Last straw The damning "Access Hollywood" tape had become the last straw for many of Trump's fellow Republicans, who finally cut ties with the controversial nominee.
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"I think that would be a part of the last straw, if not the last straw, if he did that," Green told The Hill at the time.
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"This was the last straw," she said of Trump's policies.
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Perhaps Parkland really was the last straw for some conservatives.
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This seems to have been the last straw for Hopkins.
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But the third scandal seemed to be the last straw.
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For California's public health department, this was the last straw.
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I think this was the last straw for U.S. Soccer.
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He said Yovanovitch's dismissal was the last straw for him.
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You have to wonder whether this is the last straw.
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That was the "last straw" for him, Mr. Pourshalimi said.
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That was the last straw for teachers and school administrators.
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"And that was the last straw for me," Su said.
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Tax is a heavy headwind, but not the last straw.
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It seemed to be the last straw for Mr. Koren.
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That may have been the last straw for the Saudis.
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It was also the last straw for some of his employers.
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For Comey, Lynch's meeting with Bill Clinton was the last straw.
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Those tariffs were the last straw for Cohn, the Times reported.
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"This was the last straw," said a source close to Spicer.
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The bombings Tuesday were, for many in Syria, the last straw.
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Read: The last straw: Is time up for this plastic relic?
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Many French see the labor-reform bill as a last straw.
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So, was the Lava Shack fight the last straw for Dana?
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We're told Trump's endorsement of Roy Moore was the last straw.
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That is the last straw for Mom, and she eats him!
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The last straw, she said, was the fingerprint request last week.
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But the deal for Amazon, for some, was the last straw.
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As such, it was the last straw for many impeachment skeptics.
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Rebecca: Well that body reveal would be the last straw for Ali.
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But the absolute last straw is the Essential Phone's painful shooting speeds.
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But Justice Anthony Kennedy's announcement of his retirement was the last straw.
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Wednesday was "the last straw" and prompted Jordan to alert Capitol Police.
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And that's when I said to myself, 'This is the last straw.
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Trump getting elected was for sure the last straw in a way.
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"To draw this parallel, Mr Wolf, is the last straw," Vilimsky responded.
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This appears to have been the last straw for the defense secretary.
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For one reason or another, the Tentaciones cover was the last straw.
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Smith's death, regardless of his story's details, was just the last straw.
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If the tree went, that would be the last straw, I thought.
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There are a lot of people saying this is the last straw.
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"If the CAH did lose funding, it would be the last straw."
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All this appears to have been the last straw for Dylan Farrow.
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The last straw may have come with renewed discussion of a Nissan takeover.
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"That was kind of the last straw" of the bull market, Gundlach said.
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Isaac Pareto: I was sure this would be the last straw for Jen.
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Henson points to one incident that was the last straw in her relationship.
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The Monica Lewinsky scandal was the last straw for Vice President Al Gore.
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So, when Javadi starts spewing Adal's nonsense, it's the last straw for Keane.
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The tweet was the last straw for Trump Jr., the source told CNN.
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Did something in the past couple of weeks feel like the last straw?
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Having to clean up your mess for no tip was the last straw.
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It seems that may have been the last straw for the Trump administration.
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The lingering mess created by the hurricane was the last straw for him.
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That was the last straw for Sukur, who quickly resigned from Erdogan's party.
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His response to the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville was the last straw.
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Would the commission monitor a president's behaviors, judging which is the last straw?
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Kids with other types of mental health conditions ... This is the last straw.
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"He got in my friend's face, and that was the last straw," Mike said.
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The incident with the boy touching her leg was the last straw for Natalie.
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Sources tell us the arrest over Thanksgiving weekend was the last straw for her.
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No, I would never chuck a plant until it was really the last straw.
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The phone-bug news on March 16th was the last straw for one group.
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His tweet supporting the lynching of journalists was the last straw for this voter.
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I wonder if the lotion will be the last straw excuse the mixed metaphor.
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As a former grade school teacher, the last straw for me was Sandy Hook.
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When they published his home address, that was the last straw for Mr. Bianco.
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So I was just like, This is the last straw with this music teacher.
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For the Trump administration, it would appear the embassy attack was the last straw.
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The last straw seems to have been Mahmoud's handling of unexpected protests in September.
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He said one such run-in with a Boston family was the last straw.
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Seleznev's arrest, the sources said, was the last straw for the FSB's patience with Mikhailov.
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"But long-term there is no such thing as a last straw," the source said.
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"HHS bailing out was the last straw for us," Mitchell told me by phone Wednesday.
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This was the last straw for me because now me physical safety was at risk.
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Schumer and Dunham have reached the last straw in what they can get away with.
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The last straw was a proposal to move everyone over to a defined-contribution scheme.
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She cites the Flint water crisis as the "last straw" that pushed her to run.
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Yadira says that was the last straw but adds the abuse started long before that.
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But the last straw is an unflattering (she calls it "monstrous") newspaper photo of Joan.
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A tweet from Chrissy Teigen may be the last straw for Last Man Standing viewers.
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But he instead confirmed them — which was apparently the last straw for Cold Spring Harbor.
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The last straw, he said, came when Mr. Trump belittled Senator John McCain's war record.
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She claims the last straw came in January when Chikezie allegedly made a verbal threat.
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So that was the last straw and the last financial hardship that ended the band.
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NEW DELHI — The steamy ads featuring a former porn star were apparently the last straw.
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The last straw, he said, was when someone filmed him shopping at the local Walmart.
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And now some high-ranking GOPers are calling Trump's attacks on the judge the last straw.
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We're told Brody says they entered without knocking, and that was the last straw for him.
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The war in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea were only the last straw, she says.
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The dog's brutal death was the last straw in MTV's often tumultuous relationship with the couple.
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That altercation was the last straw that caused Halle to pull the plug on her marriage.
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And next month's "Avengers: Endgame" is being marketed as the last straw for the original Avengers.
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The Phylos situation, while not the only reason the project shuttered, was just the last straw.
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Trump's delay in condemning the groups was apparently the last straw for a trio of CEOs.
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Is the C.E.O.'s brushing off of Jamal Khashoggi's murder as a "mistake" the last straw?
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The last straw for many MPs was his half-hearted role in the anti-Brexit campaign.
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Were Tillerson's comments on the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal the last straw for Trump?
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In a country already battered by widespread political and corporate corruption, this was the last straw.
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After I finished it, I phoned my husband and told him, 'This is the last straw.
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I'd been gravitating towards Amazon anyway, reluctantly, but the iBooks deletion situation was the last straw.
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But the thoughtless killing of one of their own seems to have been the last straw.
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But in his role as President Trump's defender, Mr. Giuliani may have pulled the last straw.
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Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters on Friday that the Senate vote was the last straw.
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For Ms. Lindsley, the last straw came during a wine-promotion trip in Chile in 2015.
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His oblivious reaction is the last straw and Gypsy explodes because their happily ever after, well, sucks.
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For many users, last week's Rose McGowan incident was the last straw, igniting a 24-hour boycott.
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MELISSA LEE: What do you think the last straw was in the view of the board, Bruce?
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When he called for a ban of all Muslims, I thought that would be the last straw.
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That was the last straw for the security force, which detained the actor with a citizen's arrest.
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" Another source close to Dubke said the appointment of Mueller as special prosecutor "was the last straw.
