Even in the most insubstantial stories — and some of these pieces are quite insubstantial, more like sketches than fully developed works — the specificity of her voice elevates everything.
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The Clinton campaign hack has mainly given us insubstantial pleasures.
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The changes are insubstantial, but the negotiation's importance is symbolic.
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Saying "I'm sorry" feels clumsy and insubstantial, but it's true.
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The unaffiliated voter has not disappeared but they're statistically insubstantial.
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The proposal requires payment for those sharing any more than "insubstantial" portions of published content, but the term "insubstantial" isn't clearly defined, opening the door for cash grabs by publishers that don't understand the internet.
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Why, it's the Kit Kat, that insubstantial milk chocolate-covered wafers.
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And yet, they are insubstantial, woven into greatness by complicated physics.
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In different hands, "Willow" could have become a feathery, insubstantial thing.
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Yet so much of the choreography is trivial: preening, mannered, insubstantial.
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As a stand-alone, it is too insubstantial to make an impact.
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Small, seemingly insubstantial butterfly-wing youthful decisions can have life-changing consequences.
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The breads are attractive, but several had thin crusts and insubstantial interiors.
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The earliest remedies were simple, if insubstantial: I threw myself into fabricated realities.
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His classmates' unfettered lives and preoccupied parents feel shallow and insubstantial by comparison.
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It offers a slice for everyone but the flavor is bland and insubstantial.
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"Ramen Shop" is not all as sweet or insubstantial as that summary suggests.
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" A dying friend appears insubstantial, "as if the sea inside her had evaporated.
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But much of the published work is insubstantial, and a worrying amount is fraudulent.
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Brevity doesn't necessitate insubstantiality — yet some of these pieces feel insubstantial or insufficiently original.
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But software is also insubstantial; no one can bring you a bucket of software.
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Still, Above & Beyond's audience, a not insubstantial one, seems unfailingly moved by its work.
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Jerry's psychology is far too insubstantial to bear anything as existential as true guilt.
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While that number may seem insubstantial, it's a step up from last year's total.
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They exhibited decent technical effects but were in some obscure way insubstantial or evasive.
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Mr. Baron's star power was of a lesser variety, but it was not insubstantial.
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It didn't taste like any cheese I'd known, I remember thinking—too chalky and insubstantial.
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M, by comparison, is an insubstantial presence, not helped by her lack of a name.
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Levinson doesn't sugarcoat reality, however uneven or insubstantial storylines may seem to viewers or critics.
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She's not comfortable with the Web's fluid, insubstantial anonymity, which feels like freedom to him.
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In the obliterating sunlight, the stones appeared weary and porous, as insubstantial as sugar cubes.
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They were, most definitely, not always the insubstantial presences we tend to think of today.
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AT&T calls that number "insubstantial" and "negligible" relative to what Americans pay for television.
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They are too cheaply won, too light and insubstantial, to endure long in the imagination.
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But for a not-insubstantial corner of the internet, fall means something even better, no offense.
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The premise is appealingly silly and insubstantial: It's 26, and the dystopian world has become unbearable.
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This phone is light enough to be effortless, but not so slight as to be insubstantial.
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The plot is so insubstantial as to be barely noticeable, and the language vivid and hallucinatory.
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This weekend, however, there was no such lapse, and he found himself feeding on insubstantial scraps.
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I love my beachwear — these cute completely insubstantial crocheted cover-ups that come to the elbows.
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"Iran strongly criticized inappropriate, insubstantial and destructive remarks of some German officials," Iranian state TV reported.
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For Oliva, making cheese is a whole lot of work for a pretty insubstantial amount of money.
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He is not so much gaunt as spectral, stretched out like chewing gum, as insubstantial as smoke.
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Here, green blocks of foam crumble as the work progresses, illustrating Rosenblit's theme of the insubstantial self.
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Royce West (D) are both trying to corner the market on Texas's not-insubstantial African American vote.
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It is a world that isn't insubstantial but that is elusive to the uninitiated or to outsiders.
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You are conflating life-altering issues (ICE agents and possible deportation) with utterly insubstantial ones (wedding frippery).
