"He said it's not a blank check, but the Pentagon continues to stand and plan and operationalize as if it is a blank check," Prince said.
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Blank Check Blank Check was promoted as "television's first ESP game" — but a psychic couldn't have predicted it would only have a seven month run on NBC in 1975.
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He said the support was not a blank check, however.
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Is your state ready to write Amazon a blank check?
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A blank check Fourth, Turkey is obviously pleased as punch.
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" That statement was, Mr. Blair said, "not a blank check.
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Common Cause amounts to a blank check for partisan gerrymandering.
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Congress needs, in any event, to reconsider its blank check.
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The Pentagon had a virtual blank check after the Sept.
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Trump is routinely assailed while she is given a blank check.
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S. security coöperation with Saudi Arabia is not a blank check.
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They see "public health" as a blank check for government action.
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It is a blank check the Special Counsel has cashed repeatedly.
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S. security cooperation with Saudi Arabia is not a blank check.
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" But, he said, "We can't just give back a blank check.
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"Beyond that, this was pretty much a blank check for Anbang."
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He's also made it clear it's not a blank-check commitment.
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If Cole expects a blank check, he may have to look elsewhere.
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This subsidy would just no longer be a blank check from taxpayers.
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This blank check and the brutal impunity it has underwritten have become
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"Anyone who signs that blank check for us deserves it," he said.
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We need to stop giving presidents a blank check to wage war.
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As Secretary Zinke explained, however, the act is not a blank check.
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For several months, the president had what was effectively a blank check.
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"This is not a blank check," according to a document explaining the deal.
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"You appoint a monitor and they have a blank check," Ms. Goldiner said.
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Then they have a blank check with which to do whatever they want.
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It gave Trump a blank check to continue caging people in horrendous conditions.
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Instead Mueller has been given a blank check for a wide-ranging investigation.
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"It is a blank check the special counsel has cashed, repeatedly," it said.
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Why has the administration given a blank check to the Saudi crown prince?
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He refused to be pushed into backing a Medicare-for-all blank check.
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"It wasn't like signing a blank check," said Richard Hershberger, an early baseball researcher.
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It's Katy Perry's blank check contribution that allowed for the financing of prosthetic materials.
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And if there's no blank check, that means sometimes they can go too far.
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"They gave me a blank check to buy whatever I wanted," Al-Madioum said.
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This "blank check" reduces incentives for cost-saving and may contribute to wasteful spending.
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"So the customer essentially handed the banker a blank check," Ms. McDaniel-Watkins said.
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"It is not a blank check," Dreeben said of Rosenstein's parameters for the probe.
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That "blank check" is forming the backdrop for the escalating battle on the border.
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"The promise of transparency to this family has been a blank check," Merritt said.
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Without the blank check, unprovoked assaults on Trump protesters got a little less common.
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"[Abe] can't just give and give and give a blank check to Trump," Harris said.
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"Climate change is not a blank check for the President," he wrote for the majority.
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"We don't get a blank check from the federal government," Ayers said in the video.
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Thus, this "blank check" will have not only an unstated purpose but an unstated amount.
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Handing the White House a blank check is a recipe for yet another endless war.
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Failing to heed them essentially writes Mr. Pruitt a blank check for his lavish travel.
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"We aren't prepared to write management another blank check for further capital increases," Speich said.
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Browsing the web feels like writing a blank check every time you load a page.
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"They just wrote a multi-billion dollar blank check for misconduct," Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said.
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Presidents have ignored Congress or treated its legislation as a blank check for making war.
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First, President Donald Trump has pursued what's best described as a "blank check" policy toward Israel.
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It's law that, if interpreted broadly, gives judges the court-order version of a blank check.
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Setting it up typically involves filling out a short form and attaching a voided blank check.
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Yet year after year, Congress continues to write the same blank check for more reckless spending.
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Voters voted to put a check on the president rather than giving him a blank check.
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Writing a blank check to expand detention space does not solve child abuse at the border.
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He has raised his pen above the blank check and is signing on the dotted line.
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Christian Pagenaud, his father, did not want to hand Simon a blank check to race, either.
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The L.A. Times reports that Perry gave Tanimura a blank check to fund the PSA's complicated prosthetics.
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A misstep in the Philippines could give Duterte a perceived blank check to condone the killings further.
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But the power is not a blank check for a president to circumvent the rule of law.
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Congress would rather spell out clear terms to the White House rather than give it a blank check.
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"Instead of holding the Saudis accountable, this administration instead continues to provide them a blank check," Murphy said.
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They are an ally in the region and they are important, but it shouldn't be a blank check.
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Bank of America's chief executive has said the bank has a "blank check" when it comes to cybersecurity.
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In fact, Republican politicians in Jackson have effectively pledged a blank check to try to defend the law.
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We've not got a blank check, but the largest check ever written by Congress on the fiscal side.
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"The broad sweep of the program means officials have been given a blank check for surveillance," Manning said.
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Silver Run is a blank-check acquisition company sponsored by energy-focused private equity firm Riverstone Holdings LLC.
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That is blank-check, steroidal enforcement — and Mr. Trump and the Homeland Security secretary, John Kelly, want more.
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"We can't afford to gave Big Pharma the blank check that you've had," Mr. Brown told the executives.
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As Harper and his agent, Scott Boras, take their time, the Phillies are not dangling a blank check.
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At all times hilarious and illuminating, Blank Check is a loving look at the creative impulse that drives filmmaking.
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Former FCC lawyer Gigi Sohn tells The Verge that ISPs now have a blank check to behave anti-competitively.
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That job could fall to Dole, who could once again prevent a Clinton from governing with a blank check.
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Even Rand Paul starts to sound good when no one else will speak against a blank check for war.
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"Our commitment is not unlimited, and our support is not a blank check," Trump promised of the latest strategy.
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When she needs some auto work done, she leaves a blank check on the front seat of the car.
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Also waiting in the wings are a freshly funded crop of blank-check companies looking to buy in cannabis.
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The result that flows from Dershowitz's approach to impeachment is more than a blank check for an American monarchy.
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SPACs are sometimes called "blank-check companies" because they look like initial public offerings but have no actual operations.
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My favorite movie podcast, Blank Check, began its life as a series dedicated to dissecting the Star Wars prequels.
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In their response, Freiburg officials said the bill "gives companies a kind of blank check to conduct unwanted business practices".
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In October 2014, prosecutors say, Gilbert's computer showed searches for websites that discussed forging checks and offered blank check templates.
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Planned Parenthood is not a line item in the budget and does not get a blank check from the government.
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But then in China, they have a blank check, they have essentially unlimited computing resources provided by the Chinese government.
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To date, the IPO market has mainly been made up of biotech companies and blank-check special purpose acquisition firms.
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A SPAC is what is called a "blank check company" — essentially a blind pool of money that is going public.
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PROMESA was not a blank check to the FOMB to bypass the limits, prohibitions and obligations imposed by the Act.
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He added that climate change does not give the EPA a "blank check" to use the Clean Air Act flexibly.
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In the parliamentary system the vote is a blank check But Spanish politicians cannot manage to rule even with that.
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The Pentagon was granted a virtual blank check to fight terrorism, and it still gets most of what it wants.
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So I think I'd need to have a reason to use it again instead of giving myself a blank check.
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SPACs are often referred to as "blank check" companies and are typically set up by VCs or private equity firms.
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Russia's huge energy reserves and ready-made network of underused power plants is the cryptocurrency equivalent of a blank check.
