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Even without suspects in custody, things seemed cut and dry.
Things might get more cut and dry in the future.
While the results are pretty cut and dry, the logistics aren't.
"Personal message harassment is the most cut and dry," he said.
"It seemed cut and dry to many of us," he said.
But a solution to the problem is not so cut and dry.
With "Knight," Bran reveals the Dead's aim isn't so cut and dry.
Come on, nothing's ever that cut and dry on Vanderpump Rules, y'all!
To me, it is sort of cut and dry example of that.
But, Jimmy says, a cut-and-dry situation like this is rare.
However, lead character Richard Hendricks (Thomas Middleditch) isn't so cut and dry.
"For queer folks, it just isn't so cut and dry," Poljak said.
Lawrence, like many, suspects the answer might be more cut and dry.
On that pass it seemed pretty cut and dry: Ethanol appeared worse.
But the debate over H-1B visas is not cut and dry.
When Sansa finds the feather, things are no longer so cut and dry.
But some governance experts don't think it's as cut and dry as that.
But Emmy categories are not nearly as cut-and-dry as zodiac signs.
"It's not so cut and dry here," one aide said, explaining Trump's thinking.
Did Owens see these moments as such cut-and-dry wins and losses?
So, seems pretty cut and dry ... somebody get Mike Scioscia on the phone.
Fear not, stargazers — this is one celestial issue that's pretty cut and dry.
But sexual pleasure isn&apost as cut-and-dry as you may think.
Some probate cases are very cut-and-dry and wrap up really quickly.
We view animals of all stripes as a very cut-and-dry thing.
For Kate, it's cut-and-dry: He's not Miles and never will be.
Reds CINCINNATI — Kyle Hendricks' marching orders on Wednesday afternoon were cut and dry.
I wasn't going to pull out my dictionary but, like: Pretty cut and dry.
Building a financially sustainable life isn't cut-and-dry — every couple's circumstances are different.
Why this happens in the first place, however, is not so cut-and-dry.
So this is really an example of a commonplace, cut-and-dry trademark matter.
On the one hand, you've got two very cut-and-dry things that happened.
On an issue that seemed cut and dry, yes or no, Mr. Trump hedged.
The VerdictWell, it's not as cut-and-dry as I had hoped it would be.
"The fact that they were so cut and dry was surprising to us," Hu said.
Their arrangement begins as a cut-and-dry business proposition, but doesn't stay that way.
This one is pretty cut and dry: Model 3 walks away from the Bolt here.
Defending the practice as being good politics, however, is a little more cut and dry.
But as Washington Post's Karoun Demirjian tells us, that process isn't very cut and dry.
The death of Fisker's supercar isn't as cut and dry as the haters would like.
"We're not going to support a separatist entity ... that's cut and dry," the official said.
The intriguing part of this role is that Sheela isn't necessarily a cut-and-dry villain.
The point Obama is making is that politics -- and life -- are rarely that cut and dry.
It's not as cut and dry, but if it's used carefully it can be very informative.
It was cut and dry ... what was his before the marriage remained his, and vice versa.
I realize this may not feel like a cut and dry case of mistreatment to you.
Clear rules (like those the FCC just undid) would have kept things pretty cut and dry.
Instead, they prefer to think of it in cut-and-dry terms: Last in, first out.
But if you think things were as cut and dry as that, clearly, you don't know Kylie.
But, van Soest says the reason behind this transition isn't as cut and dry as purely financial.
For Jack, the subsequent scene of Nicky and a dead Vietnamese child seems pretty cut and dry.
There aren't many spoilers to glean from the cut-and-dry note, but there are some clues.
"I don't think the answer is cut and dry on anti-nepotism," Painter told The Daily Beast.
This is such a cut-and-dry rule, comedian Phoebe Robinson wrote an entire book about it.
Merlino's mistrial demonstrates how no case— repeat—no case is ever cut and dry, open and shut.
The results of nutrition studies are sometimes less cut-and-dry than are experiments to test new drugs.
The answer isn't cut and dry, but there might be good reason to give it a try soon.
