the first.
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Federal prosecutors found photos of one of the girls, a 15-year-old, "constituting child pornography" as well as electronic communication between the two that states she was underage, according to court papers.
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In the four monotypes in which the Burrows photograph is the source, and in the various works constituting the series, Regrets, Johns incorporates the motif of an unprotected, powerless man into his work.
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The cyclonic winds Juno discovered extend deeper into the planet than any similar weather pattern on Earth — as far as 1,900 miles, or 3,000 kilometers, into Jupiter, constituting about 1% of its mass.
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Tillerson's comments were the first public confirmation by the United States that the missile was indeed an ICBM, constituting a major technological advancement for the North and its most successful missile test yet.
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Her prints and drawings, reproduced in the book, demonstrate an innate artistic skill, as well as constituting, in the words of Schlenker, a "pictorial who's who of the cultural elite of her time".
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To qualify, the sale of your current property, and the purchase of the new one, must represent "mutually dependent parts of an integrated transaction constituting an exchange of property," according to the IRS.
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Locked away for millennia as frozen plant and organic matter constituting layers of permafrost, these carbon stores are estimated to contain more than twice the amount of carbon now present in the atmosphere.
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V Diamonds planned to issue one million tokens that started at $2 each via an ICO (initial coin offering), with each one constituting a one-millionth ownership stake in the blue diamond bling.
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Prospex estimated wholesale electricity trading on exchanges and in the wider over-the-counter market in the region at 8,517 terawatt-hours last year, with spot volumes constituting around 15 percent of the total.
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"All census questions undergo an extensive screening process constituting years of focus groups and field tests to ensure a high response rate coupled with effective data collection," she said in her letter to Gowdy.
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Moreover, EAGLE's reliance on them turned into an unhealthy dependency: the OWGRs always wound up constituting at least two-thirds of EAGLE's overall estimate of a player's skill, and usually far more than that.
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And in an investigation spanning from 2000 to 2014, Loyola Law School professor Justin Levitt found 35 total credible accusations of voter impersonation between 2000 and 2014, constituting a few hundred ballots at most.
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The name mutated to "Amboy," and the word "Perth" was appended in 1684 to honor the Scotsman James Drummond, Earl of Perth, who helped settle the territory constituting much of present-day New Jersey.
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It's a little because the volume of speech on the internet is so vast that one rather expects even the tiny proportion of it constituting hate speech to add up to millions and millions.
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By the time all of Senator Bond's claims had been investigated, it was clear that out of the 2.3 million Missouri voters, four people committed some type of malfeasance — hardly constituting "brazen" voter fraud.
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District jurists resolve immense caseloads, thus constituting the New York justice system's "workhorses," and the myriad vacancies pressure New York courts and litigants, conditions which epitomize those in many of the country's 2202 districts.
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Mr. Netanyahu, who is currently fighting to remain prime minister after two inconclusive elections, has promised to annex the settlements and the strategic Jordan Valley, constituting up to a third of the West Bank.
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The stepping frequencies might all average out, constituting something like white noise, but that's not quite how it works here: Some of that stepping energy is captured by the bridge because of its resonance.
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"It means that, after years of litigation and undeniable proof of intentional discrimination, minority voters in Texas - despite constituting a majority in the state - will continue to be underrepresented in the political process," Sotomayor wrote.
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El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, together with the neighboring city of Las Cruces, New Mexico, form a metropolitan border area of some 2.5 million residents constituting the largest bilingual, bi-national population in North America.
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Industry publication Hemp Business Journal estimates the total retail value of hemp products sold in the U.S. in 2017 to be at least $820 million, with help derived CBD products constituting 23 percent of sales.
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"Protesters have been frequently using extremely dangerous tools to attack the police in recent days, constituting serious crimes with sprouts of terrorism emerging," said Hong Kong and Macau Affairs office spokesman Yang Guang in Beijing.
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Food is common insofar as it sustains all of us, yet food also bears the marks of cultural and culinary distinctness, thus constituting a wonderful entry into the exchange of cultures, languages, tastes and dispositions.
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In the last two general elections, the three most successful parties in the region were left-wing political parties, with a combined share of the vote constituting almost three-fifths of total votes in Catalonia.
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The U.S. considers China and Russia to be "revisionist powers" constituting real threats to U.S. military, diplomatic, and economic interests globally, and the Arctic is one of the primary regions of Chinese and Russian ambition.
