The school district has an ultra-conservative school board and an ultra-conservative superintendent.
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And on Tuesday, he resigned from the ultra-conservative website Breitbart.
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Traditional Wahhabi doctrine is ultra-conservative and views Shi'ites as heretical.
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The BfV counts about 20153,650 ultra-conservative Salafist Muslims in Germany.
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Well, if you're ultra-conservative George Will, you'd guess Russian oligarchs.
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I don't care if you're ultra conservative or uber left, you know.
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Some ultra-conservative figures — like Ben Shapiro — have jumped to Kashuv's defense.
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Ultra-conservative outlet Breitbart labeled Trump "Amnesty Don" after news of the deal.
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"There's a climate of fear," admits Fernando Linares Beltranena, an ultra-conservative congressman.
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Pence personifies misguided ultra-conservative approaches in a low-key, non-bombastic way.
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Germany's domestic intelligence agency estimates that 8,900 ultra-conservative Muslims live in Germany.
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But none of this will happen while economically ultra-conservative billionaires run America.
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Now, he's landed on his current incarnation as an ultra-conservative firebreathing Republican.
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Mark Meadows (R-NC), who chairs the chamber's ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus, and Rep.
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With the exception of the ultra-conservative Aceh province, homosexuality is legal in Indonesia.
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But the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus has once again emerged as a roadblock.
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The bill was endorsed by the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus but ultimately flopped.
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"We've got that conservative base and in some cases ultra conservative base," he said.
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Wade unless and until Donald Trump appoints two or three new, ultra-conservative justices.
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Prosecutors say Jones trained with and supported al-Shabab, an ultra-conservative Islamic militant group.
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Mark Meadows, the chairman of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus, according to three sources.
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Amid the war-tarnished ultra-conservative Catholic clergy and military, and the decentralized, barrio-based
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Some back ultra-conservative or highly literal interpretations of Islam, such as Wahhabism or Salafism.
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I remember befriending one ultra conservative hijabi girl in Cairo who loved to debate religion.
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Mark Meadows, the leader of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus, has also been touted.
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A smaller, ultra-conservative group this week drove buses around Spain flanked with the slogan #StopFeminazis.
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Bolton, an ultra-conservative Yale-trained lawyer, initially refused to testify before the House last fall.
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Steve King narrowly held onto his seat in Iowa's ultra-conservative 4th Congressional District on Tuesday.
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Currently, Indonesian law does not regulate homosexuality, except in the ultra-conservative Islamic province of Aceh.
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"They are like the Justin Biebers of the Salafi (ultra-conservative evangelical) jihadi world," Ranstorp said.
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Worries about a trade war getting even nastier could lead companies to give ultra-conservative outlooks.
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Jeff Sessions, the ultra-conservative Republican senator from Alabama, has been a controversial political figure for decades.
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"I think we're 6–0 in these elections," Bannon claimed on behalf of Trump's ultra-conservative base.
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On Friday, the former Clueless actress and ultra-conservative pundit announced she is withdrawing her congressional bid.
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Ryan's brief honeymoon period with the Freedom Caucus, a group of ultra-conservative House Republicans, is over.
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King has won re-election in Iowa's ultra-conservative 4th Congressional District a few times since 2003.
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The catch: Val's bride-to-be, Barbara (Callista Flockhart), is the daughter of ultra-conservative Republican Sen.
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As a country, we seem to be heavily tilted toward ultra conservative oligarchy and ever greater inequality.
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Tony Perkins, president of the ultra-conservative Family Research Council, praised the order in a statement Thursday.
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A little-known group of Salafists (ultra-conservative Muslims) called the Madkhalists may yet tip the balance.
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Emad Badi, a Libya researcher, said Haftar might be trying to reach out to ultra-conservative Salafis.
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His brother and friends in Germany have said he was "brainwashed" by ultra-conservative imams in Berlin.
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New dissenters could emerge, like the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus, which killed Obamacare repeal earlier this year.
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Bolsonaro is a longtime Congress member who is known for his ultra-conservative and deeply offensive rhetoric.
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Clearly the Hindu groups aren't the only restraint on freedom of expression in often ultra-conservative India.
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President Trump feels burned by the ultra conservative House Freedom Caucus and is ready to deal with Democrats.
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The ultra-conservative political commentator and founder of the Drudge Report has been an avid backer of Trump.
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They stressed support for gender equality and LGBT issues — areas Abe's ultra-conservative lawmakers are reluctant to back.
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The market generally favors Bolsonaro despite his ultra-conservative views, given his avowed support for free market policies.
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In addition to a series of robust privatization measures, Vision 210 relaxed the kingdom's ultra-conservative social code.
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It's cold comfort, I know, but as with all ultra-conservative positions, this one has a short shelf life.
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In the 1980s, Saudi Arabia banned public movie screenings as it embraced an ultra-conservative form of Sunni Islam.
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Most the 820 people who left to war zones in the Middle East were radicalized by ultra-conservative Muslims.
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Are they secret ultra-conservative artists like Ted Nugent and uh... uh... (come back to us for another example).
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The investment is part of the ultra-conservative Gulf country's steps toward making money from things other than oil.
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Ushayqir -- in Saudi Arabia's Najd province -- is the birthplace of Wahhabism, the kingdom's ultra-conservative school of Islamic thought.
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But the kingdom's ultra conservative Wahhabi clergy, which views Shi'ites as heretical, is a cornerstone of Saudi ruling legitimacy.
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Daniel Pipes, who runs an ultra-conservative organization called the Middle East Forum, has helped support his legal fees.
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Since taking office, the billionaire DeVos has affirmed her ultra-conservative education credentials, which she originally displayed in Michigan.
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However, the second attempt did, and you know who stood up to the homophobes in his ultra-conservative state?
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How could such an "ultra-conservative" prohibition movement win its greatest victory during the middle of the Progressive Era?
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In 2015, he helped found the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus and chaired the group from 2016 to 2019.
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State health officials were diligent in cracking down on low-vaccination rates, particularly in ultra-conservative orthodox Jewish communities.
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But it's not clear yet how people will actually take to the reforms after decades of ultra-conservative rule.
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Sessions was one of the few ultra-conservative senators responsible for the death of criminal justice reform efforts in 2016.
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Ultra-conservative Catholics are opposed to dialogue with Islam, with some saying its ultimate goal is to destroy the West.
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His forces include the remnants of Gadhafi's army as well as tribal fighters and ultra-conservative Islamists known as Salafists.
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Torun is home to Radio Maryja, an ultra-conservative radio station run by Father Tadeusz Rydzyk, a Roman Catholic priest.
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It's a tough proposition because the ultra-conservative Saudi kingdom and ISIS are ideological cousins—differing only in their methods.
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Traditional Wahhabi doctrine is ultra-conservative, imposing a strict version of Islamic law and urging resumption of early Muslim practices.
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The end of the controversial ban brings the ultra-conservative Gulf nation into line with the rest of the world.
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Investigators believe the accused was radicalized in Germany by people with ties to the ultra-conservative Salafi strand of Islam.
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Yelena Mizulina—a prominent ultra-conservative member of Russia's parliament behind numerous discriminatory anti-LGBT laws—proposed the decriminalizing amendment.
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The House's ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus, which moved the bill to the right and still refused to vote for it?
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Nicki Minaj has dropped out of a festival appearance in ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia after facing backlash for her headlining slot.
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With the election, the country's ultra-conservative voice is coming out more, and that voice is really loud in the South.
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Electoral system changes and three years in opposition helped ultra-conservative lawmakers and lobby groups strengthen their clout in the LDP.
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The president&aposs first choice was ultra-conservative Robert Bork, who faced withering resistance from Democratic senators, and was ultimately rejected.
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The administration and its ultra-conservative henchmen in Congress cannot stomach that 369 representatives rejected their partisan assault on the poor.
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Mark Meadows, the chairman of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus, as John Kelly's permanent replacement, according to these three sources.
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As for homosexuals, though he refused to join the ultra-conservative Moral Majority, he prayed they would repent of their perversion.
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C. did last week when he lost to a primary challenger who deemed ultra-conservative Pittenger to have insufficient MAGA zeal.
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And in fairness to her, there was nothing about her manner that suggested frustrated prurience lurking under an ultra-conservative appearance.
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The ultra conservative Muslim cleric appoints a panel that decides who gets to run for the presidency in the first place.
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Ushayqir -- a city in Saudi Arabia's Najd province -- is the birthplace of Wahhabism, the kingdom's ultra-conservative school of Islamic thought.
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It's not just ultra-conservative House Freedom caucus members who worry about the mushrooming debt under total GOP control of government.
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For the first time in its history, women will be able to drive themselves legally through the ultra-conservative kingdom's streets.
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The Koch brothers and their band of ultra-conservative billionaire friends continue to assert an already outsize influence on our elections.
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She left in her wake a scorched-earth landscape of ultra-conservative canon unhinged and unchanged by the passage of time.
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Shares of Nintendo fell 20.7022% after the company announced what one analyst described as "ultra-conservative guidance " for the current fiscal year.
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It's no coincidence that the program has gained steam since the ultra-conservative Law and Justice Party took office in October 216.
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RBG is the centerpiece of SCOTUS's liberal wing ... and Trump would like nothing more than to replace her with an ultra-conservative.
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Powerful armed groups, including ultra-conservative Salafists and neighborhood militiamen, have consolidated their grip under the watch of the internationally recognized government.
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He would seek to reverse that with his Supreme Court picks, as teed up for him by the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation.
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Last week's hiring of new campaign chief Steve Bannon, the editor-in-chief of the ultra conservative conspiracy theory generating website Breitbart.
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Houston's ultra conservative right countered this movement with the 'NO MEN IN WOMEN'S BATHROOM' campaign, and as a result, HERO was defeated.
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Ultra-conservative Salafists abhor Sufi practices and some have in the past threatened to smash their symbols with hammers and iron bars.
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László Erffa had just graduated high school when he decided to join the controversial ultra-conservative Roman Catholic order, Legion of Christ.
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Wade voting bloc that will remain intact even if Trump appoints an ultra-conservative ninth justice to replace the late Antonin Scalia.
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Mr. Kordansky mused that perhaps he was just "ultra conservative," but said, "I don't know what it has to do with art."