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To many Hong Kongers, the result of the Umbrella Movement two years ago was the last straw.
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That was the last straw for Brown, and she told him that she was finally over him.
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What he did to Kathryn was horrible, but the allegations from his nanny became the last straw.
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This scenario was widely predicted before the election, that if Macron fails, this is the last straw.
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As we told you, rumors he was dating FOX News' Kimberly Guilfoyle might've been the last straw.
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We're told the last straw was when someone sent an envelope containing white powder to their home.
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The last straw for CLE was when Gordon said he injured himself last week during a promo shoot.
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"The changes in social security were just the last straw," one woman told the Miami Herald on Saturday.
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It turned out to be the last straw for Mayor Edwin Lee, who immediately asked for Suhr's resignation.
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The last straw was the introduction of the cloud, fog, or blizzard, whatever you want to call it.
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Lil Wayne's latest home 911 swatting incident was the last straw -- he's packing his bags and going inland.
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Well, the last straw was dropped last month after family members found a crack pipe on the property.
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Pretty much everyone described a "last-straw" incident, an interaction or conflict that led directly to the estrangement.
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Sawyers, of the Prince William County school board, said the Charlottesville events were "the last straw" for him.
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Our Okinawan co-plaintiffs know that experts believe this base could be the last straw for the dugong.
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I have burned so many bridges and let so many people down, but this is the last straw.
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" Chuck D also tweeted "last final note the last final note was my last straw was long ago.
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" In later tweets, he wrote that when it came to Flavor Flav, "my last straw was long ago.
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If anyone had doubts about getting rid of Mr. Trump before now, this should be the last straw.
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"Our target is the state," Lambert said, adding that Total's decision on palm oil was "the last straw".
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The last straw came at the Kids' Choice Awards last month, when Nick and Mariah took the twins.
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Cramer said that continued discussions about issues other than tax reform could be the last straw for some investors.
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It's the last straw for Archie, who tells Betty it all feels like the pot calling the kettle black.
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It said it still prefers private meetings with executives and casts critical proxy votes only as a last straw.
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"Okay Ryan Seacrest and Adriana Lima are apparently dating and this is seriously the last straw," one user wrote.
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So when the leftist government in April decreed Friday school closings to save electricity, it was the last straw.
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This final betrayal of the pact the humans forgot eons ago might very well have been the last straw.
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It seems the last straw was last week when Lamar was caught drinking in a San Fernando Valley bar.
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Encountering Dick and his formalist sculptures—one is just a brick sitting on a table—is the last straw.
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Yemen was the last straw for Riyadh, which axed $4 billion in support for Lebanon's military and intelligence services.
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It should be the last straw for those Republicans who have worn Trump beer goggles for way too long.
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For many community members, the scandal involving Dr. Tyndall was the last straw in a time of mounting scandal.
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Was having her finger amputated the last straw, or do you think Serena's momentum in that direction was inevitable?
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That move is often credited with being the last straw, though it was just one of many, many straws.
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But to the audience, it's yet more awfulness for Clark to have to endure, a sort of last straw.
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The last straw came when Garcia told David she had to leave early to go to a prenatal doctor's appointment.
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We had been arguing with each other so much already, I was worried that this was really the last straw.
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The last straw was Shkreli offering $5,000 to anyone who would "grab" some of Clinton's hair during her book tour.
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Critic's Notebook Hurricane Sandy was the last straw for many residents of Ocean Village, a housing project in the Rockaways.
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The last straw, he said, has been the under-performance by some hedge fund managers during periods of market volatility.
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And the fact that McGowan was suspended after speaking out against the former Weinstein Co. executive was the last straw.
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That was possibly the last straw for Stern's bosses at Washington's WWDC, and he was ousted a few months later.
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After many similar exclusionary actions, this is the last straw, I am honestly not sure I can safely attend. pic.twitter.
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But seriously, if the iPhone 7 wasn't reason enough to switch to wireless headphones, this should be your last straw.
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Spotting the pubic hair of the other girl he's sleeping with resting on the toilet bowl was the last straw.
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The death of a US contractor in one such attack last week was the last straw for the Trump administration.
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The hiring of Anthony Scaramucci as communications director, who only lasted 10 days, however, seemed to be the last straw.
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"The tape was the last straw," former national security adviser and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger recalled in TIME magazine.
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The last straw came the following spring, when Kipling got into a dispute with his brother-in-law, Beatty Balestier.
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Fox News is told that one email, sent in the predawn hours of July 4, was "the last straw" for Jordan.
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As a judge who oversaw primarily cases of women and children fleeing abuse and dangers abroad, this was the last straw.
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Yes, you knew that it would be used by Trump's detractors as yet another "last straw" argument against his very candidacy.
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The last straw was turning Dream's stroller into a weapon as she attacked a woman who dared to touch the kid.
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This was the last straw for Sean Spicer who finally announced his resignation, although he was slowly being phased out anyway.
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For Pocan, Trump's call on Sunday to return immigrants who enter the country illegally without judicial proceedings was the last straw.
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Given their contentious history, it would not only be a surprise but might also be the last straw for Sanders' chances.
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Gurba told BuzzFeed News that American Dirt struck such a nerve among many Latinx people because it was the last straw.
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CSI22, which have fallen 210 percent since late June to two year-lows, could be the last straw for some funds.
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But some Missouri leaders viewed the ad as a last straw, casting Mr. Roe as the avatar of a toxic campaign culture.
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She says hearing reports of young immigrant children taken from their family pushed her to protest, calling it was the last straw.
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It was the fact that Puzder had no easy path towards the nomination, though, that was the last straw for the nominee.
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She was 22015 when the Rodney King riots engulfed the city's streets, a last-straw reaction to police brutality and systemic racism.
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Even before that happened, I knew that I was spending too much money on clothing, and that dress was the last straw.
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I've remained silent until now, but the White People™ movement to prevent "Despacito" from making music history is the last straw.
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The last straw for some of his closest supporters was the publication of a book by two Le Monde journalists in October.
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Others said Denoke had merely been lukewarm about the deal but that this was the last straw in a history of conflict.
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The Hall County D.A. said his last arrest -- for allegedly throwing a salt shaker at a restaurant manager -- was the last straw.
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But coalition fault lines are growing wider and any further tightening of asylum laws could be the last straw for the Greens.
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The team could well take one more big jump in our debt load as the last straw, and it wouldn't be pretty.
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This was the last straw in a string of things I had tolerated as we 'managed costs throughout the difficult economic time.
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They felt monitored at every occasion, and the removal of the sheriff's guards with whom they'd bonded felt like the last straw.
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When, according to Steffy, a classmate posted a homophobic message on Snapchat using a photo of him, it was the last straw.
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The incident acted as a last straw for Dulay and Knight, who looked into a possible lawsuit just a few months later.
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That question was the rhetorical last straw that led to the first bout of "consequences" he had ever faced from Republican leadership.
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For many, her statement on Perrineau is a last straw of sorts, and Clemmons's allegations about her past are all too believable.
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But the latest incident, in which she posted a picture of herself doing a Nazi salute, seems to have been the last straw.
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Among the issues ... Vanessa hates politics and we're told the last straw was when someone sent her fam an envelope containing white powder.
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You can't do that because you might get sued and Punkin Chunkin to me was one of those last straw type of deals.
