Almost nothing stood in the way — except human resistance.
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And in New York, the 1977 law stood in the way.
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Those things often stood in the way of friendships in America.
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That did not happen, likely because affordability stood in the way.
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In the meantime, however, two developments have stood in the way.
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But one thing stood in the way: The exorbitant cost of rehab.
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In multifarious America, race and other ethnic barriers stood in the way.
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Kerry, backed by Obama and the United Nations, stood in the way.
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Beyond garden-variety campaign problems, what unseen forces stood in the way?
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A single term, related to pressure, stood in the way of a solution.
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Dauman never stood in the way of hiring decisions at the divisional level.
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A Democratic Congress, still bolstered by the party's Southern bloc, stood in the way.
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The allegations saying I personally stood in the way are also just plain wrong.
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The developers kicked out everything that stood in the way of perfectly-tuned gameplay.
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But so much still stood in the way of her being conceived as a captain.
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But Indigenous Affairs stood in the way, telling the reserve it was against their policy.
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History tells us that anyone who stood in the way of their desires was destroyed.
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As to be expected, those who stood in the way of his message got verbally strafed.
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His critics say Mr. Tillerson has stood in the way of getting much of it done.
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What fate might await an unelected, hereditary monarch who stood in the way of that will?
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In recent weeks, eight senators have publicly stood in the way of a health care bill.
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By supporting the status quo, Woolworth and others like it stood in the way of progress.
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Johnson wanted a less radical Reconstruction and stood in the way of help for former slaves.
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Around three to four people from the press tent are stood in the way of the entrance.
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He dismissed the notion that hurdles stood in the way to cross-boarder banking mergers in Europe.
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His former White House counsel Don McGahn stood in the way, according to The New York Times.
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He happens to have this, but it hasn't stood in the way of anything he's ever accomplished.
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Democratic President Barack Obama has stood in the way of establishing a commission with his veto pen.
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In some cases, oil field economics, not federal policy, have stood in the way of new pipelines.
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Because, having sworn loyalty to the Constitution, he stubbornly stood in the way of those destabilization plans.
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It is striking, though, that none of the main political parties, including the BJP, stood in the way.
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It has long stood in the way of deeper European military cooperation, which London fears could undermine NATO.
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The spat is the latest in Silicon Valley in which competitive tensions stood in the way of customers.
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"He's stood in the way of bipartisan legislation that is important to people in this district," Spanberger said.
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In addition, President Trump has ended wasteful and costly regulations that stood in the way of hardworking Americans.
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It's also worth noting that the United States and China stood in the way of previous climate change treaties.
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A world where boxes no longer define us and barriers that once stood in the way have been removed.
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Ms. Merkel, above, has stood in the way of the populists who took over in Italy, Hungary and Poland.
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Also, the Justice Department has sued California, saying the state has stood in the way of federal immigration authorities unconstitutionally.
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But a fundamental problem stood in the way of actually building quantum computers: the innate frailty of their physical components.
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But one person has stood in the way of these bills becoming law: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed late Sunday that disagreements on trade stood in the way of a final statement.
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Manchin may acknowledge that climate change is human-caused, but he has long stood in the way of climate action.
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And all of a sudden, the hardware limitations that had stood in the way of VR weren't a problem anymore.
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His caucus has repeatedly stood in the way of legislation, from health care to immigration, for not being conservative enough.
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No. 2, the national ownership cap hasn't stood in the way of a lot of these transactions in the past.
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Adalberto Campos Fernandes, the health minister, said that Portuguese doctors resisted overprescribing and that regulators also stood in the way.
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YOVANOVITCH stood in the way of their plans, and they were key in the push to remove her from office.
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It is unlikely he wants to be known as the speaker who stood in the way of such momentous reform.
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On the 66th anniversary of D-Day, Don joined a special group of Americans who stood in the way of tyranny.
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"President Trump has stood in the way of every single proposal that could become law," he said on the Senate floor.
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The Belgian region of Wallonia has stood in the way of the CETA accord, short for Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement.
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Sorrow, self-pity, and regret stood in the way of my future, along with the steel bars that caged me in.
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And, having trained themselves adequately, they would encounter the same frustrations when older, narrower minds stood in the way of progress.
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But you suggest in any way, shape or form that we stood in the way of that is 100 percent false.
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Jordan is the outsider — a conservative ideologue, who only three years ago stood in the way of McCarthy becoming House speaker.
