Claim: Our immigration program is based mostly on family connections.
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Taylor wasn't just denied feelings of kinship and family connections.
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Those family connections were felt at their Maine wedding as well.
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We can trace their family connections, sometimes even to the present.
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He was a doctor and claimed to have grand family connections.
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Factors like racial discrimination and family connections probably still play a part.
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Skeptics suggested he only edged his way in because of family connections.
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Should family connections play as large a role as they now do?
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The reductions would come largely from those brought in through family connections.
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And Warren is unencumbered by Sanders' health scare or Biden's family connections.
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But the travel ban cannot apply to people with family connections in America.
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Family connections are the only bonds that count, but families are a mess.
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Of course, he also benefited from his famous name and deep family connections.
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Doyle said people online had been spreading false information about his family connections.
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Both Canada and Australia prioritize immigration based on employment rather than family connections.
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They include cultural and family connections as well as links between mayors and border regions.
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And, the argument goes, closer family connections are a win-win for prisons and inmates.
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Many people used family connections or feigned illness to try to move back to cities.
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Dubose had a prior arrest in the area but no family connections, the sheriff said.
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Unlike many of her male counterparts in Hollywood, she did not benefit from family connections.
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Some investment firms with loose or no family connections claim the tag for reasons of cachet.
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This allows anyone to use his or her own genetic profile to search for family connections.
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The Wongs, she said, were not a vain people, unless there were family connections to impress.
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The suspect, a Bangladeshi national, entered the U.S. through family connections via chain migration, he said.
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The only connection between them, Champ said, is that they all have family connections to Libya.
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If any were to show up on a best-of list, I would suspect family connections.
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Both sons were widely resented for the wealth they appeared to have amassed through family connections.
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This is just not the time to play with fire, especially when it comes to family connections.
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"There may be more of a personal photo history and more family connections on Facebook," Juarez says.
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A year ago his establishment family connections and name were thought to make him a shoo-in.
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Through family connections in the manufacturing world, he met with over 200 factories in Italy and China.
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He also has called to end chain migration, a term that describes immigration based on family connections.
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He was released after seven months, thanks to his family connections, but the government kept his passport.
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Voegelin's "secularization thesis," as it was later called, emphasized family connections between the radical left and liberalism.
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Social Work "I don't want to be that person" who gets work from family connections, Ms. Hicks said.
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Look at all the celebrities who produce indie films, or breakout stars with family connections in the industry.
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It predicts genetic ethnicity and helps people find new family connections, but it does not provide health reports.
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The 'Bank of Mum and Dad' and personal sponsorships, often gained through family connections, funded many, Toomey said.
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Through family connections, he found employment with a firm of art dealers, in The Hague, London, and Paris.
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Given her family connections to the sport, she knows it was almost preordained that she would play basketball.
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The blame for that should go to policies that broadly prioritize personal need and family connections over merit.
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Reyes and his brother were thought to have fled to Guadalajara, Mexico, where they had family connections, police said.
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Despite his family connections, he had never set foot in Europe before landing in Northern Ireland in January 1943.
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Without any evidence, he claims that over 8003 people came to America thanks to family connections with Mr Saipov.
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There is also a rough analog in the way family connections undermine their support among the party's ideological base.
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Many of the townspeople have direct family connections to people involved in the Bisbee Deportation, both victims and perpetrators.
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Illinois guard Ted Karras, who has numerous family connections to the league, went to New England at No. 221.
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"The truth is I knew all about these family connections, but I didn't make the personal connections," she said.
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We now acknowledge that addicts need treatment, support and incentives (jobs, family connections, a better life) to stay clean.
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But he said that for those who do, it's a combination of family connections, new opportunities and lifestyle choice.
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She is poor, has no family connections, and she is not a razzle-dazzle ball of charm and fire.
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Through strategic praise and Trump family connections, the White House had quietly been encouraging Justice Anthony Kennedy to retire.
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Biden says he has done nothing wrong, but admitted that family connections may have helped him get the position.
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"With your family connections, your brothers at AccuWeather, obviously there is the concern about potential conflicts of interest," Sen.
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Pence also happens to have family connections to the tiny Irish village, surrounded by windswept Atlantic coastline and bogland.
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Only they couldn't because they no longer had the requisite family connections under the system that Kennedy had devised.