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"In Clinton's case, the pattern of conduct constituting obstruction involved a small cast of characters and a few discrete instances of wrongdoing, all centered firmly around his false testimony concerning Monica Lewinsky," Mr. Matz said.
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"A ruling that if it's just party, not race, that should somehow insulate actions from constituting racial discrimination, would be a dramatic holding, one that one might suspect is coming down the line," she said.
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These foods have been linked to mental health issues including depression, and both now saturate our food supply, constituting in large part the ultra-processed foods that now make up 60% of our caloric intake.
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Glee was Ryan Murphy's musical teen soap, running from 2009 to 2015, and it's a perfect illustration of the camp versus campiness distinction because you can make a solid argument for it constituting either one.
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Fitch considers prior ranking debt constituting 2.0x to 2.5x EBITDA an indication of the material possibility of subordination and lower recoveries for debt at Ciputra Development and therefore notch down its unsecured debt from the IDR.
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CHEAP PRICES FOR INDIA'S YOUTH India has the world's largest population in the 18-35 year age group at 440 million people, constituting nearly half of its workforce, global consultancy Deloitte said in a recent report.
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Both scary and hilarious, these creatures are present in the amazing "Haywain Triptych" (280143–15) where the hay in the middle panel represents the temptations of life, constituting an exempla contraria or what not to do.
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"If acts constituting crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court are committed, I will not hesitate to act and take all necessary steps to prosecute those responsible, in line with the principle of complementarity," she said.
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Entry-level products like small leather goods, footwear, and fragrances are priced to allow more people to buy into the dream created by higher-priced offerings, often constituting a larger portion of sales as a result.
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And with ethnic Chinese constituting nearly 19703 percent of Singapore's population of 5.6 million, some scholars and former diplomats worry that this island nation could be an especially tantalizing target for the Chinese government's influence efforts.
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"It means that, after years of litigation and undeniable proof of intentional discrimination, minority voters in Texas — despite constituting a majority of the population within the state — will continue to be underrepresented in the political process."
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The project to make Saudi Arabia a politically rather than religiously defined state is likely to demolish the century-old vision of an Islamic geography, which has always been premised upon Arabia constituting its depoliticized center.
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In one assessment of three American news magazines between 1950 and 1992, African-Americans were used as subjects in stories about poverty 53 percent of the time, while constituting just 29 percent of the nation's poor.
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As the legal commentator Benjamin Wittes noted last week on the website Lawfare, in addition to constituting abuse of power, pressuring Ukraine to investigate Mr. Biden and his son for political purposes violates their civil liberties.
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Usually, for issuers rated in the 'BB' category (a transitional territory between investment-grade and highly speculative), prior-ranking debt constituting 2x-2.5x EBITDA indicates a high likelihood of subordination and lower recoveries for unsecured debt.
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" The suit claims that Google has caused harm to its users "because they disclosed sensitive and confidential location information, constituting an egregious breach of social norms" and were the victims of an "intrusion into their private affairs.
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Beyond the children living in the most toxic air, about two billion children in the world, constituting the vast majority, live in places where air pollution exceeds the level that the W.H.O. considers unhealthy, the report said.
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In this way, our public lands serve as the bedrock for an outdoor recreation industry that has grown into a veritable behemoth, constituting $28503 billion in annual consumer spending and supporting 22019 million jobs across the country.
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At the start of the month, the number of Democratic endorsers reached 118 — constituting a majority of the caucus and energizing grassroots impeachment advocates who have long pressed Pelosi and her leadership team to launch an inquiry.
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So Trump's trashing of two-state doctrinal orthodoxy — "I'm looking at two-state and one-state and I like the one that both parties like" — at least had the merit of constituting a break with a sham.
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The combined company, which will have about 211,000 net acres in the two basins, produced more than 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day in the first quarter, with oil constituting nearly three quarters of the total output.
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Per the Drive, the laser itself is just one component of the planned final system, with other technologies such as a turreted mount and a pod to attach it to the side of an aircraft constituting separate projects.
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And, as with most projects of mapping and constructing platforms, Dissonant Archives, with its ambition of constituting a survey of archival practices geographically defined, flattens the historical depth of particular narratives under the regime of this archive discourse.
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Riyadh says around 2,500 Saudis have gone to fight in Syria and Iraq, constituting one of the largest groups of foreign fighters, but only a fraction of the total number estimated to be in the tens of thousands.
