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"walling" Definitions
  1. material from which a wall is built
  2. the act or skill of building a wall or walls

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DR. FRANKIE: Petty behaviors like manipulation, stone-walling — stone-walling is the same idea as ghosting, but it's doing it in person.
Neither Walling nor Dillon responded to a request for comment.
Walling off countries or entire religions is against our values.
"Interrogation escalated rapidly from subject being aggressively debriefed by interrogators while standing at the walling wall, to multiple applications of the walling technique, and ultimately, multiple applications of the watering technique," another document said.
Now it feels like Google is walling in its own kingdom.
"In retrospect, I regret all of it," Walling said this weekend.
Hope he wins South Carolina Kevin Walling: Where is Barack Obama?
" One drawing depicts a technique described in the report as "walling.
"Interrogation escalated rapidly from subject being aggressively debriefed by interrogators while standing at the walling wall, to multiple applications of the walling technique, and ultimately, multiple applications of the watering technique," one document read, referring to waterboarding.
So, too, do former Flint Mayor Dayne Walling and Weaver, his successor.
I worked with Ron Slowinski, along with Warren Rosser and Michael Walling.
And so "walling" may sound kind of benign, until you see it.
Former Mayor Dayne Walling famously drank the water in front of local media.
Rick Snyder and Dayne Walling, who was mayor of Flint from 2009-2015.
That might exacerbate political polarisation, by further walling off voters from different views.
Georgia went up 28-10, walling off any hope of an Auburn comeback.
Walling off the Chinese market would hamstring American firms' growth for decades to come.
Walling lost his recent re-election bid in a campaign centered around the issue.
Nor are Chinese tech giants walling themselves off from the rest of the world.
"Walling ourselves off from other countries, that's not going to do it," he said.
By walling itself off, China will inflict a high cost on its music lovers.
"Interrogation escalated rapidly from subject being aggressively debriefed by interrogators while standing at the walling wall, to multiple applications of the walling technique and, ultimately, multiple applications of the watering technique," said a cable that recounted the interrogation session back to CIA headquarters.
"It's a quality, safe product," Mayor Dayne Walling told The Flint Journal in June 2014.
Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd, a law firm representing Walling, did not respond to similar requests.
Former Flint Mayor Dayne Walling even drank it on local TV to make the point.
On a cool spring day in April 2014, Dayne Walling, the mayor of Flint, Mich.
Walling off Laredo, Mr. Cuellar said, would damage the flow of commerce, among other things.
Until recently, Notre Dame had a long history of walling itself off from the city.
The then-mayor of Flint, Dayne Walling, made a point of drinking Flint water on television.
"Walling" is a technique in which prisoners were repeatedly slammed against an ostensibly flexible plywood wall.
Walling studied racetrack design at Lafayette College 40 years ago and has continued as a hobby.
Walling said Moneypenny, who never wanted a staff, should be in the Nascar Hall of Fame.
We want to make sure that we're walling off his hate and standing up as a community.
Don't bring a laptop, since that can be perceived as walling yourself off from others, Kogan said.
Everyone CNN interviewed for a recent story -- including residents, city workers, Walling, Weaver and Democratic U.S. Rep.
The then-mayor of Flint, Dayne Walling, even made a point of drinking Flint water on television.
We must continue to project America's best values abroad, rather than resorting to walling off our markets.
"He can run on protecting pre-existing conditions and lowering the cost of health care," Walling said.
Walling said Moneypenny visited tracks near Detroit used by Ford and General Motors to test passenger cars.
They are walling themselves off from the populace behind armor and shields and mountains of military gear?
Per The Hollywood Reporter, four-walling is the cinema equivalent of self-publishing your own literary work.
"We've all woken up from bad dreams, and they seem so real at the time," Chief Walling said.
Tillerson's chief of staff, Margaret Peterlin, was widely resented for walling off Tillerson from much of Foggy Bottom.
Last year, Italy was one of eight countries recognized by UNESCO for the art of dry stone walling.
Rick Snyder, the former Flint emergency managers Darnell Earley and Gerald Ambrose, former Mayor Dayne Walling and other officials.
But Walling noted that coal power plants are already closing in Illinois due to competition from other energy sources.
They can find a solution to the scrap metal and noise at the recycler, maybe by walling it off.
Walling involves an individual being "quickly and firmly pushed into the wall," according to CIA documents declassified in 2016.
