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A Southern California couple who lost their French bulldog have gone to great lengths over the last two months to find the pooch, resorting to bloodhounds, animal psychics, cash rewards and door-to-door canvasing.

In a statement on Monday, she defended the IOM's ability to carry out the investigation but said that "given the particular circumstances," she did not object to "exceptionally resorting to an external investigation".

If the world's biggest economy is resorting to mass protectionism, it's going to be difficult to persuade many smaller economies not to do the same.

Bonta said the city has multiple avenues to address its complaints with county and state officials without resorting to a shelter ban.

To others, it looked an awful lot like a man in decline, devoid of any intellectual curiosity or ability to accept good-faith criticism, resorting to petty insults to obscure his own fundamental lack of understanding.