It's a really sore point for a lot of people.
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Trump's support for ethanol subsidies is a particular sore point.
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French government influence has been a sore point for Nissan.
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And that has become a sore point in Washington Heights.
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Global trade anxiety was another sore point for risk asset markets.
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The 2014 race is still a sore point for everybody involved.
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One sore point is the dapper and blue-eyed Craig Pogson.
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That episode is still a sore point for some at the agency.
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Global economic growth has been a sore point for risk asset markets.
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The closing of the Lordstown plant remains a sore point for workers.
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Her delay was a sore point among members of the environmental movement.
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It's a sore point for people who train or utilize service dogs.
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The rule has been a particular sore point among a number of dealers.
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Trump's plan would eliminate the use of credits — a sore point for automakers.
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The current agreement allows most rebels to avoid jail, a sore point for many.
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All the speculation was somewhat of a sore point on last night's Hills finale.
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Or perhaps it's the wall's association with "fakeness," another sore point for our times.
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The very fact of my existence is a sore point for the Chinese government.
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His fate threatens to become a diplomatic sore point between the United States and Vietnam.
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"The question of the Chibok girls remains a sore point in our history," he says.
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The consumer bureau's high salaries have long been a sore point for the agency's critics.
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That takeover remains to this day a sore point with investors and the Italian government.
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Stories of lavish spending by Najib's family have long been a sore point for Malaysians.
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The lack of a formal visit has long been a sore point for many Israelis.
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They also told THUMP they didn't know the factory was a sore point for local residents.
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Organic sales in the grooming unit, a sore point for the company, reported a 1% growth.
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This speed has become a hallmark of Ortega's business and a sore point for his competitors.
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Biden's work with segregationists became a sore point for him in Thursday's debate in Miami. Sen.
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The deal would reduce French government influence over Renault, long a sore point with the Japanese.
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Biden's backing for the war remains a sore point for some on the left even now.
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He didn't bother with honorifics or first names — another sore point for the offended television commentators.
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India's ties with Russia and Iran, both now subject to U.S. sanctions, are also a sore point.
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U.S. sanctions on Russia clearly are a sore point with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his regime.
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Connections to China run deep in the Labor Party, and have been a sore point at times.
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But he also underscored Washington's support for protesters in Hong Kong, a potential sore point with China.
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Eight months later, it still holds their crews prisoner, a sore point in relations between the countries.
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Eight months later, it still holds their crews prisoner, a sore point in relations between the countries.
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Lack of transparency in how companies price medicines has been a major sore point among industry critics.
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A little-known section of the Communications Act of 85033 is the sore point of this debate.
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But Mr. Trump left little doubt during the interview that the Russia investigation remained a sore point.
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Another potential sore point included the fact that the human players, while professionals, were not world-champion standard.
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The amount of the annual increase that goes to Medicaid is already a sore point in state budgets.
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Iran remains on the State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism, another sore point with the Iranians.
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Left unresolved, the issue could become a sore point for the government ahead of elections due next year.
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U.C.B. performers — whether improv or sketch — typically do not get paid, a sore point among many in improv.
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Hacking has re-emerged as a sore point between Washington and Beijing amid a broader worsening of relations.
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The incident continues to be a sore point in an already strained relationship between the US and Iran.
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"A sense of injustice over double standards has been a sore point for Republicans for years," he gripes.
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Such fees have long been a sore point with retailers, who see it as a hidden cost for consumers.
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The proposed tax is a sore point between the government and mining companies in Africa's second-largest copper producer .
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The disaster aid is not offset, however, by cuts to other programs, a sore point with some conservative Republicans.
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Potential successors at Renault fell by the wayside over the years, a sore point in France for Renault shareholders.
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The mass market unit, home to Maybelline make-up and Garnier shampoo, was more of a sore point, however.
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Even though the economy is currently doing well in many areas, slow wage growth has been a sore point.
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Reform is not always popular, especially in the public sector, which is a sore point for many Puerto Ricans.
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Nor has he eliminated a current-account deficit that stood at $4.9 billion in the second quarter - another sore point.
