Such contract standoffs have made blackouts commonplace in the television industry.
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But the government standoffs at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and Waco, Tex.
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But after tense, hourslong standoffs, they realized the calls were hoaxes.
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Hostage standoffs, shootouts, and active shooter situations are without question dangerous.
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In isolation, none of these standoffs would be cause for great alarm.
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I envisioned standoffs in our house, in our woods, in our barn.
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Here are five of the most contentious border standoffs on the planet.
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The three gunmen were shot dead in different standoffs on Jan. 9.
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The potentially violent standoffs in Hong Kong, Kashmir and the Gulf will continue.
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National anthem standoffs are somewhat of a recurring gag in Major League Baseball.
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In Kansas City, Mo., the police used pepper spray during standoffs with crowds.
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That would be an acceptable alternative to the current cycle of budget standoffs.
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At the same time, military standoffs and warfare are intensifying great power tensions.
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They will sound familiar from standoffs down here on earth, Russia and China.
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At least that's how standoffs between each end of Pennsylvania Avenue usually end.
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One of the more recent standoffs with the United States has similar roots.
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The turkeys have also engaged in standoffs with patients entering the medical center.
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That's the model for how to conduct one of these kinds of standoffs.
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They've proven a potent tool to defuse awkward standoffs and to navigate stalemates.
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You see protests and standoffs, mutinies and firings, characters wielding weapons and throwing punches.
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The violence was sudden, but it fit with how recent standoffs ended in bloodshed.
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In previous trade standoffs, Junker threatened tariffs on Wisconsin dairy and Florida orange juice.
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The big picture: It's worth taking the time to focus on the other standoffs.
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European leaders met in Brussels to try and resolve their continuing standoffs on migration.
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And in an era of political standoffs, he is a relentless booster of bipartisanship.
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And standoffs between factions with impenetrable grudges hold, making a resolution seem beyond distant.
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Thursday's skirmishes appeared relatively contained compared to standoffs at previous rallies that began in February.
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Standoffs and occupations in the U.S. through the years What do we know about Finicum?
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The high-profile standoffs also helped spur Burr and Feinstein to move on their bill.
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Outside his nighttime rally in Kansas City, police used pepper spray during standoffs with crowds.
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"Breaking Bad," with its standoffs and lonely desert vistas, was always at least half Western.
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That's a far cry from military standoffs, reforms and electoral agenda facing the current presidency.
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In other such standoffs, military risks can be reduced by addressing the underlying political causes.
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They note that the tone of one of the world's fiercest armed standoffs has improved.
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CreditCreditMarco Bello/Reuters CÚCUTA, Colombia — Border standoffs may not get much stranger than this one.
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On Wednesday, Burleson received the longest sentence handed down to Bundy supporters in the two standoffs.
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The Israeli authorities have dealt with other such standoffs by seeking to retroactively legalize the settlements.
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In the past McConnell has been key to ending standoffs between various administrations and Capitol Hill.
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Economist Diane Swonk of DS Economics believes the standoffs could help nudge the U.S. into recession.
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These standoffs risk escalating into sustained conflict, even if worst-case scenarios can still be avoided.
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During standoffs between protesters and law enforcement, visitors have to lie low until the tension subsides.
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The memo said recent presidents from both political parties adopted similar arguments during standoffs with Congress.
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Getting in your head: It's an illustration of the absurd head games that factor into international standoffs.
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The standoffs in 2014 and 2016 made the Bundy family, including Ammon, leading figures in the movement.
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But difficult standoffs over the debt ceiling were a regular feature of much of the Obama years.
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He characterized them as typical New York City street arguments — standoffs or scuffles sometimes, but hardly attacks.
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These episodes could be instructive in how Trump wields the privilege in the political standoffs to come.
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Charity ships that have rescued migrants have faced lengthy standoffs in their attempt to disembark those onboard.
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We also embarked on long stretches of radio silence — standoffs that were usually broken by 3 a.m.
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The federal government learned from these standoffs that aggressive tactics can sometimes lead to a public backlash.
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American officials had predicted these potentially dangerous standoffs with the Russians and their Syrian allies would escalate.
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More broadly, there has also been cases of standoffs between governments and central banks in India and Turkey.
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In some instances, standoffs between opposition supporters and police escalated, with officers firing tear gas and rubber bullets.
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The disconnect between feeling suicidal and making an actual attempt is how these standoffs with police can occur.
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Those ties, in turn, have sparked one of the biggest diplomatic standoffs in the Middle East in decades.
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It's possible the wall funding could become a part of those negotiations, though the same standoffs are possible.
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Shutdowns, once reserved for dramatic standoffs and last resorts, are now becoming a normal way the Senate negotiates.
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Scenes of standoffs between riot police and protesters linked arm-in-arm were broadcast online via Facebook Live.
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That meant three years of tense telephone standoffs, telegrammed pleas for protection, stiff, formal, typewritten complaints, and, occasionally, compliments.
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She told police that Paddock seemed angry about the 1990s standoffs at Waco, Texas, and Ruby Ridge in Idaho.
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It has survived the Indo-Pakistani wars of 1965 and 1971 and numerous other standoffs between the two nations.
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Standoffs between the state and farmers have risen in India as demand for land increases, affecting millions of people.
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He's asking them to trust that, given room to maneuver, he'll bring the trade standoffs to a satisfactory conclusion.
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Yet even an escalation in the standoffs that raises investor fears could help set off a downturn, Edgerton says.
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Russian troops are engaging in standoffs with U.S. troops guarding oil fields and fighting remnants of the Islamic State.
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A couple of senior political figures even drew parallels with one of the 20th century's most notorious political standoffs.
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Local media showed violent standoffs between coca farmers and police in the region of Cochabamba, a stronghold of Morales support.
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Partly because of his experience in this regard, he has figured out how to defuse disagreements before they become standoffs.
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From fast food feasts to social media standoffs, Trump's relationship with sports has produced countless odd moments during his term.
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The standoffs in court between Congress and the White House have been a nearly unprecedented feature of the Trump era.
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These standoffs jibe neatly with his belief that negotiations, and life in general, are a never-ending battle of nerve.
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The company is also seeking to curry political favor amid standoffs between U.S. lawmakers and Chinese tech and telecom firms.
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He also said comparing our current trade, privacy or security standoffs with China to a "Cold War" is also unhelpful.
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There were also reports of isolated standoffs in other cities, including in Bordeaux, where security forces also fired tear gas.
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Read: The 5 Most Contentious Border Standoffs on the Planet After the first Agni-IV launch of 2018, on Jan.
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Lenz believes an acquittal would serve to legitimize the beliefs of the groups who have supported the Bundys in the standoffs.
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Nearly 16% of these workers are unionized, so standoffs like the one in Columbus are likely to occur across the country.
