Two former antitrust enforcers said it was unusual but not unheard of for officials to comment on decisions by enforcers in other jurisdictions.
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"Despite mounting evidence of illegal monopolization activities by the dominant platforms, and numerous cases brought by the international enforcers, U.S. enforcers appear to be paralyzed," Rep.
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From enforcers to the public, many were thrown off guard.
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This usually means that any antitrust enforcers' concerns are resolved.
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The Kremlin did not mind the infighting between its enforcers.
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EU antitrust enforcers said Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc.
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The problems faced by the antitrust enforcers may seem daunting.
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America's antitrust enforcers can impose such a rule almost immediately.
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Worse, law enforcers lack the resources to pursue enough big cases.
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Dominant tech platforms pose other challenges for antitrust enforcers as well.
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China's antitrust enforcers have already killed a massive deal this year.
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Women are recruited to be informants and enforcers of ISIS rules.
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Instead, Janssen took after enforcers like Tony Twist and Kelly Chase.
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But the budget is minuscule and barely covers the enforcers' salaries.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 27 (Reuters) - EU antitrust enforcers will rule by Feb.
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Commission chief economist Tommaso Valletti said enforcers were sending a strong signal.
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ARROYO: People are saying only military and legal enforcers should have guns.
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U.S. antitrust enforcers will look at more than product overlaps, said Moss.
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U.S. sanctions enforcers have already cut ZTE off from its American suppliers.
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And enforcers need to bring more monopolization cases, like United States v.
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Fugitives are seized and enforcers revel in their sovereignty, drunk on power.
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Qualcomm has also been targeted by other enforcers for its business practices.
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Antitrust enforcers must prove in court that a deal will hurt consumers.
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That's a bigger list, featuring 230 names, although most are still enforcers.
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Legal armed enforcers of relations of exploitation and oppression murder with impunity.
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Creators and enforcers of the old dispensation cannot lead the new dispensation.
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If you lose Facebook, you lose that expertise and those rule enforcers.
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His father and godfather were both enforcers for the infamous Gallo brothers.
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Opinion Columnist What happens when China's enforcers come after Winnie-the-Pooh?
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Both Sessions, and Sessions's deputy, Rod Rosenstein, are acting like Trump enforcers.
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But I don't think that the enforcers of cultural appropriation get it.
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The colectivos, funneled money and arms from the state, became political enforcers.
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There are currently about 42,000 detention beds maintained by federal immigration enforcers.
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We should be, again, within the appropriate context, we should be the enforcers.
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"There used to be enforcers, calls from hidden phone numbers, letters," said Ludmila.
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And those are times and snapshots that enforcers need to be really vigilant.
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America's antitrust enforcers look mainly at a firm's effect on consumers and pricing.
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Breakingviews The municipal bond market in the United States is desperately lacking enforcers.
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There are some phenomenal antitrust lawyers and enforcers and many of these states.
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Kelkoo has contacted U.S. antitrust enforcers in an effort to find a solution.
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As they walked the block, two of Smash's enforcers came up to him.
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But families also act as enforcers of ever more brutally interpreted traditional law.
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But the government's top tech enforcers pointed the finger right back at lawmakers.
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My peers of enforcers have become statistics and the N.H.L. is in denial.
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U.S. antitrust enforcers are scrutinizing tech giants Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc's Google, Amazon.
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Fighting has already been reduced drastically; teams cannot afford to keep enforcers around.
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As well as the paramedics, the law enforcers, the teachers and the curators.
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They are drafted to be both law enforcers and criminals in one bill.
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One of the Obama administration's few remaining Wall Street enforcers is stepping down.
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The top antitrust enforcers in the country agreed the current system is inefficient.
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In reality, and notwithstanding the viciousness of its many enforcers, slavery was institutional.
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It's a lot of former enforcers and grinders who take these coaching jobs.
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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) is the latest carmaker to fall foul of American enforcers.
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She said the deal had been submitted to antitrust enforcers in London and Singapore.
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The regulator said transport law enforcers have already been furnished copies of its order.
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So who might now be appointed as one of the America's top law enforcers?
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American firearm retailers are, in essence, enforcers of firearm safety in the United States.
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These enforcers intimidate, fine, and beat women who improperly don their legally mandated veils.
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Its enforcers should recognize that young people make mistakes and prioritize atonement, he said.
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It does not reflect sums paid to civil regulators or state or foreign enforcers.
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The mounting political interest has also coincided with a renewed scrutiny from antitrust enforcers.
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But it could also get in the way of security researchers and law enforcers.
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Police officers, who primarily put people in cages, are the enforcers of mass incarceration.
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"Enforcement is not going to work, because we don't have enough enforcers," Small said.
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Instead of serving as enforcers of the new law, these officials are actually perpetrators.
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Human rights watchdogs regard it as a "hit list," a charge denied by law enforcers.
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They ultimately decide they don't have to be bad guys or lawless enforcers any longer.
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EU REGULATORS SAY UBS NOT FINED AS IT ALERTED THE TWO CARTELS TO EU ENFORCERS
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Ticket inspectors, for instance, those low-level enforcers of our own grotty 21st-century fascism.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. antitrust enforcers are poised to approve health care company Abbott Laboratories' (ABT.
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The religious enforcers made it clear that the subject matter was not to their taste.
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The fearlessness of law-enforcers cheers Brazilians, who are fed up with high-level impunity.
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U.S. antitrust enforcers gave the green light for the deal in April without demanding concessions.
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Sociologist Howard Becker classified moral entrepreneurs into two distinct categories: rule creators and rule enforcers.
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Content moderators are essential gatekeepers, but also our greeters, paramedics, law enforcers, teachers and curators.
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The nation's antitrust enforcers and Congress are stepping up their scrutiny of the tech giants.
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Online enforcers are dragging in hundreds for questioning as an assault on online speech continues.
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The Avengers became known as enforcers for Mr. Hifter, widely blamed for disappearances and killings.
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The expected initial inconveniences are surely being corrupted as empowered enforcers expand their reach unabated.
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He and Mr. Lutsenko had been seen as staunch enforcers for President Petro O. Poroshenko.
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But disclosing details when tax enforcers use AI to identify cheaters will just aid evasion.
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So it's hardly surprising the industry has attracted the attention of both law enforcers and politicians.
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Federal agencies have generally respected states' cannabis rules, but Donald Trump's enforcers may be more aggressive.
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If the would-be enforcers all answer to the president, who's going to push the issue?
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The mere existence of very large player isn't in necessarily regarded by competition enforcers as harmful.
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These advertisers will attempt to manipulate the cyber-laws while the Enforcers are still writing them.
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The oil industry's lax governance makes it an obvious place for enforcers to hunt for culprits.
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Police officers have been forced to play dual roles as law enforcers and psychiatric social workers.
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European antitrust enforcers agreed to the deal in November provided the companies divest the two devices.
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The activists and enforcers of the Tea Party era tried with a libertarian style of populism.
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But Republican antitrust enforcers, picked by Mr. Trump, may take a more lenient approach to mergers.
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And that doesn't mean that we shouldn't demand our law enforcers make reasonably objective, sound decisions.
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All while positioning themselves as patriotic enforcers of American laws and values at home and abroad.
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Targeting narco-traffickers, dirty cops, scam artists and mob enforcers, I seamlessly transformed into Jimmy Falcone.
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"But it will also be a question for us as competition law enforcers," Vestager told MEPs.
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The platform helped Deliver Fund and law enforcers identify and build cases on 50 sex traffickers.
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N made investors question whether other vertical deals might also meet with skepticism from antitrust enforcers.
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He wants to ramp up programs deputizing state and local law enforcement officers as immigration enforcers.
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Since then, federal and state antitrust enforcers have nevertheless launched investigations into both Facebook and Google.
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Throughout those hearings, investigators spoke candidly with the victims and enforcers of apartheid about what happened.
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Dutch enforcers have started investigating whether Apple was promoting its own apps over those of competitors.
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The country's top antitrust enforcers submitted a brief arguing in favor of the deal earlier this year.
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Trump seems to think that when it comes to death by law enforcers it's a local issue.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. antitrust enforcers are in the early stages of reviewing T-Mobile US Inc's (TMUS.
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When I was growing up in the '60s and early '70s, conservatives were the enforcers of conformity.
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However, Daimler, the maker of Mercedes-Benz cars, is also in the cross hairs of federal enforcers.
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Sessions last week issued guidance to the nation's law enforcers to prosecute crimes to the furthest degree.
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Happy to learn a federal judge blocked the Texas law aimed at making local police immigration enforcers.
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Although that sounds generous, it's a deal that consumers, enforcers, and the courts should not bank on.
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The recent confrontation has renewed debate about how far law enforcers should be allowed to push back.
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Other tools, like the rating system, serve as automatic enforcers of the nudges made by algorithmic managers.
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Yet again, antitrust enforcers have not stopped these new robber barons from buying up their nascent competitors.
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Bootlegging operations popped up almost immediately, leading government enforcers in a yearslong game of Whack-a-Mole.
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Protests by asylum seekers had led to rising tensions with the Australian authorities and their Manus enforcers.
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Antitrust cases are extremely expensive and antitrust enforcers have limited resources for pursuing investigations and litigating cases.
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EPA has blocked the hiring of enforcers to replace the staff who specialize in bringing environmental cases.
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Earlier this month, Dutch enforcers started investigating whether Apple was promoting its own apps over those of competitors.
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The scandal still haunts VW, despite a settlement with American law enforcers and compensation for American car-buyers.
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As someone who has law enforcers in my family, I was appalled by the behavior of the LAPD.
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Enforcers are trained to closely scrutinize mergers involving relatively big companies, such as AT&T and Time Warner.
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After Christmas, with a week gone and no sign of the Giuliani enforcers, Josh stepped up the pressure.
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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said this week that Chinese law enforcers always abide by the law.
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I mean, I'm not saying the Australian law enforcers are monopolizing Sandshrews, but also, like, maybe they are?
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Like other high-level enforcers, he viewed such investigative hurdles as dead ends, rather than challenges to overcome.
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The company says its merger will not eliminate any other competitor, which is usually dispositive for antitrust enforcers.
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"Five of them were listed as militants and law enforcers made several drives to arrest them," he said.
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Facebook is employing a combination of user flagging, proactive algorithmic detection, and human enforcers to manage the feature.
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This type of deal would need to be reviewed by antitrust enforcers at both the FCC and DOJ.
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Asked whether China had kidnapped Gui in Thailand, Lu said Chinese law enforcers always abided by the law.
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There is also mounting evidence of anticompetitive conduct by Facebook that may warrant scrutiny by federal antitrust enforcers.
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Anti-populists from all sides should unite behind rule-enforcers like Zuzana Caputova, the new president of Slovakia.
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Some of those players were so-called "enforcers" — hockey players whose main responsibility was to fight with opponents.
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The Washington program's success, Mr. Wexler said, would depend on how well the enforcers were trained and supervised.
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They have become Trump's global enforcers, putting allies and enemies under maximum pressure to get what the boss wants.
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While Iran is one of the world&aposs top enforcers of the death penalty, such mass executions are rare.
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And the Trump Administration is seen as being more friendly to industry consolidation than Obama's antitrust enforcers had been.
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DISH would therefore replace the competition lost by the elimination of Sprint, the companies and the federal enforcers argued.
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More may be on the way, with more than 95,000 complaints filed to national data enforcers, triggering 225 investigations.
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After the war, the group began policing its own country, acting as informers and enforcers for the Islamic regime.
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He asked law enforcers to deal with the protesters "with maximum tolerance" as the audience, which included ambassadors, waited.
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But law enforcers are sure that large notes are criminals' currency of choice, being compact and easy to hide.
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"Moderating Hypnospace is a low paying job and Enforcers are kind of required to be jerks," Tholen told me.
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But a listing in America would bring some of the world's most enthusiastic law-enforcers to the organisation's door.
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If not, members of a consortium needlessly sharing sensitive information might find themselves receiving unwanted attention of antitrust enforcers.
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As some one who has law enforcers in my family, I was appalled by the behavior of the LAPD.
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The main enforcers of the framework will be the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
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DO NOT RESIST In small-town America, police forces behave like military enforcers, with an "us versus them" mentality.
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Former enforcers, like Bush FTC Chairman Timothy Muris, like to warn about the "disastrous consequences" of assertive antitrust enforcement.
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When she wears her usual head scarf and modest coat, religious enforcers lecture her for not veiling her face.
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Many have welcomed the Russians, preferring them to the government's security enforcers or to Shiite militiamen backed by Iran.
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Lastly, regulators and enforcers should work to understand the implications of this possible new relationship between users and services.
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Without cash in hand, the Maduro regime could lose the loyalty of its enforcers, the Venezuelan military and police.
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Preventing Amazon from concentrating even more control will require that antitrust enforcers block the company's bid for Whole Foods.
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President Trump, with the DHS and his administration deputies as his enforcers, is just the sheriff to do it.
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As the drug market churned, with new players rising and falling, training camps became academies for the industry's enforcers.
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Their defiance is likely now to be tested by renewed calls to turn local police officers into immigration enforcers.
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Other proposals to consider include offering repentant returnees a more lenient treatment if they provide information to law enforcers.
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Particularly in assessing deceptive and unfair acts and practices with consumer-facing business, AGs are market regulators and enforcers.
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Instead, several responded that as president, they would install strong antitrust enforcers to go after monopolies in multiple industries.
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His take comes as federal antitrust enforcers are focusing in on past acquisitions by Big Tech companies including Google.
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Under Trump, enforcers must navigate through a gauntlet of obstacles to bring an enforcement action across the finish line.
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Today, it's actor and screenwriter Jay Baruchel, whose Goon: Last of the Enforcers is out in theaters and VOD tomorrow.
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The owner of the car returned to find the peculiar scene — law enforcers prodding underneath his car with a broom.
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He didn't need any marketing gimmicks—his well-deserved reputation as one of skateboarding's most notorious enforcers set him apart.
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Antitrust enforcers need to do a better job of identifying and suing to block tech platforms' acquisitions of competitive threats.
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He was worried too that public anger towards law enforcers had reached a level never before seen in the city.
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"Law enforcers have finished a special operation to destroy the rebels," Interfax news agency quoted a police source as saying.
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I'd traveled into the Manila underworld and found former employees, including ex-military mercenaries who'd worked as Le Roux's enforcers.
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Officers are deployed as enforcers of the state, without being taught psychology, anthropology, sociology, community dynamics, local history, or criminology.
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The men of the title — Eliot Ness and his enforcers — are played by Kevin Costner, Sean Connery and Andy Garcia.
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Law enforcers cannot, as they constantly repeat, always foil every plot, but so far they may have stopped the worst.
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The day after the hearing he brought up his concerns about Big Tech with the Trump administration's top antitrust enforcers.
