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Recent Examples of apostatizeIn one of the more powerful sequences, three older men are hung from crosses positioned deep in the ocean’s waters — the thrashing waves killing them slowly for their refusal to apostatize.—Lindsey Bahr, Orange County Register, 6 Jan. 2017 The conundrum is one that has nothing to do with Rodrigues’ decision whether to lay down his life, but with his reluctance to apostatize, even in the face of others’ deaths.—Michael O'Sullivan, The Denver Post, 6 Jan. 2017 Savannah's mom left the church in 2015, when leaked official documents confirmed their policy of apostatizing same-sex couples.—Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 20 June 2017
Who’s on Tennessee death row While the Department of Justice has renounced pentobarbital, Tennessee and about a dozen other states are pushing forward with the drug.
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Kelly Puente,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
On Wednesday, Lamont praised Mamdani while noting that Democrats have hardly renounced centrists.
In one of the picture’s most moving scenes, this Superman uses his X-ray vision to gaze through the walls of the house Kate Bosworth’s Lois Lane, having forsaken him, now shares with her young son and her fiancé (James Marsden).
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Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
11 July 2025
Paul Yeung | Bloomberg | Getty Images Investors and businesses' enthusiasm for Hong Kong's equity capital markets is roaring back, as Chinese companies flocked to the city for fundraising, sparking a frenzy in the market that had been forsaken in recent years.
If anyone else tries such commands, the AGI and ASI reject them summarily.
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Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
New York’s 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Maxwell’s appeal effort last year, finding that the deal drawn up in 2007 and approved the following year only protected Epstein and his coconspirators in South Florida.
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Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
15 July 2025
Money has also been spent on nongovernmental organization programs that hand out clean needles and crack pipes as part of progressive harm reduction policies instead of encouraging homeless drug users to quit.
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Barnini Chakraborty,
The Washington Examiner,
14 July 2025
Although the overall unemployment rate is just 4.1%, few people are quitting jobs today, and employers are skittish about hiring.
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