With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded.
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Judge Tatel emphasised that Congress's subpoena power is not unbounded.
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His curiosity is weirdly unbounded, like a belief system in itself.
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He wore outrageous suits and outrageous ties and had unbounded energy.
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It takes craziness, it takes being "unbounded," to break up the saturation.
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They are creative, and they are generative, but they are also unbounded.
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To his credit, he rebuked Dershowitz's theory of an unbounded executive branch.
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Prior to joining Fetch, Melonee was CEO and co-founder of Unbounded Robotics.
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They make plain that one does not need mirrors to generate worlds unbounded.
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Megan's story is about the unbounded power of a father's love for a daughter.
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Ultimately, it is a book about those boys and his unbounded love for them.
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The unbounded fury of Emperor Brutus Jones blasts into the room before he does.
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"The demand is unbounded," said Don Fussell, chairman of the university's computer science department.
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His instruments are resentment, sarcasm, unbounded insult, casual mendacity, and the swaggering assertion of dominance.
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Unbounded economic growth and excessive exhaust have led to climate change which threatens human survival.
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Their elitism is unbounded but their desire to actually participate in governing is non-existent.
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"Never have I seen such an exhibition of intense, unmeasured and unbounded grief," he wrote.
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His wants are unbounded, he finds everything unjust, everything against him, he's moody, he's selfish.
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The almost unbounded expense for a show dog is what is known as a campaign.
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The key is to unleash your curiosity and let the joy of learning be unbounded.
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Leonardo, at the height of his powers, is graceful and distinguished, with unbounded insights and interests.
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Hornick's poetic and multidisciplinary process is explored in Unbounded Histories at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.
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What, then, stands between us and a nearly unbounded Mr. Trump, aside from the next election?
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A dog is both Rorschach and receptacle, a two-way highway for love unbounded and unadulterated.
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No matter how unbounded by economies or technology our lives become, Earth will always have physical limits.
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Andrea Hornick: Unbounded Histories continues at the Barnes Foundation (2025 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy, Philadelphia) through February 19.
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By feeling truly present, you can share unbounded spaces and experiences with the people in your life.
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More than the younger members, Harrison seemed to struggle with the consequences of her newly unbounded lifestyle.
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Trump is the base's unbounded id, and, at least so far, the GOP is genuflecting before him.
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Specifically, engagement-based advertising, meaning I have an unbounded interest in keeping more eyeballs for longer there.
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In this new era of relentless and unbounded anxiety, we don't need yet another thing to worry about.
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My tastes are simple in that regard, veering toward authentic yet unbounded by the confines of absolute purity.
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The received wisdom was once that a unified, unbounded web promoted democracy through the free flow of information.
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Permitting what amounted to unbounded "black sites" where firearms traffic could go undetected and unregulated has always been crazy.
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For example, if gender is unbounded by biology or behavior, is there truly a difference between men and women?
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He was resolutely exploring other elements: drones influenced by North African and Indian music; unbounded and jagged melodic phrasing.
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The spell of making persists in her images of skies and seas, unbounded subjects that she samples from photographs.
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While the price to get to motherhood may have a number, the real expense, both emotional and financial, is unbounded.
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While Trump's electoral power is circumscribed, his ability (and apparent willingness or proclivity) to cause electoral problems is seemingly unbounded.
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This is a topic that Mr. Putin clearly enjoys: It testifies to his political power, apparently unbounded by international borders.
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A lawyer who knows a little something about unbounded White House power is worried about Brett Kavanaugh — and Donald Trump.
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And employer risk-pooling could be frayed by unbounded association health plans that would separate low- from high-risk small employers.
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But we left the future a little undefined and unbounded, because we genuinely have no idea where emoji are headed next!
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Her voice is subdued, but her ambition is unbounded, soon to be fortified by programmed EDM beats — pattering, blipping and swooping.
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"This is unbounded arrogance, disrespect of the rule of law, hyper-political government, and this is another form of extortion," Gov.
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A journey through the imagination's wild currents, Come Swim conjures a kaleidoscopic portrait of one man's emotional interior — unbounded darkness and desire.
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"This is unbounded arrogance, disrespect of the rule of law, hyper-political government, and this is another form of extortion," he said.
