Alexa: Thomas, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.
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I almost feel like I had no purpose before this.
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But the fourth smokestack served no purpose, other than aesthetics.
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A turbocharger would serve no purpose in an electric vehicle.
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Time spent in my own company for no purpose whatsoever.
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In the Western tradition, man has no purpose without God.
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It's a useless satellite, serving no purpose beyond the aesthetic.
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And then my character will really serve no purpose at all.
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"It serves no purpose looking for polemics, considering the circumstances," Jambon said.
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Nothing. This is a partisan, political, pathetic debate that serves no purpose.
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They have no purpose in the story but to sell porg merch.
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Anthony Scaramucci got fired as he lived: rapidly and with no purpose.
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User IDs are not displayed publically, and have no purpose in games.
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Ofelia continues to do nothing and serve no purpose in the story.
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They serve no purpose other than creating an absurdly long waiting list.
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No purpose other than going out of his way to spite Obama?
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It served no purpose, but showed off the impressive level terrain detail.
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I love that art is useless and that it has no purpose.
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"When art doesn't move people emotionally, it has no purpose," she said.
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We never imagined that our struggle and pain would serve no purpose.
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Something baked with no purpose other than to make someone else happy.
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"The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all," Cage wrote.
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"It serves no purpose to hold towns that are empty," he said.
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They have the urge to travel because they have no purpose at work.
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It seems like a brown building set-up with kind of no purpose.
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But political operatives said they saw no purpose in the mayor's lashing out.
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"There is no purpose in anger," she tells CNN, but she is scared.
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The problem here is that the mystery serves no purpose within the story.
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The tax haven loopholes they're using have no purpose other than tax avoidance.
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John Bel Edwards called the shootings an "unspeakable, heinous attack" that served no purpose.
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They serve no purpose other than to finish an argument before it can start.
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He sees no purpose in comparing how the district treats Native and white students.
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But hate only engenders more hate and there's no purpose in hate,' Bro said.
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She collected scraps of stories and inexplicable memorabilia that appeared to have no purpose.
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The reason many millennials want to travel is because they have no purpose at home.
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Deflecting or being embarrassed by a compliment serves no purpose to you socially or professionally.
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And some secrecy serves no purpose at all: Cases were sometimes kept secret by accident.
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For symmetry, there's a black square on the far left, but it serves no purpose.
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"Don always said he felt he had no purpose in the world," Mr. Moore said.
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He campaigned entirely door-to-door—in his opinion, public political activity served no purpose.
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In the United States, the death penalty serves no purpose other than raw, barbaric vengeance.
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The Philippine leader said Friday the United Nations served "no purpose at all" for mankind.
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"This statute has no purpose except to be protectionist of the local industries," he said.
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As the clock ticks past 5pm, there may be no purpose in staying at your desk.
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The fire, and the cycle it generates, seems to serve no master and have no purpose.
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Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards called the shootings an "unspeakable, heinous attack" that served no purpose.
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He lies constantly, lies easily disproven, lies with no purpose other than to puff himself up.
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Moreover, this silence would serve no purpose that I can see; therefore, it cannot be purposeful.
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They're famously ornery, known for biting and kicking, and serve no purpose on a working farm.
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I like the piquant way these objects serve no purpose but look as if they might.
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"The nave is empty and serves no purpose that contributes to the architectural effect," he argued.
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A power loom would have served no purpose for networks of farmers making cloth at home.
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How, those who knew her are asking now, could she find no purpose to keep living?
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We cannot have a long-lasting situation where there is no visibility, no purpose, no political majority.
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The ladder serves no purpose, but it has been moved only twice in the past two centuries.
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My brothers make fun of my excessive snapchatting because I send "meaningless" pictures that have no purpose.
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It was a cheap and cheerful pop of flair that served no purpose other than self-expression.
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The law, they said, seemed to have no purpose beyond protecting local business interests from outside competition.
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So there were roughly 20 songs that were just kind of going to hang out, with no purpose.
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"No purpose would be served by having him rot in prison for years on end," said the judge.
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For more than half a century, the dam remained intact, serving no purpose but still blocking the river.
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Making the matter personal—targeting either the current Librarian or the former Register, Maria Pallante—serves no purpose.
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Indeed, these historical items seemed to have no purpose other than serving as alibis for The Thing's authenticity.
