Early ill-defined STEM programs succeed to the degree that they get students into still more ill-defined STEM programs.
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Coase considered externalities as a problem of ill-defined property rights.
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Critics of the CFPB say the agency's authority is ill-defined.
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"Securing the border" is an ill-defined and ultimately unattainable goal.
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There were all these territories, the borders were really ill-defined.
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Now they are test cases for an ill-defined, underfinanced future.
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The female's faces had a rough, ill-defined look to them.
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Because all this is unprecedented, it is ill-defined in law and regulation.
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The attire prompted an outcry over "cultural appropriation"—an elastic, ill-defined gripe.
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For decades such crimes were ill defined, but once included things like miscegenation.
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The party "establishment" (an ill-defined term) saw him as an unelectable racist.
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The public seemed to prefer that standard to today's ill-defined journalistic, "creative" crusaderism.
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Back then, many money-losing companies were trading on ill-defined metrics like eyeballs.
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The Trump strategy of maximum pressure on Iran has an ill-defined end state.
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We are precisely on the ill-defined frontier between a political and constitutional crisis.
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But little in medicine is as ill defined or as anecdotal as addiction treatment.
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Gunfights often take place in wide, ill-defined areas and attacks come from all over.
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Biden's counterpoint, it appears, is aimed squarely at an unquantified number of ill-defined centrists.
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" The word "sex" does not equate to some vague, ill-defined concept of "gender identity.
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It seems possible that early ill-defined STEM programs succeed to the degree that they get students into still more ill-defined STEM programs in preparation for ever changing STEM jobs in unstable STEM industries which metamorphose so rapidly that formal education can't keep up.
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In a way, you can serve a market better that is so fragmented and ill-defined.
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One of the problems is the fact that the term "climate refugee" is still ill-defined.
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Yet caste persists as a source of identity and as a locus for various ill-defined grievances.
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Today is memes and tomorrow is "ill-defined 'hate speech'" the advocacy group wrote on its website.
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Muammar el-Qaddafi was ousted, and their ill-defined strategy in Syria has generated many legitimate questions.
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The emergency powers at his disposal are significant but ill defined, and their use has no precedent.
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Critics say that the new celebration is ill defined, and many Russians are unsure of its meaning.
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Not so the expansion of preferences to members of ill-defined, grab-bag racial and ethnic categories.
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"Dunkirk," Christopher Nolan's World War II epic, is a masterful bit of filmmaking, with ill-defined characters.
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Do environmental regulations restrain trade or counter ill-defined property rights, in line with the Coase Theorem?
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The term itself is ill-defined in this context; you won't find it in the US code.
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The call is now for complete control of the EU's external border; a laudable but ill-defined goal.
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In Britain, surrogates are entitled to "reasonable expenses", an ill-defined category that can stretch to recuperative holidays.
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The San Francisco art scene is, easily, one of the least explored and ill-defined in the country.
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She isn't just any woman, meaning this isn't about furthering the cause of an ill-defined political correctness.
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And yet, the political bar seems a lot lower -- and ill-defined -- for the NFL's owners and coaches.
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The restriction for acquisitions or an ill-defined standard of "direct care" itself needs a more careful reexamination.
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He accused U.S. Figure Skating of using ill-defined criteria to pick a team based on its preference.
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The initiative was ICE's attempt to bring an ill-defined Trump campaign promise to life using artificial intelligence.
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La Boétie, suffering from some kind of ill-defined infection, is shown to be less than admirably resigned.
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By applying ill-defined, politically correct labels on violent criminals, the media is doing the public a disservice.
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Which is all to say that passing the amorphous, ill-defined "qualifications" bar doesn't win you the presidency.
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Forecasters say Alberto&aposs ill-defined core was located over the Florida Panhandle near DeFuniak Springs at 7 p.m.
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Climate policy does not simply shift a bit of ill-defined utility from one pile to another, after all.
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Loud, crude, philosophically ill-defined -- he ought to have crashed and burned as a Republican presidential candidate weeks ago.
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Their plan remains ill-defined, though Democrats are expected to release draft legislation that may provide more details soon.
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Russia has been bullying Georgia for years and quietly seizing territory along the ill-defined borders of disputed territories.
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Meanwhile, legislators in Colorado recently enacted a new law targeted at frequently ill-defined data protection practices within companies.
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His comments were somewhere distinguished between a long-term approach and an emergency approach, but both remain ill-defined.
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Every independent analysis of Trump's rather ill-defined plan concludes that it heavily favors the wealthiest Americans like himself.
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The fight could result in a lengthy court battle over the ill-defined line between those rival constitutional powers.
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The rhetoric of "constitutional crisis" has become more common over the past several decades, but the term remains ill-defined.
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The dormant carrier of this ill-defined disease, harboring a mix of criminality and violence, was the young black male.
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North Korea, South Korea, or the United States -- knowingly or unknowingly -- could cross an ill-defined tripwire with horrific consequences.
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Criminal referrals are ill-defined requests for investigation that don't carry any official weight with prosecutors, except in rare circumstances.
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More than a third got two or more tests, often to evaluate such ill-defined complaints as malaise or fatigue.
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Against the need to confront Russia's violation of the international system, there is a seeming ill-defined embarrassment about Crimea.
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Problems were ill defined, true costs were ignored and understated, and data and methodologies were manipulated to fit predetermined outcomes.
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He rules in uneasy coalition with a "chief executive" with ill-defined powers: Abdullah Abdullah, the man he beat in 2014.
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The marchers' demands seemed fluid and ill-defined, raising the worry that the young people simply wanted to ban all guns.
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Should President-elect Trump make a rash move, it will focus opponents on his presently ill-defined stance on climate change.