Stagnant offensive possessions and a shortage of floor spacers allow defenders to over-rotate, walling off the painted area.
Japan, for example, has long lavished extraordinary protections on its farmers, walling off dairy in particular from international competition.
The drawback, however, is that venues can also be echo chambers; walling dominant cultures in and underrepresented communities out.
If you resent games walling the player off or insisting on where they go next, you will hate Yakuza 0.
The case is Walling v Kraft Heinz Co et al, U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania, No. 19-00214.
In the actual Middle Ages, the idea of walling off a country would have struck Europeans as odd and unnecessary.
Verizon has already started walling off its garden in a bet to go head-to-head with Google and Facebook.
The route was sealed off with roadblocks and panels of temporary walling to allow access only to spectators with tickets.
Even if these are extreme examples, that walling off is solidified, even among people closer in income level and occupation.
Over the years, almost without noticing, I had become less available, less accessible, walling off my heart brick by brick.
Residents will again receive a notice of elevated T.T.H.M. levels in the mail later this month, Mayor Dayne Walling has said.
" After then-Flint Mayor Dayne Walling was alerted to the memo, EPA officials told him the findings were a "preliminary draft.
The Celtics were occasionally able to fluster Antetokounmpo by loading up the paint with multiple defenders and walling off the rim.
We hear about the rich building bunkers against nuclear war and climate change, and now walling themselves off from Covid-19.
Flint Mayor Dayne Walling drinks a cup of tap water on a local television report to ensure residents that it is safe.
When you talk about regulating Facebook and Amazon, you're talking about closing down their data, walling their data to just that company.
Well-placed sources say Taxify reached out to TfL in April about launch, but TfL was "walling" the firm, say the sources.
And all this is in addition to his hostility towards undocumented immigrants and his commitment to walling off the U.S. from Mexico.
A mix of barriers — like chain-link fences, steel walling and beams — already stretches across more than 650 miles of the border.
Dayne Walling, Flint's former mayor, largely avoided criticism, because all of his decisions could be overridden by Earley or other emergency managers.
Other Twitter accounts — including, as of Thursday, Stewart's new profile — have been set to private, essentially walling them off from any broader audience.
He did it for years with Roy Hibbert as the huge body walling off the paint, and now he's doing it with Gobert.
"Currently in Australia one of the trends is … stone used in walling and paving rather than as a more sculptural element," Mendel says.
And the great urban planner Jane Jacobs argued that areas under expressways and railroads became "border vacuums," walling off neighborhoods from one another.
Another technique favored by the CIA was called "walling," where a detainee would essentially be slammed against a wooden wall while he being questioned.
Donald Trump has steamrolled his GOP opponents with blunt promises to voters on a range of issues, from walling out immigrants to cutting taxes.
Chaffetz opened the hearing by playing a video of Walling on the news drinking the water in 2015 and telling people it was safe.
It was a magical moment, and so I set out to learn this and other ancient skills like dry-stone walling and hedge-laying.
Such language, they say, can create a false sense of security that it can be blunted by walling off America from the outside world.
One of the psychologists contracted by the CIA to devise the torture techniques has said "walling" was used to disorient and "discombobulate" the prisoners. 
Microsoft tightened up security after the breach, the former employees said, walling the database off from the corporate network and requiring two authentications for access.
Turkey has gone to great lengths to compartmentalize its relationship with Iran, essentially walling off its rivalry over Syria while maintaining an important economic relationship.
Walling off different chunks of sensitive data within a company, for instance, can reduce the impact of any hacks that do breach the outer defences.
Several Dem committee members told Axios they saw the 2-hour time limit as Attorney General Barr walling them off from Mueller and his team.
Like YouTube, which took a similar approach of walling off some content, Reddit "will generate no revenue, including ads or Reddit Gold," from these subreddits.
It is simply art, and at a time when so many seem intent on walling off themselves or their countries, it's exactly what we need.
As foreign secretary, Johnson worked to convince the world Brexit would not mean the UK was walling itself off from the rest of the globe.
Kevin Walling is a Democratic strategist, vice president at HGCreative, co-founder of Celtic Strategies, and a regular guest on Fox News and Fox Business.
Americans are walling themselves off from those who may have differing political opinions or worldviews, and in turn, marinating in self-indulgence and self-reinforcement.
He led her beyond a set of turnstiles and into a wide central room with large floor-to-ceiling glass walling off an outdoor space.
