But some water agencies are acting as if it is.
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Folks should stop acting as if it's wrapped up already.
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Why is everyone acting as if that's a long time?
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Yet the market is acting as if climate change doesn't exist.
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"I was acting as if I was the victim," he said.
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"I'm not acting as if Tristan didn't cheat," Kardashian fired back.
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The global fertilizer companies are acting as if their dominance will continue.
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PATRICK: By acting as if there is anything "typical" about the times.
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Trump is certainly acting as if his business history contains damaging information.
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It's saying that Congress should act, but acting as if it won't.
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Stockmarkets certainly seem to be acting as if Mr Soros might be right.
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Their husbands responded to this by acting as if they were being attacked.
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And we're acting as if the only problem is some risky newfangled technology.
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Acting as if his situation were shameful may make him feel even worse.
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I was acting as if I could figure it out, when I couldn't.
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Yet it is acting as if Dame Margaret's ruling was, in fact, rather harsh.
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Some Republican commentators are still acting as if things are up in the air.
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But he and his colleagues are acting as if they have something to celebrate.
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But they're acting as if a full airing of the truth is their enemy.
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But he made the mistake of acting as if he were already a king.
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The AMPTP is largely acting as if it expects no interruption in production schedules.
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Even my cousin was acting as if it was the most normal thing in the world.
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Abedin's crime changes from her acting as if she's above the law to being technologically illiterate.
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Acting as if your company will never not exist eliminates industry uncertainty tied to internet bubbles.
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"They&aposre acting as if I have (resigned), even though I&aposm pleading, &aposNo,&apos" he said.
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Still, the financial markets are acting as if a recession is on the horizon -- if not imminent.
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The fact that nothing is going right doesn't stop him from acting as if everything were awesome.
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He had become grumpy and short-tempered, acting as if life had dealt him a bad hand.
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"Splunk is for real and this stock market is acting as if it is fake," Cramer added.
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I carried my difference as a secret shame, acting as if I were just like other people.
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We're acting as if the courts are an improper venue to determine constitutional issues of this magnitude?
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We're acting as if the courts are an improper venue to determine constitutional issues of this magnitude?
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He sees women acting as if they have the personality traits he actually thinks we all have.
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What's telling is that the producers aren't really acting as if they think a strike is imminent.
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He went back to scribbling notes and acting as if he hadn't just given me a secret message.
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He just needs to keep his potential third-party run credible by acting as if he believes otherwise.
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He has spent much of the early electoral season acting as if he has already won the nomination.
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We're acting as if the status quo is fine, and the only problem is some risky newfangled technology.
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The company is acting as if it has a permit to deal issued from President Xi Jinping himself.
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Yet, it seemed to Cramer that investors are once again acting as if the world is about to end.
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What makes the Curiel case so special that Republicans are acting as if Trump has finally crossed the line?
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"We're acting as if the historical precedent of Clinton is how things will play out with Trump," Griffin said.
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At the same time, nobody is retrospectively prosecuting a man for acting as if it were 2003 in 2003.
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Namely, the idea that a male-dominated government would seize women's rights, acting as if they've done them a favor.
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If she did, she wouldn't be acting as if perceptions of her being treated unfairly matter more than her indecency.
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Standing by the piano, she explained how the collision had occurred, almost acting as if the instrument were the vehicle.
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The problem is that no one is colorblind, and acting as if we are makes us worse off, not better.
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Parents may feel rejected and react in kind, by acting as if their children don't need them, Dr. Dozier said.
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"We are acting as if the numbers are going to be the same — until we hear something different," she says.
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That sexism is both systemic and symptomatic of the industry's history of acting as if it is above the law.
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Instead, they're stuck in the past, treating individual workers like dollar signs and acting as if workers' opinions are irrelevant.
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As a result, the Trump administration is now acting as if it has been permanently absolved from addressing hate crimes.
