The Trump administration has also directed federal agencies to identify all impediments to oil and gas production — impediments that presumably include environmental reviews of energy projects.
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Being empowered to remove these impediments is another objective entirely.
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Locals can identify hidden resources as well as critical impediments.
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It's not as if my life is wanting for impediments.
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Gradually the impediments to rhythm emerge as its formative parts.
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We shouldn't try to put new impediments in our way.
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They see democratic institutions as burdens, impediments to their will.
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These issues continue to serve as impediments for these companies' development.
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Thus, significant structural impediments to rejoining the international community loom large.
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A day earlier she had outlined several impediments to congressional approval.
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It saw regulations and strong unions as impediments to this goal.
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Local governments themselves often serve as impediments to deployment, as well.
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Others in the White House treated the customary protocols as impediments.
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They have also cited structural impediments, like gender bias and Mrs.
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"The reality is we haven't closed the big impediments," he said.
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Those impediments could be small — slightly longer wait times, for example.
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There are, naturally, impediments of various kinds to implementing these ideas.
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It likely wasn't designed to reflect real-life speech impediments at all.
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He confronts us with what impediments prevent his name from being seen.
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That is, counter-intuitively, despite the removal of many impediments to sex.
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Both target impediments to advancement for individual families and the overall economy.
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As comical as that mistake was, other impediments ran perhaps even deeper.
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Most of the impediments or solutions are state driven, not federally driven.
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Not so much in the way of impediments to companies operating there.
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The impediments to effective investigations are not legal, but practical and political.
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You mentioned the impediments in Denmark to foreign ownership of law firms.
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That's a function of some serious impediments to getting into the business.
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Doctors caution that stress, anxiety and fear can be impediments to recovery.
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Here&aposs President Trump speaking with Sean Hannity about the impediments to change.
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The project has encountered countless impediments, but families have started to move in.
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Many problems and impediments to advancements in a police department stem from funding.
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Its many impediments to voting all disproportionately affect African-American and Latino voters.
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There are no meaningful impediments to federal investigation and prosecution of domestic terrorism.
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Before, providers had to grapple with strict political impediments to serving Florida patients.
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Nearly all of the impediments have been stripped away a long time ago.
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"In the US right now, there are lots of legal impediments," Byers argued.
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"It cleared away most of the impediments to successful tobacco litigation," Byers said.
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But persistent impediments have limited the chances for foreign investors to cash in.
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Yet myriad political, structural and cultural impediments exist far beyond the administration's walls.
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Impediments such as crowds, streetlights and scheduling concerns affect walking speed, of course.
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With few regulatory impediments, rebuilding should happen more quickly than it might otherwise.
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Conservatives are typically proponents of negative liberty: the freedom from constraints and impediments.
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If that turns into a real risk of policy change, impediments to trade, tariffs.
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There will not be any new legal impediments on cannabis imports, the watchdog said.
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By the end of summer, it was looking like the impediments were too high.
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The modernising forces that freed Jews from old impediments also provoked unease and anger.
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Stigma—especially in sports—is one of the main impediments to mental health treatment.
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Speech impediments are disabilities too, and need to be accounted for in the design.
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Such differences can lead to delays in funding and other impediments to effective operations.
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Two impediments may influence parents against the risk-free practice of banking cord blood.
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All we can do is clear away as many impediments to comprehension as possible.
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The ancient promise: the soul has thrown off its impediments and is flying away.
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After her accident, Ms. Bristo became acutely aware of the impediments she would face.
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Taken together, those policies have created a series of impediments for migrants seeking asylum.
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Let's ensure that all impediments to their success are removed once and for all.
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For innovators, the prospect of reinventing these conventional manufacturing processes is fraught with impediments.
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Ageist recruitment practices and corporate cultures can be big impediments to keeping older workers employed.
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The West Indies will not again be a cricket giant: they face too many impediments.
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This discourse is essential regardless of the practical impediments involved in having President Trump examined.
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Accomplishing this, though, requires an overhaul of work rules and other impediments to potential contractors.
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Because of the impediments to proving claims, according to the report, most have been denied.
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Volatility and uncertainty are some of the most dangerous impediments to rekindling the American economy.
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I am fortunate that I have no systemic impediments to any success I may achieve.
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"We still have transportation impediments," Jones said about people in his community, which is predominantly black.
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This suggests there is scope for European public issuance, although there are impediments to large deals.
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"One of the major impediments in social sciences is the lack of historical data," Murcio said.
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"We would view the impediments to execution on such a deal as very significant," it said.
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While Trump's opponents will stridently demand impeachment, that road, though possible, is strewn with substantial impediments.
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"Ending sanctions promises to ease impediments to importing products and collaborating with Western partners," he said.
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Loose impediments can now be removed anywhere on the course, simplifying what players need to know.
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Wireless: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is proposing to pull back "regulatory impediments" facing wireless companies.
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Cases with child victims do not have prosecutorial impediments because child pornography laws are so strict.
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Then he started thinking about all the impediments that no amount of hard work could overcome.
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From his first day on the job, President Donald Trump has created impediments to American security.
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Outmoded rules and unpredictable regulations are the greatest impediments on the road to growth and innovation.
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One of the most significant impediments to asteroid mining as a field was the legal challenges.
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Moyo ticks off seven headwinds — from aging societies to limited natural resources — as impediments to growth.
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It's now difficult for her to see you and your spouse as anything other than impediments.
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Similarly, Disney could throw up more impediments to the credential stuffing process in the first place.
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Sullenberger concluded the op-ed on a similar note to Biden's, addressing children with such impediments.
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Increase electricity to 24/7 would remove one of the biggest impediments to doing business. 7.
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A new NAFTA must open up trade, not create more impediments for U.S. businesses, he said.
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Luckily, a primer on how to mitigate such impediments to sexual satisfaction can be found here.
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Since my goal was to spend zero dollars, these were impediments that I'd have to work around.
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Because these nuclear bombs are smaller, there'd be fewer impediments to using them, per the administration's argument.
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One of the main impediments to striking a denuclearization deal is the question of who goes first.
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Most adult Medicaid recipients who do not work reported major impediments as the reason, according to Kaiser.
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Impediments like damaged roads and trucks, no fuel, and no drivers has left the aid supplies waiting.
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It's a stark reminder that neither talent nor self-awareness are impediments to being a sexual abuser.
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These ExoSuits can also be used by post-stroke patients and others with impediments to help walk.
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Those provisions alleviate two major impediments to companies seeking to tap existing equity capital markets in China.
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The proposal to remove impediments to autonomous vehicles comes at a time of skepticism around the technology.
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Europe has long been considered a more difficult place for activists due to cultural and structural impediments.
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Though up-to-date equipment is critical to preventing cyberattacks, healthcare creates unique impediments for updating systems.
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Prices of foreign goods would increase as a result of tariffs, quotas or other impediments to trade.
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Those provisions alleviate two major impediments to companies seeking to tap existing equity capital markets in China.
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"If there are any impediments to that meeting we would be very clear about this," Rhodes said.
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Perhaps because judges are the greatest impediments to autocratic rule, Trump has singled them out most insidiously.
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With Republicans poised to block his nominee, Obama could face serious impediments before his nominee is confirmed.
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The Help America Vote Act of 2002 sought to remove impediments, but advocates say many barriers remain.
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This is a time when we should be unleashing innovation, not arbitrarily putting up impediments to it.
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But "bureaucratic impediments" still slow the aid flow, both at Hodeidah and Aden ports, he told Reuters.
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In the face of enormous impediments, they've reported the truth, chastised evil and moved Chinese society forward.
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Xing, however, is confident that as society progresses, we will learn how to cope with any impediments.
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"I know there are some impediments there, hard feelings and strong views on both sides of that."
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And baseball won't touch the biggest impediments to that effort, because it would mean less money now.
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Similarly, mass shootings aren't viewed as tragedies but rather political opportunities or impediments, depending on the details.
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One of the impediments that has to be changed is how we score under our budget act.
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Mostly, the letters allude to the real-life impediments to their affair rather than addressing them directly.
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By actually writing out your distractions, you will be able to visualize the impediments to your singular focus.
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"Legal and bureaucratic impediments to surveillance should be removed," he wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.
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The political impediments to persuading entrenched upper-middle-class homeowners to embrace any kind of change are large.
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That lets him sidestep two of the main impediments to trade and investment in many parts of Africa.
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To reduce the market impediments, Texas is considering abolishing the regulation of the practice of cosmetology (and barbering).
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Second, developing strategies for reducing complacency — one of the most insidious impediments to strengthening nuclear security — is essential.
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We don't need any administrative impediments slowing what will already be a difficult process for so many people.
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Impediments from the Postal Service The Postal Service threw a major wrench in the works on May 20.
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Resolution 42, which took effect last month, could remove some of the legal impediments to effective loan resolution.
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The government should enact policies that allow us the freedom to chase the American dream without institutional impediments.
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"The board's chumminess and insularity were impediments to making those difficult, but necessary, decisions," Ms. McKeever said recently.
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Still, there are impediments to the free flow of information users of social media have come to expect.
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As you know, incentive structures matter, and it seems there are a lot of impediments on this front.
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What happens to human experience when so many obstacles and impediments and requirements and preparations have been removed?
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There are a bunch of fussy technical impediments to getting this done, and it would all cost money.
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Tariffs between the countries are already minimal, meaning there are relatively few trade impediments left to clear away.
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Reducing impediments to nuclear energy innovation should be high on the incoming president's list of energy policy priorities.
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Governments that received federal aid were required only to produce vague, nonbinding analyses of "impediments" to fair housing.
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Updating the tax code should focus on removing or at least reducing the main impediments to economic growth.
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And there are few impediments to either organization exporting their expertise to mount deadly operations here at home.
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"The reality is we haven't closed the big deal, the big impediments," the Alabama Republican said on Thursday.
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In Elbakyan's view, it's not just publishers who are impediments to science access — copyrights should be abolished, too.
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With uncommon force, her essays narrate the impediments that serious women have endured from the men in their lives.
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But Voiceitt also can be used to help people with speech impediments communicate face to face with other people.
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U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday outlined impediments to congressional approval, including concerns over labor and environmental protections.
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They understood that issues around the economics that are real impediments to women of color needed to be centered.
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Last month, Argentina's government overturned legal impediments to paying holdout creditors, thus meeting Griesa's requirements for lifting the injunctions.
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Nonetheless, he found himself stymied by the impediments that plague so many former inmates — not least, trouble finding work.
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Last month Argentina's government overturned legal impediments to paying holdout creditors, thus meeting Griesa's requirements for lifting the injunctions.
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McConnell spoke to the credibility of Mueller's investigation and said it should be allowed to conclude without any impediments.
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Mr. Rice scoffed at that notion, saying that the real impediments are the amounts offered by the opioid defendants.
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Whatever the eventual terms of trade across the English Channel, some of this commerce is likely to confront impediments.
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So she decided to go to France, where she thought her race and gender would not be insurmountable impediments.
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This would help eliminate major impediments to these quiet and environmentally friendly vehicles - range and charging time – increasing demand.
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While problems and impediments to development remain, decentralized international cooperation and exchange have been eradicating poverty at unprecedented levels.
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Even with those impediments, the rupture traveled at super-shear velocity, and it did so right from the start.
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Mr. Sloman correctly represented the existence of "significant legal impediments to [federally] prosecuting" what was a quintessentially state case.
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The Democratic candidate is Stacey Abrams, an African-American former legislator who opposes recent restrictions as impediments to minority voting.
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They face discrimination and violence over accusations their faith insults Islam, including impediments blocking them from voting in general elections.
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Eventually, the markets will respond to this by moving their productive capacity to places where they aren't facing these impediments.
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Aged six months to 11 years, they were skittish, malnourished, and frightened, and they "spoke with speech impediments," authorities say.
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For that reason, I am giving my company November 8th off to remove any impediments from their ability to vote.
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Others pointed to a lack of time or other practical impediments as reasons for their minimal involvement in the community.
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President Trump's pledge to remove regulatory impediments includes a mandate that, for every new rule written, two will be abolished.
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Building support But the White House has yet to solve the key impediments to building support for the tax plan.