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Federal courts have so far been asked to weigh in on relatively few standoffs central to the Ukraine-focused impeachment inquiry.
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The standoffs, particularly Ruby Ridge, have since become prominent themes among those on the far right who oppose the federal government.
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There's been little need or interest into aggressive oversight, and Perry has not had major standoffs with Capitol Hill over subpoenas.
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Those two political giants, who had several standoffs during the shutdown that ended last weekend, held dueling press outings on Thursday.
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Since those strikes, which forced newly elected President Jacques Chirac to yield, major standoffs with successive governments have had mixed results.
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Small standoffs between police and protesters continued in adjacent streets and on a major public square for at least an hour.
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America's worsening trade picture will inevitably lead to increasing political tensions and military standoffs with some of its main trade partners.
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Two committees are currently locked in separate standoffs with the Justice Department over access to Mueller's full report and underlying evidence.
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President Trump is now confronting two nuclear standoffs and fighting a trade war on multiple fronts — all at the same time.
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Throughout history, presidential administrations and Congress have negotiated for information, especially resolving standoffs before federal appeals courts would choose a side.
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In the early 1990s, in two high-profile standoffs at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and Waco, Texas, that's exactly what they did.
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Standoffs over nuclear weapons and election influencing understandably dominate the headlines, but U.S. foreign policy is much broader than those issues.
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So far there have been no mass encampments on the Nebraska prairie, no tense standoffs with the police, no highway blockades.
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This included the decision by Italy's new government to close its ports to vessels carrying rescued migrants, creating fraught standoffs at sea.
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Charity rescue boats have largely disappeared from the Mediterranean over the past year because of tighter government controls and lengthy offshore standoffs.
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Recent standoffs on university campuses have resembled trench warfare, with officers firing tear gas and protesters volleying with firebombs and other projectiles.
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Multiple people have since been arrested in standoffs nationwide, with one man even rushing Trump during a speech in Ohio on Saturday.
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Members of both sides are growing weary of repeated standoffs and question whether yet another stopgap will help lead to any progress.
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But he grew emotional when he heard about tense standoffs between the riot police and young protesters, and decided to join in.
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But the story of how that backlash occurred is arguably more interesting, and more revealing, than the story of the standoffs themselves.
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Gun safety research indicates concealed-carry gun owners are responsible for far more homicides and suicides than self-defense standoffs against criminals.
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That clash ended a nearly two-week period of relative calm that saw some standoffs, but not the use of tear gas.
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That clash ended a nearly two-week period of relative calm that saw some standoffs, but not the use of tear gas.
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Congressional delegations and organizations like Amnesty International have helped some unaccompanied minors enter the US after standoffs with officials at ports of entry.
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This result can only embolden anti-government extremists, especially in Western states, and make future confrontations and standoffs with the government more likely.
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He said Ozturk and other officers had been resisting arrest, had put up a fight, "had heavy weapons," and standoffs lasted several hours.
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His governorship was hit hard by the great recession, which led to massive budget shortfalls and standoffs with the Republican-led General Assembly.
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Or I'm in heist-movie standoffs around a Dark Zone pickup point, waiting to see who around me is going to flinch first.
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Though it has been loathe to share information for privacy and business reasons, awarding limited data access to cities has solved several standoffs.
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Violence flared at several university campuses as news of the latest shooting spread, with witnesses reporting tense standoffs between students, protesters and police.
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Among recent tech standoffs, Amazon had stopped selling Apple Inc's TV players in 2015 because they did not support its Prime Video service.
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Scenes of standoffs and scuffles between protesters chanting "hands up, don't shoot", and cops, many clad in riot gear, emerged on social media.
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Both Mr. Kim and Mr. Xi were seen as trying to use each other as leverage in their separate standoffs with Mr. Trump.
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"There's not going to be any standoffs, this isn't the Bundy Ranch," Benvie said, in reference to a 2014 armed confrontation in Nevada.
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The shootings were not fatal, and occurred during traffic stops, tense standoffs and in some cases ambushes while officers served warrants at homes.
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In the 1990s, efforts by the police to end land occupations at Oka, Quebec, and Ipperwash, Ontario, led to protracted standoffs and deaths.
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It's not unusual for networks to use talent as their public face in these standoffs with DirecTV, Dish, or other cable / satellite operators.
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In court, the Justice Department has maintained for months that judges shouldn't have power to settle standoffs between Congress and the White House.
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While we Venezuelans are going hungry, there have been violent standoffs over humanitarian aid piling up at the borders with Colombia and Brazil.
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Whenever the cinema pits dancers against the state, the resulting standoffs are surprisingly literal, but that can be what makes them so cathartic.
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While both were standoffs over land, Oka was about protecting ancestral territory while Oregon was an attempt to illegally take land, she explained.
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The move has triggered urgent standoffs within Europe over where the ships can land, the issue back to the top of the EU agenda.
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In October, Native American activists and allies started using Facebook Live and other videos on the social network to further broadcast standoffs with police.
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Then early in 2016, federal prosecutors announced charges against Cliven Bundy and his sons, as well as leaders of the Nevada and Oregon standoffs.
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He led two armed standoffs against federal agents in Nevada and Oregon to protest government ownership of and regulations on land in the West.
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Foreign diplomats see little prospect that Russia's standoffs with the West that have dominated the past four years will ease during Putin's new term.
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These benefits must be judged against the costs of standoffs over the debt ceiling and the potential damage that breaching the ceiling could do.
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His events have been marked by escalating violence in recent weeks, with Trump fans attacking protestors and tense standoffs at events across the country.
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Yet the normal political pressure points that usually end shutdown standoffs are not working, perhaps because of the unique dynamics of the Trump era.
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Those standoffs are likely to increase as governments flex their regulatory muscle to force temporary closures and social distancing to combat the global pandemic.
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Those noisy standoffs are over, though the new government of the 5-Star and the centre-left Democratic Party has not repealed his laws.
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The July 17, 2007 article below about the all-night session is a reminder that current political standoffs in the Senate are not new.
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Over the past eight years, the American economy has endured trade tensions, debt-limit standoffs, foreign-policy crises and all manner of natural disasters.
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Seven out of 10 French people are in favor of withdrawing the reform to avoid standoffs between the government and unions, an Elabe poll showed.
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"I'm really hopeful that we can revive discussions in the new Congress and find a way past the ideological standoffs of the past," she said.
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Members of militia groups would talk about being part of the Bundy standoffs as a point of pride, a sort of street cred for militia.
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Violence flared at several university campuses throughout the morning as news spread of the shooting, with witnesses reporting tense standoffs between students, protesters and police.
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Anti-government sentiment during the Obama years culminated with two standoffs between federal agents and the Bundys, a family of cattle ranchers with militia ties.
