It makes the issue seem uncontroversial, which it should be.
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It is safe and uncontroversial; it breaks no new ground.
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Because it's pretty uncontroversial to criminalize certain actions in America.
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Lawyers complain that even uncontroversial deals are being held up.
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Despite that, the animal pic remains ubiquitous and mostly uncontroversial.
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The government's motion had initially seemed uncontroversial to most MPs.
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Some of these, such as adding more police, are uncontroversial.
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Clinton to some resolutely uncontroversial concepts — hope, kindness, love, good.
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That you should not assault your wife, however, is uncontroversial.
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Which I thought was a pretty obvious and uncontroversial take!
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It was an uncontroversial maxim, if ever there was one.
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I thought it was a pretty uncontroversial thing to say.
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Like a sweet, uncontroversial friend, the cake was always there.
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Ellie Goulding wore a shell pink Stella McCartney slipdress: pretty, uncontroversial.
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In a rich and generous country, such payments are largely uncontroversial.
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Shockingly, PEPFAR is a major government program that is mostly uncontroversial.
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This ought to have been one of the few uncontroversial issues.
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Given that, we reflexively created a shorthand for Irvin: Quiet. Uncontroversial.
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And yes, they come in Starbucks' most uncontroversial red cup yet.
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He has strategically uncontroversial views on things like the #TakeAKnee movement.
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Most of the bills are uncontroversial and received wide bipartisan support.
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Having her on cash is to me an uncontroversial no-brainer.
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These are the most uncontroversial rights that everyone can get behind.
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Subminimum wage for disabled people, unlike these other recommendations, was uncontroversial.
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He is a rising star of bristlecone studies, and not uncontroversial.
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"I was completely uncontroversial, for the most part," he told me.
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But most have been uncontroversial and involved matters of foreign policy.
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If you want to keep it uncontroversial, let's say non-psychoactive compounds.
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But most of the rights mentioned by Chemerinsky are utterly uncontroversial today.
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In Spain, pointed white hoods are an uncontroversial feature of Easter celebrations.
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Normally, unanimity in the House of Commons is reserved for uncontroversial topics.
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These laws were not entirely uncontroversial, and many were challenged in courts.
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Yet even reforms that had seemed uncontroversial proved less so in debate.
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But ISAs are neither simple to implement nor uncontroversial in policy circles.
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Such a broad political base of support hasn't made basic income uncontroversial.
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In short, he was a candidate Republicans expected would be completely uncontroversial.
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This crucial balance is a principal reason why they have been uncontroversial.
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So, two decades on from the Port Arthur incident, it's remarkably uncontroversial.
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Despite the political overtones, Obama opted to pick a relatively uncontroversial candidate.
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Most of the law in question, passed on August 2nd, is uncontroversial.
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In politics, the prospect of more research on marijuana is typically uncontroversial.
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"The Catonsville Nine were certainly not uncontroversial in '68, and I don't think that they should be uncontroversial in 2018," said Dr. Taylor, the director of the Shriver Peaceworker Fellows Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
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The first should be uncontroversial, though it may take some time to settle.
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Of course, Mother Teresa was never an uncontroversial figure in her lifetime, either.
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THE BUILDING of Barack Obama's presidential library in Chicago ought to be uncontroversial.
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But the fact that it is a problem should be an uncontroversial point.
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Garmendia's videos, which are uncontroversial and kid-friendly, likely appeal to such advertisers.
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Much of what the study found makes perfect sense and is utterly uncontroversial.
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This was a factor in his colleagues' assessments of him as safe, uncontroversial.
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But the idea that her appointment was uncontroversial is almost entirely a myth.
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He was approved by a voice vote in 2006, marking the vote uncontroversial.
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To say at this point that his candidacy was controversial is, well, uncontroversial.
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Taxing meat is definitely not an uncontroversial policy option or a silver bullet.
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Ms. Stefanik's new project may seem like an uncontroversial step — a no-brainer.
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Yes, but: While inheriting wealth is relatively uncontroversial, inheriting power can be problematic.
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Despite their all-American image, Chip and Joanna Gaines are not uncontroversial figures.
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Buttigieg's plan for charters itself is relatively uncontroversial, which is to say vague.
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Now, the largely uncontroversial redesign could be on hold until at least 2026.
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For decades, Hyde remained relatively uncontroversial, at least within the halls of Congress.
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Similarly, Obama's defenses for "the need for diplomacy" may sound uncontroversial to many liberals.
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These matters ought to be uncontroversial, as even Brexiteers see good arguments for them.
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Others are costly but uncontroversial, such as shrinking primary-school classes in underperforming schools.
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For decades, this was an uncontroversial policy that resulted in scant complaint from psychiatrists.
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This modicum of transparency has been an uncontroversial tradition of American politics for decades.
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All of these above elements are fairly basic and uncontroversial, according to the video.
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Humans of New York is a pretty uncontroversial fixture in our social media lives.
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Monroe is a relatively uncontroversial choice: founding father, lawyer, namesake of the Monroe Doctrine.
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In Nigeria, where I lived for three years, this is not an uncontroversial view.
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"The observation is uncontroversial," said Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel-winning economist at Columbia University.
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"Those are well-understood, uncontroversial means that will make a huge difference," Blaze said.
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Since then, the court has been accepting cases in uncontroversial areas, notably intellectual property.
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That may seem uncontroversial, but critics say it is far from the whole story.
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It had been a welcome and uncontroversial perk — until North Korea decided to come.
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The Copernican principle is normally uncontroversial when applied to an observer's location in space.
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Politics have apparently intruded on a transaction that until recently was considered relatively uncontroversial.
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From this perspective, a constitutional amendment to lengthen terms would probably be entirely uncontroversial.
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Some election law scholars said that was merely an uncontroversial description of current law.
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Shaheen is a longtime politician in the state who is fairly uncontroversial and popular.
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Administration officials said they find the package uncontroversial and expect it to pass the House.
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It should be utterly uncontroversial — there is no question that seat belts offer improved safety.
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In my head, these men seem uncontroversial, but whenever I share these views, people recoil.
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But the footage involves a school shooting — a topic that is hardly uncontroversial in 2018.
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Apple's problems are based on a mostly uncontroversial iOS feature: Safari's "Fraudulent Website Warning" option.
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This suggests, he argues, that 99.986 percent of cases do have a determinate, uncontroversial answer.
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Uncontroversial items—a prohibition on customs duties for digital products, say—can be slotted in.
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Could something entirely new await us in our search for an uncontroversial description of reality?
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This appears, on the surface, so uncontroversial a position—what other standard would you use?
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The opening of the United States' embassy in Jerusalem was never going to be uncontroversial.
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Its first step is securing the lease renewals, a measure it has previously called uncontroversial.
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Surprisingly, President Trump nominated a relatively uncontroversial current Fed Board member, Jerome Powell, for chair.
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The opioid Gordian knot is all the more reason to support uncontroversial solutions that work.
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The story it told was a simple, uncontroversial one: Humans follow the humans they know.
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It is an uncontroversial rule that every Supreme Court justice in modern history has applied.
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The rules created for analogue democracies offer a relatively uncontroversial starting-point for digital ones.
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The idea that high government officials must be accountable to the people should be uncontroversial.
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It seemed so uncontroversial -- so Jewish and so American -- to espouse these ideas, said Nezer.
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Guaranteed health care for seniors was attacked as unworkable and socialist; now Medicare is uncontroversial.
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The UK doesn't have a formal constitution, and, as explained above, prorogation is usually uncontroversial.
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They circulated Facebook petitions for uncontroversial causes—cancer walks and suicide hotlines and hurricane relief.
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The first use is uncontroversial, but public health experts have criticized the latter two uses.
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Not of the far-right kind; of the most branded, uncontroversial, personal/company history kind.
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In recent years, she's been attacked for holding positions that might once have seemed uncontroversial.
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Goods, such as hospital beds, are uncontroversial; no one thinks the government should manufacture them itself.
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There are certainly circumstances when the use of force by cops—even deadly force—is uncontroversial.
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These claims about the baleful impact of social assistance spending are not uncontroversial claims about science.
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It may seem strange that these otherwise uncontroversial settings have become a battleground for LGBTQ rights.
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In most of the rest of the world, Sanders's position would be uncontroversial, reflecting a consensus.
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Same-sex marriage has become so uncontroversial that pollsters hardly bother to ask about it anymore.
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Previously, the producer has tended to keep his Twitter posts as neutral and uncontroversial as possible.
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The mouth is easiest to correct: a quick injection of synthetic collagen, perfectly rote, uniquely uncontroversial.
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Fifty years ago, with a draft in place, critiques of the military were commonplace and uncontroversial.
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Occasionally siding with the banks may be uncontroversial in Texas; not so in the Democratic primaries.
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"It takes such a clumsy broad-brush approach that even completely uncontroversial articles could be blocked."
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Mr. Baude's brief argued that the fees were consistent with uncontroversial government practices in other areas.
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The organization is a relatively uncontroversial group that the United States helped to found in 1945.
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The approach was mostly uncontroversial until 22020, when the Supreme Court heard a case, Evenwel v.
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Under Title IX, sex remains the principal and generally uncontroversial basis for classification and legal protections.
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The idea that platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram should remove hate speech is relatively uncontroversial.
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It seems to make an entirely fundamental and uncontroversial statement: These things are exactly the same.
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No surprise, maybe, given the uncontroversial theme: The US needs to prepare workers for the future.
