That's the way he chose and it is his God-given right and it is my God-given right to share my opinion about it.
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Still, though the meek did not inherit the Earth, they did acquire a sense of God-given equality, while the powerful, for their part, inherited a God-given sense of unease.
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How long before we realize our Universal God given potential?
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There's people who have a God-given talent, and there's people who just work so hard to get to where they are that sometimes they even pass the people who have God-given talent.
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And without these God-given gifts, I completely lose my edge.
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Everyone should have an opportunity to pursue their God given destiny.
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Free exploration of the universe is our God-given constitutional right!
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I just work hard with my God-given talent and abilities.
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Remember the essence of conservatism is an adherence to God-given right.
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He is saying now, you know, it&aposs a God-given right.
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But the alliance does not have a God-given right to survive.
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It's not like it's some special god-given talent that entrepreneurs have.
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Firms often fail abroad—there is no God-given right to triumph.
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I like to think that I have some God-given talent, too.
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Wheat, in its whole state was a pure, god-given source of nourishment.
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It's sort of God-given, and an 'F You' to all of us!
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Your tone, your beauty, your range, and your God-given talent is treasured.
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"It's sort of God-given," says the smartwater sparkling spokesperson with a laugh.
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"[They] almost feel like 5 percent monthly gains are a God-given right."
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It was your God-given right to say what you wanted on the Internet, in the same way it was your God-given right to buy or sell whatever you wanted and put it in your body—if you chose. ….
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Conservatives believe that our liberty is individual, it&aposs God-given to each person.
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But more impressive than her god-given features is what she does with them.
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That we could really infuse actual, human, God-given soul [into] an animated character.
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"Everyone has a God given gift," Harvey tweeted when he learned of the drawing.
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"Behind her God-given talent was the drive of a total perfectionist," he said.
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Or is Payam going to confirm his true God-given powers by saving himself?
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Because for me I believe art is art and it's a God-given thing.
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We know DACA have been given a chance to achieve their God-given potential.
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I'm very proud of him for his ability, but he knows it's all God-given.
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He had the raw, physical, God-given ability to just sometimes do as he pleased.
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Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's God-given right.
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We always tell them you have too many God-given talents to not be successful.
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It was wrong, he said, to criminalise youngsters for following their God-given and natural instincts.
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Everybody ought to have a chance to be able to rise to their God-given purpose.
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In other words, it was America's last frontier, and man's God-given right to conquer it.
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But keeping both sides in some sort of satisfaction equilibrium is Airbnb's messy, god-given task.
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People, we are being deprived of our God-given right to complain about both presidential candidates.
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"They're not using their God-given brain to think about what they are saying," he said.
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When every child has the chance to live up to his or her God-given potential.
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"It's a God-given gift, and I don't want to damage it and hurt it," she says.
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The truth is, despite loving the nuances of our God-given hair, the upkeep can be exhausting.
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"Neither the Labor Party or the Liberal Party have a God-given right to rule," he said.
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And when you have God-given talent and work ethic, you become like Jordan, Kobe, those people.
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" Audiences revere these stars so devoutly that we all need to believe "their looks are God-given.
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Or maybe you prefer to invest in a cocktail of creams that enhance your god-given texture.
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I began to think very differently about my God-given potential and my purpose on this Earth.
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Bundy stood in front of a whiteboard diagramming his theory of government and God-given property rights.
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Early screening and evidence-based curriculum will empower children with dyslexia to achieve their God given potential.
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It wasn't the American Flag that gave my uncle Joseph Trammell his God-given right to freedom.
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Don't tell me standing up for God-given, time-tested principles don't win at the voting box.
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He set out to show that regardless of the barriers, he could fulfill his God-given potential.
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He set out to show that, regardless of the barriers, he could fulfill his God-given potential.
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"That is our God-given right, and that is more important than business interests," Ms. Lopez said.
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"I cannot imagine myself not sharing the skills and God-given talent that I have," he said.
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Like rule of law and human rights, and insistence on God-given dignity of every human being.
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This is Chicago and we have a God-given right to drink wherever and whenever we please.
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So every single American can have that chance to live up to his or her God-given potential.
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I know that I had a God-given ability, but I didn't want to take it for granted.
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Potatoes and our God-given ability to deep fry stuff are the unwavering cornerstone of all things awesome.
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It's a God-given gift and when a musician gives back onto that glory, it's a wonderful thing.
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Like rule of law and human rights and insistence on the god-given dignity of every human being.
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It is our God-given right to not look — particularly when someone is doing precisely what we do.
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Reach out to the kids, give back to the community, and put your God-given talent on display.
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Because at the heart of any great religion is a core belief in our common God-given humanity.
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The 64-year-old, Thomas Manning, lost his god-given penis after it was amputated due to cancer.
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That is my God given body with no receipts attached (a breast lift 12 years ago notwithstanding) to it.
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But wait — what God-given reason does she have to wear a turtleneck that's so...exaggerated and chin-obscuring?
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With his vision [and] God-given talent, he is still one of the world's most respected and loved artists.
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The world has lost an artist with literally some of the most God given talent I have ever seen.
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His God-given flow is a breath of fresh air, a respite from the forced quality of the album.
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Rosa Parks has a God-given right to rest in peace ... but go tell that to "Pokemon Go" gamers.
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Right now I sit at a 14/16, and I love it, because this is my God-given body.
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I don't regret not pursuing singing, but it was certainly the god-given gift that I was born with.
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" Bogle on success: "I would define success as using your God-given talents for the greatest advantage of society.
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This is a way, he says, to let his female peers know how beautiful their God-given locks are.
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In fact, you have a God-given and inalienable right to be on the losing end of this argument.
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Ms. Uwanawich claimed she had "God-given powers" and could communicate with the spirit world, according to court documents.
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Without nourishing food, it's hard — if not impossible — for individuals to reach their full, God-given potential and thrive.
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Whether or not it's God-given — or if there even is a God in this series — remains to be seen.
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And if I'm helping people to realize their God-given purpose and destiny, then I'm striking tin, and that's good.
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I just chose an occupation to write rhymes because it was a God given gift that was given to me.
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Can someone cite which passage of the Bible God states it is a god-given right to own a gun?
