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"At this stage, it's just to annoy us, it's part of the Russians' displays of hostility. They're trying to humiliate us," said a French security source, requesting not to be named.

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It appears to suggest that, even if the negotiations reach an impasse, hostilities will not resume.

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Transphobia doesn’t have to announce itself with slurs or overt hostility.

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To prove vindictive prosecution, a defendant must show through objective evidence that the prosecutor acted with “genuine animus” and that the defendant would not have been prosecuted except for that hostility.

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“I saw open hostility to people of authority by community members in England,” Rabbi Dunner says.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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