But from the very beginning of his long, improbable campaign, he's found success by energizing his fans and antagonizing his enemies — indeed, he's energized his fans by antagonizing his enemies.
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But the groups operate carefully, to avoid antagonizing the authorities.
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Mr. Trump has made little effort to avoid antagonizing China.
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There was also the potential cost to antagonizing powerful opponents.
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But it is clearly enjoying antagonizing the House of Saud.
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The president-elect clearly feels unencumbered from antagonizing the intelligence community.
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He also faulted Trump for antagonizing Democrats and vilifying the press.
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Trump can exploit those without antagonizing more women in the process.
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Booker managed this in just under a week, antagonizing both Sen.
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The major deterrent to antagonizing Beijing is its blunt economic power.
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And that meant possibly antagonizing one of Florida's most powerful sheriffs.
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Whatever officials here say, gratifying one side risks antagonizing the other.
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Thanking, rather than antagonizing, China might be good for the U.S. economy.
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Cruz, who represents Texas, is known for antagonizing senators from his party.
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To that extent, antagonizing the Kim regime is neither here nor there.
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Obviously, the formidable enemy antagonizing women is actually defeated in the show.
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But US military actions in the South China Sea are antagonizing Beijing.
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They are antagonizing China by threatening to overboard the one-China policy.
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Antagonizing its friends and fighting battles over 19th-century industries will not.
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At stake: how opera can reach new audiences without antagonizing old ones.
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However, Kingston warns, any further Japanese militarization risks further antagonizing its Asian neighbors.
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But Duterte delayed the resumption indefinitely to allow public consultations, antagonizing the guerrillas.
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Why is China antagonizing literally all its major trading partners with this strategy?
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Absent a definite objective, antagonizing Beijing creates unnecessary risks, and is therefore unwise.
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"This officer has a history of antagonizing and aggravating my client," Brown said.
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She asked not to be identified for fear of further antagonizing her bosses.
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His warrior tone worries many activists, who fear further antagonizing the disenfranchised suburbs.
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Teachers report that schoolchildren are antagonizing each other with racist and xenophobic views.
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Bloomberg's campaign is already antagonizing progressive Democrats who don't like his centrist policies.
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Another factor is whether the administration keeps antagonizing trading partners other than China.
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Instead, it wants the world to be alarmed at the consequences of antagonizing Russia.
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"Kelly has definitely been antagonizing me on social media," Judge explained on Monday's episode.
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Nonetheless, Russia's relationship with Venezuela is the most prominent, and antagonizing, for the West.
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Cruz's entire congressional career has involved antagonizing colleagues and ensuring that nothing gets done.
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Keep antagonizing Dutch, for example, and he'll just get mad enough to stop engaging.
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Patients may fear antagonizing their doctor and can feel intimidated by the medical system.
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In other words, Mr. Trump has been playing soft with Russia while antagonizing China.
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The phenomenon of gotcha antagonizing is far more likely to get worse than better.
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Given that reality, U.S. leaders need to avoid needlessly antagonizing Beijing regarding Hong Kong.
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Rarely will you read of a person with such a genius for antagonizing authority.
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Pop was antagonizing the room, and being pelted with beer, whiskey bottles, bras, and shoes.
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Curses blast off as they jostle, talking over each other and antagonizing everyone around them.
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Contrary to popular belief, antagonizing Mexico will not decrease illegal immigration, nor tighten border security.
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That he's reckless, unnecessarily antagonizing powerful adversaries, declaring war on too many enemies at once.
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Whenever I'm put in the spotlight, a lot of my self-antagonizing anxiety comes out.
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Republicans once sought to strengthen relations with Mexico; today they delight in antagonizing our neighbor.
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In retaliation, they surround the vehicle, antagonizing the police inside until they pull away quickly.
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His friends and lawyers had advised him not to participate for fear of antagonizing prosecutors.
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The government tried to keep the militias out of Falluja to avoid antagonizing Sunni residents.
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Western companies have been afraid of antagonizing Chinese regulators, who have broad powers to retaliate.
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And a third is Williamson's venom, his evident relish in antagonizing for the sake of antagonism.
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"We are antagonizing our friends and placating those who clearly wish us ill," Mr. Corker said.
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With all these false narratives antagonizing me, it's time for me to control my own narrative.
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With all these false narratives antagonizing me, it's time for me to control my own narrative.
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The Vatican "lends us support in the ecumenical dialogue without antagonizing other Orthodox churches," he added.
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When this wasn't enough, he began to confiscate estates, antagonizing Roman elites and sometimes killing them.
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Democrats' antagonizing of Mr. Whitaker began before he was even in the hearing room on Friday.
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"I don't coach fat gymnasts" was a common refrain from coaches antagonizing me about my weight.
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But what incentive does China have to help an administration set on antagonizing it at every turn?
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But this doesn't seem to bother Trump, who actually relishes in Paul's antagonizing of the Majority Leader.
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Doing so, they warn, would spark an immediate backlash from Congress while antagonizing key European allies. Sen.
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Kenyatta urged the opposition to stop issuing unnecessary demands and condemned NASA leaders for "continuously antagonizing" Kenyans.
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President Trump loomed large at the gathering, accusing China of election interference and antagonizing Canada over trade.
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But they've come with costs that have become clearer over time, in antagonizing communities and disrupting families.
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That always confused me, because it didn't seem like John Skipper was running around antagonizing the NFL.
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Even some Trump allies have questioned the wisdom of antagonizing his ostensible partners in conservative policy making.
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Merely antagonizing people, for no discernible reason, is neither a policy nor an answer to contemporary problems.
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So give high marks to Trump for necessary truth-telling — and low ones, for unnecessarily antagonizing predecessors.
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In fact, because he's so unpopular in the state, Trump seems to take pleasure in antagonizing Californians.
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That likely would have added more strain to the Washington-Pyongyang relationship while antagonizing Beijing and Moscow.
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But Mr. Maduro, who favored antagonizing the United States, seemed positive about the proposal, Mr. Carvajal said.
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Alternatively, it is possible the Obama administration decided that it is not worth antagonizing Pakistan with further strikes.
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Trump has a long history of antagonizing China, ranging from economic criticism to a full-blown conspiracy theory.
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Unfortunately, somebody told some surfers from Redondo Beach, who showed up and just started antagonizing all the punks.
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Kjellberg asked for fans to stop antagonizing T-Series with the "Subscribe to PewDiePie" meme on his behalf.
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His hobbies include beet farming, antagonizing his coworkers with strict rules, and in later seasons, writing mermaid erotica.
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At the very least, it is essential that Moon and Trump avoid antagonizing one another during their summit.
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U.S. reaction: Lawmakers in both parties criticized Trump, saying he was comforting U.S. adversaries while antagonizing U.S. allies.
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That seems like a bit much, even from a president who has no trouble antagonizing just about everyone.
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But many are refraining from weighing in on president's comments, wary of antagonizing Mr. Trump and conservative voters.
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An aggressive stance with China also risks antagonizing an authoritarian government with its own brand of economic nationalism.
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Two high-ranking Colombian officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid antagonizing Trump confirmed the report.
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No good will come from antagonizing them, especially if you want to keep seeing your son and grandchild.
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Now artists both Australian and non have added to the voices in opposition to the nightlife-antagonizing legislature.
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If Philip and Elizabeth hadn't already spent months antagonizing him, I'd say they should even try recruit him.
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This did not sit well with the Tennants, who began to suffer the consequences of antagonizing Parkersburg's main employer.
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Noticeably absent from Winter on Fire are critiques of the more radical forces that were responsible for antagonizing police.
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Few were willing to speak openly for fear of antagonizing Cocobod and some said that in itself reduced accountability.
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Pharmaceutical companies were afraid of antagonizing doctors and aligning themselves with the "fast women" who desired a fast test.
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But not necessarily if we start antagonizing," he said, noting the recent meeting of G-7 leaders "looked grim.
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The staff also discussed the need to help Tillerson leave in a respectful way without antagonizing the White House.
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Mr. Sisi and his foreign ministry avoided explicitly voicing support for Mr. Assad — presumably to avoid antagonizing the Saudis.
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Shkreli, though, refused to testify at the hearing, invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and antagonizing lawmakers.
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Mr. Vidal said he had merely been escorted to his hotel by friends after antagonizing Attorney General Robert Kennedy.
