"I remember it as a crystallizing moment, " says Doug Heye, the RNC's communications director.

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The Administration think its better micromanage, Ryan said, like picking winners and losers through regulation, or crystallizing, rather than eliminating, Too Big To Fail with Dodd-Frank.

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They look at the 'murder board' and you can see crystallizing ... the realization that these are human beings and that we are literally in a holocaust, we are slaughtering human beings.

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The two events the protest in Mumbai and the opening of the debate in Parliament in New Delhi played out in split screens on Indian television news stations, crystallizing a clash that has dominated Indian politics.

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But the episode sent shivers down the spines of leaders around the world, crystallizing unspoken fears that a more powerful China might use its monopoly on rare earths and similar forms of economic leverage as a weapon.

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Even so, "Jiang Theory" is rapidly crystallizing.

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" Klain called it a "crystallizing moment: the idea that the Republicans, having been rejected by the courts in their efforts to shut down the hand counts, would resort to these sorts of tactics to stop the counting of ballots.

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