"No pressure groups had anything to do with it," he said.
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Collins also expressed anger that Republican pressure groups had targeted Sen.
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Enthusiasm for UBIs has spawned pressure groups, public campaigns and randomised trials.
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The world's central pressure groups working on climate change, including Greenpeace, Avaaz.
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That gives pressure groups more scope to keep an eye on them.
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Rouhani blamed the ruling on the influence of "Zionist pressure groups" in Washington.
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Unlike Reagan, he has no army of pressure groups to push his agenda.
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It has outraged right-wing pressure groups and baffled conservative health care experts.
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Kramer says the only requests tend to come from political pressure groups and individuals.
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AMLO mistrusts "civil society", the pressure groups that call for stronger checks and balances.
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British political parties have always contained pressure groups that try to influence their parties.
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But pressure groups pushing for a ban have gathered support from mostly liberal lawmakers.
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Their alliances with international pressure groups have brought more attention but have not reduced the violence.
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Across the spectrum of opposition pressure groups, there was impatience for Democrats to show some resolve.
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The usual environmental pressure groups are not the only ones who oppose increased offshore oil production.
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While national politicians cower in fear of donors, pressure groups and cable television coverage, mayors can act.
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Pressure groups want them to conform to higher standards of corporate governance, environmental sustainability and employee well-being.
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Leading outside pressure groups, such as the Club for Growth and Heritage Action, are also urging "no" votes.
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Just nine have come back online—and various lawsuits and pressure groups aim to turn them off again.
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Over the years, ballot measures — especially initiatives — have been hijacked by pressure groups to push particular political agendas.
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Politicians are not only accountable to voters but also kept in line by feisty courts, journalists and pressure groups.
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Lists are being kept and wins are being tallied by pressure groups aiming to get companies on their side.
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And even in Pyongyang, Western and South Korean pressure groups attest, the deadening totalitarian system is as intrusive as ever.
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The third principle is to beware pressure groups demanding a veto on what can be said in the public square.
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At the same time, there are a ton of pressure groups that focus entirely on trying to wield political power.
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Other pressure groups believe that allowing the U.S. president to visit the U.K. will stoke further hatred of minority groups.
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His government has passed laws making it impossible for labour unions and other pressure groups to criticise it without risking closure.
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However, it is already facing opposition from legal activists and pressure groups — suggesting a formal legal challenge is not far away.
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By the time Mr. Trump became president, Heritage Action had emerged as one of the leading conservative pressure groups in Washington.
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" Now, without these functioning committees, "More than perhaps ever before, Congress today is a collection of individual entrepreneurs and pressure groups.
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On matters of identity politics, Republicans have often sought to play down but not actively oppose racial, ethnic, and gender pressure groups.
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Rigid uniformity, created and nurtured by and for government bureaucrats and private pressure groups, is limiting the prospects for genuine affordable care.
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Healthcare dynamism requires real market reforms that center on the consumer, not stale D.C. platitudes and the concerns of powerful pressure groups.
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Democratic leaders in the Capitol pressed the White House to name a nominee quickly, and the Democratic National Committee rallied liberal pressure groups.
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Conservative pressure groups have complained about the spending bills and recommending "no" votes, but that has not seemed to move the needle significantly.
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Pressure groups, concerned about growing alcohol abuse among Malawi's youth are pushing for new legislation on the production, distribution and sale of alcohol.
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It is not the political spending of the NRA, which other pressure groups exceed, that has stymied the gun controls that Americans support.
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Outside pressure groups are flocking to the West Palm Beach media market for narrow, cheap television campaigns on weekends when Trump calls it home.
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Tea Party pressure groups like Heritage Action, and Koch brothers-funded groups like Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks came out swinging against the bill.
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An ambiguous law passed two years ago means other pressure groups and charities, both domestic and foreign, can easily be shut down for purported partisanship.