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Its dependence on Chinese manufacturers has become a sore point with President Trump as his trade war with China continues.
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We're told Tanaka was a sore point in Mariah's relationship with James Packer, so it's pretty clear what she's telegraphing.
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The constantly-changing records have been a sore point for many who follow the game, and for some former players.
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Also, Dorsey's dual role as CEOs at Twitter and Square has been a sore point with investors at both companies.
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Nearly 30 years after the Tiananmen protests were crushed, the issue remains a sore point between China and western democracies.
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Placing symphonies and classical music on an artificial pinnacle, as Mr. Trump did, also brought up another sore point: accessibility.
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However, while Ladakh will become a Union Territory, it will not have its own legislature - a sore point for some locals.
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A sore point for gas producers is the obligation to sell gas at 68 lei ($16) per megawatt hour until Feb.
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They then moved on to the next question, but fans are still processing what is clearly a sore point for Kravitz.
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That's still a sore point with many users, since the independent apps were traditionally superior with better design and more functions.
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But it took a long time to find acceptance on the pro tour, and the super tiebreaker remains a sore point.
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While the dikes may be working, the lack of effective drainage in cities has become a sore point with the public.
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Finding work: A sore point among the strikers is the difficulty transitioning back into society after release despite their work experience.
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The missing documents are still a sore point for Democrats, who have filed a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain them.
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The amount of U.S. farm products that China buys has been a sore point in its trade spat with the United States.
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Pakistan's reluctance to press charges against him has been a sore point in relations with Washington and India over the past decade.
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Rhode Island's poor performance in state competitiveness rankings, including CNBC's Top States study, has long been a sore point with state officials.
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Francesco Papadia, a senior fellow at European think tank Bruegel, told CNBC Thursday that Italy would remain a "sore point" for Europe.
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Despite this lead, it has become a sore point for Cuomo that Nixon's campaign vastly outpaces him on donations of under $1.73.
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The Greenwich Lane, built where St. Vincent's Hospital once stood (its closing is still a sore point for many), is nearing completion.
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The latter freedom is a sore point for a portion of the population who voted for Brexit in order to limit immigration, however.
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The local police eventually opted out of the data-sharing, but it is still a sore point for many in the city government.
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Still, Russia-US adoptions have been a sore point between both countries for quite some time, and the issue has multiple fault lines.
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One sore point is that the boundaries in the referendum include Kirkuk, an oil-rich area the Kurds control and want to incorporate.
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It's been a sore point for many a computer user who still remembers the halcyon days when purchasing software meant you, essentially, owned it.
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Ticket distribution for major soccer matches is often a sore point with fans who complain that not enough are made available for the public.
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The pace of economic recovery has been a sore point since Buhari took power in 2015 on promises to rejuvenate Africa's largest oil producer.
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The suspension in 2011 of the $3.6-billion Myitsone megadam project by former president Thein Sein remains a sore point between the two countries.
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In particular, the park's 77-foot-tall castle (a replica of the original at Disneyland in California) has been a sore point among locals.
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The business was also hurt by deep discounts by other retailers — a constant sore point for the consumer giant over the past few quarters.
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And a decision long ago to allot Nevada a small fraction of the water that California and Arizona can draw remains a sore point.
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Ms. Liu's case may become a sore point when the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, visits Beijing this month for talks with President Xi Jinping.
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The Magnitsky Act became a sore point between the U.S. and Russia after it was signed into law by former President Barack Obama in 2012.
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Photo: Getty ImagesApple's notorious for putting strict rules on who can and can't repair their products—a sore point for Apple haters and lovers alike.
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The annual war games have been a sore point for the North Korean leader, who sees them as a direct provocation to his country's security.
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My dad, whose affections had been a (sometimes sore) point of comparison in my head, was becoming the person who might now draw us close.
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On a super-nice and super-expensive computer like the MacBook Pro, the keyboard was often just a sore point in an otherwise excellent laptop.
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The prisoners have long been a sore point in the estranged relations between the United States and Iran, which have worsened under the Trump administration.
