The Associated Press reported that the Obama administration set records for refusals to the media and the public for information and also set records in tax money spent defending lawsuits over the refusals.
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He's goading them with refusals to comply with any requests.
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And, having survived Cleveland's repeated refusals to die quietly, relief.
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Around 140 refusals occurred at Germany's largest airport, Frankfurt Airport.
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Trump's explanations -- and excuses -- for these refusals have varied widely.
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This standard would make stopping "refusals to deal" virtually impossible.
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Much of the book, however, is a rosary of refusals.
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But these are stories of painful awakenings and refusals of innocence.
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But after the manual changes in January 2018, the refusals shot up.
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Congress's power to punish refusals to cooperate is a more complicated matter.
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After days of swirling rumors and repeated refusals to comment on Mrs.
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His refusals to grant access to the Joyce archive could seem arbitrary.
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She alleged that Halperin continued to proposition her for sex despite her refusals.
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Ministers are now deliberating over further asset freezes, visa refusals and diplomatic expulsions.
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Still, their refusals to support Bottoms speak to broader shift in Atlanta politics.
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Now, in my view, the two refusals are in no way morally equivalent.
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His refusals to condemn Putin drew lots of attention at his confirmation hearing.
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Literally a figure on a plinth, she becomes a monument to her refusals.
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It also ranks highly in US visa refusals with a 57% refusal rate.
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In Britain, he noted, fines have sometimes been imposed repeatedly for repeated refusals.
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For me, Rayne's oeuvre and exhibition embody a similar act in the various refusals.
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It nourishes an impatient strength within us, endlessly reinforcing the massive army of refusals.
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Those refusals became part of the House's obstruction of Congress charge against the President.
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These refusals may or may not have been political liabilities — it's hard to know.
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The resulting retractions or corrections — or refusals — even spawned a new category of Breitbart story.
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Mr Worthy reckons the trend in refusals could be reversed by a change of government.
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But that plan stalled amid British refusals to allow Assange safe passage outside the embassy.
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But there should not be blanket refusals to operate on fat people, the committee wrote.
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After repeated refusals, their conversation turns more tense when he says she is under arrest.
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The following July, after a year of refusals, I was abruptly summoned to the compound.
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Rooney, a senior member on the committee, said the basis for those refusals should be examined.
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Clinton's refusals to take a stand on the Keystone XL pipeline and the Pacific trade deal.
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Refusals are common, and some families will hide their children from vaccinators, or even attack them.
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The tough talk and refusals to compromise could hamper government operations in states across the country.
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The refusals have left more than 20043,000 undocumented immigrants with a criminal history on the streets here.
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They then challenged the refusals they received in the courts until their cases reached the supreme court.
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Since his death, the Hernandez Rojas family has been subjected to delaying tactics and refusals to prosecute.
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Their refusals outraged Democrats — who at one point drew a rebuke from Burr for talking over witnesses.
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Joseph Cammarata, a lawyer representing the women suing Bill Cosby, twice called the judge over Cosby's refusals.
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Through such "refusals to deal," monopolists can suppress emerging competition or extend their dominance into new markets.
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In the other version of globalization, there are endless borders, visa applications, attorneys, notarized documents, and ultimately, refusals.
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A search of the FDA's online records for 2015 did not show other refusals from Canadian canola plants.
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Other reasons for refusals: Seniors see their homes as sanctums, and they don't want strangers invading their privacy.
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He said it has resulted in a 10% increase in visa refusals by the US, in recent weeks.
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On Twitter, many people had been complaining of "radio silence" and refusals of refunds from Ticketmaster and Telecharge.
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But there is no record of Catholic refusals to serve, and rather an ample record of the opposite.
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DESPITE ITS repeated refusals to curb haywire electoral maps, the Supreme Court has no great love of partisan gerrymandering.
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The Sinner does have a habit of turning incomprehensible violence by women into applause-worthy refusals to be subjugated.
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Genetics were to blame for 46% of instances of food fussiness and 58% of refusals to try new food.
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Other refusals seemed to reflect a desire to avoid idle speculation or becoming a pawn of Congress' relentless partisanship.
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Nearly half of men and less than 40 percent of women surveyed supported refusals of service on religious grounds.
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Given the president's longstanding refusals, there was little expectation that Mr. Trump would make his 2017 tax returns public.
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Patients suffer from "delays in medical care, refusals to accommodate disabilities, and nearly constant isolation," according to the suit.
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Gaston is sweet on Belle, and his excitement at her unambiguous refusals makes him the film's avatar of nastiness.
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She said Thomas discussed pornography and other lascivious subjects around her and repeatedly asked her out, despite her refusals.
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Designing the program poorly could backfire, they said, making people distrust the system and increasing the rate of refusals.
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In 2016, the most recent year for which data are available, this was the cause of 44% of all refusals.
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He compared several of CEO Elon Musk's recent actions to Lehman's threats toward short sellers and refusals to raise capital.
