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At the very least, if he insisted upon taking the shot, and insisted upon making the shot, he shouldn't have saluted with such enthusiasm.
A point heavily insisted upon is what Dery sees as Gorey's secrecy.
He then insisted upon an F.B.I. investigation, partially stalling Mr. Kavanaugh's progress.
Became convinced her parents were still alive and insisted upon a visit.
But North Korean officials insisted upon Hanoi, where they maintain an embassy.
But it is the one we in the UK insisted upon in 2005.
Hugs have become part of Ted Baker's culture, but are absolutely not insisted upon.
The package will also contain a spending increase for domestic programs, something Democrats insisted upon.
And not every insisted-upon trip is to a glamorous, once-in-a-lifetime destination.
Mr. Richardson, Mr. Cox and their successors also insisted upon access to White House evidence.
But about Lorraine he wrote intimately, though he also insisted upon her genius, power, and righteousness.
It is a point that feminist scholars and L.G.B.T.Q. activists have insisted upon for some time.
In 1789, several convicts temporarily insisted upon receiving the death penalty rather than accepting this conditional pardon.
Both stories, however, insisted upon the same segregation: A woman couldn't hurt and be hurt at once.
Those senators are either undecided or insisted upon slowing down the process in order to hear Ford.
It's unclear whether the college would have insisted upon the paintings' removal, but it was an unfortunate possibility.
But that's just the point -- sex with another person is no one's "right," one to be "insisted" upon.
Many black Americans I met over the years not only embraced that image, but also insisted upon it.
" It described hugs as "part of Ted Baker's culture," but said that they are "absolutely not insisted upon.
" Trump also insisted upon a undefined guarantee "that Iran never even comes close to possessing a nuclear weapon.
Producers, and John himself, insisted upon an actor who could belt the hit-packed Giles Martin-produced soundtrack themselves.
By claiming credit for public labor, Big Pharma has insisted upon special treatment (like tax breaks and minimal oversight).
"One of the things I absolutely insisted upon was that I was going to play it straight," he said.
Carter's announcement that diplomatic ties would be severed with Taiwan — which the Chinese insisted upon — angered Republicans in Congress.
"Those are things that he's insisted upon," and Democrats would have to embrace them along with border security, said Cornyn.
The company has long insisted upon quality over quantity, and focused on individual impact over volume in the classroom setting.
Mr. Chabon was wearing a pair of Margiela boots that his son had insisted upon — not Abe, but his brother.
It threatens the very democracy and rule of law that Spain insisted upon after the decades-long dictatorship of Gen.
Defense spending would be raised more than nondefense spending, breaking the dollar-for-dollar link that Democrats have insisted upon.
Assad offered no hint he would step down -- which his opponents have insisted upon but which he's steadfastly refused to do.
His health care law brought the country's uninsured rate to record lows, though not nearly to the "universal health care" he insisted upon.
If he further violates the confidentiality strictures he insisted upon and he agreed to, we will seek legal recourse on our client's behalf.
I would never know what she had settled for, what she had insisted upon, but I knew what I would refuse to compromise.
It's an unfamiliar situation for the ordinarily hard-nosed retired Marine general, who has insisted upon military-like rigor in the West Wing.
My students could see how, like them, my grandmother had insisted upon her own self-definition even when others tried to apply different labels.
In any case, it has made some of the advertising agency community hesitant to pay for advertising on Snapchat, unless their clients insisted upon it.
The country has no formal diplomatic relations with America, along with the many other nations that acknowledge the "one-China principle" insisted upon in Beijing.
Obama, though his surrogates, also insisted upon unity among the often-at-odds collection of interest groups who were seeking specific attributes in a nominee.
Administration officials say he would be willing to accept less than the $5.7 billion he has insisted upon in an attempt to strike an accord.
Judge Dlott refused to accept standard procedures and insisted upon upholding the public interest in opening court records, especially in a case involving public safety.
" As James Madison observed in the Federalist Papers, the Founders insisted upon this narrow definition to prevent the proliferation of "new-fangled and artificial treasons.
The talks stalled after China backed off certain commitments on agricultural purchases and insisted upon tariff relief, though both sides say they will continue negotiations.