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In a statement Friday, Amnesty International said the Trump administration's decision on Damache proves Guantánamo has no purpose.
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For shareholders who have long accused the company of hoarding cash to no purpose, that is welcome news.
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Sure, some people find it depressing that we live in a universe that appears to have no purpose.
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Far from making our lives meaningful, eternity would make them meaningless, since our actions would have no purpose.
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"A witch hunt continues against the president with tremendous bias, no purpose and no end in sight," Rep.
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It serves no purpose in his overall argument, and instead appears to be an attempt to divert readers' attention.
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Failing to do so would hurt the lives of thousands of people in cruel fashion and to no purpose.
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And I think it serves no purpose to say that you have a good guy and a bad guy.
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Available July 1 Megamind (2010)After a super-villain defeats his arch nemesis, he finds life has no purpose.
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It's of people going from place to place, head down, deep in thought or with no purpose at all.
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This time the people realized there is a difference, that there is no purpose to fight your own people.
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But these senseless violent demonstrations serve no purpose other than flaming the fires and passions of hatred and divisiveness.
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It seems to serve no purpose other than to exist as a sort of "fuck you" to other media.
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Then the president can always veto it, and then you have taken a vote and divided Republicans for no purpose.
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And the "doors close" request in a lift serves no purpose other than to soothe the frustration of impatient riders.
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For him, as for Surrealists like André Breton, it is an action whose express purpose is to have no purpose.
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The control center is pretty much a period piece that has no purpose in the present day other than aesthetics.
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In most of the shots, the mugs outnumbered the people, which means many of them were serving absolutely no purpose.
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He believed in using things for a purpose, and if they served no purpose, he banished them from his life.
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Who wants to spend all their time hiking up one hill after another if it serves no purpose in-game?
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The 200-day package also includes revoking a series of presidential decrees deemed outdated or with no purpose, they said.
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So cut out six emails a week that serve no purpose and replace them with these six purpose-filled ones.
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And exactly what the composition of that [bill] is I'm not going to speculate about because it serves no purpose.
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Hence the stalemate, where it serves no purpose to insist on a comprehensive trade agreement that China will not accept.
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"There's no reason for them, they serve no purpose for that country," Kelly said of atomic weapons in the rogue nation.
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Angelinos of a certain age will remember her bodacious, pinup-style billboards that seemed to serve no purpose beyond self-promotion.
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After close-call with the metro station bomb, "I just drove on because there was no purpose in stopping," he says.
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In this convoluted scenario, endorsing Kasich now serves no purpose: He has too few delegates to compete with, and foil, Trump.
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The 74-year-old Washington Post associate editor also said Trump's "thermonuclear war" with the media serves either side no purpose.
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"They come in and say, 'I feel like I'm floating in this vast universe, alone, with no purpose,'" Ms. Bartlett said.
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"Surely no purpose ornamental or useful can be served by this unwarranted extension of the sense of a familiar word," he sassed.
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Yet, he guarantees Second Amendment rights for handguns and assault weapons that serve no purpose other than to kill people, including schoolchildren.
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Even though I tend to get very cranky at work, I often feel like I have no purpose on my days off.
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The piece — made of Corning Gorilla Glass — apparently serves no purpose and is just a "design element," according to a Google spokesperson.
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Luke disclosed the private conversation between Kesha and Lady Gaga for no purpose other than to attack, harass, and ultimately bankrupt Kesha.
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It served no purpose for the public good, they say, and inflicted significant emotional and privacy damage to the now-retired wrestler.
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"We had this space with no purpose, so I said, 'Let's line it with shelves and fill them with books,'" Decker says.
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So again: no pooping, because that serves no purpose for a man, and in fact can only really get in the way.
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There were two bathrooms placed right next to each other that served no purpose other than to make it a two-bathroom.
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Technologies like deepfakes, de-pixelation, and door-opening robots, seem to serve no purpose other than to keep us awake at night.
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It serves no purpose for either political party to call Zika an issue of interest only to their colleagues across the aisle.
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If there is no purpose to the universe, for example, what does the question "Why is there something rather than nothing?" mean?
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"It would serve no purpose because the power sector has already spent billions of dollars to bring all their plants into compliance."
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He's a one-man salvo of between-the-leg dribbles that seemingly have no purpose until they magically catapult him into the paint.