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Trump said he would only follow through on his threat if Pyongyang kept antagonizing the US or its allies.
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Three of them landed less than 200 nautical miles off the Japanese coast, antagonizing the South Korean and Japanese governments.
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Beachgoers at the time told authorities that one or more people had been antagonizing the nurse shark in the water.
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BEIJING — North Korea's test of a nuclear bomb on Wednesday seemed aimed at antagonizing a familiar adversary, the United States.
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She has also repeatedly aligned herself with a very moderate, media-friendly brand of feminism, antagonizing n00d-hunters even more.
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Media organizations have an economic incentive to avoid antagonizing half of their audience and to cultivate sources within the administration.
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Whether Biden can deliver knockout blows to Sanders without antagonizing Sanders voters will be crucial to pulling the party together.
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Ms. Kang's remarks also risked antagonizing the Trump administration, which considers the sanctions its most potent leverage against the North.
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The Turkish president may now risk antagonizing a country that is among the richest and most influential in the region.
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" The shift shows the limits of President Vladimir Putin's strategy of "propping up an ally and antagonizing the Trump administration.
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Compared to an incumbent who has spent 25 years alternately disappointing and antagonizing liberals, he represents a major step forward.
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After some really sharp antagonizing of a sheep that honestly looks like it was just chillin', the cat had to go.
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And the Trump White House, disdainful and antagonizing of federal bureaucracies, is unlikely to find many allies to grease their operation.
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Apple isn't in the business of antagonizing police, so this update arrives without making a big deal out of the feature.
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Earlier this week, the world saw a harrowing video of a man antagonizing Boston Dynamics' new robot with a hockey stick.
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Netflix's runaway hit Stranger Things did a lot of things right, and chief among them: antagonizing the US Department of Energy.
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So, while NATO members hope you'll agree to speak plainly about Russian threats, antagonizing Russia publicly is not in NATO's playbook.
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Their comedic tenor is pushed into even further antagonizing territory with Lemon, Bravo's feature debut co-written by and starring Gelman.
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The antagonizing effects of noise have been well documented: hearing loss, disrupted sleep and cognitive impairment in children, among other ills.
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That's because Spy, starting with its very first issue in 1986, made a sport of antagonizing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
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He has mostly stayed on message in public, consulted with his advisers and avoided antagonizing regional allies needed for their support.
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The letter is the latest parry between President Trump and the liberal West Coast state that he appears to relish antagonizing.
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By raising tariffs and canceling trade agreements, the Trump administration will needlessly hurt American businesses and workers while antagonizing friendly countries.
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More often it is just compulsive, like a little brother antagonizing his sister or a tiny dog yapping at the wind.
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The step was a significant departure from Mr. Duterte's previous policy of not antagonizing China, which claims most of the sea.
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The footage is only 30 seconds long, so it doesn't show whether Ngo was antagonizing the demonstrators in some other way.
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It's also a surprise since he typically resists antagonizing Moscow because he wants the US and Russia to have a stronger relationship.
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Elon Musk is back on Twitter antagonizing the Securities and Exchange Commission just four days after settling with them for $20 million.
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The administration also risks further antagonizing U.S. allies that remain committed to the Iran nuclear deal and want to keep Iran compliant.
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Antagonizing your ideological opponent is built into the ''-phobia'' frame, and activists have sparred over whether that catalyzes progress or impedes it.
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It just let me know that we were doing the right thing, because antagonizing voices want to tear down something that's working.
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But they're keeping quiet for now because they fear antagonizing him on a question that could have massive implications for their workforces.
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One way in which Italy has been antagonizing its European partners has been to pick a fight with them over its budget.
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Long a vehement critic of the political news media, Mr. Trump has increasingly organized his general-election effort around antagonizing the press.
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Putin's regime has insisted it is antagonizing the United States in self-defense against what it perceives to be Washington's aggressive policies.
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She had a history of making racist comments and built her brand antagonizing progressives as a right-wing pundit on Fox News.
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Mr. Trump has instead gone in the opposite direction, standing by his harsh treatment of the couple and brazenly antagonizing Washington Republicans.
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But to date, they have not managed to put in place a mechanism for sidestepping the sanctions without antagonizing the Trump administration.
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But by once again catching American allies off guard and publicly antagonizing North Korea, the administration has further undermined its own leverage.
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The more obscure the president's actions, the likelier Republican leaders have been to remain quiet for fear of antagonizing his core supporters.
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Sanders has come under scrutiny for the tactics of some of his supporters in antagonizing other Democrats and using abusive language online.
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Health workers find themselves having to strike a delicate balance: restricting Ebola patients' movements but without antagonizing communities whose cooperation is vital.
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It's clear Xan feels the guy was antagonizing him over what now seems like ancient history -- his March 2018 comment about Tupac.
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Michaela's made it clear that the Millennials expect to stick together, so Adam risks antagonizing them by voting out one of their own.
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One of them took a swipe at me and this cop was like, 'Can you stop like antagonizing the people who hate gays?
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Britain, which had control of Palestine, limited Jewish immigration to avoid antagonizing the Arabs, and refused to let the passengers continue without visas.
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He had also told police that the women had threatened him, claiming they were "intentionally antagonizing him," according to the Tampa Bay Times.
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After all, Iran's Islamic Republic has practically written the book on defying diplomatic protocol as a means of antagonizing Washington and the West.
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Castro ruled Cuba for half a century in his trademark military fatigues and cigar, inspiring revolutionaries in some nations while antagonizing American leadership.
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The comments could heighten fears among U.S. allies and lawmakers that Trump could make too many concessions to Russia while antagonizing European partners.
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Abrupt, punitive sanctions could have severe consequences however, provoking Turkey into antagonizing the US in Syria and elsewhere rather than moderating its behavior.
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Donald Trump has already done a fine job antagonizing much of the country (okay, the world) in his first couple weeks as president.
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China declared its East China Sea ADIZ in November 2013, antagonizing Japan and the United States, who both said they didn't recognize it.
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Some painters today take advantage of the creative tension inherent in a need to paint, while facing down antagonizing forces that suggest otherwise.
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She avoided antagonizing the Chinese leaders who appointed her by taking the blame for the legislation herself, not mentioning Beijing's support for it.
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He believed that if Gomez kept antagonizing cops and prosecutors, he would sabotage any chance Hernandez still had of getting the case dismissed.
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Williams, who resigned Sunday amid outrage over the attack, has "a history of antagonizing and aggravating" that same civilian, the man's attorney said.
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Trump has been antagonizing Kim Jong Un over Twitter for months in reference to the North Korean leader's determination to acquire nuclear weapons.
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In public, they occasionally offered light criticism of Mr. Trump's most objectionable comments, but mostly remained silent for fear of antagonizing his supporters.
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Several critics, speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid antagonizing prosecutors, said the questioning of rape victims in Manhattan was unnecessarily harsh.
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The regime is also antagonizing European nations party to the 2015 nuclear deal, including breaching the terms of the agreement by enriching uranium.
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The government wants to avoid antagonizing the Trump administration, but it also simply lacks the capacity to manage such large numbers of migrants.
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And, the phone-smashing incident in Miami also seems to have been more about Conor being a jerk than the other guy antagonizing him.
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"Being an American first, I'm the kind of guy that will stand in front of a tank," he says unblinkingly, neither antagonizing nor exaggerating.
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Literally, I am sitting there antagonizing, saying, 'No, no, it's fine,' and Sarah will come in and say, 'You know he can't throw that.
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Subsequently, Rocky released videos on Instagram that appeared to show men following and harassing him and his associates, while also antagonizing his security guard.
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She also wants universal background checks for people buying guns, an idea Democrats typically keep at a distance for fear of antagonizing gun owners.
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I often used it as a meditative strategy (usually to come down from a fight with whatever boyfriend I was antagonizing at the time).
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But publicly, even Democratic senators who have declined to endorse Medicare for All have done so in measured terms to avoid antagonizing the progressives.
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In the end, it may not be worth antagonizing the labels that the company depends on, said Amy Yong, a media analyst at Macquarie.
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But given the vast powers of the modern administrative state, few CEOs could afford to take the risk of antagonizing a freshly-elected president.
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It's a system Kjellberg has spent recent months antagonizing in a broader and less-inflammatory way, even as he continued to thrive within it.
