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Will we ever learn where Carolyn Martens' true allegiances lie?
Most Lebanese voters are influenced by sectarian and familial allegiances.
Our allegiances don't always look like protests and impassioned speeches.
This show is all about challenging your allegiances and beliefs.
Outside of ISIS, there are allegiances to other militant groups.
These contrasting allegiances were vividly apparent in 2016 presidential race.
The allegiances are starting to shift after Mr. Trump's election.
But how do we know the allegiances of our genomes?
The allegiances are often described as cornerstones for regional defense.
Mahathir has proposed a unified administration without political party allegiances.
What followed, however, was a striking display of discordant allegiances.
In Lebanon things happen though elections not pledges of allegiances.
The fighting followed a major switch in allegiances in the war.
"People now keep their allegiances when they move away," says Peterson.
This is a war of images and emotions and tribal allegiances.
It affirms religious allegiances and, by extension, it asserts religious differences.
Handball, unlike football, has lax rules governing players switching national allegiances.
They span job descriptions, income brackets, education levels, and party allegiances.
As Florida and Virginia have shown, this evolution unmoors political allegiances.
But neither side expects key allegiances to shift any time soon.
But if group loyalty is so embedded, why are allegiances flexible?
But suspecting Miller's ideological allegiances is quite different than knowing them.
He has allegiances to both sides in this GOP civil war.
It's clear from this morning's press conference where his allegiances lie.
Arguments were clouded by allegiances and conspiracy theories, reports and rumors.
Let everyone in the coffee shop know where your allegiances lie.
" Unsure of where my allegiances lie, he adds quickly, "No offense.
But they were both deeply wary of allegiances, racial or otherwise.
Forget the politics or sports allegiances of Gritty for a moment.
Did tabloids shift people's political allegiances or did they follow them?
That fatigue seems to be driving others who have switched allegiances.
Her allegiances appear to be with Lee, not the Democratic Party.
Booz oozes Duke blue ... but college allegiances aside, he's probably right.
Old political allegiances are weakening and public opinion is becoming more fickle.
Jathran had lost much local support after switching allegiances to the GNA.
Like Angela Merkel, he was a bookish centrist with few tribal allegiances.
Growing psephological evidence suggests that Brexit is profoundly reshaping British political allegiances.
There were also plenty who weren't entirely surprised by Luckey's political allegiances.
Senators would no longer be bound by allegiances to these special interests.
On each visit, mid-meal, I had trouble keeping my allegiances straight.
The Kennedy family, in general, admired Harrington, no matter his ideological allegiances.
Ilhan Omar's recent comments suggesting House supporters of Israel have dual allegiances.
Every single character has an elaborate backstory and a set of allegiances.
The regional powers have questionable and often competing goals, allegiances, and ideologies.
Their allegiances are durable — and as a consequence, their options are limited.
Mr. Djukanovic switched allegiances, setting the country firmly in the Western camp.
Meanwhile, that ultra likely has an icepack, and is reconsidering his allegiances.
Partisan allegiances had already begun shifting amid the upheavals of the 1960s.
Exploiting those allegiances is what Fox News does — and does really well.
These are strange days for Russian/American relations: days of fraying allegiances.
On the show, minuscule shifts in allegiances could result in expletive-filled showdowns.
However, their relationship is put to the test when Beausejour's allegiances are questioned.
IT WOULD have been unthinkable to question Utah's political allegiances one year ago.
It's a vague stance that looks to toe the line between competing allegiances.
The advantage was intended for Devens to create new bonds and new allegiances.
After the election, the private security company prepared an assessment of Assange's allegiances.
Australia's constitution bars foreign nationals from sitting in parliament to prevent split allegiances.
Jo: Ah, Alex but recall how deeply local the people's political allegiances are.
Hadn't she been willing to vote for Mr. Rubio out of similar allegiances?
Or any of the in-jokes and complicated allegiances of my peer group.
As the pressure mounted, even once-loyal allies of the President shifted allegiances.
Among them are some 70,000 fighters, their allegiances ranging from moderate to radical.
However, it also indicated it expected patient allegiances to at least mitigate losses.
Such split allegiances are explored through the pairing of Childe Hassam and Marsden Hartley.
Giant shifts in allegiances, foes becoming friends, secret backdoor dealings... shit, you know what?
Ernesto has also found himself in thorny moments, his allegiances stretched in opposite directions.
Voters may engage in strategic behavior, shifting allegiances based on how candidates are performing.
But ever since for-profit schools became billion-dollar enterprises, partisan allegiances have switched.
The scenario puts Dwight in a complicated triangle of allegiances, to say the least.
Through it all, she's worn her allegiances and defiance quite literally on her sleeves.
The movie poignantly captures this nuance, and the tragedy of conflict across national allegiances.
Last year, he switched allegiances, running or president under the far-right GANA party.
Skillt, who today lives in Kyiv, has since publicly renounced his far-right allegiances.
But Mr. King had seen firsthand the effect of Long Island's shifting political allegiances.
Whether there could be new allegiances, new strategic frameworks, new cooperations—that's all possible.
Partisan allegiances have less of an effect on Americans' faith in the intelligence community.
All the same, the ex-senator was a politician, and his allegiances were steady.
Lady Gaga didn't wait long to let everyone know where her political allegiances lay.
The messy mosaic of ground fighters on both sides has challenged Washington's tangled allegiances.
Alexander Aciman explores the muddled allegiances and yearnings of his French and Jewish heritage.
With weak party allegiances, Californians are notoriously independent voters, as many politicians have discovered.
The protesters don't know the allegiances of the hospital staff, and worry about informers.
Throughout her life, Colette's allegiances would remain firmly on the side of the provincial.
To try to follow royal lines and shifting allegiances has always been an art.
When neither reached Zuhlke's small town in Pennsylvania, the businessman switched allegiances to Trump.
One day people are on your side, and the next they have shifted allegiances.
It is penalizing foreign banks that compete with China in nations shifting their financial allegiances.
Some sites go well beyond party allegiances and dig deep into each user's policy preferences.
Rather, as that example suggests, the issue is a repository for broader anxieties and allegiances.
And I wanted to watch him attack Augusta National's last nine holes without mixed allegiances.
Preps and jocks thought we were all fucking weirdos, but we had our own allegiances.
Tencent has been slowly striking U.S. allegiances, including with Tesla, as it plots global expansion.
Then she heads to a shelf stocked with Transformers of varying sizes, colors, and allegiances.
So then artists' allegiances can never be to a flag, a party, or a state.
Businesses would compete for the allegiances of consumers rather than the spoils of bureaucratic imperialism.
When a reader asked, "Who's a better prison chef?" the actresses made their allegiances clear.
I agree voters are ideologically incoherent, but I think party allegiances are pretty damn stable.
The possibility that some immigrants can continue to possess conflicting and multiple allegiances is downplayed.
Still, some American and European officials see Mr. Putin's invisible hand in the shifting allegiances.
Specifically, they need to understand who is selling what to whom and where allegiances lie.
Like Americans, Britons are jettisoning longtime political allegiances in a sign of new cultural divides.
Pinchuk presents his foundation as a forum for diverse views, but his allegiances are murky.
Other than political allegiances, we don't know much about what the term evangelical means anymore.
In the book, a glass phone booth grows lonely as people transfer their allegiances to cellphones.
One of the great things about the scene is it plays with audience expectations and allegiances.
The mutual allegiances in those previous races also were not part of any noticeably concerted effort.
The two areas govern themselves, bound by a strong sense of local, rather than national, allegiances.
They split off into new factions, merge with erstwhile enemies, and acquire new names and allegiances.
The politics of the race, however, and the likelihood of multiple ballots make deciphering allegiances tricky.
They told us American political allegiances based on economic, demographic, and ideological lines were irrevocably changed.
They have stood by him ever since, as he has returned home and traded allegiances freely.
Arguably, past defections by Assad officers serve only to concentrate the allegiances of those who remain.
Larroquette: The majority of the shows in the comedy podcast community have allegiances with other shows.
The Republican group in Phoenix reflected a sense that Trump's allegiances aren't with the middle class.
"American Crime Story" challenges viewers' allegiances throughout, repeatedly toying with the question of Mr Simpson's guilt.
Without allegiances and without agreements, there is nothing in the animal world other than bare life.
"This election is not about calling in old favors or relying on past allegiances," she declared.
To find out what Facebook thinks your political allegiances are, head over to www.facebook.com/ads/preferences.
Campaigns receive free tools and services, it says, while platforms curry insights and powerful political allegiances.
And it will happen here because of the same sort of complex allegiances that Roth depicted.
Retail investors deserve more clarity around the critical allegiances of the people giving them investment advice.
But Tommy isn't likely paying much attention to the President's bloviating or his fair-weather allegiances.
Each of us can control our own behavior and take ownership of our choices and allegiances.
But Trump himself prefers to keep his options open, and his allegiances can be quite malleable.
Referring to the bipartisan group of moderates, Representative Pramila Jayapal, Democrat of Washington, questioned members' allegiances.
Yet he had other allegiances as well, and his versatility has made him an elusive figure.
Exploiting those allegiances is what Fox News and Trump do, and they do it really well.
For those who hitch their allegiances to McIlroy, following him can be a white-knuckle ride.
By the story's end, new allegiances have been effected, shadowed by foreboding and filled with tenderness.
In this city, blessed with two professional baseball teams, where you live usually determines your allegiances.
And tribal allegiances to news outlets mean that any hint of heresy can provoke an outcry.
With allegiances to existing parties diminishing, pollsters have found some voters torn between diametrically opposed candidates.
Bloomberg has said spending his own money means he does not have allegiances to any donors.
Here's what's strange, though: over this same period, the electorate was shrugging off its party allegiances.
Politics sometimes forces us to forge allegiances to movements that we don't always align with fully.
It's one of the more peaceful drawings to come from this time of violence and obligatory allegiances.
Instead, individual armed groups operating with their own interests, and absent allegiances, are increasingly defining the battlegrounds.
The Fate of the Furious reportedly features Budweiser and Stella Artois, suggesting a possible shift in allegiances.
But that would require CNN to ignore its own independent reporting of where superdelgate allegiances currently lay.
If you have another favorite reindeer, it's time to switch allegiances and go all in for Rudolph.
It's pretty great and includes everything you could want — previous fan allegiances, Cowboys-bashing history and more.
But personal allegiances of fandoms aside, the differences between each of their albums—and the release date!
The Turkish police has long had secret networks and allegiances in its ranks, both Islamist and nationalist.
They question the allegiances of the Popular Mobilization Forces, the Shiite militias controlling their Sunni-majority city.
Following Panama's diplomatic switch, both El Salvador and the Dominican Republic switched allegiances to China from Taiwan.
On trade policy, voting patterns and party allegiances among the American electorate may see changes as well.
And Ren's early career with the People's Liberation Army has always made westerners suspicious of Huawei's allegiances.
Milosz's course was complicated by the fact that his class and national allegiances were anything but straightforward.
The characters contend with allegiances to country, family, religion -- only to learn they might never quite belong.
Fans dress to match their spirit, representing their allegiances to the sport or their sense of place.
The world isn't only a battlefield of groups; it's also a World Wide Web of overlapping allegiances.
The person with equipoise doesn't feel attachments less powerfully but weaves several deep allegiances into one symphony.
There's no official betting at the Palio but allegiances are purchased for tens of thousands of dollars.
Allegiances shift (or, at the very least, become much more clear to those who watch on eagerly).
Even the flags on the graves of the Afghans killed in the long war announce competing allegiances.
The friendship with Hughes provided an anchor and radicalized Ellison, shifting his political allegiances to the left.
As a unique experiment in transcending tribal allegiances, Americans are defined by the ideals we together uphold.
SHIFTING ALLEGIANCES Kurdish-led forces have denounced the U.S. policy shift as a "stab in the back".
But political allegiances aside, Arce's story provides a warning tale of the human cost of political violence.
Many residents came from somewhere else, and brought their allegiances, perhaps even to the Patriots, with them.
This is a view in which people's policy beliefs come first and their political allegiances follow naturally.
On the other hand, we tend to avoid confronting facts that run hostile to our political allegiances.
Kanye West's hair — much like his political allegiances, Twitter activity, and current stance on Drake — is highly unpredictable.
All of that, Obama argues, defies party allegiances, and even non-Democrats should join Democrats in rejecting it.
Some GOP strategists in Alabama suggested that if Sessions runs, Byrne donors and supporters could switch their allegiances.
In the future, taste will be built on allegiances to platforms as much as individual creators or brands.
The friendships, conversations, and allegiances of the individual can shape a country's policies, even if done in secret.
So it's time to answer that deep, burning philosophical question on everyone's minds: What drives these aesthetic allegiances?
Its leaders, motivated by both ambition and cult-like allegiances, conspire to orchestrate the end of the world.
There will be battles, there will be political allegiances, there will be deception, and there will be deaths.
Rabid brand allegiances are as strong as ever and there's plenty of research to explain why that is.
The narrative about allegiances was enough to modify the brain's empathic response: allies became more like ingroup members.
It's that the same stories making fairly reliable supporters reconsider their allegiances, at least momentarily, are solidifying Mrs.
The agency, hamstrung by conflicting allegiances, has been lax in following up on reports of corruption and doping.
If any of his team does switch allegiances, they have somewhat of a limited pool to choose from.
Mr. Reedie said he saw no conflicts in his dual allegiances to the Olympics and the antidoping agency.
Costa doesn't hide her political allegiances, and her candor enhances rather than undermines the credibility of her report.
Delbanco aims to balance his antislavery allegiances with caution about the smugness that can come with historical hindsight.
"People often see themselves in terms of whichever one of their allegiances is most under attack," Maalouf writes.
There is even the remote possibility that North Korea could flip allegiances, just as China did in 1972.
Like Mr. Koizumi, he is an example of how the antinuclear movement has blurred political allegiances in Japan.
As the second season starts, allegiances have shifted, and Maddie (Inbar Lavi) faces a far more dangerous adversary.
Pirro's comments echo a common anti-Islamic belief that Muslims have allegiances to Sharia law over American law.
"With this confirmation vote, we'll see if Senators' allegiances lie with justice or with Donald Trump," he said.
Consumers can easily shift allegiances if a rival airline offers new amenities like high-speed onboard Wi-Fi.
Four years and two titles later, he called to tell me he had officially decided to switch allegiances.
That the art is a very international spectrum with different interests and allegiances and biennials and festivals and institutions.
Most Cariocas, or people from Rio, have two allegiances: one to a soccer team, one to a samba school.
Batres' allegiances have remained closely in step with the president, and he served as the first president of MORENA.
Both he and Sechin are deeply embedded in the tangle of allegiances and rivalries in Russian politics and business.
When you're accused of racism, you have one choice: Do the work of proving where your real allegiances lie.