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The domestic violence arrest was the last straw for Sizemore's bosses on the TV show "Shooter" -- he got canned a few weeks later.
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An apparent cover-up, involving the dismissal of officials investigating or merely complaining about the scandal, might be the last straw for voters.
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"When Copson decided he was going to saddle up with the Trump team, that was the last straw for me," the insider says.
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The last straw for me came in early December, about a month into the occupation, when I received a care package from home.
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"The fact that he signed this omnibus bill is the last straw and just says he never wanted to do it," Coulter said.
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It was another maddening journey of 20 miles that took at least twice as long as it should have, one more last straw.
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"I thought, 'Oh no, this is it,'" she said in a telephone interview, recalling the mishap that became a last straw for her.
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The last straw was in June 2019, during a Faith and Freedom Coalition conference in Washington, DC, where Vice President Mike Pence spoke.
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The last straw was the £1.5bn in losses the company made in the six months to March, which damaged the company's balance sheet.
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Anthony Weiner's third sexting scandal was the last straw for his wife, top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, who announced their separation on Monday.
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After my last straw disappointment of seeing yet another old dapper man who was not Al Pacino, I decided to call it a night.
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However, a spokesperson for Reynolds did not confirm or deny that Foxhaven's mass email was the last straw that led to his forced resignation.
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"I think the last straw was, they just didn't know what to do with Spicer," a source close to the administration told BuzzFeed News.
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We're told Steven's pissed because so many child sex predators are housed in the low security facility, and Fogle was just the last straw.
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That moment of clarity, and everything that came afterward, was what researcher Kristina Scharp of the University of Washington labels a "last-straw" experience.
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Luann de Lesseps is opening up about her recent divorce from ex-husband Tom D'Agostino — and the "last straw" that led to their split.
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For X'antony Sr., 103, the last straw came when a neighbor was held up at gunpoint as she came home with her two toddlers.
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It was probably the last straw for Mr. Kim, still unsure about himself and extremely sensitive about any challenge to his supposedly monolithic leadership.
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The Helsinki meeting took place just two weeks after the ABC interview, and Trump's performance there could have been the last straw for Cohen.
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The last straw came four years in, when an undetected leak in the refrigerator rotted out the drywall and the wood beams beneath it.
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I'd often feared there might be a last straw, a breaking point, but in my head the breakup scene was always far more dramatic.
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So beyond the law supporting undocumented immigrants, it also, DHS argues, interferes with its security mission -- and that, it seems, was the last straw.
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In any case, their father was furious and, after a lifetime of frustration with his namesake, considered this to have been the last straw.
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The last straw came last week when a local CDU branch defied her and voted with the far-right to install a local leader.
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"The Weinstein case could be the last straw for Cy Vance," the typically cop-friendly New York Post editorial board warned at the time.
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The last straw for Trump appeared to be the disagreement between the two over the President's decision to host Taliban leaders at Camp David.
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The government's proposal to pass a law criminalizing acts of sedition and subversion against mainland China -- referred to as "Article 22014" -- was the last straw.
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Saying his remarks had likely been misinterpreted, Rosenfeldt decided it was the last straw for him with Twitter, where he found the climate sometimes hostile.
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But for a population exasperated with government corruption, and sick of dealing with daily power cuts and seasonal water shortages, it was the last straw.
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He also told Fox News that the last straw came a few months back, after witnessing a live octopus being butchered at a sushi restaurant.
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"She's caught him lying and talking to other girls behind her back before, and this was the last straw," a source said at the time.
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Nigg, who's in prison on weapons charges, is reportedly distraught that his spot houses so many sex offenders, and Fogle's arrival was the last straw.
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The last straw for Mr Yaalon had been Mr Netanyahu's plan to replace him in the next week with a far-right politician, Avigdor Lieberman.
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But after 40 years of Republican presidents nominating liberal justices (Earl Warren, William Brennan, Henry Blackmun and John Paul Stevens), Souter was the last straw.
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For many, the last straw came Wednesday, with the closing of Parliament by the departing speaker, Yuli Edelstein, a member of Mr. Netanyahu's Likud party.
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For Ankara, the last straw was a US plan announced earlier this month to train 30,000 SDF troops to patrol the Turkish and Iraqi borders.
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"For an industry with tiny, tiny margins and then having Amazon show up with Whole Foods just was sort of the last straw," he said.
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This is the last straw for him, and he, Pudge, Alaska, and Takumi vow to get revenge on the Weekday Warriors one way or another.
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For many, the fruitless search for jobs within IBM is the last straw, a final break with the values the company still says it embraces.
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After months of tension, the last straw for Bolton appears to be a dispute over Afghanistan on the eve of the anniversary of 9/11.
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The last straw, Mr. Palacios said in court documents, came in November, when he found a surveillance camera hidden in a tree near his house.
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The last straw for Tabitha was Brady nearly throwing her over a yacht at the party, all because she wanted him to stop grabbing at her.
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New York (CNN Business)After twenty years as a political correspondent for Fox News, the election of Donald Trump was the last straw for Carl Cameron.
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Tarini Parti and Paul McLeod wrote a smart piece about why the much-theorized Trump "last straw" doesn't exist for Republicans in Congress and Trump's allies.
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It was the last straw for me personally — I canceled my premium subscription and exported all my notes to a simpler, cheaper Evernote alternative named Bear.
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Hodgson had been in charge of the national team for four years but his squad's poor showing at the tournament in France was the last straw.
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"The stolen $1 billion was the last straw in many ways," said Nicu Popescu, an analyst at the European Union Institute for Security Studies in Paris.
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Trump may have succeeded in getting oil prices to decline, with the Iran waivers seemingly being the last straw for any bulls left in the market.
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The last straw was the UNHRC's criticism of Israel's presence in the Golan Heights, coupled with its deafening silence on the Assad regime's atrocities in Syria.
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Casting Scarlett Johansson in the box office tanking Ghost in the Shell was hopefully the last straw in giving Asian roles to white actors and actresses.
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Some took to Twitter to say that the latest problems marked the last straw after April's outage left many unable to access their accounts for days.
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The last straw was when Microsoft essentially sat down a group of venture capitalists and told them where they could invest, and where Microsoft was investing.
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Huma Abedin has finally filed to divorce Anthony Weiner ... and it appears his guilty plea for texting a 15-year-old girl was the last straw.
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Ryan Costello, a moderate from Pennsylvania who is retiring after the election, warned that Trump's message could be the last straw for endangered GOP House members.
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The last straw was Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposal to change the way students are admitted to the city's elite high schools, where Asian-Americans dominate.
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The last straw: She had to borrow money to pay the $2800,500 to fly them earlier this year from Texas to New York, where she lives.
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When he shows up, unannounced, waiting for her in her kitchen, it seems like it could be the last straw, and she demands her key back.
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The last straw seemed to be when Brown publicly called out Raiders general manager Mike Mayock after the team fined him for missing multiple team activities.
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The president's response in the wake of it was the last straw for leaders like Merck's Ken Frazier, Intel's Brian Krzanich and Under Armour's Kevin Plank.
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If you're looking for a last straw that convinced the Knicks to move Mills out of basketball operations just 48-ish hours before Thursday's 3 p.m.
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The last straw was at the rugby match during Hannah's season, where Luke S. thought Luke P. went a little too hard on him on purpose.