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His likeness was painted into various mythical allegories, as a means of presenting the crown as miraculous or God-given.
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Adam Schiff: He has a God given right to abuse his power, and there's nothing you can do about it.
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You would think that someone with his God-given talent would be delighted to get to be a professional athlete.
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The most successful and enduring Christian communalist sects were led by individuals who claimed messianic stature and a God-given mission.
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Mass incarceration has torn families apart, impoverished communities, and kept too many Americans from living up to their God-given potential.
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For a long time Maria took everything Gloria said to be God-given fact, but now she thinks Gloria was wrong.
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Before that, "humans were part of a natural, god-given cosmos and they were not really separate from nature," Rees said.
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"It's my God-given right to be here," said one balaclava-clad militia member who gave his name only as Viper.
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Religious fundamentalists in Israel, supported by many American evangelicals, believe the right of Israeli Jews to these territories is God-given.
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" Colton's fellow Underwood added, "There's nothing more rewarding than the opportunity to use our God-given gifts to help people in need.
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George argued that undeveloped land was God given and any increase in its value was due to the work done by people.
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After all, it isn't just a matter of having a God-given ability for inhumane levels of food consumption at top speeds.
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And to advocate for conservative solutions that would give more Americans the opportunity to rise up and reach their God-given potential.
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An evangelical Christian as well as a former rebel, he is said to believe he has a God-given right to rule.
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One Ohio third-grader refuses to stand by as his God-given right to "Netflix and chill" is taken away from him.
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But on the other hand, the patriarchy has dominated for thousands of years, and people see it as their God-given right.
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She's an incredible artist with a god-given voice and talent, one of a handful of greats from the last 30 years.
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People look at low volatility, and they're selling low volatility, as if that is a god given, and continuing for the future.
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Fox News: Could you describe that moment when you realized this was your "God-given body" and you were going to embrace it?
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No matter how you spin it, though, the truth remains: Eyelash extensions are a great way to further enhance your God-given assets.
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In the absence of reforms, the appeal of rigid, God-given governance will continue to resonate in contexts where faux democracy has failed.
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Waze seems like a god-given gift for those of us that have to navigate huge traffic on a day-to-day basis.
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But on the powerful truth that all people are created equal with a God given right to life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness.
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Her voice is a symbol of Americanness; it's at home among the many God-given natural phenomena of which this country can boast.
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We know the God-given dominant traits that he has as a football player, but his motor is running, and it's running hot.
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With our God-given resources, we have an obligation and a privilege to make sure people receive the basic of life: clean water.
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" He concluded his thread by urging citizens to say yes to their "God-given, constitutionally protected rights" and no to "more government intrusions.
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Tomorrow where all of us do our part and everyone has a chance to live up to his or her god given potential.
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This has been true since an industrialists' front called the "Christian Americans" passed a "God-Given Right to Work" model law here in 1943.
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For some athletes, their God-given talents enabled them to reach the pinnacle of sports success and inhabit the rarified air of celebrity society.
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Though many pro-lifers opposed cloning as another interference with the God-given method of reproducing humans, some welcomed a new form of procreation.
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In an effort to secure law and order, we have lost sight of justice based on the God-given value of each human life.
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It is sacred and God-given, but millions of babies have been robbed of that right in this, the freest country in the world.
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Rather than wasting money on the "moondoggle" America should scare the Soviet Union by maintaining an overwhelming superiority in those God-given nuclear weapons.
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Many human rights lawyers in China are Christians, and many dissidents have said they are influenced by the idea that rights are God-given.
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And this business of a man's God-given right to give a woman a little thrashing has brought together all of Pakistan's pious men.
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I am NOT going to use the evil acts of a handful of people to diminish the God-given rights of my fellow Texas.
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These limitations should exist because humans exist to prosper using their God-given talents, not to have their life literally hand picked for them.
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As mayor, I want every citizen to have the ability to discover their God-given abilities and use them to contribute to our community.
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So, depending on the perspective, Catherine toggles from being a Machiavellian maneuverer to woman with a white-knuckled grip on her supposedly God-given destiny.
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Our independence and our freedom to pursue happiness make us an exceptional nation full of exceptional people – with the God-given opportunity to prove it.
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"Justice Kavanaugh now sits alongside Justice Gorsuch to defend your rights, your Constitution, and your God-given freedom," Trump said at a rally last fall.
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Women have been giving the idea that straight hair is more beautiful a big fat middle finger, embracing their God-given coils, curls, and kinks.
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But transgender identities raise more general questions, and not only for those cultural conservatives who regard them as transgressing the natural, perhaps God-given, order.
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For Smedley, the ideology of American individualism proved a bitter punishment, for Wilder the fulfillment of what she took to be a God-given promise.
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We listened to the Words of God though our reverend, gathered from all over the world, and moved to Fiji for the God-given vision.
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Jenner's earliest and most vocal opponents had been men of the church, who reasoned that smallpox was a God-given fact of life and death.
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What set Edison apart, he notes, were the traits and habits — "contrary thinking, obstinate repetition, daydreaming, delight in difficulty" — that enhanced his God-given intellect.
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Francis told them that sports figures should strive to be models for young people so that they use their God-given talents to better society.
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"Our God-given dream was to provide content on a consistent basis to be an alternative to what Hollywood was putting it out," he said.
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I am NOT going to use the evil acts of a handful of people to diminish the God-given rights of my fellow Texans. Period.
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"I want to make sure that the whole world is able to pass on to future generations the God-given beauty of this planet," he said.
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Steps to ensure a safer, more constructive prison culture, while honoring the God-given dignity of each incarcerated person, also help prevent more crimes from happening.
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He further added that Britain's departure from the European Union was a "God-given opportunity" for the City's financial rivals, especially Frankfurt and Dublin in particular.
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Many people watched in horror as innocent children fleeing violence were torn from their God-given source of safety — their mothers, fathers, and trusted family members.
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The cells penetrate the skin to hydrate, plump, and add radiance — while the massaging technique helps with lymphatic drainage, brightening, and enhancing my god-given cheekbones.
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Ezras Nashim, she said, is not about being a feminist, but about reclaiming the traditional role of women to help in their own God-given way.
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" She went on, "I would say that the ideals of human rights are not bad to aim for, but it's not a universal, God-given thing.