If we had, we would have insisted upon immediate notification of the F.B.I., and so would any normal campaign lawyer, official or even senior volunteer.
Tweeden said Franken wrote a skit that included a kiss between the two and said he insisted upon rehearsing it, which she at first resisted.
The Jew who had insisted upon the letter of the law is undone by the letter of the law; it is what is called poetic justice.
The agreement was confirmed by a person in baseball with direct knowledge of the deal who insisted upon anonymity because the team has not announced it.
It concluded in April that the $43,000 soundproof phone booth Pruitt insisted upon for his office broke two laws that restrict how agencies can spend money.
In the show's first episode we witness the then-Princess Elizabeth promising to "obey" her husband during her wedding vows; an inclusion Churchill says she insisted upon.
"Had the Bank not insisted upon an overly broad secrecy agreement, the harm caused by the illegal money laundering scheme would have been significantly mitigated," Kohn said.
Aja and Constance, you have spoken to the unease you felt as Slave Play insisted upon you the ingrained sense of white supremacy in white Americans, all.
Barlow signed up Sebadoh with Sire Records and The Folk Implosion with Interscope, the respective advances providing the necessary cash to purchase the house his wife insisted upon.
Washington wanted a strong mechanism to ensure that Chinese reform commitments were followed through to completion, while Beijing insisted upon what it called a "fair and objective" process.
Legacy would love to do the same thing, but it doesn't seem to realize that this sort of gravitas has to be earned and can't be insisted upon.
A lone mourner at her husband's funeral, she had sensed it first in the modest country church he had insisted upon for what he had called his obsequies.
Ever since Descartes insisted upon the separation of mind and body, philosophers (especially feminist philosophers) have tried to impress upon us the necessity of attending to the body.
Azar's team also has insisted upon using background photos for his Twitter account that always show him with the president — sometimes silently standing behind Trump while he speaks.
At a news conference on Thursday, Lynch insisted upon his innocence and blamed a national atmosphere that is unfair to those accused of sexual misdeeds for his downfall.
Ironically, it appeared that the very reforms that Sanders had insisted upon — the multiple results and the paper trail — may have conspired to cost him a jubilant victory celebration.
A congressional source told CNBC it would put about $1.4 billion toward physical barriers, but not a wall, a provision President Donald Trump has insisted upon in prior deliberations.
Dogged fealty to immutable traditions, above all funeral practices that insisted upon the ritual washing of the dead, had condemned the region to an epidemic of potentially biblical proportions.
Whatever his skills as an evaluator of on-court talent, Jackson failed because he insisted upon relying on the same tricks that worked as recently as seven years ago.
If he further violates the confidentiality strictures he insisted upon and he agreed to, he will leave our client no choice but to seek legal recourse on her behalf.
The backstory here is that, earlier this month, O'Rourke refused to debate Cruz, rejecting the invitation because Cruz's campaign apparently insisted upon choosing the time, place, moderators and discussion topics.
For me this is excellent, in that I cannot abide sustained looking at Bacon's actual paintings that sit behind the glass that he insisted upon putting over his visceral surfaces.
Many of the more expensive aspects of the campus were insisted upon by Jobs, who would hold five-hour-long meetings about the project even during his fight against cancer.
Nowhere in his speech was his rallying cry to fight "radical Islamic terrorism," a phrase he insisted upon inserting in speech after speech, even as his advisers begged him to stop.
In May, Obama established a pair of high-level councils meant to institutionalize the transition process, a move Congress insisted upon after years of loosely guided changeovers that varied widely in rigor.
This would now be worth $4.5bn, or about the same as Forbes estimates Mr Trump is really worth (as opposed to the much larger and entirely unverified number he has insisted upon).
"ICE has proven they can't keep this population safe, especially because to date, they have insisted upon housing trans women in men's facilities and housing trans men in women's facilities," she added.
Some context: Fences, which already delivered Wilson a Pulitzer and a Tony in its play form, took years to develop for the screen because the late playwright insisted upon having a Black director.
And last week, Obama established a pair of high-level councils meant to institutionalize the transition process, a move Congress insisted upon after years of loosely guided changeovers that varied widely in rigor.
Whether my mother was present for this purchase, I don't remember, but she did not object when I wore it; I believe that, on the big night, a photo was even insisted upon.
