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Not only would CBP officials not let me speak to Anna, but they wouldn't even tell me if she was there.

Still, immigration officials held her for three more months, until we could win her release and help her reunify with her son.

CBP officials held her for three more weeks before they sent her back to Mexico, where she is being forced to wait months for an asylum hearing in the United States.

Mexican officials, although they had given me a valid visa, stopped me and told me that I couldn't enter the country because a foreign government had placed a travel alert on my passport, designating me as a national security risk.

I begged the Mexican officials to let me go back to Mexico and pick up my son, who was only 10 months old at the time.

But they refused, and instead, they turned me over to CBP officials, where I was forced back into the United States.

Amber took Moses to elected officials in the city of Flint.

Now I'm not saying that officials have no responsibility here, but it is our collective apathy that takes the pressure off of our parliamentarians, the bureaucrats or the enforcement agencies.

Or dare I say, you could even advocate at the federal level, by politely asking our federal officials, some of whom may be here, to please not auction off our view of the invisible universe to the highest bidder to pollute at will, which is actually what happens.

Government officials had stolen the forest.

And documents found during those raids found that they'd been falsifying shipping documents so the customs officials would literally have no idea who had sent the products in the first place.

I met global food companies, financial institutions and local government officials.

While it's easy to point the finger at local officials and higher authorities, 99 percent of these people are hired by the private sector, and so therefore we're equally, if not more, accountable.

In August 2008, UAE public officials noted that 40 percent of the country's 1,098 labor camps had violated minimum health and fire safety regulations.

We are not talking about 50,000 dollars here, or 100,000 dollars there, or one million dollars there. No, we are talking about 10 million, 20 million dollars on the Swiss bank accounts, on the bank accounts of Liechtenstein, of the president's ministers, the high officials in the para-statal sectors.

Because life is complex, and here is the hardest and biggest change: We have to restore the authority to judges and officials to interpret and apply the law.

So, basically we have public leaders, public officials who are out of control; they are writing bills that are unintelligible, and out of these bills are going to come maybe 40,000 pages of regulations, total complexity, which has a dramatically negative impact on our life.

But what you're going to find eventually is you may need to actually get elected officials to help you out.

Second of all, I'm going to recommend that you get into a proactive stance and write to your elected officials at least once a month.

So, what your letter means: I've got to tell you, we are all in a party, and political officials are the pinatas.

In the United Arab Emirates, the second-most water-scarce country in the world, officials designed what they called the "Business Heroes Toolkit" in 2010.

But it doesn't count the health of our children or the integrity of our public officials.

And actually, one of our federal officials said that it was probably heat stress.

Our officials complained about Corexit, which is the most toxic line of dispersants.

The one redeeming feature was the shots of Rome and what looked like the Vatican -- an achievement, because I am sure that the Vatican officials would not have wanted this dross shot in and around St Peter's -- and the interiors were convincing.

The county sheriff tries to investigate but is hampered in his efforts by other government officials.

I really tried to give this film a chance but when I realized that most of the film was being told by a bunch of boring officials walking around and talking on phones, I knew it was over.

Let take off the veils and set an agenda for our elected officials and take them to task (not re-elect) when they continue with evasion and non-representation of citizenry.

The dashing, jovial Flynn essays Custer from his days at West Point as a reckless, headstrong cadet, through the Civil War years in an extraordinarily generous and partisan interpretation of history, and finally as the nonpareil Indian fighter whose blunder at the Little Big Horn is excused as a sacrifice by Custer of his command as a way of exposing the corruption of government officials and post traders as well as a protest of the unfair treatment of the Plains Indians.

Corrupt officials have carried out the murder and have a humble slave take the rap.

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