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Homosexuality is not regulated by law in Indonesia, except in the ultra-conservative province of Aceh where same-sex relations are banned.
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Set in the near future, it follows a woman who's kidnapped by an ultra-conservative organization that tries to forcibly "fix" her gender.
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When the candidate returned home from the hospital last week, Brazilians staged large demonstrations both for and against his controversial, ultra-conservative agenda.
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Ted Cruz: The ultra-conservative senator has earned notoriety for being a thorn in leadership's side, often taking an all-or-nothing approach.
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Senior House lawmakers remain concerned about the potential for the new, more moderate, language to unnerve the ultra conservative House Freedom Caucus members.
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Writer Julia Hahn drives immigration coverage on Breitbart — an ultra-conservative site that helped shape the Trump campaign's policies and messaging on immigration.
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Otaiba is a frequent guest on Scarborough's show, which in turn praises the UAE, an ultra-conservative monarchy, as progressive and forward-looking.
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Secular Indonesia is predominantly Muslim but ultra-conservative Aceh is the only province to follow sharia, or Islamic law, and criminalize gay sex.
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Earlier this year, France's presidential election had ultra-conservative populist leader Marine Le Pen poised to win and the world holding its breathe.
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This gave the Egyptian sheikh a chance to denounce as not genuinely Sunni the ultra-conservative form of Islam practised in Saudi Arabia.
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When the ultra conservative House Freedom Caucus chairman, Mark Meadows, says he doesn't rule something out, then it's probably unwise to do so.
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An ultra-conservative Sunni movement that seeks to emulate the Prophet Muhammad and his earliest followers, al-salaf al-salih (the pious forefathers).
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In Alabama, ultra conservative Roy Moore bested Trump- and McConnell-backed Luther Strange with a barrage of attacks against Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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They base their hopes on Trump's perceived unpopularity, an energized Democratic electorate and a Republican candidate they hope to paint as "ultra" conservative.
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The punishments took place in ultra-conservative Aceh, the sole province in Indonesia - the world's largest Muslim-majority nation - that applies sharia law.
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"The ultra-conservative society of Khosistan considers divorce a disgrace," the 37-year-old said, referring to the southern province where she lives.
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Qassim, a heartland of the kingdom's ultra-conservative Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam, is one of the most conservative pockets of the country.
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Human rights campaigners argued the tech giants are enabling abuses against women and girls in the ultra-conservative kingdom by hosting the app.
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A well-known ultra-conservative preacher, Abdulhay Yousif, denounced the female sports and youth minister, Walaa Elboushi, for organizing the women's soccer league.
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A well-known ultra-conservative preacher, Abdulhay Yousif, denounced the female sports and youth minister, Walaa Elboushi, for organizing the women's soccer league.
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In recent years, Francis himself has been the butt of insults from ultra-conservative Catholic websites and mostly anonymous anti-pope Twitter feeds.
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Unfortunately for May, she lost her majority, but she clung to power thanks to a deal with the ultra-conservative Democratic Unionist Party.
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Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins, who could vote against an ultra-conservative nominee over fears that the fundamental precedent legalizing abortion, Roe v.
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She took on the ultra-conservative Marshall, who has been in office for more than 20 years and who has taken anti-LGBTQ stances.
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Since taking office, he has aligned himself with the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus, which has become a reliable ally of the Trump White House.
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Saudi Arabia follows the ultra-conservative Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam, but sees Islamist militants as posing the biggest threat to its own stability.
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There were also details of how the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom would increase women's participation in the workforce from 22 percent to 30 percent.
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"Count me in for @HillaryClinton #NeverTrump #ImWithHer" Ben Howe, a prominent writer at the ultra-conservative website Red State, too, is on the list.
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Not long after, and to the delight of the Duggars and Anna's own ultra-conservative parents, Mike and Suzette Keller, the two began courting.
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The ultra-conservative lawmakers in the House Freedom Caucus rejected the budget deal, but they didn't have enough leverage to tank the bill altogether.
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Instead, her party on Friday worked to form a unity government with the ultra-conservative Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) after losing the Conservative majority.
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Banda Aceh, Indonesia (CNN)Two men were caned 83 times Tuesday as a punishment for having homosexual sex in Indonesia's ultra-conservative Aceh province.
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Coeur D'Alene's known for being an ultra conservative town which makes it interesting that so many celebs, from traditionally liberal Hollywood, are flocking there.
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In Manafort's place, Trump recently hired Steve Bannon, CEO of the ultra-conservative website Breitbart News, as the new "chief executive" of the campaign.
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Mrs Fiorina and Mr Cruz also have the same or very similar ultra-conservative views on abortion, transgender bathrooms and other neuralgic social issues.
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Or how to tackle groups that, like Islamic State, use religion to justify an ultra-conservative social agenda—and abhorrent violence to impose it.
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Spain, and especially Catalonia, hosts many Salafists, devotees of an ultra-conservative brand of Sunni Islam; a minority of its adherents favour violent jihad.
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In September, the ultra-conservative evangelical mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Marcelo Crivella, attempted to ban a Marvel comic featuring a same-sex kiss.
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Gab, which has gained popularity with ultra-conservative users who wanted an alternative to Twitter, uses an image of a frog in its logo.
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Being one of 3 black boys in a class of 300 ultra conservative white students is possibly the most difficult thing I've ever done.
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Boteach is an ultra orthodox ultra conservative who is close to Netanyahu and his former patron, casino mogul and Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson.
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Trump met with members of the ultra-conservative lawmaker group in his push to whip up votes for the American Health Care Act (AHCA).
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On Maryland's eastern shore, Jesse Colvin, a former US Army Ranger, is trying to win a heavily gerrymandered district represented by ultra-conservative Rep.
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Zarif did not mention Saudi Arabia by name but the ultra-conservative Sunni Muslim kingdom is the arch-foe of Shi'ite Iran in the region.
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Breitbartism is an ultra-conservative home of the alt-right, a faction of the Republican Party that is known to hold strong white nationalist leanings.
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The ultra-conservative stance even drew objections from some prominent pro-life Republicans, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who said it went too far.
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Upon entering Congress, he became a member of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus, which staged a successful coup against Speaker John Boehner in 2015.
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The Operations Room and its allies, which include ultra-conservative Salafists and locals from Al-Wadi, had moved to push "militias" from Sabratha, he said.
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Someone who knew them both told me that despite Corbally's "ultra-conservative" political views, Cohn's sexual orientation would never have caused him a moment's concern.
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The kingdom, which Mr Trump once called "the world's biggest funder of terrorism", has spent billions of dollars spreading its ultra-conservative brand of Islam.
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Though he opposes the Muslim Brotherhood and its ilk, he has made common cause with the Madkhalis, an ultra-conservative sect backed by Saudi Arabia.
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In the same month too, two young Indonesian men were publicly flogged for gay sex in the ultra-conservative Aceh province which has Islamic laws.
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Though he opposes the Muslim Brothers and their ilk, he has made common cause with the Madkhalis, an ultra-conservative sect backed by Saudi Arabia.
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No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, which Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev blamed on Salafist militants, followers of an ultra-conservative form of Islam.
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Many of these ultra-conservative members are willing to suck it up and vote for a fairly moderate final budget deal to get tax moving.
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New recruits were often sent to indoctrination seminars—lasting between two to 21 days—where they were encouraged to embrace ultra-conservative and frugal lifestyles.
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Moore, who has worked for the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation, is not a fan of the stimulus package, but he is prepared to support it.
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Until now, homosexuality has not been regulated by law in Indonesia, except in the ultra-conservative Aceh province where Islamic law bans same-sex relations.
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Even with the ultra-conservative policy preferences, there's nothing in Sasse's set of declared principles that suggests pursuing that agenda is of life-defining importance.
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The win isn't likely to change Alabama's red political landscape -- where ultra-conservative and biblical Roy Moore is aiming to win election to Alabama's Senate.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center found her name in a 2014 member directory of a secretive ultra-conservative group called the Council for National Policy.
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Muhaysini's father was a well-known cleric from the ultra-conservative town of Bureidah, whose fiercely anti-Western views caused him trouble with the government.
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But to the astonishment of market professionals, even some pension fund managers - the traditionally ultra-conservative guardians of people's retirement incomes - wanted to join them.
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We expect that the ultra conservative House Freedom Caucus members will vote against the bill, and that the deal will ride through with Democratic votes.
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After the 2011 revolution, when religious freedoms were relaxed, there was an upswing in ultra-conservative Salafism, which led to several stambeli shrines being vandalized.
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Saudi Arabia's justice system is based on sharia, or Islamic law, and its judges are clerics from the ultra conservative Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam.
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The law, known as "triple talaq," has already been outlawed in 22 Muslim-majority countries including Pakistan, Bangladesh, and ultra-conservative countries like Saudi Arabia.
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Since 2012, Libyans for the most part stopped marking the occasion, which is viewed as idolatrous by extremist groups, including the ultra-conservative Madkhali-Salafists.
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You probably have an image in your head of the "typical" radicalized individual: male, 18 to 2013 years old, angry, devout, ultra-conservative Muslim, etc.
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We need to open up to what the art of film has to offer and not by into an ultra-conservative moral policing of movies.
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Francis, who is accused by ultra-conservative Catholics of being too accommodating to other religions, praised the effects he said Buddhism has had on Thais.
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For decades, the Maldives was a moderate Islamic nation, but in recent years, it's shifted toward the ultra-conservative ideology of Salafism, an Islamic movement.
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But while that ire has usually been aimed at politicians or breakfast cereals, the ultra-conservative group has a new target: a galaxy far, far away.
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Given Saudi Arabia's notorious human rights record and generally ultra-conservative approach to enforcement of religious law, this might be a light punishment, all things considered.
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Religious police and vigilantes in the ultra-conservative province often raid homes and places of work and detain people on suspicion of engaging in homosexual activity.
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It's because of them that ultra-conservative Mike Huckabee was forced to resign from the Country Music Association Foundation only 24 hours after he was appointed.
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Vitaly Milonov, an ultra-conservative MP, said Western governments were using the group to further their goal of "destroying our country through spiritual and moral decay".
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Just before Mr Kaye arrived in Tokyo to brief the government, a draft of his report was leaked to the Sankei Shimbun, an ultra-conservative newspaper.