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Top-tier college sports programs have drawn criticism for expensive facilities, lavishly paid head coaches, and refusals to pay players.
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The World Health Organization recently issued an alarm about the resurgence of measles globally as a result of immunization refusals.
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Schuman wrote that Carter performed oral sex on her, despite her refusals, and forced her to perform it on him.
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" These refusals can have devastating consequences for women's health," according to a fact sheet from the National Women's Law Center.
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The number of vaccine refusals in the country increased to 23,147 in 2016 from 4,893 in 2007, the report said.
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Trump has stonewalled Congressional investigations in the past with blanket refusals to provide documents or executive branch witnesses for testimony.
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Calls to 18 members of the school's board of trustees resulted in either unreturned calls or polite refusals to talk.
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The frustration has led to behind-the-scenes tension, and even refusals by some nonprofit providers to open new shelters.
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While those refusals have left Democrats apoplectic, Republicans have largely expressed tolerance as they prepare to wind down their investigation.
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Earlier this month, he seemed to open the door to his serving in a Netanyahu-led government despite earlier refusals.
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Earlier this month, he seemed to open the door to his serving in a Netanyahu-led government despite earlier refusals.
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You're faced with temper tantrums, bullying, utter refusals to acknowledge reality – oh, and you have to deal with the kids, too.
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The company noted such refusals have generated negative social media comments, which tarnishes Sydney as an international dining and hospitality destination.
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New Jersey's Democratic-controlled state legislature passed the bill in March, following Trump's repeated refusals to publicly release his tax returns.
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But Marian takes a dimmer view of the motivation behind health care refusals, and is apprehensive about the proposed regulations' effects.
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"Failure to establish entitlement to nonimmigrant status" was, by far, the top ground for visa refusals among all nationalities in 2023.
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She also claims the producer once threatened to kill her following one of her refusals, and verbally insulted her on set.
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The refusals have left Democrats -- now in the majority in the House having promised to hold the Trump administration accountable -- fuming.
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MOSCOW – Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is suing President Vladimir Putin over authorities&apos repeated refusals to sanction rallies for his supporters.
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McCain had slammed Work over the Pentagon's refusals to specifically name China as the culprit in some of the worst cyber-assaults.
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But he said those refusals had not affected the naval mission, or interfered with supplies reaching the Russian military operation in Syria.
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Even as many states reaffirm their refusals to provide any information, others are providing a considerable amount of data on their voters.
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Trump has vowed to make Mexico pay for the wall, despite repeated refusals to do so by Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.
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Some liberal pundits dismissed early refusals from Republican governors as brinksmanship, but the resistance has remained strong for a bloc of states.
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The woman said that when they returned to his apartment, he tried to pressure her into having sex despite her repeated refusals.
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Efforts to obtain Mr. Trump's federal tax returns have been repeatedly thwarted by the president's refusals to release them, citing pending audits.
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Democrats, embittered by Republican refusals for nearly a year to consider President Barack Obama's nominee, have promised a showdown over his confirmation.
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Of these refusals, over 2,200 applicants a year had some known or suspected connection to terrorism or terrorist organizations, the agency said.
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He cited statistics indicating that there were tens of thousand of such refusals in 48 states from January 2014 to September 2016.
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As it turns out, dogged stubbornness is a fitting characteristic for readers of this book, which weaves a complex tapestry of refusals.
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Mr. Zuma's lawyers said in court that he was prepared to repay part of the money, reversing years of refusals to do so.
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The changes to the manual are not the only reason for the increase in refusals of immigrant visa applications on public-charge grounds.
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If the White House continues its refusals in flat defiance of court rulings, then calling it a constitutional crisis starts to make sense.
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Legal experts have noted that such refusals would additionally pose a stigmatizing effect on same-sex couples that is forbidden by the Constitution.
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The Starr report faulted Mr. Clinton for refusing six invitations to testify before a grand jury, saying the refusals substantially delayed the investigation.
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In Texas for example, between 2003 and 2016, there's been a 19-fold increase in vaccine refusals — and it hasn't leveled of lately.
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The refusals signaled a long and bitter fight ahead as President Trump seeks to stave off inquiries into his personal and political activities.
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The president's public musings are clearly designed to undermine the Russia investigation and fortify those in his camp in their refusals to testify.
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It has also included repeated refusals to sign G-20 communique's committing countries, including the United States, to refrain from intensifying trade protection.
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The 1998 document found that Clinton's multiple refusals to testify to a grand jury in connection with Starr's investigation were grounds for impeachment.
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Throughout the election, he turned what might have been judged as moral lapses into heroic refusals to conform to politically correct moral criteria.
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DHS officials repeatedly said they believe the detainer requests and refusals will increase in subsequent reports as Trump's strict immigration policies are carried out.
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The law allows refusals of service when these are idiosyncratic, such as when a merchant won't serve anyone who isn't wearing a plaid shirt.
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That represented a sharp rise in refusals when compared with the eight rejections recorded in total between 2010 and 2015, according to the newspaper.