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"But the events of recent days indicate that this plot is now being set into motion," she said, describing her cabinet exclusion as "the last straw".
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Ultimately, a disagreement between Trump and Bolton over the President's decision to host leaders of the Taliban at Camp David appeared to be the last straw.
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An interesting tidbit here -- the Braxtons deny Tamar's firing from "The Real" was the last straw for the couple, saying this one's been coming for a while.
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For Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, the arrests of the German activist, Peter Steudtner, and, among others, Amnesty International's Turkey director appear to have been the last straw.
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Seeing my neighbors forced to move due to the constant rise in property taxes was the last straw that made me petition to be on the ballot.
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The extradition bill was simply the last straw, exposing -- and deepening -- a rift in Hong Kong society than runs far deeper than a single piece of law.
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Olivier's clearly had anger problems ... the last straw was when he pushed an LAX employee with a baby car seat and got in trouble with the law.
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Several of Mr. Pruitt's former staff members have said in interviews that the last straw came on April 26 when their boss testified before two congressional committees.
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Willkie's stand on Lend-Lease was the last straw for the party bosses, who had long regarded him as a "Republican Quisling" and a stooge for Roosevelt.
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"I doubt very heavily that it's going to be the last straw," Chris Hempstead, director of institutional business development at IndexIQ, told CNBC's "ETF Edge" on Monday.
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The last straw, they say, was the board's refusal to appoint an Onondaga teacher at the school to replace the current principal, who is retiring on Saturday.
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IN a statement, parliamentary speaker Mustafa Sentop said the move was "the last straw" and that it fueled enmity between the allies rather than contribute to friendship.
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Another official, who worked at Treasury until this past week, said his friends would have considered that order "the last straw" and most likely would have quit.
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Last week, a commodities expert told CNBC that Irma could be the "last straw" for Florida's orange industry, citing years of producers already struggling with their crops.
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It's clear that President Trump's Manufacturing Council was never a means for delivering real policy that lifts working families and his remarks today were the last straw.
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The National Football League's approval on Tuesday of the Rams relocation to Los Angeles was the last straw after years of bitter stadium negotiations in St. Louis.
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The last straw came in 1639, when his wife, Grietje Reyniers, was accused of insinuating that the wife of the colony's religious leader had herself solicited prostitution.
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For those in the field, the NOAA statement siding with Trump at the expense of weather service forecasters seemed to be the last straw in the fight.
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A slew of announcements from media companies launching their own streaming services — Apple, Disney, AT&T's WarnerMedia, NBC — came as a last straw for the struggling stock.
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The last straw was when I went on his computer to send an email and discovered that he'd cheated on me with a girl from his class.
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But many, as Recode reported, were motivated to delete Uber long before the protest and simply took what they saw as strike-breaking as the last straw.
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If we didn't take strategic steps to punish the crown prince for Khashoggi's dismemberment in Istanbul, the purchase of ballistic missiles is unlikely to be the last straw.
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"It's the last straw; Virgin Atlantic have consistently refused to recognize the PPU as a legitimate and independent union, essentially disenfranchising our members," said the PPU's Steve Johnson.
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Also during the episode, Kris gets mad at Kim, 35, for someone driving on her driveway and says it's the last straw – Kim's family needs to move out.
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"She's caught him lying and talking to other girls behind her back before, and this was the last straw," a source told PEOPLE during a November 2015 dispute.
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After buying the wrong colored gi, bowing down to the "Jap picture," this was the last straw for the Old Man and I was banned from karate thereafter.
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But he described the impeachment proceedings now gripping Washington as a last straw, and he spoke in blunt terms about the logic of embracing Russia as a partner.
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Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) says that President Trump's Twitter attack on MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski was the last straw, repeating earlier assertions that Trump should be impeached.
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Generations of foreign meddling aside, the belief that another country had effectively kidnapped Lebanon's prime minister was the last straw, and people wanted to see the move backfire.
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For them, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's involvement with Trump's advisory board and what they saw as his company's attempt to cross picket lines was just the last straw.
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I had become resentful, and this cancellation, of what I had hoped would be a chance to revive our increasingly distant relationship, was something of a last straw.
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"I had been considering it when he announced that he would withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, but Charlottesville and last night's speech were the last straw," he said.
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Trump helped to secure the release of the players but then attacked Ball for not expressing proper gratitude, which Brown said was the last straw for him regarding Trump.
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The massacre, in Australia's southern island state of Tasmania, was the last straw for Australians, following a decade of gun massacres which had left more than 100 people dead.
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The men who have second-place finishes in the last straw polls all fit that description: Danilo Turk of Slovenia, Miroslav Lajcak of Slovakia, and Vuk Jeremic of Serbia.
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She says the last straw was him sending her a one-way ticket to be with him back in L.A. in February, warning her not to bring a friend.
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Since health professionals had already recommended against using talc on infants, a 1986 internal report warned, a "last straw" safety concern could lead consumers to abandon the product altogether.
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Mr. Mahaney, who defended the department in the appeal, said Mr. Smith had a history of misconduct in his job, and that act of insubordination was the last straw.
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Lizzie did it, in her view, and of all the various plausible motives it was the slaughter of her beloved pigeons by her father that proved the last straw.
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But the last straw, she said, was that a Vatican department was refusing to cooperate with a recommendation that all correspondence from victims of clerical abuse receive a response.
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BREXIT 'LAST STRAW' The strong dollar has further inflated prices for fuel and plane leases - two of the sector's biggest costs that are usually billed in the U.S. currency.
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Gather 'round for a tale so ghoulish, so ghastly, that an Airbnb representative actually claimed it was the "last straw" for their Anaheim market and removed Airbnb from the region.
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The last straw came in January 2017, when gang members threatened to kill her and the two boys after she told them the oldest wouldn't collect extortion money for them.
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The reality star also alleges that the "last straw" came at a competition when one of the show's producers supposedly staged drama in front of unpaid families who were attending.
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Trump's tweet complaining that he believed his friend was being treated unfairly proved something of a last straw, they said, because it was so damaging to morale at the department.
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Eventually, after a last-ditch experimental treatment, a doctor told him they discovered a lesion on the temporal parietal region of his brain, which appeared to be the last straw.
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Although he had previously said that his team hadn't been useful "yet," apparently allegations that the actual tech wasn't useful — and that his help wasn't wanted — was the last straw.
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According to Politico, several Democratic women senators "had been talking among themselves about the Franken allegations for weeks," and decided that the next credible allegation would be the last straw.
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"WhatsApp taxes were the last straw but they weren't the spark, people have been burning up since the fires and the increase of taxes on gas and bread," she said.
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Watching the only person with whom he had a genuine emotional connection die proves to be the last straw for Gabriel, who returns to Negan's compound a shell of himself.
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"For me, that was the last straw because we all deserve to have representatives who speak for us," said Schrier, a Democratic candidate for Reichert's seat in Washington's 8th District.
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But, the last straw seemed to be when Brown allegedly texted another woman who had accused him of sexual misconduct and made what she considers menacing threats against her family.
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Sources told PEOPLE at the time of the break-up in 2007, just before Easter, that there was no last-straw moment and instead it was more of a gradual unraveling.