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I also get tired of people acting as if my work CAN ONLY fit into contexts that are exploring race.
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So it would be in our best interests if everyone would stop acting as if we don't have the solutions.
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Kaitlyn: Loren, good question, and thank you for acting as if I have something real to contribute to this science conversation.
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The protestors also laid on the ground acting as if they were dead, a "die-in" to remember nuclear war victims.
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"He is acting as if he did not get support from the Kurds," he said, adding he would vote for Yildirim.
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Because GOP leaders are acting as if nothing went wrong in the midterms, they are unlikely to fix the party's problems.
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Increasingly, the activists told me, social networks were acting as if they would rather be safe from government intervention than sorry.
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Everyone knew he was killing the Jews but continued cooperating with him for many years, acting as if nothing was happening.
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"We are acting as if last time didn't happen and starting from the ground up," said Carli Stevenson, Sanders' deputy state director.
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"The market is acting as if there could be a repeal of the ACA [Affordable Care Act] with no replacement," said Nygren.
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An ouster of Special Counsel Robert Mueller would signal that Trump was acting as if he was above the law, said MoveOn.
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The young woman next to him followed his lead, rolling her head and acting as if she had better places to be.
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"The touch screen would intermittently begin acting as if someone was touching it rapidly at many different points," one member wrote in.
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Jax undergoes many surgeries throughout the series, each time acting as if he's seriously ill and demands care from a moral standpoint.
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Some conservatives are acting as if, in delving into Kavanaugh's high school and college antics, Democrats are creating some egregious new precedent.
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If restaurants began seating every other table, maybe we could all keep acting as if it was all going to be fine.
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Amid those successes, Mr. Biden has further intensified his focus on Mr. Trump, acting as if the general election were already underway.
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They responded in a way that struck me as even more curious, acting as if I'd asked them for their credit cards.
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Indeed, even after two weeks of hearings that presented compelling evidence against him, Mr. Trump was acting as if nothing had changed.
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Camsing is "acting as if they bought the company and everything on the four walls belong to them," said Mr. Lee, sounding downcast.
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Officers can be heard making jokes while Timpa was unconscious, acting as if waking him was like waking up a child for school.
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Nobody I meet is acting as if EVE is their true calling in life, like everything else merely orbits around its daily demands.
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We concluded that the market was acting as if it were pricing in a substantial "Trump discount" — perhaps as large as 12 percent.
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In the West, we're prone to taking what isn't ours and acting as if we discovered it, conveniently forgetting its history and context.
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I am sick and tired of the lamestream media acting as if Mr. Donald J. Trump is anything but catnip to the ladies.
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And, while not everyone agrees that there is a massive downturn in the startup world right now, many are acting as if there is.
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Far from showing any remorse for personally destroying the FBI's reputation for trustworthiness and impartiality, Strzok is acting as if he is beyond judgment.
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The guiding idea of the American constitution is to stop presidents from acting as if they were monarchs, by building in checks and balances.
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The market is acting as if it will get a "just to be safe" rate cut that the economy does not yet desperately need.
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Just this past summer, he told The Sun Meghan was merely acting as if she was happy in her new life as a royal.
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Spicer is acting as if the FBI & WH counsel's ofc don't do any vetting of applicants & it's all on the person to disclose things.
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Christians were acting as if not just the nation — but the church itself — was in peril based on the outcome of a single election.
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But there was almost none of this in Trump's speech; he's still acting as if this is a threat foreigners are bringing to America.
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" Trader Tim Seymour said that investors should actually sell Tesla because "people are acting as if Tesla's the only game in town and they're not.
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I was acting as if I was the victim because I felt like, my only thought was that I'm innocent and everyone needs to know.
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They're living in a glorious vacuum and letting us watch from the sidelines, acting as if nothing bad could ever happen to them — to us?
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" Rush Limbaugh, the king of talk radio, praised Trump's decision and accused Fox News of "acting as if they had been jilted at the altar.