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Saying that it is simply plays into the hands of the business interests who are the real impediments to progress.
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They forged institutions focused on reducing tariffs and other impediments to trade, with the World Trade Organization as the linchpin.
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"All of these impediments result in large numbers of people not voting in certain parts of the state," she said.
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Unfortunately, there are two recent additions to the doctor's world that serve as powerful impediments to improved communication between them.
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To justify communicating only by text, the military said, the decoys said they were hearing-impaired or had speech impediments.
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"However, it's very regrettable that, for reasons everyone is aware of, there are currently some impediments to cooperation," Xu said.
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Robotics industry experts said that goal could be a decade away, but they see few impediments to China's eventual dominance.
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The movement is also acutely image-conscious, seeing the burning crosses, swastikas and language of yesteryear as impediments to recruitment.
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Yet the idea of impeachment has moved steadily into the foreground of the Democratic imagination, despite the obvious practical impediments.
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"Our journalists have too many impediments in their path including the unacceptable risk of being treated as criminals," Anderson said.
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Cohn said business leaders are telling the White House that onerous regulations, high taxes and crumbling infrastructure are impediments to prosperity.
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Plus, white space tech offers better coverage than cellular since it isn't as hampered by radio blocking impediments like concrete walls.
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At the previous Vendée Globe, four years ago, only two yachts hit these impediments; before that, such collisions were unheard of.
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A lack of transparency and accountability, combined with high level of corruption, were impediments to greater private sector expansion, she noted.
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"This has been one of the main impediments for any significant outside interest in the SIFs," another local market participant said.
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There are geographic impediments and sovereign Native American lands on which a lot of the fencing would need to be constructed.
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But it's the unique combination of impediments, punishing conditions and lack of assistance that makes this race the stuff of legend.
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As the global economy continues to expand, the current impediments must be removed so that U.S. businesses are positioned to compete.
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Even if some voters offer "reasons that do not qualify as reasonable impediments...the state's interests would not be seriously undermined".
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These labor market impediments lead to fewer workers and higher prices, while failing to provide meaningful information about the service itself.
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The redevelopment of the site of the former airport of Athens, Hellinikon, has faced several impediments, including forestry and archaeological issues.
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There are daily impediments and personal, healthcare, or circumstantial obstacles that can complicate the pursuit of office for people with disabilities.
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But beyond the technical impediments to a consumable 8K reality, it's becoming clear that it's pretty damn hard to enjoy 8K.
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Validating the technology and doing it in a way that's not prohibitively expensive are the main impediments rather than technological barriers.
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Meanwhile, the Trump administration has declared open season on regulations that the business community says are impediments to growth (meaning profitability).
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Banks are in decent shape and there need not be structural impediments holding back growth once we pass this particular episode.
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Ms. Merkel underscored that both were impediments to better ties, and there seems little movement possible from Moscow on either front.
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Apart from Comey and the Russia investigation, Trump has systematically attacked the institutions of American life that he sees as impediments.
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And Mr. Bannon's political opponents believe his departure has removed one of the biggest impediments to stability inside the White House.
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Similarly, the UK either remains in the customs union, or it faces the imposition of tariffs and other impediments on trade.
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"Those kinds of impediments probably aren't going to be affected by changing interest rates, but might be affected in other ways."
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"I own a minimal number of things, so that the moment I can, I can leave without any impediments," he said.
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He added that longtime suppliers of fresh New Zealand products to China had already faced "non-tariff impediments" at Chinese ports.
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Issues like gerrymandering and voter suppression are major impediments that make it seem like every vote doesn't count—but each one does.
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Questions like: Why isn't there any evidence that real-life speech impediments were considered as even a touchstone for this title's development?
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We anticipate Australian growth drivers weakening further, with increased global uncertainty creating additional impediments to Australia's transition away from mining-led growth.
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"President Trump would be confronted by two very important impediments — resources and the constitution," said Muzaffar Chishti, director the Migration Policy Institute.
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The main impediments to Africans making and selling more things are rapacious governments, potholed roads, inefficient ports and power lines without electricity.
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If President Trump truly wants to make the deal of the century, he'll need to remove the stated impediments to that deal.
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Democrats won't accept GDP-based spending caps, new impediments to raising revenue, or continuing the debt limit, which a BBA should replace.
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In conversation it became clear that he is more certain of the impediments of the present than the path toward the future.
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Multiple sclerosis is a chronic autoimmune condition that affects the nerves and can cause symptoms like tremors, balance problems, and speech impediments.
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Other multiple sclerosis symptoms include muscle weakness, balance and coordination difficulty, partial or complete paralysis, numbness, pain, speech impediments, tremors, and dizziness.
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They have the experience, intuition, skills and attitude that melt away obstacles, pitfalls and impediments, making success not just possible, but probable.
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They should first lower regulatory impediments to private deployment, expedite permitting and licensing, and assist private providers in obtaining rights-of-way.
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"Hate speech and harassment are real impediments to attracting new users," said Michael Pachter, managing director of the investment firm Wedbush Securities.
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Ms. Dooley sees the Trump administration's tariffs on solar-panel imports as the latest in a series of impediments to clean energy.
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The hard-line Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and various religious institutions, which control much of the economy, are major impediments to reform.
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The generals regarded indigenous communities in the Amazon as impediments to development and drew them out of remote villages to assimilate them.
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The overwork they face contributes to the plague of backlogs and delays that Governor Cuomo rightly identifies as critical impediments to justice.
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Michelson thus posits Snow's film as an ultimate expression of voyeurism: a scopophilic pleasure, where vision is absolute, unhampered by physical impediments.
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His anti-environmental position, which erroneously frames forest protections and human rights as impediments to Brazil's economic growth, is fueling the fires.
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But as the Trump administration begins renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement, company executives worry about potential new impediments to trade.
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" Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta, the Vatican's chief sex crime investigator, called Francis' decree an "epochal decision that removes obstacles and impediments.
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What are you doing to try to face down the impediments that investors may face in terms of investing in a Chevron?
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Islamic jurists have argued in the past that impediments can include political powers, which can lead to armed struggle against established governments.
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The additional material -- storage containers, traffic barriers and razor wire -- will "act as impediments to illegal crossers," Customs and Border Protection said.
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They face all kinds of impediments to truly advance into management positions at tech companies and get funding for their own startups.
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" She added: "We also admire the Gogol Center actors' decision to perform tonight, not to cancel the play despite the sudden impediments.
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Still, most groups were supportive of the direction of the Department's self-driving plan and see little reason for concerns about testing impediments.
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In 1990 the two countries agreed to a "Structural Impediments Initiative", which bears a striking resemblance to the crux of the debate today.
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And he must stress that both building outside the barrier and unilateral annexation are dangerous impediments to what he calls the "ultimate deal".
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But I would argue that we are -- we already face tariffs, we already face all kinds of impediments to access to their marketplace.
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Kirill laments that modern relativism makes it hard to preach the Gospel but fails to mention that worse impediments existed in the past.
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U.S. impediments to Chinese trade would hurt China, but U.S. companies — and farmers — would likely also lose access to China's growing middle class.
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I'll circle back to the #MeToo comparison because I think it's a bad one, but there are also legal and structural impediments here.
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Old - Two-stroke penalty for removing loose impediments, such as stones and leaves, in bunker, as long as your ball does not move.
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Declining numbers and bureaucratic impediments alone, however, do not convey the depth of Pruitt and Trump's misguided leadership in obstructing EPA's enforcement work.
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And lawmakers were right to support this legislation, so that we can remove these prosecutorial impediments and take human traffickers off the streets.
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As an Android manufacturer, then, you have to overcome a series of impediments just to get on an even footing with the iPhone.
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Like Warren, Buttigieg wants to remove the impediments to public and municipal broadband options that have been put in place over the years.
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On March 16, Argentina's lower house of Congress supported Macri's legislative efforts, voting 165 to 86 in favor of removing those legal impediments.
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Both sides have committed to avoiding customs checks and other border impediments that might rekindle violence in the British province of Northern Ireland.
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While their adjusted prices should be converging — if you assume the merger will be completed without significant impediments — the spread remains unusually wide.
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But none of these impediments stand in the way of Democrats pursuing one of the most popular causes of the Resistance: voting rights.
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Both sides agree that the bill would reduce impediments to deploying the technology, but it would at least partially preempt state regulatory authority.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke to the credibility of Mueller's investigation and said it should be allowed to conclude without any impediments.
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"If war breaks out in a situation like this, it is inevitable that there will be great impediments in combat operations," he wrote.
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For Kuma, the scale of the place has meant fewer impediments to his true passions: working with local craftsmen and using local materials.
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The other believes institutions are often impediments and must be remade, dismantled and resembled in order to do the will of the people.
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Contagion from the weak Chinese economy influencing the U.S. economy, volatile financial markets, and an adequate, reasonable cost labor supply are potential impediments.
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Mitchell's final case is the killing of Vernon Dahmer Sr., an N.A.A.C.P. activist who fought to remove racist impediments to voting in Mississippi.
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But he distinguishes that sort of jihad from what in Islam is often called "offensive jihad," removing impediments to the spreading of Islam.
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But impediments to a truce remain, with a U.S. bill on human rights in Hong Kong being a potential sticking point with China.
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Their deployment has been delayed by bureaucratic impediments, a lack of visas and conflicting statements by ministers, according to the United Nations chief.
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Distribution is slowed not only by the destroyed roads, downed trees, buildings, and other physical impediments, but also the lack of qualified drivers.
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Divisions among non-Taliban Afghans have been major impediments in the Afghan government's effectiveness and will weaken their hand in intra-Afghan negotiations.
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That means ironing out what he sees as regulatory impediments, and even investing tax dollars into building docks for airships in the north.
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While India has strengthened its anti-trafficking policy in recent years, activists say a lack of public awareness remains one of the biggest impediments.
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Bourgeois added there should be no place for tariffs or other impediments to trade in the upcoming negotiations between the European Union and Britain.
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The World Bank noted that the most substantial medium-term risks are associated with private investment recovery, which continues to face several domestic impediments.
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The global scale, significant infrastructure required to comply with increasing regulatory standards and long history of investor acceptance serve as impediments to new entrants.
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China, which never faced democratic impediments to swift action, is both more outward-looking and aggressive, establishing and cementing economic and financial ties globally.
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Moody's said separately on Wednesday that a successful trade deal resolution would not be enough to remove the country's impediments to faster economic growth.
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The market "corrections" that are made are empirically a big, if not the biggest, source of impediments to the functioning of competitive transactional processes.
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" The Justice Department said each of the inmates had "exhausted their appellate and post-conviction remedies, and currently no legal impediments prevent their executions.
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Investigations into alleged Russian meddling in last year's U.S. presidential election are seen as potential impediments to President Donald Trump implementing his economic agenda.
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During that time he became known for attacking the 35-hour working week - seen as one of the biggest impediments to the French economy.
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Comcast faces a number of potential challenges to overcome in structuring a deal, none more formidable than the regulatory impediments posed by a deal.
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Mr. McCormack pointed out that, nationwide, HUD no longer requires communities that receive government money to submit an "analysis of impediments" to fair housing.
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In fact, by focusing on these impediments to competition, a twofold benefit could be achieved: opportunity becomes realized easier and life becomes more affordable.
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The reasons for the decline appear to be both political and logistical, with lower voter enthusiasm and newly enacted impediments to voting at play.
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Emanuel would soon be forced to admit that the same patterns of perjury and abuse had continued under his watch without any real impediments.
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One was Robert Brulle, a sociologist at Drexel University who became a vital guide to the vast literature on behavioral impediments to environmental action.
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They deal out stat buffs, essential healing, or cast a variety of impediments on the enemy—you know how this sort of thing goes.
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He added that Trump had a "Karmic problem," because he "didn't know how to express himself," but that he was successful despite his impediments.
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These are five mind-sets that apparently are impediments to successful careers: Captain Fantastic, Solo Flyer, Version 1.0, One Trick Pony and Whirling Dervish.
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Trade disputes at the W.T.O. involving Russia and Ukraine will almost certainly feature the invocation of national security concerns to justify impediments to trade.
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Mr. Mueller may have practical or policy reasons for staying his hand in finding obstruction, but he needn't worry about the proffered legal impediments.