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That risks further antagonizing a skeptical European Parliament, the EU's most vocal institution on human rights and freedom, which has to approve visa liberalization.
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Cyrus spends most of the time in a boxing ring, occasionally antagonizing a mysterious man, while Rey practices knife throwing on a wooden target.
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Inter-continental missile defense is one way that the U.S. can defend itself from an increasingly bellicose North Korea without antagonizing the hermit nation.
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After years of virtually ignoring or often antagonizing black voters, party strategists say they are finally making tangible investments that could earn them support.
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But the man isn't deterred, antagonizing the animal one more time before it decides to walk away, back off the road and into the woods.
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North Korea tests artillery in 'imginary' strike on South Korean leader's residence This is a significant development because the EU has avoided antagonizing North Korea.
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And Farris has gone from antagonizing President Donald Trump, and his evangelical allies, to biting his tongue as his agenda flourishes under the Trump administration.
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After all the progress our two heroines made over season 2, Midge doesn't see the point in antagonizing one of comedy's most powerful forces again.
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You can choose to have the National Anthem, calming ambient sounds, and positive affirmations, among other non-antagonizing messages play when the telephone is answered.
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While any sentient primate facing a special counsel would know to lay off social media and refrain from antagonizing his investigators, Trump sees things differently.
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Cruz isn't a stranger to antagonizing his Republican colleagues, who are still quick to cite his role in the 2013 shutdown of the federal government.
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If the United States wants to avoid strife in Asia, it should resist antagonizing China by encircling it with ever more military partners and bases.
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They also want to avoid unnecessarily antagonizing Iran, whose officials have already criticized the Saudis for being willing to sell additional oil at Iran's expense.
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The office of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras moved immediately to file an appeal against the decision, in an apparent effort to avoid further antagonizing Turkey.
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An affable former Marine who focused on labor rights and economic fairness, Mr. Lamb took care not to alienate Trump voters by antagonizing the president.
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Over the course of the next few hours, Mr. Gaskill exchanged messages with Mr. Viner and Mr. Barriss, antagonizing them for failing to swat him.
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And meanwhile, the Sanders campaign should run its own race rather than risk turning off supporters by antagonizing anyone who has legitimate questions about their strategy.
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Nothing if not relentless, he puts Yoav through an isolating, antagonizing crucible, including in a scene of degradation that deliberately stretches on too long, too uncomfortably.
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"Samir was yelling at Coach Trenkle, threatening to fight the coach, and antagonizing Coach Trenkle to try make him get off the floor," the letter reads.
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He did his regular thing Larimer: The umpire basically started antagonizing him and said, I heard you can hit, now let's see if you can catch.
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After spending the past week accusing him of being Putin&aposs puppet, they would look foolish if they turned around and criticized him for antagonizing Russia.
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At the very least, it's not a good look for a team president to be antagonizing powerful agents and calling out mega stars as prima donnas.
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But in office, she seemed to avoid antagonizing the rank and file — which opposition to the death penalty and other "tough on crime" policies could do.
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"Video footage shows officers antagonizing Chicagoans they are sworn to serve and protect, and creating conflict when their responsibility is to promote public safety," Lightfoot added.
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Maui is a forceful and gleefully antagonizing foil for Moana's teen pluck and determination, and together they are as much at odds as they are united.
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Some Buffalo fans have already spoken on social media about antagonizing Mr. Kaepernick by singing the national anthem en masse when the 49ers have the ball.
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Mr. Trump has eagerly conducted his insurgent presidency in the glare of the cameras, antagonizing friends and foes alike and boasting of accomplishments large and small.
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Rebekha Sharkie, a lawmaker who was elected in 2016, said she started to dread giving speeches about legislation because of one colleague's persistence in antagonizing her.
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Are they against his demonstration or fearful of antagonizing their owners and endangering their own jobs (which only last, on average, slightly more than three years)?
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"This is a really big mistake," said the applicant, who requested anonymity because she was still awaiting word on her application and feared antagonizing admissions officials.
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I began to pick up just what the word meant from my antagonizing English teacher and my incisive friends' furrowed brows when I described my hometown.
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Mr. Netanyahu has for years avoided referring to a two-state solution in public, partly to avoid antagonizing political allies in Israel who reject that idea.
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Labour is running the risk of "trying to compromise in several directions and antagonizing everyone," said Robert Ford, professor of politics at the University of Manchester.
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Haley and Walker's comments were notable because the two opposed Trump -- with Haley both criticizing and antagonizing Trump while campaigning in the GOP primary with Florida Sen.
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President Donald Trump delivered what many hoped for: a speech calling for unity with Democrats -- a key departure after antagonizing them during his first month in office.
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Mexico's government has been going out of its way avoid antagonizing the Trump administration, meeting its demands over immigration and other issues to avoid punitive U.S. measures.
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But at the same time, White knew that he had little leverage and he believed that there wasn't much to gain from antagonizing Hollywood with radical demands.
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The problem, as Downs explained, is that the country will swing from extreme to extreme, with each side antagonizing the other until the middle drops out entirely.
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In Sherman Alexie's new memoir, "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me," his father, a Coeur d'Alene Native American, has a different method of antagonizing police.
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Saudi has also been put on notice by the UAE, its tiny but most important ally, that the economic costs of further antagonizing Iran could prove devastating.
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Trump, who has frequently declined to endorse Republican incumbents he perceives as antagonizing him or endorsed their opponents, tweeted that Sasse had his endorsement in early September.
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Half an hour after she left, she called to plead that a story not mention that she said anything about the conflict — for fear of antagonizing him again.
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But any moves to change the law could destabilize the British government by antagonizing the socially conservative Democratic Unionist Party, which May depends on for her parliamentary majority.
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Obama, in other words, was trying to extricate himself from the partisan fray — but by taking action in the DNC race that risked antagonizing his own party's base.
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Even a vote to remain could have constitutional implications if Scottish and Northern Irish votes swung a close result in favor of staying, antagonizing English supporters of leaving.
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Until the #MeToo movement leaves behind blanketing genders as either guilty or innocent based purely off gender and purely off political affiliation, they are needlessly antagonizing potential allies.
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And while Roosevelt quickly signed the bill, he had actually been ambivalent during the process, wary of antagonizing business interests ahead of his re-election campaign in 1936.
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Through his antagonizing of the EU, the Labour Party, and his own Conservative Party, the new prime minister has isolated and alienated the people whose votes he needs.
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But the potential nomination of Harris, who was previously pegged as the next Australia ambassador, risks antagonizing China and harming relations with their long-time ally in Canberra.
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Such groups have been criticized in the past for undermining the peace process and antagonizing Pyongyang, particularly those which seek to transmit anti-regime propaganda into the North.
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It also enabled his campaign to produce a staggering volume of attention-grabbing — and, to some Democrats, cringe-inducing — commercials and other activities aimed at antagonizing Mr. Trump.
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Instead, President Trump has proposed replacing Nafta with something worse, a vague agreement that could hurt American workers and raise prices for American consumers while antagonizing America's neighbors.
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Mr. Trump has a history of antagonizing the N.F.L., dating to the 1980s, when he and the fledgling United States Football League successfully sued it for antitrust violations.
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And stuck in the middle is Moon, who needs to avoid both an unnecessary war and a destabilizing withdrawal -- and do so without alienating China or antagonizing Trump.
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As a candidate, Ronald Reagan criticized the decision to abrogate recognition of Taiwan; after his election, he invited a delegation from Taiwan to attend his inauguration, antagonizing Beijing.
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LONDON — President Trump has always relished throwing European leaders off balance, antagonizing allies, embracing insurgents and setting off a frantic contest for how best to deal with him.
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After Price resigned, Verma's name circulated as his potential successor — further antagonizing Price's allies, convinced that she'd worked to undermine him with the president and in the press.
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For the first six months of Mr. Trump's presidency, Mr. Cuomo had tactically avoided antagonizing the president by name, though he was outspoken in opposition to his policies.
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The country was expected to mark the occasion by antagonizing the West once again and testing another intercontinental ballistic missile — possibly directed toward the U.S. territory of Guam.
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But Lynch pulled a bait-and-switch in the final hour, antagonizing the audience with an endless, wordless drive before undoing it all with one last boldfaced question mark.