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Mr. Uribe, 38, was, by contrast, nearly silent at family gatherings, shutting himself in his room and acting as if no one else was there.
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I don't know yet, but if you look around, a lot of people are acting as if the cat's away so the mice can play.
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"We're acting as if the courts are an improper venue to determine constitutional issues of this magnitude," Sekulow said on the Senate floor last week.
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Either way, there's simply no need for Congress to continue acting as if there's nothing to do here except throw up our hands in indecision.
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And plenty of folks long-skeptical of the economy and markets are talking and acting as if this is the start of something big for stocks.
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As of Tuesday, both Mulvaney and English were showing up to work and acting as if they were each the acting director, according to their lawyers.
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Beijing, in other words, was effectively acting as if all of the South China Sea belonged to it, and the US didn't push back with force.
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We run everything… But we don't act like it… We're still acting as if we're in trouble and we have to defend ourselves, which is preposterous.
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Instead, Pai ignores the entire notion of regulatory action, acting as if the free market is the only thing that can determine where broadband service exists.
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"It's a disgrace to see an Attorney General acting as if he's the personal attorney and publicist for the President of the United States," Massachusetts Sen.
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If you respond by playing it cool and acting as if nothing happened, you'll usually pass the "test" and the gaslighter will continue to contact you.
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All of this has been ignored by the conservative media, which is acting as if this is the smoking gun they have spent months looking for.
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And, as King's example shows, becoming the person you aspire to be is more than possible, once you start acting as if you know you can.
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I respect your thoughtful motivation, but acting as if a huge part of your life never happened probably wasn't healthy for you or your new relationship.
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News that while his client gets that Jayden was just "acting as if [he was] a 13-year-old," Kevin isn't happy with his son's behavior.
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In a different sphere, for example, Mr. Trump went from threatening North Korea with nuclear annihilation to acting as if they were old friends practically overnight.
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"We were looking, and a certain S. Williams didn't even have a ranking," Poel said, acting as if that certain S. Williams were an unknown player.
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Others returned to the West Coast and tried to pick up where they had left off, but had trouble resettling, acting as if nothing had happened.
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But officials are acting as if the numbers are high, which suggests they're more afraid of what is coming than what has already happened so far.
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Far from making anorexia seem desirable, or acting as if it stems from a desire to "look skinny," To the Bone is sensitive but unsparingly real.
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Curacao game at the Alamodome in San Antonio on Sunday, as captured on video posted on PWInsider -- and they were acting as if everything was totally cool.
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" Little says the Daughters need to stop acting as if they're the victims: "Being silent in the face of racism or violence is complicity in those acts.
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Democrats: Multiple Democratic Senate aides told Axios that they want a solution as soon as possible, and are acting as if March 5 were the final deadline.
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But I'm tired of tech companies acting as if they have no responsibility to the public beyond fixing their bugs and getting their tech working as intended.
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Healing is the main purpose of our proposal, and this means acting as if we all live in one country, not separate states, tribes and political parties.
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That said, Republicans have spent the past year acting as if a narrow — and extremely flukey — Trump Electoral College win made him an unstoppable man of destiny.
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Several times a day, cruise staff members wearing masks slide a tray of food into their room, she said, acting as if everyone on board is infected.
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They're acting as if this is a passing phase, as if the grown-ups will step in and stop this downward spiral before it goes too far.
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Mulvaney's bluster follows a pattern of Trump and his allies at first denying they'd done something then admitting it and acting as if everything was above-board.
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They want to temper public anger by acting as if they're just trying to get some reasonable laws on the books when a perfectly reasonable rule already existed.
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After spending the first part of the year cosplaying in the stratosphere, acting as if he'd already won the nomination, he's now fallen back among the mere contenders.
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And as ever, the president continued to lie to the American people, while acting as if the outrage he elicits is merely evidence of how unfairly he's treated.
