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The bill is still being picked over by parliamentarians in Ottawa.
Before you get too excited, the sale is pretty picked-over.
"The field has been picked over so carefully," Mr. Bevington said.
He was picked over an early Trump campaign backer, former Rep.
He was famously picked over Reggie Bush in the '06 Draft.
Fire-blackened hams, picked over by dogs, sat in a pile out back.
"I usually procrastinate on my costume until everything is picked over," Michelle said.
They are combed over, picked over, picked apart, sought for, probed, fought over.
Some days it's a gold mine, other times the store feels picked over.
He also said that Germany was picked over the U.K. due to Brexit uncertainty.
Sherman's soldiers burned homes, plundered farms and picked over fields for the best crops.
One of the handler's explained why this product is picked over many other human hairsprays.
These questions will be picked over for years and are probably impossible to settle conclusively.
By now, every possible angle on Whitney's demise has been poked at and picked over.
I snag three of them once they're picked over and then do my weekly expenses roundup.
The subject is also picked over online on an impressive number of dedicated blogs and forums.
Because this one was among the most closely scrutinized and picked over I had ever seen.
My team landed in a complex of buildings that a rival squad had already picked over.
And still others picked over her hairstyle, weight and personal life as a single, childless woman.
The bag has been picked over and stolen from, but at least I'm paying more attention now.
But despite its close proximity to the University of Texas, it never seems picked over or barebones.
They picked over a pile of gold objects — earrings, necklaces, and bracelets — as if it were popcorn.
"Echo Burning," the first Reacher novel, will anchor Season 1, with other books picked over for subplots.
He was picked over former General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt and Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman.
From her bare arms to her butt, every part of her image has been picked over publicly.
Djokovic, who made only one unforced error in the first set, picked over the carcass with relish.
We ate what we could collect from land picked over by classes before us, which was basically nothing.
Who wants to be part of a platform picked over by a total of more than 20,85033 censors?
WAPNER: You mentioned earlier too, how difficult it is, you said the stock market's been so picked over.
The selection is pretty picked over, but we found a few items that still have a few sizes available!
In an interview this week with NPR, tennis legend John McEnroe shared several soundbites worthy of being picked over.
"It looks like the high-quality patch is a little bit picked over, and staples look expensive," she said.
It eats carcasses, but only ones that have been picked over, and comes out at night in the winter.
It was late June and the inventory was picked over, but she found a few pairs of men's trunks.
And it&aposs inherently unlikely that Neolithic communities would have entirely picked over and removed all deposits of glacial [stones].
") to rotten eggs like "Mission to Mars" (19893) and the notorious, picked-over 1990 turkey "The Bonfire of the Vanities.
"Available properties that are in the core of Williamsburg have been picked over," Mr. Taylor said of the shift south.
But as Iinuma's testimony lays bare, our records are picked over and plugged into the insurance company's forms and fields.
Rows of half-finished skyscrapers rose from the earth like the picked-over rib cage of a great steely beast.
Near the registers we found some uninspired "new arrivals" displays, like this one featuring picked over mugs and tumblers for bridesmaids.
The quality of the exchange picked up towards the end as the two picked over the balance between security and freedom.
"They are mosquitos, sucking our blood," complains Henry Pamplona, an elderly guaquero, as he shovels picked-over grime into a wheelbarrow.
With Solo, Lucasfilm is explicitly covering ground that's been picked over by the vast body of lore that came decades beforehand.
Townsend scavenged scrap cotton from picked-over fields, slaughtered pigs for neighbors in exchange for parts and tended a backyard garden.
He was succeeded by a Japanese physician, Hiroshi Nakajima, who was picked over a Brazilian candidate backed by the United States.
As a prequel, it burrows into one of the most picked over, obsessed-upon, fan-fictionalized, head-canonized story universes ever built.
Verdict: Given the degree to which Detroit's ruins have been picked over, it's surprising this sort of thing doesn't happen more often.
If you find a picked-over list of out-of-budget items, think about picking up a gift card instead, he said.
It comes on top of his rejection of the nuclear deal with Iran and the fight he has picked over trade tariffs.
I bet you most last meals you go and say, did they eat, and they go, yeah, they just picked over it.
Maybe the committee would rather not have their work scrutinized and picked over and—let's face it—endlessly whined about by fans.
Now, neither Cheryl nor Veronica will have to have their darkest moments picked over in front of a jury of their peers.