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For Israelis convinced the West Bank is God-given real estate, Rabin's preparedness for territorial compromise with the Palestinians violated Jews' right to their biblical heritage.
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CARA 2.0, a bipartisan bill introduced in February, will continue that progress and direct more resources to help people live up to their God-given potential.
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We don't live in an ideal world, unfortunately, and a considerable number of people are adamant that it's their god-given right to witness horrific dismemberment.
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I finally ask Dr. Dixit the question I've been dreading all day: Pretend I'm here ready to go under the knife and come out God-given gorgeous.
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Elijah became a lawyer to make sure others had rights, and his people had their god-given rights, and from the statehouse to the House of Representatives.
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In America the Republican Party's platform holds that if "God-given, natural, inalienable rights" conflict with "government, court, or human-granted rights", the former must always prevail.
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To me, being makeup free means freedom and transparency, freedom to be completely comfortable to own my God given beauty in its purest and most natural state.
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Every American has the God-given right to lose money in the financial markets, and one of the fastest ways to do it is trading futures contracts.
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The invaders claim to have come together after having visions of the cabin, meeting on an internet forum before uniting to carry out their God-given task.
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"The current levels are not God-given, this is just the best compromise we could reach back in December," al-Falih added, discussing the OPEC plus deal.
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I'm thankful that I can make my living using my natural God-given talent, take care of my family, and am relatively rich doing nothing but that.
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I started both my first and second band with Nikolaj and have always been fascinated by his god-given musical talent and ability to make shows happen.
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Dave Brat (R-Va.) described attendees at a town hall in his district last week who booed him down after he said people's rights are God-given.
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They blend the natural and the artificial, the native and the colonial, the historic and the futuristic, the free God-given plant and the expensive luxury item.
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Apart from a miracle, they're not going to acknowledge the God-given dignity of LGBTQ people or supporting a Green New Deal that could save God's creation.
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In an ideal world, I might have snuck subtle improvements in — done a little work here and there and passed it off as a God-given attribute.
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And we will continue to fight for more jobs in our changing economy, for good stewardship of our God-given planet, for safety and for basic decency.
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"I do it because I firmly believe that I have some God-given blessing here that I'm able to do this in the first place," she said.
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Shortly after being selected No. 9 overall, a tweet from Smith's timeline surfaced in which a not-quite-yet 15-year-old Smith discussed god-given talents.
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And maybe that was why we used that phrase, "God-given"—a phrase whose meaning we did not quite know, but that meant, we understood, beyond us.
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Loyal fans know that Gaga's beauty mark was not made by a dot of eyeliner — or any other makeup product for that matter — the mole is God-given.
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What occurred at the church "does not reflect the Catholic Church&aposs fundamental calling to respect and uplift the God-given dignity of every person," the Most Rev.
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American evangelicals, in particular, have long been wary of environmental causes, seeing them as a threat to what they envision as man's God-given dominion over the earth.
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Whereas their white counterparts will be praised for their mental makeup and work ethic, black athletes often get short shrift as physical marvels, beneficiaries of God-given talent.
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In a later interview on television, Ms Varshney explained that as a mother and a Hindu herself, she had a God-given right to hit the other woman.
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" Gates encourages Booth to "listen to your God-given woman intuition," and threatens: "If this ends badly, I'mma cut his penis off, and he can't ever lose that virginity.
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He explained that Israel's military is more and more being lead by "Religious Zionists" who are committed to this land because they see it as their God-given Land.
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"Nations as a natural, God-given way of classifying men, as an inherent though long-delayed political destiny, are a myth," the British-Czech political theorist Ernest Gellner wrote.
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"Governor Rauner can use his executive power to give Chicago's children the resources they need to fulfill their God-given right to learn," he said at a news conference.
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" One section reads, "Serving His Children has grown from the God-given vision of a young woman to a ministry that is saving and changing hundreds of lives every year.
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Which means that queens like Zendaya, Rihanna, and Solange often use their God-given texture to make a statement — and you'd better believe that they use it to the max.
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Mr Phillips later explained that he will not create a cake that "promote[s] the idea that a person's sex is anything other than an immutable God-given biological reality".
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"Sometimes the rage of a soul is equivalent to the size of that soul's knowledge of and desire to revel in it's glorious God given right to LIVE," she said.
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Imbued with what they perceive as a God-given right to rule all peoples, Infinite's ultra-American residents of the floating city of Columbia are racist, exceptionalist, and vehemently capitalist.
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"We feel that it is our God-given duty for the husband to be the breadwinner, and the mom to be the homemaker," said Ms. Hoover, who has two children.
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Like them, a scientist runs the maze, turning strip maps into comprehensive maps — increasingly accurate models of the "great God-given maze which is our human world," as he put it.
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Disappointment is from the lost educational and professional opportunities because their immigration status blocks them from achieving their God-given potential and denies them the opportunity to improve their families' lives.
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They believe all Americans have a God-given right to refuse to get health coverage and throw themselves on the mercies of extremely expensive hospital emergency rooms if they get ill.
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Together followers of Christ need to call for a justice system that affirms and respects the God-given dignity of each person, emphasizing a pathway to restoration in addition to accountability.
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The platform included a provision saying "that man-made law must be consistent with God-given, natural rights," according to a draft of the platform obtained by the New York Times.
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" Her presidential campaign, she said, was about building "ladders of opportunity and empowerment so every single American can have that chance to live up to his or her God-given potential.
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It will also help tap into the God-given potential of men and women who, despite their choices in the past, can make significant future contributions to their families and communities.
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Every child in America should be able to live up to his or her God-given potential, no matter who your parents are or what ZIP code you grew up in.
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"Her personality, her smile, the twinkle in her eye, the way she says my name — all of that God-given stuff was still there, she hadn't changed a bit," he said.
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Weighing the prudential needs of the state in carrying out its God-given task of guaranteeing public order against the desire to see Christian mercy reflected in government is a challenge.
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Once, he said, he'd seen one of his former employees on TV saying she thought it was her God-given duty to preserve and protect the unreleased material in his vault.
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Show up at the counter with just one, and get ready to be toilet-paper shamed by a checkout clerk who's horrified you'd turn your back on your God-given discount.