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Legally speaking, nothing stood in the way of a football coach — especially an icon like Bear Bryant — bringing on black players.
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This is the second time del Potro has stood in the way of a Federer-Nadal matchup at the U.S. Open.
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The industry has consistently stood in the way of a higher alcohol tax, warning that it could lead to fewer jobs.
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In its submission, Pell's legal team elaborated on 13 "solid obstacles" that it said stood in the way of a guilty verdict.
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The streets simmered with rage as residents scrambled to save possessions from demolition; their homes stood in the way of Correa's boardwalk.
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The irony that former-general Flynn stood in the way of wresting Raqqa from the hands of ISIS is a bitter one.
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Each hurdle has stood in the way of a stable life and a job that makes the most of her culinary training.
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The United States, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Kuwait, however, stood in the way last week of "welcoming" the findings of the scientists.
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Etzel stood in the way of the Trump administration's plans to roll back bipartisan environmental protections for kids, like those reducing lead.
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Indonesia has a long history of protectionism, and vested interests have often stood in the way of trade and investment from abroad.
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However, Russia has stood in the way of every effort the United States and our partners have taken over the past year.
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But he also stood in the way of some efforts to reform the jails and punished those who challenged him, critics said.
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Then on Tuesday, Democrats will have a chance to punish those who have so far stood in the way of that effort.
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This is the second time del Potro has stood in the way of a Federer-Nadal matchup at the United States Open.
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Democratic President Barack Obama, who championed Dodd-Frank, has always stood in the way of establishing a commission with his veto pen.
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Even as the tools improved, another hurdle stood in the way of program verification: No one was sure whether it was even necessary.
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Though a recent poll showed 63% of Australians supported same-sex marriage, domestic politics has stood in the way of making it legal.
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Anemic consumer spending, a tumbling stock market and the fallout from China's slowdown all stood in the way of faster expansion, experts say.
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The Russian government denies these allegations, and Antonov says such talk has stood in the way of discussing cooperation between the two nations.
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This was definitely a hassle, and was an extra step that stood in the way of users seamlessly buying stocks shown on the platform.
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After Giuliani and other Trump allies complained that she stood in the way of Giuliani's investigative efforts in Ukraine, Trump removed her in May.
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The difference now is that GoPro is removing all the initial steps that stood in the way of getting to those algorithmically compiled edits.
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Now, conservative legislators see a greater opportunity to strike down the Supreme Court precedent that has stood in the way of more aggressive restrictions.
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He claimed regulation stood in the way of his creating jobs, when in fact it stood to keep him from reaping the greatest profit.
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Friday, Trump argued that Democrats have stood in the way of DACA recipients gaining permanent legal status, while casting Republicans as would-be saviors.
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He considered Native Americans who lived on this land for thousands of years to be "savages" who stood in the way of European settler expansion.
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Over the past year a strong dollar, fragile emerging markets and the risk of over-tightening have stood in the way of rapid rate rises.
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Seventy-five percent of men who identified as Republicans thought nothing stood in the way of women's progress today; 30 percent of Democratic men agreed.
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Democrats and Republicans would have negotiated a power-sharing agreement in the House and the Republican-led Senate would have still stood in the way.
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In a flashback scene, we see how the homophobia attached to toxic masculinity has stood in the way of Lionel connecting with other Black people.
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With five felony charges and four misdemeanors, his record had long stood in the way of his ability to access public housing and find work.
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Of course, there is the political power of the private insurance and pharmaceutical companies, and other special interests, and that has stood in the way.
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Manchester City stood in the way last season, a change, at least, from what had become something of a habit: being knocked out by Barcelona.
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Bites Britain and France may have a historically complicated relationship, but this has never stood in the way of their longstanding connection through fine dining.
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But now that McConnell and his merry band of yes men like Wicker have stood in the way of Trump, that anger has escalated again.
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And top Democrats in the Senate, who have stood in the way of regulatory rollbacks in the past, have indicated they are interested as well.
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The ambiguity bred by such bedlam now stood in the way of us ever really understanding who or what was truly responsible for his death.
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Editorial In recent years, Congress and the Pentagon have stood in the way of President Obama's goal of shutting down the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
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Washington (CNN)Democrats aren't the only people in Washington who have stood in the way of Donald Trump's agenda over his first six months in office.
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It was a rare display of constructive governance that fixed a large problem and jumped over the politics that had stood in the way of reform.
