The official line is that they were set up by friends.
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And there will likely be doubts about the Saudis official line.
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This can help you establish an official line of credit history.
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As per the Pentagon's official line, five Al-Qaeda operatives were killed.
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The official line is that they do not want to jeopardise ongoing inquiries.
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Manuel Garro Gómez, 65, seemed to take the official line on the matter.
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ARAB newspapers have a reputation, partly deserved, for tamely taking the official line.
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Museums in China have barely any wriggle room to question the official line.
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The official line is that drugs are under control, but they are not.
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Pressed about the issue on Sunday, Pompeo toed the intelligence community's official line.
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Disney's official line on the curious edifice was that any resemblance was purely accidental.
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The official line is that Flynn "misled" the vice president and other administration officials.
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For example, Chinese scientists suppressed information on SARS because it contradicted the official line.
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The official line is that "Currents" is meant to evoke the flow of information.
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The ANC's official line is that the party will close ranks and back Zuma.
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Witness, for example, how quickly the Kremlin's official line on the Skripal poisonings unravelled.
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Such deviations from the official line were put aside by the authorities on Tuesday.
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Anyhow, the official line is that they didn't want me to crash the car.
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The official line was the Army was still preparing to neutralize a terrorist attack.
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The official line is that negotiations are effectively over, as far as Brussels is concerned.
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For the record, the Kremlin is sticking to the official line of avoiding domestic discord.
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SpaceX's official line—that it's simply trying to leave no stone unturned—may well be true.
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He stressed that his views did not necessarily reflect the official line of the central bank.
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The government sticks to its official line that systemic racism has been eradicated by the revolution.
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The official line keeps the door open for regulators to allow selective defaults, but avoid widespread blowups.
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It was inevitable that they'd find a way to make it a semi-official line of work.
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He wanted to start Project 19173 because he was he was tired of covering Putin's official line.
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Davis and Fox have since stuck to the official line and Johnson has made few public comments.
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In economically troubled Greece, the official line, "All Time Classic," clearly left at least one person dissatisfied.
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We're glad you asked; here's the official line on each, from paramilitary masterminds to friends of flightless waterfowl.
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The official line is that Mark Dampier, HL's head of research, believed Mr Woodford would turn things around.
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And at times, he has seemed to inadvertently(?), contradict the White House's official line on the Russia investigation.
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That left me susceptible to the official line that the Oculus was a transportation center with shops appended.
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The official line is that he was accidentally killed when a discussion with officials turned into a brawl.
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The sheikha's advocates were taken aback that a respected human rights crusader had seemingly embraced Dubai's official line.
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Chinese state media outlets are tightly controlled and consistently reflect the official line of the country's ruling Communist Party.
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Its hawkish bravado doesn't necessarily represent the party's official line, but ultimately the publication is sanctioned by the state.
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Russia's official line is that it will not seek to get sanctions lifted, because it did not impose them.
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According to the official line, the idea here is to more closely align G Suite's Gmail and consumer Gmail.
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Scientific purposes may be the official line from Chinese President Xi Jinping's administration, but political intentions can't be ignored.
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The official line of Baby Yoda merch has landed and it's sporting a midichlorian count way lower than expected.
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For years, the semi-official line was that no single weather event could be blamed on climate change, only trends.
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The official line on Sun and Zhou had been that graft, not politics, was the primary reason for their downfall.
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The official line from parent company Delivery Hero is that the business model doesn't work, a view echoed by Fletcher.
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So firms must be savvy enough to undertake their own risk assessments without necessarily being swayed by the official line.
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But Google's official line is that the tool is benign and was developed in response to an increase in spam.
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When it comes to repairs, Apple's official line is that it's just looking out for the safety of its customers.
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The official line from China continues to be stern even as Beijing says it is all for dialogue and negotiations.
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The official line remained that Mr. Porter had made the choice to leave on his own and was not asked.
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Benzies' revelation about his Rockstar exit, in particular, runs counter to the official line that the studio delivered months ago.
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Trump's official line on the relationship, however, is that of course it has nothing to do with his personal finances.
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He has consistently denied any wrongdoing at 1MDB, and prior to election the mainstream media had towed the official line.
