Sentences with phrase «rare step»

Clinton's campaign said in a statement that the release of the notes from the FBI's investigation is «an extraordinary rare step that was sought solely by Republicans for the purposes of further second - guessing the career professionals at the FBI.»

And it has drawn attention to some apparently rare steps that NSF took against researchers who the agency says engaged in unacceptable research practices — but not misconduct.

Acuña's situation is so precarious that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has called on Peru's government to take precautionary measures to protect her safety, a relatively rare step it also took in Cáceres's case.

As international officials worked to try to confirm that a chemical attack had taken place, Trump took the rare step of directly criticizing Putin, connecting him to the attack.

Doubleclick co-founder and FindTheBest chief executive Kevin O'Connor is taking the rare step of waging a war on a patent troll.

It took the rare step of branding syndicated easement deals as «listed transactions,» subject to special reporting and scrutiny.

British lawmakers on a key committee investigating Facebook took the rare step Tuesday of formally demanding Zuckerberg's testimony.

It was a stunning fall from grace for Law and a rare step for the church, which deeply resists public pressure but could no longer do so given the scope of the crisis.

Private school teachers also took the rare step of walking out of work, with 20,000 - including teachers from Eton - estimated to have joined the effort to fight back against pension reform.

Cuomo even took the rare step of holding a telephone news conference with the Fair Elections group earlier this year and before the Smith scandal broke.

This time it could be worse - by taking the rare step of allowing the emergency debate on phone - hacking he made a power play against the government, which was desperate to avoid it.

It its Saturday print edition, the New York Times took the rare step of editorializing on its front page in favor of gun control.

The District Attorneys Association of New York, in a rare step, also commented on the indictment, voicing concerns over the functioning of the criminal justice system in the county.

Without a commitment to a second vote, the Lib Dems took the rare step of opposing the EU (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill at its third and final reading although peers overwhelmingly approved the bill and sent it back to the Commons.

The final night of voting included some mini-drama — Democrats from Westchester fought for a sales tax increase in Yonkers as well as new hotel levies, and chamber leaders took the rare step of calling off a bill during voting because it lacked support — but was mostly spent approving an omnibus bill for outstanding housing and education issues.

Nor is such an endorsement unprecedented: during the 1990s, both parties took the rare step of formally supporting the election of Plaid Cymru MP Cynog Dafis on a hybrid ticket.

ALBANY — A group advocating public campaign finance is taking the rare step of endorsing Zephyr Teachout's bid for Congress, a nod that aligns her with a cadre of donors who have previously spent half a million dollars backing Democrats in the district.

He even took the rare step last week of skipping a political fund - raiser for his re-election campaign.

A group advocating public campaign finance is taking the rare step of endorsing Zephyr Teachout's bid for Congress in NY - 19, a nod that aligns her with a cadre of donors who have previously spent half a million dollars backing Democrats in the district.

It was a rare step for a top federal law - enforcement official, and one that prompted a flurry of chatter in legal and political circles about his motives.

Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch, who serves as the president of the Senate according to the State Constitution, took the rare step of acting as the presiding officer of the Senate on Tuesday, a position typically occupied by a Senate Democrat.

After months of negotiations with advocates, Quinn said she opposes the measure but wouldn't block a vote if backers take the rare step of pushing one without her support, and she acknowledged it very likely could pass.

This is a rare step for a messaging protocol, and the same analysis for other protocols revealed several security flaws.

Women's Affairs The FDA took the rare step of urging doctors to stop performing a surgical procedure used on tens of thousands of women each year to remove uterine growths, saying the practice risks spreading hidden cancers within a woman's body.

February 27, 2018 • The kingdom replaced top military brass, opened armed forces jobs to women and promoted a woman to a senior Labor Ministry post in a series of rare steps in the ultraconservative kingdom.

PERB even took the rare step of going to court itself against Alliance and filed a formal complaint in August.

GM took the rare step of buying back any cars that had this dealer installed option.

Kobo took the rare step of deleting all of the offending books and WHSmith, who sources their catalog from Kobo, shut down their e-book website for two weeks and when they reopened, they refused to stock indie e-books altogether.

Microsoft is taking the rare step to manufacture hardware to showcase its new touch friendly iteration of Windows 8, featuring Metro.

Korean Air award flights must be booked as roundtrips, but the program takes the rare step of allowing stopovers in both directions.

After two problematic noise - monitoring reports, Minnesota utilities regulators have taken the rare step of ordering a utility to justify why it should still have a permit to operate its wind farm.

In a rare step forward, 24 countries and the European Union unanimously agreed to create the world's largest marine protected area off Antarctica.

In taking the rare step of revoking the permit, granted in 2007 by the Bush administration, the E.P.A. said that mining would have done unacceptable damage to rivers, wildlife and communities.

«It seems to me that if a court is being asked to take the rare step of imposing a dangerous offender designation (determinate or indeterminate), one should have a clear and explicit evidentiary and logical basis for so doing,» wrote Cole in his sentencing decision on Friday.

But, Toobin points out, Ginsburg took the rare step of articulating her dissent from the bench (she did not read her dissenting opinion, but summarized Ledbetter's plight in lay terms) and concluded saying «[t] oday the ball again lies in Congress» court... [T] he legislature has cause to note and to correct this court's parsimonious reading of Title VII.»

The department said in a press release that it intends to take the «rare step» of seeking Supreme Court review even as it filed a notice of appeal in the San Francisco - based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday, report the Washington Post, Politico, BuzzFeed News and the Recorder.

In late August, Thomas then took the rare step of ordering Kennedy to pay costs personally for advancing the matter.

The circumstances of the Shofman case led Justice Campbell to take the rare step of issuing a practice note for all defence counsel, not just the trial lawyer involved in the particular case.

Considering Microsoft took the rare step of issuing a patch for old, unsupported versions of Windows that are nevertheless found in the wild, there's no excuse for not doing so.

Tom Pahl, acting director of the FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection earlier this week took the rare step of publicly announcing that it was investigating Facebook over the data disclosures.

Qchain also has taken the rare step of developing a ready - to - employ, fully tested platform in advance of their ICO campaign — an approach that runs counter to most blockchain projects whose white paper / website only campaigns have given the ICO scene a bit of a black mark.

The hallmark of John and Julie Gottmans» work is taking the rare step of actually observing the broadest sample of couples they can find, rather than relying on personal intuitions about the world, to inform their approach in the consulting room.