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Addressing the policy, political and cultural impediments that prevent working families from thriving has been a top priority of mine for over three decades.
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Too-big-to-fail financial institutions were both a source of the crisis and among the primary impediments to policymakers' efforts to contain it.
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More militarization means more abuse, more corruption, more interior checkpoints, more racial profiling, more unwarranted searches, and more impediments to legitimate trade and travel.
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Despite the widespread media narrative, the impediments to Russo-American progress have less to do with Trump's aptitude for foreign policy than Russian realpolitik.
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And laws and regulations, such as those that prevent the hiring of convicted felons, could be impediments to revitalizing an area like central Brooklyn.
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The legislation introduced on Thursday would enforce no immediate action but remove legal impediments to it being reburied when authorities judged the time right.
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When the Supreme Court returned the case to the 11th Circuit, it again refused to examine the racial bias claim, offering new procedural impediments.
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He cast all impediments as the products of a corrupt political system that could be overcome through a mass mobilization of the popular will.
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But in fact, the absence of climate from the election was entirely predictable, indeed overdetermined, as the result of multiple overlapping dysfunctions and impediments.
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Last year, the president created the Apprenticeship Task Force and issued an executive order to identify and remove the bureaucratic and regulatory impediments to apprenticeships.
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The works are seen as products without impediments, commodities to be consumed by the viewer, another designated tourist site in the flowing circuitry of art.
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The most obvious impediments to local broadband competition are laws that exist in 23 states that restrict local communities from building their own broadband networks.
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It will take a fuller disclosure of his report to grasp how "difficult" he considered the factual and legal impediments to that conclusion to be.
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That could go a long way toward clearing away international agreements that have been among the impediments to decriminalization of marijuana by the U.S. government.
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Even still, the more modest measures were sure to spark a confrontation with Republicans and gun rights groups that oppose new impediments to buying guns.
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But many astronauts and other experts suggest the biggest impediments to making this (and moon missions in general) a reality are banal and somewhat depressing.
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The agency would then be forced to dissolve, thereby removing one of the major impediments, however imperfect, to greater accountability in the federal civil service.
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Each of them has "exhausted their appellate and post-conviction remedies, and currently no legal impediments prevent their executions," the department said in a statement.
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The agreement required the county to submit a so-called "analysis of impediments" to affordable housing, saying Westchester should sue towns and villages, if necessary.
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Since then it has been restricted to government employees who have no reason or face serious impediments to discussing their findings in the public forum.
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The report from the Government Accountability Office says the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center faces a number of impediments to safeguarding the nation's cybersecurity.
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These are positive developments, but major impediments continue to undermine this work as a result of flawed design and execution in the current healthcare law.
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Unita and another opposition coalition, disputing the results, criticized what they called impediments to voters and a lack of transparency in the tabulation of votes.
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The discussions will focus on resolving the impediments to peace negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians, but will also cover combating extremism, the official said.
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Today, police officers with dogs patrol the area around the building, but the main impediments to traffic are tourists stopping outside it for sidewalk selfies.
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But Hokuren officials say more tests are needed to ensure that vehicles can handle impediments like snowy or icy roads or changes in traffic lights.
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It is an effort to clear what Christie said in a statement were "statutory and contractual impediments" that interfere with New Jersey's public school system.
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The Trump administration has also created a series of impediments for migrants seeking asylum in the US that could dash Africans' hopes of reaching safety.
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WASHINGTON — For years, America's trade agreements have tried to break down economic barriers between nations by removing tariffs and other impediments to cross-border commerce.
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"We're not seeing that any cities feel like it's going to be impossible to adopt or any unsolvable impediments to integration for these technologies," said Kosak.
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Luckily for kids like Summer, the school's staff is not afraid of asking what impediments might be keeping its students from doing their best in school.
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As many people in China see it, America's behaviour is further confirmation of a long-held belief that America wants to create impediments to China's rise.
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"However, these circumstances are not impediments created by the State of Georgia that require it to provide an extension to the voter registration deadline," he said.
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But even as governments remove certain legal impediments, as India did two years ago, the task of getting relief to those in pain can be daunting.
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This is hard to do when you're famous; busy schedules and the befuddling power dynamic that comes with such high status can be impediments to intimacy.
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A report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) shows that employers cited regulatory complexity and fear of liability as major impediments to offering a retirement plan.
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To effectively leverage this opportunity, the Pentagon must identify critical impediments to generating military-technical advantage and develop a change program capable of overcoming these challenges.
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It's impossible to know what goals she might have formed for herself in the absence of so many impediments, or what else she might have achieved.
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Iran's return to the global crude market and a potential recovery in shale production – if prices continue to rise steadily – could yet prove to be impediments.
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Game 4 is scheduled for Tuesday, and Indians Manager Terry Francona said Monday that Corey Kluber would get the start, presumably without any drone-related impediments.
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It now translates simply into investors and corporations getting their wish list fulfilled with the removal of any and all impediments to their cross-border activities.
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The cutoff is supposed to prevent freeloading, but it mainly affects people who have low skills, arrest records, substance abuse problems or other impediments to employment.
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It expects to idle its Model 3 assembly line for several days to clear impediments that have held production well below the electric-car company's targets.
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It's particularly hard for people to scramble up when they come from violent homes, poor schools or foster care, or face impediments of race or class.
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Because I know that even if it did eradicate S.M.A., the disability community will still be plagued by unnecessary and unfair impediments to equality and justice.
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What is needed is a dramatic change in the dynamic of the conflict to mitigate the current major impediments, without which there will be no solution.
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Why the numbers are lacking One of the greatest impediments to understanding the scope of police sexual assault is the victims' reluctance to report the crime.
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During the 2016 election the US Government Accountability Office surveyed 178 polling places and reported that 60% had one or more potential impediments for voters with disabilities.
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The best answer might be to leave well enough alone, instead of adding new impediments for firms and financial institutions to play a role in global markets.
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We might have a social and political revolution when enough of us realize that becoming educated enough to perceive the institutional impediments to social progress isn't sufficient.
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But with the labor market strengthening and some of the impediments to growth largely temporary, economists expect output to pick up in the first quarter of 2016.
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Countless studies, including a 2018 report from Harvard Business Review, tell of how women continue to face significant impediments in the workplace, compared to their male colleagues.
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Moreover, we need to be thoughtful about how impediments to adoption, like affordability, are an important part of the digital equity equation and our national broadband challenge.
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The new administration aims to bring down public debt and implement reforms that would address many of the structural impediments to growth identified by the European Commission.
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Possible Impediments to Solar Energy Growth Legislation such as the Clean Air Act passed in 1955 favor renewable energy production as it comes with no pollutant emissions.
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"The Big Bang Theory" eschewed the usual sitcom gimmicks — cliffhangers, last-minute objections, crazy impediments — and married off two of its characters in the 11th-season finale.
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As a trial judge put it, the law "sweeps away" any "federal or state law impediments that might otherwise exist" to letting the plaintiffs obtain the money.
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McCormack said Westchester has been working with a federal monitor and a consultant hired to study fair housing impediments to complete its remaining obligations under the decree.
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However, there is no timeline for the next round of negotiation's conclusion and major impediments to progress, including differing views on intellectual property protections and technology sharing.
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But the United States already faces "all kinds of impediments" to gaining access to the Chinese marketplace, including tariffs, subsidization of industries and theft of intellectual property.
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But the potential effects on national security extend beyond military bases: The disruption of a variety of worldwide gatherings is erecting impediments to long-term security planning.
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Impediments to humanitarian efforts in recent years have included the destruction of health facilities, denials of access for aid workers, deportations and the killings of aid workers.
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He built, layer by layer, impediments in Central America, at the border, in detention centers, and in the immigration courts that have made obtaining asylum nearly impossible.
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Based on initial findings from the study, it says there are "reasonable grounds" for suspecting serious impediments to competition in the online platforms and digital advertising market.
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Greenblatt has frequently tweeted criticisms of Palestinian officials and others who have disagreed with the Trump administration or whom he views as impediments to the peace process.
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"Since sometimes a concussed athlete may actually not be fully aware of their impediments very early after concussion, teammates should look out for each other," Giza added.
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The federal government had contended that municipalities in Westchester used exclusionary zoning practices, and had asked the county to submit an "analysis of impediments" to affordable housing.
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That's also true for getting to a destination a car can neither take you to easily — because of congestion or other impediments — nor take you there affordably.
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These structural impediments to lawmaking were no bugs in the system but the point of the design: a deliberate and jealous effort to preserve room for individual liberty.
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It's true that Ryan has had limited success in enacting his agenda, but the impediments there have uniformly been in the United States Senate, not the White House.
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The tribunal said there were no legal impediments to stretching the life or altering the terms of the contract for La Loma mine when it ends in 2019.
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The negotiations are focused on both reducing the U.S. trade deficit with China and eliminating some of the systemic impediments to foreign firms succeeding in Asia's largest economy.
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In Florida, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri and North Carolina, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump faced perhaps their last serious impediments to securing, respectively, the Democratic and Republican presidential tickets.
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"We know there are so many impediments to folks voting," Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who introduced the proposal, said at a Thursday meeting, according to the Times.
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They will share the same message on Capitol Hill and with regulatory agencies that President Trump heard: Remove regulatory impediments and let us accelerate the American economy again.
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"Google and Facebook are the instigators behind these improvements, slowly shifting user behavior over time in ways that we believe will be long-term impediments to Yelp's engagement."
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No matter the scale of crises or the structural impediments to reform, liberal incrementalism was the only answer, because everything else has proved to lead to mass murder.
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In order for automakers to overcome impediments as they transform their businesses, they need to create significant networks in the new auto space through partnerships and tech investments.
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" The group said the FCC should "concentrate on eliminating federal regulatory impediments to innovation and investment - where there remains to be much that can and should be done.
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These decisions have yielded contractual impediments, staffing practices, and benefit obligations that make it hard to pay teachers well — especially in an economically struggling state like West Virginia.
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Impediments to this process and mounting barriers affect public confidence in the process and can derail the efforts to give citizens a voice in the public policy process.
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The great danger is that the White House could one day be held by a Trumpian disciple who is actually competent at bypassing the constitutional impediments to tyranny.
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He said Galanis stood apart from other defendants suffering from issues like drug addiction or mental illness in that he faced few impediments to doing well in life.
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That was such a beautiful illustration of how when we fix our mind on something, all the gnats, flies, mosquitoes, worries, doubts and impediments really get pushed aside.
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Mr. Trump has also had help from the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, in lowering impediments and keeping the confirmation assembly line moving.
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"Estamos Buscando A" ("We're Looking For") is an account of the human cost of the various impediments — walls, fences and natural features — along the Mexico-United States border.
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Congress shouldn't be clamoring about funding the wall — they should be looking to prior federal land acquisitions for major projects as evidence of the impediments that lie ahead.
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The inquiry will look into what agencies knew -- or should have known -- about the gunman's access to weapons or any impediments into the sharing of information, she said.
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The best solutions remove the obstacles, remove the impediments, remove the inhibitors that modern workers face—and they do it in a way that anyone can easily understand.
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Those practices include not only sexual harassment, but also persistent disparities in pay and promotion, as well as structural impediments — in child care, scheduling and other workplace policies.
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Yet with all this, stocks' ability to ignore potential threats could be tested come August by two potential impediments, as seasonal headwinds and elevated investor sentiment come together.
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Industrialists have cited power supply as one of the big impediments to reviving their businesses in Aleppo, a city which enjoyed 24-hour-a-day electricity before the war.
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Amid other impediments Senators Ron Wyden of Oregon and Rand Paul of Kentucky had publicly vowed to filibuster any version of the bill allowing for such a lengthy extension.
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Activists say one of the biggest impediments to curbing human trafficking is the lack of understanding about the crime amongst communities, as well as among local police and officials.
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The note also called on China to reform state-owned enterprises, enhance its social safety net, open more sectors to private and foreign investment and remove impediments to trade.
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Elevation affects breathing, weather can add impediments and even danger, and the terrain of the trail -- rocks, tree roots, inclines -- threatens twisted ankles and falls along some steep ledges.