Above the figure, a body of water spans the width of the paper, its waves, like fire, walling off a castle in the far distance.
Snyder's not the only target of public ire: Dayne Walling, the Flint mayor who initially defended the water switch, got bounced out by voters in November.
But Trump's adult children have been named to the president-elect's transition team, thus eliminating any independence or "walling off" that might exist in other circumstances.
The rate cut follows months of pressure from President Donald Trump, who has broken with his predecessors' practice of walling off the central bank from politics.
For example, customary "hard" infrastructure such as levees, sea walls, and pumps are mostly effective at walling off water and moving it out of an area.
This stagnation kindles the insurgent campaign of Donald Trump, who promises to somehow fix everything by walling off Mexico and slapping anti-dumping tariffs against China.
Tillerson was known for walling himself off in the executive suites, distancing himself from staffers, and surrounding himself with aides who acted as fiercely protective gatekeepers.
Walling off national Internet sectors also lends legitimacy to countries like China, Turkey and Iran that have long controlled what information their citizens can view online.
At the same time, growing numbers of publishers are walling off free content for visitors who hard-block ads, even asking users directly to be whitelisted.
Congressional hearings focusing on corporate missteps often reveal little, in part because lawmakers lack the expertise and the executives taking questions are good at stone-walling.
Four-walling means that you pay a theatre to screen your movie, and thereby get out of having to release box office numbers like other contenders.
Dayne Walling, who was the mayor of Flint when Mr. Hekmati was taken prisoner, said he was not surprised by the attention Mr. Hekmati's situation had attracted.
She's definitely not walling herself off from the rest of the prison population, even though she's rich and famous, and there for only a matter of days.
On July 24, Attorney General John Ashcroft verbally approved the use of ten interrogation techniques, which included walling, cramped confinement, and the use of diapers and insects.
So the streamers get around that by "four-walling" theaters, paying large sums to rent out entire cinemas, which enables them to play whatever they want there.
As The Hill reported early in the 2016 cycle, political operatives are now treating the vague laws walling off super PACs from campaigns as almost a joke.
The systems now include walling off the water and, at the same time, letting it into canals and other bodies of water, where technicians can regulate levels.
Walling said she is optimistic that it will become law this year since Illinois' new governor, J. B. Pritzker, has expressed a commitment to fight climate change.
The biggest problem with the energy ministers' gathering is the walling off of one path on the world's journey toward a low-carbon energy menu – nuclear power.
He and his team decided early on to hitch their wagon to Mr. McConnell, at times intentionally walling themselves off from the president and the White House.
For some, border security is about the resources the government is spending there: more agents patrolling the border, more surveillance drones, more fencing (or walling)90 percent.
Whether or not this particular executive order is signed, "walling off the welfare state" from immigrants in the US may well remain in the White House's sights.
The city's mayor at the time, Dayne Walling, encouraged leaders to "toast" the switch with a taste of the "regular, good, pure drinking" water, the governor's emails show.
Since he first made the pledge, walling off our neighbors to the south became an oft-repeated promise and rallying cry, both for the candidate and his supporters.
Various estimates have placed the final cost of walling off the entire 2,000-mile boundary as high as $70 billion, according to a report by the Brookings Institution.
It could be religious trouble, it could be racial, it could be political, could be economic -- walling yourself off in the world is not a recipe for success.
LG meanwhile, discussed its rigorous battery safety testing and increased walling to protect accidental contact between positive and negative charges – precisely the problem Samsung encountered with the Note.
Walling also said the defendants had been "motivated" to engage in improper conduct to allow 3G to "sell" $1.23 billion of stock last August at artificially inflated prices.
" Mr. Schmidt pointed to millennials in particular as a "generation who crave that social interaction," and so "are going to crave that open concept versus walling everything off.
The European Union, for example, has more aggressively regulated Silicon Valley while China has led the way in walling off its internet from the rest of the world.
Our sources say Justin didn't want a clean break from Floyd, he just wanted to "reset boundaries" ... walling himself off from things like Floyd's obsession with strip clubs.
The other downside: Walling off your email, by its nature, means you're cutting yourself off from advanced email tools like Gmail's smart replies or even a decent search experience.
Former Mayor Dayne Walling even made a point to drink the water on local TV, but Virginia Tech researchers in August performed tests and found the elevated lead levels.
At the first hearing Tuesday, Flint's former Mayor Dayne Walling and former Emergency Manager Darnell Earley are expected to testify alongside the EPA's former Region 5 Administrator Susan Hedman.