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Should composers and songwriters like John be treated as monopolies and regulated by antitrust enforcers to protect companies like Google?
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But it's also been cited by Nazi sympathizers and apartheid enforcers, slave owners and loyalists opposed to the American Revolution.
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You would think that the government, law enforcers and the courts would do something about such sustained acts of brutality.
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Critics said M.Q.M. maintained iron-fisted control over the city through fear and intimidation with a network of armed enforcers.
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"The collaboration of shops with law enforcement is a myth, perhaps thought up by the law enforcers themselves," Galina said.
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But even without sweeping legislation, there's a lot that regulators, enforcers, and the courts can do now under existing law.
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Competition enforcers on both sides of the Atlantic are now looking into how dominant tech companies use and monetise data.
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Starting in the early Reagan era, enforcers changed enforcement around antitrust laws and stopped aggressively enforcing white-collar-crime laws.
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Competition enforcers on both sides of the Atlantic are now looking into how dominant tech companies use and monetize data.
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A president's most potent capabilities lie in leveraging the bully pulpit, pulling administrative levers, and tapping executive regulators and enforcers.
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The DOJ and FTC are the main enforcers of US antitrust policy and overseers of mergers in the United States.
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Mike LeeMichael (Mike) Shumway LeeHillicon Valley: Election security looms over funding talks | Antitrust enforcers in turf war | Facebook details new oversight board | Apple fights EU tax bill Antitrust enforcers in turf war over Big Tech Exclusive: Kushner tells GOP it needs to unify behind immigration plan MORE (R), who along with fellow Utah Sen.
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Accounts from residents paint a bleak picture of morality enforcers who arrest and punish anyone who violates Sharia or Islamic law.
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European antitrust enforcers approved the deal in November on the condition that the companies divest two devices used in cardiovascular treatments.
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Others, however, say enforcers have no business predicting how new technologies should develop and where and how they should be used.
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While cloaking clearly remains a headache for Facebook's enforcers, it's gotten much harder to pull off, according to various hacker forums.
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Delrahim gave examples of the kinds of behavior that could raise concerns among antitrust enforcers, including exclusivity deals and some mergers.
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"There's a real tension here between what government enforcers want … and the need to not diminish [Deutsche's] equity capital," Coffee says.
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"The group was known to resort to extreme measures," Frimet Golberger wrote about these "enforcers" in an essay in The Forward .
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Antitrust enforcers in Japan, South Korea and Australia have already levied million-dollar fines against cable companies for anti-competitive practices.
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If antitrust enforcers have concerns about a deal, they typically ask the companies to commit to not engaging in certain actions.
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The issue will likely be resolved in clearance discussions held almost immediately after the companies officially inform enforcers about the deal.
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We might re-read certain things, and our thoughts about history might change, but Disney's enforcers are even in their fiction.
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The enforcers, Matt Martin of the Islanders and Mike Blunden of the Lightning, joined the discussion, and it was game on.
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The proposal was amended to remove club regulations, it said, amid fears that such clubs would ultimately anger federal drug enforcers.
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She has helped compile essays for The Yale Law Journal that argue for shifts in the way enforcers approach their work.
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The problems of environmental and economic justice are indeed widespread, so it helps to bring in a broader range of enforcers.
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JIDDA, Saudi Arabia — For most of his adult life, Ahmed Qassim al-Ghamdi worked among the bearded enforcers of Saudi Arabia.
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For more than 50 years, newspapers and other traditional media companies have played a critical role as constitutional defenders and enforcers.
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Iraqi authorities and allies will also want to destroy any left-behind networks or enablers and enforcers of future terrorist undergrounds.
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He had sought to become Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and would have been able to if antitrust enforcers hadn't stepped in.
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Any drastic actions against Facebook would come from federal antitrust enforcers, not legislators, including bringing a monopolization case against the company.
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The European Commission has previously indicated that Facebook's issues could be better handled by privacy enforcers rather than by competition regulators.
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The Justice Department and antitrust enforcers around the world have had a long-running investigation into price-fixing of auto parts.
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Tribal opponents grumble that General Hifter's army is dominated by his Furjan clan, and that his sons act as his enforcers.
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Ms. Lockhart had begun blogging about the dealership in 2015, after noticing the proximity of the lawbreaker and the law enforcers.
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Raelle Fisher of the Green Cross Society said city enforcers stopped by around noon Saturday and wrote the shop a ticket.
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Many of the ground-level enforcers are Uighurs themselves, including police officers and officials who staff the camps and security checkpoints.
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Videos of uniformed city law enforcers beating dogs with metal poles have circulated widely on Chinese social media and chat groups.
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In an era in which hulking enforcers roamed the ice alongside the league's top stars, Semenko was one of the toughest.
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"They fired at our policemen, and our law enforcers had no choice but to retaliate and defend themselves," the superintendent said.
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If the grower fails to comply, the next visit will often be by pick-up trucks loaded with sicarios, or enforcers.
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There were rumors about a Russian woman last seen when the camp's new enforcers appeared at the door of her tent.
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The proposal asserts that states should be the primary enforcers of federal delegated authority while the EPA focuses on other laws.
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He died in his Ford Expedition after fleeing the church from what law enforcers suspect was a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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Washington took unprecedented action to hold the tech giants to account — but many critics didn't think federal enforcers went far enough.
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A day in the field with immigration enforcers in California, a state hostile to President Trump's efforts to step up deportations.
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Courts require antitrust enforcers to prove that a merger will raise prices or reduce production of a particular product or service.
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On Wednesday, one of May's chief party enforcers listened to the concerns of euroskeptics in her governing Conservative Party and DUP.
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Other reporting has suggested that one of the crown prince's top advisers and enforcers, Saud al-Qahtani, ordered the killing via Skype.
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Recent court rulings have concluded that when police act in such a manner, they are essentially acting as enforcers for the crowd.
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This comprehensive approach poses fresh challenges to law enforcers, who often seek to exploit gaps in encryption in criminal or security investigations.
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Net neutrality enforcers need the ability to detect unfair treatment of Internet sites; without this capability regulations banning such conduct are meaningless.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Less than five months before Britain leaves the European Union, Prime Minister Theresa May's parliamentary enforcers are on the prowl.
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EU antitrust enforcers can clear the deal with or without concessions or open a four-month investigation if they have serious concerns.
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The women, who are 32 and 22 years old, were arrested when Islamic law enforcers saw them in a car in April.
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Thousands accuse everyone from law enforcers to governmental bodies of racism and inaction, but should we first point the finger at ourselves?
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For the species it is the danger of imminent extinction; for wildlife-lovers it is barbarism; for law-enforcers it is failure.
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"In operation, the greater the incentives contained within the institutional framework, the more public enforcers will use forfeiture laws," the study states.
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Lu said earlier this week that Chinese law enforcers always followed the law and would never do anything illegal, especially not overseas.
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Too long absent and apathetic, enforcers now must prevent privacy abuse, anticompetitive tactics, innovation roadblocks, and other hallmarks of excessive market power.
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The move came a month after EU competition enforcers blocked its bid to acquire British mobile operator O2 from Spanish provider Telefonica.
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In the stoner-comedy canon, women have traditionally been visible only as enforcers of social order: shrewish wives, disappointed girlfriends, disciplinarian mothers.
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It's time for a change in Washington, and it must come from the legislative branch, whose job is to empower regulatory enforcers.
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There are many proposed solutions — from better funding our enforcers and encouraging them to be more aggressive, to legislation introduced by Sen.
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But in many of these cases, the vast majority of government enforcers are people of good will who take their jobs seriously.
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The new footage shows off the game's villains: the president of the nefarious Shinra Company, and the Turks, Shinra's suit-wearing enforcers.
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"The suspects were heavily armed and fired upon the law enforcers, which prompted them to fire back," according to a police report.
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Political values are important in antitrust, but political pressure on government enforcers undercuts their ability to make professional judgments about enforcement policy.
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Former FTC consumer protection enforcers say Facebook's response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal won't be enough to keep federal investigators at bay.
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It's not a given that these shifts are entirely, or even mostly, because antitrust enforcers turn a blind eye to industry consolidation.
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The American Civil Liberties Union has complained, saying that law enforcers could use the technology to follow innocent citizens, such as protesters.
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If the new administration's antitrust enforcers ignore this chance to follow through on Mr. Trump's promises, voters should hold him to account.
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Later the police arrested two men from Malcolm's former Harlem mosque, Norman 203X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson, both known as enforcers.
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Enforcers are investigating the company to see if its acquisitions of competitors like Instagram and WhatsApp over the past decade were legal.
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Indeed, antitrust enforcers may be comfortable talking about new theories of competitive harms, but so far the rhetoric has far outpaced enforcement.
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The Trump administration's antitrust enforcers have fired a warning shot to AT&T and other companies hoping to pull off massive mergers.
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Members of Parliament and law enforcers and industrialists and bureaucrats and young professionals and even some religious scholars can drink with impunity.
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Mr. Avelica's case is the latest example of the growing tension building in Los Angeles between federal immigration enforcers and local officials.
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Veterans came to feel that the idealism of the cause had been exploited, and many resented being policed by shadowy Communist enforcers.
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The court directed law enforcers to apprehend Musharraf, currently receiving medical treatment in Dubai, to ensure the death sentence is carried out.
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He said he saw civilian parking enforcers as part of a larger plan to improve the quality of life in poorer neighborhoods.
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The enforcers scream "racist" on Twitter, until everybody gets intimidated and changes the subject to the Russia investigation or some other distraction.
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Both stories are about professional law enforcers who hunt down rogue androids, and both consider the philosophy of what exactly makes someone human.
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In 2015, when European regulators zeroed in on Google, then-President Obama called enforcers protectionist and senators wrote strongly worded letters of caution.
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We've seen footage of the player having to take down robotic enforcers in No Man's Sky, for getting unruly on a planet's surface.
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In terms of time, effort and lost trade, any sanctions regime has costs for the enforcers, says Andrea Berger at King's College, London.
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Exclusive: Justice Department has been given jurisdiction for potential probe of Apple as part of broad tech review by antitrust enforcers $AAPL pic.twitter.
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As well as highlighting the plethora of British links to money-laundering, the Hermitage case illustrates the inadequacy of its law enforcers' response.
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One of her parliamentary enforcers, or whips, then took the formal steps, by announcing the debate on the deal would not continue immediately.
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The hearing—which played footage from the notoriously goofy Night Trap while Senators hefted the blue light gun from Lethal Enforcers—was ridiculous.
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"Europe's competition enforcers need to work together on big data — not just the Commission, but the national competition authorities as well," she said.
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The deal is one of several that antitrust enforcers have rejected as illegal during the recent wave of mergers of large, complex companies.
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The divide between police and citizens is stark enough when cops are simply civilian law enforcers, let alone part of the military itself.
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Uber maintains that this program is intended mostly for the protection of its drivers, from code enforcers working in concert with taxi interests.
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President Joko Widodo has called for a "merciless" crackdown on narcotics, and told law enforcers to shoot drug traffickers if they resisted arrest.
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East's apprenticeship has involved mostly "standing yard," managing a youthful team of lookouts, runners and enforcers on the perimeter of a drug house.
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"We had to become the enforcers because Airbnb would not do it," said state Assemblywoman Linda B. Rosenthal, an architect of the legislation.
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"It indicates a tribalisation of society where jirgas exercise more power than law enforcers," said Zohra Yusuf, a human rights activist in Pakistan.
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The N.B.A., N.C.A.A. and the A.C.C. — nobody's idea of progressive forces, usually — are acting as enforcers on behalf of gay and transgender rights.
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Enforcers are shown hitting one man with plastic tubing and beheading two elderly adherents of Sufi Islam, accusing them of sorcery and apostasy.
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But… companies have to organize themselves and govern because explainability is not just for users, it's also for the regulators and the enforcers.
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Now, the women rarely see the bearded enforcers and often check the calendar of the government's General Entertainment Authority to plan their weekends.
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It's an idea that's being weighed by U.S. antitrust enforcers and has been brought up on the campaign trail by candidates including Sen.
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But alongside the security forces, experts and witnesses say, are the enforcers from the colectivos, who engage in fiercer and often deadly intimidation.
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As rising foreign debt and falling world oil prices have depleted the Venezuelan government's coffers, it has increasingly turned to colectivos as enforcers.
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"We have enough troops and law enforcers on the ground, as well as the appropriate equipment to support our troops," said Brig. Gen.
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They pointed out that using the local police as immigration enforcers takes them away from their primary responsibility, the safety of the community.
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Free-market advocates argue that the Trump administration and state enforcers are out to score political points rather than pursue genuine legal violations.
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We might add that major governments — the issuers of currency, the guarantors of banks and enforcers of contracts — do not always inspire confidence.
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Monzon and the four men who accompanied him — several of them cartel enforcers — are all believed to be tied to the Sinaloa cartel.
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The legislation would direct the Defense Department to allow local housing code enforcers onto federal bases, following concerns they were sometimes denied access.
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Yet fighting was their stock in trade, and recreational pastime, and both men odd jobbed as nightclub bouncers, debt collectors and mob enforcers.
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At the Philippine Internet Crimes Against Child Center, national, British and Australian law enforcers will collaborate to detect cross-border abuse and protect children.
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According to our sources, Steele's report says Lesin was bludgeoned to death by enforcers working for an oligarch close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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It is also asking Congress to allocate money to hire 3,000 new F.B.I. agents, 250 Justice Department lawyers and 250 S.E.C. investigators and enforcers.
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In a conventional payment system, it's up to banks and other central enforcers to stop double spending, but there's no such figure in cryptocurrency.
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The whipping system is at breaking-point as the enforcers lose their ability to bribe and bully and political factions organise themselves via WhatsApp.
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It will give government enforcers stronger legal standing and also make criminally liable those who certify the safety of a dam that later collapses.
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There was no direct mention of Zhou, but the party has repeatedly warned law enforcers of the need for party loyalty after his jailing.
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It is one element of a digital economy and needs to be understood properly by competition enforcers and regulators, but is impossible to generalize.
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Regulators and antitrust enforcers have imposed these requirements against AT&T and Microsoft, opening up competition in long-distance calling, telephones and internet browsers.
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His views have put him at odds with American law enforcers, who need his company's help to unlock an iPhone used by a terrorist.
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Witness U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to frame telecom equipment group ZTE's near-death experience with U.S. sanctions enforcers as a trade bargaining chip.
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Many of the town's rich kids promptly elect themselves as enforcers, with almost all of the less fortunate townies regarded as targets of capture.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Daily fantasy sports companies FanDuel and DraftKings scrapped a plan to merge on Thursday following a legal challenge by U.S. antitrust enforcers.
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By pre-installing its Chrome browser and Google search app on Android devices, Google had an unfair advantage over its rivals, EU enforcers said.
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A more flexible approach by EU competition enforcers would definitely be good news for the sector, Ameet Patel at Northern Trust Capital Markets said.