Subjects like June's full-time work schedule, parenting choices, and the kinds of "arrangements" made if Hannah is sick are condescendingly picked over.
To Wear Now: There's nothing worse than trying to coat shop in January once it's already freezing and the selection's been picked over.
It has, indeed, stolen some of the thunder traditionally belonging to Miuccia Prada, whose collections are generally picked over for inspiration by others.
Maria tells us that the children work the deepest in the mines, in smaller, hard-to-reach places that are less picked over.
It certainly helped that the Armstrongs had no children, though it's still remarkable that the house wasn't completely picked over following Armstrong's death.
"That's pretty bloody water that's been picked over by both the duopoly and the thousands of other quote-unquote adtech companies," O'Connor says.
On the production line, the cucumbers are washed four times and picked over by hand twice before being packed into five-gallon plastic buckets.
As the stock of legacy mortgages becomes more and more picked over, some private equity houses have seen origination as the next logical step.
We've picked over the final hour-and-a-half of Game of Thrones and catalogued the questions that will keep us up at night.
Left on the street, the memorials don't last for long; some are picked over, and others fade away into the detritus of sidewalk life.
U.C.L.A. was picked over U.S.C. as the preseason favorite in the South Division, and the star sophomore Josh Rosen might be the main reason.
Yet Mr. Biden's associates say he would not be deterred from seeking the White House by the thought of having his record picked over.
Horse and rider are both floating — suspended in time and gravity — over a pile of corpses being picked over by a flock of black birds.
The paper plates with buffalo wings have been picked over and the cheese left over from mini quesadilla hors d'oeuvres is coagulating on the platter.
If you've ever seen how picked-over the HGTV darlings Chip and Joanna Gaines' Hearth & Hand collection is, you have a sense of this already.
Their entity, known as Rojava, is now a carcass to be picked over by the Turks and the regime of Bashar al-Assad, Syria's dictator.
Those minutes will be picked over, particularly after Powell's recent hawkish comments about the Fed not yet being close to neutral triggered the runup in rates.
After it aired in June, Ms Gadsby's performance was picked over by the public; critics raved about it in the culture pages of newspapers and magazines.
The bi-annual clean out sale, which kicked off last month, leaves nothing off the list — so if you thought it was all picked over, think again.
Investors are talking about reviving the bankrupt Toys "R" Us, but its multibillion-dollar business is meanwhile being picked over by the big three — Amazon, Walmart and Target.
He was picked over candidates from Denmark, Hungary, Lithuania, South Korea, Burkina Faso and Iraq, diplomatic sources told Reuters on condition of anonymity because the process was confidential.
"You might have five Supreme Court justices to be picked over the next four years, because we already have one, and you'll probably have four more," he said.
Meanwhile, Republicans picked over his public testimony and said he lied to Congress when he said he didn't try to land a job in the Trump White House.
She has everything sent to her Upper West Side apartment, from vintage dresses found on eBay ("Vintage stores in New York got really picked over") to grilled cheese sandwiches.
As we picked over our pasta, she joked about her mediocre math grades in high school, mentioning that though her school offered them, she'd never taken any A.P. classes.
Mike Kinsella's solo work as Owen is always a worthy investment of time, not always immediately revelatory on the first listen but ready to be stripped back and picked over.
Even in a stock market that he admits is "picked over," Leon Cooperman, the founder and CEO of Omega Advisors, says there are plenty of promising opportunities to be found.
Both last summer and this summer, the suggestions have been picked over at the annual sessions of the Church of England Synod, grouping representatives of bishops, clergy and lay-people.
When you turned on the TV news, there she was again, being picked over by pundits with a zest that locals generally reserve for soccer and stories about political corruption.
The participants—and, no doubt, many of the viewers—have picked over the evidence as presented in countless think-pieces, articles and conspiracy theory forums, and built up their own beliefs.
The thought of shopping through the picked-over bins at your local Halloween pop-up sounds worse than just going as Alice in Wonderland for the third year in a row.
That moment, and when we saw all the unconscious bodies, being picked over, with a close up on the "From the Ashes We Will Rise" sign were genuinely heartbreaking emotional images.
Reports indicated that Cutler, who was signed to a one-year, $10 million deal, was picked over Kaepernick because Cutler and Dolphins head coach Adam Gase had worked together in Chicago.
Actress' loops and percussions will be picked over and manipulated by the chamber musicians and the hybrid results will all be brought together by Hugh Brunt, principal conductor of the LCO.