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She seduces Morgan and, for a while, all appears well—despite Jean's ill-defined antipathy towards her ex-girlfriend's new partner.
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In backing away from the path integral formulation, he says, proponents of the no-boundary idea have made it ill-defined.
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Even online, little information exists beyond active Reddit threads where fans enthusiastically share bands that fall under the ill-defined umbrella.
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So, to anyone not standing on its ill-defined banks or wading out against its wily current, that river didn't exist.
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Electability is an ill-defined concept and primarily based on perception, but it's also highly important to Democratic voters in 2020.
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Candidates who get it right make people feel seen and heard; those who get it wrong appear uncertain and ill-defined.
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The multiple energy personalities in today's devices present complex, ill-defined, and often confusing options for consumers and regulators to consider.
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For Black girls like me the transition out of childhood into a complex and ill-defined "womanhood" happens swiftly and without warning.
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Trump wants to make America great again, implying some ill-defined moment in the past that he, in the future, will recreate.
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But with little media attention beyond ill-defined descriptors, how did the song catch the ear of one of London's biggest labels?
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I have seen my friends sent abroad to foreign lands with ill-defined military missions, coming back mangled or not at all.
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At that point, Mr. Noren's direction becomes less subtle, with ill-defined stage action on the other side of the gauze curtain.
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The restrained approach of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. to what he called his "ill-defined responsibilities" did not please liberals.
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" Warren's campaign has long resisted publicly engaging in coverage of polls and strategy, and the important but ill-defined concept of "electability.
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The chief justice's responsibilities at the trial are fluid and ill-defined, and they will probably turn out to be largely ceremonial.
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First of all, the term "willful misconduct" is ill defined, Mr. Hitchcock said, and may limit pay recoveries to egregious cases only.
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These parties do share some common enemies, like an ill-defined "globalism," the Western political establishment and, most specifically, the European Union.
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"Everything he's said about this has been so vague and ill defined, it's hard to think about it sensibly," Mr. Strain said.
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Part of that involves the image of Muslims some shows convey, often relegating them to faceless or ill-defined roles as stock villains.
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But, again, Euron is such an ill-defined character that whatever happens won't have the dramatic weight necessary to really hold its own.
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Given the billionaire's somewhat ill defined political creed and unpredictable style, no one can say for sure what his presidency would be like.
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Hainan can also be viewed as emblematic of much of what "China's rise", a much-used if often ill-defined phrase, actually means.
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In 18 the removal of that ill-defined crime from the statute books lifted what was, in effect, a ban on homosexual activity.
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The actual cast of debaters will be determined by some ill-defined formula of public polling and the size of candidate donor rolls.
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One of the worst things you can do is give an employee (or online contractor) an ill-defined task and send them off.
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China and India also contest an ill-defined border in the Ladakh region, where troops from both sides have occasionally confronted each other.
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Now, the ill-defined cybersecurity post may be Mr. Giuliani's best hope of adding some Trump administration luster to his private security business.
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That's pretty impressive, given how complex this problem proves to be when you really consider it, and how ill-defined "fashionable" really is.
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The Green New Deal has become an incredibly hot item on the political agenda, but to date, it has remained somewhat ill defined.
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Yet mass surveillance rides rough shod over hard won democratic boundaries in the name of an ill-defined and apparently eternal 'war on terror'.
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Taiwan, too, has been offered China's ill-defined notion of one country, two systems, if the island agrees to let China absorb its territory.
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It's an ill-defined, vague space, but I've come to find the vagueness captivating, if only because it makes the genre feel so spacious.
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Even big fans of the first Guardians could agree that its set of villains was rather weak, with ill-defined goals and little personality.
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Though her role was ill-defined, her departure was significant because it highlighted how few African-Americans hold senior positions in the West Wing.
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Mike's arc is so ill-defined that his eventual happy ending is confusing, because the movie has barely developed the character to begin with.
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Mr Baldwin says that discontent with globalisation stems in part from an "ill-defined sense that it is no longer a sport for national teams".
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Ill-defined and apparently endless, the War on Terror and its affiliated global conflicts—as concepts and events—have become a black hole for meaning.
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President Trump, however, is drawing upon rarely used provisions like Section 21625 of the 2900 Trade Expansion Act based upon ill-defined "national security" grounds.
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The steady drip of reports – including news that local governments plan to provide ill-defined "support" to listed companies – suggests stronger medicine may be coming.
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They can do this because the sanctions that are in place to prevent the sale of luxury items to the Hermit Kingdom are ill-defined.
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Moreover, these technologies must be able to address those concerns in contexts with poor connectivity, weak governmental institutions and ill-defined or unstable policy environments.
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First, she identifies the constant harping on the requirements as (in Pai's words) needless, onerous, ill-defined, burdensome and so on as misleading and unsupported.
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Though she predated Kelly in the administration, sources say when the retired Marine general took over in July, her role began to feel ill-defined.
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At issue: The ill-defined line between the constitutional power of Congress to perform oversight and the power of the president to keep information secret.
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This assumption is at the heart of slacktivism, the ill-defined and pejorative term that describes social media activism carried out with little personal effort.
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But the question of America's fitful, ill-defined and often self-serving foreign policies holds dangers that go far beyond even Russia's most expansionist ambitions.
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Notably, "regulation" is ill-defined in the one-in-two-out order, as are potential exemptions and the methods by which costs will be measured.
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But analysts say the cyber warnings from the West risk playing into Russia's hands by adding to the confusion with exaggerated statistics and ill-defined threats.
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Some believe the company's policies are arbitrary and ill defined, and others insist the company isn't going far enough to police things like internet hate speech.
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And there are accounts of their usage as aphrodisiacs, dark skin spot removers, cure-all tonics, and even treatments for some ill-defined forms of paralysis.