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The slut-shaming quickly transitioned from professional advice to morality and respectability in a way that served no purpose but to make jokes.
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"There are ways of ensuring good health at low incomes, and ways of spending large sums of money to no purpose," he says.
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In India, Alexander finally admitted to his army the truth: that he had no purpose to offer them other than struggle and victory.
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Pointing fingers in a war for public perception serves no purpose other than to further politicize an effort at turning the relationship around.
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"Judge Jackson is a no-nonsense judge and he's clearly angered her to no purpose," said Eric Lewis, a longtime Washington trial lawyer.
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But when there's no purpose grounding that labor, we can't help but feel those hours only amount to wasteful spending of your time.
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As I noted at the time, Durham's statement seemed to serve no purpose other than to provide further grist for Sean Hannity's broadcasts.
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Whether you're mulling a major life change or healing from trauma, being told that there's no purpose in life might be particularly devastating.
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Umm… jeez… maybe 1996 [Laughs] I think I may still have a bottle of that stuff in my liquor cabinet that has no purpose.
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" "Number one," he said, "the President-elect had no inclination of Russia, it wasn't on his radar, it had no purpose in domestic policy.
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Some paint, some plagiarize; others potter around the place seemingly with no purpose whatsoever, only to prove valuable pieces in a significantly grander puzzle.
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There is no purpose to talk about the Republican senators who might vote "no" if the Democrats can't deliver all 48 to "no" votes.
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Now, I am not saying that confinement—police custody, pretrial detention, and jail and prison sentences—serves no purpose or should never be used.
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Trump's decision to fire Comey distracted Congress from legislation to no purpose and made everyone more convinced than ever that he was hiding something.
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The last birthday card she gave me said something like, 'Dear Sandy: There is no purpose to friendship other than the deepening of one's soul.
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I was a trivia nerd in high school, so naturally, my head is full of information that serves no purpose other than winning at trivia.
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I wouldn't want to spend my hard-earned dollars on pants for my drone just to watch them dangle in the sky, serving no purpose.
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Pointing out that Christmas is Jesus' birthday and that Jesus is a recognized prophet in the genealogy of the Quran would have served no purpose.
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FCC ownership regulations that serve no purpose in an era of media abundance, in effect, restrict speech in a way that implicates the First Amendment.
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They don't even have the courage to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines that have no purpose but to kill many people at once.
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Most door-close buttons in elevators and request-to-walk buttons at crosswalks serve no purpose other than to give us something to fidget with.
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Elsewhere, Claire is still bellowing at the top of her voice for no discernible reason, and H and Lee continue to serve absolutely no purpose whatsoever.
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Between 20003 and 1995 the Intertoto Cup crawled ever on, leading teams down an existential dead-end road towards nowhere; no final, no prize, no purpose.
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They were in English, mysteriously, though they served no purpose in particular other than making JoJo cry and giving the men an opportunity to virtue signal.
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Each functionality is thoughtfully designed to be of use on the regular, so it does away with features that would serve no purpose in real life.
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They most likely will misunderstand the message; belittle the impact that failures have on their success and you'll grow a team of experimenters with no purpose.
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All this bullshit that was supposed to have knocked me down, supposed to left me overwhelmed, make me paralyzed in life—congratulations, it served no purpose.
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"There is no purpose in discussing it," said Joel I. Klein, the former New York City Schools chancellor who socializes with Mr. Kushner and Ms. Trump.
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He's got an extra chin, a gut you wouldn't want to see riding above a bathing suit, and a rear that serves no purpose but ballast.
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"I realized that it served no purpose because we players did not have our say," Pouille said in an interview with Le Monde, the French newspaper.
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Compelling his testimony would serve no purpose other than to harass Mr. Gorsky and divert him from his executive responsibilities, J&J said in a motion.
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If the government subjected to political pressures will make those harmed by an accident whole in any event, a limit on liability would serve no purpose.
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"The addition of the sexually explicit content in the second draft complaint served no purpose other than to coerce Emma into a settlement," said Ms. Goldberg.
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"Such false and ridiculous news have no purpose other than affecting Iran's foreign relations, especially with its neighbors," Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said, according to IRNA.