"It is time for Congress to start conducting its own independent and credible oversight of the Trump Administration rather than walling off the White House from scrutiny," Cummings said.
On March 85033, former EPA regional administrator Susan Hedman, the Snyder-appointed emergency manager for Flint, Darnell Earley, and former Flint Mayor Dayne Walling will appear before Chaffetz's panel.
The plan for the Lambert Houses will limit access from the surrounding streets by walling off much of the complex behind ground-floor retail space and new maisonette apartments.
It is, in essence, a walling-off between those who believe themselves to be in the know and the simps who lap up everything they watch on cable news.
"It is time for Congress to start conducting its own independent and credible oversight of the Trump administration rather than walling off the White House from scrutiny," Cummings said.
Sources said the blueprint allows for $1.375 billion in border bollards but includes a prohibition on concrete walling and permits only "existing technologies" to be used in frontier barriers.
The educated élite has become a self-perpetuating caste, drilling its children in the rituals of meritocratic advancement and walling itself off from the world of the average American.
The path continued over and between the Baths' boulders, sometimes with the assistance of steps or rope holds bolted into the rocks, walling off calm, shallow, swim-inviting pools.
The researchers found that the more active people are on Facebook, the more they consume news in clusters, basically walling themselves off with a single community of news outlets.
He sees the challenges to US security as holistic and regional — and believes that fixing them requires doing more throughout Latin America, not simply walling off the United States.
Industry players have been increasingly realizing that sort of approach could be better than walling all of their services off, given the nearly endless ways people have of accessing information.
On Monday, Sberbank said it was concerned by the protests, which included a nationalist group walling up the entrance to one of its branches in Kiev with masonry and cement.
In a span of hours, Matt Walling, a deputy police chief for the Dallas Area Rapid Transit system, raced from a command post to a hospital to the operations center.
Trump has threatened to fire Powell on multiple occasions for not doing enough to juice the economy, a radical break with precedent walling off the central bank from political pressure.
Spending billions of dollars to build hundreds of miles of additional walling — or "steel slats" or whatever you want to call it — on the US-Mexico border is a bad idea.
Dayne Walling, then the city's mayor, even made a point to drink the water on local TV, but Virginia Tech researchers in August performed tests and found the elevated lead levels.
They men alleged being repeatedly subjected to "coercive methods," including "prolonged sleep deprivation, walling, stress positions, facial slaps, abdominal slaps, dietary manipulation, facial holds, and cramped confinement," according to court documents.
Former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regional administrator Susan Hedman, former Flint emergency manager Darnell Earley and former Flint Mayor Dayne Walling each defended their action, with mixed reactions from the lawmakers.
"Not bashing Nascar at all, but truly, who do we remember other than France people?" said Van Walling, an engineer and motor sports historian, who was a pen pal of Moneypenny's.
In July, Mr. Saviano posted a photo of a dead woman and child floating in the Mediterranean Sea on Twitter, asking "how much pleasure" Mr. Salvini derives from walling off migrants.
Among Mr. Kelly's immediate challenges: brokering peace between warring factions in the West Wing; plugging leaks about internal activities; establishing a disciplined policy-making process; and walling off the Russia investigations.
Currently, a mix of barriers — from chain-link fences and steel walling that keep people from crossing to steel beams to stop vehicles — stretch across about 650 miles of the border.
A mix of barriers — from chain-link fences and steel walling that keep people from crossing to steel beams that stop vehicles — already stretch across about 650 miles of the border.
But people linked to China's Christian circles said one possibility that had been discussed to appease critics was walling it off from the rest of the park and removing the cross.
Michael Lind of New America argues in an essay in Politico that Republicans are becoming a Midwestern, white working-class party that embraces economic nationalism — walling out immigrants and global economic competition.
Denver's local scene has criticized the company's move as another brick in the gentrifying walling off of formerly inexpensive areas now being overrun with developers as America's second cities get their renaissance.
WINKELMAN As of late, streaming platforms have sometimes gotten around the Oscars' pesky theatrical requirement by "four-walling" — or renting out temporary theater space — for any movies they deem worth betting on.
A number of these techniques were noted in the Senate Intelligence Committee's unclassified 211 report on the CIA's interrogation program, including "walling," cramped confinement, stress positions, the use of insects and waterboarding.
By placing Decibel in the hands of an independent entity and separate management team, Cisco is trying to provide access to all the strategic benefits while walling off sensitive financials and intellectual property.