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"It is very difficult to put a specific number on how much vaccine refusals reduce a community's protection against disease," Davis said by email.
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Here are some samples of Comey's persistent refusals to answer specific investigation-related inquiries during the spring congressional hearings and questions from Democratic Rep.
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On Monday, Beijing warned students and academics about risks in the United States, pointing to limits on the duration of visas and visa refusals.
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Mr. Schiff has indicated he will count refusals to appear as part of an article of impeachment against Mr. Trump for obstruction of Congress.
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It comes on top of numerous refusals by the administration to turn over records to Congress, including a request for Mr. Trump's tax returns.
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The refusals could lead to constitutional clashes in court as Mr. Trump seeks to stave off further inquiries into his personal and political matters.
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Eventually, after numerous refusals to stop arguing publicly, the president agreed that the debate should be continued privately so that information wouldn't be misstated.
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Still, border enforcement numbers are down to their 2018 equivalent, a huge drop from the May peak of 144,116 apprehensions and refusals to admit.
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"All 30 students on the bus were accounted for and treated and released with refusals to be transported by EMS," the PFD spokesperson added.
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At the time, other Republican governors were turning down the federally funded benefit on their residents' behalf, thinking that refusals would undermine the health law.
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Too many on the mainstream right encourage and abet white supremacist violence with provocative or coded language and refusals to condemn hate speech or action.
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The agency's refusals to accept Total's environmental impact study has held up the company's quest to explore the offshore basin for more than four years.
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President George W. Bush cautioned federal agencies to give "full and deliberate consideration" of exceptions to disclosure requirements and promised to defend refusals in court.
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In past bid processes, when the Games were still a highly valued asset for cities, such refusals would equal early elimination from the bid process.
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Refusals from McGahn — and other top White House staffers — to obey presidential directives are part of the reason that Trump may have avoided obstructing justice.
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But to the patient, those specific reasons often don't resonate, said Jackie White Hughto, who led the study on risk factors for transgender healthcare refusals.
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Data related to the number of legal admissions and refusals to the U.S. are omitted, thus limiting the value of this information for analytic purposes.
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Medical groups have recognized the negative effects refusal laws can have on patients and have called for patient protections when religious refusals may compromise care.
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Outside of Java, Indonesia's most populous island, the refusals pushed vaccine acceptance to just 68 percent of eligible children, when effective protection requires 95 percent.
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The Supreme Court's decision in The Slants case does not address these similarly subjective grounds for refusal, leaving open this avenue for future registration refusals.
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The White House dismissed reports of states' refusals as "fake news" in a statement from the commission's vice chairman, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach.
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New York City officials on Tuesday announced the creation of a new office to address bias-related refusals by taxicab and for-hire vehicle drivers.
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The House has scheduled the contempt vote for next Tuesday after weeks of refusals by Mr. Barr and his department to comply with the subpoena.
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"Instead, because of your multiple refusals, we did not find out about any of these issues until they were reported in the press," he added.
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Health workers seeking to vaccinate pupils from the Dar-ul-Qalam and Roza-tul-Atfaal schools had met with repeated refusals, according to provincial officials.
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Given the ambiguity around nightclub refusals, and the obvious other priorities of Trump's Justice Department, it's not likely that we'll see this kind of investigation.
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In fact, instead of fighting that defiance in court, Democrats plan to use the refusals as evidence of obstruction for a likely article of impeachment.
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For the House, this means taking a serious approach to Trump's obstruction of justice, including his many refusals to respond to congressional requests for information.
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Several House committees have targeted Trump for investigation, and Democrats have been in ongoing conflict with the administration over its refusals to submit documents and testimony.
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Cultural commentary, lawsuits and court cases on religious and moral exemptions and refusals have been on the rise and have garnered primetime coverage across the country.
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Of course, Republicans thought their actions toward Garland were a justifiable backlash to Democratic refusals to consider Republican judicial nominees in election years in the past.
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It is unfortunate that the Agency's refusals to answer for its actions have led the House Science, Space & Technology Committee to issue subpoenas to the Agency.
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Researchers have continually found these more permissive places have higher rates of vaccine refusals — a trend that appeared again in the Open Forum Infectious Diseases paper.
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These are stories of painful awakenings and refusals of innocence, emerging out of the ashes of the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, despoliation and environmental plunder.
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Nor is it clear that the court will limit the religious-conscience objections of health care providers whose refusals inflict harm on their patients and customers.
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That intervention first took the form of government refusals to allow the railroads to discontinue money-losing trains and then, in 1970, the creation of Amtrak.
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The report captured hundreds of stories of problems encountered by L.G.B.T. seniors with housing staff, ranging from harassment to refusals to provide basic services or care.
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For about a year I received nothing but refusals and ghostings, until one day I got a text from the guy I'm calling "David" in this story.
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"DoD's post-award refusals to respond to AWS's post-briefing questions, made it clear that the evaluations and resulting award decision were incurably tainted," the company said.