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"The children appeared to be skittish and spoke with speech impediments," prosecutor Veronica Juarez wrote in a request last week to raise the father&aposs bail to $5.2 million.
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Various impediments, including legal challenges and protests by ultra-rightist groups, seemed to have been overcome as the necessary laws were voted through parliament in 2016 and early 2017.
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VOICE = SURVIVAL contains some wrong turns and dead ends, but these impediments are few and do not detract from the sublime experience of listening to activists speaks their truth.
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Nevertheless, these impediments are few and do not detract from the sublime experience of listening to activists like Pat Parker who speaks her truth through another archival audio recording.
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"Anything that creates impediments at the border, extra tariffs or new taxes is something we are concerned with," he said, warning of harm to the Canadian and U.S. economies.
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There can be no question that the world is better off when old adversaries have fewer impediments to interaction and more reliable mechanisms for managing or even averting crises.
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"If EPA is going to use an extraordinary action like a waiver, then at least EPA must remove any structural impediments that prevent penetration of renewable fuels," Alonso said.
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Even without impediments, agencies might be dissuaded from hiring immigrants, regardless of their legal status, and patients may fear that their immigrant aide could be deported at any moment.
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Other impediments include a Senate that refuses to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and Pakistan, which has blocked negotiations on a treaty to halt production of fissile material.
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"There will be an announced real effort on how we are going in those states to make sure people get past those impediments and have a turnout," he said.
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The Pacific deal — largely because it involves a number of emerging economies — is a more traditional trade accord aimed mainly at cutting tariffs and knocking down impediments to trade.
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With consumer spending suppressed by the flight of residents to other areas, any efforts to attract visitors were more than offset by demographic impediments, a recipe for continued struggles.
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Shifting away from consensus-based decision-making and enacting reforms to reduce potential impediments to his agenda, he has consolidated power on a scale not seen since Mao Zedong.
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Democratic House speaker Pelosi said earlier on Wednesday that she sees several impediments to congressional approval of USMCA, including enforcement tools, labor and environmental protections and provisions on pharmaceuticals.
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British lawmakers, concerned that teenagers faced few impediments accessing pornography on the internet, approved a bill last year designed to prevent those under 18 from viewing X-rated sites.
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The best explanation I've seen of those differences is an essay by Will Wilkinson, who notes that Sanders typically avoids or waves aside questions about procedure or structural impediments.
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She'll argue that many working-class Americans choose not to run for office because of the financial impediments, according to a copy of her request shared with The Hill.
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With few impediments now, a burst of fresh projects are either being planned, under construction or completed, their crowns blending into the skyline of downtown and the Brickell neighborhood.
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Shurin added that researchers often face a host of impediments to working in Colombia, and the issue of Escobar's escapees appears to have received minimal attention within the scientific community.
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EU leaders remain committed to sovereignty over their trade and security policies, yet there are three main impediments to the plan's success: The power and reach of U.S. secondary sanctions.
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We need to focus on companies' organizational impediments that lead to low retention – women enter the workforce in equal numbers as men, but for multiple reasons, don't stay the course.
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The report, produced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, places Duterte alongside Cambodia's Hun Sen, the Rohingya crisis and Thailand's military-backed constitution as impediments to democracy.
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There are the usual impediments to exposing abusers: the defamation lawsuits, the well-oiled intimidation machines, the burden of finding witnesses who can corroborate stories about one-on-one encounters.
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We joke around while I cook, and I like to remind him that certain little things about his place are impediments to us ever living together...like really disorganized cabinets.
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As we gamely entered Play's tidy bathroom, it was immediately clear that he'd had come up against all the same impediments to the enjoyment of shower sex as I had.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - The United States on Monday called on Moscow to stop creating impediments to peace in Syria and to be a "constructive partner" to ending the seven-year conflict.
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The hearing will address potential impediments to data localization laws, which require companies to store certain types of data, like the personal information of its citizens, within its own borders.
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For decades, lawmakers from the right and the left have found creative ways to sidestep the wise impediments put in the way of giving the federal government too much power.
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United States trade officials have for the first time added China's system of Internet filters and blocks — broadly known as the Great Firewall — to an annual list of trade impediments.
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Their resistance has emerged as one of the most important impediments to Mr. Trump's candidacy, threatening to put several major swing states, like Michigan and Pennsylvania, entirely out of reach.
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A hearing on Friday in Manhattan will explore the recommendations of the federal monitor in the case to enlist a consultant to analyze impediments to fair housing in several municipalities.
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On Thursday, McIntosh said, the campaign will enter a second phase, where it calls out by name 10 moderate Republicans whom the group believes are impediments to passing the bill.
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The goal of reminding people that they are entitled to paid leave to vote could "reduce some of the impediments and excuses that people have for not voting," he added.
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But as the government moves to make Aadhaar mandatory for an increasing amount of important services, bureaucratic and technical impediments have actually prevented many from getting the welfare they need.
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Acting U.S. Secretary of State John Sullivan called on Moscow to stop creating impediments to peace in Syria and to play a role in ending the seven-year-long conflict.
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"If Beale Street Could Talk" portrays Tish and Fonny's fleeting happiness but also doesn't sugarcoat the impediments to it created by a system that treats young blacks as less than.
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"This devastation is directly related to President Bolsonaro's anti-environmental rhetoric, which erroneously frames forest protections and human rights as impediments to Brazil's economic growth," Poirier said in a statement.
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The Army expects delayed procurement of the Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense system, as well as impediments on the development of land-based hypersonic missiles and next-generation combat vehicles.
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Perhaps most interestingly, Barr took over as attorney general at a time when unauthorized migration from Mexico was rising and when there were few physical impediments to crossing the border.
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Our staff from the International Rescue Committee and the Norwegian Refugee Council work every day to navigate a byzantine set of inspections and impediments to assist communities in desperate need.
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However, the recent attention to urban density restrictions and impediments to affordability and economic growth suggests there may be progress in state and local housing battles in the near future.
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"In order to attract a broader audience, we wanted to remove any impediments to opening an IBKR account," Thomas Peterffy, chairman and CEO of Interactive Brokers, said in a release.
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Research by the Ohio Association of Food Banks found that many SNAP recipients have serious impediments to work, such as undiagnosed disabilities, said Lisa Hamler-Fugitt, the group's executive director.
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The storms also made it harder for people to treat pre-existing health conditions, and Walden said he'd be looking at any impediments to people getting the treatments they need.
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Svinicki is expected to lead an effort at NRC to remove regulatory impediments to new reactor development, as the first applications come in for licensing small modular and advanced reactors.
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Mostly to fill out a story that's told in the first person, the movie gives him other impediments, including a dull, wealthy social set and some gauzy, panting fantasy scenes.
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"In place of any practical road map to enacting his ideas, Sanders substitutes the 'political revolution,' an event he invokes constantly that will sweep aside all impediments," writes Jonathan Chait.
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A last-minute corollary to the ID law, added in an apparent attempt to improve its chances of surviving a pending federal lawsuit, exempts voters with "reasonable impediments" to ID access.
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The 5-Star and the right have enough seats in parliament to govern Italy, but there are many impediments to such a deal in terms of policy mismatches and personality clashes.
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That means removing legal or regulatory impediments for new firms, and untying knots of data and patents controlled by one firm so that they are available, on commercial terms, to everyone.
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"Because if the European Union decides to introduce impediments to trade or investment that don't exist today, that sends a global message about Europe's lack of competitiveness in the global context".
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But the backdoors would only be voluntary to a point, because the governments say that they might mandate a way in if they "continue to encounter impediments" to accessing encrypted data.
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"Adequacy decisions can only be taken in respect of third countries, and there are therefore legal impediments to having such decisions in place at the moment of exit," the report notes.
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Meanwhile, Mary Jackson (Monae, having a very big transition-to-acting year with "Moonlight" and now this) yearns to become an engineer, despite some serious impediments due to Jim Crow segregation.
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Those compounding factors include the rise of remote working, which has created geographic impediments, and the advent of job rating sites, which have made it easier for employees to complain anonymously.
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Obama had promised to close the Guantanamo detention facility during his first campaign for the presidency, but has faced impediments from Congress, including a ban on transfers to the United States.
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Brazil's attorney general, Jose Eduardo Cardozo, denied the government was trying to shield Lula from prosecution and said there were no legal or political impediments for him to join the cabinet.
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That's why it's vital that the migration routes of our wildlife — and the habitat these routes connect — remain as free as possible of human-made impediments such as roads and development.
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She also found the county in breach for failing to complete an analysis acceptable to the Department of Housing and Urban Development of race-based and other impediments to fair housing.
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The value of exports has merely stagnated in FY17, despite a partial recovery in USD commodity prices, reflecting a challenging external environment and persistent impediments to cost and non-cost competitiveness.
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The conspiracy theorists point to the hazards of the Van Allen belts, two donut-shaped belts of radiation that encircle the Earth, as the first major impediments to a lunar mission.
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The criminal cases sit trapped in a legal limbo common to politically sensitive investigations in Mexico, where corruption remains one of the greatest impediments to the country's fledgling rule of law.
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Mr. Rogers, whose BikingInLA blog is an unofficial cyclist safety watchdog, said impediments to safety improvements came back to drivers feeling that sharing the road with cyclists and pedestrians is optional.
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Accessibility had improved since 2000, the G.A.O. concluded, but the great majority still had impediments outside — like steep ramps or inadequate parking — or inside that could discourage or exclude disabled voters.
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He said one main role of central banks in the development of fintech would be to remove impediments to different parties, ensuring a "level playing field" so good ideas aren't excluded.
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Other indicators, including the January jobs report next week, will offer insights into the year just begun — and whether subpar manufacturing, trade upheaval and other impediments to growth can be overcome.
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If the United States fails to overcome impediments and dedicate adequate investments toward progress on 5G, then China may succeed in getting ahead with a decisive advantage in this new frontier.
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A plan by the Federal Communications Commission focuses on auctions of spectrum and tackles regulatory impediments to constructing small cells, but the American rollout of 28503G has been uneven at best.
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Regulatory reform is a second building block for growth by weakening impediments to investment in energy and utilities, while overhauling financial regulation to improve credit availability for small and midsize firms.
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District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos struck down the law in 2014, ruling that it violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by imposing unconstitutional impediments on the right to vote.
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Under the era of military rule, the Brazilian government regarded indigenous communities as impediments to the development of areas that were rich in minerals or that could be turned into farmland.
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There are many impediments to the adoption of the federal capital budget but none of them are significant enough to stand in the way of this idea whose time has come.
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You've created impediments, whether it's intellectual property protection or we don't have access to certain markets or things like that," and say, "That's not helping you, nor is it helping us.
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The bill was given special protections from the normal delays and impediments of the legislative process — notably, it was protected from the Senate filibuster and could only be debated for 210 hours.
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On a national level, India's SaaS community seems to mimic a broader dynamic in India's tech industry, where critical structural impediments stand in the country's path to becoming a dominant innovation economy.
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"I think the only guiding principle that we have from the Trump administration is that…there'll be fewer impediments to using military force, whether it's drone strikes or air strikes," said Gettinger.
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In another, officials were made to heave heavy clods of clay into the air repeatedly as punishment for allowing such impediments to farming to accumulate on land they are in charge of.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's disenfranchised Ahmadi community released an annual report on Saturday that detailed growing hostilities against the minority sect, including indiscriminate arrests and impediments blocking them from voting in general elections.
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A planned sales tax hike, the petering out of public works spending related to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as well as a deepening labor shortage were cited as impediments to future growth.
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Founders considering this kind of arrangement should give serious thought to skipping the process and building out a less concentrated revenue base with fewer impediments while your competitors fight to the death.
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Earlier on Wednesday, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, said she sees several impediments to congressional approval of USMCA, including enforcement tools, labor and environmental protections and provisions on pharmaceuticals.
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But other impediments include delays while the courts figured out how to interpret the original 1963 law, according to Vasu Reddy, senior policy counsel for the National Partnership for Women and Families.
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This has left France with a rigid labor market, as exemplified by the country still being stuck with a 85033-hour work week and by the many impediments to firing an employee.