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The Global Times has a history of writing hyperbolic editorials and is usually significantly more hawkish than the government's official line.
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But the official line of the EU legislature's center-left bloc made clear that its goal remained only "a fair Brexit".
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Brewery Ommegang released an official line of "Game of Thrones" beers, with the latest called King in the North, due Nov.
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The official Line Choco sticker set is available for a free download on the Line app's Sticker Shop until May 4.
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Karimov tolerated no dissent and those parties, despite billing themselves as opposition, have toed the official line on all important matters.
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A new law makes it illegal for journalists to publish "untrue news or data" (ie, anything that contradicts the official line).
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What's most notable here is that, yet again, Trump can't quite bring himself to spout the official line on Russian hacking.
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The official line was that the money was paid through the bug bounty program where hackers flag vulnerabilities to the company.
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That has left little doubt over what official line the roughly 3,000 delegates gathered in the Chinese capital are to follow.
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But in the age of social media, their voices — potent alternatives to the official line — carried far, echoing with vast crowds.
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However, the official line remains that voters should approve the new charter even if they don't agree with all its proposals.
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The official line is that he was asked to "assist an investigation", a euphemism for helping the party net a bigger fish.
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You know the official line by now: lockout laws are crippling Sydney's scene, venues are closing down, community is being threatened, etcetera.
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The official line was optimistic: The company was excited to benefit from Vice's resources, and the deal would ensure the brand's continuation.
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The problem is that, in private, some imams stray from the official line, says Abdurahman Ali, the head of its fatwa department.
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A teacher who diverges from the official line "won't get arrested," he said, just "intimidated," perhaps with a threat of forced retirement.
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Iran's drinking culture was pushed into the shadows for many years by a government peddling the official line that no one drank.
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Politicians downplayed the severity of the virus, while police went after "rumormongers" and censors deleted any commentary that questioned the official line.
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Even when he was crowned King in the North during season 6, it was unclear whether he could continue his family's official line.
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News that Facebook's own employees are actively resisting the company's official line on the matter would seem to make Zuckerberg's stance increasingly untenable.
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This narrower reading is, apparently, the official line not only in full-blown theocracies like Saudi Arabia but somewhat milder places like Malaysia.
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The official line from the Ronson camp is that the album was always scheduled for June, and that it wasn't announced until April.
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But here's the official line from Samsung on that, A limited number of early Galaxy Fold samples were provided to media for review.
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Economists scoff at the official line, pointing instead at strict currency controls and price fixing that hurt imports and reduce incentives for production.
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The White House's media briefing room was packed on Wednesday afternoon as spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders articulated the official line on those questions.
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While Twitter's official line has always been that verification isn't a value judgment by the company, in practice that hasn't been the case.
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The official line from the Centers for Disease Control is for people to wash their hands, cover their coughs, and avoid large gatherings.
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He had seen the victims of famine in Ukraine, and he had gone along with the Party's ruthless imposition of the official line.
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The official line was that Mr. Rickles's pit-bull hostility was a stage persona; his real-life personality was legendarily warm and generous.
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The White House moved swiftly on Tuesday to fire Steve Goldstein, the State Department official who issued the statement contradicting its official line.
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It's unknown whether the RSC will follow the lead of other arts organisations in the future, but for now the official line is clear.
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The new display sticks to the official line, with motion-sensing video games allowing visitors to shoot at British ships by flailing their arms.
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In Pakistan, allegiance to Islam is the official line of most major parties, but ultra-religious parties have so far remained on the fringes.
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But we can't mount an argument that contradicts the official line that we are in a state of emergency because of the terrorist threat.
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"The official line is that it has been relatively easy and straightforward but behind the scenes no one would echo those comments," he said.
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Top photo: UK Parliament via FlickrThis post originally appeared on VICE UK.The official line on the Queen dying is: Don't mention the Queen dying.
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The official line at the White House was that the hour-and-a-half meeting with Trump went well and that Trump was solicitous.
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The first elements of THAAD arrived in South Korea last week, the official line is it could be fully operational by July at the earliest.