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This is why other Republicans, such as Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Lindsey Graham, want to avoid the blank check approach.
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In October 2014, prosecutors said, Gilbert's computer showed searches for websites that discussed forging checks and offered blank check templates.
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Blank-check companies do not generally have an established business plan and are used as investment vehicles to buy other companies.
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" Looking forward to this year's bill, he added, "the last thing we can do is give the Pentagon another blank check.
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The argument: Chamath Palihapitiya is founder of Social Capital and CEO of the blank check vehicle, named Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings.
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They saw a potential threat to social harmony across the union: a blank check for labor deregulation and free-market reform.
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Verma once again made it clear that the Trump administration isn't giving conservative states a blank check for changes to Medicaid.
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Being acquired by a blank-check company will give Hostess a listing on the Nasdaq stock market, where Gores Holdings trades.
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Voters want members of Congress to be a check on the powers of the presidency, not a blank check for Trump.
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It has effectively become a blank check for any president, at any time, to wage war without congressional consent or oversight.
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"Are state governments supposed to write a blank check for higher education, allowing universities to increase costs with abandon?" she asked.
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What's vaguer than a blank check to the Attorney General of the United States to determine who he's going to prosecute?
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Russia, critics added, did not constrain Mr. Assad because it has had a blank check from an overly friendly Trump administration.
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They can continue to write the space agency a blank check, ensuring that cost overruns and questionable purchases are the norm.
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President Trump has withdrawn from the Iran deal and given Israel an unprecedented blank check on its treatment of the Palestinians.
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"US security cooperation with Saudi Arabia is not a blank check," US National Security Council Spokesman Ned Price said in a statement.
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" Manafort argued that language gave Mueller too much undefined power from the start, describing it in court papers as a "blank check.
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" She said the Republican Congress, which was implacably opposed to virtually anything proposed by Mr. Obama, had given him a "blank check.
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There were six IPOs last week (seven if you include a blank check company), tied for the busiest week of the year.
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It's what's known as a "blank check" company, meaning investors are betting on the team without knowing what they intend to buy.
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The two are putting $40 million of their own money into the blank check company and raising the rest from outside investors.
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"The last thing Congress should be doing is giving this president a blank check to wage war against anyone, anywhere," he said.
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But neither the threats facing the Saudis nor America's partnership with the kingdom mean that the Saudis should have a blank check.
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"Even with a blank check and substantial political will, the Philippines is decades away from having a credible defense force," he said.
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We need to be focused on helping hardworking Americans, communities, and small businesses — not handing big corporations a blank check. pic.twitter.com/tMBZm26h3y
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Their message is simple: Do not be a "blank check for Trump or Puzder," said Judy Conti, federal advocacy coordinator at NELP.
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By agreeing to such unfavorable exchange rates, and also promising not to "manipulate" the dollar, Trump is giving Beijing a blank check.
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European politicians have warned Erdogan, however, that the coup attempt did not give him a blank check to disregard the rule of law.
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And as president, she's said she'd reject the so-called "blank check" of her predecessors, a fundamental break with the past two decades.
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Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya created Hedosophia as a "blank check" investing tool that pooled money while its handlers searched for a takeover target.
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The opinion ends with a note of caution: The University of Texas got a win, but it wasn't being written a blank check.
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Short for Special Purpose Acquisition Company, they are blank-check companies that are formed for the purpose of merging or acquiring other companies.
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Used to prosecute Aaron Swartz, Sergey Alenikov, and jailbreaker George Hotz, the law has long been criticized as a blank check for prosecutors.
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Congress can and should do so without providing a blank check to the executive branch for using war authorities beyond their appropriate scope.
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Many statutes require mitigation of adverse environmental effects as a middle ground between banning hazardous project outright and giving them a blank check.
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Furthermore, federal agencies essentially have a "blank check" to fight fires, which provides little incentive for them to make economically efficient suppression decisions.
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As long as Israel has a blank check from Washington and an effective Security Council veto through the United States, nothing will change.
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Unlike most administrations since the end of World War II, the Trump administration should finally stop offering a blank check to Saudi Arabia.
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Cision, which is controlled by U.S. private equity firm GTCR LLC, will become a unit of blank-check firm Capitol Acquisition Corp III CLAC.
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God knows what the masters of the universe are thinking this evening as they realize they have a blank check for the foreseeable future.
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Details: Klein would utilize a publicly-traded, blank-check company called Churchill Capital II, which raised $600 million in its IPO earlier this year.
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Home Minister Michael Farrugia said that the police force had been given a "blank check to do whatever it takes" to solve the crime.
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"The cooperation that we've extended to Saudi Arabia since the conflict escalated again is modest and it is not a blank check," Stump said.
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He argued that the programs would not provide a "blank check" to anyone, and cities would need a "rigorous plan" to qualify for funding.
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It has come under fire from civil liberties advocates, who say it gives the intelligence community a blank check to regulate its own spying.
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Exchanges have been fighting for the business as well, with Nasdaq recently proposing rule changes to make listing a blank check company there easier.
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Farley is now chairman and CEO of Far Point Acquisition, a blank-check company he helped form with Dan Loeb's hedge fund Third Point.
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Last week, Speaker Paul D. Ryan said that his endorsement of Mr. Trump was not a "blank check" and that he could rescind it.
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His big "source" is Kim Dotcom, an outlaw webpreneur who appears to have patterned his lifestyle after the kid from 1994 movie Blank Check.
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Again there were eruptions from some members of Congress, calling out the State Department for appearing to provide Mr. Hernández with a blank check.
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They're open to allowing money to go to a Zika response but only as long as it's not just a blank check for Obama.
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John KennedyJohn Neely KennedyMORE (R-La.) argued that the administration was asking for a "blank check" despite unanswered questions about the surveillance of Page.
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Pelosi and Harry Reid wanted to make sure Congress wasn't just agreeing to write a blank check to the big banks, which were failing.
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It is a blank check written by a president facing an impeachment trial and handed to an Israeli prime minister indicted on corruption charges.
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"This ruling affirms the enduring principle that a state of war is not a blank check when it comes of the rights of Americans."
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Mr. Trump said the new strategy was not a blank check, but he has provided no timeline for withdrawal or defined what constitutes success.
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The investment vehicles are blank check companies or special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) and aim to raise $300 million and $600 million, respectively. (bit.
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The investment vehicles are blank check companies or special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) and aim to raise $300 million and $600 million, respectively. (bit.
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Voters want change — many want to turn Washington inside out — but they also fear giving a blank check to someone who has never governed.
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On the other hand, not limiting these things gives the president a blank check and an excuse to blame Congress if things go wrong.
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He is also the CEO of a new "blank check" public company called Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings, which will invest in private technology firms.
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A free Iran would mean the end of their blank check to the terrorist organizations that seek to attack Americans at home and abroad.
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During a recent episode of the movie discussion podcast Blank Check with Griffin and David, the hosts revisited Jonathan Demme's 1984 film Swing Shift.
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As for Newark, Mayor Baraka agrees that the city needs funding, but he draws a distinction between state-sponsored tax breaks and a blank check.
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Four more notes on this fiasco: Palihapitiya continues to serve as CEO of a publicly-traded blank check company called Social Capital Hedosophia (NYSE: IPOA).
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"We can no longer afford to give a blank check to our health care delivery system, and shame on us if we do," he said.
