The failure to act, however, is generating a substantial hidden tax on Americans today, and the continued failure to act would threaten the future position of the United States in the world.
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Gibbs calls it a "collective failure" to act on time.
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Failure to act threatens the very foundation of our democracy.
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There's no excuse for failure to act responsibly and swiftly.
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Warning signs abound of what a failure to act looks like.
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In the past, a failure to act has had precisely this effect.
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But the failure to act on either would have vastly different consequences.
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She is a "bit disappointed" by Francis's failure to act, she says.
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The toll is attributed to the Park government's failure to act quickly.
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But Airbnb's failure to act in a timely fashion may literally cost it.
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In light of the SEC's failure to act, Congress must take the lead.
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Trump and the GOP's failure to act to help these children isn't happenstance.
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One of his closest advisers jumped ship because of his failure to act.
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The Trump administration's failure to act ignores the fundamental nature of the problem.
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"failure to act," despite the fact that his first attorney general was Jeff
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Our failure to act now will only saddle future generations with the debt.
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The measure also highlights what health advocates say is the FDA's failure to act.
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Also, he said, it downplayed the university's failure to act on concerns about him.
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In terms of our Dreamers, failure to act will have real and dire consequences.
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At our age, neither of us will personally suffer from a failure to act.
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The crisis is in our collective failure to act in accordance with our values.
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This is the only way to explain Congress's complete failure to act on immigration.
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But as time goes by, Trump's failure to act raises questions among his critics.
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"It's at best negligence by failure to act; at worst, it's outright complicity," said Lee.
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Failure to act could lead to a default for the first time in U.S. history.
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Failure to act could have "grave consequences for peace and security in Libya", Sanalla wrote.
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Giveaways to big polluters and absolute failure to act in the face of climate change.
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"At the end of the day, Congress's failure to act, is the issue," Morgan said.
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The Connecticut General Assembly's failure to act follows a rough year of defeats for Tesla.
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The newly passed measure also highlights what health advocates say is the FDA's failure to act.
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Devalier argued that a failure to act could cause problems down the line for the BOJ.
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"Losing Earth" is thus not the whole story of human's failure to act on climate change.
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The fief-like powers of bishops, plus the Vatican's failure to act, made cover-ups possible.
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The senator said that she is growing increasingly impatient with Obama's failure to act on the issue.
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Failure to act appropriately may plunge the region into the abyss of instability for decades to come.
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However, Trump's failure to act decisively on climate change puts Americans at more risk than ever before.
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President Trump didn't unleash COVID-19, but his failure to act resolutely and expeditiously increased its severity.
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But for some in St. John, the failure to act is a matter of life and death.
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Their failure to act in accordance with the law puts both human life and property rights at risk.
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Their failure to act has allowed untold thousands of unauthorized immigrants to secure employment in the intervening years.
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Why it matters: The FBI's failure to act possibly exposed more girls to sexual abuse at Nassar's hands.
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Is this failure to act the legacy our generation wants to leave for the generations yet to come?
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Failure to act would risk further "violence and radicalization," Mr. Annan wrote in an introduction to the report.
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Your chairman would most likely also be displeased to learn that you've exposed the department's failure to act.
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Yet a failure to act will pull the United States further into a costly, perilous nuclear arms race.
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While the results were not positive, he recognized that failure to act on health care would have political consequences.
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Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said failure to act would be a "shameful abdication" of the Senate's constitutional duty.
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A failure to act could trigger sanctions, which have so far never been imposed on any euro zone country.
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The message was clear: Failure to act could mean further alienating the public, including many of its core users.
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The state health commissioner's "complete failure to act," Justice Murphy wrote, "cannot be considered substantial compliance" with the law.
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BuzzFeed News also reports that failure to act soon could lead to a "full-scale mutiny" by Johnson's Cabinet.
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A failure to act by the end of next Friday (May 5) would shutter much of the federal government.
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Failure to act risks sparking more of the devastating wildfires that have raged recently across Brazil, California and Australia.
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We saw a failure to act on immigration, even though they controlled both chambers and had Obama in office.
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It's neither just the external actors, nor just a failure to act on Facebook's part, that transformed the platform.
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The family thinks the police were involved in the disappearances and that explains the state government&aposs failure to act.
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Which was perhaps the intent: Kerr, Kinsman's lawyer, would later describe Florida State's failure to act as a cover-up.
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The group alleges this failure to act has endangered their rights to life, liberty, property and vital public trust resources.
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That failure to act more aggressively caused some prominent Democrats to engage in rare open criticism of their former leader.
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Therefore failure to act not only rewards Russian aggression it actually increases the chances of U.S. troops fighting in Europe.
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Twitter and Facebook came under fire for their failure to act quickly in 2016, with some pages operating for months.
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"Defendant Lyon's acts and failure to act resulted in the death of at least one person," documents filed Tuesday said.
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Both parties were sanctioned for failure to act in accordance with the fundamental principle of professional competence and due care.
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The world's failure to act in Syria reminds us that norms mean nothing without the political will to enforce them.
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This failure to act has serious consequences, because many of the perpetrators of real-world violence are radicalized online first.
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Make no mistake, failure to act will cost Americans far more in terms of lost time, money and even lives.
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Yet it's one of the biggest challenges ahead of us, and the results of our failure to act will be devastating.
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If we do not change course, history will judge us, and there will be no excuse for our failure to act.
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"If we do not change course, history will judge us, and there will be no excuse for our failure to act."
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President Maithripala Sirisena said he would change the heads of the defense forces following their failure to act on the intelligence.
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Failure to act would hurt the U.S. economy more down the road, a senior administration official argued, according to news reports.
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While we have seen steps in the right direction in recent weeks, we have also been disappointed by the failure to act.
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In fact, the Senate record was so bad that it approved a resolution in 2005 apologizing for its willful failure to act.
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By its actions and failure to act, HUD has prolonged segregation in housing since the 1960s under both Democratic and Republican administrations.