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Both Pence and Mulvaney are aligned with the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus and they collectively have more governing experience than all the other factions combined.
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Despite the scandal, the outspoken ultra-conservative Christian fundamentalist, who beat the more mainstream Luther Strange in a GOP primary, was not out of the race.
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But the ultra-conservative militants are holed up in the Old City on the western side of the Tigris river and fighting seems to have stalled.
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Idaho Representative Raúl Labrador is a member of the ultra conservative House Freedom Caucus, the group that didn't support Trumpcare 1.0 because it wasn't cruel enough.
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Republican leadership sources expect the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus to oppose the funding bill, which means they'll need Democratic votes to keep the government open.
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But some refugees and a report by an international NGO seen by Reuters say its members, together with Islamic leaders, have promoted ultra-conservative religious practices.
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Since then, Brat has found his home in Congress in the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus, a group that has cultivated a close relationship with Trump.
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McCarthy needs the votes of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus to become Speaker, and stories like this only help his cause on the hard right.
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Mark Meadows, the chairman of the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus, told CNN yesterday that he'd vote against the leaked Obamacare repeal bill drafted by House Republicans.
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Trump remains overwhelmingly popular among the Republican base, raising concerns about the emergence of ultra-conservative candidates who will struggle to win over general election voters.
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Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Mark Meadows (R-NC) of the House's ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus, are calling for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign. Why?
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Seraphim, the ultra-conservative bishop of the port of Piraeus has said church and nation need to stand together at a time when Greece faces geopolitical threats.
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As one of the leaders in the Freedom Caucus, his group of ultra-conservative lawmakers wield a lot of power in the Trump-era of Republican politics.
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He even welcomed, albeit with a critical eye, the daring social reforms MBS has launched and his crackdown on the kingdom's ultra-conservative Wahhabi clerics opposing them.
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Like their counterparts in the broader movement, members of the Mormon alt-right have cheered white nationalism and anti-immigration policies, while intertwining ultra-conservative LDS ideas.
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As a possibly-closeted member of an ultra-conservative Catholic family, the idea of acting out an LGBTQ+ screen on-stage throws Simon into an emotional tailspin.
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DeVos donated generously to the ultra-conservative Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty and has served on the organization's board for over a decade.
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Liberal and secular-minded Pakistanis say the sheer number of religious party candidates, combined with their ultra-conservative rhetoric, has already shifted the agenda in their direction.
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Meadows will have proven that he can keep his ultra-conservative caucus, which many expected to crack up now that Trump is president, together under the pressure.
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That's not to say the anti-climate change messages Trump espoused on Thursday, and pence parried on Friday morning, don't play well with the ultra-conservative base.
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The gay character in the live-action remake of the 1991 animated version has sparked calls among some ultra-conservative groups around the world for a boycott.
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Democrats have eyed this seat for years -- particularly as Rohrabacher's pro-Russia pronouncements and ultra-conservative views seemed increasingly out of step with his more moderate constituents.
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The character, LeFou, the sidekick to the film's primary villain, Gaston, sparked calls among some ultra-conservative groups around the world for a boycott of the film.
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Republicans had been stung by ultra-conservative candidates who had won primary elections in key states by upending more mainstream alternatives before ultimately losing their general elections.
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The ultra-conservative group did not take a formal position on a continuing resolution (CR), however, because there weren't enough members present at the Monday night meeting.
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Rep. Mark Meadows, the chairman of the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus, told CNN today that he'd vote against the leaked Obamacare repeal bill drafted by House Republicans.
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That means Trump will probably appoint the ninth — and it's probably safe to assume that that ninth justice will be an "ultra-conservative" who favors overturning Roe.
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While some scholars criticize that portrayal as a rewriting of history which overlooks the government's involvement, many Saudis who bristle at the ultra-conservative clergy welcomed it.
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"We had to forego a bunch so that we could be ultra-conservative and protect the money so that there is money for the future," she said.
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The move is part of a series of measures to loosen strict social rules as part of a drive to modernize the ultra-conservative, oil-rich kingdom.
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Harris dropped out of the race and was replaced on the ballot by Dan Bishop, an ultra-conservative state senator who authored North Carolina's controversial bathroom bill.
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It's about the way in which the GOP-big business consensus is now being powerfully squeezed by two separate factions within the party: one ultra-conservative, one populist.
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One of the most prominent is a group known as Alwiyat al Amalqa or "Giants Brigade" -- a predominantly Salafi, or ultra-conservative Sunni -- militia supported by the UAE.
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But if Trump gets the five-plus-member ultra-conservative majority he's angling for, a challenge like that could be either very risky or doomed from the start.
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His family included preachers from the ultra-conservative Salafi school of Sunni Islam, which sees many other branches of the faith as heretical and other religions as anathema.
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Last month, the House Freedom Caucus — a secretive, ultra-conservative faction of Congress — released a list of the Obama administration laws it wants to dismantle starting next year.
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Yiannopoulos, an editor at ultra-conservative online news outlet Breitbart News, was scheduled to speak at the Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys in Canterbury, Kent, this week.
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But the release of the film sparked calls among some ultra-conservative groups around the world for a boycott, including Malaysian censors who tried to pull the film.
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But that was before the ultra-conservative corners of the internet learned about its existence, and started frothing at the mouth over its expansion into the United States.
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May's Conservatives retained the most seats — but she looked set to join forces with ultra-conservative lawmakers from Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party to form a minority government.
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On his first campaign trip to New Hampshire in mid-May, Biden, unbidden, described how he discovered the humanity of the ultra-conservative North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms.
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But if Trump gets the five-plus member ultra-conservative majority he's angling for, a challenge like that could either be very risky, or doomed from the start.
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German magazine Der Spiegel had reported that the man was part of the far-right scene in the past before converting to Salafism, an ultra-conservative Islamist creed.
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"Even ultra-conservative European governments, such as Poland's, which resisted committing themselves to Green Deal goals, didn't object to the bloc striving to meet the objective," they report.
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Representative Justin Amash of Michigan, a member of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus, made headlines this year when he defected from his party over opposition to Trump.
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In his private life it was to make money, and in his public one to implement the ultra-conservative agenda his constituents voted him, and Trump, to push.
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Ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world that bans women from driving, despite ambitious government targets to increase their public role, especially in the workforce.
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But to Mr Raeisi's probable consternation, on April 12th a divisive ultra-conservative former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, also entered the race, despite orders from Mr Khamenei not to stand.
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Her ultra-conservative parents want to repress them, and Thelma herself (played by Eili Harboe) doesn't know what to do with them, especially when they spiral out of control.
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The Gulf Arab kingdom is trying to shed its reputation as a global exporter of an ultra-conservative brand of Islam which critics say has inspired Islamist militants worldwide.
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Authorities have not identified the attackers, but President Nursultan Nazarbayev said they were Salafists, the followers of an ultra-conservative school of Islam, who had received instructions from abroad.
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After all, a long-only physically-backed copper investment to ultra-conservative pension fund managers may be a much easier sell now than it was back in December 2012.
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Ted Yoho — a member of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus — gave a preview of how this fight would play for Trump, vocally opposing the president's plans for State.
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And Qatar has allowed the Taliban, the violent and ultra-conservative Afghan group, to set up an office in Doha in an attempt to foster an Afghan reconciliation dialogue.
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Two witnesses said the gunman was wearing a traditional Arab dishashada, worn by ultra conservative Sunni Salafis who adhere to a puritanical version of Islam and shun Western lifestyles.
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One of these judges may soon be Matthew Kacsmaryk, an ultra-conservative lawyer with no prior judicial experience now nominated by the president to serve as a district judge.
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The only other thing I'd say about the design is it is a little edgy, but what Ford and GM have been doing [is] making ultra-conservative, traditional vehicles.
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To President Donald Trump's most ardent defenders in the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus, the biggest problem with Trump's press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin was the press.
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Beyond that, Saudi-exported, ultra-conservative Wahhabism, which breeds intolerance around the world, is no less dangerous to Western interests than Iran's support for radicalism, regional meddling and expansionism.
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The day after TheBlaze's ultra conservative host had drinks with Trevor Noah, she met Charlamagne -- most likely to discuss why she blew off an appearance on his radio show.
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Jordan, a six-term Ohio congressman and member of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus, is contemplating running for the House Speaker post after current Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisc.
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The ultra-conservative Salafi strain of Islam, with its roots in Saudi Arabia, preaches religious purity and argues that their faith bans the faces of women being portrayed in public.
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The pope asked forgiveness for what he considered an insult to the indigenous after ultra-conservative Catholic militants stole replicas of the statue and dumped them into the Tiber River.
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With the exception of the ultra-conservative Aceh province, where Islamic law is enforced and two men were publicly flogged in May for gay sex, homosexuality is legal in Indonesia.
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Its ultra-conservative Wahhabi clergy have been close to the Al Saud dynasty since the mid-18th century, offering it Islamic legitimacy in return for control over mosques and universities.
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Today in strange bedfellows: The ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus and the Congressional Black Caucus share enthusiasm for the same bill — an infrastructure package with bipartisan and pan-ideological enthusiasm.
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Trump's nomination of Hoekstra over the summer caused a great deal of controversy in the Dutch press due to his ultra-conservative record on issues like LGBTQ rights and immigration.
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Her character is described as being ultra conservative with her social beliefs, but is liberal in her lifestyle and the way she and her wife, Betty, raise Jean's two boys.
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They have crossed party lines to vote in favor of reproductive rights before, but both women also voted in favor of ultra-conservative Neil Gorsuch's Supreme Court appointment last year.
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Ahn Cheol-soo, the candidate of the People's Party, and ultra-conservative Liberty Party of Korea's Hong Joon-pyo were polling at around 18 percent each, according to media reports.
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The kingdom is the godfather of Sunni extremism, working for decades both to put its ultra conservative stamp on Islamic practice worldwide and stifle more moderate iterations of Islamic interpretation.
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"Contrary to what other people think, I don't think Trump is against Iran," Hossein Shariatmadari tells CNN in his office at the headquarters of the country's ultra-conservative Kayhan newspaper.
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The arrests come on the heels of Mohammed bin Salman's month-long tour of Western countries, where he was billed as a modernizer spearheading change in the ultra-conservative kingdom.
