Sure, they may pass muster around conference tables in Washington, but the bare minimum won't pass muster around kitchen tables.
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"No, I don't think that could pass muster, those public statements he was making could pass muster as subornation of proof," Barr said.
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Two of those who failed to pass muster were localists.
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Its capital goods pass muster in Germany for their precision.
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There is little public information about which exports pass muster.
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The latest deal may pass muster when viewed in isolation.
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However, either justification wouldn't pass muster, according to the GAO.
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But that revolutionary language didn't pass muster with health regulators.
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Roberts said the explanation for adding the question didn't pass muster.
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Yet Mr Garcetti trusts his progressive credentials would pass muster there.
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Thompson was letting me know that I might not pass muster.
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Red flag laws allowing interventions are also likely to pass muster.
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Despite your anxiety, your daughter may pass muster with the board.
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Such problems point to other choices if the deal cannot pass muster.
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That declaration, Collins says, does not pass muster as a legal basis.
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"I know that would not pass muster but she she's most impressive."
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None of this ought to pass muster with Tunisia's new constitutional court.
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And maybe, if it doesn't pass muster, we won't do it all.
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That new rulemaking will also have to pass muster with the courts.
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But legal experts said the initial order was unlikely to pass muster.
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That does not pass muster with Hindus, most of whom are vegetarian.
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He recognizes that his style would not pass muster with Chinese censors.
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Amazon also would not pass muster because it had supported gay marriage.
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But questions remain over whether the deal is robust enough to pass muster.
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But less controversial causes have failed to pass muster in the last year.
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He also suggested it would not pass muster with the ECJ in future.
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For at least one day, this quality-over-quantity storyline didn't pass muster.
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Choices that were considered more broadly acceptable then don't necessarily pass muster now.
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Even so, the math on corporate taxes would not pass muster with CAP.
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One other wrinkle: There's serious question this will pass muster with the parliamentarian.
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But investors still wondered if the purchase will pass muster with antitrust regulators.
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So these Democrats are essentially saying that no plausible deal will pass muster.
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If it does pass muster, Fitbit gives Google more than just a wearable.
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Typical Democratic pablum and travels to dozens of countries does not pass muster.
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It's not clear whether the Justice Department recommendation would pass muster with lawmakers.
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The Beyond Burger vegetarian option and the Nashville-style chicken also pass muster.
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Some have wondered why the full collection didn't pass muster with the board.
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I am increasingly worried that I don't understand it well enough to pass muster.
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Sceptical investors and regulators may soon see if the new tech can pass muster.
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And Never Look Away's analysis wouldn't pass muster in the lowest-level art class.
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Given the evidence provided by historians like Braun, these protestations fail to pass muster.
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For example, if none of the prototypes pass muster, the remaining money is refunded.
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But it's not even clear if Draper's measure would pass muster with the courts.
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Secret plans to defeat the Islamic State, for example, will not pass muster. Mrs.
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Theoretically, the same video that gets banned from Facebook might pass muster on YouTube.
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In the meantime, tech struggles to figure out what can pass muster with Washington.
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It will also determine what kind of deals pass muster during the Trump administration.
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A couple of entries in this grid would not pass muster with me today.
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The so-called defeat device increased pollution controls so the cars would pass muster.
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"It would not pass muster in today's graduate programs," she wrote of that dissertation.
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Lee assured me that NuraLogix's tech wouldn't pass muster in a court of law.
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She's well past pining over a guy who didn't pass muster and onto finding herself.
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The prevailing scientific opinion now, however, is that this origin story does not pass muster.
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Our author teams are teachers who know what can and can't pass muster in schools.
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Installing thousands of new centrifuges and building a huge uranium stockpile will not pass muster.
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Many messaging platforms marketed as "secure" or "encrypted" often don't pass muster with security experts.
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It also is decidedly unclear whether the GOP measure could pass muster with the House.
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On issues where the parties differ today, the platform would never pass muster with Democrats.
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Many schools' curricular requirements are startlingly porous, allowing courses of remarkable parochialism to pass muster.
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And, on a banking law exam, his critique of the Fed would not pass muster.
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However, a ban on immigrants from certain countries has some precedent and might pass muster.
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FJM seems to be glad the song didn't pass muster; it "would've sucked," he said.
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The legal scholars I talked to suggested that an Australia-style program would probably pass muster.
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A federal district court ruled in 2016 that the government's designation process did not pass muster.
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No one's expecting metal in a laptop this cheap, so the illusion doesn't really pass muster.
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That means if you're working with a nanny, your arrangement must pass muster with the IRS.
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Could someone pry open a sleeping or deceased person's eyeball to pass muster with Face ID?
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Without this sweetener, they argue provisions loosening FDA regulations would never pass muster on the left.
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It also means that every detail of acting and staging must pass muster under close scrutiny.
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Some budget experts are dubious that the AHCA state waivers pass muster under the Senate rules.
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There are also questions about whether the voting trust Canadian Pacific has proposed would pass muster.
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A lot of companies out here already do that, so they would pass muster that way.
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Other airports affected by the ban are expected to pass muster in the coming days and weeks.
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Brady has said border adjustability would pass muster with the World Trade Organization, which polices global trade.
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But the idea that debt is a critical issue that must be tackled now doesn't pass muster.
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You'd be surprised how many masterpieces of our generation that feature strong female characters didn't pass muster.
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But across the board, the researchers found, many if not all these sunscreens simply didn't pass muster.
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Unfortunately, even within whatever micro-world it's designed to serve, AI often doesn't pass muster in conversation.
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Even if negotiators agree a coalition deal, it must still pass muster with lower-ranking party officials.
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With a high-profile publisher and experienced editors on her team, nothing like that would pass muster.
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Greens are confident that the Trump administration's regulatory changes to ESA enforcement won't pass muster in court.
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EPA spokeswoman Melissa Harrison said her agency is confident the climate rule will pass muster in court.
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He said most of the arguments "simply repackage legal arguments previously made" and fail to pass muster.
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Leerink Partners analyst Ana Gupte said an appeal was unlikely to pass muster under the Trump Administration.
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Desperate, she procured a false visa to get into the US, but her documents didn't pass muster.
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He suggested that only interests rooted in "history and tradition," as was the case here, would pass muster.
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If their proposals fail to pass muster they could face enforcement action in future, the EC said today.
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That rationale did not pass muster before three federal courts, which each blocked the addition of the question.
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The tests will need to be cheap, accurate and sensitive enough to pass muster with doctors and regulators.
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Cipollone's commitment to recommending judges who pass muster with the Federalist Society and other conservative groups is unclear.
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Legislative clarity gives tax professionals a better sense on whether backdoor Roths will pass muster with the IRS.
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This time around, Wells Fargo was the only bank whose so-called living will did not pass muster.
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Legislation that can pass muster in the more conservative House may not win enough support in the Senate.
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But even if we grant that an emissions reduction is a laudable goal, this argument doesn't pass muster.
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He left open the possibility that another version of a travel ban might pass muster with the court.
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When one-third of the slot machines were shut down because they didn't pass muster, it was chaos.
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This one is likely to pass muster, though it is by no means as easy as some suggest.
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The banks would most likely shed deposits and branches in some cities to pass muster with federal regulators.
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PERINO: I disagree, because well, one, I don&apost know if it will pass -- if it would pass muster.
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Strzok and Page's cover story for the newly disclosed text doesn't pass muster and is absurd on its face.
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There are a handful of others still being looked at by the Parliamentarian that may also not pass muster.
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Although, at this stage, it is by no means certain yesterday's trumpeted Privacy Shield will in fact pass muster.
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"That may work as a TV sound bite, but it doesn't pass muster on the world stage," Obama added.
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To pass muster, there needs to be a convincing business plan showing the miner will start to make profits.
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For many states—particularly those in the Midwest—trade deals that disproportionately affect manufacturing would certainly not pass muster.
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It's less clear whether a temporary appointee for a key Privacy Shield role will pass muster in Europe, however.
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Yang's charisma stands outWhile Yang's signature plan may not pass muster, the proposal is mostly irrelevant to his draw.