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But I left the lunch feeling I had at least taken a small first step in changing behavior that stood in the way of that contentment.
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Common Cause, No. 17-1295, was not infected by the technical problems that stood in the way of decisions in the cases from Wisconsin and Washington.
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Yovanovitch, whom Democrats view as a key witness in the impeachment inquiry, stood in the way of Giuliani's efforts to spur investigations targeting Trump's political enemies.
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By 2012, Hollywood and the music industry were coming down hard on piracy, and blasting through any parts of internet culture that stood in the way.
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But it was dueling partisan opposition to separate proposals in the Senate that stood in the way of new money being allocated on Capitol Hill Wednesday.
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He used every opportunity to tell voters only he stood in the way of the court taking a turn to the left should Democrat Hillary Clinton win.
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But U.S. officials tell the Journal that the conflict has since escalated, pointing to increased cease-fire violations that have stood in the way of peace efforts.
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By Thursday afternoon a few stubborn issues stood in the way of a deal, including dairy, protection for media companies, and how to solve future trade disputes.
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" In a statement on Facebook late Thursday, Ms. Sandberg said allegations that she stood in the way of fixing the platform's problems "are also just plain wrong.
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For all Woese's brilliance, it can be argued that he stood in the way of his success; he was a disinterested lecturer, a collector of petty grievances.
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In interviews over the past week, residents described their frustration over the recurring back-room coups that, in their view, have stood in the way of governing.
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Yes, Christie called out fools in certain circumstances where they deserved it and steamrolled opponents who stood in the way of some plans that were wholly defensible.
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It was a great ... it was probably one of the best taglines in the company's history but it stood in the way of the company going forward.
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Last week, representative Blake Farenthold of Texas lamented on the radio that some "female senators from the Northeast" stood in the way of repealing the Affordable Care Act.
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By 2012, Pew found newspapers knew they needed to change, but entrenched newspaper culture stood in the way, holding back companies that sought to prepare for the future.
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But YT's reluctance to relinquish control as majority stakeholder and decision-maker, and his refusal to explore Chapter 11 bankruptcy, stood in the way, according to these people.
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The disagreements in Europe weren't all that stood in the way of the migrants reaching port: Stormy weather on Thursday caused further delays as the ship changed course.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump argued Friday that Democrats have stood in the way of DACA recipients gaining permanent legal status, while casting Republicans as would-be saviors.
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At a White House lunch, Mr. Trump warned the senators that any who stood in the way would be telling voters that they backed the current, "failed" program.
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That is, the GOP members of Congress who have stood in the way of not just the Trump agenda, but the more generally conservative agenda over the years.
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Stamos is adamant that Facebook executives never stood in the way as he investigated Russian meddling, but admits there were disagreements about how much to reveal and when.
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In characteristically tough talk before Mr. Tillerson's visit, Mr. Erdogan vowed to deliver "an Ottoman slap" to American forces if they stood in the way of Turkish operations.
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The stock market this weekend got past the second of two big hurdles strategists said stood in the way of a solid year-end rally— trade and the Fed.
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Police unions and correctional officers' unions, which have stood in the way of reform-minded policy initiatives in states and cities across the country, have been exempt as targets.
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The thing is, the FDA's regulatory process is not what stood in the way of developing a drug to save Megan Crowley—a lack of basic scientific knowledge was.
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In each case, researchers and students together looked at the science behind the ideas, and then tried to determine which obstacles stood in the way of making them work.
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Meanwhile, those who stood in the way of doing what should have been done have, with notably rare exceptions, failed to face up to their errors and the consequences.
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Something, or rather someone, stood in the way: From a period of time right after the Civil War until the turn of the century, the creamy battle-ax Mrs.
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"Anyone who stood in the way of this trade was swept aside, and those who enabled it were promoted," the whistle-blower said in a follow-up phone call.
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One man stood in the way of Rockefeller's complete control: Moses, who was by then a lion in winter, but one who still had some bite left in him.
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If 60 senators cannot come together to approve the No Sanctuary for Criminals Act and Kate's Law, then those who stood in the way should also be held accountable.
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The NGOs, still carrying migrants to European ports—and bearing witness to a humanitarian disaster that had not lessened in scope—stood in the way of this untidy solution.
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Addressing an audience at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Monday, Guedes also gave a hint of the sticking points that stood in the way of broader trade agreements.