Walling said Biden could contrast his defense of the law with Trump, who has tried to dismantle the ACA through executive action and is seeking to have the law overturned in the courts.
Transportation officials prepared to close four tunnels that make up one of the Bay Area's major highway arteries, effectively walling off thousands of people from their jobs in downtown Oakland and San Francisco.
Like Turkos, the plaintiffs accused Lyft of "stone-walling" law enforcement in rape cases, failing to adequately screen potential drivers, and obscuring the true extent of the "sexual predator crisis" on the platform.
By doubling the standard deduction, estimates are that between 2628-28500 percent of filers will not itemize their returns, thus walling off the charitable deduction from all but 6900-2628 percent of filers.
In an article for RealClearPolicy, PPI's Will Marshall and Ed Gerwin argue that voters roundly reject the idea that the United States can prosper by walling off its borders from the global economy.
Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has said under questioning from lawmakers who oppose walling off the entire border that the department might start by expanding fencing in certain areas, bolstered by technology and personnel.
But the company runs the risk of walling off much of the rest of the smart home ecosystem from the Nest ecosystem, providing customers with fewer choices in their smart home setups than before.
"China is already rebordering," walling off its people from the global internet, Stein said on the sidelines of the Halifax International Security Conference, a gathering of military and security officials from the world's democracies.
In his damages complaint, shareholder Steve Walling accused Kraft Heinz, Chief Executive Bernardo Hees, 3G and others of concealing damage to Kraft Heinz's iconic brands and internal controls, including from 3G's signature belt-tightening.
Like his colleagues, Walling — a Rhodes scholar who had a master's degree in urban studies — believed that Flint, by deciding to rely on its own river for water, was taking control of its destiny.
By changing the source of the city's water, Walling and other local and state officials touched off a chain of events that led to one of the biggest public-health disasters of our time.
She told me that she realized that the luxuries she and her family enjoyed were really a way of walling themselves off from the world, which made it easier to ignore certain economic realities.
It doesn't mean walling off the United States from the rest of the world, but it does mean learning from the experience of other advanced nations that had a much healthier response to China's rise.
An internal report, previously reported by Reuters, estimated that fully walling off or fencing the entire southern border would cost $21.6 billion - $9.3 million per mile of fence and $17.8 million per mile of wall.
As the American electorate grows more diverse, and as a rising generation of millennials begins supplanting formerly dominant baby boomers, two nations that live side by side are increasingly walling themselves off from each other.
With the Roomba, I was able to work around the issue by taping pieces of paper over the gap sensors and walling off the open stairwell to the basement with one of its virtual wall emitters.
Dayne Walling, the former mayor who so confidently went on TV and drank Flint River water to try to quell the early protests, lost his recent re-election bid in a campaign centered around the issue.
Federal law exempts presidents from conflict-of-interest rules that apply to other government employees, but Trump has come under intense pressure to follow the longstanding tradition of presidents walling themselves off from their financial dealings.
"We are getting pushback from communities that have coal plants that would be predicted to close under this," said Jen Walling, executive director of the Illinois Environmental Council, a group promoting the Clean Energy Jobs Act.
That said, cities and states can mandate a whole slew of measures that, in total, might feel like a lockdown of most aspects of daily life but stops short of walling off whole regions and cities.
Some of his proposals — walling off the country with protective tariffs, for example — would make things worse for the middle and working class, while tax cuts for the wealthy will exacerbate inequality rather than lessen it.
Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, meanwhile, has said under questioning from border lawmakers who oppose walling off the entire border that the department might start by expanding fencing in certain areas, backed up by technology and personnel.
Channeling a souped-up version of ex-Flint Mayor Dayne Walling, Snyder promised to drink and cook with the water for a month, returning to Flint every week for an, ahem, fresh supply of the wet stuff.
In January, Thomas J. Donohue, the feisty chief executive of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, noted — without naming names — that there were "loud voices" this election season who talked about walling off America from talent and trade.
The Korean inclusion points to a second possible strategy, one that is less about walling off excess steel in China and more about using the metals tariffs as a weapon to win trade concessions from individual partners.
In imposing tariffs, the United States has accused China of walling off markets, requiring American companies to share their advanced technology, stealing intellectual property through joint ventures, counterfeiting goods and outright theft in the form of cyberespionage.