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Any changes he makes have to pass muster with his predecessor, Paul Bulcke, who will be chairman until 2018.
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Any new maps that are passed will still need to pass muster with a three-judge district court panel.
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Since then, all five banks have resubmitted their disaster-preparedness plans; only Wells Fargo's plan did not pass muster.
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This kind of pardoning might pass muster under Jefferson's enlightenment vision, despite his personal desire to eliminate pardoning entirely.
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It's unclear if even a clean repeal, rather than a repeal-and-replace plan, would pass muster for reconciliation.
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For the Greek bail-out to pass muster would require a commitment to debt relief from the euro-zone partners.
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Ghostly BJs probably wouldn't pass muster for PG-13 now, but the Ghostbusters of 1984 is a PG-rated movie.
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From our point of view, this doesn't make sense and we don't believe it will pass muster in the courts.
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United States -- which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II -- would "pass muster" under Wall's theory today.
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Also for the record, political research does not pass muster as justification, under DOJ guidelines, for launching an FBI investigation.
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The regulators deliberately did not communicate the exact things the banks needed to do for their plans to pass muster.
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Unfortunately for the public, a lot of that reporting is just spin and wouldn't pass muster in the private sector.
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And foreign governments asking for help recuperating assets may find that their legal cases will not pass muster in Britain.
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And any changes that Mr. Schneider makes would have to pass muster with Paul Bulcke, his predecessor and Nestlé's chairman.
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I truly appreciate Will and Joel's help and patience as I sought to create a revision that would pass muster.
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Safety will be the crucial issue; both the reactor and the facilities where it will be fabricated need to pass muster.
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I was pretty sure that wouldn't pass muster with The Times, so we decided to play tennis with his children instead.
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Many are so riddled with contraband parts that they would be unlikely to pass muster with repair shops, an engineer said.
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We're told if David doesn't pass muster with the shrink, he will NOT be on the show and neither will Jenelle.
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Such a ban would have to pass muster with Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, the newest members of the Supreme Court.
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Morrison expects everything to pass muster, calling Thomas one of the most "well-respected and well-known swimmers" of recent years.
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Trump's new policies may not pass muster with international rules The administration can take action against imports that threaten national security.
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The ones that pass muster are fantastically swollen and chewy at the edges, as if air were their most important ingredient.
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The proposal has pitted farmers against fisheries and environmentalists, but Trump's attempt to connect the debate to wildfires doesn't pass muster.
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But the Yahoo mail case, and other ongoing cases raise troubling precedents for what the courts have allowed to pass muster.
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But Privacy Shield has already been dogged by allegations that it will not pass muster with the strict European privacy regulators.
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A couple of reclining chairs wouldn't pass muster with employees in Mountain View, but here they at least signal an aspiration.
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However, discovering which songs do and do not pass muster is part of the fun if you have the right attitude.
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But concerns that such a deal could not possibly pass muster with Iran will not deter them, a senior official said.
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She said in her past attempts, her horse didn't pass muster at vet stops marking the 55th and 68th miles, respectively.
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Such factories tend to churn out lower-quality, domestic-brand rides that would not pass muster with American or European consumers.
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"What I heard earlier from the parliamentarian is they didn't think it would pass" muster under Senate rules, Mr. Tillis said.
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Refugee agencies argued in a letter sent Wednesday to Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson that their clients should pass muster.
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What's more, the bill must still pass muster with complicated budget rules and secure consent of the House and the president.
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While some small earbud styles may pass muster more readily than the bulky, over-the-ear models, there are no guarantees.
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But it is unclear whether the ACC law, after around 2,000 amendments, will pass muster with the IMF in its current form.
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However the island votes, and although the 2016 Republican election platform backed statehood, the proposal is unlikely to pass muster in Washington.
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The White House plans on Monday to unveil a framework for immigration legislation that it believes can pass muster with both parties.
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Chinese acquirers are filing more transactions with CFIUS and, like transactions from all other countries, a vast majority of them pass muster.
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So, we asked a few experts to tell us if they thought a claim on a synthetic human genome would pass muster.
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The verification process will be open to anyone — although only the ads that pass muster will be viewable to Rainbow opt-ins.
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Calling for bombing "may work as a TV sound bite, but it doesn't pass muster on the world stage," the President said.
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I know a bit about music and caught his drift, but I wasn't sure his arguments would pass muster with every parent.
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The main concern is that the study's methods do not pass muster with statistics experts, so the increase may not be real.
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Warren, a former law professor, said her proposals would pass muster under the Commerce Clause, which allows Congress to regulate interstate commerce.
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The Senate already did tinker with its health care bill, multiple times, and none of the versions were able to pass muster.
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So no one was really going to be elected to the presidency unless they were able to pass muster with the electors.
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The ruling temporarily barred the addition of a citizenship question, noting that the Trump administration's reasoning for adding it didn't pass muster.
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In any case, whether such incomplete arguments will pass muster with legislators, the judiciary and the general public remains to be seen.
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But Idaho is still trying to tweak its plan to get it to pass muster, the Post Register in Idaho Falls reports.
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But Swalwell, in the letter, pointed to discussions he's had with legal experts arguing that a remote voting system would pass muster.
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Entertainment and real estate purchases are not likely to pass muster, but industrial, mining and energy companies often get the green light.
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There is also a question as to whether work requirements could pass muster under Senate rules for the fast-track reconciliation process.
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For Lampert's bid to pass muster, Sears advisors must decide it is financially viable and the bankruptcy judge must grant it court approval.
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That might be a tall order, but Chief Justice Roberts's opinion suggests that as long as it is genuine, it could pass muster.
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That's especially true when it comes to its App Store, where every app must pass muster with Apple's lengthy App Store Review Guidelines.
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It seems to be occurring to more and more Americans that Trump would not pass muster before any decent department of human resources.
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However, that Weyand-Robbins deal failed to pass muster in London and when Raab came to Brussels to kill it off on Oct.
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Anthony Scaramucci's foul mouth was never going to pass muster in a White House run by a retired United States Marine Corps general.
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Mr. Varadkar, a 40-year-old physician-turned-politician, holds the crucial vote on whether Mr. Johnson's plan will pass muster with Brussels.
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Now, I have nothing against Andrew Lincoln or Norman Reedus, who play Rick and Daryl with enough dynamism to pass muster in most situations.
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Critics of the new deal had predicted this day would come, arguing the arrangement lacks adequate privacy safeguards to pass muster with Europe's courts.
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Responsible media outlets, it seems, should be listening to these stories, vetting them thoroughly and presenting those that pass muster in the proper context.
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Rubio said Trump's proposed ban on Muslim immigration wouldn't pass muster constitutionally but agrees we should block any Syrian refugees from entering the country.
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Nor did it pass muster with the army chief, Ahmed Gaid Salah, who asked the government to declare Mr Bouteflika unfit and remove him.
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Gareth Edwards' handheld war documentary style of directing Rogue One didn't pass muster with Lucasfilm's style police and had to be heavily re-edited.
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He said a lot of deals were being ditched after informal talks with CFIUS officials who made it clear they would not pass muster.
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Clinton or the Clinton Foundation — could pass muster with the credible assertion that the DOJ was only following the evidence where it led them.
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And pre-ticked consent boxes buried at the end of lengthy, opaque and vague T&Cs will not pass muster under the new standard.
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Mr. Bowron is one of close to 190 vetters grouped in 29 Tefaf committees and in charge of checking that all objects pass muster.
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And though there is a populist side to Ryan, it's far from clear that he would really pass muster with the party's left wing.
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A board combs through your bank statements, tax returns and testimonials and then, if you pass muster, grants you access to its cloistered world.
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He will serve as a "clearing house" for various proposals, screening out ideas that can't pass muster with Trump or the GOP-controlled House.
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And if our existing approach to campaign finance can't pass muster in the courts, we need to work together to find a real solution.
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However, Canada's offers have failed to pass muster with the administration, which wants greater access to its market than Canada appears willing to provide.
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The estate, gift and generation-skipping taxes pass muster because they're deemed excise taxes on the transfer of wealth, not on the wealth itself.