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Caplinger found that when they put the Social Security money into an ultra-conservative bank certificate of deposit (CD) yielding 2%, they would "break even" between ages 81 and 84.
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Trump's nomination of Hoekstra over the summer caused a great deal of controversy in the Dutch press due to his ultra-conservative record on issues like gay rights and immigration.
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Jordan, a powerful Republican congressman from Ohio who is a member of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus, was the assistant wrestling coach at the university from 1986 to 1994.
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And while the idea of neo-Nazi converting to an ultra-conservative branch of Sunni Islam might seem inexplicable, Fincher said there were plenty of contradictory stops along the way.
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But these executions served a clear purpose -- to strike fear in the Saudi Shia population while rallying the royal family's ultra-conservative Wahhabi -- the official creed of the Kingdom -- fundamentalist base.
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Women in the ultra-conservative kingdom are bound by law to wear robes and a headscarf, are banned from driving and require consent of a male guardian for most legal actions.
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" Tori 25, Chicago, IL, queer, user experience designer at a technology company "My first professional career job out of college was at an ultra conservative office during the 2016 election cycle.
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The next day, the Vatican accused ultra-conservative Catholic social media of fomenting hate, saying in an editorial that the statues were "an effigy of maternity and the sacredness of life".
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Most of the pastors who signed the Nashville Statement hail from small ultra-conservative congregations which refused to join the consolidation of the Protestant Church of the Netherlands (PKN) in 2004.
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It led to a surge in support for Vox, a previously insignificant ultra-conservative party, which is now polling at 11% and could gain as many as 30 seats in Congress.
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Mark Meadows, who is a member of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus and who has long been asking to review the documents, slammed the DOJ for missing the Thursday deadline.
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"The police escorted the thugs," said Giwa, adding that he believed authorities were being influenced by Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia's official ultra-conservative Sunni Muslim school that often labels Shi'ites as heretical.
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Franken's new scandal does nothing to relieve the plight of ultra-conservative Senate candidate Roy Moore or the daily deluge of damaging stories about his alleged past conduct with teenage schoolgirls.
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It's no surprise the ultra-conservative Church Militant website and its founder, Michael Voris, have seen a surge in popularity within the American Catholic culture following the election of Donald Trump.
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" Meanwhile, Slate describes Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as "moving closer to the right wing fringe," but call out his wife Ginni's ultra-conservative opinions, many expressed on Facebook, as "inappropriate.
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Egged on by the election result, Tsipras said, those 'ultra conservative circles' in Brussels had got to the point of suggesting dismissals of short-term contract workers in the civil service.
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The look is intended to spoof the ultra-conservative Catholic Church, but also to signify the sisters' own nun-like roles as pillars of their community, devoted to charity and social good.
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Pumana stands accused of blasphemy after an edited video and transcript of a campaign speech he made in September appeared online, with ultra-conservative Muslims claiming it showed him insulting the Quran.
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Portugal, which spent a large part of the 20th century until the 1974 Carnation revolution ruled by an ultra-conservative fascist regime, has since made strides in liberal reforms upholding human rights.
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Part of the Roma minority practices an ultra-conservative form of Islam and its women have started wearing full-face veils in recent years, angering nationalists and bewildering other residents of Pazardzhik.
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There's still definitely a chance of a pro-choice doomsday scenario — an ultra-conservative anti-Roe majority, which then gets handed the perfect case it needs to strike down Roe for good.
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"It's sounding like the Acehnese sharia code," he added, referring to the ultra-conservative province at the northern tip of Sumatra island, which is the only Indonesian region to implement Islamic law.
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"ANOTHER far-right party emerges in Europe" bellowed the Daily Express, one of the Leave camp's favourite media outlets, on May 25th above an article on Denmark's ultra-conservative New Civil Party.
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ASTANA (Reuters) - Salafists, the followers of an ultra-conservative school of Islam, were behind a planned attack foiled by Kazakh security services, the head of national security committee KNB said on Thursday.
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His case shows the challenges that Russian security agencies face identifying potential security threats out of the thousands of young people in Russia who are turning to ultra-conservative forms of Islam.
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No details have emerged, but analysts say the visit likely helped him boost ties with ultra-conservative Muslim Salafists, who are counted among his troops and follow Saudi preacher Rabae al-Madkhali.
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GOP leaders and Trump have been scrambling in recent days to appease members of the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus and others in a last-ditch effort to secure support for the measure.
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At base, the fight is over who is the true protector and defender of Muslims: Iran, with its Shia theocratic government, or Saudi Arabia, a monarchy backed by ultra-conservative Sunni clerics.
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"We've been in contact with the new administration and they're doing something different," Hoft said, referring to a Trump administration decision that would award real legitimacy to his popular, ultra-conservative political site.
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Photo: APAn ultra-conservative group representing one of the nation's largest Tea Party coalitions left exposed dozens of internal documents and call lists containing the names and phone numbers of some 21980,20173 supporters.
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The process of framing a bill to do so threatens to expose exactly the same Republican Party fissures between ultra-conservative members and more moderate GOP lawmakers ripped open by the Obamacare duel.
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He says he was on MSNBC four times (!) last weekend, and yet when you search his name and the word "news," you get links to ultra-conservative sites the Daily Caller and Breitbart.
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The Supreme Leader -- currently an ultra-conservative cleric named Ayatollah Ali Khamenei -- helps appoint the Guardian Council, an unelected panel of conservatives that decides who gets to run for president (and who doesn't).
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At Breitbart News, Bannon used news stories to viciously criticize more moderate or left-wing politicians, as well as attacking women, feminists, political correctness, muslims, and trans people through the ultra-conservative site.
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The BfV estimates there are about 40,000 Islamists in Germany, including 9,200 ultra-conservative Islamists known as Salafists, Hans-Georg Maassen, who leads the agency, told Reuters in an interview earlier this month.
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But at 77-years old, McConnell is intent on building a monument to himself as the man who put the federal courts in the hands of ultra-conservative, Koch-backed, Federalist Society judges.
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Traditional Wahhabi doctrine in Saudi Arabia is ultra-conservative, viewing Shi'ites as heretical, but the authorities welcome them to the haj and accepts Iranian visits to the Saudi-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
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Three members of the House Freedom Caucus have jumped into the race to lead the ultra-conservative group next year, several members told The Hill, as Republicans prepare for life in the minority.
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The ultra conservative House Freedom Caucus took down the farm bill, with chairman Mark Meadows saying his group wouldn't vote on it until Republican leaders brought a conservative immigration bill to the floor.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Mosques in Germany run by ultra-conservative Islamists known as Salafists must be banned, their communities broken up and their preachers expelled, German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel told Der Spiegel magazine.
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Novus Ordo Watch, an ultra-conservative Catholic blog, blasted the Vatican over the logo of the trip, which displays the Muslim crescent and the cross together, and derided the pope as "Mr. Coexist".
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Since many state Republicans are skeptical that the ultra-conservative Ward can win in a general election, either man could have a chance at supplanting her as the leading GOP alternative to Flake.
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Faced with the choice of backing the White House or sticking to ultra-conservative principles, Breitbart has chosen a funny combination of decrying a bad bill and steering the blame clear of Trump.
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"The results of the elections whetted the appetite of the old political establishment in Greece and ultra-conservative circles in Brussels to question our political choices and obstruct our plans," Tsipras told journalists.
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As Bangladesh's desperately poor population continues to skyrocket, this battle for the country's soul continues to edge the country away from its heady, idealistic roots and into the arms of the ultra-conservative mullahs.
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Its tweets tended to attack socialism and linked to the website of the U.S. Freedom Army, an obscure group founded by Lewis Shupe, who wrote two books about a fictional ultra-conservative US president.
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The licenses were issued by Saudi authorities in one of the first signs that the ultra-conservative kingdom is modernizing, on the back of a wave of promises by Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman.
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Playboy's identity makes sense only in the context of the ultra-conservative '50s in which it was born, and the sexual revolution of the '60s that it played a small role in ushering in.
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In a tweet on March 1, Madeleine de Jessey, spokeswoman of an ultra-conservative movement that backs Fillon's campaign, referred to "journalists who announced... the suicide of Penelope," but did not give any source.
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The Islamic State group, which controls wide areas of Syria and Iraq, has executed hundreds of people it has accused of working with its enemies or breaching of its ultra-conservative interpretation of Islam.
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Generally speaking, the most heavy political opposition to marriage equality comes from the DUP, a pro-British ultra-conservative party founded by Protestant preacher Ian Paisley at the height of Northern Ireland's divisive conflict.
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In June, the PIF departed from Saudi Arabia's traditional strategy of ultra-conservative investments abroad and took a step into the tech world by purchasing a $3.5 billion stake in U.S. transport firm Uber.
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"In Europe, we see how women's rights are under attack by nationalist and ultra-conservative forces," said Stina Svensson, a coordinator of FUN Europe and a candidate for Feminist Initiative Sweden, in a statement.
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Mike Cernovich -- a member of ultra conservative group MAGA3X -- tells TMZ he and his fellow "deplorables" are banning Nazi salutes and any other racist innuendo at Thursday night's event inside the National Press Club.
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Right now, she has 50 votes in the Senate, which means that Vice President Mike Pence, a friend of the ultra-wealthy, ultra-conservative DeVos family, will cast the deciding vote in her favor.
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President Donald Trump's ultra-conservative EPA chief spent a good 15 minutes on Tuesday morning getting grilled by MSNBC panelists about Trump's recent decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord.
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The GOP conference eventually found itself consumed by infighting as the far-right continually clashed with leadership over the direction of their party, leading to the birth of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus.
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Homosexuality is not regulated by law in Indonesia, except in the ultra-conservative province of Aceh where same-sex acts are banned, but the country has a growing number of bylaws targeting LGBT+ people.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Lebanon's Christian Maronite Patriarch, visiting Saudi Arabia in an historic visit to the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom, expressed support on Tuesday for the reasons behind Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri's resignation.
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Overwhelmed by a sexual hierarchy in which they cannot compete, and immersed in anti-immigration rhetoric and talk of "white genocide," the alt-right has coalesced around an aggressive, ultra-conservative version of white masculinity.