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Tubman in Kasi Lemmon's serviceable but ultimately insubstantial biopic Harriet, was the only actress of color to
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But 27 percent is not insubstantial, and the report noted passive investments are gaining momentum with institutional investors.
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But they can sometimes seem insubstantial, the products of an organization that could perhaps use some fresh perspectives.
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Scholze was bemused by the long theorems with their short proofs, which struck him as valid but insubstantial.
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" Or, as she writes in "Conundrum": "To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial.
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I don't usually mean this as a compliment, but it's so insubstantial, it's like eating nothing at all.
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What does the boy in "Snowy Day" learn if not that our world is but an insubstantial pageant?
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I hopped on and was surprised at how heavy the bike is — there's nothing insubstantial about the bike.
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There's a lot of aluminum in the chassis, lightening the car up, but without making it feel insubstantial.
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While marquee names wrestle with characters as insubstantial as holograms, Lloyd gives us a reason to keep watching.
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Which is not to say the book is insubstantial — only that its power lies in what it leaves unsaid.
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Dragonflies buzz, darkly busy, reminiscent of drones, through these later paintings: insubstantial menaces whirring easily across Qureshi's curved earth.
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Not an insubstantial number of police service calls are due to alcohol, domestic violence, drunk-and-disorderlies or DUIs.
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The grinding of the proverbial rumour mill is endless, and social media feeds it with ever-more insubstantial chaff.
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The figures in "Blue Swimmers" are ghostly and insubstantial, made of watery brushstrokes the same consistency as the water.
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An insubstantial presence flits through abandoned landscapes and tatterdemalion rooms, face and figure hazed by the slow shutter speed.
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At first the music seemed insubstantial compared to his operas — unsurprisingly, given the work's frothy sweet-shop subject matter.
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I can't remember ever hearing this ensemble sound so light, almost insubstantial — and I mean that as a compliment.
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And as in "The Moviegoer," Catholic catechisms come and go as quick as rain showers, and just as insubstantial.
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" Flynn also claimed to investigators he had no substantial contacts with foreign government officials, saying he only had "insubstantial contact.
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While I'm all for minimalist games, the mobile puzzler always felt too insubstantial to really hold my attention for long.
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The most problematic provisions of the plan include new licensing fees for sharing anything more than "insubstantial" portions of content.
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It goes nowhere, movement on the weakside is insubstantial, and the play ends with Nikola Jokic airballing a fadeaway three.
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The Spice Girls, in towering stacked heels, sold us the rallying cry of "Girl Power," as insubstantial as it was catchy.
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This is not to say the book itself is insubstantial — only that it's composed of elisions, of nonlinear, half-remembered vignettes.
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In late 503, she was feeling not only burdened but also fragile — so light and insubstantial that she could blow away.
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Without that, any progressive gains when Democrats next control the House, the Senate, and the presidency will be fleeting and insubstantial.
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The sponge cake is elemental (the vanilla extract is the fanciest ingredient in the batter); tender, but not insubstantial; and satisfying.
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The boxes of food sent included packages of unhealthy and insubstantial snacks such as Cheez-Its, BabyRuths, Air Nerds, and canned meat.
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An "insubstantial man", as he himself admits, he is diffident, filled with self-loathing, incapable of standing up to his bullying father.
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The man carries a dusty-pink parasol that seems to echo his own drifting, insubstantial presence—it's hand-decorated with floral shapes.
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Beccafumi depicts God as an insubstantial being whose features are cloaked in inexplicable darkness, as impenetrable as the shadows engulfing the damned.
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"Piggy did chest surgery but didn't do hormones—that's a menopause mustache," Opie said reverently, and touched her own not insubstantial whiskers.
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"It is not for us to say that their religious beliefs are mistaken or insubstantial," Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority.
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But this also makes select advocacy organizations more prone to resemble bureaucratic institutions, where innovation can be undervalued and work ethic insubstantial.
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Well, thanks to recent changes in Australian refugee policy, protections for asylum seekers and refugees in the country are more insubstantial than ever.
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They've opened up a flood gate to a not insubstantial number of Muslims that will do anything to protect their Prophet against slander.