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As the deadline approaches, Trump and the military could be forced to grapple with the ill-defined nature of what it actually means to defeat ISIS.
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But the generation after millennials is still so ill-defined (probably because of the whole name issue) that an accurate count has not yet been established.
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But the withholding of details necessary to engineer the initial lull backfires in the second half, when the lack of specificity leaves the characters ill defined.
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Neither side hesitates to employ espionage, subterfuge, and surveillance, because the rules of conduct—to the extent that they exist—are ill-defined and frequently contested.
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Previous essays in this series have addressed fundamental flaws in the Constitution: the ill-defined nature of presidential powers, the malapportionment of the Senate, the Electoral College.
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From ill-defined prototypes to full-fledged products, crowdfunding platform Indiegogo has helped mint millions for virtually unknown product innovators, and turned a few into household names.
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"Gender harassment" gives necessary language to a world of previously ill-defined and demeaning behaviors by men who don't need physical contact to get their point across.
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The Senate could grant him the authority under Article 155 of the Constitution, a broad but ill-defined tool that has never before been used, by Friday.
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But for all its Samaritan-speak, the play's idea of reciprocity seems uncomplicated, and its characters' relationship to faith — and each other — feels ill-defined and superficial.
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Ten months into the mission, the project's advisory board of experts delivered a blistering report criticizing its ill-defined goals and the crew's lack of scientific expertise.
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For one thing, it's a relatively new tool as far as corporate ecosystems are concerned and the terrain is still pretty ill-defined in the professional sphere.
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Our dual skills form an ill-defined newsroom role frequently called data journalism, which is a bland term for a diverse set of people, skills and interests.
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Telegram said it has strived to reassure the SEC that Grams are not securities but has been stymied by the commission's ill-defined standards for digital assets.
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"If we had the time, I'd take you through the logic of why single-payer, ill-defined, doesn't generate any savings for the American public," Bertolini said.
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In other words, Bond seems like yet another one of the ill-defined or just plain weird media ventures that have emerged from the people in Trump's orbit.
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But it's an entirely new field, the rules are ill-defined and constantly changing, and the systems reward provocateurs over creators who carefully consider and moderate their impact.
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The Trump Administration's ill-defined crash program to land astronauts on the Moon in 2024 was going to be challenging enough to achieve under the best of circumstances.
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And, hey, you want the sort of pining for an ill-defined version of the 1950s conservatism that has defined a lot of the recent Republican presidential primary?
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Article 2 of the Constitution includes the ill-defined "executive Power" of the president, which some in the legal world — including Attorney General William Barr — interpret quite loosely.
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For those not familiar, in his ill-defined neighborhood team's structure, Charlie is, seemingly because he is the only person who wants it, his team's manager and pitcher.
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NextGen, which is a plan to modernize the air transportation system, has been, as a Republican aide described to CNN, costly, delayed, and ill-defined over the years.
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Kelly, who was hired to replace Reince Priebus last July, has long complained about the press operation and favors reducing the number of staffers with ill-defined roles.
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Clinton's loss, has shown it's harder for assertive, ambitious women to be seen as likable, and easier to conclude they lack some intangible, ill-defined quality of leadership.
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The scope of science's aging problem, if it is a problem, remains ill defined, said Sharon Levin, a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Missouri-St.
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Mr. Spencer, however you describe him, calls himself a part of the "alt-right" — a new term for an informal and ill-defined collection of internet-based radicals.
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And because of the ill-defined language of the bill, websites and social networks used by the community began to discriminate against sex workers or simply shut down altogether.
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In those ill-defined, ill-fitting years between being a kid and a teenager (known to some as middle school), I read a book a day, if not more.
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The spread of the theories on Facebook has also caused some in the tech media to question whether the long-maligned and ill-defined "trending" metric should be retired.
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It's not the process of grieving and stumbling through a tunnel towards an ill-defined light; it is seismic and life changing, hanging low and weighty in the air.
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And while emoji behavior may be easy to dismiss as not intentional, or ill-defined, Azhar reminds us that this method of pictorial communication is only becoming increasingly popular.
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"The Trump Administration's ill-defined crash program to land astronauts on the Moon in 2024 was going to be challenging enough to achieve under the best of circumstances," Rep.
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Notably, the Trump administration decided to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum for dubious "national security" reasons and is pursuing an ill-defined strategy of tariffs on Chinese goods.
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But it is ill-defined and has already prompted a debate among legal experts about exactly how the government can suspend or remove powers now held by Catalan authorities.
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In 1972, an earthquake reduced all but 10 percent of the city to rubble and left Managua with an ill-defined city center and a strange vernacular for navigating.
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The impact of the Trump appointments on monetary policy and the eventual shrinkage of the Fed balance sheet is unclear, though, since the president's monetary philosophy is ill-defined.
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In older political-science literature, unwritten rules were viewed as ''ill defined to meet the necessities of self-government,'' as a classic 1949 study of Southern politics put it.
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It's long overdue for the United States to rethink our indefinite and ill-defined wars in the Middle East—and the blank checks given by Congress to wage them.
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The venture by Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Amazon, while ill-defined so far, likely will try to use technology to bend the cost curve for their employees.
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A lawyer for Johnson's government had suggested during arguments last week that the executive branch's relationship with parliament was an "ill-defined minefield" that should remain outside judicial scope.
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While it may appear to be a minor issue, this qualification relies on an ill-defined term that leaves some Americans in doubt regarding their eligibility to serve as president.
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But whereas an insurgent Labour has united behind a growing list of detailed plans, the Tories' thoughts are ill-defined, and the party far from agreed on which to pursue.