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It remains to be seen how far Saudi Arabia can prevent anti-Shi'ite outbursts by its media or on social media, since Wahhabism, the kingdom's official ultra-conservative Sunni Muslim school, regards Shi'ism as heretical.
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RBG appeared on NPR Wednesday and addressed the deep concerns millions of Americans have expressed over her health and the possibility Donald Trump will get another swing at stacking the court with ultra-conservative justices.
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Brussels' Grand Mosque, which was leased to Saudi Arabia for 99 years in the 1960s as part of an energy deal, has faced repeated accusations from local politicians of propagating ultra-conservative forms of Islam.
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When Trump's advisers, son-in-law Jared Kushner and ultra-conservative adviser Stephen Miller, came to the Capitol to pitch Republican senators on this immigration outline, lawmakers reportedly left with more questions than answers. Sen.
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This is in part because Saudi leaders believe, as the Faisal anecdote shows, that Muslim-majority societies can only be ruled and kept stable by holding back modernity and giving the people ultra-conservative rule.
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Cons of seeing it with family: Families with ultra-conservative members should be prepared for someone to get offended over the film's open paganism: multiple gods, demigods, people dying and coming back as animal spirits.
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Last year, during a visit to Saudi Arabia, Obama administration officials raised the issue of Saudi funding to build mosques in Europe and Africa that are helping to spread an ultra-conservative strain of Islam.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Rights groups on Tuesday condemned the actions of religious police in Indonesia's ultra-conservative province of Aceh, where a dozen transgender people were detained at hair salons at the weekend and "publicly shamed".
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Critics of the kingdom say the government does not do enough to prevent the teachings of some of its ultra-conservative clergy from fanning militancy overseas as well as a domestic security threat at home.
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That means any Senate bill is unlikely to meet a promise Ryan made to the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus to only consider immigration proposals that have the support of at least half the Republican Conference.
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Brat, a member of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus who entered the House after a surprising 85033 primary victory over then-House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), has been endorsed by President Trump.
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Saudi women must have permission from a male relative to work, marry and travel under the ultra-conservative Islamic kingdom's guardianship system, which has faced scrutiny following recent cases of Saudi women seeking refuge overseas.
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Pakistan's best known squash player is Maria Toorpakay Wazir, ranked 65 in the world, but to train she spent years dressing and pretending to be a boy in the ultra-conservative tribal areas near Afghanistan.
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But on Monday, the Kingdom announced its 35-year ban on movie theaters is finally coming to an end, marking yet another social change in a land notorious for its ultra-conservative interpretation of Islam.
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Even if, as expected, they win few seats, liberal and secular-minded Pakistanis say the sheer number of religious party candidates, combined with their ultra-conservative rhetoric, has already shifted the agenda in their direction.
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House GOP conference in 85003: Centrist Republicans are set to exit Congress, while the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus will add to its membership (and perhaps its leadership) following the results of this month's elections.
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"He's conservative, of course, but people think he's more ultra-conservative than he is because of some things he said on the radio show," said Maddie Anderson, a spokeswoman for the National Republican Congressional Committee.
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By cutting de Villiers down to size, Macron swung a punch too at a wing of the ultra-conservative Catholic aristocracy - a grouping that backed Francois Fillon, one of his main rivals for the presidency.
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Until a vote occurs, Ryan is in a position familiar to his often infuriated predecessor John Boehner -- who endured political and fiscal cliffs and running showdowns with the ultra conservative Freedom Caucus while he was speaker.
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Abolishing it would greatly reduce the Catholic coffers, which in the world of The Young Pope is not something Catholicism can afford, since Catholics are fleeing Pius' ultra-conservative regime and taking their money with them.
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On the ultra-conservative front, a growing movement in and around the House Freedom Caucus has increasingly used the banner of "crony capitalism" to oppose more and more of the mainstream business, Chamber of Commerce agenda.
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The ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus threatened to vote against moving the tax bill on to conference with the Senate, leading to arguments on the House floor and nearly adding an unexpected complication into the process.
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In Sabratha, local security forces include veterans of the uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 as well as Salafists, an ultra-conservative Muslim group that has expanded its influence across the vast North African country.
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But in recent years, a series of reforms have swept through the ultra-conservative kingdom, curtailing the powers of the kingdom's religious police, granting women a growing list of rights, and cracking down on religious incitement.
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Two Muslim community sources in Kattankudy told Reuters his hardline views were partly shaped by ultra-conservative Salafi-Wahhabi texts that he picked up at the Centre for Islamic Guidance's library around 2-3 years ago.
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But a recent report by Poland's national broadcasting council found that the most partisan outlets were pro-PiS ones, such as Telewizja Republika and TV Trwam (run by Father Tadeusz Rydzyk, an ultra-conservative Catholic priest).
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The Canadian poll results were generally hailed as a pleasant surprise, while the British investigation was seen as fresh, depressing evidence that followers of Islam were ultra-conservative in their social attitudes and ambivalent towards violence.
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On his retirement in 2013, the former British and Commonwealth chief rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks, made the controversial statement that the future of diaspora Judaism was overshadowed both by assimilationist liberals and by ultra-conservative introverts.
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As the activists organized into formation and and donned their red Handmaid's Tale-inspired costumes, I chatted to locals in Lisburn outside the offices of the ultra-conservative Democratic Unionist Party, where ROSA plan to protest.
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Critics of the Saudi kingdom say the government does not do enough to prevent the teachings of some of its ultra-conservative clergy from fanning militancy overseas as well as a domestic security threat at home.
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The Bundesverfassungsschutz domestic intelligence agency estimates that there are about 40,000 Islamists in Germany, including 9,200 ultra-conservative Islamists known as Salafists, Hans-Georg Maassen, who leads the agency, told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday.
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Experts, however, say male relatives can still obstruct women defying their wishes through legal avenues or informal routes in the ultra-conservative kingdom, where it will take time to change views on gender and social customs.
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But picking an ultra-conservative as his nominee would carry risk because Trump would have to rely on some moderate Republicans to win approval in the U.S. Senate, where his fellow Republicans have a narrow majority.
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Maksim Bozic, an Orthodox Serb convert to Islam, and Edin Hastor, a Bosniak Muslim, both members of the ultra-conservative Salafi movement, were found guilty of cooperating with unnamed persons in obtaining weapons and explosive device.
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And not just with ultra-conservative lawmakers; individual members of the Tuesday Group, an informal band of several dozen relatively moderate Republicans, have said they want to keep some of the essential health benefits in place.
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"They have changed from ultra-conservative to ultra-aggressive" when it comes to alliances, said Michael Dunne, a veteran Asian auto industry analyst, and CEO of Zozo Go, an auto consulting service that specializes in Asia.
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What emerges is an intellectual portrait of a jurist committed to an ultra-conservative philosophy, one that grants the executive extraordinary power and threatens longstanding laws and precedents that protect civil rights in the United States.
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Like ISIS in the Middle East and al-Shabaab in Africa, the Taliban often uses ultra-conservative interpretations of the Quran to force women into cruel marriages with huge age differences where wives may be abused.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Ultra-conservative Catholic militants admitted they stole statues they consider to be Amazon pagan idols from a church near the Vatican on Monday and dumped them from a bridge into the Tiber River.
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C.) said he hopes to replace founding Freedom Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who several sources say is expected to step down after leading the influential bloc of ultra-conservative House members the past two years.
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Unlike the generally peaceful protests launched by the Atyrau activists, the Aktobe attack, blamed on followers of Salafism, an ultra-conservative school of Islam, stunned the ex-Soviet republic of 18 million with its unprecedented violence.
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Town Hall Project, not to be confused with ultra-conservative site Townhall, is a collective directly aimed at spurring voters to turn out for town halls, seeing their representatives face-to-face and holding them accountable.
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Colbert first made a name for himself by playing the role of an ultra-conservative newsman on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, and has already infused more politics into the Late Show than his predecessor David Letterman.
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Far-right YouTube is the internet age equivalent of conservative talk radio: It's a place for ultra-conservative commentators to react vehemently, personally, emotionally to the news of the day and the creeping horrors of American progressivism.
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And what's more, Whole Woman's Health was decided with a five-vote majority — a pro-Roe voting bloc that will remain intact even if Trump appoints an ultra-conservative ninth justice to replace the late Antonin Scalia.
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" A day later, Trump tweeted that he was banning transgender people from serving in the military, and announced that Sam Brownback, the ultra-conservative governor of Kansas, would serve as "ambassador at large for international religious freedom.
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Any meddling with the ¥140 trillion ($1.27 trillion) pot that funds the state pension is politically fraught—as Hiromichi Mizuno, the first chief investment officer of the ultra-conservative Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), is finding out.
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Another is the power of the sprawling ruling family and ultra-conservative clerics to block the other reforms needed to attract investment: promoting a vigorous private sector, fostering transparency and the rule of law, and empowering women.
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Goodlatte and Gowdy's announcement comes after members of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus criticized the format of the planned sit-down, which was limited to top Republicans and Democrats on the two panels — only four lawmakers.
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Cruz, rigid ultra-conservative son of a Cuban-refugee-turned-evangelical-Protestant-pastor is a 2202 to one shot in any state that is more Catholic than evangelical and most major states are more Catholic than evangelical.
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After first helping to sink the original Republican healthcare bill, known as the American Health Care Act (AHCA), the group of ultra-conservative House members decided to lodge its support behind the bill following a few changes.
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So let's say Trump has appointed those two ultra-conservative justices, and that all three of the other conservatives on the Court are willing to join them and set precedent on fire by overturning Roe v. Wade.
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It's especially stark among Republicans in this working-class congressional district represented by Mark Meadows, the chairman of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus, which is opposing the Republican bill because it doesn't scale back government enough.
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To make this happen, Republicans will have to pull off a practical miracle of writing a bill that can be supported by the bulk of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus and also at least 10 Democratic senators.
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Todd Akin emerged from a competitive GOP primary with help from evangelicals and from Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill, who highlighted his ultra-conservative views in an ad because she suspected he would be her weakest general election opponent.
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Saudi Arabia on Tuesday announced that women will be allowed to drive for the first time in the ultra-conservative kingdom next summer, fulfilling a key demand of women's rights activists who faced detention for defying the ban.