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"This is basically a group of criminals whose only support comes from family connections in the local communities," he said.
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Trump should call for Congress to enact a streamlined system based on merit and need, not based on family connections.
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Family connections, including spouses, children and extended family, account for a large share of green cards given out each year.
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Its founder, a man named Wu Xiaohui, and many of its early board members could boast of impressive family connections.
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It is only after Brianna reveals her family connections (and suspicious foreknowledge) that Laoghaire throws a spanner in the works.
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George W. Bush was not (he'd spent six years in a "very limited governorship" and depended on his "family connections").
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The plan aims to make job skills, rather than family connections, a priority for people to obtain legal permanent residency.
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The friend said Kim Jong Nam was down-to-earth, self-deprecating and open to jokes about his family connections.
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Diane Hinson of Creative Family Connections, an agency in America, says that about a third of her clients come from Europe.
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The groom's mother works in East Orange, N.J., as a management information specialist at Family Connections, a mental health services organization.
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America should exercise its right to select immigrants based on the value they bring to the country, not just family connections.
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The bill would aim to make job skills a priority for people to obtain legal permanent residency rather than family connections.
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The art-school trained daughter of a provincial doctor, she came to Wedgwood in 1909 at age 27, via family connections.
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Family connections help, and it is easier to find work at a golf course or tennis club than amid inner-city blight.
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There's family connections — people whose parents live on one side, they live on the other, or siblings who are on different sides.
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Even Big Edie and Little Edie, as impoverished as they were, had a certain level of comfort granted by their family connections.
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Our crazy immigration system makes it practically impossible for poor people without close family connections to legally immigrate to the United States.
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With over 10 million people in the company's growing network, AncestryDNA has made over a billion family connections with this simple kit.
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With over 10 million people in the company's growing network, AncestryDNA has made over a billion family connections with this simple kit.
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You may be eligible to join a credit union by virtue of where you live, where you work, or your family connections.
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The vast majority of green cards are based on family connections, and other categories include employment-based visas and refugees or asylees.
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Sometimes, the birth of a grandchild serves as the catalyst that can begin rebuilding family connections fractured by divorce and its fallout.
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Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services, the nonprofit agency that helped Mr. Dagoum, serves mostly people without family connections in the United States.
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Each group is held together by interlocking business ties and sometimes family connections, and driven more by self-interest than ideological concerns.
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Last December, he tried to smuggle himself to Malaysia, where, through family connections, he might have been able to attend a university.
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My personal information, my finances, my family connections, my ideas—all are now in the hands of those to whom I have submitted.
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With school and family connections, he was apprenticed to a court photographer and established his own studio in the Pimlico district of London.
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This week, Bahrain's court upheld its three-year sentence in what the United Nations considers an unlawful act of reprisal through family connections.
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Even those with family connections may be put off joining "a super long war to do the same thing your dad did," he said.
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When she decided to become a model, Kendall Jenner had all the advantages of fame and family connections to give her an easy start.
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Access to university has expanded, but students graduate with high debts, only to discover that the best jobs go to people with family connections.
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With more than 10 million people in the company's growing network, AncestryDNA has made more than a billion family connections with this simple kit.
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With more than 10 million people in the company's growing network, AncestryDNA has made more than a billion family connections with this simple kit.
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On top of that, many people have longstanding family connections to the United States and relatives willing to help them get across the border.
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Though immigration law prioritizes family connections, including legal status for the family members of Americans who petition on their behalf, children are the exception.
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But it is also, in larger part, the result of networking with privileged young people who already enjoy the benefits of wealth and family connections.
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He's a poor kid who had some family connections in the drug trade, no options, no real education ... (and) becomes a big-time drug lord.
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She dismissed suggestions it was her family connections rather than business acumen that led to her appointment after the surprise dismissal of the Sonangol board.
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In one survey, only 10% of Chinese respondents thought that young people's career prospects depended more on hard work or ability than on family connections.
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The new appointee, Youssef Chahed, is said to have family connections to the president, the Arab world's oldest leader at 89, though he denies this.
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"Women are not taken seriously in Thailand; there have been some women politicians, but it's very difficult to enter politics without family connections," Ngarmpring said.
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Aided by family connections, he quickly rose in ranks, becoming the editor of the entire Timely Comics line in 1941, when he was only 19.
