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Meanwhile, city officials across the region are asking residents for patience as mandatory evacuations are issued in the face of potential mudslides and flooding.

The Government's effective surrender on the issue in the face of a hugely popular campaign came in a Commons statement by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith yesterday afternoon.

But the White House and congressional leadership have been slow to push the issue in the face of fierce opposition from state officials, lawyers' groups and business associations.

"Improving the land should be put on a war footing because food security is a real issue in the face of climate change".

Segregation is surely a side issue in the face of the picture emerging from this document of our universities, our bastions of free thinking and free expression, in flight on the back of increasing  securitization and deprivitization.

The I.F.S. is a research organization that has played a leading role in making public spending an election issue, in the face of predictable reticence on the part of the political parties.

But there are lawmakers who deserve to return to Albany, especially those who have voted courageously on controversial issues in the face of pressure from political leaders or lobbyists.

The vice president's event in this town near Pittsburgh was part of a broad effort by the administration to raise awareness of energy issues in the face of polls showing that most Americans believe that the environment should not be sacrificed for the sake of more energy supplies.

Experts in national security law said the Ressam decision on Tuesday showed that the federal courts could handle terrorism issues, in the face of recent criticism that plea deals and defendant protections could make it difficult to convict and sentence terrorists.

After consulting with S.B.C. theologians, Merritt drafted a statement calling the denomination's engagement with the environment "too timid," and maintaining that "our cautious response to these issues in the face of mounting evidence may be seen by the world as uncaring, reckless and ill-informed".

Yet, even with that knowledge, some of us, in our innocence, proposed a sort of truce about Second Amendment issues in the face of the ongoing national emergency the Trump Presidency in which it seemed essential to make common cause, even with those who have the strange American fixation on the right to own military-style firearms.