But Johnson's leadership bid faltered unexpectedly when key backers in the party shifted their allegiances, and picked May instead.
"These Syrians were used as human shields for long years in Aleppo by terrorists of all allegiances," said Konashenkov.
Several prominent Zuma allies on the National Executive Committee recognized which way the wind was blowing and switched allegiances.
Like many of the female Trump supporters I spoke to, Ms. Suhler supported Senator Ted Cruz before switching allegiances.
This is not to say that superdelegates can't switch allegiances, but the initial, premature declarations are the real problem.
Such fierce consumer reactions have likely pressured many Trump-supporting business leaders to keep their political allegiances to themselves.
Kurdish control of the province and its capital, also named Hasaka, could shift some important allegiances in the conflict.
By shifting candidates' allegiances from super PACs and billionaires to their everyday constituents, voters can change the status quo.
The American-Israeli alliance is one of the closest allegiances not only in U.S. history, but all modern history.
In the video, ever-changing T-shirts proclaim their musical allegiances: Fleetwood Mac, Björk, Nirvana, Public Enemy and more.
That means it's reasonable to think that the audience's allegiances might naturally align with Jackson in the SNL sequence.
This explains Putin's public orientation to Trump as well as Russia's clandestine efforts to form allegiances with Trump's campaign.
Mahathir had said he favoured a unity government in which members would not be chosen according to party allegiances.
Respondents may have had stronger pre-existing brand allegiances to American or been members in the company's rewards program.
How the other three respond to their mate's despair represents a small victory in the name of old allegiances.
Beating an incumbent is rarely a simple matter, especially in municipal races where labor allegiances are unlikely to shift.
She plays Jyn Erso, the daughter of Galen Erso (Mads Mikkelsen), a scientist whose allegiances are a little ambiguous.
But there are complications, as there always are in 19th-century opera, involving divided allegiances and accidents of birth.
At the end of the day, they owe as much allegiances to their government as they do their shareholders.
READ: Warren to Sanders: 'You Called Me a Liar on National TV' Progressive activists were quick to call for de-escalation following the debate, but on Wednesday the leaders of six groups with varying allegiances or non-allegiances in the primary went a step further and released a joint statement calling for unity.
One British brand you may not be aware of, even if your UK allegiances run deep, is Rock Jaw Audio.
Creating new coalitions and allegiances is essential for almost anyone to win the White House in an otherwise polarized America.
Their positions, it seems, aren't founded so much on their interpretation of existing evidence as they are on party allegiances.
Bernie Sanders of Vermont during the primary season, but shifted allegiances to Trump after Clinton sealed up the Democratic nomination.
Turkey views both ISIS and Kurdish rebels as foes and its allegiances have complicated its relationship with the United States.
The shift in allegiances was noticeable during a June fundraiser at the Trump International Hotel in support of Trump Victory.
Political office in Kenya can bring access to power and wealth and voting in national polls often follows ethnic allegiances.
Caitlyn Jenner is apologizing to members of the transgender community for sending a wrong message about where her allegiances lie.
"  "This is an event that is attended by men of various party political allegiances who do not know any better.
I'm trying to decide at the moment whether my party allegiances outweigh my desire to give the Conservatives a hammering.
Public debates have focused on social services and the cost of living, although some voters will cleave to tribal allegiances.
But the result has left even the closest U.S. allies wondering about our motivations and the nature of our allegiances.
Lee and Sanchez, both representing districts in California, will likely split allegiances in the state boasting the most Democratic members.
"In Lebanon, things happen though elections, not pledges of allegiances," he said, in a jab at Saudi Arabia's monarchical system.
They remind me of the importance of the convergence of multiple uprisings, of allegiances across gender, race, class and sexuality.
Brexit cuts across traditional voting loyalties, with people switching their allegiances more frequently, which has posed another test for politicians.
In Morocco's case, that allowed several players who had turned out for junior national teams in Europe to switch allegiances.
Compared with this new god of money, all the old allegiances — religion, family, land, Fascism, Communism — are of little importance.
The Checkup When we moved from Cambridge to New York, we promised our son we would never switch sports allegiances.
Examples include tornado warnings, steakburgers from Steak &aposn Shake, cornhole, spending summers at the lake, and Big Ten team allegiances.
As a result, residents tend to adhere to a patchwork of allegiances to the Raiders, Giants, Dodgers and other teams.
Although some of the American and Salvadoran gangs shared the same names and allegiances, the Salvadorans were far more ruthless.
The current political climate also played a big role in submissions, with relationships failing over competing Trump-Clinton political allegiances.
He's a fictitious client that Elsbeth advised Maia to tell her father about in order to suss out his allegiances.
Nothing declares one's own class allegiances more eloquently, after all, than the accusation that one's opponents care only about class.
All the noble houses and provincial warlords whose shifting allegiances could rebalance the scales have been wiped-out or subjugated.
In the name of camaraderie and shared allegiances, secret Facebook groups offer women access to publishing contacts, apartments, and anxiety meds.
And if mainline denominations are hemorrhaging members, does it not seem at least plausible those people's political allegiances may be plastic?
It would be unprecedented for the number of superdelegates Sanders needs to switch allegiances, and, like Clinton this year, then-Sen.
Tony Blair, a former Labour prime minister, said on April 24th that voters should forget party allegiances and back Remainer candidates.
But this has been a banner year for anti-gerrymandering ballot initiatives which bypass governors and legislatures and their party allegiances.
AS BRITAIN approaches a European election it had expected to avoid, we examine how the Brexit mess is dissolving party allegiances.
"You may read about how few people ever switch smartphone allegiances, but I believe this is a game-changer," Cramer said.
The private thoughts of Donald Trump are largely unknowable to the people he governs, but his sports allegiances are quite evident.
Mr Zygar focuses on the fluid allegiances of the polittekhnologs, the uniquely Russian spin doctors who shaped the recent political landscape.
Lena Headey may be a die-hard Lannister in the Game of Thrones world, but on Twitter her allegiances lie elsewhere.
Brothers and sisters, we know where your true allegiances lie, and we've brought the revolution to you, here, in this room.
This is one of those times where the best interests of the whole outweigh any partisan allegiances or any specific issue.
They can promise allegiances or switch at will, operating with no constraints binding them to the outcome of a statewide primary.
Whether or not it was fair for the press and public to speculate on Lewis' national allegiances depends on personal perspective.
Reflecting the party divisions, allies of each of the men involved reacted with astonishment, relief or dismay according to their allegiances.
Over two decades later, the same parties or successors rooted in the same ethnic allegiances still dominate national and local politics.
For now, Domino's has made a comeback in the pizza wars, rising in a turbulent sector where customers' allegiances rapidly shift.
He has made his allegiances clear: He's on the side of white supremacists, white nationalists, ethno-racists, Islamophobes and anti-Semites.
Yet through it all, his allegiances remained in New York, even during the city's violent years, for which he blamed liberals.
Gisele started as a henchman for the villain of Fast & Furious, but switched her allegiances by the end of the film. 
On CNN on Sunday, Mr. Scaramucci began addressing the president directly, apologizing for previous criticism and declaring where his allegiances lay.
The position is one that needs be free of party allegiances and even of an appearance of being beholden to presidents.
Chefs have their saline allegiances and will offer lengthy, impassioned arguments about why one variety of salt is superior to another.
Innocent Americans were wiretapped without court authorization and spied on, as intelligence bureaus sought to determine their national and political allegiances.
But Dark Waters tells a more complex story about how those allegiances that drive voting are made, and are broken. Absolutely.
The most important of these is Yisrael Beiteinu, a hawkish secular party whose allegiances are very much up in the air.
But experts say that the recent activity of some militia members could be evidence of a greater shift in political allegiances.
The ISIS online strategy is to win recruits by undermining local national allegiances, loyalties, and values, and to destroy faith in government.
He is a former KGB spy and Author of Deep Undercover: My Life of Entangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America.
Boucheron invites us to think through how Machiavelli became synonymous with unscrupulous despotism when the real man suffered for his republican allegiances.
Each would-be Cruz delegate has promised not to switch allegiances if the voting at the Cleveland convention goes beyond one ballot.
It's been hard to decide where to place their allegiances, and many of Trump's current supporters avidly opposed Trump in 2016... Sen.
Their numbers swelled to at least 12,000 after the uprising, but analysts say their allegiances are uncertain and their fighting capacity limited.
Therefore, if a ceasefire is to hold in Syria, then it must be absent of the challenges and interwoven allegiances and enemies.
So various new groupings are trying to circumvent the parties and provide rallying points for centrists of all tribal allegiances and none.
Of course, there's little chance these organizations can take advantage of Facebook's recent difficulties and convince consumers to shift their allegiances wholesale.
As the crypto stars strut their stuff, declare their allegiances, and taunt their rivals, you wind up with shifting, indistinct pecking orders.
" In the end, it is hard for anyone to articulate which players are considered to have switched national allegiances the "right way.
But the changing tides over the course of that hard-fought contest led to highly unusual cases of lawmakers shifting allegiances midstream.
He had allegiances to both sides of the long Dodgers-Giants rivalry, like a player traded from one franchise to the other.
Invariably, fans with no obvious allegiances find themselves cheering on an unheralded team that challenges a top seed or an elite program.
They argue that the goal is to forestall "party raiding" — mischief-making by voters who switch allegiances only to disrupt the opposition.
These days, allegiances to national gangs like the Bloods, the Crips or Folk Nation are often trumped by loyalties to local gangs.
But in 1959 he was still something of a mystery man, coy about his ideology and allegiances, a voluble populist in fatigues.
But far from silencing her, that first flare-up simply led to the next — her comments about allegiances to a foreign country.
My children have loud and strong pie allegiances but no one is willing to countenance the elimination of a less favored pie.
Born in the remote interior of Alagoas, Brazil's third poorest and most violent state, Calheiros' career has been marked by shifting allegiances.
His popularity in Zimbabwe reflects the fact that in a country bitterly divided by political allegiances, he positioned himself as a unifier.
Regardless of split allegiances, the LGBT community will prove to be a considerable voting bloc in 2016 — one that skews overwhelmingly Democratic.
Nanzer also noted that Blizzard hopes that anchoring the teams to specific cities will help attract fans through local allegiances to their hometowns.
Stacey Dash made her political allegiances clear on Thursday during an interview with Fox News at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland.
These groups are common in the UK as teams' fans are spread out, with no geographical allegiances dictating who we must root for.
Some have sided with the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), some support Ghwell, and some do not have clear political allegiances.
How the players in the '80s really hated each other and would never switch teams and drum up allegiances with the enemy teams.
Obama said the pact didn't reflect a shift in U.S. allegiances, however, citing longstanding efforts to bolster the security of Middle East allies.
Onlookers have taken sides and made their allegiances clear on social media, vigilantly trolling comment sections on Instagram and elongating threads on Twitter.
Whitfield's allegiances weren't hard to miss, and they were easy to understand considering his relationship with Notre Dame junior point guard Demetrius Jackson.
They're encouraging disaffected conservatives of all stripes to set aside partisan and ideological allegiances and support her, if only for one election cycle.
Standing in the middle of the maelstrom was Sherelle herself, grinning, swigging from a bottle and sporting a shirt that advertised her allegiances.
The war-torn country still suffers from a political vacuum and splintered allegiances, but the risk to supply is likely on the upside.
By emphasising the overlapping dual allegiances—to tribe and to clan—Deganawida complicated the notions of us and them, defanging the intertribal warfare.
There's something about transcendent talent that causes people to root for it, no matter their allegiances or their usual embrace of the underdog.
Western powers and African states fear the crisis that has so far largely followed political allegiances could spiral into a renewed ethnic conflict.
But D'Alessandro, who recently came up short in a Democratic congressional primary, tells CNN he's not telegraphing a message about his 2020 allegiances.
Once they were aware, he argued, they had made reasonable efforts to renounce foreign allegiances and thus should not be disqualified from office.
Supporters of Mr. Foa argue that he is an independent voice free of institutional allegiances and RAI's insidious establishment bias against populist voices.
This is what happens when an administration stocks its agencies with people whose allegiances are to the industries they are meant to oversee.
He's a gilded tough guy and a political lightweight who champions anti-intellectualism, and whose allegiances change like the blowing of the wind.
This season there are even more factions to deal with, and more than enough shifting allegiances, devious double agents and bitter blood feuds.
Mr. Anaya's campaign is now counting on undecided voters and those voters who are uncertain enough to switch allegiances at the last moment.
Amy, Gretchen, Lisa, Paul and the tragic Tiffany are his royal siblings, ever shifting in their allegiances and presence in one another's lives.
Orlando Magic point guard D.J. Augustin dribbled in front of a Washington Wizards rookie, and fans inside Capital One Arena briefly switched allegiances.
" Dr. King emphasized that he counted himself among those who are "bound by allegiances and loyalties which are broader and deeper than nationalism.
It governed in a coalition with Mr. Salvini's hard-right League party before switching allegiances to the center-left Democratic party this summer.
Haftar and his allies say the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) of being beholden to militias, including some with Islamist allegiances.
On the day of our interview, though, he seems blissfully unperturbed by any divisions or allegiances still lingering in the minds of fans.
That process has changed, but the decision to switch allegiances will still be made by convention delegates, not necessarily by the voters they represent.
Early on in the film, young rebel Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) is being grilled about her allegiances by the Alliance she's about to join.
Shortly before the Dominican Republic switched allegiances earlier this year, China offered it investment and loans worth some $3.1 bn, says the Taiwanese government.
Until then at least, the cause—whether "shy Trumpers" ashamed to admit their allegiances, erroneous turnout projections or faulty sampling methods—will remain uncertain.
People in places like Northumbria and York did not consider themselves English, let alone French (their allegiances were more with the Scots and Scandinavians).
But her allegiances became a political issue when she morphed into a Yankees fan when she ran for the Senate seat from New York.
It's a big development for a gaming community that has long been populated by people with stated allegiances to one platform over the others.
There were also plenty of people willing to use this time to publicly switch virtual reality headset allegiances, from Oculus to the HTC Vive.
Looking for a leg up in the Hawkeye State, Stanford alumna Carly Fiorina has already declared she will be switching allegiances for the game.
The goat ran amok during a game between the hometown Spikes (a Cardinals affiliate) and the Batavia Muckdogs (with playball allegiances to the Marlins).
Kurdish YPG fighters who fought under the larger SDF umbrella organization to liberate northeastern Syria from ISIS fighters have various allegiances to the PKK.
The United States has had allegiances with Thailand since the 1833 "Amnity and Commerce Treaty," which solidified positive approaches to political and trade agreements.
In addition to inspiring individual attacks in its name, the group has also created allegiances with established extremist groups from Nigeria to the Philippines.
More realistically, it accepts that people will live in America, but insists that without citizenship or legal residence, their true allegiances must lie elsewhere.