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According to the charges, Mr. Lyon's "acts and failure to act resulted in the death of at least one person," Mr. Skidmore.
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Both parties agree that the virus is a real and growing health crisis; each blames the other for the failure to act.
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Activist Greta Thunberg called world leaders to account on Monday with a blistering indictment of their failure to act on climate change.
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Youth campaigners from vulnerable islands at the summit on Friday warned that failure to act was a matter of life and death.
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But that's what a nonprofit representing young people is doing, casting the government's failure to act as a violation of their civil rights.
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Of even more concern is failure to act when it is clear that a cheerleader is in extreme pain and begging to stop.
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People were understandably dismayed by the government's apparent failure to act quickly to switch back the water once concerns were raised in Flint.
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Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, a Democrat, said Tuesday that Congress's failure to act jeopardized coverage for 330,000 children in the state.
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They come, instead, from failure to act on what we already know – and, for the most part, have known for a long time.
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"It is Congress' failure to act, not your actions, that are resulting in dollars being taken from the Department of Defense budget," Rep.
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It all started after her speech on Monday, in which Thunberg excoriated world leaders for their failure to act on the climate crisis.
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Why it matters: The FBI's failure to act when complaints arose in 2015 may have exposed more girls to sexual abuse at Nassar's hands.
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That point was brought home yet again by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in its report Failure to Act, out this month.
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India says Pakistan's failure to act against the suspected militant is one of the reasons it won't resume peace talks with the arch rival.
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Its failure to act on the 2016 disinformation campaign, in particular, looms large in its decision to scale back its dissemination of hard news.
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Further failure to act is unacceptable and any future delays on the part of these agencies should warrant swift and immediate action by Congress.
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"Their failure to act on this issue is yet another call for us to step up and lead," Walker told the Wisconsin State Journal.
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Former Obama officials said that Mr. Trump was making false charges which, even if true, would not account for his failure to act sooner.
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That blind spot may have contributed to Sri Lankan officials' failure to act on warnings by Indian intelligence of a plot to bomb churches.
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President Maithripala Sirisena promised to restructure the military and the police over their failure to act on direct warnings that attacks were being planned.
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Now, she faces massive criticism and protests over her failure to act while Myanmar's military carries out alleged atrocities on the minority Rohingya Muslims.
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Trump has also lambasted the FBI for its failure to act on a tip it received about the Parkland school shooter before the shooting.
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Although Sims states that the Choice Act is a "failure" – this is due to VA's ineptitude in its implementation, not Congress' failure to act.
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The latest revelations about the officer's failure to act in the Florida shooting are a devastating example of this theory not working as planned.
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The plaintiffs, aged 2110 to 28, argue that this failure to act has endangered their rights to life, liberty, property and vital public trust resources.
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Environmental groups on Thursday threatened to sue the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over what they view as the agency's failure to act on aircraft emissions.
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Lyon's failure to act resulted in the death of at least one person, 85-year-old Robert Skidmore, special agent Jeff Seipenko told a judge.
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The AGs said the failure to act was violating the Clean Air Act's "Good Neighbor" provision, which requires the agency to regulate emissions across states.
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But their failure to act will make them responsible for any scandal that might emerge from the ties between Mr. Trump's presidency and his business.
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Cyril Almeida had recently written about a confrontation between civilian officials and the military over what they called a failure to act against Islamist groups.
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And as the number of deaths has steadily ticked up, so has the outrage directed at the Sri Lankan government for its failure to act.
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He will take it as a signal that absolutely anything goes — especially given the Senate's failure to act in any meaningful way on election security.
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In the Parkland shooting, gunman Nikolas Cruz posted several threats on social media, including Instagram, leading to criticism against authorities for their failure to act.
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" Mr. Warner, who criticized Mr. Obama for his failure to act more strongly in Syria, said: "China, Russia and Iran have real, long-term strategies.
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The same politicians who for months had publicly castigated the administration's failure to act wilted even quicker when they had the chance to take responsibility.
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The Elysee&aposs failure to act immediately has raised a series of questions about the actions of those close to Macron, who has yet to comment.
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The incident is one of many, per the emails, in which the CBP agent allegedly witnessed several colleagues displaying poor behavior and management's failure to act.
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Solheim said failure to act would contribute to more extreme droughts and stronger storms of the type that hit Haiti last week, killing about 1,000 people.
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A failure to act on Montenegro's membership by the new administration would do just that, while breaking the existing consensus within NATO in support of enlargement.
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Illinois, already the lowest-rated U.S. state, was downgraded last week to BBB by Fitch Ratings, which cited the state's "unprecedented failure" to act on budgets.
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Environment: Pope Francis warned that "history will judge" a failure to act on climate change and urged deniers to talk to scientists who study the issue.
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Sure, many voters may be unhappy about the failure to act, especially considering the parade of lawmakers caught up in sexual misconduct scandals this past year.
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"Their failure to act will mean that our plastic waste problem will continue to get worse," said Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey Sierra Club.
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At a news conference on Wednesday, Mr. Geisel raised the possibility that the police were trying to cover up their failure to act on the Nov.
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Congress's continued failure to act on behalf of their constituents over these many years flagrantly defies the will of the people who they purport to represent.
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The court concluded that her failure to act, and her having participated in Roy's perilous reentry into his truck, was enough to constitute creating his peril.
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Politicians' failure to act "would be the greatest failure of human history and they will be remembered as the greatest villains of all time," she said.
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"These actions, and the Arbitration Committee's failure to act promptly in condemning them, were a major factor that led to my resignation," BU Rob13 told BuzzFeed News.
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A failure to act on health care could have serious political consequences, saddling Republicans with the blame for not fixing the deficiencies of the current Obamacare system.
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Participants at the meeting raised the possibility that the government's failure to act against the charities could lead to U.N. sanctions, one of the three officials said.