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The relatively small faction in Congress that continues to favor a punitive policy toward Cuba has stubbornly stood in the way of efforts to repeal the embargo against the island.
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In the history of our Constitution, a time limit in Congress has never stood in the way of an amendment that has been ratified by three fourths of the states.
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And there were suspicions that homes were targeted because they stood in the way of other city-endorsed residential development plans that would price out longtime area homeowners and renters.
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Jerry Moran, one of the senators who stood in the way of the earlier repeal-and-replace plan, won't stand in the way of the current repeal-then-replace plan.
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Zimbabwe's government increasingly has called for expansion of renewable energy to meet power shortages, but a lack of effective coordination in policies has stood in the way, energy experts said.
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But Flores stood in the way of Trump's "zero tolerance" campaign pledge to jail and deport undocumented immigrants because detained families with children had to be released after 20 days.
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President Obama has said he views it as no more dangerous than alcohol, and the Justice Department has not stood in the way of states that have legalized the drug.
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The hope of sanctuary in the United States had sustained them throughout the trip, and, for many, one person now stood in the way: the president of the United States.
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"I don't want to spoil anything, but there are some things in the game that I know a larger publisher would have probably stood in the way of," he explains.
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That was a role-player with a big but empty world and unsatisfying combat, which unfortunately stood in the way of a fantastic story, told with a quiet and melancholic tone.
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I had no problem with people knowing I was bisexual... America is a very puritanical place, and I think it stood in the way of so much I wanted to do.
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Their singular goal was to make more profit on their trading and you will see, insofar as they stood in the way, honesty and integrity were matters which were entirely expendable.
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Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus have stood in the way of any budget until they see a clearer outline of the tax reform package leadership wants to bring forward.
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In the early part of the 20th century, New York City was rapidly growing, but the Wendel belief in never parting with a parcel often stood in the way of progress.
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We cannot say that ISIS' crimes were not serious enough; we cannot say that the interests of powerful states stood in the way; or that these crimes are too hard to prove.
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If you are thinking about running for president as a Democrat in 2020 you don't want to be the person who stood in the way of anyone reading de Tocqueville in lockup.
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Suddenly voters realized that a group of Democrats in the State Senate had stood in the way of progressive legislation on reproductive rights and single-payer health care by voting with Republicans.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a self-proclaimed "Grim Reaper" who long has stood in the way of Democrats' initiatives, is embracing that role as he suits up for an impeachment trial.
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However, Acton said WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption stood in the way, and Facebook managers questioned and probed ways to offer businesses analytical insights on WhatsApp users while keeping the encrypted environment.
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The federal Environmental Protection Agency might have stood in the way, but its former director, Scott Pruitt, made a ruling to override pollution standards established under the Obama administration, giving Foxconn more leeway.
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President Donald Trump and his advisors clearly understand that, which is why the Trump Administration has stood in the way of shortsighted calls to block arms sales to the Saudis and their allies.
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Now, we know that there were interventions that stood in the way of that, but, again, you take responsibility for your race and you always have to just be prepared for the unforeseen.
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When a reporter pointed out that he had "stood in the way" of preventing a shutdown in 2013, Cruz responded it was "factually incorrect and a wonderful media narrative" that he did that.
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"Chairman Rogers, on the other hand, has mostly stood in the way of any progress, pushing the agenda of big polluters rather than protect the health and safety of our communities," she said.
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But the absence of Le Pen and other leading far-right and nationalist leaders speaks to the policy differences and rivalries that have long stood in the way of unity among such groups.
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Because I'd had a working relationship with them for the past two years, they already knew I was a single mom, and that my personal life hadn't stood in the way of professional deadlines.
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Over the weekend, the United States, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait stood in the way of a statement to "welcome" the dire assessment of climate science from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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Then Mr. Trump's victory completely turned the tables, with the Republicans who now controlled Congress and the White House ruminating about gutting the filibuster if Democrats stood in the way of the Trump agenda.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a self-proclaimed "Grim Reaper" who long has stood in the way of Democrats' initiatives, is embracing that role as he suits up for an impeachment trial next month.
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Meanwhile, U.S. and Canadian negotiators pushed ahead in grinding talks to rescue the North American Free Trade Agreement on Thursday, but a few stubborn issues stood in the way of a deal, including dairy quotas.