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Officially, the Chinese Communist Party denounced the Cultural Revolution decades ago and the two commentaries toed the official line, but many Chinese still revere Mao.
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Eventually, Father Monroe must confess the truth of his feelings for Marcela to his superior, Bishop Andrew (Michael Rudko), who stands by the official line.
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The official line was that Mr. Wainwright, who wrote the libretto in French, refused to bend to the Met's insistence that it be in English.
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Instead, the official line is that the unexplained hundreds of millions flowing into the prime minister's account was a donation from the Saudi royal family.
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North Korean diplomats used to repeat to us the regime's official line, often using the exact wording of stories from Rodong Sinmun, the party's newspaper.
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Employees at Chinese news organizations this week described a mandatory change of tone in their stories and fresh orders to hew to the official line.
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That can help you establish an official line of credit and begin building a good credit history, which is reported to the three credit bureaus.
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Academic institutions in China are state institutions; they all have a party secretary sitting on top, and they all toe the official line on political matters.
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The official line from Toyota, Nissan, Honda and most other carmakers is that they will wait for the outcome of the negotiations in Brussels next autumn.
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The official line is that Mr. Metropoulos, with a passion for architecture and history, wants to restore the estate and connect it to his adjacent compound.
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The official line, reported by state media, is that Mr. Putin decided the withdrawal was justified by the "overall completion" of Moscow's military mission in Syria.
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Dowries and prenatal sex selection were criminalized to protect girls and women, following the official line that there should be no such thing as gender inequality.
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The official line from broadcaster Fox is that there is far too much TV to honor, and they wanted to focus on that instead of gimmicks.
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Taking directly contradictory positions -- either from things he has said previously or from the official line of his administration -- seems as natural to Trump as breathing.
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Such messaging helps to mobilize Chinese communities, especially newly arrived migrants in Australia, Canada, the United States and elsewhere, to support the official line from Beijing.
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Such messaging helps to mobilize Chinese communities, especially newly arrived migrants in Australia, Canada, the United States and elsewhere, to support the official line from Beijing.
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In terms of regular news distribution, Ancient Rome had the Acta Diurna, A government-produced daily gazette that put out the official line on noteworthy public events.
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But in contrast to the past, when the official line was that there was no drinking problem because no one drank, they now provide officers with breathalyzers.
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On the record, people in sensitive positions will often simply mouth the official line; they will be candid only if they know their name won't be used.
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The official line was that the White House had no contact with the department's antitrust division about the deal and did not influence its decision to sue.
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Accounts and reports that fall outside the official line are promptly scrubbed from the internet and replaced with a constant flow of heroic tales of self-sacrifice.
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But the official line was that growing world oil demand would help the market accommodate extra Iranian crude without any need for output restraint by other producers.
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Then the activists were taken to insurgent leaders, who stuck with the official line of no cease-fire until the withdrawal of foreign troops, the marchers said.
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Junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha has threatened to shut down news outlets critical of his government and regularly scolds journalists who he considers straying from the official line.
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Yet most Indian Muslims tend to toe the official line, either from a desire to appear loyal or because they genuinely feel only a faint bond with Kashmir.
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In an official video released on Sunday, she accuses an unspecified "they" (presumably Democratic elites) of organizing to "destroy" and "discredit" anyone who dissents from their official line.
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While Iran's official line is that its capture of the Stena Impero was because of safety issues, it has done little to hide that the move was retaliatory.
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Still, Trump Jr.'s official line now contends that Kushner and Manafort, despite having so much lead time, ultimately took the meeting with no hint of its purpose.
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Instagram's official line on the similarities between the two apps, by the way, is that Stories are simply "a new format" that they they have chosen to adopt.
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First Mate Johnson become increasingly despondent as Flight 1820 continued south, relaying to her captive audience the official line as she received updates in a flatter, drier tone.
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Instead of launching any preventive strikes, the Administration should take the following steps: First, establish an official line of communication between the White House and Pyongyang's command center.
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And campaigns work hard to give us an "official" line on a movie, to convince people the film's the most important, the one that should get the trophy.
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Nearly a year after the storm, the Rosselló administration finally admitted that Hurricane Maria left several thousand people dead -- not the dozens that had been the official line.