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"This is unbounded arrogance, disrespect of the rule of law, hyper-political government — and this is another form of extortion," he said.
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So far, she has brought her signature voice and all its unpredictable, unbounded creativity to bear in full force in the discussion.
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In an environment of unbounded power politics, the opposition party will declare everyone a president might nominate to be out of bounds.
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Fundamentally it is entirely conservative, and it has a deep aversion from all innovations and advances and an unbounded respect for tradition.
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Urban areas are also unbounded from traditional thinking and societal norms, as young population prefers having the freedom to make individual choices.
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The baritone saxophonist and composer Fred Ho had an unbounded approach to making music, which he treated as a necessarily revolutionary act.
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Inducing autocurricula in physically grounded and open-ended environments could eventually enable agents to acquire an unbounded number of human-relevant skills.
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They added: "If every committee chairman is going to have this unbounded authority, the Supreme Court should be the one to say so."
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" In the same post, Zuckerberg wrote "By feeling truly present, you can share unbounded spaces and experiences with the people in your life.
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Like Triangle of Need, the new film is an unbounded dreamscape that makes sense only if you give yourself fully over to it.
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The Vision Festival, New York's annual gathering of the improvising avant-garde, is a locus for some of the country's most unbounded musicians.
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A surrealist journey through the imagination's wild currents, Come Swim conjures a stunningly kaleidoscopic portrait of one man's emotional interior — unbounded darkness and desire.
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A journey through the imagination's wild currents, Come Swim conjures a kaleidoscopic portrait of one man's emotional interior, complete with unbounded darkness and desire.
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The whole government system is now ultimately opposed to "the means" – unbounded, unchecked, Title II regulatory authority -- that enabled the FCC's exceptional regulatory overreach.
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We are creatively aligned, she has already brought fresh energy, excitement, unbounded joy and opportunity to those who choose to play on our team.
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His ability to harness and reveal vulnerability, tension, anxiety and heaviness is unbounded as he confronts both what we repress and what we reveal.
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The intelligence committees have a lawful right, virtually unbounded, to foreign intelligence information in the possession of the intelligence agencies of the executive branch.
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The power to protect that system from unbounded assertions of executive power resides in the hands of 100 senators guided by the chief justice.
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Mr. Obama has long warned of the hazards of unbounded war, but the approach his administration is taking sets the precedent for just that.
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After all, statistical error decreases with sample size, so with unbounded data at our fingertips, it's easy to imagine that measurement error will also vanish.
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It was about the FCC asserting and gaining court deference so it could de facto legislate Internet policy over time via unbounded, sweeping, regulatory authority.
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What was initially regarded as a positive and sometimes adventurous and unbounded broadening of one's sexual repertoire gradually transformed into something repetitive, diminishing and mechanical.
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A 29-year-old pianist and bandleader of increasing renown, Sands is aligned with jazz's straight-ahead mainstream, but he's got an unbounded inquisitive instinct.
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Since academic careers depend on publication, the demand for scientific publications is unbounded except by the price that scholarly libraries can be forced to pay.
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Mr. MacGregor, a sprightly man who gives the impression of unbounded energy, said he tries to look past the many obstacles the Forum has encountered.
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At the end of "Beim Schlafengehen," as she sings of a "soul unwatched" soar into immortality, her voice lights the sky with defiant, unbounded joy.
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"The Last Jedi" seems to reflect many millennials' ideas about religion, namely their waning interest in "structured religion" in favor of "unbounded spirituality," he writes.
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But this bit of bounded space serves mainly to emphasize the unbounded emptiness around it, adding a note of theatricality to the painting's spacey transcendence.
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As with her series Journey, Hornick used shamanic drumming to conjure the animal spirits and tap into the inner ruminations of painted subjects for Unbounded Histories.
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It suggests that a person can become so unbounded by pain that he or she is no longer able to marshal the usual meaning-making apparatus.
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"Tennessee inspires us with her unbounded creativity and her determination to create positive change in the world," Anna Nyrén, Head of Co-labs at & Other Stories, explains.
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We got it from Here… unfolds in an unbounded sprawl, pulling its surrounding narratives into a space where they are subsumed by the greater project of sound.
