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The ASLB, which allowed other contentions since 2012, had at least six other contentions to hear before providing a recommendation on whether to approve Entergy's relicensing application to the NRC commission.
"The illogic of the Government's contentions is palpable," Watson wrote.
So that was one of the contentions of the book.
"The illogic of the Government's contentions", Mr Watson wrote, "is palpable".
The judge answered all of Logitech's contentions in a succinct Jan.
It's not instantaneous, and as you can imagine it will be contentions.
I'm sure we'll soon see amicus briefs echoing the underwriters' policy contentions.
She would repeat those contentions in court, then retract some years later.
However, history makes clear that, while tempting, such contentions are fundamentally flawed.
Hassett's contentions, in other words, are well outside the mainstream of economics.
Some of Trump's contentions about the company are partly true, if largely misleading.
Ironically, it's one of Smucker's early contentions that the existence of this clear
Clinton's campaign chairman, have not contained evidence to support Republican contentions that Mrs.
"The illogic of the Government's contentions is palpable," he wrote in his ruling.
As it turns out, Clinton's contentions in the interview were misleading, bordering on false.
Among other contentions, Barr also reiterated his claim that Trump's campaign was "spied" on.
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The Office of the United States Trade Representative declined to comment on the union's contentions.
In the US, the answer is more speech—protecting hate speech and contentions that it's wrong.
A Purdue spokesman dismissed contentions in the lawsuit that the company promoted high-dose opioid use.
CNN law enforcement analyst Houck had questioned Pollock's contentions, saying they weren't based on facts, just assumptions.
In sum, the Clean Power Plan's opponents relied on a number of questionable contentions in their argument.
With so many contentions, the NRC cannot say when the Commission will make a final decision on relicensing.
One of Trump's main contentions was that the Jeff Bezos-led retailing juggernaut was ripping off the USPS.
And that issue pertained particularly to Donald Trump Jr. in a number of his contentions before our committee.
McKenzie, who had yet to see the 53-page complaint, in a separate phone interview rejected Morgan's contentions.
Among the most striking contentions was one included in a submission by a chamber of commerce and an insurers' association.
Because Kyle was communicating over Twitter, he wasn't able to capture the full extent of my summer contentions regarding Johnson.
"These contentions are, at worst, red herrings and, at best, incorrect," ruled Howell, an appointee of former President Barack Obama.
Ocasio-Cortez, thus far, has largely been able to avoid the contentions of inauthenticity creeping their way into the mainstream.
Tennessee won the game 13-10 to put the Super Bowl champion Broncos on the brink of elimination from playoff contentions.
One of Mr. Gaskin's contentions sticks with me: that he is "performing for mostly white audiences," which describes the Realness audience.
But one of Clinton's key contentions today was that these elements of Trumpism are really two sides of the same coin.
Trump's contentions to the contrary — for which there is no evidence — only showed how big a threat Biden was, he said.
They based their contentions on a newspaper article, written on the day of the verdict, that quoted one of the jurors.
A major part of what remains in that process is for public hearings to adjudicate nearly 300 contentions with the project.
Ackerman, in a statement, sharply disputed the contentions in the lawsuit, whose filing was earlier reported by The Wall Street Journal.
The following year, he struck down a restrictive abortion law in Wisconsin because it was based on "spurious contentions regarding women's health".
One of the EU executive arm's main contentions was with the company's practice of bundling its Chrome and Search apps on Android.
Yet now their selectively legalistic "free speech" strategy helps turn collegial contentions into rhetorical battlefields by hyping and even provoking progressive offenders.
They're not (despite the nonstop contrary contentions of cable news) actually talking much about Russia or impeachment or, for that matter, Trump.
It is among this book's angrier contentions that there has never been enough research about women's health, and there still is not.
The dubious contentions include the president's view, contrary to U.S. intelligence assessments, that Russia did not interfere in the 2016 U.S. election.
Another of Casaleggio's contentions was that the fall of the Berlin Wall had made meaningless the old division between right and left.
"We are representing Kate Wagner and will be sending a detailed response to all of Zillow's contentions soon," Nazer said in a statement.
But neither of their main contentions, which are that the program violates civil liberties and suffers from inadequate oversight, stands up to examination.
The commission, in a five-sentence rebuttal, called the Justice Department filing "untimely" and said it disagreed with a number of its contentions.
Didion's intervention is interesting because it's among this book's contentions that Babitz's literary career was a reaction to that of her famous friend.
And instead of making them go through the pain and suffering of answering all those contentions on the patent side of the case.
Once the audience was seated in the playhouse, he arrived unveiled, puttering around the shadowy stage while commenting on his "contentions" with live performance.