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"In those countries the regimes might allow indiscriminate retention of data in bulk or provide vague and ill-defined regulation on access to that data by relevant authorities," it warns.
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This could tempt the government into industrial policy by stealth, especially as the prime minister, Theresa May, has announced her interest in promoting an as yet ill-defined "industrial strategy".
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This runs counter to German stereotypes, which hold that northern urbanites are latte-sipping hipsters who tinker with ill-defined projects while busy Bavarians get on with the real work.
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When respect for diversity is taken to crazy extremes One of the most popular articles in Open Future looked at cultural appropriation—which we deemed "an elastic, ill-defined gripe".
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Carmilla's two most interesting characters, LaFontaine (Kaitlyn Alexander) and Perry (Annie Briggs), are especially underused, and their relationship is left as frustratingly weird and ill-defined as it ever was.
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As in politics, it's harder for assertive, ambitious women to be seen as likable, and easier to conclude they lack some intangible, ill-defined quality of leadership, the data shows.
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There is no rhyme or reason to these nonsensical exemptions, and some are so ill-defined or entirely undefined that it is impossible to discern what they include or exclude.
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That night, Yovanovitch got a call from a State Department official in Washington telling her that something suspicious was afoot and that there were ill-defined concerns about her security.
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Shashank Khaitan builds his romantic comedy "Badrinath Ki Dulhania" ("Badrinath's Bride") around a self-possessed heroine — Vaidehi (Alia Bhatt), whose dreams may be ill-defined but don't necessarily include marriage.
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"The placebo effect is very important when you are selling snake oil because you move from one product to the next, hoping to meet that ill-defined outcome," she said.
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Trump's son-in-law also leads the White House's Office of American Innovation, which aims to make government more efficient and eliminate bureaucracy, though has remained amorphous and ill-defined.
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The old Uber app made customers choose from a menu of ill-defined options that changed depending on which city you were in: UberX, Uber Black, Uber Select, Uber SUV, etc.
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Rather than slowly easing into Washington and building a unique coalition of conservative and more liberal-leaning allies behind the scenes, Trump dove headfirst into an ill-defined White House job.
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In its effort to create controls, the Russian government has created a series of often ill-defined laws that threatened fines or even jail time for broad categories of banned content.
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But in Mr. Trump's White House, where fiefs have been in constant combat and decision-making has often been ill defined, the memos, first reported by Politico, mark a new era.
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But the primary landscape has remained tilted, as it always has, toward Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, in part because the competition in the West has been so ill-defined.
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Gallace's gorgeous paintings tap into a pervasive national anxiety, an ill-defined feeling of threat coupled with a nagging sense that a bright promise is faltering and may be already gone.
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Gallace's local paintings tap into a pervasive national anxiety, an ill-defined feeling of threat coupled with a nagging sense that a bright promise is faltering and may be already gone.
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Washington (CNN)Opponents and supporters of the Republican proposal to replace Obamacare are preparing for a costly advertising war -- even though the exact coalitions and budgets remain ill-defined as of Thursday.
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But "abuses continued", the court's ruling notes, this time to exert control over newly freed slaves and "maintain the prewar racial hierarchy" by imposing "draconian fines" for ill-defined crimes like vagrancy.
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Party leaders have heaped extravagant praise on the ill-defined Xi Jinping Thought since he introduced the idea (albeit without his name attached) on the opening day of the week-long congress.
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The anti-ISIS fight has quickened and moved into crowded cities, but the president has also given field commanders more authority to make battlefield decisions in an ill-defined hunt for terrorists.
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Because there's no one group who oversees all of theater, and because inappropriate conduct has traditionally been ill defined, Oristano has struggled to know — beyond her personal discomfort — when behavior crosses the line.
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Yet they kept making them, ignoring any questions about Kavanaugh's own honesty and clinging to an ill-defined standard of additional corroboration for an alleged assault that took place nearly 40 years ago.
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Roberts's public self-experiment drew a new wave of attention to the practice of biohacking, an ill-defined term that means, in essence, conducting biological research outside institutions like universities and pharmaceutical companies.
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They fear that people might be arrested by mainland officers at the station in Hong Kong if they break any of the mainland's often ill-defined laws, not just ones relating to immigration.
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"The president's recent budget submission — full of phony economic assumptions, double counts and ill-defined policies — shows exactly why the Congress and the American people it represents need the nonpartisan CBO," Yarmuth said.
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Trump is right to feel great unease with an ill-defined, indefinite military presence in this tragic mess of Syria and to demand that his planners begin preparations to leave sooner, not later.
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Prudent changes to the Antiquities Act would allow the president some discretion to preserve areas that may be in imminent danger of destruction, but that power should not be ill-defined or unlimited.
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As sex work, adult fanfiction and illustrations, and the mysteriously ill-defined "female-presenting nipple" disappeared into the shadows on Tumblr on Monday, we witnessed another step in the sanitization of the web.
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And in a battle whose length and phantasmagoria befit a prog-rock double album, it reduced a climax eight years in the making to an inky, ill-defined scrum of beards and bones.
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"To ensure lasting change, the repressive legal framework used to persecute and imprison peaceful activists and religious believers on ill-defined charges of extremism for so many years should be changed for good."
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Joel Edgerton is haunting as a man driven to extremes to keep his family safe from ill-defined post-apocalyptic terrors; the knife's edge between trust and paranoia has seldom been walked so harrowingly.
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While the proliferation of fake news is a proven threat to healthy political discourse, Malaysia's ill-defined and far-reaching law is likely to instill fear in those looking to freely express themselves online.
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Corruption in China has been made easy by ill-defined property rights, decentralised administrative authority and the absence of democratic checks and balances, such as an independent judiciary, a free press and political competition.