Why would Pinochet's minions risk killing a poet who was already dying, a Nobel Prize winner revered by Chileans of all stripes and allegiances?
Ironically, the communal institutions bequeathed by Good Friday prolong sectarian allegiances, running Stormont, the Northern Irish assembly, on the principle of communal power-sharing.
Predictably, the House floor today teemed with all the chaos of a high school cafeteria: animated by thick egos, tables separated by deep allegiances.
Outside of the close allegiances he had with scientists, Epstein was known to have clients in the business community, including longtime investor Leon Black.
A Hillary Clinton superdelegate tells The Hill his colleagues have been threatened with primaries if they don't switch allegiances for the Democratic presidential nomination.
But traditional left-right allegiances are breaking down all over in Europe — as they appear to have in the United States — as polarization grows.
In photos that swiftly circulated on social media, it was clear the visitors' political allegiances were radically incompatible with Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement.
He is urged to sign the paper to save his life, even if his true allegiances lie elsewhere, and time and again he refuses.
What sets it apart is its titular hero, a masked bounty hunter (Pedro Pascal) with no allegiances, a mysterious past, and a surprising conscience.
These allegiances — to friends, to state authority — are tested by the Pentagon Papers, if rather more tested, perhaps, for the purposes of this fiction.
Former Democrats, the North Carolina duo switched their allegiances when Trump announced his candidacy, and hope to convince other Democrats to do the same.
It immediately makes the recipient an object of suspicion, indicating allegiances to some sort of social or professional norms external to the leader's circle.
It is now internally divided, and Jathran's powerful unit, based in Libya's Oil Crescent region, has acted largely independently, switching political allegiances in recent years.
Independents voted a split ticket much more than major party millionaires, and when it comes to investing and the economy, independents also split their allegiances.
People have opinions on issues, but most people's partisan allegiances are anchored in group identity, and their issue preferences are a little scattered and disorganized.
And while Zucker and Donvan wear their allegiances on their sleeve, I can hardly fault them for doing so, as I certainly do the same.
Charles Bradley, 67, a retired lawyer from Laconia who calls himself conservative, said he had lost count of Mr. Trump's shifting allegiances and discarded positions.
ET on Monday, when voters worked through a frenetic process of persuasion and changing allegiances to pick their favorites in the 244 presidential nominating contest.
With Mr Trump not on the ballot, white members of the Obama coalition in the Midwest who deserted Mrs Clinton returned to their past allegiances.
And with that, the pressure was on high-ranking elected officials, many of whom had previously demurred citing the ongoing competition, to state their allegiances.
Selling the illusion of being a host meant the actors would need to improvise on the fly, drawing on their characters' origins, allegiances, and secrets.
If MPs were freed from party allegiances, voted anonymously and appointed the executive, our Parliament would be steered by its judgment and conscience, applied independently.
But then I voted to switch allegiances and help the target take refuge with the Nosferatu, a clan of hideously transformed but highly resourceful vampires.
In a series where allegiances are ever-shifting and you never know which enemy is waiting around the next corner, Real Talk can be comforting.
Meanwhile, the provocatively titled "Human Default = Suck At Life" and "Fuck Powerviolence" make no secrets of their roots and allegiances within the grind/crust scene.
And there's early evidence that Sanders supporters are ready to switch allegiances — if only for the sake of keeping Trump out of the Oval Office.
"He did not rush to try to exert his authority over the whole country, but let a gradual shift of allegiances take place," says Hill.
As political alignments shift and American partisan allegiances weaken, it would benefit people on both sides of the aisle to consider these questions more closely.
The number of Islamic State fighters in Afghanistan is uncertain because they frequently switch allegiances, but the U.S. military estimates the number at about 2,000.
In 2012, two employees at the nuclear plant in Doel quit to join jihadists in Syria, and eventually transferred their allegiances to the Islamic State.
But in a region where different bands of fighters often switch between different militant groups, it can be difficult to establish allegiances with any certainty.
Almost 215 years ago, preceding the height of the Cold War, scientists from 2500 countries defied their allegiances for the sake of exploration and discovery.
Like most drone strikes, the specific numbers or allegiances of the victims vary depending on the media outlet, source, or information from the victims' families.
A voice unbound by the pathetic political party allegiances, which have only stagnated and strangled progress, leaving America, not since the Civil War, so divided.
He argued that conservatives should not subvert their principles to political allegiances or feel compelled to vote for candidates or parties that don't reflect them.
"Risking life and limb," Russia Beyond said, Mr. Botyan persuaded a German officer at the castle to switch allegiances and help foil the German plot.
For an alleged Russian agent funded by an oligarch, they say, Ms. Butina hardly lived a life of fake identities, secret communications and hidden allegiances.
It has also highlighted the competition between the European Union and Russia over the values and allegiances of countries in Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
This is the fertile environment of discontent in which criminal gangs have seeded their operations, recruiting members, buying allegiances and cultivating markets, community leaders say.
Imagine the security nightmare of foreign ships and unvetted foreign crews with unknown allegiances traveling deep into America's heartland making numerous stops wherever they please.
Most recently, GOP mega-donor Meg Whitman and sitting Republican Congressman Richard Hanna have publicly defected, shifting their ballot box allegiances from Trump to Clinton.
America can help, by making them and Pakistani citizens understand how fluidly militants can shift allegiances, thus posing an existential threat to the Pakistani state.
It was the first-ever gold medal for Turkey in the world championships, made possible by Guliyev's switching allegiances from his native Azerbaijan in 250.
International allegiances pulled other countries into the conflict, which led to World War I, and the death or injury of more than 37 million soldiers.
He looked closely at how postindustrial transformations had changed local economics, and why the Brexit debate was scrambling political allegiances and causing so much frustration.
Another eight Nevada superdelegates, who are not bound to any candidate and can switch allegiances at any time, will also go to the national convention.
But if no one wins on the first ballot, delegates can switch their allegiances and "they can vote for who they want," Priebus told ABC.
Mr. Obama was a fund-raising machine, attracting hundreds of millions of dollars outside the party apparatus, keeping him free of conventional party allegiances and obligations.
It follows that no country can have diplomatic ties with both China and Taiwan, and that those which recognise Taiwan must be made to switch allegiances.
In particular, the story of young Eli (Jacob Lofland) having his allegiances tested by his growing respect for his Comanche captors has a solid forward momentum.
If we're the company that's resonated with them at that moment when they don't have any allegiances, then we expect they're gonna grow up with us.
Assuming your allegiances lie with North Carolina, you were treated to a basketball game that tested your mettle but ultimately rewarded your faith in dramatic fashion.
The book's Appendix includes other fun features, like a section with all 8.993 house sigils, and more information about the symbolism, house seat, region and allegiances.
" Park emphasized that esports' success has also been the industry's ability to naturally "[drive] tribal associations" that "organically attracts really passionate viewership and really passionate allegiances.
Billie doesn't get to choose, and instead has to deal with the fallout of Corvo and Emily's choices, as well as the result of their allegiances.
Though a former Democrat, Giuliani shifted his allegiances to the Republicans in the 1980s and was widely tipped for a position in the new U.S. administration.
This point illustrates that in the primaries and caucuses, allegiances may vary, but most partisans will return to support their party's nominee in the general election.
The floral pattern disguises the rebel symbols, X-Wings and rebel helmets at first glance, but a closer inspection makes it clear where your allegiances lie.
The plummet in the NRA's support for Democrats highlights the group's increasingly partisan posture, which is at odds with its past attempts to avoid party allegiances.
Trump's attacks also come with the bank under intense political scrutiny from both sides of the aisle — including from conspiracy theorists questioning its motives and allegiances.
Donald Trump should remember that free trade is our powerful ally because it can change the flow of wealth and the political allegiances of all nations.
Still, observers of Southern politics — with allegiances to both teams — said Mr. Trump's visit was unlikely to sway many voters inside or outside Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
Candidates arrived there for the state party convention and encountered a black electorate whose interests and allegiances are far more divided than in recent presidential elections.
At least four state lawmakers in Kansas switched allegiances after the midterms, as have a California State Assembly member and a state senator in New Jersey.
Everybody thought this was when Trump was going to act like a professional and finally fall in line with decades-long conventions of Western security allegiances.
We got the FOX News contributor at LAX Saturday, and she slams the recent trend of conservatives being booted from restaurants due to their political allegiances.
As races develop, some registered voters may realize they want to switch allegiances ahead of primaries in June (for federal offices) and September (for state offices).
Excessive corruption and shifting tribal allegiances have further complicated the situation that is already complex due to the interference of Iran in the Shia Houthi areas.
The switch in allegiances underscored how U.S. foes such as Russia and Syria worked to fill the vacuum left by Trump's orders to exit the region.
Concerns about nepotism are, if anything, stronger in a White House appointment, where multiple close advisers and fragile hierarchies can easily become snarled by family allegiances.
"As ISIL metastasizes and gains allegiances throughout Africa, what U.S. military presence is required to stop and roll back its advances on the continent?" he added.
But Omar has made several statements about Israel over the past few months that echo common anti-Semitic expressions about dual allegiances, Jewish money and power.
To try to overcome the age allegiances that the Houses created, Loyola was split into four divisions, with a hundred boys and ten Marys in each.
Now, though, he refuses to speak to the couple, who watch impassively as he is beaten, a moment that produces a powerful confusion of readerly allegiances.
This person noted that he has heard from donors with allegiances to Biden, Klobuchar and Booker but has not made a decision on whom to back.
Professional sports are arranged in such a way that money governs the tides, and allegiances exist only in the vapors between steaming hot piles of cash.
The most effective museum worker may be the one whose allegiances are ultimately to self-criticism, especially when the institution is the subject of that critical reflection.
Liberals, as he sees them, picture people as self-possessed beings free to choose their attachments, conservatives as creatures with social roots that impose duties and allegiances.
The emperor can gain more influence points as he changes the political allegiances of his court, but that obviously takes time and comes with its own tradeoffs.
In some ways, season five has been a conscious circle back to the conflicts of season one, especially when it comes to Philip's questioning of his allegiances.
This issue scrambles the usual partisan allegiances of Congress: civil libertarians from both parties want more checks and protections; national-security hawks would like a clean reauthorisation.
It is difficult to say how many Islamic State fighters are in Afghanistan because they frequently switch allegiances, but the U.S. military estimates there are about 2,000.
But the winner was an institution with very different interests and allegiances: China's National University of Defense Technology, a top military academy of the People's Liberation Army.
Waging war against the FBI might seem a risky proposition for a Republican president, but here as elsewhere, Trump is proving that partisanship triumphs over older allegiances.
The guards are led by a federalist who has supported Libya's eastern government, but analysts say their loyalties are uncertain within the country's complex pattern of allegiances.
But starting a new party could politically weaken Bolsonaro, who switched allegiances among eight parties during his 28 years in Congress before joining the PSL last year.
The Gateway Program, however, is that rare chance to put aside partisan squabbles and act in the best interests of all citizens, regardless of their political allegiances.
But the conflict there not only has not slowed, it is intensifying and growing more volatile, with more players diving in with conflicting interests and shifting allegiances.
Rubio will be hoping that New Hampshire's centrist voters rally around him rather than dividing their allegiances among several candidates cut from similar cloth, including Ohio Gov.
The two-night experience will make fans feel like they're boarding an actual ship and will allow them to make allegiances with cast, crew, and other passengers.
Watch it hereThe mysterious and tumultuous land of 43AD Britannia is occupied by many warring tribes until the invasion of a foreign army sparks chaos and allegiances.
"While Congressman Rohrabacher has got away with his allegiances to Russia for decades, the stakes are much higher now," said Andrew Feldman, Red to Blue California spokesman.
There is also his very public interest in the writers Peter Handke and Knut Hamsun, whose allegiances to Slobodan Milosevic and Hitler, respectively, have earned them notoriety.
Indeed, the battle against Islamic State quickly became a complex web of rival rebel groups and international powers with shifting allegiances making it far from clear cut.
And with the good and strong Atlanta Falcons challenging the relentless and potentially evil New England Patriots for some shiny rings, musicians have made their allegiances clear.
The exact number of Islamic State fighters in Afghanistan is difficult to calculate because they frequently switch allegiances, but the U.S. military estimates there are about 2,000.
Mason explains that during the McCarthyism era of American politics in the 1950s, masked vigilantes had to appear before the government to be questioned about their allegiances.
In 2015, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Caruana had received an offer of more than $200,000 from the United States Chess Federation to switch allegiances.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded to her tweet of the endorsement with a single purple heart, showing that while they may differ in their allegiances, they're still friends.
After divorcing Mr. Huffington in 1997, Ms. Huffington became known for switching allegiances from Newt Gingrich and the Republican Party to the world of left-wing satire.
Arabian Gulf States, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, back a wide array of powerful Syrian opposition forces, some with conflicting aims and allegiances.
The tension is emblematic of a diverse caucus and the competing allegiances members from swing districts have versus many members of the more liberal House Judiciary Committee.
"When he's getting all of his money from those liberals, we know his allegiances," said Tom Palmer, an 83-year-old "lifelong Republican" in the 6th District.
I've had a pretty great time in both countries, but my allegiances lie with Canada when it comes to Olympic hockey and other equally important world events.
Turnbull said the court's interpretation of the constitution, which bars dual citizens from parliament in a bid to prevent split allegiances, was "very strict" and "very hard".
But Democrats ran well enough to win in those states where incomes were the lowest, bringing along downscale whites for whom multigenerational political allegiances still meant something.
So far, I couldn't tell anything about anyone's political allegiances, gender, or cultural positioning; usually a conversation about sex, gender, and penises brings out the most entrenched ideologues.
The real threat to democracy, it seems, isn't the absence of abstract commitment to its ideals but the presence of concrete tribal allegiances that get in the way.
Liziane took on her friend in a game of hoops -- in MUCH-shorter shorts than the pros -- and just to keep it real, they made their allegiances known.
A greeting from the president has been standard for two decades at swearing-in ceremonies, where new citizens pledge to defend the United States and renounce foreign allegiances.
The thing at issue is buried intentions — the secret allegiances of the alienated heart, always the main threat to the theocratic mind, as well as its immemorial quarry.
Weld also dismissed his own Republican critics who have accused him of switching allegiances and who say they want Trump to run without a primary challenger in 2020.
The International Association of Athletics Federations records when athletes change their national allegiances for international competition, and many of those athletes go on to run in the Olympics.
On Sunday, he scored another key Nevadan endorsement from Senator Dean Heller, who switched allegiances following Jeb Bush's departure following his poor showing in the South Carolina primary.
However, if we consider the scale—of political allegiances and ideological stripes—of this Democratic Party, we are forced to consider if the tent has become too big.
By Christmas, allegiances to the three major VR platforms will be entrenched, and early adopters will begin justifying their headset purchases in the internet comments and forums alike.