But Bernie's conciliatory endorsement does not negate the very real contentions of the protesters passionately shouting their grievances outside and within the convention hall.
Have they not been the contentions of the Obama Administration that climate change causes terrorism and ISIS arose from a lack of employment opportunities?
The U.S. and United Nations offered support for a one-year dialogue with Baghdad to address contentions between the capitals, but to no avail.
The battle between the two companies began in January 2017 when the F.T.C. filed a case against Qualcomm that partly leaned on Apple's contentions.
It showed that the House's strategy for building support for additional witnesses relies, at least in part, on the White House lawyers' own contentions.
But it comes amid a period of heightened tension with Venezuela, which has contentions relations with Colombia, especially along their shared border to the east
Similar contentions fueled opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which the Obama administration championed as a means of expanding commerce while checking China's growing stature.
Those contentions fell apart after the Friday night attacks — after the terror group claimed responsibility and posted a picture of the attackers, smiling and holding guns.
Oral arguments are a chance for justices to probe the contentions in the briefs and for lawyers to address the issues that most trouble the justices.
But the court batted down both contentions on Tuesday, ruling DOE followed procedures outlined in the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) when it approved the project.
"There's a lot of different contentions people have when they donate money, and I think that's what a lot of people miss out on," Johnson said.
Russia has reacted to the accusations with statements both deploring the use of performing-enhancing drugs by its athletes and vigorously rejecting contentions that it was involved.
As for Trump's contentions that he was "presumably saying positive things" in the portion that was cut out, it's not immediately clear to me why that's relevant.
They can move on if — after all the facts have been put on the table — the permit application cannot withstand the scrutiny of those roughly 300 contentions.
"The illogic of the government's contentions is palpable," he said of the ban, which would have temporarily barred travelers from six Muslim countries from entering the United States.
A number of articles have been published in recent months that, on their surface, feature journalists claiming that the core contentions of the Steele dossier have been proven.
The FBI had no further comment Friday on Sharp's contentions and referred calls to the Harney County Joint Information Center, which referred to an FBI statement issued Thursday.
Among its more controversial contentions was that a single bullet — derisively referred to as a "magic bullet" — struck both Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Connally, who survived the shooting.
"The Division believes that the manufacturers' contentions that introducing competition in electronics repair will harm consumers' privacy and security is without foundation," said the letter, obtained by Motherboard.
Phone makers have little leverage to negotiate for lower rates, the F.T.C. argued in its suit, which was filed in January 2017, that leans partly on Apple's contentions.
Rather than closing their ears and shutting out the permit review, it's time Congress defend the scientific process and let contentions with the Yucca Mountain permit be heard.
He also repeated his past contentions that the Justice Department is trying to commandeer local officials into federal service, something the Supreme Court has said the Constitution prohibits.
The focus can now turn to the second programme review (due to commence later this month), of which labour market reform is likely to be the most contentions component.
" In an emailed statement, a Microsoft spokesperson wrote: "We've reviewed the plaintiffs' claims and strongly disagree with the contentions in the case because data and other information is mischaracterized.
Pre-trial proceedings for the past month have focused on contentions by Gallagher's attorneys that prosecutors and their investigators illegally snooped on the defense and reporters covering the case.
"We would strongly disagree with Mr. Fox's characterization of the case and his contentions," Ed Griffith, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office, wrote in an email.
" The Beijing statement said, "We hope that Hong Kong will get over the political contentions as soon as possible and instead concentrate on developing its economy and improving people's livelihood.
In so holding, we reject the defendants' contentions that the First Amendment does not apply in this case and that the President's personal First Amendment interests supersede those of plaintiffs.
Prior to the publication of this story, a second spokesperson for Twitter pushed back on the contentions of the first, claiming to be unable to locate any such internal studies.
The disconnect between the federal government and the states is apparent even in this relatively minor area of legal contentions, and provides sound reasoning for keeping policing a local issue.
One of the lawmakers' main contentions is that debate on the deal is "inconceivable" without a revised version of Macedonia's Constitution, reflecting the changes agreed to by the two sides.
They worry that ditching the deal because of "unsupported contentions of Iranian cheating" would cancel out the deal's main achievement, which is "reducing the risk" of Tehran's getting a bomb.
But, wait a minute: the U.N. report's main contentions are based on the U.S. Census Bureau's official poverty measure data for 3.83 – the last full year of President Obama's second term.
The court did not affirm one of Liberty's other contentions, however — declining to find that Part 4 was unlawful on the grounds that it constituted "general and indiscriminate" retention of data.