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Acting as if Democrats do not exist and insisting on the use of reconciliation to take on healthcare and tax reform only highlight the divides in the GOP.
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Evidently, for a number of people, enjoying the play requires, at some level, believing it is all true — or acting as if they believe it is all true.
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"The market has been acting as if we're not going into a recession," said Stone, who expects the Fed to trim rates by a quarter point later this month.
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Meanwhile, in the background, Kyle screams at me and makes digs at me for the way Paulie is acting, as if I have any control or responsibility in that.
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" It said it was urging Toshiba "to cease acting as if Western Digital were simply a disfavored bidder in an open auction and instead enter into substantive, exclusive negotiations.
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I thought about what I witnessed time and again with my parents and realized I had been acting as if I were them or somehow still under their spell.
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Acting as if he were at a rally, he recited a few made-up Hispanic names and described potential crimes they could have committed, such as rape or murder.
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Vargas compared the current worries of voter intimidation to Minutemen civilian border militia acting as if they were border patrol agents to confront immigrants illegally crossing the southern border.
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Trump was acting as if he were invincible; Congress has to remind him and the world that invincibility is not a principle that the law recognizes in this country.
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" It said it was urging Toshiba "to cease acting as if Western Digital were simply a disfavoured bidder in an open auction and instead enter into substantive, exclusive negotiations.
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Instead, we see the president acting as if he is above the supreme law of the land which includes a remedy for removing him from office for gross misconduct.
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That may help explain why he's now cheerfully acting as if his trip to New York, and meeting today with President Trump this afternoon, isn't freighted with historic peril.
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By acting as if homeless youth and justice-involved youth are distinct populations, we are missing key opportunities to intervene and restore safety and stability to young people's lives.
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For his part, Gutiérrez had managed to limit what would have otherwise been a flood of candidates for his seat by acting as if he were running for reelection.
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At every turn — whether talking to interviewers or speaking at the Hannity town hall — he appeared to reject policies he'd already embraced, acting as if he'd never heard them before.
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Although President-elect Trump was initially defensive about the news, acting as if it implied he didn't win legitimately, in recent days there has been some softening of his tone.
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There is no solution that involves simply continuing the status quo, or doing less, or acting as if we can leave this as a problem for other countries to handle.
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When figures like Manfred Weber, the EPP's candidate for the European Commission presidency, coddle the Hungarian autocrat, they are implicitly acting as if Hungary's embattled liberal tendencies do not exist.
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Since Sunday's election, League leader Matteo Salvini has been acting as if he were already prime minister, promising swingeing tax cuts and calling for changes to European Union budget rules.
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Mr. Obama's aides and Judge Garland's allies have concluded that acting as if the Supreme Court nomination is going ahead is the best way to maximize pressure on their adversaries.
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He irritated Churchill, in particular, with his refusal to placate Roosevelt, acting as if he were in command of a major army instead of a few borrowed rooms in Mayfair.
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"It's a disgrace to see an Attorney General acting as if he's the personal attorney and publicist for the President of the United States," said a tweet by Massachusetts Sen.
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"Obviously these days China and Russia are not acting as if North Korea is a belligerent," and this meeting is a way of saying that needs to change, Baker said.
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For Republican Trump skeptics, there's no sense any longer in play-acting as if Marco Rubio could pull ahead, or as if Donald Trump isn't the prohibitive favorite of the electorate.
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Both options would be bad news for Jaime, and it's clear that Cersei thinks — or is least is acting as if — she no longer needs or wants Jaime in her life.
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He goes through the menu prompts, acting as if he were interested; when he finally reaches a live person, he angrily demands that his number be removed from the caller's list.
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And it means not acting as if this was a normal election whose result gives the winner any kind of a mandate, or indeed any legitimacy beyond the bare legal requirements.
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If Democrats have spent much of Donald Trump's presidency acting as if they fear Americans are not on their side, it is because these are the Americans they are thinking of.