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Amar Sunar, a human rights and menstrual rights activist based in western Nepal's Dailekh district, is "delighted" that a law will punish Chhaupadi enforcers.
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But some of the Democratic Party's most active enforcers vociferously defended him, claiming that activists were conducting "purity tests" and shrinking the party's tent.
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Local people invariably take the gangsters' side during police raids, forming human barricades, pelting law enforcers with rubbish and setting fire to their cars.
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The CNIL's fine on Monday was the first example of Europe's enforcers using the new regulations to go after a large U.S. tech company.
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"A Scandal in Paris" and "Lured" both feature protagonists who cross over from a particular unsavory milieu to become respectable enforcers of the law.
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He's directed law enforcers at DHS to clamp down on undocumented immigrants, making virtually everyone living in the country illegally a target for deportation.
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Google said in a statement on Friday that it had not yet been contacted by state antitrust enforcers but would work constructively with them.
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But until recently, few appeared to know how its enforcers investigated infractions, or that those who had undergone interrogations felt traumatized by the experience.
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In a series of calls from April 2011, Mr. Guzmán discouraged one of his enforcers, Orso Iván Gastélum Cruz, from fighting the Mexican police.
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"When illegal drug operations turn nasty and bloody, advocates of human rights mock our law enforcers and this administration to no end," he said.
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The word "sheriff" might conjure up something of a folksy image, but what do you really know about these elected enforcers of the law?
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With a picture of someone who appeared to be the victim of various predations in hand, law enforcers went in search of the boy.
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But antitrust enforcers, whose core responsibility is to keep markets competitive and protect consumers, are not just watching for mergers that kill off rivals.
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EU enforcers typically lay out charges of illegal activities conducted by companies before imposing fines which can reach 10 percent of their global turnover.
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"Five of them were listed as militants and law enforcers made several drives to arrest them," Hoque told reporters in Dhaka late on Saturday.
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With no so-called enforcers, the Rangers do not seek fights, and the Flyers have tried to shed their image as the Broad Street Bullies.
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That runs consistent with enforcers in hockey: good, fun dudes who have an ugly job that has led some to depression, addiction, and brain injuries.
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Forcing tech firms to provide a way for law-enforcers to peer into those encrypted spaces, as the bill does, is reasonable, Mr Zirnsak argued.
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Third, TfL is not satisfied with Uber's explanation of how it uses Greyball, software with the capacity to hide information from regulators and law enforcers.
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At the other end of the spectrum, Germany and the United States are the most active enforcers of bribery sanctions on both executives and firms.
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Customer data is a new area for antitrust law, which enforcers will be pressed by media companies to take on in the AT&T case.
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U.S. tech firms Amazon, Google and Facebook have been in the regulatory spotlight as antitrust enforcers examine how they use data to shut out rivals.
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Germany, Europe's biggest economy, is one of the world's strictest enforcers of data protection laws and its citizens have a high sensibility to privacy issues.
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Communications enforcers in the U.S., U.K., South Africa and elsewhere are all looking at ways to crack down on the problem, without inhibiting free speech.
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You don't know how the state and its enforcers, its agents of violence—which is what they are to us Kashmiri—how they will react.
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It is time to untint their windows by creating central registers of beneficial ownership that are open to tax officials, law-enforcers—and the public.
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Film director Alexei Uchitel told reporters earlier this week that police had set a letter to cinemas saying law enforcers "will take serious security measures".
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The report says that the federal crackdown has poisoned the traditional relationship between faculty and students by turning professors from informal confidants into official enforcers.
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They are also protected by law enforcers who don't have to fear that every simple encounter with the public might end in a deadly gunfight.
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In fact, the large centralized trust enforcers may soon give way to decentralized trust systems and P2P network-enforced reputation systems that blockchain makes possible.
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When trying to understand the Trump administration's position on tech monopolists, ignore Mr. Trump's tweets and look to what his antitrust enforcers do and say.
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Some of these rule-enforcers are harshly pragmatic, like the former penitentiary worker now employed as a "student concerns specialist" in a Charleston high school.
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The tie-up will likely face intense scrutiny by U.S. antitrust enforcers worried that AT&T might try to limit distribution of Time Warner material.
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EU antitrust enforcers could levy fines up to 5 percent of Google's average daily worldwide turnover if it fails to comply with the 2017 order.
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In Egypt, where female genital mutilation is common, "it was often the mothers and aunts who were the biggest enforcers of the practice," Raffo said.
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The short-term nature of customer stays and the combination of experience/price required to maintain loyal customers are natural enforcers of efficient unit economics.
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Enforcers and on-ice bodyguards have since been squeezed out of the game, and some of the league's most notorious provocateurs have transformed into playmakers.
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O'Toole has gained national recognition for implementing policies in her department that represent the changing role of police officers as law enforcers to community protectors.
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Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota, asked Facebook's Stretch whether or not there are any "outside enforcers" of its policies, to which Stretch responded there were not.
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Although antitrust law and competition policy have dealt with similar conduct in the past, courts and enforcers in recent decades have largely focused on price effects.
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Tim Cook already described the ruling as "total political crap" and the latest comments from his company make similarly strong assertions against the European Union's enforcers.
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EU enforcers see the antitrust case as a benchmark for investigations of other areas dominated by the U.S. search giant, such as travel and online mapping.
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The System's omnipresence, the lack of any visible figurehead pulling the strings, and the stern enforcers all add more layers of tension to the matchmaking process.
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In a sharp rebuke to antitrust enforcers, a judge ruled this week that he would allow the deal to go through despite the Justice Department's lawsuit.
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U.S. tech giants Amazon, Google and Facebook have been in the regulatory spotlight as antitrust enforcers examine how they use data to boost their market power.
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This, combined with antitrust enforcers' preference for asset sales to resolve competitive concerns, could mean that more vertical deals will be challenged in court, she said.
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And when it does, he will leave office as he entered it—accompanied only by his most loyal henchmen and enforcers, and thus utterly, irredeemably alone.
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Trade enforcers must at the same time be willing to protect fabricators or other processors from the resulting cost increases that will erode their competitive edge.
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Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal, who said on Monday that U.S. enforcers have to do more than wring their hands about the companies' clout, also weighed in.
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EU competition enforcers are worried the combination of two global leaders in a concentrated and capacity-stretched market could result in price hikes for cruise ships.
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It comes as little surprise, sadly, that the Saudi thugs who slaughtered Jamal Khashoggi were a secret crew of enforcers for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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The company is also one of the carmakers being investigated by European Union antitrust enforcers about possible collusion to limit antipollution equipment's effectiveness to reduce costs.
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This sort of agreement is now illegal, but businesses have nevertheless found new and creative ways to achieve monopoly profits, while antitrust enforcers have fallen behind.
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I'm looking at kind of what are the current antitrust tools that are available to antitrust enforcers, and how we might use those to promote competition.
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Worse, her team of C-list enforcers came out of the woodwork to defend her pointing to Gabbard wanting to get out of Syria as evidence.
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Context: The amount of data Google will collect in its $2.1 billion acquisition of Fitbit is already drawing the attention of privacy advocates and competition enforcers.
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When did the US evolve from tacitly condoning the existence of black markets to becoming one of the world's primary enforcers against illicit trade and piracy?
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But then in a sign that things were heating up, two of Atlético's experienced enforcers, Godín and Gabi, were yellow carded within one minute of each other.
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"I think a lot of people wonder how such huge behemoths that now exist in Silicon Valley have taken shape under the nose of the antitrust enforcers."
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While most enforcers acknowledge the risks, they focus more on mitigating short-term effects, like abstaining if they have a headache, rather than potential long-term consequences.
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Now BuzzFeed News has established: Steele's report says that Lesin was bludgeoned to death by enforcers working for an oligarch close to Putin, the four sources said.
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The 1003-foot-8, 33-year-old Scott is among the last of the so-called enforcers, who make their money with brute force instead of skill.
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While peasant children were reduced to eating their dead siblings, the enforcers of collectivisation dined on suckling pig and their wives reprimanded servants who spilled the gravy.
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U.S. Federal Trade Commission acting chairman Maureen Ohlhausen in a recent speech asked if enforcers were truly qualified to pick winners and losers in the modern economy.
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Antitrust enforcers judge firms based on market control, where Amazon does not look overmighty, and the effect on consumers, who so far seem to have only gained.
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He used to prowl the streets on a big motorcycle looking for "an encounter to kill" just to show to local law enforcers he could do it.
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" As Jared Holt at Right Wing Watch told me, "The Proud Boys have been the right wing's enforcers in the streets against those who dissent against them.
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"It&aposs like we&aposre in North Korea or China," said the Kiryas Joel resident, who has a second phone that Vaad enforcers do not know about.
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Tse tapped connections in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and the Golden Triangle, and adopted a business model that proved irresistible to his customers, say law enforcers.
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Two Conservative lawmakers, Kevin Hollinrake and James Cartlidge, said on Twitter Prime Minister Theresa May's parliamentary enforcers, or whips, had said they can have a free vote.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. antitrust enforcers have filed a complaint aimed at stopping a big hospital system in the western United States from buying a series of clinics.
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Those territories that have no central registers readily available to the taxman and law enforcers, as Bermuda and Jersey already do, have agreed to set them up.
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And some Texas Republicans have warned that the border is simply too wild for law enforcers to plug all the gaps in the fight against illegal immigration.
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The force consists of two types of investigators: calm, clear-headed inspectors, and enforcers, a special group of so-called "latent criminals" who serve as their subordinates.
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Britain's overseas territories continue to resist adopting public registers, though they have agreed to collect information centrally and to speed up access for law enforcers in London.
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It had tanks, guns, and nukes, but nobody really believed in its ideology anymore; its officials and enforcers were mere careerists, who folded at the first shock.
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He has said that the probe will help shed light on the industry's business practices and why antitrust enforcers have allowed those companies to grow so large.
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Since there is no universally accepted guidelines for what is and is not cultural appropriation, sometimes good-natured depictions can run afoul of its more stringent enforcers.
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And for antitrust enforcers the lodestar is the impact on consumers, ensuring they benefit from a healthy marketplace that drives better products and prices for their pocketbooks.
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"I shaved this morning," he said, smiling and pointing to his cheeks, smooth for the first time since jihadist enforcers began requiring long beards two years ago.
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So Anvelt said Estonia, which prides itself in its advanced digital agenda, would push for better and more interlinked databases to help law enforcers address security concerns.
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Second, there are nonetheless enforcers within the group who build their personal power and reputation by policing the group and condemning those who break the group code.
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Antitrust enforcers could be forced to make resource decisions: Suing to block a deal, and potentially going back to court, is a costly and time-consuming undertaking.
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Unfortunately, like other blacks across Orange County, Florida, when Norman went to the polls on the morning of Election Day, he was turned away by white enforcers.
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Last month, Thyssenkrupp and Tata Steel said the deal would be rejected by EU competition enforcers after they declined to offer further concessions to address regulators' concerns.
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Eighteen state attorneys general have filed a brief in favor of English, and could become the main enforcers of financial regulatory laws should Mulvaney defang the CFPB.
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That he would create a secret team of enforcers further affirms that Mr. Khashoggi's killing was not some rogue operation by loyal courtiers against a nettlesome critic.
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It has merely been evaded, eroded and enfeebled by the corroding effect of decades of industry pressure and ideological drift, yielding hesitant enforcers and a hostile judiciary.
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And many Rohingya are being cheated of their money by traffickers who are not actually capable of transporting people from Bangladesh to Malaysia, according to law enforcers.
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It absolutely doesn't turn beat cops into federal immigration enforcers but gives local law enforcement officials the tools we need to keep criminal aliens off the streets.
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Interrupting Vice President Pence — who was making the case that due process must be protected before law enforcers intervene to take guns — Trump championed the opposite approach.
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But Biden views Warren's singling out of tech as misguided and doesn't think a president should tell antitrust enforcers which companies to go after, his campaign said.
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Soccer doesn't have a tradition of ice hockey-style "enforcers," but these guys come close, marking the other team's star, tackling hard and sometimes stirring up trouble.
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Of those, 102 are government ministers and Conservative Party enforcers, or whips, who are required to support the deal and so are not included in the tally.
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For the women protesting the rules, Khamenei's guidance signals even tougher treatment by security forces and a network of shadowy hardline ideological enforcers grouped around the Revolutionary Guard.
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But GDPR grants new powers to privacy enforcers to impose fines of up to 4 percent of global revenue or 20 million euros ($22 million), whichever is higher.
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EU enforcers said their case was not related to other investigations into the use of illegal defeat devices to cheat emissions tests and possible violations of environmental laws.
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In August, two drug-debt enforcers were jailed after biting a man's nose off at a Christmas party in Teignmouth, England because of his son's $1,300 drug debt.
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"The American people deserve to know whether these tech giants are unlawfully stifling competition and how our laws and enforcers can encourage innovation while protecting consumers," she added.
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But four antitrust experts said there is little doubt the deal will be approved, although it might need to meet conditions to convince antitrust enforcers to sign off.
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Law enforcers in Queensland, Australia found that out when conducting a routine arrest of a Brisbane woman, who handed over her bag saying it contained some precious cargo.
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But she was tempering expectations, hoping at least for a "second request," which is when antitrust enforcers ask companies for more information rather than rubber-stamping the merger.
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Raising awareness among the public and media, training law enforcers and civil society, and engaging parliament are also key to tackling slavery, said Mian Abdul Mannan of Pakistan.
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What's next: We'll be watching whether this move widens the gap between Brussels and Washington, where antitrust enforcers have thus far been wary of taking on Big Tech.
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Of those, around 100 are government ministers and Conservative Party enforcers, or whips, who are required to support the deal and so are not included in the tally.
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The CBC members were quick to carve a distinction between supporting competent law enforcers, for the sake of protecting communities, and combating police brutality for the same reason.
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The party's activists and enforcers hate his record and his style, while many of his core supporters like him precisely because he's out of step with the ideologists.
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Todd Ewen, though, sensed something more serious was wrong, and began reading about C.T.E. and its links to other athletes who suffered repeated head trauma, including hockey enforcers.
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"If a fighter got a concussion, it was just part of the game," Kelli Ewen said of hockey enforcers in the 123s and 1990s, when her husband played.
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The Department of Justice's antitrust division, on the other hand, is the only one of the two federal antitrust enforcers that can prosecute antitrust violations in criminal court.
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These enforcers appear in the Senate, the House of Representatives and the security services, as well as in various committees, state assemblies, parastatal organizations and important economic agencies.
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Today, adults are most often the organizers and enforcers of youth sports, and too often they get in the way of their children's best interests, these experts say.
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Rather, they were members of armed bands who have become key enforcers for President Nicolás Maduro as he attempts to crush a growing protest movement against his rule.
