Obama has clearly, and smartly, abandoned hope of any congressional help.
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Machiavelli never abandoned hope of returning to serve the city he loved.
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Many who once lived there have largely abandoned hope of ever returning.
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Not everyone has abandoned hope of progress — whether it's called incremental or evolutionary.
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The year isn't over yet, but Congress has basically abandoned hope of doing anything else.
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In a small but pivotal way, Ezekiel is teaching Carol about something she thought she had abandoned: hope.
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After a stretch of failed adoption attempts, Alice and her husband have abandoned hope of welcoming a child into their family.
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"Deadwood" devotees never abandoned hope that it might someday return, but the more time passed the less likely a revival seemed.
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Joaquín Oliver's family is just one of the estimated quarter-million Venezuelans who abandoned hope at home and moved to South Florida.
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Separated from his fleet in a July storm, Frobisher and his crew abandoned hope, only to be reunited weeks later north of Labrador.
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Whatever aspirations Mr. Ransom had in his youth, there were signs in recent days that he had abandoned hope of a normal life.
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Argentina's Navy has officially abandoned hope of finding the ARA San Juan intact and its 44 crew members alive, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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The Texans only have a three-game winning streak because they've been able to punish pathetic AFC South teams that long since abandoned hope.
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By using materials such as vinyl siding, cinder blocks and chain like fences, he explores the lost American dream through concepts of nostalgia and abandoned hope.
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They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities — even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.
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Having abandoned hope that the special counsel would deliver a single fatal blow of collusion, the strategy against the president now appears to involve death from a thousand cuts.
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Jackson abandoned hope for regulatory action with the election of President Donald Trump, telling Automotive News that "there's no way that issue is going to be addressed" with the Trump administration.
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Additionally, Ed Nishnic, Demjanjuk's son-in-law shares why he pursued proving his father-in-law's innocence through a media campaign even after Demjanjuk's own children had abandoned hope in 1989.
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I've long ago abandoned hope of being satisfied by the output from the Pixel's headphone jack, but that doesn't mean everyone else is ready to jump aboard the wireless bandwagon just yet.
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The Sixers abandoned hope of a recovery and traded him in February to the Magic, who also could not get Fultz on the floor for the final two months of the season.
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And even though the Great Depression was a huge problem and most people abandoned hope in the liberal system, they probably should have stuck with it, because what ended up happening was a catastrophic alternative.
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Boeing has not abandoned hope of getting a controlling interest, according to sources at both companies familiar with the negotiations, and it is contemplating structuring the deal in a way that would leave Embraer with significant autonomy.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia said on Tuesday that it has not abandoned hope of finding missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 and that it remains to be seen how a new report by investigators could help locate the aircraft.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU summit chairman Donald Tusk said he had abandoned hope that Brexit might be stopped and said on Wednesday his priority was now to avert a "fiasco" in 50 days if Britain crashes out without a deal.
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Walton was 24 when he won the championship; before he even turned 30, doctors told him they had abandoned hope of saving his basketball career — their new goal was to make sure they wouldn't have to amputate his feet.
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PHILADELPHIA — The Federal Reserve, mindful of unexpectedly weak job growth last month, has abandoned hope of raising interest rates at its next meeting in June, but Fed officials say they are still thinking seriously about raising rates in July or September.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Malaysia said on Tuesday that it has not abandoned hope of finding missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 and that it remains to be seen how a new report by investigators could help locate the aircraft.
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"We've been profoundly disappointed by the non-answers we've received from our VPs and at this point, we've abandoned hope that our leadership team recognizes or is willing to work towards changing this persistent and racist difference," the announcement continued.
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Since the election of Donald Trump last fall, a growing number of these refugees have made what once seemed like an improbable calculation: They have abandoned hope for this country and gambled on a risky crossing into one more welcoming to refugees.
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The Indiana vote has emerged as a decisive and perhaps final test for Senator Ted Cruz, who has abandoned hope of overtaking Mr. Trump in the race but still aims to throw the Republican nominating fight to a contested convention in July.
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Before the game, he occasionally sounded resigned to the fact that he might play elsewhere next season, explaining that he was no longer surprised by the direction of the winds that guide the business of baseball but that he had not abandoned hope for this year.
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The British retreat began again at and Villers was captured late in the night, after the British had retired to the south and south-west. By the end of the day the 1st Army headquarters had abandoned hope of cornering large British forces south of Verberie, Crépy-en-Valois and Villers.
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A rough cut, dual head print was screened for Miramax in the Australian Film, Television and Radio School's theatre in the hopes of obtaining finishing funds but was not ultimately purchased. The Producers abandoned hope of a theatrical release and raised additional funds to finish on video for a DVD release.