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McConnell said Democrats are "wasting the Senate's time" by dragging out debate time for uncontroversial nominees.
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Many agency guidance documents articulate long-standing, uncontroversial policies that help protect public health and the environment.
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If Mr Lamar's status is uncontested, he is also an uncontroversial figure compared with rap's previous supremos.
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They also said the ruling by Bouchard was uncontroversial and would have little impact beyond the case.
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The Republican platform committee proposed language on the subject that would have been uncontroversial before Trump's success.
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Even the use of Hawai'ian language, which I was initially skeptical about, proved mostly straightforward and uncontroversial.
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After weeks of protests Jokowi dropped Mr Budi and appointed the uncontroversial Badrodin Haiti in his place.
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Don't be fooled by Kavanaugh's attempts to position himself as an uncontroversial pick for the Supreme Court.
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Cobert's nomination was initially seen as relatively uncontroversial, but it has hit some bumps in recent weeks.
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President Trump was interrupted by applause dozens of times, usually following uncontroversial, sentimental, patriotic, or partisan comments.
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McConnell's minority filibustered to try to block not only controversial bills and nominations but also uncontroversial ones.
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This is an uncontroversial point for many critical and progressive researchers who have argued similarly for decades.
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Equally uncontroversial is the proposition that a man who does so is, for that reason alone, dishonorable.
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But whereas visits from previous presidents under such circumstances would typically be uncontroversial affairs, Trump's is not.
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But Timberlake's uncontroversial white male hand, the hand that actively disrobed Jackson, went unremarked-on and unpunished.
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Perhaps even more importantly, such an uncontroversial reform could achieve the bipartisan support necessary to become law.
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The money, about $240 million, bought equipment and materials to build a road, a seemingly uncontroversial task.
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Proponents of the bills suggest that the legislation is uncontroversial and likely to be passed by Congress.
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"The results of the paper are clear and should be both unsurprising and uncontroversial," The researchers said.
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Let's set aside the discussion of whether America is great today -- or not -- and follow Trump's uncontroversial exhortation.
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Tipping people for exemplary service may seem uncontroversial, particularly in America where it is widely expected in restaurants.
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Part of that can be chalked up to the uncontroversial point that Roosevelt far outstrips Trump on eloquence.
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Now, professors are being advised to stick to uncontroversial topics and to limit their physical access to students.
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Now it's uncontroversial: Public opinion shows that conservatives have increasingly lost the fight on a path to citizenship.
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At the time, it was an uncontroversial position, one supported by Chancellor Angela Merkel and most political polls.
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" He predicted that "we will pass uncontroversial, bipartisan pieces of legislation ... so people can build records on that.
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If the narrow view is correct, the study points out, medicating the symptoms of a disorder is uncontroversial.
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Here's an uncontroversial gauntlet to throw down: Ocarina of Time is definitively the greatest video game ever created.
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If there's one thing the last couple of years have taught me, it's that no opinion is uncontroversial.
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Over the years, Trump's foundation certainly has given money to a grab-bag of basically banal uncontroversial charities.
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That conclusion may seem uncontroversial, even obvious, to some — but in today's campus climate, it's an important intervention.
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First of all, the familiar range of intoxication levels, and how they correlate to impairment, is pretty uncontroversial.
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The reforms have not been uncontroversial, with unease in particular about the 300,000 troop cuts Xi announced in 2015.
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Sohn points out that these are relatively uncontroversial orders, which may be why Pai decided to start with them.
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He could make job-creation, a major problem during his first term when unemployment increased, his uncontroversial centrepiece policy.
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This is a relatively uncontroversial change, and one we hope that our state and other states will make soon.
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Mr Elmer was born in 262 and his early years seemed to set the stage for an uncontroversial career.
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Twenty years ago this strategy would have been uncontroversial, but the two men are aged, respectively, 87 and 94.
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But he's only using this tactic because he's seen conservatives use it before, under dimmer spotlights, to uncontroversial effect.
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Not because it was uncontroversial, but precisely because it was wrong — because Kennedy would suffer if it were divulged.
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Ross's nomination has been largely uncontroversial, though Democrats are raising fresh concerns about whether he has ties to Russia.
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"The Chinese notion of beauty has been ingrained and uncontroversial for a long time," the chief technology officer said.
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This seems uncontroversial, yet law enforcement officials across the country have fiercely opposed even the most basic transparency measures.
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Though there's no such thing as an uncontroversial figure in politics, when it comes to kids, Obama is unparalleled.
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Perhaps the only uncontroversial estimate is zero, which is generally what we may be tempted to think it is.
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Neither of those moves was uncontroversial, but neither of them challenged the basic logic of the GOP governing coalition.
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It seems uncontroversial that offenders who remain in positions of power ought to be unseated to prevent further abuses.
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Democratic leaders were considering approving the mammoth proposal by unanimous consent, a tactic reserved mostly for minor, uncontroversial measures.
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Sources say an extension would have to be uncontroversial enough to make it into a must-pass spending bill.
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All year, Senate Democrats have been hammered by their base even for voting to confirm Trump's most uncontroversial Cabinet appointments.
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Fans of DAFs argue that such cases are exceptions, and that most of their money goes to uncontroversial good causes.
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Some "negative emissions" technologies – such as replanting deforested areas with more trees, which absorb carbon to grow – are relatively uncontroversial.
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The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is probably one of the most popular and uncontroversial initiatives the federal government operates.
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But what's interesting is that Brennan's comments would, at any other time, be widely uncontroversial among the foreign policy establishment.
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In the book, Sasse goes far out of his way to be uncontroversial and extend his appeal across the board.
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But telling people just how bad pollution is for them and how to avoid it is easy, uncontroversial and cheap.
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Based on recognition of Israel as a valuable U.S. ally with shared values, past bipartisan support for Israel was uncontroversial.
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But Senate Republican leaders have said for nearly two months that Judge Garland, a relatively uncontroversial nominee, will get neither.
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But supporters of the bill are still mystified that a relatively uncontroversial measure has so far failed to move forward.
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Thus, Delrahim's previously uncontroversial confirmation has now become a major test of whether Democrats will live up to their promises.
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Those should be simple, uncontroversial demands—and they're demands Trump himself instinctively understood, as evidenced by his swamp-draining refrain.
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The seemingly uncontroversial measure also said that countries should strive to limit inaccurate or misleading marketing of breast-milk substitutes.
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Even the seemingly uncontroversial phrase "I love my wife" feels funny now: What explains the current proliferation of wife guys?
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Half of America is furious at the other half, unable to agree on even previously uncontroversial topics like the weather.
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"The Senate will take up an uncontroversial measure that passed the House with a comfortable bipartisan majority," he said Tuesday.
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In other news, Disney-owned ABC suspended reporter David Wright yesterday for offering uncontroversial observations and personal opinions in private.
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Authorization under the long-standing treaty known as "Open Skies" made them routine and uncontroversial—at least until Monday night.
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Zinke and Perry were largely uncontroversial, but Scott Pruitt's nomination to be EPA administrator has faced strong opposition from Dems.
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Energy industry watchers expect Trump's two FERC nominees to be fairly uncontroversial, given their backgrounds and senators' familiarity with them.
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Roberts's opening act as presiding officer was uncontroversial and largely scripted, starting with the swearing in of the Senate's lawmakers.
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It seems uncontroversial that classified or sensitive national security information, and material relating to ongoing criminal investigations, should be redacted.
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Each of these decreases in the voting age may have been controversial at the time, but they're uncontroversial in hindsight.
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That statement was softened, in part, by Yemen asking for a "reassessment" of an arrangement that has been uncontroversial for years.
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The guarantee is uncontroversial in theory, but recent research in cognitive science casts doubt on whether it can be plausibly provided.
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But what should have been an uncontroversial first step instead unearthed a slew of objections from a complex web of stakeholders.
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The US assumed that the internet would help spread American liberal values, and that this was a good and uncontroversial thing.
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However, Mark said this method could lead developers to accidentally block not just the XIM Apex, but other, uncontroversial accessibility devices.
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Some other uncontroversial and non-burdensome regulations are regularly updated in order to make federal programs work for the American people.
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And Senate Democrats soon fell under immense pressure from their base not to vote to confirm even Trump's most uncontroversial nominees.
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Eagan Kemp, a health-care expert with the advocacy group Public Citizen, also noted how uncontroversial Medicare is compared to ObamaCare.
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Under the simplified procedure, the Commission announces the clearance of uncontroversial first-stage mergers without giving any reason for its decision.
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In some areas, like antitrust, the shift rightward has often been uncontroversial, with many of the liberal justices frequently signing on.
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Private and international adoptions may work differently, but the idea itself — providing a kid a stable home — should be pretty uncontroversial.
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It is a simple, uncontroversial principle: U.S. taxpayer dollars should never go to terrorists who attack U.S. citizens, interests, or allies.
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The endorsement likely would have been uncontroversial for trans people, had the Sanders campaign not produced a video touting Rogan's support.
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The justices who do attend usually make coordinated choices about what statements from the president are uncontroversial enough to warrant applause.
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But the imperturbable Mr. Haacke is reluctant to attack collectors' preference for the attractive and uncontroversial over tough work like his.
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The senior administration official said the White House is starting with "uncontroversial" cutbacks as a sweetener to bring Democrats on board.
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What Facebook's own staff in California might see as an uncontroversial viewpoint could trigger calls for removal from the board elsewhere.