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The rise of the modern crime story coincided with the professionalization and bureaucratization of policing and provided a framework for understanding the work of these new law enforcers.
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An A. THE EDGES OF ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT Antitrust enforcers blocked a number of enormous deals, including those between Halliburton and Baker Hughes and between Office Depot and Staples.
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Antitrust enforcers at the US Department of Justice tried to stop the deal last year; yesterday, a US District Court denied the agency's appeal to challenge the acquisition.
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U.S. antitrust enforcers are poised to approve health care company Abbott Laboratories' purchase of medical device maker St. Jude Medical, two sources knowledgeable about the deal said on Thursday.
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AT&T, at least, also wants any regulation to be overseen exclusively by the Federal Trade Commission, narrowing the number of enforcers down to a handful of executive appointees.
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In the quest to give more protection to copyrighted work, everything from political-protest videos to citizen journalism and viral memes, they argue, risks being squashed by overzealous enforcers.
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But this coup attempt suggests — given the stated rationale of the coup launchers — that some in the military are taking up its traditional role as enforcers of Kemalist orthodoxy.
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Mr Putin's enforcers claim that he plotted to blow up a statue of Lenin and set fire to a door of the office in Crimea of Russia's ruling party.
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University of Southern California Law Professor Orin Kerr says parking enforcers could avoid potential Fourth Amendment issues by simply taking a photo of the car rather than chalking it.
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We'll go with one of my favorite enforcers of the 1990s, a classic fourth-line tough guy who couldn't do much other than fight but did that exceptionally well.
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Scars from that battle no doubt weighed on the joint decision not to push back at antitrust enforcers as each readies their business for the all-important football season.
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DE and U.S. rival Praxair PX.N secured conditional EU antitrust approval on Monday for their $82 billion merger but still have to clear a major hurdle with U.S. enforcers.
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Unfortunately, the nation's leading drug enforcers have always decided that it continues to be in the best interest of public safety for marijuana to maintain its Schedule I status.
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"We hope U.S. enforcers of competition law will learn from and follow this example in both of these cases," Barry Lynn, executive director of the Open Markets Institute, said.
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Holder in his statement said Justice Department data show that federal law enforcers have prosecuted more high-level drug crimes since the start of his Smart on Crime policy.
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First, GDI Co-Founder and Director of Policy Ganesh Sitaraman argues for taking antitrust policymaking out of the courts and empowering antitrust enforcers to act more effectively and transparently.
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But after years of consolidation in industries like telecommunications, antitrust enforcers are sure to be tested by more vertical mergers as dealmakers try to expand into new markets. Sen.
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It is an attempt at objectivity, a call on enforcers to show their work and a check to make sure enforcement resources are directed at the important competitive problems.
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Cicilline's bill is nearly identical, but adds a provision requiring that local law enforcers be notified whenever a buyer prohibited from owning firearms attempts to purchase a grandfathered weapon.
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When Amazon acquired Whole Foods, the antitrust agencies' failure to block the transaction was vigorously criticized as another indication of antitrust enforcers' having fallen asleep at the regulatory wheel.
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Bootlegging and smuggling thrived; violent crime flourished as the organized gangs that supplied alcohol to willing consumers protected their turfs; corruption among public officials and law enforcers was rampant.
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Antitrust risk has shadowed Google for years, and antitrust enforcers in the European Union last month fined Google 2.42 billion euro ($2.7 billion) for favoring its own shopping service.
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And he would seek to hire a few retired F.B.I. agents to investigate civil rights violations involving the police, avoiding the inherent awkwardness of going after fellow law enforcers.
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In Pope Francis' long-awaited apostolic exhortation — "Amoris Laetitia," or "The Joy of Love" — he urges church leaders to serve as nurturing pastors, not as rigid enforcers of doctrine.
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The asset sales required by U.S. antitrust enforcers were similar to what the companies had agreed to give up in a deal they struck with European regulators in March.
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The state-run NOC was looking at adding molecular markers to subsidized fuel, to help Libyan and international law enforcers including Europol, CEPOL and Interpol identify smugglers, Sanalla said.
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For example, after German antitrust enforcers found that Facebook abused its dominant market position, it required Facebook to stop combining different sources of its users' data without their consent.
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In this brave new digital world, blocking the merger of AT&T and Time Warner would only undermine public confidence in the ability of antitrust enforcers to recognize reality.
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Antitrust enforcers and regulators, when examining a potential merger or acquisition, or considering if a company is engaging in anticompetitive behavior, are supposed to apply a consumer welfare standard.
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Under existing law, antitrust enforcers in the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission have the authority to bring legal action against companies for that kind of conduct.
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And employees of Facebook, Google, Intel, Cisco and Stripe attended a demonstration at the headquarters of Palantir to protest the company's development of surveillance technology for federal immigration enforcers.
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If approved by antitrust enforcers, the $13.7 billion deal would give Amazon control of more than 400 stores, an extensive supply chain and a new source of consumer data.
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The Super Bowl typically leads to an uptick in sex trafficking activity in the city where it is to be held, creating opportunities for law enforcers to identify them.
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Other major companies are looking at how the AT&T-Time Warner is handled by antitrust enforcers for signs about whether they can proceed with their own potential mergers.
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The move ups the pressure on the tech giant, which is facing expansive probes into whether it has stifled competitors from state officials, federal antitrust enforcers and U.S. lawmakers.
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Ms. Warren argued that big vertical deals needed to be viewed as critically as horizontal mergers and said Aetna's sale to CVS would be a test for antitrust enforcers.
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The truck drivers were even allowed to smoke cigarettes as they passed through the checkpoints, something Islamic State enforcers punished with whippings elsewhere, Ali and several other sources said.
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Sources said PKN faced a four-month probe since the combination of companies ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in a sector is always problematic for EU competition enforcers.
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The prospect of having only two big U.S. potash sellers, down from three, might worry antitrust enforcers, said Ethan Glass, a Justice Department veteran now at Quinn, Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan.
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Junior leagues aren't graduating enforcers at the same rate anymore, meaning men like Joel Theriault will become increasingly rare and fighting will be done by players who take regular shifts.
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EU antitrust enforcers have asked Google's rivals if it unfairly demotes local search competitors, according to a questionnaire seen by Reuters, a move which could lead to a fourth case.
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An exclusion of the human that relies entirely on omniscient human enforcers makes the reserves oddly artificial: they are absolutely natural in what they contain, absolutely unnatural in their conception.
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In a filing last week, Facebook disclosed a potential liability of $3 billion to $5 billion, plus interest and penalties, if the position taken by the tax enforcers holds up.
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"The civilians call it 'belly money,' because it's all made off of females' bellies," said Wu. Half a million enforcers Enforcing the policy and collecting those fines takes incredible manpower.
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The ruling is a recognition by enforcers that they cannot make unlimited use of their state aid powers on taxation issues, said Natura Gracia, a partner at law firm Linklaters.
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But the deal will likely win approval from antitrust enforcers because the two companies are in different businesses along the same supply chain, or a vertical merger, other experts said.
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They split into two teams, each with a specific but precise role: The enforcers are tasked with catching the fugitives, and fugitives must do whatever they can to elude detainment.
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"Law enforcers are not people who typically spend as much time online and might not take crimes as seriously when conduct is happening online as opposed to offline," says Goldberg.
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The involvement of the state attorneys general increases scrutiny of the mega deals and will complicate what are already expected to be tough and lengthy reviews by U.S. antitrust enforcers.
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"Law enforcers established that they were used by the aggressor country in the context of a hybrid information war against Ukraine," the state security service (SBU) said in a statement.
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"It is absurd to think that a group of people frequently harassed for decades can effectively become enforcers during emergencies without this level of clarity about the respect we deserve."
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Dubbed the National Commission on Security and Technology Challenges, the group would be charged with studying ways to help law enforcers fight crime and terrorism without encroaching on privacy protections.
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"I don't think that's the function of the secretary of Interior, nor should it be the function of any Cabinet member, to be the enforcers for the administration," Grijalva said.
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Law enforcers to believe the victim... agencies to have enough forensic detectives to read the evidence, and, in many cases, for the attack to get worse, because it always does.
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People desperately objected to dominant political policy that military onslaughts were necessary to halt the spread of Communism; they took to the streets, where enforcers of the status quo awaited.
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Khan, who argues for more vigorous antitrust enforcement, said she worried Thomas' ruling creates a murky standard where companies will argue they fall into Category #1 to avoid antitrust enforcers.
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Liberals would have to explain why they don't like highly skilled immigrants and would end up looking confused, while conservatives would get to play the role of mature border enforcers.
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EU competition enforcers opened on Friday an investigation spurred by complaints over a 400-million-euro ($434.7 million) loan due to be granted by Italy to its struggling carrier Alitalia.
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Women are healers (though there are some tough customers here, thanks to the cast of law enforcers and prison inmates); men are either warriors or jerks who deserve to die.
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He or Dr. Jessen were "bouncing around all over the world," as Dr. Mitchell put it, visiting black sites as part enforcers, part psychologists, carrying on conversations with the captives.
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But Sister Benedicta is a more complicated figure than this scene suggests: When the Church's enforcers arrive at her priory to take the infant Lyra away, she refuses to surrender.
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Simons has noted to lawmakers that Ireland's data protection commission, which oversees the U.S. tech companies who base their European operations in that country, has more than 100 privacy enforcers.
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Note that of the $2 billion, $800 million will go to California alone, and California and its vast environmental bureaucracy is nothing if not a friend of the EPA enforcers.
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The rules can be thoughtful and legally solid, but there's ultimately not much the president can do if federal or Supreme Court judges choose to act as a partisan enforcers.
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Facebook uses technology, like its Onavo and Research apps, that monitor consumers' app usage to identify potential rivals even before they are big enough to get on antitrust enforcers' radars.
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For about three decades, Chinatown's kung fu culture was presided over by two longtime local tong enforcers—Lau Bun and TY Wong—whose trailblazing careers have mostly fallen into obscurity.
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Me and the middle aisle guy are standing up like we are the ant enforcers while the senior cabin crew guy rocks up, armed with… a flashlight and a wet cloth.
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The former New Orleans mayor joined CNBC's "Power Lunch " on Tuesday to discuss tensions following the deaths of African-Americans during confrontations with law enforcers and fatal retaliatory attacks on police.
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It has merely been evaded, eroded and enfeebled by the corroding effect of decades of industry pressure and ideological drift, yielding" what he says is, "hesitant enforcers and a hostile judiciary.
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Police say the current campaign has left more than 4,200 suspects dead in what they say were clashes with law enforcers, although human rights groups have blamed them for extrajudicial killings.
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But those rules also create a bunch of rule enforcers who often lack tact when dealing with people who are trying in good faith to offer their time to the site.
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The women are the key influencers, protectors, and enforcers of their celebrity realm; if this was Game of Thrones, a woman would be sitting upon the Iron Throne at all times.
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Last month, Morial told CNBC he condemns the "cycle of violence" facing the nation, following the deaths of African-Americans during confrontations with law enforcers and fatal retaliatory attacks on police.
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Asked about T-Mobile's plan to buy Sprint for $26 billion, Delrahim declined to reiterate the view of President Barack Obama's enforcers, who had said that four wireless carriers were needed.
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People also need to see that transgressions are punished—either directly by the police, or, more often, by the mass of bystanders who choose to act either as enforcers or enablers.
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The increasing popularity of Alexa, Apple's Siri and Google Assistant has triggered concerns from politicians and privacy enforcers over how some companies handle recordings from users interacting with their voice assistants.
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Still, Trump moved quickly to deliver on his promise to free immigration enforcers to crack down on undocumented immigrants, with evidence already seen in statistics coming out during his nascent administration.
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Hochschild's account emphasizes that anarchists were responsible for the wave of violence in the first months of the conflict, and though the POUM was small, it had its own sinister enforcers.
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U.S. software company Salesforce, which lost out on the bid for LinkedIn and had urged regulators to take a tough line on the deal, said enforcers should not drop their guard.
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But both raise the hot-button issue of whether U.S. enforcers can require Chief Executive Tim Cook's company to produce software that would help them extract potential evidence form a smartphone.
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Guillermo Legaria/AFP via Getty Images Guillermo Legaria/AFP via Getty Images There is a lot of disagreement among drug policy experts, enforcers, and reformers about the stringency of the treaties.
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The second part of the plan acknowledges that such an undertaking would largely fall on the nation's antitrust enforcers at agencies like the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission.
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The term "stormtroopers" originated during World War I to describe German assault troops, but it's also been applied to enforcers of the early Nazi Party during the rise of Adolf Hitler.
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In his speech on Monday Duterte scoffed at accusations that he was trampling on human rights and said law enforcers should not worry about criminal liability while acting on his campaign.
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He was the latest in a string of former enforcers, including Boogaard, Bob Probert and Wade Belak, who died young after displaying symptoms related to C.T.E., including memory loss and depression.
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Writing in a report which is about to be circulated across the country's police forces, the authors urged law enforcers to carry out greater surveillance of children living on the streets.
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The case is a test of how far securities enforcers may go to police the murky world of "political intelligence," in which firms seek to gather and sell information for traders.
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It could assist authorities in identifying those who were its fighters, enforcers and collaborators, and help identify the foreign fighters, enabling countries they came from to head off new terrorist plots.
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Those of us who've met with China's intellectual property policymakers, judges, administrators and enforcers over the last few years have been struck with the coordinated seriousness of their actions and efforts.
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Antitrust enforcers in the E.U. and Russia have imposed large penalties on Google for preloading Android with Google apps such as Chrome and YouTube, which disadvantages competitors like Bing and Mozilla.
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As far back as July 2015, Reuters reported that a source said there were concerns among U.S. antitrust enforcers that the tie-up would lead to higher prices and less innovation.
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Disregarding both congressional intent in enacting the antitrust laws and the latest evidence on the economic and political harms from corporate concentration, our top antimonopoly enforcers have been fawning over monopoly.
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It was a signal from antitrust enforcers that an era of breakneck consolidation might be coming to an end, and that mergers would be evaluated by a new set of standards.
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George Washington, they wrote, ordered the prosecution of people involved in the Whiskey Rebellion by distillers in western Pennsylvania who rose up against the federal whiskey tax and threatened its enforcers.
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Earlier this month, a coalition of 50 attorneys general announced an antitrust investigation into the company's search and advertising practices, adding to similar efforts from House lawmakers and federal competition enforcers.
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The affected programs include initiatives as diverse as rural development, housing assistance, waste water disposal, energy development, broadband expansion and programs to help state and local law enforcers manage drug cases.
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While the enforcers of dress codes say that the guidelines help students avoid distraction, gendered language and shameful punishment have been called out, especially in the case of women of color.
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Both Ohlhausen and Simons would be traditional Republican enforcers, meaning that few enforcement decisions would change and the pro-business approach with a slant toward approving big mergers would likely continue.