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This consternation is somewhat understandable — some of these figures are truly loathsome internet trolls who serve no purpose other than to harass, antagonize, provoke and spread misinformation.
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" He said Republicans "must be willing to suspend reflexive opposition that serves no purpose but to limit their own role in strategic questions and render cooperation impossible.
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Do this by reducing the number of decorative accessories, knick knacks, artificial plants and flowers, or any other items you have on display that serve no purpose.
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People my age who still play music at the level of professionalism/unprofessionalism at the level in the world we operate in… there is in no purpose.
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Additionally, the victim was forced to give birth while she was in shackles; during the trial, she argued this served no purpose other than to punish her.
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Manning's lawyers filed a request for her release last month, arguing her detention was unlawfully punitive with no purpose because she would not testify under any circumstances.
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"To those of you who have called us hacks and losers with no purpose, and that we are un-American, I give you Dennis," the piece said.
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It's true as far as it goes: Giuliani is not merely a Trump toady who serves no purpose other than to help Trump grow his business empire.
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It's a game where I enjoyed thoughtlessly sucking up money for no purpose outside of the act itself, a conceit compelling enough to get me to the end.
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Artists deserve to be fairly compensated for their work, but these absurdly long terms serve no purpose except to keep culture locked away from scholars and the public.
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Such enforcement actions serve no purpose and send mixed signals at a time when the White House is attempting to build a constructive relationship with the Cuban government.
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Instead, Congress passed a sloppy tax bill that has no purpose other than punishing generously endowed universities that happen not to be located in the state of Kentucky.
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"The publication of the information at this time would serve no purpose other than to arouse public sentiment against the defendant," he said, before ordering the courtroom cleared.
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In February, attorneys for Manning filed a request for her release, arguing her detention is unlawfully punitive with no purpose because she will not testify under any circumstances.
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"No purpose would be served in providing further disclosure," the attorney general said, adding that her lawyers have have not shown her claims could justify halting extradition proceedings.
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The Washington Post editorialized that "congressional chivvying of this kind," with Mr. Dingell appearing "to be persecuting Dr. Baltimore for no purpose," would not bring about constructive change.
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And no, you can't bring this up to her again, not without stirring a pot you never had any business stirring and that serves no purpose in being stirred.
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None of the men spoke English or Spanish, so the headphones served no purpose, but they were part of the tightly choreographed process whose ending was never in doubt.
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"An FTT could reduce unproductive trades, those not in the interest of investors and that serve no purpose other than to generate fees for financial institutions," the group wrote.
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Shun is Japanese and barely speaks English, but if you think the character has no purpose other than to be a vaguely offensive stereotype, stick around until Episode 5.
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"This conversation can serve no purpose anymore," HAL intones toward the close of the conversation, confirming what we've known all along: men, even male-defining AI, are real assoles.
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As it serves no purpose but to inspire the targets to upset you even more, Miss Manners would think that the closed-mouth solution would be a good choice.
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The very idea that culture is a tool which serves no purpose other than the creation of wealth and record breaking is anathema to, well, anyone with half a brain.
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Drilon added that if the visiting forces agreement and the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement "are no longer effective," the Mutual Defense Treaty "would be inutile and would serve no purpose."
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Some of the clips we take have no purpose and were taken at random points but its cool to see something transform into something meaningful when added into the video.
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I love that the giant computer unit literally has screws on it, and the red and black buttons — resembling battery poles — probably serve no purpose but were left on anyway.
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And if you don't know what to do with your bow and arrow, that means you're feeling like a lost and confused centaur, galloping around the woods with no purpose.
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Churning involves trading in and out of securities — often over a short period of time — in a way that serves no purpose for the investor but generates commissions for the broker.
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I eventually pushed my bedtime to 5 AM, even though I usually realized hours before that I was tired, and that staying up served no purpose—I didn't even want to.
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Because of the project's use of scrap aluminum, Rozin sees the piece as a way to reanimate a material that would otherwise have no purpose — except as something to be recycled.
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He faced two choices: Abandon MXOEmu as it was, a fake world where punches don't hit and existence has no purpose; or throw the whole thing out and start from scratch.
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I felt like I was putting in so much of myself, pushing myself to roll out of bed and stare into the eyes of a content-hungry interviewer for no purpose.
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There were bike lanes almost the whole way, and traffic didn't really become and issue until I was north of 34th street, where lanes and lights seem to serve no purpose.