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It is unfortunate that Congress's failure to act and court orders have put the Administration in the position of separating alien families to effectively enforce the law.
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This is the worst kind of procrastination, because it involves a failure to act to fix the problem and an action that actually makes the problem worse.
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"The recent wave of mass shootings is horrifying, and the federal government's failure to act on any form of meaningful gun safety laws is unconscionable," Cuomo said.
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"It is unfortunate that Congress's failure to act and court orders have put the Administration in the position of separating alien families to effectively enforce the law."
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Kyle Knight, HRW's researcher on LGBT issues, said the authorities' failure to act had created a "social sanction from the highest level" for attacks and hate speech.
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Attorneys for 21 youth climate activists are filing an appeal after a judge ruled they cannot sue the federal government for failure to act on climate change.
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Their failure to act puts local brick and mortar businesses in their districts at a competitive disadvantage and starves state and local governments of sales tax revenues.
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Although suicide isn't typically a rational response to difficult circumstances, we can be implicated when harm comes to others through our failure to act with appropriate care.
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The social network has come under harsh criticism for its failure to act against news hoaxes that may have influenced voters' opinions in the U.S. presidential election.
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The lawsuit documents several specific cases and goes into detail about how they were impacted by the Aspergillus and what it calls the hospital's failure to act.
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That's good for everyone, since these were all must-pass measures, and Congress's failure to act on any of the three this month would have been disastrous.
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Roggio said the U.S. statements may embolden Assad to some extent, but that he would have already been emboldened by America's failure to act against him in 2013.
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Another concern is about Congress — Murphy said there's an "atrophy of the muscles of Congress" in its failure to act on authorizing use of military force for years.
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"The judge concluded that the defendant's actions and her failure to act constituted, 'each and all,' wanton and reckless conduct that caused the victim's death," the ruling reads.
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Yet because so many rapists are repeat offenders, that failure to act can mean allowing others to be victimized who might have been spared by a DNA match.
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And a failure to act would underscore American officials' belief that the Pakistani government gives safe haven to the Taliban-linked Haqqani network that had kidnapped the family.
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Pope Francis issued a letter on Monday acknowledging the church's failure to act on the accounts of abuse but some victims say it does not go far enough.
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As the FBI apologized for their failure to act upon these tips, who ultimately would be the person who decided that this now, very relevant case, was irrelevant?
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"Failure to act tarnishes this FCC's competition legacy and punishes small businesses, schools and libraries who have been promised faster speeds, lower prices and more competition," said Pickering.
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OSU apologizes for 'fundamental failure' to act "On behalf of the university, we offer our profound regret and sincere apologies to each person who endured Strauss' abuse," Drake said.
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The UNFPA, which has helped the government carry out the survey, urged action from authorities and communities, saying failure to act could cost the country, including through productivity losses.
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The 21877 version of the legislation serves a largely symbolic purpose and functions as an apology for Congress's failure to act as thousands of victims were tortured and killed.
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Failure to act quickly and decisively to open mid-band spectrum could slam the door on widespread 220006G deployments with potentially devastating consequences for American leadership and the economy.
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Shouldn't we remind ourselves from time to time that not every use of force becomes a quagmire, and that sometimes the failure to act carries its own moral consequences?
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In the suit, a copy of which was posted on his blog, Navalny asked the court to rule unlawful Putin's failure to act in preventing a conflict of interest.
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The president's grudging executive order, which took a shot at Congress for its "failure to act," is likely to be only a temporary respite in the standoff over immigration.
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And few people have been as disappointing in their subsequent failure to act against, or even to acknowledge, the horrific persecution of the Rohingya Muslim minority in her country.
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Illustrations by Guilbert Gates A failure to act would have had dire consequences: Tens of thousands of miners, many in already economically distressed areas, would have lost their benefits.
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Haverford Township, located in Delaware County, issued a statement Wednesday shutting down the Bon Air Fire Company "indefinitely" due to its "failure to act," according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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"The real anger was focused on the church authorities and their failure to act," said Maeve Lewis, the executive director of One in Four Ireland, a victim support group.
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It's no surprise then that our failure to act on the facts around solitary confinement has led to a mental health epidemic that reaches well beyond the prison walls.
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The unintended consequence of the G7's failure to act may well be the catalyst which results in further experiments becoming part of the new monetary orthodoxy around the world.
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The failure to act came as Facebook admitted that phony social media postings by the Russians reached 126 million people on its platform; Twitter has acknowledged 50,000 fake foreign accounts.
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It is unfortunate that Congress's failure to act and court orders have put the Administration in the position of separating alien families to effectively enforce the law. Sec. 2. Definitions.
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"It is unfortunate that Congress's failure to act and court orders have put the Administration in the position of separating alien families to effectively enforce the law," the order states.
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In the past, failure to act as the debt ceiling deadline approached put markets on edge, raising borrowing costs and losing the U.S. its perfect credit rating from S&P.
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The report does note that no consistent explanation was given for the FBI's failure to act for almost a month after discovering new emails potentially related to the Clinton investigation.
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Lagarde, who has encouraged ECB staff to work from home if they wish to, has repeatedly warned governments that failure to act quickly on the virus could lead to calamity.
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Lagarde, who has encouraged ECB staff to work from home if they wish to, has repeatedly warned governments that failure to act quickly on the virus could lead to calamity.
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And denying science for profit, political advantage or ego satisfaction is not O.K.; when failure to act on the science may have terrible consequences, denial is, as I said, depraved.
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" On June 2700, A Maine Superior Court judge last month ordered the LePage administration to submit a plan within a week for expanding Medicaid, chastising its "complete failure to act.
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As Warner sees it, America's failure to act has ceded its traditional leadership role to others—to Europe on consumer privacy and to the UK and Australia on content restrictions.
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Any failure to act on the recommendation of UEFA investigators would most likely be seen as a deathblow to the organization's efforts to impose financial controls on its member clubs.