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By a combination of both tradition and statute, the country's chief antitrust enforcers — the Justice Department's antitrust division and the Federal Trade Commission — operate at a distance from the White House.
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"Some of these law enforcers are themselves part of the problem, and they do not take these crimes as seriously as they need to," Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka, of UN Women, said.
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"Federal enforcers have a lot of catching up to do," said Sarah Miller, the deputy director of the Open Markets Institute, a nonprofit that is critical of the giant tech companies.
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Counsel to the inquiry Brian Altman also said it would look at whether there was interference in decisions to prosecute public figures and whether party leadership and enforcers helped cover-up accusations.
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"This is a collector's item from our Hills apartment," Spencer says of a Lethal Enforcers arcade game, which sparked an infamous argument on the show when the two first moved in together.
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The least funny thing about this movie is that it came out the same year three NHL enforcers—the guys who get in the fistfights—died of complications related to head trauma.
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Any visitors were tracked by the dozens of surveillance cameras positioned around town and followed by a group of church enforcers, the "God Squad," who'd drive around in SUVs with tinted windows.
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As evidence emerged in the dying years of apartheid of the brutality of her Soweto enforcers, the "Mandela United Football Club" (MUFC), some South Africans questioned her 'Mother of the Nation' soubriquet.
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Police officers' erratic and often predatory actions as law enforcers is a problem that predates Duterte, and the president is astute enough to use this history of police corruption to his advantage.
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Police say nearly 150,000 drug suspects have been arrested and dozens of law enforcers have been killed in drug raids, proving the danger of battling illegal drugs, which remain a major problem.
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The state's ports and international bridges make it a hub for trade, but it also known as the birthplace of the Gulf drug cartel and its enforcers-turned-rival-gang the Zetas.
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So by default, people in disenfranchised communities don't even matter, but if they do escape in any way, they become a well that appointed enforcers can run dry before finding someone else.
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"Enforcers don't quite know yet what that (big data) means for antitrust or what to make of it," said Elai Katz, an antitrust lawyer with the law firm Cahill, Gordon & Reindell LLP.
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Antitrust enforcers could slap fines of up to 5 percent of Google's average daily worldwide turnover for failing to comply with its order but have not indicated they would take further action.
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Such sub-licensing deals typically involve very little in terms of upfront payments, industry participants say, with the patent enforcers providing their expertise in exchange for a cut on any deals reached.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. antitrust enforcers are dealing with a "tsunami" of high-value, complicated mergers that have stretched their resources, the heads of the two U.S. competition regulators told lawmakers on Wednesday.
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At the very least, Delrahim is expected to remain at DOJ through May, when the U.S. will host the International Competition Network, an annual gathering of competition enforcers from around the world.
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Of course, Barnaby was no stranger to altercations in his NHL career ... he was in dozens of on-ice fights and is known as one of the league's best all-time enforcers.
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Poll: U.S. state antitrust enforcers are expressing deep concerns that T-Mobile US' proposed takeover of Sprint could raise prices for consumers, signalling they might seek to thwart the deal, Bloomberg reported.
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He is also seeking to turn more local police and corrections officials into enforcers of immigration law, while threatening to withhold funding from jurisdictions that have sensibly refused to assume that role.
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The Aztecas are armed enforcers for the Juárez drug organization, and they have fought longstanding turf battles with the Mexicles in the border city of Ciudad Juárez, across from El Paso, Tex.
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The commission filed a lawsuit accusing the company of monopoly practices in the last days of the Obama administration, and the case has since exposed a rift between the two antitrust enforcers.
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The real action in any administration is executive in nature: knowing what regulatory buttons to push, which enforcers can really go for blood, who to put where, and how to manage them.
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"Today's action will help strengthen the hands of trade enforcers in both Peru and the United States to protect the forests from destruction and law-abiding companies from unfair trade," Wyden said.
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Professor Deer said that combating crime can be complicated because the jurisdictions of state and federal officials are sometimes limited, while tribal law enforcers often lack the resources to keep communities safe.
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Reports in both the Wall Street Journal and Reuters indicate that the deal is "meeting some resistance" from Department of Justice antitrust enforcers worried about the deal's impact on overall wireless competition.
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When an Army family encountered mice, cockroaches, leaks and mold in housing run by a New Jersey-based company at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, they could not turn to local health code enforcers.
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Targets also included "high-profile defenders, detractors and enforcers of the nuclear deal struck between Washington and Tehran, as well as Arab atomic scientists, Iranian civil society figures and D.C. think tank employees."
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In Ukraine, according to authorities there, Wagner soldiers trained and aided rebel groups and fought Ukrainian troops, while also acting as Moscow's enforcers, intimidating and assassinating rebel leaders who wouldn't fall into line.
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Law enforcers have successfully taken down an illegal counterfeit operation that was printing out 100 euro notes in Bulgaria; one which Europol describes as one of Europe's "most significant" operations in recent years.
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Unlike Sivas, some of the most successful private enforcers are law firms that make use of a provision in Prop 65 allowing California residents to file actions against companies for the public good.
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Late Sunday, law enforcers and protesters clashed, injuring more than 150 people as tear gas, freezing cold water and rubber bullets were used to disperse what authorities said was an aggressive a crowd.
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Our bipartisan bill will allow consumers to understand the true value of the data they are providing to the platforms, which will encourage competition and allow antitrust enforcers to identify potentially anticompetitive practices.
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The new DHS rules, by empowering immigration officials to remove virtually anyone in the country illegally while encouraging the help of local law enforcers, create the potential for a massive spike in deportations.
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The state's new privacy law will go into effect next year, making Mr. Becerra one of the top privacy enforcers in the United States given the absence of a comprehensive federal privacy law.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust enforcers have dropped an investigation into the kraft paper market, a year and a half after it launched dawn raids, Euromoney said in its interim report published last month.
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Trump has said the physical barrier is vital if U.S. law enforcers are to be successful stemming the flow of drugs and violent crime across the border — a message he amplified on Monday.
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The winner-take-most tendencies of digital markets merit a watchful eye from antitrust enforcers to ensure that incumbents do not tilt the playing field and avoid having to compete on the merits.
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The bipartisan probe is exploring whether antitrust laws need revising in order to reign in big data-hoarding firms and whether the administration's antitrust enforcers are doing enough to keep digital markets competitive.
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Guzman surrounded himself with ruthless guards and enforcers, reigning over a multibillion-dollar global drug empire that supplied much of the marijuana, cocaine and heroin peddled on the streets of the United States.
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Los Zetas has long been feared by Central American migrants traveling through Mexico, and was originally composed of a group of former Mexican elite forces that acted as enforcers for the Gulf Cartel.
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What's next: A new slate of FTC commissioners that were just sworn in last month gives experts hope that data-driven dominance will be a larger focus for regulatory enforcers at the FTC.
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The video denounced Christians and Sufi Muslims, and showed enforcers, wearing jackets identifying them as Sinai Province Hisba, burning confiscated cigarettes and drugs and destroying tombs and shrines, which they consider un-Islamic.
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The case was seen as a test of how far securities enforcers may go to police the murky world of "political intelligence," in which firms seek to gather and sell information for traders.
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Earlier this month, a source told Reuters that U.S. antitrust enforcers are in the early stages of reviewing the merger and have reached no conclusions on how many wireless carriers the country needs.
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Their removal was a gesture to a radically changed society, but it was also a recognition that there were not enough enforcers available to control a society that resents and rejects the rules.
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Along with the uniformed officers, masked, plainclothes Hamas enforcers armed with pistols, batons and wooden rods attacked the protesters, according to witnesses, and prevented journalists and human rights workers from documenting the events.
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The company is hoping that EU competition enforcers will take into account the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on businesses and jobs before making a decision, a source close to Fincantieri told Reuters.
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They try to rely on a bottom-up approach to social restrictions, hoping that the public will respond because it understands the risk, not because sinister enforcers will give them no other choice.
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For the most part, US antitrust enforcers have, over the last few decades, favored business practices that keep consumer prices low; companies like Amazon, with its low prices, are therefore hard to attack.
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BRUSSELS, Dec 5 (Reuters) - EU competition enforcers on Thursday approved a 3.6-billion-euro ($3.97 billion) rescue plan for ailing German lender NordLB, saying the recapitalisation plan did not involve any state aid.
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But officers said their work had become more political than ever, and they bristled at what they considered stereotypes of indiscriminate enforcers who want to sweep grandmothers off the street or separate families.
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"Once innovation has occurred, however, it would be a mistake for antitrust enforcers to limit the potential for consumer-enhancing innovation," Delrahim said in a speech at the American Bar Association's antitrust forum.
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As evidence emerged in the dying years of apartheid of the brutality of her Soweto enforcers, known as the "Mandela United Football Club", some South Africans questioned her 'Mother of the Nation' soubriquet.
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The 28-country European Union adopted the landmark General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) about a year ago, giving Europeans more control over their online information and privacy enforcers the power to impose hefty fines.
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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gives new powers to privacy enforcers, allowing them to levy fines of up to 4 percent of global revenue or 20 million euros ($23 million), whichever is higher.
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All four are fighting to lower prices and provide better technology, with billions now being pumped into AI. If competitors fail to halt Amazon's whirl of activities, antitrust enforcers might yet do so instead.
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The division, along with antitrust enforcers in other countries, has had a long-running criminal probe into price-fixing in the auto parts industry that has led to dozens of companies paying criminal fines.
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There are multiple tales of drug debt–related kidnapping, sexual violence, and torture, sometimes carried out by specialist drug debt enforcers, with the level of sadism usually rising with the amount of money owed.
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An antitrust prosecution would be a first for this generation of tech companies, which have benefited from enforcers' practice of identifying market dominance by looking for places where it results in higher consumer prices.
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"When the duty of the law enforcers is to protect us, they are the ones who took part in the killing," Attorney General Mahbubey Alam told reporters after the verdict, calling it a "milestone".
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Guzman surrounded himself with ruthless guards and enforcers and reigned over a multibillion-dollar global drug empire that supplied much of the marijuana, cocaine and heroin peddled on the streets of the United States.
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The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Makan Delrahim, a corporate lawyer — who has previously represented tech giants like AT&T, Google and Qualcomm — to serve as one of the Trump administration's top antitrust enforcers.
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Creating financial incentives for cities to increase their detention numbers – almost certainly through widespread racial profiling – and deputizing local law enforcement to act as federal enforcers to make this happen, only makes things worse.
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There is, of course, an egregious false equivalence between the two cases: One man is a pure victim, while the others were killers who contrived to die at the hands of French law enforcers.
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Prosecutors and other law enforcers, as well as Russia's Sports Ministry and the Russian Olympic Committee, will check information on doping use by Russian sportspeople during the Beijing, London and Sochi games, Kurennoi said.
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The Flyers' stars of the mid-1970s included center Bobby Clarke, left wing Bill Barber and goaltender Bernie Parent, all Hall of Famers, as well as Dave Schultz, one of the sport's notorious enforcers.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. antitrust enforcers filed a complaint against 1-800 Contacts on Monday, alleging that the online contact lens seller reached agreements with 14 rivals which would hamper consumers seeking to compare prices.
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WASHINGTON, March 9 (Reuters) - U.S. antitrust enforcers are dealing with a "tsunami" of high-value, complicated mergers that have stretched their resources, the heads of the two U.S. competition regulators told lawmakers on Wednesday.
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It's unclear if Mr. Trump can do much to get antitrust enforcers at the Federal Trade Commission or Justice Department, which are supposed to keep politics out of competition cases, to act against Amazon.
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Horror stories at the hands of enforcers from the Taliban's Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice are a staple for any educated Afghan woman over age 25 or so.
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Commonplace hockey myths suggests NHL owners don't make much money off the game or that enforcers are necessary to police on-ice behaviour, exactly the kind of myths that are reinforced in hockey movies.
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Washington (CNN)Senate lawmakers reached a last-minute deal on Thursday to save a sweeping tool that has helped drug enforcers crack down on fentanyl as the synthetic opioid ravages communities across the country.
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High-ranking antitrust enforcers, speaking at an influential D.C. legal forum, zeroed in on big tech companies' potential for anticompetitive behavior but also signaled they may take a broader approach to policing the industry.
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BRUSSELS, Feb 28 (Reuters) - EU competition enforcers opened on Friday an investigation spurred by complaints over a 400-million-euro ($434.7 million) loan due to be granted by Italy to its struggling carrier Alitalia.
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Forman gives the example of Sandra Dozier, who was stopped by Ceasefire enforcers in 2000 and lost a good job at FedEx because they found two small bags of pot in her glove box.
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In a chat with POLITICO, incoming European Data Protection Supervisor Wojciech Wiewiórowski — who's in charge of policing EU institutions — sent a clear signal that privacy regulators wanted antitrust enforcers to stay on their patch.
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Nominating Trump wasn't as suicidal as it seemed only because he had the political cunning to run against the party's ideological enforcers, while promising working-class voters not just cultural acknowledgment but material support.
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The judge also dismissed claims that Goldman Sachs Group Inc and HSBC Holdings Plc violated the U.S. antitrust law known as the Sherman Act, saying the plaintiffs were not "efficient enforcers" of that law.
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The most important question the House should ask on Thursday is how they can regulate the drug market wisely and provide the FDA and other enforcers the tools they need to punish bad actors.
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The consumer group SumOfUs, for instance, is targeting Visa with a petition drive designed to push the credit-card giant to flag "excessive, erratic gun and ammo purchases" and report them to law enforcers.
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While vengeful lovers, demented blackmailers and unscrupulous abortionists may represent universal types, the Yiddish press also gleefully reported on specifically Jewish affairs — like the pitched battles between Jewish freethinkers and so-called Sabbath enforcers.
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Bangladesh's law enforcers rescued at least 250 Rohingya from traffickers between January and June this year, according to the Ministry of Home Affairs, which did not publish data for the same period a year ago.
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Kerr suggested that parking enforcers could avoid violating the Fourth Amendment by simply taking a photo of the car or the close-up of the tire to mark the car's placement, instead of chalking it.
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"Of course Trump's enforcers will be out in strength to do his bidding on the committee prior to 2020, but it isn't deterring any planning," said one Republican who has ties to stop-Trump efforts.
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He argues against a regulatory approach — somewhat ironically, given his staunch support of net neutrality — and instead says antitrust enforcers need to go back to using a competition standard to be true trust-busting referees.
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The fine, equivalent to 3 percent of Alphabet's turnover, is the biggest regulatory setback for Google, which settled with U.S. enforcers in 2013 without a penalty after agreeing to change some of its search practices.
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The organization said in a report based on a January field trip that people in Crimea complained of unwarranted house searches, excessive use of force by law enforcers, threats of abduction and disappearances of critics.
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According to the New York Times, Trump vows to publicize crimes by immigrants, enlist local police officers as enforcers, strip immigrants of privacy rights, erect new detention facilities; discourage asylum seekers, and speed up deportations.