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That could further hurt the city's economy, create a constant headache for Beijing and aggravate an already sore point between the United States and China.
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Such requests have been a sore point for Apple, which cannot produce local data from locked phones without attacking the fundamental elements of iOS security.
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Woods said it was a "sore point" that EU banking regulators have stated banks were not ready if Britain crashed out of the EU next March.
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China's large trade surplus with the United States has long been a sore point with Washington, which has demanded Beijing take steps to sharply reduce it.
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But the lack of clarity remains a sore point for Somalis here, and some are openly questioning whether Mr. Adan's heritage prompted a rush to judgment.
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China's large trade surplus with the United States has long been a sore point with Washington, which has demanded Beijing take steps to sharply reduce it.
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Lawmakers are particularly disturbed by the government's intransigence on a sore point with the unions: the plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.
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China's currency has been a sore point for a number of U.S. administrations, which have blasted China for allowing the renminbi to weaken to help exports.
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Yet the Europeans, including Germany, have failed consistently over the years to uphold their financial commitment to supporting the alliance, long a sore point with Washington.
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The yuan has been a sore point for a number of U.S. administrations, which have blasted Beijing for allowing the currency to weaken to help exports.
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Prescription drug prices, always a sore point for consumers, have become a front-burner political issue for policymakers in both parties heading into this campaign cycle.
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The scandal is a sore point for the junta, whose promise to rid Thailand's politics of corruption was central to its premise for staging a 2014 coup.
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In Ukraine, the presence of the Greek Catholic Church is a sore point for the Moscow Patriarchate, which sees it as a Catholic encroachment on Orthodox territory.
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But the cost of building the next-generation fighter jet, the F-503 Joint Strike Fighter, has been a sore point for the Defense Department for years.
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This year's decision to close the A380 - on which Hamburg has significant work - has added another sore point, though Berlin acknowledges that Airbus has added other jobs there.
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It's clear that age is a sore point for her, and she didn't like being treated like a child by Courtney who is the same age as her.
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One sore point remains the fate of church properties that Soviet dictator Josef Stalin confiscated from Eastern Rite Catholics in Ukraine and gave to the Russian Orthodox there.
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Until recently, wages had been a sore point throughout the nearly seven-year-old recovery, barely rising in real terms despite the big drop in the unemployment rate.
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His treatment at American airports was already a sore point among his fans as well as critics of airport security procedures, with each episode sparking outrage and discussion.
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The Yemen war's heavy toll on civilians has long been a sore point with members of Congress, triggering threats to block U.S. assistance to the Saudi-led coalition.
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The struggle in the East China Sea over the Senkaku Islands claimed by Japan since 1895, for example, has long been a sore point in Sino-Japanese relations.
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The business was also hurt by deep discounts by retailers and "aggressive" private label pricing — a constant sore point for the consumer giant over the past few quarters.
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China's large trade surplus with the United States has long been a sore point with Washington, and is at the centre of a bitter dispute between the two countries.
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Guam is a sore point for Pyongyang because it is home to a squadron of B-1B bombers that the North fears could be used to attack their country.
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China's large trade surplus with the United States has long been a sore point with Washington, and is at the center of a bitter dispute between the two countries.
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SORE POINT According to a study commissioned by Romanian oil producers (ROPEPCA), the measures would cost the government $13 million in taxes a year and slash investment and production.
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And more video replays are being shown inside the SAP Center — a past sore point as the team was reluctant to show any play that might be considered controversial.
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Influential dancehall musician, Sean Paul, has said that it's a "sore point" when pop musicians like Justin Bieber and Drake make dancehall-inspired music without properly crediting their influences.
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As a senator from Delaware, Biden supported the North American Free Trade Agreement, which has become a sore point with unions that blame it for jobs leaving the country.
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The strong dollar has been a sore point for multinationals reporting earnings, but that could change in 214 and the currency could create some upside for the stock market.
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Indeed, it had become such a sore point in the German government that Moscow may have felt it was counterproductive to keep it running at the previously high level.