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They analyzed anonymous family tree structures -- or "pedigrees" -- that included year of birth, year of death, place of birth and family connections for 73,361,203 people.
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In the US, a small fraction of green cards are given out each year based on employment, with family connections being a much larger share.
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Soon, Mr. Ma was using his family connections to secure meetings for the bank with his parents' companies, according to a memo by Allen & Overy.
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Some had family connections, like Nayla Hayek, chairwoman of the Swatch Group and chief executive of Harry Winston, and Caroline Scheufele, co-president of Chopard.
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They knew and loved the part about how this son of a tea seller rose through the party ranks with no help from family connections.
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It's sad that many colleges have lost their way and are primarily admitting students already destined for success because of their wealth and family connections.
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Some had family connections, like Nayla Hayek, chairwoman of the Swatch Group and chief executive of Harry Winston, and Caroline Scheufele, co-president of Chopard.
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"First he claimed family connections to Al Qaeda," which, like the Islamic State, is a Sunni Muslim terrorist group, James Comey, the F.B.I. director, said Monday.
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Several said the flap over security clearances show that Kushner is in over his head, suggesting he only got his job because of his family connections.
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The administration immediately pointed to so-called chain migration in relation to the attack, a term that describes immigration to the US based on family connections.
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Before Biden entered the race last year, some rivals were quietly whispering about the bad optics of his son getting lucrative contracts based on family connections.
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Family connections and other close links may have played a role in the investments, which are mainly managed by the firm's Goldman Sachs Asset Management arm.
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The Ted Cruzes of the world can get a low-interest loan from Goldman because they have assets and family connections to back up the loans.
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A group of business associates with personal, financial or family connections to central bank Governor Gyorgy Matolcsy, another Orban ally, now runs two prominent news web sites.
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Household Names: Xherdan Shaqiri and Granit Xhaka are both well known and – owing to their family connections – are bound to make headlines when the Swiss face Albania.
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Among the first to initiate sales on the website was Ancestry, which started offering a DNA test for lineage and family connections through the marketplace in 2015.
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We must begin by providing lawful permanent resident status and citizenship based on merit, financial independence and upward mobility, not simply family connections, as we do today.
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Voltron Thunderstorm from Wilmington said nepotism was fair only in certain situations: Yes, I think that family connections should definitely be used to receive a job opportunity.
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The Trump administration has also framed it as a national security issue, noting several cases in which terror suspects came to the United States through family connections.
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Mattai's work revels in visual and material splendor while it celebrates family connections across generations, immigrant communities, the expansive Indian diaspora, and, especially, women within that diaspora.
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One of the leaders is a student at an elite university, with family connections to the minister of the interior, whose office is among the group's targets.
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The White House wants to stop immigrants coming to the US based on family connections through so-called, "chain migration," and end the diversity immigrant visa program.
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Mr. Dunne's longtime family connections and his own prestige as a filmmaker no doubt helped him snag interviews that other documentarians would be hard-pressed to schedule.
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Family-Sponsored Preference (F1, F2A, F2B, F3, F4):The State Department issues a limited number of visas to individuals who have more distant family connections to US citizens.
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That's because several reports say the millions of people with family connections to immigrants already living in this country would not be removed from the current waiting list.
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While those lonely souls fail to maintain family connections and relationships under the pressures of big city vice, his parents thrived by staying true their old country roots.
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Even Russian President Vladimir Putin's son-in-law, Kirill Shamalov, now a billionaire oligarch as a result of his family connections, has found himself in the hot seat.
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Since Bonnstetter started following the sport, he has rooted for Duke, thanks to family connections: Johnson graduated from Duke, as did her father and three of her four siblings.
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Despite having deep family connections in politics, Bush has stayed out of the family "business," choosing instead to pursue a career in television, working in syndicated entertainment news shows.
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Furthermore, the board considered the extensive support network available to the detainee from multiple sources, including strong family connections, and the detainee's robust and realistic plan for the future.
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In a lengthy cable sent to embassies and consulates around the world, officials said that extended family connections would not be enough to evade the president's ban on entry.
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Even so, Javier Valdez, author of the book Miss Narco, said it remains difficult for women to be taken seriously within the industry unless they have strong family connections.