Veolia said it warned the then mayor, Dayne Walling, about how the corrosive water could cause lead to leach from the pipes and raised corrosion in a final public report to the city on March 18 , 2015.
One piece, "Defense and Resistance," by South Ho, shows photos of the artist walling and then unwalling himself in with bricks marked with "Made in Xianggang," the word for Hong Kong in Mandarin, the mainland's dominant tongue.
The attorney general's investigation has yet to zero in on any top city or state officials, including Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and former Flint Mayor Dayne Walling, who have received the majority of criticism from the public.
They include Susan Hedman, a former regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency who resigned last week; Darnell Earley, a former emergency manager of Flint; Dayne Walling, a former mayor of Flint; and Gina McCarthy, the E.P.A. administrator.
Since purchasing brand new systems is out of the question, Stanionis said most states do their best to protect the systems they have, walling them off from the internet and storing them securely when they're not being used.
They named as defendants Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, the former director of the state environmental quality department and other workers, former Flint emergency managers Darnell Earley and Gerald Ambrose, former Flint Mayor Dayne Walling and other city officials.
Mike Conley is great at defending Parker in the half-court, fighting under screens, walling off the driving lanes, and forcing Parker into contested pull-up jump shots—something that for most players is easier said than done.
The Clinton administration tried a similar move in the late 1990s, walling off the president from the impeachment inquiry by day even as, by night, he dialed up friends to privately seethe about what he viewed as persecution.
From the surprise U.K. vote to leave the European Union to Donald Trump's call for tariffs on China and walling off Mexico, the protectionist movement has strengthened this year and prompted worries of recession as cross-border activity declines.
It's also, as UNHCR points out in its 2015 Global Trends report, a "tangible expression of responsibility sharing" — a way for rich countries to prove they aren't just walling themselves off from instability in the rest of the world.
Under this logic, then, the audience wouldn't believe what happened in these secret, offshore black sites were actually all that bad unless they were confronted with graphic scenes of violence against Muslim men, including walling, waterboarding, and short shackling.
A re-election bid by Mr. Walling, a Flint native and Rhodes scholar who seemed to have a promising political career ahead, fell apart in late 2015 as test results confirmed what residents had been worried about for months.
CIA operatives there subjected Zubaydah and al-Nashiri to waterboarding, "walling" (slamming them repeatedly into walls), sleep deprivation, nudity, and holding them in confined spaces (including a wooden box the size of a coffin) for hours at a time.
Again, this is not about walling children off into special places where they can play, it's about helping them play and learn in the world, in the homes and schoolrooms and larger environments in which they live and grow.
More than 100 people were detained as part of the program, and at least three dozen were subjected to "enhanced interrogation techniques," which included waterboarding, forced standing for hours, cold conditions, confinement in small boxes, walling, and sleep deprivation.
The album references the past, but it's a modern project, in lockstep with what many of her indie-rock contemporaries are doing today: writing snappy, concise songs with smart lyrics and walling them off with varying amounts of fuzz.
CIA operatives there subjected Zubaydah and al-Nashiri to waterboarding, "walling" (slamming them repeatedly into walls), sleep deprivation, nudity, and being held in confined spaces (including a wooden box the size of a coffin) for hours at a time.
CIA operatives there subjected Zubaydah and al-Nashiri to waterboarding, "walling" (slamming them repeatedly into walls), sleep deprivation, nudity, and behind held in confined spaces (including a wooden box the size of a coffin) for hours at a time.
Yes, there's a place for personal assistants in the bot ecosystem, but by creating carefully scripted responses and walling in the confines of what's expected of a conversation, you're able to make much more efficient — and much easier to use — bots.
Eager to get to the bottom of what and who caused the water crisis, the public's attention has often zeroed in on the city's numerous emergency managers, former Flint Mayor Dayne Walling, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, and even EPA officials.
" FOR THE RECORD, PART ONE -- AP's big-picture lead: "Sweeping travel bans cascaded around the globe Thursday, walling off countries and even entire continents, keeping people inside their homes, and slowing the engines of commerce to stem the coronavirus pandemic.
American companies and citizens will also be barred from doing business with any firm controlled by the Cuban military or its intelligence or security services, walling off crucial parts of the economy, including much of the tourist sector, from American access.
Former Mayor Dayne Walling and former emergency manager Darnell Earley, who was appointed by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, are among witnesses who will testify at two days of hearings by the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
As General Kelly, who will oversee our borders if confirmed, seems to believe, walling off the entire southern boundary at great cost sends a hostile message that could snuff out the very cooperation needed to make our borders truly secure.