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A perennial sore point for local residents is the dearth of homegrown talent found within the Basel fair — only 3 of its 269 exhibiting galleries are based in Miami.
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A consequent rise in utility bills has become a sore point for voters, leaving the government trying to win approval for an energy policy aimed at bringing prices down.
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US presence a sore point in relations As part of a deal with Japan after World War II, the United States has roughly 26,000 troops and several bases in Okinawa.
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Amazon's ability to shorten delivery times has been a sore point for brick-and-mortar retailers, who have struggled to grow sales as customers have turned to convenient online options.
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China's large trade surplus with the United States has long been a sore point with Washington, and is at the centre of a bitter dispute between the world's biggest economies.
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The move is likely to become another sore point between Washington and Moscow, as President Donald Trump contends with ongoing questions about whether he's too hesitant to confront the Kremlin.
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Under the accord, most rebels who fully confess their crimes will be spared any jail time, a sore point for many Colombians who still vividly remember the atrocities of war.
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Turkey's demand the United States extradite Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara has said orchestrated a failed 153 military coup against Erdogan is another sore point between the two countries.
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The competing measures are a sore point between the two powerful politicians that could spill into the November election campaign as well as the race to replace Brown in 2018.
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That is a sore point for package-holiday firms, who feel that they are paying £2.50 per passenger into ATOL for a service that non-package holidaymakers get for free.
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China's large trade surplus with the United States has long been a sore point with Washington, and is at the center of a bitter dispute between the world's biggest economies.
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Organic sales in the grooming unit, a sore point for the company after it took a $8 billion writedown for its Gillette shaving business in the fourth quarter, reported 1% growth.
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That's one of three messaging apps that Google ships on phones (the other two are Allo and Hangouts), and that lack of messaging clarity is a sore point for Android users.
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Trump in his Tuesday address glossed over trade, a sore point between him and fellow Republicans in Congress, even though negotiators recently held another round of important trade talks in Montreal.
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With its improvised shacks and poor sanitation, the Jungle has become a symbol of Europe's failure to solve the migration crisis and a sore point in relations between Britain and France.
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Chow who becomes a caregiver for a widow after joining her husband in the United States, English becomes a sore point when Mr. Chow teaches his wife what he has learned.
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Organic sales in the grooming unit, a sore point for the company after it took a $8 billion writedown for its Gillette shaving business in the fourth quarter, reported 1% growth.
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Nissan, however, holds only 15 percent of its partner, an issue that has long been a sore point for Mr. Saikawa and has weakened his hand in negotiations with the company.
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China's large trade surplus with the United States has long been a sore point with Washington, and is at the centre of a bitter dispute between the world's two biggest economies.
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Barring some juvenilia, Ms. Kennedy has never been a realistic writer, which may explain why her plays are so often read on college campuses, but only rarely performed, a sore point.
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The NuHart plant was a sore point among locals, who had long battled to have the site cleaned up because they suspected that the chemicals from the site were making people sick.
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This is a sore point for Mr Trump, who has tweeted that it was really he who came first on that measure because millions voted illegally (without giving a shred of evidence).
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This has been a sore point for many drivers as refusing to take a certain number of rides could affect their account status and their ability to take advantage of certain promotions.
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Andy Rubin's departure from Google has been a sore point for a number of employees at the company — particularly his $90 million severance agreement, negotiated in the wake of numerous harassment complaints.
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Additionally, tech savvy users in the country are using VPNs to get around the official blocks, but the tension around the official censorship moves continue to be a sore point for many.
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China's large trade surplus with the United States has long been a sore point with Washington and is at the center of an increasing bitter dispute between the world's two biggest economies.
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Gregor von Medeazza, chief of the water, sanitation and hygiene programme at UNICEF in East Jerusalem, said water remains a persistent sore point between Israel and Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
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Nunes' role in the issuing of subpoenas has been a sore point behind the scenes in the House investigation ever since he announced he was recusing himself from leading the Russia investigation.