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He took office at a true crossroads for our planet: a failure to act could push the world past the tipping point, leading to a cascade effect of irreversible consequences.
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For years, President Obama has chastised Republicans, used immigrants as props for political purposes, and time and again deflected responsibility from his own party's failure to act on immigration reform.
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Even as the Democratic nominee has decried the Senate's failure to act, she has declined to refer to Garland and intimated she might favor a different nominee if she becomes president.
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Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette charged five current and former officials with involuntary manslaughter on Wednesday, alleging that their failure to act on Flint's water crisis caused at least one death.
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"By allowing so many searches with the order of just a single judge, Congress's failure to act on this issue would be a disaster for law-abiding Americans," Wyden said Thursday.
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The President's demands probably mean the bill still will not be able to pass the Senate and is most likely to end up underlining Congress's failure to act meaningfully on immigration.
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But Trump's surprise announcement suspending U.S.-South Korean military exercises undercut future negotiations and the failure to act in concert with South Korea was a snub to a key U.S. ally.
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"By allowing so many searches with the order of just a single judge, Congress's failure to act on this issue would be a disaster for law-abiding Americans," Wyden said Thursday.
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Anthony Cordesman of Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank suggested the United States' failure to act earlier in Syria, and in Aleppo in particular, had narrowed Obama's options.
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In 1003 he wrote a legal opinion for Greenpeace on whether the United States could be taken to the International Court of Justice for its failure to act on climate change.
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More recently, relations with the military took a darker turn after news reports detailed how civilian officials confronted the military over what they called a failure to act against Islamist groups.
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The failure to act on these nominations rests solely with the Senate, and McConnell's apparent indifference to passing legislation, implementing Republican priorities, confirming the president's nominees, or doing anything at all.
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Congress sitting there blaming ICE, both parties are blaming ice and DHS for their failure to act for the last 18 to 20 years -- INGRAHAM: We&aposre not failing to act, Francisco.
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In our statement, we call for consequences for the bilateral relationship because of the failure to act in good faith with the United States to protect our joint interest in the CEU.
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Failure to act now will deprive a generation of young people from living out their potential while the costs associated with addiction and mental health treatment will continue spiraling out of control.
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In light of the EPA's failure to act, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking great effort to pick up the slack, independently testing products for asbestos and alerting the public.
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Despite the fact that the bill received bipartisan support in New Jersey's state legislature and was considered uncontroversial, Christie's failure to act on the measure before a designated deadline killed the bill.
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Their calls have been echoed by opposition leader Adrian Delia, who said the police commissioner and attorney general's failure to act when Caruana Galizia revealed corruption created the circumstances leading to the assassination.
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It comes amid deep frustration in Japan over what is seen as Seoul's failure to act in response to a South Korean court ruling ordering a Japanese company to compensate former forced labourers.
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His failure to act even after warning of a "red line" if Assad used chemical weapons -- which Assad has continued to do -- sent a signal to other powers that the field was open.
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It comes amid deep frustration in Japan over what is seen as Seoul's failure to act in response to a South Korean court ruling ordering a Japanese company to compensate former forced laborers.
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Her 5-foot-1 frame and gentle voice make for a softer, slightly shyer version of the powerful public speaker who has no problems calling out world leaders on their failure to act.
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"Indeed, a failure to act in the event that the Fed stays on hold longer than the underlying data would suggest is likely to increase the risk of a policy error," he said.
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That failure to act, along with other failures to address misconduct by Smith that did not involve domestic abuse, should warrant a sanction beyond suspension from 25% of the Buckeyes' regular season games.
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Bolton, after a speech condemning the International Criminal Court, said the judicial body's failure to act in response to earlier chemical weapons attacks was evidence that it was ineffectual in deterring war crimes.
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He called the judiciary's failure to act on the Constitutional Court's ruling a "particularly concerning" violation of both the Turkey's constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights, of which Turkey is a signatory.
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I reached out to Weinstein to talk about the crisis of capitalism — how we got here, what can be done, and why he thinks a failure to act might lead to a societal collapse.
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"This court has found that Carter's actions and failure to act where it was her self-created duty to Roy since she put him in that toxic environment constituted reckless conduct," the judge said.
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" The lawmakers also cited the failure of Scott and his deputies to enter the school building to stop the shooter, and their failure to act on warning signs about the shooter for years. "Gov.
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"The Abandonment of the Jews" was not the first book to suggest a systemic failure to act on the part of the United States and England, but it was perhaps the most thoroughly researched.
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Congress has previously negotiated deals to bypass the Budget Control Act caps, but a failure to act again before the fiscal year that begins in October would lead to automatic cuts totaling $2021 billion.
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In the weeks following the 2018 Parkland, Florida, school shooting that claimed 17 lives, a deputy sheriff who was on site at the time was vilified for his failure to act in an emergency.
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Despite threats of genocide and excessive violence over the past several decades, there has consistently been a lack of collective political will and a failure to act on the part of the international community.
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"The American people deserve to know about Pruitt's history of ignoring environmental concerns plaguing Oklahoma with reckless abandonment, and his failure to act except to sue the agency he's been tapped to lead," he said.
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Tuesday, I wrote that President Obama's failure to act to prevent or halt the massive bombing of civilians in Syria by Russian and Syrian military forces will be a shameful blot on his presidential legacy.
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Rick Scott (R) called on the FBI Monday to detail its failure to act on a tip about Nikolas Cruz, 19, just days after Cruz allegedly killed 17 people at a South Florida high school.
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And that is a total contrast with climate change, where our failure to act means pouring vast quantities of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, materially increasing the odds of catastrophe with every year we wait.
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In short, the Ex-Im Bank has never proven itself to be a trustworthy steward of taxpayer money, or its own rules and bylaws – which makes its failure to act transparently that much more concerning.
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The Parkland activists reinvigorated the gun reform debate in the wake of the shooting at their high school, and they seized on this rampage at Santa Fe as another example of lawmakers' failure to act.