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Revolutionary graffiti daubed on the walls of Mohamed Mahmoud street, the central Cairo site of violent standoffs between police and demonstrators, has been largely erased.
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The app is popular among protesters, who use it to avoid the police and tear gas during tense standoffs that have raged across the city.
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They were allowed to come and go for several weeks as the authorities tried to avoid the bloodshed seen in past standoffs in Waco, Tex.
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Russian officials have said their country is being singled out to punish it for its standoffs with the West over conflicts in Ukraine and Syria.
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Democrats are also bracing for a big fight over funding for Planned Parenthood, an issue that has triggered multiple standoffs in the past with the GOP.
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Saturday's rally ended peacefully, but there were late-night standoffs between protesters and the police in Yuen Long, a district near the border with mainland China.
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Look: After leading two armed standoffs against the feds in Nevada and Oregon, Ammon Bundy and his family became the faces of a growing militia movement.
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The standoffs between law enforcement and demonstrators have led to allegations from both sides that the other is using increasingly aggressive tactics to make their point.
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Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve defended the police and said 350 of them had been injured in standoffs that had produced 1,300 arrests in just two months.
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Violence flared at several university campuses throughout the morning as news of the latest shooting spread, with witnesses reporting tense standoffs between students, protesters and police.
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In a private conversation in 1971, Kim told Nicolae Ceaușescu, the Romanian President, that the Pueblo and other standoffs had convinced him that Washington backs down.
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CSIS researchers have detailed some 45 clashes and standoffs in the South China Sea since 2010 in a survey published on its ChinaPower website on Wednesday.
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And the FBI was certainly comfortable using force to resolve criminal hostage situations, which is essentially how it treated both the Waco and Ruby Ridge standoffs.
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In the 1990s, attempts by the police to end land occupations at Oka, Quebec, and Ipperwash, Ontario, led to protracted standoffs and deaths on both sides.
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The use of laser pens by demonstrators to antagonize and disorient police during standoffs has been a source of contention for the authorities during the protests.
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The tax, which Republicans often targeted during Obama-era legislative standoffs over the health care law, was meant to help offset some of its new costs.
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Trump news was swirling, as always, dealings with Russia and North Korean standoffs, reality itself appearing as absurd, our grip on it as tenuous, as ever.
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Standoffs over spending levels and immigration led to a three-day government shutdown, mostly over a weekend, in January and an hours-long shutdown in February.
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The FBI developed a new strategy of "infinite patience": waiting out militia standoffs rather than creating martyrs, even if they killed people who wanted to die.
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Meanwhile, intensified polarization in the U.S. has led to standoffs like a partial government shutdown over a border wall dispute that threaten the economy and national security.
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That friction takes a simple, sketchy plot -- a scorching day in the life of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood -- and turns it into a series of tense standoffs.
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Key figures involved in the Nevada and Oregon standoffs were charged by federal officials, but leaders of the group — including Cliven, Ammon, and Ryan Bundy — escaped conviction.
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Several tense standoffs have already threatened to throw the area into conflict, including in 2012 when the Philippine Navy intercepted several Chinese fishermen off the Scarborough Shoal.
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All or parts of the sea are also claimed by Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam, which has led to intense territorial disputes and naval standoffs.
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The bureau's inability for months to hack the phone led to one of the most high-profile standoffs between the government and tech community in recent history.
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They're incensed the Senate won't accept their plan, arguing that standoffs with North Korea and tensions in the Middle East warrant putting a priority on military money.
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In that case, the appeals court ruled two weeks ago that judges have no ability to resolve standoffs over subpoenas between the House and the executive branch.
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There were some cat-and-mouse standoffs between protesters and police in Tung Chung as night fell on Saturday, but no sign of a return to violence.
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In the Celebes Sea, Indonesia still has an unresolved dispute with Malaysia over the Ambalat hydrocarbon block — the scene of several naval standoffs in 2002 and 2009.
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The standoffs were stoked in part by the death of a protester after a fall, and the shooting of another by a policeman at point-blank range.
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The West has used everything from signals intelligence operations, espionage, fighter jet saber-rattling, and diplomatic standoffs to stem the rise of Russian influence around the world.
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On the other hand, the US is embroiled in standoffs around the world, and West Point graduates, like all military officers, have a good chance of being deployed.
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And it provides one other lesson: Long-running standoffs can drag on for so many years that both sides can fail to recognize when the end has come.
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The temporary nature of the Bush tax cuts in 2001 led to standoffs in Congress that created uncertainty and, according to some economists, eventually weighed on the economy.
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It's also no accident that Jamie's air with her is more frustrated than it has been in a while; there's a fun-house-mirror quality to their standoffs.
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Similar standoffs between law enforcement officials and Congress have resulted in compromise dating back decades, but in those cases, the Justice Department had the support of the president.
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Beijing insists that the spot — unlike other places where the two sides have frequent standoffs — has a clearly delineated border that has long been accepted by both countries.
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In the history of border standoffs, the one shaping up on the edges of Venezuela has turned into a particularly combustible mix of political theatrics and deadly risks.
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As a vignette game hybridized with the pulsing rhythm of a buddy comedy plot, The Last Time is content to lets its conversations unfold between building fires and standoffs.
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She told authorities that Paddock seemed upset about the deadly standoffs between law enforcement officers and militia groups at Waco, Texas in 1993 and Ruby Ridge, Idaho in 1992.
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Indirect diplomatic suggestions have been swapped for attention-grabbing proposals, strategic ambiguity has been abandoned for international military bases, high-profile drills, showy parades and standoffs with neighboring countries.
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Police Chief Michael Ciminelli said that he suspected that social media was playing a role by simultaneously catalyzing minor disputes into deadly standoffs and drawing more people into them.
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If climate change, nuclear standoffs, Russian trolls, terrorist threats and Donald Trump in the White House don't cause you feelings of impending doom, you might think about artificial intelligence.
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That he is rallying the country bodes ill for the conflict to come, even compared with the nuclear standoffs, proxy wars and internal repression of the original Cold War.
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Those protests were, by and large, peaceful — until the presence of a small group of anarchists who began smashing windows downtown led to standoffs between militarized police and protesters.
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Still, whether it's a smart strategy or not, it is clear Mr. Trump is planning more Carrier-like standoffs after he moves into the Oval Office on Jan. 20.
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The group, an independent volunteer organization with chapters throughout the state, has expressed solidarity with the Bundy family, Nevada ranchers who have led two armed standoffs with federal agents.
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The four are key figures in two separate armed standoffs that have helped embolden an anti-federal government movement in the US. Opening statements were scheduled to be heard Nov.
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For all the public debate over the need for a wall — and the protests and congressional standoffs that accompany it — the actual construction sites have operated smoothly, with little fanfare.
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The nighttime standoffs over the weekend between protesters and the police were so intense that Mayor Tom Barrett of Milwaukee called for the enforcement of a curfew from 10 p.m.