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Gregor von Medeazza, chief of the water, sanitation and hygiene program at UNICEF in East Jerusalem, said water remains a persistent sore point between Israel and Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
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China's large trade surplus with the United States has long been a sore point in relations and is at the centre of an increasing bitter dispute between the world's two biggest economies.
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Still, trade is likely to remain a sore point between the United States and Brazil, whose steep tariffs on imported goods make it one of the most closed economies in the world.
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He showed his amiable side and delighted in the strength of the stock market, while also making it clear that the investigation into his team's dealings with Russia was a sore point.
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Amazon's ability to shorten delivery times has been a sore point for brick-and-mortar retailers, who have struggled to grow sales as their customers have turned to more convenient online options.
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" Earlier, he had brought up a sore point: "And, of course, this is the piece that Beyoncé and her crew, um"—he searched for a word—" paid homage to with 'Single Ladies.
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On Tuesday he went a step further, saying the state would "take on" the feeding of migrants at Calais, long a sore point for the charitable associations that now perform the task.
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The Obama administration's attempt to close Guantanamo and release cleared detainees has been a sore point for Republicans, who have complained for years that the U.S. doesn't have a workable detention policy.
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Mr. Earley also said he had developed a plan that would eventually help the district return to "some form of local control" — a sore point with many residents, who unwillingly surrendered that control.
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Pensions have been a particularly sore point, especially for those in the east, with many worried that their pensions could be affected given the influx of more than a million migrants since 2015.
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Another sore point for the Trump administration is that the U.S. has a more than $60 billion trade deficit with Mexico, while there was a $12.5 billion trade surplus with Canada in 2016.
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Foreign control of mines has been sore point for many Indonesians, who view it as a legacy of an authoritarian past when a ruling elite cut sweetheart deals to carve up precious resources.
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The war's heavy toll on civilians has long been a sore point with members of Congress, triggering threats to block U.S. assistance to the coalition including refueling of jets and limited intelligence support.
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Markets will be closely watching the data on two-way trade between the world's two biggest economies, as well as China's trade surplus with the United States, a sore point in the trade relationship.
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For some NRA employees, the firm is a sore point; they are concerned that Ackerman consumes too much of the budget, and that its actions at times run counter to the NRA's best interests.
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While many of those battles have been won, the plight of the Palestinians remains a sore point on the left, one deepened by the hard-line policies of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
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The lack of prosecutions of top bank executives for wrongdoing on Wall Street has been a persistent sore point with the left, particularly since no major executives faced charges following the 2008 financial crisis.
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Though the huge marches have since faded, the case remains a sore point for the government given the large number of human rights groups and institutions that have questioned the quality of the official investigation.
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It's a complex, confusing issue, even for Germans, in part because everyone agrees that the Dublin process is a mess, and the union's failure to fix it is a sore point even for its defenders.
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A sore point of both the Thirty Meter and Giant Magellan telescope projects is that neither has received much support from the National Science Foundation, which traditionally finances ground-based astronomy in the United States.
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The Supreme Court vacancy has been a particular sore point in the Senate, in particular, after Republicans refused to even consider President Barack Obama's selection to fill the vacancy left after former Scalia died last year.
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All three have vowed to advocate for increased state spending on social issues, a sore point for many in Lithuania where nearly a third of the population could be at risk of poverty or social exclusion.
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"All the attention to Jared is a bit of a sore point and they feel left out of the fun in D.C.," a source close to the family says of Eric, 33, and Don Jr., 39.
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Add a candidate, Mr Trump, whose narcissistic bullying has prodded every sore point and amplified every angry sentiment, and you have a country that, despite its strengths, is at risk of a severe self-inflicted wound.
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China's favourable balance of trade position with the United States has long been a sore point in the trade relationship and is at the centre of an increasing bitter dispute between the world's two biggest economies.
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The US presence has been a sore point in relations between the prefectural government and Tokyo as many Okinawans, including Takeshi Onaga, the prefectural governor, strongly object to accidents and alleged crimes attributed to the US military.
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One sore point for the wealthy in the wake of the referendum may be a delay in the publication of new rules on "non-doms" — the tax status awarded to many foreign-born wealthy people, said WealthInsight.