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When he arrived to take over after Father Crowley left, he remembered getting some calls from parishioners wary of the official line that he had chosen to retire.
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The official line was that talks were still continuing—so she held her telephone out of the window to prove to Warsaw that tanks were indeed roaring into battle.
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"Why do we play a part in suppressing alternative information to the official line of the Second World War?" he writes in And the Truth Shall Set You Free.
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The Syrian government's official line over the last nine years has been that they are fighting "terrorists," even as they have hit civilian infrastructure, targeting hospitals, clinics and schools.
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She also repeated Myanmar's official line that the crackdown on the Rohingya was a legitimate military operation, not aimed at civilians but at armed Muslim militants in Rakhine state.
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Ahead of Thursday's meetings in Washington between the Trump administration and Beijing's negotiators, Chinese censors have stepped up efforts to suppress any voices not in sync with the official line.
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Reasons for departure Though the official line says the ICC is at odds with the country's attempts to build a sustainable peace in Africa, there is another factor at play.
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"It's unclear what the official line of the Rouhani administration is," said Mahsa Alimardani, who works with British human rights organization Article 19 and studies at the Oxford Internet Institute.
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The president was aware the negotiations were ongoing throughout much of the 2016 presidential campaign, but Trump's official line on the matter was that they ended in January of 2016.
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The official line from the party is they're focused on flipping the state for Trump, reelecting the governor and winning back the Legislature after losing it to Democrats last year.
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"The official line pursued by the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia, who are our allies in many ways, is almost one that would lead us to war," Macron told reporters.
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The official line is that she will move to DC at the end of the school year, but sources caution that while that is likely, it is not set in stone.
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A flight on the 60-foot-tall New Shepard is designed to bring space tourists at least 62 miles above Earth — the official line where space begins — and lasts 11 minutes.
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Inserting both his thoughts and his name in the constitution will further delegitimize critical commentary and unflattering revelations by making anything that contradicts Xi's official line an attack on the constitution.
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The government's official line that Haitians should prepare to leave the US isn't a promise to deport them if they don't, or at least not a promise the government can keep.
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Australian opposition lawmaker Sam Dastyari stepped down from some duties last week over comments that defended China's position in the South China Sea territorial dispute, deviating from his party's official line.
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But it can sometimes be steady and inexorable, like the step-by-step subjugation of Yanhuang Chunqiu, which could set an example for other publications that question the party's official line.
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The foreign secretary on Monday said the possibility of a Russian cyberattack to steal a huge tranche of memos written by Darroch had come to be an official line of inquiry.
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And while the official line from PBOT is neutral, there's at least one staffer whose snarky tweet suggests that the scooters are something more repugnant: just another toy for tech bros.
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After the crown prince's Vision 2030 plan to diversify the Saudi economy was announced in April 2016, pressure to toe the official line laid out in the vision became more aggressive.
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A senior U.S. intelligence official who was not toeing the official line told NBC News the Trump transition team was told it would happen "early this week," which might explain the confusion.
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"We used to be in the business of helping each other out," said one senior EU diplomat who asked not to be named because his comments differed from his government's official line.
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Running against Mirziyoyev were Khatamjon Ketmonov, Narimon Umarov and Sarvar Otamuratov, the nominees of three parties in parliament which present themselves as the opposition but which have always toed the official line.
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Still, Mr. Kalin kept to Turkey's official line on Mr. Assad, saying, "It is impossible to talk of a political transition in Syria as long as Bashar al-Assad remains in power."
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However, original Sabbath member Tony Iommi never confirmed Jeff was in the band ... and the official line from Black Sabbath is that Jeff merely "tried out" for a spot in the group.
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The president's alleged ignorance has become Republicans' official line of defense against monumental accusations that Trump fired his FBI director to help out his buddy at best, or help himself at worst.
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The official line from the White House is that Comey was fired because of his handling of the Clinton email investigation — a plurality of NBC's polled Republicans (43 percent) say is the cause.
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And while the Pentagon's official line was that it only took one interceptor to stop the Hwasong-14, the actual interception used four modern interceptors, and a full eighteen older-model kill vehicles.