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All three groups are vulnerable as most have no family connections in Juárez, little if any money, and often no place to stay except at government or church-sponsored shelters.
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In other films, like his Hellboy movies or Pacific Rim, the ghosts are more metaphorical: representations of unfinished business, traumas that haunt people, or family connections that won't go away.
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Most attempt to climb onto trucks or trains using the Channel Tunnel in hope of finding a way into Britain, their favored destination due to plentiful jobs and family connections.
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American Jews jokingly refer to networking with other Jews as "Jewish Geography," the mapping out of their common communal connections through synagogues, schools, summer camps, youth groups and family connections.
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Last but by no means least, liberals should acknowledge that the Trump administration's vision of allocating green cards based on likely labor market success rather than family connections has merit.
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The Ross family connections also led Mr. Ross and Ms. Simpson to an unexpected collaborator on their album: Verdine White, the Grammy-winning bass player from Earth, Wind and Fire.
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The following year, when a young California governor named Jerry Brown decided to run for president, she leveraged her family connections to help him win the Democratic primary in Maryland.
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So she fakes bravery until she feels it, siphons strength from her friendships and close family connections, and reclaims those parts of her childhood she's not ready to leave behind.
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If your advanced station in life was due to family connections, wealth, or advantage, then you are morally obliged to create a level playing field that gives others similar opportunities.
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Economic ties have strengthened under Nafta, tourism from the United States has soared in Mexico, and millions of Mexicans have family connections in the United States after decades of immigration.
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Last week, President Trump announced his support of a bill that would aim to make job skills a priority for people to obtain legal permanent residency rather than family connections.
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Its buzzy debut and even buzzier celebrity sightings (hey, Khloé has some pretty solid family connections) have amounted to some record-breaking milestones, including hitting that $1,000,000 benchmark...on day one.
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Claim to Fame Ms. Hicks is a satirical illustrator with a royal pedigree and family connections, known for her watercolor-and-ink drawings that poke fun at fashion and pop culture.
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"The immigration flow from almost all of our countries frankly is based on family connections and other visas rather than a skills based program like Canada has today," Sessions told lawmakers.
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U.S. officials now regard Saudi cooperation on counter-terrorism as invaluable given the human intelligence Saudi operatives provide by exploiting an unrivalled network of tribal and family connections to infiltrate militant strongholds.
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Last year, Mr. Kushner's sister Nicole Kushner Meyer sparked an outcry when she traveled to China to find investors — in a trip arranged by U.S. Immigration Fund — and trumpeted her family connections.
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It is true that Sayfullo Saipov and Akayed Ullah, two recent alleged terrorist attackers in New York City, arrived in the US because of either family connections or the diversity visa lottery.
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"While he is clearly knowledgeable about our national weather program, I remain concerned about conflicts of interest due to his family connections with AccuWeather, whether they can and will be avoided," Sen.
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The new order spells out detailed categories of people eligible to enter the United States, such as for business or medical travel, or people with family connections or who support the United States.
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The killer had claimed family connections to Al-Qaeda and membership of Hezbollah, a Shiite organization that Comey noted is a "bitter enemy" of the so-called Islamic State, whose members are Sunni.
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When he was 13 years old, the United States selected Specialist Natkevicius's father for one of the up to 50,000 visas issued annually to people who have no family connections or employer sponsor.
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He was powerful in L.A., had underworld family connections from El Salvador to Colombia and enjoyed strong ties to the feared Mexican Mafia, a U.S.-based prison gang with connections to Mexican cartels.
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In the United States, two-thirds of immigrants granted permanent residence status (also known as "green cards") each year are admitted based on family connections, while only 14 percent of are employment based.
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I can't get over the hesitant vocals, the drums that sound like cardboard (and not in the sexy Darkthrone way), the family connections, the thirty years of bands that sound like this, etc.
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Lower courts had previously limited the scope of the ban to people without either certain family connections to the United States or formal relationships with U.S.-based entities such as universities and resettlement agencies.
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"For middle aged and older people, volunteering has beneficial effects because of the social roles and family connections which are more likely to promote volunteering at that stage of the life-course," Tabassum said.
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Different crews all used the same stories, and, whereas most Chinese immigrants depend on family connections to establish themselves, the suspects arrived knowing no one, but had no problem instantly finding accommodations and employment.