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The Democrats erred by holding elections in which establishment and upstart candidates compete on unequal terms — a likely sore point among Democratic voters still seething over losing an election despite winning the popular vote sixteen years ago.
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The compensation packages for Ghosn, one of the most celebrated and well-paid leaders in the global auto industry, have been a sore point among investors of the Renault-Nissan alliance which he helped launch in 21.
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One sore point is that perceptions of Tesla's quality has slipped since the initial Model S's rave reviews — a J.D. Power report this year said fit and finish of recent models isn't competitive with BMW and Mercedes.
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The compensation packages for Ghosn, one of the most celebrated and well-paid leaders in the global auto industry, have been a sore point among investors of the Renault-Nissan alliance which he helped launch in 1999.
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Fans of James S.A. Corey's Expanse series will find much to like here, as Iridian and Adda contend with Sloane's rag-tag crew and its political factions, which are still a sore point for military veterans like Iridian.
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The backdrop: This post has been vacant since 2017, which became a sore point in the backlash against the Trump administration for failing to respond with force to journalist Jamal Khashoggi's assassination at the Saudi Sonsulate in Istanbul.
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Clinton, whose role in laying the groundwork for the Iran nuclear deal during her time in President Barack Obama's administration may be a sore point for some pro-Israel leaders, also addressed her plans to enforce the agreement.
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The issue has long been a sore point in Michigan's minority communities, who point to Flint and Detroit public schools as evidence that the state's imposition of emergency managers leads to bottom-line decisions, rather than overall governance.
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And while abandoning remains is rare, the issue of what to do with a deceased loved one or relative is a growing sore point for many Japanese amid a steadily aging population and skyrocketing prices for cemetery plots.
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Britain has refused to resume flights to Sharm el Sheikh since the 2015 downing of the Russian jetliner despite loud and repeated reassurances from frustrated Egyptian officials, in what has become a sore point between the two countries.
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Azhar's freedom within Pakistan has been a sore point in the relationship between Western countries and Pakistan, and has led to repeated accusations by India that Islamabad uses and harbors militant groups to further its foreign policy agenda.
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DHAKA, Bangladesh — The sale of a used car is developing into an unusual criminal case and a potential diplomatic sore point between the United Nations and Bangladesh, whose government has frequently bristled at criticism from the international community.
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He also sidestepped a question about whether he's urging his new client to pull back on his myriad media appearances, a sore point with many Trump allies who fret the president's lawyer is making things worse for Trump.
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Overcapacity in the global steel industry, a sore point for China as the world's largest producer of the metal, barriers to foreign investment and the risk of currency devaluations to protect export markets will also figure in the discussions.
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Finally, on the matter of victors, we asked the audience in Milan to predict who will win the World Cup this summer, a sore point because Italy failed to qualify for the tournament after a shocking loss to Sweden.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has hardened resistance in the U.S. Congress to selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, already a sore point for many lawmakers concerned about the humanitarian crisis created by Yemen's civil war.
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It's salving a major sore point between Oculus and parts of the VR community Last month's change was meant to help protect Oculus' library of exclusive games like Chronos and Edge of Nowhere, one of the Rift's greatest assets.
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His arrest became a sore point in the US-Sweden relationship last week when President Donald Trump personally intervened in the case, speaking directly with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, and then made that involvement very public on Twitter.
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Germany's merchandise trade surplus with the United States - $69 billion in 2018 - remains a sore point with the Trump administration as does Japan's $67.6 billion U.S. trade surplus last year -- with two-thirds of that in the auto sector.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Recent data on the performance of the U.S. economy has been generally on the soft side, a sore point discussed at length by Federal Reserve officials at their latest meeting, minutes of the gathering released on Wednesday showed.
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Besides heading Renault, Ghosn serves as chairman of all three carmakers and is described as CEO of their expanding alliance, piloted by a Dutch-registered management company with no direct shareholder oversight or independent administrators - a sore point for some investors.