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" His defense to this charge in "Who Is Michael Ovitz?" is to change the traditional definition of lying: "Lying to me is a point-blank misstatement with no purpose in mind.
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"This latest attack shows that the White House has its head in the sand when it comes to climate change and serves no purpose other than continued political retribution," he added.
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" Gladwell's advice to travel runs counter to the perspective that self-made millionaire Grant Cardone offers: "The reason many millennials want to travel is because they have no purpose at home.
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PARIS (Reuters) - A temporary safeguard to avoid erecting a physical border between Ireland and Northern Ireland after Brexit would serve no purpose, the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier said on Wednesday.
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It's the most fabulous body part in the whole known universe—the only one that serves no purpose other than pleasure, and it's been ignored by Western culture for so many centuries.
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But some astronomers saw the Humanity Star as something more sinister akin to light pollution or "space graffiti" — a bright object that served no purpose other than to mess up astronomy observations.
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There's no purpose for making these weird substances aside from basic research—it's not like someone's going to find a use for a vat of frigid crystalline liquid helium any time soon.
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But after the seemingly millionth brutal sexual assault that served no purpose for the plot, even superfans began to realize that when shock value wears thin, viewers are just being emotionally drained.
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It is excessive and unnecessary on every practical level, but damnedest thing is, until now it didn't even make sense on an impractical level—it served no purpose and added no value.
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The Democratic leadership position is that the wall has no purpose, and thus the government should remain shut down in order that they may stand with their people against the president's initiative.
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It is technologically difficult to do (which is why the Americans never built one, even after considering it more than 50 years ago), but more to the point, it serves no purpose.
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Once he left Starfleet, he had no purpose, and no reason to interact with Raffi since they had no work to do together anymore — Picard was never one for nostalgia and sentimentality.
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Stati's press office welcomed the ruling and said the court had agreed that "the case serves no purpose in light of the multi-billion-dollars of attachments in force in other jurisdictions".
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"It will not only serve no purpose, but will also severely hinder economic and social development," the ruling Communist Party's official paper said, denouncing what it called artificially created division and opposition.
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So you know I'm just going to rise above this stuff, and I'm not going to get involved in some sort of petty back and forth, I see no purpose in doing that.
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Water, come from the past, in one form or another, rain, river, sea, thoughts like tears in clouds, as old as it is new, designed to serve no purpose other than its future.
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Its prepaid balance requirement seemingly serves no purpose other than ensuring Bird a minimum profit per rider and deterring riders from choosing other apps when they already have credit in their Bird account.
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As a result, the show feels meandering and pointless, the self-contained bottle episodes of maritime zombie action seemingly serving no purpose other than to shove the characters into the next arbitrary plot development.
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The place closed in August, and in November, I had never felt in my life that I had no purpose in life, but this is what I feel like now and it was horrible.
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I do understand and appreciate the experiments that have made advances for our society, but I see no purpose to controlling the entire coloring system of what is already a magnificent accomplishment of nature.
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" Ms. Nyanzi was charged with writing posts that "disturbed the peace, quiet or the right of his privacy of his excellency the president of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni with no purpose of legitimate communication.
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In psychoanalysis, events are reconstructed in the knowledge of their outcome: The therapeutic properties of narrative lie in its capacity to ascribe meaning to sufferings that at the time seemed to have no purpose.
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Instead what we saw this election was the opposite: cultural figures on the left performing protests against Trump that had no impact at all and that appeared to have no purpose other than self-gratification.
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The prelude to his presidential run was his gleeful hyping of birtherism, a multiyear campaign of conspiracy theories and obvious lies that served no purpose beyond calling into question the legitimacy of Barack Obama's presidency.
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"If we find we are a minority investor way off what other investors are thinking, there is no purpose in trying to enforce that in a vote that will be not be successful," Slyngstad said.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Thursday that he sees no "purpose or reason" for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from overseeing Russia-related investigations unless Sessions himself becomes the subject of an investigation.
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They say that since all the seedy allegations against Kraft are in a publicly available police affidavit, releasing the actual video would serve no purpose other than to humiliate Kraft and generate a lot of clicks.
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Another resort owner, Holiday World CEO Matt Eckert, said during a hearing that work permits are an "administrative burden" on school districts, parents and students, and argued that they "serve no purpose," according to the Star.