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I mourn the many more "votes" that will take place on the local level that will feel to LGBTQ people and our families like a referendum on our God-given worth.
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But there's a lack of recognition that my incapacity stems from having been discouraged from taking up 'male' hobbies and sports, rather than some god-given 'shitness' nestling in my uterus.
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Keep breaking down those barriers and imagine what we can build together when each and every American has the chance to live up to his or her own God-given potential.
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He wanted Buck to maintain his "God-given look," and Miller believed more people would be willing to neuter their pets if they had a product to make their pets look whole.
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"We are all too familiar with the mass carnage that can occur when citizens are denied their basic God-given rights to carry handguns or assault weapons in public," the petition reads.
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"Join us for the sake of our security, for the sake of our prosperity, for the sake of a Supreme Court that will never turn its back on our God-given liberties."
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I think what we're hoping to do is ... I think that one of the problems is that people in the UK and the US believe that democracy is some god-given right.
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"Knowing where I've come from and knowing how hard it was to get to this point... I give it all to the man above for giving me god given abilities," James said.
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"Respect for the God-given dignity of every human being, no matter their race, ethnicity or other circumstances of their birth, is the essence of American patriotism," McCain said in a statement.
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According to church elders, the decision to exclude Ian had to do with the fact that "he had no God-given soul and therefore no way to genuinely worship" during the service.
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But, in straight economic terms, when you get right down to it, our family jewels are the technological inventions and innovations and applications that, you know, are God-given rights to practice.
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He mentioned the "God-given dignity written into every human soul" and the African-American fight to end slavery, break down Jim Crow laws, end segregation, and gain the right to vote.
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The argument updates Gottfried Leibniz and Ernst Mach's idea that space-time might not be a God-given backdrop to the world, but instead might derive from the material contents of the universe.
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Over twenty-five minutes Jedrzejczyk proved herself head and shoulders above Jessica Andrade not through any god given talent or magic, but through economical, scientific striking, mastery of distance, and superior ring generalship.
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" Reminiscing about Franklin's legacy, Knight previously told People Now, "She had a voice that was god given and she used it to the best of her ability and to all kinds of heights.
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But this modicum of freedom at the top translated into repression for the rest of her countrywomen, who didn't have the excuse of God-given right to rule to rely on for empowerment.
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I love answering this question because I did an interview recently with a hardcore Christian woman for her website, and one of her questions was, 'Where does your God-given talent come from?
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Recall Madonna in the '80s, when she was young and playful, with her God-given Groucho Marx hedges, and Madonna in 1990, on her "Blond Ambition" tour, with those razor-sharp retro brows.
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Wilbur Ross, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Commerce secretary, has urged other countries to exploit the "God-given opportunity" to steal business from the U.K., according to a report in The Times.
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As chief of the EPA, however, Pruitt embraced a particular school of evangelical thought that sees human beings as having the God-given, inalienable right to do whatever they want to the planet.
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"Because of you, tens of thousands of Americans have been born and reached their full, God-given potential," Trump told the marchers, who were gathered a few blocks away on the National Mall.
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For the upcoming season, the shades on the rise are all about leaning into your God-given roots, then elevating them with add-ons — like a high-shine gloss or rose-dipped tips.
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The sum of the parts arrive at something primal within us, the thing that allowed us to make a civilization, a connection to our god-given instruments: bodily presence and the human voice.
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In an industrial strategy published on February 5th Peter Altmaier, the economy minister, warns that Germany's economic strengths are not "God-given" and must be earned—particularly as China shifts from consumer to competitor.
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To help plan your style for October 31, we've rounded up some easy-to-do Halloween looks that you can pull off with your God-given curls, including buns, braids, and — yes— even bonnets.
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It harkens back to the days white violence was used to oppress black Southerners, especially when they dared to make progress at the ballot box, in the classroom, to assert their God-given rights.
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" "We have a God-given right to defend ourselves, and firearms are an effective means to doing just that," said Chris Cox, the NRA Institute for Legislative Action's executive director, on ABC's "This Week.
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With these questions on the line, leaders who value the God-given potential of each person are looking for ways to advance criminal justice reform that restores all those affected by crime and incarceration.
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But I will, like many other other queer Catholics, defend my God-given right to pursue our faith in the hopes that future generations of queer people will somehow benefit from our dogged persistence.
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The main reason I am ready to change directions is that I want to use my God-given gift for writing to glorify God, and I don't feel like I was doing that before.
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"We must make the most of our moment — to fight for freedom, to protect our God-given rights, even of those with whom we don't agree," he said toward the end of his remarks.
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Ultimately, the final and most effective barrier between the citizens of our republic and any number of gun control schemes that would rob them of their God-given natural rights is the Second Amendment.
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"I'm proud of the campaign we've run to unify our country and to advocate conservative solutions that would give more Americans the opportunity to rise up and reach their God-given potential," he said.
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"Because of you, tens of thousands of Americans have been born and reached their full, God-given potential," Trump, a Christian, told the marchers, who included many groups of students from Roman Catholic schools.
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"We have thought of ourselves as human beings that can do what we want with creation when in fact, we're given god-given responsibilities to look after creation and not to abuse it," he said.
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" On the topic of whether he thinks Jews have "a God-given right to what the Israeli government calls Judea and Samaria," he said, "Well, so, in my job it's not about what I believe.
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Millions of Americans have a fundamental belief in the Gospel message of redemption and the God-given value of each human life, yet major Christian institutions have too often been silent on criminal-justice issues.
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Rauner can use his executive power to help get Chicago's children the resources they need to fulfill their God-given right to learn," Chance said in an earlier statement, according to the Chicago Tribune. "Gov.
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Besides their God-given hands, men masturbate by using products like the Fleshlight, humping their beds, sticking their meat in cuts of real meat, or dropping a few grand on a dead-eyed sex doll.
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As a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, I have had many conversations with constituents concerned about giving the government any more authority over our God-given right to keep and bear arms.
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This God-given ability to perform what to the lay person would be described as an exorcism became more and more popular going in the 90s when the Satanic Panic movement was at its height.
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"They are weak man-child beta males who are afraid to take on their God given roles of protectors and providers," one sad fool scrawled below the Duke Chronicle's reporting of the Duke Men's Project.