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Three years before the shooting, in 2013, the F.B.I. investigated Mr. Mateen after he told colleagues he was a member of Hezbollah, had family connections to Al Qaeda and wanted to die a martyr.
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Gerald Benjamin, a professor of political science at the State University of New York at New Paltz, said he did not believe that Ms. DeRosa's family connections should thwart her rise in state politics.
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Although she had family connections in Florence, the details of her past were little known to Florentines, and she was able to leave the sheltered and provincial world of her father's house behind her.
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This week, President Donald Trump, without citing any evidence, said a lot of migrants attempt to "grab a child" near the border to make up false family connections and enter the United States more easily.
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But this allows the 2016 version's (slightly) more artistically adventurous filmmaking to underscore the story's central idea of family connections' ultimate primacy, an idea expressed in visual motifs and images that recur again and again.
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To set up the private flight, Cheng was leaning on deep Clinton family connections: Politico reported in 2015 that Michel Pratte is married to Clinton Foundation partner and fashion designer Tanya Taylor, a Hillary Clinton supporter.
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Along with being close to Bernanke, Warsh has family connections to President Donald Trump, and is on one of the president's White House advisory panels - advantages some feel put him on any short list for consideration.
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As she issued the sentence, Judge LaTisha Dear Jackson of DeKalb County Superior Court described the case in deeply personal terms, relaying her own family connections to law enforcement and the scars left by military service.
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The intrigue: This isn't really about health care, but The New York Times has a good story on the family connections and not-so-subtle lobbying the White House deployed to push Kennedy toward the exit.
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The Eric Trump Foundation was a way for a kid with a rich and famous dad and no real skills in life to leverage his family connections into doing something useful and getting credit for it.
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As a database of porn performers that often included legal names, addresses, social media platforms and family connections, PornWikiLeaks is cited in court documents for the Girls Do Porn case that went to trial last week.
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She said that because genetic material carries family connections, the data collection would have implications not only for those in immigration custody but also their family members who might be United States citizens or legal residents.
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San Francisco-based Hsiao grew up in Silicon Valley but has some important family connections further afield — both to the part of the world that she invests in and to the kind of companies she picks.
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Three people with family connections to Syed Rizwan Farook, the gunman in the mass shooting last year in San Bernardino, California, were arrested on Thursday on charges related to an alleged "sham marriage" for immigration purposes.
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The records are useful for more than avoiding accidentally dating a cousin; deCODE is able to marry such extensive knowledge about family connections with genetic information about disease to seek new clues for medicine in Iceland's DNA.
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Minnesota's Department of Human Services found that the children who were removed were "at great risk for experiencing psychological trauma leading to long-term emotional and psychological problems as adults" due to losing cultural and family connections.
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Council members spoke of their own family connections to unions as they excoriated the executives for Amazon's treatment of its workers, especially in the sprawling distribution centers for home deliveries; one such center is on Staten Island.
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The immigration at the end of the last century included hundreds of thousands of newcomers who qualified for Israeli citizenship through family connections but are not considered legally Jewish under the strictly Orthodox interpretation of Jewish law.
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Did they want to pay for the "frat bro" who gets gentleman's c's at a high-priced party school down South and whose family connections will score him a job that pays a higher salary than them?
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Lamb's family connections and resume (assistant US Attorney & former Marine lawyer) with no record to hurt him positioned him to win on the second ballot among the 554 Democratic committee people in the four counties who voted.
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Co-workers reported Mateen to the FBI in 2013 after he had made "inflammatory and contradictory" statements, including a claim that he had family connections to al Qaeda and membership of Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah, a bitter rival.
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If you can't quite bring yourself to close down your account—maybe there's a support group or family connections you'd like to keep active—then here's how to restrict the amount of data Facebook has got on you.
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French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault presented Kerry with the insignia of Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor at a ceremony in Paris in which he recalled Kerry's family connections with France and praised his diplomatic endeavors.
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Mateen was interviewed in 2013 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation after co-workers reported that he had made claims of family connections to al Qaeda and membership in the Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah, according to the FBI.
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The relationship between this Fagin and his Artful Dodger isn't defined at first—they could easily be grandfather and grandson—and when they return to their tiny, cluttered inner-city bungalow, the family connections are just as obscure.
