He responded that his proposed package would affect handgun violence through the expanded background checks and cracking down on straw purchases.
Diners sit on straw mats on the floor of the unfinished concrete building and look out over the hills and fields that disappear under the encroaching urban sprawl.
At the time of his dental work, Walker was still small and light enough to be operated on an improvised table made from planks of wood laid on straw bales.
We headed northeast from the salt flats of Djibouti one night, crammed into a Land Cruiser piled with luggage, sleeping briefly on straw mats in the dirt courtyard of a village of Afar tribespeople.
Congress is preparing to consider such measures as a ban on the manufacture of new high-powered assault weapons, cracking down on straw purchases of guns for those who can't pass background checks, curbing gun trafficking and expanding background checks.
Until the global economy looks more balanced, and that depends on Brussels and Washington for the time being, the fundamentals of Brazil real estate will seem to be built on straw when they have probably never been so good.
There's one glaring omission from the 23 names on the straw poll ballot: Jeb Bush, who asked not to be on the list.
Sorry Rick (et al) but your whole discussion is based on a straw man argument.
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"We're sucking on a straw until we hit the bottom of the glass, " he says.
For a start it is based on the straw man argument that things have been terrible in Japan.
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This time around there are 23 names on the straw poll ballot, including some who were not invited to CPAC.
Clad in a blue blazer with gold buttons, he calmly sips on a straw that delivers Coke from a crystal cup.
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Thus, we need -- as is being proposed -- to toughen the laws on "straw man" purchases and firearms trafficking and to make it a federal crime to transport a gun into a state where possession of that gun would be illegal.
It is not one based on an imagined straw poll of the partially informed hypothetical man on the street, but based on how a person of reasonable judgment, aware of all the facts, as well as how courts function, would decide.
After meeting America's secretary of state, Colin Powell, on Thursday, and Britain's foreign secretary, Jack Straw, on Friday, Mr Annan acknowledged that diplomats were discussing the possibility of agreeing a multinational force to guard UN sites and staff, with a separate command structure but in some way under the influence of the American military.
He added that he would be seeking clarification from Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on the ambassador's recall.
She unfolded her white paper napkin and began to dab her straw on it, leaving faint tea-colored dots.
This act of arrogance, if not malfeasance, will almost certainly prove to be the proverbial straw on an overloaded camel's back.
It also asks for legal costs, other economic damages and an order blocking future levies on money due Straw Marketing under the HarperCollins contract.
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"It could very well have set the barn and its contents of hay and straw on fire as the lantern was still smouldering, " he said.
Yeah, well Sony Ericsson's on it, straw hat and all.
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He could have been sitting alone atop the leader-board if his tee-shot on 13 hadn't ended up on the pine straw and behind a tree 10 yards outside the fairway.
The proposal advanced on Thursday targeted straw purchases, which often are made by a person assisting someone who is unable to legally buy a gun or doesn't want the weapon traced back to his or her name.
"I am not prepared to say that it is going on, " Mr Straw told Today.
And Labour's passion on Chile puts Mr Straw in a trap of his own.
That inactivity has been criticised by politicians, placing pressure on Home Secretary Jack Straw to act - pressure he has ignored.
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw called on the BBC to apologize for the report.
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