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Our task is to recognize the imperfections, to accept that the rules are part of our journey together, that they don’t fundamentally negate that an election took place and somebody won it under the rules that existed at the time.

Although he had pulled away, he had not quite done enough to negate the penalty.

“Our inability to be comfortable with doctors goes way back. We have a rightful distrust of the medical industry that we need to get over, but we are not going to negate that it came from somewhere and that it’s real.”

Taking on Israeli infantry and tanks now that south Lebanon has once more been invaded might negate some of Israel’s advantages in air power and intelligence.

Matt Murphy, a former prosecutor who tried sex crimes and capital murder cases, said even if the brothers claims of sexual abuse were true, it doesn’t negate that they carefully planned and carried out their parents’ murders and went on a spending spree in the months that followed.