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His election was supposed to usher in change, but less than two years later, he has been acting as if tending to the country's needs should come on his own schedule.
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In the meantime, the Trump administration is acting as if Congress won't pass a bill — slowly winding down DACA now, in anticipation of sunsetting the program entirely starting on March 26.
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Even more shockingly, he did so by acting as if Mr. Weinstein, a wealthy white man in America, did not share the same racial privilege as the slave masters whom he invoked.
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In their excitement to blame the president for the Republican's losses the media, and the Washington establishment, are acting as if it's a dark red state that suddenly turned blue Tuesday night.
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Much of the same could be said for our current politicians, many of whom are acting as if Trump's rhetoric is simply politics as usual, when everyone in this country knows it isn't.
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"I feel like I need to remind you that we can hold truth & inspire change without grabbing onto hate," Westbrook said in a recent tweet, acting as if she were above the fray.
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"There are still legal mechanisms that the company can use, so the company is still acting as if they have legal ground to put themselves in a better negotiating position," one creditor said.
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And it seems noteworthy that, at a minimum, the big two wireless providers do not appear to be lobbying against the deal or otherwise acting as if they are alarmed about this competition.
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Miss Manners therefore softens the blow by acting as if the stitch and the tag are the same problem: something that can be discreetly mentioned to a friend who may appreciate the warning.
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Acting as if on a signal, more than a dozen owners handed over more than 400 news websites, newspapers, television channels and radio stations to a foundation formed and run by Orban loyalists.
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It's not just that Republicans are covering for the president, or are acting as if electoral collusion with Russia, a country most Republicans used to regard as an enemy, was no big deal.
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"Since Fidesz got re-elected, the Hungarian government has been acting as if it was literally crying for expulsion," said Edit Zgut, a political scientist at the University of Warsaw's Center for Europe.
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Also, check out the man calmly pumping gas at the pump directly next to the smoking man, acting as if there wasn't a huge scene going down just a few feet away. [h/t:Reddit]
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NEW YORK, Dec 17 (Reuters) - The shares of small companies in the U.S. haven't technically fallen into a bear market yet, but several top-performing fund managers are acting as if it is inevitable.
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Complaining about the multimillion-dollar advertising assault against him from Mr. McConnell's allies, Mr. Moore, acting as if he were the one trailing in the polls, uncorked a series of attacks against Mr. Strange.
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" If we could instead grasp the whole thing, he argues, or at least have faith that it exists, we might stop acting as if "we were all in a panic on a sinking ship.
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Then in May 2016, the school issued a 13-page "findings of fact" focused on its most troubling findings on a football program that was portrayed as acting as if it was above the rules.
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At the same time, since decentralization is the goal, the content hosted on Hashbase doesn't occupy any hierarchical position with respect to other nodes, acting as if it were just another peer in the network.
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"Here you have a major presidential candidate acting as if there are no limits, that the only thing that limits his behavior is what it is that he thinks he wants to do," Hayden said.
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As long as we keep acting as if sexual abuse is wrong because the abuser is physically unattractive or sexually deviant, abusers deemed attractive and "normal" will be more likely to get away with it.
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Although Mr. Blair has been instructed only "to lead an examination" of a full ban on handguns and assault weapons, the Conservative opposition is already acting as if the government had announced such a plan.
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Over the weekend, Mr. Trump, who has downplayed reports of Russian electoral interference and possible collusion with his campaign, was acting as if The Post's report was the first he'd heard of the Russian threat.
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Since these hackers won't stop, we need to build resilience by emphasizing curation, context and ethics, and by no longer acting as if something that has been hacked and dumped is all up for grabs.
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In veiled criticism during his U.N. General Assembly speech earlier, Lavrov quoted George Orwell's book "Animal Farm" to accuse Washington of saying all animals are equal but acting as if some are "more equal" than others.
