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Cf. also zeroized.
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Local and national organizers, meanwhile, have zeroed in on Emanuel, who on Thursday night – two days after being forced into an extended campaign in which policing has been a major issue – made his first statements about the Homan Square row.
Bolt zeroed in on the treasurer Joe Hockey, who has been the recipient of some of the negative internal backgrounding over the past few weeks, and also the focal point of some of the negative commentary from conservative quarters outside the government.
The researchers have zeroed in on antibodies that react with part of the virus called its spike.
The new pope's identification with ordinary people and shunning of Vatican luxury is likely to go down well in Brazil, which has recently seen big marches against political corruption and for better public services.In this section Money starts to talk Earthly concerns Zeta zeroed ReprintsBut in Brazil, as elsewhere, the church is in trouble.
There was little drama: he was detained with two alleged accomplices by a navy helicopter at 3.45am just south of the United States border and not a shot was fired.In this section Money starts to talk Earthly concerns Zeta zeroed ReprintsThe juiciest detail was that he had $2m in cash on him enough, possibly, to counter the $2m bounty on his head in Mexico.
But the fact is that many late-night swoops and mass arrrests, often involving the regular army as well as the police, have zeroed in on migrants, leading to complaints of human-rights abuse.When hundreds of people were hauled in at the Central Methodist Church in Johannnesburg, a place where lots of foreigners seek refuge, the detainees were initially denied acccess to lawyers.
Instead, the justices zeroed in on the due process claim that Amtrak's fellow rail companies were unfairly disadvantaged by the 2008 law.
Republican senators led by John McCain, a former presidential rival in 2008, have zeroed in on briefings given by Obama aides after the September murder of America's ambassador to Libya, in which the involvement of terrorists with al-Qaeda ties was played down, in favour of (erroneous) early reports linking the murder to protests over an anti-Islamic film.
Observe as monetary policy is made:In a flurry of emails and phone calls before the gathering and at a dinner during the event, several officials zeroed in on an idea some people called "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution," a reference to a 1976 Sherlock Holmes film in which the fictional detective becomes addicted to cocaine.
Agriculture occupies 60m hectares now; it could stretch out to another 90m hectares without touching the Amazon rainforest, says Silvio Crestana, director of Embrapa, the main agricultural research institute.If rich countries suddenly demolished trade barriers and zeroed out subsidies, Brazilian farming would really shift into overdrive.
Unionist dismay at the reform proposals has zeroed in on the change in the police force's name, which they argue dishonours the many policemen killed by the IRA.
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