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After the Japanese defeat at the Battle of Leyte Gulf and the liberation of the Philippines, the Japanese abandoned hope of turning Indonesia into a puppet state, and now began to try and win goodwill. However, a rebellion by PETA militas in Blitar in February 1945 showed the Japanese they were losing control.
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He was paid £200 (£ in adjusted for inflation) for each of the pantomime seasons."Dan Leno's Salary", Manchester Evening News, 27 December 1901, p. 5Anthony, p. 190 Leno appeared at Drury Lane as Sister Anne in Bluebeard, a character described by Wood as "a sprightly, somewhat below middle aged person who was of a coming on disposition and who had not yet abandoned hope"Wood, p.
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On the same day the Peace Conference started, local voters elected Tyler to the Virginia Secession Convention. He presided over the opening session on February 13, 1861, while the Peace Conference was still under way. Tyler abandoned hope of compromise and saw secession as the only option, predicting that a clean split of all Southern states would not result in war.Chitwood, pp. 435–47; Seager, pp. 449–61.
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Eisenberger won the race with 39.93%, while McHattie took 20.38%. Clark, who placed second, received 31.53% of the vote. Across Hamilton, pro-LRT councillors were elected with the express goal of supporting the project. In early 2015, activists feared the HSR had abandoned hope the project would be successful, as the agency's new director, Dave Dixon, had submitted for council's approval a request for new express buses totaling $302 million.
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Reconcile released a free project entitled Abandoned Hope, on March 23, 2012 while Reconcile was still a senior in college. The project received over 45K downloads and garnered the attention of producer Street Symphony. On May 20, 2014 Reconcile released his first album entitled Sacrifice. Sacrifice charted #3 on iTunes Hip Hop and debuted on the Billboard charts, landing placement on the Top Rap Albums at No. 20.
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Armstrong did not formally protest this verdict, nor did she embark upon a new topic but instead abandoned hope of an academic career. She reports that this period in her life was marked by ill-health stemming from her lifelong but, at that time, still undiagnosed temporal lobe epilepsy. Around this time she was lodged with Jenifer and Herbert Hart, looking after their disabled son, as told in her memoir The Spiral Staircase.
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The first battles on land during the Falklands War took place on Lafonia (see Battle of Goose Green), where over a thousand Argentine personnel were stationed and around one-hundred locals were imprisoned in the community hall. The area is now home to an Argentine Military Cemetery. Parts of Lafonia, especially near Darwin and Goose Green, are still heavily mined. Other settlements include Port King, Egg Harbour and the abandoned Hope Place.
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He also measured the velocity of sound, the contraction of a series of different metal bars at low temperatures, and the behaviours of various chemicals. The following summer Parry pressed on to little avail and during the following winter of 1822–23 Fisher once more set up the portable observatory ashore and continued his experiments. In the summer of 1823 Parry abandoned hope of finding a navigable passage through Hudson Bay and returned home.
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Semple 1993, pp. 265–79. Bentham, now aged 63, was still willing to be governor. However, as it became clear that there was still no real commitment to the proposal, he abandoned hope, and instead turned his attentions to extracting financial compensation for his years of fruitless effort. His initial claim was for the enormous sum of nearly £700,000, but he eventually settled for the more modest (but still considerable) sum of £23,000.
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The original plan to raise money for Masons’ Hall was a lottery, passed by an act of the Legislature December 27, 1785, permitting raising up to £ 1,500. The original fundraising committee consisted of John Marshall, Gabriel Galt, Foster Webb Jr., David Lambert, and John Beckley. This lottery was not successful though, and only sold a few tickets after one year. About this time, many had abandoned hope of raising money by lottery.
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In the absence of evidence, his mother never abandoned hope of his survival and spent years searching for the facts surrounding his disappearance, to the discomfort of the Air Force's Missing, Research and Enquiry Service. Their first home was "Clovelly", Woodville, South Australia then until 1937 "Wellington House", Wellington Square, North Adelaide; then 90 Jeffcott Street, North Adelaide (with a summer residence in Stirling West). Their Sydney home was initially at 104 Elizabeth Bay Road, Elizabeth Bay.
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As per the operation plan, the five mother submarines waited off Port Hacking on the nights of 1 and 2 June for the midget submarines to return. FRUMEL picked up wireless traffic between the five submarines, leading the RAAF to task three Lockheed Hudsons and two Bristol Beauforts with finding the source of the communications. They were unsuccessful. On 3 June, Sasaki abandoned hope of recovering the midget submarines, and the submarines dispersed on their secondary missions.