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"Enforcers may have to learn to think more as venture capitalists do and understand their analytics in order to better identify harms," wrote economist Fiona Scott Morton in a paper about digital platforms last month.
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Perhaps, like several of the dead enforcers and roughly 100 former N.F.L. players, one day he will be found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the degenerative brain disease caused by repeated blows to the head.
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There are a lot of concerns from defense attorneys and from antitrust enforcers who do not want to be aggressive that when you interfere with dynamic markets, you invariably produce bad outcomes and undercut innovation.
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To the founding fathers and the enforcers of Jim Crow, and to their silent partners in the North, black women were meant for the field or the kitchen, or for use as they saw fit.
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But the irony now is that, while Ms. Pelosi is a down-the-line progressive, she is hardly representative of the Sanders left on economic issues, or of the interest-group enforcers of cultural liberalism.
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She had no license, so within days she was transferred to federal immigration custody under a program known as 287(g), which lets local officials act as immigration-law enforcers and cooperate with deportation authorities.
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As the two went head-to-head during one of the last golden ages for N.H.L. enforcers, Domi absorbed a couple of right hands to the head before making a mocking pouty face at Chychrun.
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On one hand, the corruption of drug-law enforcers seems almost unavoidable as long as drugs continue to garner generous black-market premiums, keeping profit margins high in a futile campaign that's failed to reduce use.
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The deal made by Corning International Kabushiki Kaisha (CIKK) is the latest in a long list of settlements in a years-long probe by the Justice Department and antitrust enforcers internationally in the auto parts industry.
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Due to the war, it was important to conserve materials for the war effort, and law enforcers believed that longer daytime hours would limit the number of tasks that would need to be completed at night.
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The European Commission has been seeking feedback from retailers and manufacturers since September last year, one of several competition enforcers taking a deeper look into Amazon's business practices amidst calls by some for its break-up.
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TOKYO – A survey of women working for Japanese newspapers and TV networks has found 156 cases of alleged sexual misconduct reported by 35 women, about one-third of which involved lawmakers, government officials and law enforcers.
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Meanwhile governments, which long played no part in the internet, have established power over large parts of the network, often using big internet firms as willing enforcers, for instance by getting them to block unwelcome content.
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Enforcers have since then been deluged by complaints about violations and queries for clarification, with France and Italy alone reporting a 53 percent jump in complaints from last year, European Data Protection Supervisor Giovanni Buttarelli said.
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One of Koza Ipek's television stations, already confined to the internet after Turkish satellite carriers were asked to drop its broadcasts, showed live footage of law enforcers invading its Istanbul headquarters before abruptly going off air.
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The comments by Chief Competition Economist Tommaso Valletti underline current unease among antitrust enforcers on both sides of the Atlantic about whether they have gone too far in allowing a recent wave of mergers and acquisitions.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers pressed top U.S. antitrust enforcers on their probes of tech giants Alphabet's Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple on Wednesday, with the chair of a House subcommittee expressing frustration over the companies' continued acquisitions.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers pressed top U.S. antitrust enforcers on their probes of tech giants Alphabet's Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple on Wednesday, with the chair of a House subcommittee expressing frustration over the companies' continued acquisitions.
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Anti-slavery enforcers must use police-style powers granted last year to tackle all forms of workplace exploitation, and the government should chase more prosecutions of unscrupulous employers, said the Director of Labor Market Enforcement (LME).
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It would be tempting to reduce this to a simple story of good versus evil, with the villain — whether that means enforcers like Mr. Duterte or the criminal elements they claim to be expunging — solely responsible.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. judge who stopped Staples Inc's proposed merger with Office Depot Inc last week agreed with antitrust enforcers that the deal would have meant higher prices for big business customers and that Amazon.
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After three N.H.L. enforcers died between May and August 2011 — all either by suicide or accidentally while struggling with personal problems — league officials contemplated in a series of emails whether to eliminate fighting from the league.
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The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and the clerical establishment under the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are the enforcers of political repression as well as the beneficiaries of an economy that has underperformed for everyone else.
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"Other than the massive trusts of the late 1900s, I don't think antitrust enforcers have had to deal with the kind of strategic motivation for M&A that the tech platforms appear to have," she said.
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Will the president be successful in his ambitions to publicize crimes by immigrants; enlist local police officers as enforcers; strip immigrants of privacy rights; erect new detention facilities; discourage asylum seekers; and, ultimately, speed up deportations?
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In the years leading up to 2008, when Americans were unaware of the coming economic crisis, a small band of state AGs, mostly Democratic, brought major actions against predatory lenders when federal enforcers refused to act.
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The Justice Department's antitrust investigation into four automakers who agreed to abide by stricter emission standards being rolled out in California is reviving concerns that the Trump administration is weaponizing its competition enforcers against political rivals.
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Such a massive deal has the potential to invite scrutiny from regulators, but Tan said in a letter to Qualcomm that he was confident that the transaction would not raise any red flags for antitrust enforcers.
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"It's just like any other business in the world," said Caltagirone, who set up the Global Emancipation Network (GEN) with his wife, Sherrie, two years ago, to analyze data to help law enforcers counter human trafficking.
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When asked about the prospect of breaking up companies like Facebook or Amazon, he tends to deflect by stressing the importance of providing more resources to enforcers at the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission.
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In itself, the Oakley debacle was enough to raise suspicions that the Garden had surrendered to an old N.B.A. racial stereotype — the angry, scary thug (as opposed to the notion that hockey's brawlers are honorable enforcers).
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He said that the ways of federal corruption prosecutions are mysterious and hard to predict — "It's a mixed bag," he said — with much depending on whether the Justice Department's tax enforcers are involved from the start.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tronox Ltd has reached a settlement with U.S. antitrust enforcers that will allow it to move forward with its purchase of much of Cristal's titanium dioxide business, the Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday.
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The Federal Trade Commission announced Tuesday it was launching a research study into five tech firms to examine past acquisitions that were not required to be reported to federal enforcers under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act.
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"I don't think big is necessarily bad, but I think a lot of people wonder how such huge behemoths that now exist in Silicon Valley have taken shape under the nose of the antitrust enforcers," Barr said.
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And thanks to the draconian nature of the Hays code and its enforcers (collectively working as the precursor to the frequently as awful MPAA) there was a broad swath of subject matter the big studios wouldn't touch.
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Katz said that antitrust enforcers would look at how much data was involved, whether it was available from other companies and whether access was a competitive issue before deciding whether it is worth addressing in the merger.
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The ruling by the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) could also provide more clarity on whether rebates are anti-competitive by nature or whether enforcers need to prove the anti-competitive effect.
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"I don't think big is necessarily bad but I think a lot of people wonder how such huge behemoths that now exist in Silicon Valley have taken shape under the nose of the antitrust enforcers," he said.
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The probe was announced last month with the goal of examining the impact that the industry's rise has had on the economy and consumers and whether the nation's antitrust enforcers should have done something to stop it.
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But slowly the scourge of modern slavery is driving action; from new laws to voices speaking up for trafficking survivors, from law enforcers identifying labour trafficking as a major challenge to companies focusing on supply chain slavery.
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"I would caution that enforcers need to be very vigilant to make sure that Apple is not tipping the scales in its favor," Sally Hubbard, director of enforcement strategy at the Open Markets Institute, told The Hill.
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One current senior official at the CFDA, who declined to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the media, told Reuters some areas like drug supervision and front line enforcers were particularly hard hit.
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A group of Democratic senators is demanding answers from the government's antitrust enforcers about their oversight of the nation's tech giants after a string of media reports alluded to investigations into companies like Google and Amazon. Sen.
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The Texas tragedy put the lawmakers in the delicate spot of condemning police violence against blacks just hours after a gunman killed five law enforcers, and injured another seven, during an anti-police-violence protest in Dallas.
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The trouble is that courts and the antitrust agencies have subverted these laws by making enforcement complicated, and the main enforcers—the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division—frequently refuse to bring cases.
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In contrast, 245 lawmakers openly oppose the idea, 303 are deeply sceptical and a further 94 government ministers and whips, or parliamentary enforcers, would be required to vote in line with the government's position against another referendum.
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Yes, but: Delrahim did say he thought that the ruling could limit antitrust enforcers' ability to take on Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb, but would not protect the companies in the case of criminal behavior, like price fixing.
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The resumption of executions means "that the government has ignored that there is something seriously wrong with our judiciary and law enforcers," said Robertus Robet, a lecturer and researcher at the State University of Jakarta's sociology department.
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But everywhere else, from the talk radio dial to the halls of Congress to Fox News, Trump's assault revealed that the party's would-be statesmen were mostly hollow men and its enforcers were mostly ratings-hungry cynics.
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For athletes inclined to cheat with performance-enhancing drugs, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented an extraordinary opportunity: Enforcers for the time being are not going to knock on their doors demanding a urine or blood sample.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - A group of unions and consumer groups wrote to U.S. antitrust enforcers on Tuesday to oppose a proposed remedy that could lead to U.S. approval for AbbVie Inc's planned purchase of Allergan Plc.
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In contrast, 245 lawmakers openly oppose the idea, 303 are deeply skeptical and a further 94 government ministers and whips, or parliamentary enforcers, would be required to vote in line with the government's position against another referendum.
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T-Mobile has a reputation for aggressively seeking to cut prices and improve service to woo customers away from market leaders Verizon Communications Inc and AT&T Inc, and antitrust enforcers may want to preserve that dynamic.
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To save Palau's fish, and the world's, the law and its enforcers need to bring an entire industrial system to heel: a mission that requires a level of international cooperation and political will that has yet to materialize.
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WASHINGTON, April 10 (Reuters) - Tronox Ltd has reached a settlement with U.S. antitrust enforcers that will allow it to move forward with its purchase of much of Cristal's titanium dioxide business, the Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday.
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MANILA (Reuters) - The head of a Philippine online news site battling revocation of its license for violation of ownership conditions on Thursday said law enforcers should drop a complaint of cyber libel against her, describing it as "baseless".
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ALASTAIR CAMERONDirectorScotland In UnionGlasgow The left-wing student enforcers of speech at Reed College ("Blue on blue", September 9th) bring to mind the red guards of the Cultural Revolution, who humiliated and intimidated faculty and administration with impunity.
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The formation of a large group to scrutinize Aetna Inc's plan to buy Humana Inc and Anthem Inc's bid for Cigna Corp complicate what is already expected to be a tough and lengthy review by federal antitrust enforcers.
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Until recently, women had largely worked in a variety of functions, notably as the implacable enforcers of the social order, patrolling the streets as the morality police, punishing other women who violated rules on clothing and the like.
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Abu Bakar Siddique, an official with the Ministry of Home Affairs, said proposed anti-trafficking measures included setting up a center for law enforcers within the refugee camps, and building a fence and watchtowers to protect the Rohingya.
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ASEAN SOGIE Caucus, a Manila-based human rights group, voiced concerns that the new penal code had already "sent a chilling effect to LGBTIQ persons as it made them vulnerable to harassment, intimidation and surveillance by law enforcers".
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He added that it would be difficult, though not impossible, for Aetna to wait for Trump's new antitrust enforcers to be named and then strike a settlement to save the merger, perhaps by offering to divest more assets.
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In the realms of health, immigration, and foreign policy, Trump has managed to leave stakeholders on all sides of issues—consumers, providers, civilians, enforcers, diplomats, and entire countries—completely befuddled in ways that threaten to cause great harm.
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WASHINGTON, Oct 31 (Reuters) - U.S. antitrust enforcers are probing Altria Group Inc for potentially exerting influence over vaping maker Juul Labs Inc before winning approval for a big share buy, Altria said in a government filing on Thursday.
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BRUSSELS, Oct 13 (Reuters) - EU antitrust enforcers approved on Friday Valeo's 819.3-million-euro ($968.8 million) bid for German clutch manufacturer FTE Automotive after the French car parts supplier agreed to sell a unit to an Italian rival.
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The comments by European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager underline the unease among policy enforcers about technologically-advanced tools such as computer algorithms that make it easier for companies to collude without any formal agreement or even human interaction.
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BRUSSELS, April 4 (Reuters) - French, German and Italian groups urged their national antitrust enforcers on Tuesday to look into alleged anti-competitive practices of McDonald's , putting the U.S. fast-food chain at risk of multiple investigations in Europe.
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"The use of unnecessary force or wanton violence is not justified when the fulfillment of their duty as law enforcers can be effected otherwise," the judge in the case, Rodolfo Azucena Jr., said in his ruling on Thursday.
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A few weeks later, The Guardian ran an editorial suggesting that Ms. Swift, with her feud-prone ways (and social media army of rabid fan enforcers), was "an envoy for Trump's values," if not necessarily a Trump supporter.
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"The legislation ... introduced today would be a great first step to try to create new balances in antitrust enforcement, create new streamlined opportunities for enforcers to show their faces," said Gene Kimmelman, senior adviser at nonprofit Public Knowledge.
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"The legislation ... introduced today would be a great first step to try to create new balances in antitrust enforcement, create new streamlined opportunities for enforcers to show their faces," said Gene Kimmelman, senior adviser at nonprofit Public Knowledge.
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The federal government's current emphasis on deporting undocumented immigrants — even those facing low-level charges — has, in effect, turned courthouses in New York State into arenas where practitioners of criminal law face off against enforcers of immigration law.
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The country's top antitrust enforcers on Friday argued in favor of the $85033 billion merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, arguing the states attempting to block the enormous telecom deal could wind up harming customers across the country.
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There was no agenda, and from the beginning, the conversation zeroed in on the sector and more specifically about whether as enforcers, regulators, federal and state agencies had some basis to do a closer look at what's going on.
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The first was a 7.5-hour marathon that began as a biography O.J. Simpson, then grew into a history of Los Angeles, racial discrimination in the United States, and the policing of largely black communities by white law-enforcers.
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She has already set loose her party enforcers known as "whips" who will use their powers of persuasion to ensure she has as much backing as possible in the make-or-break vote, likely in the next few weeks.
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Unlike Mr. Sorokin's perhaps best-known book, "Day of the Oprichnik" – which imagined a futuristic Russia ruled by a latter-day czar and his sinister enforcers — "The Blizzard" does not provide a satirical look at Vladimir V. Putin's Russia.
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EU competition enforcers said interim measures were warranted because of Broadcom's likely dominance in the TV and modem chipset markets and deals between the company and seven major customers that resulted in the latter buying chips only from Broadcom.
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In Puerto Rico's Debt Crisis, an Absence of Enforcers | With high unemployment and rising departures by residents, Puerto Rico's decision to skip $37 million of interest and principal payments is probably only the beginning, Kevin Allison writes in Breakingviews.