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Women will bear the brunt of this misguided policy: The majority of immigrant women gain legal status each year through family connections rather than employment opportunities, according to annual admissions data gathered by the Department of Homeland Security.
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Season 7 will probably clarify the situation between them, as they either embrace their family connections; murder each other, destroying everyone's hopes and dreams; or weirdly but still possible, get married as a strategic alliance of their armies.
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Heritage and family connections get a considerably more nuanced treatment in "Accent Elimination" (2005), Katchadourian's six-channel video installation included at the 2015 Venice Biennale in the Armenian pavilion, which won the Golden Lion for Best National Participation.
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The New York Times recently published two stories that laid out how ICE's massive data-harvesting uses digital and physical personal data to choose targets, and is soon going to start using DNA to map out family connections.
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Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, where the Aedes aegypti mosquito that spreads the virus thrives in the warm tropical climate, and where many New Yorkers have family connections, are of particular concern for officials in New York.
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The calls also came from members of Parliament with family connections to the missing children, and celebrities like Boaz Sharabi, 69, a popular singer who appeared on television weeping as he spoke of his missing twin sister, Ada.
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But plenty of other countries have had female heads of state — many have, like Clinton, benefited from marriage or family connections to powerful men — and it's really not that interesting when you consider the conservatism of her actual politics.
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It's probably one of the most (if not the most) well-known kits you can get and, as of a May 2018 report, boasts a network of over 10 million people who have made over 1 billion family connections.
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She and Alan E. Fruzzetti, a psychologist at Harvard, developed the alliance's Family Connections program, a series of group sessions in which families teach each other how to cope, guided by some of the very principles used by therapists.
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Johnson is a classic British elitist — the right schools (Eton, Oxford) and family connections — who possesses the "common touch" to a remarkable degree, as evidenced by his improbable feat of being a Conservative twice elected as mayor of London.
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During the show, Jack, who grew up listening to Elton John and the Beatles, revealed that one of the reasons he liked the idea of a blind audition was because the coaches were not immediately aware of his family connections.
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Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale, noted in her review of the book for the New York Times that King is quintessentially a writer of family connections and family history, and this is unquestionably the subject that Flanagan loves most.
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President Donald Trump this week claimed that a lot of migrants coming up through Mexico attempt to "grab a child" near the border in order to make up false family connections and more easily gain entry into the United States.
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"Tougher" is a tougher adjective to parse, but presumably it means a ban without caveats like those imposed by the Supreme Court in June, when it said Mr Trump's order could not apply to foreigners with family connections in America.
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But as new immigrants with less social clout, no family connections, and at times limited language skills, it is easy to understand how standardized testing and academic achievement can be viewed as their one shot at success in this country.
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Leaving aside the political differences, there's so many cultural connections between the two countries, in some cases family connections, the ability to have educational exchanges and things that happen as a result of resumption of this service, is really, really significant.
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Under President Barack Obama, DNA testing of unauthorized border-crossers was rare, former administration officials said, but one said it was sometimes used as a last resort to verify family connections when placing unaccompanied minors with sponsors in the United States.
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And with their elite degrees, family connections, and inner drive (cemented by a Silicon Valley-meets-immigrant-parents upbringing), my fellow alumnae—many of whom are women of color—weren't, for the most part, worried about inequality in the tech industry.
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A recent Harvard-Harris poll found that while there is sympathy for the plight of DACA recipients, a solid majority wants overall immigration totals to be reduced and based more on merit and skill than on lotteries and family connections.
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And given a sterling résumé — including time spent as a public high school teacher, success as a private equity fund manager, and service in the Navy Reserve — not to mention his family connections, he has all the makings for higher office.
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If you take a look, there&aposs a new Harvard Harris poll that -- that says, give the dreamers a -- they can remain here and have a path to citizenship in return for which there is increased -- use merit rather than family connections.
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"We are delighted that the court has today recognized Lauri's vulnerability, close family connections to the UK and the potentially catastrophic consequences of extraditing him," Emma Norton, head of legal rights group in the UK, said in a statement to the BBC.
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I knew it was going to be extremely challenging for me to get my foot in the door as a first-generation college student and graduate of a small liberal arts college in Florida with little internship experience and zero family connections.