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"The recent set of proposals (from CP) did not pass muster in terms of value or demonstrate a path through the regulatory process," he added.
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Whether the new plan will pass muster with the judge — or critics who have filed formal objections to the initial agreement — remained to be seen.
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The CDU and CSU have reached an agreement over immigration policy, but it is not clear whether it will pass muster in a full coalition.
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They are fighting in court the national tax, which is imposed on provinces that do not have plans that pass muster with the federal government.
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The process usually takes 30-75 days, and while the vast majority of transactions pass muster, CFIUS sometimes imposes conditions that the investors never imagined.
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To pass muster, legislation must be primarily focused on addressing the deficit, which is why only provisions that have a budgetary impact may be included.
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Auntie Fee's channel would normally not pass muster due to profane language, but this is network television, so how much harm could she possibly do?
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Desperate to pass muster with American banks, Belizean banks have dropped customers carrying potential risks, including cash remittance services used by many people working abroad.
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More than 90 percent voted in favor of the name change, but turnout was so low that the measure may not pass muster in Parliament.
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Attire was also a major concern: To pass muster, the women swapped revealing costumes for loosefitting T-shirts worn over long black sleeves and leggings.
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This time, all sides have been moving with great care to build support for a deal that could pass muster with voters on both sides.
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Charity Navigator also has a list of more than 40 groups that pass muster and are offering direct relief to communities devastated by Harvey's flooding.
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I'm also pleasantly surprised to see many of my clues pass muster (my favorites probably being 18- and 33-Across, as well as 35-Down).
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This time around he couldn't get even that far; his efforts were frustrated by an error message triggered because a security certificate did not pass muster.
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While Waller is expected to easily pass muster, Thursday's hearing will give the first indication of whether Shelton's candidacy could be derailed by her controversial record.
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Now, there's another vital characteristic a sunscreen must have to pass muster for anyone that gives a shit about the oceans: It must be oxybenzone-free.
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A source close to the situation tells Axios that the leak reads like a "trial balloon," after President Trump's past four picks failed to pass muster.
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But you typically won't find many — or possibly any — films playing at the festival that would pass muster at a screening in the current White House.
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In order to pass muster as a nontaxable gift, tuition payments to a preschool must be made to an "educational organization" as defined by the IRS.
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Some budget experts are dubious that the AHCA state waivers, which allow states to opt out of key Obamacare regulations, pass muster under the Senate rules.
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If it does not pass muster, the state could take over city operations, a move New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has pushed for in the past.
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Once a candidate clears all of the foregoing hurdles, he or she has had to pass muster with the relevant oversight committee and the entire Senate.
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Clinton said "living wills," she was referring to the special bankruptcy plans that five big banks drew up, but that failed to pass muster with regulators.
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But the new State Department bounty bill might pass muster, according to Casey Ellis, founder and chief technology officer of the bug bounty firm Bug Crowd.
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S. data transfer deal to replace Safe Harbor — although it is not clear whether that agreement, called Privacy Shield, will pass muster with the CJEU either.
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The individual variations that the students made had to pass muster with the group as a whole before being added to the large paper-covered canvases.
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Like Rossini, Mozart, working with the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, softened the sharpest edges of the text's anti-royalist barbs to pass muster with Austrian censors.
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Worse, the executive order was quickly halted by the courts, and even a revised version has not yet been able to pass muster with the judiciary.
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Socks, underwear, basic winter jackets, medicine, toothpastes and food are the most common items, with gifts deemed too extravagant unlikely to pass muster with Pyongyang authorities.
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Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) will introduce a package of regulatory reform bills Wednesday that he hopes will pass muster with Democrats, The Hill has learned.
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Before the Trump Organization can sell, the deal will need to pass muster with the company's outside ethics adviser, Bobby Burchfield, who is a lawyer in Washington.
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Do they use "accept" and "reject" stamps, or is there a Bond-villain-style trap door that swallows a performer whole when their video doesn't pass muster?
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The heavy-handed government intervention after the crash raised questions about whether China's volatile and highly speculative local markets could pass muster with global investors and regulators.
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It wouldn't pass muster in journalism school, but I trusted that Times readers could perceive the precariousness of Fred's situation without his having to live in darkness.
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Despite its reputation as the children's show we all know and love today, the early seasons of "Sesame Street" might not pass muster in today's TV landscape.
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It can be awarded the standard Top Safety Pick title if its headlights don't pass muster or if it doesn't offer a strong-performing automatic emergency braking.
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I still like that, but was afraid it wouldn't pass muster since "Colorado" actually comes from the Spanish word for "color," and thus the meanings wouldn't change.
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"So we're looking now at a situation, it should absolutely not pass muster in terms of constitutionality, but it depends on what these justices do," he added.
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And it comes when bankers and analysts in the sector had already questioned whether the next wave of projects in the pipeline would pass muster with investors.
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Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) and Swiss biotech firm Actelion have approached Swiss officials to get their opinion about whether the structure of a proposed takeover deal would pass muster.
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The only Title I-based rules that could pass muster in the courts would have to permit discrimination, paid prioritization and individual negotiations between online companies and ISPs.
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Presented with those numbers, House aides nonetheless projected confidence that their bill would pass muster, because of how the different policies in the bill interact with each other.
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Which is probably for the best, because the current draft is such a mess of technical incompetence that it's unlikely to pass muster in Congress, privacy advocates say.
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Who says, "I don't do cover-ups," with his administration on information lockdown -- offering justifications "that wouldn't pass muster in an episode of 'The Simpsons,'" remarked Julian Zelizer.
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Initially, House GOP leaders had argued changes to Essential Health Benefits part would not pass muster in the Senate, but seem more willing to test the waters now.
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Officials still say legislation could move this year, and several trial balloons have been floated as they seek to find a bill that could pass muster in Congress.
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Yes, the koicoin protocol was strong, and the incentives appeared to be well aligned, but the project didn't really pass muster in terms of immutability, decentralization, and privacy.
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The package would include deep spending cuts unlikely to pass muster with the Senate, where a package would need 28503 votes — including eight Democrats — to overcome procedural hurdles.
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But with about 1.5 million people in prison today, it is easier for lawmakers to pad sparsely populated districts to ensure that they pass muster under federal law.
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Initially House GOP leaders argued changes to Essential Health Benefits would not pass muster with the Senate parliamentarian, but they seem more willing to test the waters now.
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The low fee suggests Time Warner is confident that the deal will pass muster, but it is also a reflection of AT&T's regretful history with breakup fees.
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But even a scaled-down and more traditional-looking tower struggled to pass muster with the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission, which didn't give its final approval until 2015.
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The package would include deep spending cuts unlikely to pass muster with the Senate, where a package would need 60 votes -- including eight Democrats -- to overcome procedural hurdles.
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Senate Republicans are adding repeal of ObamaCare's individual insurance mandate to their tax-reform bill, but it's unclear whether such a proposal can pass muster in the House.
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This is important because it's the one provision in the law that encourages healthy people to enroll in coverage — and Frumin wasn't sure if it would pass muster.
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What it looks like, from here, is that President Trump objected to the mere fact of having to change his executive order to pass muster with the courts.
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Johnson & Johnson — J&J and Swiss biotech firm Actelion have approached Swiss officials to get their opinion about whether the structure of a proposed takeover deal would pass muster.
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Wall Street analysts cast doubt on whether Biogen's analysis would pass muster with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration without an additional years-long trial to confirm the findings.
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Wall Street analysts cast doubt on whether Biogen's analysis would pass muster with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration without an additional years-long trial to confirm the findings.
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Trump has repeatedly criticized Obamacare and pledged to repeal it, but Republicans have yet to propose a health-care policy to replace it that could pass muster in Congress.
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The EU's leaders may reckon that, since the Chequers plan's unpopularity in Mrs May's party makes it unlikely to pass muster, they have little to lose by rubbishing it.
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Still, as Kyle Buchanan over at Vulture pointed out, the film didn't quite pass muster when it came to the nitty gritty requirements usually expected from Best Picture nominees.
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And even after they become safe enough to pass muster with regulators, they will probably have to share the road with legacy vehicles operated by all too fallible wetware.