Trump makes two major contentions in the interview: First, that the U.S. is so riven by internal problems that it has no right to lecture authoritarians like Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
FABER: Another of the contentions made by Mr. Tusa, and some other investors to be fair, is that fundamentals continue to deteriorate, not in aviation, not in healthcare but in power.
I don't have direct, irrefutable proof of any of these contentions, only extrapolation based upon what little we know of the man's fortunes that can be gleaned from the public record.
If true -- and the Wall Street Journal recently published an investigative piece containing extensive corroboration for Cohen's contentions -- then Trump almost certainly participated in a violation of federal campaign finance law.
The obvious question is whether these individuals might be having an illusion or a fantasy proneness, some aberrant psychological pathology that might give rise to their contentions that they're behaviorally transformed.
But Mr. Moore said he had defused the situation by telling Mr. Bigazzi that he had repeated the contentions of anti-asbestos advocates only to maintain his cover as a journalist.
Cruz's contentions were that: The Court agreed with him on both counts, ruling 25-24 that the ICJ ruling was not binding and Texas could execute Medellín if it so chose.
It's among the contentions of D. J. Taylor's clever and timely "The New Book of Snobs" that the world would be a poorer place without a bit of insolence and ostentation.
One of Alex's contentions, even though he talked a lot, he's been one of the more forthright people in tech, about what happened at Facebook and other places, is that it's misunderstood.
Nevertheless, Trump's credibility issues, and America's lingering credibility issues related to Iraq and the ill-fated search for weapons of mass destruction, have left our closest allies wary of believing U.S. contentions.
"To the extent that state bans on telemedicine for abortion rest on arguments of improved patient safety, the findings of this and previous studies do not support such contentions," the study team concludes.
Among their contentions: Mr. Pishevar and another board member, the investor Joe Lonsdale, pushed to hire relatives to do work for the company, while mismanaging the business or being largely absent except for parties.
"Petitioners' contentions regarding the indirect effect of increased exports on upstream natural gas production resemble those rejected in Sierra Club (Freeport) and Sierra Club (Sabine Pass)," the court said, citing its cases from June.
They are particularly exercised by two of Clinton's contentions: one, that she didn't know a "(C)" marking on certain emails stood for "confidential," and two, that she had no State Department guidance on classification standards.
McCarthy's contentions that the State Department had been infiltrated by Soviet agents and that it then lost China to the Communists were substantially refuted during the stormy congressional hearings of which Millard Tydings was chairman.
" I know readers who have thrown this book across a room, thus illustrating the essential truth of one of Fussell's contentions: "If you find an American who feels entirely class-secure, stuff and exhibit him.
And that, in the six weeks between that first appearance and his public appearance before the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, much had changed that forced him to also revise and extend his original contentions.
Before the event, Democrats and environmentalists sought to undermine the panel's contentions, highlighting the growth of renewable energy and the need to move away from fossil fuels if the Paris goals are to be achieved.
"Let's just say that he was reputed to have something of a contentions personality," says Chris Williams, who authored a chapter titled "Major League Umpires and Unionization" for The SABR Book of Umpires and Umpiring.
Both the Fox network version, Honor Thy Father and Mother: The Menendez Murders and the three-hour CBS version, Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills, bought into the contentions about the financial motive for the murders.
One of his main contentions is that Amazon is ripping off the U.S. Postal Service, but it's not clear whether it is getting the short end of the stick from the Jeff Bezos-led retailing juggernaut.
Louima initially told the press that the officers, while assaulting him, had said "it's Giuliani time" — a claim that quickly became a focal point for liberal contentions that Giuliani's pro-cop identity politics was encouraging misconduct.
But Harris's inclination to turn Murray into a martyr may be what leads him to pay insufficient attention to the leaps Murray makes from reasonable scientific findings to poorly founded contentions about genetics, race, and social policy.
The Hill could not reach the Pentagon for immediate comment on the reports, but the U.S. has previously ruffled China by projecting its military presence into contentions areas in the South China Sea and East China Sea.
Ideologies based on "bad interpretation" of Islam had fueled the war, he said, rejecting analysts' contentions that his government had accelerated the process by building mosques and funneling jihadist fighters to Iraq during the United States occupation.
Bondi said the focus on Biden, in particular, was made necessary by the House's charges against Trump, which relied on contentions that Trump's request for Ukraine to investigate Biden was "baseless" and meant to inflict political damage.
He bristled on Monday when asked about contentions by some Republicans that he is a spoiler in the race to beat Trump, whose rhetoric on immigrants, Muslims and women has raised alarm within the Republican establishment and beyond.