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Yet rather than produce a blank check, the Magic low-balled O'Neal, promising him less money than Alonzo Mourning and Juwan Freaking Howard were making.
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The French firm backed Cattaneo's promotion to CEO from board member, but "that does not give him a blank check", one of the people said.
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Jim Cramer said Monday that Wal-Mart CEO Doug McMillon was given a "blank check" to defeat Amazon, which resulted in the purchase of Jet.com.
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"The majority of Senate ... is not going to sign a blank check for a wall we know is never going to be built," McCaskill said.
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Congress, however, did not want to write the president a blank check, so it limited borrowing to $11.5 billion and required legislation for any increase.
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"We just gave these companies a blank check, a corporate tax break that could have been used for all kinds of other things," Helper says.
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At the same time, his administration has embraced the deeply troubling idea that religious freedom is a blank check to discriminate and to harm others.
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Oxfam is calling on Congress to back up their words with a significant change in policy to cancel President Trump's blank check to Saudi Arabia.
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That said, if you default on your business account, you will be held personally accountable, so this is not a blank check to be irresponsible.
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Democratic intensity will be high, and independents are going to want to put a check on President Trump rather than give him a blank check.
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Any member who voted for the NDAA -- a blank check -- can't now express dismay that Trump may have launched another war in the Middle East.
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Protect Oklahoma Family Farmers, one of the leading supporters of the Oklahoma proposal, said the measure would in no way hand farmers a blank check.
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"He's a president, not a king, and Congress needs to quit giving him a blank check to wage war against anyone, anywhere," Mr. Kaine said.
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Republican senators will probably prevent Pelosi's proposed measures from passing now, and Trump will likely retain a blank check to use military force against Iran.
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Death Stranding is a blank check of a game, as startlingly evocative as it is laughably in-your-face about its themes of human connection.
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But sequestration shouldn't be replaced with a blank check; any additional defense spending, whether on military personnel or hardware, should fit within a broader strategic concept.
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Ryan said Trump doesn't have a "blank check," but that it's unclear "what that line is," beyond which Ryan would feel compelled to rescind his endorsement.
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More than a decade ago, three former Apple executives raised a bundle for a blank check company, but investors ended up losing most of their money.
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In September, former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya rolled out a $690 million blank check company dedicated to buying a Silicon Valley "unicorn" and taking it public.
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Meanwhile, the country's criminal groups have been given a blank check to operate as violently as they please without the fear of arrest or prison time.
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Last month, Faker told a Korean talk show that he was offered a "blank check" to join a North American organization, but he declined the offer.
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Oftentimes, the lender you choose will send you a blank check, and you'll fill it out once you and the dealer have settled on a price.
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While Congress's government funding package allocated $700 billion for defense spending, it's not a blank check to the Pentagon, and the money is appropriated to specific programs.
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Investors are in essence writing a blank check to Mark G. Papa, the former chief executive of EOG Resources, which was spun out of Enron in 1999.
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But he billed the get-out-the-vote effort as a necessary step to reclaim Washington from a Republican Congress that has given Trump a blank check.
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The AUMF is the blank check that allows U.S. presidents to wage an endless global war on terror, a war without border and without any foreseeable conclusion.
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The World Bank's recent indication of multiyear financing to address immediate and long-term needs is another promising development, but one that cannot become a blank check.
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Blank check companies, also called special purpose acquisition companies, raise money from investors first and use it to buy companies later, usually within a specified time range.
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Conversely, it repeals the "orderly liquidation authority" — the blank check for seizing financial institutions — without providing a coherent substitute for what to do when large institutions fail.
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He recognized that a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity had fallen into his lap in the form of a blank check drawing on an infinite bank account.
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" Ocasio-Cortez, meanwhile, said under the current guidelines, credit card companies and big banks have a "blank check" to charge "extortion-level interest rates to the poor.
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Those who take the oath to serve in the military sign a blank check, payable to America, willing to risk their lives for the benefit of others.
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"We cannot give this administration a blank check when time and again it has failed to show it has these children's best interests at heart," said Democratic Rep.
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Infrastructure New Republican Study Committee Chairman, Mark Walker (R-NC), told CSPAN that Congress will not grant Trump a blank check for his infrastructure plan, The Hill reports.
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"The bill as it stands is a blank check that will blow up the deficit," the main opposition Democratic Alliance said on Tuesday, echoing objections of other parties.
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But the sheer size of the spending increase seems like a return to the Pentagon's blank-check ways during the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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New Frontier Corp is a blank-check company that raised $478 million in an initial public offering last year to acquire a company with a China-focused business.
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" Focus on Pakistan: "America will not write a blank check for countries that fail to root out the same forces who try every day to kill our people.
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This exception from regular antitrust laws was never a blank check, and the DOJ obtained a consent decree from the major PROs ASCAP and BMI to protect consumers.
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Issenberg fleshes out the idea that Congress could effectively transfer its interstate policy-making powers to the states by giving them a blank check to write these compacts.
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"No president should have a blank check for endless war, especially not this president, who is acting without any checks or oversight from the Republican-controlled Congress," Rep.
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More common outside of the tech industry, these blank-check companies are specifically designed to buy private companies and bring them public without going through the IPO process.
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It would also relieve Congress of an excuse for failing to engage in meaningful oversight, and deprive the president of a congressionally-supported claim to blank check authority.
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At the 2016 oral arguments over the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, Kavanaugh was blunt about where he stands: "Global warming is not a blank check," he said.
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"The Graham-Cassidy bill gives a super block grant blank check to the states," said Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, the senior Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee.
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"We will authorize whatever spending measures are justified to respond to the situation, but we will not sign a blank check," Conservative leader Andrew Scheer said late Monday.
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Generally, the bank will either send you a blank check to fill out once you've settled on a deal, or will arrange the financing with the dealership directly.
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Instead of going public through a traditional stock sale or direct listing of shares, Virgin Galactic merged with an already existing blank check firm named Social Capital Hedosophia.
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To me, that amount of money was a flag in the ground, an indication of permanence, as good as a blank check to go forth and take over.
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"A state of war is not a blank check for the president," Justice O'Connor famously wrote in one of the cases that reached the court during that period.
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In a nationally televised prime-time speech to troops at Fort Myer, Va., Mr. Trump said there would be no "blank check" for the American engagement in Afghanistan.
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Even some supporters of the president say Congress has shirked its constitutional responsibilities for too long by giving the White House a blank check on going to war.
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Think about that: Congress was given a $1.5-trillion blank check for tax reform and still managed to raise the taxes on the bulk of the middle class.
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The bank will then arrange for the funds or a blank check to be sent to you or the dealership, and you're ready to buy the car.8.
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"The time has come for Congress to repeal and replace that blank check on the use of force and ensure a robust debate on any future operations," Buttigieg said.
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"The Constituent Assembly will be a blank check for the executive to decide everything," state prosecutor Luisa Ortega, who has broken with Maduro this year, told a local paper.
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He said he would focus instead on ensuring Clinton doesn't get a "blank check" with a Democratic-controlled Congress, all but conceding that Trump would lose the presidential contest.
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Some larger shareholders, like Union Investment, had urged shareholders to vote against authorizing management to write what they called another blank check after hefty capital increases in recent years.
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But the SPAC is also bracing for competition from private investors and other blank check companies for attractive targets and is not required to put the money to work.
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Republicans balked at writing a "blank check" for the city, so the two parties agreed in February on a smaller aid package for all cities experiencing water contamination issues.