Piecemeal temporary protected status for immigrants from only certain countries relies on often arbitrary determinations of worth and political allegiances, which are nonetheless crucial for those who benefit.
Depending on where you grew up and what your family's or community's food allegiances were, you might have slightly different ideas about what the perfect Thanksgiving dinner entails.
The shifting allegiances of these voters are also evident in Great Britain and France, whose mainstream liberal parties have also failed to distinguish themselves from their conservative counterparts.
But strip away the franchise allegiances, and it all basically comes down to the same thing: Comic-Con is an overstuffed, oversaturated mess, and it's all Hollywood's fault.
To understand the flexibility of allegiances, we had our participants read a sentence about a fictional war, in which three of the religions were fighting the other three.
The political allegiances of travelers who canceled their trips are not known but the coastal municipalities which issued the spoof travel warnings are held by the opposition CHP.
The tour is designed to help flip the chamber, but will also help her boost allegiances with lawmakers who will be voting in the post-midterm leadership elections.
The tensions have spurred anti-Chinese sentiment and scepticism at universities and workplaces, where Chinese scholars and professionals find themselves in the crossfire and their allegiances are questioned.
The 31-year-old, who was born and raised in the Netherlands but is eligible to race for Canada through his father, made the decision to switch allegiances.
An unknowing spectator might have been confused, as both sets of fans wore red, but once the game began, the constant singing, chanting and drumming made allegiances clear.
As well as frequent couplings and dumpings, the show features a series of X-rated challenges and its format encourages contestants to switch allegiances on a regular basis.
Claiming independence from all political allegiances, he projects a new modern vision: pro European, pro business, pro investment, but respectful of the French safety net and cultural traditions.
Xiao Gugu never hid her connection to the Fan family, but, three decades on, she had grown into a person with new allegiances that she refused to hide.
This year, by contrast, has seen little movement toward Sanders and no sign that a majority of superdelegates will switch allegiances based on the conclusion of the race.
One common reaction to the dangerous excesses of nationalism has been to forgo the need for any form of collective identity, exhorting people to transcend tribal allegiances completely.
His rise has threatened the donor allegiances that other candidates, led by former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., have established over many years in the L.G.B.T. world.
Mr. Perini, 70, and Mr. Sini, 133, had presented themselves as the best candidate to clean up an agency they said was marred by allegiances to Mr. Spota.
Beyond the old man, there is a highly complex and opaque power structure composed of overlapping and intricate networks, varied and divergent interests, and fluid and shifting allegiances.
"These allegiances go all the way to the top of the party," said Makhosi Khoza, a prominent former A.N.C. politician who works at OUTA, an organization fighting graft.
However, he has switched allegiances after earning enough money in his limited starts on the PGA Tour last season to earn his card on the U.S.-based circuit.
They have just switched allegiances, and instead of fluffing their hair with a big smile, they are now rubbing their hands all over their bodies with a pout.
Last November, however, Turner switched allegiances, taking a leave of absence from a paid role with the Ohio Democratic Party to be an unpaid advocate for Sanders's campaign.
When the war began, the state did in fact declare itself officially neutral, but its lawmakers and governor soon split their allegiances between the Union and the Confederacy.
Or, to be fair, being auctioned off by managers and stylists — it's hard to know who is behind the deals — and then switching allegiances as the contracts end.
Republicans have also held back from commenting, partly because of the uncertainty swirling around Kilimnik's allegiances and what he offered or did not offer to the Trump campaign.
People pointed out that the queen wore a brooch given by the Obamas in 2011, and the theories about #BroochWarfare — and the queen's political allegiances — spread from there.
The independent voters outnumbered Republicans for the first time this year, a reflection of both shifting partisan allegiances and the historically weak nature of political parties in California.
Some of their pals are to be expected — their movie brother Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) and fellow Gryffindor Luke Youngblood (Lee Jordan) — but others cross some serious Potterverse allegiances.
After a season of increasingly tangled alliances, allegiances, and sexual chemistry (Hugo!), the latest episode of Killing Eve ended with a classic where-will-they-go-from-here moment.
In Last Jedi, old allegiances are frayed, family bonds are lightsaber'd in half, and even an ex-farmboy like Luke Skywalker must contend with a deep, depressive existential crisis.
Destroying Trump's appeal, then, requires showing that Trump's allegiances are opportunistic and even false — an argument Axelrod suspects will be backed up by careful combing of Trump's business record.
Noomi is asked to make some choices about her allegiances and how she wants to exist in this world, and those choices play out in (sometimes unpredictable) varied ways.
The president, Sergio Mattarella, might ask a respected figure, unencumbered by party allegiances, to form a government of 'technocrats' (Cynics note that Mr Grasso would fit the bill nicely).
Buttigieg has enlisted the help of at least two dozen Democratic bundlers who had strong allegiances to former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton during her White House run.
If you base your sports allegiances on whether teams use environmentally-conscious public transportation to reach their athletic contests, the Temple Owls should be your favorite March Madness squad.
I'm interested in the way the character of Amber shifts her allegiances from being a neo-Nazi to joining up with the band over the course of the film.
Shortly after Christmas we'll know how early adopters are drawing their allegiances in a three-way battle for VR dominance that'll be played out over the next few years.
As Lee, Song Kang-ho ("Snowpiercer") mines the internal discord as much as the script allows while struggling over his allegiances, whereas Um Tae-goo is a snarly Hashimoto.
At the moment, players who switch allegiances after turning 21 are not eligible to play in events like the world championships, the World Cup and the World Team Cup.
Rahv, despite his paleface allegiances, offered a convincing picture of redskin dominance ("Dreiser, Lewis, Anderson, Faulkner, Wolfe, Sandburg, Hemingway"), and nobody could deny the power of the modern movement.
It wasn't exactly a new thought -- Romney actively tried to sabotage Trump's campaign in 2016 -- but it did offer new evidence of Trump's divisive presidency splintering Republican family allegiances.
They can offer to work with Republicans on sensible compromises, especially with Trump, given his uncertain allegiances — and Democrats can outright oppose any partisan bill that hurts ordinary Americans.
But what sorts of allegiances could we form, what sorts of worlds could we build, if we recognized that every generation was going to have to fix it together?
Critic's Pick Clementine Creevy, the songwriter, singer and guitarist who leads Cherry Glazerr, has unabashedly grown up in public, claiming allegiances and postures on the way to finding herself.
As part of the discussion, they can offer suggestions about how the general public can work together, no matter their political allegiances, to strengthen democracy in the United States.
Tooze shows how the upheaval radiated outward, shaping not only the new economic order but also the political free-for-all that scrambled traditional allegiances, both here and abroad.
On one show, a politician who had switched allegiances from the opposition to Mr. Kenyatta's party and who extolled the railway's virtues was quickly submerged by calls from viewers.
The recent bloody history of Eastern Europe, where occupation by Nazis and then Soviets scrambled political allegiances, has made the region especially susceptible to these waves of political upheaval.
Wars are ultimately won not just on the battlefield but also through the allegiances of the population, whose support is crucial for maintaining any fight and for controlling territory.
Though the C.C.A.A. does not sponsor football, the Great Northwest does, so there is the possibility that Cetys could eventually have multiple conference allegiances (as many N.C.A.A. members do).
However flimsy Mateen's allegiances, his act is just the most recent flashpoint in a worldwide clash of political identities, in which homophobia has become a tool of nation-building.
Kavanaugh's partisan outbursts, suggesting he would not be a neutral arbiter, also may have reinforced public perceptions that the ideologically divided justices cast their votes based on political allegiances.
But the rest are foreign militants of different — and often fluid — allegiances, at times competing but mostly on the same side against the Afghan government and its American allies.
Voters who switched traditional allegiances to back Johnson in December's election will have to wait for full details of his plans for new railways, roads and other infrastructure investment.
At times, that hidden work — exploiting the dark arts of leaked documents, whispered secrets and shifting allegiances — has drawn journalists, government officials and even President Trump into the fight.
By far the most fun elements of The Strain's third season were the ever-shifting allegiances among vampire expert Abraham Setrakian, vampire enabler Eldritch Palmer, and vampire Thomas Eichhorst.
Yet while many of us root for a particular nation in the World Cup, our fandom during the tournament is often an expression of a complex web of allegiances.
And for his own part, Farage offered no doubt about where his own allegiances stood in the U.S. election, even as he stopped just short of formally endorsing Trump.
Former president Saleh plunged the country deeper into turmoil last week by switching allegiances after years helping the Houthis win control of much of the country's north including the capital.
Oh, and the car rides are back too, where two men shoot the shit in patrol cars, puffing dramatically on cigs, as they test the allegiances of the other man.
Despite their different allegiances, the two embark on a dangerous journey, one in which they learn more about one another along the way, and what it means to be human.
In California Democratic politics, where a regular cast of elected officials share an overlapping network of in-state consultants and political consulting firms, conflicts and allegiances often tangle statewide elections.
But if Apple starts creating allegiances to networks and specific shows, creators might be swayed to move toward exclusivity agreements themselves, as opposed to distributing their show across all apps.
Both Vanity Fair and The Favourite also refuse to present us with just one villain — as in life, our allegiances shift from one character to the next, and back again.
Dwight effectively thinks he can end the larger conflict by sending Negan straight into a trap, and Gregory — whose allegiances shift more fluidly than even Eugene — is happy to oblige.
Since Tsai took power in 2016, five nations have switched allegiances to China, with the most recent cases being El Salvador, Burkina Faso and the Dominican Republic earlier this year.
The framers thought that by spreading power across independent branches of government, they would make it hard for parties to form, and institutional allegiances would triumph and balance each other.
As China extends its influence across the Pacific, Palau is one of Taipei's 22017 remaining allies worldwide and is under pressure to switch allegiances, officials and business people there say.
As part of this campaign, China has pressured companies, airlines, and governments worldwide to refer to Taiwan as a Chinese territory and to switch diplomatic allegiances from Taiwan to China.
"Not yet sidelined by the treaties of the 19th century that removed their independence, the strategic allegiances of competing indigenous nations were wooed by the French and English," says Monkman.
Democratic superdelegates — appointed state party insiders who can support any candidate they choose — are allowed to switch allegiances at any point prior to the Democratic National Convention in late July.
If that's convoluted for the layperson, just know that the idea of mixed allegiances and outsiders invading the established wrestling order is a long respected trope of pro wrestling storytelling.
To the mogul, all of foreign policy is motivated by assessments of what's better, financially, for the US. Washington should have few if any fixed alliances, allegiances, or even adversaries.
Panama's decision to switch allegiances is a huge blow for Taipei, which now maintains diplomatic relations with just 20 countries, most of which are in Latin America and the Caribbean.
When Rory spills out of Logan's limo o' dudes, champagne drunk and dripping with diamonds, she's officially transferred her allegiances over to the elder Gilmore world, and Lorelai knows it.
But it's actually a worthwhile episode to unpack, because it highlights a disturbing, worsening tendency in social media in which tribal allegiances are replacing shared empirical understandings of the world.
As China extends its influence across the Pacific, Palau is one of Taipei's 210 remaining allies worldwide and is under pressure to switch allegiances, officials and business people there say.
But that ignores the fact that some caucus-goers will be required to change their allegiances, a fact that seems as if it could benefit Biden as much as Sanders.
And while they lag many U.S. and European rivals in terms of experience, geopolitical allegiances and Western firms' nervousness about the Chinese market also give them significant advantages, they said.
"Given that ISIS has very little to lose at this point, it wouldn&apost be surprising if it claimed the attack, regardless of the attacker&aposs potential allegiances," she speculated.
In many ways, the no-tattoos rule is a microcosm of the never-ending wrestling match that China's central government conducts with its sometimes-dueling allegiances to modernity and control.
"Through the passage of time allegiances change, alliances change, brotherhoods change," said Kenneth Mains, a former Pennsylvania detective who now works as a consultant to help solve cold-case crimes.
A small but incredibly important group of Americans regularly switch their partisan allegiances, and many people are willing to vote differently down-ballot from how they vote in presidential races.
I'm never sure how much of a difference surrogates make in terms of switching voters' allegiances, but I do believe that they can add to voters' existing sense of a candidate.
He will also promise to assert his "independence" as a public servant, placing his allegiances in "the rule of law, the Constitution, and the American people," rather than in the president.
The Foreigner's cat-and-mouse game pits Chan, playing a Vietnamese-born Londoner avenging his daughter's death, against a former IRA leader turned British government official with convoluted allegiances (Pierce Brosnan).
Those volunteers are armed with talking points meant to persuade supporters of other candidates who might not meet viability thresholds to switch allegiances after the initial round of voting takes place.
We were those fairweather fans, with most of us holding allegiances to one or the other of North London's Premier League titans as opposed to a full-time commitment to Barnet.
If Trump can't secure the nomination outright by winning a majority of delegates ahead of the convention, anti-Trump Republicans are counting on contested convention in which allegiances could shift dramatically.
Ethnographers have always dealt with questions about where their allegiances lie, and more than one ethnographer has been accused of being too close to her subjects to evaluate their self-­reports.
Much like those games, the new FFXV spinoff is an online-focused strategy game, where players build up a base and army, while forming allegiances with and battling against other players.
Nowadays, in a world of sponsored Instagram posts, dubious "Hiddleswift"-style celebrity allegiances, and the shameless fakery of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, this just seems like a basic PR move.
One of the key pieces of setup was reestablishing the major players of the various houses in the North, which have seen some shifts in allegiances since we last checked in.
Citing the pervasive role of money in politics, entrenched party allegiances and a patchwork of voting laws, Obama said it was up to long-established nations to show the way forward.
It appears that Steve Bannon, White House counsel Don McGahn, and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt — advisers with nationalist ideology and fossil fuel industry allegiances — were the leading influences on his decision.
Taiwan vowed to fight China's "increasingly out of control" behavior after Taipei lost another ally to Beijing when El Salvador became the third country to switch allegiances to China this year.
Sixteen percent said there is a "high possibility" that they could change their minds and another 37% said there is a moderate possibility they could switch allegiances, according to the poll.
" Ken Thomas and Catherine Lucey of the AP claimed that "a president who spent months catering to the Republican conservative wing now appears unbound by ideology and untethered by party allegiances.
But the superdelegates are not bound to their pledges — they can switch allegiances between now and the convention in July — so Bernie Sanders and his supporters still say he can win.
Mr. Thune questioned the allegiances of Craig Reedie, WADA's president, who is also a vice president of the International Olympic Committee and the person to whom Mr. Thune's letter was addressed.
It's true that superdelegates could hypothetically abandon their pre-announced allegiances to Clinton and opt to override the will of the people and pick Sanders, but the odds are vanishingly small.
In Barcelona, the issue of independence has provoked exceptionally sharp soul-searching and debate over allegiances and identity, with an intensity not seen since Britain voted to leave the European Union.
