• In fact, as a practical matter, the only way they could dispose of a provision which was initiated by the ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Pete King of New York, after the insidious Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) brought suit against several "John Does" and adopted by the House of Representatives by a vote of 304-121 would be to snuff it in a conference committee.

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  • And making sure that they are up to snuff when it comes to the subject matter that they teach.

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  • If a country's entrepreneurial fires burn dimly, wholesale liberalisation will not light them it may indeed snuff them out.

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  • Ableton clearly didn't think this arrangement was up to snuff, though, so it created Push -- a software controller built entirely for its popular Live production software.

    ENGADGET

  • But a persistent crime problem, made worse by staggering poverty, widespread unemployment and a failing school system, threatens to snuff out that recovery before it even takes root.

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  • The Brummie accent, a nasal drone that suggests despondency to anyone outside Birmingham who is lucky enough to hear it, is also spreading as its speakers move west into Wales, where it threatens to snuff out the melodic local lilt.

    ECONOMIST: England's regional accents

  • Mr. Gaffney examined the lessons of trying to appease Islamofascists by considering the case of Turkey, where the Islamist regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues to enjoy friendly relations with and accommodation from the U.S. and European democracies, even as it relentlessly works to snuff out that country's traditions of secularism, tolerance and pro-Western foreign policies.

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  • He worries that rising gasoline prices will eventually snuff out demand for cars the way it did in 2008.

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  • The goal is to make sure IT governance is up to snuff and financial information from systems can be relied upon.

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  • Rather than a hard coup intended to snuff out the country's evolving democracy, it is an attempt to slow and control it.

    ECONOMIST: The Arab spring

  • The Welles in question, played by Nicolas Cage, is a private detective who is asked to watch a snuff movie and to find out just how snuffy it is whether a young woman was actually killed onscreen.

    NEWYORKER: 8mm

  • Many of my overseas friends have made it a point over the years to buy as many snuff bottles as they could find when traveling to China to give as gifts back home.

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  • And that's, that's what happens if you win, and your nearby colleague down there in Kent, in Faversham, Andrew Rose said yesterday, if on the other hand you lose you don't make any great dent, as he put it, in the majority, then the party will snuff William Hague out, strong words from your colleague?

    BBC: News Online

  • But it took the in-form Martinez Sanchez just 41 minutes to snuff out Australian hopes, securing a fourth final appearance for Spain when she took the first set off Samantha Stosur.

    CNN: Henin and Clijsters reach Brisbane semis

  • Halfpenny did well to snuff out one break down his flank, but Toulon switched play swiftly to the right and it was number eight Fotunuupule Auelua who had the Blues defence scrambling.

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  • But it will not relieve Apple of the pressure to bring its own maps service up to snuff.

    FORBES: Is Google's New Maps App Actually a Big Triumph for Apple?

  • Now that it's charging developers, the Internet giant better make sure its platforms are up to snuff.

    FORBES: Google's Geek Fest

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