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We've got to believe in the basic proposition of our country when all Americans have the chance to succeed, when each of us has the opportunity to live up to our own God-given potential.
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The innate worth of every person not only undergirds King's philosophy of nonviolence and the insistence of the American Declaration of Independence that we all have God-given rights but also that black lives matter.
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Hey, I find it really ironic that all the groups that think they have a God-given mandate to enforce "tolerance" are so intolerant of controversial views and people that run counter to their own.
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"You should model them to kids not as a toy or a reward or a god-given right to have," says Michael Rich, director of the Center on Media and Child Health at Harvard University.
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"More women who were trying to escape abuse or poverty by having abortions feel safer in openly telling their stories than women who had abortions just out of their God-given free will," she says.
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" This is Kushner's answer to this question from Swan: "Do you believe the Jewish people have a God-given right to what the Israeli government calls Judea and Samaria and what others call the West Bank?
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In other words, in American, conservatism should mean not only that some rise with conservative principles, but everybody has a chance to rise regardless of who they are so they can live their God given purpose.
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Instead of envying curls that stretch to impressive proportions and wishing for glistening skin you can't fake with a filter, take advantage of the products that will take your God-given assets to their highest potential.
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It's not the man's god-given right to regain the power he once had, especially if he just pretends like he can come back after taking a time out without apparently grappling with what he done.
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At her core, rooting her to this earth, is the belief that every child, black or white, rich or poor, native-born, immigrant, or undocumented, deserves the opportunity to live up to their God-given potential.
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Often we think of natural beauty as God given, but gardens, whose beauty has long been rendered in painting, poetry and prose, represent a tussle between the will of nature and that of man or woman.
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Stated simply, our government must respect our God-given right to lead lives consistent with our faith and conscience which, particularly, is the impetus for our service to all regardless of faith, creed, color, or sex.
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It won't be for everyone, nor will it cure all powerful men (and women), but just think about how many problems it would solve while we try to help humans conquer this "brutal" God-given affliction.
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I found myself working in a spirit that drew on conditions that I had observed and experienced in my family's factory, but now I was surrendering my secret God-given white self importance; that was new.
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Woven into the pressure on his national team, there was the endless dichotomy drawn between Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo: that the former is blessed with God-given talent, the latter the product of relentless self-improvement.
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Her boss, a conservative Christian who holds that biological sex is "an immutable God-given gift", felt he could not condone what he considered a physical impossibility by allowing Ms Stephens to wear frocks to work.
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Even as I cautiously welcome the schism as necessary, I pray for the day when all Christians of any denomination in the United States and around the world recognize the God-given dignity of LGBTQ people.
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If there's one thing we know about the Attorney General, it's that he understands the importance of all of our God-given rights, respects the law, and is making tremendous progress to restore our nation to greatness.
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As a conservative interpreter of America's founding documents, he attaches importance to the allusions in those texts to God-given rights, and to the First Amendment right to practise a religion, albeit without state support or establishment.
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His right of dominion over the animals is God-given, and in his enactment of that right over the most powerful of animals, he fulfills a tradition and an identity handed down to him from his father.
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The director equates the destruction of paradise by mankind in the Bible with the social position of women, without acknowledging that women's subjugation is not "naturally occurring" or God-given, but instead the result of social conditions.
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My parents would say, what are your God given gifts, what do you love to do, and my dad was an avid reader and he would always say to thyself be true, and be your authentic self.
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" He said signing the order showed the president "stood without apology for the God-given right of every American to live out convictions in their faith ... whatever the country they call home or the creed they profess.
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Miley is proof that whether you're dressed to the nines in stilettos and Saint Laurent or lounging on the couch in a tie-dye sweatshirt, glossing up those God-given Malibu curls will forever be a style win.
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Unlike most reports in Washington that wind up on a dusty shelf, this report will guide our Committee as we move forward with our better way to reduce poverty and help more Americans reach their God-given potential.
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In the enthusiastic words of Mohamed Taher Sabri, imam of a large mosque in one of Berlin's poorer districts, Germany's constitution is a "God-given" document which enables all kinds of religion to flourish and offer moral guidance.
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If we don't turn the tide against global malnutrition, we will suffer the consequences of millions of lives lost unnecessarily and a generation of mothers and children in the developing world that never achieve their God-given potential.
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"He's been given a God-given ability of having a big engine with lots of energy that enables him to play with a certain speed, athleticism, and enables him to work very hard every single day," said Nurse.
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"People want to exercise their God-given right to bear arms and protect their families," said Mark Oliva, a spokesman for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the gun industry association lobbying for special protection for dealers and manufacturers.
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"People want to exercise their God-given right to bear arms and protect their families," said Mark Oliva, a spokesman for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the gun industry association lobbying for special protection for dealers and manufacturers.
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"Sadly, the far left is actively working to erase our God-given rights, shut down faith-based charities, ban religious believers from the public square and silence Americans who believe in the sanctity of life," Trump said Friday.
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"The president believes that it is his God-given right to shake down foreign leaders for help in his re-election, and he should not be encumbered by the public finding out about it," Mr. Schiff said Sunday.
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His opinions have consistently adhered to our founding principles that government exists to protect the God-given rights of the people and that the Constitution exists to prevent government from infringing on the rights it is entrusted to defend.
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Unmovable and cool, Luke Cage generates in the imagination an alternate reality where god-given powers—or abilities obtained via scientific experiments gone awry—grant a black person the safety and agency that are still elusive in this world.
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Finally, because of fear, we have too easily capitulated to so-called "security" measures that only make our God-given dignity less secure, while pride has led us to assume that we can be saved by our technological prowess.
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The solution is to empower faith-based groups to assist corrections officials in rehabilitating incarcerated citizens so that they can return to society and achieve their full, God-given potential as they give back to their families and communities.
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The fundamental worth and value of a human soul, and the need for people — and governments of people — to recognize the God-given value of individuals in order to have legitimacy and to prevent the mistakes of the past.
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"I did it because I wish to share my God-given talent to the world and to encourage the young ones to do something that has never been done before," he said in a phone interview from his home in Lagos.
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He said that Mr Trump would the following week announce a Supreme Court nominee—to fill the space left by Antonin Scalia, a conservative justice who died last February—"who will uphold the God-given liberty enshrined in our constitution".