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If it&aposs not, then it will contradict itself, or it will be somehow insubstantial and end up making the audience feel cheated.
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Lacroix's surroundings at times appear solid to him; at others, especially when he has been drinking or taking laudanum, they're ghostly and insubstantial.
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In other words, poor single mothers and their children consistently suffer the most as a result of our porous, restrictive, and insubstantial welfare system.
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U.S. District Court Judge Ellen Huvelle said in a ruling that the allegations of conspiracy were insubstantial to proceed in a court, Politico reported.
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This is still the case with Acer's Primo, though I feel less encouraged by the phone's light weight, which makes it feel somewhat insubstantial.
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What's more, because they're so insubstantial, the Tenores essentially disappear into the ear and can be used while lying on one side in bed.
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In "Real Women Have Bodies," women are infected by a mysterious illness that causes their bodies to fade away, leaving them naked and insubstantial.
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In "Useful Phrases for Immigrants," Chai has a more defined authorial interest, but however diverting her best stories are, ultimately the book feels insubstantial.
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Never mind that the comment addressed religion generally, nor that rhetoric is typically considered something robust, not insubstantial, and worthy of first amendment protection.
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The decision to eliminate this benefit now feels as showy and insubstantial as the decision to close national parks whenever there's a budget impasse.
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Western intelligence agencies' knowledge of which rebel groups occupy which neighborhoods is insubstantial, in part because the groups often come together and then break apart.
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You knew it was winter when the cheerleaders on Glee had to don insubstantial jackets yet needed no tights or leggings under their uniform skirts.
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Time freed up by autonomous commuting isn't insubstantial – Ford says its data shows that Europeans spend, on average, 10 full days per year in their cars.
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Agreement with Macron, a would-be modern-day Bismarck, would likely burnish Trump's not insubstantial sense of self and buy him some much needed international credibility.
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But imagine a Kaurismaki with less humor and a slower pace, and you'll have a sense of how singular yet insubstantial "In the Aisles" ultimately appears.
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Perhaps more of a drawback, although one that often recedes as Krist's narrative gains momentum, is what the title metaphor implies — an insubstantial and fleeting fiction.
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" The court today agreed, stating that FCC analysis justifying its decision was "so insubstantial that it would receive a failing grade in any introductory statistics class.
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When the reactor can't supply that electricity itself—which at many U.S. facilities is a not insubstantial amount of the time—the plant becomes an energy consumer.
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Alone on the damply cobbled streets, wrapped in Wyatt Garfield's sensual cinematography, he seems no more than a scrap of a person, as insubstantial as infatuation itself.
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Jordan plays a young Stevenson and Jamie Foxx stars alongside as a death-row inmate who was convicted of murdering a white woman based on insubstantial testimony.
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From inside this ideological dead end, Trump's rich dad can be raised as an insubstantial jibe but can't be incorporated into a broader ideological critique of Trumpism.
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The roiling forms across the horizontal field, at once insubstantial and palpable, suggest that Heaven and Hell and Earth are one, presided over by a dark presence.
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The hologram itself has an uneasy pallor, a brighter shade than the humans onstage but at the same time insubstantial, like a ghost struggling to fully materialize.
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Coming after all this (as well as Gregory Dolbashian's slinky and insubstantial "Welcome Stranger"), a handsomely anodyne piece like Annabelle Lopez Ochoa's "Islands of Memories" benefits by contrast.
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The European Parliament approved the controversial Copyright Directive, which would require publishers to pay a "link tax" for sharing anything more than "insubstantial" portions of other publishers' content.
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But 36% is more than a third, which is not insubstantial and shows that more Republicans are pro-choice than it may seem when you scan the headlines.
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The Times article suggested that most mission statements aren't "worth the paper they were written on"—so insubstantial and formulaic that they may as well be computer-generated.
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With Trinidad and Tobago's peacock colors and beautiful beaches as a backdrop, "Bazodee," directed by Todd Kessler (a creator of "Blue's Clues"), is pretty and upbeat, if insubstantial.
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But according to the program's other co-founder Sophia Stoller, there was an actual—if insubstantial—reason for choosing the capital of the former Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic.