But the old-school self-portrait and the newfangled selfie have common aims: Both are showcases of personal secrets, broadcasts of political allegiances, and, more than anything, great ways to grandstand.
Whether it's Mad Men or The Americans, TV is terrific at depicting characters who fall on the wrong side of history, who are doomed to fail simply because of their allegiances.
But I will also call upon it to describe the unshakeable bonds of kinship and history I share with my family, and the connections and allegiances I have with close friends.
Shifting allegiances are common in Nepal, but the coalition surprised some here because Mr. Dahal had aligned himself with the current prime minister, Sher Bahadur Deuba, during this year's local elections.
In the past two years alone, Kiribati, the Solomon Islands, El Salvador, Burkina Faso and the Dominican Republic all announced they would no longer recognize Taipei, switching diplomatic allegiances to Beijing.
Who knew whether what he said was something so "big" that it would change minds or switch allegiances or captivate citizens who are beyond weary of these Trump-era trench wars?
He's wagering, too, that enough voters whose allegiances aren't predetermined will balk at that — and will overlook his administration's dysfunction and his own indecency — to keep him in the White House.
So, those who use images of fallen heroes under the guise of respecting the military should probably do an audit of their allegiances, just to make sure their reasoning adds up.
These were the voters Trump understood and political elites didn't, and he understood them because he is one of them: His group allegiances were tribal even as his ideology was flexible.
Dahli Myers, vice chair of the Richland County Council and a former Biden supporter, said she switched allegiances to Sanders after warning several Biden staffers that their grassroots approach was outdated.
" The script by J.K. Rowling is said to "move deeper into an increasingly dark time for the wizarding world, where Newt Scamander and our other heroes have to decide on their allegiances.
The switch in allegiances came when Houthis fighters killed Saleh in December after he called on the Saudi-led coalition to end the war, a move interpreted by the Houthis as betrayal.
Although California boasts 55 votes in the college—more than a tenth of the total—it is mostly ignored by the campaigns, as it is deeply liberal and unlikely to change allegiances.
Sheryl Allen, a former Republican state representative who will back Mrs Clinton, hopes this year's race will open people's minds to voting for the best candidate, rather than hewing to tribal allegiances.
"The second Fantastic Beasts moves deeper into an increasingly dark time for the wizarding world, where Newt and our other heroes have to decide on their allegiances," says the Warner Bros. statement.
In other words, this is a story of media manipulation, leaked documents, propaganda, shifting allegiances, bribe money and whispered secrets — and the 2022 World Cup is at the very center of it.
Negan, Dwight, and Eugene are perhaps the most important characters in the comic's "All Out War" arc, and the show has kept the general gist of their motivations, allegiances, and trajectories intact.
Sub-national allegiances are growing in strength (note Scotland's slide towards independence) and form an increasingly appropriate and effective basis for government (consider all the recent literature on the "age of mayors").
It seemed straightforward enough, but then WWE introduced one more twist: a double turn, where both characters switch allegiances, the heel to face and the face to heel, in the same match.
If anything, Bergelson's work during the war, heartfelt appeals to "we, Jews," who "will be the first to be thrown into the fire," made him look even more nationalist in his allegiances.
The switch in allegiances is a stark illustration of how American foes like Russia and Syria are working steadily to fill the vacuum left by President Donald Trump's retreat in the region.
While Cold War allegiances to the Soviet Union may be present in some African countries, Nigeria, by contrast, is a former British colony and therefore more espoused to a free market system.
Yet independent tallies suggest this will be the first parliament in more than 20 years without either a conservative or reformist majority, and the novices' allegiances may switch between Iran's many factions.
In "Crashed," Tooze shows how the upheaval of 2008 radiated outward, shaping not only the new economic order but the political free-for-all that stumped conventional pundits and scrambled traditional allegiances.
Today's street gangs overwhelmingly consist of young teenagers, with allegiances that are tied to housing developments and individual blocks, rather than to national or regional groups, the police and community groups say.
Recognizing the electoral loophole created by Americans' hardening allegiances, both Mr. Hunter and Mr. Collins decided to continue campaigning and distract voters from their indictments with what many considered outright racist tactics.
Whether cultural institutions should consider the personal and political allegiances of their contributors remains thorny territory, particularly since nonprofit organizations can rarely afford to turn away generous donors like the Mercer family.
SAN FRANCISCO — The only thing changing faster than who is winning the race in the cutthroat world of ride hailing are the shifting behind-the-scenes allegiances between those companies and investors.
Alabama also has the third-lowest average share of third-party votes in the country in presidential elections since 1980, which may be a rough measure of the strength of partisan allegiances.
Pinned down on yet another battlefront, Isabel must grapple with where her political allegiances lie and, at long last, gauge her true feelings for Curzon, her longtime companion in adventure and woe.
A troubled ambivalence shades the political allegiances of the Gabriels, though there is something about the prospect of a woman as president that makes them glow a bit brighter in the twilight.
But, Beltran just had to put work allegiances aside when our camera guy asked about the league's trade deadline moves ... saying the Astros are going to be VERY tough to beat now.
Held after three years of negotiations to leave the EU, the December election will show how far Brexit has torn traditional political allegiances apart and test an electorate increasingly tired of voting.
Held after three years of negotiations to leave the EU, the December election will show how far Brexit has torn traditional political allegiances apart and test an electorate increasingly tired of voting.
Martin, whose area of specialty is American politics, adds a final factor that makes party allegiances far weaker in Quebec than in the U.S.: The national parties and provincial ones are different.
In her memoirs, Graham writes that her friend McNamara helpfully advised The Times on a legally sensitive letter about the Pentagon Papers, a detail that underscores the depth of these powerful allegiances.
Yet, despite the ethnic allegiances and patronage systems that handcuff Kenyan democracy, the country has avoided a repeat of the ethnic-fueled violence after the 2007 election that killed more than 1,000 people.
If you're thinking about switching carriers to take advantage of big deals for cool new phones, than here are some key checks and preparations to make before you commit to switching your allegiances.
And it mocks the allegiances made with those who suffered most in defeating ISIS -- the Syrian Kurds -- and even explicitly mocks the US's closest allies in that fight -- the UK, France, and Germany.
Many donors have privately indicated that they would switch their allegiances to Mr. Rubio, several people inside and outside his campaign have said, but they want to first see how New Hampshire votes.
It's more, but sports are so tribal, and your allegiances within sports are such a big part of your identity that social media is really helpful in sort of ... Creating these tribes. Right.
His current policy to remove hardline fundamentalist religious leaders (partly under the name of Muslim Brotherhood allegiances) is a step he needs to take to control the opposition and solidify his own position.
A victory by Mr. Trump would send panicked Republicans toward Mr. Rubio, his campaign reasons, especially donors who have been reluctant to get behind Mr. Rubio because their allegiances are with other candidates.
While turnout would have to be exceptionally low for Le Pen to have a "real shot," said Barroso, he noted that allegiances do not seem to have moved significantly since the first round.
The truth remains that there is an inescapable and palpable feeling around the country that the "idea" people in Washington have failed miserably because their party allegiances prevented them from compromising on anything.
Last year, when Nike discovered that Under Armour was trying to get the University of Texas to switch allegiances, it swooped in and re-signed Texas with a 225-year, $214 million contract.
Here's a movie about female friendship and collegiality — which, of course, also entails rivalry, miscommunication and shifting allegiances — that feels no need to entangle any of its heroines in a heterosexual romance plot.
Allegiances to specific ways of working are inherently anti-critical, leading us to overlook powerful art that does not conform to our notion of what artists should be doing at any given moment.
We know where Professor Barocas's allegiances lie, and he's in the majority if you go by this NPR poll — which includes the decisive information that Tampa sends bread to Miami for its Cubanos.
Few states have reflected the changing political allegiances of the Trump era more than Pennsylvania, which was the most populous of the trifecta of Rust Belt states that Mr. Trump flipped in 2016.
In Iowa, 39 percent of voters who decided their allegiances more than a month before the caucuses were Trump supporters; in New Hampshire, it was 58 percent; in Nevada, it was 59 percent.
But rather than rallying southern society behind his rule, as Thieu had implausibly gambled, the Democracy Party further alienated the country's most committed anti-communists, who instead pledged to uphold their previous allegiances.
The attack took place in the district of Darzab, in the southwest of Jowzjan Province, a remote area that has long seesawed between government and Taliban control, with local warlords switching allegiances frequently.
In the 22008-second commercial, Richland County Council member Dahli Myers said she had switched allegiances because she believes Sanders can stir the voter enthusiasm needed to seize the White House in November.
But it also has considerable areas of poverty, where allegiances to Labour are strong and its message should resonate: The party has focused heavily on health care, housing, climate change and income inequality.
"Many of the players in the region have been wary of American shifting allegiances for some time, owing to the wild pendulum swings of party politics," Schanzer told BuzzFeed News in an email.
The election was a major blow to the Labour Party, which met a shift in voter allegiances that mirrors a realignment seen in the U.S. and elsewhere in the West, reports the WSJ.
Taiwan vowed on Tuesday to fight China's "increasingly out of control" behavior after Taipei lost another ally to Beijing when El Salvador became the third country to switch allegiances to China this year.
The trial pit the talk show host against Paul Engler, a leading cattleman and a popular figure in Amarillo, leaving local allegiances split between the local economy and the star power of Oprah.
Her comments struck many, including some of her Democratic colleagues, as anti-Semitic tropes, including that suggestion that Jews might have dual allegiances, to their home country and Israel or some other entity.
The scale of the Bharatiya Janata Party's victory suggested that it had bridged such caste allegiances, some experts said, although it had yet to cross religious lines to attract large numbers of Muslims.
The drivers, who are considered independent contractors under federal labor guidelines, receive a single universal license that allows them to drive a taxi, livery or black car, making it easy to switch allegiances.
We should not assume that white moderates and liberals will maintain current political allegiances, nor should we expect that the so-called nonwhite group is going to work in any kind of coalition.
There are open questions about his political allegiances: "By some accounts [he] wasn't even sure if he was running as a Democrat or Republican," said Michigan State University political science professor Matt Grossmann.
In Trump's conception, all of foreign policy is motivated by assessments of what's better, in a narrow financial sense, for the US. Washington should have few if any fixed alliances, allegiances, or even adversaries.
Three former allies - El Salvador, Burkina Faso and Dominican Republic - switched their allegiances to Beijing this year, and the Chinese military has stepped up encirclement drills around Taiwan, which Taipei has denounced as intimidation.
But if peer pressure sees you forced into going outside, there's now an inflatable pool toy in the shape of the Xbox One S controller, so you can show where your allegiances truly lie.
But Sunkara's allegiances have shifted; his loyalties now lie with Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the biggest remnant of the once-mighty Socialist Party of America following a 0003 split over the Vietnam War.
Despite Trump's polarizing and controversial statements, many Americans are looking for such a charismatic leader who they really believe can "make America great again" in a world of shifting geopolitical allegiances and economic powers.
Therefore it's inevitable that there will be debate and partisan allegiances emerging, including ways for the public to justify their own gut feelings about a celebrity and their evaluation of their character and ethics.
DeBlasio's conspicuous use of language was similar to that used by Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney following the January 2016 attempted assassination of Philadelphia Police Officer Jesse Hartnett by a perpetrator claiming allegiances to ISIS.
That's when their long-held allegiances came crashing down: The participants gave the correct answer only 55 percent of the time, which is pretty much the same results as if they had randomly chosen.
Join Josephine Livingstone, Alex Shephard, and Ryu Spaeth as they contribute their little drop to the ocean of Game of Thrones content, which this week will feature torn allegiances, love spurned, and cruel beheadings.
Many people are intimately connected to gangs over generations, with allegiances woven through families and friendships the way loyalties to sports teams or alma maters are passed down in the wealthier neighborhoods across town.
It's a slightly mad idea that I—a pasty, soccer-loving British man whose modestly researched NFL allegiances almost got him fired by a Cowboys-supporting editor during last year's playoffs—think is brilliant.
At much the same time as we were deciding on our football allegiances, many of us settled on a favourite wrestler, whether it be The Rock, Triple H, or Kane for the weird kids.
The presence these days of an American president who glories in deal-making guarantees the relevance of a play in which people exist solely as prey, and allegiances can turn on an informant's dime.
American counterintelligence agents took notice of his activities, but drew no conclusions about where his allegiances lay, according to a former law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity, citing government secrecy rules.
And they are the basis for an approach espoused by his top political adviser, Stephen K. Bannon, who has mused about a tectonic political shift that would rearrange traditional partisan allegiances around economic interests.
Kenyans on Tuesday voted in large numbers an election that pits President Uhuru Kenyatta against challenger Raila Odinga in this East African economic hub as well as the ethnic allegiances that shadow its democracy.
This was widely seen as one of the most uncertain elections in years, partly because Brexit had blurred the old dividing lines in British politics, interfering with tribal allegiances that have endured for generations.
Taiwan has vowed to fight China's "increasingly out of control" behavior after Taipei last month lost another ally to Beijing when El Salvador became the third country to switch allegiances to China this year.
Photograph by Eric Helgas for The New Yorker Now, in 2019, the rivalry has arrived in New York, where hot-pot franchises with varying allegiances battle for hearts and stomachs across the city's boroughs.
Meanwhile, Beshear, who has spent the last four years fighting Bevin from within the state's executive branch as attorney general, is hoping voters will ditch their national political allegiances in an off-year election.
Several players have already represented other countries at international or youth level, and FIFA is yet to decide whether previous appearances will be scratched and allegiances transferred over to their 211th and newest member.
But old conservative allegiances in the South were shifting from Democrats to Republicans, and in 1970, four years after Senator Byrd's death, Virginia Republicans were ascendant and Mr. Marsh chose not to run again.
For example: In short, analyzing patterns of giving and receiving between donors and candidates can tell us things about the race, the strengths and weaknesses of particular candidates, and where a candidate's allegiances lie.
They can be either a man or a woman, they come with no predetermined allegiances, and they have some kind of latent power that most people don't know about in the beginning of the game.
It's not clear who is in control, and allegiances here are murky, since eastern Aleppo's fall back into regime hands has left all of the rebel groups crammed into this one area, jostling for position.
South Sudan's politics has long been plagued by splits and rivalries as leaders switch allegiances in a struggle for power an influence in the oil-producing nation, which only emerged from Sudan five years ago.
Ultra nationalist politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky has referred to Putin as a modern-day tsar, but the Orthodox group's political allegiances are unclear and it is not suggesting that the Russian president head an autocratic monarchy.
The only proper way to decide your allegiances is to look at what the Capitals and Knights offer and hitching your wagon to the team you want to call your own for a couple weeks.
The constantly shifting allegiances are reflected in cinematographer Robbie Ryan's camera work, which has us constantly on the move, following one character, then another, sometimes sprinting from corner to corner, on the hunt for secrets.