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"With Trump, it wasn't like there was a last straw," said Jon Gabriel, editor in chief of the conservative news forum Ricochet, who last week penned a column titled Farewell, GOP.
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For more information, you can download this document in English, Chinese or Spanish The Last Straw We're also combating plastic straws, which are used once then trashed -- hardly any are recycled.
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When she dipped a buttered roll into her hot chocolate, the hot chocolate dripped onto her top, which was the last straw; blinking back resentful tears, she pushed the cup away.
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While much of the staff had stayed at work through the first two days of fighting, the mortar shells that struck the hospital on Wednesday were the last straw for many.
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Mr. Trump's decision to pull out of Syria, which was opposed by virtually every high-level administration official but lauded by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, was the last straw.
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The apparatus assumes that the president will uphold the rule of law and, barring that, that Congress will address any "high crimes and misdemeanors" as a last-straw measure through impeachment.
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That uncontrollable immigration was the last straw, a watershed event that unleashed pent-up tensions in the German society — rising poverty, crumbling infrastructure, xenophobic and quite dangerous extreme right nationalist political forces.
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A source close to Trump said the controversy over the search for a used Trump International Hotel mattress was the last straw for Trump with Pruitt because it involved the Trump Organization.
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"Eleven years ago yesterday they had a campus shooting and we all thought, this will never happen again, surely this will be the last straw that will spur some action," she said.
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"The [more recent] price changes that we've seen could be coincidental, but for the airlines maybe it's the last straw on their side and they're worried about levels of booking," Surry said.
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Philadelphia (CNN)A slew of leaked emails was the last straw for Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who announced Sunday afternoon her resignation as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee effective later this week.
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Business leaders like Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Disney CEO Robert Iger even signaled that this was the last straw, and announced that they'd no longer act as advisors to the president.
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The last straw for me was finding out that a man working in the same department with the same title as me was being paid a good deal more than I was.
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Originally conceived as a laid back, weed smoking frog, the association of Pepe with a racist children's book was the last straw for Furie, who lawyered up and got the text pulled.
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"This is the LAST straw," Ms. Wasserman Schultz wrote on May 18 to Luis Miranda, her communications director, after learning that Ms. Brzezinski had called for her resignation during that day's broadcast.
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The last straw for Ghulamullah, a father of 2014 who had sons in Pakistani schools and one married to a Pakistani woman, was when a soldier entered his house with a dog.
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Tensions between Mr. Almagro and Mr. Jiménez had been rising for months, but the last straw appeared to be a letter that Mr. Almagro sent to President Juan Orlando Hernández on Wednesday.
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The last straw for Mr. Vizcarra came Monday, when he asked Congress for a vote of confidence to change the system for appointing judges to the country's highest court, the Constitutional Tribunal.
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But that was just the last straw for people who were shaken by a round of devastating earthquakes earlier this month, and who say the government has mismanaged emergency responses for years.
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The last straw seemed to be when they could not swing a deal last week for the tempestuous All-Star center DeMarcus Cousins, whom Sacramento shipped instead to New Orleans for bupkis.
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Kellyanne Conway, a Trump spokeswoman, was briefly barred by CNN for using alternative facts—her references to a fictitious jihadist atrocity, which Ms Conway called the "Bowling Green Massacre", were the last straw.
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"All of it was obnoxious, but I think the last straw was when the interviewer asked about what he claimed was a government-funded sex-change operation for Chelsea Clinton," the source says.
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"All of it was obnoxious, but I think the last straw was when the interviewer asked about what he claimed was a government-funded sex-change operation for Chelsea Clinton," the source shared.
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We're told this was the last straw in an increasing problem Bieber's team has had in managing the number of people who wanted special access to the singer before and after the concert.
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"Devil's Bargain" by Bloomberg's Joshua Green details Trump's "last straw" before firing Manafort last summer, after a New York Times story suggested that campaign aides did TV interviews to get their boss's attention.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - McDonald's on Wednesday became the latest big company in Britain to say it was the last straw for plastic - with plans to start using drinking straws made from paper.
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"The Comey firing is something that is still subject to impeachment, but the last straw for me was when the president called the NFL men who played football 'sons of Bs,'" Green said.
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Ultimately, Ukrainians got tired of Moscow's heavy hand, and the last straw was Yanukovych signing an exclusive trade agreement with Russia and eschewing a broad trade regime with Europe and the United States.
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AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka resigned from President Donald Trump's manufacturing council Tuesday, citing as the "last straw" the president's backpedaling from Monday's blanket condemnation of Saturday's white supremacist demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Mr. Berberoglu's arrest was the last straw in a series of antidemocratic moves by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government targeting tens of thousands of Turkish citizens — politicians, journalists, academics, activists or ordinary citizens.
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" For me, the last straw was when I heard New York Times columnist David Brooks say on PBS NewsHour, the Friday before the election, that voters are supporting Trump because of their "gene pool.
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The spot - titled "Last Straw" - features Don McVaugh, a Republican Air Force veteran who decided to vote for Clinton after the 2005 tape of Donald Trump casually talking about sexual assault was made public.
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"The most recent change was the last straw because it was impossible to find a theater that played Crazy Rich Asians on the day I wanted to see it," said Verge reporter Dami Lee.
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I think what became the last straw was when he (Comey) made that statement about the classified emails showing up on (Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin's and her husband, former Congressman Anthony Weiner's) laptop.
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President-elect Trump must now deliver on his populist message; otherwise, struggling American workers may rebel against "the last straw" and take a hard left turn to full-blown European-style socialism — or worse.
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On the one hand, it was easy to read the decision as Abedin having had enough: This was the last straw, and now she is free of a man who, frankly, is beneath her.
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An argument between Pitt and his son Maddox, now 15, reportedly grew heated and physical — and was apparently the last straw that motivated Angelina Jolie to file for divorce — but did not constitute abuse.
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From the way the two stories overlapped, you could be forgiven for thinking that somehow the Niobe Labs puzzle was some kind of last straw in the unhappy marriage between Bungie and their publisher.
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For many New Yorkers, this extra cost is the last straw, so instead of coughing up the additional cash, they simply move out to low tax havens in red states like Texas and Florida.
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"I suspect this will be the last straw for all the genealogists who don't want to share with law enforcement," Debbie Kennett, a genealogist and honorary research associate at University College London, told WIRED.
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The last straw was Ms. Haskell's posting her 1982 public access interview with Roy Cohn, the mentor to Mr. Trump who served as Senator Joseph McCarthy's counsel during the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954.
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Reportedly, the last straw was Bannon's appearance in Michael Wolff's incendiary Fire and Fury book as the author's key on-the-record source detailing the fracas of the administration's electoral campaign and first year.
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For members of his own party, in particular, there is no true "last straw," said a source close to the White House, who said that temporarily Republicans might not back him on foreign policy issues.
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The officer who sent out the alert, by the way, was first reassigned and then fired; apparently his job performance was never great, and his refusal to cooperate with the investigation was the last straw.
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That was the last straw for Mr. Ryan, who told Republicans in Congress that they should feel free to stop supporting Mr. Trump if they felt it would improve their own prospects on Election Day.
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Trump had endured a week of criticism for his handling of McCain's death, but the eulogy from the late senator's daughter Meghan was the last straw, according to three people close to the White House.
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The lack of fuel is the last straw after six years of economic crisis under President Nicolás Maduro, whose policies of price controls, expropriations and state-sanctioned embezzlement have wiped out the country's private sector.