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Attacks on treatment centers by armed groups and mistrust among residents who view the disease as a conspiracy have become major impediments to containing Democratic Republic of Congo's worst-ever Ebola outbreak.
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Even those that are not enemies of the U.S. may be enemies of success—corruption, bureaucracy, lack of accountability, and the inertia plaguing the Middle East—are strong impediments to Pax Americana.
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It's quite clear to everyone that the bilateral relationship are going through a complicated stage, and yet those impediments -- the current tension, the tense atmosphere -- essentially have no solid reason behind it.
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Her determined effort to overcome the impediments that waylaid other women who have sought the presidency now offers fresh evidence to critics that she is driven by a craven thirst for power.
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"In short, Act 620 would do little or nothing for women's health, but rather would create impediments to abortion, with especially high barriers set before poor, rural, and disadvantaged women," he wrote.
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Like Detroit, Puerto Rico suffers from inefficient accounting services, dated infrastructure and other major impediments to economic growth – in addition to a crushing debt load from multiple creditors that threatened its ruin.
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But "insisting on legal identity requirements for accessing rights and services could have the effect of further excluding the most marginalized, who face serious impediments to obtaining a legal identity," said Sperfeldt.
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We would clear out the bureaucratic impediments to innovation and a more competitive marketplace while giving individuals and small businesses the ability to pool together and gain the purchasing power of millions.
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Mr. Pressman said it had been "unable to function," largely because of impediments imposed by the government, much like those established by the government of Sudan that the South Sudanese once fought.
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But for the disadvantaged who have not established a credit rating or who have other impediments to obtaining a credit or debit card, like undocumented immigrants, it can be a great hardship.
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The idea of pedestrians as "impediments" is of course perverse, especially given the word's original meaning: An impediment was something that functioned as a shackle for the feet — unlimited vehicle traffic, say.
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However, she said that the analysis described in it does not appear to address the "constitutional impediments" that the Treasury Department has cited as preventing it from disclosing Mr. Trump's tax returns.
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Fortunately, new technologies such as Natural Language Processing exist which can leapfrog previous impediments to linking together various agencies' legacy IT systems, which until fairly recently might have been substantial technological barriers.
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"Anything that impedes the free flow of goods and services and people, and erects impediments to that free and fair trade order, is nefarious from our point of view," Mr. Wittig said.
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The process also includes dealing with an assortment of characters (some malevolent, others simply odd) who are already in Beck's life, who serve as impediments to his pursuit of happily ever after.
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Wind operators in Japan have long complained about the country's requirement for environmental impact studies that can take as long as five years to complete, as well as other impediments to investment.
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Small businesses in the finance and insurance industries are the most apt to see education and training as the largest impediments to hiring: 63 percent single this out as the primary reason.
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LF: Well, at the moment, all these agreements give us preferential access, and they deal not just with tariffs, but, of course, non-tariff barriers, which are the biggest impediments, potentially, to trade.
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"Many of the impediments to the creation of secondary NPL markets ... can be alleviated by the establishment of a well-designed AMC," the ECB said in a feature of its Financial Stability Review.
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There's also a certain rote quality to the impediments thrown at Moana and Maui as they traverse the ocean bickering, as much killing time before the climax as allowing the two to bond.
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"Whether it is Brexit or the U.S. elections or war in Syria or the refugee crises, these are impediments to longer-term strategic thinking, planning and action that we desperately need," he said.
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"This is still a small step and we expect more impediments, but once the launch succeeds, we see a potential for making the rocket launch cheaper and shorter in project time," Tomobe said.
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Liberals classically define freedom as non-interference, so that you are considered free if you are unconstrained by physical impediments, such as chains, or by coercion, such as a gun to your head.
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The working people in America are clearly tired of a government that ignores them or, worse, puts in place artificial impediments that restrict their ability to achieve their version of the American dream.
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Attacks on treatment centres by armed groups and by mistrust among residents who view the disease as a conspiracy, have become major impediments to containing Democratic Republic of Congo's worst ever Ebola outbreak.
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When she finally goes into labor, she is rushed to the hospital by Jack and Mark, who carry her through the streets and brave the predictable impediments — a traffic jam and a demonstration.
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As part of new efforts toward accessibility, Google announced Project Euphonia at I/O in May: An attempt to make speech recognition capable of understanding people with non-standard speaking voices or impediments.
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"In short, Act 620 would do little or nothing for women's health, but rather would create impediments to abortion, with especially high barriers set before poor, rural, and disadvantaged women," the court concluded.
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Given the widespread outcry from businesses and business groups over laws they say are impediments to attracting workers, CNBC's annual America's Top States for Business study has been factoring in inclusiveness since 2015.
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Dr. Hal C. Lawrence III, the chief executive of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said the government should be helping women get the care they need, not putting up new impediments.
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During his time in office, Trump has built, layer by layer, impediments in Central America, at the border, in detention centers, and in the immigration courts that have made obtaining asylum nearly impossible.
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President Trump and congressional Republicans have said they want to eliminate or overhaul many of those measures, which they regard as ineffective in preventing future financial crises and as impediments to economic growth.
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When the girls kiss a second time, having overcome various other impediments to their happiness, including an abortive heterosexual marriage, they're adults, and soon they are raising a preadolescent girl of their own.
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But I think that discussions with the jurors, if they occur, will reveal that most of the jury had overcome those impediments to conviction by finding the victim credible on the witness stand.
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The administration has built up, layer by layer, a series of impediments in Central America, at the border, in detention centers, and in the immigration courts that have made obtaining asylum nearly impossible.
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The need for affordable housing requires a comprehensive response, including reducing regulatory impediments to the construction of market-rate housing and subsidizing the construction of more housing for moderate and lower-income people.
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If it continues into his senior year, "He will likely experience the same social stigma, emotional distress, academic harm, and detrimental impediments to his gender transition" as in the previous year, the lawsuit says.
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But the Republican-controlled Congress has shown no appetite for lifting statutory impediments to Mr. Obama's plan to bring the remaining detainees to a prison on American soil before he leaves office next year.
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Prawiraatmadja said nothing had yet been signed on a deal for Indonesia to import liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from Iran, noting that some impediments remained such as being able to pay for the products.
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"INGOs in Myanmar are increasingly concerned about severe restrictions on humanitarian access and impediments to the delivery of critically needed humanitarian assistance throughout Rakhine State," aid groups said in a statement late on Wednesday.
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IT audits & security assessments of election technologies operation: While responsible businesses routinely conduct IT audits and security assessments to determine performance weaknesses so they can be corrected, two major impediments exist for election operations.
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It also elides the structural impediments — the lack of free time and ample resources and good education — that prohibit millions from pursuing an origami hobby, let alone finding a career in a creative field.
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Mr. Putin: It's quite clear to everyone that the bilateral relationship are going through a complicated stage, and yet those impediments, the current tension, the tense atmosphere, essentially have no solid reason behind it.
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Mr. Trump faces other impediments for his construction, including an investigation into a $400 million contract for wall construction awarded to Fisher Sand & Gravel by the Office of Inspector General for the Defense Department.
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And advocates for poor people questioned whether the order could achieve even modest goals, saying most able-bodied adults who receive noncash federal aid either already work or face significant impediments to doing so.
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Singapore's Land Transport Authority (LTA) said on Friday that CCCS' measures on the removal of exclusivity obligations and impediments to market contestability will further promote market competition in the point-to-point transport sector.
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"The markets abhor uncertainty so this is spectacular news removing one of the major impediments to US economic growth and prosperity and better financial market conditions," said Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at MUFG.
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One of the impediments to encrypting all the data in Apple's iCloud servers, for instance, has been finding a way to ensure that customers can easily retrieve and recover photos and other information stored there.
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There are a lot of structural impediments to single women voting whether it's voting times curtailed, the hours polls are open, places to register or having to get special IDs to bring to voting places.
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Riyadh has been easing regulatory impediments for the past two years, including limits on foreign ownership which had long kept investors away, since falling crude prices highlighted the need to diversify its oil-dependent economy.
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"If experts believed current law was an impediment to gathering vital intelligence to protect the country, I would want to understand such impediments and whether any recommendations were appropriate for changing current law," he said.
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Trump now realizes that China won't be intimidated, and that import tariffs and other impediments to trade are a blind alley he cannot afford in the run-up to his increasingly tenuous re-election bid.
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Despite some upbeat indicators, Trump also got a barrage of reminders Monday about how much his campaign is now focused on damage control and a glimpse of the mounting impediments to victory in November. Sen.
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Second, it fails to see that some of the most serious regulatory impediments to growth aren't costs imposed on existing businesses but subsidies granted to existing businesses at the expense of the rest of us.
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Such impediments may not be as flagrant as when, as a young man in Union Springs, he had to interpret the constitution in order to vote, but, he thinks, they are obnoxious all the same.
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Notwithstanding the gravity of physical attacks on the Coptic population, such as in the case of Thabet, most Copts encounter regular impediments and violations of their constitutional rights to justice and to practice their faith.
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Although the goal is an audit with a clean opinion in 2018, it is unlikely the Defense Department will be able to overcome major impediments in the next few years, much less in just one.
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Even if there were such impediments, the implication that a drug that passes Phase 1 is a cure — and a cure that would not pose substantial risk of pain, injury, or earlier death — is unsupportable.
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But Republicans know that putting up impediments to voting, such as requiring photo IDs, limiting early voting times, and cutting back on the number of polling places, makes it more likely that Republicans will win.
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WASHINGTON — As thousands of Americans flee from Europe and other centers of the coronavirus outbreak, many travelers are reporting no health screenings upon departure and few impediments at U.S. airports beyond a welcome home greeting.
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These people will adopt shared vague slurs like "cuckservative" or "whitesplaining" that signal to the others in the outsider groups that they are attacking the ring, even though these slurs are usually impediments to thought.
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Brody found "some direct relation between discriminatory lending and the harms to the city's goals of fair housing and an integrated community," such as reduced minority homeownership or greater impediments for minorities to buy homes.
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As specialised credit institutions, both banks are exempt from the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive, suggesting no impediments to the state support flowing through to the banks' creditors, and from the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD IV).
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"The obstacles and impediments used to hinder the work of the Commission is evidence that there are many politicians and activists who want to prevent the American people from finding out the truth," Von Spakovsky wrote.
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By increasing demand for labor and removing impediments to working, we can build an economy that shares its benefits more broadly and makes better use of the talents and drive of people living in struggling places.
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"Of course, if someone tells me that what we do is an impediment to cross-border business, well then I would say we should get our act together and try to remove those impediments," Enria said.
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"If experts believed the current law was an impediment to gathering vital intelligence to protect the country, I would want to understand such impediments and whether any recommendations were appropriate for changing current law," Pompeo wrote.
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The IMF also called on Germany to remove impediments to housing supply expansion to help relieve the pressure on the housing market, and also to implement measures to strengthen the oversight role of banks' supervisory boards.
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In that period, HUD would ask communities to submit an "Analysis of Impediments" to fair housing, which is basically a form that explains why residents couldn't find affordable housing and saying that they're working on it.
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Examples might include transcription of voices with heavy accents, children, speech impediments or audio with a particular type of background noise, such as audio captured at a drive-through with particular types of highway noise, etc.
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"Our objective would be ensure we have continued access to the markets in Europe and vice versa without tariffs and without bureaucratic impediments, and that is how we will approach those negotiations," he told BBC television.
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People's monthly student loan payments can eat up a large slice of their income, threaten to push down their credit scores and make saving nearly impossible — all huge impediments, of course, to landing in a house.
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And the entire point of everything that was done during the Cold War was about trying to simplify and remove any checks or balances or impediments to a president quickly and unilaterally launching a nuclear war.
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Neither Mr. Chester nor other black voters interviewed said Mr. Biden's record of championing anti-crime bills — as a Delaware senator in the 1980s and '90s — that led to mass incarceration were impediments to their support.
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"I don't see any impediments to anything that we would like to do as a result of Mueller coming in to take over an investigation that was already going on in the Justice Department," said Rep.
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For starters, their hidden relationship speaks to cultural strictures -- she was Korean-American, he the son of Pakistani immigrants -- that created impediments to their relationship, issues that Lee addresses at some length in the diary entries.