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"Mitt Romney represents the old guard, the establishment #RINOs who put self-importance, arrogance, money, and greed above citizens, our economy, our God-given rights, and our children's future," added an ad for a gubernatorial candidate in Washington, Anton Sakharov.
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The fact that the periods that come from physics are "somehow God-given and come from physical theories means they have a lot of structure and it's structure a mathematician wouldn't necessarily think of or try to invent," said Brown.
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"A lot of stuff he's talking about is just God-given common sense, which I think both parties have lost," said Tom Kirkpatrick, 51, a Trump supporter who used to work in an industrial laundry plant and is now on disability.
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Whether it's giving sexual predators a free pass, defending the God-given right to stage dive regardless of who it means injuring or ostracising in the process, or gleefully assaulting your fans just because your privilege means that you can.
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An increasingly diverse society no longer accepts the God-given right of white males from the right families to run things, and a society with many empowered, educated women is finally rejecting the droit de seigneur once granted to powerful men.
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"Respect for the God-given dignity of every human being, no matter their race, ethnicity or other circumstances of their birth, is the essence of American patriotism," the Arizona senator, who has been diagnosed with brain cancer, said in a statement.
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With the broad coalition of House and Senate members supporting bipartisan action, many American families are depending on reform in order to fulfill their God-given potential and have a positive impact on our communities for the generations to come. Rep.
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I caught one, and it took all the effort I could muster to not throw 'bows and edge people out of my God-given right to free french fries (that, again, I didn't even want) because I was so excited.
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Generally, in technology, the correct guiding ethos is that you should be able to do what you want on the device you own, and if you want to buy an app from NigerianPrince69 on the dark web that's your God-given right.
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"What occurred at Saint Mary's Parish this morning does not reflect the Catholic Church's fundamental calling to respect and uplift the God-given dignity of every person," Bishop-elect Michael W. Fisher of the Washington Archdiocese wrote to the family of Agnes Hicks.
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At a time of territorial expansion, America's natural bounty struck some as a God-given substitute for the ancient culture which was the only thing the country seemed to lack (if, that is, you ignored its native American heritage, as most Americans did).
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You can go to a Dodgers game for just a few bucks (unless you plan on eating or drinking in the stadium) or you can find a grassy knoll, set up a picnic, and engage in your God-given right to day drink.
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The conversation around the star's god-given texture picked up steam in 2017, when her longtime hairstylist Neal Farinah confirmed on Instagram that a naturally-curly look Bey sported to the Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of The Year was, in fact, au naturel.
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We call on everybody to demand the release of all 589 pages of these FISA documents, unredact, everything possible and, of course, our god-given rights as Americans are now on the line here, if we are to remain a free society.
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CLINTON: Well, I'm running for president to do my very best to knock down every barrier that stands in the way of America realizing its potential and every American having a chance to live up to his or her God-given potential.
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Reclaim the selfie stick Because it's our god given right to be totally fucking annoying and narcissistic and distracting and selfish and just generally douchey, and then share it with our equally annoying and narcissistic and distracting and selfish and douchey friends. 210.
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"We must benefit from our God-given minerals and that is why we must safeguard our natural resource wealth to ensure we do not end up with empty mining pits," Magufuli told a rally in his home village in Chato district, northwestern Tanzania.
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"I know very well there are powerful interests that want to deprive families their God-given freedom," to choose private schools, she told the cardinal and the Alfred E. Smith Foundation, which supports Catholic charities, on Wednesday morning, according to her prepared remarks.
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If that kid and I had raced our bikes and I'd won, the bat would have been mine, because my victory would have been God-given proof that it had been mine all along: in such cases, the outcome is itself evidence.
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"When you don't support Israel, when you don't support traditional Jewish values, when you don't view the Torah as God-given legacy --- no matter how religious you are, if you don't have those views, you know you don't really have much in common," he said.
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So, let's have the same hope for Justin and Hailey's marriage that we have for our own—that, through the God-given gift of marriage, they will experience a love like God's love, a love in which they are both fully known and fully loved.
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The idea of America -- not simply our abundant natural resources or providential geography -- the idea of limited government that guarantees, but does not create, our God-given rights, has created more wealth and freedom, done more for the weak and defenseless, than any other civilization.
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" Drollinger, like many evangelicals, refers to this God-given global remit as the Great Commission, a phrase popularized by the 19th-century missionary James Hudson Taylor; Drollinger traces its mandate to Jesus' charge, as related by Matthew, to "make disciples of all the nations.
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"Bryan Clauson combined his passion and enthusiasm for grass-roots racing with a God-given talent that made him the favorite to win every time he got in a midget or sprint car," Doug Boles, president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, said in a statement.
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With gun-wielding characters repeatedly declaring that it is their "God-given right to purge" but also that such a right was "granted by the New Founding Fathers," the interchangeability of gods and men — whoever allows you to feel entitled to use a firearm — is clear.
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Thursday's announcement could be "a combined thing of both wanting to follow what members believe is the God-given name of the church, as well as I think an attempt to control the culture around the name and reassert a little bit of boundary maintenance," Evans said.
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I admire his single-mindedness of focus when it comes to the plight of the Haitian people, and his conscious choice to use his God-given talent for catchy melodies conveying the powerful message of unity and pride in our African ancestry, purposefully in Haitian Creole.
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In his time on the bench, Judge Kavanaugh's opinions have consistently adhered to our founding principles that government exists to protect the God-given rights of the people and that the Constitution exists to prevent government from infringing on the rights it is entrusted to defend.
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On Monday, Bank of England Deputy Governor Andrew Bailey told the summit that London had no "God-given" right to remain a top international financial centre if Britain left the EU. Supporters of Brexit have said that London would remain a major financial centre outside the bloc.
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"Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's God-given right," fictional New York City Mayor Lenny Clotch famously said in 1989's Ghostbusters II. So is complaining about every and anything, especially fancy new stuff like cell service in the subway.
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A third scenario would see religious leaders repudiating this latest display of hatred masquerading as piety, promoted by phony Christians who believe the Gospels, which they've obviously never read, require them to deny certain people their God-given rights — when in fact the exact opposite is true.