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While reasonable people can disagree on some aspects of these proposals, one fact is uncontroversial: the United States cannot afford them.
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This is relatively uncontroversial as regulators in the US and abroad are circling the industry and deciding how it will be policed.
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It's also awful sonically, but at least it's uncontroversial (unless you're among those who get angry because "tararrel" isn't a real word).
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It's a fitting and uncontroversial addition in a country where risqué Kim Kardashian and Kanye West murals have recently divided public opinion.
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Only on this album are Beyoncé and Jay-Z rendering their version of the black mundane through branded, filtered, already uncontroversial fodder.
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A number of the Trump administration's proposals aimed at making the deal more friendly to US workers are likely to be uncontroversial.
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Many of her proposals, such as that Taiwan should expand its soft power through non-governmental organisations, seem designed to be uncontroversial.
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Some things the government does are uncontroversial goods: protecting us from enemies, preserving the health and dignity of the old and infirm.
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Chinese reporters from state media, always under the tight control of the ruling Communist Party, generally stick to safe and uncontroversial questions.
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To make that case, let me start with a claim that I think will be at once depressing and, upon reflection, uncontroversial.
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But that comes with a risk: As an accused felon facing serious criminal charges, Parnas can hardly be considered an uncontroversial witness.
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But now the growing deficit seems tied to weak manufacturingThe mechanics of higher deficits in recent years are broadly familiar and uncontroversial.
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But in the Senate, Mr. Corker has been an uncontroversial figure, known mostly for his careful stewardship of the Foreign Relations Committee.
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It is uncontroversial to say that integration of markets, of trade is a good thing and this rhetoric does not help that.
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Powell, 64, was nominated by Trump in November as a largely uncontroversial pick whose monetary policy views are closely aligned with Yellen's.
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The administration typically does not weigh in when the House votes to suspend the rules and take a voice vote on uncontroversial legislation.
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Exceptions are conspicuous (and meritorious): companies like Honor and Rinse make waves just with the uncontroversial action of making their employees W-2s.
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That was uncontroversial, but to expand its geographical scope a new term was devised: Yidai Yilu, or One [land] Belt, One [maritime] Road.
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On top of these qualities, he was moderate, uncontroversial, and would help to increase turnout in the Black, vegan, and teetotaller wizarding communities.
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It featured a diverse group of 60 clinicians and yielded nothing groundbreaking; instead, it merely set completely uncontroversial research questions for future study.
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And you say some stuff here that is, I think ... Obviously, it sounds like I'm criticizing it, I think uncontroversial, how about that?
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This proposition is so uncontroversial nowadays that it is regarded not with a sense of shock or tragedy but as a banal fact.
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But a major factor (and one that's surprisingly uncontroversial among scientists) is thought to be the rise of the 20th-century chemical industry.
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Obama has seized the low-hanging fruit, the uncontroversial improvements he can secure by his own efforts, because his higher goals were unreachable.
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"We think it is entirely uncontroversial to insist that the next permanent CEO be selected by the newly elected Board," Third Point wrote.
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Father Martin will give his spectacularly uncontroversial talk — "Jesus Christ: Fully Human, Fully Divine" — at a secular conference center in a nearby town.
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"California's notice requires covered clinics to disclose information about state-sponsored services — including abortion, hardly an 'uncontroversial' topic," Thomas wrote in his ruling.
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The mostly uncontroversial picks, our music reporter writes, come from a cross-section of the last half-century of classic and alternative rock.
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In the past, he has rarely spoken for quotation but has directed reporters to the occasional uncontroversial speech he made at oil conferences.
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They insist dozens of bills from their panel that passed with little to no opposition would be uncontroversial additions to the Senate package.
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Attaching the often messy debt limit increase to the largely uncontroversial aid package boosts its chances of passing in a Republican-controlled Congress.
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Artistic expression has long been protected by the First Amendment—an uncontroversial proposition that is well established in the Supreme Court's case law.
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Considered uncontroversial at the time, it was passed by a Republican Congress and signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a Republican.
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Family reunification was recognized as so obviously beneficial to both the immigrant and the larger community that it was uncontroversial in Congressional debates.
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It then concluded with what seemed to be an uncontroversial suggestion: female cabin crew should be chosen for their abilities, not for their allure.
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First lady Michelle Obama's signature public health initiative is called "Let's Move," and the idea that kids should be physically active is pretty uncontroversial.
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While it's not yet sparked the same level of outcry as Google's AI contract with the Pentagon known as Project Maven, JEDI isn't uncontroversial.
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It is "uncontroversial", the judges wrote, that "courts owe substantial deference to the immigration and national security policy determinations" of Congress and the president.
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Case in point, the flurry of executive nominations confirmed and simple, uncontroversial bills passed through the Senate just before the August recess this year.
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It's uncontroversial legislation, but could run into difficulties in the Senate because the upper chamber has just introduced its own North Korea sanctions package
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In most contexts, the prudence of spreading risk — of not putting all of your eggs in one basket — is generally understood and fairly uncontroversial.
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It's a common rhetorical twist, one that enshrines Americanness with an impenetrable purity by contrasting it with the country's most evil and uncontroversial enemy.
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Once a low-visibility, uncontroversial job, focused on administering voting laws in a nonpartisan way, secretaries of state in many places have become politicized.
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If you're digging up a grave for an uncontroversial reason — a family wants remains moved between cemeteries, say — it can be fairly straightforward spadework.
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Some of the information being released to the public in Taiwan and Singapore would most likely be uncontroversial in the United States, he said.
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If Washington can't figure out how to keep 18 million of the poorest Americans from losing critical assistance—directed through uncontroversial policies at that!
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They were louding venting at an assiduously uncontroversial state legislator who, as a Democrat in New York City, had been accustomed to cozier treatment.
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" But Rich Lowry, in the National Review, said that "what Brokaw was getting at -- the importance of assimilation to cultural cohesion -- should be uncontroversial.
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The uncontroversial tool of short-term interest rates wasn't powerful enough, and the other options are the subject of both academic and political disagreement.
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It's a tool used frequently for uncontroversial legislation in order to streamline the number of bills the House or Senate is able to consider.
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In fact, many of her roles could be described as "palatable" and "uncontroversial," save for, perhaps, her portrayal of a con artist in American Hustle.
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She has signed only nine pieces of legislation, all of them uncontroversial, since the start of Mr. Christie's presidential campaign, according to the administration's website.
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In any case, commitments to multilateralism and free trade are uncontroversial in Germany, "the ultimate status quo power", says Tyson Barker of the Aspen Institute.
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Trump fans now question the importance of American elections remaining free from foreign influences — Russia's involvement in 2016 has eroded a once-uncontroversial democratic ideal.
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This is uncontroversial, even among UBI supporters, but it's important to spell out — and to look in depth at our options for paying for it.
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This would seem to be a rather uncontroversial point, based on ordinary liberal arguments in favor of tolerance and respect for the dignity of others.
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" The industry won an injunction when the presiding judge agreed that the images were "calculated to provoke" rather than disseminate "purely factual and uncontroversial information.
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The easiest option would have been someone like Thomas Hardiman, who repeatedly has been on the short list for his conservative but largely uncontroversial record.
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The law is of dubious constitutionality, but it has never been tested by the courts, because Presidents have used emergency powers in relatively uncontroversial ways.
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On one hand, they're sometimes eager to associate their brand with fundamentally uncontroversial but emotional progressive values like anti-racism, gender equality, and legal immigration.
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To the surprise of many, the official White House Twitter, usually an account that tweets uncontroversial photos and videos from presidential events, went after Sens.
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In August and October, Senate Democrats agreed to confirm two sets of district court nominees, which a senior Democratic aide had said were predominantly uncontroversial.
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The appropriately named Ratepayer Fairness Act is an uncontroversial way to ensure utilities focus on the pocketbooks of those most vulnerable to rising electricity prices.
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Those requests are routine in the Senate and allow committee hearings to go forward and uncontroversial bills and nominations to be expedited to the floor.
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While this is seen as an unusually long guidance period for a central bank, it has been uncontroversial and is fully priced in by financial markets.
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Mr Putin may have seen this as something relatively uncontroversial that could help unfreeze relations between the two countries—something Mr Trump frequently says he wants.
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The bill, which was seen as an uncontroversial measure because of its broad bipartisan support, passed by voice vote because a recorded vote was not requested.
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And in the face of violent supremacist movements targeting real people, openness — once an uncontroversial pillar of internet culture — can seem like a hopelessly abstract principle.
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King, who came out of New York's school system, was an uncontroversial pick who would serve less than a year before a new president took office.
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Mr Putin no doubt saw this as something relatively uncontroversial that could help unfreeze relations between the two countries—something Mr Trump frequently says he wants.
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Link as he appears in 'Ocarina of Time' Here's an uncontroversial gauntlet to throw down: Ocarina of Time is definitively the greatest video game ever created.
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And now, an uncontroversial opinion: Plus-size women shouldn't need to drop hundreds of dollars — or visit specialty stores — to find a bikini that actually fits.
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It wasn't long ago that threats far less terrifying that those would have cowed any UFC fighter, much less one as uncontroversial and amenable as Johnson.
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They are hoping Trump picks an uncontroversial nominee to succeed Comey, allowing the storm to subside and the work on health care to stay on schedule.
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Because making a tangible, edible, distinctly uncontroversial object by hand felt like the opposite of the online hellspace you and I first encountered each other in.