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The CFPB formerly had a blank check to spend whatever it wanted out of the Federal Reserve System's largesse, and it was run by a single all-powerful chief.
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But the decision on lifetime limits marks the first time the administration completely rejected a policy favored by conservatives and shows there is no blank check for red states.
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WL Ross — a blank-check company formed by billionaire investor Wilbur Ross for acquisitions — will be renamed Nexeo Solutions Inc when the deal closes, expected in the second quarter.
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" University of Texas School of Law professor and CNN contributor Stephen Vladeck noted that while this could provide some funds, it's still incremental, "This is not a blank check.
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" The piece's author, Breitbart White House correspondent Charlie Spiering, noted in a tweet that both Trump and Obama also said their commitments would not amount to a "blank check.
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"It is a blank check for endless wars, fuel for the further militarization of US foreign policy, and a gift to Donald Trump," they wrote in their December statement.
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JPMorgan Chase spends nearly $600 million a year on security, and Bank of America's chief executive has said the bank's security team has a "blank check" for its spending.
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He was recently listed as CEO of a new "blank check company" called Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission in August.
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DraftKings is in talks to go public via a reverse merger with a blank-check acquisition company called Diamond Eagle, as first reported by Bloomberg and confirmed by Axios.
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I worry our failure to authorize action in the Middle East is a signal to the president that we have given him a blank check on overall military strategy.
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Investors are in essence writing a blank check to Mark G. Papa, the former chief executive of EOG Resources, the exploration and production business spun out of Enron in 1999.
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The latest awkward attempt at flirtation comes from Maryland, whose head of transportation said yesterday that he will give Amazon a "blank check" for improvements that would help the company.
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But Bochco used what was effectively a blank check to indulge the odder corners of his imagination, which is how Cop Rock (co-created with William Finkelstein) came to be.
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And while the Pentagon received $700 billion as part of Congress's government funding package, putting funding for the military at historic levels, that's not a blank check to the Pentagon.
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The Speaker reiterated his stance that his endorsement of Trump isn't a "blank check" and mused about how the GOP nominee has been on a "strange run" since the convention.
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Stanley McChrystal warned in an interview on Friday that U.S. relations with Saudi Arabia cannot be a "blank check" amid the fallout over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Why this matters: Kansas was the first time the administration completely rejected a policy favored by conservatives, showing there is no blank check for red states just because they're conservative.
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In the hands of a president with an iron grip on one party and nothing but contempt for the other, it's more of a blank check than a meaningful one.
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Fresh off the heels of the 19th Party Congress, President Xi Jinping is stronger than ever and has a blank check to pursue all of his domestic and regional ambitions.
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SPACs, also known as blank-check acquisition companies, have no assets but use IPO proceeds, together with bank financing, to buy other companies and boost their value through operational improvements.
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Social Capital also will maintain its hedge fund, its blank check acquisition company (where Tony Bates will continue to serve as a director) and the more limited growth equity effort.
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While the President asked for what's essentially a $1.9 billion blank check, our proposed legislation actively calls for tight monetary oversight to ensure that taxpayer dollars are being spent appropriately.
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"The cooperation that we've extended to Saudi Arabia since the conflict escalated again is modest and it is not a blank check," Pentagon spokesman Adam Stump said in a statement.
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He called for ending the "blank check for endless war" waged by the United States and to invest spending on the care of those who had served in armed conflicts.
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Justin Amash of Michigan have spearheaded legislation to repeal the AUMF, which they say is a "blank check for war – plain and simple," but it so far it hasn't been successful.
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Dreeben denied that Mueller had been given a "blank check" to investigate whatever he wanted — the regulations still required Mueller to go to Rosenstein if new matters came up, he said.
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The release of the "Access Hollywood" tape shocked voters by revealing what Trump really thinks about women and his pride in using his celebrity as a blank check for sexual assault.
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"A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens," Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote in the court's opinion.
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And Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic (SPCE) began trading because of a deal with a special purpose acquisition company -- an already public blank check firm with no or very limited operating assets.
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" He added: "Giving GM a blank check — which the company and the United Auto Workers union badly want, and which Washington will be tempted to grant — would be an enormous mistake.
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Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, America's top national security advisor H.R. McMaster described European nations like Germany doing business with Iran as essentially writing a blank check to the IRGC.
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There is a wide range of possibilities: The waivers could give states a blank check to undo Obamacare's insurance regulations or they could leave most of the law's safeguards in place.
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Thus, whenever any one star or director or showrunner becomes so powerful that they're essentially irreplaceable, the danger is they are given a blank check to behave as badly as they want.
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A provision in the current Higher Education Act delegates blank check authority to accreditors to establish their own criteria and prevents the Secretary of Education from prescribing or restricting any of them.
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For nearly a decade after 22019/11, the Pentagon had a virtual blank check; the base defense budget rose, in adjusted dollars, from $378 billion in 1998 to $600 billion in 2010.
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" Greer told The Hill she is concerned about "handing a blank check to the Department of Homeland Security [DHS] to spend on technologies that pose a serious threat to peoples' basic rights.
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When Preston Waters (Brian Bonsall) finds himself with hush money in the form of a blank check, he cashes it for $1 million and goes on the shopping spree of our dreams.
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IPOA was the symbol for Social Capital Hedosophia, the company created by venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya, as a "blank check" investing tool that pooled money while it searched for a takeover target.
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With so much changing in our internet ecosystem, Big Tech should take time to remember that although this light touch regulatory environment allowed them to flourish, they do not have a blank check.
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But the grants process moves slowly, since everything has to be approved, estimated and arranged beforehand — it's rare a scientist or lab just gets a blank check for whatever they feel like doing.
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"If the U.S. is serious when it says our support for Saudi Arabia isn't a blank check, then it's time to prove it — because it's clear the Saudi-led coalition isn't listening," Sen.
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WL Ross Holdings (WLRH) — a so-called "blank check" company by Wilbur Ross, set-up to make acquisitions — is buying chemical and plastics distributor Nexeo Solutions for $1.6 billion in cash and stock.
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But, while politicians portray food stamps as a nutrition program (Congress changed the name to Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP, in 2008), they are actually a blank check to buy more calories.
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Reuters reported earlier this month that Third Point was in talks with investment banks about launching a "blank check" company that would raise money in an initial public offering to pursue an acquisition.
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This week, a former hedge fund manager and a former real estate executive are raising $500 million to hunt for buyouts in the "blank check company" in the hospitality and real estate sectors.
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The payday lenders will argue that this means that the agency has been given a blank check by Congress to define lending abuses as it wishes, and define its jurisdiction however it likes.
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Perhaps most maddening is that all this is happening while Trump sells billions of dollars worth of arms to the Saudis, effectively giving the original underwriters of Salafism and jihadism a blank check.
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Previous efforts collapsed under disagreements between lawmakers opposed to restricting the executive branch's interpretation of its current wartime powers and those unwilling to vote for a new blank check for a forever war.
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He easily could have said that he wasn't issuing a blank check for his supporters to hurt people, just trying to defuse a particularly fraught event on the night of the Iowa caucuses.
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Today, American troops are fighting extremist groups in at least 14 countries, with most deployments having occurred at the president's sole discretion because Congress has given presidents a blank check to wage war.
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The silver lining is that the Iran killing is getting Congress to realize how unacceptable it has been for three presidents in a row to have a blank check in matters of war.
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Eighteen years after the passage of the 22001 Authorization of Military Force (AUMF), which essentially gave the executive branch a blank check for going to war, the House passed an amendment by Democratic Rep.