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But The Inventor shows us only glimpses of Holmes's family connections—even though it was her family's ties to the Fleischmann Yeast fortune and the Fleischmanns' founding of the Cincinnati General Hospital that Don Lucas says convinced him to invest in her.
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Kemper has deep family connections to the state, with his family running what he said were the "biggest banks in the United States west of the Mississippi" in the late 1800s and early 1900s and even helping Henry Ford launch his car firm.
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For members of the Sri Lankan diaspora, including Catholics like me, who have family connections to the very places and parishes that were attacked, the country's tribulations are no longer terrible, local and hard to explain to people unfamiliar with its unsettled history.
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And, of course, family connections had already set up Chelsea Clinton with an absurd six-figure salary at NBC News, while an array of Obama administration veterans have decamped for gigs at Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Warburg Pincus, Amazon, McDonald's, and other big companies.
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With high school soccer coach Mike McGraw, these players translated their tight-knit family connections to success on the pitch, showing Maine a kind of soccer it had never seen before, and bringing pride to the school, the city, and the state.
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Owunna: When I began the project, it proceeded rather organically, photographing individuals with whom I connected over the internet or through friends of friends for the first four countries: the United States, Trinidad & Tobago, Canada, and Sweden (where I have family connections).
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Last month, I also reported that Palantir had signed a $34,650,000 in contracts with ICE to help build and maintain a large database and analytics platform called FALCON, which contains employment information, criminal records, immigration history, family connections, as well as home and work addresses.
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Some aspects of Hunter Biden's career and life story are a bit extreme (the Amtrak gig, dating his brother's widow), but the kid who trades on family connections to make money is much more a case of business as usual than an extraordinary scandal.
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While those fans may feel sad about the circumstances that led Jo into a relationship with Paul — sleeping in her car, a lack of any strong family connections, a lifetime bouncing around the foster care system — it's likely they can't see themselves in that story.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - The top court in Western-allied Bahrain upheld three-year jail terms against three relatives of a prominent political activist, a rights group said on Monday, in a case the United Nations says is an unlawful act of reprisal over family connections.
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At the moment, Trump needs Congress to fund the government, which gives Democrats some leverage, at least in theory, to demand that Ivanka Trump's fund be dismantled, or custody of it transferred to an outside charity with no White House or Trump family connections.
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Even Kimba M. Wood, the federal judge initially assigned to a related civil fraud lawsuit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission against Mr. Caspersen, has had to recuse herself from the litigation because of unspecified family connections to the former Wall Street executive.
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"Leaving aside the political differences, there's so many cultural connections between the two countries, in some cases family connections, the ability to have educational exchanges and things that happen as a result of resumption of this service, is really, really significant," Foxx told CNN.
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Without any formal training or a design background, Warren seemingly relied on family connections — most likely his grandfather, David Warren, a clothing manufacturer and designer — to finance and create his line (a route very many in the industry, from Alexander Wang to Stella McCartney, have taken).
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Now, many of them fear they're being retaliated against for expressing interest in their legal options or voicing their frustration at the Defense Department's shifting rules, which require thorough reviews of personal finances, travel and family connections, as well as FBI and CIA screenings and interviews.
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According to a surrogacy law map by Creative Family Connections, a surrogacy agency and law firm, six states have statutes or legal precedents that either forbid compensated surrogacy contracts or prevent both partners in a same-sex marriage from being listed on the resultant birth certificate.
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Yet, armed with family connections, some degree of architectural knowledge, and a lot of gumption, Gropius began his career under the noted architect Peter Behrens, who also employed another young protégé: Mies van der Rohe (who would become the third and final leader of the Bauhaus school).
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In addition to having likely orchestrated Trump's trip to Saudi Arabia, Bin Salman has reportedly developed a relationship with White House advisor Jared Kushner — the husband of the president's daughter and another 30-something man who has ridden family connections to the center of the world stage.
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Yet the real problem with Mr. Kushner and Ms. Trump is not their place in the American Jewish community, but rather that they are utterly unqualified for the offices they hold, and have been granted great power solely by virtue of their wealth and family connections.
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Acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan said in August that ICE found that 16 of the 84 claimed family connections in the first pilot, and 79 of 522 of those in the second test, were found to be fraudulent, meaning that genetic testing did not establish a parent-child relationship.