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MADRID, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Spain's ultra-conservative Vox party has filed a criminal complaint in a Spanish court against Twitter, alleging the social media company violated its basic rights by blocking it from tweeting, Vox said on Friday.
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For although Afghan women regained the right to go to school, vote, and to work since the ultra-conservative Taliban was overthrown in 2001, the nation's economic and security crisis makes it difficult for women to access education.
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The best way to counter all this, in Mr Ercolessi's view, is to showcase an important but neglected fact: many of the new arrivals in Europe are not bringing ultra-conservative religion with them, but fleeing from it.
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The ultra-conservative Nour Party believes it has no choice but to support Sisi if it wants to survive in a country where Islamists of other stripes are a political and military target for the army-backed authorities.
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Three female party members said other voters and authorities securing the polling stations appeared surprised to see the group of women wearing all-encompassing burqa gowns and niqabs, the full-face veils worn by ultra-conservative Muslim women.
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The complaint over four paintings, displayed last week at a shopping mall in northeastern Thailand, highlights how ultra-conservative Buddhist groups have been emboldened to go farther than establishment religious authorities in combating perceived threats to their faith.
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In the most extreme scenario, traditionalist prelates might formally declare that Francis had lost all moral authority and start consecrating like-minded bishops without papal approval, as Marcel Lefebvre, an ultra-conservative French archbishop, did in the 1980s.
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They'd set their hopes highest on Bolton, Trump's ultra-conservative former national security advisor, whose leaked book manuscript reportedly recounts damning conversations with Trump about getting Ukraine to roll out an investigation of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
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But some fear such progress is threatened by the rise of the ultra-conservative Vox party, which casts the feminist movement as a radical enemy of traditional family values and is now the third largest force in parliament.
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Since Ward's other opponent, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, is scooping up some of the ultra-conservative, Trump-loving voters that Ward hoped to win, she needs to tack hard right to steal them back — and fast.
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"I think that the disappointment stems from, you know, Nintendo's ultra-conservative guidance ... for the current fiscal (year) that we're currently in," Serkan Toto, CEO of Tokyo-based game industry consultancy Kantan Games, told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Friday.
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Highlighting Loujain's conditions as a political prisoner is vital; however, the media ought to also showcase her peaceful activism over the years -- activism that ignited one of the biggest social reforms ever seen in the ultra-conservative absolute monarchy.
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With the exception of the ultra-conservative Aceh province in northern Sumatra, where Islamic law is enforced and two men were publicly flogged last month for gay sex, homosexuality is legal in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country.
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No one has claimed responsibility for the three killings and no motive has been made clear, but some of the ultra-conservative Salafists back secession for southern Yemen, and have been a major component of the breakaway southern army.
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That means the Republican establishment still has no answer to Mr Trump's assault on conservative ideology and their party's good name; or to Ted Cruz, an ultra-conservative troublemaker who won in Iowa and came third in New Hampshire.
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Salinas himself once belonged to the ultra-conservative Sodalitium, whose members include businessmen, writers and politicians from Peru's upper classes and which was founded as part of a backlash against "Liberation Theology", which took the side of the poor.
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PARIS (Reuters) - A French Muslim won a court order on Tuesday lifting a travel ban she says was imposed due to her ultra-conservative Salafist beliefs, in a case exposing tensions between France's official secularism and its Muslim minority.
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These roles are created and assigned by the Sons of Jacob, an ultra-conservative Christian group that stages a terrorist attack in an attempt to suspend the US Constitution, overtake the government, and create a new society named Gilead.
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Germany has seen sharp increases in the number of ultra-conservative Islamists known as Salafists in recent years, with the total number of sympathizers now seen at 8,900, up from 7,000 at the end of 2014, German officials have said.
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The tweet was directed at the Freedom Caucus, the group of ultra-conservative Republicans whose roughly 30 members oppose the bill for being too similar to Obamacare, and that Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan have sought to win over.
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Celebrating Halloween, along with Christmas and other holidays common in many countries, is forbidden in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom, though in practice many foreigners and some Saudis observe such occasions and also drink alcohol in private despite it being illegal.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Most French people want Muslims suspected of harboring extremist views detained if they appear on spy agency watchlists and would back a ban on ultra-conservative Salafist Islam, two polls showed after the latest deadly attack in France.
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The NTJ is reported to have formed as a splinter of the Sri Lanka Thowheed Jamath (SLTJ) an ultra-conservative Islamist movement with ties to like-minded groups in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, a short distance across the sea.
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Saudi Arabia is at the heart of Sunni Islam and ruled by an ultra-conservative monarchy, whereas Iran is an Islamic republic and the home of Shia Islam, a different strand of the religion vying for ideological dominance in the region.
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Conservative members won't vote to raise the debt ceiling without significant spending cuts, and Mark Meadows, chairman of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus, has already said he thinks it's wrong to use hurricane funding to dodge this thorny issue.
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The House Freedom Caucus — a group of around 35 ultra-conservative House Republicans who can block their party's leadership on key legislation — is in the final stages of drafting its own tax plan, according to sources familiar with the process.
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Around the same time, the ultra-conservative think tank Japan Institute for National Fundamentals called on English-language media and specifically the Japan Times to refer to plaintiffs in the Seoul case as "wartime Korean workers," leaving out references to coercion.
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The head-scarfed new roommate struggles to adjust to the (relatively) promiscuous lifestyle of her roommates and hides all traces of debauchery in the apartment (alcohol bottles, ashtrays, pipes) in a panic when visited by her ultra-conservative fiancé Wissam.
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That vision showcased in a promotional video at an international investment conference in Riyadh this week bears little resemblance to the kingdom's present where an oil "addiction" has created dependency on state handouts and a puritanical clergy imposes ultra-conservative mores.
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Leaders of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus, who have leverage in spending talks whenever Democrats aren't on board, have been some of the most outspoken proponents of the wall, and are promising to push for it again after the elections.
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If Trump rejects this proposal because he refuses to accept a permanent solution for the Dreamers, whom he once claimed he loves, he would be admitting in plain view of the nation that he is the hostage of ultra-conservative factions.
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The ugliest manifestation of this, and the second worry, is Vox, a previously insignificant ultra-conservative party which rode anger about Catalan separatism and illegal immigration to win 11% of the vote in a regional election in Andalucía in December.
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Enough wins at the state level could mean the difference between an ultra-conservative state government and a more bipartisan one, and because Texas also elects its judges, Republicans' 22010 gains in county judicial seats could be in the balance.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman held a rare meeting with American evangelical Christians on Thursday, as the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom seeks to open up more to the world and repair an image of religious intolerance.
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So stridently has Poland's ultra-conservative leadership bucked EU norms by tampering with its judiciary, for example, that Brussels has begun legal proceedings against it -- a first in EU history -- which could deprive Warsaw of its voting rights in EU bodies.
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Luther StrangeLuther Johnson StrangeGOP frets over nightmare scenario for Senate primaries Roy Moore trails Republican field in Alabama The Hill's Morning Report — US strikes approved against Iran pulled back MORE, is running behind ultra-conservative challenger Roy Moore in the polls.
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More than 90 percent of Algeria's 40 million people are Sunni Muslims The question of Islamic activism outside mainstream, state-sanctioned Sunni Islam is sensitive following a 1990s civil war with armed, ultra-conservative Islamists that killed more than 200,000 people.
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If these ultra-conservative House members come back from recess and ask for things leadership can't deliver — like defunding Planned Parenthood or cutting the payments to Obamacare insurers — then leadership and the White House will have a new crisis on their hands.
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But just because the court has occasionally pulled back when its authority was most seriously threatened — from the Civil War to the New Deal and Roberts' Obamacare compromise — does not guarantee it will do so again with its new ultra-conservative majority.
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None of the family of the comatose man family had any objection to his marriage being formally ended, but a bid to overturn the divorce was launched by an unrelated individual, an ultra-conservative, and the Chief Rabbinical Court agreed to consider it.
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Hundreds of thousands of Californians who intended to register as independents may have accidentally registered instead with the ultra-conservative American Independent Party (AIP), which opposes abortion rights and same-sex marriage, and calls for building a fence along the entire U.S. border.
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People in this ultra-conservative camp were sceptical, back in 1998, when the first set of bodies were interred; that was partly because of their antipathy for the liberal government of the day, headed by President Boris Yeltsin, which organised the interment.
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If an anti-Trump landslide sweeps away House GOP members in more moderate districts, it could hand more relative power to the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus and give him the same kinds of fits that it imposed on John Boehner, his predecessor.
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That task got much more complicated last week when a collection of outside groups aligned with the ultra-conservative and powerful House Freedom Caucus pushed to extend current funding levels into the spring and not have any lame duck session at all.
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The most remarkable, albeit nascent, transformation is in ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia, where Muhammad bin Salman, the young crown prince, has curbed the religious police, sacked thousands of imams and launched a new Centre for Moderation to censor "fake and extremist texts".
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In Tehran, two ultra-conservative ayatollahs, Mohammad Yazdi, the current chairman, and Mohammad-Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, who played a crucial role in the rise to power of former hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, lost their seats in parliament, The Guardian's Iran correspondent reported.
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This helps explain a key contradiction in the Saudi system: Saudi Arabia's ruling royals are, by all appearances, personally fairly liberal (relatively speaking), yet they enforce some of the most conservative laws on Earth and promote an ultra-conservative official state ideology.
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" In a year marked by ultra-conservative movements in Europe and the United States, Leitch's vault from relative obscurity to Conservative front-runner is in part boosted by media fascination with the parallels between her "Canadian values" and Trump's "Make America great again.
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However, according to recent reports by Uproxx and Afropunk, that free love, left-wing spirit is allegedly more of a façade—as the festival's owner has been accused of funding ultra-conservative political causes such as climate change denial and anti-LGBTQ organizations.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A group of 19 Catholic priests and academics have urged bishops to denounce Pope Francis as a heretic, in the latest ultra-conservative broadside against the pontiff over a range of topics from communion for the divorced to religious diversity.
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At the same time, Germany has seen sharp increases in the number of ultra-conservative Islamists known as Salafists in recent years, with the total number of sympathizers now seen at 8,900, up from 7,000 at the end of 2014, German officials said.