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Mary Jobaida, an immigrant from Bangladesh, said she was already fed up with a host of neighborhood issues, and seeing Nolan speak in favor of Amazon was the last straw, spurring her to enter politics.
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That news in a country where internet and phone service is already very expensive, the economy has been sluggish for decades, and corruption is seen as increasing, appeared to have been the last straw for many.
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Cigna said in the arbitration filings that the Friday time off occurred without notice and described it as the last straw after working with Glenda on her performance for months, including providing her with a coach.
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"Donald Trump is a man I cannot and should not support," Kasich said in a statement, noting that the tape was the last straw in a long list of "words and actions" he did not support.
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Our sources say MTV executives told Jenelle's manager the killing of Nugget was the last straw and they feared he was out of control and wanted no part in what they see as a looming disaster.
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If he and other Ukrainians were once torn about dividing the church, the studied silence of the religious hierarchy in Moscow while Ukrainians died in a war provoked by Russia was, for many, the last straw.
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Ms. Sereno's removal is "a fascist raid of the judiciary, the last straw that would consolidate the Duterte regime's control over all the branches of government," said Aaron Pedrosa, leader of the political coalition called Sanlakas.
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"The Supreme Court's judgment is the last straw in contributing to financial distress and it remains to be seen whether the industry will be able to recover from this setback," COAI said in an emailed statement.
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The last straw, Vizcarra said, was Congress' appointment on Monday of a new member to the top court, the Constitutional Tribunal, which would be the likely referee in a legal dispute between Congress and the government.
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Not long after, she took to Instagram to post a statement, seemingly explaining her reasons for reacting the way she did: comments about Kulture, her daughter with Offset, appeared to be the last straw for the rapper.
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After Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan split in April, that was the last straw for fans who had also seen the demise of other favorites like Anna Faris and Chris Pratt and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
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TMZ broke the story ... the relationship was turbulent for a long time, but the last straw was a yacht trip to Greece a month ago, when James allegedly did something to Mariah's assistant ... or so she says.
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Driving with his elbows to clean a bottle — which Mongeau thought contained chloroform — was the last straw for Mongeau and Imari, who decided to get out of the car early at the next service station they saw.
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One is the Sto-Rox district in Pennsylvania, which experiences problems with kids photographing tests, posting unflattering comments about teachers and, what was the last straw, one student posting a photo of another student in the bathroom.
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"I think maybe the last straw for me actually wasn't Russia, it was the healthcare bill," the co-host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" said during an event at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night.
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As we reported, the last straw in the relationship was Saturday night, when Casper blew off a big fundraising event in the Hamptons -- an event where J Lo wanted Casper to accompany her -- to attend UFC 202.
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But if impeachment turns out to be Trump's key for reviving his Southern base, then this November could serve as a cautionary tale for those who assume impeachment is the last straw for the Trump presidency in 2020.
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For Many Facebook Users, a 'Last Straw' That Led Them to Quit Data Firm Tied to Trump Campaign Talked Business With Russians John Dowd resigned as the lead lawyer on the president's team for the special counsel's investigation.
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"Either he can double down in his resolve to fight it or it's the last straw and it breaks his will and he decides to work out a plea bargain," Michael Zeldin, a former federal prosecutor, told Reuters.
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The optics of this were seemingly the last straw for Trump, who has made it clear he did not want to see an incident similar to the fatal attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012.
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An article the newspaper ran on Wednesday reporting that oyster farming was set to start near a palatial property in southern Russia dubbed "Putin's Palace" by the media was the last straw, the same RBC source told Reuters.
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Carroll left the city in 2013: the last straw, she says, was when she found out about a fight that began with Lorenzo defending his younger cousin against a few boys throwing rocks, and then spiraled out of control.
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In what turned out to be a last straw, the comedian David Steinberg was scheduled to deliver a mock sermonette in the guise of a clergyman, a character whose previous appearance on the show had elicited substantial viewer outrage.
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"We've been living a hand-to-mouth existence for a very long time but rising prices of seeds, diesel and fertiliser and falling prices of milk, fruits, vegetables and even staples is the last straw," said farmer Shivpal Yadav.
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Qatar's refusal to do so immediately may have been the last straw for the Saudis who have been emboldened to at least appear to step up their anti-terror efforts after President Donald Trump's visit to Riyadh last month.
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And the last straw for Moore, he said, was when a man set off an explosive device in a Walmart in Tupelo, Mississippi, last year because the store was discontinuing the sale of any item containing the rebel flag.
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It's telling that Clooney may have been the last straw, but when the man synonymous with the kind of tuxedo panache the Academy loves to drape itself in speaks out, they clearly have a real problem on their hands.
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" "She's caught him lying and talking to other girls behind her back before, and this was the last straw," the source said, adding that she "feels super betrayed and is just so pissed off, damaged and hurt about it.
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Several expressed frustration that the campaign continued to inflict grievous harm on civilians despite American warnings and growing international condemnation, and some suggested that the attack on Saturday could be something of a last straw between Washington and Riyadh.
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"These show-off measures are aimed at increasing pressure on the Agency, hitting the last straw on the JCPOA," he said, referring to Iran's nuclear deal with major powers by its full name, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
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Sources say the explosion of the 2005 " Access Hollywood" video — in which Trump can be heard bragging about kissing women without their consent and even grabbing them by their genitals because he's famous — was the last straw for Ryan.
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This revelation also proved to be the last straw for Barclays Africa, whose board had proposed at the end of March that KPMG be reappointed as its joint auditor along with EY at a shareholder meeting later in May.
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Vizcarra said the last straw was Congress' appointment of a new justice to the Constitutional Tribunal (TC) on Monday, which he said counted as a second vote of no-confidence and thus grounds for a constitutional dissolution of Congress.
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And those on the receiving end of the harassment are getting it from all sides in our current society and now getting it at work is an understandable last straw for people who would typically try to see past it.
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Egyptian sources and Saudi commentators told Reuters the last straw came on Saturday, when Egypt, the only Arab state now holding a rotating seat on the U.N. Security Council, endorsed a Russian resolution that excluded calls to stop bombing Aleppo.
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From the Daily News: Blowing leaves into Boucher's yard was the last straw for him, according to the defense, and he tackled Paul as the senator was in the midst of carrying branches to once again reconstruct his makeshift wall.
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Although Tim said he frequently sees broken glass, overflowing dumpsters, and ignored food deliveries, the last straw was after the kitchen staff hosed their facilities after a lobster special, leaving the alley smelling like a post-apocalyptic Long John Silver's.
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RIVALS CIRCLE The far-right scandal in Thuringia proved to be the last straw for Kramp-Karrenbauer, whose ratings plummeted last year after a number of public gaffes, including poking fun at trans-gender people in a light-hearted carnival speech.
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But Hicham's latest ISIS video -- an on-camera murder -- was the last straw for his family, coming days after the horrific terror attacks in Brussels that claimed more than 30 innocent lives at last estimate and left 300 more wounded.
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One NRATV segment in particular seemed to be the last straw for some members: It took the children's show "Thomas & Friends" to task for adding some ethnically and gender diverse characters to its lineup of talking locomotives and other vehicles.