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If Republicans do not turn out -- if we sit this one out -- we will open the door not just to Hillary Clinton but also a Democratic Congress eager to give her a blank check.
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Murphy's plan: A new AUMF to send a message to Trump that he doesn't have a blank check from Congress to declare war on North Korea or launch a first strike without Congressional authorization.
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While not a new trend, the numbers will again give ammunition to those claiming the courts, while ostensibly meant to provide oversight of spying programs, are instead providing the government with a blank check.
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Blank check companies are a place for them to put money and hope to reap any gains if the companies are successful, but recover their money if the companies fail to find suitable investments.
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Congress has long ignored its constitutional war-making responsibilities, evading difficult questions about military engagement and effectively giving presidents a blank check to decide when and how the military should be involved in hostilities.
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DraftKings on Monday announced that it will go public via a reverse merger with a blank-check acquisition company called Diamond Eagle, with a sports betting tech platform called SBTech also being rolled in.
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And the idea that we're just going to give them a blank check and say, 'Self-regulate and we'll take your word for it' was not acceptable to the majority of voters in this city.
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Once the couple were finally reunited, Kim revealed his plan: He wanted the couple to make North Korea famous for film, and he gave them a blank check to make the films they'd always wanted.
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Those lessons include: an election victory is in no sense a blank check for the winning party, unified partisan opposition can work — and fighting to preserve safety-net programs can be very good politics indeed.
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These rules have their roots in century-old decisions embracing the "plenary-power doctrine," which gives the political branches, and in recent times the president in particular, something of a blank check over immigration matters.
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Republican senators, operating largely out of tribalism, justifying Trump's conduct as perhaps inappropriate but not impeachable is not the same thing as giving him a blank check to operate however he sees fit going forward.
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The state of play: If this sounds familiar, it's because Diamond Eagle's management had a prior blank-check company called Platinum Eagle that kicked tires on FanDuel (which was later acquired by Paddy Power Betfair).
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He said the alliance was not offering up a blank check, but added Suntory was aware it may need to help and possibly pass on some of the costs of such recycling efforts to customers.
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He hinted that he may think the presidential race is out of reach for Trump, saying that he wants to ensure Democrat Hillary Clinton does not get a blank check with Congress, according to NBC News.
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"I'm a veteran, & a veteran is someone who at one time wrote a blank check payable to the United States of America for [an] amount up to & including their life," he wrote on Instagram in 2015.
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In this case, the purchaser is Gores Holdings, a publicly traded arm of the Gores Group known as a blank-check company, having raised $375 million in an initial public offering last year to finance acquisitions.
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" But Anna Scholl, the executive director of Progress Virginia, a progressive advocacy group, said she was disappointed with the decision, "which essentially gives elected officials a blank check to trade gifts for access and 'unofficial' favors.
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"There's a lot of pent-up interest in pursuing flexibility and changes that the Obama administration would not entertain, [but] I don't think anyone thought it was a blank check, do whatever you want," Salo said.
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"Get ready for the fall message: can't afford to give Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi a blank check," said Mr. Newhouse, referring to the Democrat who would be in line to replace Mr. Ryan as speaker.
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So many are so sweaty (to borrow a term from my friends over at the podcast Blank Check), overexerting themselves to cram in as much ENTERTAINMENT as possible, that watching them feels a little like work.
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"If the separation of powers means anything, it must mean that Congress cannot give the executive branch a blank check to write a code of conduct governing private conduct for a half-million people," Gorsuch wrote.
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Prior to his new contract with T1, Faker said he turned down a $10 million salary offer from a Chinese team, and from a North American franchise that offered what he said was a blank check.
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In response, Michael Arnold, an attorney for protest leader Ammon Bundy who faces conspiracy and weapons charges in connection with the occupation, said the government should not use the protest as a blank check for unwarranted expenses.
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"It's unreasonable to think the city can give Nycha a blank check, but it puts pressure on the mayor to do more," said Maria Doulis, the vice president of the Citizens Budget Commission, a city budget watchdog.
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To them, the sale amounted to a blank check for Riyadh to continue prosecuting its war in Yemen with an iron fist, regardless of the humanitarian ramifications on one of the poorest countries in the Arab world.
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Once the existing crops of blank-check companies start to make deals, the industry will get a better sense of the efficacy of the model, said Mitch Baruchowitz, managing partner of cannabis investment firm Merida Capital Partners.
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In the most recent appropriations bill last year, the Pentagon was handed $738 billion — which includes a blank check for dangerous new nuclear warheads and destabilizing missile systems that increase the likelihood of catastrophic war with Russia.
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"I don't know if I want to give [Trump] a blank check, but I don't want to preclude him from getting the money either, if he's going to use the money correctly," Peterson told the the outlet.
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Though Manafort's team acknowledged that the Justice Department had told Mueller to prosecute any criminal action he discovers while investigating possible Russian collusion, "It is a blank check the special counsel has cashed, repeatedly," Manafort's filing said.
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Yet the White House released a statement that, on the surface, grants him a blank check to invade his neighbor, while chastising the UK, France and Germany for not repatriating their ISIS nationals held in Syrian Kurdish custody.
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The firm does continue to be affiliated with a blank check acquisition company, which aims to acquire and manage a large tech company, on which Palihapitiya serves as CEO and Tony Bates continues to serve as vice chairman.
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Military service is the only category that requires an individual to write a blank check to the American people that could be payable with life or limb and to surrender many individual liberties, such as freedom of speech.
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But to their disappointment, the administration kicked off its "infrastructure week" not with a blank check, but with a reform proposal that would reduce federal spending and taxes by moving a vital service out of subpar government management.
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In November, Perkins received a bill from Microsoft's Xbox for around $800 but said he was away when it arrived at his business and that one of his employees paid it using a blank check he left behind.
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Every member of the House of Representatives is up for reelection in 2018 — and if they believe their constituents want more out of them than to act as a blank check for Trumpism, then more will be given.
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"I'm not coming to ask for a blank check, I'm not coming to minimize any risk, I'm coming to say that this government has the responsibility, the conviction and the desire to integrate all the tools," he said.
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The House last month voted to repeal the 2002 law, with lawmakers in both parties arguing that the authorization had become outdated and been abused by presidents as a blank check to circumvent Congress in taking military action.
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Even the Overseas Contingency Operations fund, the Pentagon's emergency fund which can be used for "a future event or circumstance that is possible but cannot be predicted with certainty," often derided as a "slush fund," isn't a blank check.
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But whatever long game insiders might have been playing, what we've seen is that many voters are unwilling to gamble with the fate of the country and give Theresa May a blank check for hard Brexit and more cuts.
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The strong concerns voiced by members of both parties at the recent AllVid Congressional hearing is a welcome reminder that the FCC doesn't have a blank check to remake the television marketplace to fit the whims of Big Tech.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has effectively written a "blank check" to security services to torture people detained after a failed military coup attempt, a U.S.-based rights group said on Tuesday, citing accusations of beatings, sleep deprivation and sexual abuse.
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Trump wants American Jews should forget about his long history of anti-Semitic comments and his declaration that there were "very fine people" among the Charlottesville Nazis and vote for him because of his blank check support for Israel.
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CMS and Novartis discussed paying full price if Kymriah produced results in patients after one month — an unrealistically short timeline for evaluating a complex cancer treatment that virtually gave the company a blank check, according to doctors and clinicians.