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After a planned movie adaptation was postponed in early 1970 (it was eventually canceled altogether), Styron railed against the "black pressure groups" he held responsible.
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All the hoopla that Shepherd has caused with her letter is nothing more than a bad move in the game of pressure groups in the Netherlands.
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That came after concerted efforts from pressure groups both inside and outside Iran, who were backed by senior players and former national team coach Carlos Queiroz.
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"Unfortunately, two democratic instruments, the (civil society) legal initiative and the referendum, have been perverted to serve the agenda of pressure groups," Respect said in a statement.
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Friday's UK strike was jointly organized by three climate change pressure groups: Youth Strike 4 Climate, the UK Student Climate Network, and the UK Youth Climate Coalition.
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"Pompeo and other U.S. officials are trapped in old illusions ... They are taken hostage by corrupt pressure groups," Zarif said in a live interview on state television.
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Progressive donors and pressure groups, rather than wasting money these next few weeks, had better direct it toward making sure the same mistake isn't made in 2020.
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The plug was pulled as part of a clampdown on Anglophone activists in which more than a hundred people have been arrested and pressure groups have been outlawed.
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Launching its annual survey of the human rights situation around the world, Roth said the task of standing up to oppression was increasingly falling to domestic pressure groups.
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Green pressure groups had lodged a legal complaint against the original plan, arguing the environmental impact of dumping mud and sand on fragile coastal wetlands would be devastating.
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"Attacks against our democratic processes go beyond (political parties) and can include attacks on parliament, constituency offices, think tanks and pressure groups and individuals' email accounts," it said.
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That move came after concerted efforts from pressure groups from both inside and outside Iran, who were backed by senior players and former national team coach Carlos Queiroz.
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The future of marine nuclear power stations is more likely to depend on the future of nuclear power itself than on the actions of pressure groups such as Greenpeace.
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News of the money's disappearance - with cabinet members giving differing versions of events - sparked outrage in the West African country, with politicians and pressure groups calling for more transparency.
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Ms. Wall said she worried that pressure groups — particularly religious ones — might find more influence ahead of a public vote than they would if lawmakers were deciding the matter.
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He's also pledged to end the grip fringe pressure groups hold on Israeli politics, and create a centrist unity government with the interests of the majority front-and-center.
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Locals say that some six months before the vote, all the main parties are already recruiting youngsters into political gangs, known as "pressure groups" to intimidate opponents and their voters.
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That has thwarted hundreds of small farmers looking to expand, banking associations, farmers and pressure groups say - among them Gerliani, who needs $10,000 for a tractor to tend her vines.
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Pressure groups representing distressed debt firms that have loaded up on Puerto Rican debt will likely oppose the bill and try to recover 20113 percent of what they are owed.
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And the biggest conservative pressure groups off Capitol Hill — Heritage Action, Club for Growth and Freedom Partners — dropped their opposition to the measure, known as the American Health Care Act.
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And like any president, Trump will be constrained by various pressure groups who will have an interest in making sure he does some of the things he said he'd do.
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Last week, I warned a House Homeland Security Subcommittee that Islamist pressure groups were making it impossible for my fellow Muslims to do the crucial work of reforming and liberalizing Islam.
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Candidates who favour incremental changes are signalling that they are basically happy with the country as it is, says Karthik Ganapathy of MoveOn, one of the largest pressure groups on the left.
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The West, with its free-market economic model, primacy in multilateral organisations and human-rights pressure groups could accelerate the spread of democracy even in places with few of the institutional underpinnings.
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Nesbitt agreed it's unlikely that Canadian authorities could successfully bring foreign meddlers — including hostile intelligence services, state-backed hackers, and pressure groups from outside Canada's borders, among others — before a Canadian court.
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George Soros, a financier who has bankrolled many pro-legalisation pressure groups, provides a chapter; the book carries an introduction by Richard Branson, a business mogul whose company, Virgin, is its publisher.