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"The situation in Colombia highlights the systemic problems we face in enforcing our trade agreements across the board," the lawmakers wrote, saying the Trump administration's failure to act had reduced pressure on the Colombian government.
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Here in Maine, where supporters of expansion have sued the LePage administration over its failure to act, the legal conflict has spilled into the race to replace Mr. LePage, who is finishing his second term.
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) filed a lawsuit last year alleging that country's second largest lender was liable for one of its financial planners' failure to act in the best interests of customers.
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The IHEC's failure to act on the report's findings could fuel calls for the election to be rerun, a concern for populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, leader of the political bloc that won on May 12.
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The vote "should serve as a signal to everyone in government whose job it is to protect our democracy that failure to act is no longer an option," Democratic Commissioner Ellen Weintraub said in a statement.
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Five sheriff's deputies in North Carolina have been disciplined for failure to act after a black protester was punched by a white supporter of Donald J. Trump at a campaign rally, the sheriff's office said Wednesday.
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The oil industry is worried that new curbs on carbon emissions will hobble business, while environmental advocates are concerned that a failure to act soon to halt global warming will spell devastating consequences for the planet.
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President Maithripala Sirisena's comments, in which he also promised a "total reorganization" of the security apparatus, were seen as tough talk to deflect criticism of the government's failure to act on repeated warnings about terrorist attacks.
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What Chuck has done to her is a grotesque violation, and his failure to act as if it were anything more than a spat that can be patched over is indicative of his deep moral shortcomings.
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This announcement from the Vatican comes days after Francis put out a letter acknowledging the church's failure to act on the abuse in the wake of revelations of decades of abuse by priests in Pennsylvania. 5.
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In response to such attacks, the Simon Wiesenthal Center issued a travel warning in 2010 advising "extreme caution when visiting southern Sweden" because of officials' failure to act against the "serial harassment" of Jews in Malmo.
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We also see that a failure to act on these issues and failure to take account of the health implications of our climate and energy decisions is also very bad development and it's also very bad economics.
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"Carter's actions and also her failure to act where she had a self-created duty to Mr. Roy, since she had put him in that toxic environment, constituted each and all wanton and reckless conduct," he said.
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If anyone died, Yusuf said, the sailors could be prosecuted either under maritime law, for failure to perform their duties, or under civilian law for deliberate failure to act to save a life when they were able.
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The S.E.C. does not have to explain why it chooses to drop a case or pass on charging potential defendants, but then it cannot object when the public draws its own inferences from a failure to act.
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It is a cause of particular concern to young Americans, because they, more than we, will reap the grim consequences of our failure to act on programs which are needed now, if we are to prevent disaster.
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Changing the consequences of a failure to act may give one or the other party a stronger hand to get what it wants in the negotiations, but it does nothing to reduce the likelihood of an impasse.
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During the hearing, Nouy also fielded questions from European lawmakers about the ECB's failure to act in cases of alleged money laundering at Latvia's ABLV Bank and Malta's Pilatus Bank, unearthed by U.S. authorities in recent weeks.
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The dispute stems from Japan's frustration over what it sees as South Korea's failure to act in response to a ruling by one of its courts last October ordering Japan's Nippon Steel to compensate former forced labourers.
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Given the comprehensive failure to act on what was known, it also tells us that future attacks should be met with watchful eyes and an attitude matching the defensive posture vis-a-vis cybersecurity emanating from Washington.
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The blunders range from tragic to dumbfounding: the failure to act on repeated warnings of a pending attack, mistakenly identifying an American college student as a suspect and reporting 350 deaths one day and 250 the next.
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Then, on Tuesday, a small opposition group in Parliament initiated no-confidence votes against both leaders, citing their failure to act on intelligence warning that an attack was imminent as well as their leadership in the aftermath.
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The prosecutor argued that Goodson's actions, or failure to act, amount to murder because he had a duty to both seatbelt Gray and to get medical attention for the 25-year-old when he asked for a medic.
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It comes amid deep frustration in Japan over what Tokyo sees as Seoul's failure to act in response to a South Korean court ruling ordering a Japanese company to compensate former forced labourers from the Second World War.
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Columbine and other mass shootings may reflect a collective failure to act when the stakes are profoundly, tragically high, but as Garrigan's own experience demonstrates, it's never too late to fight for a future free from gun violence.
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It comes amid deep frustration in Japan over what Tokyo sees as Seoul's failure to act in response to a South Korean court ruling ordering a Japanese company to compensate former forced laborers from the Second World War.
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Jeff Bell, president of the Broward Sheriff's Office Deputies Association, said that while the law enforcement community is upset with how Peterson handled the incident and the harm to its reputation, his failure to act was not criminal.
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As pressure builds for Congress to pass legislation that would keep migrant families together at the border, President Trump continues to tweet, blaming Democrats for lawmakers' failure to act and forcing fellow Republicans to contend with his statements.
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Our collective failure to act in the face of this epidemic is all the more puzzling since we are living at a time when people are generally more accepting of mental illness and stigma is on the wane.
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Its failure to act not only leaves disabled computer users on the wrong side of a real digital divide, but ensures that litigation, which is costly both for disability advocates and businesses, will continue for the foreseeable future.
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If there was indeed a failure to disclose, despite multiple questions on the juror survey seeking such information, then the failure to act would make a mockery not just of the judicial process but of the court itself.
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"Even if the current attempts at a resolution to the extended impasse prove successful, Fitch believes that the failure to act to date has fundamentally weakened the state's financial profile," the credit rating agency said in a report.
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With the support of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, the state of New York and the American Meteorological Society, the panel warns that the country continues to be in harm's way because of its failure to act.
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Failure to act could trigger further sanctions, including a fine of up to 0.2% of GDP, the suspension of billions of euros in EU funds and closer fiscal monitoring by the European Commission and the European Central Bank.
