• The trade-union movement, until recently narrow-eyed about foreigners of any sort taking its members' jobs, has now become much more sympathetic to Latinos, who make up an increasing number of those members.

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  • If that passes, senators and House members must sort out the differences between the two pieces of legislation.

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  • "This is a classic example of the sort of thing that members of public are complaining to us about, " he said.

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  • "Looking at the prospects for next year I think it's fair to say I'm more worried than other members that these sort of expectations may get built into the wage bargaining, price setting process, " Mr Weale said.

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  • When she came out, she went on singing the song, singing "Strange Fruit, " and over and over again, wherever she went, the FBI or different members of the sort of law enforcement, would trail her, would follow her, and over and over again, apparently, she was told if she stopped singing it, she'd be let off.

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  • Ms. OLIKER: Well I think what's going to happen now is, sort of bilateral talks, in that the other members are going to try to push the Russians and the Chinese to some sort of statement.

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  • The catch was that in this sort of snap election only serving members of the Knesset were eligible to run, which ruled out Mr Netanyahu, who was streets ahead of Mr Barak in the polls.

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  • Dr Kobayashi and Dr Maskawa, who were at Japan's High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation and Kyoto University respectively, described a type of symmetry breaking that predicted two new families of quarks, a sort of subatomic particle whose simplest members are the ingredients of the protons and neutrons that form atomic nuclei.

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  • This creates a sort of moral momentum which influences non-members, too including the United States.

    ECONOMIST: The International Criminal Court and aggression

  • My high school FFA members were always involved in some sort of activity to improve the community.

    WHITEHOUSE: Bridging FFA Chapters

  • For this reason, it seems likely that several G-8 members will seek to fashion some sort of endorsement of this latest initiative.

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  • Instead of block grants, Medicare reform is based on something akin to vouchers, sort of like the health system available for Members of Congress.

    FORBES: Block-Granting Medicaid Is a Long-Overdue Way of Restoring Federalism and Promoting Good Fiscal Policy

  • Men who depended on their wives' income, as well as their own now are responsible for the total support of their family, and often had to help widowed family members who no longer had any sort of income.

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  • Usually speakers will have a time where individual members, usually new members, have their photograph taken and sort of reenact the swearing-in.

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  • "I think the fact that we've got three years before the move gives us ample time to sort out a lot of the concerns of our members, " he added.

    BBC: Dundonald House

  • The list, which serves parents in the neighborhoods of Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill and environs, is a sort of ask-it-all for thousands of members.

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  • The Western countries have not wanted to engage in any sort of military action in this way, but the members of Congress and Senate do see this as a way of trying to protect people.

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  • He added that he doubted anyone "would support a strike of this sort other than the 12% of the total PCS members" who voted for it, and said ministers were checking the "legality of the strike".

    BBC: Peer condemns 'squalid' strike

  • Breeders and would-be breeders pored over stud books while members of the public turned up to investigate what sort of dog would best fit into their family.

    WSJ: A Library With a Pedigree | American Kennel Club Research Library | By Joanne Kaufman

  • Late in the evening, the man had the child in some sort of underground bunker or storm shelter, and SWAT team members were communicating with him through a PVC pipe, CNN affiliate WSFA reported.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Gonzalez, who works on helicopters that bring cargo, supplies and military personnel in and out of Iraq, testified before a House Judiciary Committee panel last month, detailing his situation and urging officials to consider some sort of policy to deal with cases like his, where military members' families could be deported while they're defending their country overseas.

    CNN: U.S. sailor: Don't deport my wife

  • If the American people feel strongly about these issues and they push hard, and they reward or don't reward members of Congress with their votes, if they reject sort of uncompromising positions or sharp partisanship or always looking out for the next election, and they reward folks who are trying to find common ground, then I think you'll see behavior in Congress change.

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  • The Mahdi army members have always been there, but they have always been sort of lurking in the shadows and trying to avoid confrontation.

    NPR: Surge in Violence Worries Baghdad

  • The rap duo Kidz in the Hall is sort of like the Vampire Weekend of contemporary hip-hop: Its members met while attending an Ivy League university prominently reflected in their stage getup and they owe much of their success to the file-sharing footsoldiers of the music blogosphere.

    NPR: Kidz In The Hall: Back To The Summer

  • And ever since then, that's been sort of the mental template - and actually operational template too - for members of the press, for prosecutors and for members of the opposition party to whoever is in office at the time, to find ways to have the real-time reality show drama of high-stakes hearings where you have witnesses under pressure, senators and representatives grandstanding in various ways.

    NPR: Week In News: A Rough Week For The White House

  • Members rose to their feet for three dozen standing ovations, the sort of treatment Barack Obama can only dream of.

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  • Mr Annan is irritated with council members, particularly the United States, for once again assuming that he will sort out something that he plainly regards as their mess.

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  • Co-operation of a sort among different animal species is also quite common, though not very surprising, since members of different species are not generally competing with each other for food, still less for sexual partners.

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  • During the campaign, Mitt Romney was sort of ridiculed for saying that he wanted a binder full of women to make decisions on Cabinet members.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney,

  • Each of these groups is an annual cohort (in other words, their members were all born in the same twelve-month period) established for just this sort of long-term medical investigation.

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