The paper said in a statement that it had obtained the image from a news agency but that it had not been able to independently verify the date, location or circumstances of the photo.

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And I said but our taxes don't reflect it, and his boss will not verify that that is indeed his income.

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"All the monitors observed during the study would connect to file-sharers and verify that they were running the BitTorrent software, but they would not actually collect any of the files being shared, " he said.

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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed "grave concern" over the reports of Israeli airstrikes in Syria Sunday but stressed that the U.N. is not "in a position to independently verify what has occurred, " his spokesman said.

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Without doing that, mandatory E-Verify is likely to be a large expansion of federal authority that moves workers around but does not significantly reduce illegal immigration.

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Not only do they verify an organization's 501c3 public charity status (a standard practice), but they also review an organization's operating materials to ensure that its work matches donors' expectations.

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