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When Abbott was attorney general and living in Austin, he was infuriated when he had to compensate the city before cutting down a pecan tree that stood in the way of his future swimming pool.
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Clijsters and Williams are the kinds of power players who have long stood in the way of the biggest titles for Wozniacki, a remarkable defender and mover who has long lacked a truly decisive shot.
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If the progressive movement wants to see real, lasting change, it has to begin the hard work of addressing the structural barriers that have stood in the way of building and maintaining this state power.
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Those sanctions have stood in the way of Kim's efforts to improve the North Korean economy and raise the livelihood of his people, one of the young North Korean leader's stated goals for his country.
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"We're going to remind every voter that Republicans gave the American people a historic pay raise while Democrats stood in the way," RNC chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel said in a statement provided to The Hill.
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Having helped to hold the euro zone together through a series of weekend crises, Mrs Merkel (along with Wolfgang Schäuble, her finance minister) has stood in the way of reforms that would mitigate the next crisis.
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While the administration has suggested that it's open to a bipartisan compromise (something that is necessary, given the Senate's 60-vote rule), it has thus far stood in the way of anything less than total capitulation.
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During the Obama administration, for example, the DOJ's Antitrust Division stood in the way of AT&T's failed bid to buy T-Mobile, and it brought charges against Apple for the way it priced its ebooks.
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Large sums of money were put on offer and mind-bogglingly difficult challenges—like making a dress out of found material, or maintaining haute-couture elegance amid a swarm of bees—stood in the way of it.
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The move "will greatly resolve obstacles that stood in the way of facilitating investment and trading with Iran," Yoo said, and added that KEB Hana Bank, Shinhan Bank and Woori Bank have been selected as settlement banks.
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There are rare instances, however, when the U.S. government has stood in the way of a major telecom transaction, such as the DOJ's effort in 2011 to prevent AT&T from buying T-Mobile for $39 billion.
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Stada's share price, inflated by persistent takeover speculation, and opposition from supervisory board chairman Carl Ferdinand Oetker, part of the German family-owned food group, have previously stood in the way of a deal, these sources added.
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If a formation like this existed in the U.S., every rock climber in the country would almost certainly flock to it—but in Mexico, mining interests, cartel activity, and dodgy political agendas have stood in the way.
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A New Jersey man has admitted to manslaughter in connection with the October 2015 death of his 3-year-old son, whom he allegedly killed because the child stood in the way of a romantic relationship, PEOPLE confirms.
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Trump has yet to pull any federal funding, and the Post argues that his eagerness to attack the state likely relates to the fact that Brown, a Democrat, has long stood in the way of the president's policies.
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Pledged to stand up to a President who stood in the way of an investigation "Certainly if the president had a conflict in a particular matter I would not take any advice from the president," Rosenstein told Sen.
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Yet he also enabled the so-called Independent Democratic Conference, a group of Democratic state senators that caucused with Republicans and stood in the way of the kind of progressive legislation that one expects in deep-blue states.
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Today, those looking to close the system contend that the open primary has stood in the way of lawmakers pursuing an even more conservative agenda; they believe that Democrats have interfered and thwarted the more right-wing candidates.
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Republicans and some Democrats have talked for years of the need to reform the tax code, but differences on how to use the revenue — and skepticism about the effort from President Obama — have stood in the way of progress.
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And by fighting to bring about the creation of a 51st state, I believe we can break down a barrier that's stood in the way of progress for far too long and give more Americans a say in America.
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This winter, New Englanders have been subject to some of the most expensive natural gas and electricity prices in the country because politics has stood in the way of building the pipelines needed to alleviate self-imposed infrastructure constraints.
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The Environmental Protection Agency, whose budget Trump proposed slashing by 31% for fiscal year 2020, has been particularly active, attempting to ease rules for coal plants, although courts have stood in the way of some of its proposed regulatory rollbacks.
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YT, as he's known, had clashed with and even stood in the way of Krause's efforts to put the company on a more financially viable path, these people say, which is why the former BMW and Deutsche Bank executive finally fled.
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In early April, as Freedom Caucus members stood in the way of the White House's attempts to roll back the bill, Pence offered a solution that would allow states to choose whether to require healthcare plans to cover certain medical services.
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For too long this Manichean conservative narrative, even when reasonably applied, has stood in the way of a more challenging set of questions about free speech on campus: Is there really a "marketplace of ideas," and does it actually work?