In most cases though, deciding whether a topic is off-limits for sharing isn't so cut-and-dry.
But for many Republican candidates, especially those looking to compete statewide, things are not that cut and dry.
It turns out that is not a simple decision, and it's not a onetime, cut-and-dry conversation.
But the reality of what this deadline means for the Republican agenda isn't quite so cut and dry.
With that in mind, you may need to consult a tax advisor if your situation isn't cut and dry.
No." He continued, "I need people to understand this was not a black-and-white, cut-and-dry issue.
But Lightspeed's Stripe partnership, which will power Lightspeed's online and in-store payments offering, isn't so cut-and-dry.
Yes, their sexuality is involved with it, but it's not as cut-and-dry as you think it is.
It sounds like a fairly cut and dry murder case, but after going to trial, Kenneth Parks walked free.
And oddly enough, the rules and processes for that were much more cut and dry than those of moderation.
But on the same day, Trump began to hint that the issue had not been so cut and dry.
And while a Made In U.S.A. label sounds pretty cut and dry, this is when things can get hairy.
The candidate told us people have twisted his words, because his official position simply isn't that cut and dry.
Other supporters of US President Donald Trump say their feelings on family separation are not so cut and dry.
Credit and debit keep an electronic record of your purchases, while cash is the most cut-and-dry option.
Ownership of wild animals across the U.S. isn't cut and dry — every state has its own exotic animal laws.
And local horticultural societies may accept used flowers to cut and dry them to preserve them, pressed between pages.
It's a much murkier question than joke-stealing, which the comedy community has pretty cut-and-dry ethics about.
Still, it&aposs not so cut-and-dry; and many agreed human advisers&apos roles aren&apost going extinct.
All of this is to say, don't push play expecting a cut-and-dry narrative with a surface-level interpretation.
To complicate matters, he said that sucking carbon out of the atmosphere isn't as cut and dry as it seems.
Unfortunately for Facebook and it's legion of third-party contractors, not all bad posts will be this cut and dry.
Importantly, when it comes to "cause-based advertising," things aren't as cut and dry as Twitter might wish they were.
But the barbershop's appeal is widening at a surprising rate — and it's evolving well beyond its cut-and-dry image.
To get big faster, younger unicorns start buying startups sooner Startup funding may seem like a cut-and-dry affair.
In a way, the trial of Amanda Knox can feel too cut-and-dry for the true crime documentary treatment.
"I expected things to be very cut and dry, very cold," Fehrenbacher said of his time on the military base.
Although the decision wasn't "cut and dry," once they chose to have a second child, Simmons and Abrams were all in.
It's fascinating how differently we can view something like death, which on the surface seems to be so cut and dry.
" The model confirmed the texts released to police, writing, "While the conflict may feel murky- the situation is cut and dry.
Here, it's pretty cut and dry as to what they are: They're former police officers putting their skills to different uses.
While some things are pretty cut and dry in that department, there are some pretty innocuous things that might ruffle some feathers.
But one thing's for sure: He definitely knew having two kids wouldn't be a cut-and-dry, been-there-done-that experience.
The allusion to phone sex underscores a framework central to the show: that "sex work" is not only cut-and-dry fucking.
The effects of cholesterol on heart health aren't completely cut-and-dry, though, nor are the foods that can affect cholesterol levels.
With the robot's superior bottom line it would appear the results of our contest were cut and dry, but we were torn.
We may get rid of swastika-wearing neo-Nazi channels (and that's true progress!), but those are the cut-and-dry calls.
Unfortunately, it's not as cut and dry as slapping a couple of mechanical switches on a frame and calling it a day.
Not every haircut is as cut-and-dry as a "breakup" haircut, but we can learn something from the meaning behind getting one.
So, even though there aren't cut-and-dry guidelines for what makes a "bad" time to meet the parents, "bad" times do exist.
The season is often heavy-handed when it could be subtle, yet also inexplicably nuanced when it should be more cut-and-dry.
Rilke's flowery — and daresay twee — verses do not jibe with today's tastes for cut-and-dry clarity, blasé irony, and Tweet-able brevity.