But he doesn't mention one of ­Schweizer's most unsettling contentions, subsequently confirmed by ­Punditfact: that Bill Clinton gave 13 speeches for more than $500,000 between 2001 and 2012, 11 of them while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state.
Mr. Grenell's appointment also makes brazenly obvious what was already quite clear: that the president sees impartial intelligence an impediment to the implementation of his policies unless it caters to his own political biases and often counterfactual contentions.
In recent years, that relationship was strained due to contentions in the South China Sea, a critical maritime passage, which led to the two powers ramping up their military capabilities, including nuclear weaponry and anti-ballistic missiles in June.
"It should be said that the majority of the recordings lack much public interest, and despite the misleading contentions of defendants, there is little that is new in the remainder of the recordings," Orrick wrote in the court's order.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife spokesman Gavin Shire said on Saturday, in response to Arnold's contentions, the agency's figures include a "range of damages," from roads and trenches created by the occupiers to the harm inflicted on sacred American Indian artifacts.
The Government Accountability Office debunked the Air Force generals' contentions that the A-1o could be replaced, arguing that the plane's low flight costs, unique airframe, and hyper competent, impeccably trained pilot community was without peer in today's Air Force.
Among other contentions, Barclays argued FERC had no standing to pursue the case after the U.S. Court of Appeals in March 22003 dismissed FERC's case against natural gas trader Brian Hunter, finding that the CFTC has exclusive jurisdiction over futures markets.
In tandem with the current contentions of millennials, Annie bounces between diet crazes, rejecting her sloppy friends-with-benefits adjacent boyfriend Ryan (Luka Jones), and constantly campaigning for bigger projects at work that would utilize the years of experience she's accrued.
On Pro Football NEW ORLEANS — One of the N.F.L.'s more incontrovertible contentions, supported by more than a decade of empirical evidence, is that good things tend to happen to the New Orleans Saints when the football leaves Drew Brees's hand.
According to the video, possible legal contentions include that content creators should constitute YouTube employees under the law and that Europe's recently expanded definition of "personal data" could force the platform to increase its transparency with creators under Europe's General Data Protection Regulation.
The study, titled, "Don't Panic: Making Progress on the 'Going Dark' Debate," is among the sharpest counterpoints yet to the contentions of James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, and other Justice Department officials, mostly by arguing that they have defined the issue too narrowly.
Accordingly, if President Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie in congressional testimony — and, if as reported, there exists evidence that corroborates Michael Cohen's contentions —President Trump's vulnerability to impeachment and possibly criminal charges has become more heightened than it was even a few months ago.
Banks say CECL will make loans more expensiveBut some banks dispute the supporters' contentions and argue CECL will make loans more expensive for consumers and discourage banks from lending because the need for higher reserves will leave them with less capital to loan out.
Despite poking holes in those contentions, judges have mostly allowed the NCAA to maintain the status quo, granting athletes concessions such as the freedom to receive cash stipends that cover the full cost of school attendance without creating a free market for their services.
Defenders of monuments to Robert E. Lee and Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Confederate generals most often at the heart of these contentions, are fond of pointing out that such statues weren't erected to celebrate the institution of slavery; they were erected to celebrate Southern history.
In a 5-0 decision, the appeals court rejected artists' contentions that the limits covering Central Park south of 86th Street, Battery Park, High Line Park and Union Square Park violated their free speech and equal protection rights under the state constitution, and amounted to illegal discrimination.
"With prejudice to all our rights and contentions, we would like to humbly submit that the fare charged per kilometre on the Uber platform within Delhi will not exceed the government-prescribed fare applicable in Delhi," said Gagan Bhatia, the company's general manager (North-Uber India).
Researchers determined that more than 60 percent of the complaints made one of the following contentions: that the debt wasn't owed in the first place, that it had already been paid or had been discharged in bankruptcy, or that it wasn't verified as debt the consumer actually owed.
In that way, the Senate and the American people can be given what are likely to be two competing visions of the applicable law of impeachment and then make their independent judgments as to the validity of those contentions and, in the end, the decision of the Senate.
Likewise, when I write as a columnist opposing your behaviors, your violations of small-'r' republican norms, or your policy stances on spending, trade, foreign affairs, ethics, or expanded executive authority, I try to call on those wells of conservatism and community, and to build my contentions on verifiable facts.
"Given Mr. Tighe's efforts to help sow the 'media' with misinformation and baseless conspiracy contentions, one cannot help but question whether Mr. Tighe is seeking to distract from his own work as a lawyer in this Settlement and deflect from the situation he has created for many players," Seeger wrote.
China has been locked in a bruising struggle with the United States over the Trump administration's contentions that Beijing has repeatedly forced foreign companies to hand over technological secrets as a condition of doing business in China, and has failed to protect American companies' products from counterfeiting and other illegal copying.
