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Congress, who has access to be briefed on these things, and now has the desire to be, has produced bills to reform it, and two independent White House panels who reviewed all of the classified evidence said these programs have never stopped a single terrorist attack that was imminent in the United States.
Women were forced to wear veils and they were stopped from going to the markets.
We will not be intimidated, brought down, diminished, conquered or stopped by acts of violence.
The High Line was an elevated railway that ran through three neighborhoods on Manhattan's West Side, and when the train stopped running, it became a self-seeded landscape, a kind of a garden in the sky.
Once kids stopped working, the economics of parenting changed.
I don't remember exactly when it stopped, but I cannot deny now having entered the uncertain world of formerly and used to be.
The system works to stay stopped, unless something positive happens.
And it also turns out to be precisely what could have stopped this crisis, the one that cost us 11 trillion dollars just in the household sector, that cost us 10 million jobs, was the easiest financial crisis by far to have avoided completely if we had simply learned the lessons of epidemics of control fraud, particularly using this recipe.
We'd stopped it before.
The moment I stopped, half a dozen other people immediately ringed the same guy.
And then one day, the songs stopped coming, and while you've suffered from periods of writer's block before, albeit briefly, this is something chronic.
And yet, if you look at your work, could it be argued that your best work wasn't about you at all, it was about somebody else? Did your best work occur when you sidestepped your own ego and you stopped telling your story, but told someone else's story, someone perhaps without a voice, where empathetically, you stood in his shoes for a while or saw the world through his eyes?
I stopped him there.
The poet Frank O'Hara said, "If you don't need poetry, bully for you," but he also said when he didn't want to be alive anymore, the thought that he wouldn't write any more poems had stopped him.
It seemed like my basic assumptions just stopped working.
I stopped shaving.
If A is the question, B is the answer, stay creative in the cloud, and you start going, and experiments don't work, experiments don't work, experiments don't work, experiments don't work, until you reach a place linked with negative emotions where it seems like your basic assumptions have stopped making sense, like somebody yanked the carpet beneath your feet.
Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men.
When the bus reached the outskirts of her hometown, it was stopped at a checkpoint manned by men from the Armed Islamic Group.
If you were stopped for speeding and the officer looked in the window and saw who was in the passenger seat, then, "Oh, continue on, sir."
When thinking about choices, I stopped taking choices too seriously, personally.
Higher education stopped being a right for all and became a privilege for the few.
Fortunately, they had been stopped by human rights activists.
He became extremely protective of these bunnies, and he stopped sleeping, and he would sort of nod off while trying to take care of them.
But it became a little tricky when we were stopped by the police, and we were stopped a lot by the police, and I was impressed by the way that my father dealt with the police.
They are stopped when they go to school, and it's disgusting.
When the visibility dropped to [less] than a few meters, they stopped the buses and I had to walk.
And then they pretty much stopped.
Instead, countries where urbanization has already peaked seem to be the very countries in which cities have stopped making us happy.
It made its way up his neck, cutting off his ability to breathe, and stopped just beneath the eyes.
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