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They are hostile to mainstream parties, trade unions and an ill-defined "ruling class", which they blame for the vast gap between their incomes, job prospects and pension pots and those of their elders.
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The definition of anxiety is when we perceive that our ability to achieve is overwhelmed by the tasks at hand, which is inevitable when our tasks are ill-defined, too large or seemingly unending.
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Trump's victory was in part due to his ability to channel the anger felt by many white Americans about their perceived loss of status—and to focus this anger on an ill-defined elite.
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Those in Alexander's school are inclined to believe that the system can't be reformed short of revolutionary change—a revolutionary change that is necessarily ill-defined and, given the country's political demography, essentially impossible.
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Aside from stopping missile tests and offering access to a nuclear site at some ill-defined juncture, we have no indication that he has stopped amassing weapons of mass destruction or abusing human rights.
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The arches of old Penn Station reference our will to recreate history; by contrast, Gradiva is an expression of our collective longing for the past, which remains as elusive and ill-defined as ever.
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With an all but indefinite and ill-defined vacuum in Germany -- and a Trump regime cheering, if distantly, in the background -- Macron may be in a position to move Europe in the direction he envisions.
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The story's accompanying video dramatically shows that, despite the electronic monitoring, much of the border between New England and Canada is remarkably ill-defined, in many spots is marked by little more than cut grass.
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Since the Nobel Prize goes almost exclusively to novelists and poets, writers working in the sprawling, ill-defined world of "nonfiction" welcomed Alexievich's win as an acknowledgment that even true stories can make great literature.
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Now many Democrats worry they have set a new standard, creating a precedent that mandates a major response every time a member transgresses rules of rhetorical decorum that are ill-defined and subject to dispute.
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Roberts described his role as one with "ill-defined responsibilities in an unfamiliar setting" in remarks shortly after the chamber voted to acquit Trump on two impeachment charges for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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Although ostensibly aimed at hateful or defamatory speech, he believes that the German authorities are blurring the boundary between statements that would in any case be illegal and a dangerously ill-defined concept of fake news.
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These fearless intergalactic cops work for the government, setting out an ill-defined mission that brings them aboard the sprawling floating space station Alpha, home to former denizens of the thousand planets in that unwieldy title.
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" The American Academy of Pediatrics announced last year that approximately 3,500 infants "die annually in the United States from sleep-related deaths, including sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS); ill-defined deaths; and accidental suffocation and strangulation.
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But in a reflection of the ill-defined parameters of the United States' mission in Afghanistan, no one involved in the battle seemed to know how far the group was supposed to go to ensure success.
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Labor and business laws are either non-existent or ill-defined enough to make investors worry they are insufficiently protected, too – although the legal framework is stronger for companies incorporated in the Dubai International Financial Centre.
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USTR also criticizes Canada for an ill-defined educational exception for copyrighted material, for denying remuneration to US creators and performers and for proposed changes that would further ratchet down the country's prescription drug price controls.
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"Elliott believes the thus-far ill-defined and ambiguous nature of the relationship between Uniper and Fortum has created an unsatisfactory and unsustainable dynamic, which is detrimental to Uniper," the investor said in a statement on Thursday.
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He argues for "economic nationalism", an ill-defined notion, but one which appears to involve pursuing case-by-case trade agreements as an alternative to the multi-lateral trade regime Mr Bannon blames for beggaring American workers.
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The searches affected by the GPS tracking rule do not qualify for lax review, as so-called "administrative searches," an exception so ill-defined and amorphous that it threatens to swallow the rule it purports to modify.
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In part because he was raising the dead: His heroine is based on a great-aunt, Mary Ellis (Jane) Clay, who, owing to an ill-defined birth defect that caused incontinence, couldn't have children and never married.
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United States, the 1944 ruling that upheld the detention of Japanese-Americans during World War II. "As here, the government invoked an ill-defined national security threat to justify an exclusionary policy of sweeping proportion," she said.
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But it's difficult to come to any other conclusion, when he talks about clients with breast cancer or migraines or spinal cord injuries, than that he's claiming to help people heal themselves, in some ill-defined way.
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In the long term, by exploiting ill-defined norms governing the limits of executive authority, Trump, either by accident or design, may have expanded the power of the presidency itself, setting a significant precedent for the future.
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"People started being quite critical of stress as being ill-defined so the interest in the link between psychological factors and chronic illness started to move into the direction of Type A behavior in the 1970s," Petticrew said.
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For years, Republicans sought power by promising to repeal Obamacare in very concrete terms, and replace it with a mythical, ill-defined alternative that would accomplish all of Obamacare's goals without entailing any of its costs or tradeoffs.
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The administration also took actions that make it more difficult to secure a slot: It imposed a temporary refugee ban, put in place draconian, ill-defined vetting procedures and placed immigration hard-liners like Stephen Miller in charge.
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Legal experts note that the fit and proper standards are ill-defined and that it is hard to establish a precedent from the few previous cases that are in any way similar to the proposed takeover of Sky.
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Japanese offices are still employing too many generalists with ill-defined roles making it hard to measure their work output and thus encouraging unproductive time sitting at desks, while an inflexible job market was exacerbating the problem, she said.
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"Virtual trespassing" is a new, ill-defined concept, though ongoing class action against Pokémon Go could begin to clarify the legal limits of augmentation—that is, whether it's legal for someone to place a virtual object on private property.
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With her speech, Clinton managed to elevate an ill-defined, and likely small, group of fringe racists into a national threat, giving a national platform to a handful of white nationalist bloggers and the internet trolls who follow them.
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Many in the financial services industry would like to see the CFPB brought down a few notches, and the Treasury's conclusion that the CFPB's mandate is "unduly broad, ill-defined, and susceptible to abuse" will win support from bankers.
