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Her absence, coupled with Republican majorities, could allow conservative lawmakers to advance their priorities more aggressively, as well as reshaping the balance of power in future farm policy negotiations.

Supply chain problems coming out of the pandemic, coupled with pandemic economic stimulus under both presidents Trump and Biden, have been blamed for contributing to the inflation surge in recent years, though the rate of cost increases has since ebbed to more normal levels.

The Scots will have to navigate a relegation play-off in March to ensure they remain with the big hitters, but a formation shift - coupled with the addition of teenage winger Ben Doak - has refreshed a team many suggested had hit their ceiling.

Rather too much time is spent repeating staged close-ups of a left hand sketching in ink or applying paint, or else executing inscrutable mirror-writing on parchment — Leonardo’s secretive signature method — coupled with explanatory voice-over.

Instead we have understandable stakes revolving around a struggle pitting an unpredictable prophet figure against a controlling matriarchy, coupled with a subplot concerning an Imperial ban on “thinking machines” a little more than a century after breaking free of their dominion.