Similarly, the Podesta emails barely contained anything incriminating or scandalous, but simply because they were stolen and private emails of a prominent political figure they, felt salacious and were endlessly picked over.
When we think back to the art openings we've most recently attended, the refreshments always seem to begin and end with a bottle of vino — and maybe a picked-over cheese plate.
No amount of slick editing can transform the close and careful scrutiny of political committees into seat-of-the-pants viewing for anyone not already intimately familiar with the intricacies being picked over.
It was around this time that Jennifer Hirsch attended a meeting of Columbia's Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Council, where faculty members gathered in a conference room and picked over a catered breakfast.
No more could it suffer than a Parser—those algorithms that mercilessly strip away all your lovely adjectives and adverbs and leave you staring at the picked over bones of your pitiful existence.
After another week of Clinton-related emails roiling this election, the political world has been left to scrub their inboxes, watch their private correspondences be picked over in public, and psychoanalyze WikiLeaks' inscrutable founder.
Whether I'm reaching toward essential navigation buttons, typing in Messages, or doing anything that requires me to touch the bottom of the screen, I'm reminded that form was picked over function at every turn.
Going in on a group gift can be another way to make the most of your budget, especially if the registry has already been picked over and only big-ticket items remain, added Glantz.
The Times reports that Boko Haram fighters have had to scavenge for food in the picked-over Sambisa Forest in the midst of dry season, or raid anyplace in reach that might have food.
"As time passes, the discounts will get steeper, but the stores will be so picked over that the quality won't be that good," said Alex Arifuzzaman, founder at retail real estate advisory firm InterStratics Consultants.
Adaptive executives say their scavenging approach gives them an advantage over bigger studios that are competing for fresh scripts from writers who are in demand, or wrestling over the same picked-over comic book franchises.
Fort Bragg's signature attraction, a former town dump that was transformed by time into a beach of gleaming sea glass, has been badly picked over and is no longer the dazzling sight it once was.
The remaining waste is picked over by the cleaners and watchmen at the apartment block they live in before being put out in a municipal skip where rag-pickers like Mrs Hiyale search through it again.
There are no wall didactics to clarify the relationships between the items in Rowland's one-room exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, which resembles a picked-over garage sale more than fine art.
I attend UC Berkeley, which I picked over "more prestigious" universities because of Cal's in-state tuition (it used to be only a couple hundred dollars, and now it adds up to 2200k + housing a year).
The room was littered with greasy dinner plates and empty bottles of fortified wine; a roasting tray lay in the middle of the floor, and on it was the picked-over carcass of a small chicken.
Her testimony, picked over by Mr. Cosby's lawyers, occurred at a cultural moment when accusations of sexual assault or harassment have rocked a media empire, a presidential campaign, Silicon Valley start-ups and countless college campuses.
On a recent visit to Manhattan&aposs two stores — the Madison Avenue flagship and the downtown location on 7th Avenue — shelves were sparse and picked-over, and very few shoppers were seen braving the messy racks.
"The U.S. market has lots of activists in it looking for ideas and has been picked over," said Greg Taxin, managing director of the activist advisory firm Spotlight Advisors and a founder of Glass, Lewis & Company.
Such practices are now being picked over in a year-long public inquiry, known as a Royal Commission, into Australia's A$23 billion financial services sector that has proven a reputational nightmare for banks and money managers.
Does anyone trying to make a career in Democratic Party politics really want to put themselves in the position of being a "Joe Biden accuser" who gets to have their conduct picked over by a Morning Joe panel?
Ian McEwan, a feted British novelist, has been at pains to distance his most recent book, about an intelligent android, from "sci-fi", even though the idea is one of the most picked-over tropes in the genre.
"In this market where everyone keeps telling us where the market's so expensive, everything's picked over, we've now talked about five or six or seven stocks that all seem to be trading around 10 times earnings," he said.
Everyone loves a great sale, but there are few things worse than finding out that all of the best deals have been picked over or are completely sold out because other people got to it before you did.
This is life in the contemporary political arena, where who a candidate is as a person — the choices she makes every day — is as picked over as her positions, in part because those are choices we all share.
Russian and Syrian troops drove through a key town where the United States had held sway and picked over abandoned American outposts to announce their presence in the area and deter the Turkish incursion that began last week.
The article drew widespread scorn, notably from Chelsea Clinton, whose appearance was often picked over by news outlets while she was a child growing up in the White House and her father, Bill Clinton, was president in the 1990s.