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It's not clear who leaked the news, but the development helped the White House cast the president as trying to find a nominee who could pass muster with Republicans.
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Clearly, NASA and the Trump administration have their work cut out for them if they mean to come up with a privatization plan that will pass muster with Congress.
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One UK-based EU data protection expert we asked for a view, Pat Walshe, suggested the approach to consent described in the article would not pass muster under GDPR.
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For the very wealthy Mr. Mnuchin especially, the multipage questionnaire that the Finance Committee uses for its review illustrates the hoops a nominee must jump through to pass muster.
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Candidates take online tests to gauge their problem-solving skills and, if they pass muster, are whisked to Madison for an on-campus interview and tour of the area.
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This law wouldn't pass muster by contemporary standards (it allowed only one in five adult males to vote), but it tackled the most corrupt practices of the old oligarchy.
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Such a proposal exists, but it almost certainly won't pass muster in the current Republican-controlled Congress or with President Trump, the ever grateful candidate of the gun lobby.
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Buying another bank probably wouldn't pass muster, Mr. Dimon suggested, but his comments are sure to encourage pitches from fintech upstarts looking to be bought by America's largest bank.
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Killer Mike is otherwise woke enough to pass muster (he is, after all, a Bernie Sanders supporter), and Ms. Render informs that they do dispense investment tips to strippers.
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Its small size and lack of overlap with other railroads makes it one of the few railroad operators that could easily pass muster with anti-trust regulators, Barron's said.
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Another San Francisco-based scooter company, Skip, had been operating in SF for the past year with Scoot, but did not pass muster for a second year of scooting.
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European regulators gave their preliminary approval to the Monte dei Paschi deal on the condition that the bank go through an in-depth restructuring and its finances pass muster.
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It's entirely possible that many of Trump's tweets don't pass muster with Melania, just as, it's likely, her routine public rebuffs of his affection do not likely pass his.
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That's because regulations in this area must be justified by cost-benefit analysis; without factoring in the true cost of carbon, many future climate rules might not pass muster.
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But the only such commandeering cases to pass muster involved states that were forced to take immediate action to comply with Congress' mandate, said Paul Clement, arguing for the leagues.
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Some companies now sell short-term insurance, for as little as seven days, so that drivers can pass muster when they show up to city offices to renew their registration.
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Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) that Trump's statements implying Michael Cohen's family members committed crimes in order to influence Cohen's testimony could not "pass muster" to reach the level of obstruction.
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The Simpsons' house, with its very normal-sized backyard, would fail to pass muster in the Hunters-verse, where size matters above all else and nobody ever worries about mowing.
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However, it owes much of its success to its ability to navigate Beijing's political currents, as well as its skills in delivering harmless fluff that could pass muster with censors.
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House Republicans unveiled another short-term spending bill Wednesday night to get the government to January 19, but many of the provisions likely won't pass muster in the US Senate.
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But another piece of frightening news — a study reporting that aggressive prostate cancer has risen sharply — appears to be a false alarm: Experts say the study's methodology doesn't pass muster.
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Colleges often say they want to get to know the real you, but that's probably true only if your academic accomplishments (and the rigor of courses you've taken) pass muster.
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Those that pass muster — typically under 20 percent — might find their way into the restaurant's ever changing house blend, which typically contains beans from Colombia, Brazil, Sumatra and Costa Rica.
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Puzder's failure to pass muster with a sufficient number of lawmakers who have six years to make their case to voters, should not be taken as evidence of swamp muck.
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And while critics have noted that Ms. Stone and Mr. Gosling can sing only passably, Ms. Allen's and Mr. Hurley's vocal performances would barely pass muster in their own showers.
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European stocks closed lower Friday afternoon as traders await signals as to whether a Brexit deal agreed between the U.K. and EU will pass muster with British lawmakers in parliament.
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As the O.M.B. director, Mr. Mulvaney would also have power to advance or impede federal regulation, because many proposed rules have to pass muster at O.M.B. before they are issued.
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Accounting teams had been instructed to "pull forward" future income from suppliers by booking it in advance, a practice which one of his reports noted would not pass muster with auditors.
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He has taken repeated steps to ensure they turn out for him again — by issuing executive orders, making cabinet appointments and nominating federal judges that pass muster with the religious right.
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A venture investor pitched by the company years ago told me its financials were quite impressive, but its focus area would not pass muster with firm investors or the VCs' spouses.
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The researchers didn't try to get it into Apple's App Store, because they were fairly certain that a tool designed to spy on a person's internet network wouldn't pass muster there.
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This is why the excuse given by the State Department spokesperson — that Tillerson planned to meet with allied representatives at a counter-ISIS summit in Washington on Wednesday — doesn't pass muster.
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Big U.S. retailers that rely on imports oppose it, President Donald Trump has sent mixed signals, and some U.S. Senate Republicans question whether it would pass muster under international trade rules.
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On the living will issue, Trump will instruct the Treasury Department to review the provisions that require companies either to pass muster or face having to shed businesses or raise capital.
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A police officer then checks them for their accuracy, and if they pass muster, the offender's photograph and personal information (like portions of their ID number and home address) gets displayed.
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And Joe Biden has said and done more than a few things over the last 50 years that don't pass muster in the current politically correct world of the liberal left.
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If the policy and procedures pass muster with the third-party folks that we hire to provide an opinion on them, then and only then would we consider launching a program.
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Chemists, physicists, engineers, and astronauts carefully test hypotheses based on prior research, try to falsify those evidence-informed guesses through experimentation, and then throw out the claims that don't pass muster.
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An IPO can cost a lot in advisory fees and work with lawyers and auditors to get a company's accounts and controls in shape to pass muster with regulators and exchanges.
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The heat didn't come on in Ms. Mathis's apartment the following year either, and a solution that involved installing furnaces in the rent-stabilized apartments didn't pass muster with city inspectors.
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Jon Green, a former partner of Nancy Erika Smith (Carlson's lead counsel) and currently of Green & Savits, agrees with the assessment that the agreement would not pass muster in New Jersey.
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Anything less, Washington can credibly say, and the arrangement won't pass muster with Congress or the American people — and therefore could end up being just as impermanent as the Iran deal.
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As such, for his birthday this year, we ignored his gift list and gave him the only non-stuff substitute we thought would pass muster with a 5-year-old: power.
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The pitch -- outlined in a document that was obtained by CNN -- would expand background checks to all advertised commercial sales, though it's not clear whether it would pass muster with lawmakers.
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And Kagan argued that the decision to throw out Abood doesn't pass muster: But the worse part of today's opinion is where the majority subverts all known principles of stare decisis.
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The ambiguity leaves a host of plaintiffs—ranging from the House of Representatives to a government ethics watchdog to El Paso County in Texas—wondering what kinds of claims might pass muster.
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But the general consensus was that a change to the qualifications for Medicare — reducing the age threshold to 0, for example, so every American is eligible — would actually pass muster under reconciliation.
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If this N1 series style knife set is good enough for the chef at one of the best Michelin-star restaurants in the world — then it might just pass muster by you.
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According to the Post, CDC officials in charge of the agency's finances did not relay why the words were now prohibited, but they did provide some alternative phrasing that would pass muster.
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Companies now have to get approval for their products, but it could take about three years to get the ones that are potentially dangerous and wouldn't pass muster off the market. Why?
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With the failure of President Obama's progressive economic policies so fresh in our memories, it's hard to believe the Democrats' patently political approach to economic policy will pass muster with American voters.
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Here's a selection of expert opinion on whether the Brexit deal will pass muster this time, or whether it will fail, leading to a potential Brexit delay or a "no-deal" scenario.
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Even if the Agriculture Ministry agrees to the idea, it would have to pass muster with Economy Minister Paulo Guedes, who has vowed to cut industry-specific subsidies, before getting Bolsonaro's signature.
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While it's unclear whether such deals will pass muster with regulators - expected to release the final rules by the end of the year - investors are keen to get their hands on more.
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The construction industry group, and also the European chamber, said that the costs of Belt and Road Initiative projects are often greatly underestimated so that they can pass muster with Beijing officials.