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Visa also redesigned its logo not too long ago, but that actually took away the one bit of visual intrigue it had and left us with a drab, dark blue wordmark that looked like it was devised by Facebook's ultra-conservative brand artists.
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At ultra-conservative evangelical Liberty University, for example, which is known for its institutional support for Donald Trump, president Jerry Falwell Jr. announced last Friday that the university was considering canceling its merchandising deal with Nike if it genuinely supports Kaepernick's protest.
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A large chunk of centrist Republicans were either wiped out at the polls on Tuesday or are planning to retire at the end of this Congress, while the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus is actually expected to expand its ranks next year.
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In backing such a dealmaker, the reformists hoped that in alliance with moderate conservatives and independents they would be able to block the three main ultra-conservative leaders - Ahmad Jannati, Mohammad Yazdi and Mohammad Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi - from emerging as Khamenei's successor.
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He is facing a Republican challenger from the right — Paul Nehlen — an ultra-conservative business owner who failed to oust Ryan in 2016, and doesn't look to have much of an electoral chance, but once had the support of then-presidential nominee Trump.
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" In a year marked by ultra-conservative movements in Europe and the United States, Leitch's vault from relative obscurity to Conservative front-runner is in part boosted by media fascination with the parallels between her "Canadian values" and Trump's "Make America great again.
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From the expansion of the tourism frontier by opening the country up to non-religious citizens to the introduction of mixed-gender concerts to the lifting of the ban on women driving, Saudi Arabia continues to shake off its ultra-conservative image.
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" In contrast to Sime Silverman, Peter Besas wrote in 21989 in "Inside Variety: The Story of the Bible of Show Business (24-103)," Syd was "ultra conservative in business ventures," a "staunch defender of the status quo" and a "measured vigilant administrator.
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The report details "a wide variety of US-supplied armored vehicles equipped with heavy machine guns" in the hands of the Giants Brigade, a predominantly Salafi, or ultra-conservative Sunni, militia, as well as UAE-backed militias Security Belt and Shabwani elite forces.
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The ultra-conservative Vox, a political newcomer that won about 10 percent of the vote in April's national election and recently enabled the center-right to take over the Madrid city hall, has increasingly attacked the festival and LGBT rights in Spain.
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Ultra-conservative in taste he may have been, but Franz Joseph's duty was to all the peoples of his empire, and he tried to guarantee the freedoms—of movement, of religion, of the press and of equal rights—that the liberal constitution of 1867 enshrined.
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In a video viewed by Reuters but later taken down from Youtube, principal Masyahadi outlines the institution's adherence to Salafism, an ultra-conservative brand of Sunni Islam that urges followers to emulate the lives of the earliest disciples of Mohammad and embrace sharia law.
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" Or as Mark Meadows — who as chairman of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus is one of the most influential lawmakers in Congress — put it to me on Saturday: "The next few months will demonstrate the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.
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Earlier this week, Prince Mohammed met Coptic Pope Tawadros II at Cairo's largest Coptic cathedral, as the Gulf Arab kingdom tries to shed its reputation as a global exporter of an ultra-conservative brand of Islam which critics say has inspired Islamist militants worldwide.
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After all, American political culture has only become more insidious since the Bush era—in 2009, the ultra-conservative Project Veritas came to prominence via a hidden-camera sting on ACORN, a national organization that sought to help low-income Americans register to vote.
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"Democrats have failed to demonstrate a strong, unified resistance to this nominee, despite the fact that he is an ultra-conservative jurist who will undermine our basic freedoms and threaten the independence of the federal judiciary," wrote the groups, including NARAL Pro-Choice America, MoveOn.
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It is considered a better barometer of the overall sentiment of the Republican base than Iowa, which in recent years has anointed the ultra-conservative candidate out of the GOP pack, or New Hampshire, whose large bloc of independent voters can produce unpredictable outcomes.
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The ultra conservative family dominated the network's programming with the reality show 19 Kids and Counting until this summer, when news broke that Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar's eldest son Josh Duggar had inappropriately touched five underaged girls (including Jessa and Jill) as a teen.
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The big question mark comes in the House, where Nancy Pelosi has said she'll oppose any deal that doesn't include protections for Dreamers, and Republican leadership seems uncertain whether they'll get the Democratic votes they need to overcome opposition from the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus.
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Kaczynski said ahead of the European election that in casting their votes Poles would be deciding on the "preservation of family values, ... the future of Polish tradition and the Church in our country," according to an interview with the ultra-conservative Gazeta Polska weekly.
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The visit culminated with the signing of a pledge to "counter violent extremism, disrupt the financing of terrorism and advance defense cooperation" between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia and agreeing to a massive arms sale to the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom worth nearly $110 billion.
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Greaves has frequently argued that this sovereignty is sacrosanct, even for views he finds repugnant: He has, for example, defended the right of ultra-conservative firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos to speak at California Polytechnic University after students purporting to be Satanists led a protest against him.
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Wahhabism, the ultra-conservative branch of Islam that emerged in Saudi Arabia some 250 years ago, regards the veneration of objects, especially those predating the Prophet Mohammed's life in the 7th century, as tantamount to idolatry, and has advocated their neglect or outright destruction.
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The April 2017 gubernatorial election in Jakarta saw the formation of a troubling alliance between two established political parties and an ultra-conservative Islamist party against incumbent governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, also known as "Ahok,", a Christian who has since been imprisoned on blasphemy charges.
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But with the Democratic nomination now in his hands, Gillum is set to become the central target of DeSantis, a three-term congressman with wider national experience, who has played to Trump's base of ultra-conservative voters with his frequent appearances on Fox News.
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KATTANKUDY, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Sri Lanka is moving to curtail Saudi Arabian influence, after some politicians and Buddhist monks blamed the spread of the kingdom's ultra-conservative Wahhabi school of Islam for planting the seeds of militancy that culminated in deadly Easter bomb attacks.
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"The Pyeongchang Olympics is degrading to a Pyongyang Olympics of Kim Jong Un who is propagating the North Korean system and trying to make its nuclear weapons a done deal", said Cho Won-jin, a ultra-conservative lawmaker who led the rally, according to a video footage.
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It will be about the unity of Spain and it will be a contest between the Socialists on the one hand and a three-headed block to the right of centre in which Ciudadanos has lined up with the PP and Vox, a new ultra-conservative party.
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His German successor, Benedict XVI, was greeted warily at first and some things happened during his papacy which Jews found troubling: for example the lifting of the excommunication of four ultra-conservative bishops, one of whom had called in question the accepted facts about the holocaust.
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But apart from finessing their various differences with each another, most of the 14 leaders, patriarchs and archbishops meeting on Crete will have to look behind their shoulders at ultra-conservative critics in their respective home patches, who find the whole idea of church diplomacy rather suspicious.
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There was a bunch of handwringing among the Democratic Party consulting class about Barack Hussein Obama maybe losing too much Jewish support to win in 2008 and 2012 but he did just fine among Jewish voters, who, outside the ultra-conservative Hasidic community, tend to vote Democratic.
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"I will not hide the fact that almost every day we uncover people ... who have returned (from abroad) and start spreading the Wahhabi ideology here," Azizov told reporters, referring to the ultra-conservative strand of Islam that inspires some militant groups and is banned in Uzbekistan.
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"Black Panther," currently the 230th-highest-grossing film of all time, will premiere in Riyadh on the opening weekend of a new AMC-owned theater, the first to open since Saudi Arabia completely banned cinemas in the 1980s when it embraced an ultra-conservative form of Sunni Islam.
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"Black Panther," currently the 20173th-highest-grossing film of all time, will premiere in Riyadh on the opening weekend of a new AMC-owned theater, the first to open since Saudi Arabia completely banned cinemas in the 1980s when it embraced an ultra-conservative form of Sunni Islam.
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Battles like that fractured the Republican Party in the wake of Barack Obama's election in 2008 — stoking the flames of the tea party and the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus, and leading to ideological gridlocks in Congress that prevented Republicans from accomplishing things like a long-promised repeal of Obamacare.
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Ambassador Smith said that while the threat is likely empty, it could allow the Saudis an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone: address long-standing criticisms of its ultra-conservative, low-yielding investment policy, and allow the leadership to be seen standing up to the United States.
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Despite the state's ultra-conservative reputation, this is a recent development: When the party rose to power in the 1990s, and then achieved dominance in the 2000s, its leading figures—Governors George W. Bush and Rick Perry—prevented right-wing lawmakers from passing Arizona-style anti-immigration laws.
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After one such attack, in 2017, the Sri Lankan human rights lawyer Gehan Gunatilleke told me that the government's inadequate response is "legitimizing ultra-conservative" Muslim groups, noting that some of the Muslim groups are trying to outdo each on their radicalism to please their Middle Eastern backers.
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Both men used persuasion and threats in the tense hours running up to the vote, focusing especially on the members of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus who believe the "American Health Care Act" does not go far enough to eradicate former President Barack Obama's prized domestic political achievement.
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Had Mr Rubio merely repeated his Iowa performance, beating Mr Bush, Mr Kasich and Mr Christie to come third, he would have been swiftly identified as the man likeliest to foil Mr Trump and Ted Cruz, the ultra-conservative winner in Iowa, whom his party's establishment also loathe.
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So it's fascinating for someone of a Western perspective to step into a story like this: the ultra-conservative, Wahhabism-practicing kingdom of Saudia Arabia had their sports authorities stop a match on Friday to cut a player's hair because they deemed it "anti-Islamic," Daily Mail reports.
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Given that many of the new arrivals are from countries dominated by Islam or other conservative religious beliefs, he detected a widespread concern even on the European centre-left that waves of migration might increase the number of ultra-conservative immigrant micro-communities, portending a "new obscurantism" on the continent.
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Britain, meanwhile, has a contentious set of policies whose declared aim is "preventing violent extremism"—an approach that carefully includes both white-nativist conspiracies and the Islamist sort, and also rests on the belief that "non-violent extremism" (such as ultra-conservative Islamic theology) could be a gateway to terror.
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Numerous bills have been introduced to chip away at the healthcare system, the most extreme being two proposed by ultra-conservative Congressman Steve King of Iowa calling for a full and rapid repeal and a ban on the use of Obamacare-related Supreme Court decisions from being used as legal citations.