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That said, just because these rules are unlikely to prevent people from creating and distributing damaging synthetic media — what the bill calls "advanced technological false personation records" — that doesn't mean the law serves no purpose here.
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These solitary personal statements in the Texas and North Carolina cases served no purpose that I could discern other than to keep up the spirits of the states that would continue to defend their problematic statutes.
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In the same way, Trump should threaten Iran's most potent weapon – its ability to close the Strait of Hormuz, using small vessels that have no purpose other than to threaten shipping in the Strait's shallow waters.
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In a letter to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Pence's lawyer, Matthew Morgan, said it "serves no purpose" to declassify supplemental testimony from one of Pence's national security aides, as Schiff had demanded.
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You can walk around and you can be out with people, but if you're lost inside, you might as well just be alone at home in the dark because there's really no purpose in your life.
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Some Easter eggs helped players advance in the game; some provided insight into the story line or clarified loose plot points; some seemed to have no purpose other than enabling players to boast about having found them.
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It felt like a sociological endeavor to study the subreddit personalities and characteristics, like I was collecting data points and observations on human behavior and identity online for no purpose other than my own digital self-gain.
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Such a trait can prevent populations from becoming homogenous and thus vulnerable to a single disease or predator, but it serves no purpose in populations living in stable, protected man-made environments and ought thus to fade away.
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If the couple does plan to get a license in Newport (and they can do so even on the same day as the ceremony), then their trip to the N.Y.C. marriage bureau also would have served no purpose.
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House leadership could announce that, so long as the counsel's office is producing bad legal argumentation designed for no purpose other than protecting the president from constitutional checks, the American people should not have to pay for it.
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From the very beginning we&aposve been warning our American counterparts that we aren&apost going to join the global antimissile system, we see no purpose for it, but we&aposll do everything to have means to overcome it.
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How can a party platform omit any characterization of global warming and CO2 as a problem while urging businesses to develop a technology with no purpose other than sopping up the main greenhouse gas emission raising the planetary thermostat?
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From the very beginning, we&aposve been warning our American counterparts that we aren&apost going to join the global antimissile system, we see no purpose for it, but we&aposll do everything to have means to overcome it.
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For shareholders who have long accused the company of hoarding cash to no purpose, that's welcome news: the dividend yield on Samsung's shares is currently a mere 1.25 percent, much lower than rivals Apple and Intel, Eikon data shows.
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Violence is only gratuitous when it serves no purpose, and throughout "Friday Black" we are aware that the violence is crucially related to both what is happening in America now, and what happened in its bloody and brutal history.
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Faced with the prospect of being legally challenged over its refusal to release the records, for no purpose other than to save itself from a spat of humiliation, the agency finally unredacted a few of its exchanges related to the video.
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How can people think shit is going to change just because nine bad cops may go to jail, when they know police are groomed to treat them like they have no purpose other than to serve cops' appetite for domination?
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The National Surveys on Energy and Environment, conducted by the University of Michigan and the Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion, found in 22020 that support for a carbon tax, when no purpose for the revenue is specified, is quite small.
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While he acknowledges the need for the EPA, he sees the truth that the current administration has devotedly ignored: the EPA was never intended to be an advocate of extreme environmental regulations that serve no purpose and are costly and burdensome.
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We're a society that, at times, seems to be built around boozy lunches, nightcaps, and phrases ("cheeky pint" and "hair of the dog") that seem to serve no purpose other than to justify drinking at all hours of the day.
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In recent years both liberal and conservative states have made it easier to restore the right to vote, on the understanding that disenfranchising people with criminal records serves no purpose other than to keep them at the edges of society.
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As long as you are living a life within your means that makes you happy, there's no purpose in keeping up with the Joneses, who, hey, may being using a hefty Instagram filter to paint a prettier picture than reality.
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The gag order remained in place, remarkably, even after the jury was picked and deliberated — when the First Amendment's prior restraint had no purpose whatsoever but to shield the court from criticism and pressure Stone to cave rather than appeal.
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But most VR videos make the mistake of showing all that peripheral background just because you can, even if it serves no purpose in the narrative—just "having a lot of shit going on behind you that you don't really need," said Martin.