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No. The cyberattack last month that took down major US websites, as well as the recent suspected Russian hacks on the US election system, are examples of a new era of ill-defined cyberviolence in today's massively interconnected world.
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She joined the Trump White House as the top communications official at the White House Office of Public Liaison, but when Kelly became the chief of staff in July, her role began to feel ill-defined, the sources said.
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Once bond buys end, investor focus will turn to interest rates as the ECB has said they would stay unchanged 'well past' the bond buys end, an ill defined timeline that is seen by market as roughly six months.
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And even if T treatments can help people with clinically low T levels, that's a tiny population (although some drug companies claim it's an under-diagnosed condition), and low T is actually hard to measure, ill defined, perhaps even fully idiosyncratic.
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Twitter's January 2016 decision to unverify Milo Yiannopoulos, then Breitbart's tech editor, ignited a fierce debate among the company's top executives about how to enforce its opaque and ill-defined harassment and verification rules, according to documents obtained by BuzzFeed News.
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We already live in a dark forest full of terrible but subtle and ill-defined threats, and they aren't caused by new technologies, they're caused by the consequences of exceeding the carrying capacity of our planet with our old technologies.
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Although Australian lawmakers have claimed that the bill's intentions are not to weaken encryption or compel backdoors, Apple's letter said the "the breadth and vagueness of the bill's authorities, coupled with ill-defined restrictions" leaves the bill's meaning open to interpretation.
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The Pipe 2 have a soft, ill-defined bass and a small amount of distortion across the frequency spectrum, but both are detectable as issues only if you're listening out for them (or some reckless reviewer tells you about them).
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Moreover, the comet being magnified much beyond what its light would admit of, appeared hazy and ill-defined with these great powers, while the stars preserved that lustre and distinctness which from many thousand observations I knew they would retain.
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The first six episodes of Iron Fist paint him as a boundless optimist with a Zen perspective on life, a net worth measured in billions, and a streak of frustrating naivety to go along with his somewhat ill-defined supernatural powers.
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However it's so hard to measure the broad and ill-defined concept of social sensitivity, much less changes in it over time, that these arguments are incredibly speculative and usually tied to a particular critic's cultural lens or pet theories.
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However, Romero pointed out that the ACLU had largely analyzed "statements made by Mr. Trump over the course of the campaign," rather than formal proposals, because many of the alleged billionaire's positions remain ill-defined, and he sometimes contradicts previous statements.
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It is about ill-defined frustration with the complexities of a changing world and a changing Europe, a loss of faith in mainstream politicians and experts, a nostalgia for a past when nations decided their own fates and kept foreigners out.
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She joined the Trump White House as the top communications official at the White House Office of Public Liaison, but when chief of staff John Kelly took over in July, her role began to feel ill-defined, the sources said.
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And it's not about the lack of a still ill-defined "civility" too many have begun clamoring for, and too many others have prioritized over a righteous thirst for justice (as opposed to the relative calm of the status quo).
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Ms. Shapiro tried to hook her case to that wagon, arguing that insider trading law was also too ill-defined to permit a criminal conviction based on something as ephemeral as a gift of inside information made between family or friends.
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Or, say, the sad spectacle of once white hot Dolph Ziggler, now stuck in a perpetual feud with new call-up Baron Corbin, with no story attached to it other than these guys dislike each other for ill-defined reasons.
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Spotify will rescind a new policy on "hateful conduct" by artists after an uproar among people in the music industry who say that the ill-defined guidelines represented a form of censorship, the company announced in a blog post on Friday.
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"We have American soldiers with an ill-defined mission in Syria ('protect the oil') after abandoning ¾ of once stable territory on Trump's orders, now forced to navigate roads controlled by Russian and Syrian regime forces," Mr. McGurk said on Twitter.
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But while the numbers of babies dying of SIDS decreased, two other types of sudden infant death -- ill-defined causes and accidental suffocation -- have risen over the past two decades, Anderson said, bringing total deaths to approximately 3,700 a year.
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The ERA has potential to make things worse by disassociating the existing protections for women from biological sex and replacing that clear-cut biological distinction with amorphous, ill-defined "gender identity," a term with a definition nobody can agree on.
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"Even if you take all of his ill-defined political beliefs out of the picture, he's still an ignorant, intemperate, foolish, gullible, intellectually incurious, pathologically dishonest conspiracy theorist who is utterly unqualified for the job of running a country," Collins told Gizmodo.
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Then came the Obama administration, its months-long policy review riddled with media leaks and a timeline-focused mission in which the United States and NATO hustled to score as many victories as they could in search of meeting an ill-defined goal.
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Mike Ashley's role as executive deputy chairman of retailer Sports Direct was "ill-defined and did not seem to reflect the reality of his influence at the company," Standard Life Investments (SLI) said, adding it had "major concerns" about the firm's remuneration policy.
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The bill targets exclusionary conduct, a central and ill-defined concept in antitrust that was established in Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which makes it illegal to monopolize trade or commerce, or to attempt or conspire to do so.
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Good government groups and ethics experts say the uneven rules — and ill-defined consequences if problems are identified — make it virtually impossible to know whether officials might have conflicts that skew their decision-making, or to hold them accountable if lapses do occur.
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Like his wife, he was hired for an ill-defined White House role and is now making peace in the Middle East and embarrassing his venture-capitalist brother Joshua, who co-founded a health insurance company and is married to Karlie Kloss.
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The scope and limits of the president's power to keep internal executive branch information secret are ill-defined because in practice, administration officials and lawmakers have typically resolved executive privilege disputes through deals to accommodate investigators' needs to avoid definitive judicial rulings.