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Music was, however, de-emphasized in favor of corporate fetishism; while the Elvis records were relegated to the adjacent pavilion, trinkets and information constituting a sort of McDonald's museum were displayed more prominently in the main upstairs area.
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During the departmental trial, lawyers for Pantaleo argued that Garner's neck was in the crook of his elbow and there was no pressure on his windpipe but rather on the sides of his neck, constituting a sleeper hold.
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Experience and history demonstrate that only when there is clear and unmistakable evidence of impeachable crimes also constituting an abuse of the public trust will there ever be the requisite bipartisan support to remove a president from office.
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"The exclusion of certain news organizations from press briefings, if motivated by disagreement or displeasure with their coverage of the administration, may well have crossed an important constitutional line — potentially constituting violations of the First Amendment," he said.
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If courts uphold Trump's executive orders of last December, they would reduce southern Utah's Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments by 85 and 46 percent, respectively, constituting the biggest rollback of federally protected land in American history.
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Most consequentially, the legislation would reduce the acquisition threshold for CFIUS review from a 51% stake in the company — majority ownership — to simply any stake constituting a " substantial interest," which would cover a far wider breadth of Chinese investments.
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This tradition is almost uniquely uncompromising about accountability, steadfast in the conviction that power should rest only in the hands of leaders elected by and answerable to a nation constituting a demos, a community of shared assumptions and experiences.
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The FRC report did not mention Green by name, saying it would not be fair to treat any part of this document as "constituting or evidencing findings against any other persons since they are not parties to the proceedings".
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Instead, they found in a decision last week that RICO could be applied to conduct outside the United States as long as the particular crimes constituting the "racketeering activity" involved foreign conduct that could be charged on its own.
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Related: These Emails Show Canada Was Super Stoked About Saudi Arms Deal Since 2009, Canada has shipped over $1843 million in rifles, automatic weapons, and ammo to Saudi Arabia, with the majority of the guns constituting heavy machine guns.
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This makes it clear that the Marshall Plan, and the reparations it included, far from constituting charity, was installed in the interests of an America which had proclaimed itself the defender of democracy and the sworn enemy of Communism.
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With freshwater constituting less than 3 percent of the earth's water and only 1 percent being readily accessible, it is stunning that Americans waste approximately 40 percent of potable water because of broken water mains, leaking pipes and faucets.
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This is a very large segment of the correctional population — constituting millions of people — but policies in these areas are often guided by individual courts, probation and parole officers, and local officials who run jails, rather than state prison policy.
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Despite "constituting an empowered minority" in China, due to the country's unbalanced sex ratio, women are largely absent from the top echelons of Chinese politics, and only make up about a third of the main business leaders, Brown told Refinery29.
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Specifically, the ratio between the radius of the moon (19703,080 mi) and its distance from Earth (238,856 mi) -- what astronomers call its angular size -- is about one quarter of a degree (360 degrees constituting a full circle around the sky).
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Former Santa Barbara Senior Assistant District Attorney Ron Zonen, who helped prosecute Jackson and recalls viewing the actual documents tied to the case, tells PEOPLE that law enforcement did discover adult pornographic magazines and videos, though nothing constituting child pornography.
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The payment, which was made in the days leading up to the 2016 election, is being looked at by investigators for possibly constituting an unreported in-kind donation to the Trump campaign, which is a violation of campaign finance law.
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And at this point, sex equality is only there by interpretation of the Equal Protection Clause in particular cases, not as a general principle, not as an overarching constituting norm, and it can be given or taken at any time.
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However, Manafort's attorneys said in their own portion of the filing that he met with Mueller's officials "numerous times" following his plea deal and that he believes his answers to be truthful and not constituting a breach of the agreement.
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"The lands of the state, now owned or hereafter acquired, constituting the forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever kept as wild forest lands," Article 14 states, adding that the land could not be leased, sold or exchanged.
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It showed that Mr. Trump repeatedly asked Mr. Zelensky to investigate one of the American president's rivals, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Constituting roughly a quarter of the Democratic caucus, the freshmen are a microcosm of the broader group.
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According to a Clark County, Nevada criminal complaint obtained by TMZ ... Bridget's been charged with 3 felonies -- burglary while in possession of a deadly weapon, battery with use of a deadly weapon constituting domestic violence and assault with a deadly weapon.