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On Monday, Bank of England Deputy Governor Andrew Bailey told the summit that London had no "God-given" right to remain a top international financial center if Britain left the EU. Supporters of Brexit have said that London would remain a major financial center outside the bloc.
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"All New Yorkers want a safe neighborhood where police and communities are partners and where your success is determined by your hard work and God-given potential," she said, addressing a crowd of more than 900 huddled with blankets and handwarmers on the frigid City Hall plaza.
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No matter if they are more focused on the events in Cleveland this week or those in Philadelphia next week, Americans of all political affiliations agree that we cannot afford to settle for a second-rate economy – one that prevents too many people from realizing their God-given potential.
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" According to a spokesperson at the National Abortion Federation, the organization has recently radicalized and tightened its ties with Army of God, which promotes the doctrine of justifiable homicide, meaning they consider it their God-given right to destroy and kill anyone who would "willingly slaughter innocent children.
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Thankfully, I had some god-given talent and some size, speed, and strength to perform well on the field—and, yes, it takes an immense amount of discipline to focus on the plays, to focus on that particular down, to stay locked in amidst 85,000 fans screaming and yelling.
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They have an absolute and God-given and inalienable right to live peacefully, to worship as they please, to be free from fear that they might become a target simply because of the color of their skin, the country of their birth, or the form of their prayer.
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"They have an absolute God-given and inalienable right to live peacefully, to worship as they please, to be free from fear that they might become a target simply because of the color of their skin, the country of their birth, or the form of their prayer," he added.
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"Obviously I won The Open and I'm a major champion but that doesn't give me the God-given right to go out and shoot 65 tomorrow," the Irishman, who will make his first career PGA Tour playoffs start at the Northern Trust Open in Jersey City, told reporters on Wednesday.
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Mr Laycock prefaces his brief, co-authored with Thomas Berg, with a lament: "religious liberty is a God-given right", yet laws protecting both the freedom of gays and lesbians to wed and religious people to live according to their beliefs "are extremely difficult to enact in our polarised political environment".
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" Meanwhile, Goldin added, Copernicus upended the prevailing God-given notions of heaven and earth "by finding that far from the sun revolving around the earth, the earth rotated around the sun," and "voyages of discovery by Columbus, da Gama and Magellan tore up millennia-old maps of the 'known' world.
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However, regardless of if you agree with me or not, I hope that you can see that this is not an issue about abortion; it is an issue of discrimination -- discriminating against a person, not allowing them their God-given right to life, simply because they might have Down syndrome.
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The rivalry between Larry Bird and Magic Johnson was transmitted to the public through sportswriters who typecast Bird as the white country bumpkin who gritted his way to excellence and Johnson as the black, always-smiling savant who whipped up his God-given talents into the best show on the hardwood.
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"When Mad was with us from age 10 to 17, we saw the live arm, and it's a God-given talent — you can't teach it," Chris Evert told me on Friday, the morning after Keys dismantled CoCo Vandeweghe, 6-20093, 6-2, in little more than an hour in their semifinal.
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"For the sake of the rule of law, for the sake of the sanctity of life, for the sake of our Second Amendment, for the sake of all our other God-given liberties, we must ensure that the next president appointing justices to the Supreme Court is Donald Trump," Pence said.
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" 'A God-given vision' But according to WPI, Zubeda and Annet were led to believe that Bach was a "medical doctor" and that her home in Uganda's Jinja district was a "medical facility," as she was often seen "wearing a white coat, a stethoscope and often administered medications to children in her care.
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Speaking via video link from the Rose Garden (Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush had merely phoned in) he told the crowd, many of them nuns, priests, and busloads of students from Christian schools, that thanks to them, "tens of thousands of Americans have been born and reached their full, God-given potential".
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To understand Neil Young's relentless (but recently doomed) attempt to bring Pono to the masses, or his commitment to lossless audio in his archives, you have to see what Neil Young sees: a bunch of rich guys in suits are conspiring to screw you out of your God-given right to a soul.
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"We must make the most of our moment — to fight for freedom, to protect our God-given rights, even of those with whom we don't agree, so when we are old, and our work is done, we will be able to say, 'Freedom matters, and I fought to save it,' " he said.
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I think a lot of people think it's their God-given right—I don't believe in God—they think it's their right to eat meat, but essentially we're going to be standing around in 30 to 40 years' time when the ocean dries up and we're going to be blaming each other.
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A shift to "natural law" would conflict with the view that "modern human rights are based on the dignity inherent in all human beings, not on God-given rights," Harold Hongju Koh, a Yale law professor who was assistant secretary of state for human rights in the Clinton administration, told The Times.
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I recall reading about a survey that found that evangelical Christians and other devout families were reluctant to forgo active treatment, stating that God's mind is beyond human understanding but that God can perform miracles and the medical knowledge of professionals is God-given, therefore not to be thwarted by human action.
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At any moment, whoever is onscreen — the hunter who believes he has a God-given right to shoot animals; the anti-poaching officer whose work is financed in part by the hunting industry; the poor villagers endangered by animals that the wealthy pay to kill — might challenge our assumptions and expose our ignorance.
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It's a charming idea, but in the end, the ad just devolves into her standard talking points: that she'll fight for equal pay, affordable college, and "an America where all our sons and daughters have a chance to reach their God-given potential"—a line drawn almost word-for-word from Clinton's stump speeches.
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The scenes in which Wendy counsels Axelrod's gaggle of mini-Gekkos to power down their insecurities and pump up their egos enough to assume their God-given roles as masters of the universe are patently absurd, yet Ms. Siff brings such a placid intensity that they're still some of the best of the show.
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The church is not the state, but the principle must be the same: When that founding freedom is usurped by those who abuse their God-given authority over ordinary folks -- even if that usurper is the Pope, and the ordinary folks (in this instance) are the bishops, charged with protecting the faithful -- you have Dictablanda.
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Yet too often in recent years, he has applied it improperly to broad social challenges, using it as a cudgel against the needy, akin to NBA Hall of Famer Magic Johnson failing at coaching because he couldn't understand that not everyone he tried to teach had been gifted with his unique set of God-given talents.
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"I care about what happens to our country, and it means a lot to me to make sure that we keep producing good opportunities for people, help everybody have a chance to live up to their god given potential, and there's more we can do and I want to try to make that happen for everybody," she says.
