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“Going forward, the court expects all parties to have an ‘all-hands’ mentality,” the judge wrote in a tentative ruling earlier this week, which he adopted Friday morning.

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Rajoelina initially adopted a conciliatory tone and sacked his entire government in response to the protests.

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He said Mr Murley "adopted a policy of pleading guilty to nothing" and believed that Mr Murley "needed to accept those breaches" of guidelines "before trust could be rebuilt".

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The commission adopted the rule on a party-line vote toward the end of the Biden administration, over the objections of business groups such as the U.S.

Today, our 12-year-old daughter, with us for over eight years, is officially adopted after a long, uncertain process.

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