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Public refusals by two U.S. Senate Republicans to support Betsy DeVos, Trump's pick for education secretary, raise the possibility of a rare congressional rejection of a Cabinet nominee.
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One of Trump's first actions as president was to order the construction of a border wall that he insists Mexico will pay for, despite the country's repeated refusals.
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The most powerful parts of the memoir are those in which Mirvis struggles against a belief system and community that demand rigid adherence and punish refusals to conform.
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It's true that app-dispatch technology may have helped to reduce race-based refusals, which have longed plagued black passengers in New York City and throughout the country.
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Their ordeal was traumatic for him, and the loved ones of other patients experiencing religious refusals are similarly affected in a ripple effect that undermines trust in doctors.
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Jennifer Lynch, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, says corporate refusals to make their technology opt-in was one reason she and others abandoned the process.
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Saddam allegedly first offered to buy the car, but after several refusals simply took the Bentley for his own collection and applied a silver and blue two-tone paint.
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Another motivation for the refusals may be that Syrians have difficulty proving "nonimmigrant intent," which is a requirement that applicants prove they will return home after their visa expires.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Australia led the eventing after Christopher Burton rode a fast and clean round on a cross country course full of falls, refusals and time penalties.
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He compared their refusals to those of tennis players like John McEnroe, who did not play when tennis returned to the Olympics in 1988 after a 64-year absence.
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The breadth of Trump's refusals has been surprising even to a conservative legal scholar who used to be a high-ranking official in George W. Bush's Department of Justice.
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George Conway, a top conservative lawyer and a frequent Trump critic, attributed the refusals to Trump's resistance to heeding legal advice and a reputation for not paying his bills.
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He shut down a commission designed to probe his claims in January after the task force was slammed with lawsuits and state refusals to agree to the panel's requests.
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Such refusals by prosecutors to proceed diligently or at all contribute significantly to maintaining our two-tiered system of justice — one for the privileged and one for the rest.
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Those refusals appeared likely to fuel congressional Democrats' frustration with the Trump administration over what they say is its inadequate cooperation with investigations into the Trump campaign's dealings with Russia.
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It was incredibly awkward for a bureaucrat to tell Simon Tam that he was disparaging Asian-Americans, but the refusals on the basis of scandalousness were maybe even more nonsensical.
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Refusals from McGahn — and other top White House staffers — to obey such presidential directives are part of the reason why Trump ultimately avoided obstruction of justice charges in Mueller's investigation.
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In the original lawsuit, the state alleged that several layers of administrators had been instructed, for years, to keep out immigrant students without leaving behind any trace of the refusals.
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They want to force executive branch officials to answer to their demands, generating a detailed record of refusals that could shape an impeachment article charging Mr. Trump with obstructing Congress.
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"The memorandum seeks to show that presidentially mandated refusals to disclose information to Congress — though infrequent — are by no means unprecedented acts of this or any other administration," he wrote.
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A bevy of senators, prominent congressmen and governors have stated that they won't attend the convention, refusals that are particularly pronounced among those facing tight re-election battles in battleground states.
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Washington (CNN)The executive director of North Carolina's Republican Party on Thursday subtly rebuked the party's standard-bearer, Donald Trump, over his repeated refusals to accept the results of the election.
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Comey, McGahn, Lewandowski and others did the right thing by ignoring or defying the President's corrupt orders, but their refusals should have little to no bearing on the President' ultimate culpability.
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At the White House, officials expressed cautious optimism about the glimmers of a potential deal to provide funding to combat Zika after months of refusals by Republicans to consider doing so.
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Libyan and Iraqi refusals jumped after their respective civil wars but then leveled off (though the Iraqi rate jumped in 2015), while the Syrian rate has risen consistently year after year.
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None of these refusals to defend laws were the existential threat to the republic that some commenters now suggest will be wrought by the Trump administration's refusal to defend the ACA.
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What is behind the refusals to operate, he said, is that doctors and hospitals have become risk-averse because they fear their ratings will fall if too many patients have complications.
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" Lewandowski peppered his testimony with refusals to answer House Democrats' questions, citing the White House's assertion of executive privilege over "the substance of any discussion with the president or his advisers.
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He seemed to be on the attack here too, against a tradition of auction-friendly, history-book-hogging Modernism, or against the exclusions, segregations and refusals its values were built on.
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House committees, if faced with refusals from President Trump's advisers to testify or turn over documents, are likely to issue subpoenas and seek to enforce them in court through contempt proceedings.
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Ms. Judd, 223, told The Times that he asked if she would watch him shower and repeatedly suggested unwanted contact — a massage, a shoulder rub — in the face of repeated refusals.
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"The memorandum seeks to show that presidentially mandated refusals to disclose information to Congress — though infrequent — are by no means unprecedented acts of this or any other administration," the opinion states.
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Wednesday's email came from the commission's Office of Inclusion, which was created in 2018 as part of a new city effort to confront service refusals by taxi and for-hire vehicles.