Would an Olympics League of Legends tournament be able to match the prestige of Riot's own Worlds, and would fans connect with single-nationality teams when allegiances have traditionally been more personal and more fluid?
Allegiances among Yemen's many factions have shifted several times during the conflict that pits the Houthis against the internationally recognized government of Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, which was ousted from the capital Sanaa in 2014.
Here are five issues where Trump may be flexible: International allegiances As a candidate, Trump repeatedly advocated for rethinking U.S. alliances and treaties, complaining that the country too often foots the bill for its allies.
Indeed, the legacy of U.S. foreign policy has fomented instability in sending communities, and forged peculiar bilateral allegiances that allow us to frame some migrants as deserving and others as trespassers who defy the law.
South Sudan's politics has long been plagued by splits and rivalries as leaders switch allegiances, in the contest for power and influence in the oil-producing nation, which only emerged from Sudan five years ago.
Since Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen's election in 2016, China has moved to persuade diplomatic allies of the island to switch allegiances, and has so far succeeded on four accounts, including twice in recent months.
They even had their phones out with little pictures of potential swing delegates on them [07], so the operatives would know exactly who to look for, and who to try to convince to change allegiances.
Started in 2005 and named for the Detroit Pistons' fledgling big man Darko Milicic, FreeDarko advocated "liberated fandom," or allegiances based not on a fan's geography or personal history but on moment-to-moment likings.
For most Kenyans, unemployment and the high cost of living are the dominant issues, intertwined with deep-rooted ethnic allegiances, which were entrenched under Britain's colonial rulers, who pursued a policy of divide and rule.
Politics have long been plagued by splits and rivalries as leaders switch allegiances in a complex contest for power and influence in the oil-producing nation, which only gained independence from Sudan five years ago.
In general terms, women work across allegiances, are less threatening, wield maternal influence, are perceived to be less corrupt, and have their fingers on the pulse of communities where the agreement must be lived out.
Rather, you sense that the faux-populist diction doesn't reflect this author's real allegiances, which are evident in the works he selects for his loving and expert analyses: Rilke and Philip Larkin, Picasso and Henry James.
El Salvador's capital can at times feel like it is dealing with a full-scale armed insurgency with its territorial and community allegiances, and police skulking around areas where they know they can and cannot go.
However, risk in aligning with Mr. West, the son of a Black Panther father and a mother who taught at a historically black university, is that his ideological allegiances have typically been mercurial, and even apolitical.
The G7 gathering is taking place against a backdrop of growing worries about a global economic downturn and coincides with an era of international disunity across an array of issues that have strained decades-old allegiances.
Last month, the company announced that it was embracing Alexa with its U.S. version of the Mate 9 handset, in a strategy that appears to be anything but Google Assistant, in spite of its Android allegiances.
After his press conference in the lobby of Trump Tower last Tuesday, when he ignored the scripted attempts to regulate his impulses and revealed his true allegiances, there can be no doubt about who he is.
He has a habit—risky, in the context—of forging conflicting allegiances; having begun a love affair with the ex-girlfriend of the local demagogue, he then befriends the demagogue and begins another ill-advised romance.
Mr. Tapie, a former leader of the Adidas sports empire and a minister in the Socialist government of President François Mitterrand in the early 1990s, switched political allegiances to support Mr. Sarkozy's presidential campaign in 2007.
Despite our otherwise diametrically opposed baseball allegiances and some differing political opinions, I was proud to hear those words because I was always proud to be with Charles, whether at a stadium or a television studio.
Why it matters: Big energy companies can have significant impacts on policy — and with Trump's burgeoning trade war and Energy Secretary Rick Perry pushing bailouts for coal and nuclear plants, their allegiances could begin to shift.
Goaded by Uncle Pang, Pat, along with an unwitting Annie, starts a fire that eventually guts the restaurant, forcing these long-simmering relationships and rivalries into sharp relief as priorities and allegiances are tested and reassessed.
And there are long-harbored concerns from some Republicans that Mnuchin's political allegiances skew far too liberal for the Republicans to trust him as their conservative voice in the room against a formidable negotiator like Pelosi.
TAIPEI/BEIJING (Reuters) - Taiwan vowed on Tuesday to fight China's "increasingly out of control" behavior after Taipei lost another ally to Beijing when El Salvador became the third country to switch allegiances to China this year.
Scripted feuds are still settled and new allegiances are still formed, but WWE is forced to work even harder to surprise or satisfy "smart" fans who know their live reaction can have an impact on storylines.
To the Editor: Perhaps the only way this country will change its sociopolitical allegiances is with the recognition that not "making it" is not a personal fault to feel guilty about or to strive to overcome.
Both chambers' allegiances are at least partly for financial reasons: Charter schools and their supporters have given significant campaign funding to Republican candidates and Mr. Cuomo; public school unions have consistently backed Democrats in the Assembly.
According to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a civil liberties and advocacy organization based in Washington, DC, authorities confiscated passports of individuals hailing from Iran and questioned them about their political views and allegiances.
But even stranger, said Mr. Riedel, was "the president's parroting of the Saudi line" before learning the results of an investigation into whether the gunman acted alone, or had allegiances to Al Qaeda or terrorist groups.
Under the new name, the account minimized references to its political allegiances, swapped out a photograph of Mr. Johnson from its cover, and used a white check mark in a magenta circle as a profile picture.
But with political allegiances shifting on all sides, Labour stands a chance of cobbling together a minority government, a prospect that strikes fear in Jews worried about Corbyn allies downplaying, for instance, anti-Jewish hate crimes.
Prior to Marvel's new announcement regarding Captain America's allegiances, Marvel's main rival, DC Comics, launched the first issue of Rebirth — a huge crossover event the company is using to introduce a slew of new comic books.
The Barrera heirs, would-be successors and arriviste rivals — a whole indulgent younger generation named Los Hijos, characterized by wretched excess and suicidal stupidity — make for countless shifting allegiances, fake names, dispensable henchmen and other complications.
El Salvador on Monday became the third Latin American country in the past two years to switch allegiances from Taipei to Beijing and said attracting investment and developing the economy were key goals behind the decision.
Many supporters are switching allegiances to the main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), bolstering its attempts to attract black voters and shake off its image of a party that chiefly serves the interests of the minority white community.
Despite his Democratic Party allegiances, Manchin has proven relatively popular with his West Virginian constituents, though he still faces tough headwinds in a state that went for Trump by one of the biggest margins in the country.
They say they are willing to shed party allegiances and reimagine their priorities this year, even voting for a self-described democratic socialist, or for a flame-throwing real estate developer who has never served in government.
In Buenos Aires, activists displayed their allegiances in color-coded demonstrations, with those in green waving signs in support of the measure, and those wearing the light blue of the country's flag demanding the bill be defeated.
This could tilt the allegiances of the sort of middle-class voters who strongly opposed both independence and Brexit: say, the Edinburgh professional working in finance and now worried about the effects of leaving the single market.
Aside from the candidates telling voters they'll oppose her Speakership bid, a growing number of restive incumbents — many of them newer members with fewer allegiances to the top brass — are itching to break into the leadership ranks.
To be effective, organizations must put aside political allegiances and perhaps even long-held "best practices" to assess changes in a fact-based, data-driven way that provides a clear view of how policy decisions affect them.
And just minutes before he opened fire on a cartoon exhibit featuring images of the Prophet Muhammad in Texas in May 2015, Elton Simpson sent out a series of Twitter messages making clear where his allegiances lay.
Their store is a massive presence, and die-hard users already have a library of titles built up with little incentive to switch unless their favorite game makers are the ones to decide to shift their allegiances.
Polls put Johnson's Conservatives as much as 18 percentage points ahead of Labour, but the election is difficult to call because of pacts and alliances on both sides of the Brexit debate and voters' deteriorating traditional allegiances.
On Saturday, he spoke publicly about changing allegiances one more time, abandoning the Houthis and reaching out to Saudi Arabia and other regional powers who had fought against them for three years with a devastating bombing campaign.
The Army Criminal Investigation Division is gathering forensics, talking to those involved and reassembling a puzzle seen often in the more-than-17-year-old war, the aftermath of a confusing battlefield, mixed allegiances and longstanding suspicions.
But Mr. Ancarani's allegiances are less to traditional journalistic approaches to documentary than to the immersive, anti-interpretive ethos of Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel, J.P. Sniadecki and other exponents of what is sometimes called sensory ethnography.
"Many Democratic-leaning voters are open to switching allegiances at this early stage of the presidential primary season, and most see the debates as important for choosing a candidate," PPIC President Mark Baldassare said in a statement.
"I don't know that [catfishing] is becoming more common, but in a crazy election cycle like this, where you have no idea where people's allegiances are, you can see how it might be useful," said the operative.
At a time of shifting allegiances and rising competitors in the world, we have no better friend than Ukraine -- a scrappy, unbowed, determined, and above all dignified people who are standing up against Russian authoritarianism and aggression.
These new allegiances help explain both the rift between the Tang Camp and the Leung Camp and, more important, the fact that neither the Hong Kong government nor Beijing seems able to limit feuding between those groups.
The other also considers things like popularity, gender, page rank (on the wiki), number of relatives, age, culture, house, region of house, allegiances, books the character was part of, episodes the character was part of, locations, and titles.
Much is likely to depend on the future allegiances of Saleh loyalists who previously helped the Houthi group, which hails from the Zaidi branch of Shi'ite Islam that ruled a thousand-year kingdom in northern Yemen until 1962.
Taiwan's diplomatic allies have been speaking out for its inclusion into the WHO, but Taipei has been left with a dwindling list of allies as various nations switch allegiances to Beijing, and cut diplomatic ties with the island.
I've been thinking about them lately because so much of what we were wrestling with then feels relevant: questions about American and post-Soviet power, about the allegiances and responsibilities of reporters, and about the power of narratives.
At that time, there were a handful of moderates in both parties who were casually and aggressively courted by party leaders to flip allegiances, but there are even fewer members in the ideological middle just 16 years later.
Saturday's article also included Johnson's belief that Britain needed to leave the EU because "so many young people with the 12 stars lipsticked on their face" were beginning to have split allegiances between Europe and their own country.
As for what they're up to ... it's all pretty cute-sy stuff -- taste-testing some salsa, lounging by the water, even trolling each other on their March Madness allegiances (seems Bre ain't a Texas A&M fan). Congrats!!
The Vancouver singer has allegiances with the electronic world, as collabs with Ratking's Sporting Life​ and the esteemed Ninja Tune label show, and that pedigree informs her chilly but passionate music, full of orchestral swells and lonely synths.
At first, Moretti puckishly keeps the two activities separate: Michele's teammates pull him onto a bus en route to a match; then, when he reads an article that he wrote before the accident, he rediscovers his political allegiances.
Anointing a successor entails dangers for Putin as doing so too soon would risk him becoming a lame duck, allegiances shifting from him to the heir apparent and new turf wars being set off in the ruling elite.
Among school staff members, Ms. Russo said, there is a mix of political allegiances, and so the aftermath of the election has been a delicate dance, one that requires one-on-one conversations rather than a schoolwide address.
Given her background as a film student, it'll be cool too see how much self-shot material is included in the final cut, or how much she may well have shot about her political allegiances in Sri Lanka.
Another critical dynamic in Virginia will be how much the Trump factor -- and Gillespie's turn toward Trump-like themes -- accelerates the shift in partisan allegiances between blue-collar and white-collar whites, what I've called the class inversion.
You've seen people you're close to and people you're not, with increasing levels of urgency, declare it is now time to speak up, to take a stand, to set aside allegiances or hangups or political correctness or hate.
The figures, published on Wednesday by the nonpartisan National Asian-American Survey, suggested that the political allegiances of Asians might be hardening in a way that could harm Republicans with the fastest-growing minority group well beyond 2016.
Given the aversion of many establishment Republican insiders to Trump, these names may come from as far away as they did during Reagan's transition, likely holding few allegiances to the Republican Party, but a deep commitment to Trumpism.
As Brexit chainsaws its way through British politics, dismantling decades-old political allegiances, tearing apart the traditional parties and leaving voters confused, frustrated and angry, the Brexit Party is thriving by offering a simple and hard-edge message.
Now, the question is whether there is any possibility of impeachment inquiries revealing new information so damning that it transcends partisan allegiances and creates the beginnings of consensus — or whether the battle lines will be drawn more boldly.
Those who missed the very next play will probably be able to watch it on L.S.U. hype videos for years to come, mesmerized or horrified, depending on their allegiances, by the sequence that started when Georgia pressured Burrow.
Some political commentators say Duterte needs to get his legislative agenda passed as early as possible, or risk it being held hostage by money politics, horse-trading or a shifting of allegiances as the 2022 elections draw nearer.
He uses his characters to diagram the interplay between the personal and the political in the lives of one very large family — loving and fun, and frequently hilarious, but torn by their warring allegiances to home and country.
The valley traces its political allegiances back to pacts drawn up in the 13th century with the Crown of Aragon, a monarchy that would join with the Crown of Castille two centuries later to form what became Spain.
Daario used to be aligned with the Second Sons, but it's not unprecedented for sellswords to switch allegiances or combine forces — maybe he'll get wind of Cersei's plot and make moves to derail her deal with the Golden Company.
And the current partisan division — in which racial, cultural, and geographical identities all line up with partisan allegiances — is just deadly for democratic compromise, since it organizes politics around a set of national identity issues where compromise is impossible.
With a plethora of faiths, castes and political allegiances, spiced up by garish nepotism, rank criminality and a first-past-the-post voting system prone to wild swings, elections in UP are always raucous and notoriously tricky to predict.
In the days since then, the world has watched major changes unfold in northern Syria, including shuffling allegiances and rapid troop movements -- along with US President Donald Trump's announcement of a complete withdrawal of US forces from the area.
Saleh had helped the Houthis win control of much of the country's north, including Sanaa, and his decision to switch allegiances and abandon the Houthis in the past week was the most dramatic change on the battlefield in years.
" Conservatism cannot be reactionary because "institutions, traditions, and allegiances survive by adapting," as Roger Scruton further reminds us in his column, "What Trump doesn't get about Conservatism," or, as Edmund Burke once wrote, we "reform in order to conserve.
And Mr. Sanders told NBC on Tuesday evening that he was "upset" and "disappointed" that The A.P. had made its call based on a survey of superdelegates, party officials who can shift their allegiances as late as the convention.
Anointing a successor also entails dangers for Putin as doing so too soon would risk him becoming a lame duck, allegiances shifting from him to the heir apparent and new turf wars being set off in the ruling elite.
For four decades it supported the dominant Christian Democrats before switching allegiances to Silvio Berlusconi's center-right bloc, which famously won all 61 seats on offer here in a 2001 national election, and then drifted towards the center-left.
While this kid's move to change allegiances with masking tape and a sharpie (note the convenient color similarities—particularly the 2007 Warriors model) is a little disloyal—it's no Enes Kanter idea—it certainly shows some much needed moxy.