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On quads and in conference rooms throughout academia, the smaller but more complicated problem of judging what used to be "she said, he said" standoffs is itself reaching a standoff.
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Mirziyoyev has also improved ties with neighboring Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan after years of bitter standoffs over matters such as borders and water use, winning further praise from Mogherini.
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Standoffs between the military and well-armed ethnic groups have created a lawless territory along the Chinese border that has become one of the world's most lucrative drug-producing regions.
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The conflict over public land goes back decades and is at the heart of high profile incidents such as the armed standoffs led by the Bundy family in 2014 and 2016.
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Brass standoffs, hand-soldered connectors, and beautifully laid out, repairable boards made this hardware the the Colonial Furniture of the computer world: carefully wrought with an eye toward efficiency and beauty.
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Taiwan's claim in chaotic sea The South China Sea is one of the world's most politically sensitive regions, where overlapping claims by at least five countries often lead to tense standoffs.
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China, Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam all dispute the sovereignty of various island chains and surrounding waters, which has triggered a number of flashpoints and standoffs in recent years.
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The network can also segment according to types of content, with high-traffic services like Netflix facing throttling and interconnection standoffs that services like Twitter will never have to deal with.
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And he's got a laundry list of world crises and standoffs to deal with -- everything from the nuclear issues in Iran and North Korea, to ISIS and souring relations with Russia.
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In Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill type standoffs, goes the conventional wisdom, jurors have no choice but to conclude that the prosecution failed to meet its proof-beyond-a-reasonable-doubt burden.
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In Kandahar, powerful strongmen who owe their rise to Mr. Karzai's protection have had standoffs recently with officials sent by Mr. Ghani over lucrative custom taxes and where the money goes.
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A lion's existence is a miracle, every day; there is tedium and tense standoffs and blazing heat, and then their food travels hundreds of miles away in search of the rain.
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The new season meanders through the city's streets, with fast-food robberies, alligator standoffs, tense studio sessions and late nights at a strip club with a mixture of absurdity and gravitas.
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Italy and Malta have refused to open their ports to humanitarian ships that rescue migrants at sea, creating numerous standoffs as European governments haggle over which one will take people in.
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When the deal was approved last week, lawmakers hoped it would end partisan standoffs that led to a three-day government shutdown in January and hours-long one earlier this month.
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This raw, engrossing work looks back at the deadly 1985 incident when Philadelphia police, following several fractious standoffs, dropped bombs on a rowhouse that housed Move, a group of black separatists.
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Yet after six months of anti-government demonstrations, which have included violent standoffs between police and protesters nearly every week, Sunday's elections were a test of public support for the movement.
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But after a week of leaks, standoffs between Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, blockbuster revelations and gambles by key power brokers, the facts of the case are beginning to emerge.
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The scene also featured a string of tense standoffs between protesters and their critics, with law enforcement monitoring carefully and two television reporters from One America News facing harassment from protesters.
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It's not gangland standoffs that lend Better Call Saul dramatic tension or emotional heft; rather, it's an attention to detail, turning the minutiae of everyday life into moments that feel practically titanic.
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Federal law enforcement officials have kept their distance, following guidelines instituted to prevent a repeat of deadly standoffs such as those in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and Waco, Texas in the early 1990s.
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Others objected to the criticism of the lack of force used by the authorities by drawing comparisons to past deadly standoffs between the federal authorities and armed groups that harbor antigovernment sentiments.
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The move spells more trouble ahead for a massive economy already rocked by volatility, political tensions and diplomatic standoffs and whose currency crash last year set off a run on emerging markets.
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CSIS researchers have detailed some 45 clashes and standoffs in the South China Sea since 2010, in a survey due to be published week on its ChinaPower website and seen by Reuters.
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Timothy White's " Catch a Fire ," published in 1983, remains the gateway biography for the Marley-curious in part because it reads like a novel, full of high-stakes standoffs and tense dialogue.
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That could all change tomorrow, but given the rhetoric from Democrats, who are touring detention centers in Texas rather than calling Trump, it seems more likely these standoffs will continue into November.
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The current standoffs make clear that existing rules need to be clarified and strengthened, and new ones enacted, to ensure that the traditional standards we've expected of our public officials are met.
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There is a three-fifths requirement for raising the debt ceiling — but when Congress faced similar standoffs in the past, crises were resolved with voting majorities exceeding or nearly exceeding 60 percent.
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The battle for control of the South China Sea has been simmering for a number of years, with an increasing number of standoffs, military exercises, and diplomatic dustups adding to the tension.
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"Look for more late-night standoffs around spending plans, government shuts downs and threats to default," Christopher Smart, head of macroeconomic and geopolitical research at investment firm Barings, wrote to clients last week.
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Equally, U.S. claims of friendship with China are sharply at odds with strategic competition and military standoffs involving the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan relations, China's contested maritime borders, Central Asia and the Persian Gulf.
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Leaders from both parties, including Speaker Paul Ryan, the most powerful lawmaker in the chamber, support the bill, indicating it should pass quickly and easily in a Congress frequently frozen by partisan standoffs.
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There were also standoffs in North Point and Fortress Hill, to the east of Causeway Bay, and police fired tear gas at fire-bomb throwing protesters over the harbour in Tsim Sha Tsui.
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There were also standoffs in North Point and Fortress Hill, to the east of Causeway Bay, and police fired tear gas at fire-bomb throwing protesters over the harbour in Tsim Sha Tsui.
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On May 13, 1985, the police bombed a rowhouse in West Philadelphia that was the home of Move, a group of radical black separatists who had already had several standoffs with the authorities.
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The demonstrations have shifted from large-scale marches that have brought as many as 2 million people to the streets to standoffs between police and protesters that often look more like guerilla warfare.
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There were standoffs at police barricades in half a dozen towns in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, which has long been a tinderbox of communal tensions between majority Hindus and minority Muslims.
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Related: Here's What the Oregon Occupiers and the GOP Presidential Candidates Agree On Mormonism has had a long and complicated history with the federal government, on numerous occasions resulting in standoffs over land use.
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North Korea regularly calls the military exercises provocative preparations for a northward invasion, and many of the scariest standoffs in recent years on the Korean Peninsula have happened when the drills were being staged.
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Detectives also collected a statement from a woman who overheard what she believed was a conversation between Paddock and another man about deadly standoffs with federal agents in Waco, Texas, and Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
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"There's no question that there is now a brand of success associated with Bundy family standoffs," said Tarso Ramos, the executive director of Political Research Associates, a think tank that studies right-wing movements.
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What makes symbols like these standoffs so important, however, is less the particular facts of the dispute than the place they hold in a narrative of Americans who are fearful of their own government.