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Which is to say that this up-tempo thumper, with firm singing by Cam, doesn't sound like a rude intrusion, but rather a logical, uncontroversial continuation.
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Tim KaineTo some, Tim Kaine is the Judge Merrick Garland of VP picks: A moderate, an uncontroversial white male who could potentially appeal to Republican sensibilities.
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An otherwise uncontroversial energy bill has been waiting in limbo for nearly a month after a surprise battle broke out on aid for the Flint, Mich.
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Crapo's substitute amendment includes eight uncontroversial bills from the Financial Services Committee, most of which seek to help business owners raise capital by easing securities laws.
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Though the Trump administration has also been slow to fill key positions, Democratic tactics to drag out debate on otherwise uncontroversial nominees has frustrated GOP senators.
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Samson, according to prosecutors, asked them to reinstate the flight, and threatened to withhold approval of an uncontroversial hangar lease agreement between United and the Port Authority.
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The idea that school districts should quickly meet the demands of teachers may sound as uncontroversial as the rainbows and unicorns on the pupil's sign in Oakland.
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Red state senators would probably prefer an uncontroversial nominee, but progressives may see it as a betrayal to not use this opportunity to confirm a bold nominee.
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First nominated as a United States attorney in Maryland by President George W. Bush, he was so uncontroversial that President Barack Obama kept him on the job.
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The discarding of what were previously uncontroversial statements on trade was taken as a sign of the anti-globalisation mood that Mr Trump had brought to Washington.
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While Dubke had never served as a communications aide for a lawmaker, some saw him as an uncontroversial pick who could work well with the outspoken president.
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And since Anik is about the most mild-mannered, uncontroversial guy you could have behind the microphone, he padded his prediction in praise for the Diaz brothers.
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Even as the spotlight shines on the high court, the Senate has refused to confirm dozens of uncontroversial nominees to fill vacancies in the federal trial courts.
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Then when somebody challenges you, you claim you were just making an obvious, uncontroversial statement, so you are clearly right and they are silly for challenging you.
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In a more sane political environment, the decision not to change Fed policy during a fairly strong economic expansion might have been uncontroversial, barely worthy of mention.
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But it seems uncontroversial to say that neither appears to be a Washington or a Lincoln, and that the elective presidency is coming under increasingly critical examination.
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On the face of it, this seems largely uncontroversial, and even, as the China Daily touts, a way to strengthen the rule of law in Hong Kong.
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Which raises the question: If there's a cost-effective way to solve such a high-impact problem and it's ideologically uncontroversial, why aren't we all over it?
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GOP senators are growingly increasingly frustrated by what they view as stall tactics for uncontroversial nominees, while acknowledging that the administration was initially slow to name picks.
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So far, leadership has been able to avoid controversial amendments to the normally uncontroversial bill and is hoping to finish work on the legislation this week. Sen.
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Crapo's substitute amendment includes eight uncontroversial bills from the House Financial Services Committee, most of which seek to help business owners raise capital by easing securities laws.
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So, it came as some surprise when Mr. Cuomo vetoed seemingly uncontroversial legislation that would have allowed federal judges from outside New York to officiate weddings here.
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"In these horrible crossfires, with everybody shooting each other down, it would be good to nominate somebody uncontroversial, who could appeal to a broader electorate," Mr. Mack said.
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All of the above is pretty uncontroversial among mainstream Republican elites, and probably in line with what Priebus and Vice President Mike Pence would prefer to see too.
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Per tradition, the First Lady advocates for an uncontroversial social issue during her time in the White House, often focused on bettering the lives of the nation's youth.
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So the response usually tends to stick to the bland, the vague, and the uncontroversial — the party's extensively poll-tested message, rather than anything particularly new or interesting.
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However the government has failed to back even that pretty uncontroversial call, merely pointing again to a public consultation (which ends today) on proposed changes to electoral law.
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Advocating for equality for women used to be uncontroversial, but in 2015, five young women's rights advocates were jailed for planning to protest sexual harassment on public transportation.
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IT IS hard to imagine a presidential duty as easy, uncontroversial and plainly enjoyable as hosting the nation's greatest artists, writers, actors and musicians at the White House.
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The main concern from creators seems to be that they don't understand why particular videos get demonetized, especially when it's something as seemingly uncontroversial as a phone unboxing.
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No. I thought about this encounter again this week after Bill O'Reilly's commentary on Michelle Obama's seemingly uncontroversial reference to the White House having been built by slaves.
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The importance of rich countries funding disease prevention efforts in poor countries "is as uncontroversial a position as exists in public health," Ed Yong writes in the Atlantic.
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Managing demand will involve not just uncontroversial measures such as more emphasis on preventive medicine, but toxic ones such as introducing charges for services that have been free.
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The removal of this stricture was uncontroversial at the time, as the debate was more focused on whether commercial banks could enter into investment banking and vice versa.
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"In the end, there was a candidate whose experience, vision and versatility across a range of areas proved compelling, and it was remarkably uncontentious, uncontroversial," Ms. Power said.
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Makan Delrahim, President Donald Trump's pick to run the Department of Justice's antitrust division, was about as uncontroversial as nominees come for this administration (and that's saying something).
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In previous installments of Rule 34, we've stayed fairly straightforward and uncontroversial: People wank to Lego minifigures and extraterrestrials and gooey girls because they find them sexy. Simple.
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Section 19953 has been lauded as a "core pillar of internet freedom" and "the most important law protecting free speech online," but that doesn't mean it's entirely uncontroversial.
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While the bank earned a lot of criticism from some on the right in the past few years, it's generally been uncontroversial during its eight decades in existence.
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Then, Chick-fil-A — normally a chain with a decidedly uncontroversial social-media presence, in comparison with feistier brands like Wendy's — decided to wade into the Twitter battle.
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Ecuador was set to introduce this uncontroversial measure when the United States threatened "punishing trade measures" and a withdrawal of crucial military aid unless the country dropped it.
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A proposal to support lethal aid to Ukraine in the Republican platform — something that would ordinarily be uncontroversial — was stripped out of the document before the Republican convention.
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The Trump administration has taken aim at a previously uncontroversial set of child protection laws, which it portrays as "loopholes" preventing the quick deportation of gang-involved teenagers.
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Few people remember anymore, but just years before she became the dark empress of "alternative facts," Kellyanne Conway was a respected, reasonably mainstream, uncontroversial Republican pollster and strategist.
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But he argued that the justices can uphold the provision aimed at unlicensed centers because they constitute a requirement to simply provide "accurate, uncontroversial" facts about their services.
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But he argues that the justices can uphold the provision aimed at unlicensed centers because they constitute a requirement to simply provide "accurate, uncontroversial" facts about their services.
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But to wage an effective resistance against Mr. Trump's war on immigrants, he must find the courage to wield his pardon power in more than occasional, uncontroversial cases.
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But to wage an effective resistance against Mr. Trump's war on immigrants, he must find the courage to wield his pardon power in more than occasional, uncontroversial cases.
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"And what I'll be telling them is that the U.S. has never had a smooth, uncontroversial path to ratifying trade deals, but they eventually get done," Obama said.
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The new tab, which seems to be roughly modeled on Apple's relatively uncontroversial news service, will task editors with picking the day's most important stories and organizing them.
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David Duke is bad, but Black Lives Matter is also bad (or at least inherently suspect), because "all lives matter" ought to be an uncontroversial statement in 2016.
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At the core of job guarantee plans is what should be, in theory, an uncontroversial idea: that everyone who wants a job should be able to get one.
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Which raises the question: If there's such a cost-effective way to solve such a high-impact problem, and it's ideologically uncontroversial, why aren't we all over it?
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The report identifies five scientific tools to improve sustainability and resilience, and four of them are pretty uncontroversial: understanding soil microbes, deploying sensors, integrating systems, and managing data.
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Then Trump campaign officials scrubbed the Republican platform at the convention, removing criticism of Russia and statements of support for Ukrainian independence that had been uncontroversial before Trump's candidacy.
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Those state and local "revolving funds" from the EPA are for relatively uncontroversial programs like investing in clean water and sewer infrastructure — programs that make constituents back home happy.
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Yngve Slyngstad, the fund's boss, says growth came "faster than anyone had envisaged", and that a culture of political trust made it uncontroversial to save as much as possible.
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If carried through, the hardball tactics would make it difficult for Republicans to schedule votes even on uncontroversial bills and nominees, further slowing down the already slow-moving body.
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The White House sees the cuts as uncontroversial because the money represents unspent funds from expired programs, such as a fund to reimburse some state expenses in fiscal 220006.
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In a world where YouTube employees could evaluate every video individually, a policy that nixed advertising on videos that deliberately "offend or shock" would be understandable, if not uncontroversial.
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The people behind the sculpture arguably distorted a quote of King's about overthrowing the political order through radical change and turned it into something bland, meaningless, and wholly uncontroversial.
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No, I would say not, but also at their meetings, I've been there and they invite people who are completely uncontroversial and nobody even knows that they were coming.
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For instance, she said, she supported a public works program to improve roads and other transit systems — an uncontroversial idea backed by her Democratic rivals across the ideological spectrum.
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For instance, she said, she supported a public works program to improve roads and other transit systems — an uncontroversial idea backed by her Democratic rivals across the ideological spectrum.
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Requiring universities to obey laws governing the spending of public funds is uncontroversial to most Americans, who live within the law themselves and expect others to do the same.