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Paulsen said that with cyclical stocks — or the companies whose results are most tightly linked to the performance of the economy — investors are acting as if the US were already in the depths of a recession.
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I'll see the Union Jack flying from a lamppost, or pay for something using pounds rather than euros, and I'll find myself wondering why everyone is just going around acting as if they were in Britain.
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I was still acting as if my meals required explanation, and by extension, so did I. I still had the impression that because I was not thin, my every bite was being clocked by friends and strangers.
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We must be careful not to create sympathy for Trump by acting as if the First Amendment should be suspended when it comes to him and his supporters, regardless of how repulsive their words and actions are.
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But no matter: According to Kudlow, the president says he looks "very handsome" on TV. So Trump is acting as if his job were to run up ratings for his TV show, not to make actual policies.
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But he also advocated radical transparency, making his sermons available online and giving the police names of people who attended Early Rain — an effort, he said, to avoid acting as if the church had something to hide.
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Energy investors are acting as if the next bust is already too closeGM CEO ramping Bolt production, says transition to EVs 'won't take decades' BP's Bob Dudley says oil has settled into 'fairway' of $50 to $65
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But most of the candidates in the field seem to be acting as if there's some law of nature that will magically cause him to lose even without anyone really going after him in a persuasive way.
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Which again, I wasn't prepared for what I saw, which is this ... You think of stand-up comedy, you think of a guy holding a microphone acting as if he's thinking of jokes for the first time.
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The remaining members honored him well as they placed a mic in the middle of the stage, standing back anytime Phife's verse would play, acting as if he were spitting his signature rhymes only steps away from them.
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They grinned widely and waved, or clasped their hands over their mouths in wonderment at the audience, acting as if it were a big surprise that they, each a hot person, got to be hot for a living.
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In many ways, this is vintage Cruz—he's trying to have it both ways, acting as if he'll uphold the pledge he made to support the nominee, whoever that person may be, while slyly suggesting that's not the case.
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Republicans want the opposite, which is why Trump often says his plan won't cut taxes for the rich and why his Treasury secretary is acting as if a tax cut for the rich is just some unavoidable mathematical fact.
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Barr makes a plainly racist comment about a civil servant who always conducted herself with grace, dignity and intelligence, and she is acting as if what is most important is that some believe she's not being treated fairly. Really?
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That year, Brazil had put together one of our best teams in history, but come game day, the players were acting as if they'd been taken by surprise by a sudden increase of prostaglandins and a baffling cervical dilation.
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But many involved in the tax reform debate are acting as if zero (revenue neutrality) does equal minus three trillion, the approximate amount by which taxes will be cut relative to baseline by the tax reform proposals they support.
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One example she's pointed out is that Kris and Scott have filmed a scene about missing out on a trip to Cuba that had taken place two weeks earlier, acting as if Khloe, Kim, and Kourtney were still there. Yikes.
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Murdoch wants to sell to Bob Iger but Bob Iger wants to retire, as well, it's a pretty small list of people who are running big media companies who are acting as if they want to continue running big media companies.
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"Special Counsel Mueller's report paints a disturbing picture of a president who has been weaving a web of deceit, lies and improper behavior and acting as if the law doesn't apply to him," Pelosi and Schumer wrote in a joint statement.
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"The markets are acting as if the Fed's new patient, dovish stance is the harbinger of a recession," noted rate strategists at Morgan Stanley, who argued the recent decline in yields would underpin the economy and spell better days ahead.
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For almost a quarter of a century, ever since Toni Morrison won the Nobel in 1993, the Nobel committee acted as if American literature did not exist — and now an American is acting as if the Nobel committee doesn't exist.
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At the very least, they've been acting as if the U.S. economy still had lots of room to run; throwing cold water on that belief should mean both higher interest rates and lower stock prices, which is what we're seeing.