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Peaceful marches, standoffs between protesters and law enforcement, and, in some cases, riots — over the past year and a half, there has been a rising movement critical of excessive use of force by police.
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Ecuadoreans posted videos on social media of burning road blockades and standoffs between crowds and security forces in downtown Quito ahead of the first round of talks aimed at ending 11 days of unrest.
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An email that appeared to come from Ukraine's ministry of health containing false information about coronavirus cases in the country led to a number of violent protests and standoffs with police, reports BuzzFeed News.
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In early June, Saudi Arabia and an array of other Arab countries abruptly cut all ties with the tiny Persian Gulf nation of Qatar, triggering one of the region's biggest diplomatic standoffs in decades.
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Jennifer Rokala, executive director of the Center for Western Priorities, told the Oregonian that Thursday's verdicts could embolden militia groups across the country and prompt similar armed standoffs over federal control of public land.
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Hunt's militia group, Operation Mutual Defense, has been hampered by the arrest of other board members who were involved in the standoffs, he said, and one of them turned out to be a government informant.
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These standoffs weren't a big deal during President Donald Trump's first two years in office, when Republicans suddenly forgot their Obama-era objections to government borrowing and Democrats were disinclined to pick an irresponsible fight.
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It never quite gives everything away, leaving us with more tense standoffs than blows — but the action we do see helps to suggest how the series' showrunners hope to top last season's hallway fight sequence.
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Republicans could theoretically end both standoffs by denying Trump border-wall funding and securing the Obamacare subsidies in the spending bill, but that would require voting to save Obamacare, and possibly to override Trump's veto.
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The trailer features everything one might expect from a queer reimagining of the famous unsolved axe murder case — splatters of blood, terse standoffs beneath a clothesline, and many, many impassioned glances between Sevigny and Stewart.
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In the United States, modern presidential standoffs have been tense but restrained: Mr. Gore mounted an aggressive legal challenge to election results in Florida, but he conceded swiftly once the Supreme Court ruled against him.
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Hong Kong police on Monday trapped hundreds of protesters inside a major university and demonstrators rampaged through a tourist district, after almost two straight days of standoffs that have raised fears of a bloody showdown.
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Both Moscow and Beijing look set to continue ramping up their sabre-rattling against neighbours and the West, potentially raising the prospect of new Cuban Missile Crisis-style standoffs that might lead to something worse.
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The yellowed box scores between these two programs include plenty of defensive standoffs, and Tuesday night fits snugly in that category, both sides struggling to lift their shooting accuracy above the meager 30 percent mark.
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But while the media carelessly whips up hysteria with talk of "World War III," it's important to remember that these standoffs are a yearly occurrence—in the Korean Peninsula, they have the character of routine.
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Since taking power upon the death of his father in late 2011, Kim Jong Un has been struggling to revive his country's troubled economy and grapple with international standoffs over his country's nuclear and missile programs.
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OTTAWA, June 22 (Reuters) - Canada's Liberal government avoided a battle over its budget bill on Thursday as the Senate backed down over proposed changes, but standoffs with the unelected upper house may become the new normal.
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Many experts believe that Trump deserves praise for turning his inflammatory rhetoric and strategy of maximum pressure into an opening for a summit that has the potential to ease one of the world's most dangerous standoffs.
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The court said Friday it will rehear the House's appeal for former White House counsel Don McGahn's testimony, erasing the court's previous decision that judges can't resolve standoffs over subpoenas between the executive branch and Congress.
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After the fact, the incidents at Waco and Ruby Ridge have been closely linked in the minds of most Americans — two early-20143s standoffs in which the federal government's aggressive tactics almost certainly cost innocent lives.
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That was just one friction point in the tense standoffs between armed Maduro loyalists and opposition protesters, which at times gave way to violence, with tear gas and rubber bullets being used to disperse the crowds.
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A special tribunal has recommended that far-right League leader Matteo Salvini should stand trial for holding scores of people on board a charity ship last August, in one of his last migrant standoffs as interior minister.
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed greeted a delegation of Eritrean officials at Addis Ababa airport on Tuesday to discuss peace overtures, raising hopes of a breakthrough in one of Africa's most intractable military standoffs.
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Political tension has also escalated over posters on university campuses advocating independence for Hong Kong, angering Chinese officials who consider the territory an "inalienable" part of China, and sparking heated standoffs between students and pro-Beijing supporters.
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But questions about his relationship with his chief foreign policy coordinator have profound implications for the president as he tries to manage standoffs in Asia, the Middle East and South America without alienating the United States' allies.
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In debt ceiling standoffs in 2011 and 2013 — the latter combined with a government shutdown — congressional leaders were pushed into confrontation by a base that didn't want to compromise with President Obama to keep the government running.
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Beyond the bankers and the intellectuals, one in four American men were out of work; mobs of hungry youths were loose in the countryside; armed standoffs were already roiling seemingly placid places such as Sioux City, Iowa.
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Despite spending two years behind bars awaiting the outcome of criminal trials for the armed standoffs, the Bundy family remained undeterred in their feud with the federal government, one that has gained thousands of supporters in the West.
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In one of the strangest and most ethically challenging standoffs in sports history, Bosh and the Heat are locked in a dispute over whether he should be deemed medically fit to play after dealing with serious health problems.
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While the economy has continued to grow at a faster-than-expected rate, voters are right to be disquieted after long months of standoffs produced no gains toward the ObamaCare repeal many have wanted for nearly a decade.
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His mark on Brooklyn can also be felt in other scenes, like when an angry mob protests a real estate firm's new Fort Greene office in a moment that echoes the standoffs in Lee's Do the Right Thing.
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Even before people like Cliven Bundy started challenging the federal government in armed standoffs, there was a longer tradition of libertarian thinking that dates back to at least the Sagebrush Rebellion of the 1970s, when homesteading was ended.
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A series of nuclear standoffs with the likes of North Korea and Iran, whose cost-benefit analyses in no way resemble Moscow's back in those good-old Cold War days, is hardly a scenario we should wittingly embrace.
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That means that the carts have technically been operating illegally, leading to sporadic standoffs between the city and the vendors; earlier this summer, Hollywood cracked down on street vending, establishing a so-called "special enforcement zone" along Hollywood Boulevard.
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It would also send separate debt-limit legislation directly to the president whenever Congress approves a budget resolution, automatically conforming the debt ceiling to levels called for in a budget resolution to avoid standoffs over the nation's borrowing authority.
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As in previous diplomatic standoffs, Incirlik, a strategically located air base just 60 miles from the Syrian border that houses 2,700 American service members, has become a key point of contention, with US officials insisting it remains strategically important.
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Federal charges were also filed in the Oregon case and several supporters agreed to plead guilty, but leaders of the standoffs would walk away from both cases in what would turn out to be embarrassing defeats for federal prosecutors.