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As a result, patriotic displays that would be uncontroversial in other countries, such as flying the national flag or saying that you love your country, were taboo in Germany.
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Taylor Swift began her specific form of uncontroversial, easy-road feminism in response to her first VMAs run-in with Kanye West and the very public demise of countless relationships.
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Diplomats in Beijing swap rumours that a first draft of Mr Xi's speech focused on the domestic economy, an uncontroversial subject that Chinese leaders usually like to talk about abroad.
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As remarkable, considering that Indiana is a strongly Republican state with a large population of Catholic, conservative voters, the fact that Mr Buttigieg married his husband recently is entirely uncontroversial.
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Although the original bill was relatively uncontroversial, the September 11th attacks put an end to any immigrant-friendly legislation for many years, as American politics grew more fearful and insular.
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A decade ago, the film might have garnered skepticism from critics for being too obviously uncontroversial a topic; today, in the age of the alt-right, it seems uncomfortably relevant.
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There's a lot about education policy that's controversial, but the basic idea that the government should cover the cost of schooling for children ages 5 to 18 is pretty uncontroversial.
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But in the music world it has been taken as largely uncontroversial, even obvious — "like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain," as Leonard Cohen said.
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Many of those investments appear to be uncontroversial, including contributions to the Center on Rural Innovation and an organization called Opportunity at Work which helps connect Americans with job opportunities.
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Unanimous consent is commonly used for uncontroversial measures, not for packages of such magnitude as the coronavirus stimulus, in part because any one member can block a unanimous consent request.
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It's uncontroversial among economists that immigration generates economic growth, and even the most immigration-skeptical economists concede that some of those gains go to native-born workers, not just migrants.
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Most of its activities are uncontroversial, but when it comes to, say, resolutions about how religious sites should be run in Jerusalem, every word is studied for accusations of bias.
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The seven inductees — the biggest class since 2004 — are mostly uncontroversial choices, which may help the hall duck the criticism it has often received because of its opaque internal politics.
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The Fed debated and delayed that increase for most of last year, but the account published on Wednesday — after a standard three-week delay — described the final decision as uncontroversial.
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Given that Kimberly-Clark's flushable wipes satisfy the flushability guidelines of the Federal Trade Commission, requiring the company to label its wipes unsafe to flush is neither factual nor uncontroversial.
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Instead of bringing Khanna and Lee's measures forward as standalone bills, Democrats have set them up as amendments to an uncontroversial commemorative coins bill that has already passed the Senate.
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And then, in the course of a week, we've seen President Trump tell the Labor Department to study this uncontroversial (and already much-studied) proposition, which he wants to upend.
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The Maryland Democrat added that while he believes the underlying North Korea legislation would "pass overwhelmingly," he voiced concern about potentially controversial amendments being attached to an otherwise uncontroversial proposal.
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Up to the nomination of the previously uncontroversial Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, Obama's acted, over and over, in the hope that just this once statesmanship will win out.
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Trump is reportedly considering Arkansas Republican Tom Cotton to replace Pompeo as the head of the CIA — a pick that isn't uncontroversial, given Cotton's deep Trump loyalty and relative intelligence inexperience.
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On this morning, she had a brief discussion with a couple of missile-defense experts and then rushed over to the Capitol for a series of uncontroversial votes on sex trafficking.
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Back in the 28503s, when public faith in government was high, a decision to entrust a federal agency with safely managing waste from the country's commercial nuclear reactors was relatively uncontroversial.
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Her husband is so uncontroversial he becomes President; his wife astonishes the nation by saying what she thinks, thereby becoming one of the most "popular" and "admired" women in the world.
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Such action, known as a "unanimous consent" request, is normally reserved for the most minor and uncontroversial of bills — not huge and complex pieces of legislation responding to a global crisis.
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If such a reversal occurs, it would land at a time of strikingly innovative efforts to expand the availability of birth control that have so far proven popular and largely uncontroversial.
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A list of permitted categories of assistance issued last week suggested that foreign groups offering technical help on environmental, health and other relatively uncontroversial issues had strong chances of gaining approval.
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The tradition of briefing candidates is usually uncontroversial, but it has drawn widespread attention this year after both parties called for the other's nominee to be denied access to classified information.
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His choices have been uncontroversial — his paintings have sold for more than $1 million each — until last summer, when he went a shade too far on one of his own homes.
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"It's pretty uncontroversial that discriminating against a man that acts too effeminate or a woman that acts too masculine is a form of sex discrimination," the ACLU's Joshua Block previously told me.
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While combating opioids is uncontroversial, it is nonetheless rare for a first-term congressman to be able to tout passage of substantive legislation on an issue of great concern to his constituents.
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For many scions, there were plenty of posts touting the sorts of uncontroversial charity projects that pageant queens pledge allegiance to on stage: benefitting rescue dogs, voting rights for women, and reading.
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While the resettlement initiative was long politically uncontroversial, a handful of Republican lawmakers — including Senators Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Jeff Sessions of Alabama — appeared intent on shutting it down this year.
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This was considered so uncontroversial at the time that no record of what Johnson was thinking or precisely how he got this clause attached to the tax code seems to have survived.
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There is some resistance to contraception in America — the Roman Catholic Church remains broadly opposed, and some anti-abortion and religious groups object to particular forms — but birth control is mostly uncontroversial.
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Despite the fact that the bill received bipartisan support in New Jersey's state legislature and was considered uncontroversial, Christie's failure to act on the measure before a designated deadline killed the bill.
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But unlike Pepsi, Nike has a history of connecting with politics as part of its branding, and while the company is not uncontroversial, openly advocating for political stances hasn't ruined the brand.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Experienced Argentine official Nestor Pitana will referee the World Cup final between France and Croatia at the Luzhniki Stadium on Sunday, an uncontroversial decision which rewards his authoritative performances in Russia.
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The transformation of development economics into an intensely empirical field that leans heavily on randomized controlled trials hasn't been uncontroversial, and many of the responses to the Nobel Prize announcement acknowledge that controversy.
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A majority of Obama's uncontroversial first-term judicial nominees -- those who were both reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee and confirmed by the full Senate overwhelmingly -- took over 200 days to be confirmed.
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Because these wars relied on air power and cruise missiles, there was no human toll on Americans, and so remained uncontroversial with the public at large, although they enraged the anti-war left.
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Op-Ed Contributor In a recent speech to a group of conservatives, I made what I thought was a relatively uncontroversial point about the commonalities between Trump supporters and Black Lives Matter activists.
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But the fact that, in practice, having a criminal defense lawyer be resident dean of Winthrop House was uncontroversial until he took on Weinstein suggests the slope may not really slip this way.
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The big picture: The bill, which McConnell — toeing the Trump line — called "uncontroversial," is extremely unlikely to pass, and a partial government shutdown will go into effect at midnight if no deal is reached.
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George H. W. Bush was, especially as measured by current standards, the kind of wholesome, uncontroversial figure most people would say they want in a national leader — until they got inside a voting booth.
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The document eschews this description of the threat, which critics say conflates Islam and terrorism, settling instead for the uncontroversial and accurate phase "jihadist terrorists" to describe groups such as ISIS and al Qaeda.
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Indeed, if there is one aspect of the gun debate that is decidedly uncontroversial, it is that more guns means more suicides — although, of course, much research remains to be done on the subject.
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President Trump has shoehorned that wholesome, uncontroversial idea into a narrow-minded, exclusionary governing platform that's likely to alienate much of the world while hurting the very people whose cause he claims to uphold.
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While it was uncontroversial to say that Russia was the source of a cyberattack against Estonia in 2007, no one knew if those attacks were authorized by the Russian government -- until the attackers explained themselves.
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The system was designed for companies like AT&T, and it's relatively uncontroversial for the past 30 years, sometimes put forward as a model of how courts can hold otherwise-invasive surveillance techniques in check.
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Another way to put it is, what else would YouTube have to remove, as sensational or insensitive or repellent or in poor taste, for Paul's video to have counted as a clear and uncontroversial violation?
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But the law passed through what's called unanimous consent — a procedure that's used to pass uncontroversial bills in which no votes are recorded but members of the legislative body are given a chance to object.
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Considering that, as with Martin Fisher, their lines of questioning are fairly uncontroversial relative to those asked in press conferences and interviews, the spontaneous rage they so often encounter is disproportionate to their actual role.
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The battle consumed much of Texas's biannual legislative session earlier this year, forcing a special session after the two chambers could not agree on what is usually an uncontroversial reauthorization of several state agencies. Gov.
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No matter who ends up being the Democratic nominee for Senate, they're going to have a tough time successfully beating incumbent Steve Daines for two reasons: He's a Republican, and he's a relatively uncontroversial senator.
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It seems like it should be uncontroversial to find out ways to make that weapon a little less efficient, if only to make sure that the next angry person can only kill 48, or 40.
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Late one night of their last workweek in 2015, the Michigan House and Senate were about to approve some uncontroversial changes to campaign finance law, when the bill abruptly grew by more than 40 pages.
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Instead of bringing Khanna's and Lee's legislation forward as standalone bills, House Democratic leaders opted to set up the two measures as amendments to an uncontroversial commemorative coins bill that has already passed the Senate.
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"Today, most Canadian ridings [districts] are simple and uncontroversial, chunky and geometric, and usually conform to the vague borders of some existing geographic / civic region knowable to the average citizen who lives there," writes JJ McCullough.