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Clearly sensing this is a sore point among AIs that interact with humans, Walmsley gave a more thorough response: Bad associations are a real, and subtle, concern since AI tools like Dango reflect back our human best and our worst.
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The decision not to supply around 2000 extra vehicles, taken largely for budgetary reasons, remains a sore point, as local forces struggle to implement a U.S.-led push to get them off bases and into active battle against a resilient insurgency.
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"The pace of land restoration and redistribution remains a sore point for millions of our people," Zuma, who has mooted the idea of expropriating white-owned land without compensation, said in remarks at the start of an ANC policy conference.
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Yang&aposs performance in the debates has been another sore point for the Yang Gang, and data analyzed by Insider shows they have a point: given Yang&aposs polling position, he speaks less at debates than one would otherwise expect.
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It has been a sore point for the leaders of New York City's opt-out movement that Mayor Bill de Blasio, who promised to be an advocate for public-school parents, has not fully embraced their protest against state tests.
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The spat with Turkey, which considers the Kurdish fighters to be terrorists who threaten Turkish sovereignty, has become a major sore point between NATO allies and a distraction for the U.S.-led coalition seeking to defeat the Islamic State group in Syria.
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Notably, Sondland expressed his support for Yovanovitch, the Ukrainian ambassador who was attacked by Giuliani and fired by Trump — and whose ouster has been a sore point for the career State Department officials who have testified in the impeachment inquiry thus far.
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Europe's low expenditure has long been a sore point for the United States, which puts up 70 percent of alliance funds, and U.S. President Donald Trump has made change a priority, saying allies have "been very unfair to us" for not spending more.
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Turning a complete 180 after calling Trump unfit to be president, he hoped to be picked as Trump's running mate (a sore point), and is now vying for a top position in the candidate's cabinet as the head of his transition team.
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Ouattara promised during his re-election campaign last year to remove the constitution's requirement for presidential candidates to have parents who are both native-born Ivorians - a sore point in a country that has long attracted immigrants from neighboring states in West Africa.
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The early debate schedule set by the committee has long been a sore point with Sanders and his supporters: There were fewer debates than Sanders wanted — conspicuously fewer than the Republicans had — and most were on weekends, when fewer people would tune in.
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Touching on what will clearly be a sore point with unions, he noted that teachers who should be evaluated on how well they teach were instead being measured by "useless" evaluations and paid based on seniority and the number of degrees they held.
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A particular sore point has been the decision by Ms. Verma, who heads a trillion-dollar agency within the Health and Human Services Department, to spend millions of taxpayer dollars on contracts with communications consultants, in part to raise her public profile.
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Those fulfillment centers have been a sore point for some time now (a Verge report found hundreds of workers fired in just over a single year at one Baltimore warehouse) and the action in Minnesota is designed to leverage Prime Day's attention into actual change.
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But here's why the backstop is a sore point: If the UK and EU can't figure out their future relationship after Brexit, the UK will have to follow the bloc's customs rules, and Northern Ireland will have to adhere to EU regulations even more closely.
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In a lengthy report on the meeting, Chinese state media said Xi had reiterated China's strong opposition to the US deployment of its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system in South Korea, which remains a sore point in US-China relations.
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Wealth management was a particular sore point for many of the bigger employers, with nine out of ten saying Geneva had become a less attractive place for it in 2015, and eight out of ten saying it had become less attractive for the EU's wealthy.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine said on Monday it was ready to hold talks in good faith with Russia regarding a dispute over a $3 billion bond that has become yet another sore point between the former allies since Ukraine sought closer ties with the European Union.
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The lack of progress in the Odebrecht case has been a sore point in Mexico since late 2016, when the company admitted to American, Swiss and Brazilian authorities in a multibillion-dollar settlement that it had paid $10.5 million in bribes to Mexican officials.
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But for some locals it is a sore point that has helped fuel a long-simmering secession movement in which Malibu — more solidly affluent than Santa Monica — would create its own district, allowing it to keep all of its donations in its own schools.
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One sore point for Trump has been that Mexico is running a more than $60 billion trade surplus with the U.S. In the same speech Tuesday, Trump vowed to build a wall across the southern border of the U.S. to block illegal immigration from Mexico.