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BITTER HISTORY The dispute stems from Japan's frustration over what it sees as South Korea's failure to act in response to a ruling by one of its courts last October ordering Japan's Nippon Steel to compensate former forced labourers.
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BITTER HISTORY The dispute stems from Japan's frustration over what it sees as South Korea's failure to act in response to a ruling by one of its courts last October ordering Japan's Nippon Steel to compensate former forced laborers.
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"This court has found that Carter's actions and failure to act where it was her self-created duty to Roy since she put him in that toxic environment constituted reckless conduct," Bristol County Juvenile Court Judge Lawrence Moniz said.
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" To the court, Moniz said, this was not only a result of her actions, but of "her failure to act where she had a self-created duty to Mr. Roy, since she had put him into that toxic environment.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, apologized on Sunday for anti-Semitism within his party, as he faced the prospect of protests over a perceived failure to act on such incidents in the past.
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A federal appeals court said on Friday that a New York state environmental agency's failure to act on a natural gas pipeline operator's application for a water-quality certificate may have waived the state permitting requirement for the company.
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In his first televised address since a series of bombings on Sunday killed at least 321 people, President Maithripala Sirisena promised to restructure the military and police over failure to act on warnings that the attacks were being planned.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin had told Republican senators on Tuesday that failure to act on a proposed coronavirus rescue package could lead to U.S. unemployment as high as 20%, a person familiar with the closed-door meeting said.
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WADA chief Craig Reedie was grilled at the International Olympic Committee session for what members said was a failure to act on information from whistleblowers of widespread doping in Russia until it became public through the media last year.
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The mass shooting led to increased scrutiny over local law enforcement's response, as well as authorities' failure to act on several "red flags" concerning the suspected shooter, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, in the lead-up to the incident.
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"In addition to causing a tremendous upheaval in the lives of DACA employees, failure to act in time will lead to businesses losing valuable talent, cause disruptions in the workforce, and will result in significant costs," the group wrote.
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"Carter's actions and also her failure to act where she had a self-created duty to Mr. Roy, since she had put him in that toxic environment, constituted each and all wanton and reckless conduct," Moniz said in delivering his ruling.
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The big picture: Most of the worst-case scenarios Burrows envisions are based not on an unexpected event, but on failure to act on entirely foreseeable challenges like struggling middle classes in the West, growing mountains of debt and climate change.
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BITTER HISTORY The dispute stems from Japan's frustration over what it sees as South Korea's failure to act in response to a ruling by one of its courts last October ordering Japan's Nippon Steel Corp to compensate former forced laborers.
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Failure to act on these tragedies as vigorously as Ukraine is now probing its police woes means America may not only be doomed to the occasional national debacle, but also condemned to the quiet scourge of a grinding mass shooting epidemic.
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"The incident shows the many deficiencies with our customer service processes, especially the failure to act swiftly on the previous passenger's complaint and the cumbersome and rigid process of information sharing with the police," the company said in the statement.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A well-known Pakistani journalist said on Tuesday that he had been barred from leaving the country, days after he wrote that civilian officials had confronted the military over what they called a failure to act against Islamist groups.
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I believe that human behavior is a major cause of climate change, but in some sense it does not matter who or what is causing it, as the impacts of our failure to act will be catastrophic for believers and nonbelievers.
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Their mistakes range from the outrageous, like the failure to act on repeated warnings, to the absurd, like mistakenly identifying an American college student as a suspect, to the dumbfounding, like reporting 350 deaths one day and 250 the next.
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"Our collective failure to act early and hard on climate change means we now must deliver deep cuts to emissions – over 7 percent each year, if we break it down evenly over the next decade," said Inger Andersen, UNEP's executive director.
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Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Thursday became the latest member of the Trump administration to mock Greta Thunberg, the 17-year-old activist who has spent her adolescence calling adults to account for their failure to act on climate change.
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Trump's administration, citing what it calls Russia's failure to act as a good global citizen, has said it may take steps to block the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which will increase the volumes Russia can export to northern Europe.
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The brutal atrocity has shone a huge spotlight on Merkel's highly controversial decision to welcome nearly 1 million migrants into Germany since the start of 2015 as well as her government's lax deportation policies and striking failure to act aggressively against Islamist militants.
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"We feel we have no choice but to urge you to reject Google's failure to act in support of our community by revoking their sponsorship of Pride, and excluding Google from official representation in the Pride parade," the employees wrote on Medium.
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Much is also at stake for the EU. The row has deepened divisions as the EU comes to terms with Brexit and failure to act against a member seen as flouting democracy could raise questions about its determination to defend its core values.
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The FBI's failure to seek information critical to this investigation—even as troubling information continues to come to light, as with the Anthony Weiner development—and failure to act on the evidence it did have are frustrating to people across the country.
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As President Obama has stated, failure to act on gun control now is a conscious decision not to act, and we are all responsible, especially our elected representatives who have the power to make these weapon purchases more difficult or even impossible.
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Fifteen states and the District of Columbia are investigating clerical abuse and potential church coverups in the wake of a Pennsylvania grand jury report that detailed sexual abuse by hundreds of priests in six dioceses and church leadership's failure to act on it.
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When asked about Facebook's failure to act on the FTC's complaint, Elizabeth Denham, the Information Commissioner, told us: "I am very disappointed that Facebook, being such an innovative company, could not have put more focus, attention and resources into protecting people's data".
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Silvestre Bello III, the Philippines' labor secretary, told a Senate hearing that he recalled three labor officers from Kuwait to be investigated over their failure to act on a request by Ms. Demafelis's family for help after she went missing last year.
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As the midterm elections showed, even when the economy is thriving, the president is vulnerable given his failure to act on health care, rising college tuition, slowing wage growth, rising inequality and a crumbling infrastructure — all of which Trump promised to repair.
