• Instead, Facebook feeds any political commentary in status messages into a text analysis software program, the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count, which determines whether what you said was positive or negative.

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  • The budget bill also includes money to investigate whether green charities are engaging in political activities incompatible with their status.

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  • Mr Bush's remarks sounded as close to an acceptance of the political status quo in China as any American leader is likely to utter.

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  • In reality, nationalism remains a double-edged sword, which does at times buttress the regime but can also develop in ways that threaten the political status quo.

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  • But none of us has an investment in the status quo or any political reason to withhold true counsel.

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  • Persistent tensions over Anguilla's political status came to a head in 1967 when Britain created a self-governing entity which encompassed Anguilla and the islands of St Kitts and Nevis to the south.

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  • Unlike the more politically powerful Cuban refugees, the Nicaraguans for years lived in a limbo-like status: not given political asylum, yet regularly granted work permits and made to feel welcome.

    ECONOMIST: The fear in Little Managua

  • Indeed, the junta's position towards Aung San Suu Kyi may have hardened further in reaction to developments that could significantly alter the political status quo albeit to the exclusion of genuine democratisation.

    ECONOMIST: The junta extends the house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi

  • Although Citizens United freed them from regulation by the Federal Election Commission, the IRS may withhold tax-exempt status if they engage in too much political activity, or if such activity is not germane to the ostensible social-welfare mission.

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  • They died in the Maze jail where republicans were attempting to gain political status which exempted them from the normal prison regime.

    BBC: Sinn Fein leader meets Castro

  • Should either a political or military event threaten the status quo in the Taiwan Strait, the U.S. will respond by diverting a Carrier Strike Group to the region.

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  • Although the NLD is still fighting in the courts to regain its legal status as a political party, forfeited because of last year's election boycott, it realises it needs to be more creative in its opposition.

    ECONOMIST: A far cry from real representation

  • Siniora's inability or unwillingness to confront Hizbullah and to end its status as an independent political and military force in Lebanon engendered a situation where, through their support for Lebanon's "unity" government, the US, France and the UN effectively protected Hizbullah and preserved its ability to maintain its independent position in Lebanon as a Syrian and Iranian proxy against Israel.

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  • The targeted groups had tax-exempt status that allowed them to participate in certain kinds of political messaging.

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  • Their mostly unionized workforces give them political power, as does their status as big employers in congressional districts.

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  • Well it seems to me that membership in the WTO will, broadly speaking, work to preserve the political status quo.

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  • The new details suggest that agency workers were examining statements in applications for tax-exempt status to determine whether groups had political leanings.

    WSJ: Wider Problems Found at IRS

  • In short, he is not afraid to pursue major structural changes, even in the face of the conventional wisdom and an entrenched status quo political establishment.

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  • The constitution promises to protect the status of religious communities in member states and pledges dialogue between political and religious institutions.

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  • According to the report by the IRS inspector general, the agency developed and followed a faulty policy to determine whether the applicants were engaged in political activities, which would disqualify the groups from receiving tax-exempt status.

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  • According to the report by the agency's inspector general released Tuesday, the IRS developed and followed a faulty policy to determine whether the applicants were engaged in political activities, which would disqualify the groups from receiving tax-exempt status.

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  • Last month, Beijing elevated the political status of the country's food and drug watchdog, in the hope that parents would learn to trust the products produced within China.

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  • Whatever his instincts, Bashar has to deal with powerful security and political interests that benefit from the status quo and have mindsets firmly rooted in the past.

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  • And in the current economic climate, an upgrading of the IPCC's institutional scale and a concomitantly greater cost was never politically attractive - just as the idea, mooted last year, of upgrading the UN climate convention to the status of a separate agency did not, in the end, receive political approval.

    BBC: Climate panel signs off reforms - but how ambitious?

  • But while they try to persuade pro-status quo Catholics to cross the political divide, unionists will resist setting in train what could, under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement, become a rolling process of border polls to be held on a seven yearly basis.

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  • But even after he fled abroad and successfully dodged Russian extradition charges by being granted political asylum in Britain, he still seemed to crave controversy and revelled in his self imposed status as emigre and latter-day dissident.

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  • Apparently a group called Americans For Responsible Leadership said in its initial application for 501(c)(4) status that it had not done any political spending, even though it had.

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  • If political status is what they want, he says, they will have to sit down and engage in a fully fledged peace process to end a conflict that has dragged on for four decades.

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  • The only president who seriously explored the possibility of removing those forces Jimmy Carter was persuaded in short order, thanks to the political firestorm his proposal created domestically and internationally, not to risk a new crisis in Korea by altering the status quo.

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