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As the Senate HELP and House Education and Labor committees move forward with the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, we hope they will seize the opportunity to unlock the God-given potential of men and women behind bars, strengthen families, and make America safer by opening the door for incarcerated learners to improve their lives.
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It's hard for me to believe they would seek to rid themselves of their God-given desire to love someone of the same sex if it weren't for the leaders in their communities who fail to consider the possibility that they're wrong about the value and dignity of L.G.B.T.Q. people made in the image of God.
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About one half of one per cent of all registered voters in the United States—ninety-six per cent of them likely to be white, a hundred per cent certain to live in Iowa or New Hampshire—will now exercise their inalienable, God-given, legally mandated right to choose the Presidential nominees of the two parties.
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"We have got to begin to deal with the fact that corporations do not have the god-given right to disrupt the lives of their workers or the economic foundation of their towns simply because they wish to move elsewhere to earn a higher rate of profit," Sanders said in a press release in August 2000.
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As I learn more and more each day, I am coming to the conclusion that what is taking place is not an impeachment, it is a COUP, intended to take away the Power of the.... ....People, their VOTE, their Freedoms, their Second Amendment, Religion, Military, Border Wall, and their God-given rights as a Citizen of The United States of America!
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"I'm willing to contribute to buy her a ticket to go visit Somalia, and I think she can look and maybe learn a little bit about the disaster that is Somalia — that has no capitalism, has no god-given rights guaranteed in a constitution, and has about seven different tribes that have been fighting each other for the last 40 years," Paul said.
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It's a reminder that while the internet may pass as godly and god-given—think of its ubiquitousness, its inescapability, and the bowed-head devotion it inspires—at its heart and at its origin is actually a very hard human thing: evolutionary, faulty and ugly, as complex and problematic as its forebears in road and train and electricity networks were.
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We must make the most of our moment — to fight for freedom, to protect our God-given rights, even of those with whom we don't agree, so that when we are old and gray, and when our work is done, and we give those we love one final kiss goodbye, we will be able to say, 'Freedom matters, and I was part of something beautiful.
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But John understood that our security and our influence was won not just by our military might, not just by our wealth, not just by our abilities to bend others to our will, but from our capacity to inspire others with our adherence to a set of universal values like rule of law and human rights and insistence on the God-given dignity of every human being.
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Playlist: Electronic: "Get the Message" / "Getting Away With It" / "Forbidden City" / "Until the End of Time" / "Make It Happen" / "Can't Find My Way Home"; Freebass: "It's Not Too Late" / "World Won't Wait"; Bad Lieutenant: "Sink or Swim" / "Twist of Fate"; Stephen and Gillian Songs/Remixes: "Swing Robot" / Nine Inch Nails- "God Given Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert remix" Spotify | Apple Music Jill Krajewski is Noisey Canada's social editor.
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But John understood that our security and our influence was won not just by our military might, not just by our wealth, not just by our ability to bend others to our will, but from our capacity to inspire others, with our adherence to a set of universal values – like rule of law and human rights, and an insistence on the God-given dignity of every human being.
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" In an interview in 2010, Dr. Langlands, who was born in New Westminster, Canada, near Vancouver, recalled that even though he skipped a grade, he had no intention of going to college until a teacher "took up an hour of class time to explain to me, in the presence of all the other students, that it would be a betrayal of God-given talents for me not to attend university.
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"The president believes that it is his God-given right to shake down foreign leaders for help in his reelection, and he should not be encumbered by the public finding out about it," Schiff, a former prosecutor and close ally of Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiHouse Republicans voice concerns about White House's impeachment messaging Overnight Health Care: Judge rules supervised drug injection sites are legal | Is a drug pricing deal still possible?
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And though Trump's fresh signature stops short of enacting broader federal protections like those of Alabama's, more and more states are moving to protect business owners, service providers, and civil servants who feel that my queer existence impedes on their God-given right to live their life—odd, when they're doing their best to keep us from living ours, under the false assumption that it is a direct attack on their spiritual journey.
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I have seen pictures and read letters and heard them talk about their time together and heard other people talk about it, but the truth is you can never know much about other people's lives, least of all your parents', especially if your parents have made a point of turning their lives into stories that they then go on to tell with a God-given ability for not caring in the least about what's true and what's not.
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Now Trump is conducting an all-out assault on the impeachment process, calling it a coup in a pair of tweets posted on Tuesday: As I learn more and more each day, I am coming to the conclusion that what is taking place is not an impeachment, it is a COUP, intended to take away the Power of the People, their VOTE, their Freedoms, their Second Amendment, Religion, Military, Border Wall, and their God-given rights as a Citizen of The United States of America!
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He inflicted on the audience an extraordinary exercise in obsequiousness, arrogance and mawkishness: obsequiousness toward President Trump, whose name seemed to appear in every other sentence as some God-given fount of wisdom; arrogance toward the Europeans who were admonished, as vassals, to tear up the multilateral Iran nuclear deal, which is enshrined through a United Nations resolution in international law; and mawkishness over a visit to Auschwitz last week that was used to convey a message to Europeans that if they did not obey American orders on Iran they are de facto anti-Semites.
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After a long rumination punctuated by a thought experiment about thugs murdering pregnant women, some lines from Girls, and a knock against the famously hideous Gloria Steinem, Scanlon concludes: Maybe what I'm noticing is simply women who have been liberated by their worldview to be who they are, uniquely and confidently, unabashedly and apologetically, unencumbered by the politically correct constraints imposed on women of the Left, and the result is a kind of essential womanhood that, far from being oppressive, as the Left would have it, is instead, miraculous and quintessential, and, you could say, God-given.
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Third, the sequence revives the old-fashioned view of L.A. as a breeding ground of reverie and hope—a view that began to fade with "In a Lonely Place" (1950), where Bogart's mug was as glad as a whiskey sour, and died a rainy death in "Magnolia" (1999), as the cast, scattered around town, growled and groaned along to Aimee Mann's "Wise Up." There is a storm of singin' in "La La Land," but no rain; the clemency of the weather is a God-given joke, and, even at Christmas, when Mia walks home after dark, she is clad as if for June.
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