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Hunt said the possibility of a Russian cyber-attack to steal a huge tranche of memos written by Sir Kim Darroch, the UK ambassador in Washington, is now an official line of inquiry.
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And it wasn't until nearly a year after the storm that the Rosselló administration finally admitted that the storm left several thousand people dead -- not the dozens that had been the official line.
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While the new initiatives were not explicitly linked to toeing the official line, Chinese officials have repeatedlypraised Macau for setting an example in maintaining national security and adhering to the central government's requirements.
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"The slowdown came as a result of our policy of guiding yields at appropriate levels," BOJ Executive Director Masayoshi Amamiya told parliament on Tuesday, a view seen representing the bank's official line on policy.
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This came after Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying Friday reiterated the government's official line of respecting the choice made by the British people, according to a transcript of the ministry's daily press briefing.
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Running against Mirziyoyev in Sunday's election are Khatamjon Ketmonov, Narimon Umarov and Sarvar Otamuratov, the nominees of three parties present in parliament which bill themselves as opposition but have always toed the official line.
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Stringing it all together, Trump Jr.'s official line now contends that Kushner and Manafort, despite having so much lead time, ultimately took the meeting with no hint (or apparent interest) in its purpose.
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Running against Mirziyoyev in Sunday's election are Khatamjon Ketmonov, Narimon Umarov and Sarvar Otamuratov, the nominees of three parties in parliament which present themselves as the opposition but have always toed the official line.
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As it approaches, party newspapers and a new book have promoted the official line that Mr. Xi is a strong leader with close ties to the common people because of his time in Liangjiahe.
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Many of their responses take Regan's official line about the project: Working to defeat Donald Trump is too important to not collaborate with a man who exploited his power to degrade his female colleagues.
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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - American Mikaela Shiffrin, Olympic giant slalom gold medalist in Pyeongchang, isn't buying the "official line" that her team mate Lindsey Vonn won't take part in the next Games in Beijing.
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Rosenstein was pushed into the spotlight last week when the White House used his memo to Attorney General Jeff Sessions (which was made public) as the official line on Trump's decision to fire Comey.
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CBS has broadcast the Big Game the most times and 2019 marks its 1003th year, and its official line at a January 10 press conference was that it was 90 percent sold on ad spend.
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Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi has been conspicuously silent on the Rohingya issue, and when pressed by reporters, she has toed the military's official line, which contends that the Rohingya are illegally squatting inside Myanmar.
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In academic circles and on social media, however, Chinese voices started to deviate from the official line -- noting the deliberate timing and challenging long-held notions that have formed the foundation of China's North Korea policy.
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Yet the official line denigrating traditional democracy, combined with the very idea that he should face trial, obviously irks him, so he churns out articles, essays and books about the need to enhance freedom in Russia.
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So far, the official line from Beijing is that China will meet its obligations under the U.N. Security Council sanctions, but as was the case earlier this year, it appears the commitment may not be absolute.
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The 'Insider' would address reports in the media and was, in some sense, an attempt to regulate transfer rumours, with a club employee giving a semi-official line on West Ham's activity in the transfer market.
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At this point, it's practically tradition to see photoshopped Coachella line-up posters pop up right after the official line-up has been released, but there's always a couple of gems that stand out from the rest.
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By now, we know from interviews and records that it was designed to target Muslims and green card holders, and with a disorienting speed—no matter what the official line is on terrorist threats and geographic nuance.
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MEXICO MISSING STUDENTS Unearthing a 'cover up': The official line of the Mexican government was this: The 43 students who went missing 17 months ago were killed by a gang that burned their bodies in a landfill.
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The official line: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) doesn't recommend sharing a toothbrush because it transmits bacteria from one mouth to another, leaving brushers susceptible to all kinds of oral and general health problems.
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Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi has been conspicuously silent on the Rohingya issue, and when pressed by reporters, she has toed the official line of the military, which contends that the Rohingya are illegally squatting inside Myanmar.
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The official line on the Oscars this year is that it would be about movies, not politics, and that unlike January's fiery Golden Globes, it wouldn't spend too much time on the Time's Up and #MeToo movements.