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The case followed another in Pennsylvania, resolved five years ago, in which the same appellate court found that the Port Authority of Allegheny County's refusal to allow a voter-education ad in Pittsburgh buses stood in the way of free speech.
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" Barah Mikail, an academic based in Madrid who had regular contact with Sergewa before she was abducted, told CNN the lawmaker was "against anything that stood in the way of building or consolidating the country's interests and the Libyan nation.
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Judiciary Lifelong New Yorkers, Mr. Nadler and President Trump have been at each other's throats since the 1990s, when Mr. Trump was a real estate developer and the Manhattan representative stood in the way of one of his West Side developments.
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But they were emboldened by reports from travelers that the merchants of China wanted free trade with the British and only their government stood in the way — essentially, that the British would be welcomed by the ordinary people with open arms.
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When the system begins to treat prosecutors' eyewitnesses in date-rape cases with the same respect as it does eyewitnesses to other crimes, it would be a shame if statutes of limitations stood in the way of finally achieving justice.
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Eric H. Holder Jr., the attorney general under Obama, told a New York television station in August 2016 that while there was "no question" that Johnson was unfairly convicted, his history of domestic abuse stood in the way of a pardon.
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Credit...Jessica Lehrman for The New York Times The first president to be impeached stood in the way of Reconstruction, fired a Cabinet member without the then-required Senate approval and brought "disgrace, ridicule, hatred, contempt and reproach" on Congress.
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Corker has been a reliable vote for the Republican Party and hasn't stood in the way of any major Trump legislation — even voting for the tax bill, which he initially opposed on the grounds that it would increase the deficit.
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They resigned together in October after Jia stood in the way of efforts to fund the company or declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy, since both plans could endanger his position as the majority stakeholder of Faraday Future, multiple former employees recently told The Verge.
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One of the big things that's stood in the way of Orange Is the New Black being recognized as The Sopranos' heir is the fact that, for a long time, nobody could figure out whether it was a drama or a comedy.
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And it's not like fetishized character modeling has wholly stood in the way of awesome experiences, recently—Nier: Automata's android protagonist rocks around in high heels, flashing her backside whenever she hits a sprint, and like Ann sports a cleavage-revealing top.
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In elections past, strivers in both parties deflected questions about the vice presidency with a coyness designed to make clear that, yes, they'd run a lawn mower over beloved relatives if those haplessly positioned kinfolk stood in the way of the assignment.
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The veiled threat to pack the Supreme Court is eerily reminiscent of the plan by President Roosevelt to do the same thing during the 1930s when the Supreme Court stood in the way of the massive expansion of federal power that he sought.
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Highly profitable insurance companies have stood in the way of effective medication-assisted treatment with buprenorphine, a drug that both helps get people off of deadly opioids and can be used as an alternative first-line pain treatment in high-risk populations.
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Before Rajeev Misra was appointed head SoftBank's Vision Fund in 2017, he engaged in a yearslong campaign to sabotage other executives that stood in the way of his rise to power, according to a new bombshell report by The Wall Street Journal.
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The actress Sissy Spacek attempted to buy the film rights to "A Mind of My Own," but 20th Century Fox, the studio that produced "The Three Faces of Eve," stood in the way, claiming it owned the rights to her life story in perpetuity. Mrs.
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In past years, the inclusion of these harmful measures has stood in the way of lawmakers from coming to an agreement, which is why many groups in the Clean Budget Coalition have fought hard to remove hundreds of them from the annual spending bills.
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The ruling was also the latest instance in which a federal judge has stood in the way of Trump's effort to implement his hardline policies immigration, joining rulings that have blocked different portions of Trump's travel ban and preliminary injunctions on the sanctuary cities order.
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Trump's border wall quest got another major boost last Thursday when a Fifth Circuit court of appeals panel ruled 2-1 to lift an injunction which stood in the way of a transfer of $3.6 billion in military construction funds last year for the wall.
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The same hypocrisy that has stood in the way of reforms to our courts and prisons is now being employed to justify the use of incarcerated individuals in New York for hand sanitizer production in recent days, which is nothing short of slave labor.
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"Let's be clear, our community will never forget that it was Republican elected officials and politicians who stood in the way of the well-being of our families and have blocked any solutions to fix our broken immigration system," Executive Director Ben Monterroso said in a statement.