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A few aides, like his chief of staff Nick Ayers, deputy chief of staff Jarrod Agen, and press secretary Alyssa Farah, maintain Pence's public image as the dutiful, uncontroversial Republican perfectly in line with the president.
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All Trulia listings now include the new data, indicating that the company views this as an uncontroversial asset for its diverse user base, not as something politically contentious targeted only toward users in LGBTQ-friendly regions.
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While most of its activities are uncontroversial, UNESCO has seen internal political fights between some of its 195 member states in recent years that have paralyzed its work, notably on issues related to the Holy Land.
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President Donald Trump on Monday an uncontroversial speech for New York City's Veterans Day parade offered his condolences to the families of slain service members, and appeared to briefly bury the hatchet against his political rivals.
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" But she argued that her project was essentially uncontroversial: "The Dream Unfinished is not really politically motivated, because I feel strongly that the issue of systemic racism and police brutality is something that should be bipartisan.
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The reaction from at least one outside group focusing on campus free speech issues was that though Trump's executive order should be uncontroversial on its face, it is still unclear how the administration will enforce it.
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But while adding such a question might appear uncontroversial on its face, opponents have argued that it is actually central to a Republican strategy to skew political boundaries to their advantage when redistricting begins in 2021.
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Day-to-day decisions that would otherwise seem uncontroversial may have serious repercussions for scientists working under Trump — and that means the rest of us aren't getting the benefits of work being done on our behalf.
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Beneficiaries include such uncontroversial groups as Charity: Water, New Museum and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, as well as more socially minded causes like the Coalition for the Homeless and anti-gun-violence campaigns.
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A technology industry group said the original bill broadened CFIUS' reach so much that companies that sell sensitive technology could potentially be forced to go before the panel to have any sale reviewed, even the most uncontroversial.
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While this would be relatively uncontroversial as few if any expect bigger purchases, policymakers rejected such a suggestion in January and the sources said fundamentals did not change enough since then to make such a tweak certain.
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"Today, most Canadian ridings [districts] are simple and uncontroversial, chunky and geometric, and usually conform to the vague borders of some existing geographic/civic region knowable to the average citizen who lives there," JJ McCullough has written.
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Cirque gets to align with the country's most popular sports league, and the N.F.L., battling bad publicity over concussions, domestic violence and other issues, is uniting with a popular, uncontroversial entertainment brand with a broad, international following.
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On a day in which Mr. Trump continued to give ambiguous answers on whether he still supported his false birtherist theory, Mr. Fallon asked him mostly uncontroversial questions and playfully ran his fingers through Mr. Trump's hair.
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The White House had threatened to veto the Senate legislation due to research funding levels, but members had hoped they could advance what was otherwise an uncontroversial package in order to kick-start the 2017 appropriations process.
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The proposed 14-point questionnaire was mostly uncontroversial, at least to any candidate who would seek DSA's support, asking whether they support single-payer "Medicare for All," universal tuition-free child care and the Green New Deal.
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Plus, Star Wars movies are the ultimate crowd pleaser — uncontroversial tales of good and evil with epic lightsaber and space duels that should entertain the entire family without too much of a fight over what to watch.
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Although the arguments in Washington about these women's health clinics mostly involve abortion, what I saw in the three Maine Family Planning clinics I visited was that a vast majority of the care provided is pretty uncontroversial.
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As the documents reveal, Apple's guidelines for Siri are all seemingly based on the guiding principle of ensuring that Siri is neutral and uncontroversial — even if it means offering blander responses that don't engage with the issue.
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Last May, US Senator Ron Johnson introduced a bill that seemed relatively uncontroversial: the so-called Right to Try bill, which sought to ease federal government restrictions on the access terminally ill people have to experimental drugs.
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There are some provisions in this executive order that are largely uncontroversial, like improving network adequacy, expanding access to tele-health, or reducing the time between drugs being approved by the FDA and their being covered by Medicare.
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And yet what would appear to be an entirely uncontroversial public-health initiative — informing some diners, eating in chain restaurants with more than 15 outlets, of an item's sodium content — is met with cries of unfairness, and resistance.
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Half a century after James Brown's proclamation, it remains imperative to assert what should have been assumed and uncontroversial all along: that black is beautiful and as worthy of pride and care and consideration as any other hue.
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Last year, President Donald Trump got into a fight with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, got upset that Russia wasn't around, left early and skipped the climate change meetings, and refused to endorse the usually uncontroversial joint communique.
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It's normally the kind of thing that's an uncontroversial measure, but the language was stripped out when the bill had to be reconciled with the House's language as part of the big government funding deal earlier this year.
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Mr. Roe and Republican leaders had been confident enough in the bill's chances that they chose to pass it under an expedited process — usually reserved for uncontroversial measures like post office namings — that requires a two-thirds majority.
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While the new campaign group may seem uncontroversial — Johnson and Stuart were both major figures in the Vote Leave campaign after all — Johnson's support of it has been interpreted as a dig at Theresa May in the press.
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Portman's coffee meetings are usually quiet, uncontroversial affairs attended by business groups or curious tourists, but Meryl Neiman sees it as a rare opportunity for activists to tell the senator not to vote for Republicans' health care bill.
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This is not an uncontroversial opinion, but it's gained steam in recent years, in part due to concerns about whether students will be able to pay back the loans they're taking on in order to pay for college.
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They figured she would be a sacrificial lamb, a scalp Republicans could claim while confirming Millett, an uncontroversial appellate lawyer, and hopefully Wilkins, an African-American judge who had been confirmed unanimously to the D.C. district court in 2010.
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And whereas politicians who are former TV stars (such as Donald Trump), or rising social-media stars (such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) can win free publicity, Mr Buttigieg is a softly-spoken, rather reasonable and uncontroversial sort of person.
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Out of the spotlight, he busied himself painting oil portraits of family pets and world leaders; when he did dip his toe into political waters, it was for laudable and uncontroversial causes like fighting AIDS and malaria in Africa.
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One former National Security Division official told the news service that Demers was "unobjectionable and not particularly partisan," and stated that officials in the division were relieved to hear Trump had nominated the largely uncontroversial nominee to the post.
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As Italy's new populist government threatened to block progress on other, uncontroversial issues until the migration text was addressed to its satisfaction, European leaders thrashed out the topic for nine hours before finally reaching an agreement around 5 a.m.
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For many years — decades even — the Super Bowl halftime show was an uncontroversial distraction, a way for the N.F.L. to retain eyeballs and collect advertising dollars in between the two halves of the most watched game of the year.
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Graphic warnings are facts In 2012, the DC Circuit Court stated that the first set of graphics warnings were not "purely factual and uncontroversial information" — and so the court applied a heightened level of scrutiny to the FDA's requirement.
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But experts say the Medicare proposals should be relatively uncontroversial, leaving budget watchers wondering if reforms to any of the nation's largest deficit drivers is politically possible, or if the issue has simply become a non-starter in Washington.
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Even in uncontroversial years, hosting the Oscars can be a thankless task in which a good host may be praised briefly but a bad job - like the awkward 2011 stint by Anne Hathaway and James Franco - is remembered for years.
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But whether China will ever reach an annual LNG demand of about 60 million tonnes, roughly three times its current level, is highly debateable now, even though a couple of years back a forecast like that would have been uncontroversial.
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As Premilla Nadasen, the author of Welfare Warriors, writes, AFDC was relatively uncontroversial until the 1960s, when an increasing number of black women taking advantage of the program—and organizing to demand better of it—opened the door to racialized attacks.
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Even for those who dislike means-tested programs like the school lunch program, it seems uncontroversial that if we are going to have these programs we should have federal data that shows where this money should and should not be spent.
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - For 23 years the name Crusaders was a source of nothing but pride in Christchurch, the uncontroversial identity of a franchise that claims, with some justification, to be the most successful non-national professional rugby team in the world.
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"To the extent that today's executive order asks colleges and universities to meet their existing legal obligations, it should be uncontroversial," the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a group that focuses on college free speech issues, said in a statement.
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"Evonne Goolagong Arena," it read, a nod to calls for Melbourne Park's second biggest stadium to be renamed after an uncontroversial and widely beloved Australian great of the women's game, the winner of three consecutive Australian Opens in the mid-1970s.
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One risk is that people could be telling phone interviewers they favour staying in the EU because they don't want to seem uninformed and they perceive that stance to be uncontroversial, a psychological factor that would not affect online polls.
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It often crops up among "straight" or "objective" news reporters, who see it as entirely uncontroversial to say the national debt is a pressing policy problem (it isn't) or to hold up the American military as a paragon of national virtue.
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This is a concept that causes a great deal of debate in religious and conservative circles, but it's largely uncontroversial for many anthropologists who indicate that gender is flexible enough that different societies and people can construct and interpret it differently.
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Amid the general atmosphere of chaos in the state party, Stabenow ended up largely cruising to victory, running plenty of ads highlighting her day-to-day work on relatively uncontroversial topics like VA clinics, funding for Alzheimer's research, and bolstering of Michigan agriculture.
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He wasn't a blogger, writer, or activist; rather, he lived a regular life in a provincial city where he was a professor in what I can only describe as a highly uncontroversial subject, and which under normal circumstances would never raise anyone's hackles.
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The tweets were in reference to a damning story published in the New York Times on Sunday about how administration officials meddled in a United Nations global health meeting in May that was set to approve a simple, uncontroversial resolution supporting breastfeeding.