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A number of health plan leaders told congressional Republicans that they would not say that, said the officials, who asked not be identified for fear of antagonizing the GOP.
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Since he entered the race, a few benchmark moments have fueled Mr. Trump's confidence, according to three people close to him who insisted on anonymity to avoid antagonizing him.
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Under such conditions, the normal political play would be to avoid antagonizing any potential GOP opponents of the law, to keep them all on board as long as possible.
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He's spent his presidency antagonizing government agencies (including the FBI, which is none too pleased about Comey's firing), and bringing on senior advisers who don't agree on key issues.
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Shooting for this season's The Bachelorette has already wrapped, but Chad Johnson has found a way to keep antagonizing his fellow competitors even after they've all left the mansion.
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"The question is not to be emotional, I mean I am an engineer, but more rational and to find together solutions without antagonizing one against the other," said Pouyanne.
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The Haggler Maybe a day will come when Payless Car Rental stops pointlessly antagonizing its customers, but as far as the Haggler can tell, that day is far off.
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"By antagonizing elites, the media, foreign institutions (above all European), and the judiciary, and by violating norms with abandon, they have claimed the mantle of 'authenticity,'" Sierakowski wrote recently.
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She's a feminist, but has so much money invested in her work that she can be so in pretty much any way she pleases without antagonizing old male collectors.
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EU member Cyprus has pressed for a tough line threatening harsher sanctions in the future but others have warned against antagonizing a key ally on security and migration affairs.
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She risks antagonizing China if she attempts to forcefully assert Taiwan's sovereignty and reverses eight years of warming China ties under incumbent President Ma Ying-jeou of the Nationalists.
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Clinton was leaning toward endorsing a return to Glass-Steagall, and that not doing so risked antagonizing Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who had campaigned to reinstate the rule.
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While you and I are enjoying lower gas prices, people in Frank Underwood's America are dealing with much higher ones, while he flirts with antagonizing Russia and the like.
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Mr. Sun has a long history of antagonizing the Chinese government, including as one of the original signatories of Charter 08, a pro-democracy manifesto that was quickly suppressed.
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He joined a vibrant artistic community in France, befriending and antagonizing the literary giants of his time, including Wright (his idol, dear friend and sometime rival) and Ralph Ellison.
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Trump, to be fair, is doing exactly what they wanted him to do: antagonizing the media with dopey Twitter gifs and doing all he can to épater les bourgeois.
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Officials also are working to navigate the delicate relationship with China, already strained by trade battles and other policy clashes, without further antagonizing global partners or overly alarming Americans.
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But under Mr. Kalanick, Uber came to be defined by questionable behavior, deceiving law enforcement and antagonizing and manipulating drivers who did the work that made its business possible.
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Political observers have said Trudeau is unlikely to crack down too harshly on British Columbia for fear of antagonizing voters ahead of a federal election set for October 2019.
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Sydney's Lowy Institute International Security Program Director Euan Graham said Duterte wanted to focus on building up internal security while avoiding antagonizing China with drills in the South China Sea.
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With his highly public handling of the email probe and his resulting entanglement in the political tumult, Comey accomplished the unusual feat of antagonizing each side of the partisan divide.
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China has repeatedly said that its influence over the North Korea has been overstated, and the US and South Korea should stop antagonizing North Korea with its annual military drills.
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One of Conor's teammates was antagonizing him and yelling at him after a fight, which was, you know ... you beat your guy, it's pretty much time to shut your mouth.
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The neocons are right that a Trump presidency would likely be a foreign policy debacle, not least because of his unpredictable personality and penchant for antagonizing foreign leaders and publics.
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Lopez Obrador has been at pains to avoid antagonizing Trump over trade and migration, mindful of the fact that Mexico sends around 80% of its exports to the United States.
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Hardline Buddhist monks enjoyed impunity during Mahinda Rajapaksa's government, antagonizing minorities who voted overwhelmingly against him in 2015, said Hilmy Ahamed, vice president of the Muslim Council of Sri Lanka.
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But the Canadian government also has sought out ways to avoid isolating the Trump administration by bringing less antagonizing issues, for instance cleaning plastic from the oceans, to the table.
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"That the Trump campaign thinks they could pull those people away after antagonizing them for three years shows a very thin understanding of the nature of American evangelicalism," she added.
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China has its own issues with Japan over the latter's wartime atrocities, so "by antagonizing Tokyo, Seoul pleases Beijing," said Leonid Petrov, a Korea expert at The Australian National University.
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Members of the media team say they were sometimes asked to hold off on criticizing companies that were donors, or were considering becoming donors, out of fear of antagonizing them.
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Yiannopoulos, Breitbart's tech editor, has developed a following from the so-called alt-right, a movement associated with anti-Semitism and racism, by antagonizing progressives through his controversial statements and stunts.
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CNN's President Jeff Zucker called out President Donald Trump on Wednesday for his antagonizing rhetoric against the press, just hours after a pipe bomb was delivered to CNN's New York headquarters.
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Thousands of followers of the spiritual leader Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh created a settlement called Rajneeshpuram, which ended up antagonizing a local town called Antelope and later the entirety of Wasco county.
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Driving the news: Google appointed a controversial outside advisory board, drew an onslaught of protest and disbanded the group a week later, succeeding only in antagonizing people of many different perspectives.
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Rouhani may need to spend more money to create more employment if he is to ease discontent, and could risk antagonizing powerful interests if he tries to address allegations of corruption.
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Under such a rule, it would be essential to prevent our President from further antagonizing the one head of state who may have a hair trigger and even thinner skin -- Kim.
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Democrats will fight ferociously for the social programs they've created, and Ryan will try to reduce or gut them -- and also continue to tread carefully to avoid antagonizing the White House.
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By antagonizing Democrats who support Obamacare, Trump's actions could also lead to political turmoil overspending in December, when Republicans hope to put the final touches on a sweeping tax reform bill.
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For the 260 percent that are going to do the wrong thing, it's not worth antagonizing the 299 percent that don't want to be told what to do by the government.
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Maybe there'd be more of a reciprocal relationship between different eras of the genre if—instead of antagonizing misinformed people born in the mid-to-late 90s—collaboration was regularly encouraged.
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This June 28, the centennial will present the confusing spectacle of a president antagonizing democratic allies, while cajoling adversaries who make no secret of their contempt for democracy and human rights.
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Instead of antagonizing the craftspeople who should be celebrating the biggest night of their careers, the Oscars should find a way to honor them by making every presentation a blockbuster event.
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Mr. Lutsenko, the prosecutor general, has denied any relation between the investigation's suspension and potential concerns about antagonizing President Trump by appearing to aid Mr. Manafort's prosecution in the United States.
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About 4,000 of the world's nuclear warheads are in the hands of a United States president whose nuclear "policy" oscillates between antagonizing and inexplicably praising the ruthless leaders of nuclear states.
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One problem is growing frustration on the part of Bhutan, which has tried to steer a middle path between its two giant neighbors, enjoying close relations with India without antagonizing China.
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Of the many theories about the president's reluctance to criticize far-right activists is that Stephen Bannon, above center, cautioned him against antagonizing the small but energetic part of his base.
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Antagonizing billionaires is a favorite tactic for Senator Elizabeth Warren: Her campaign sells a mug that says "billionaire tears" and she has a television ad that criticizes some billionaires by name.
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State officials say they have considered repairing the roadway without the Senecas' permission, using state police for security, but they fear antagonizing the Seneca Nation as well as other state tribes.
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That, in fact, is what Congress will be doing for the next several months: Trying to balance between those tax cut promises and the reality of antagonizing constituents and campaign contributors.
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What is different about the current administration is how much further it has gone, antagonizing reporters and even being openly hostile toward them while trying to shroud the agency's activities in secrecy.
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A half-dozen Mars scientists contacted by BuzzFeed News declined to comment on the proposal, perhaps wary of antagonizing the rocket company they hope will someday ship their scientific probes into space.
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By antagonizing Democrats who support Obamacare, Trump's actions could also lead to political turmoil over spending in December, when Republicans hope to put the final touches on a sweeping tax reform bill.
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As both economies sputter, however, their presidents may find it tempting to play to their bases, antagonizing ideological foes and emphasizing their differences over red-button issues such as Cuba and Venezuela.