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Finally, can there be any doubt that the Independent Slate would be better positioned to recruit a first-rate CEO than the current Board, which is dominated by two family shareholders who have stood in the way of necessary and important changes to the Company for decades?
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A federal appeals court overturned parts of North Carolina's 2013 voting law, including provisions that required voters to show a photo identification card and prohibiting same day registration, ruling that the law stood in the way of African-American voters being able to come out and vote.
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U.S. and Canadian negotiators pushed ahead in grinding talks to rescue the North American Free Trade Agreement on Thursday, but a few stubborn issues stood in the way of a deal, including dairy quotas, protection for Canadian media companies, and how to resolve future trade disputes.
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The goal was to go after liberals, mainstream media, Hollywood, Democrats and anyone else who stood in the way, portraying conservatives as a besieged minority under the thumb of Big Liberal and "cultural Marxism," depicting the left as morally wrong, inherently dangerous and also deeply foolish.
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She retains a tight grip on important decisions such as who controls the party's campaign arm, and, more to the point, she and the two other highest-ranking House Democrats are septuagenarians who have stood in the way of younger, ambitious lawmakers for over a decade now.
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Kim appears eager to secure at least some relief from sanctions, which have stood in the way of official investment by companies and governments, many of which have signaled they are waiting on sanctions relief to invest in everything from highways and telecommunications to special economic zones.
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Ohio's Attorney General David Yost has notably been stood in the way of reproductive freedom in the state in the past, stating in 2019 that he stood behind the state's "heartbeat bill," which essentially banned abortion after a fetus's heartbeat could be detected at six weeks.
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He worked closely with Giuliani as the former New York City mayor defended Trump against special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, and he helped lead Giuliani's monthslong effort to smear and remove Yovanovitch, who stood in the way of the effort to investigate Biden and other Democrats.
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Even before this dust-up, a string of actions since last year showed how Mr. Xi is willing to recast, override or ignore laws and conventions that stood in the way of what he sees as China's powers over its territory and citizens, wherever they may be.
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"[T]he radical feminists of WCLC stood in the way of the violent TERF activists—physically protecting a WCLC trans woman—and TERFs turned on those brave radical feminists and physically beat them instead," Williams writes, painting a complex portrait of the intersections between feminist and trans histories.
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"Can there be any doubt that the independent slate would be better positioned to recruit a first-rate CEO than the current board, which is dominated by two family shareholders who have stood in the way of necessary and important changes to the company for decades?" the letter asked.
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" He once came near, he admits, to having what Elio and Oliver had, but something stood in the way, and he advises his child to seize the day, including the pain that the day brings, while he is still young: "Before you know it, your heart is worn out.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. and Canadian negotiators pushed ahead in grinding talks to rescue the North American Free Trade Agreement on Thursday, but a few stubborn issues stood in the way of a deal, including dairy quotas, protection for Canadian media companies, and how to resolve future trade disputes.
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"If it came to the president and the president alone, if one provision stood in the way of a larger package that would be, in his opinion, a boon to the U.S. economy...he'd be inclined to lose that provision and not lose the larger deal," the source added.
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The former New York City mayor's statements also suggest he was much more influential in Trump's decision to pull Yovanovitch than the president and his allies have publicly admitted — and that he was motivated to seek her ouster because she stood in the way of Trump's favored political investigations.
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Long before civil rights rose to the top of the national agenda, in sum, it was evident to labor leaders, African Americans, and other liberal New Dealers that they had to act together to defeat the Southern Democrats who stood in the way of both civil and labor rights.
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When Act Up members stood, triumphant, on the awning of the Food and Drug Administration building in Bethesda, Md., in 1988, the nation was shown a new kind of L.G.B.T.Q. person: the warrior who would fight every person or institution that stood in the way of their survival.
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The defeat of these hard-liners, some of them closely associated with the supreme leader, was a rebuke to those who stood in the way of the nuclear deal, tarred the allies of the popular president as foreign stooges and promised to block foreign investment in the newly opening economy.
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Some of the same people have also stood in the way of wider availability of naloxone, which can help reverse overdoses, and opposed harm-reduction approaches like supervised drug consumption sites, where users can get clean needles and use drugs under the watch of staff who are trained to reverse overdoses.
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"If I am remembered only as a guy that stood in the way of two guys trying to desecrate an American flag at a Major League Baseball game, and protect the rights and freedoms that flag represents for all of us, that's not a bad thing to be remembered for," he said.