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At points Stewart seems frustrated by the limits of the genre he has tackled, mocking convention or, when the proceedings threaten to become hopelessly complicated, introducing a fantastical element with no purpose other than to foreshadow yet another miraculous escape from certain destruction.
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"These post-Charlottesville marches have no purpose, other than to make anyone who supports white self-determination look like a fringe lunatic," Andrew Anglin, publisher of the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website, wrote this month in a blog post disavowing Sunday's rally.
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Today, there are an estimated 21794,2600 dams in the Hudson River Estuary between New York City and Albany, N.Y. Many are small and obsolete, abandoned by long-shuttered factories and serving no purpose other than to thwart fish migration and harm river ecology.
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"Contrary to your office's contention that declassification 'serves no purpose,' the additional information in the Supplemental Submission is directly relevant to Congress's consideration of articles of impeachment against President Trump and the Committee's ongoing investigation of the President's Ukraine scheme," Schiff wrote.
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Hedge funds including Brigade Capital Management and Claren Road Asset Management, which hold some of GDB's $3.75 billion in debt, said in a statement that the lawsuit had no purpose now that Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla has declared a fiscal emergency at the bank.
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On July 25, 1861, a few days following the Battle of Bull Run, Congress passed a resolution declaring that the North was waging war to restore the Union and "with no purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights of established institutions" in the rebellious states.
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"It serves no purpose for Ukraine to fight for its body in Donbas if it loses its soul to corruption," Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson warned last year, referring to regions of eastern Ukraine seized by Russian-backed separatists after the ouster of Mr. Yanukovych.
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" Last week, Darnell Earley, the emergency financial manager in control of the district, warned that job actions by teachers "serve no purpose other than to harm and disrupt the efforts intended for those who can ill afford to lose instruction time, social building time and time in the classrooms.
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"I really had to stand up and make it a point to fight back against people who were not only body shaming, but also slut-shaming … taking aim at people that weren't doing anything wrong and making comments that were so harmful and distressing for absolutely no purpose."
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For the commission itself to have integrity, it must look at the ways states make it harder to vote for no good reason, such as through strict voter ID requirements that serve no purpose other than to drum up concerns of voter fraud, harming actual voters in the process.
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Although he waved away the suggestion that Filtered would be a stealth gentrification tool ("It's got no purpose other than providing great service, great food and great beverages," he said), Mr. Rubenstein made it clear that he'd like to see more restaurants and other amenities to increase foot traffic.
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DEUTCH: Yes, and the -- and the answer to the question is, do I support weapons that fire-off 150 rounds in seven or eight minutes, weapons that are weapons of war that serve no purpose other than killing the maximum number of people they can, you bet I am.
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Marking a huge departure from her male compatriots in Korea — whose meditative Dansaekhwa practices, characterized by subdued colors and repetitive geometric lines, have been described by the pioneer of the movement, Park Seo-bo, as having "no purpose" at all — Choi paved the way for bold new experimentation.
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Writing in Politico, Primus argues that Spiro is just flatly wrong as a matter of law — the executive branch couldn't mandate such a capricious, arbitrary edict with no purpose: It is a basic rule of constitutional adjudication that the government must always have a valid purpose for the actions it takes.
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"It is not surprising there are some disagreements and even major disputes about certain issues, but if we fall into the whirlpool of 'overpoliticisation' and artificially create division and opposition, it will not only serve no purpose, but will also severely hinder economic and social development," The People's Daily said.
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It's a "back to the future" moment for the White House, which in the early days of Trump's time in office suspended the on-camera briefing for days at a time -- arguing that it served no purpose other than to let reporters try to dunk on then-press secretary Sean Spicer.
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When an unfamiliar black or brown person is in your community, when a group of two or more black people are gathered in a public or private space, or when we are speaking our native languages, calling the police serves no purpose but to criminalize, arrest and cast us away.
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Trump and his supporters have caused serious damage to America's legitimacy and authority as world leader with inconsistent, confused, short-sighted and sometimes entirely irrational actions that sometimes seem to have no purpose other than to boost the ego and settle personal accounts — as opposed to serving the nation's interests.
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"Such a threshold requirement excludes from discretionary punishment many of the most culpable offenders, such as the 'wanton and malicious pirate' who intentionally infringes another's patent—with no doubts about its validity or any notion of a defense—for no purpose other than to steal the patentee's business," Roberts wrote.