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Many legislators, in other words, believed the Senate had made a grievous mistake four years earlier by giving the president a blank check to wage war in Vietnam after American warships came under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.
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"It's the wrong policies that are being followed, not only by Saudi Arabia but by its allies in the West who have given it a blank check to continue to make these very dangerous escalations in the region," Zarif added.
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And Congress has passed laws that give the executive branch even more powers in the case of a national emergency — though an emergency declaration unlocks a long list of specific powers, not a blank check to do whatever the president wants.
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Ownership has already committed to making a pact Durant approves of for next season and beyond, and in the euphoria of claiming another NBA title, Warriors general manager Bob Myers made inference to a blank check offer from the Warriors.
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Ryan hinted that he may think the presidential race is out of reach for Trump, telling lawmakers on a call that he wants to ensure Democrat Hillary Clinton does not get a blank check with Congress, according to NBC News.
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"Rather than throwing good money after bad, the RNC should shift its strategy and its resources to convince voters not to give Hillary Clinton the 'blank check' of a Democrat-controlled Congress to advance her big government agenda," the letter says.
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Maersk had essentially given the UK firm a blank check to make its NotPetya problem go away, and at any given time as many as 2870 Deloitte staffers were stationed in the Maidenhead office, alongside up to 2400 Maersk personnel.
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"While the gun-control lobby is funded by a blank check from a New York City anti-gun billionaire, the NRA relies on millions of small donations from working men and women," NRA spokeswoman Jennifer Baker said in an email.
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Tillerson is worried that bin Salman is trying to use his country's political cooperation and economic support for the peace process to obtain a blank check from the White House to confront Iran and make bold reforms in the kingdom.
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However, the government looks likely to face fierce resistance from the European Union if it tries to finance the cuts with public borrowing and the League's coalition partner the 5-Star Movement is unlikely to give Salvini a blank check.
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Even as the State Department weighs approval of more than $242 billion in new arms to the Saudis, lawmakers are pushing for a resolution that they say would prevent Washington from giving the Saudis "a blank check" in the conflict.
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"Blank-check" companies, which launch IPOs to raise money for acquisitions, are taking advantage of their unique structure to proceed without the approval of the Securities and Exchange Commission, which has been paralyzed by the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
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Technology and legal experts slammed the bill, saying it would give Barr a blank check to write his own regulations designed to weaken encryption, expand domestic surveillance, and force tech companies to undermine user security using the threat of lawsuits.
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"Any member who voted for the N.D.A.A. — a blank check — can't now express dismay that Trump may have launched another war in the Middle East," said Representative Ro Khanna, Democrat of California and one of the sponsors of the measure.
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Treating wildfires as natural disasters may sound like a good idea, but if legislators provide an implicit blank check for fighting fires, they risk spurring more development in fire-prone areas — and potentially nudging more people and homes into harm's way.
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With expectations growing of a heavy clampdown on dissent, European politicians warned Erdogan the coup attempt did not give him a blank check to disregard the rule of law, and that he risked isolating himself internationally as he strengthens his position at home.
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"Blank-check" companies, which launch IPOs to raise money for acquisitions, are taking advantage of their unique structure to proceed without the approval of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which has been paralyzed by the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Daniel Loeb's hedge fund Third Point LLC plans to raise $400 million for a "blank check" company which will be run by outgoing stock market operator NYSE Group President Thomas Farley, according to a regulatory filing made on Tuesday.
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Where the Obama administration's approach featured a hesitant embrace of Egypt's economic reform plan, on-and-off sponsorship of the war on terror, and (often perfunctory) criticism of Cairo's human rights offenses, Sisi now seeks a blank check and President Trump's outright support.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Friday described its advisory support to Saudi Arabia's coalition campaign in Yemen as modest and "not a blank check," after a Reuters report disclosed it had withdrawn its military personnel from an advisory cell in the kingdom.
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And her pragmatism meant that her jurisprudence was not always predictable: in the Guantanamo cases she famously restricted the federal government's hand, saying that "a state of war is not a blank check" for curtailing due process even during a war on terror.
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But this time, instead of writing a blank check with little more than a polite "thank you" to show for it, King Salman will return home Monday with something more substantial in return: two islands in a strategic corner of the Red Sea.
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At best, SaSie is a way of introducing couples to the concept of consent in the world's most boring way; at worst, it's a way for rapists to "prove" they had a blank check to do whatever they pleased with a partner.
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Buying for Hitler, Hildebrand had a blank check and no scruples, obtaining works by Delacroix and Fragonard, Seurat and Courbet, sometimes to fill gaps in German museums left by the elimination of modern art, skimming off what he wanted to keep or sell.
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"We didn't want to neuter the president because he's our president, he conducts foreign policy, but at the same time we didn't want to give him a blank check," said former Senator Chuck Hagel, Republican of Nebraska, who worked closely with Mr. Biden.
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Palihapitiya, the founder of Social Capital and former member of the senior executive team at Facebook, is listed as CEO of a new "blank check company" called Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday.
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The only member of Congress to vote against the AUMF, Barbara Lee of California, predicted that it would end up being a deathless "blank check" for worldwide military operations without the explicit and specific authorization of Congress, and in that she was correct.
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Writing in the New York Times, Spiro argues that the courts have a well-established precedent of giving a "blank check" to the executive branch to regulate immigration: Contrary to the conventional understanding, President Trump could implement the scheme on his own, without Congress's approval.
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The TV equivalent of a blank check is a creator convincing a network to fund a series that falls outside of its wheelhouse — like, say, CBS funding a series about demonic possession, the nature of evil, and older women singing fake pop songs about bees.
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My sense is that he will not pay a political price for his stance because there is an emergent constituency, particularly among young Americans, for a different approach to Israel, one that underwrites its security without writing a blank check for its every policy.
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One can only hope that Attorney General Loretta Lynch, whose experience tackling "the over-criminalization of people of color" was touted as reason for her confirmation, will make sure that her office uses the blank check of Taylor wisely, even-handedly, and —most importantly—sparingly.
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It's part of a distinctively Trump administration approach to the conflict that I've termed a "blank check": essentially letting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies on the Israeli right get away with virtually whatever they want when it comes to the Palestinians.
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"I personally think that if we're going to help people we should direct the cash payments maybe as a supplemental to unemployment, not to the people who are working every day, just a blank check to everybody in America making up to $75,000," Shelby said.
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While the idea of writing voters a blank check for candidate donations may seem like a moonshot, it's actually a program that's already been implemented (to limited success) in Seattle, and one that's getting more consideration from other cities and states across the country.
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"It should cause most Texans to be ashamed of the fact that we give private industry a blank check and be able to run roughshod over private landowners, our cities and towns and counties," said Katherine Romans, the Executive Director of the Hill Country Alliance.
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"A majority of Americans and the vast majority of Democrats agree that our country should not give a blank check to Israel if the Israeli government continues with the violence of the occupation and denying the Palestinian people basic rights," co-founder Yonah Lieberman said.
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"We've sent a letter to the governor asking him to veto the bill, which is a bailout for PG&E and blank check for all three utility companies," said Mindy Spatt, a spokesperson for the Utility Reform Network, a San Francisco-based consumer group.
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In an interview earlier this year the 23-year-old esports phenom said he had declined a $10 million salary offer from a Chinese "LoL" team and that he turned down a North American franchise that offered him a contract with a blank check.