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"People all over this city, of every background, would like to have the city government be able to determine which building goes where, how high it will be, who gets to live in it, what the rent will be," he said, saying that an excessive regard for private property stood in the way.
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For years, strict French rules banning the repatriation of collections in state hands have stood in the way of their return, until recently when French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron made repatriation a national priority by commissioning a special report released in November 2018 by Senegalese writer and academic Felwine Sarr and French historian Benedicte Savoy.
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Tim WalzTimothy (Tim) James WalzGun debate back in focus for states after mass shootings Minnesota program will pay homeowners to transform lawns into bee gardens as species inches closer to extinction Minnesota governor signs law making marital rape illegal MORE (D-Minn.), who has constantly stood in the way of reforming the VA system.
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They made me think of Ernest Hemingway, who was inspired by Turgenev's hunting sketches when writing "The Nick Adams Stories," of how he strove to achieve that same effortless intensity, and may even have done so, but never quite matched Turgenev's receptiveness to the world, because he himself stood in the way of it.
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Ryan Crocker, a former American ambassador to Iraq, warned in an online column recently that victory in Falluja, instead of bringing a lasting peace, is likely to worsen Iraq's sectarian divide because of the dominant role here of Iran, the region's pre-eminent Shiite power, which has stood in the way of political outreach to Sunnis.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump may feel he is "stuck" with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, whom he has blasted for engineering four interest rate hikes since Trump appointed him, but none of Trump's other Fed appointees has stood in the way of the tightening campaign and at least one has said even higher rates may be necessary.
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A group of 20 app developers and thought leaders in the "digital wellness" space—people like Chris Dancy, author of Don't Unplug: Embracing Technology to Improve Your Life, and Catherine Price, author of How to Break Up With Your Phone—are now calling attention to the ways Apple's platform has historically stood in the way of third-party digital wellness apps.
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When Sylvester Stallone's Rambo asked, "Do we get to win this time?" before heading back to 'Nam for revenge, in one of the signature movies of the Reagan years, nobody needed to ask who had stood in the way of victory: hippie peaceniks, morale-undermining journalists, pinheaded rad-lib intellectuals, "Hanoi Jane" Fonda and her fellow Hollywood pinkos, and George McGovern, among others.
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"The fact that the state, to this point, has not stood in the way of this political party's formation gives the lie to the idea that Pakistan's powers-that-be are engaged in a full-court blitz against terror and extremism of all stripes," said Michael Kugelman, the deputy director for Asia at the Wilson Center, a research institute in Washington.
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It was hardly the first time that "nobody believes in us" was used as motivation, but it was the best example I've ever seen of players and fans uniting in a quest to stick it up the nose of the Dallas Cowboys, Minnesota Vikings, Tom Brady and whoever else stood in the way of breaking a 58-year N.F.L. title drought.
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The president&aposs pressure campaign also included forcing the abrupt ouster of Marie Yovanovitch, formerly the US&aposs ambassador to Ukraine, because she stood in the way of Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, as they worked to get the Ukrainian government to dig up or manufacture political dirt against former Vice President Joe Biden, who is a 2020 Democratic frontrunner.
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In 1483 episodes (and counting), Mr. Moran and a recurring cast of agents-turned-union officials have criticized journalists, protesters, civil rights groups, Mr. Obama, the Mexican government, progressives, the "Hollywood elite" and anyone else they say has stood in the way of agents trying to do their job as they believe they should — including the leadership of the Border Patrol.
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When asked during the conference call whether regulatory issues stood in the way of a public offering of Airbnb stock, Mr. Lehane said that home sharing was too large a movement to stop and that in the next year or two, almost every big city in the world, "with the possible exception of New York," would have put in place a regulatory structure that embraced home sharing.
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Ron JohnsonRonald (Ron) Harold JohnsonGOP senators call for Barr to release full results of Epstein investigation FBI Agents Association calls on Congress to make 'domestic terrorism' a federal crime Senators renew request for domestic threats documents from FBI, DOJ after shootings MORE (R-Wis.), chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, said in April that a disagreement with the Senate Intelligence Committee had stood in the way of its passage.
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"President Trump, since he created this problem by terminating DACA last August, has stood in the way of every single proposal that has had a chance to become law," said Senate Minority Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Appropriators warn White House against clawing back foreign aid Colorado candidates vying to take on Gardner warn Hickenlooper they won't back down MORE (D-N.Y.).
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