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The scientific, moral and theological battle between life as an "endowed unalienable" right and the evolutionary view that we are just material and energy shaped by pure chance in a random universe with no author of life, no purpose for living and no destination after we die has been won in Ireland by the evolutionists.
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Unlike other social networks we take a proactive approach to removing bots and have no purpose for inflating user counts to deceive advertisers (which we do not have.) We have banned well over 50,000 bots this quarter alone....Many self-proclaimed members of the alt-right do not like Gab and do not use it.
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"It is not surprising there are some disagreements and even major disputes about certain issues, but if we fall into the whirlpool of 'overpoliticisation' and artificially create division and opposition, it will not only serve no purpose, but will also severely hinder economic and social development," the ruling Communist Party's official People's Daily said.
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Her speech on Tuesday night gave the impression that she intends to stay until the bitter end, which will serve no purpose other than to let her push her vindictive platform and opinions, like the time at her CNN town hall when she took a mean-spirited jab at voters who believe in traditional marriage.
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I see the case as presenting an additional challenge: the need for the justices to make clear to judges of the lower courts that, like it or not, the Constitution still protects access to abortion without the "undue burden" of state-created obstacles that serve no purpose other than to frustrate women in the exercise of their constitutional rights.
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"There was no purpose for Mr. Stone to have to lie about anything to protect the campaign when the campaign was doing nothing wrong in being interested in this information," Rogow said, who added the Trump team broke no laws when it expressed delight at the prospect of WikiLeaks document dumps at the detriment of Clinton.
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" Celebrating with events in all provinces and territories, and this year in countries including Bulgaria, Germany, Latvia, and the UK, National Drone Day's mandate is to serve as an anti-capitalist "reclamation of the idea of a holiday, of a community celebration with no purpose beyond a shared interest in drone music, a community, and a marked moment in time.
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"I indicated to him that if the Thaad bothered him, particularly since it has no purpose other than defensive and does not change the strategic balance between the United States and China, that they need to work with us more effectively to change Pyongyang's behavior," Mr. Obama said, referring to the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, as the advanced missile defense project is known.
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"Despite the narrow scope of Plaintiff's battery claim arising out of alleged conduct by Mr. Trump on August 24, 2016, and her statutory pay claims against the Campaign, Plaintiff devotes a substantial portion of her Complaint on gratuitous and inflammatory allegations that have nothing to do with Plaintiff or her battery and claims, and serve no purpose but to disparage Mr. Trump," they added.
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In Lincoln's first Inaugural Address, he quoted from one of his previous speeches in which he had said "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists," and he went on to defend the Fugitive Slave Act, promising the slave states full enforcement of it as long as it was on the books.
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The "Thatchers" in the title cheekily refer to a series of destroyed busts of Margaret Thatcher; in the original story, the busts are the center of a giant mystery, but in the updated version, they're side jokes in an episode full of misdirections and side excursions into mini cases, montages, and flashbacks that serve no purpose other than to illuminate the frustrating genius of one Sherlock Holmes.
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If you'd arrived on the internet in the '90s, you'd have found many of its conversations playing out in places like Usenet groups, mailing lists and message boards — dork-friendly forums where debates had a habit of continuing, at tedious length, until they'd exhausted every possible rhetorical approach to the subject at hand, like a never-ending, dysfunctional undergraduate seminar with no professor and no purpose beyond, literally, the sake of argument.
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The answer is not just to remove the death penalty but to transform our thinking and our system to reflect the reality that everyone can change, that most people at age 50 are far different from who we were at 18, 19 or even 30, and that long sentences serve no purpose other than promoting vengeance and violence and filling our prisons with people whose incarceration does nothing to promote public health and safety.
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"Spending SNAP benefits on cigarettes and alcohol, or gambling and strip clubs, serves no purpose to help ease a family's hardship, nor is it the best use of our limited taxpayer dollars," Senator Joseph Griffo (R-Rome) said in a press release referring to the bill which contains the the following restrictions: A SNAP recipient's EBT card also may not be used for transactions at the following: (1) a liquor store, or any other store where 50 percent or more of its business comes from the sale of alcoholic beverages; (2) a gambling or gaming facility; (3) a strip club; and (4) a tobacco specialty store. Sen.
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