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The last straw for Trump on Wednesday, according to aides, was a shot by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi -- painting Trump as a Nixon-style conspirator -- just before she went to the White House to discuss a proposed $2 trillion infrastructure package .
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The 30-year-old Czech world number eight has suffered a lean year and a crushing defeat by Belgium's David Goffin in Rome last week proved the last straw in his partnership with the former hitting partner of Andy Murray.
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But the correspondence between Mr. Murphy and Caroline Wren, a Republican operative who is now a fund-raising consultant with a re-election committee for the president, was the last straw for the student representatives who filed the impeachment bill.
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After Mr. Trump used an expletive last month to describe football players who kneel or sit during the national anthem to raise awareness of police brutality and racial injustice, "I concluded that this was the last straw," Mr. Green said.
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A press release sent out by Fox that made fun of Trump has been cited as a last straw by the real estate mogul's campaign, which also argues Fox News moderator Megyn Kelly treated its candidate unfairly in the first debate.
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Kurz, a conservative who formed a coalition with the Freedom Party a year and a half ago, said the apparent video sting, in which Strache discusses contracts in return for financial or political favors, was the last straw in the relationship.
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In the Middle East, America will let others call the shots Mattis' resignation letter indicates that Trump's unexpected announcement of an immediate U.S. troop withdrawal from Syria, coupled with a pullback of troops from Afghanistan, was the last straw for the defense secretary.
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The last straw was when I invited her to a party at my house and she made a huge deal in front of all my friends and family about me being a "tight arse" now, and how I never went anywhere with her.
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Wu, for his part, had been thinking about starting a company for a while before he did, but the last straw came when a salesman at a suit store told him that none of their clothing could be made to fit women.
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"Likely the firing of the central bank chief was the last straw," BlueBay Asset Management's Tim Ash said, adding the departure of a respected official like Babacan was "a big blow to Erdogan" which could also see Babacan set up a rival party.
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In light of repeated conflicts over time and noise complaints from residents and park staff—according to Toh, Afrofest hires Frontier Sound and Light to handle their music, and the majority of the events at Woodbine Park—this would be the last straw.
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While these "last-straw" experiences can be superficial or deep, minor misfires or major betrayals, it seems to me the reason they take on so much power and meaning in estrangement narratives is that they signify something much bigger than one particular conflict.
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Related: The Vigilante Protagonist of an Oscar-Nominated Drug War Movie Speaks From Jail Locals say that this was the last straw, sending residents running for their hunting shotguns and pistols before flooding into the town's main square intent on organizing their resistance.
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The last straw may have been a public fight about whether Russia interfered in the 2016 election, but it's possible that the author of a book about how important it is for advisers to tell the president hard truths never had a chance.
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The likely last straw for Uber was the publication in July of new national regulations on ride-hailing apps which, while legalizing them, made it illegal to provide rides below cost, which had been the effect of paying drivers more than the fares.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea's reaction to comments by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence were the "last straw" that led the White House to cancel President Donald Trump's planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, a White House official said on Thursday.
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The last straw was when the district manager laughed at me in front of my manager because I explained that I did not feel comfortable with the sales culture and the robotic paragraphs they had us memorize to force people into giving in.
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The last straw for Mr. Rosenstein may have been a New York Times article reporting that Mr. Trump tried to persuade Mr. Comey to drop an investigation into Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser, according to a memo Mr. Comey wrote.
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Perhaps the last straw was the report in the New York Times that Mueller is investigating a $150,000 contribution to the Trump Foundation in exchange for a private video speech given by Trump in 2015, showing just how grasping this investigation has become.
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In a lengthy post on Instagram, T.I. said he's been "extremely patient and made it a point to not jump to any premature conclusions about" West and "his antics," but said West's meeting with the president was something of a last straw.
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SCOTT WAPNER: You reference -- and in the few moments we have left I want to talk to you about a couple of stocks you've talked about in the past, and you talked about them earlier, being Apple as being sort of the last straw.
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Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio's cozy meeting with senior figures from the "yellow vest" movement Tuesday — at which he hailed the similarities between the French anti-government protesters and his own anti-establishment party — appears to have been the last straw for Paris.
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Kelly's allegations appear to have been the last straw that forced Ailes out: Rupert Murdoch and his sons James and Lachlan, the top three executives at 270st Century Fox, reportedly think Kelly is the future of the network and is too valuable to lose.
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Magana, a well-known rabble-rouser and social-media troll, has been mocking Cyborg's looks on Twitter for months and, according to Cyborg, who has been dealing with bullying over her appearance and assumed steroid use for years, Magana's cruelty was the last straw.
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Kelly's allegations appear to have been the last straw that forced Ailes out: Rupert Murdoch and his sons James and Lachlan, the top three executives at 210st Century Fox, reportedly thought Kelly was the future of the network and was too valuable to lose.
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In a statement on Sunday, Robredo said she stepped down due to "major differences in principles and values" with Duterte, and that the "last straw" came on Saturday, when she received a text message from Cabinet Secretary Jun Evasco that instructed her to stop attending cabinet meetings.
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The last straw came on May 26th, when the SPD slumped to 16% of the vote at the European elections, 11 percentage points below its previous score, and failed to win an election in the city-state of Bremen for the first time in seven decades.
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The last straw for the home secretary seems to have been her statement to MPs last week that she knew nothing of official targets for immigration removals—a claim that was quickly undermined by leaked correspondence suggesting that in fact both she and the prime minister did.
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Read: UK points finger at Russia for poisoned spy, Trump stays mum Hayden and Strobe Talbott, Bill Clinton's trusted advisor on Russia, both said they thought Tillerson's tougher response toward Moscow over the poisoned spy may have been the last straw for Tillerson's relationship with Trump.
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The last-straw insult after Harley Quinn is broodily single is when she overhears a flock of other friends talking behind her back, saying how, at the end of the day, she'll be back in the Joker's arms and back to having no identity of her own.
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The Ukraine allegations offered an opportunity to seize on a new offense that could be framed as a last straw uniquely damning enough to change the party's stance, instead of continuing a slow slide to impeachment driven by a gradual erosion of leadership's credibility on the issue.
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The video of Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, of the far-right Freedom Party, appearing to promise government contracts to a purported niece of a leading Russian oligarch was the last straw in what had become an uneasy coalition with the center-right party of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.
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"It could be very difficult for the 5-Star Movement to continue to acquiesce to Mr Salvini's demands and thus this might be the last straw, increasing the risk of early elections," UniCredit said, adding that in this scenario a general election could be held as early as October.
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The alleged killing of Khashoggi at the hands of Saudi operatives in Istanbul appears to be the last straw for many lawmakers, who have threatened a variety of punitive measures, including ending U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia, cutting off support for the Yemen campaign and imposing sanctions.
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"The proverbial last straw was the Trump visit," said Agustin Barrios Gomez, a politician from the opposition leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution, and a driving force behind a draft bill sent to Congress this week to empower the government to retaliate against Trump if he threatens Mexican interests.
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It's hard to miss the staggering divorce rate statistics in the United States (55% of all marriages end in divorce) but here's another one that may be surprising — when couples were polled on the "last straw" that led them to call it quits, an incredible 40% blamed money disagreements.
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The group cites President Trump's "un-American" comments on the violence in Charlottesville, Va., as the last straw for them, but they list multiple other controversies that the president has been involved in before the rally, including "undermining the Civil Rights Act" and his proposed cuts to arts funding.