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In other words, it takes the kind of unbounded confidence that has helped Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg make expensive bets on a future that most don't see.
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"Between 1990 and 2015 we've had the financial crisis, growth of inequality to unbounded levels, slow growth over all for a third of a century," Stiglitz said.
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The new proposal would essentially eliminate any venue requirement for digital searches of this kind by creating an exception so expansive and unbounded as to be meaningless.
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Told through the allegory of psychic connection, it is a show about the internet and airplanes and global communities unbounded by geography and even language and culture.
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The pain at the center of this study of human purposelessness can be hard to take for someone unprepared for the bright glare of Beckett's unbounded bleakness.
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Politics attracts many good people; it also, however, attracts creatures of unbounded appetites, who never will be satisfied with the power they have at any given moment.
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Ultimately, the patriarchs of the fictional Gilead and the dreadfully real Mar-a-Lago share an ethos: harsh restrictions for powerless women, unbounded license for powerful men.
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Sanders's view of the political system is idealistic, his ideas are unbounded by pragmatic concerns and interest group objections, and his calls for political revolution are thrilling.
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What takes talent is to create a role as an ancient-yet-modern captain of an imaginary Team India, and then to play it out with unbounded conviction.
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Just like hip-hop had done in its earliest years, just as the internet itself seemed to do, Lil Wayne in 2007 promised creativity unbounded by any rules.
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Once I was able to rid myself of those parameters, I found myself in a deep well of unbounded and untouchable love free from the dominion of patriarchy.
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And the advent of the internet, and these large social networks allowed us now a new way to maximize our status, which was much more unconstrained and unbounded.
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"This in turn suggests that Schneider is being given full latitude to act in the interests of shareholder value, unbounded by the decisions of the past," he said.
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It's part of Trump's attractiveness to the Saudis and other Gulf allies that he feels unbounded by the conventions of past Presidents and the constrictions of his advisors.
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Conservatism must once again embrace "fact to mystery, limited to unbounded, sufficient to the superabundant and convenient to the perfect," as once noted by conservative philosopher Michael Oakeshott.
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For director Pamela Romanowsky, the visionary behind 2015's macabre The Adderall Diaries, starring James Franco and Amber Heard, this sense of unbounded wonder is always near at hand.
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Thiel's predictions: We should expect booms and busts of successively greater magnitude as investors go all in on whatever they see as the future source of unbounded technological growth.
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The state inhabited by the title characters of "Runaways," directed by Sam Pinkleton, is one of unbounded energy and a matching capacity to reach the outer limits of emotions.
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Gibson's stroke of brilliance is to revel in those epic qualities — tragic romance and unbounded heroism, gorgeous photography and a cast of thousands — and add a swift contemporary kick.
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But they have taken quickly to his unique form of jazz, brilliantly lodged between tradition and the open road, as easy to love as it is protean and unbounded.
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First, capitalism's victory over Communism meant that the more unbounded capital was, through freer trade and more open capital markets, the better off Americans — and the world — would be.
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Framed as a "lexicon for an unborn child," the collection evokes the shape of nondirected, unbounded thought, and an artist's sensibility, free from conventional judgments of what's worth noticing.
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The government seeks unbounded authority to compel Apple to design software that does not currently exist and that will circumvent and undermine security measures intended to protect its users' data.
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The novel's unbounded intelligence, its cool take on sexual violence, and its disregard for conventions of character and plot are assertions of the author's independence from Catholic and bourgeois expectations.
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Article III is by far the slimmest of the constitution's articles laying out the branches of government, but the term of office it specifies for federal judges is virtually unbounded.
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In the decades that followed, Loving explored new directions, creating more organic abstractions from torn and sewn pieces of canvas, trading in a restrained formalism for an unbounded, exuberant aesthetic.
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Melonee Wise came to Fetch Robotics after founding and running Unbounded Robotic, a spin-off of Willow Garage where she led a team of engineers developing next-generation robot hardware.
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And so, the Zcash project is working on making sure that the privacy isn't simply at that networking layer and at the "we can all have unbounded number of keys" layer.
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"The demand side is basically unbounded -- everybody wants more information," according to Konstantin Kakaes, a fellow at New America, a Washington-based think tank that has conducted extensive research into drones.