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Weighing on already-strained relations, China warned students and academics on Monday about risks involved in studying in the United States, pointing to limits on the duration of visas and visa refusals.
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Shortly afterward, Weinstein invited her to lunch (where he insisted on ordering her a diet soda and vodka, despite her repeated refusals) and then to his home, ostensibly to watch a movie.
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In a press release, North Dakota law enforcement said they asked protesters to leave the camp, and after refusals, evicted about 40 people from that land, which is owned by Dakota Access.
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Trump on Friday reaffirmed his plans to build a Mexican border wall, saying he "absolutely" still wants Mexico to pay for the wall despite Peña Nieto's repeated refusals to fund the project.
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From 2012 through 2015, roughly 60,000 Syrians left Syria, applied for visas and were rejected — four times the amount of refusals than during the prior three-year period from 2009 to 2011.
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Gillibrand's statement was soon followed by nearly 85033 other senators, a significant shift from weeks of refusals from Democrats to say whether the allegations against Franken were enough to force his ouster.
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"Of course, the Legislature was motivated by Donald Trump's current refusals," Mr. Rosenthal said, but added that he thought the bill was written broadly enough to avoid the "bill of attainder" accusation.
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They are simply steadfast refusals of budget and trade surplus countries to stimulate domestic demand because they want to live off net exports to the U.S. and the rest of the world.
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"That can lead patients vulnerable to these types of denials and refusals, and really left open to individual pharmacists who are deciding what kind of medical care someone can get," Garcia said.
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One reason for the rise in refusals are little-known changes last year in the State Department's foreign affairs manual that gave diplomats wider discretion in deciding visa denials on public-charge grounds.
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In California, before the regulation against non-medical exemptions became law as a result of the Anaheim measles outbreak, there was a tightening of vaccination exemption requirements that helped reduce refusals, he noted.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said on Saturday that the European Union should end its blanket refusals of British proposals in Brexit talks, as any belief that Britain would capitulate was misplaced.
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But Ray also cut into AT&T's and Verizon's refusals to offer coverage maps, saying he wants to launch 5G in a broad way that would actually encourage plenty of people to use it.
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"Facebook's delays and refusals to comply with the Attorney General's interrogatories and subpoena should not thwart this important and independent investigation into whether the company violated its users' privacy and California law," it said.
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The German government said the decision to transfer the case from a criminal court to a security court came after months of Russian refusals to help investigate the background of the suspect, Vadim Sokolov.
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The American Civil Liberties Union has been a vocal supporter throughout Manning's trial and sentencing, and eventually helped her sue the military for repeated refusals to give Manning access to drugs for her gender dysphoria.
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It detected 227 contraventions, the most common being 62 ships with no records, 38 refusals to comply with inspection requests and 36 cases without permission to work and 54 having no payslips or pay irregularities.
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The refusals, capping an often complex and lengthy application process, can trap people for months or longer outside the United States, separated from American spouses and children, as they renew their efforts to legally return.
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Michael Flynn, it will be impossible for Comey to walk away from his previous and oft repeated refusals to comment on specific individuals under investigation without shattering what remains of his own reputation for integrity.
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In fact, we have already seen the price we all pay for not vaccinating children, with recent outbreaks of measles, mumps and whooping cough across the U.S. all directly related to parents' refusals to vaccinate.
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The refusals from top administration officials were unsurprising after the White House counsel's office sent a letter to top Democrats last week making clear that the administration would refuse to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry.
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Instead, there appear to be three options: Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin has declined to repeat earlier firm refusals to consider a coalition with Sinn Fein, saying only that there were significant incompatibilities in policy.
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Nor did similar refusals compel prosecutors to charge Joshua Bolten, the White House chief of staff, or Harriet E. Miers, the White House counsel, in 2008, or Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in 2012.
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And we haven't gotten all the catalogs yet in terms of how many specific refusals there have been, and rather than try to deal with each one of them individually, we may deal with them collectively.
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Trump in January disbanded a controversial commission meant to investigate his claims of voter fraud during the 2016 election, after the panel had been plagued with lawsuits and state refusals to agree to the commission's requests.
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The mechanism would make it easier to suspend any visa-waivers if the bloc sees a sharp rise in overstays, asylum requests or readmission refusals from a non-EU state that has had travel rules relaxed.
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MADRID (Reuters) - The Spanish foreign ministry said on Monday it had asked North Korea's ambassador to leave Spain before the end of the month due to his country's repeated refusals to renounce its nuclear weapons program.
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Soon after the 2016 presidential election, the political scientist Frances Fox Piven wrote in The Nation that to be effective, protest movements must generate "mass refusals" that disrupt the complex systems on which everyday life depends.
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During that time, she absorbed principles of Taoist and Zen philosophy that would thenceforth guide her thinking, or, more accurately, her refusals of thought, even as she developed sternly logical solutions to the problems of painting.