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ROME (Reuters) - A special tribunal has recommended that far-right League leader Matteo Salvini should stand trial for holding scores of people on board a charity ship last August, in one of his last migrant standoffs as interior minister.
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Alexandra Wong, 63, who has smaller Union Jack flags pinned to her clothes and bags, has been on the front lines of mass protests in the former British colony and sometimes in tense standoffs between police and student activists.
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The president's decision ended a partnership that soured almost from the start of the administration and degenerated into one of the most acrimonious public standoffs between a commander in chief and a senior cabinet member in modern American history.
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"Frontline" ventures inside the standoffs between the federal government and the Bundy ranching family, which was supported by an armed militia, to investigate how a long-simmering fight over public lands in Nevada and Oregon turned deadly in 2016.
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In prior standoffs, Democrats have suggested that they'd be open to making certain concessions on a wall if they're able to secure some legislative wins — such as a fix for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — in return.
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Yves Lefebvre told franceinfo public radio about 10 vehicles were torched as young people hurled petrol bombs in standoffs with law enforcement officers in a region north of the capital where more serious rioting drew world-wide attention in 2005.
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Many members of the network have military training and have been involved in previous standoffs around the west, and it serves as a grouping for organizations that function much more like organized militias than the voluntary association put together by Bundy.
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But the well of anger tapped by the Bundys has suddenly grown much deeper, and it's hard not to think that the episode is about to enter a phase in which standoffs like this only grow in scope and frequency.
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"I know that our church on the lower levels, the mid levels, has been infiltrated by these same people, but not the higher levels," said Bundy, a Mormon rancher from Nevada who led two armed standoffs against the federal government.
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They have been used in standoffs with armed gunmen in a variety of examples, from helping to figure out where the gunman is hiding to delivering pizza to the gunman and hostages during negotiations when a person wasn't allowed in.
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That meant a bunch of extended standoffs with these hapless guards who just wanted the creepy lady to get down off that ledge already, and who were presumably very sad when I turned into a shadow beast and scared them unconscious.
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Throughout the year, the stock market has rallied in the face of standoffs ranging from increasing tensions in North Korea to former FBI director's James Comey's testimony to Congress that President Trump fired him to undermine the agency's Russia investigation.
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The lame-duck session is winnowing down with the holidays quickly approaching and the next session of Congress kicking off January 3, leaving little time to break through legislative standoffs that have bogged down progress on key issues for months.
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Just a few weeks from the national convention, Republicans are stuck in these awkward standoffs that have come to embody everything that is uncomfortable and disorienting about this election: Our voters, in decisive numbers, picked a guy who embarrasses us.
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But while the competing nations are engaging in dangerous standoffs and fishing the Sea to collapse, nearby, around the Natuna Islands, Indonesia has developed a policy of dealing with illegal fishing that's having some unexpected benefits: by blowing up poachers' boats.
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Stocks perform much better under Democrats David Kelly, chief global strategist at JPMorgan Funds, said that while a corporate tax hike would be negative for stocks, the volatility and uncertainty caused by standoffs with China and Iran have likewise been negatives.
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The debt ceiling standoff of 2011 generated huge market swings as traders bet on the risk of a default; the standoffs over the "fiscal cliff" at the end of 2012 and a government shutdown in October 2013 caused mere murmurs.
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"The United States is gravely concerned by the deepening political unrest and violence in Hong Kong, including the standoffs between protesters and police at Hong Kong Polytechnic University and other campuses," Mr. Pompeo said at a news conference in Washington.
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House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, had said earlier Tuesday the courts can take months to decide cases about witness testimony, and that's why the House hasn't used the courts more to resolve its standoffs with the White House.
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Last week, Trump approved a two-year bipartisan agreement that would increase spending by $300 billion over two years, a plan lawmakers hope will end the pattern of fiscal standoffs that has colored political life for the past several years.
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The episode set off one of the tensest standoffs between Beijing and Washington in 15 years and occurred a day after the Chinese signaled that they had installed weapons along a string of disputed islands in the South China Sea.
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But Trump's comments, even with few specifics backing them up, are tantalizing because there is extreme interest, especially in Japan and South Korea, in whether Trump and Kim can strike a deal on one of the world's most pressing standoffs.
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Related: The Long Shadow of the Oka Crisis on the Children Who Were There Horn-Miller, who, at 14-years-old, cooked food for the Mohawk warriors for three weeks during the crisis, said the two standoffs had "polar opposite" goals.
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Since then, a conservative, largely rural segment of the Mormon population — including the Bundys, who led the 2014 and 2016 standoffs over federal lands, and many residents of San Juan County — have funneled that resentment toward fighting federal control of public lands.
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Standoffs between protesters and police continued into the afternoon, as officers employed smoke canisters, pepper spray, flash grenades and water cannons to disperse protesters attempting to disrupt the inaugural parade that carried President Donald Trump from the U.S. Capitol to the White House.
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As with similar NIMBY/YIMBY ("Yes In My Backyard") standoffs in other cities, there's a distinct generational divide over the issue, with younger St. Paul residents (as well as the city's new 234-year-old mayor, Melvin Carter) tending to support the plan.
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The taxicab industry's desperate fight to stop the spread of this burgeoning competition culminated in a variety of dramatic public standoffs, such as mass protests by cab drivers in multiple major cities (including Washington) intended to cause gridlock and cripple the city's infrastructure.
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Members of the group have increasingly expressed concern about China's aggressive posture in the South China Sea, including naval standoffs and land reclamation projects in disputed areas, and the stationing of military personnel and surface-to-air missiles in the Paracel Islands.
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So I think they need to have a more wait-them-out type of approach, which they've shown great restraint in past standoffs — the Montana Freedmen standoff in '96, they waited the extremists out for 81 days and had a peaceful resolution.
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The referenced gunmen in this, in case it's not totally clear, are the Bundys, the family that helped lead armed standoffs at a ranch in Nevada and later a wildlife refuge in Oregon, frequently citing anti-government beliefs but also their Christian faith.
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So is it any wonder that one of the great, early standoffs of the new administration is not between the president and Congress or the president and a foreign leader, but between the president and the hosts of a morning news show?
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The dozens arrested belong to what the Morton County Sheriff's Department described in a statement as a "rogue group" that had set up camp on private property south of the Backwater Bridge, the site of previous standoffs between demonstrators and the police.
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It's been more than four years since the last government shutdown, but after copious experience with shutdowns, especially during the protracted budget standoffs of the Clinton and Obama presidencies, we have a good sense of what will happen to the federal government.
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The Nuit Debout (Up All Night) movement is limited in scale and largely peaceful but on its margins there have been some standoffs between riot police and violent fringe groups, notably in Paris's Place de la Republique square where French presidents customarily celebrate election victories.