"If he further violates the confidentiality strictures he insisted upon and he agreed to, he will leave our client no choice but to seek legal recourse on her behalf," said attorney Alexis Ronickher.
The job is not expected to be the Cabinet level posting that Haley insisted upon, leaving Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and national security adviser John Bolton firmly in control of US foreign policy.
"First, Mr. Weinstein has engaged in behavior that makes this representation unreasonably difficult to carry out effectively and has insisted upon taking actions with which I have fundamental disagreements," Baez said in the filing.
And in the hours before his letter to Kim was made public, he appeared in an interview to shift toward a "phase-down" mode of denuclearization instead of the immediate abandonment he'd insisted upon.
The job is not expected to be the Cabinet-level posting that Haley had insisted upon, leaving Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and national security adviser John Bolton firmly in control of US foreign policy.
One of the biggest sticking points is the decision to allow federal Medicaid payments to only grow in line with inflation starting in 2025, a proposal insisted upon by Senate conservatives to rein in spending.
Inside the White House, some advisers have privately raised concerns that Trump could offer too much to Kim at the summit, which he insisted upon after his first meeting in June garnered widespread media attention.
Berlin has watched on in horror this year as one euro zone country after another has signalled a departure from the consolidation path that Merkel and Schaeuble insisted upon at the height of the euro crisis.
Democrats have insisted upon changes to Trump's new North American trade deal to beef up labor and environmental protections, but Pelosi continues to remain publicly open to bringing it to the House floor for a vote.
In the kind of power move that would make Claire Underwood proud, Robin Wright revealed on Tuesday that she insisted upon being paid the same amount as her male costar Kevin Spacey on Netflix's House of Cards.
It is a stark reversal from 22008 to 2016, when congressional Republicans insisted upon spending cuts and the Obama administration insisted on raising taxes (or, more precisely, allowing some of the Bush administration's tax cuts to expire).
"First, Mr. Weinstein has engaged in behavior that makes this representation unreasonably difficult to carry out effectively and has insisted upon taking actions with which I have fundamental disagreements," Baez said in the filing, according to the source.
Washington had insisted upon Pyongyang's "complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization" (CVID) before any real progress could begin economically and politically for the Kim regime; many also called for addressing the North's egregious human rights violations during the talks.
"Climate change is a critical concern of the investor community in many areas… there is a lot that's not being debated anymore but is being priced in by the investment community or insisted upon by the investment community."
James described his long history with Bryant — how he had admired Bryant's ability to go from high school to the N.B.A., how the two had met in Philadelphia where Bryant had insisted upon the value of hard work.
In his conversations with Putin, Trump has previously insisted upon unusual secrecy that obscured the content of their discussions even from those inside the administration -- including asking for his translator's notes back after a one-on-one meeting.
It signaled both a willingness to let the Supreme Court's decision stand and several reversals of positions the government had insisted upon—repeatedly and with a straight face, in print and in person—during the course of the litigation.
Kennedy said that was a selling point for the university: "The fact that race consciousness played a role in only a small portion of admissions should be a hallmark," he said of the narrow tailoring insisted upon by court precedent.
On The Colour in Anything, Blake pulled insight from the likes of Rick Rubin, Frank Ocean, and Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, letting go, as he had insisted upon in the past, of end-to-end control of his music.
In a segment dedicated to the plight of the mammals, Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Gordeyev said that the orcas would be taken back to where they were caught, something campaigners had insisted upon, and released within four months in small groups.
Integration of newcomers takes up to seven years, because of tough labor market requirements, insisted upon by Sweden's trade unions, and the challenges of the country's language and of its culture, which is more comfortable opening its borders than its homes.
The flat, featureless terrain of northeast Syria favors an armored attacking force, and the SDF's almost total lack of modern heavy weaponry — a condition of American support long insisted upon by Erdogan — further limits the possibility of sustained SDF resistance.
But to Kim Jong Un, it is all part of a demonstration of his "good faith" in dealing with the US. Kim "reaffirmed his determination to completely denuclearize" the peninsula, South Korea's Chung insisted upon his return to Seoul on Thursday.