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The impediments to their getting together, however, are even more formidable than most rom-coms, and a few amusing sequences -- like the two getting high together -- never really sell the idea, despite yielding some broadly comic scenes.
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The United States has lagged behind Europe in use of so-called biosimilars, to the frustration of FDA policymakers who are starting to approve such products but who are seeing other impediments to getting them to consumers.
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The very success that affords high-profile African American players the visibility of their national platform to protest injustice is turned against them and used to "prove" that impediments to inequality are a thing of the past.
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To address the issue, the IMF researchers said that regulators in major economies should pursue greater outreach to banks to make clear their expectations for anti-money laundering compliance and address legal impediments to continuing CBR arrangements.
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Trump's immigration policy (if you can call a wall a policy) is the backbone of his campaign, but there are a number of practical impediments, even if you take questions of national character out of the equation.
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Under Mr. Obama, the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, which handles sanctions, has issued several rounds of regulations to remove impediments for American companies and individuals seeking to do business with Cuba and to travel there.
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A parody of a company that somehow walked into the wrong room, and is finding itself pitching alongside companies launching apps to help children with speech impediments (Milla Says) and service businesses complementing the AirBnB model (EasyBnB).
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Progressive groups critical of the U.S.-Israel relationship have pushed Democrats and Democratic presidential candidates to leverage U.S. assistance to Israel to push back on policies they view as impediments to resolving the Israeli and Palestinian conflict.
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Yet even if those targets are reached, the social impediments in China are formidable: the legacy of the one-child policy, the single-minded focus on education, the lack of a soccer or even a sports culture.
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Known as the "backstop," the concept is that Northern Ireland could continue trading with Ireland, a member of the European Union, without tariffs, border checks or other impediments to the seamless flow of goods between them. Mrs.
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Also, chances are that they had had that idea for a long time, and that the feeling they are describing is actually one of release: the idea is freed from impediments, things that were dragging it down.
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In the short run, these attacks could occur if the Fed raises rates when the administration would prefer to avoid impediments to its wishful thinking on growth or to the continued run-up of the stock market.
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VR edtech companies will need to develop innovative marketing strategies that drive educational organizations to invest in VR. The impediments facing the adoption of VR edtech are similar to those VR faces in being adopted in other domains.
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The ACCC did not specify what damages it was seeking with the lawsuit, but said the PlayStation vendor put "practical impediments in the way of Australian users seeking to obtain refunds" by referring their complaints to game developers.
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"We have to run a campaign that anticipates that those are the impediments and we're going to make certain that voters are not going to be hobbled in their ability to cast their votes," Abrams told BuzzFeed News.
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With a common sense that I still appreciate, Knockers advised me to keep pumping if I felt like it, but that because of these physical impediments between us and nursing, a bottle and formula were likeliest to prevail.
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Most businesses and economists say the British economy would be severely damaged if the country crashed out of the EU on the scheduled Brexit date of March 29 without a deal, bringing tariffs and other impediments to trade.
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Photo: Paul Holston / APIn advance of the 2020 elections, a new federal law proposed on Tuesday seeks to remove impediments faced by national political committees when seeking to help shore up the cybersecurity of their state-level counterparts.
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The controversies swirling around President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia; Federal Reserve rate hikes; and a potentially stalled out congressional effort on tax reform are not seen as impediments to the stock market, which could grind slowly higher.
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And now that the United States is out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, there are no treaty clauses — or technical impediments — preventing it from placing missiles in the region to check the rise of China.
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SAN FRANCISCO — A California judge who was criticized for handing down a short jail term in a case involving a sexual assault at Stanford University is facing a growing number of impediments both inside and outside the courtroom.
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The president had, after all, cast off in precisely the opposite direction after coming to power in December 2015, seeking to remove many of the clumsy impediments to market forces imposed by his predecessor, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
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In addition to the structural impediments looming in his path, Mr. Bullock will also confront a challenge of his own making: the revelation that one of his former senior aides had been accused of sexually harassing several women.
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" An announcement from the court said the judges had decided that the impediments to securing evidence and obtaining cooperation meant that "an investigation into the situation in Afghanistan at this stage would not serve the interests of justice.
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All the structural impediments to a Democratic recovery would loom much larger, Trump's re-election would be more likely than not, and his opposition would be stuck waiting for a recession to have any chance of coming back.
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I observed that contemporary writing on motherhood has an irritating tendency to treat children as psychological impediments to creativity — as if a child must steal not only time and energy from his mother but also language and thought.
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He sees his job as pressing Mr. Trump's agenda, which is tightly focused on trade and the impediments that led to a $151 billion trade deficit in goods with the European Union, a figure Mr. Sondland often cites.
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"Anything that creates extra barriers and impediments to the smooth flow of goods will hurt our business and hurt our workers and limit our capacity to be competitive," he said, repeating his objections to a U.S. border tax.
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The bottom line is this: Looking for the "right deal" that hits China's red lines, the U.S. is likely to get an empty shell, worsening U.S.-China relations and various trade impediments to bilateral flows of commerce and finance.
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She writes: California is a wealthy, Democratic state, and it's experiencing some of the most devastating impacts of climate change in the country, but local politics and sparring special-interest groups have been impediments to needed climate-adaptation legislation.
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The text, which is meant to influence global drug policy in the coming years, calls on UN member states to consider "removing unduly restrictive regulations and impediments" that prevent people from accessing drugs like opioids for legitimate medical reasons.
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"Among other reforms, they should consider streamlining legal processes related to debt recovery, removing impediments to the enforcement of loan collateral, introducing out-of-court debt work-out solutions, and fostering the development of distressed debt markets," Nouy wrote.
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"Until NCCIC takes steps to overcome these impediments, it may not be able to efficiently perform its cybersecurity functions and assist federal and nonfederal entities in identifying cyber-based threats, mitigating vulnerabilities, and managing cyber risks," the report states.
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In August, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States signed off on the merger, removing one of the biggest potential impediments, as the interagency body had previously been an obstacle to cross-border agreements involving Chinese companies.
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They say he has been among the biggest impediments to both causes, and has often put the short-term interests of the Democratic Party ahead of the interests of the party's base, and even of American democracy more broadly.
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And that's to say nothing of the lasting impediments caused by the extensive damage to civilian infrastructure: At least one-third of the coalition's air attacks have struck roads, bridges, irrigation dams, hospitals and clinics, markets and fishing boats.
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Mr. Trump has promised that 500 miles of wall would be erected in his first term, but so far, his administration has built only 66 miles of replacement fencing or barriers, largely in areas where dilapidated impediments already existed.
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"There are still too many impediments for foreign golfers to find it easy to play golf at many courses in Japan, but it will have to change," said Fred Varcoe, a Tokyo-area journalist who writes about the game.
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After extolling for years the genius of the United States Constitution, begin to point out the impediments to democratic government that it has imposed upon the American nation itself, and the other countries on whom we have forced it.
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Here's the final White House list of the CEOs that met Trump: "The scale of the challenge is pretty large," says , president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, highlighting the technological and trade-related impediments to boosting manufacturing jobs in America.
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While Trump has promised to aggressively address trade imbalances and open the Chinese market to more American goods and services, William Zarit, the Chamber's current chairman, said the talks need to address the "structural impediments" U.S. companies face in China.
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"Should you take the decisive action needed to remove the impediments holding back Scout24, we believe the share price could rise to in excess of 65 euros per share," Elliott said in a letter published on Monday and dated July 224.
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Analysts warn that a unilateral move could risk other agreements with the EU. Switzerland is seeking to negotiate a compromise with Brussels, which has insisted it cannot brook any impediments to the free movement of people enshrined in bilateral accords.
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"What many people don't realize is that one of the biggest impediments to agricultural supply growth is the proper allocation of funds to the folks who otherwise have the means to either begin farming or increase their current production," Schwarzbeck says.
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The report by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said it was possible people would "face impediments" to moving out of IS-controlled areas and they had a critical need for shelter, drinking water, food and health care.
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They reveal an instinct for performance, and also divulge a sense of humor that feels closely linked to a sense of irony: While utopian in ambition, Dallegret's more fanciful designs show the limits and impediments of our social and technological capabilities.
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The Senate and House Armed Services or Intelligence Committees should hold hearings on this topic annually, highlighting countries and regions that are most vulnerable to nuclear theft; emerging nuclear security threats; progress in reducing nuclear terrorism threats; and impediments to progress.
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And there are serious legal impediments to disclosure — including the confidentiality of grand jury materials under Rule 6(e) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, laws protecting national security and intelligence information, privacy laws and, among other things, executive privilege.
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Greater consumption of data driven insights combined with changing economics, glaring upfront costs, dangling phantasmagoric federal incentives and impediments, and insufficient government interagency coordination make it virtually impossible to craft good policy addressing the nationwide needs in the short term.
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China took strategic advantage of that preoccupation to rise with few impediments, and often the active encouragement of many U.S. business partners, to its present position as the peer competitor and main threat to the interests and position of United States.
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Grizzlies also are at the heart of a cultural divide between Native Americans, who revere the bears, and ranchers and others who see the creatures as potential threats to livestock and impediments to more mining, logging and fossil energy development.
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But Travis Kalanick, Uber's chief executive, has been one of the largest impediments to adding tipping to the Uber app, according to two people familiar with his thinking who did not want to be identified publicly discussing the company's internal discussions.
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And I've come to believe that all these impediments to Quinn's being Quinn — all these markers of unattractiveness — add up, not only, to a picture of a man with reduced personal powers, but also to a kind of moral comeuppance.
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"The trend of bureaucratic impediments and restrictions continues to constrain the mission's capacity to carry out it's mandated tasks ... and its ability to project presence in locations where civilians are in need of protection, including from ethnically driven attacks," the Jan.
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Every day this week we'll publish an article to teach you about managing your finances, with everything from tools to help you budget to a look at the psychological impediments that prevent us from addressing our problems in the first place.
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Yet, I think it cannot be said enough: Until we find a way to cultivate economic equity we are doomed to treating each other like prizes, assets, as instruments for acquiring wealth, or by the same token, impediments to living large.
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It's like the hypothetical superintelligent AI portrayed in certain science fiction stories, which, in trying to maximize something like strawberry production, turns the whole world into a strawberry patch — thereby killing off all humans in the process as impediments to the stated goal.
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LONDON — The continued flow of people along Europe's migration trail, from Turkey and Greece to the Balkans to Scandinavia, faced new impediments on Monday as two of the northernmost destinations further tightened border controls in response to political, economic and logistical pressures.
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But the US is far more lenient when it comes to market competition than Europe, which is partly why companies like Google and Facebook have been able to grow to such immense size and influence with little to no impediments from regulators.
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The main difference is that financial firms, unlike manufacturers, are able to avoid many of India's impediments: a maze of permissions and tariffs that control production, laws supposed to protect low-wage workers that instead discourage hiring, and wretched transport and communications networks.
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All three of the principals are terrific, but it's Hall who most stands out, portraying Elizabeth as a fiercely independent pragmatist who understands the impediments they face and remains sensitive -- unlike her dreamy-eyed husband -- to the prying eyes of the outside world.
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In his statement Tuesday, Pahon criticized Russia and the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as impediments to stabilizing the situation there, saying that countering ISIS, al Qaeda and other terrorist groups is not of the "foremost priority" of Russia and Syria.
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"If you introduce impediments to trade and investment in Europe that don't exist today, it doesn't exactly make Europe a beacon for open trade, and it's likely to have ripples beyond the European continent in terms of the global economy," he said.
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As he seeks to purge still more dissenters from government agencies — nearly 70,000 people have been fired so far — and to crack down further on Hizmet and other civil society organizations, he is removing many of the remaining impediments to absolute power.
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The amendment calls on the government to negotiate full access to the EU's single market, to keep common minimum standards, rights and protections, to share joint institutions and regulations, and ensure there are no new impediments to trade, while retaining control over immigration.
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Letters To the Editor: "When You Dial 911 and Wall St. Answers" ("Bottom Line Nation" series, front page, June 26), about the trend of emergency medical services being contracted out to private companies, highlights impediments to medical consumers' access to quality services.
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When the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect in the mid-1990s, enabling goods to flow across Canada, Mexico and the United States with minimal impediments, factory workers in American industrial communities became vulnerable to job losses as production flowed south.