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"The ACCC is not oblivious to the fact that significant influence can be exerted through partial shareholdings and family connections, however the ACCC did take into consideration that this is a proposed 50 percent acquisition by Illyria," Sims said in a statement on Thursday, referring to Murdoch's private company.
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If you're wondering about the implied relationship between "cocky heel" and familial pro-wrestling pedigree, don't—there's a long history of wrestlers with family connections to the business debuting as squeaky-clean babyfaces, getting booed mercilessly, and then turning on the crowd as they don't get their due respect.
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So voters have proved willing to accept, or to be enticed by, a candidate's family connections, from the Adamses, to the Roosevelts, to the Kennedys, to the Bushes, to the 2016 presidential primary featuring the brother and son of two former presidents and the wife of yet another.
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While in the past it's been reported that Trump graduated at the top of his classwith honors, that notion has since been repeatedly debunked, with at least one 2001 book suggesting that he gained entry to the school in the first place due to family connections with a member of the admissions office.
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Sinise, 63, who reflects on his journey from "self to service" in his new book Grateful American, details the major turning points in his life, which include learning the details of his family connections to the military, playing Lieutenant Dan in Forrest Gump and feeling "broken" after the terrorist attacks on 593/11.
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While the new Americans watched a recorded message from President Donald Trump welcoming them to the United States, the President, from just a few blocks up Pennsylvania Avenue, nearly simultaneously was tweeting his opposition to "chain migration," a term referring to the process of immigrating to the country based on family connections.
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But in the brief, organized by the group Fair and Just Prosecution, the former and current prosecutors argue even brief detention based on an inability to pay can yield serious harms such as loss of a job or disrupted family connections and does little to dispel the public perception of unfairness in the justice system.
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Byrne's knowledge of Austen's life and letters, of her family connections (her older brother Henry's "unflagging interest in the theater" gave her many opportunities to go to plays because he lived in London), allows Byrne to portray an engaged and active literary artist, looking for ways to shape her material, carefully choosing her settings and subjects.
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"All the tweets did was to point out the allegations in the media already about his and his family connections to Russian-Ukrainian organized crime and how that is probably part of the reason that the [Southern District of New York] told the court they would not take his cooperation unless he fully cooperated," he said.
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Ali al-Naimi, editor of an online UAE news website who also heads the education department in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, said he had been informed by a reliable source in Abu Dhabi that Sheikh Abdullah had originally moved to the UAE capital, where he has family connections, at his own request, because he feared for his safety in Qatar.
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Over the past few years, the Department of Justice has sought to tailor charges and sentences to achieve better results for all by ensuring that when possible and appropriate, defendants would have a chance to maintain family connections, as well as get the treatment, job training and education needed to reduce recidivism and help individuals successfully return to the community after prison.
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Mr. Liu, who is now a senior official at China's banking regulator, said through a spokesman that he "never worked on any projects for the firm's Chinese clients," and that it would be "misleading" to connect him with McKinsey's work for Ping An. McKinsey said that Mr. Liu had been hired because he was qualified, not because of his family connections.
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If you click through to the Privacy Policy will find a laundry list of examples of types of data the party says it may collect about you — including what it describes as "opinions on topical issues"; "family connections"; "IP address, cookies and other technical information that you may share when you interact with our website"; and "commercially available data – such as consumer, lifestyle, household and behavioural data".
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Advocates for restricting legal immigration have pointed to the imbalance in favor of family connections as evidence of the need for reform, calling for a "merit-based" system that would choose immigrants based on need in the US. Wildes declined to comment on whether the first lady's parents will soon be sworn in as citizens or the method through which the Knavs obtained their green card status.
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The White House issued hardline border enforcement demands Sunday night that it said must be included in any deal to allow Dreamers to remain in the U.S. The priorities include tougher enforcement of immigration law on the border, construction of the border wall, more efforts to deport illegal immigrants who overstay their visas, and legislation that would create a merit-based immigration system instead of allowing immigrants with family connections.
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Advocates for restricting legal immigration have pointed to the imbalance in favor of family connections as evidence of the need for reform, calling for a "merit-based" system that would choose immigrants based on need in the US. The US allows a number of ways for US citizens and legal permanent residents to sponsor family members to come to the US permanently, including categories for parents, adult siblings and adult children, married and unmarried.
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