The city officially switched its taps from Detroit to the river water in April 2014; video and photos of a ceremony commemorating the moment shows local officials like Earley, Walling, and Croft toasting with full glasses at the wastewater treatment plant.
When he was subjected to the technique known as "walling," in which a detainee is slammed into a "flexible" wall in order to "shock" or "surprise" the captive, Abu Zubaydah said his interrogators repeatedly shouted questions at him, which the government redacted.
Mayor worries about the long term State officials initially told residents everything was OK -- then-Mayor Dayne Walling even made a point to drink the water on local TV -- until Virginia Tech researchers in August performed tests and found the elevated lead levels.
They seemed to think they could blow past the past, walling off the candidate and ignoring the imbroglios that were obvious fodder for the pack of hungry Democrats and the rapacious president who would soon be in full cry after the front-runner.
Today we are left with a similar fatalism, allowing the eliminiationist suggestions of the far right to argue, in effect, for a walling-off of the world along lines of class, nationality and race, even if this might condemn millions to death.
For eight days, defense lawyers used C.I.A. cables from the black sites to question Dr. Mitchell about the interrogation program he designed to pressure Qaeda suspects to answer C.I.A. questions by using waterboarding, sleep deprivation and methods known as short-shackling and walling.
In the five days prior to her meeting with President Donald Trump, decrees from his desk have signaled NAFTA's demise, effectively killed the Trans-Pacific Partnership, given the green light to walling America off from Mexico, and emboldened Israel to action that its neighbors fear.
So, you know, right now, we&aposve got the FBI and Department of Justice, as Greg says, who stone wall, they&aposre stone walling, slow walking and saying they don&apost have records when in fact they do have records, and they have been lying.
That's because Netflix's release plan consists of "four-walling," or renting each screen the movie plays on; while the studio (in this case, Netflix) keeps all the revenue from each screening, it more importantly means that the company doesn't have to release box office results.
It once flowed freely through marshes and wetlands, but as early as the 19th century, government and industrial interests began walling it in and turning it heavily commercial — petrochemical plants, glue factories, lumber yards, and more than 10403 oil refineries settled in along its shores.
In an article in the Journal of Economic Perspectives scheduled to be published this fall, Gordon H. Hanson and Craig McIntosh of the University of California, San Diego, lay out the most obvious reason walling off Mexico would be pointless: Mexicans aren't coming anymore.
Unable to reach an accommodation, the Judiciary Committee moved this month to hold Attorney General William P. Barr in contempt of Congress and President Trump invoked executive privilege, walling off the materials they wanted for an investigation into obstruction of justice and abuse of power.
"It's a community that's still dealing with the trauma and the aftermath of having been poisoned at the hands of the government," Karen Weaver, who replaced Mr. Walling as mayor largely because of anger over the water crisis, said in an interview this week.
His lawyers say, based on what they know about his abuse in C.I.A. custody — water dousing, walling, sleep deprivation and being hung by his wrists — that the detainee named Ammar who is brutalized in the Hollywood film "Zero Dark Thirty" is based on his experience.
"Anyone who thinks our concerns are exaggerated should talk to the U.S. semiconductor industry workers who are already losing their jobs due to walling off our largest market," said John Neuffer, the president and chief executive of the Semiconductor Industry Association, which represents chip makers.
In a 2017 deposition as part of a lawsuit that was eventually settled, James E. Mitchell, a former C.I.A. contract psychologist who devised the techniques with a colleague, John Bruce Jessen, said walling was "discombobulating" and meant to stir up a prisoner's inner ears.
To prepare for the downturn, I am selling some, paying off some, and fire-walling them away from banks, pulling out cash, and leveraging up some of my long-term keepers at today's ridiculous rates and valuations to generate cash and pay-off the others.
The Milwaukee Bucks have a top-three defense and, whether Giannis Antetokounmpo is on the floor or not, are brick-walling opponents with a game-plan that couldn't be more different from the blitz-happy aggression encouraged by Jason Kidd over the past few seasons.
Yet by the time the polls closed on Tuesday , tens of millions of Americans voted for a policy platform that included profiling Muslims, expelling millions of unauthorized immigrants, walling off the nation's third-largest trading partner and starting a trade war with the world's next superpower.