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The clever use of space-based diplomacy can usher in an age of unbounded growth and hope as the U.S. contends as both a benevolent actor and intelligent supporter of freedom.
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Here you have a discrete, scientific, analytic urge laid onto the embodiment of chaos, onto these formations within these unbounded pockets of our atmosphere where there's no beginning and no edge.
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Her story bridges, much as Couto himself does, various narrative modes: the epistolary and the oracular, the chronicle of the colonial expedition and the fabulism of a universe unbounded by time.
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Yet old Democrats remain focused on Bill Clinton's "art of the possible," even when confronted with the unbounded idealism of this new group, which has no time for 25,000 Amazon jobs.
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For a medium so unbounded by its potential for creating agency in viewers, Dear Angelica's strength comes from bringing your soul in line with the pain and euphoria of the daughter herself.
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Hornick's approach in Unbounded Histories was an organic one, in which she randomly selected clusters of paintings she liked throughout the museum, forging relationships between them based on formal and enigmatic properties.
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The prospects presented by a new medium in its infancy are surely as daunting as they are appealing — their technical capabilities seemingly unbounded, their formal possibilities unexplored, and their aesthetic criteria undetermined.
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Without a judicial check on unbounded executive power to suspend the law, this president and all who follow him will have a powerful new weapon to destroy political accountability and democracy itself.
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That is the case, here, of his ruminations on the flight of birds, the luminosity of the moon, or the unbounded nature of water, which is the main object of Leonardo's scrutiny.
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Of course, the amendment's wording was almost certainly necessary for its passage: Democrats and conservative Republicans would not have agreed to ratify a measure that granted expansive, unbounded voting rights for all.
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The DPRK leadership openly states that it will not cease its nuclear missile development program until Pyongyang has achieved an "equilibrium of real force" with the United States — an unbounded force sizing principle.
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What is wrought by those three original brothers and their descendants is impressive, for sure, as they redefine the nature of getting and spending in the United States, while accumulating unbounded personal wealth.
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"If he is ultimately exonerated in the Senate, if the Senate Republican majority refuses to discipline him through impeachment, he will be unbounded," the Delaware Democrat said on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday.
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Raval writes, "If Piketty's feared scenario comes to pass," in which machines can increasingly replace labor, and population growth continues to slow, standard economic models say the world "would experience unbounded growth," he said.
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If only their professors had the insight to take Hornick's Unbounded Histories tour, I am sure the young people would gladly embrace being freed from a strict historical review, which was probably Barnes's dream.
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One can only hope that this moment generates some introspection among the higher echelons of the CCP — with countless innocent lives on the line, is such unbounded fealty to one man really worth it?
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It was a restrained and on-message approach for a president who is typically unbounded and off-script, and whose disdain for the global elite surrounding him here has previously led to inflammatory rhetoric.
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Yet, if an unbounded monetary policy persists for long, funds flowing out of central banks will have to flow into various other channels such as the stock markets, debt markets and even property prices.
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It depicts various groups of people embracing a spontaneous moment, and showcasing Pepsi's brand rallying cry to 'Live For Now,' in an exploration of what that truly means to live life unbounded, unfiltered and uninhibited.
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When that happens — and it will happen often — transparency and the unbounded flow of speech become instruments in the production of the very inequalities (economic, political, educational) that the gospel of openness promises to remove.
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"If he is ultimately exonerated in the Senate, if the Senate Republican majority refuses to discipline him through impeachment, he will be unbounded," Coons said, predicting that there would be "no restrictions" on Trump's behavior.
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It was to enable game servers to talk to each other so we can just have an unbounded number of players in a single game session—and it seems to still be on our wish list.
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The America he described offered the world something it had never seen before: a working model of a thriving democracy where opportunity was unbounded, where virtue was strong, and where citizens took responsibility for their neighbors.
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"Even defenders of an 'absolute' & 'unbounded' pardon power admit (as they must) that OFFERING a pardon IN EXCHANGE for a big favor to POTUS would be a federal crime (BRIBERY) and an impeachable offense," he tweeted.
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Inspired by the real-life entrepreneurs (and flim-flammers) extraordinaire Addison and Wilson Mizner, the show is a country-crossing map of fortunes lost and made, in which unbounded success always looms as a tantalizing chimera.