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The group sailed from New York to England shortly before Christmas in 1924. Upon arrival in England, they separated with three of the group going to Paris. Carl and the doctor remained behind to secure medical information relative to protection from tropical diseases. They experienced much difficulty in reaching the doctor having the needed information, and had abandoned hope of making contact, when a last-minute call before leaving for the airport found him in his office.
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Ujala is heartbroken and rejects Tabrez's proposal because she feels that she should just be with her father for the rest of her life and take care of him, and not marry and leave the house. Tabrez feels that he is at fault and hates himself. Tabrez's mother now has abandoned hope of Ujala and Tabrez getting married and is against Ujala. However, after repeated trials Tabrez is finally successful with getting Ujala to tell him whats wrong and she tells Tabrez.
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Jelinek later abandoned hope for a film version before selling the rights to Paulus Manker, who asked Haneke to adapt the screenplay, though Haneke would not be the director. Manker did not secure a budget, so the producer asked Haneke to direct. Haneke agreed to take over the directorial helm, though the screenplay had been written with Manker's direction in mind, only if Isabelle Huppert was the star. Haneke also reorganized the novel's story, and developed the character of Anna Schober and Mrs.
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Despite these promises, an increasing number of southerners expressed concern that northerners would overwhelm them. In particular, they resented the imposition of Arabic as the official language of administration, which deprived most of the few educated English-speaking southerners of the opportunity to enter public service. They also felt threatened by the replacement of trusted British district commissioners with unsympathetic northerners. After the government replaced several hundred colonial officials with Sudanese, only four of whom were southerners, the southern elite abandoned hope of a peaceful, unified, independent Sudan.
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Towards the end of 1309, the siege began to go very poorly for Ferdinand IV as many of his commanders began to fall ill. Diego Lopez V de Haro was afflicted with gout and Alonso Pérez de Guzmán died in camp. Temporal rains also completely flooded the area where the Christian forces had camped making a breeding ground for disease and illness. Ferdinand IV of Castile persisted until January 1310 in his efforts to take the city when he finally abandoned hope of a victorious outcome and retreated.
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By the end of 188, the imperial court had all but abandoned hope of recovering Liang Province and, for the most part, left the regional defences to their own devices.de Crespigny (1984), p. 153 However, when Wang Guo led a major force east to attack Chencang (陳倉, east of present-day Baoji), a gateway to Chang'an, the court once again appointed Huangfu Song to answer this obvious threat. Huangfu, now General of the Left (), was given 20,000 men; Dong Zhuo, himself commanding another 20,000 men, were to assist Huangfu.
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Horn Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541: Volume 5: St Paul's, London: Prebendaries of Newington However, Vitalis emerged victorious in 1318 and Northburgh seems to have abandoned hope of an economic or power base in the capital. He settled for being Archdeacon of Richmond, a post to which he was appointed by royal grant of 29 May 1317. On 24 September of that year he made his profession of loyalty to William Melton, whose consecration as Archbishop of York had been greatly delayed, and remained in post until he became a bishop.
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A Yugoslavian freighter, , was the first to arrive at the last reported position of Sea Dragon, on April 16. Later in May, an extensive US Navy search with several ships and scout planes, including , scouring over the course of many days, found no trace of the junk or the crew, and the effort was ended. Halliburton's mother abandoned hope that he would be found alive by June. As with Amelia Earhart, many rumors and reports of Halliburton's fate continued to arise over the years, with fans hoping he might yet turn up alive.
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Floating objects had been found, but it was not confirmed that they came from the missing aircraft. The search resumed at 08:00 GMT on 23 January with two aircraft searching coastal areas around Alderney. As of 11:30 GMT, a helicopter and three aircraft were continuing the search and trying to review satellite imagery and mobile phone data; there was still no trace of the missing aircraft. On 23 January, the Channel Islands Air Search said they had abandoned hope of finding any survivors in the water.
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However, 1928 Coles had abandoned hope of this happening. "It seemed to him inevitable that certain types of people ....., from a distrust of others and selfish regard for themselves would always knock the bottom out of any real attempt at co-operation.".Cock, p. 69 The play "derives its title from an effort made to establish a Farmers' Co-Operative Trading Society."The Stage, 13 August 1931 But the play was a success—whether it was the final three act version or a preliminary one act, is not known.
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After the government tried and failed to destroy the asteroid with a missile, they abandoned hope and moved to a secret bunker. After being tricked by the team that K-13 had impacted with Earth, he revealed the calculations to allow a missile to destroy the asteroid, which the team used to finally destroy the asteroid and save the Earth. But the Reverend had placed a magnetic lock on the bunker's door to keep the people inside trapped, after the team cracked the code, he was arrested by M.I.9. Luke Withers (Super Thief, Series 3 Episode 2 "The Mole").