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Much of it was orchestrated by pressure groups like Freedom Works, and it's a good guess that some of the "ordinary citizens" who appeared at town halls were actually right-wing activists.
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"Mr Pompeo and other U.S. officials in the current administration are prisoners of their wrong illusions, prisoners of their past and have been taken hostage by corrupt pressure groups," he told state television.
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We've teamed up with the Toronto Star to investigate the ways in which political parties, third-party pressure groups, foreign powers, and individuals are influencing Canada's political debate ahead of this year's election.
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Hanna bought the votes of politicians, but he didn't have a collection of think tanks, a nationwide network of pressure groups or a collection of subsidized university programs to propagandize on his behalf.
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LIUBOMIR TOPALOFFAssociate professor of political scienceMeiji University Tokyo Bagehot claimed that Brexiteers are one of the most successful pressure groups in British history, second only to the Anti-Corn Law Leaguers (June 16th).
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THE Brexiteers are one of the most successful pressure groups in British history—arguably the second-most successful after the Anti-Corn Law Leaguers who inspired the creation of The Economist in 1843.
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" Reuters reported that Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Pompeo and other officials are "prisoners of their wrong illusions, prisoners of their past and have been taken hostage by corrupt pressure groups.
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She would be the first person in Britain to have her death legally linked to air pollution as charities and pressure groups bid to raise awareness of the impact poor air quality has on health.
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"The fact that some university boards and administrations bow to pressure groups and shield students from these ideas through 'safe spaces,' 'code words' and 'trigger warnings' is, in my view, a terrible mistake," he said.
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The same constraints that affect the wider sharing economy—NIMBY pressure groups who put their interests above the common good and regulators who fail to adapt to new technology—find echoes in the luxury market.
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The Gulf state has come under scrutiny over what pressure groups describe as poor labour conditions as it prepares to host the 2022 soccer World Cup, which it hopes will boost its economy and development.
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BuzzFeed News and the Toronto Star are investigating the ways in which political parties, third-party pressure groups, foreign powers, and individuals are influencing Canada's political debate in the run-up to this fall's federal election.
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That production could cap oil price gains and ultimately pressure groups of energy sector creditors to stop kicking the can down the road and come to a decision on long distressed drillers in which they've invested.
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Related: A Dental Charity That Works in the Developing World Has a New Clinic — in England Meanwhile, pressure groups on either side of the EU membership debate each claimed that the draft proposal bolstered their campaigns.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's comments about Iran "untrue" and based on "old illusions" on Wednesday and said Washington had become a hostage to pressure groups.
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Corporate executives would be well advised to huddle with their advertising coordinators to determine the appropriate strategy for placing ads, responding to criticism from pressure groups, and ultimately, which sociopolitical values their companies want to follow.
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Since its inception, the Islamic Republic has relied on institutions like the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), its feared Basij domestic militia, and assorted informal pressure groups to enforce the edicts of the country's clerical elite.
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But in caving into pressure groups, politicians are setting themselves up for bigger problems down the track, as a lack of supply will drive natural gas prices higher, threatening industries and causing retail energy prices to spike.
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The new plan backed by House Republicans is inviting an internecine fight within the party between leadership-aligned lobbies, such as the US Chamber of Commerce, and more hardline pressure groups, such as the Club for Growth.
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Washington (CNN)A pair of Republican pressure groups who have long scuffled in the halls of Congress began a new final square-off on Tuesday, just two days left before the party's health care bill is saved or perishes.
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Founded in the early 2000s, CDP — formerly known as Carbon Disclosure Project — is a respected voice in a growing coalition of pressure groups, fund managers, central bankers and politicians who believe global warming poses a systemic risk to the financial system.
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Founded in the early 2000s, CDP — formerly known as Carbon Disclosure Project — is a respected voice in a growing coalition of pressure groups, fund managers, central bankers and politicians who believe global warming poses a systemic risk to the financial system.