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"With the current share of the Bund free float constituting only a small fraction of the total outstanding, we can be confident that we have passed this threshold in the euro area," Coeure, who oversees the ECB's market operations, said.
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Reported asset quality metrics have been healthy, with the share of non-performing loans (NPLs; loans overdue over 90 days) constituting a low 0.6% of the gross book at end-2016 (the latest available IFRS report) and being fully reserved.
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Courtesy of Oxford University Press As the figure illustrates, the proportion of primary opponents who challenge Republican incumbents on the basis of insufficient ideological fidelity rose dramatically beginning in 2010, now constituting more than 40 percent of all contested races.
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Amazon, which is not involved in the Supreme Court case, collects sales taxes on direct purchases on its site but does not collect taxes for items sold on its platform by third-party venders, constituting around half of total sales.
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The growth of low-wage worker population has at least two distinct effects: first, the devaluation of low-wage work as unskilled and menial; and, second, the establishment of perceived competition for these jobs among the groups constituting the working poor.
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We thought, rather than allowing for a ninth planet, and then worry about its formation and unusual orbit, why not simply account for the gravity of small objects constituting a disc beyond the orbit of Neptune and see what it does for us?
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Florida courts have long held there is no liability when a child drowns in a natural or artificial body of water -- unless there is some unusual danger not generally existing in similar lagoons, or the water contains a dangerous condition constituting a trap.
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If that were the case, deporting them to Turkey could be seen as constituting "refoulement" — the forcible return of asylum seekers to a country where they are prone to be subjected to persecution — which is forbidden under both international and EU law.
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The premiere garnered a peak of 9 million viewers, constituting approximately 40% of all people watching TV at the time in the U.K. To put those impressive numbers in perspective, the series opener with the last Doctor had around 6.8 million viewers.
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Biggest driver: MLB's ownership stakes in MLB Advanced Media (100%), BamTech (15%) and MLB Network (67%), as well as the league's investment portfolio, were included in the valuations and equally divided among the 30 teams, constituting over $400 million in value per franchise.
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The only bookseller not to appear in the report was Lee Bo, a British passport holder, who Britain said had been "involuntarily removed" to China from Hong Kong in late December, constituting a "serious breach" of a bilateral treaty between the two countries.
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A recent CEA report estimates that 46 percent of brand-name drug sales and more than 70 percent of profits in the richest countries are paid for by Americans, despite the United States constituting only about 34 percent of GDP among developed nations.
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The Silverliner V cars, now constituting about a third of the regional rail fleet, were unveiled to great fanfare on the regional rail system in 2010, and officials promoted their gleaming facades, spacious interiors and assembly at a new facility in South Philadelphia.
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He found 250.8 total credible allegations between 21965 and 2014, constituting a few hundred ballots at most, when more than 800 million ballots were cast in national general elections and hundreds of millions more were cast in primary, municipal, special, and other elections.
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"This decision from the government in the United States attempts to award a legal form to the sanctions in all the assets and properties of the Venezuelan state, constituting the most grotesque and shameless sacking in international relation's modern history," the statement said.
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" The FBI-run Terrorist Screening Center says an individual is included on the list when he or she "is reasonably suspected to be, or have been, engaged in conduct constituting, in preparation for, in aid of, or related to terrorism and terrorist activities.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Britain said on Friday a missing Hong Kong seller of gossipy books on China's leaders had likely been "involuntarily removed" to China from Hong Kong, constituting a "serious breach" of a longstanding bilateral treaty between the U.K. and China.
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Focussing on Byzantium, the Islamic world, and the patchwork of kingdoms constituting western and central Europe, Hartnell deftly shows how these societies' visual cultures were, like their medical theories, profoundly influenced by a symbolic understanding of humanity's relationship to realms seen and unseen.
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The plant life is the raw material in Spirit Molecule (2018-1693), one of the three projects here in which Dewey-Hagborg experiments with the connections between powerful emotions and the most minuscule working parts in the human system, with the results constituting the art.
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The vast majority of people I talk to reply ruefully: "It's fine, but..." Those "buts" end up constituting a range of complaints: the screen isn't on when I want it to be, the battery life sucks, the apps are pointless, it cost too much.
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For many members of Congress, being open to an immigration overhaul is increasingly a matter of political survival: About 225 million Latinos are qualified to vote in this year's election, according to the Pew Research Center, constituting a record 22012 percent of eligible voters.