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the United States was in the "final throes" of work on a deal that would defuse a prolonged trade war with China, but also underscored Washington's support for protesters in Hong Kong, a potential sore point with Beijing.
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Another former senior intelligence official told me that Pompeo gave "strong brushback" to experts on the Iran desk at the C.I.A. after they concluded that Iran was complying with the terms of the deal—a sore point, since Trump was claiming that Iran was not doing so.
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Speaking to reporters at the presidential palace in Ankara alongside President Tayyip Erdogan, May called Turkey one of Britain's oldest friends and touched on human rights, a sore point for Erdogan, who accuses the West of not showing enough solidarity following a July 15 military putsch attempt.
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It is a sore point for the North that its economy is so far behind that of South Korea, its neighbor and archenemy, and the government has tried to keep its chin up despite crippling sanctions imposed over its human rights abuses and nuclear weapons program.
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The issue was a sore point well before he joined the I.C.U. "I want to get rid of doping because it prevents me from selling the sport," he told The Associated Press in the 1980s, when he was an official with the International Professional Cycling Association.
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One sore point for Trump has been that Mexico is running a more than $60 billion trade surplus with the U.S. The sectors that benefited the most from NAFTA are the automotive, agricultural and energy industries and they stand to lose the most of it falls apart.
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But, while Bill Clinton's lasting popularity among Democrats makes his support a sterling endorsement for any candidate, scrutiny of his past infidelities raised by Republican pack leader Donald Trump have reintroduced a sore point in his legacy to a new generation of voters too young to remember the scandal.
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The discussion about Ms. Daniels, however, has remained a leading sore point for the Trump administration, as checks made out to her with the president's signature on them were given to Congress last month by his former personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, who has pleaded guilty to federal charges.
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Turkish reports that journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a vocal critic of Riyadh, was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and removed have hardened resistance in the U.S. Congress to selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, already a sore point for many lawmakers concerned about the Saudi role in Yemen's civil war.
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That was a sore point for some Democrats four years ago, so some think it's no coincidence that the Democratic National Committee plans to meet with 2020 campaigns next week to hand out an "affirmation form" for candidates to sign and certify they will run and serve as members of the Democratic Party.
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This ignited a bonfire of racial tensions back home in the USA, where segregation and de jure racism in the Southern states in particular – not to mention the tensions of the North-South divide and the economic and social legacies of slavery – made Johnson's world-beating status a suppurating sore point for a significant number of white Americans.
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The committee says it is still waiting for Puzder to complete his application paperwork; according to The Washington Post, Senator Patty Murray, a Democrat from Washington, wrote a letter to Puzder stating that the committee wants it now—including tax statements, which, of course, is a potential sore point for a Trump nominee, given the President's repeated refusal to release his own tax returns.
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The committee says it is still waiting for Puzder to complete his application paperwork; according to The Washington Post, Senator Patty Murray, a Democrat from Washington, wrote a letter to Puzder stating that the committee wants it now—including tax statements, which, of course, is a potential sore point for a Trump nominee, given the President's repeated refusal to release his own tax returns.
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Although withdrawing from the treaty might suit President Trump's desire to curry favor with Russian President Vladimir PutinVladimir Vladimirovich PutinWhy Americans should care about Ukraine FBI hand-slapping outweighs any lies by Michael Flynn Democrats feud over health care, Trump strategy in Iowa MORE in the short term, over the longer term it promises to be yet another sore point between Washington and Moscow.
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Japanese automakers and suppliers have announced billions of dollars in investments, most notably a $1.6 billion joint venture plant in Alabama by Toyota Motor Corp and Mazda Motor Corp.. Germany's merchandise trade surplus with the United States - $69 billion in 2018 - remains a sore point with the Trump administration as does Japan's $67.6 billion U.S. trade surplus last year - with two-thirds of that in the auto sector.
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The infamous needle, which became a sore point for many after it inaccurately predicted that Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE would defeat President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE in 2016, was at first met with dread.
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