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The Johnson administration got congressional approval (via the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution) to escalate the war in Vietnam; the resolution was repealed in 1971, at which point the war it had written a "blank check" for had killed tens of thousands of American soldiers.
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Chuck E. Cheese, the restaurant chain where kids eat pizza with their bare hands after swimming around in a plastic ball pit, is going public via a reverse merger with Leo Holdings (NYSE: LHC), a blank check acquisition company formed by private equity firm Lion Capital.
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"Rather than throwing good money after bad, the RNC should shift its strategy and its resources to convince voters not to give Hillary Clinton the 'blank check' of a Democrat-controlled Congress to advance her big government agenda," the anti-Trump Republicans write in the letter.
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Portraying Mr. Mueller as out of control, Mr. Manafort's defense lawyers contended that criminal allegations arising from their client's Ukraine dealings either exceeded the limits of the special counsel's assigned jurisdiction or that Mr. Rosenstein had improperly given Mr. Mueller a "blank check" to prosecute anything.
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"Once again, it has taken the U.S. Supreme Court to remind prosecutors that they do not have a blank check to read all kinds of unintended and overly broad criminality into vaguely worded statutes passed by Congress," said E. G. Morris, a lawyer in Austin, Tex.
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How can anyone honestly believe Republicans would not only abandon all of their goals after being handed the blank check a complete takeover of the federal government a Trump victory would represent, but would actively fight against them after reducing the opposition to a simpering minority?
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The funding bill released by the House Appropriations Committee on July 12 effectively writes the administration a blank check to implement its mass deportation plan, allowing ICE and CBP to hire 1,500 new officers, detain thousands more people, and waste money on an ineffective, expensive border wall.
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The likely assassination of the Saudi critic and Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi underscores how urgent it has become for the United States to redefine our relationship with Saudi Arabia, and to show that the Saudis do not have a blank check to continue violating human rights.
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"If you read the law, and look at how the cases have developed over the past 20 years, this is not going to give you a blank check for bigotry," South Texas College of Law professor Josh Blackman told me in 2015, during Indiana's religious freedom battle.
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"Given that many of the conservatives on his list are more in the traditional conservative mold than Trump himself, they might not simply write him a blank check when it comes to actions and policies that threaten constitutional structure," said Elizabeth Wydra, the president of the Constitutional Accountability Center.
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" Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, said the resolution would allow American-backed counterterrorism operations against Al Qaeda in other parts of Yemen to continue, but would "ensure that the United States is not giving the Saudis a blank check to bomb Yemen and worsen the humanitarian crisis.
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"It amounts to a blank check for Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpNorth Korea asking for aid, while denying any coronavirus cases: report Iranian official maintains Tehran has 'no knowledge' of American hostage's whereabouts Unemployment claims surge to 2628 million as coronavirus devastates economy MORE and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin," Sen.
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" Chaffetz called the legislation "a serious proposal" but noted that he was "more inclined to allow CIOs who are achieving savings ... to use those savings to upgrade legacy systems rather than simply writing a blank check for all CIOs, regardless of how well they are currently managing their resources.
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Biden in Turkey: Exiled cleric will be 'top of agenda' The US is also sending a message to the Syrian Kurds, its most effective partner on the ground in this region: that American support is not a blank check and that they should not provoke the Turks by moving on Jarablus.
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In other words, how can America be a force for good in the region while cutting funding for critical diplomatic, assistance and military programs; giving governments who commit grave human rights abuses a blank check; and instituting travel bans and bureaucratic roadblocks to keep individuals from entering the United States?
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Both Republican and Democratic critics have argued that the 2001 AUMF, which allows the US to fight those who "planned, authorized, committed, or aided" the 9/11 attacks, is overly broad and has been used by multiple administrations as a blank check to wage war against a host of enemies without Congress's approval.
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Clinton's lead over Trump widens in poll taken after lewd tape "He will spend his entire energy making sure that Hillary Clinton does not get a blank check with a Democrat-controlled Congress," said the person on the call -- an implied acknowledgment that Trump no longer appears able to capture the White House.
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There are now several websites where you can print yourself a blank check from the "Universe," fill in the amount of money you want, and if you "believe and feel that you have the money now," the money will find its way to you on the date you wrote on the check.
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The Senate's No. 2 Republican, John CornynJohn CornynThe Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy O'Rourke says he will not 'in any scenario' run for Senate MORE (Texas), recently blasted that figure as a "blank check" for the president.
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Thus: An acquisition by a blank check company with a management team that is well-known to, and respected by, technology company founders, their current third-party investors and their management teams, we believe, can provide a more transparent and efficient mechanism to bring a private technology company to the public markets.
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"The NDAA is a capitulation to the White House&aposs priorities, as is evidenced by the president&aposs tweet... He basically said that he got everything he wanted, from border security and a bloated defense budget to a blank check on policy in the Middle East," Khanna told Insider at the time.
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Since the Bretton Woods framework was discarded in the 1970s, capital has regularly taken flight from developing countries at the first sign of concern by a country's government for the welfare of its people, which usually involves voiding the blank check that business demands and generally gets before investing in poor countries.
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Each of the 36 senators who voted no, including leading critics like Cruz and Senators John McCain, Marco Rubio, Mitch McConnell, and Lindsay Graham, said they strongly supported aid for New York and New Jersey, but didn't support a wasteful blank check to be used for a laundry list of other pet projects.
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If the President turns a blind eye to how polarized we are and won't acknowledge that our democracy -- the very foundation of every policy he wants to execute -- is under siege, then Russia and other actors who wish us harm can interpret his silence as a blank check to just keep at it.
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Cloudflare's Terms of Service includes a typical blank check policy that allows the company to act when it sees fit:You agree that Cloudflare may, under certain circumstances and without prior notice, immediately terminate your Cloudflare account [...] Cause for such termination shall include [....] any use of the Service deemed at Cloudflare's sole discretion to be prohibited.
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It would be wonderful if Congress would have a public debate about the scope of these operations, rather than handing the president effectively a blank check, but few in Congress have been willing to bring the matter to a vote and so America's long wars grind on with little public discussion or congressional debate.
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With the F.B.I. pushing Apple to help unlock the device with a court order and publicizing that it has been unable to get into the iPhone, hackers realized there was a blank check for them if they could accomplish it, said Jon Oberheide, the chief technology officer of Duo Security, a cloud security company.
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For eight years, punks flew the "Not My President" flag and the spirit of resistance lived on, with no shortage of things to oppose: two illegal wars, the institution of the Patriot Act, the use of torture, a skyrocketing deficit, and the "war on terrorism" blank check for invading and destroying any perceived threat.
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"'National security' are not magic words the administration and president can invoke … [they] certainly do not give him a blank check to violate rights of individuals … unless we start to treat them [ICC judges and prosecutors] as drug traffickers or suspected terrorists, which would still need to have sort of legal authority under the law," he said.
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Some critics view this as a blank check for López Obrador to make controversial — and potentially divisive — decisions when confronting the challenges his administration will face, including a growing murder epidemic, widespread poverty, a shaky currency and fear among foreign investors, and a deepening immigration crisis that could set him on a collision course with Trump.
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Beyond individual politicians, movements for full withdrawal from Syria and Afghanistan—as well as to revoke the 2001 congressional Authorization for the Use of Military Force, a post–September 11 blank check for successive administrations to expand the war on terrorism without bound—have been dead on arrival in Congress, despite their apparent popularity among the electorate.