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"I think the administration is more willing to confront traditional allies and partners, as well as those countries that it is engaged in diplomatic, military or political standoffs with," said Smith, pointing out that the Iran sanctions were reimposed over the objections of European allies.
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Standoffs with non-governmental organization boats have become common in the last year as European states at odds over who should be responsible for accepting migrants have refused port to vessels carrying rescued people, often leaving them stranded at sea for days awaiting a solution.
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While Delaney's messages about the acceptance of all sexual orientations, the absurdity of gun fever, and the futility of anti-government standoffs will most likely not go over well with anyone who's not already on his side of the issues, it doesn't really matter.
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Bundy led two armed standoffs against the feds in Nevada and Oregon, and his family quickly became the face of a growing militia movement, bringing a national spotlight to armed groups eager for a conflict with what they believed to be an overreaching government.
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The indigenous peoples there before them had already been "pacified" in the California Indian Wars of the 1850s and 1860s, though their rage lives on in the land claim disputes and pipeline standoffs seen at Standing Rock and British Columbia's Trans Mountain protest, among others.
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There was no mention of active disputes between the United States and Canada over softwood lumber and dairy products, but the document targeted a range of agricultural non-tariff barriers, including subsidies and unfair pricing structures, that are currently at the heart of those standoffs.
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Washington (CNN)Four days after President Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of abuse directed toward North Korea and Iran from the rostrum of the United Nations, those country's leaders are firing back -- a response in kind that only threatens to escalate dueling nuclear standoffs.
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Williams argued that as a holder of U.S. debt, he was damaged by a series of debt-limit standoffs in recent years, which drove up the cost of short-term borrowing for the U.S. government as the nation's ability to borrow came into question.
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Jerry Jones, the Dallas Cowboys' owner, has ended his threat to sue the N.F.L. and the six owners on the league's compensation committee who are negotiating a contract extension for Commissioner Roger Goodell, ending one of the league's most contentious internal standoffs in recent years.
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And just like that, in the course of 45 minutes in the Oval Office, Mr. Trump threw aside caution and dispensed with decades of convention to embark on a daring, high-wire diplomatic gambit aimed at resolving one of the world's most intractable standoffs.
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But based on what we know about both standoffs 25 years later, it's fair to say that the federal government's aggressive response to Weaver and Koresh probably led to the deaths of people who hadn't committed crimes and who did not need to die.
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Ms. Zegart noted that Mr. Trump is now engaged in complicated and dangerous nuclear standoffs with both Iran and North Korea, as well as a burgeoning trade war with China, the trade disputes with allies and a confrontation with Syria, all at the same time.
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The confusion over who should be in charge in Kabul is the latest in a long series of conflicts and standoffs that have sorely tested the ability of competing Afghan leaders to hold and honor fair elections, and to cooperate well enough to govern.
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The battle over pipelines reached a fever pitch in 2016 and 2017 during tense standoffs between law enforcement and activists who camped out for months in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to prevent the completion of the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota.
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As standoffs between red states and blue cities grow more rancorous, the tactics of pre-emption laws have become personal and punitive: Several states are now threatening to withhold resources from communities that defy them and to hold their elected officials legally and financially liable.
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Most of the world lived under dictatorships, two-thirds of parents had a child die before age 5, and it was a time of nuclear standoffs, of pea soup smog, of frequent wars, of stifling limits on women and of the worst famine in history.
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But during military standoffs, as when North Korea raised tensions in early 2013 after its third nuclear test, both Seoul and Washington have made the unusual gesture of announcing their missions to demonstrate the American resolve toward defending South Korea and to help calm jitters there.
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In an interview with The Denver Post a few days later, Larry Glick, then the executive director of the National Tactical Officers Association, described the attack as involving "active shooters" — phrasing that acknowledged a new philosophy among law-enforcement agencies on how to handle armed standoffs.
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While 2017 was marked by budget standoffs in statehouses around the country, New Jersey is an outlier this year as the last state in the country that hadn't reached some sort of a budget agreement by the fiscal deadline, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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Mass media outlets, trying to explain to the American public just why people like McVeigh and Nichols were so mad at the federal government, ended up giving the Ruby Ridge and (especially) Waco standoffs the critical treatment they hadn't been given two to three years earlier.
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While this standard has come under attack especially over the past two years for giving local police officers way too much latitude in killing African-American men, it appears to have substantially changed how willing the FBI was to use force in standoffs with white militia members.
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"I don't believe Britain crashing out of the EU without any agreed process is likely to happen … There is an obligation on me, and others, to instill some positivity into this negotiation process rather than political standoffs which is what we've seen to date," he said.
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Following five girls of different ages — one who enters as a 4-year-old, others who graduate and embark on jobs — the series can feel like a montage of crushing expectations, guilt, resentment (only one child per family can be admitted), and generational and cultural standoffs.
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It's also where the United States and Iran for months have been engaged in oil tanker standoffs: Since withdrawing from the landmark 2015 Iran nuclear deal almost two years ago, the United States has increased pressure on Iran, including canceling waivers for countries to buy Iranian oil.
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In the end, after a couple of standoffs with lines of riot gear-clad police, several hundred protesters found themselves separated from about two dozen Confederate flag-waving fans of the Old South by a couple of hundred yards of parking lot, two fences, and another ring of cops.
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As Vox's Dylan Scott explains, there are four ways the weeks of political standoffs could come to a resolution: With Mulvaney's comments Sunday comes the added possibility that Trump is willing to move forward with scenario No. 2 — even if it didn't work for him the last time around.
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The standoffs were the most recent major expressions of an anti–federal government movement known as the Sagebrush Rebellion that has been simmering for decades over complaints about land regulation and what many ranchers say is a dwindling capacity to make a living off of rural Western lands.
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The years-long effort to bring criminal charges against Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and his sons for their role in armed standoffs against the federal government ended in a stunning defeat Monday, when a federal judge dismissed the case against the Bundys with a scathing rebuke to its prosecutors.
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Italy, a front-line country on migration routes into Europe, has closed its ports to migrants since Salvini's Lega party formed a coalition government in June, slashing the number of arrivals in the country and igniting tense standoffs with neighbors over where ships carrying rescued migrants could dock.
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Standoffs between the state and farmers have risen in India as demand for land increases, affecting millions of people and jeopardizing billions of dollars of investment.. While a 2013 land acquisition law was aimed at protecting the rights of farmers, some key provisions have been diluted in several states.
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Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: Via Apple Podcasts | Via RadioPublic | Via Stitcher Between the government shutdowns that bookended the year, there were furious standoffs over a border wall; shootings at a high school, a bar, a grocery store, a synagogue; devastating wildfires in California.
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It's the same crowd that staged armed standoffs in Bunkerville, Nevada and at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge under the Bundy clan in an effort to get rid of federal oversight of western public lands that are so important to the American public, native wildlife and healthy ecosystem function.
