• That phrase repeated over and over in a secret recording of a police supervisor is at the crux of a civil rights challenge to the New York Police Department's contentions tactic known as stop, question and frisk.

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  • The crux: a six-atom side chain that fit neatly into the thumbhole.

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  • The tiny oil-rich Gulf state of Qatar, with a population estimated to be around 1.7m, will be the first Middle Eastern country to host a major sporting event, and a central crux of their bid centred around boosting the region's global profile.

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  • When we first met "Nick" in September, he was spending the crux of his time preparing for a year of legal battles.

    FORBES: Judge Rules Nicholas Will Not Face Drug Charges

  • The crux of their disagreement lies in a contract made in 1878, between the Sultanate of Sulu and the British North Borneo Company.

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  • The crux of their argument lies in a 2004 Massachusetts court ruling, involving a separate case, that said Mr. Zuckerberg was legally a resident of New York at that time.

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  • The crux of the issue is whether a desperate plea for money that the court is hearing this week will undermine one of the great acts of financial alchemy in recent years: to wit, cheap financing for bad creditors.

    ECONOMIST: Steal industry

  • But the fact that BYOD is hard and is going to take a lot of work is the crux of the problem.

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  • The crux of the film is that George is a selfless guy whose actions (no matter how seemingly small) affected an entire community.

    FORBES: Connect

  • As it turns out, the crux of the invention was head-slappingly simple: though a patent-pending idea Smith calls "get out of the way control, " the unit measures the load on each joint as its operator moves about, and figures out the direction it needs to move in 3-D space to literally move out of the way.

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  • The real crux to answering that is this: Do we view autism only as a clinical diagnosis based solely on behavior and outward function, or do we talk about it as a neurobiological construct and identification, with an understanding of the context of the hidden disability and the hard work that those outward behaviors require?

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  • Of course, they need a warrant to invade the privacy of bad guys and that is the crux of this push to remove our essential right to privacy.

    ECONOMIST: Featured guest's comments

  • It's a quick exchange, but an apt illustration of the issue at the crux of this play, which is that this brash young American cannot conceive of what family means to this elderly Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust and the deaths of her immediate family.

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  • However, the crux of the problem is that, while the Israelis have long recognised the Palestinian right to a state, the Palestinians have not realised that terrorism will not pay.

    ECONOMIST: Israel and Palestine

  • The crux of the discussion came down to whether competition, with room for large and small entities, was a natural outcome of a market opening or whether it had to be prescribed by law in the run-up.

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  • He criticized the former Massachusetts governor for supporting a health law adopted there that includes a state requirement for people to carry insurance coverage that is similar to the federal requirement at the crux of the case before the Supreme Court.

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  • In reality our culture has changed so much that women frequently ask a man (or women in some parts of the country) to marry, but the real crux of what I believe this day could be about is the courage to break out of roles, speak your mind, and move boldly forward with confidence.

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