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British union GMB called for a protest in Brussels on Feb 13 to get the Commission to deal with the Chinese steel 'dumping', while the Unite union said the Britain's failure to act had left the industry "on the verge of 'wipe out'".
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"In our complaint filed today against Uber, the allegations show that Uber's model of profits over safety has caused countless numbers of female riders to pay the price for Uber's shameless failure to act," the plaintiffs' attorney Jeanne M. Christensen said in a statement.
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Ms. Mayer did give up additional equity compensation that she would have received in 22.3 as a penalty for her management team's failure to act on a 249 breach of the company's systems that led to the theft of data on 500 million users.
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Failure to act not only hurts American citizens, it weakens the United States' moral standing in the international arena, when it argues, for example, for better treatment for Hong Kong by China, for the Palestinians by Israel, or for Greece by members of the Eurozone.
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They are furious at her failure to act while Myanmar's military lays waste to land held by the minority Rohingya Muslims, shooting civilians and sparking a mass exodus of hundreds of thousands of people who have been denied citizenship in the Buddhist-dominated country.
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A senior ranking member of U.S. Congress, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, chair of the subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, is raising fresh questions about the suitability of Qatar to host the Al-Udeid airbase, due to Doha's failure to act against terrorist financiers.
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In "Failure to Act: The Impact of Current Infrastructure Investment on America's Economic Future," released in 22019, ASCE found that investing $157 billion in infrastructure each year until 2020 could protect 3.5 million jobs, $2.4 trillion in consumer spending, and $3.1 trillion in GDP.
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Those states include the UK, Canada, Australia and the US. 'Terrorist activities' Once seen as a defender of human rights, Myanmar state counsellor Suu Kyi has been heavily criticized for her failure to act as the scale of the attacks against the Rohingya emerged.
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Mr. Schomer said a failure to act upon many of Mr. Trump's spending and tax proposals might not be such a bad thing for markets, given that the United States economy is already at or close to full employment and doesn't need additional stimulus.
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Ms. Mayer did give up additional equity compensation that she would have received in 2017 as a penalty for her management team's failure to act on a 2014 breach of the company's systems that led to the theft of data on 500 million users.
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But when you talk to leaders in the Gulf States, in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, all of them will say that that the failure to act when our red line was crossed was very damaging to the confidence that leaders had in the United States.
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"Penn State's failure to act, despite possessing sufficient evidence about the danger Sandusky posed denied many of the opportunity to be informed about serious threats to the health and safety of campus community members," says the report, which was issued almost exactly five years after Sandusky's arrest,.
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IN THE AFTERMATH of a co-ordinated series of terrorist suicide-bombings in churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday that left nearly 300 people dead, attention has begun to focus on the goverment's failure to act on warnings that such an attack was imminent.
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Steven Michel, a Santa Fe environmental attorney, filed suit in U.S. federal court in August, arguing that the Republican-led Senate's failure to act on Garland's nomination deprived Michel of his rights as a voter under the U.S. Constitution's 17th Amendment, which outlines how senators are elected.
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The government's response to these protests is further evidence of the need for strong international pressure, especially from other states in the region, to push for the restoration of human rights and democracy in Venezuela -- and a demonstration of the potential cost of a failure to act.
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But he and other GOP leaders have struggled for months to persuade rank-and-file Republicans that Congress has a constitutional duty to oversee U.S. territories and that a failure to act now will lead to much bigger, and much more expensive, problems down the road.
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It is right, therefore, that its failure to act effectively in the face of genocidal violence in Rwanda and Bosnia will be laid in part at Mr. Annan's doorstep, for at the time he served as head of peacekeeping, the job he held before becoming secretary general.
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WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin warned Republican senators on Tuesday that failure to act on a proposed coronavirus rescue package could lead to U.S. unemployment as high as 20% and lasting economic damage, a person familiar with the closed-door meeting said.
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But this leads me to a discussion of one other factor which contributed to the Republicans failure to act in this area before Trump, and which will continue to plague them in the future: There is a serious difference of opinion among Republicans when it comes to financial reform.
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American Bryan Fogel, director of the documentary film Icarus, told Reuters that IOC president Thomas Bach had "betrayed clean athletes the world over by his failure to act decisively" and that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) was "crippled by its mandate with no ability to take action".
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Failure to act now could take important decisions about medical care away from individuals and their doctors and turn them over to unaccountable government officials who don't answer to voters or the courts, and whose main concern is the bottom line, not what's best for an individual patient.
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The party's rising popularity has so spooked Chancellor Angela Merkel's junior partner, Bavaria's Christian Social Union, that its leader, Horst Seehofer, recently came perilously close to resigning in protest of her supposed failure to act on the matter — a resignation that might easily have brought down her government.
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All of those in the chain of command who could have done something to help, lacked the will to step up and do what was right, and further abandoned all forms of decency when they fabricated a story about a YouTube video to cover up their failure to act.
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The congressional aides, who are all women, said in their letter which was posted on the ACLU website that they are "dismayed and disheartened by Congress' failure to act and take care of its own" after months of delayed negotiations have yet to finalize workplace harassment policies in Congress.
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She said, however, that the U.S. effort to have Pakistan put on the list was partly due to Islamabad's failure to act against Hafiz Saeed, an Islamist who heads Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), a charity accused by Washington of being a front for militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba.
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An examination of government emails, and interviews with people who survived Legionnaires' and relatives of those who died, shows the government response to the Legionnaires' outbreak followed the same pattern that prevailed throughout the Flint water crisis: a failure to act swiftly to address a dangerous problem or warn the public.
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Japan last week tightened restrictions on the export of three materials used in smartphone displays and chips, following frustration over what it sees as South Korea's failure to act in response to a ruling by one of its courts last October ordering Japan's Nippon Steel Corp to compensate former forced laborers.
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's decision on Tuesday to buy a troubled oil pipeline is a big risk that could cost Prime Minister Justin Trudeau important voter support in a major province, but insiders say failure to act decisively to boost energy exports might hurt his chances to win re-election in 2019.