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For instance, a Trix cereal bar, with 150 calories and more than 50 percent whole grain oats, would pass muster, even though the second and third ingredients are corn syrup and sugar.
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Behind the scenes, leaders of the veterans committees in both chambers had opened negotiations to find a compromise that could pass muster among their members, as well as among the veterans groups.
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With items that range from a $10 true crime novel to a super-rare bottle of whiskey that tops out at $300, everything on this list should pass muster with your guy.
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Has anyone advised the president that replacements for Zinke and Perry (if they were to resign or be dismissed) would have to pass muster with Energy and Natural Resources Committee chair Murkowski?
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That meant dresses, skirts, and skorts, plus shirts that could pass muster at, say, a birthday party or a family gathering, without looking like I was about to go run a couple miles.
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All told, just a tiny subset of Medicaid beneficiaries are-able bodied adults who do not have a reason for not working that would fail to pass muster with a state case worker.
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But with the imprint of Donald Trump's judicial nominees on the Supreme Court and lower courts, it is increasingly likely that some of Project Blitz's goals will pass muster in the coming years.
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So thank you, Gigi, for giving us mere plebeians a (job-sparing) means of vicariously acting out all the stuff that wouldn't quite pass muster with HR on our next super crappy day...
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To pass muster under the Byrd Rule, legislation using the reconciliation process must be primarily focused on addressing the deficit, which is why only provisions that have a budgetary impact may be included.
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December 2014: VW offers to recalibrate the first and second generation EA 103 diesel engines as part of regular service work in the hope that the engines will then pass muster with CARB.
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And in case you missed it: • Before she walks the runway for Gucci, Burberry or Jil Sander, a young model on the make has to pass muster with Barbara Nicoli and Leila Ananna.
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That's a bit curious since it was believe that anything giving states more flexibility in administering Medicaid couldn't pass muster under the Senate's budget reconciliation rules, so we'll see what the details are.
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But even without arguments of political interference entering the trial, many on Wall Street will be looking for clues about the kinds of corporate deals that will pass muster during the Trump administration.
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"There's no guarantee that any agreement we reach will pass muster with the conservative elements in the House," Lowey told reporters Tuesday, citing fiscal hawks in the House that have opposed more spending.
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What would it cost to redo the front of the house in a way that would pass muster with the Landmarks Preservation Commission, which must sign off on exterior work in historic districts?
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If Republicans are forced to redraw the boundaries, Mr. Madonna said, they might "sacrifice" Mr. Meehan's district to shore up other Republican districts in a way that could pass muster with the court.
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Additionally, as noted by Underwood in a series of tweets this morning, the settlement will also require Charter to prove its internet speeds through "industry-accepted testing," removing any plans that don't pass muster.
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But the true measure of the deal's success will be whether it can pass muster with US regulators tasked with overseeing rules on risky assets that come into effect at the end of 153.
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Now the military is halfheartedly planning a parade for this fall that would pass muster with the White House and its eager occupant—a stunt that does little but assuage the president's personal insecurities.
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In a parallel much too pat to pass muster in a novel, the daughter has already found her father's version of events, in another bundle of papers in another abandoned bag after another death.
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Scalia's solution was to exempt deregulatory measures from cost-benefit analysis and court challenges, but he appears to have understood that such a flagrant double standard wouldn't pass muster with Congress or the public.
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Major U.S. exporters on Thursday threw their support behind a border tax, but President Donald Trump has sent mixed signals and some U.S. Senate Republicans question whether it would pass muster under international trade rules.
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On Tuesday came word that not even the grandson of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who founded the Islamic Republic in 1979, could pass muster with the ideologues who are determined to maintain control and resist change.
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Regulators told five big American banks, including JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America, that their living wills—plans that would make it easier to dismember them or start winding them up—did not pass muster.
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Say you'd like to make a few extra bucks by driving for ride hailing services Lyft and Uber or on-demand delivery services like Postmates, but your old car won't pass muster with these companies.
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There are bands from that time that transcend it, that exert a pull beyond nostalgia; they can pass muster with a generation that wasn't steeped in the great soup of entertainment in which we lived.
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And given that the platforms have not found an effective way to determine which advertisements pass muster, "Twitter made the right decision to say, 'We don't want to get into the judging game,'" she said.
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Last week major U.S. exporters threw their support behind the border tax, but President Donald Trump has sent mixed signals and some U.S. Senate Republicans question whether it would pass muster under international trade rules.
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Quebec minister of agriculture Pierre Paradis recently made a big announcement: So-called "ugly fruit"—the misshapen fruits and veggies that normally wouldn't pass muster—can now be sold in grocery stores across the province.
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But whether they will pass muster from Kelly -- who has scant political experience -- or whether going inside the White House at this point is even feasible for them personally and professionally remains an open question.
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Tennessee, which hasn't expanded Medicaid, last fall submitted to Trump a proposal to block-grant much of its Medicaid program, which Verma has indicated won't pass muster under the narrower guidelines put out this year.
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He said he was told he was not a good writer, and as for music, "I had one test of singing a note," and when he sang the note back, he did not pass muster.
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As for what kind of advertising ultimately did pass muster at the Oscars, where 30 seconds of advertising went for $2.6 million, the biggest winners were pharma and media entertainment and the career website Indeed.
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But after Pompeo tweeted the day after the strike that it came in response to "imminent threats to American lives," that led to a series of attempted justifications that struggled to pass muster with lawmakers.
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The 9th Circuit's ruling, the SG said, merely allowed ADR holders to take another crack at drafting a complaint against Toshiba – and even the 9th Circuit agreed that the investors' previous complaint didn't pass muster.
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As the Fourth Circuit concedes, the president has broad powers to restrict the entry of noncitizens, and an executive order restricting travel from a specified set of terror-affected countries would normally easily pass muster.
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Her description of, say, a late-life surgical procedure that Adams endured — the ghastly "degloving" of her face to remove a tumor from her nasal cavity — would pass muster in a neurosurgeon's how-to guide.
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The central thrust of the PHH opinion is that, regardless of the validity of Humphrey's Executor and Morrison, an independent agency headed by a single officer lacks a sufficient historical pedigree to pass muster constitutionally.
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Democrats dealing with the issue were skeptical the unique approach would pass muster with the Senate parliamentarian, who plays a major role in deciding what can be done under the complex and highly technical reconciliation rules.
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Should it pass muster with federal regulators, the repercussions of the deal are likely to be felt for years, if not decades, as Disney further fortifies its position as the dominant company in the entertainment industry.
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To pass muster businesses have to appoint a "data-protection officer", conduct impact assessments, ensure that customers provide explicit consent to use their information and give them the ability to inspect, correct or delete their records.
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Ed Slott's five warning signs about tax schemes Multiple entities: A tax plan that requires you to set up multiple partnerships to cover up the transaction is probably not going to pass muster with the IRS.
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I previously noted that Comey's suggestion that these memos belonged to him (and thus could be leaked to the media) would likely not pass muster with folks at the FBI who have to make such decisions.
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It's not clear if the deal will pass muster in Congress, where a House vote will be difficult because of opposition from House Democrats under heavy pressure from unions and other liberal groups to oppose it.
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Like their defense, their offense needs a major strategic overhaul, because their struggles to score against the long, athletic, versatile Warriors defense indicates that James' preferred offensive style may no longer pass muster against elite opponents.
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The few extra characters he adds to the lineup pass muster, from MacAuslon to an imperious bank manager; a beguiling, bright-eyed Scottish photographer; and an old Eton chum, Monty, who is besotted with Florence Craye.
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But it provided scant details on how the facilities would operate, or why the new plan might pass muster with the court when previous attempts to ease limits on the detention of migrant children have not.
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Deutsche Telekom and SoftBank had to undergo reviews by Cfius when they bought control of their respective American wireless providers years ago, which suggests that any transfer of assets between the two now would pass muster.
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The latest plan, analysts said, will never pass muster in Ireland because officials fear that customs checks on the island, even if they were tucked well away from the border, would be a magnet for terrorists.