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Priebus proved ineffective at managing Trump's erraticness -- leaping from issue to issue within a single day, tweeting out things that directly contradicted his White House's official line, fomenting competition among top staffers into a sort of blood sport.
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The official line from the LA DWP is that cloud seeding can boost the precipitation from a storm by 15 to 20 percent, but meteorology research is almost impossible to verify by the same standards as laboratory science.
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By the mid-1980s, China was barreling down the path of "reform and opening-up," as the official line went, and it wanted a stable international order, thinking that this would be more conducive to its own growth.
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But while she is correct that, contrary to the official line, soldiers killed a great many people in central Beijing, she is wrong when she says that "most" of those killed in the early June massacre were students.
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This was all suspicious, but unless someone who actually attended the meeting cracked, there was no way for reporters or anyone in Mueller's office to really find out whether the official line was incomplete or even outright false.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain could accept legally-binding assurances on the disputed Irish border backstop that would not require reopening of the EU-UK Brexit deal, diplomatic sources said, signaling a possible shift from Prime Minister Theresa May's official line.
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But the prospect is certainly an unwelcome one for the Republican Party: A debate on the convention floor, on national television, over whether to extend an olive branch to people who disagree with the party's official line on marriage.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's official line on U.S. trade policy is one of careful deference to the Trump administration, acknowledging it is outside the Fed's responsibility and that it might all turn out for the best.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain could accept legally-binding assurances on the disputed Irish border backstop that would not require reopening of the EU-UK Brexit deal, diplomatic sources said, signalling a possible shift from Prime Minister Theresa May's official line.
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Among other things, the show shortchanges the experiences of Vietnamese civilians, presents the US-installed South Vietnam dictator Ngô Đình Diệm as coming out of nowhere, and reports the long-debunked official line on the Gulf of Tonkin incident as fact.
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Austria, which was annexed by Hitler's Germany in 1938, has confronted its Nazi past far less directly than its larger neighbor, and its official line for decades was that it was that its people were the first victims of Nazism.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - IMF participation is no longer crucial for Greece's bailout program, a German euro-lawmaker close to Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday, breaking ranks with Berlin's official line that the program would end if the Fund pulled out.
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The official line from Israel's government, echoed by the defense minister, transportation minister, and energy minister, is that relations between Israel and the United States are stronger than ever, and they will only get stronger with Trump in the White House.
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Trump's reimbursement to Cohen not only contradicts the official line out of the White House for months but also suggests the President and Giuliani may have purposely leaked out word of the payment to get ahead of this disclosure report.
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North Korea is severing its only official line of communication with the United States, the country announced Monday, incensed by recent sanctions against supreme leader Kim Jong Un and the pending deployment of a missile defense system to South Korea.
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The official line at the Pentagon is that the textbook definition of "safe havens" — where insurgent groups can plan and conduct operations without disruption by significant external factors like arrest and airstrikes — has not quite been re-established in Afghanistan.
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They found sources — some of whom sent memos to higher-ups insisting they had intoned only the official line — who, notes indicate, actually spoke more candidly, admitting that failures to coordinate military and diplomatic tracks may have derailed multiple peace overtures.
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He has been described as a determined negotiator and a hard-liner regarding relations with the United States but also a realist who has echoed the official line that the two countries have too many overlapping interests not to cooperate.
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From Beijing's perspective, Zulhumar Isaac, above, a Uighur woman from the region of Xinjiang, grew up in a model ethnic-minority family: Her mother was a Communist Party cadre, and her father worked at a newspaper that toed the official line.
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The official line was that Cimetière du Montparnasse had no idea why the sculpture had been boxed up, nor what lay ahead for it, only that it was "the family" who was doing this, and thus beyond the cemetery's control.
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Mr Di Maio's official line is that if, as the polls suggest, the movement emerges as Italy's biggest political force but without the outright majority it needs to govern, then it will present its programme and proposed cabinet to the other parties.
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The experts called for stronger national and international legislation to protect healthcare workers in conflicts, and urged UN agencies to advocate for health workers, resist pressure by governments to follow the official line, and strengthen capacity to deliver medical support across conflict lines.