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They've either put themselves in the middle of the room so everyone can see them (but acting as if they don't want to be recognized), or they've chosen a corner towards the back, sandwiched on both sides by a blockade of friends.
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Further, Oklahoma's politicians — and federally elected politicians as well — should once and for all stop acting as if marijuana policy reform is a partisan issue — one that is largely supported by voters on the left but often rejected by those on the right.
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The roommates trope allows them to have that epiphany while being super domestic and acting as if they're already married, resulting in a heady bouquet of confusion, sexual tension, gratuitous touching, and any number of sweet romantic moments that ratchet up the excitement.
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Yet both men are not only acting as if it's 2000 all over again, when control of the White House hinged on a few hundred votes in Florida, they are also fanning conspiratorial flames with claims of outrageous fraud, seconded by President Trump.
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It comes from repentance which requires facing and acknowledging the truth about what you have done in all of its utter depravity and horror without mitigation, without excuse, without acting as if good deeds can erase what you have seen this courtroom today.
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Trump, meanwhile, spent two years acting as if winning 46 percent of the vote was the greatest achievement in the history of American politics, when in reality, Mitt Romney and John Kerry did better than that and Michael Dukakis did nearly as well.
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In a statement released on Monday, the company used the quality of its local reporting as a shield, acting as if criticism of its overbearing politics was actually aimed at the reporters and anchors who are doing their jobs at stations across the country.
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Now, through all of this, members of Congress are still acting as if it's business as usual, bickering and arguing and pointing fingers on cable news while callously thinking we, the people, are too stupid to see that they're up to their old spending tricks.
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I suggest you set a boundary with him too: If he won't stop being complicit in your brother-in-law's behavior by acting as if it isn't happening, then you won't accompany him to family gatherings where your brother-in-law will be present.
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For the most part, chefs are acting as if the sudden willingness of women to talk about what the industry is really like for them is just a temporary condition, that it will blow over soon enough and the party will start up again.
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If a patient has a true medication allergy, then the reaction will be triggered by that medication and no other — there is something about the chemical structure of that drug that tricks the immune system into acting as if the drug were an infection.
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Even if they believe that the United States-led order will most likely remain, they have little choice but to hedge against its disintegration — acting as if the world had already returned to a bygone era of shifting alliances and regional spheres of power.
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"Special Counsel Mueller's report paints a disturbing picture of a president who has been weaving a web of deceit, lies and improper behavior and acting as if the law doesn't apply to him," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer in a statement.
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"Special Counsel Mueller's report paints a disturbing picture of a president who has been weaving a web of deceit, lies and improper behavior and acting as if the law doesn't apply to him," said Ms. Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic Senate leader.
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People with OCD are often trying to do the opposite: "T[hey] take their attention away from cleanliness and get through their day acting as if the worries in their head about germs and contamination aren't relevant," said Shala Nicely, a therapist specialized in treating OCD.
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Senate Democrats are acting as if the president is "a traditional Republican who respects the norms of governing and not a deeply disturbed, deeply ignorant megalomaniac," Dan Pfeiffer, the former senior adviser and communications director for President Obama, said Thursday on his new podcast, Pod Save America.
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Macron, who polls consistently show will beat Le Pen by a comfortable margin in the run-off vote, had been accused by potential allies and some media of complacently acting as if victory was in the bag since coming first in an initial round of voting on April 23.
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Add this to the facts that the bond and currency markets are not acting as if lower taxes will cause a sudden acceleration in U.S. growth and we're already near full employment and into a Fed tightening cycle as we cut taxes, and the trade becomes more complicated.
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"When my professors and classmates were discussing the latest runway shows, I found myself reflecting on how distant this issue was from our daily lives—how could we be sitting in this classroom, acting as if people are not dying on the other side of the world?" she asked.
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As Mr. de Blasio downplayed his relationship with Mr. Rechnitz, saying "thousands" have his personal email address — "it doesn't suggest anything" — Mr. Dietl accused the mayor of acting as if New Yorkers were "that stupid" to think "you didn't know this guy" who had donated more than $100,000.