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The ads will direct to a blog on an opposition research website published by Jenkins's campaign, which highlights Morrisey's refusals to agree to back the winner of West Virginia's primary, both before and after Trump's victory.
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But although Varadkar reiterated his rejection because of "principle and policy", Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin declined to repeat earlier refusals to consider a coalition with Sinn Fein, saying only that there were significant incompatibilities on policy.
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On Tuesday, he will try to overcome Republican refusals to hold hearings on anyone he nominates, inviting Mitch McConnell and the head of the Judiciary Committee, Charles Grassley, to the White House along with top Senate Democrats.
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China warned students and academics about risks involved in studying in the United States, pointing to limits on the duration of visas and visa refusals, amid a bitter trade war and other tension between the two countries.
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The Ministry of Education, in a short statement, said that recently some students seeking to study in the United States had encountered problems with the duration of their visas being limited and an increase in visa refusals.
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McConnell has made it his mission to block Democratic efforts in recent years, from President Barack Obama's efforts to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court to recent refusals to take up legislation passed by the Democratic House.
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It's hard not to wonder whether consular refusals have been driven by instructions from supervisors or by political appointees in Washington to reject more Syrian applicants or, alternatively, to approve more Iraqis and Libyans than they would otherwise.
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Other parts of the alliance's racial justice initiative include setting up more taxi stands in central Manhattan and at subway stations, since race-based refusals are much less likely when rides are hailed from dispatcher staffed taxi stands.
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Sociologist Lori Freedman, who works at the University of California San Francisco, says tracking how often religious refusals occur is notoriously difficult, illustrating how difficult it is for patients to get information needed to make health care choices.
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After a couple hours of persistent questioning from senators on both sides of the aisle, the legislators grew increasingly frustrated with the intelligence officials' steady refusals to answer any questions related to Trump's interference in the Russia probe.
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With Trump's refusals to accept the findings of recent climate reports — even from his own administration — he has moved the party further from the scientific consensus and has taken away cover for members who want to address the issue.
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The proposal, and official refusals to back down, have sparked growing outrage in the business, diplomatic and legal communities, which fear corrosion of the legal autonomy of Hong Kong and the difficulty of guaranteeing a fair trial in China.
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Independent estimates have put the cost in the tens of billions, and Trump has been steadfast in his assertion that Mexico will ultimately pick up the tab, despite repeated refusals to do so by Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.
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A combination of tight turns through water near the end of the five-kilometer course saw many horses balk, and Olympic veterans Ingrid Klimke of Germany, Australia's Shane Rose and Pippa Funnell of Great Britain all had refusals there.
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Suncorp's sale is the latest in a list of life insurance divestments by Australian firms as media reports of hard-sell sales tactics and claim refusals drove policy cancellations and brought increased regulation, just as bank capital requirements tightened.
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The first half of the book — the courting, the proposals, the refusals — has all the delights of a traditional marriage plot; while the second half, full of dark revelations and wrenching decisions, is psychologically complex and anything but trivial.
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Ambassador Li Song, deputy permanent representative for China in Geneva, lashed out at flight cancellations, visa denials and refusals by some countries to admit citizens of Hubei Province, where Wuhan is located, saying those moves went against WHO recommendations.
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The rule, which would go into effect in July, "drastically expands the number of providers eligible to make such refusals, ranging from ambulance drivers to emergency room doctors to receptionists to customer service representatives at insurance companies," according to the release.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China warned students and academics on Monday about risks involved in studying in the United States, pointing to limits on the duration of visas and visa refusals, amid a bitter trade war and other tension between the two countries.
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As for the invitations: When people persist in issuing them, despite our repeated refusals (and lame excuses), it is a mercy to everyone to let your would-be hosts know, politely, that the get-together is never, ever going to happen.
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This awareness of an amused Macdonald lurking behind the deadpan Norm is what animates his forays into meta-comedy — not the smug refusals of anti-comedy, but genuinely funny subversions that exploit what audiences have come to expect from the form.
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But the talks are not expected to solve larger problems, such as U.S. complaints about China's excess capacity in steel and aluminum and subsidies for state-owned enterprises, nor China's complaints about U.S. refusals to sell Beijing advanced technology products.
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Border patrol officers turned back more than 85,000 migrants who tried to enter France in 2017, according to figures made public by the migrant charity La Cimade, with more than 46,000 of those refusals occurring at the French-Italian border.
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Trump's proposed new rules would likely intensify these refusals, eliminating much-needed protection for transgender and gender non-conforming patients, and expanding the authority for health care workers to opt out of providing care to LGBTQ people and people seeking reproductive health care.
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There had already been security incidents among men at multiple facilities, including clogging toilets with Mylar blankets and socks in order to be released from their cells, refusals to return to cells and attempted escapes, Border Patrol officials reported to the inspectors.
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"The parental refusals due to misconceptions regarding the vaccine are emerging as the major obstacle in achieving complete eradication," Khan's office said in a letter to the head of the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority, referring to parents who refuse to get their children vaccinated.