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On Chinese social media, most participants were supportive of the official line to keep peace, although many were also quick to point out that the U.S. label of China as a strategic competitor is an acknowledgement of the Asian country's rising clout.
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Listen to this week's Keeping Score podcast with sports business expert Rick Horrow: A wrap-up of the week in sports news: The International Olympic Committee could knock out boxing from the official line up of events at the 2020 Tokyo Games.
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A dialogue captured in April by a VICE News crew, while filming a documentary on Corbyn's leadership that was published earlier this month, appears to contradict the official line from Corbyn's office that "Jeremy and his team worked hard" for the Remain cause.
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While democracies have procedures that require transparency on these issues, authoritarian states often work very hard to cover up the number of cases to make themselves look good — threatening to punish journalists, bureaucrats, and even health care workers who contradict the official line.
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In recent years, pictures, videos and social media posts put online by Russian servicemen contradicted the government's claim that its troops were not fighting in eastern Ukraine and undercut the official line that Russia's role in the Syrian civil war was limited.
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To a degree, it has succeeded: The Chinese raised in the extraordinary boom times since that day often know little about what happened on June 4, 1989, or accept the official line that curbing the "counterrevolutionaries" was needed to facilitate the economic miracle.
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The official line: "A spokeswoman for the state party said there was no issue with the integrity of the vote but it was taking longer than anticipated to collect and check the reported data for irregularities," Alex Burns and Jonathan Martin of the NYT write.
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The photos notwithstanding, there are still plenty of reasons to maintain a healthy skepticism of the official line that Penn inadvertently helped Mexico and the U.S. catch El Chapo and there is no public suggestion that his digital security practices led to the raid.
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Much about it feels like a past-gen game, albeit in more of a comforting, familiar sense than a negative one—and you wonder, despite the official line being "none", how much of what would have been Prey 2 has carried over to this production.
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When he isn't beating up on the press, Mr. Spicer denigrates civil servants as "career bureaucrats," and in the case of the State Department dissenters, invites them to "question whether or not they should continue" in their jobs, suggesting disloyalty to the official line.
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Jimmy Gomez (D) what Trump had told Cohen about why he didn't want to release his tax returns, Cohen offered up this answer -- which is FAR different from the White House's official line that he cannot release the returns because he is under audit.
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But "health concerns" is the official line, and it's certainly likely that the 41-year-old actor — who no doubt knows what his body can and can't handle after undergoing so many transformations — is simply looking out for his own health and well-being.
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The official line from the White House, as with other matters surrounding the president's physical health and appearance, is that Mr. Trump's glow is the result of "good genes," according to a senior administration official who would speak only on the condition of anonymity.
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Asked about suggestions in London that a trade deal could be ready for signature shortly after Britain is no longer an EU member, Barnier reiterated the EU's official line that only a "political declaration" outlining future trading relations would be ready at the time of Britain's withdrawal.
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NORTH KOREA CUTS OFF U.S. COMMUNICATION: North Korea is severing its only official line of communication with the United States, the country announced Monday, incensed by recent sanctions against supreme leader Kim Jong Un and the pending deployment of a missile defense system to South Korea.
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The official line from the White House is that the President's, um, glow, is the results of "good genes" and some "translucent powder" that the President applies himself before television appearances, according to a senior administration official who spoke to The New York Times last year.
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And just this week in Xiantao, a city of around 1.6 million people, the health commission published directives to health workers and government officials that outlawed everything from mentioning the outbreak in group chats to retweeting anything other than the official line, and giving interviews without permission.
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Manfred Weber, who leads the conservative bloc in the European Parliament, said this month that if the IMF insisted on debt relief for Greece, it should no longer participate in the bailout, breaking ranks with Berlin's official line that the programme would end if the IMF pulled out.
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Manfred Weber, who leads the conservative bloc in the European Parliament, said this month that if the IMF insisted on debt relief for Greece, it should no longer participate in the bailout, breaking ranks with Berlin's official line that the program would end if the IMF pulled out.