The legal facts of the Fyre Festival wreckage are cut and dry — which why we're excited to see them presented in documentary form.
Rose's abrupt exist leaves Midge free to reveal things aren't as cut-and-dry as her mom may believe in the Maisel marriage.
This buys Miller's lawyers, Robert Ridge and Brandon Verdream, one more chance to argue her case, but it seems pretty cut and dry.
It's time to admit that something you've been thinking of as "so simple" maybe isn't so cut and dry—and let yourself cry.
For some, the issue appears, at first glance, quite cut and dry: Apple should do everything in its power to help the FBI.
Sources within the music industry say it's not that cut and dry, claiming the labels have no choice but to monetize the content.
But the issue isn't as cut and dry as advocates at extreme ends of the political spectrum often paint it out to be.
You're still ultimately two human beings relating to each other: the money thing isn't as cut and dry as it appears to outsiders.
You would hope that would lead to you being better at that in your personal life, but nothing is that cut and dry.
When a murder suspect inexplicably confides in Jackson, what seems like a cut-and-dry case turns into something far deeper and darker.
For Russell Wilson, opting to stay on as quarterback of the Seattle Seahawks wasn't a cut-and-dry decision — even given the substantial paycheck.
Mitchell's message tries to stress the point that we don't need labels and that the question of sexuality isn't always so cut and dry.
It may have something to do with the fact that mastering labels on food packages isn't as cut and dry as it once was.
To Schumer's words we would add that the signs of abuse aren't always cut-and-dry, and it's never too late to seek help.
That's the billion-dollar question facing astronomers, and, as with every facet of the debate surrounding this telescope, there's no cut-and-dry answer.
Ultimately, there is no particularly cut and dry solution for artists faced with companies or individuals trying to market products based around their lyrics.
Basically it's anyone's guess why Cassie is crying in a car, but that also means it's not necessarily a cut and dry elimination preview.
In 2011, she was officially emerging from the cocoon of Destiny's Child, her father/manager, and her cut-and-dry, made-for-radio anthems.
Mortgages are not as cut and dry as they seem and there are a lot of ways to get creative with making it affordable.
Montana was seemingly a cut-and-dry constitutional law case with a simple question: Does the Sixth Amendment's "speedy trial" apply to sentencing delays?
I'm glad they give Chuck these cut-and-dry things occasionally, where he's just the good guy and the other guy is just a monster.
First of all, the Trump administration's claim about whether China rigs its money to gain an unfair competitive advantage in trade isn't cut and dry.
Men's figure skating team member Adam Rippon reveals that it's not so cut and dry for him, and the superstitions create a dialogue in his head.
The rare warning brought on fears of an escalating cyber war between Russia and the West, but analysts said it wouldn't be so cut and dry.
While that explanation was pretty cut and dry, the pair's accounts of their schoolgirl-skirted experience on the play – loud and heavily accented – were beyond endearing.
A senior Trump administration official denied that characterization and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who briefed the press separately, suggested a less cut-and-dry resolution.
"It is not cut and dry," Neal said, noting that there was still plenty of discussion ahead for how and when to request the returns officially.
But if you're wondering whether your city, suburban, or rural 'hood is doing your immune system any favors, experts today have few cut-and-dry answers.
I started to think of these diagnoses as things that weren't as cut and dry as I had learned about in abnormal psychology class as an undergraduate.
Sometimes the answer is clear — if you aren't house-hunting, you probably don't need to connect with an unknown realtor — but usually it's less cut and dry.
"Million Reasons" is a pretty cut and dry breakup song, but the video is about the people that pick you up when your heart's shattered into pieces.
What seems equally fundamental, but isn't quite so cut-and-dry, is the question of why humans have been obsessed with our dogs for thousands of years.
Back in the day, when people married out of necessity, rather than for love-based reasons, affairs were more cut and dry and focused on the physical.
But Lightspeed's Stripe partnership, which will power Lightspeed's online and in-store payments product, isn't so cut-and-dry, highlighting some of the complexities of the payment world.