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Documents Reveal Stranger Things Really Freaked Out the Department of EnergyImage: NetflixNetflix's runaway hit Stranger Things did a lot of things right, and chief among them: antagonizing the US Department of Energy.
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On Tuesday, state-owned newspaper China Daily said in an opinion piece that Beijing was "understandably relieved that the exclusive, economically inefficient, politically antagonizing TPP is looking ever less likely to materialize".
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But while the broad strokes of the directive are alarming, many of the details are still unclear, and big tech companies seem to be holding their fire for fear of antagonizing regulators.
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And as Trump pulls the U.S. out of the Paris deal and touts his American First agenda, at the state level, even Republicans are embracing green initiatives — albeit without openly antagonizing Trump.
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The official said the denial stemmed from several factors, including an effort inside the Pentagon to turn down the temperature of operations that could be viewed as antagonizing China or North Korea.
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A desire to avoid antagonizing the United States during an already complex, high-stakes trade war may encourage China to consider a change of allegiance from Maduro to Guaido, according to Dallen.
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Cruz, who has tried to stay close to Trump without antagonizing the billionaire, finally hit back, calling his rival a man of "New York values" and blasting his support for eminent domain.
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So even though Rachel supposedly represents the moral center of the story, and Nick's family an antagonizing force that threatens to drive them apart, the film can't help but celebrate material wealth.
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As China looks to expand its power in the South China Sea, some experts argue that it risks antagonizing nearby countries, potentially pushing them to form stronger alliances with the United States.
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Mr. Forcade had made headlines for throwing a pie in a pornography commissioner's face and antagonizing the writer and activist Abbie Hoffman, and he appreciated the disruptive potential of the Sex Pistols.
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The government wants to avoid antagonizing US President Donald Trump, who in 2019 threatened to impose tariffs on all Mexican goods if the country did not step up its immigration enforcement efforts.
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When she ran for United States Senate in New York she was Hillary Rodham Clinton, but her 2016 campaign book and ballot name downsized her to Hillary Clinton to avoid antagonizing traditionalists.
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In one field office, a psychologist sent to defuse internal tensions heard complaints of "micromanagement" of cases and of Botox inquiries wasting "valuable agent time" and antagonizing relations with U.S. attorneys, documents show.
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The Center for Consumer Freedom's CEO, Richard Berman, is a well-known lobbyist who was once profiled by "60 Minutes" for his role antagonizing activist groups on behalf of industries like Big Tobacco.
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As both economies sputter, however, their presidents may find it tempting to play to their bases, antagonizing ideological foes and playing up their differences over red-button issues such as Cuba and Venezuela.
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I'm no stranger to a good hate pile-on—I do work on the internet, after all, and writing for the queer community often means antagonizing some harsh critics, both without and within.
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"Against this backdrop, the Turkish government will be keen to avoid antagonizing the U.S. for fear of triggering another currency crisis that the banking sector probably wouldn't be able to sustain," Demarais said.
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Diplomats said the move might reassure U.S. allies but could backfire by antagonizing China, which regards the system as a threat, and make it less willing to step up sanctions on its neighbor.
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Given the clear acceleration in debt accumulation since 2010 that came against the backdrop of the construction of four new high-speed train lines, this "SNCF bashing" was not only antagonizing, but inaccurate.
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And while many in the press may disdain the way Trump uses them to rile up crowds and deflect from transgressions, they know they have a rare story and a tantalizing, antagonizing protagonist.
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These people fear the President will be ensnared by emotional cable news appearances and arguments from gun control advocates into going too far — all at the risk of antagonizing his pro-gun base.
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The fight over emissions rules is just one of many between Mr. Trump and California, a state he seems to relish antagonizing and which has filed more than 50 lawsuits against the administration.
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Clinton's promise to expand presidential powers in office has been largely seen as a political no-brainer — a rallying cry for the base that risks antagonizing only those who would vote against her anyway.
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See UMAN, THE HOLY BIZARRE SOFIA VALIENTE Alligator wrestling—which involves poking the gators, putting your hand in their mouths, and generally antagonizing them until someone declares you the victor—is a dying art.
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Android may be the dominant smartphone operating system (OS) but "it's not invincible," according to analysis firm IHS Markit, which argues that Google's latest Pixel smartphone could risk antagonizing manufacturers reliant on the software.
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The official said several reasons were behind the lack of action, including an effort inside the Pentagon to turn down the temperature of operations that could be viewed as antagonizing China or North Korea.
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Moment of Infamy: Jake Pavelka's former fiancée spent most of her time on the show antagonizing and taunting the other constants – particularly soon-to-be-Bachelorette Ali – and then attempted to play the victim.
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To the extent that a progressive consensus on Israel exists, it converges on a critique of Netanyahu, the longtime Likudnik hawk who worked glove-in-hand with President Donald Trump after antagonizing Barack Obama.
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Some faculty members say the administration is trying to limit the effect of gun laws while not antagonizing state lawmakers for fear of future legislation that could loosen gun laws on campus even more.
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In towns of just 5,000 or 10,000 people where only 50 or 100 votes can turn an election, many officials realized antagonizing and scapegoating immigrant populations could one day be a losing political proposition.
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In a time where anti-establishment forces are gaining in Europe and the United States, the pope seemed to have a sharp message for Western leaders who have found electoral support in antagonizing Islam.
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The committee's findings reinforce deepening concern among human rights activists that Mr. Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe are backpedaling on the promised institutional cleanup for fear of antagonizing the country's powerful security services.
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"People are concerned about an appreciating dollar, how much higher rates will go and antagonizing China," Laurence D. Fink, the chief executive of the asset management giant BlackRock, said in an interview last week.
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Mr. Trump's comments were greeted with anger in Sweden, the latest example of strong criticism by the American president antagonizing friendly countries, including neighbors like Mexico and allies like Australia and the European Union.
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Trudeau even reportedly agonized and rehearsed over how to shake hands with Trump before their first meeting in February 2017 so that he would be able to come off strong while not antagonizing Trump.
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Pence postponed a speech about China's human rights record and national security concerns that had been scheduled for June 24 in order to avoid antagonizing the Chinese in advance of the Trump-Xi meeting.
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Surely he wants his title back but for a true competitor isn't there more joy to be found in the perpetual antagonizing and minimizing of an archrival than in a thousand shiny gold belts?
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By antagonizing underage survivors of a national tragedy, the pro-Trump media abandoned its usual play for the moral high ground and made an uncharacteristic miscalculation: It chose a popular, deeply sympathetic, nonpolarizing political enemy.
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Bolsonaro's government has not been shy about weighing in on domestic politics around the region, antagonizing Venezuela's Maduro and touting a close friendship with Paraguayan President Mario Abdo when he faced the threat of impeachment.
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Despite The Ain't Rights antagonizing their neo-Nazi crowd by opening their set with Dead Kennedys' "Nazi Punks Fuck Off," they more or less win the hostile crowd over by the end of their set.
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The US regularly undertook freedom of navigation operations in the South China Sea under former US President Barack Obama, but there had been suggestions the Trump administration was putting them off to avoid antagonizing China.
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They are also treading carefully to avoid antagonizing a mercurial figure whose mind they still hope to change as they have in previous cases where he drifted from the party line, such as on immigration.
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Swing voters agree with many progressive ideas, from jobs to health care to higher taxes on the wealthy, but Democrats have a knack for antagonizing the working class by coming off as condescending, angry elitists.
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S. tensions, American decisionmakers give Chinese rulers even more incentive to achieve their ambitions of reaching peer status with the United States, while sidelining Chinese liberal defenders and antagonizing public opinion in the far east.
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Analysts said that the Islamic State has walked a fine line in Turkey, trying to balance its goal of destabilizing the country without antagonizing the government to the extent that it would crack down heavily.
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I'm sort of antagonizing [Alex and Naomi] because I'm finding the questions upsetting—because I'm gay and I'm being interviewed as if I'm not gay for a homosexuality project by the person I'm sleeping with.
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If he plans on using both domestic and international partners in the fight to keep the homeland and global community safe, then he must stop antagonizing our partners and create a more collaborative, realistic strategy.
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But despite support for another plebiscite among his party members, Mr. Corbyn has yet to embrace the idea, either for his own Euroskeptic beliefs or perhaps for fear of antagonizing Leave voters in Labour's ranks.