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Di Maio later reiterated the government's official line that it has no intention of leaving either the euro zone or the EU. He blamed EU officials for stoking market tensions over Italy's budget and said the government's adversaries were hoping to use financial markets to weaken the ruling coalition.
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South Korea's official line is that it shares the United State's goal of complete nuclear disarmament, but President Moon Jae-in has told lawmakers he recognizes that may not happen right away and he is open to exploring "other steps along the way," according to a parliamentary official.
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Though Romney has quietly been telling friends for weeks that he plans to run, the official line from his advisers is that he is still exploring the opportunity, talking to friends and family, as well as fellow Utahns about what they would like to see from their next senator.
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It's that the extent of the team's troubles was so maddeningly hard to parse; beyond the fact that Howard Megdal's reporting was almost always right and the front office's official line on things like payroll flexibility was always, always unconvincing, it was tough to know what to believe.
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The remarks made it appear that the Republican ticket might not be on the same page when it comes to Russian policy, and in an interview Wednesday with CNN, Jason Miller, a spokesman for Mr. Trump, was careful not to shed much light on the campaign's official line on the matter.
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In China under President Xi Jinping, journalists who stray from the Communist Party's official line are increasingly being muzzled as part of a widespread crackdown on civil society that has led to human rights lawyers and feminists being imprisoned, influential bloggers having their social media accounts deleted and professors being told to limit the use of foreign textbooks.
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Medin, who passed on Fiber's management to Dennis Kish, a Qualcomm veteran, last year, now serves as Google's envoy for wireless discussions in Washington, D.C. The official line from Fiber is that its wireless tests are just "experiments" and may not necessarily become commercial products, and Barratt won't say that the company intends to compete nationally.
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Chinese public opinion exists in a context that is profoundly shaped by government control of television broadcasting; government censorship of the internet and domestic publishing; and an overall situation in which even people with access to outside sources of information know better than to publicly relay an understanding of world events that's at odds with the government's official line.
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Though, as Jerusalem Online reports, the official line does not name Britney, and simply states that the change has taken place due to a "major event" in Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park (which would presumably cause disruption in the centre of the city, meaning that party members would have difficulty getting to polling stations) I'm happy to wager otherwise.
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So while the official line is that "Late Night Feelings" was always meant to be coming out now, it wouldn't be a huge surprise if at some point in the future Sony reveals that it had wanted more obvious hits on one of their marquee albums for 2019, and had offered Mr Ronson more time to make them.
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"We continue to evaluate new investment needs in the U.S. that can help us best serve our customers," is the company's official line thus far, referencing investments like its Austin, Texas-based chip plant, in which it announced it would be investing an additional $1 billion prior to the election, bringing new jobs to the area.
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There is little question about who in real life is meant to best personify the masculine chauvinism characterizing the official line today: Take a stroll down a city street or switch on the television at news hour — and you are greeted by the face of President Xi Jinping with a perennial look of self-assurance and determination.
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Their goal is to pressure Arcadia Group—the company that owns Topshop and recently reported an annual profit of over £2425 million [$2130 million]—into paying cleaners and shop-floor staff the living wage: £2184 [$0003] in London and £2000 [$22025] elsewhere in the UK. In its Code of Conduct, Topshop's official line is to "fully subscribe to the concept of the 'living wage'".
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An official line from the White House on President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's complexion is that his skin color is the result of "good genes," a senior administration official told The New York Times.
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With his promotion, Mr. Wang may add a more moderate voice to the button-down orthodoxy expected under Mr. Xi. Likely new post: Responsibility for party propaganda and ideology Previous position: Director of the Central Policy Research Office Age: 62 Birthplace: Shanghai Mr. Wang is expected to serve as the party's ideological chief, ensuring that the media, schools and party adhere to the official line of exulting Mr. Xi as a visionary leading China into a new era.
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The official line is that Trump wants a new team in place — spearheaded by Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoAfghan president vows to take revenge after Islamic State attack on wedding The Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Latest pro-democracy rally draws tens of thousands in Hong Kong MORE, the CIA director who has been nominated as Tillerson's replacement — as preparations pick up for his proposed meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. There is also a broader Trumpian critique of Tillerson as a figure too friendly with the establishment.
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