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In 1997, the association solidified thinking regarding the acceptability of Zionism within the Reform Movement through the acceptance of the Miami Platform of the Central Conference of American Rabbis.Reform Judaism and Zionism: A Centenary Platform The Miami Platform makes the distinction between Medinat Yisrael and Eretz Yisrael. The platform says, in part, > During two millennia of dispersion and persecution, Am Yisrael [people of > Israel] never abandoned hope for the rebirth of a national home in Eretz > Yisrael. The Shoah [Holocaust] intensified our resolve to affirm life and > pursue the Zionist dream of a return to Eretz Yisrael.
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The film is a biographical account of Sindhutai Sapkal, a woman who became a social activist after a traumatic life. Born in a poor, cattle grazing family in Wardha as Chindi (Ragamuffin), Sindhutai was first married off at the age of 10 to a man who was 20 years elder to her and then abandoned by her husband on charges of infidelity. Traveling through the backwaters of Maharashtra, the Braveheart never abandoned hope and courage and ended up in San Jose on a fund-raising mission for her orphanage which still provides shelter to homeless kids.
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The group had been losing members during the Cold War, but lost many more prominent members due to events that shook the Global Communist movement in 1956. First was Khrushchev's Secret Speech, which stunned many diehards and led to discussions in parties around the world about the crimes of Stalin. Instead of this leading to loosening up of the system in the Eastern Bloc it helped trigger the Hungarian Uprising, the brutality of the Soviet invasion disgusted a great many party members who abandoned hope in peaceful reform. The year 1956 thus had several key factors that precipitated something of a sea change in international Marxist opinion.
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At midnight, Tejuca shipped a sea which rolled the vessel almost on her beam ends, broke most of the yards, and destroyed or swept away everything on deck including the lifeboats; the seawater also contaminated the crews food stores and drinking water. By the 7th, with no provisions and the ship settling fast, Gregory and his crew had abandoned hope of survival when a sail appeared on the horizon, belonging to the ship Excelsior. Excelsiors captain, Eben Mitchell, attempted to come to Tejucas aid, but was unable to launch lifeboats in the raging storm. He finally decided on the hazardous tactic of bringing his ship alongside the stricken vessel, an act which would risk the safety of his own vessel.
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Levitt was one of four children born to Benzion (Ben) and Jenny Levitt, Jewish immigrants from Lithuania who ran commercial hotels in Franschhoek and Cape Town. Levitt's many obituaries (including in The Lancet,Lancet 1958, 1, 486 the British Medical Journal and the Medical Proceedings - Mediese Bydraes, a South African journal) describe him as a generous, sincere, modest and genial gentleman of high moral principles. An excellent and inspiring teacher, it was said of him that he poured out his life's blood for his students, often refusing financial recompense, and that many who had abandoned hope of ever passing their examinations found new hope with him. Levitt was a constant reader in the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons during the years between the end of the war and his final illness.
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This was the flashpoint of the crisis. At the White House, President Kennedy ordered the twenty-four troop carrier squadrons of the Air Force Reserve to active duty. They would be necessary for an invasion of the island, which was in advanced planning stages. Kennedy had not abandoned hope, but what hope there was now rested with Khrushchev's revising his course within the next few hours. The official recall message came in from Headquarters USAF at 02:23 28 October. The message ordered one C-123 Provider and seven C-119 Flying Boxcar troop carrier wings along with six aerial port squadrons to extended active duty at 09:00 28 October 1962 for no more than twelve consecutive months. The mobilized Air Force Reserve units brought 14,220 people and 422 aircraft on active duty on 28 October. About the time the mobilized troop carrier wings came on active military service at 0900 the White House received a new message from Premier Khrushchev.
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On 5 April Cameron abandoned hope of pursuing Ngāti Hauā leader and prominent Kingite Wiremu Tamihana after his foe evacuated the besieged Te Tiki o te Ihingarangi pā near Lake Karapiro. Cameron switched his attention to Tauranga, arriving there on 21 April in and established his headquarters at Tauranga. In addition to the reinforcements on Esk, more from Auckland arrived on . Within days Cameron decided he had sufficient forces to finally march against Gate Pā. On the afternoon of 28 April, Cameron launched an hour-long attack on the front of Gate Pā with four batteries of artillery placed at a range of between 350 and 800 metres. The battery—the heaviest used in the wars of 1863–1864—included a 110-pounder Armstrong gun, two 40-pounder and two six-pounder Armstrongs, two 24-pounder howitzers, two eight-inch mortars, and six Coehorn mortars. Late in the night Greer moved his 700 men from the 68th Regiment across swamps to the east of Gate Pā under cover of darkness and rain to take up a position to the rear of the redoubt to cut off a Māori retreat.
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