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The bottom line: Now that the Fed is being treated as a marionette by both the markets and the president, its much-vaunted independence is becoming increasingly insubstantial.
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Many of these moral issues overlap with political issues, and churches may even participate in lobbying activity, as long as it constitutes a "insubstantial" part of their activity.
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As such, the Mate X, along with Samsung's Galaxy Fold, is having to establish its own market right now — as well as recoup not-insubstantial research and development costs.
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Things fall apart towards the end — giving monsters a face and physical form sometimes renders them less scary, and the film ultimately chooses to focus on an insubstantial threade.
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Pros: Lightweight, compact size, BAK-4 prismsCons: Some say the neck strap is insubstantial, image quality isn't the best in low lighting, a few complaints of stiff focus knobs
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The sloping roofline is on-trend for auto design these days, but I'm no fan of the A220's rear end, which manages to be both truncated and insubstantial.
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Of course, even if you're open to the concept of mixing LSD and bar (or bat) mitzvahs, the not-so-insubstantial concern of giving intense drugs to children lingers.
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Another controversial aspect of the proposal, Article 11, demands that EU websites pay a "link tax" if they're going to share any more than an "insubstantial" amount of content.
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The Trinamool Congress of West Bengal, a state ruled with an iron fist by the party's founder, Mamata Banerjee, is based on an insubstantial mix of populism and Bengali pride.
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That, in turn, fuelled a suspicion that his support was insubstantial—because the disenchanted working-class whites who flock to Mr Trump's rallies do not flock to the polling booths.
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The risks of getting caught by rangers, trampled by elephants or eaten by lions may seem insubstantial compared to the opportunity to feed your entire family for a whole year.
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This, however, should be taken with the grain of salt, in the sense that any entertainment centred on or made for teenage girls is often dismissed as insubstantial or cheap.
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As such, the show, with its goofy asides, episodes where nothing happened, and fleet of small-town weirdos, was too often written off as a candy-covered trifle — good, but insubstantial.
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The music that Mr. Felder plays, quite nicely on a gleaming grand piano, is the best part of this show, which at an intermissionless 105 minutes is both overlong and insubstantial.
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The judge said Amazon is likely to be able to prove the DOD improperly evaluated Microsoft's proposal, and that Amazon's "chance of securing the award was not insubstantial absent the error."
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"Charities can engage in an 'insubstantial' amount of lobbying," said University of Illinois law professor John D. Colombo, who authored the seminal Illinois Law Review article on the NCAA's tax exemption.
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She turns the insubstantial doo-wop song "Miss Celie's Pants" into a show-stopping number of liberation and joy, and the climactic anthem "I'm Here" becomes a transcendent moment of catharsis.
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The rules are fairly simple to pick up and feel designed with a touchscreen in mind, while the matches themselves breeze by relatively quickly — but not so quick that they feel insubstantial.
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This isn't insubstantial — at less than 240,000 miles away from Earth, the Moon can be reached in days, instead of the six month-travel time it would take to get to Mars.
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The DOJ's model has the average price of cable going up for the average American by 45 cents, AT&T said, calling it "still-insubstantial" in light of an earlier, lower estimate.
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For the last half-century, its main business has been the study of the tiniest insubstantial bit of matter in the universe, an ephemeral fly-by-night subatomic particle called the neutrino.
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"The country is clearly continuing to feel the trade war squeeze, putting all the more pressure on the so-far insubstantial... 'partial trade deal' announced last weekend," Spreadex analyst Connor Campbell said.
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While both totals are not insubstantial, they are dwarfed by Marvel's big hits - 2012'S "The Avengers" and 2015's "Avengers: Age of Ultron," which took $1.5 billion and $1.4 billon respectively.
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Torbjörn is effectively a two-headed beast, able to trust that his turret will reliably dish out damage and control a location while he focuses his not-insubstantial Rivet Gun on other threats.
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And since each EU nation is left to determine the definition of "insubstantial," many critics of the new EU copyright rules say things could quickly become problematic for commercial and non-commercial entities alike.
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Trump could have left Hanoi with a deal of any kind just for the sake of it, but he decided that no deal was better than an insubstantial one that could hamper future negotiations.