As an example, China's extreme measures to control the virus, including rerouting public transportation, walling off hospital wards, and using technology to track as many cases as possible, has been found to work in the short-term but it's unclear what the consequences may be over time.
Although public health experts in the United States say walling off entire cities and shutting down transport systems would most likely be counterproductive and do more harm than good, federal and state laws give governments the authority to limit civil liberties to protect the public health.
Leptis Magna, which UNESCO added along with four other Libyan sites to its "World Heritage in Danger" list last year, is mostly clean and appears well preserved, though in one part of the baths a section of flooring recently collapsed and graffiti has been scribbled on marble walling.
READ: Flint water crisis: Did EPA keep memo about lead levels under wraps Former EPA director for that region, Susan Hedman, former Flint Mayor Dayne Walling and former Michigan emergency manager Darnell Earley -- in charge of decisions in Flint during that time -- all testified Tuesday, but each denied responsibility.
The United States now has a president who would have told East Germans in 1961, as the Berlin Wall went up, that the Soviet and East German leaders were to be congratulated for walling them in because they were concerned about their people's safety, happiness and well-being.
And now the Trump administration appears intent on walling off as much information as possible, working assiduously to conceal the president's visitors, his business and financial entanglements, and even details of executive orders and policies until they go into effect (like the travel ban, which is still being litigated).
"I think he's going to make the case of being the chief defender of the ACA, knowing that it's a winning argument for Democratic primary voters, and less so moving to a single-payer position or a Medicare for All position," said Kevin Walling, a Democratic strategist who supports Biden.
For years the geologist at Washington University in St Louis has warned policymakers about building houses and businesses on flood plains, walling off rivers with dams, locks, dykes and levees, disregarding the consequences of global warming on weather patterns and the use of outdated statistics for calculating the risk of a major flood.
"Additional border wall construction would devastate some of our country's most treasured places, such as Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and Big Bend National Park by fragmenting sensitive landscapes, walling off wildlife habitats and eroding the region's ecotourism, further hurting local communities that rely on these places for their livelihoods," Pierno said.
As I noted in a column last month, with President Trump promising to turn his back on the United States' southern neighbor — renegotiating Nafta on presumably worse terms for Mexico and walling off the southwestern border — Mexican officials are desperately trying to convince his administration that the United States needs Mexico, too.
Hicks' testimony was more forthcoming than that of Bannon -- who would answer questions only about the campaign -- but Democrats said she failed to answer key questions by walling off her time at the White House, arguing that other administration officials did not take a broad view about what they could not discuss.
Back in April 2014, the Michigan city's then-Mayor Dayne Walling and other municipal officials drank water from the Flint River -- the waterway with a nasty local reputation for cleanliness where Flint's water would be switched to, away from Lake Huron, in a temporary cost-cutting move -- to show they thought it was safe to drink.
ON TAP TUESDAY I: In the first part of its hearings this week on Flint's drinking water crisis, the House Oversight Committee will hear from four key players in the history of the crisis: former EPA regional administrator Susan Hedman, former Flint emergency manager Darnell Earley, former Flint Mayor Dayne Walling and Virginia Tech engineering professor Marc Edwards.
Donohue also took a swipe at the "very loud" voices in the Republican presidential race who advocate "walling off America," an apparent swipe at Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE.
The Tuesday session is scheduled to feature Susan Hedman, who was the EPA's regional manager for the area that includes Flint before resigning in January due to the crisis; former Flint emergency manager Darnell Earley; former Flint Mayor Dayne Walling; and Virginia Tech engineering professor Marc Edwards, who did much of the early work researching Flint's water quality after the switch.
The leader of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Thursday assailed the "very loud" voices in the Republican presidential race who advocate "walling off America," taking what appeared to be a swipe at Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE.
" At the dawn of the Trump era, Politico Magazine senior writer Michael Grunwald suggested the new president could fashion his own version of compassionate conservatism, noting that Trump's "agenda to Make America Great Again is in many ways a big government agenda, with bleeding-heart goals like rebuilding infrastructure and reviving inner cities, as well as get-tough goals like beefing up the military and walling up the border.
China's walling off of Wuhan and Hubei province would be essentially impossible to impose on, say, Washington state, which has reported the most coronavirus cases within the U.S. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Tuesday that China had "taken social distancing to its farthest extreme" — to an extent that couldn't be replicated in the U.S. "Places that have controlled this … have a mix of authoritarianism and competence," said David Fisman, an epidemiology professor at the University of Toronto.

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