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Once again, current and former FBI agents will be targeted, either because they expressed criticism of Trump or because they opened a national security investigation into a hostile power’s meddling in the US presidential election (which continued in the 2018 midterms).
The expansion of rules-based trade and investment opened up lucrative new markets for US firms.
It has been almost a half-century since former CIA Director William Colby opened that agency’s files to congressional investigators, following allegations that it had been engaged in prohibited spying.
But European Union leaders also were largely silent – deafeningly and dishearteningly so – on the day that the EU’s first “university in exile” opened in the capital of a neighboring member state.
Meanwhile, societies that have opened up their digital borders can now import a vast cornucopia of information.
That, in turn, opened the door for further engagement with Iran on all other issues of concern, including human rights.
But the door had opened more than ten times and each time it turned out to be a guest who had been detained and now joined the crowd on the right, or a spectator who had managed to deceive or soften the heart of the police officer and who joined the throng of strangers on the left; and both relatives and spectators had passed through every phase of anticipation.
'What a duffer!' he muttered to himself as he seated himself at the table, and having opened a portfolio he at once set to work with particular ardour at an unfinished drawing.
But directly she opened her mouth, words of reproach, senseless jealousy, and everything else that had been torturing her during the half-hour she had sat motionless waiting at the window, burst from her.
Well!' and she opened her eyes wider, trying thereby to increase the force of her look.
But he had hardly moved when the door opened and Kitty looked out.
When Levin opened the door, on his return from the doctor's whither Kitty had sent him, he saw the invalid at the moment when at Kitty's command Mary Nikolavna and the waiter were putting a clean shirt on him.
The door opened and Kitty appeared.
The prayers were not yet ended when the dying man stretched himself; sighed and opened his eyes.
'Say there will be no answer,' said the Countess Lydia Ivanovna, and at once opened her blotter and wrote to Karenin that she hoped to meet him about one o'clock at the Palace, at the Birthday Reception.
Karenin glanced absent-mindedly at the numberless familiar portraits decorating the boudoir, and sitting down by the table opened a New Testament that was on it.
'Have you had a nice walk?' asked Karenin, as he sat down in his arm-chair, drew toward him an Old Testament and opened it.
His assistant, a lad whom Anna did not know, had hardly opened the door when she entered, and taking a three-rouble note from her muff hastily thrust it into his hand.
He opened a big door and vanished behind it.
He raised himself again on his elbow, moved his tousled head from side to side as if seeking for something, and opened his eyes.
Having at last concluded that his duty was to get Serezha up at the appointed time, and that therefore he need not consider who was sitting there – the boy's mother or anyone else – but that he must do his duty, he dressed, went up to the door, and opened it.
At that moment the door opened and Vasily Lukich entered.
She returned the baby to its nurse, sent them away, and opened a locket with Serezha's portrait as a baby about the same age as the little girl.
The door opened to let an attendant slip through, and the nearly completed phrase struck Vronsky's ears distinctly.
At length the door opened noisily and out bounded, spinning round and round in the air, Krak, Oblonsky's yellow spotted pointer, followed by Oblonsky himself with a gun in his hand and a cigar in his mouth.
'Oh, our host!' he said, addressing a peasant who had opened the creaking barn doors and was entering.
He opened his eyes for an instant: they were standing chatting in the open doorway, brightly lit up by the moon which had now risen.
Having put on his boots, taken his gun, and carefully opened the creaking barn doors, Levin went out into the street.
The ladies opened their sunshades and entered the sidewalk.
The Session was opened by the Governor of the Province, who in his speech to the nobles told them that in choosing occupants for posts they should show no partiality, but should choose according to merit and for the welfare of the country, and that he hoped the honourable Nobility of Kashin would strictly fulfil its duty as it had done in previous elections, and would justify their sovereign's high confidence in them.
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