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It was no great leap for paranoid delusions, like Pizzagate, or deliberate hoaxes, like the one about the Pope endorsing Trump, to pass muster on Facebook, because the design made all news-like items feel fungible.
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Many of the people who navigate these poinsettia-decorated landscapes will spend the next week wondering how much to tip the handyman and whether the decorations affixed to their doors will pass muster with the neighbors.
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A preview of Andrew's column on the deal, which will go up this afternoon: No matter how much hyperbole Sprint and T-Mobile expend, it is hard to see how the deal will pass muster with regulators.
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A California appeals court has ruled that one publication of notice for a consumer class-action settlement of claims Mario Badescu face cream contained undisclosed ingredients was enough to pass muster under the state's consumer-protection law.
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Top outside groups are urging Republican leadership to put together and pass a new ObamaCare repeal plan that will pass muster with conservatives after the GOP's healthcare bill last week fell apart amid a lack of support.
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According to the Emily Post Institute, women actually have a lot of options: "a formal, floor-length evening gown, dressy cocktail dress, [or even] your dressiest 'little black dress'" will pass muster under the black-tie umbrella.
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Another major problem for Republicans is that the Parliamentarian ruled that a provision in the House bill dubbed the "Buffalo buyout" didn't pass muster because it so clearly was designed for one state and one state only.
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Sadly, instead of making the tough calls, our leaders in Washington would rather push false narratives and hold the funding process hostage to advance controversial policies that would never pass muster moving through the regular legislative process.
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Since the Department of Labor finalized its fiduciary rule (now in limbo) last year, annuity sales have fallen dramatically as brokerage firms and advisors anticipate that the products may not pass muster under a tighter regulatory standard.
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But no matter who is responsible, the story of how this ostensibly fake Hals managed to pass muster with so many leading experts provides a chilling glimpse into the complex but ultimately subjective process of authenticating art.
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Another change: Privacy policies that contain vague phrases like 'We may use your personal data to develop new services' or 'We may use your personal data for research purposes' will not pass muster under the new regime.
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Both "headless body" and "topless bar" were ineligible because of their unmatchable word lengths, so I substituted TOPLESS SWIMSUIT and HEADLESS CHICKEN — two offbeat entries that I wasn't sure would pass muster, but I'm glad they did.
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And if that doesn't necessarily vindicate the president's own positions, which he chooses for reasons that would not pass muster with theorists and ideologues, the record nonetheless calls into question the value of system-builders in policymaking.
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The wildcard returns Don't forget, this proposal will still need to go through the so-called "Byrd bath," where the Senate parliamentarian takes a look at various provisions and recommends whether they pass muster under budget rules.
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If a fertility clinic were to present it that way, it would pass muster with Dr. Berkeley (even though it might draw a raised eyebrow from state insurance commissioners who don't like unlicensed people selling unregulated insurance).
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Senate Republicans may not wait for the Congressional Budget Office to measure the effects of a controversial change to their health care bill that would let insurers sell plans too skimpy to pass muster under Obamacare. Sen.
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Although Paul subsequently issued apologies, the callous stunt was just the latest in a string of incidents where popular YouTubers have posted jaw-droppingly offensive, prejudiced, or unethical content that would never pass muster at a traditional outlet.
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Even if Ciudadanos' reform proposals pass muster, however, its support alone would not be enough to give the PP a majority in parliament and it would still need the Socialist party to refrain from preventing Rajoy's re-election.
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After all it's not easy to pass muster around security and reliability with the military and if one company can prove that they are capable in this regard, they could be set up well beyond this one deal.
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While Barr rebutted the specific examples that Klobuchar offered, noting that "public statements" Trump made in the Cohen example would not "pass muster," for example, he provided her the exact opening she needed to draw a key conclusion.
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But it is unclear if the arrangement will pass muster in parliament as many pro-Brexit lawmakers have demanded Britain must be able to unilaterally withdraw from the backstop to avoid being chained to the EU in perpetuity.
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Citing repeated rejections of Democratic and bipartisan deal offerings leading up to the failed effort in February and stalled talks on the spending bill, the aide doubted any White House and Republican-only driven effort could pass muster.
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The once yearly appearance of a black face on a fashion magazine cover (usually in February, a graveyard month for print publications) won't pass muster now that the people whom fashion historically excluded are increasingly calling the shots.
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Republican congressional leaders are trying to put together a plan that could pass muster with the Trump team and also win approval in the Senate under fast-track procedures that would neutralize the threat of a Democratic filibuster.
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The IMF program is in choppy waters: as of now Ukraine has refused to implement a sharp hike in gas prices it had previously agreed to, while the Fund is also studying whether recently passed pension changes pass muster.
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But, even if a job candidate has all the expertise and experience in the world, if he or she fails to pass muster on the threshold tests of temperament, tolerance (inclusiveness) and teamwork, they will never get the job.
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Smart politicians and Washington insiders are wise to this tactic, and the sharpest among them will often seize the opportunity to insert controversial provisions in legislation that would otherwise fail to pass muster in the arena of public opinion.
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The levels of clenbuterol were so low, according to the IOC, that they did not think the case would pass muster in any kind of legal proceeding, which is why WADA agreed to not pursue the positive tests further.
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One streamlined option is a 55-day training program that teaches schools how to set up their own kitchens, handle food safely and cook a select repertoire of scratch recipes that pass muster with the National School Lunch Program.
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They're no longer as worried about the political ramifications of their votes in these Trump-friendly states because the allegations of sexual misconduct give them a reason to do so that they think would pass muster with their constituency.
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Legal experts said Congress could supersede the law with one that could pass muster, particularly by tying the cutting practice to aspects of interstate commerce, because Congress is allowed to make laws enforcing the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.
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The Trump team also recognizes that the president-elect's most unorthodox and belligerent stances — while helpful in a populist campaign for the White House — would be unlikely to pass muster with many members of the Senate, even fellow Republicans.
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Working with multiple designers in the sports world—including Roka, a U.S. swimwear company and Merooj, which makes Iran's Olympic uniforms—Gerami crafted a hijab-like uniform for each portion of the triathlon that would hopefully pass muster with the Federation.
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On the tricky and and complicated question of whether the bill will meet the technical rules of reconciliation in the Senate, Cornyn expressed confidence the bill will pass muster with the Senate Parliamentarian who will be the sole judge of that.
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I don't think half of the rosy future you described above would pass muster in the EU. Privacy hawks are, as we speak, sharpening their talons to sink them into the flesh of any future intel products, don't you think?
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"There is only one reason that would pass muster, and that would be because the agreement has to be changed... Any delay must be hinged around the idea of getting change to the deal, but any other reason simply doesn't work."
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The comments also came as some Republicans opposed to the bill in its current form became more determined in their opposition after hearing encouragement from their constituents during recess this week -- increasing the odds that the bill won't pass muster.
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Last week's Salzburg summit, at which Theresa May was told her so-called "Chequers Plan" for a future relationship with the EU would not pass muster, was widely presented in the British press as a debacle for the country's Prime Minister.
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For Effy Zhang, a 24-year-old reporter for one of China's biggest online news portals, the past few days have been exhausting, exhilarating and nerve-racking — because she is never sure her articles will pass muster with Beijing's censors.
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Just a week into his presidency, he announced the deeply controversial travel ban — a Muslim ban, to its critics — which then got bogged down in the courts for months, though a later iteration did eventually pass muster at the Supreme Court.
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But a slightly toned-down ad arguing that Representative So-and-So even voted to let suspected terrorists buy military-style assault weapons like the one used to slaughter dozens in Orlando would pass muster under any normal journalistic standard.
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The redrafted order, delayed by a week so it would not overshadow Mr. Trump's address to a joint session of Congress last Tuesday, represented a recognition that the rushed first attempt at the ban did not pass muster legally or politically.
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In the early eighties, the political scientist Nelson W. Polsby warned that the quality and popularity of government would suffer if "persons unable to pass muster with their peers occasionally prove to be popularly attractive" and win their party's nomination.
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However, its guidelines for the characteristics of game-worthy balls are extremely flexible: at the extreme, two balls so different that the same impact would send one flying 49 feet (15 metres) further than the other could both pass muster with the league.