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The decision by Trump represents an effort to cater to the interests of Poland, a key NATO ally, while not overly antagonizing Russian President Vladimir Putin, with whom Trump would like to have friendly relations.
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It's hard to define, but he was good at cultivating a sense of chaos, and getting the right people there and antagonizing the wrong people and getting them to explode and then running them off.
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The North Korean government went on to explain how the "bold" decision by Kim and Trump created "an unprecedented trust between the two countries which had been antagonizing each other with deep rooted hostility," KCNA reported.
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Foreign policy has been an area that Trump has approached in a very personal way, sometimes antagonizing allies such as Canada, while making what critics see as unduly warm overtures to traditional U.S. rivals or foes.
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India has rejected an Australian request to take part in joint naval exercises with the United States and Japan for fear of antagonizing China, which has warned against expanding the drills, navy officials and diplomats said.
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The solution to all of this, the experts say, is very simple: The Trump administration needs to stop unnecessarily antagonizing North Korea and instead start coming up with a strategy for managing the threat it poses.
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Senior intelligence officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid antagonizing Congress, have said in recent days said that they will, of course, comply with all of the laws that govern their relationship with Congress.
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And he risks further antagonizing audiences amid a tumultuous comeback — following an admission of sexual misconduct in 2017 and a nine-month hiatus — that has drawn widespread criticism, both for its timing and its taste level.
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Perhaps most surprisingly, Mr. Pillsbury said that, ideologically, he gravitates more toward the views of Mr. Mnuchin and Mr. Kudlow, who have focused on communication and negotiation with the Chinese and have avoided publicly antagonizing Beijing.
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Threat level: The currency-manipulator designation has little practical effect beyond antagonizing the Chinese government — persuading them to buy even fewer U.S. agricultural exports and maximizing the probability that the trade war will escalate even further.
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The USDA's failure to publicize climate-related research does more than just quell media coverage: It can also prompt universities, fearful of antagonizing a potential source of funding, to reconsider their own plans to publicize studies.
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Experts speculated before the Sunday holiday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may choose not to showcase images of the country's more advanced weaponry during the anniversary celebrations to avoid antagonizing US President Donald Trump.
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Klaus Kleinfeld, who resigned as the chairman and chief executive of Arconic this week after sending an unauthorized letter to the activist hedge fund antagonizing him, stepped down from the board of Morgan Stanley on Friday.
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While Jennings took a social media respite over the last few days after receiving what he called a few "weird" Twitter messages from Knicks fans, he said, he will soon return to playfully antagonizing his followers.
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On one hand, Lewandowski -- despite openly antagonizing House Democrats and preening for his Republican cronies -- testified fairly casually about misconduct by President Donald Trump that, in normal times, would be presidency-defining (and potentially presidency-ending).
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McConnell has, after all, perfected the art of studiously ignoring Trump's tweets and controversial comments Trump could also realize that he has far more to lose than to gain from antagonizing McConnell and other Senate Republicans.
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In asking Mr. Trump to revise his proposal, the automakers effectively withdrew their support for the current plan and asked the president to make a deal with California, a state that he appears to relish antagonizing.
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New Delhi rejected an Australian request to join its Malabar naval exercises next month with Japan and the United States for fear of antagonizing China, which has warned against expanding the drills, navy officials and diplomats said.
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As the FBI continues to use sophisticated techniques in a law enforcement capacity, and presumably continues to source its exploits from external parties that it is afraid of antagonizing, this secrecy around vulnerabilities is sure to continue.
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The president-elect sent a pair of breakfast-time tweets that, while not exactly praising WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, surely paints him in a positive light and continues Trump's efforts in antagonizing and undermining U.S. intelligence agencies.
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While the prime minister emphasized in her speech that the U.K. was "leaving the European Union, but […] not leaving Europe," the U.K. has already succeeded in antagonizing many of its European partners, without getting anything in return.
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It still comes with the possibility of antagonizing fans sensing a yearslong recompense for all they have suffered and, worse, planting a seed of doubt or disgust into the mind of deGrom, in this most current case.
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He also praised the Trump administration for working to free his son, and made clear his displeasure with the Obama administration officials who he said had advised the family to stay quiet to avoid antagonizing the North.
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Yet by antagonizing Mr. McConnell, the president's often inscrutable Senate partner in conservative policy making, Mr. Trump risks upending an already charged relationship with lawmakers who have joined him in this shotgun marriage of unified Republican government.
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The ban, which the California governor, Gavin Newsom, plans to implement in January 240, is the latest shot in the intensifying battle over climate change between Mr. Trump and the state, which he appears to relish antagonizing.
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News Analysis ERBIL, Iraq — After a century of yearning, the Kurds of Iraq have managed, at last, to pull off a vote for independence, but not without antagonizing nearly everyone in perhaps the world's most volatile region.
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Washington (CNN)Senate Republicans are wrestling with a momentous dilemma over whether to call witnesses in Donald Trump's trial in a closed-door tussle that risks antagonizing the President and fueling Democrat claims of a cover-up.
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On each front, Republicans are placing the highest priority on maximizing unity and enthusiasm among their base voters -- even at the price of infuriating and energizing Democrats, and antagonizing more swing voters -- especially suburban college-educated whites.
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During that time, she has managed to avoid antagonizing the President while raising her own profile -- an astute balancing act that in the jungle of the Trump administration might have been hard to sustain for much longer.
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During Championship side Derby's halftime show against visitors Blackburn yesterday, some kind of fish mascot creature—confoundingly wearing a Chicago Bulls "Mackerel Jordan" jersey—started antagonizing a man with a soccer ball, until he straight up devoured him.
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Cary once again denied ever making that comment about Redmond's doctor but explained that she was frustrated with the way Redmond and Hollman were antagonizing Westcott with a sex toy they had brought on vacation as a joke.
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The official said the denial -- first reported by the New York Times -- was partly due to an effort inside the Pentagon to turn down the temperature of operations that could be viewed as antagonizing China or North Korea.
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Instead, those who just want to criticize President Trump and a good number of honestly concerned Americans will now be focused on wondering if pushing back on President Bashar Assad in Syria was worth antagonizing Syria's Russian protectors.
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That&aposs where if he could only turn it down just enough, I think that he could energize the base without antagonizing a lot of the so-called moderates that Republicans still have to count on to win.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - A proposal to completely ban abortion in Poland is posing a dilemma for the ruling conservatives, wary of antagonizing the powerful Catholic Church if they fail to support it or fanning public outcry if they do.
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Finland, anchored firmly in the West but wary of antagonizing Moscow, has a longstanding policy of not raising issues, at least in public, that might create friction with Russia, with which it shares an 830-mile-long border.
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Privately, people close to the president have conceded that assuring Mr. Trump that the investigation would end by a certain date was primarily aimed at keeping him from antagonizing Mr. Mueller on his Twitter feed or in interviews.
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And while Kurdish leaders have not publicly embraced Israel in the run-up to the referendum, for fear of antagonizing the Arab world, the Israeli flag can routinely be seen at Kurdish rallies in Erbil and across Europe.
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When asked whether he saw a political cost in antagonizing the pro-Israel lobby, the Vermont senator said he does, but that doesn't erase his pride in his Jewish heritage and his support for peace in the region.
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Trump himself came the closest to an explanation on Monday morning, writing on Twitter that he'd heard his aide was performing poorly in her job and antagonizing others, but that he remained enamored by her then-unyielding support.
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In its later years, the Obama administration avoided antagonizing Venezuela with new sanctions, often preferring to ignore officials entirely, a policy it said gave the leftist government fewer opportunities to seize on American actions for its own propaganda.
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Any cuts to services to curb the deficit risks antagonizing ordinary Ivorians, many of whom have seen few of the benefits of the economic revival and bristle at the government's regular touting of its near double-digit growth.
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The challenge for Pompeo, one of the few remaining top members of Trump's original national security team, would be to ease out without antagonizing the president, who has tweeted bitterly against many others who have left the administration.
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That's one reason why Democrats are piling on pressure for witnesses since several GOP senators running for reelection in swing states may want to preserve the perception of a fair trial in order to avoid antagonizing moderate voters.
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The fact that major corporations have sustainability departments, that they bother to even pay lip service to environmental and ethical causes, you could argue that this all comes back to the corporate-antagonizing efforts of Rainforest Action Network.