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HAVANA — President Obama stood beside President Raúl Castro on Monday and declared a "new day" of openness between the United States and Cuba, but old grievances and disputes over human rights marred a groundbreaking meeting and underscored lingering impediments to a historic thaw.
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Again Force wove through the phalanx, missing impediments by millimeters, beep-beeping his way past pedestrians who dared to step in front of a man who blasts his way to 300 miles per hour on a four-wheeled rocket for a living.
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As we near the all-important midterm elections, Republicans all over the country are mounting multiple efforts to block the anticipated "blue wave" of high Democratic turnout by creating legal impediments to voting that will disproportionately affect black, Latino and young voters.
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Yet executive producer Jennie Snyder Urman and her team managed to keep erecting clever impediments to the title character's happiness, teasing out a season that finished with a wedding, and even a delightful little crumb about the show's unseen narrator (Anthony Mendez).
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When Carr's amorous eye lighted on Frances, he encountered a number of impediments to their marriage: Her family was maneuvering for power and preferment, and his friend Overbury objected to a union with a scandalous woman whose first marriage had been annulled.
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They would then be sent back to their communities to impress on African-Americans the importance of political power and to help them register to vote, in some cases teaching them how to pass literacy tests that stood as impediments to registering.
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When I went off to college, I was just trying to find a place where I could be a student without impediments that in that day and time were fairly widely known to be substantial if you enrolled in a majority-white institution.
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The outcome of that meeting became public this year, when the Interior Department sent a detailed "instruction memorandum" to field offices nationwide, ordering them to eliminate "unnecessary impediments and burdens" limiting the ability of the department to offer more land for lease.
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Pelosi responded by walking through the current natural impediments that exist on the border, including mountains, water, and fencing, including "Normandy fencing" -- or in other words, the X-shaped vehicle barriers that lined Normandy beach during the 1944 Allied invasion of France.
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"We believe it is imperative that members understand the challenges we are facing in space from our adversaries and from our own self-imposed impediments like the current organization of space within DOD and its space capability acquisition system," Rogers and Cooper said.
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Wayne says Sarah needs to shut the hell up because she has no clue how daunting a stutter can be for people who deal with speech impediments every single day ... and thinks it's disgusting she would even make a crack about it.
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The statement also asked U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to brief the Security Council in October on impediments to responding to the risk of famine in Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and northeastern Nigeria and make recommendations on how to overcome any obstacles.
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I had a devil of a time coming up with a title — anything that seemed like it was making fun of speech impediments would be unseemly, so I figured the title would have to be just another example of the sound change.
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Trump and Xi, who call themselves friends, also oversaw the signing of about $250 billion in commercial deals, a show that some in the U.S. business community and others say detracts from addressing structural impediments that puts them at a disadvantage to Chinese rivals.
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"We will actively promote our stance on any irrational demands from the U.S., and use any rational demands (on trade) to improve our regulations to remove any impediments to the fourth industrial revolution," Yoo Il-ho said in a meeting with ministers in Seoul.
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This new generation of educated young urbanites has criticised Russian politicians and opinion-formers of the 1990s and 2000s for viewing human-rights abuses and the lack of independent courts as unfortunate impediments to business and foreign investment, rather than bad things in themselves.
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Thomas Cook was founded in 1841 and now has annual sales of £9 billion, 19 million customers a year and 22,000 staff operating in 16 countries, but has been on the receiving end of a perfect storm of market and geopolitical impediments in recent years.
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It could become one of the many impediments to international efforts to stabilise the country and to end conflict between the Government of National Accord, which holds precarious power in western regions, and the self-styled "Interim Government"(IG), which dominates parts of the east.
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"The potential political nature of this targeted ban after a number of bilateral issues have surfaced ... may be reminiscent of the impediments to Mongolia's coal exports to China after the Dalai Lama visit in 13," U.S. bank Citi said on Friday in a note.
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"The potential political nature of this targeted ban after a number of bilateral issues have surfaced ... may be reminiscent of the impediments to Mongolia's coal exports to China after the Dalai Lama visit in 2016," U.S. bank Citi said on Friday in a note.
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The executive order, according to Ray Starling, special assistant to the President for agriculture, will require the task force, led by Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, to produce a report for the President in 180 days on the impediments to farming in the United States.
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"There are going to be a number of political tensions on how that process may go forward ... those who want to see greater trade liberalization may be asking whether the current process is too lengthy and whether there are too many possible impediments," he said.
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Uncertain funding in the U.S. and impediments to open collaboration — like restrictions on immigration and visas or even social biases against foreigners — may increase incentives for researchers to go abroad; more importantly, those conditions, and anything else that makes scientific collaboration less easy, harms America.
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Impediments to anonymously transferring and holding assets may slow the flow in the short term, but are unlikely to put much of a dent in how illicit funds move through the financial system because there always seem to be new avenues to hide their ownership.
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It urges Congress and the President "to immediately provide for the security of our nation by controlling and securing our national borders with appropriate legislation to fund the construction of steel barriers and border control impediments along with the strengthening of current border control infrastructure."
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It directs EPA to review Obama's Clean Power Plan, rescind the moratorium on coal mining on US federal lands and urge federal agencies to "identify all regulations, all rules, all policies ... that serve as obstacles and impediments to American energy independence," the official said.
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That, too, has introduced a certain level of unevenness into the narrative, especially for those who, say, have lost interest in the frequently star-crossed romance of Piper (Taylor Schilling) and Alex (Laura Prepon), given all the impediments that have been thrown at them.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday outlined several key impediments to congressional approval of a U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was set to arrive in Washington to push for final approval of the pact.
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Moreover, in the aftermath of the Depression, the resurgent confidence of young and old alike had been quickened by Lindbergh's relative youth and by the graceful athleticism that contrasted so starkly with the serious physical impediments under which FDR labored as a polio victim.
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With questions swirling over whether Tesla can make good on its aggressive timetable, news of the collaboration is a sign that corporate customers are taking the effort seriously, and that Tesla is working to solve one of the biggest impediments: keeping the big-rigs powered.
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"This round of regulations removes some of the most significant impediments keeping capital on the sidelines, especially as it relates to operating businesses," said John Lettieri, president of the Economic Innovation Group, a Washington research organization that developed and championed the Opportunity Zone concept.
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It may be that he has a plan to navigate those impediments from the inside, that he has some vision of the personnel he would put in place, the rules he would change, and the levers available to him to maneuver within a tight space.
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" Another official testified that the impending wall was "generating fears of potential investors that the community will be mired in a long-term state of chaos that includes violent crime, the blight of construction, and impediments to crossing back and forth across the border.
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But as Mr. Renacci sees it, after helping to send Mr. Trump to the White House, Ohio voters now have a chance to remove one of the impediments standing in the president's way by denying Mr. Brown, a Democrat, from serving a third term.
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Some German business groups have begun calling for Europe to use the dispute with the United States to reopen negotiations about a broad trade agreement that would largely eliminate tariffs and reduce regulatory impediments, for example by agreeing on common safety standards for cars.
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Cassius comes to see his striking co-workers and his radical artist girlfriend, Detroit (a transfixing Tessa Thompson), as impediments to the blossoming of his own excellence, but Riley and Stanfield make it compellingly tough to dismiss his motivations here as merely selling out.
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While Shelby said Thursday that it would be ideal to clear all of the fiscal 2020 funding measures by the end of December, he noted that a "compressed" timeline, crunched by impeachment proceedings, adds to the impediments that make that spending goal tough to achieve.
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Though polling places are required by law to be accessible to people with disabilities, research from the Government Accessibility Office showed that polling places with impediments, including entrances that are difficult to navigate or voting stations that can't accommodate wheelchairs, increased significantly between 2008 and 2016.
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While Watson might not possess what amounts to a Broadway belt, like the stars of "La La Land," she's more than adequate on the score, and brings a genuine richness to the romance despite the impediments associated with gazing into the eyes of a towering CGI character.
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"In our negotiations to leave the EU, we will emphasize the very strong common ground that there is, especially in the automotive sector, between ourselves and other EU member states, in ensuring that trade between us can be free and unencumbered by impediments," he told parliament.
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Whereas once a potential do-gooder had to search out and contact individual shelters, soup kitchens, and non-profits to see about volunteer availability, along with specific requirements and responsibilities, DEED puts all of those—let's face it—potential impediments on an easy-to-navigate list.
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Since the end of World War II, when it was formed, the I.M.F. has been the most vocal global proponent of free trade policies in which countries around the world agree to trade with each other and keep impediments such as tariffs or quotas to a minimum.
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A series of Japanese market opening steps under U.S.-Japan frameworks such as the Market-Oriented Sector-Selective (MOSS) framework of the 1980s and the 1990s Structural Impediments Initiative (SII) left Japan with relatively few market barriers, although it protects some farm goods with high tariffs.
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Taking an entirely different tack for those opposed to reconsidering the five-year plan review, the Department of Defense claims drilling operations in the eastern Gulf would create serious impediments to its various weapons testing activities in the region, framing the argument along national security lines.
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"Information and insights, from both the public and private sectors in Puerto Rico, will be useful to the task force as it analyzes impediments to growth on the island stemming from federal law and programs and arrives at recommendations to remove current barriers to growth," they wrote.
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In three rulings, federal judges in New York, California and Washington State issued injunctions temporarily blocking the "public charge" rule, which would impose serious impediments to legal residency for those who use benefits such as Medicaid or those deemed likely to use them in the future.
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It forces you to understand speech as only one part of human expression, the conditions for which have become progressively unfavorable, either because modern life is practically defined by impediments to our attention or because people can be prickly, unaccommodating and committedly averse to making eye contact.
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"Even if the post-Brexit 25-basis point rate cut is reversed, structural impediments are likely to keep UK interest rates anchored at historically low levels and this points to limited sterling upside from BoE policy," wrote ING currency strategist Viraj Patel in a note to clients.
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In a survey carried out across Syria — not just in ISIS-controlled areas — Save the Children found that nearly half the adult respondents said they had seen children who had lost the ability to speak or had developed speech impediments since the start of the war.
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Then we realized there were all these companies that existed at the margins and at the edges and at the boundaries, that sort of were finding it almost impossible to even get up and running because of other impediments that were being placed in front of them.
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And the plans adopt an unrealistic assessment of the starting point for any talks -- in some cases just ignoring impediments that do not fit the White House vision of a solution to these problems and conflicts -- some of the most intractable issues that previous administrations have failed to solve.
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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration announced Tuesday that it was removing major impediments to contact between the United States and Cuba by lifting restrictions on American financing of exports to the island nation and relaxing limits on the shipping of an array of products, from tractors to art supplies.
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The brokerage firm noted that in a working paper that he co-authored last year Mohan stated that achieving 8-9 percent economic growth would need the maintenance of appropriate rates, a realistic and competitive real exchange rate and a focused attention on removing land and labor related impediments.
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"Should governments continue to encounter impediments to lawful access to information necessary to aid the protection of the citizens of our countries, we may pursue technological, enforcement, legislative or other measures to achieve lawful access solutions," read the memo, issued by the Australian government on behalf of the pact.
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While it may be unfair to blame those deaths on our new representatives in Washington, if reforms are not put in place to fix government impediments in the fight against cancer, another 2.3 million people will die from cancer during the remainder of President Trump's four-year term.
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Nobody is arguing that Putin is a great guy or that many of his foreign policies — for instance, supporting and bankrolling a separatist proto-state in Eastern Ukraine and leasing out Russia's Air Force on behalf of the Assad regime — have been central impediments to a decent working partnership.
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"The lack of national data on police use of force incidents serves as one of the most significant impediments to identifying problems and implementing solutions," the US Commission on Civil Rights, an independent federal watchdog agency, concluded in a report on modern policing practices and use of force.
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It is almost surprising that the Defense Department allowed the report to be published at all, given the board's remarkably blunt assessment of the nation's lack of innovation and what it said was one of the biggest impediments to rolling out 26G in the United States: the Pentagon itself.
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"It is our view that, if a state does choose to take legislative or regulatory action with respect to AVs, such action should be premised on removing impediments to the safe testing or deployment of such vehicles and preserving a pro-competitive and level playing field," Strickland wrote.