Unlike Wind River, which is cut-and-dry in its brutal ending, Hold the Dark's conclusion is vague — and, frankly speaking, so is the rest of its plot.
It's not cut and dry and there's actual tactics and a style involved and, I think, from what I see, Justin's style is a bit more ethically correct.
Fundraising is typically not as cut and dry as it may appear in the media, with different tranches of rounds typically coming in and closing at different times.
In response to a cut-and-dry question about whether the candidates support fracking, Sanders got the chance to clearly put daylight between his climate policy and Clinton's.
Early missions are fairly cut-and-dry: sniper-friendly elevated positions are easy to find, and there are obvious — if threat-filled — paths from one to the next.
Credit where it's due, though: Kelce does give a nice ornery postgame quote about the officiating on what appeared to be a cut-and-dry holding penalty. 4.
While it may be cut and dry to assign a value to the number of bedrooms, other variables, like an Empire State Building view, are trickier to calculate.
Still, he acknowledged that "as any person who has ever been on a date can understand," some cases are not as "obviously cut and dry" as Mr. Cantwell's.
TEEN ABDUCTED AS NEWBORN STILL LOVES ONLY MOM SHE&aposS KNOWN Still, her attorney Haitham "Sam" Amin said after the hearing that the case was not cut-and-dry.
Anderson's history with pornography isn't as cut and dry as her critics say: Her sex tape was a home video released after it was stolen, according to Rolling Stone.
In the heat of the contemporary we are pretty cut and dry about what we do and don't think is significant, and equally what we think will be forgotten.
They also caution that unintended consequences could arise in a world of multinational supply chains, where the dividing line between American and foreign companies is not cut and dry.
O' Brien said he has seen no intelligence or analysis to support that claim, but a source told CNN that the intelligence assessment is not that cut and dry.
This one's pretty cut-and-dry, though Target mentions that minimum purchase thresholds may apply for certain items, though meeting that mark shouldn't be an issue if you're buying tech.
But a few new papers have released further data on the collision's radio waves and x-rays—and demonstrate that the story probably isn't as cut-and-dry as that.
Many of them overlap with one another, as the show presents certain events from a variety of perspectives, constantly adding new layers to interactions that otherwise seemed cut and dry.
Washington (CNN)White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Wednesday cast aside the playbook of cut-and-dry condemnations of national security leaks and instead framed his response along political lines.
The visual evidence Remy Ma has for prosecutors in her assault case is so cut and dry, she knows they'll have no choice but to drop it ... so says her lawyer.
El Paso County could prove to be a strong indicator of whether Trump can overcome his many obstacles to deliver on a cut-and-dry Republican opportunity in a swing state.
Social media applauded Negan's protective moment en masse, with many celebrating how an anti-rape culture position is more cut and dry in a zombiepocalypse dystopia than our current political climate.
McAfee didn't have a cut-and-dry reason behind it either, but attributed her No. 1 spot to an influx of users searching online for illegal streams of "The Handmaid's Tale."
Some may draw comparisons to Milo Yiannopoulos or Anne Coulter who were disinvited from speaking engagements for their subject matter and potential to incite violence, but it's not that cut and dry.
By pressing forward in a case with optics that seem cut and dry, they say, the agency could set a precedent that gives it the controversial guaranteed access Comey has been demanding.
These country-rap connections may have seemed far-fetched to some listeners at the time, but the boundaries between country and hip-hop were never that cut and dry to begin with.
Surely a big part of the problem is people, who aren't chemists, not really being able to evaluate the results properly/ The colours on the chart you give out aren't cut and dry.
"It's extraordinary that the case was on its face a cut-and-dry financial structuring case with the conduct acknowledged, but the sentencing was about everything, essentially, but the structuring," Mr. Collins said.
Steve Lehto, a Michigan-based lemon law attorney, told me Microsoft's MMWA violation is quite cut-and-dry, but noted that challenging Microsoft on the policy would be too expensive for any consumer.
You try to be clear and concise in all your communications, Virgo, but today, your ruling planet Mercury meets dreamy Neptune and things don't feel so cut and dry—they feel wet and sloppy.