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The film ends with an embarrassing bland montage of the couple's cute moments together, which shows those cute moments to be every bit as insubstantial and unmemorable as they looked the first time around.
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In the case of "In Memory," a new solo for the City Ballet soloist Megan LeCrone (the choreographer's sister), the result was as pretty and wafting as the dancer's gossamer skirt, and as insubstantial.
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When he sees his reflection in a pool of water in the forest, he becomes consumed by the desire to possess this image of his own beauty, an insubstantial illusion which cannot return his love.
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There are still those who think literature concerned in any way with the lives of women or families is insubstantial, or readers who assume that any literature by women is personal and domestic by definition.
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These were men with a history of personal violence and instability, with only insubstantial internet ties to the Islamic State, who were activated by social media messages into re-fashioning themselves as lone-wolf terrorists.
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This is an election in which a not insubstantial portion of the American electorate wants to ban Muslims, round up and deport immigrants and revoke basic equal protection laws for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.
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So long as there is a not insubstantial amount of people coming out — just like the not insignificant number who joined the (June 4) vigil — I think the spirit will continue, the fight will go on.
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Escapism has its place, but this feels more insubstantial than even the early-21st-century reality-TV version of this idea, "The Simple Life," which unleashed city slickers Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie upon America's heartland.
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These men include the male directors who exploited her sexuality, a controlling first husband who kept her at home, and a studio executive, Louis B. Mayer, who confined her to insubstantial roles when she wanted more.
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Mr. Flynn, who resigned 24 days into the Trump administration, told investigators in February 2016 that he had received no income from foreign companies and had only "insubstantial contact" with foreign nationals, according to the letter.
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At the same time, some observers suggest that Gouzer's sales are flimsy marketing exercises, bestowing an insubstantial veneer of coherence on a gathering of works that might just as easily appear in Christie's traditional evening sales.
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Those costs may seem insubstantial, but with millions of customers and tens of thousands of ATMs, they add up - even for a bank that produces $6.2 billion in quarterly profit, as JPMorgan did in the second quarter.
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That's not to say it's insubstantial: Fuji's cameras are generally quite hefty, and the 50R is no exception, but it's much smaller and lighter than its predecessor and, surprisingly, costs $2,000 less at $4,499 for the body.
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Two aspects worth calling out are the real bone nut — typically found only on much nicer guitars — and the poplar-wood body, which is just about perfect for weight and sustain, not too heavy, but not insubstantial.
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Most musicals written in French have been derided as insubstantial and barely registered as stage offerings; two of the few exceptions were "Starmania," in 1979 (adapted in English as "Tycoon"), and "Notre-Dame de Paris," in 1998.
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Affleck has mostly been silent on the allegations, but after they resurfaced in 2017, Affleck gave some insubstantial quotes to The Boston Globe, saying there's nothing he can do about it and he is just living his life.
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Maybe the film could have just been what it tells us, over and over, in so many words, that it wants to be: an insubstantial genre exercise, designed to vanish from the audience's head as soon as it's over.
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Pelosi, who has repeatedly expressed skepticism about the idea of impeachment, will have to deal with her party's base (and a not-insubstantial number of her House Democratic colleagues), which believes that trying to impeach Trump is beyond debate.
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For the most part, though, Li's fictional America is suggestively insubstantial, her characters seemingly unable to step outside "the shadow of the Duck House," itself a metaphor for their "Chineseness" in the United States — whether perceived or self-imposed.
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Listening to "Aljamiado" by Renaud Garcia-Fons, I get a series of delightful bass thumps (which my iMac speakers can't even register) anchoring the song, but the wind instruments feel insubstantial and don't have anywhere near as much impact or effect.
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And also a bit insubstantial: These operas are deep, dark works, but you wouldn't know that from a presentation that took arias and ensembles from their contexts and placed them in innocuously pretty settings that made them feel merely decorative.
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Preliminary estimates suggest that foreign tourism could decline by 6.8 percent in 2023, a not-insubstantial drop for the tourism industry, which generates approximately 2.7 percent of US GDP (as of 2015) and directly employs more than 5.6 million people.