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The draft, seen by Reuters, also calls for an unhindered flow of commercial and humanitarian goods across the country, including lifting of any bureaucratic impediments within two weeks, a large, fast injection of foreign currency into the economy through the Central Bank of Yemen and more aid funding.
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Mr. Trump campaigned on remaking Washington's relationship with Moscow; the open investigation by the Justice Department's special counsel is, at its core, about whether he and his campaign aides promised to relieve sanctions and other impediments to Russia in return for financial or electoral benefits from Mr. Putin's government.
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One impetus for passing the Cures Act was to address an opioid treatment gap of about 420,000 people that reported money or availability of care were key impediments to obtaining substance use treatment — repealing the ACA would increase that gap by over 50 percent with the stroke of a pen.
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With the Federal Reserve committed to price stability, the next administration could do wonders for the economy — especially in the long run — if it concentrates on strengthening property rights, liberalizing international trade, removing government impediments to competition, shrinking the size and scope of government and enacting pro-growth tax reform.
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History may repeat itself; indeed, in this case must repeat itself, to restore the natural order of things -- moving forward inexorably, arm in arm, shoulder to shoulder, slashing through the impediments strewn in our path by foolish nations, blinded by ancient alliances, shackled by outdated concepts of right and wrong.
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A memo signed Wednesday and released Thursday by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) states that it is the agency's policy to "simplify and streamline the leasing process to alleviate unnecessary impediments and burdens, to expedite the offering of lands for lease," and to ensure drilling rights sales happen regularly.
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In response to the testing shortage, President Donald Trump announced last Friday that the FDA is creating a 24-hour emergency hotline for laboratories finding impediments to running tests, and officials are giving nearly $1.3 million of federal money to two companies trying to develop rapid-diagnosis Covid-19 tests.
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It will be interesting to see if in 2020, among both Republicans and Democrats, more women decide to step up without being asked to run — historically, one of the impediments to women running is their own will to do so — and are able to raise money in primary fights against men.
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So when he had the time and wherewithal to devote to philanthropy in 1993, he said, he chose to tackle a problem he knew about: improving the lives of children at greatest risk — not the top students at underperforming schools, but the struggling ones who faced multiple impediments to success.
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A memo signed Wednesday and released Thursday by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) states that it is the agency's policy to "simplify and streamline the leasing process to alleviate unnecessary impediments and burdens, to expedite the offering of lands for lease," and to ensure drilling rights sales happen regularly.
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There are serious practical and political impediments to making a transition to single payer, from the enormous increase in federal spending and the tax increases it would almost certainly entail to the disruption that would be caused by the elimination of current private health insurance coverage for millions of Americans.
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Instead, the narrative keeps throwing fabricated impediments between the two, starting with her fiancé (Daniel Dae Kim), who decides to postpone the wedding; followed by the intrusion of Reeves, who again demonstrates comedy muscles that he only occasionally gets to flex on screen when he's not killing lots and lots of people.
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The details: Michael will continue to move through a region of the Gulf of Mexico that is conducive to rapid intensification on Tuesday night into Wednesday, with warm ocean waters to fuel the storm and a lack of impediments in the atmosphere, such as strong wind shear, to limit the hurricane's organization.
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A spool of 563 Ikea measuring tapes attached to form one long measuring tape, "1200 foot measuring tape," and a Warholian short film shot from a stationary, ground-level vantage point, Running 1200 Feet (both 2012), dramatize how regulatory impediments can make Buttermilk Channel's relatively narrow, 1,200-foot width feel impossible to bridge.
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There are so many foregrounding steps that get us to the fact that allegations of sexual assault brought by women are both working to delay and complicate the confirmation of a man to the Supreme Court who would create long-lasting legal impediments to all kinds of gendered, racial, and economic equality.
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Some of Castro's proposals, like his call for limiting officers' ability to claim "qualified immunity'" — which allows officers to avoid lawsuits — are seen as an especially big deal for police reform advocates, who note that one of the biggest impediments to police reform is the protections given to officers accused of misconduct.
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"Due to the dispute over the regions of Sool and Sanaag and lack of access to some affected areas after the destruction of roads, the situation of affected populations and impediments caused by blocked roads and failed communications, the extent of the damage is yet to be fully confirmed," the UN said.
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America's pharmaceutical and biotech sectors have been stagnant throughout the past presidential administration This is partly because of structural impediments to streamline drug approval and in part because the drugs, devices, and biologics required for the next century simply cannot be approved with the procedures that served us in the last century.
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The new administration has made several promises on immigration that everyone is familiar with by now, including building a border wall and making Mexico pay for it; addressing existing legal impediments to removing criminal noncitizens; strengthening the process for screening and vetting foreign nationals for terrorism concerns; and ending abuses of foreign worker programs.
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"The Constitution and the Code of Criminal Procedure give the President unrestricted powers to issue a pardon or commute a sentence, so in our view, there are no legal impediments to securing Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo's immediate release," said Frederick Rawski, director of the Asia Pacific program at the International Commission of Jurists.
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Directed by Saverio Costanzo and written by a team that includes Ferrante herself, the series is a sumptuous journey to a long-lost Italy, where Elena and Lila meet as schoolgirls, become fast friends, then have to live in a world that keeps throwing impediments in front of both their ambitions and their friendship.
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"Just as the United States is doing its part to remove impediments that have been holding Cubans back, we urge the Cuban government to make it easier for its citizens to start businesses, engage in trade and access information online," Ned Price, a spokesman for the National Security Council, said in a statement on Tuesday.
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IMF spokesman Gerry Rice told reporters that all Brexit outcomes will entail costs, because they will raise impediments to the current "frictionless" single market with the EU. "Leaving without a withdrawal agreement and a framework for the future relationship with the EU is the most significant near-term risk to the UK economy," Rice said.
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The laundry list of impediments to growth help explain what the Lindsey Group's Peter Boockvar notes to be the one component in the NFIB survey that has yet to enjoy a post-election pop: Plans for increased capital spending, which slipped to 26 percent in February, lower than both January's and October's 27-percent readings.
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But where Brooks (and many of the other commentators on the much-discussed class divide) gets it wrong is in blaming liberals and progressive coastal culture (sopressata sandwiches, fuel-efficient cars) instead of the cultural resentments and impediments (lack of well-funded public schools, zero paid parental leave) built and bred by the GOP.
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In a brief filed in advance of the hearing, the monitor, James E. Johnson, declared that his desire for a consultant was a "response to the county's wholesale abandonment of efforts to prepare" an analysis of impediments, as required by the settlement, that was acceptable by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) and Mark PocanMark William PocanTrump crosses new line with Omar, Tlaib, Israel move Liberal Democrat eyes aid cuts to Israel after Omar, Tlaib denied entry Democrats give cold shoulder to Warren wealth tax MORE (D-Wis.) also urged Trump to address serious trade impediments facing American manufacturers in the Japanese market.
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This whole conversation, carried out on the national stage and in the Twittersphere, points out one of the biggest impediments to truly defeating the system of white supremacy that is alive and well in this country: Bill Maher can't be racist because racism is bad, and he isn't bad so he can't be racist.
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And no country in the developed world -- and I'm talking about Japan, Europe, the UK, United States -- no country actually made the pivot to the other policies that could make the economy -- that could restore growth, that could cure the structural impediments to growth and bring growth back to something close to the previously experienced levels of growth.
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Many new technologies have emerged in recent years to keep tailings frozen, with plenty of advances including passive refrigeration systems like thermosyphons, which remove underground heat, as well as physical impediments like thick gravel covers and dry stacking, the latter of which reduces tailings to about 85 percent solid (compared to traditional slurries which are about 248 percent solid).
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Companies that do this well are able to adopt a beginner's mind set, taking an approach of looking at things from a fresh perspective Michael Krigsman, founder CXOTalk This could involve, for example, having fewer impediments for customer service by implementing systems so that information flows more seamlessly from one department to another and across systems.
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No, Europe is still a trickier market to scale than the U.S. Not only does Europe have to compete with the ready availability of capital in the U.S., but different regulatory environments, language barriers and a brain drain of talent attracted to Silicon Valley all combine to create impediments for European tech companies scaling in an interconnected world.
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" Princeton's president, Christopher L. Eisgruber, led a group of New Jersey college leaders who sent a letter to state lawmakers last month, citing the Citizenship and Immigration Services delay as one of several instances of a "disturbing increase in the number — and length — of impediments put in the path of our international students, faculty and staff.
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Immigrants in most countries have a host of legal impediments that make many activities more difficult, but a new app called Monese (pronounced Muh-neez) is letting immigrants bank with less hassle in the UK. Unlike many banks that require special fees for immigrants, Monese offers low-cost international banking transactions and the option to withdraw and deposit money in multiple country.
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His thoughtful book "Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games" (266 pages, Basic Books, $26.99) makes the point that life's limitations — as with the limitations of a game such as soccer or Tetris — are not impediments to our enjoyment, but rather, what make life or the game fun in the first place.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE took aim at Democratic senators on Friday, specifically singling out three lawmakers up for reelection this year, as impediments to his agenda.
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A draft bill, "Empowering States to Protect Seniors from Bad Actors Act," recently proffered by House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), would amend Section 2628(A) of the Dodd-Frank Act to clarify that the senior investor protection grant program should be funded in the same manner as all other CFPB activities, removing any purported impediments to the CFPB establishing this crucial program.
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But it felt like a more conventional choice, whereas its two principal rivals faced historic impediments: "Black Panther" is a superhero movie, a genre that the Academy had never deigned to even nominate before; and "Roma" came from Netflix, a streaming service that -- despite the millions spent on promotion -- remains an upstart in movies, and indeed a perceived threat to the basic theatrical model.
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That was a part of myself I never gave myself permission to explore—and also there's a lot of impediments for women to reach those parts of their rainbow—so having drag really be the conduit for me to go into all these parts of myself that are not just feminine, flirty, wanting to be loved by men, but this masculine attitude of I dont give a fuck.
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I believe that once our top creative class is unshackled from those impediments which are socially negative, they will be able to choose whether capitalism proceeds by evolution or revolution, and I am hopeful that the enlightened self-interest of the billionaire class will cause them to take the enlightened path toward finding a rethinking of work that honors the vast majority of fellow citizens and humans on which their country depends.
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Instead, my bipartisan legislation, HR 5026, pending in the House Judiciary Committee, protects the Samoan cultural and traditional way of life, Fa'a Samoa, by preserving individual choice, but it removes cost, travel and testing impediments such as the need to move to another jurisdiction to apply for citizenship, and it allows for hardship waivers on a case-by-case basis for application fees based on our economic realities that can be a significant challenge.
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At the time, Mr. Colombo later said, his power of persuasion was derived from his position as the vice president of the Italian-American Civil Rights League, the anti-discrimination group founded by his father, the organized crime figure Joseph A. Colombo Sr. Had the Mafia withheld its unofficial blessing from the film, any number of unexpected impediments might have interfered with the production of "The Godfather," like labor troubles, missing scenery or even missing cast members.
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Both of Butler's novels sent me back to Mark Fisher's 2009 book, " Capitalist Realism ," in which Fisher, a cultural theorist and critic , examined the contemporary notion that there is no other possible arrangement of society but the one we know in the West now, in which we are encouraged to think of ourselves as profit-generators and to regard the other people in our lives as instruments or impediments—a life that makes the brain feel crowded and the heart feel alone.
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And I think they're impediments in the way that these are reimbursed in supply chain where you have these sort of stacked royalties sitting on top of the brand of drugs, and if a biosimilar wants to penetrate the market, even at a lower price, they can't move enough market share in order to offset the benefits that the branded company is paying to the supply chain, whether it's distributive PBM or the health plan with these kickbacks, these rebates.
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Despite their willingness to take on others' policy responsibilities, central bankers were unable to deliver on their objectives, and for good reasons: The supply impact of their tools, such as changing interest rates or buying and selling market securities, could not lift structural impediments to growth, such as a lack of infrastructure, fragmented tax regimes and excessive regulation; and the demand influences, like decreasing interest rates to spur consumption and investment, were too weak to power the economy forward in its current state.
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