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The monoculture seems to refer to some ill-defined age of universality made up of everything from Johnny Carson hosting the Tonight Show to Friends, Seinfeld, and The Office — the 2121th-century aegis of white, middlebrow American entertainment, usually starring white Americans.
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Migos: Culture (Quality Control/300/Atlantic) A trio, refreshing in an era of ill-defined solo brands and auteurist overreach, Migos have always scored great singles, but only on their second album do they string together thirteen sizzling bangers from start to finish.
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He has already wrong-footed the generals twice: first, by choosing not to accede to the throne for a month after his father's death last October; second, by ordering changes to sections of the junta's constitution that lightly limited the palace's ill-defined powers.
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After the clip's release, politicians and advocates quickly began to criticize the city's ill-defined school police policies, pointing out that there are no public arrest statistics, including who gets busted, why, and whether those incidents might have been handled outside the criminal justice system.
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And since then, even as Ethereum has grown into a multibillion-dollar operation with a vast constellation of businesses, developers, and users in its orbit, its process for making hard decisions remains ill-defined, a warren of Twitter polls, developer votes, and in-person conversations.
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But if Hub members agree that if a person or family displays a sufficient number of risk factors—such as drinking alcohol, missing school, or exhibiting "negative behavior," an ill-defined term—the person's information is shared with other agencies and an intervention is planned.
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Ish, whose colloquial name is literally a word that someone might use if they were addressing something inherently forgettable—We had, uh, turkey and stuff and all that ish—is maybe the most ill-defined guard Mustache Mike has blessed with his touch thus far.
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To straighten-out this grab-bag of ill-defined NAHB numbers, first consider the cost of the tariff: The 20-percent tariff covers $85003,600 million in subsidized Canadian lumber exports in 2016, or, before applying any real economics, about $1,120 million in tariff costs.
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Malaysian lawmakers this week passed a law that would impose prison sentences of up to six years on people found to be spreading "fake news," an ill-defined term that will put tremendous power in the hands of government officials to punish journalists and publishers.
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Trump, who has been reluctant to embrace the high-profile and ill-defined role of presidential spouse, began with a brief and simple outing: an afternoon reading of a Dr. Seuss book in honor of the author's birthday and National Read Across America Day.
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Paralyzed by government repression of individuals such as the arts patron Osman Kavala, the artist and journalist Zehra Dogan, and the hundreds of thousands of others who have been summarily detained under ill-defined anti-terror laws, most (if not all) cultural institutions have been completely neutralized.
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Beights decided that his personal, somewhat ill-defined mission of weakening the anti-vaccine movement through ridicule would best be accomplished by finding two women from very small towns—he found them through "random googling," he said—and filing permits in their names for absurdist rallies.
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Multiple organizations, each with its own spending limit, were allowed to campaign in parallel on either side of the referendum issue, and they were allowed to work together in ill-defined ways, allowing donors on either side many ways to sidestep spending limits, Mr. Fisher noted.
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Industries now deemed in need of politicians' wisdom to thrive—one plausible reading of "strategic"—include batteries and anything related to artificial intelligence (though the French in particular apply the term loosely, once blocking the takeover of Danone, a yogurt-maker, over ill-defined strategic concerns).
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Leading U.S. business schools are trying to teach students how to become masters of financial technology, a subsector of Wall Street that has grown in size and prominence, but because the area is still ill-defined and relatively new it is hard to develop courses.
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"If you were to create this whole new category and give people grounds to apply for asylum based on climate, you're likely to get an enormous number of people applying because it's so ill-defined," said Steven Camarota, director of research at the conservative Center for Immigration Studies.
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The United Nations and the Dutch government have largely accepted the judgment of several studies, which faulted them for sending peacekeepers into a terrible situation with ill-defined goals, a weak mandate, little intelligence about the paramilitary forces surrounding them and no clear strategy for concluding their mission.
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When compared to other possible nominees, some of whom called for sweeping but ill-defined changes at the Fed, Powell took "a straight tactical line" that offered a continuation of Yellen's policies, a moderate approach to bank regulation and, perhaps most importantly, the prospect of no surprises, Bell said.
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That makes it yet another carrier with ill-defined 20193G plans, joining T-Mobile, which announced its similarly vague 5G plans for 2019, and AT&T, which is launching a deceptively named "5G Evolution" network to prepare for a true 5G network that will come at some unknown later date.
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The new plan opens her up to all manner of attack from Mr Trump, even though his own health plan is ill-defined, beyond a so-far unsuccessful drive to repeal Obamacare, and his record on health—2m more Americans are uninsured than when he came to office—is dreadful.
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BOSTON — It is a cat suit, not a thesis statement, and yet somehow the snug Rudi Gernreich garment — with its band collar, dot pattern and Julie Newmar aura — emblematizes both the promise and the shortcomings of "Gender Bending Fashion," a naggingly ill-defined survey of a century of gender blur.
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She is also responsible for keeping Mr. Kelly's no-fly list of aides he deems to be unfit to attend serious meetings, the most prominent of whom is Omarosa Manigault, the former "Apprentice" star with an ill-defined job and a penchant for dropping into meetings where she was not invited.
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In the current period of reckoning, some are arguing that a wholesale expunging or erasure of work by sexual harassers is a small price to pay if it results in a thorough rethinking in creative industries, where the use of sex and power are particularly ill-defined and open to abuse.
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"Take it back" in the sense of saving the nation from things perceived to threaten it — seen variously as immigrants, faceless European Union bureaucrats, globalization, the "Westminster elite" of Britain's political establishment — and "take it back" also in the sense of back in time, to some ill-defined golden age.
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Mike Ashley's previous role as executive deputy chairman of Sports Direct had been "ill-defined and did not seem to reflect the reality of his influence at the company," and the board lacked independence, Standard Life Investments (SLI) said, though it added it welcomed Ashley's appointment as chief executive in September.