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This is contrary to information provided by the Canada Border Services Agency that the number fluctuates with each meal — it had at one point reached 2003 refusals, but now has gone down to two people, both of whom are in the same facility.
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This is contrary to information provided by the Canada Border Services Agency that the number fluctuates with each meal — it had at one point reached 41 refusals, but now has gone down to two people, both of whom are in the same facility.
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WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that the United States was in a "constitutional crisis" and warned that House Democrats might move to hold more Trump administration officials in contempt of Congress if they continued their refusals to comply with committee subpoenas.
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Molly and Issa have the long-gestating fight about each other's refusals to accept their failures as their own while standing off to the side in the event's staging area, cradling drinks and avoiding eye contact with people passing by in formalwear.
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U.S.: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the country was in a constitutional crisis and warned that House Democrats might move to hold more Trump administration officials in contempt of Congress if they continued their refusals to comply with subpoenas regarding the Mueller report.
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In a place where young Cuban-Americans joined their elders in the streets with pots and pans to celebrate Fidel Castro's death, the Vermont senator's Democratic socialism and past refusals to wholeheartedly condemn Castro and other Latin American authoritarian leaders are proving costly.
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Related: How doctors and big pharma helped create North American's fentanyl crisis "Outright refusals to pay could limit abuse, but will make it harder for people who are using these drugs for their intended purposes to get ahold of them," Neuman said.
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According to Sorvino, Weinstein chased her around a hotel room and showed up unannounced at her apartment, only to appear "dejected" when she responded with the politest possible refusals: It was against her religion to date married men, and she had a boyfriend.
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Respondents living in southern and western states were more likely to report healthcare refusals, which might have been explained by regional variations in state politics: the more strongly Republican a state is, the more likely it was that their transgender residents had experienced healthcare refusal.
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The State Department has not released the official grounds for the refusals, and when reached for comment, a State Department representative could not identify a specific cause for Syria's higher rate of refusal, but mentioned the closure of the U.S. embassy and security issues.
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Connolly called the officials' excuses for failing to appear "an assault on the legislative branch" and "the constitutional framework of our government," warning that the legislative branch would become "a pale shadow of what it was intended to be" should the officials' refusals stand.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives committee said on Tuesday it had reached an agreement with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to testify at a public hearing on Iran and Iraq policy, after threatening a subpoena over previous refusals to appear.
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After multiple refusals by the city, the union and some members filed complaints with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which investigated the matter and determined there was reason to believe the city had discriminated against the nurses, the Justice Department said in its statement.
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Masuzoe, 67, who won election in 2014 with support from the ruling coalition of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, came under increasing pressure to quit due to his repeated refusals to explain his use of public funds, which included buying comic books for his children.
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Gilberto Rosas is an associate professor of anthropology and Latina/o studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author of the award-winning Barrio Libre: Criminalizing States and Delinquent Refusals of the New Frontier, as well as many articles on borders and migration.
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In the letter, Feinstein told Grassley she is "concerned" about Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats' and National Security Agency Director Admiral Rogers' refusals to answer questions from senators, adding that she wants to determine whether Trump asked Coats or Rogers "to take any action" on the Russia investigation.
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The big picture: This comes after nearly a month of White House refusals to comply with House investigations into whether Trump jeopardized national security by pressing Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, and by withholding security assistance provided by Congress to help Ukraine, per the subpoena.
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Among the opinions cited in the McGahn case was one titled, "History of Refusals by Executive Branch Officials to Provide Information Demanded by Congress," written by Theodore B. Olson, who ran the Office of Legal Counsel during the Reagan administration and is now a partner at Gibson Dunn.
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Mr. Trump shook up the ranks of his top immigration officials after spending months demanding that they take tougher action to stop the surge in migrant families at the border and seething about what he considers their overly legalistic refusals to do what he has said was necessary.
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Following is a list of those countries that have expelled North Korean diplomats following Pyongyang's sixth nuclear test: SPAIN, September 18, 2017 - The Spanish foreign ministry asked North Korean ambassador Kim Hyok Chol to leave the country by September 30 citing his country's repeated refusals to renounce its nuclear weapons program.
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And, unforgivably, Washington will continue to look the other way – totally ignoring what German and Japanese refusals to properly stimulate their internal demand are doing to half-a-trillion dollars of U.S. exports, whose stronger growth would be a safe and meaningful shot in the arm to the American economy.
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The letter also requests information on how many A visa holders were refused entry by Customs and Border Protection and how many of those refusals were Saudi nationals, as well as details on DHS monitoring of visiting foreign military personnel's social media and any such monitoring conducted in al-Shamrani's case.
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And we who have discussed and debated, who have waited so long and patiently, who have suffered so quietly through Cyborg's positive drug tests and weight-cutting refusals and Ronda's ugly taunting and cruelty, and who have tolerated Cyborg's misguided celebrations and abided Rousey's misguided movie acting—we have earned this fight.