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A month ago, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution condemning Israel's settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem as having no legal validity and constituting a "flagrant violation under international law" after the Obama administration decided not to veto the measure.
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That story is the complement to her grandparents', the two together constituting the Latvian national wartime narrative: those who suffered the pain of leaving and those subjected to the pain of staying — which meant life under the Soviet yoke, collectivization and, often, expulsion to Siberia.
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The two museums are awash with paintings by Veronese and Van Dyck, and acres of gilded furniture, mirrors and porcelain, the swag of its day, constituting a vivid snapshot of the Genovese aesthetic: showy and understated, luxe and frugal, public and (more typically) private.
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Alan Strachan's West End revival of "How the Other Half Loves" reclaimed Alan Ayckbourn's 1969 play for keeps, its portrait of the marital fissures and multiple betrayals across three couples constituting a master class in astringent comedy that made audiences laugh and wince in turn.
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Last week, an internal memo from the Office of Management and Budget showed AmeriCorps as one of several programs the Trump administration plans to eliminate—despite constituting a negligible cost to the federal government in an administration that doesn't use fiscal responsibility as a guiding principle.
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" Jill Harth Houraney filed a $125 million lawsuit against Trump alleging that at Mar-a-Lago in 1993, Trump "forcibly removed plaintiff to a bedroom, whereupon defendant subjected plaintiff to defendant's unwanted sexual advances, which included touching of plaintiff's private pars in an act constituting attempted 'rape.
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Supplies of cobalt were limited even before electric vehicles arrived on the scene, but now that these cars are taking off in popularity and predicted to grow quickly — potentially constituting more than half of all auto sales worldwide by 2040, the supply chain is even more stretched.
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Given probable hostility among Democrats to any Trump-Putin deal constituting a sharp departure from traditional U.S. security policies, and the continuing antipathy toward arms control treaties among many Republicans, the option of extending New START carries the additional advantage of having already been ratified by Congress.
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The ratings discount weaknesses in the debt structure, a high level of non-performing assets (36% of rent payments are in arrears by 103+days) and a weaker company profile assessment, with the portfolio's deteriorating asset quality and low level of investment constituting a long-term concern.
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The latest figures from the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)—a leading source of firefighting information—puts the number of volunteer firefighters in America at 814,850, constituting 483 percent of total firefighters, while in Canada, there are 126,650, making up a staggering 83 percent of all firefighters.
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Congress has twice asked the White House what its hard-and-fast demands are on a DACA deal, and on both occasions — in October and again on Friday — the White House's response has been a wish list constituting a comprehensive crackdown on legal and unauthorized immigration.
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Apple, the world's highest-valued publicly traded company, moved last year to allow a group of up to 20 shareholders owning at least 3 percent of its stock to include their own director candidates, constituting up to 20 percent of the board, in its proxy materials.
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Weekend reports by The Observer newspaper in the U.K. and The New York Times allege Facebook users willingly provided their data to a psychology quiz app developed by Kogan, who then passed the data along to Cambridge Analytica without the users' knowledge — constituting a potential violation.
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But, apparently we are: Given that the emergency is defined vaguely as constituting something like "terrorists might attack the country," it seems like we should consider dropping the charade of annual renewals and just admit that "emergency" 9/11 powers are now a permanent part of the landscape.
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" Israel was furious at the passage of Security Council resolution 2334, which says its settlements in the West Bank "had no legal validity, constituting a flagrant violation under international law and a major obstacle to the vision of two States living side-by-side in peace and security.
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MORE's U.S. Ambassador to Macedonia, Jess L. Baily, has worked behind the scenes with Soros' Open Society Foundation to funnel large sums of American dollars for the cause, constituting an interference of the U.S. ambassador in domestic political affairs in violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
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Constituting these into a talent supply business will take time, but the rewards are evident in the rapid growth experienced by talent supply pioneers like Revature, which has demonstrated the ability to fulfill orders for hundreds of purpose-trained, proven entry-level software developers for a single client.
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After joining U.S. personnel stationed throughout Europe and 18 other NATO allies' military forces constituting around 85033,000 troops in all, the U.S. forces will return to the U.S. "We have not demonstrated this ability to rapidly reinforce, from a transatlantic perspective ... for 25 years or so," Seguin told reporters.
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The notion of constituting a sort of general archive of costume, including in a single work all times, places, epochs, forms and tastes — the very idea of demonstrating the eclecticism of the world's cultures — takes its place in a vast project tending to emphasize the extraordinary diversity of humankind.
