• Today was the deadline for the White House to hand over those documents, and they sent the Senate and House Judiciary Committees a letter saying, sorry, it's not going to happen, in this case we're exerting executive privilege.

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  • Would social conservatives really be willing to hand the White House over to the pro-abortion, pro-gay Democrats?

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  • And why push for impeachment when it would hand the White House over to fairly-clean Mr Gore?

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  • In the case at hand, the house was attached to the land and was conveyed to petitioners along with the land when they purchased the Vienna property.

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  • Among the Bull Moosers in the crowd were former Democrats and Republicans, including future Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, columnist Walter Lippman, "wise-use conservationist" Gifford Pinchot, Judge Learned Hand and settlement house pioneer Jane Addams, who became the first woman to give a nominating speech at an American political convention.

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  • Second, the deal gives the Republicans their strongest hand since losing the House and the Senate in 2006.

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  • As I lurked, coffee in hand, around Portcullis House this morning, nobody had a clue what would happen.

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  • During a trip to visit relatives in Michigan, Lee drove his family to the DiMarias' house to hand over the supplies.

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  • Under the "Lend A Hand" scheme, house buyers put down a deposit of 5% and the council guarantees a further 20% of the mortgage amount.

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  • During his recent meeting at the White House with hand-picked American Jewish leftist activists and centrist American Jewish leaders, Obama explained that he welcomes open disputes with Israel.

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  • Weaving is done manually by a lissier, or weaver, on a loom positioned horizontally, working on the reverse side of the tapestry, and using yarns that are hand-dyed in house.

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  • In an unusual show of bipartisanship, members of both parties were on hand for the White House ceremony, including members of the administration, Congress, as well as state and local governments.

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  • The list of things uncommon to the Vegas buffet goes on and on, from hand-carved, house smoked slab bacon to lemongrass marinated steamed cod to house-made pork rillettes, a rustic version of pate.

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  • America may not be as aggressive as it has been in the recent past, but Obama's record -- the surfeit of caution regarding Syria aside -- suggests it would be a fatal error to test this cool hand in the White House.

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  • The goal of the civil action -- beyond continued political embarrassment to a president in the middle of a tough re-election campaign -- would be to compel Justice Department officials and their political allies in the White House to hand over the documents in question.

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  • The White House plan to hand the power over to Congress failed miserably.

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  • On the other hand, an elected upper house would at last enjoy the democratic legitimacy it needs in order to make full use of those powers.

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  • The criminal contempt charge would refer the entire dispute to District of Columbia U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen, who would then decide whether to file criminal charges against Holder or others, based on the Justice Department's refusal to hand over information sought by House Republicans.

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  • Mindful of those doubts, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and therefore the man with his hand on the steering wheel for the issue in the House, declared last week that he will pursue an incremental, go-slow approach.

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  • When Dolores is a month old, her left hand is badly burnt in a house fire.

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  • As a warning, a hand grenade was lobbed into his house in Bacolod.

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  • No. 1, they want at the White House to accelerate the hand-over of political power to the Iraqis from the coalition provisional authority.

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  • Republicans hope public sentiment will strengthen their hand for negotiations with the White House on those bills, although there are earlier chokepoints they hope to exploit as well.

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  • Kerry Ann Taylor was hurt when she put her hand through a window at a house in Southsea while disposing of class B cannabis plants and equipment, in 2008.

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  • Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy suggested that the timeline may depend on whether the White House is willing to hand over documents about U.S. attorney firings and other controversies.

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  • What is special about Afghanistan is that Mr Obama rejected both of the big ideas his subordinates promoted in the great hand-wringing review the White House conducted in the autumn of 2009.

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  • The Congress, specifically the Senate, is taking up proposals by -- produced by the House on the one hand, the Senate Democrats on the other, and we all are waiting to see the outcome of those votes.

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  • Perhaps the more significant, and less noted, event that forced Romney to switch his protective coloring was the resignation in September 2004 of House Speaker Tom Finneran, a staunch social conservative who ruled the Massachusetts House with an iron hand.

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  • Or it may be that Mr Sharon and his colleagues are capitalising on what they see as rifts in the American administration between, on the one hand, hawks in the White House and the Pentagon and, on the other, a State Department relatively sympathetic to the Palestinians.

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  • Peregrine is the first Hong Kong securities house to need a helping hand after the region's markets collapsed.

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