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The wartime powers claim is broadly written but also predicated on the administration having to claim a specific national security emergency such as an ongoing war or a major disaster, Bloomberg noted, so it's not clear that it would pass muster either.
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Washington (CNN)The Trump administration is planning to roll out as early as this week a revised executive order on immigration that the President says will "protect our people" while at the same time pass muster with courts that halted an earlier version.
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But whether it could pass muster as a standard treatment had never been pursued in formal research until Mithoefer, a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina, launched the first study with MAPS nearly two decades ago.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, the 91-year-old former chairman of former American International Group Inc, said at his fraud trial that he never would have considered doing a transaction that failed to pass muster with the insurer's lawyers and accountants.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government will issue licenses to companies seeking to sell goods to China's Huawei where there is no threat to national security, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Tuesday, leaving industry observers unsure about which products will pass muster.
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They first tested out their khao man gai recipe in Queens, to see if it would pass muster with their fellow Thai expatriates, a number of whom have settled in the orbit of Wat Buddha Thai Thavorn Vanaram, a Buddhist temple in Elmhurst.
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Governor Cuomo said that the state intends to streamline that process through a new Office of Renewable Energy Permitting, eventually allowing the state to preselect sites for large solar farms and assess their viability, then offer those that pass muster to developers.
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And even though there's a chance that Google's plan to buy Fitbit may not pass muster with regulators, it is possible that there might even be some upside to having massive tech companies become the central repositories for our daily health stats.
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Clinton has achieved such overwhelming party insider support that the Sanders campaign is largely cut off from access to the kind of para-party policy wonk universe that would allow Sanders to release campaign proposals that pass muster by the traditional rules of the game.
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The second would probably pass muster with an extremely pedantic fact-checker since under Medicare-for-all, it would be a program for all people rather than a "program for seniors," but I think it's clear enough that Trump is trying to trick people.
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The parliamentarian also said that a provision in the Senate bill that would limit New York's ability to require upstate counties and Long Island to contribute to the state's Medicaid program -- which critics refer to as the "Buffalo Bailout" -- also did not pass muster.
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A deal may still be on the table if the companies are willing to sell off some assets to address antitrust concerns, according to Justice officials, who also stressed that its move to block this particular merger does not mean others won't pass muster.
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The heart of Mr. Sanders's plan, a government-run effort to build, manage and distribute renewable energy on a vast scale, would cost more than $2 trillion if it could pass muster in Congress and, several economists said, it might not even curb emissions.
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The lack of a CBO score means that we don't know the budgetary implications for the newest version of the BCRA, and therefore, it doesn't pass muster under the Senate's budget reconciliation rules that allow certain measures to pass with just a majority vote.
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He emceed a roundtable discussion at which he promised repeatedly to get a bill passed, teased possible for support for things like an assault weapons ban that would not pass muster with his own party, and encouraged lawmakers to get out of their ideological corners.
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As the company defends challenges to its patents in the courts, generic manufacturers such as Teva and Mylan have been trying to game the system by asserting challenges to Allergan's patents through the PTABs, gambits that wouldn't pass muster if held to traditional legal standards.
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The Senate Republicans' revised health care bill will keep Obamacare's taxes on high-income Americans in place and allow the sales of bare-bones health insurance plans that wouldn't pass muster under the Affordable Care Act, according to a summary of the bill obtained by Vox.
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A long, flowing mane may be perfect for the rock 'n' roll lifestyle, but it's not really going to pass muster when you're trying to play a British soldier during World War II. And so it is that Harry Styles has bid adieu to his famous locks.
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Aetna, Humana — Credit Suisse upgraded both health care companies to "outperform" from "neutral," on the idea that a Trump administration might improve prospects for health care stocks in general and also increase the chances that Aetna's pending deal to buy Humana would pass muster with antitrust officials.
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"We just need to call them what they are -- killers and fanatics who have to be rooted out, hunted down, and destroyed," he said, warning that "tough talk or calls to carpet bomb civilians" may work as a soundbite but don't pass muster on the world stage.
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Ava, though, will still have to pass muster with the Food and Drug Administration, just as Impossible Foods did when it unveiled the "Impossible Burger," a vegan burger that reportedly tastes and has the same characteristics (including the juiciness and sizzle) of a meat-based one.
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Whether or not this new order will pass muster in our court system, one of the unintended consequences of this latest attack on our immigrant population — alongside the president's previous executive guidance on undocumented immigrants — will be a closing down of some of our favorite ethnic eateries.
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Weirdly, the most boring section of the new film is the actual raiding of the tombs, partly because Lara is dogged by a dreary villain, Vogel (Walton Goggins), who might just pass muster as a henchman, and partly because the obstacles that greet her seem so familiar.
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"I don't think that impounding funds is probably going to pass muster, but I think that Congress and the people who appropriate the money, we should think about whether we should be sending money to universities that only have one set of speech," the Kentucky Republican said.
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He emceed a roundtable discussion at which he promised repeatedly to get a bill passed, teased possible support for things like a pathway to citizenship for the undocumented that would not pass muster with his own party, and encouraged lawmakers to get out of their ideological corners.
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It's unclear whether the changes to the bill that Cruz and other conservatives are pushing for — such as allowing companies to sell health plans that are exempt from government standards or sell insurance policies across state lines — can pass muster with GOP moderates or the Senate parliamentarian.
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The latest wallop of bad news for Republicans came Friday when the Senate parliamentarian announced that key provisions of the revised bill would not pass muster under the special budgetary rules that Republicans are using to pass the legislation with a simple majority instead of 6900 votes.
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The carriers themselves are certainly acting as though they know net neutrality's days are numbered: AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson told investors the other day that the company would "go hard" on zero-rating video services because he assumed the regulations would pass muster in a Trump administration.
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We have to reduce the influence of money in our politics, so that a handful of families and hidden interests can't bankroll our elections — and if our existing approach to campaign finance can't pass muster in the courts, we need to work together to find a real solution.
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"The fact that some elected officials are already contesting the Council of State's decision shows that they have now entered an ideological showdown," he said, while adding that if an anti-burkini law were put forward in Parliament, it would not likely pass muster with the country's Constitutional Council.
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We have to reduce the influence of money in our politics, so that a handful of families and hidden interests can't bankroll our elections—and if our existing approach to campaign finance can't pass muster in the courts, we need to work together to find a real solution.
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We have to reduce the influence of money in our politics, so that a handful of families and hidden interests can't bankroll our elections — and if our existing approach to campaign finance can't pass muster in the courts, we need to work together to find a real solution.
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While comparisons between Trump and Bernie Sanders rarely pass muster, the real estate magnate's wailing about a rigged system does, in the broadest strokes, recall the Vermont senator's critique of an American economic system that's set up to benefit elites; at times, this rhetoric also recalls potential Clinton vice presidential pick Elizabeth Warren.
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Sometimes to switch the audio setting, sometimes to adjust the volume, other times to turn the speaker on when it would power down before the TV.Compared to the slightly pricier Sonos Playbar, itself a wireless audio soundbar solution that can be upgraded with additional speakers over time, the Sound+ just doesn't pass muster.
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In effect, President Trump is making the sweeping assertion that he can ignore Congress as it weighs his fate because he considers the impeachment effort unfair and the Democrats who initiated it biased against him, an argument that channeled his anger even as it failed to pass muster with many scholars on Wednesday.
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His you-must-disown-God-to-pass tactics would almost certainly not pass muster at a public college, or any college, in the US. Not to mention that anyone with a PhD in philosophy would have a more nuanced understanding of what Nietzsche meant when he famously proclaimed the death of God.
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Some Democratic members of Congress and their staff are also worried that a politically guided policy might award contracts that shouldn't be — because the proposals didn't pass muster or would duplicate work being done elsewhere in the government, or because, in singling out Christians, they would actually make life worse for the religious minority.
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The tax benefits from the deal come from "flexibility" and the ability to "accommodate changes in the future," Robert Olson, the chief financial officer at Tyco, said in a phone interview Shareholders in the American company are required to own less than 29.7 percent of the joint entity to pass muster for an inversion.