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But for our strategic planners to believe that Russia is not acting as if it is in a war with us and to refrain from forging a strategic response to those actions would be a new form of what General H.R. McMaster elsewhere called a dereliction of duty.
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"I was acting as if I was still in war, and it was a light switch so everything went from zero to a hundred in a matter of a second and while that's OK when you're at war that's not really how we live in the civilian world," he told CNN.
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But it's especially galling that, after years of political witch hunts, the GOP is acting as if obvious misbehavior and incompetence are totally normal—that the Trump administration is not only handling its affairs well, but that it has answered the necessary questions regarding its relationship with a foreign government.
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Every candidate, however, seems to be acting as if the national debt does not exist, presenting their plans for health care and other areas of federal spending while ignoring that 6 percent of the federal budget, over $85033 billion a year, goes directly to paying off interest on the national debt.
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Representative Adam Schiff is acting as if he's shocked that President Trump would try to get back at the Democrats by giving them a taste of their own medicine, by going after Joe Biden and his son on the same charge of quid pro quo that they are bringing against him.
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"These are ridiculously cheap stocks if business stays strong, and the market's been acting as if the next year has to be worse than this year because people worry that too much money has been spent building new plants, so supply's going to overwhelm demand," the "Mad Money" host said.
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After all, Trump loves his base, and is always very wary of doing anything that might upset them — and acting as if there is any connection between the "alt-right" and Nazis, or any case in which the right engages in unprovoked violence against the left, would do just that.
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The Republican disinformation machines of Breitbart, Fox "News," Newsmax, et al, plus Trump's own Twitter account, have created a scenario in which we are no longer battling on the same field, yet liberals keep acting as if opponents' motives are just as pure as theirs and that they are just as informed.
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The first is that, however plagued he might be by a sense of illegitimacy—and it seems to have become a Lady Macbeth-ish obsession—his inner circle is acting as if he has a mandate and they see the executive action as an important tool even though they control both houses of Congress.
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And over and over, he finds the same thing: people hopefully talking to machines as if they can understand, taking whatever vague, gnomic answers they get in return as a positive sign, and either attempting to bridge the gap between regurgitated programmed language and actual understanding, or just acting as if there's no gap at all.
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Last month, while both presidents were in Japan for the G20 Summit, Donald Trump told Chinese leader Xi Jinping that he would allow U.S. companies to sell equipment to Huawei again, but the promise created confusion about how it would be carried out, with the Commerce Department instructing staff to continue acting as if the blacklist is still in place.
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There's such a weight of history between me and this cast of characters that as the losses started to pile up, I just couldn't keep watching them get snuffed out because I said the wrong thing or, to be more accurate, because I kept acting as if Banner Saga 3 were a more uplifting and optimistic game than it really is.
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Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade launched into a passionate defense of President Trump and his approach to dealing with the immigration crisis on Friday, and said that critics are acting as if illegal immigrants "are more important than people in our country": Following the show, Kilmeade clarified his remarks on Twitter: Kilmeade also linked to an interview with Fox News radio where he addressed his comments.
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It doesn't, because we've been living in a country undergoing its own dismal process of Ukrainianization: of treating fictions as facts; and propaganda as journalism; and political opponents as criminals; and political offices as business ventures; and personal relatives as diplomatic representatives; and legal fixers as shadow cabinet members; and extortion as foreign policy; and toadyism as patriotism; and fellow citizens as "human scum"; and mortal enemies as long-lost friends — and then acting as if all this is perfectly normal.
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Schiff offers bill to make domestic terrorism a federal crime New intel chief inherits host of challenges MORE (D-Calif.) said on Sunday that President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE is acting as if he has been "compromised" by the Russians, floating once again the notion that Moscow could have damaging information on the U.S. leader.
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