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However, the fragility of the alumina supply chain has been brutally exposed, serving as wake-up call for the aluminium sector and the U.S. and European governments, who received a short, sharp lesson in the multiple interdependencies of this previously uncontroversial commodity.
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The shortage of unanimous votes can perhaps also be chalked up to simple contrarianism, the same instinct that props up fringe third-party candidates and assures that even the most uncontroversial assertions get no more than 99 percent in public opinion polls.
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He then published an Op-Ed essay in The Times that begins: In a recent speech to a group of conservatives, I made what I thought was a relatively uncontroversial point about the commonalities between Trump supporters and Black Lives Matter activists.
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They twisted uncontroversial statements of fact, such as the notion that the inability of American men to earn enough to support a family is having a detrimental effect on family formation, to make his remarks sound like attacks on women and equality.
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But they're probably unaware of one simple change — a reform so uncontroversial and bipartisan that it might lull you to sleep — that would lead to greater individual opportunity and long-run economic growth: We should make investments in worker training tax deductible.
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In those moments, as establishment candidates shouted down Trump for saying things that would be uncontroversial to most people, what you were seeing was the degree to which neoconservatives had estranged their party's foreign policy from the actual preferences of its voters.
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The idea of bringing dignitaries to pay respects at Yad Vashem is related to the tradition in other countries of laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns — an uncontroversial recognition of a piece of history important to the host country.
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Senator Tim Scott, Republican of South Carolina, said the week's events owed to the "physics of politics," framing the rule change as an inevitable outgrowth of a rare partisan filibuster of a Supreme Court pick whom conservatives view as plainly qualified and uncontroversial.
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While the Trump administration is fighting, in the courts of justice and public opinion, for its temporary travel ban affecting six countries, the slowdown in the rural doctor pipeline shows how even a small, relatively uncontroversial change can ripple throughout the country.
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On the uncontroversial end of the spectrum, Barr is in the process of redacting information about pending criminal investigations that Mueller has referred to other prosecutors -- Barr's confirmation of continuing investigations here is significant in its own right -- and sensitive intelligence materials.
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After sailing through two friendly Senate hearings—one so uncontroversial that only six senators tops bothered to even show up at any given point in the hour—Lieutenant General Paul Nakasone seems set for confirmation as the next director of the National Security Agency.
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Considering how close we are to the Annual Meeting on November 29, 2018 and this Board's poor track record of managing leaders and processes, we think it is entirely uncontroversial to insist that the next permanent CEO be selected by the newly-elected Board.
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The wave of female, minority and outsider candidates that is breaking cultural barriers and toppling incumbents in the Democratic Party is also sweeping aside a longstanding norm in campaigns: That the public image of politicians — especially women — should be upbeat, uncontroversial and utterly conventional.
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Supporters of Judge Gorsuch have appeared incredulous that the Senate — whose members approved Justice Scalia unanimously and did not use a filibuster for even some fiercely contested nominees like Justice Clarence Thomas — could come undone over a judge they view as plainly qualified and uncontroversial.
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I combed through all of the FAA's regulation announcement, quickly scanning through sections that were unimportant, uncontroversial, or inane: pages-long discussion about whether the minimum age to fly a drone commercially should be 16 or 17; discussion of what constitutes "cheating" on the pilot's knowledge test.
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It was a much-discussed moment in an otherwise uncontroversial ceremony, where top honors went to Kacey Musgraves' album Golden Hour and two of its singles, and Childish Gambino's "This Is America" walked away with four awards, including Song of the Year and Best Music Video.
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But while Poynter's pledge itself consists of banal, seemingly uncontroversial statements—beginning with a "A COMMITMENT TO NONPARTISANSHIP AND FAIRNESS"—conservative outlets like Breitbart began attacking the organization shortly after the announcement last year for its connections to liberal donor (and right-wing boogeyman) George Soros.
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Republicans cried foul about the manner in which the measures were voted on, complaining that they were included in an uncontroversial, Senate-passed bill, a move that blocked Republicans from using procedural tactics to tank the legislation, a strategy GOP lawmakers employed on similar measures last year.
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Greg Poling, a South China Sea expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank, said the administration was likely to face further criticism after opting for relatively uncontroversial challenges to China in all of its freedom-of-navigation operations in the past year.
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He more or less told us to disregard all the huffing and puffing he'd done about curtailing press freedoms, and he looked forward to another meeting — a year from now — when we'd all reunite in a spirit of newfound amity to celebrate his administration's uncontroversial accomplishments.
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BERLIN, March 18 (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief of staff on Monday said the issue of extending the delay for Britain's exit from the European Union is not uncontroversial among EU states, adding he could not rule out that Italy or another country could thwart it.
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It was difficult to tell, but I would estimate that perhaps a fifth or a fourth of the audience, on hearing Obama's warning against vandalizing houses of worship and inciting against minorities — which one might hope would be uncontroversial opinions — chose to sit in quiet protest.
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Current polling, however, has her in third place nationally and second in some state polls, meaning it may be worth rivals' while to start trying to attack some of these ideas — all of which reflect sophisticated thinking but none of which, by design, are exactly uncontroversial.
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The partnership has already come under intense criticism from climate journalists (among others) who are concerned that the Daily Caller's editorial stance on issues like climate change, which is uncontroversial among scientists but isn't treated as such on right-wing media, will spread even more misinformation Facebook.
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"The government's continued difficulties in implementing its agenda are illustrated by the fact that the president now aims to issue licences for new mobile phone spectrum by end-2020, after already announcing the relatively uncontroversial measure in the 2018 state of the nation address," it added.
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A Senate Democratic aide says that the majority of the nominees greenlit as part of this deal were uncontroversial anyway — and emphasizes that Schumer's efforts enable Democrats to hit the campaign trail, giving red-state Democrats a few extra days in their home states before coming back for Sen.
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Governments in Europe have been leaning on social media giants to accelerate development of tech tools that can automatically flag and even remove problem content (such as hate speech) before it has a chance to spread — though that approach is hardly uncontroversial, and critics argue it whiffs of censorship.
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What the government is asking Apple to do here doesn't fit that standard, Cardozo said, because the idea that breaking Apple's systems would lead to a safer experience for consumers is not uncontroversial, and there's a strong argument that it would make the bulk of its consumers less safe.
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It is convenient (its proximity allows the airplane-averse Kim Jong Un a dayslong train ride), uncontroversial (both US and North Korea currently share good diplomatic relations with Vietnam) and perhaps most importantly, symbolic (the country's thriving free market under a communist regime is one that both leaders admire).
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Trump has attacked its members for not spending enough on their militaries, started a trade war with the bloc by announcing a series of punitive tariffs, abandoned international deals on climate change and Iran's nuclear program, and backed away from signing the typically-uncontroversial G-7 statement last month.
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Some aspects of the model legislation are relatively uncontroversial, but others, such as the clause that suggests public use of marijuana should restricted in the same fashion as tobacco, or the protections for cannabis-using employees, will likely face fierce opposition from conservative regulators and chambers of commerce.
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For instance, Senate Democrats could block McConnell on hundreds of decisions that are normally approved by unanimous consent without second thought — things like when the Senate will meet, minor and uncontroversial tweaks to legislation that doesn't get written about in the press, and low-level presidential appointments that require Senate confirmation.
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He has presided over an increasingly partisan climate in DC—a trend not started by Trump—and while the war against HIV is about as uncontroversial an issue as you can find, it's hard to forget that the slate of promises Trump made in last year's address have gone largely unfulfilled.
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High-profile support of uncontroversial causes will see them through the lean times of public disapproval and a reputation for consistent, low-key hard work will definitely help when the cost of royal jets/holidays/protection officers and all the other perks is being debated in Parliament and in the media.
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"For her to use that term when I make an utterly uncontroversial statement, I mean there is not a criminal lawyer or prosecutor or defense attorney who would disagree with the statement that Mueller got an advantage by moving the case to the District of Columbia," Dershowitz, 85033, told Ingraham.
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For instance, Senate Democrats could block McConnell on hundreds of decisions that are normally approved by unanimous consent without second thought — things like when the Senate will meet, minor and uncontroversial tweaks to legislation that don't get written about in the press, and low-level presidential appointments that require Senate confirmation.
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More From Tonic: But what makes Trump's policies seem scientifically engineered to put as many people in harm's way as possible is that he has both removed the flooding regulation and delayed important chemical safety regulations, which includes pretty uncontroversial steps to not get people killed like sharing hazard information.
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Antonio Villaraigosa, the mayor of Los Angeles at the time, froze like a deer in the headlights at the last Democratic National Convention (DNC) as he presided over what he presumed would be an uncontroversial voice vote to amend the party's platform to recognize Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel.
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Sometimes I return to Weinman's list, now that dunking on Family Guy has become relatively uncontroversial, and I wonder how Weinman could have accurately pegged essentially every single criticism people would come to have of Family Guy from episodes that, at the time he was writing, were seen as mostly enjoyable at worst.
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The standard Cruz move during the Obama years was to take some objective that was uncontroversial in conservative circles — repeal Obamacare, defund Planned Parenthood — but also totally unacceptable to the Obama administration and not especially effective as a wedge issue, then decide that congressional Republicans should achieve this goal all on their own.
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The bipartisan legislation has the support of President Donald Trump's administration but is opposed by some tech companies, on the grounds that it would hurt exports, and some in the investor community, who fear that small, uncontroversial investments by Chinese entities would have to be reviewed by CFIUS, an inter-agency task force.