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" What's so peculiar about the Dell decision is that the judge found no chicanery and still didn't think the price was fair, explaining that it was possible a board's actions "might pass muster for purposes of a breach of fiduciary claim and yet still generate a sub-optimal process for purposes of an appraisal.
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Though the plan did not pass muster with the state legislature, it created the opening for a summer of outrage from members of the Asian community, some of it fueled by legitimate grievances (a "profound sense of powerlessness" as Jiayang Fang put it in The New Yorker), some by resentment toward other minority groups.
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As Trump's senior staff in recent days mulled a potential executive order announcing the US' plans to withdraw from NAFTA, officials have had to consider tedious factors to ensure that they would maintain fast-track authority over a renegotiated deal and drafted several versions of a potential order to ensure it would pass muster.
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" However, he acknowledged that reformers are hemmed in about what they can do by both the Supreme Court and the recent intense partisan polarization of the issue at the national level, adding, "If our existing approach to campaign finance can't pass muster in the courts, we need to work together to find a real solution.
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And, of course, fermentation is behind the restaurant's arsenal of pickled vegetables, the most interesting of which may be the tart brussels sprouts that Mr. Park serves in banchan format alongside roast duck with a mole sauce that could pass muster in Mexico if Mr. Park did not up the funk level with gochujang.
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In both cases, a district court judge, one in California and one in New York, has issued a nationwide ruling that the rescinding of DACA last September is not likely to pass muster legally, ordering the Department of Homeland Security to resume considering renewal applications for the two-year work permits and protections from deportations.
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In her mind, and in the minds of those who backed her (namely the Project on Fair Representation, a conservative group behind a 2013 case that invalidated a portion of the Voting Rights Act), the only process that should pass muster is one that makes sure an even higher percentage of white people will be admitted to elite schools.
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Senate Republicans have sometimes buckled to Trump to confirm nominees they haven't been thrilled about, but they have managed to beat back two recent high-profile Trump nominees: both Herman Cain and Stephen Moore withdrew their nominations to the board of the Federal Reserve after it became clear they would not pass muster with the Senate.
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Despite the fact that the Senate language might well have passed the House on a straight up-or-down vote (support coming from a combination of Republicans and Democrats), Boehner felt obliged to followed the so-called "Hastert Rule" precluding him from bringing up any bill that failed to pass muster with at least half of the Republican caucus.
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But committee Chairman Bob CorkerRobert (Bob) Phillips CorkerTrump announces, endorses ambassador to Japan's Tennessee Senate bid Meet the key Senate player in GOP fight over Saudi Arabia Trump says he's 'very happy' some GOP senators have 'gone on to greener pastures' MORE (R-Tenn.) interjected to say "that won't pass muster," demanding Satterfield provide at least a general answer.
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" The FT's David Pilling describes the stakes for a country in the grips of a currency crisis, and with not nearly enough jobs to support its well-educated population: "Down one fork, if a clear winner emerges in a poll deemed to pass muster, Zimbabwe could shed its pariah status and be reinstated into the global community.
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"We believe patients should be treated based on what they're infected with, not what doctors think they might have," said Tom Lowery, the chief scientific officer of T2 Biosystems, a Boston company whose bacteria panel test has been the first to pass muster with the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
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"We have to reduce the influence of money in our politics, so that a handful of families and hidden interests can't bankroll our elections — and if our existing approach to campaign finance can't pass muster in the courts, we need to work together to find a real solution," the We the People Team wrote, quoting Obama.
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And even now, after first-place finishes in some recent polls of Democrats in Iowa and New Hampshire, he's pressed about whether someone with his short résumé, capped by two terms as the mayor of a city of just 100,000 people, could possibly be up to the presidency and pass muster with enough Americans to get elected.
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If anything, Weems is almost an ambassador for a less streamlined, chunkier type of basketball, the kind of shit that doesn't pass muster for the Quality crowd, but which can move the hearts of anyone looking beyond the four walls of victory and into the theatre of Human Beings Wringing Themselves For Every Drop Of Performance.
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If theater-as-therapy is your thing — that is to say writing that doesn't begin to attempt Kane's talent for transmuting feeling into art — then Lindsay Posner's production at the Playhouse Theater might just about pass muster given the absence of character development or sense of structure: Here's a show that doesn't come to a natural end; it just stops.
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True: telling Mayweather "dance for me boy" was gross and quasi-racist, dedicating a few coital thrusts to his "beautiful black female fans" was like Trump eating a taco bowl and tweeting "I love Hispanics," and the clean up at the media scrum afterward didn't erase the stain of ugly jokes that wouldn't pass muster on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour.
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As I sat down she offered me a glass of water, and when I indicated that I'd brought a bottle with me she shot me a quick disapproving look while crossing the room to pour me a glass from a jug; even though my water was packaged not in plastic but in eco-conscious cardboard, it still apparently failed to pass muster.
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According to the Post, she was only withdrawn for the CEQ role because the White House became concerned she could not pass muster for a final vote in the Senate, which the Republican Party currently controls—a fate which previously befell Michael Dourson, a toxicologist with ties to industry senators deemed too close to let Trump put him in charge of chemical safety at the EPA.
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In an appearance in Munich on February 18, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly suggested that the President was contemplating "releasing a tighter, more streamlined version of the first executive order" that would pass muster with the court and ease due process concerns because it would have a built-in roll out plan aimed at diminishing the chaos caused after the first order was released.
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YouTube's "Includes paid promotion" disclaimer, which is pretty small These built-in features from platforms are kind of a halfway–bandage approach: The platforms seem aware that these features are probably not going to pass muster with the FTC and other trade commissions like the UK's Committee of Advertising Practices, but they don't offer any warning to their users that using the tool isn't enough.
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The major breakthroughs that finally enabled the fill to pass muster with Will were (1) scaling back the lower-right corner (turning that corner with 6 blocks is much easier than with only 3); (2) replacing DESSERT CASES with the shorter PATISSERIE (or PATISSERIES in some incarnations); and (3) moving the thematic content to places that were easier to work with than the top and bottom.
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The coalition which includes the Environmental Defense Fund and the Sierra Club alleged on Wednesday the EPA has failed as required under the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to disclose to the public nonconfidential information, from companies' application to manufacture a new chemical to safety studies they share with the EPA, that informs how it decides which new chemicals pass muster in terms of risks to public health and the environment.
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In just a few years, North Carolina Republicans have not just run quickly through the conservative policy checklist; they've tried to permanently skew the balance of power in the state in their favor, passing some of the most restrictive voting laws in the country and drawing some of the most egregiously gerrymandered congressional and state legislative districts in modern American politics (though their moves have repeatedly failed to pass muster with the courts).
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The purchase requires regulatory approval and the green light from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, a panel composed of representatives from major American government departments and intelligence agencies like the Treasury and Justice Departments and the C.I.A. Cowen executives said that because the deal involved only a minority stake and was focused on financial services, not normally seen as a sensitive industry, they were confident it would pass muster with American regulators.
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In our view, the only solution that can pass muster on both sides of the aisle is to insert the following four lines into the next government funding bill: (1) No person who currently possesses DACA status can be deported unless they commit a crime; (2) Those in DACA status can work and study legally; 3) Covered persons can apply for permission to travel if an urgent humanitarian situation arises; and 4) Lines 1, 2, and 3 shall expire on March 5, 2019.
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Started last year with a mission to create a nonalcoholic beer that would pass muster with actual beer snobs, Athletic features a head brewer and co-founder, John Walker, who won awards during his time with Second Street Brewing, a highly regarded craft-beer brand in Santa Fe. Mr. Shufelt said that three-quarters of Athletic's customers are not sober, but rather belong to "a demographic we theorized was latent": light drinkers like athletes and harried parents who cannot spare the energy for hangovers.
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Curbelo told reporters Monday that the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus has a bill that could pass muster with both Republicans and Democrats who want to find a solution after President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE rescinded DACA in September, giving Congress a March deadline to act to protect the program's 690,000 beneficiaries from potential deportation.
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