But in Mexico, where threats to the media from both cartel leaders and government officials make it extremely hard to maintain a completely free and independent press, the situation is less cut and dry.
Representation is not as cut-and-dry in Japan Whitewashing is very real, and the deficit of starring roles for Asians is one lane in the representation race that is stubbornly slow to advance.
When asked if there is a cut-and-dry way of determining the physical location of a Facebook connection or scrap of data, Patchett says the site handles the flow more or less algorithmically.
Although it sometimes feels like it might be simple—and increasingly, it is—the reality is rarely so cut and dry as to allow us to say social media is a net negative or benefit.
"Having a second child wasn't a cut-and-dry decision for us," the Canadian Top Chef judge and cookbook author revealed during an interview with HATCHland, a blog that chronicles motherhood before, during and after pregnancy.
The decision seems cut and dry until you consider that the band consists only of Asian-American members who had chosen "slant" as a point of ethnic pride and as a way to confront racial stereotypes.
It is not simply a cut-and-dry partisan matter, with many state lawmakers of Greitens' own party nursing frustrations over his aggressive governing style — which has often involved the statehouse as his political punching bag.
Peters participation in the film isn't as cut-and-dry as it initially seems — according to Vanity Fair, the Producers Guild of America said Peters was not a P.G.A.-certified producer on the film, and Warner Bros.
Occasionally reading from notes scribbled on a napkin, Mr. Baxley said prosecutors had targeted Mr. Hubbard with an attack overflowing with "mumbo jumbo" that was "not exactly as cut and dry" as Mr. Hart made it seem.
If you have a mortgage, consider paying it offIn preparing for early retirement, eliminating consumer debt with high interest rates is a no-brainer, but paying off a mortgage early with good terms isn't so cut-and-dry.
With a damning reconstructed phone call transcript, a detailed whistle-blower report, several high-ranking Trump surrogates being subpoenaed and testimonies well underway, how can such a seemingly cut-and-dry issue be read in an oppositional way?
Seems at first like a cut-and-dry contract violation, but then you need to factor in the major personnel turnover at Northgate, which was originally founded in 2000 by former pro football players Brent Jones and Tommy Vardell.
" Now, she believes "there are lots of different ways for somebody to pose a serious imminent deadly threat to you besides that person being armed with a firearm or even with a knife… It's not that cut and dry.
But the problem is that this is a cut-and-dry case: Anyone who watches the side-by-side video knows that Melania Trump and/or her speechwriter(s) lifted a portion of Michelle Obama's 2008 DNC speech, period.
They can choose not to renew an artist's contract when the next option period comes up—the simplest, cut-and-dry option, but one that may mean continuing to release or otherwise support an artist's work while they're still under contract.
Each guy represents a different type of man, and it's very much cut and dry, whereas the girls in our film, the characters are much more complex, and you can't describe them as easily as you can describe the men.
While the president was hate-tweeting over Big Macs, Kelly lied about a sitting U.S. representative, called immigrants who didn't sign up for DACA lazy, and in the case of Porter, failed to take action on a cut-and-dry situation.
But the Internet is notoriously good at simplifying the messiness of reality into cut-and-dry projections of our deepest hopes and fears—symbols so gripping that they can sometimes cause us to make assumptions that go against our values.
A BuzzFeed News report on Wednesday emphasized that Twitter's infamously spineless "abuse report infrastructure remains opaque and sometimes confounding," and reports of the site failing to take action on even the most cut-and-dry issues of harassment continue to mount up.
One official suggested the President's initial "total exoneration" response to the report, which was informed by Barr's memo to lawmakers, would not likely have been dramatically different had Barr's letter been worded differently, since the "no collusion" conclusion was more cut-and-dry.
Her time in the public eye has made it easy to track her journey to Duchess, so there's cut-and-dry evidence that the Markle voice we heard during her Hallmark movie days is not the one that's currently greeting fans in London.
The complexities of it, emotionally and physically and in the context of whatever relationship you might be in, it's not always so cut and dry as I thought that it would be when I was advocating for the right for other people.