The deal Mr. Moll struck with his daughter, for example, was that she would pay monthly common charges (in the neighborhood of $1,100) as well as the quarterly taxes, while the roommate he insisted upon as part of the arrangement paid $1,350. (Ms.
" He also believes that Lena Dunham and Amy Schumer are heading up a cult: "It is insisted upon us that we all pay obeisance to the cult of Lena Dunham and Amy Schumer that they put them on the cover of the magazines.
"In the office, the leasing consultant (who, for now, I will not name) insisted upon letting Tori take her picture to show 'how inappropriate' her bathing suit was, and instructed her to look into a mirror at her own body," Newman wrote.
Most NATO member states have yet to make plans to meet the military spending target insisted upon by the U.S. The alliance is set to announce next week that members have increased their military spending in Europe, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
Concerns Trump could offer Kim too much Inside the White House, some advisers have privately raised concerns that Trump could offer too much to Kim at the summit, which he insisted upon after his first meeting in June garnered widespread media attention.
But when they presented the contours of that deal to Mr. Trump last week, he rejected it as too welcoming toward immigrants, particularly those from "shithole countries" (or "shithouse countries" in the version insisted upon — we kid you not — by Mr. Trump's defenders).
In the past week, as 160,000 Conservative Party members cast their ballots to elect the country's next leader, both Johnson and rival Jeremy Hunt hardened their stance on the Irish backstop clause insisted upon by Brussels, therefore increasing the likelihood of a no-deal departure.
So scientists and administrators in the E.P.A.'s Office of Water were alarmed in late May when a top Trump administration appointee insisted upon the rewriting of a rule to make it harder to track the health consequences of the chemical, and therefore regulate it.
From the messages released, the acting ambassador to Ukraine, William B. Taylor Jr., a career diplomat who had previously been ambassador to Ukraine from May 2006 to May 2009, was extremely uncomfortable with the implicit quid pro quo insisted upon by the White House.
When Republicans allowed themselves to accept and support him in spite of his glaring flaws and his life lived in opposition to the values they once professed and insisted upon, they moved themselves into another moral realm in which literally nothing was beyond the pale.
Some years after that, Frank Stella told me in an interview that things might not be quite as bad as they seemed for those who still insisted upon foolishly clinging to the illusionistic world of two dimensions — as long as Abstraction was rigidly adhered to.
Though prior to leaving office Correa reformed the constitution he authored in order to remove the term limits he once insisted upon, he left power temporarily in the hands of his first vice president, the one not in jail for corruption charges, Lenín Moreno.
The Times Magazine talks to a group of female surfers, including Paige Alms, above, who have insisted upon the same right to risk their lives in competition that men enjoy, and for equal pay — and they have been more successful than they ever imagined.
Gropius and Breuer's style was evolving even as Gropius was trying to hold on to the name "Bauhaus," one of the few "things" he had insisted upon taking with him from Weimar as the property of the school when the institution moved to Dessau.
Nothing anyone says means anything, the act of doing is only insisted upon for some, and history is mutable, all because a company can simply churn at a standstill forever, like WWE did at Extreme Rules, accruing wealth and power beyond any rational understanding.
Even at that time it appeared evident that the Germans would eventually be defeated in Cameroon, and Spain insisted upon a German assurance that, should the German troops be forced to take refuge in Spanish territory at Guinea, they would consent to be disarmed and interned.
Attempting to reconcile her conflicting worldviews, in 2002, Garbers attended a class at the University of Minnesota on women, religion, and spirituality and learned about a 1993 Christian women's conference called Re-Imagining, where women preached, used feminine pronouns for God, and insisted upon LGBTQ inclusion.
After huddling with lawmakers in her office, Ms. Pelosi said late Wednesday that House Democrats would move on Thursday to modify the Senate bill by adding some provisions that members on her liberal flank had insisted upon earlier this week as a condition of supporting the aid.
"The mostly youthful unemployed may turn on the government when they realize that promised change is largely cosmetic, and that the painful reforms insisted upon by donors and the IMF (International Monetary Fund) will mean massive lay-offs in the public sector, higher taxes, spending cuts and rampant inflation."
There is some dispute over whether M.L.B. first offered blanket immunity to the players or if the union insisted upon it, but Manfred knew he would have virtually no hope of making suspensions stick if the players appealed them, and he said that uncovering the truth was paramount.