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In those cases, What Not to Wear was one of the cruelest enforcers of rigidly held norms on TV. Most of us don't deck ourselves in wardrobes that would get us onto an episode of What Not to Wear.
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And it made sense that Scott's going to be on house arrest, and Hank and Hope are going to be pissed at Scott Lang, and also pissed off because the enforcers of the Sokovia Accord are now onto them.
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Just as on Earth, states will always have a role as, among other things, protectors of their national satellite infrastructure and as the enforcers of the laws they have put in place to govern the commercial exploitation of space.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — A former South Carolina sheriff's deputy will face no charges for tossing a student across a classroom, a prosecutor announced Friday in a case that focused attention on the consequences of bringing law enforcers into classroom confrontations.
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On Monday, the Chinese government and Communist Party also jointly issued broad guidelines for reforming the legal profession, in a document that stressed demands for lawyers to be both honest professionals and loyal enforcers of the Communist Party's policies.
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"But the empty sales pitch is all the more hollow if the lead sale salesman Legere himself never planned to stick around and deliver on what he tried to sell to lawmakers, FCC commissioners, and antitrust enforcers," he added.
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Robert Bork and judges, scholars, and regulators working in his intellectual tradition argued that the point of antitrust policy was to "protect competition, not competitors," and alleged that earlier cohorts of antitrust enforcers had been overly skeptical of mergers.
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The Love Guru: (I will not be sharing any thoughts about this alleged film, thank you for your understanding.) Goon 2: The Last of the Enforcers: No thanks to the faux-Sportscenter panel of James Duthie and T.J. Miller.
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Suggesting more than it can show, "The Black Cat" somehow eluded the moral enforcers of the Production Code despite its allusions to incest, necrophilia and human sacrifice, not to mention a black Mass staged beneath a stylized crooked cross.
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Scott Pruitt resigned from his post as administrator of the EPA on Thursday, finally bowing to a torrent of spending, travel and secrecy scandals that ended his run as one of President Donald Trump's most aggressive anti-regulation enforcers.
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In the last couple of decades the managers of power in Nigeria's "democratic" system have learned not only to secure approval for their political preferences but also to plant their enforcers in key positions before formally quitting the scene.
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Executives behind the tech companies on which the illegal images circulate are aware of the massive volume of criminal evidence their platforms help traffic, and Facebook Messenger was the target of most reports from overworked law enforcers last year.
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DHS is in the process of pilot testing an Entry-Exit system at air and land ports that will ensure that each future visitor is properly documented accordingly and if they decide to stay are known to law enforcers.
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"It is a killer acquisition, not a joint venture," Valporto said in an interview late Wednesday, referring to deals where companies buy smaller rivals to shut them down, an issue troubling competition enforcers on both sides of the Atlantic.
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The burden is on enforcers to prove that plants were illegally harvested, and that is not easy because there is no way to distinguish a plant pilfered from the wild from one legally raised in a greenhouse, he said.
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Last week, the president replaced the National Police force with the military as the primary enforcers of his campaign after an embarrassing scandal emerged when it was discovered that it was police officers who killed the South Korean businessman.
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The document also said competition enforcers were considering regulating the behaviour of dominant companies as a preventive measure, a move that would address concerns that regulatory actions sometimes come too late to repair the harm suffered by smaller rivals.
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Antitrust enforcers in the Justice Department have urged a judge to dismiss claims by Apple Inc and Intel Corp that a SoftBank Group Corp subsidiary violated competition laws by stockpiling patents and demanding billions of dollars in licensing fees.
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Along the way, it has made enemies in both the tech world, who have complained to law enforcers about its market dominance, and in Washington, where lawmakers have complained about issues from its alleged political bias to its plans for China.
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He had 355 fights across his junior and professional careers, an extremely high number but one smaller than that held by many LNAH enforcers, who are fighting for far less money and with no hope of reaching higher professional levels.
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Celebration and retaliation after the fall Najib recalled how 15 years ago residents forced one of the Taliban's most notorious religious police enforcers to dance for hours in a public square to music that had been banned by the former regime.
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Here's a breakdown of each set, along with the description provided by Lego and their retail cost: [gallery ids="21378217,275155"] 279.99 – Imperial Death Trooper™ Elite soldiers of the Imperial Intelligence, Death Troopers are the Empire's most imposing enforcers and bodyguards!
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Peterson said talks among the federal and state law enforcers were "at the initial stage," and had been triggered by a presentation about collection of consumer data which was given at a June meeting of the National Association of Attorneys General.
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U.S. consumers already pay some of the highest prices in the developed world for wireless service, thanks in large part to revolving door regulators and lax antitrust enforcers that repeatedly refuse to hold the industry accountable for market failure, Sohn said.
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"I don't think big is necessarily bad, but I think a lot of people wonder how such huge behemoths that now exist in Silicon Valley have taken shape under the nose of the antitrust enforcers," Barr said during his confirmation hearing.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An appeals court sided on Monday with U.S. antitrust enforcers trying to stop a merger of two Chicago hospital systems, handing the government a victory in its effort to block deals that it believes will lead to higher prices.
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Rather than looking at the market as a whole, antitrust enforcers will look at segments, like Spanish I, and demand asset sales if the deal would leave a segment with too few competitors, said Seth Bloom of Bloom Strategic Counsel.
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And if they will offer a violent resistance, and thereby placing the lives of the law enforcers and the military whom I would task for a job to do, I will simply say, 'Kill them all and end the problem.
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SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. truth-in-advertising enforcers have sent letters to supermodel Naomi Campbell, actresses Lindsay Lohan and Vanessa Hudgens and other celebrities asking whether they have paid deals to endorse products on the photo-sharing app Instagram.
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Bloomberg reported Thursday that EU antitrust enforcers have sent questionnaires to vendors that sell on Amazon's platform asking if the company has been selling products "identical or very similar" to their own and whether they've been hurt by such practices.
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AT&T Chief Executive Randall Stephenson said on Monday he expects government clearances for the deal because it is a so-called vertical integration that will not eliminate a competitor, a situation that is viewed more favorably by antitrust enforcers.
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Life in a country where the government's legitimacy rested largely on its custodianship of the holiest mosques in Islam was, when not brutal, brutally boring, and successive rulers had been unwilling or unable to challenge these enforcers of Wahhabi morality.
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Christina Specos, a former strength and conditioning coach at Purdue, said she was aware of plenty of instances where strength coaches had been required to dole out punishment to players who had misbehaved, in effect serving as the head coach's enforcers.
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Along the way, it has made enemies in the tech world, who have complained to law enforcers about its market dominance, and also in Washington, where lawmakers have complained about issues from its alleged political bias to its plans for China.
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The current FTC official told POLITICO that competition enforcers rarely travel outside Washington to hear from industry participants and the task force's participation in the Palo Alto antitrust conference offered an opportunity to take such meetings to the nation's technology capital.
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In the US in recent decades, regulators, enforcers, and the courts have taken a laxer attitude toward antitrust, which has resulted in more mergers, or companies growing to the point that it's hard for rivals to stay in the game.
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Advocates point to the 2012 Arizona case, which challenged Arizona's law empowering local law enforcers to arrest people based on suspicions that they were in the country illegally, as the precedent they're hoping the court will adopt four years later.
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While antitrust experts said they did not expect the proposed merger to be stopped by U.S. antitrust enforcers on the basis of existing law around anti-competitive practices, the deal will be closely scrutinized, given bipartisan misgivings about big tech companies.
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The drug empire generated tens of millions of dollars, which Barrera laundered, and protected by dozens of armed guards and enforcers, many of whom at his direction threatened or killed individuals who owed money or posed a threat, prosecutors said.
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Mr. Trump has also directed the Department of Homeland Security to publicize crimes by undocumented immigrants, strip such immigrants of privacy protections, enlist local police officers as enforcers, build new detention facilities, discourage asylum seekers and, ultimately, speed up deportations.
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The problem is that in the Slants' case, the trademark office has come to look a bit like the popular image of the T.S.A.: a bureaucracy of bored enforcers just trying to churn through the queue and get through the day.
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But after Mr. Chávez died in 2013 and Venezuela's economy began to spiral downward, some of his loyal street enforcers increasingly turned to crime, breaking with the government and joining a constellation of armed groups that kidnap, steal and kill.
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EU antitrust enforcers in their July decision said Google's anti-competitive behaviour, which dated to 2011, included forcing smartphone makers to pre-install Google Search and its Chrome browser together with its Google Play app store on their Android devices.
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Google (GOOGL) today will seek to overturn the first of three hefty EU antitrust fines at Europe's second-highest court in a landmark case that could determine how EU enforcers take on U.S. tech giants for abuse of market power.
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On Thursday, while Mr. Guaidó was speaking to a crowd at the Central University of Venezuela, members of the Special Actions Force, or FAES, a national police unit known for being Mr. Maduro's enforcers, went to his home, he said.
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He was forced to apologize after insulting three former N.H.L. enforcers by calling them "pukes," and he fueled outrage across Canada, particularly in Quebec, by railing against "Europeans and French guys" who wear visors on their helmets to protect their faces.
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HR: On the regulation front, the state attorney's general around the country have increasing resources in some of these big states, and you're right, we haven't talked about them as either enforcers or prosecutors yet, but they'll be very active.
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Police chiefs in major cities, in particular, are not likely to be avid immigration enforcers -- some are already on record disputing this approach -- and the Supreme Court's federalism doctrines will largely prevent DHS or Congress from requiring that localities assist federal enforcement efforts.
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U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero's ruling showed the headwinds that federal and state enforcers will face if they mount a serious effort to block future Silicon Valley acquisitions — let alone bust up years-old deals, as politicians like Elizabeth Warren have advocated.
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"I question how that's even remotely possible ... with a country like Iran where the IRGC is so endemic within the economy but also hidden in many different respects," said Mandelker, one of the chief architects and enforcers of U.S. sanctions against Iran.
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LONDON (Reuters) - One of Prime Minister Theresa May's chief party enforcers listened to the concerns of eurosceptics in the governing Conservative Party and Northern Irish DUP on Wednesday, part of a charm offensive to try to win the Brexit vote next week.
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Antitrust enforcers usually prefer that companies who want to merge solve any antitrust problems by selling an asset, like a brewery or a factory, rather than have a behavioral condition on a deal, like requiring licensing data, which is harder to enforce.
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According to interviews with regional law enforcers from eight countries, as well as a review of law enforcement documents, the syndicate produces vast quantities of high-grade methamphetamine in Myanmar and trafficks the drug to countries stretching from Japan to New Zealand.
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Many of these lawmakers disagree with the president-elect on policy issues—trade, infrastructure, Russia, even his reluctance to release his tax returns—but they're living in fear of Trump's Twitter following and loyal media enforcers like Sean Hannity and Breitbart News.
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"The gangs are muscle, they use them as sicarios or enforcers, mostly in the urban areas where the gangs have most presence," said Hector Silva Ávalos, a senior investigator at InSight Crime, a think tank focused on organized crime in the Americas.
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"Unlike antitrust enforcers around the world who secured meaningful concessions from the merging parties to protect competition and the interests of workers and consumers, DOJ appears to have rolled over for big corporate interests," Teamsters President James Hoffa said in a statement.
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In recent years, critics like antitrust scholar Lina Khan and populist agitators like the Open Markets Institute have raised public awareness about this so-called consumer welfare standard—offering citizens some insight into why enforcers have viewed Silicon Valley differently than Standard Oil.
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"The efforts of the Justice Department enforcers who brought a difficult but worthwhile case in the face of criticism are worthy of praise, but now many are wondering why they were allowed to bring the case in the first place," the lawmakers wrote.
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Squads of enforcers ensured strict Sharia observance at the point of AK-47s; citizens who wore their pants too short, or allowed their cellphones to ring with Western tunes, or otherwise violated the minutiae of strict Islamism were liable to thrashing or worse.
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And the new enforcers, being highly-competent antitrust-gurus, all of them, should be encouraged to put their skills to good use in prosecuting patent abuse to the fullest extent of the law, for the health and well-being of all Americans.
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"Even if restricted to antiques and use in hospitals, this trade would increase confusion by consumers and law enforcers as to which products are and are not legal, and would likely expand the markets for other tiger and rhino products," WWF said.
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Fresh out of prison, she is forced back into doing what she does best, and a cast of morally ambivalent, dangerous and eccentric criminals, from budding femme fatales to compromised law enforcers, are determined to exploit her skills for their own ends.
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On the issue of companies buying smaller rivals to shut them down, known as killer acquisitions, the academics suggested that enforcers should strengthen and overhaul their arguments why some companies acquiring another in a different but closely related market could harm competition.
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Anslinger's campaign wouldn't have been possible without the help of the yellow journalism of his day, and Berenson has similarly relied on the megaphone of social media and the press to worm his message into the ears of actual rule creators and enforcers.
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The ripples of a Monday Supreme Court ruling in favor of American Express could be felt on the West Coast, with some arguing it would make it harder for antitrust enforcers to take on big online platforms like Google, Facebook and Amazon.
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Germany's euro partners are being very discreet about Berlin's "machtkampf" (struggle for power), although one could have expected some of them to bubble with schadenfreude at the travails of their ever-ready lecturers and enforcers on matters of economic and political virtue.
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The confrontation has distilled two concerns close to the heart of many Chinese people: the crude, sometimes brutal, behavior of police officers and other street-level law enforcers; and the treatment of children in a society where many parents have only one child.
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"If such law enforcers wish to testify, then the Catholic Church will see to it that they are in no way induced to speak, to disclose nor to make allegations by any member of the clergy or the hierarchy," the archbishop wrote.
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LONDON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Nicholas Soames, the grandson of Britain's World War Two leader Winston Churchill, said he would vote against Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Brexit on Tuesday, a step that enforcers have warned would lead to expulsion from the Conservative Party.
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BURAIDA, Saudi Arabia — For decades, Saudi Arabia's religious establishment wielded tremendous power, with bearded enforcers policing public behavior, prominent sheikhs defining right and wrong, and religious associations using the kingdom's oil wealth to promote their intolerant interpretation of Islam around the world.
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"It feels a little lonely, I can tell you," said Jeff Flake, a former Republican senator from Arizona who has been sharply critical of Mr. Trump, when asked what it feels like to face the wrath of the party's pro-Trump enforcers.
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It started as an attempt by soldiers and other armed law enforcers to arrest a prized target: Ovidio Guzmán López, whose father, Joaquín (aka "El Chapo"), once ran the Sinaloa drug gang and is serving a life sentence in an American prison.
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" Antitrust enforcers might also decide that competitors like Kavesh are entitled to a level playing field—which may be why Amazon claims that it "generally does not distinguish the treatment of brands based on the selling model or brand owner in Amazon's store.
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SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON, Sept 13 (Reuters) - U.S. truth-in-advertising enforcers have sent letters to supermodel Naomi Campbell, actresses Lindsay Lohan and Vanessa Hudgens and other celebrities asking whether they have paid deals to endorse products on the photo-sharing app Instagram.