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Antagonizing our allies with threats of tariffs and advocating ruinous policies like reengaging Russia while it continues mischief in the Ukraine, Middle East, and anywhere else President Putin can project his large but second rate military is foolish.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has rejected an Australian request to take part in joint naval exercises with the United States and Japan for fear of antagonizing China, which has warned against expanding the drills, navy officials and diplomats said.
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Genish also told the FT that any attempt to force TIM to float its network, which is in the process of being split into a legally separate company fully controlled by TIM, would be premature and risked antagonizing bondholders.
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Second biggest producer Ghana looks set to resist pressure to cut the price paid to farmers if at all possible, traders said, adding such a move would risk antagonizing a core support base in the center of the country.
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Some saw this as an indication that the United States wanted to avoid antagonizing China while waiting to see how far it would go in helping to press North Korea to give up its ballistic missile and nuclear programs.
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The judges determined the case -- which hinged on whether A$AP threw a bottle at the victim during the all-out brawl in late June -- did not warrant self-defense ... despite video showing the victim was antagonizing his crew.
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Manufacturing trade groups have warned about the risks of the administration's approach, but auto executives have stayed quiet publicly on trade issues, in part to avoid antagonizing officials in any of the countries that they depend on for sales.
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He had previously remained silent to avoid antagonizing prosecutors, who still hold family items with sentimental value, like a laptop with the only copies of childhood photographs of Dr. Laskar's three daughters and an unfinished novel by his wife.
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What's more, antagonizing people for trying to build a movement for a cause you know damn well is worthwhile is an exercise in a sort of supervillain-esque misanthropy which demands that your entire species join you in suicide.
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - Many Indian farmers are openly sowing an unapproved variety of genetically modified (GM) cotton seeds developed by Monsanto, as the government sits on the sidelines for fear of antagonizing a big voting bloc ahead of an election next year.
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Why it matters: Trump hasn't minded antagonizing European leaders over trade issues and NATO contributions during the course of his presidency, but these were some of his strongest words of support thus far for some of America's most crucial alliances.
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He started the performance with a single looped vocal sample—"The white man, I say to you over and over again"—for what felt like an eternity, seemingly antagonizing the mostly young, white crowd that gathered for his performance in Bushwick.
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As the head of the opposition, independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Tsai risks antagonizing China if she attempts to forcefully assert Taiwan's sovereignty and reverses eight years of warming China ties under incumbent China-friendly President Ma Ying-jeou.
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Former Secretary for Justice Wong Yan-lung praised the man who appointed him for helping uphold the rule of law and pushing democratic reforms despite the risks of antagonizing Beijing, according to a letter published by the South China Morning Post.
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And that is likely part of the reason why CIA and Pentagon officials reportedly opposed Trump's decision on Monday: The U.S. has nothing to gain by antagonizing a state that in recent history has only attacked American targets when antagonized.
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Unfortunately, there's no similar fix for stopping fans from driving a dune buggy up the famed art museum steps, or from antagonizing a 100-year-old Vikings fan, or to help prevent a man from running right into a goddamn pole.
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Many American companies with large, profitable businesses in China do not want to pay expensive tariffs and worry that the United States is antagonizing the Chinese public, said Ker Gibbs, the president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai.
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The widespread criticism has also put new pressure on Stephen Bannon, the White House chief strategist, who had cautioned Mr. Trump not to criticize far-right activists too severely for fear of antagonizing a small but energetic part of his base.
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Though Mr. Clapper and most Republican senators were careful to avoid antagonizing the president-elect directly, the hearing spoke to the rift Mr. Trump has threatened to create between the incoming administration and the intelligence officials assigned to inform it.
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A Trump administration official has told Reuters the United States wants to avoid antagonizing China on sensitive issues like the South China Sea for now while waiting to see how far Beijing will go tightening the screws on North Korea.
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"This is definitely the evolution of the fame I was going for," Mr. Pratt, whose time on the reality show "The Hills" was spent antagonizing one of its stars and fan-favorites, Lauren Conrad, said in a phone interview on Wednesday.
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Kasich is challenging outsiders Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner, and U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who is known for antagonizing his party, as an alternative who can win the party's support in the July convention ahead of the Nov.
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So begins the horror story that isn't a story at all—but instead summarizes the rise of the alt-right, a nebulous political movement that simultaneously stands for xenophobic white nationalism and also for antagonizing those who take offense to xenophobic white nationalism.
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Japan had offered to build Australia a variant of its 4,000 metric ton Soryu submarine, a deal that would have cemented closer strategic and defense ties with two of Washington's key Asia-Pacific allies, but risked antagonizing China, Australia's top trading partner.
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That way, he can reach voters who support him, especially in primaries, but avoid directly antagonizing voters who might be inclined to vote for a Republican House or Senate candidate, but would be turned off by the president's support for that person.
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A longtime political adviser to Hillary Clinton last year urged her presidential campaign to support a new version of a law that separated commercial and investment banking to avoid antagonizing the Democratic Party's progressive wing, according to emails published by WikiLeaks on Monday.
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Fabio Ghironi, an economics Professor at the University of Washington, said that TPP will "create an opportunity for engagement rather than for antagonizing" with China, giving the U.S. and its trading partners more influence on the security and trade fronts in the region.
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More than that, Bryant also openly patterned his interpersonal style after Jordan's famed competitive monomania—his habit of bullying, antagonizing, and big-timing his own teammates in the name of either bringing out their best or flatteringly depicting his own lofty standards.
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At a minimum, a weak statement or one that fails to clearly cast the United States as a renegade on climate change would signal that leaders are reluctant to jeopardize deals on trade or security by antagonizing the Trump administration over climate issues.
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Flash forward to today: Donald Trump is following much the same political blueprint his predecessor and longtime adversary laid out years ago, signaling he'll actively intervene in the U.S. economy while antagonizing free-marketeers who say his meddling will end in disaster.
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Such lawmakers are caught between wanting to avoid antagonizing moderate voters angry about Trump's conduct and getting on the wrong side of the President's supporters who they need to show up in large numbers to have any chance of survival in November.
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That played havoc with the government budgets of major oil producers, pushing even Saudi Arabia — OPEC's biggest member by oil output — to borrow large sums in financial markets and to risk antagonizing its citizens by raising energy prices and cutting government salaries.
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For a decade he was an art critic for The New Statesman, where he made a name for himself by antagonizing nearly everyone in the art world in prose that was beautifully spare and precise but heavily moralizing and also frequently humorless.
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But many reviews on Steam said that the real reason why the Easter egg ended up being so antagonizing was because it felt like the developers of Red Candle Games were hiding political views within a product and baiting Chinese users into buying it.
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The series revealed how the British government, leery of antagonizing the Kremlin, has deliberately sidelined evidence of Russian involvement for years, while senior U.S. intelligence officials sent warnings from across the Atlantic, increasingly concerned that the pattern of assassinations would spread to American shores.
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The Trump administration's quarantine and travel ban in response to the Wuhan coronavirus could undercut international efforts to fight the outbreak by antagonizing Chinese leaders, as well as stigmatizing people of Asian descent, according to a growing chorus of public health experts and lawmakers.
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Sam Claflin is kind of swoon-worthy in a gruff antagonizing sort of way, and Bill Nighy very nearly steals the show as the kind of B-list actor who can't deal with the fact that he's 60 and no longer a leading man.
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They are both pranksters who prefer to let their music speak for them, geniuses who leave us coming up short for answers that can explain their artistic perspective, and occasional assholes who have no qualms about antagonizing people while playing the role of public figure.
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Cody's been on the outs with the rest of the cast except his gf, Jessica, but things got nasty this week when some of them -- including Paul Abrahamian -- tried antagonizing the Marine Corps vet by questioning his military experience ... and 'BB' fans were pissed.
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Yet such outlooks built on macro-analysis risk missing a ground truth: if the right-wing groups empowered by Modi's rise do not stop antagonizing minorities, then the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) plans for nurturing that growth will not easily come to pass.
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Having inflamed global tensions by antagonizing millions of Muslims in a legally dubious way, Trump not only seeks to attack those who accurately describe the steps he's taken, but to set up anyone standing in his way for blame when the backlash occurs. 1.