That case offers some solace for the Robbins firm: After conducting the search Judge Alsup insisted upon, the institutional investor appointed to lead the Symantec case ended up picking its original counsel, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann, as lead counsel against Symantec, even though Bernstein was not the lowest bidder.
First, a guileful character: the backwoods beauty Laura Hawkins, who falls in with a corrupt United States senator, connives her way to the top of Washington high society, beats a murder rap after a sensational trial, then suddenly dies of remorse (a fate the authors' wives evidently insisted upon).
In that sense, even the political undertones of "Take Me Out" now feel archaic, which is why the only change he insisted upon was that the production take place not in the present, which is how it was originally written, but sometime in the mid-90s, when Greenberg was actually conceiving the play.
As part of the settlement, the State Office for People With Developmental Disabilities also agreed to take the extraordinary step of surrendering control of the facility to a private nonprofit agency that will oversee the residents' care using its own employees — a provision the plaintiffs insisted upon, their lead lawyer, Ilann M. Maazel, said.
As part of the settlement, the State Office for People With Developmental Disabilities also agreed to take the extraordinary step of surrendering control of the facility to a private nonprofit agency that will oversee the residents' care using its own employees — a provision the plaintiffs insisted upon, their lead lawyer, Ilann M. Maazel, said.
McConnell to Obama: Democrats started the SCOTUS wars Through the process, Obama insisted upon strict privacy and level-headedness from the tight collection of aides who were tasked with compiling information about his options -- demanding they "play it straight," according to one participant, rather than submitting to the political furor that was mounting around the vacancy.
"Despite unrefuted evidence produced by the professional staff of the Census Bureau that inclusion of a citizenship question would likely result in a significant differential decline in self-response rates within noncitizen and Latino communities and that the requested data could be obtained by other means, Secretary Ross insisted upon adding the citizenship question to the census," Seeborg said in the ruling.
Most Republican lawmakers, however, remain staunchly opposed to moving detainees into the United States and insisted upon language in two bills recently signed by Obama -- the defense authorization and defense appropriations bills -- that bars the transfer of Guantanamo detainees into the U.S. McCain, a rare Republican proponent of closing Guantanamo, still hammered Obama's plan Tuesday as a "vague menu of options" for reaching that goal.
The film also takes a hard look at all of the things that complicate the way we see ourselves, from our friends — most of Ada's are envious, superficial, or judgmental — to our families, who either betray us out of love and fear — Ada's delivers her to the humiliating virginity test insisted upon by Omar's parents — or are otherwise unavailable to guide us when we need them most.
If Democrats succeed in persuading at least four Republican senators to back their demands for more evidence, they would most likely make motions to subpoena witnesses they have insisted upon for weeks: John R. Bolton, the former national security adviser; Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff; Robert B. Blair, a top aide to Mr. Mulvaney; and Michael Duffey, a White House budget official.
His second court appearance is scheduled next week (NBC News) … On Wednesday, a second federal judge blocked a citizenship question from appearing on the 2020 census, ruling that Commerce Secretary Wilbur RossWilbur Louis RossTrump administration delays penalty on Huawei for another 90 days WaPo calls Trump admin 'another threat' to endangered species Recession fears surge as stock markets plunge MORE "ignored" federal law when he "insisted upon adding the citizenship question" (The Hill).
It paves the way for historical inaccuracy, insisted upon by people who want to forget that the nation was never all-white and attempt to maintain a white hegemony that's riddled with violence, beginning with genocide against the indigenous peoples and continuing through the enslavement of African people, annexing Mexican land into the US border, and labeling Chinese people as coolies to justify excluding them from citizenship — a ploy that lasted in various forms until 1964.
If Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) refuses to agree to an estimated $10 billion in funding for cost-sharing subsidies, then Democrats will demand that the $15 billion in extra military funding be matched with an equal increase in supplemental funding for non-military programs — hewing to a standard they have long insisted upon.
If Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) refuses to agree to an estimated $85003 billion in funding for cost-sharing subsidies, then Democrats will demand that the $15 billion in extra military funding be matched with an equal increase in supplemental funding for non-military programs -- hewing to a standard they have long insisted upon.

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