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"Miss Kiet's Children" may seem soft and insubstantial in isolation, but it's worth remembering that the movie was made before the far-right politician Geert Wilders fell short of gaining the seats his party sought in the 2017 Dutch election.
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Under this part of the proposal, websites that share content would be subject to licensing fees for sharing anything more than "insubstantial" portions of content, something that also puts resources like Wikipedia at risk since the proposal fails to include a noncommercial exception.
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Once it arrives in the stomach, the gelatine is rapidly digested and the star unfolds into something large enough to avoid being expelled into the intestine, but insubstantial enough not to obstruct the passage of semi-digested food through the alimentary canal.
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But too excessive, too scanty, too much, or too little, they all point to the same idea: Women who care about appearance must be vain, frivolous, excessive, conceited, stupid, air-headed, self-involved, insubstantial, attention-seeking...you pick the word — there are plenty.
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Her life seems all at once too fragile and insubstantial and the only thing she has, and so this leaves her both willing to destroy it and afraid to risk her entire universe, this not-girl-anymore but not-yet-adult life.
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In the shabby one-bedroom ground-floor apartment where he had lived for about a year and a half, Mr. Bowers made such an insubstantial impression on his next-door neighbor, Kerri Owens, that she forgot his name soon after he introduced himself.
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According to a letter this month from Mr. Cummings, documents suggest that Mr. Flynn falsely stated in that interview that American companies had funded his Moscow visit and that he had had only "insubstantial contact" with foreigners, despite the dinner with Mr. Putin.
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Following from these, there is a not-insubstantial administrative and management layer to healthcare: as we gain more advanced knowledge and technology to treat more people, the systems surrounding those treatments — from delivering them to figuring out how to pay for them — become more complex.
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Where to watch: iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, Google Play, YouTube In the wake of "The Last Emperor," this picturesque love triangle, set in North Africa after World War II, was dismissed as comparatively insubstantial, less an engagement with the historical moment than a pretty snapshot.
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"Such facilities are exempt from the tax as long as their main focus is promoting exercise and physical fitness, indoor tanning is an insubstantial part of the business, members are not charged per tanning visit, and the service is not exclusively advertised," she explained.
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The other side: "Trump could have left Hanoi with a deal of any kind just for the sake of it, but he decided that no deal was better than an insubstantial one that could hamper future negotiations," Stanford professor Gi-Wook Shin writes for Axios Expert Voices.
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New Day for America, the super PAC backing John Kasich Reach: Aired in Vermont, Massachusetts, and Michigan as part of a six-figure ad buy Impact: By showing Marco Rubio gilding backward and fading from the screen, this ad subtly underscores the idea that the Florida senator is somehow insubstantial.
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What has made many of these games bad is instead a lack of substance (and not because fashion is itself inherently insubstantial.) Look at it this way: In a high-quality fantasy RPG, you do a lot more than walk up to a dragon and stab it a few times.
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What has made many of these games bad is instead a lack of substance (and not because fashion is itself inherently insubstantial.) Look at it this way: In a high-quality fantasy RPG, you do a lot more than walk up to a dragon and stab it a few times.
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Instagram stands as the prime example of Facebook&aposs success with acquisition, acquired for a not-insubstantial $1 billion in 23, it is now worth more than a hundred times that: An estimate in 2018 pegged it as worth $100 billion, and its value seems certain to have increased since then.
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But it was a long layover and eventually I winkled out the shoe box of Fook Ming Tong, tucked away on an upper floor, and handed over a not insubstantial wad of folding money for a package of Lovell's most highly recommended ambrosia: white silver tip tea from Fujian Province in southeastern China.
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Carter's defense team attempted to make the case that punishing Carter for her messages to Roy would be a violation of the First Amendment and alleged that he was acting on his own will based on his previous suicide attempts, but the court found both of those arguments insubstantial both initially and on appeal.
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They also argue that an amendment giving Member States the flexibility to decide whether or not a snippet should be considered "insubstantial" (and thus freely shared) or not, does not clear up problems — saying it just risks causing fresh fragmentation across the bloc, at a time when the Commission is keenly pushing a so-called 'Digital Single Market' strategy.