The first three have been thoroughly picked over by all sorts of journalistic outlets, including some conservative ones, and two-thirds of the way into Sunday night's show it seemed as if Mr. Oliver had nothing new to add.
Unfortunately for Mr Biden, the offhand way that committee treated Ms Hill has been picked over since Christine Blasey Ford testified to it last week about her alleged long-ago assault by Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee.
In some years Getty has shot over 80,000 individual frames in a night, which need to be picked over, lightly edited, cropped and captioned by a team of photo editors editors before they can be uploaded for purchase on Getty's website.
And because Manhattan is also the nation's media capital -- home to the headquarters of CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox and the New York Times -- every controversial move by Vance can easily end up being picked over, second-guessed and broadcast worldwide.
The initial episode of "Beyond Reasonable Doubt" is interesting enough, but it's about the so-called Green River Killer case in Washington State, which has already been thoroughly picked over in the years since Gary Ridgway pleaded guilty in 2003.
Trying to pinpoint where it had all gone wrong, I picked over every word we'd exchanged, from the moment we met until his quick kiss on the cheek and hug when we parted, which was maybe his way of saying goodbye forever.
In its new frontier Mexico, Eni has so far targeted shallow waters, close to the coast and Pemex infrastructure facilities - just the kind of target more likely to be picked over already and be on the radar of larger rivals with deeper pockets.
In searching to solve the riddle of how to restrict EU migrants' freedom to live and work in Britain but retain access to the EU's single market for goods and services, politicians have picked over how other outsiders interact with the bloc.
Last year the hacking of Democratic campaigner John Podesta's emails shone a massive spotlight on the risks of sensitive email accounts being hacked — as the contents of the emails were picked over in public and undoubtedly shaped the narrative of the US presidential election campaign.
The "purpose" of a brand is an obvious concept to the average person: washing powders clean clothes, conditioner makes hair soft and a car gets someone from A to B. But having a higher reason for being could be what makes one brand get picked over another.
If you have been to holiday parties where the only refreshment offered is a picked over cheese board you can't get to, a crudités platter that everyone ignores or a chip-dip situation past its prime, you know why it's important to serve enormously satisfying food.
Among all the well-guarded high-rise clusters, you can still find the remnants of 303 agricultural villages, which 230 years ago were the only habitation in this place: fragmented fields of mustard and wheat, an odd absent acre picked over by a stumbling herd of goats.
In one example, a group of 5th graders picked over 1,2000 pieces of litter in their schoolyard, noticing that the most common type of litter was the plastic straw wrappers from their own cafeteria, which led to the school eliminating the straws at the request of the students.
But Mr. Smith's record before entering Parliament is now being picked over by Mr. Corbyn's supporters, particularly his role working for the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, prompting critics to claim that he favored greater private-sector involvement in Britain's National Health Service — an institution revered in particular by Labour supporters.
While the singer-songwriter Lori McKenna has a similarly unforgiving approach to her listeners' heartstrings, her song craft is precise enough that she can stay far away from the cliché and instead focus on finding new material in subjects and forms that can seem too picked-over to still bear fruit.
I was on vacation in Krakow, Poland with my boyfriend, and that day we'd visited the city's ancient Wawel Castle, traversed medieval squares, picked over grimy antiques at outdoor markets, swung by Oskar Schindler's factory, and, at one point, found ourselves standing on the stones of what had been the Krakow Ghetto.
Perhaps you were ambitious and got to the farmer's market by 8 AM last Saturday morning like the early bird you never are during the week and stocked up on the abundance of late summer produce that wasn't picked over yet, but you have no idea what to do with it all. Relax.
" Shaam also said GoEuro is committed to maintaining its headquarters in Berlin, which he said he picked over Stockholm or London because it's more centrally located in Europe, and because of lower costs for hiring developers — although he added they may now look to open up offices elsewhere to "tap into talent as we scale.
They look back at the failed confirmation of the Republican nominee Robert Bork in 1987, whose writings on civil rights were picked over by Democrats, and the 1991 hearings for Clarence Thomas, who faced testimony from Anita Hill that he had sexually harassed her, and they see a sophisticated and ruthless Democratic machine bent on discrediting their nominees.
"We found that seniors have more needs than just the sale of their estates," said Tracy Niro, a managing partner of Wise Moves, a move management company in Gaithersburg, Md. Once the children have picked over what they want, and the items slated for the next home have been boxed up, the question is, what becomes of the rest?

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