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In 2008, in the final days of the George W. Bush administration, the US Department of Health and Human Services issued regulations intended to help enforce protection of these healthcare refusals by, for example, requiring health facilities to certify compliance with the law in writing in order to receive federal health care funds.
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When the US and other nations were confronted with the tragic consequences of their refusals to take European Jews fleeing Nazi Germany, they turned the sentiment of "never again" into a bedrock humanitarian principle: Individual nations have a moral obligation to the world's most vulnerable — no matter where those vulnerable people are from.
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Most recently, I filed an administrative petition to Chief Justice Roberts in March, calling on the Supreme Court to adopt the Code of Conduct for U.S. Judges, as well as create a committee to review and act on complaints to conflicts of interest, and commit to disclosing recusals and refusals to recuse publicly.
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At a forum in December, Anita Skop, the superintendent of District 15 in Brooklyn, which had the highest rate of test refusals in the city last year, said that for an educator to encourage opting out was a political act and that public employees were barred from using their positions to make political statements.
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The refusals have underscored the divergent policies toward Iran and are aggravating distrust and resentment on both sides: Washington accuses its European allies of free-riding on its efforts to secure the Persian Gulf, while the Europeans argue that Washington created the problem in the first place by trying to kill off Iran's oil exports.
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But In the wake of President Donald Trump's public refusals to acknowledge the US intelligence community's findings that Russia interfered in the 2016 election on his behalf, it's largely been Democrats who have argued that voting machines need upgrading and need to be audited on paper ballots and that states need cybersecurity staff on call.
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The refusals have underscored the divergent policies toward Iran and are aggravating distrust and resentment on both sides: Washington accuses its European allies of free-riding on its efforts to secure the Persian Gulf, while the Europeans argue that Washington created the problem in the first place by trying to kill off Iran's oil exports.
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The refusals to escalated the legal battle between House Democrats and the Trump White House, which has vowed to stonewall the inquiry into whether the president used nearly $400 million of U.S. military aid as leverage in an attempt to force Ukraine's government to investigate the son of Trump's political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden.
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The repeated refusals by the four officials to answer questions, from the Senate Intelligence Committee, sparked visible outrage from Democrats — and a pointed and unsparing rebuke from the GOP chairman, Richard BurrRichard Mauze BurrHoekstra emerges as favorite for top intelligence post Trump casts uncertainty over top intelligence role Trump withdraws Ratcliffe as Intelligence pick MORE (R-N.C.).
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"I think they think [religious refusals] happen to certain people going in just for an abortion," says Ian Smith, a staff attorney at Americans United for Separation of Church and State, underscoring how ignorance of these rules can affect patients who need all manner of care, such as hormone therapy, fertility treatment, gender-affirming care, or tubal ligations.
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" The association said in the statement that the rule is "likely to embolden refusals to provide a range of other health services" and that under the policy, "a hospital receptionist could refuse to schedule an appointment for a transgender patient seeking gender-affirming care and an orderly could refuse to transfer a patient to the operating room for an emergency abortion.
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And where our grandparents couldn't share their goofs without access to a proper printing press, it has never been easier to create memes or to share pithy quips — and so it has also never been easier to throw all of our dumb jokes and flat refusals to grapple with reality out into the communal pool and wallow in them together. p.
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I.) and Al FrankenAlan (Al) Stuart FrankenNative American advocates question 22019 Democrats' commitment Reid says he wishes Franken would run for Senate again Al Franken urges Trump to give new speech after shootings: 'Try to make it sound like you're sincere, even if you're not' MORE (D-Minn.), who showed impatience with his repeated refusals to speak to his personal views.
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White House communications director Hope HicksHope Charlotte HicksHope Hicks defends accuracy of her congressional testimony Nadler subpoenas Lewandowski, former White House official for testimony House panel to go to court to enforce McGahn subpoena, Nadler says MORE on Tuesday declined to answer some questions from the House Intelligence Committee about the presidential transition or her time in the White House, mirroring refusals from previous witnesses, according to multiple lawmakers.
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A new survey by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) found that a majority of Americans in all 50 states think anti-LGBTQ discrimination should be illegal in the workplace, housing, and public accommodations (places that serve the public, such as restaurants and hotels): The survey also found that 59 percent of Americans don't think businesses should be allowed to refuse service to LGBTQ people based on their religious beliefs, with opposition to businesses' religious refusals ranging from 43 percent to 71 percent at the state level.
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The president or his agents now initiate wars unilaterally in violation of the War Powers Clause; they conduct warrantless surveillance of citizens and members of Congress to gather foreign intelligence under Executive Order 12333, in violation of the Fourth Amendment and the Speech or Debate Clause; and they decline without any legal justification to answer congressional inquiries — for instance, the refusals of the director of national intelligence, the director of the National Security Agency and the attorney general to disclose communications with President Trump relevant to his firing of James Comey, director of the F.B.I. These rules — embraced by Republicans and Democrats alike — would be unrecognizable and shocking to the Founding Fathers.
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