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John CornynJohn CornynThe Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy O'Rourke says he will not 'in any scenario' run for Senate MORE (Texas), the chamber's No. 2 Republican, spoke out on Thursday against giving a "blank check" to the administration without more accountability.
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"As someone who deployed to that war on the orders of a president — who believed, way back in 2014, that our involvement in Afghanistan was coming to an end — the time has come for Congress to repeal and replace that blank check on the use of force and ensure a robust debate on any future operations," Buttigieg said.
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And yes, a few of these came from the mouth of Stormy Daniel's attorney, Michael Avenatti, whose occasional, real news breaks should not have given him a blank check to make any charge he wanted without providing verification (I'm thinking of the three additional women he said he was representing with previously unknown hush deals involving the president).
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Privately, and one by one, a representative of the donor approaches each of you with a blank check and a pen, and poses the following question:How much money would you have to be paid, right here and now, to retire today and never receive another dollar of income (from any source) for the rest of your life?
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"We don't really know yet what the Democrats want other than a blank check," Senate Majority Whip John CornynJohn CornynThe Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy O'Rourke says he will not 'in any scenario' run for Senate MORE (R-Texas) said Wednesday.
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At certain points she also winds up in the care of sweet married couple with Down Syndrome (Bridget Brown and Connor Long, both wonderful) a washed-up screenwriter-turned-film-school-professor (Danny DeVito) and later, a nihilistic, feeble old woman (in an incredible turn by Ellen Burstyn) who enables her wayward granddaugther (Zosia Mamet) with a blank check.
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"Putting a little bit less priority on a blank-check corporate tax-rate cut, in order to increase the purchasing power and stability of working-class families by increasing the child tax credit, would have been a better guarantee for American families, as I said during the tax bill's debate," Rubio wrote in the National Review.
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"A blank check from President Trump on human rights concerns in Egypt isn't surprising but it does mean Congress will have to step in and continue using its authorities to limit U.S. support given how serious the scale of repression and abuse is under President Sisi," said Sarah Margon, the Washington director of Human Rights Watch.
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Newman also co-hosts my favorite podcast, Blank Check with Griffin and David, where his discussion of acting has helped me understand, among other things, why one of the hardest characters to play is someone who's unfailingly good and decent (because the psychology can be harder to tap into) and why he so reveres Philip Seymour Hoffman's work.
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And it's only when that realization happens, and particularly when that happens here in the United States — when people say, "We can no longer be a party to this; we can no longer continue to give Israel a blank check at the United Nations," and so on — only then will we see real change on the ground.
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All this goes to say that while sexy headlines and frequent nine-figure-plus deals make it easy to think SoftBank has a blank check to dish out to any unicorn they please, the clock may be striking midnight for SoftBank as they face the reality of their enormous spending, which may not bode well for their hopes for a second Vision Fund.
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At the end of Modern Warfare, it's revealed that the opening mission, whereby the SAS scuppered a boat in the Bering Strait, has been disavowed as a mere accident; halfway through Modern Warfare 2, General Shepherd, leader of the fictional "Task Force 141," is told by the American government he has a "blank check" when it comes to future operations.
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"With ICE raids occurring this weekend, deaths of children at the border camps, and a continued blank check for the administration's racist deportation machine, we will be focusing on the real crisis at hand and we urge Democratic leadership to do so as well," more than a dozen progressive groups, including Justice Democrats, Indivisible and She The People said in a joint statement Saturday evening.
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But so far he has done so by indulging bad habits instead of fostering good ones: offering a blank check to partners instead of demanding responsibility in exchange for support; focusing on flashy photo-ops over follow-up; relying on family ties at the expense of institutional wisdom; and initiating fights instead of finding strategic, sensible ways to resolve conflicts in a region already on fire.
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Accountability measures were a top concern of Republicans in the negotiations, including Majority Whip John CornynJohn CornynThe Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy O'Rourke says he will not 'in any scenario' run for Senate MORE (Texas), who accused Democrats of asking the Senate to "write a blank check" to Flint.
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The new chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee signaled that Congress will not be giving President-elect 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 a blank check for his promised $85033 trillion infrastructure plan.
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John CornynJohn CornynThe Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy O'Rourke says he will not 'in any scenario' run for Senate MORE (R-Texas) dismissed President Obama's $1.9 billion funding request as a "blank check" that would allow him to divert funds to agencies outside of the Zika virus efforts, such as the Environmental Protection Agency.
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On the call, Ryan told his colleagues he will spend the final month of the campaign protecting the GOP's House and Senate majorities and making sure Democrat Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE does not get a "blank check" with a Democratic-controlled Congress.
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Notwithstanding a commitment from Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaBen Shapiro: No prominent GOP figure ever questioned Obama's legitimacy 85033 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Obama's high school basketball jersey sells for 0,000 at auction MORE that the nuclear deal did not imply a blank check for Tehran predations in the region, Iran has stepped up its destabilizing efforts from Iraq to Yemen, Bahrain to Syria, and further afield.
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GOP majorities handing over a blank check to fund Obamacare and Planned Parenthood and illegal immigration that competes for your jobs, and turning safety nets into hammocks, and all these new Democrat voters that are going to be coming on over border as we keep the borders open, and bequeathing our children millions in new debt, and refusing to fight back for our solvency, and our sovereignty, even though that's why we elected them and sent them as a majority to DC. No!
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House Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) on Thursday warned that his endorsement of Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE shouldn't be seen as a blank check.
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Chairman Brian Bitner, who voted against the measure and advocated for a total refugee ban, said at least a dozen church leaders wrote to the commission in support of the refugee resettlement, allowing for up to 25 a year, according to the AP. "In my own mind, we would basically be writing a blank check, and somebody in Washington, D.C. or elsewhere would make a decision on how many people would come to Burleigh County and we'd have to respond," Bitner said at the meeting.
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The fact that there are good reasons to disbelieve every one of these scenarios is a good indication of the corner that the NFL has painted itself into: Normally you'd expect that some city would have made the league's decision easier by stepping to the head of the line with a blank check, so the fact that the bidding war among St. Louis, San Diego, and Oakland barely even heated up—Oakland's mayor didn't even bother to submit a stadium finance plan to the NFL—is an indication that cities may not be quite as easy to shake down for cash as they once were.
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GOP majorities handing Obama a blank check to fund Obamacare and Planned Parenthood and illegal immigration that competes for your jobs, and turning safety nets into hammocks,227 and all these new Democrat voters that are going to be coming on over the border as we keep the borders open,22012 and bequeathing our children millions in new debt, and refusing to fight back for our solvency and our sovereignty, even though that's why we elected them and sent them as a majority to DC. While she rails against House Republicans, Palin is using a quote from now-Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.
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Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch Air Bud Spikes Back Air Bud: World Pup Air Buddies Alice Through the Looking Glass Beverly Hills Chihuahua 23 Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3 The BFG Blank Check Cool Runnings The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos The Finest Hours George of the Jungle 2 Heavyweights Holes Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves Inspector Gadget 2 The Jungle Book The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story Max Steel The Mighty Ducks Mr. Magoo The Parent Trap Pete's Dragon Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Queen of Katwe Santa PawsSanta BuddiesSanta Paws 2: The Santa PupsSky High Snow Buddies Space Buddies Spooky Buddies Super Buddies Tini: The New Life of Violetta Treasure Buddies Who Framed Roger Rabbit Wings of Life Animation The Golden Age of Disney classics are mostly not on Netflix, but only here can you find everything from Chicken Little to Fantasia to Moana in the same place.
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