"When you're talking about cannibalism, it's not cut-and-dry Jefferey Dahmer—it's not just a starving creature, or animals cannibalizing each other because they're stuck in a cage," Bill Schutt, author of the new book Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History, explained to Gizmodo.
It's not quite as cut-and-dry as Hy Weiss's fifty dollar handshake, but it's still slimy, and brings to mind Lester Bangs's fears of a sanitized, soulless music landscape, wherein the tastemakers are just regurgitating whatever they've guzzled down from the hands that feed.
Although the neuroscientist discovered that dogs have twice as many neurons (brain cells) as cats, another study of a variety of species — ferrets, mongooses, raccoons, hyenas, lions and brown bears — published in late 2017 revealed that the science of animal smarts wasn't so cut and dry.
The collection includes BioShock, BioShock 2, and BioShock Infinite, all but the last remastered for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. (Infinite's PC version "already meets current-gen console standards," says publisher 2K.) A video game remaster isn't as cut and dry as, say, remastering an album.
It seems like a fairly cut-and-dry case, but new Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is a well-known proponent of for-profit education, to the point that she even hired an advisor whose last job was as a lawyer for a for-profit education company under federal investigation.
With all the puzzle pieces in place -- the eyewitnesses, the woman's harrowing account, the enabling father's letter, the judge, a Stanford alum, and sentence -- Turner became a "safe, palatable" target for society's collective outrage, compared to the vast majority of cases that aren't so cut and dry, Redmond said.
The latest episode of This Is Us gave fans a pretty cut-and-dry tease of the death of Jack Pearson (Milo Ventimiglia), and the cause of his firey fatality seems to rest on the shoulders of a faulty slow cooker that looks like it could be a Crock-Pot branded appliance.
Chambers' trial may have seemed like a cut-and-dry murder case, but the level of sexism present in his trial was notable, given the fact that Chambers' lawyers did everything they could to make Levin seem like a deviant and form the narrative that she somehow deserved what she got with Chambers.
"The pundits can fret about all they want about the trade-war saber-rattling, but the action in the stock market ... tells me that it's not cut-and-dry how much these issues do hurt business, especially not when you consider the red-hot state of our economy," the "Mad Money" host concluded.
The process differs from track to track but this song was maybe the most cut and dry of any—I had the part written and asked a few friends I work with regularly if they'd record themselves singing it a few times and send it over for me to mix and deal with.
That's not to say he can't sum up his appeal in a few short words—he'll readily offer a statement like "I exemplify what it is to be a human being; I display emotion" if asked—but Kevin Gates isn't an artist who makes sense in the cut-and-dry terms of business and marketing.
Stories like Mr. Cooley's, however, are not as cut-and-dry as the Colorado baker case, which stemmed from a flat-out refusal to make the cake, said Naomi Goldberg, policy and research director at the Movement Advancement Project, a research group that recently helped organize a campaign encouraging businesses to be more inclusive.
" Rosenberg reported a tweet from the account with swastikas photoshopped over a photo of a baby for what seemed like cut-and-dry violations of policies on abusive behavior and impersonation, receiving a prompt reply that said: "We reviewed your report carefully and found that there was no violation of the Twitter rules against abusive behavior.
The thing that makes it, to me, not cut and dry, is that with the DMCA it's not that you merely distributed something with removed copyright management information, but that you have done so with an intent to hide or facilitate infringement, and they knew that by using this digital tool they would be removing her information.
She said that while offering trigger warnings at the beginning of the semester for students seems pretty clearly a good idea—it allows students who have traumatic pasts, such as war veterans or rape survivors, to prepare themselves for texts that feature potentially upsetting relevant content—the question is less cut-and-dry for adult books on the shelf.
Kelly was brought in to impose order on a chaotic White House, but he has clearly failed in this primary responsibility—while the president continues to hate-tweet over Big Macs, Kelly has lied about the comments of a sitting U.S. representative, called immigrants who didn't sign up for DACA lazy, and in the case of the Porter scandal, failed to take action on a cut-and-dry situation.

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