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Former federal prosecutors told Insider that in addition to constituting possibly impeachable offenses, Trump pressuring a foreign government to act for his benefit could violate campaign finance regulations or even rise to the level of bribery or misappropriation of taxpayer funds if he used the military aid as a bargaining chip.
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Depicting the riverfront of the Nile, the composition breaks into three horizontal zones: the sky above, constituting a bit more than half the frame; the river below, which is a broad stippled band; and a thin interstitial layer, much darker, of an island marked with feathery, dendritic clusters of palms.
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Doctors Without Borders, and the International Rescue Committee, among others, have suspended some of their activities in refugee centers because they do not want to be involved in implementing a deal that they describe as constituting the blanket expulsion of refugees from Turkey back to Greece.
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Gilman cites contemporary examples to make the argument for refusing transparency as a primary mode of being: the misuse of White empathy for Black subjects; the refusal to explain oneself constituting an essential aspect of privilege; the countervailing embrace of secrecy in queer communities versus the emancipatory action of coming out of the closet.
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"Because of the orbital motion of the mass-losing red giant, the cold molecular gas constituting the wind from that star is being spun out like the sprays of water from a rotating garden sprinkler, forming the outflowing pattern of spiral shells," UCLA astronomer and study co-author Mark Morris explained in a statement.
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But as secretary, he quickly became one of the chief proponents of Mr. Trump's energy-first agenda, promoting policies that seek to open the East Coast to offshore drilling, weaken the standards of the Endangered Species Act and shrink two national monuments, constituting the largest rollback of federal land protection in the nation's history.
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Over half a century after the occupation began and a quarter of a century after the signing of the Oslo Accords, it should come as no surprise that Israel is now primed to formally annex almost all of its settlements and the Jordan Valley (altogether constituting up to 30 percent of the West Bank).
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Tracking allegations of this type of fraud, Loyola Law School professor Justin Levitt found 35 total credible accusations between 2000 and 2014, constituting a few hundred ballots at most, when more than 213 million ballots were cast in national general elections and hundreds of millions more were cast in primary, municipal, special, and other elections.
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Given the prominence of carbonated soft drinks (CSDs) in Coca-Cola's beverage portfolio and constituting approximately 73% of the mix, the ratings consider the multiyear declines in CSD volumes in the U.S., continued concern over artificial sweeteners affecting diet CSD demand in North America, risks associated with excise tax increases and slowing growth in other developing countries.
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Given the prominence of carbonated soft drinks (CSDs) in Coca-Cola's beverage portfolio and constituting in excess of 70% of the mix, the ratings consider the multiyear declines in CSD volumes in the U.S., continued concern over artificial sweeteners affecting diet CSD demand in North America, risks associated with excise tax increases and slowing growth in other developing countries.
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It's possible to imagine our all-encompassing surveillance apparatus, not so many decades from now, constituting a sort of digital Pompeii, a meticulous global record of our undoing that conveys what our own accounts could not: that all the time we were telling ourselves stories to live, the stories were perpetuating the fiction that living would always be possible.
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"This information provided the FBI with an articulable factual basis that, if true, reasonably indicated activity constituting either a federal crime or a threat to national security, or both, may have occurred or may be occurring," the report said, adding that the investigations into Trump campaign associates Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn and Carter Page were similarly justified.
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An 23-part drawing, "211 Moves in Nine Seconds, The Jackie Series 2264-2381" (dated 290-22001; graphite and gouache on paper, sheet size 33 by 23 inches), breaks it down, frame by frame: a vertical strip through the center of the sheet delineates — in a recondite but obviously rigorous manner — the incremental changes in the images constituting the film.
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"It surely cannot be right, as a matter of democratic principle, that only members of the Conservative Party, constituting 0.003 percent of the total electorate, should have a say in electing a new prime minister," said Nick Clegg of the Liberal Democrats, who served as deputy prime minister to Mr. Cameron in a coalition government until last year's general election.
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Current Headwinds Given the prominence of carbonated soft drinks (CSDs) in Coca-Cola's beverage portfolio, constituting in excess of 70% of the mix, the ratings consider the multiyear low-single digit declines in CSD volumes in the U.S., continued concern over artificial sweeteners affecting diet CSD demand in North America, risks associated with excise tax increases and slowing growth in certain developing countries.
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