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David Kaye, the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, issued the report after visiting Ethiopia, saying the bill could give government officials "unbounded discretion" to prosecute and arrest people.
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As such, the music that he's made reflects those unbounded interests, in addition to the stuff that's more neatly ID'd under the emo rap banner, he's made ambient ballads, footwork-leaning trap, and industrial-indebted abstractions.
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For the American premiere of "The Low Road," a satire of unbounded self-interest and pitiless capitalism, the playwright Bruce Norris realized he needed to change the last name of his scurrilous 18th-century protagonist, Jim Trumpett.
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As much as we are served chaos inside of mayhem wrapped in discombobulation on a daily basis from this White House, we should have faith that our democratic institutions will withstand the unbounded unfitness of this president.
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Abstract enough to leave questions unanswered but supported by a clear progression, Nou's work models how some of the specific qualities of comics (page-based compositions, figurative drawing, narrative) can assume the unbounded, probing qualities of contemporary art.
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"By combining artistic fearlessness with unbounded creative energy, Kesha has continually pushed the limits of what was once thought possible in pop music," Janice Min, co-president and chief creative officer of The Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, told Billboard.
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"Over the last year, Mr. Comey has engaged in a pattern of calculated unilateral action unbounded by governing law, regulation and practice, and plainly motivated by personal and political self-interest," wrote Kasowitz, who has since stepped aside as lead lawyer.
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This was the world premiere of "Monument Push," the newest work by Cassils, a performance artist known for radically transforming their own body through rigorous, drug-free physical training in an exploration of identities unbounded by the rigid male/female binary.
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Take this 2016 Clearblue spot, in which women — the youngest of whom appear to be in college — loudly celebrate their uniformly unbounded joy at learning they're expecting, jubilantly embracing partners and friends and family members gathered 'round to support them.
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President Trump's head lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, wrote a memo to the special counsel last June which referred to former FBI Director James Comey as "Machiavellian," and "unbounded by law and regulation," according to the Associated Press which obtained the letter.
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But if politics is only about power unbounded by morality — if it's simply about rulers governing by the law of the jungle, about a prince acting like a beast, in the words of Machiavelli — then the whole enterprise will collapse.
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Simply put, a standardless or unbounded "abusive conduct" theory of impeachment untethered from actual proof that a crime was committed is an insufficient and, therefore, illegitimate basis to exercise the extreme measure of removing a duly elected President from office.
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Since the election, every signal sent so far from the Trump Transition and Republican-controlled Congress indicates an end to the FCC's roving, unbounded, hyper-regulation of competitive companies, a rollback of obsolete common carrier regulations, and a dramatically scaled back FCC.
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My idealization of her twisted into unbounded resentment: she'd gone off to work and had affairs and left me to the mercies of my father's rages; she'd bought herself fur coats and Sonia Rykiel pantsuits while I looked like a waif, etc.
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" In his forthcoming memoir, "Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters With Reality and Virtual Reality," the Microsoft wizard enthuses that VR "weds the nerdy thing with the hippie mystic thing," high-tech but like a dream and "an elixir of unbounded experience.
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But at its core, it's an exquisitely moving portrait of the daily stuff of life: family secrets and family ties, marriage and its limitlessness and limitations, wild and unbounded parental love and, ultimately, the graceful recognition of what we can't — and can — control.
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The debate shows that Sanders, even more so than his fellow progressive Elizabeth Warren, is trying to enact a paradigm shift in how Democrats think of policy, infusing it with a moralized perspective unbounded by the normal constraints policymakers spend so much time worrying about.
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However, if forced to choose, a "Platform" model seems to offer the most unbounded upside as it's indicative of a higher engagement product and isn't indexed to the original value of the product (some people certainly spend more on the App Store than on the iPhone purchase).
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" But Laura, sitting in the back of the covered wagon, "drank in the hot, sweet scent of the sun-warmed prairie, reveling in the intoxicating, airy sense of unbounded freedom ... leaving houses and roads behind ... moved to recall the setting sun, a 'ball of pulsing liquid light.