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Founded in the early 2000s, CDP - formerly known as Carbon Disclosure Project - is a respected voice in a growing coalition of pressure groups, fund managers, central bankers and politicians who believe global warming poses a systemic risk to the financial system.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Britain should force businesses to stamp out modern slavery from their supply chains, after a survey found that many of its biggest firms are failing to comply with anti-slavery laws, pressure groups said on Friday.
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In another paper published the Heritage Foundation, Gordon shows many of the recent delistings of a number of species were not because they were recovered, as has been claimed by the Fish and Wildlife Service and by environmental pressure groups.
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The Communist-controlled and perfectly misnamed National-Democratic Party of Germany (NDPD), for example, "helped form, during the 1950s, 'numerous pressure groups, newspapers, and "study circles" for former officers' through its West German contacts among former Nazis and Wehrmacht officers," he writes.
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Call it the export of democracy: the certainty that democratic practices and the institutions of civil society – as non-governmental pressure groups, independent research centers, the news media – could, once released from servitude, rapidly change into free societies on the Western model.
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It would solve the problem of a potential shortage of natural gas in southeastern Australia, introduce competition with existing players, keep prices to at least the level of what Asian buyers are prepared to pay and allow the politicians to keep appeasing noisy pressure groups.
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A few weeks after the White House meeting, the net neutrality pressure groups led a "national day of protest" in response to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's rumored plans to continue the FCC's light-touch Internet policy and implement a narrowly crafted net neutrality rule.
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Indira Lakshmanan has a revealing story in Politico on the "plan to undo the Iranian nuclear deal" by preventing Iran from reentering the global economy, and the "constellation of pressure groups, analysts, lobbyists and lawmakers" who are hard at work trying to make it happen.
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"The political pressure groups who continue to attack the four specialized high schools intend to eventually destroy these schools and their specialized status in science, mathematics, music and art," wrote Burton G. Hecht, a Democrat from the Bronx who sponsored the bill in the Assembly.
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This latest ruling came in response to a petition by several nongovernmental pressure groups and Yesh Atid, a centrist party led by Yair Lapid, who has championed the cause of equal service in recent years both in the government and now in the opposition.
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Daren Bakst, a research fellow in agricultural policy at the Heritage Foundation think tank, said sue and settle has led to "egregious antics" that have "effectively handed over the setting of agency priorities to environmental pressure groups," and has led to rushed rulemaking by the agency.
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To the extent Republicans remain unconvinced, party leaders will reportedly try to bully them into submission—perhaps as early as this week—by advancing legislation and daring their own members (the moderates and the hardliners) to take responsibility for killing it in full view of well-heeled pressure groups.
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" In 1979, National Review editor Joseph Sobran lamented the fact that if you were to write a history textbook, you would have to include "celebratory little passages on all the vocal pressure groups: women and minorities, or chicks and spics as you'll wind up wanting to call them.
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"We implore the government to act on science, evidence and expert clinical advice to limit the spread of COVID-19 as well as ensure continued access to abortion care, instead of reacting to extreme pressure groups who have a strong anti-woman agenda," he said in a statement.
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Democrats and outside pressure groups have criticized Sessions over allegations of racism, including purported remarks that sunk a 1986 nomination for a federal judgeship "As our nation's top law enforcement official, the U.S. attorney general bears a sacred responsibility to fight injustice and defend the defenseless," she said in a statement.
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They co-own virtually all of Koch Industries, the second-largest private company in the United States, and have long tapped their combined fortune—currently ninety billion dollars—to finance candidates, think tanks, pressure groups, and political operatives who support an anti-tax and anti-regulatory agenda, which dovetails with their financial interests.
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Public authorities in general, encouraged by pressure groups but also, I suspect, driven by their natural sympathies, have taken to closing down debates on subjects that are deemed too controversial such as diversity (which has been built into social policy without any serious debate about its advantages versus its disadvantages), and, increasingly, various aspects of sexual mores.
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