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"Any one city could say that we're not going to turn our police forces into immigration enforcers," Mr. de Blasio said in an interview, referring to what could be the practical result of statements by Mr. Trump vowing to deport undocumented immigrants.
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The House lawmaker leading a sweeping investigation into tech competition on Wednesday floated the prospect of preventing major Silicon Valley firms from making acquisitions until the federal government's top two antitrust enforcers are finished with their own probes into the sector. Rep.
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The mogul and Facebook CEO predicted during an open meeting with employees in July that the social media company would best a Warren administration in court if the 2020 presidential hopeful follows through on her pledge to unleash antitrust enforcers against the company.
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In response to these accusations that undermine their credibility as nonpartisan enforcers of the law and freezing them out of the process, the FBI and the Justice Department took the extraordinary step of publicly rebuking the House Intelligence Committee the last two weeks.
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Moreover, the question of his legacy has been complicated in recent years by the capture of three of his sons — Vicente, Serafín and Ismael — and a wave of assassinations and arrests targeting the Ántrax hit squad, which served as his children's bodyguards and enforcers.
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Immigration judges have also been instructed to speed up their processes, which advocates say could lead to more deportations and has immigration judges worried that they will not have the time to be neutral arbiters and will instead become enforcers of Trump's strict immigration policies.
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The Steele report is not the FBI's only source for this account of Lesin's death: Three other people, acting independently from Steele, said they also told the FBI that Lesin had been bludgeoned to death by enforcers working for the same oligarch named by Steele.
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"The suggestion is that perhaps enforcers should broaden the consumer welfare lens to think about effects on democracy or expression," Delrahim said, paraphrasing an argument made by those who want to see Facebook and Google's grip on the online advertising markets and news distribution moderated.
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Maurice Stucke, formerly in the Justice Department now with the Konkurrenz Group, called it highly unlikely that Obama administration antitrust enforcers, who have knocked down a long list of big mergers in concentrated industries this year, would make the final decision on Bayer-Monsanto.
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Poll: U.S. antitrust enforcers are in the early stages of reviewing T-Mobile US Inc's plan to buy Sprint Corp for $26 billion, and have reached no conclusions on how many wireless carriers the country needs, according to a source familiar with the situation.
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Amazon, Google, and Facebook are among U.S. tech giants which have triggered complaints from rivals and academics, prompting antitrust enforcers around the world to look at how they use data to boost their market power, which has also led to calls for their break-up.
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Or for Investigations Committee Chief Alexander Bastrykin, one of the Kremlin's main political enforcers, the really valuable thing is not money (he seems to be of relatively moderate means) but rather success in his regular political struggles with his rivals, especially Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin, one of the most aggressive U.S. securities law enforcers, next month will face his first primary challenge in over a decade from a rival who claims Galvin has neglected his role as the state's top election overseer.
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" Whereas our environmental protection historically consisted of permitting, monitoring for compliance, enforcement and technical assistance, many state environmental agencies have been unreasonably downsized (over 50 percent in some states) and these law enforcers have been relegated to act as clerks in state run "permit shops.
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The N.H.L.'s top officials have privately acknowledged that fighting could lead to concussions and long-term health problems, including depression, and that so-called enforcers frequently use pills "to ease the pain," according to emails unsealed during a continuing court battle with former players.
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But the most provocative communication string in the latest set of released emails came from those between Bettman, Daly and Shanahan, who wrote that the present-day enforcers were, in some ways, different from those of a generation ago — but also much the same.
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But instead of taking obvious steps to correct these problems, the IRS and the Treasury Department have just taken a step that will make enforcement harder, not easier, and could stand to widen the loophole that keeps enforcers from catching illegal foreign election spending.
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The once common view that ISIS women were passive prey, "jihadi brides" seduced into joining the caliphate and marrying its fighters, crumbled as evidence emerged that women had served as enforcers for the caliphate's morality brigade or, in some cases, taken up arms in battle.
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Two loyal enforcers have played pivotal roles in the rise of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman: Saud el-Qahtani, a poet who became the prince's chief propagandist, and Turki al-Sheikh, above center, a former bodyguard who runs the Saudi sports commission.
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The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday got permission to participate in an upcoming oral argument in the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust case against Qualcomm Inc, setting the stage for the rare sight of two competition law enforcers opposing each other in open court.
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"Certain people on the ships even waved around machetes and flung fire bombs, carrying out deliberate provocation, attacking the Chinese law enforcers and official boat, confronting China's law enforcement and seriously threatening the safety and order of the waters around Huangyan Island," Hua said.
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Meyer coached twice more after leaving the Colts: with the Las Vegas Posse, a Canadian Football League franchise, in 1994, and then in 2001 with the Chicago Enforcers of the XFL, a league formed by NBC and the World Wrestling Federation (now World Wrestling Entertainment).
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two major mergers in agricultural technology and seeds could hurt competition in the industry and make it harder for smaller companies to compete, Senator Charles Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote in a letter on Wednesday sent to antitrust enforcers.
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The Supreme Court's decision Monday may have only been a small step toward addressing Big Tech's monopoly problems, but it will at least give consumers the right to stand up and be heard in court — and it may even inspire US antitrust enforcers to finally take action.
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Special government immunities, regulatory loopholes put in place to support the ancient bulletin board internet, and a near total pass by antitrust enforcers, have enabled the intermedia to unfairly skim most of the revenue growth, value creation, data, and customer interaction from the rest of the economy.
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When one of the clans that controls Silicon Isle takes notice, she's nearly killed, but a more forceful and malevolent version of Mimi takes over — first killing a group of enforcers by inhabiting a broken mech, then setting Silicon Isle's "waste people" on a path toward revolution.
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We deny them participation in conventional political discourse—op-ed pages, candidate debates, conference panels—not because we are hypersensitive enforcers of political correctness, but because they are explicitly dedicated to destroying the very institutions, norms, and practices that, however imperfectly, define what's good about this country.
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At the same time, terrorists are also getting better at using encrypted technologies, so once the terrorist group makes contact with a potentially receptive person, those conversations increasingly "go dark," mean they go out of reach of law enforcers who would try to monitor them, he said.
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WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - U.S. antitrust enforcers are in the early stages of reviewing T-Mobile US Inc's plan to buy Sprint Corp for $26 billion, and have reached no conclusions on how many wireless carriers the country needs, according to a source familiar with the situation.
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This is not the first time that Mr Cook and American law enforcers have clashed, but the case may become "the epicentre of the debate over privacy and encryption," says Alan Cohn, a lawyer at Steptoe & Johnson who previously worked at the Department of Homeland Security.
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Hopefully, the release of "No More Parties In L.A." will be a smoother affair than that of "Real Friends," which was pushed online earlier this month and hastily taken down again, becoming the subject of a cat-and-mouse chase between illegal uploaders and copyright enforcers.
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WASHINGTON, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Fayez Sarofim, who is on the Kinder Morgan board of directors, has agreed to pay a $720,000 civil penalty for failing to report the purchase of voting securities of Kinder Morgan and Kemper Corporation to antitrust enforcers, the Justice Department said on Friday.
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Chris Lynch of News Talk ZB uploaded the footage to Facebook showing the law enforcers taking to the stage to show off their renditions of Salman Khan's "Thana Me Baithe On Duty" from the movie Dabangg and "Baby ko Bass Pasand Hai" from the film Sultan.
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That kind of sectarian/tribal thinking, now reinforced by left-right social media enforcers, gerrymandering and giant campaign funders, gives you the sorry spectacle of House Speaker Paul Ryan saying, without embarrassment, that Trump's pronouncements are a "textbook" example of racism, but he's supporting Trump anyway.
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Pelosi and her leadership team had initially intended to hold a Thursday vote to amend the Senate-passed bill to include language that would implement safety and care standards for law enforcers working with migrants — provisions pursued by liberals that were in the previous House-passed bill.
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The social situation has deteriorated so markedly that the I.M.F., which many Greeks blame for worsening their plight as one of the original enforcers of harsh austerity, repeated its call for the Greek government to proceed with planned increases in targeted social support and investment spending.
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Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) put out a new bill that would give the United States's antitrust enforcers the ability to seek fines over anti-competitive behavior, something that, if approved, could scare big companies into following the law because there would be clear punishments for violations.
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It matters because along with entrusting our immigration enforcers to keep us safe, in the president's often-tweeted phrase, we also entrust them with the responsibility of treating unauthorized immigrants not as prey but as human beings entitled to dignity, even if only minimally to due process.
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That being said, there is one other excellent reason to consider Analogue's DAC and digging up an old CRT: it finally lets classic light gun accessories like the SNES' Super Scope 6 or the Lethal Enforcers blaster work again, as neither are compatible with modern flatscreens.
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Brandon Garrett, a law professor at Duke University, told me he thinks the Ending Too Big to Jail Act might be the more powerful of Warren's two proposed bills, because enforcers often lack the resources to thoroughly investigate complex corporate and executive conduct, and this would address that.
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Even if that's true -- a claim that, as we have learned, should not automatically be believed -- Trump's decision to become a racial demagogue to win votes and increase his influence has guaranteed that those closest to him -- his enforcers -- would have gotten that message one way or another.
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After a conditional pass Germany gave France last year on yet another failure to meet its budget deficit target, Berlin and its EU Commission enforcers are expecting that France will honor its commitment to cut this year's deficit to 2.7 percent of GDP from 3.4 percent in 2016.
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But as Congress prepares to return to Washington next month from the long summer recess, Democrats also want to go a step further to tackle another scourge they consider to be related: the threat of violent white nationalism that, according to federal law enforcers, is on the rise.
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Billed as the biggest shake-up of data privacy laws in the internet era, GDPR aimed to give EU citizens more control over their online information and privacy enforcers the power to impose hefty fines on companies such as Facebook and Google that collect large amounts of customer data.
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On Monday, he filed his own court papers asking the government to provide him with the criminal histories of the various drug lords, couriers, enforcers and accountants that prosecutors may put on the stand — as many as 40 witnesses, some of whom may be allowed to testify under aliases.
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Federal policy on women's issues is likely to become a train wreck over the next four years — from Congress defunding family planning services, to civil rights enforcers shrugging at rape on college campuses, to labor agencies dismantling the few protections there are against gender-based discrimination in the workplace.
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Its financial enforcers are happy to use their extra-territorial legal powers to punish banks outside their own borders, and they find it easier to get hold of information because they can threaten to cut off lenders and their counterparties from access to the global dollar-payments system.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - IKEA brand owner Inter IKEA could be ordered to pay millions of euros in Dutch back taxes by the end of the year, two people familiar with the matter said, as EU competition enforcers push on with their crackdown against unfair tax deals granted to multinationals.
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WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Top U.S. antitrust enforcers go before the Senate Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel on Tuesday at a time when a little- watched series of laws designed to protect consumers from monopolies are being used to investigate Alphabet's Google and others among the world's most dynamic companies.
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Trump issued an executive order last January pulling virtually all federal grants from cities and states that violate 2628 USC Section 28503, a federal law barring cities or states from forbidding their employees to divulge information to federal immigration enforcers about the citizenship status of people within their jurisdiction.
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Documents released on Tuesday by the Department of Homeland Security revealed the broad scope of the president's ambitions: to publicize crimes by undocumented immigrants; strip such immigrants of privacy protections; enlist local police officers as enforcers; erect new detention facilities; discourage asylum seekers; and, ultimately, speed up deportations.
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WASHINGTON, Dec 9 (Reuters) - U.S. state attorneys general, led by New York and California, deliver opening arguments Monday in a bid to stop T-Mobile U.S. from buying Sprint Corp in a trial that highlights disagreements between federal antitrust enforcers, who are Republican, and Democrats in powerful states.
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But a handful of fringe critics now decry the FTC's prompt and efficient clearance of the deal, arguing antitrust enforcers should take new additional policy goals into account — like how the deal will impact less efficient competitors or impact the broader balance of social, cultural and economic power online.
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The memo claimed the five recently-indicted alleged Bushwick Crew members—Brown, Jaquan Cooper, Lance Goodwin, Tyquan Griem and Norman Marrero—effectively served as enforcers who escorted drug traffickers, forcibly collected drug debts, and committed acts of violence against anyone who interfered with their operations or offended them.
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Jennifer Rubin, the conservative opinion writer at the Washington Post, wrote this over the weekend: Trump will undermine the public's faith in entities that are supposed to be apolitical fact-finders and enforcers of the law, leading Americans to question the honesty and fairness of our government and criminal-justice system.
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But if the enforcers are cheating, and the rules for electing new government are constrained by the existing ruling party — constraints such as controlling [the process of counting the population via] the census or limiting access to the ballot — the people cannot solve the crisis within our democratic and constitutional norms.
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Of more concern to Lesperance's clients is the case of Xiao Jianhua, the Chinese-Canadian-Antiguan billionaire who on January 27 was whisked away from the luxury Four Seasons apartments in Hong Kong and over the border, in circumstances that raised concerns about Chinese law enforcers acting on SAR soil.
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"The efforts of the Justice Department enforcers who brought a difficult but worthwhile case in the face of criticism are worthy of praise, but now many are wondering why they were allowed to bring the case in the first place," Klobuchar and Blumenthal, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote. Sen.
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The Hill's Miranda Green and Tim Cama reported on Wednesday that behind the scenes, questions are being raised about the timing of the administration's announcement that Interior's acting inspector general would be replaced – just two days after the Interior Department's watchdog referred Zinke's alleged misconduct to law enforcers (The Hill).
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He rattled off several: an assault weapons ban, new restrictions on high-capacity magazines, banning those on the FBI's terrorist watch list from buying guns and "red flag" legislation, which empowers local law enforcers to seize guns from those found by the courts to pose a danger to themselves or others.
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As lawmakers close-in on confirming the president's antitrust-enforcement nominees this week, both the confirmation-committee members and the upcoming, antitrust enforcers-in-chief should be encouraged to keep in mind just how vital antitrust enforcement can be, and is, at advancing federal efforts to combat high drug prices.
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"Most notably, enforcers must confront the reality that data insights in the digital economy are combined across the ecosystem of the internet sometimes in ways that transcend product improvement and impact consumer choice altogether," Delrahim said, according to prepared remarks for a speech at an antitrust conference at Harvard Law School.
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" Competition law enforcers in Europe will have to consider how to make sure rules enforce fair competition in what Vestager described as a "new phenomenon" of "competition for a market, not just in a market" — meaning that whoever wins the competition becomes "the de facto rule setter in this market.
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Documents released by the Department of Homeland Security showed the scope of the president's ambitions: to publicize crimes by undocumented immigrants; to strip such immigrants of privacy protections; to enlist local police officers as enforcers; to erect new detention facilities; to discourage asylum seekers; and, ultimately, to speed up deportations.
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