" Protecting the presidency from "venality and corruption" was paramount for the vast majority of Americans, including Benjamin Gale of Connecticut, who warned that, "an elective king…will eternally embroil the state by schemers for the outs and ins and by the foundation of clamours, broils, and contentions that will end in blood.
"[24] The post boils down to three central contentions: – We have made a factual error by asserting, "If the world is to avoid climate calamity, it needs to reduce its carbon emissions by 80 percent by the middle of this century—a target that is simply out of reach with existing technology.
One of his contentions is that asking the F-35 to be supersonic, stealthy, and also be able to take off vertically — like the Marines' F-35B version does — are such wildly different design objectives that it just isn't possible to come up with a satisfactory solution that meets all three criteria.
"I think many of them should be called back to testify in public, and I hope that will be true of other congressional committees, as well, because behind closed doors, there were questions, serious issues concerning their truthfulness, and that issue pertained particularly to Donald Trump Jr. in a number of contentions," Blumenthal said.
Taken together, these contentions amount to saying that the U.S. is a paper tiger, that it might seem like a global power but it is softer than it looks, that it is prepared to retreat into Fortress America rather than uphold the international order it created in the 1940s during World War II and the early Cold War.
"I think many of them should be called back to testify in public and I hope that will be true of other congressional committees, as well, because behind closed doors, there was questions, serious issues concerning their truthfulness and that issue pertained particularly to Donald Trump Jr. in a number of contentions before our committee," Blumenthal said.
One of the most common contentions as to why conscious will eventually be replicated is based on the fact that nature bumbled its way to human-level conscious experience, and with a deeper understanding of the neurological and computational underpinnings of what is "happening" to create a conscious experience, we should be able to do the same.
The anger over what most would describe as the franchising of the old Wimbledon is still all-encompassing, and for the first four fixtures between the two clubs – all held in Milton Keynes – there was an informal boycott observed by many, with fans citing contentions over MK Dons' name and league position as two of the main reasons for staying away.
The U.N. report's main contentions read like an attack on the Trump administration by the Democratic Party: America has 40 million poor people, including 18.5 million who live in extreme poverty; U.S. policies regarding the poor are "cruel and inhuman;" the Trump tax cuts aren't working and will worsen inequality; and the U.S. needs to spend less on defense of our nation and more on social programs.
Some of his current contentions about booze are clearly untrue (that he was of legal drinking age in Maryland as a senior), disingenuous (that he and his friends referring to themselves as "Renate Alumni" was a gesture of friendship, not a smear on the name of fellow high schooler Renate Schroeder), or simply risible (that admission to Yale Law School proves he wasn't much of a partier).
"Contrary to the thrust of the government's contentions that petitioner is an ISIS fighter, and as petitioner told the government, he sought to understand firsthand and report about the conflict in Syria; was kidnapped and imprisoned by ISIS; and tried numerous times to escape — and not even the government alleges that he ever took up arms against the United States or anyone else," the A.C.L.U. rebuttal said.
One noteworthy development is that regulators themselves have finally begun to give voice to the exact contentions that banks have spent years espousing — that the Volcker Rule is overbroad, unwieldy and difficult to interpret and enforce and that it imposes disproportionate compliance obligations on smaller and foreign institutions whose activities do not pose the type of risks that the Volcker Rule was meant to guard against.
To be clear, there is nothing wrong with taking the approach of letting others make their claims and mount their critiques, while acting as a kind of critical bundler who then shows the reader how certain contentions repeat and resonate among those who were deeply emotionally and intellectually invested in the controversy, those who felt like their own bodies were being callously displayed and used for entertainment and misplaced pity.
Eddie Bernice JohnsonEddie Bernice JohnsonThe Hill's Morning Report — Trump applauds two-year budget deal with 0 billion spending hike Overnight Energy: Historic heat wave is double whammy for climate change | Trump sees 'bigger problems' than plastic straws | House Science chair threatens EPA over 'stonewalled' answers Science committee chair threatens EPA over 'stonewalled' answers to lawmakers MORE (Texas), the panel's top Democrat, shot back at Smith on Wednesday and agreed with Schneiderman and Healey's contentions.
Broadly speaking, those contentions fall into three buckets: The settlement does not account for conflicts between class members from states that offer relatively big statutory damages for privacy breaches and those with small or no potential damages; Equifax and class counsel included terms in the settlement that made it very difficult for class members to object; and Equifax and class counsel throttled class members' claims for $125 in cash when it became clear that the offer would be drastically oversubscribed.

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