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The most controversial aspects of the plan remain twofold: Article 11, which would require EU News outlets to pay a "link tax" just to share anything more than "insubstantial" snippets of published content, and Article 13, which would require that EU member countries implement the kind of automated copyright filters that have been a chaotic mess here in the States.
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Yet the great irony of this life, one so improbable that it makes me laugh, is that of the very few public figures who share this condition—Uma Thurman, Timothy Geithner, Steve Kerr, Kobe Bryant—of the luminaries in this world who, just by existing, make me feel less alone and insubstantial, one of them is the leader of the free world.
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Mourinho's Chelsea side featured the likes of Didier Drogba, Andriy Shevchenko and Michael Ballack, assembled and maintained at huge expense alongside club stalwarts like Frank Lampard and John Terry, while Arsene Wenger decided to put out a team led by an achingly youthful Cesc Fabregas, and populated with insubstantial youngsters such as Denilson, Justin Hoyte, Armand Traore and Jeremie Aliadiere.
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The staff for Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley reviewed the documents obtained by Wyden's staff and issued a separate report stating they found that the $6,000 in question to pay for the trip to Russia is "relatively insubstantial" and the evidence "does not raise concerns that the NRA abused its tax-exempt status purposes" when NRA officials traveled to Moscow in 2015.
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A summary of the meeting, which Lutsenko said was drafted by a Giuliani associate who was present, and which Lutsenko shared with me, suggests that Lutsenko, aware of Giuliani's appetite for anything that might embarrass the Bidens, handed over an assortment of seemingly tantalizing but ultimately insubstantial data points, including what he claimed were Latvian bank records that purportedly showed Burisma payments to members of its international board.
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" The plaintiffs had to plausibly show that the sale of the cable service is conditioned on the box rental, that TWC "uses actual coercion to force buyers to" rent the boxes, that TWC "has sufficient economic power" in the cable market to coerce customers into renting the boxers, that "the tie‐in has anticompetitive effects in the tied market," and that "a not insubstantial amount of interstate commerce is involved in the tied market.
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" (Which "ill effects" might be so "insubstantial" that they could just be ignored, he didn't say.) Judge Alito's conclusion was that there were simply not enough women for the court to worry about, and that in any event, the Pennsylvania Legislature could have "reasonably concluded" that conversation between husband and wife could "properly further a husband's interests in the fetus in a sufficient percentage of the affected cases to justify enactment of this measure.
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The big thing: Flynn stated he had not received "any benefit from a foreign country," claiming that his $45,000 speaking fee at a 2015 Moscow gala for RT, the state-owned Russian news network, was paid by his U.S. speakers' bureau — however, Cummings' letter states that the Oversight Committee has documents showing Flynn's speaking fees were paid directly by RT. The other big thing: Flynn claimed he had "insubstantial contact" with foreign officials in his clearance disclosures.
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Sometimes he fleetingly glimpses the father he never met, through a stern and kindly recorded announcement on a Staten Island Ferry boat; in a fountain's statue of Neptune near a "home for aged and decrepit sailors"; in a fortuitous encounter with a friend of his sister's, and that man's young son, in a restroom at a Lowe's in Wheeling, West Va. As Mr. Oliver says "Lowe's," that unromantic home improvement store acquires a numinous glow, as do the words Build It Green, the name of a house-fixtures salvage store in Queens, N.Y. The idea of home, you see, is as tantalizingly insubstantial to Mr. Oliver as that of a father.
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" As Justice Kennedy explained: "To describe a man's faith as 'one of the most despicable pieces of rhetoric that people can use' is to disparage his religion in at least two distinct ways: by describing it as despicable, and also by characterizing it as merely rhetorical --something insubstantial and even insincere....This sentiment is inappropriate for a Commission charged with the solemn responsibility of fair and neutral enforcement of Colorado's antidiscrimination law -- a law that protects discrimination on the basis of religion as well as sexual orientation...[t]he government, if it is to respect the Constitution's guarantee of free exercise, cannot impose regulations that are hostile to the religious beliefs of affected citizens and cannot act in a manner that passes judgment upon or presupposes the illegitimacy of religious beliefs and practices.
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