He bought small stakes in large companies and tried to invoke shareholder rights to open their books.
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Far from reducing subsidies, however, Congress seems likely to invoke the blackout to justify further handouts to suppliers.
The trouble is that many rich and educated Arabs may use a magician to invoke a djinn to sort out their problems, and they certainly do not consider the practice blasphemous.
It is not necessary to invoke comparative advantage in order to defend such global free trade.
"In effect, a vote to invoke cloture is a vote to kill tobacco, " Bryan said during floor debate on the nuclear waste bill.
If the Hungarians were to ignore an adverse judgment, the commission should also be ready to invoke provisions in the treaties to suspend a country's voting rights in Brussels.
The IRS did invoke Wood to give a break to a taxpayer whose rollover funds were embezzled by a bank employee.
All such multipliers are suspect, but the liberals can't have it both ways and invoke them to justify government spending but then repudiate them for private business.
There are no scientific reasons to invoke AGW and considerable reasons not to, not the least of which is that global temperatures have not tracked the consumption of fossil fuels.
It's a governmental privilege that allows them - usually what happens, in fact, is that the government says, we want to invoke this privilege, and we want to dismiss this case.
The Conservative-led council is to decide whether it will invoke its powers to compulsorily purchase land along the line of the proposed road in case it cannot reach agreement with any of the landowners.
Less satisfying is his account of California's cultural progress in the 19th and 20th centuries: does he really need to invoke so many long-forgotten writers to accompany such names as Jack London, Frank Norris, Mark Twain or Raymond Chandler?
It said that if the stand-off was not serious enough to invoke the clause, then it was difficult to imagine what could, "short of all out war".
An official's decision to invoke the right against self-incrimination certainly adds to the air of suspicion.
There has been speculation that the UK may try to invoke a little-used "national interest" defence to block attempts to curb bonuses.
And after signing with the Twins in 2003, he was involved in a fight on a train that caused the organization to invoke a "morality" clause and void his contract, according to people familiar with the matter.
At sentencing, it is common for defense counsel and judges alike to invoke the passage of time and intervening efforts by the cooperating witness to acknowledge his or her wrongdoing as factors in favor of a reduced sentence.
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The silent march was the idea of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's president, Benjamin Todd Jealous, who aimed to invoke a quiet protest down Fifth Avenue in 1917 that was meant to draw attention to race riots in East St.
They may advise their clients to invoke the constitution's Fifth Amendment, which means they can refuse to testify.
It used to be that people would invoke libel or defamation to justify censorship about things that hurt their reputations.
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To invoke the rabbit from Trix cereal, stories are not just for kids, nor are they limited to fiction.
And the final battle, if he gets that far, could require him to invoke the Parliament Act, the mechanism by which the Commons can over-ride the Lords, to push his changes through.
Kruger, meanwhile, told the Times that people used to invoke common sense while crossing the street.
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And supporters of bans on "hate speech" invoke international norms to defeat First Amendment objections.
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The statement added that there was no alternative other than to invoke the 10-point penalty.
' The Committee elected to invoke that discretion and waived Woods' penalty of disqualification.
Sources told CNN that Malvo is expected to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
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Are they directly undermining the anonymity properties that they are so quick to invoke?
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Even the more secular settlers invoke historical ties to the land going back to biblical times.
During Kromanti ceremonies, dances, songs and specific drumming styles are performed to invoke ancestral spirits.
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