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Ryan didn't have any more luck dealing with the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus than his predecessor as Speaker, John BoehnerJohn Andrew BoehnerLobbyists race to cash in on cannabis boom Rising star Ratcliffe faces battle to become Trump's intel chief This little engine delivers results for DC children MORE (R-Ohio).
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If an ultra-conservative justice had been in Kennedy's place, though, the Supreme Court would have likely come down on the side on Scalia, who wrote in 2006 that the Clean Water Act should only protects major water bodies—not the small streams and wetlands that Obama sought to protect.
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The difficulty and rarity of actually getting the Court to hear a case: So let's say Trump has appointed two or three ultra-conservative justices, and that two or three of the other conservatives on the Court are willing to join them and set precedent on fire by overturning Roe v. Wade.
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A member of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus, Clawson was one of 25 Republicans who voted against John BoehnerJohn Andrew BoehnerLobbyists race to cash in on cannabis boom Rising star Ratcliffe faces battle to become Trump's intel chief This little engine delivers results for DC children MORE for Speaker in January 2015.
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The Telegraph believes the government has set up the camps on a former military base roughly six miles away from the capital Grozny, and also reports that the facility has been used to imprison accused drug dealers and alleged members of the Salafi movement, an ultra-conservative branch of Islam associated with terrorists.
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The moment was just the latest manifestation of something strange about Washington's foreign policy community: It is deeply, viscerally committed to defending and advocating for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a country whose authoritarian government, ultra-conservative values, and extremist-promoting foreign policy would seem like an unusual passion project for American foreign policy professionals.
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The political legitimacy of the Saudi royal family rests largely on its religious credentials, which it gets at home from the support of the country's ultra-conservative Wahhabi religious establishment, and internationally from being the "custodian" of the two holiest places in Islam, the Prophet Mohammed's mosque in Medina and Masjid al-Haram in Mecca.
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Twitter is filled with haters — including some prominent anti-immigration voices like ultra conservative Ann Coulter and Infowars' Alex Jones — targeting immigrants and foreigners in the U.S. So a military veterans group called Vets Fight Hate teamed up with the Southern Poverty Law Center to take on the anti-immigration trolls roaming the internet.
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The legitimacy of the Saudi royal family rests largely on its religious credentials, which it gets at home from the support of the country's ultra-conservative Wahhabi religious establishment and internationally from being the "custodian" of the two holiest places in Islam, the Prophet Mohammed's mosque in Medina and the Grand Mosque in Mecca.
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But if Trump and the GOP are serious about a health care reform plan, they'll need to solve a paradox: How do you appease the moderates in your party who thought the consequences of the repeal went too far while also appeasing the ultra-conservative in your party who didn't think they went far enough?
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Sen. Bernie Sanders is furious over President-elect Donald Trump's appointment of ultra-conservative Steve Bannon and made that clear during a speech Wednesday evening at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Sanders called for the former chairman of conservative news outlet Breitbart News to be removed from his new White House post as Trump's chief strategist.
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And many people will remember that the president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, has been indicated by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, including mass killings and rape against civilians in Darfur, and that his government is one of the most repressive and intolerant theocratic regimes in Africa with an ultra-conservative application of Sharia law.
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And to be sure, there are some ultra conservative members who are also deeply at risk of losing their seats, including House Freedom Caucus members Rod Blum (R-Iowa) and Dave Brat (R-Va.) But the majority of the GOP's vulnerable seats — and a large share of the conference's retiring members — are more closely aligned to the center.
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He's exited the Paris climate deal; signed major tax cuts, especially for corporations; confirmed an ultra-conservative Supreme Court justice and record numbers of circuit court judges; deregulated like crazy; exited the Iran deal; exited the TPP trade deal; repealed the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate; and moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing it as Israel's capital.
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What is the connection between the socially ultra-conservative "Common Sense" current, which espouses a "neither-nor" ("ni-ni") line in refusing to vote for either Le Pen or Macron in the run-off, and the socially liberal leanings of Les Républicains luminaries like former prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin or former cabinet minister François Baroin?
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While Jordan had been flirting with a bid for Speaker, McCarthy — the heir apparent to retiring Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) — would need backing from Jordan and his 30-member ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus to secure the top leadership post.
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According to Goldberg, the president implicates "allies like Saudi Arabia with abetting the radicalization of Muslims worldwide" by financing madrassas that teach Wahhabism, the ultra-conservative brand of Sunni Islam espoused by al-Qaeda, the Islamic State (also known as ISIS, ISIL or Daesh) and Boko Haram, which has been on a killing spree in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon.
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As for anyone confused about why a Republican congressman from an ultra-conservative right-to-work state like Oklahoma is suddenly concerned about workers being treated like commodities and would propose a bill that could lead to the unionization of an industry, Markwayne Mullin, before getting elected to Congress, was a mixed martial artist himself, with firsthand experience, he says, of witnessing promoter mistreatment.
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In the winter it's easy to bundle up in ultra conservative sweaters topped with puffy ski jackets to ensure even someone with x-ray vision won't be able to make out any semblance of a female figure, and when the hot summer sun arrives you can strip down to light layers, like a nice mumu and baggy sweats, or full-length overalls paired with a fashionable turtleneck.
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C.), the chairman of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus; White House budget director Mick MulvaneyJohn (Mick) Michael MulvaneyDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Chris Wallace becomes Trump era's 'equal opportunity inquisitor' Appropriators warn White House against clawing back foreign aid MORE; David Bossie, deputy campaign manager on Trump's 2016 presidential campaign; and Treasury Secretary Steven MnuchinSteven Terner MnuchinPelosi warns Mnuchin to stop 'illegal' .
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According to Goldberg, the president implicates "allies like Saudi Arabia with abetting the radicalization of Muslims worldwide," by financing madrassas that teach Wahhabism, the ultra-conservative brand of Sunni Islam espoused by al Qaeda; the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, also known as ISIS, ISIL or Daesh; and Boko Haram, which has been on a killing spree in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon.
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The stakes are high: Control of the US House may rest on only one or two seats, and Democrats are seriously vying to flip four in Texas; enough wins at the state level could mean the difference between an ultra-conservative state government and a more bipartisan one; and because Texas also elects its judges, Republicans' 453 gains in county judicial seats could be in the balance.
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And in Europe's biggest economy, Germany, whose ultra-conservative fiscal stance has been the subject of debate, the "yellow vest" French protests have drawn support from the left-wing "aufstehen" movement "The fiscal slippage will encourage the populist forces everywhere in Europe and encourage them in Southern Europe, in particular starting with Italy," said Tristan Perrier, a macro economist at Amundi, Europe's biggest asset manager with 1.5 trillion euros under management.
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Mo BrooksMorris (Mo) Jackson BrooksGOP lawmaker blasts Omar and Tlaib: Netanyahu right to block 'enemies' of Israel Conservatives call on Pelosi to cancel August recess Overnight Defense: Woman accusing general of sexual assault willing to testify | Joint Chiefs pick warns against early Afghan withdrawal | Tensions rise after Iran tries to block British tanker MORE (R-Ala.), a member of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus, tried to look for a bright spot.
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Ahead of the hearing, Ariel Colangelo, a former lawyer who has written about the sartorial scrutiny that women in the legal field face on a daily basis, said that one could expect Ford to "err on the side of being ultra-conservative and as non-interpretive as possible" — that is, to deny her audience the ability to glean much of anything from her clothes and thus keep from them any further tools with which to undermine her.
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Phillips says it's because Pence himself took so many Freedom Caucus-style votes when he was a member of the House in the early 2000s — votes that resonate with today's ultra conservative members: bucking Karl Rove and Tom DeLay on No Child Left Behind and Medicare Part D. What Mark Meadows says: "At the end of the day, it was the personal involvement of the President and Vice President which allowed every member to start to share that trust."
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C.) and Jim JordanJames (Jim) Daniel JordanDemocratic Women's Caucus calls for investigation into Epstein plea deal DOJ releases notes from official Bruce Ohr's Russia probe interviews CNN slams GOP for not appearing on network after mass shootings, conservatives fire back MORE (R-Ohio), both key figures in the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus, have criticized the logistics of Wednesday's planned sit-down with Rosenstein which will be limited to the top Republicans and Democrats on the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees and a court reporter.
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Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzTrump moves forward with F-28503 sale to Taiwan opposed by China The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape O'Rourke says he will not 'in any scenario' run for Senate MORE is beating Rand PaulRandal (Rand) Howard PaulGraham promises ObamaCare repeal if Trump, Republicans win in 22019 Conservatives buck Trump over worries of 'socialist' drug pricing Rand Paul to 'limit' August activities due to health MORE in the race for the hearts — and endorsements — of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus.
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Thomas MassieThomas Harold MassieAirports already have plenty of infrastructure funding Overnight Defense: House votes to block Trump arms sales to Saudis, setting up likely veto | US officially kicks Turkey out of F-35 program | Pentagon sending 2,85033 more troops to border House votes to block Trump's Saudi arms sale MORE (R-Ky.), who typically aligns with the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus, said he would oppose a spending bill that continues funding into January, though he noted he would probably be a "no" on any CR or the omnibus.
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Claire McCaskillClaire Conner McCaskillEx-CIA chief worries campaigns falling short on cybersecurity Ocasio-Cortez blasts NYT editor for suggesting Tlaib, Omar aren't representative of Midwest Trump nominees meet fiercest opposition from Warren, Sanders, Gillibrand MORE (Mo.), said last week that she may face a primary challenge next year from a candidate aligning with the more progressive wing of the Democratic Party, comparing that faction to the Tea Party movement of ultra-conservative Republicans that emerged after former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE's 2008 election.
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Trump applauding Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellLawmakers trade insults over Trump budget cuts Overnight Defense: Trump says military may consider disciplining Vindman | Dems pick up another Republican for Iran war measure | Watchdog says over 2,85033 people killed rebuilding Afghanistan Republicans scramble to avoid Medicare land mine MORE (R-Ky.) for ensuring the confirmation of numerous conservative judges as well as awarding Rush Limbaugh, a controversial, ultra-conservative radio host, the Presidential Medal of Freedom live on television was further proof that the president's impertinent display of self-confidence continues to have only one goal: To spur outrage on the left, rally his base and keep the populist anger alive.
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