The first black officer on the Colorado Springs Police Force, he's overcome the department's internal racism to attain the rank of a detective, but an assignment has left him with mixed allegiances, torn between his work and the world.
China and Taiwan have fought a tug-of-war for diplomatic recognition in the South Pacific for decades, with some island nations switching allegiances for financial gain and in return give support in international forums like the United Nations.
The effect is a set of reversals in which DuVernay uses the conventions of the crime drama to upend our typical allegiances to police protagonists, and shift our gaze from the powerful to the targets of their institutional racism.
This isn't to say that the bond these allegiances can foster is worthless – sport's power to bring people together is invaluable – but that commonality alone isn't enough to induce heartfelt grief in every single fan, in every single instance.
Ever since Donald Trump eked out his surprising electoral victory, political analysts have been looking for people to speak for the supposedly disgruntled white working-class voters who, switching from their former Democratic allegiances, gave Mr. Trump the edge.
Rather than switch allegiances between the two nations, Mr. Duterte managed to play them off each other, in that way improving his position with both and cementing his image at home as a strong nationalist unbeholden to foreign powers.
Since 2010, they had relied first on the coherent national message of opposition to Barack Obama, then on the small-government ideology of the speaker Paul Ryan and finally on loyalty to Donald Trump, to overwhelm smaller, local allegiances.
Roche is convinced word of mouth in the hemophilia community, backed up by its studies showing that Hemlibra shots may be more effective and must be administered less frequently than infusions of clotting factors, will overcome any current allegiances.
Saleh had helped the Houthis win control of much of the country's north including Sanaa, and his decision to switch allegiances and abandon the Houthis in the past week was the most dramatic change on the battlefield in years.
Comey's handling of the FBI's investigation of Hillary Clinton's emails is often at the center of their theories, which trace Trump's legal problems back not to any wrongdoing on his part, but to the political allegiances of top FBI officials.
You can subtly celebrate the iconic series with a simple design or go with a more obvious tribute — the possibilities are endless, and temporary, so you can shift allegiances to the winning team on a weekly basis if you see fit.
Analysts say Sharif's return to Pakistan was in large part due to fears of defections within the PML-N, a common occurrence in a nation where politicians switch allegiances ahead of polls depending on which way the political winds are blowing.
The tweets were spread evenly among users from all over the country, of all genders and political allegiances, with few or many followers — arguing against the notion of an "echo chamber" bottling up news to like-minded communities, the researchers said.
But with the possible exception of the weeks after the Islamic State seized Mosul in 2014, I had never traveled through a rural area of Iraq with checkpoints as dense and as shifting in their allegiances as the network around Sinjar.
The ministry would hold accountable "all those who employ religion to support organized ties or allegiances to a state" that targets the stability of other states, Khalid bin Ali Al Khalifa said in a statement carried by state news agency BNA.
So while I think it is laudable to speak frankly about the scale of the challenge, I worry about being too prescriptive, too specific about the kinds of political allegiances and policies that are required for membership in the climate army.
With France issuing an ultimatum to Israel at the weekend - saying it would recognize Palestine as a state if a new peace initiative doesn't succeed - Israel is hoping its new allegiances in the EU will help head off the French threat.
But for Bolsonaro, who switched allegiances among eight parties during his 28 years in Congress before joining the PSL in 2018, the divisions could leave him in a more precarious position if efforts to reignite growth sputter in coming months.
UN ambassadors of African countries wondering how they might do if they change their voting patterns can click on the chart above, but they ought to bear in mind donors other than China who also look closely at voting allegiances.
Oceania's changing allegiances with other superstates directly comments on Russia's new relationship with Germany after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939, an agreement of non-aggression that in turn was abandoned when Germany launched a war against the USSR in 1941.
In addition to all of your other identities—urban, rural, Christian, atheist, African-American, first-generation, introverted, immunocompromised, cyclist, gun owner, gardener, middle child, whatever panoply of nouns and adjectives and allegiances describes you—you are also this: a gnathostome.
There are two solutions to the partisanship problem: either the voters stop rewarding extremism or lawmakers discover mutually beneficial compromises Brian Balogh: The American public will have to decide that they care more about effective governance than their party allegiances.
Mr. Trump fares best among people who identify as Republicans but nonetheless remain registered Democrats or have a history of voting in Democratic primaries — a legacy of their previous political allegiances — according to data from Civis Analytics, a Democratic firm.
There were fans of the various Grave Diggers, or Soldier of Fortune, or whatever dog truck was around at that time—the kids had large foam hats marking their allegiances—but none of this was palpable during the truck parade.
But for those of us who developed our allegiances back when everything was still weird, our love for Cook Out will prevail through these shifts—at least as long as the things that make Cook Out distinct aren't entirely wiped away.
Stress-testing ideas about military tactics, infrastructure planning, sectarian power-brokering and political allegiances — plus a host of other metrics — underscores the need for creative and collaborative thinking, but also highlights that there is no magic bullet or single solution.
Missouri was a "split state" in the Civil War: Although under the Missouri Compromise it had entered the Union as a slaveholding state in 1821, a population with free-state sympathies moved in during the decades that followed, shifting its allegiances.
With more than 100 works of art, from classical antiquity to the present, it reveals how the veil can serve contrasting and sometimes contradictory purposes, whether to mourn or to seduce, to protect one's body or to signify one's allegiances.
They are enticed by the increased prestige of writing for a medium long disdained as a vast wasteland, in the era of Peak TV, when streaming services do battle with the broadcast and cable networks to win the allegiances of audiences.
"Ironically, Sinclair's use of news personnel to deliver commentary — not identified as such — may further erode what has traditionally been one of the strongest allegiances in the news landscape, the trust that viewers put in their local television stations," it continues.
It is very hard for readers to get their allegiances wrong in this kind of narrative; hard not to feel that in buying the novel and reading and talking about it, one is doing one's bit for freedom and emancipation worldwide.
Frederic Wehry, a Middle East expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a U.S. Air Force veteran, said the UAE's ability to combat AQAP would rest partly on its ability to navigate Yemen's complex web of tribal allegiances.
Mr. Trump's mercurial management habits and shifting allegiances invite rivalries, backbiting and snitching by competing members of his team, particularly when the White House is under pressure, as it was during last week's meltdown over the Republicans' health care bill.
After Thursday's attack, the police found kitchen knives, a gun and a Quran in the trunk of the car he was driving, and also pieces of paper with scribbled allegiances to the Islamic State, which claimed responsibility for the attack.
More recently, Ms. Huffington has been steadfast in supporting Mr. Kalanick even as other allegiances have frayed — notably his relationship with Mr. Bonderman, who had grown more concerned about Uber's management quality, according to one person familiar with the board's conversations.
Much is likely to depend on the future allegiances of his loyalists, who had previously helped the armed Houthi group, which hails from the Zaidi branch of Shi'ite Islam that ruled a thousand-year kingdom in northern Yemen until 1962.
The staggering value of digital stuff is thus fingered as an irresistible, manipulative force also sucking in bright minds to work at data firms like Cambridge Analytica — even at the expense of their own claimed political allegiances, in the conflicted case of Kaiser.
Clinton currently has 1,742 total delegates -- 1,259 who are pledged or bound to vote for her and 483 super delegates who have said they support her but could switch allegiances -- while Sanders has 1,051 total delegates, 1,020 pledged and 31 super delegates.
We all kind of knew that, but watching how the media elite has framed stories, tweeted opinions, made mountains out of molehills, colluded with the Clinton campaign and otherwise done their level best to destroy Donald Trump, we now know their true allegiances.
" Questions about white women's allegiances came to the fore again soon after the midterms, when news broke that Cindy Hyde-Smith, a white woman senator facing a runoff in Mississippi had made a joke on the campaign trail about attending a "public hanging.
Adapted from Melinda Taub's book by Rhimes veteran writer-producer Heather Mitchell, the premiere (which is all that ABC made available) is so busy it's difficult to track what's happening -- especially the loves and allegiances of the younger players -- without a scorecard.
Whatever you think of Donald Trump, it is clear that this election has the potential to reshape the allegiances of many white working-class voters who have traditionally sided with the Democrats, and many well-educated voters who have sided with the Republicans.
Since then, he's split his allegiances between Dirtybird, Hannover's This Ain't Bristol, and Los Angeles label Perfect Driver, all while pushing a sound that has this weird effect of having you shaking your ass and crack up laughing at the same time.
Schwartz said the first episode of Runaways will focus on the events that reveal the true allegiances of the Runaways' parents, but the second episode will tell that story from the parents' point of view, with the two storylines colliding after that.
" The relevance to their son's life and career, with its own ambiguities and slippery allegiances, is plain: "In the soirees that his parents gave," Toibin notes, "the idea of loyalty, whether to the crown or to Victorian sexual mores, was never stable.
Served from trucks, at fast-food mall stalls, and out of simple family-owned storefronts, the souvlaki — along with its Middle Eastern cousin, the kebab — is almost as pervasive as the meat pie, and people's allegiances are enough to inspire great debate.
While Japan needs to do business with China, it's not willing to sacrifice the umbrella of US military protection, and has already built up other allegiances across the region to counter a rising China, said Jeff Kingston, a Japan expert at Temple University.
It is presumably this young fellow we're supposed to be emotionally invested in as he tries to figure out his allegiances and play both sides, and he gets most of the early focus, though other intriguing characters are lurking about who may emerge.
" He also maintained that gerrymandering congressional districts on the basis of race, so that black votes counted more in majority black districts, merely revived the discredited principle of "separate but equal" and would "compel the worst tendencies toward race-based allegiances and divisions.
There was a famine in the Highlands, and the use of bagpipes, Gaelic and tartan were banned, as were traditional clan allegiances.) Regardless, the soldiers take Ian (Steven Cree) for questioning, unknowingly riding right past their wanted man who is hiding in the woods.
While "The Wire" alum Wood Harris has brought some sizzle as a new foe for Lucious (Terrence Howard) and romantic interest for Cookie (Taraji P. Henson), the shifting alliances, allegiances and betrayals have grown tiresome, as if the writers were running out of combinations.
Youtong provides a snapshot of the muddled and delicate situation for China's estimated 12 million Catholics, with allegiances split between government-sanctioned churches and the underground ones endorsed by the Vatican, amid expectations that a historic accord will soon be struck between Rome and Beijing.
And while the allegiances are ostensibly the same, with Russia and North Korea and China on one side, and the U.K., the U.S. and most European countries on the other, everybody knows that there's one true wild card: the president of the United States.
Stormzy introduced Joshua that night not because of local allegiances—Joshua is a North London boy and his opponent that night, like Stormzy, was from South—but because he saw something in common: Stormzy is still breaking new ground, still proving himself miles from home.
It is a comment on the sort of unsavoury allegiances that the Republican might forge; earlier this month Mr Trump said that he is "going to say great things" about the Russian president, and that Mr Putin is "really very much of a leader".
Popular romanticization of the movement is part of the reason why it was cool to be seen as "standing with Hillary," even though what happened in the voting booths on November 8 told a completely different story about where the country's actual political allegiances lie.
Making the point that only by having a deep local sense of place can one have a larger loyalty that contains within it the necessary contradictions and limits, he both narrows his allegiances to working-class Newark and makes Newark a miniature of America.
Never in recent times has Turkey, one of only two Muslim members of the NATO military alliance, been so central to world affairs, from the fight against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, to Europe's migrant crisis and Ankara's shifting allegiances with Moscow and Washington.
Ms. Nevalainen's case highlights how even villages in the heart of rural Sweden are grappling with the presence of increasing numbers of Muslim refugees, some of whom may bring with them preconceptions about the West and even allegiances to groups in fiery Middle East conflicts.
Still, as facial recognition software becomes more accurate, its application to other social media platforms could be a useful tool for understanding the shifting allegiances of voters in real time and may very well prove to be a crucial campaign tool in future elections.
Suspended in a strange gray space of muddled allegiances, like my grandfather, I realize that though I may feel French and though I want my children to grow up speaking French, the France my family dreamed of no longer exists — and maybe never did.
These media allegiances were defined early, and were particularly clarified when Trump feuded with Fox News's Megyn Kelly (ironically, because she asked him about his history of sexism) and former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields, whom Trump's campaign manager physically assaulted at a campaign rally.
The chefs put allegiances and male ego aside to make a meal for those fortunate enough to afford a $110 golden bracelet for dinner and those unfortunate enough to have to rely on Community Food Centres Canada, for whom this event was as a fundraiser.
Or maybe it was something deeper, a sense that a 5-to-4 vote to shield the Trump administration from ordinary legal process would have been a needless step on the road to disaster for a court already seen as polarized by political allegiances.
On top of that pyramid sits Obie Garbeau II (Ted Levine), who speaks about wealth with televangelist-type zeal, while Krystal finds an awkward ally in Cody (Theodore Pellerin), a devoted acolyte of the program whose budding loyalty to Krystal starts straining those allegiances.
In the aftermath, through the rap-rock of the new millennium and the dance-pop and Top 92.33 dominance of the mid-292.3s, rock stations that didn't rely on oldies have been the subject of much hand-wringing regarding their sonic allegiances and commercial prospects.
Six years before "Hamilton" recast the Founding Fathers as hip-hop strivers—and eight years before President Trump signalled his own historical allegiances by hanging a portrait of Jackson in the Oval Office—"Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" reimagined Jackson as an emo rock star.
On his 2017 album, "9," which featured guest turns by the likes of Ariana Grande and the Weeknd, his pop allegiances seemed to be winning out; in retrospect, those big names may just have been decoys behind which the attention-averse Hoiberg could hide.
In a city where race has sometimes defined political allegiances and is at the center of a newly released movie about civil unrest here 50 years ago, some prominent black leaders have lined up behind Mr. Duggan, pointing to the city's movement on his watch.
It has also set off a dynamic in the French race much like when Hillary Clinton defeated Senator Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential primaries last year — leaving his supporters, still in the thrall of populism, up for grabs as party allegiances broke down.
In doing so, they replicated the success of President Trump in breaching the so-called Blue Wall in states like Michigan and Wisconsin in 2016, exploiting a combination of anti-immigrant messaging and dissolving class allegiances to take seats thought to belong to the Democrats.
In conversations with Hollywood executives and insiders, allegiances were split between Mr. Allen, the Oscar-winning icon of 20th-century cinema, and Ms. Farrow, a sympathetic figure who has recently made her case powerfully on social media and in her first appearance on television.
He has positioned himself as Trump's direct opponent on climate change, has made it very clear his allegiances lie with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on international issues, and has cheekily presented France as a viable alternative for scientists and globalists seeking to escape Trump's America.
While Ben Henderson's and Phil Davis' signing for Bellator are considered the two biggest names to have crossed over from UFC, top heavyweight Matt Mitrione's recent capture by Scott Coker has flown under the radar to a certain extent due to the frequency athletes trading promotional allegiances.
After Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE defeated Sanders, he switched allegiances to Green Party nominee Jill Stein.
From reading NME (and Melody Maker and Select and, I'm embarrassed to say, Kerrang!), I develop the mistaken notion that one's musical allegiances represent the most important thing about a person, and that one can tell how good a person is by the music they listen to.
Sanford argued that he was within a few hundred votes of forcing Arrington into a run-off, but in a low turnout primary election it seems implausible that either candidate would have the sophistication to measure the allegiances of primary voters while the polls were still open.
The French finance minister, who ran in the presidential primaries for the center-right Republican party before switching allegiances and joining Macron's government, also touched on the issue of U.S. tax cuts, saying it would be wrong for European countries to respond with cuts of their own.
Henry R. Muñoz III, who as the national finance chairman of the Democratic National Committee is officially neutral in the race, said his husband had been "entranced" after seeing Mr. Buttigieg in San Francisco recently, though he noted that many gay Democrats had allegiances to other candidates.
" Maurice Crul, a professor from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam whose research topics include the children of immigrants in Europe, said the current crop of players deciding their national team allegiances was part of the post 9/11 generation, a group that "became aware their religion is not wanted.
Amid a low-key dining room with exposed cement walls, a plywood bar and black-painted furniture, the menu has no national allegiances other than great seasonal produce and full-bore deliciousness, and so it changes regularly, which makes almost every meal here a one-off event.
They also signaled a conspicuous desire from Mr. Trump, who often campaigned as a renegade outsider with few meaningful allegiances to either party, to again position himself as a crusader against Washington gridlock — even though he and his allies are now at the controls, grinding the gears.
" Dr. King acknowledged how his sense of prophetic obligation had been strengthened by his receipt of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, which represented "a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for 'the brotherhood of man' " — a calling "that takes me beyond national allegiances.
Factor in Charlotte's identity as a destination for transplants from across the south and mid-Atlantic, who bring their own allegiances with them, and I'd say Charlotte's only chance to win this bet is a blow-out by the Panthers so large that Denver collectively turns away in disgust.
But Italy's next government could well have a wafer-thin majority and ex-Christian Democrats—natural centrists and often ideologically flexible—are renowned for the ease with which they shift their allegiances and the skill with which they exploit their position, close to the fulcrum of Italian politics.
The key, said several participants, is an economist who leaves academia to go to work in politics and ultimately returns to academia — that is, someone subject to the scrutiny of his or her profession and his or her peers, rather than one ultimately with political or business allegiances.
Joyce was one of a group of lawmakers, known as the "Citizenship Seven", whose eligibility to sit in parliament was thrown into doubt in recent months when it was found they were dual citizens, a status that is barred for politicians under Australia's constitution to prevent split allegiances.
Her other successful fashion allegiances include her multi-season partnership with Madewell and her dreamy denim capsule for AG. Chung shared her excitement with a behind-the-scenes Polaroid shot of one of the blouses from the collection (as well as with a string of patriotic emoji) on Instagram.
The path to a Democratic House majority goes straight through upscale suburban districts like VA-26, places where Hillary Clinton outperformed the local Democratic congressional candidate two years ago, and where enough Republicans are unhappy with Donald Trump and the GOP that their partisan allegiances are up for grabs.
The senator, a Cuban-American conservative, fended off a forceful challenge by Representative Patrick Murphy, 260, a Democrat who consistently portrayed Mr. Rubio as an absentee lawmaker with misplaced allegiances — first to the presidency instead of to his job, and then to Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee.
Payments companies will have to choose between "open" and "closed" strategies to scale their businesses and grow their customer bases, a report from the firm said, which likely amounts to a big wager in 2020 on what people actually prefer to use and where their brand allegiances lie.
There's now a feeling that Brexit has given weight to Sinn Féin's decades-old push, and that fear of economic upheaval and anger at what many in Northern Ireland believe to be the particular solipsism of English Leave voters could inspire moderate loyalists to relax their old allegiances.
Though he never states it outright, Freeman's inclusion of poetry by a Foxconn worker who committed suicide in 2014 telegraphs where his allegiances lie: They've trained me to become docile Don't know how to shout or rebel How to complain or denounce Only how to silently suffer exhaustion.
Black women have talked about how challenging it can be to manage intersecting identities and allegiances in a movement that hasn't yet resolved its relationship to law enforcement and the carceral state; by contrast, Hirshman's biggest complaint about law enforcement seems to be that there isn't enough of it.
As most of the Democratic candidates descended on South Carolina this weekend, attending a fish fry on Friday night and the state party convention and a Planned Parenthood forum on Saturday, they encountered a black electorate whose interests and allegiances are far more divided than in recent presidential elections.
These are tied into things like community and family and belief, and in the right circumstances these allegiances and loyalties can become communities of belief all their own, but for the most part they are aspirations broad and ambitious enough that their outer edges shade into the dreamlike.
Second, people would have access, if requested, to all the data a company has collected on them — including all forms of computational inference (how the company uses your data to make guesses about your tastes and preferences, your personal and medical history, your political allegiances and so forth).
They also signaled a conspicuous desire from Mr. Trump, who often campaigned as a renegade outsider with few meaningful allegiances to either party, to position himself once more as a crusader against Washington gridlock — even though he and his allies are now at the controls, grinding the gears.
A Des Moines Register poll in early January found 45 percent of likely caucus-goers saying they could change their minds, a result affirmed by a more recent Iowa poll from Monmouth University that found 45 percent of likely caucus-goers saying they were "open" to switching their allegiances.
For fear of being flayed, I will not divulge my allegiances, except to say that I have a very hard time stomaching gore, which has made watching Game of Thrones an endeavor pockmarked by hiding behind my fingers, running into another room, or rolling into the fetal position.
"I don't think either the U.S. government or maybe even the Emiratis have a really great fidelity on who they are working with beyond the main leaders on the ground, and where their allegiances lie outside of a very immediate tactical goal," said the former Defense Department official.
This extra step was put in place because of the difficulty of assessing the allegiances of the various rebel groups in Syria's continuing war — what Barbara Strack, chief of the Refugee Affairs Division at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, describes as ''the myriad actors and dynamic nature of the conflict.
On the CDU right and in its more conservative Bavarian sister party, the CSU, some suspect this betrays his real allegiances: "The problem with Altmaier is that he has spent his whole life in the wrong party...he has always thought of himself as a Green", writes one Der Spiegel journalist.
This is a trademark Trump strategy: He has often lobbed baseless accusations while allowing his supporters to fill in the gaps (much like when he implied that Ted Cruz's dad was involved in John F. Kennedy's assassination, or the time he implied President Barack Obama had allegiances outside the United States).
So voters in many places are setting aside deeply held allegiances to vote for the party best positioned to win, and in a handful of marginal seats, the parties themselves have either formally stood down or decided to not actively campaign and offer tacit support to a competing left party.
And if there was ever any doubts over his near-universal popularity, they were vanquished by the outbreak of delight from football fans of all nations and allegiances that met his brace in Euro 2012 – the brace that, as it turned out, would be the final goals of his career.
While companies have been accused of being too quick to dismiss or gloss over such situations in the past, some are now wondering -- depending on where their allegiances lie -- if they are reacting too rashly, producing a petition in support of Gunn, who has expressed regret and contrition for his postings.
He added that unlike in 2013, when PML-N swept to power, this time around many of the so-called "electables" - politicians who carry large rural vote banks due to their status as tribal elders, feudal lords and heads of various clans - will switch allegiances away from PML-N to PTI.
Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Mueller report fades from political conversation Five key players in Trump's trade battles MORE (D-Calif.) for the Speaker's gavel — a move that could divide the Ohio Democrat's allegiances between the insurgency she supports and the Congressional Black Caucus she once led.
Set aside all the new features in Three Kingdoms for a second—the cast of heroic characters with their shifting allegiances, the way army construction is tied to the heroes in your army—there might be no bigger change in this game than in how it uses distance and scale.
In Wisconsin and in the ever-volatile political climate in Minnesota, which nearly fell to Mr. Trump in 2016, elections up and down the ballot may turn on whether the rural voters who were once more dependable Democrats, but migrated to Mr. Walker and Mr. Trump, return to their earlier allegiances.
Recommended for children in fourth grade and over, Rachel Atkins's "Our Revolution" also examines how Freeman and his brother, who had been sold into slavery, ended up fighting on opposite sides of a war in which black Americans' allegiances often depended on which cause seemed to offer them a better future.
Such continuity would deepen the Texans' ties to a region about 225 miles from the nearest N.F.L. team, the Carolina Panthers, in Charlotte, N.C. Residents' allegiances tend to tilt even farther afield, toward the Pittsburgh Steelers (260 miles away), the Washington Redskins (270) and, as of 2014, the Saints (880).
John McCain's top aide, Mark Salter, told MSNBC that Clinton is "the more conservative choice and the least reckless one," taking to Twitter to make his allegiances more clear: the GOP is going to nominate for President a guy who reads the National Enquirer and thinks it's on the level.
The tacit condition for reclaiming the political allegiances of our white male brothers is a stern pledge to jettison this "divisive" rhetoric; to return, at bottom, to some imaginary historical moment when the multifront campaign for racial and civil equality somehow entailed no material transfer of power from the nation's ruling white caste.
Here is all you need to know to explain the differences between the cities: The last two New York City mayors grew up in the Boston area and are fans of the Red Sox (they were both re-elected too, despite the local news media poking fun at their roots and sports allegiances).
The controversy has also focused global attention on the cause of Hong Kong independence, which the authorities badly want to suppress, and on the divided allegiances of Hong Kong's leaders, who are supposed to serve the city and defend its special status but owe their jobs to the Communist government in Beijing.
While singsong chants of "Olé, Olé, Olé, Olé," and cheers of "U-S-A!" erupted elsewhere on the course, the spectators following Woods's match seemed to have eyes only for him, peppering the air with cries of "Tiger" or "Tigre," and shouting professions of their love of and their allegiances to … Woods.
" (The debt goes the other way, too, as real-world negotiators frequently rely on improvisation and role-playing in their training.) As Mr. Rogers said in a telephone interview, "Diplomacy has a lot of the elements of great theater — the ticking clock, ulterior motives, people having to switch allegiances on a dime.
According to Reuters, police say a political group with a similar name and symbol to the ones shown the video claim of responsibility — the Frente Integralista Brasileira, or Brazilian Integralist Front — has denied any role in the attack, and investigators are still working to establish the identities and political allegiances of those responsible.
Trump's presidency is itself evidence of this dynamic — he won by persuading working-class white voters to vote like an embattled minority — but his strategy has been tested before: There are reams of research showing white Americans turn more Republican in their political allegiances when reminded of the growing power of nonwhite voters.
Where Iowa does a caucus—meaning people hang out in person in school gyms and VFW halls for hours, declaring their allegiances and filling out complicated forms recording three rounds of vote tallies—the New Hampshire primary is much more like a straightforward election, run not by the parties but by the state government.
On her account, which has considerably more followers (sorry, Davidson, this isn't a dig, just an observation!), Grande shared a photo of her sweater, which boldly stated the word "Slytherin," as a message to fans not to get it twisted: Her allegiances lie on the dark side, even if Davidson is a self-proclaimed Gryffindor.
According to the Minerva research team at Georgia State University, the 2014 expansion of ISIS' so-called Caliphate was foretold by "Wiki Baghdady" – a Jihadi insider, but more than likely an al-Qaida agent – who predicted IS would amass multiple group allegiances and then announce them simultaneously in order to project power and influence.
An electorate, once fairly equally divided between center-right and center-left, loosed itself from former allegiances and, its mood febrile and angry, sought parties which promised to throw the bit-by-bit bums out and tell the EU to stop enforcing economic austerity on people who think their lives are already austere enough.
Iran's growing influence in neighboring Iraq is most visible in the allegiances of Iraq's prime minister, Adil Abdul Mahdi, and the frustrations of protesters flooding the streets of cities throughout Iraq and defacing photos of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, burning Iranian flags, and even firebombing the Iranian Consulate, the Associated Press reports.
It's why, even as U.S. tanks and infantry rolled into southern Iraq in spring 2003, Americans joked that the war should have been called "Operation Iraqi Liberation," or OIL; it's why we clamored to know the closed-door energy allegiances and outside compensation schemes of Vice President Dick Cheney, the war cheerleader and former Halliburton CEO.
As the title character, first-time actor Helena Howard burns so bright she could scorch your retinas, hurling herself into the role of a scary-talented, not-always-stable teenager teetering in her allegiances between her single mother Regina (Miranda July) and Evangeline (Molly Parker), the director of the theater company in which Madeline is the youngest member.
Related: John Boehner Says He'd Back Paul Ryan for President in Contested Convention But the bulk of these Rubio delegates — 99 including Shah Bharara and nine others in DC — will have to vote for the Florida senator on the first ballot and will only get a chance to switch their allegiances if a second ballot is necessary.
This may seem like a strange transition for a presidential candidate to make, but recent events, and Trump's reactions to them, suggest that his primary goal of building a lucrative audience has finally eclipsed his purported goal of building a winning electorate, with traditional allegiances to political party, fellow candidates, and even a running mate falling by the wayside.
If you've watched even a few episodes of Game of Thrones, it's clear that the roads of Westeros are littered with the bodies of smallfolk who just wanted to go about their own business, but had the misfortune of attracting the attentions of more powerful people demanding to know their allegiances or pressing them to fight.
But Game of Thrones at least allows us to think that—with enough cunning, enough backstabbing and backscratching, if we made the right allegiances and stood on stormy cliffs with perfect posture and said high fantasy things like, "MY LADY OF THE VALE, YOU MUST BE PREPARED FOR THE MARCH OF THE DOTHRAKI"2—that we would succeed.
It's not just the artist's emotional being we are locating in this show; we are finding out her allegiances, her origin story, the chain of custody for her self — because "provenance" refers to both the beginning of someone or something's existence and the record of ownership of a work of art that indicates its authenticity or quality.
Seierstad is at her best when she pans out to consider the variety of reasons Western women join ISIS (by 2013, there were 3,000 Westerners in Syria, several hundred of them women), drawn by a hunger for sisterhood, adventure and membership in a society they felt was colorblind — where shared allegiances were more important than race.
If the ESA's lobbying against reactionary politicians had largely succeeded in making people forget that it was fundamentally an organization designed to represent publishers rather than developers or players, the ESA and particularly its long-serving (and now former) president Michael Gallagher found ways of making clear the group's allegiances and, in the end, its cynicism.
Italian politics can seem a muddle of shifting alliances and allegiances and the country is not renowned for its political stability, having had 65 governments now and numerous prime ministers since World War II. In 2018, there are "old faces" to look out for, such as the ever-resurgent Silvio Berlusconi, and some new personalities too.

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