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It was also the last straw for many in Mr. Trump's orbit who had grown tired of Mr. Stewart's quest for headlines: He was immediately fired from the campaign, and to this day a number of Republicans jostle for credit over who made the decision to throw him overboard.
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Kurz, a conservative who has ruled with far-right junior partners for a year and a half, said the video was the last straw after a number of lesser scandals, and it was time for a new vote rather than an attempt to keep the coalition in office.
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But news that Washington was preparing to create a 30,000-strong Syrian border force out of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, or Y.P.G. — a plan since disavowed by the Trump administration — was the "last straw," Fahrettin Altun, a columnist for a pro-government newspaper, Daily Sabah, wrote Thursday.
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A new report in the New York Times looks at how Russian hackers and WikiLeaks got access to campaign chair John Podesta's emails, leading to months of negative coverage surrounding the contents of the emails — which, in a super-close election, may have been the last straw for the Clinton campaign.
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Not only was the move labeled by the Detroit Free Press as "the last straw" that led to Detroit filing for Chapter 9 bankruptcy, the deal became a controversial focal point of the city's 2014 bankruptcy trial and was held up as epitomizing the reckless risk taking municipalities should avoid.
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Donald Trump's "joke" that "Second Amendment people" might have a way of stopping Hillary Clinton, or her Supreme Court nominations, from abolishing gun rights, was the last straw for the New York Daily News, which published a front-page spread calling for Trump to drop out of the race altogether.
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They say they are trapped by a New York City Council that has fostered an environment where misconduct, harassment and abuse are tolerated, saying that the last straw was the Council's decision this week not to expel Councilman Andy King, despite findings that he had intimidated his staff and misused city resources.
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The latest rout in oil prices has been the last straw for many workers just getting back on their feet after the last downturn in 250, said MacDonald, president of Maritime Drilling Schools Ltd in Nova Scotia, Canada, which trains both entry-level and experienced workers for oilfield jobs all over the world.
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The latest rout in oil prices has been the last straw for many workers just getting back on their feet after the last downturn in 222, said MacDonald, president of Maritime Drilling Schools Ltd in Nova Scotia, Canada, which trains both entry-level and experienced workers for oilfield jobs all over the world.
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Rumors have also come to light that the company was simultaneously trying to sell itself and raise a Series B. One source told us that the last straw for Marcus appears to have been a botched acquisition by LeSports, a subsidiary of Chinese company LeEco – though another source said it was unclear who was responsible.
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If that were indeed his strategy, it would seem he hopes to establish that Trump is a "victim" of a totally biased media trying to push Trump into the waiting arms of special counsel Mueller, or a potentially impeachment-happy Congress — one that might begin to see Trump's Charlottesville remarks as the last straw.
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Village preservationists had beseeched the commission to consider landmark protections for a much wider swath of the neighborhood — 193 buildings — after City Hall announced plans in 2017 to erect a 21-story glass-enclosed tech hub on Union Square, a last straw, it seemed, to many aggrieved Villagers, in a neighborhood besieged by development pressures.
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Jadczak's televised investigation about the takeover and mismanagement at Wisla — broadcast by TVN in September — was the last straw; the club's top officials resigned, and the city of Krakow persuaded Poland's soccer authorities to send any money owed to the club to the city instead, to cover unpaid rent at a city-owned stadium.
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For union workers, who have historically made up a loyal voting block for the Democratic Party, a sense of disillusionment has arisen as environmental groups have accumulated victories with the approval of leading Democrats like President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, both of whom opposed the Keystone pipeline -- the last straw for many in the labor community.
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In several hours of closed-door testimony, Michael McKinley, who until last week was a senior adviser to Mr. Pompeo, described his disappointment with how politicized the State Department had become under President Trump, saying that the last straw for him stemmed from the ouster of Marie L. Yovanovitch, the former ambassador to Ukraine whom Mr. Trump ordered removed.
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In our recent paper, The Last Straw: Responding to Russia's Anti-Western Aggression, Third Way proposes two main avenues that lawmakers can take to march against Moscow's meddling: First, just as Capone was brought to heel by criminal investigations, we recommend undermining Russian influence through rigorous investigations into Putin's election interference and its possible ties to the Trump campaign.
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Barris revealed that his last straw with ABC was the network's shelving -- and as the magazine adds, all but erasing from existence, with scripts and copies nowhere to be found -- "Please, Baby, Please," a "Black-ish" episode that included news footage of NFL players protesting, Charlottesville and Trump (which had been scheduled to air on February 27).
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It has also strengthened the hand of Euro-skeptic political movements, such as the "Italy First" government in Rome which is hostile to the EU. The last straw was the German attempt to dump its self-inflicted and unmanageable immigration problems on the rest of the EU. What we are seeing now is that what goes around comes around.
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The last straw for Trump, according to the New York Times, was the CNN report that Pruitt suggested that Trump fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions so that Pruitt could run the Justice Department: The idea had been discussed privately for months by the president, who occasionally asked advisers if it was a good idea, according to two people familiar with the discussions.
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The last straw for Reed came during the Denver gem show in the form of an email titled "High Noon Challenge" that Curry blasted to the meteorite community: Hi Boys & Girls; You've all had a wonderful time, over the past couple of years, in trying to denounce my research, attacking my integrity, defaming my character, and, most importantly, making absolute fools of yourselves!
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However, while straws are yet to make it to the banned list in Australia, and lobby groups like The Last Straw continue to put pressure on the government to do so, the states of Queensland and Western Australia have banned single-use, lightweight plastic bags from major retailers, aligning with other state bans in the ACT, South Australia, and Tasmania.
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"With everything on earth plunged into darkness," he wrote, "with everything taking on unnatural colors and strange aspects, with the birds going to roost and nature in general presenting the appearance of readiness to collapse and give up the struggle for existence, the wonderful radiance of the solar corona was the last straw on which the fate of humanity seemed to balance."
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In a notable speech to the National Assembly in Seoul, she did not mince words: it had become "indisputably clear", she said, "that the existing approach and good intentions" would "only lead to the enhancement of the North's nuclear capabilities" under Kim Jong Un. The tests of a nuclear bomb on January 6th and a long-range missile a month later were the last straw.
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If you doubt me on this matter, check out this Channel 4 FactCheck analysis of whether or not rain on election day swings the votes one way or another — it notes that right-wing voters tend to be firm in their beliefs and consistent in their turnout, whereas lefties are a bit more susceptible to a "last straw" effect where it wouldn't take too much to get them to skip voting altogether.
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Remember why Palhares ended up on fight cards in Poland and Italy in the first place: the Nevada Athletic Commission suspended him from competition for two years, and since other stateside athletic commissions honor the punishments handed down by their counterparts, that meant he was effectively barred from competing in the U.S. The last straw was when he wrenched Jake Shields's shoulder for too long when he defended his WSOF title back in August 2015.
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In an interview with the Guardian, Moore said she was inspired to write the bill after hearing a recent anti-poverty speech by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI), which he gave in front of a drug treatment center in Anacostia, a predominantly black neighborhood of Washington, DC. "When he stood in front of a drug treatment center and rolled out his anti-poverty initiative, pushing this narrative that poor people are drug addicts, that was the last straw," Moore said.
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