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Premiere Rush, however, has always been positioned as Adobe's tool for anybody who wants to dabble in video, so it's maybe no surprise that the company today announced that it will now also support sharing videos directly to TikTok, the red-hot (yet not uncontroversial) video sharing platform for sharing short clips.
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Sensing a winning hand, Democrats this week will repackage a handful of uncontroversial bills funding a number of shuttered agencies — excluding Homeland Security, which covers the proposed wall — and send them off to the Senate one by one, forcing GOP leaders to explain their promised inaction on measures they supported just weeks ago.
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A century on, the principle of women's suffrage is familiar and mostly uncontroversial, so it is easy to feel that victory was inevitable, that the stakes were lower than they seemed at the time, and hence that the tactics of the militant WSPU in Britain and NWP in America were extreme or misguided.
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McCarthy, a former Army ranger whose prior jobs include special assistant to former Defense Secretary Bob Gates, professional staff member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and vice president at defense contractor Lockheed Martin, was seen as an uncontroversial nominee who earned praise on Capitol Hill for his performance as under secretary.
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After a full day of debate on Wednesday, the Senate had only cleared a manager's package by unanimous consent that contains 18 mostly uncontroversial amendments, including new protections for pollinators and provisions that would increase funding for the milk donation program and raise the catastrophic coverage level under an insurance program for milk producers.
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I intend to make it stronger by keeping benefits up with — So beginning under President Kennedy and continuing under President Johnson, their efforts target what is perhaps the most uncontroversial group anyone can think of — I do not believe that older Americans should be forced to live out their lives in poverty — — old people.
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Jemele Hill, an ESPN star now writing for the Atlantic, may be the most striking example so far of a good journalist ousted in this way, but many have also been lost to devastating lay-offs at ESPN, Deadspin, and other sports sites where real coverage has been giving way to cheaper, uncontroversial puff pieces.
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" In response, lawyers for the plaintiffs, quoting an earlier Ninth Circuit decision, argue that the court's ruling in the Boise case merely "reflects the ought-to-be uncontroversial principle that a person may not be charged with a crime for engaging in activity that is simply 'a universal and unavoidable consequence of being human.
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At her N.F.L. news conference, she had promised a statement of "inclusion," an upbeat and uncontroversial stance, and she made good on it as she began her set, singing a few lines each of "God Bless America" and "This Land Is Your Land" and reciting the "one nation indivisible" conclusion of the Pledge of Allegiance.
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Watson has long expressed questionable views, including a 1997 interview in which he expressed unreserved support for abortion rights—something that might have been relatively uncontroversial had he not specifically mentioned fetuses determined to have hypothetical genes leading to homosexuality, dyslexia, or a lack of musical or sports talent as valid reasons to terminate a pregnancy.
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But as Georgetown University law professor David Super explains, in trying to make this proposal uncontroversial, the administration is actually contradicting its own messaging: ...the White House is, on the one hand, touting large savings from these rescissions while on the other hand insisting that they will do no harm because the money would not have been spent anyway.
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Mike LeeMichael (Mike) Shumway LeeMcConnell, allies lean into Twitter, media 'war' Conservatives buck Trump over worries of 'socialist' drug pricing Criminal justice reform should extend to student financial aid MORE (R-Utah) called Gorsuch's nomination to the 28500th Circuit "remarkably uncontroversial," and other Republicans have pointed out that he passed the Senate in 6900 with unanimous consent.
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After initially making moral equivalencies between neo-Nazis in Charlottesville -- one of whom killed a young woman and injured 19 -- and the protesters who were there to condemn them, two days later he was finally pressured to state in no uncertain terms that "racism is evil," a presumably uncontroversial admission for nearly anyone else in a leadership position.
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Before Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Mueller report fades from political conversation Five key players in Trump's trade battles MORE was even handed the gavel as Speaker, she faced rebellion from the far left of her party over a previously uncontroversial House rule known as "pay as you go," commonly referred to as PAYGO.
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But this year, about one month after American Airlines announced it would slash legroom in its economy class seats by another two inches (a proposal it later abandoned), the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee added Cohen and Kinzinger's seat size amendment to the FAA bill by voice vote, along with a block of other uncontroversial amendments.
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Our present times, in the West, are ruled by a paradoxical kind of normativity, where on the one hand there is a stated commitment to universal claims regarding rights, as if this discourse is now uncontroversial for liberal societies, yet on the other hand the painful reality for many is the experience of unnecessary suffering and hardship.
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But Mr. Trump's decision to mix a barrage of political remarks into a speech that has traditionally been an uncontroversial stream of upbeat oratory has enraged many parents and former Scouts, thrust the Scouts once again into the middle of the nation's culture wars and provided yet another example of the unusual and polarizing nature of the Trump presidency.
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Adam SmithDavid (Adam) Adam SmithWarren's pledge to avoid first nuclear strike sparks intense pushback Landmark US-Russia arms control treaty poised for final blow Young Democrats look to replicate Ocasio-Cortez's primary path MORE (D-Wash.), the committee's ranking member, were added during an uncontroversial vote on a package of amendments at the end of the night.
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Tellingly, Senate Energy Chairman Lisa MurkowskiLisa Ann MurkowskiThe Hill's Morning Report - Progressives, centrists clash in lively Democratic debate Senate braces for brawl over Trump's spy chief Congress kicks bipartisan energy innovation into higher gear MORE (R-Alaska) snuck this amendment into the bill during a floor voice vote that included about a dozen other mostly uncontroversial amendments.
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Orrin HatchOrrin Grant HatchTrump to award racing legend Roger Penske with Presidential Medal of Freedom Trump awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to economist, former Reagan adviser Arthur Laffer Second ex-Senate staffer charged in aiding doxxing of GOP senators MORE (R-Utah), the bill passed unanimously in the House last year, but has languished in the Senate — despite being largely uncontroversial.
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The confirmation hearings of Trump's three confirmed Cabinet members -- Defense Secretary James Mattis, Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly and CIA Director Mike Pompeo -- as well as his nominees for Secretary of State (Rex Tillerson) and even US Ambassador to the UN (Nikki Haley) were largely uncontroversial except in one important regard: They all expressed fundamental disagreement with basic tenets of Trump's campaign and foreign policy strategy.
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"I don't think it's a big surprise that China would react that way but they need to understand that Britain is a country that honours its international obligations and what I was saying was something very uncontroversial, actually, which is that we signed an agreement in 1984 which lasts for 50 years and we would expect all sides to honour that agreement," Hunt said.
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Orrin HatchOrrin Grant HatchTrump to award racing legend Roger Penske with Presidential Medal of Freedom Trump awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to economist, former Reagan adviser Arthur Laffer Second ex-Senate staffer charged in aiding doxxing of GOP senators MORE (R-Utah) are co-sponsoring the bill, which passed unanimously in the House last year, but has languished in the Senate -- despite being largely uncontroversial.
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"I don't think it's a big surprise that China would react that way but they need to understand that Britain is a country that honors its international obligations and what I was saying was something very uncontroversial, actually, which is that we signed an agreement in 1984 which lasts for 50 years and we would expect all sides to honor that agreement," Hunt said.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE on Thursday delivered a speech heavy on military imagery and light on political rhetoric during his "Salute to America" event to mark Independence Day, capping off weeks of controversy with a largely uncontroversial appearance.
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In much of Europe, the notion that a coach does not have to have been a player is uncontroversial: Maurizio Sarri, a career coach, leads Serie A with Napoli; Germany's Bundesliga has a whole phalanx of bright young managers with no playing experience, led by Hoffenheim's Julian Nagelsmann; Portugal has produced, in recent years, not only José Mourinho but Andre Villas-Boas, both of whom found life rather easier on the touchline than the field.
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Here's a good piece from Jeremy W. Peters and Sapna Maheshwari about how first-time candidates are finding success making unconventional videos about themselves, many of which have gone viral and helped with fundraising: The wave of female, minority and outsider candidates that is breaking cultural barriers and toppling incumbents in the Democratic Party is also sweeping aside a longstanding norm in campaigns: That the public image of politicians — especially women — should be upbeat, uncontroversial and utterly conventional.
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Not only was Obama's 2016 Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland infamously held up by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), but Republicans utilized several political tricks to hold up the president's agenda, as explained by Vox's Matthew Yglesias: Republicans began to use filibuster tactics in unprecedented ways, holding up uncontroversial nominations to eat up precious floor time and refusing to confirm anyone at all to certain posts in an effort to stop agencies from functioning.
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" Pros to candidacy: An uncontroversial pick for the position, could be the compromise who both replaces Yellen and provides continuity Only Republican currently on the Board of Governors, has already helped guide the economy in its recovery and would likely get bipartisan support in Congress Familiarity with markets and financial regulation may be considered a plus Cons to candidacy: As a current Fed member identified with the more centrist wing of the Republican Party, may not provide enough of a change if Trump decides to replace Yellen Expertise is less in formal economics and more in markets and financial regulation, which may seem too much of an overlap with the new vice chair for supervision, Randal Quarles John Taylor, 70, Senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution Experience: Undersecretary of Treasury for international affairs in the George W. Bush administration from 20103 to 2005; member of Council of Economic Advisers under presidents Jimmy Carter and George H. W. Bush Education: PhD in economics, Stanford University Policy positions: Developer of the eponymous "Taylor Rule" for setting interest rates, Taylor feels the Fed should transition to a rules-based policy in order to make its decision-making "predictable-transparent-accountable.
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