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Major nations worldwide are facing profound challenges, including a potential Brexit disaster in Britain, protests in the streets in France, budget standoffs between Italy and European leadership, and some signs that the leadership of the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, is being challenged because of the trade war with the United States.
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If you want to know why the federal government isn't going into the headquarters of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge with guns blazing (or even firing tear gas canisters through the windows), you need to understand the standoffs at Ruby Ridge and Waco, and the mistakes the government learned to avoid.
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Ricksican standoffs and Stand by Me sendups aside, the social inequality-skewering second-best gave a whole new insight into the depths the Rick and Morty universe is capable of, and the kind of plot-twist-callback-cliffhanger that suggests Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland's sci-fi shitshow is only getting started.
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Outside the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, North Dakota (CNN)After another round of tense standoffs between activists and law enforcement over the Dakota Access Pipeline, an uneasy peace settled over this region that has become ground zero for opposition to a $3.7 billion project that would move domestic crude oil across four states.
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This is especially risky because the North Korean government is deeply insular: Washington doesn't have the kind of direct line of communication with the North that it had with the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War, which was vital in preventing standoffs like the Cuban Missile Crisis from escalating.
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The standoffs are playing out against a backdrop of growing political uncertainty in France, where far-right leader Marine Le Pen leads the pack of candidates to succeed Hollande in May and conservative standard bearer Francois Fillon has been hit by accusations he had his wife paid by the state for a fake job.
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The YouTube live feeds of things like the 2014 standoffs between protesters and police officers in Ferguson, Mo., riveted millions, even though much of them would now seem hardly worth watching — just as the weatherman's live storm updates that Mr. Herrman and Mr. Isaac describe in their story probably aren't aging very well by now.
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The move could prevent future Standing Rock-like standoffs and their associated corporate embarrassment, with devastating consequences for the local population: Natives in South Dakota—a state with a particularly harsh, violent history against its Indigenous population—currently make up nine percent of the state citizenry, but 50 percent of the state's incarcerated population.
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One of the chief security officers who worked with the company was also the father of the deputy director of the F.S.B. As the investigation grew to involve as many as five agencies, chaos erupted — grenades thrown into cars, armed standoffs at furniture warehouses, hospitalizations and a mysterious death that looked a lot like poisoning.
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Members of the group have increasingly expressed concern about China's aggressive posture in the South China Sea, including naval standoffs and land reclamation projects in disputed areas, and the stationing of military personnel and surface-to-air missiles in the Paracel Islands — which are controlled by China, which claims ownership, but are also claimed by Taiwan and Vietnam.
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The standoffs with the White House have largely moved to the courts, and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold NadlerJerrold (Jerry) Lewis NadlerGOP memo deflects some gun questions to 'violence from the left' House Democrats urge Trump to end deportations of Iraqis after diabetic man's death French officials call for investigation of Epstein 'links with France' MORE (D-N.
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Washington (CNN)The US House of Representatives on Friday asked the DC Circuit Court of Appeals to revisit a 2-1 court ruling that let former White House counsel Don McGahn off the hook from testifying to Congress and decided federal judges in Washington have no authority to resolve subpoena standoffs between the White House and Congress.
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With one hand, the federal government responded to the Oklahoma City bombing by passing the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (the same law that, 20 years later, would help spark the occupation in Oregon) — but with the other, it was quietly changing the way the FBI responded to standoffs with right-wing militia groups.
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RALEIGH, N.C. — Political chaos has become as much a fixture of life here as the basketball rivalry between Duke and the University of North Carolina: four years of battles, boycotts, protests and standoffs over voting, gerrymandering, anti-discrimination ordinances, bathroom access and the ability of Republicans to strip power from the governor's office as soon as a Democrat wins it.
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On the right runs a series of pictures, videos and artifacts designed to shock viewers into clubsterbomb memories–the remnants of a Google bus retrofitted and weaponized into a battering ram, that famous photo of the National Guard standing down at one of the many early BLM standoffs (everyone remembers the photo, never the standoff), a yellowing final print edition of the Washington Post.
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But in the meantime, it could be a soft few months or even years of standoffs between buyers and sellers, with the big question of which comes first: sellers who settle for less after recognizing that the price they thought they would get is beyond the reach of buyers, or incomes that catch up with a housing market that got a little ahead of itself.
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Members of the 10-state Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or Asean, have repeatedly expressed concern about China's aggressive posture in the South China Sea, including its naval standoffs and land reclamation projects in disputed areas, and the stationing of military personnel and surface-to-air missiles in the Paracel Islands — which are controlled by China but are also claimed by Taiwan and Vietnam.
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Indigenous people "obtaining the free, prior, and informed consent of indigenous people for all decisions that affect indigenous people and their traditional territories, honoring all treaties and agreements with indigenous people, and protecting and enforcing the sovereignty and landrights of indigenous people" You could see this playing a role in particular in terms of oil drilling, in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or in terms of standoffs like the one at Standing Rock in North Dakota in 2016.
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While December budget crises may be the new normal, this year could be the worst, with the funding cliff now set closer to Christmas than in recent memory and the severity of the standoffs just as high — if not higher — under 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.
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"When the tensions were escalating because of steel and aluminum tariffs and because of standoffs in NAFTA negotiations, Mexico did kind of use that [buying from South America] as a bargaining chip, I think, to bring the U.S. closer to some of its positions," said Monica de Bolle, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, D.C. Nonetheless, shipping costs of buying certain agricultural products from South America makes it more expensive for Mexican importers, according to de Bolle.
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The standoffs led to multiple House committees holding Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrBarr to speak at Notre Dame law school on Friday Giuliani predicts Senate Judiciary will call on Biden to testify on Ukraine Trump confidant: Impeachment inquiry is a 'mortal threat' to presidency MORE and Commerce Secretary Wilbur RossWilbur Louis RossWhite House tells Pelosi, committee chairs it won't cooperate with impeachment inquiry Lawmaker, scientists challenge Trump officials' push to disband two key advisory boards Overnight Energy: Lawmaker, scientists challenge move to eliminate key advisory boards | White House nixes climate language from emissions proposal | Raffle offers deer hunt with Donald Trump Jr. MORE in contempt of Congress.
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A federal judge on Monday threw out the case against a group of Nevada ranchers involved in an armed standoff with federal agents in 2014, citing misconduct by the FBI and prosecutors who failed to share evidence with defense attorneys The four men standing trial in Las Vegas — Cliven Bundy, his two sons, Ammon and Ryan, and longtime supporter Ryan Payne — were key figures in two separate armed standoffs that helped embolden an anti-federal government movement in the US. But less than three weeks after declaring a mistrial, US District Judge Gloria Navarro dismissed the case with prejudice, dealing a death blow to prosecutors who now cannot refile for a new trial.
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