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In recent months, Congress proposed Affordable Care Act (ACA) repeal to take away health care from millions of American, tax cuts for the wealthy, and immigration policy — to say nothing of its failure to act as an oversight authority on the White House's racially motivated executive orders and possible collusion.
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Japan last week tightened restrictions on the export of three materials used in smartphone displays and chips, following frustration over what it sees as South Korea's failure to act in response to a ruling by one of its courts last October ordering Japan's Nippon Steel Corp to compensate former forced labourers.
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Even a narrow "DACA fix" could shut out people who were eligible and never applied and people who were too young to apply: Failure to act would mean there are 700,000 people who, in the next two years, would lose deportation protections and their ability to work legally in the US.
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The biggest financial price she paid for her mistakes came this year, when she gave up her cash bonus for 2016 and equity awards for 2017 — about $14 million — as a penalty for management's failure to act on evidence of the theft of data from 500 million accounts in 2014.
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"This court has found that the [prosecution] has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Ms. Carter's actions and also her failure to act where she had a self-created duty to Mr. Roy — since she had put him in that toxic environment — constituted each and all wanton and reckless conduct," he said.
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" Pompeo cataloged a series of alleged missteps by the Obama administration: underestimating "the tenacity and viciousness of radical Islamism," a failure to act against Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad after his use of chemical weapons, silence "as the people of Iran rose up against the mullahs in Tehran in the Green Revolution.
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Unlike Mr. Trump, she did not repeat the false accusation that only the Democrats, the minority party, were to blame for what she said was Congress's failure to act to end a policy that, by some counts, has resulted in nearly 2,000 children taken away from their parents in a six-week period.
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Not everybody, however, is convinced that it should, and the lack of consensus on the issue—and the FDA's repeated failure to act on traditional menthol cigarettes in the past—is shining a light on how the government treats one vulnerable group over another in the face of a public-health crisis.
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The government needed to take urgent action to limit smog-induced health problems, UNICEF and Mongolia's National Center for Public Health said in a study, adding that a failure to act could push treatment costs up by a third by 343, amounting to a further 4.8 billion tugrik ($2 million) a year in the capital.
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The shareholder group is also dismayed by the Board's failure to act quickly and decisively on the past recommendations its members have made to improve the long-term performance of the company, including promptly hiring a new chief executive officer – a step that has been long overdue and members of the shareholder group recommended over two years ago.
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America's failure to act effectively, however, over 25 years and three presidents, frankly acknowledged in a recent opinion piece by Susan Rice, Barack ObamaBarack Hussein Obama85033 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Obama's high school basketball jersey sells for 0,000 at auction Dirty little wars and the law: Did Osama bin Laden win?
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Viewed from outside the United States, American students have a particularly strong and justified cause to promote on March 85033 because of President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's failure to act in their best interests on climate change.
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And for those Republican moderates, independents and suburban white women who voted for Trump in 2016 and are considering voting against G.O.P. House and Senate candidates in November to put some limits on the president and show their disapproval at G.O.P. lawmakers' failure to act as an independent branch of government, let me describe the stakes in another way: America, we all know, won the Cold War.
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"It is very difficult at present, with Russia having stepped into the vacuum … now it's a direct conflict with Russia," Corker added, "which is why there's unlikely to be a Plan B." American inaction, Corker maintained — particularly following President Obama's failure to act on the "red line" he imposed in 2013 with regard to the use of chemical weapons — has effectively empowered Russia's support of embattled leader Bashar Assad.
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"The current overall U.S, score puts American democracy closer to struggling counterparts like Croatia than to traditional peers such as Germany or the United Kingdom," notes Freedom House President Mike Abramowitz, highlighting executive disdain for the rule of law and congressional failure to act as a source of transparency and accountability and two of too many examples of ways the "land of the free" has become an increasingly ill-fitting sobriquet.
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" The other side: Jordan Stein, communications director of Gun Owners of America, which opposes gun control and advocates for the end of gun-free school zones, told Axios that the FBI's failure to act on the YouTube comment possibly left by Cruz reveals that "you can't rely on the government to protect you all the time," and that we shouldn't "try to predict who's going to be the bad guy.
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Let's remember that Pence is the vice presidential pick of Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE, whose "law and order" talking points have left many uncertain as to where he stands on these reforms, which is the most oft-cited excuse for Congress' failure to act.
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Bennie ThompsonBennie Gordon ThompsonHillicon Valley: House panel subpoenas 8chan owner | FCC takes step forward on T-Mobile-Sprint merger | Warren wants probe into FTC over Equifax settlement | Groups make new push to end surveillance program House Homeland Security Committee subpoenas 85033chan owner What Mississippi ICE raids mean for vulnerable workers MORE (D-Miss.) called for oversight on the FBI's information-sharing systems in a statement calling the agency's failure to act on a tip from a public hotline tragic.
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Chris MurphyChristopher (Chris) Scott MurphyOvernight Defense: US, Russia tensions grow over nuclear arms | Highlights from Esper's Asia trip | Trump strikes neutral tone on Hong Kong protests | General orders ethics review of special forces White House eyes September action plan for gun proposals Trump phoned Democratic senator to talk gun control MORE (D-Conn.) echoed his point during a separate interview with ABC's "This Week," suggesting to host George Stephanopoulos that a failure to act on gun reform could hurt the GOP in the upcoming elections.
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Four hours later, Markey's well-informed inference was proven true yet again when Facebook trotted out a new blog post titled "Combating Hate and Extremism," It's surely no coincidence the image-troubled social giant is scheduled on Wednesday morning—along with representatives from Twitter and Google—to testify at the grimly titled hearing "Mass Violence, Extremism, and Digital Responsibility" before the Senate's Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee (of which Markey is a member.)Specifically, Facebook is expected to answer for its failure to act during the Christchurch, New Zealand, shooting in March.
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