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Among the many and complex causes of the populism that carried Mr Trump to the White House and will take Britain out of the European Union is resentment of ill-defined "elites": well-off, educated, at ease with globalisation and doing nicely from it, while ordinary folk struggle to make ends meet.
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In the wake of the passage of FOSTA, the anti-sex trafficking bill that has raised internet-wide concerns about censorship, many Tumblr users have spoken out about their anxiety that Tumblr will become a platform of broad and ill-defined censorship that will silence some of the most important parts of Tumblr.
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Like his "resistant" comrades, nowhere does Moore offer a clear alternative to capitalism — other than to repeat the need for some ill-defined "democracy" — content to leave it to others who understand politics and social dynamics to do the heavy lifting and come up with actual answers and ideas to his ultimatums.
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Although the focus is on an ill-defined subset of start-ups that target "complex markets that are deeply intertwined with the government because they meaningfully impact the public interest," Mr. Burfield appears to be trying to produce a guide for start-ups generally and covers everything from business models to sales strategies.
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By content I do mean to encompass all ends of the artistic spectrum, that ill-defined mass of high and low entertainment and art and news that rubs up against each other on the web in a way that makes it more difficult to separate out, and perhaps less meaningful to do so.
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Twenty miles away in the capital, Algiers, tens of thousands of demonstrators fill the streets every week loudly demanding his departure, and that of the extensive, ill-defined entourage around him that Algerians call simply the "power," the nexus of high-ranking officials, wealthy businessmen and military officers who actually run the country.
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She applied and was given the job of mechanic in an ill-defined endeavor that involved filming a team's travels as it motored around in 1917 Model Ts. At 228 feet tall, blond and attractive, Idris quickly became the face of the expedition, which captured her adventures in a series of movie travelogues.
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But the case has prompted fresh scrutiny of the agencies — many of them based in China — that take foreign tourists to North Korea and calls for new restrictions on travel to the country, where three other American citizens are still being held on charges of ill-defined crimes against the authoritarian state.
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COVID-19 might never establish itself in the United States beyond a handful of cases, but public health leaders and infectious diseases experts are worried about the prospect of a novel infection with ill-defined complication risks, one that raises the possibility of numerous deaths and a serious strain on our health system.
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All of the controversy appears to have something to do with the FBI and the Justice Department's investigation into the Trump campaign—and perhaps the presidency—and, in response, Nunes's committee majority has informed the minority Democrats that it has now launched an amorphous and ill-defined investigation into both the department and the bureau.
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For all the talk about whether Trump won because of an ill-defined economic angst among the white working class, greed among the richest Americans, or racism, there has not been enough about why Americans who should have—and in some cases did—oppose Trump didn't set aside their differences and vote for the alternative.
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The committee is also generally unhappy with the various vague pieces of terminology used in the bill — ostensibly, says the government, to attempt to future proof the legislation — warning that ill-defined terms have led to "significant confusion on the part of communications service providers and others" as to the scope of the proposed legislation.
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The hole figured in a controversy certain to be long remembered when Dustin Johnson, playing in the 22005 P.G.A. Championship, was penalized two strokes for grounding his club before hitting from what he thought was trampled-down dirt but which was determined to be an ill-defined bunker, or hazard, where grounding is not permitted.
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Part of the problem is that the villain is ill defined, which makes the best moments in "Dark Phoenix" the quieter ones -- especially those where Xavier and Magneto continue what amounts to their ongoing debate over tactics and methods in pursuing freedom and security for mutants, given the fear and hostility ordinary humans exhibit toward them.
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As the accused rapist was escorted into the State Supreme Court, once again using a walker for ill-defined "back problems," several other survivors joined her: actress Rose McGowan; Louise Godbold, a trauma advocate, educator, and actress; actress Dominique Huett; Sarah Ann Masse, an actress, writer, and singer; TV news reporter Lauren Sivan; and actress Paula Williams.
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Over the past week, Mr. Kushner, who at age 36 occupies an ill-defined role somewhere between princeling and President Trump's shadow chief of staff, has seen his foothold on that invaluable real estate shrink amid revelations he is under scrutiny in a federal investigation into whether there was collusion with Russian officials during the presidential campaign.
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That does not mean that Peterson is right (the actual content of his self-help book is sufficiently vague and ill-defined that it's really impossible to say he's right or wrong); nor that we should all become traditional Catholics; nor (of course!) that the racism, sexism, and outright Nazism that defines so much of the alt-right is excusable.
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But the reaction serves as testament, too, to how susceptible we are — in the news media, among fans, in the broader soccer culture — to hyperbole; to how quickly we upgrade our expectations; to how readily we lift the bar for success, ensuring that failure comes more easily; how we judge teams and players by standards that are ill-defined and essentially unfair.
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Let's put the pieces together: 17A: Starting point, metaphorically BLANK CANVAS 20183A: Important part of a plane BLACK BOX 40A: A swimsuit might leave one TANLINE 51A: Powerful object in "The Hobbit" GOLD RING 3D: Ill-defined situations GRAY AREAS 36D: Moscow landmark RED SQUARE After seeing a Kandinsky painting one day, I wondered if I could also build an abstract crossword "work of art" using shape and color elements.
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China's claims are expressed on its maps as the so-called nine-dash line, an ill-defined U-shaped demarcation drawn up after the defeat of Japan in World War II. China has said it will not recognize the court's decision, but there are hopes among some Filipinos that Beijing might be pressured to let them fish at the Scarborough Shoal, the only place within the Philippines' Exclusive Economic Zone where year-round, the waters are calm and fish keep reproducing.
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