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Jane is no ordinary biographical documentary: Morgen worked with hundreds of hours of archival footage (shot by Goodall's husband and considered lost until recently) to create a captivating portrait of her life and work, as well as a story of romance, dedication, and unbounded curiosity about the world.
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Their power us unbounded, their ability to destroy the world unmatched, and the video games that feature them are heroic stories of Neos and Marios who put on their monster-stomping boots and go toe-to-toe with things beyond the knowledge and capability of the average human.
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The company's mistakes — the sloppy privacy practices that dropped tens of millions of users' data into a political consulting firm's lap; the slow response to Russian agents, violent rhetoric and fake news; and the unbounded drive to capture ever more of our time and attention — dominate the headlines.
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Michael Oakeshott, a philosopher, said that to be a conservative "is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to Utopian bliss".
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If you stop and think about the importance of this turnaround in the U.S. –China trade, it would be easier to understand President Trump's bubbling enthusiasm about his "outstanding" relationship with China's president, and his apparently unbounded optimism about the future American ties with a country Washington actively tried to contain and isolate for more than a decade.
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Lawyers for President Trump unleashed a blistering attack on ex-FBI Director James Comey in a confidential memo last year to the special counsel in the Russian election meddling probe, casting him as "Machiavellian," dishonest and "unbounded by law and regulation" as they sought to undermine the credibility of a law enforcement leader they see as a critical witness against the president.
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It's the most durable business of the four — and its model is unbounded on two fronts that almost everyone I know would bet their future on, 1) people buying more online, where Amazon makes a disproportionate amount of every dollar spent, and 2) companies needing more cloud computing power (more servers), where Amazon makes a disproportionate amount of every dollar spent.
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And people's desire to be understood and express themselves and be able to communicate with all different kinds of groups is, in the experience that I've had, nearly unbounded, and if you can give people new ways to be able to communicate safely and express themselves, then that is something that people just have a deep thirst and desire for.
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If the US doesn't negotiate, then North Korea will ultimately "have an unbounded nuclear program and can sell its secrets or technology to other people," he said, adding that the more urgent problem facing the US is that, despite levying more sanctions, it still hasn't determined whether Pyongyang is willing to stop its programs now and come to the table.
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"Russia is a sophisticated adversary that has proven willing and able to compromise and exploit access to U.S. networks, and its intelligence services have an unusually close relationship with Kaspersky and virtually unbounded authority under Russian law to compel information stored on the company's Russian servers and intercept data transmissions between the company and its U.S. customers," the court filings read.
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"As people are increasingly living in urban areas really close to each other, it starts to be the case that so much of the value of your property is bound up in things that are happening outside of your parcel," said Lee Fennell, a law professor at the University of Chicago who has written about what she calls the "unbounded" nature of our homes.
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The frustrating truth—and this is probably what's behind all this boos and groans— is that Valve doesn't have much of a reason to make games anymore because the profit margins on games are miniscule compared to what it gets from opening its own markets (and, by the way, what is Dota 2's unbounded ecosystem if not platform capitalism for esports, putting the "real" work on everyone but Valve?).
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But a handful of memos altering internal executive agency policy could not have brought us so neatly to the point of kidnapping children and sticking them in warehouses, with no immediately obvious legal problem, if relatively unbounded executive discretion to inflict industrial-scale suffering weren't already written into law, if decommissioned Walmarts hadn't already been repurposed as prisons for immigrant kids, and if a moral and legal framework for the justification of this infrastructure had not been well entrenched.
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An odd couple, but didn't we embody, maybe, a new day, a new dispensation, a social and cultural revolution everybody back then wanted to believe they desired or at least were willing to accommodate since it promised better sex, better drugs, unbounded freedom and license, an option to be contemptuous of traditional styles, conventions, and rules, an inalienable right to hit the road, Jack, and head out for far away, for exotic destinations when the place where we find ourselves becomes unsatisfactory.
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" In his book Goodman, a radical author influential for my generation, quoted George Washington's 19973 Circular Letter to the States, in which he described the good fortune of the new nation: its natural resources, its political independence and freedom, and the Age of Reason of the country's birth, an age of "the free cultivation of letters, the unbounded extension of commerce, the progressive refinement of manners, the growing liberality of sentiment, and above all the pure and benign light of Revelation.
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