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I waved a pink flag antagonizing those who resented having a woman in the field running a geophysics crew, and when they charged and snorted their displeasure, I could strategize coping techniques to get the job done instead of getting blindsided by their sexism later.
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If the Abrams race tells us anything, it is that voter suppression is real, and unless we can enact measures to protect voting rights, women such as Abrams will always have an uphill battle in states where old racial attitudes play a particularly antagonizing role.
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Rather than antagonizing one of the most valuable tech companies in the world, he has built up The Wirecutter over the past five years as a sort of modern update to Consumer Reports, offering best-in-class buying recommendations across a range of products.
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But in economic matters, Russian state-owned companies are cutting back on the business they do with the bankrupt nation to protect their bottom line, showing the limits of President Vladimir V. Putin's strategy of propping up an ally and antagonizing the Trump administration.
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And in the meantime, stopping people from reaching US soil to claim asylum — President Trump's main objective — is going to rely on the continued cooperation of Central American countries and Mexico, the very governments Trump is now antagonizing with the Northern Triangle aid cutoff.
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Russia hopes to seal a deal to supply Turkey with more S-400 missile systems in the first half of 2020, which analysts feel could pressure the lira by further antagonizing the United States, a country Turkey has had volatile relations with in recent times.
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It's become a familiar routine for congressional Republicans: Trump tweets something they privately don't agree with or find embarrassing, but they shy away from publicly criticizing a president of their own party or antagonizing the Republican voters who support the president (and who they need themselves).
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But more importantly, PragerU's faculty includes an all-star lineup of internet and media personalities who have made their bones in the Trump era antagonizing the campus left: Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, James Damore, Steven Crowder, Dinesh D'Souza, Christina Sommers, Adam Carolla, Charlie Kirk, and many more.
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The president remains popular in large swaths of the American public, because irrespective of his personal misconduct, he has delivered on the original promise of his election — namely, heaping abuse on Washington insiders, embracing political chaos, antagonizing political opponents and caring little about norms, expertise and legalities.
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Instead of reaching out to Democratic leaders in Congress or trying to woo supporters of Hillary Clinton, Trump spent much of his first three months antagonizing Democrats on social media, scrambling to organize his staff and squelch nagging questions about Russian interference in the 2016 elections.
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Some policymakers may be tempted to resolve the current situation by sending a symbolic message to Iran while avoiding antagonizing international partners, for example by imposing a narrow set of sanctions against individual Iranian military officials or small Iranian defense companies involved in the missile program.
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Bob Corker blasted the administration, telling Pompeo that members of Congress are "filled with serious doubts about the White House and its conduct of American foreign policy," and Trump's pattern of "placating" adversaries such as North Korea and Russia, reaching secret deals and "antagonizing" US allies.
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When Obama was replaced with a man with a reputation for antagonizing black people, alongside a rash of police killings of young African-American men, politically minded hip-hop and R&B artists increasingly focused their attention on Black Lives Matter and related movements, rather than economics.
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The basketball expert in charge is openly antagonizing his most important player, attempting to trade him for draft picks he may be ill-equipped to use, and all the while, the big boss man will be noodling with his buddies in a wine bar when everything goes down.
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Mr. Rodríguez let it be known he was willing to testify in court, and he seemed undeterred by the prospect of antagonizing the Cholos 152, a Mexican-American gang whose members he had come to know and who consider 151st Street and Courtlandt Avenue to be their territory.
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The thing is, tying your behavior to a vague metric based on pleasing or antagonizing some monolithic third party is not only a drastic over-simplification of the complexities of leading a movement, it also implicitly assumes that victory through nonviolent resistance is both foolproof and easily accomplished.
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MEXICO CITY — The deaths of two Guatemalan children in Border Patrol custody raised a furor in the United States, but drew a far more muted response in their own country, where a government focused on its survival is afraid that antagonizing the Trump administration could end American support.
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Hoping to convey factual information to Americans without antagonizing Trump, public health groups that are often quick to take issue with the president have been relatively mute in challenging him on coronavirus — even when he overpromises on a vaccine or mistakenly claims testing for the virus is running smoothly.
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From New York City to Los Angeles, many of the nation's biggest cities have turned even harder to the left under President Donald Trump, putting pressure on local officials to embrace the leading progressive presidential candidates — or withhold their endorsements entirely for fear of antagonizing newly energized activists.
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After a rocky year that resulted in recruiting violations and saw Kiffin pick fights with other coaches, college football's enfant terrible bolted for USC in such an off-putting, fan-antagonizing manner that that his mother was "terrified" for Kiffin's safety when he later returned to Knoxville as Alabama's offensive coordinator.
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When considering the possible extension of current defense agreements or creation of new ones, the United States should look primarily at how such agreements will benefit or risk our national security and economic interests, not their appeal for antagonizing geopolitical rivals or whether extension is "deserved" by strategically unimportant countries.
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This has sometimes happened within states when a political party fostering suppressive or exclusive laws recognizes that, despite those laws, its hold on power may be slipping away thanks to social or demographic changes and that it would be best to stop antagonizing (and even court) blocs of potential voters.
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Rather than antagonizing Aubrey's superstar take on local talent, it should be noted that OVO is putting artists on, filling a void, and ultimately redeeming the urban culture the city lost since its number one radio source for hip-hop, Flow 93.5, was bought out by CHUM media in 2010.
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President Donald Trump has verbally sparred with both China and Mexico since winning the presidency in November, accusing China of currency manipulation and stealing American jobs and antagonizing Mexico with trade threats and ominous promises of a border wall whose estimated $210.5 billion price tag would be supported by Mexico.
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Why shouldn't the leader of one of the world's most influential countries be able to say anything he wants whenever he wants, especially when it comes to intricate diplomacy and needlessly antagonizing and raising tensions with countries that are practically drooling for any reason to send a nuclear missile into our borders?
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But a steady flow of research and a new tone in the debate among policymakers and advisers points in a different direction: rather than retreat, central banks are preparing for the day they may need to do more, even at the risk of antagonizing politicians who argue they already have too much power.
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No visa was issued then, and Mr. Dostum's election as vice president the following year has not changed the Obama administration's view of him or its willingness to let him visit the United States, said two senior American officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid antagonizing the Afghan government.
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Sometimes I think you also do need to lead from the front, and so we're talking about me probably antagonizing the organization by moving to simply working on my mobile phone so that when people send me something that's not set up for mobile phone, I will not open or read it.
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But he stepped back to avoid antagonizing other senior officials, according to a White House spokesman, and amid a swirl of questions about his family's business dealings with a Chinese conglomerate, the Anbang Group, and his sister's offer to obtain preferential American visas for Chinese who invested in the Kushner family's real estate projects.
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Despite being marginalized, Mr. Bannon consulted with the president repeatedly over the weekend as Mr. Trump struggled to respond to the neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Va. In general, Mr. Bannon has cautioned the president not to criticize far-right activists too severely for fear of antagonizing a small but energetic part of his base.
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Obama and some top aides were said to be irritated when reports emerged that Trump seemed stunned at the scale of the presidency during his Oval Office meeting on November 10 -- and they were concerned it could lead to him turning away from Obama, who remains intent on not antagonizing Trump as he continues phone consultations with his successor.
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And the police shooting of Laquan McDonald — in which police initially said that a black 17-year-old charged at an officer before the cop shot him, only for video to show the teenager wasn't a threat — made things even worse, further antagonizing distrust in the police and, as a result, limiting the police's ability to control the violence.
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Flake is very clear about what Trump should do, which is more or less the exact opposite of what he has done: Embrace free trade, stop lying about 4 percent economic growth, cease antagonizing allies and praising dictators, trust American intelligence agencies, don't incite hate against ethnic and religious minorities, let go of the whole "voter fraud" thing.
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Mr. Trump has long suggested that allegations that he or his campaign conspired with Russia to influence the election were a "hoax" and part of a "witch hunt," but until this weekend he had largely heeded the advice of lawyers who counseled him not to directly attack Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, for fear of antagonizing prosecutors.
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He also says he filed a police report, and law enforcement confirms it responded to a call for a simple battery incident at the mall on Wednesday night around 9:30 PM. Sources close to Mayweather tell us ... Calderon was antagonizing the boxer and his crew, and they believe he was looking for a fight -- and a lawsuit.
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T-Mobile has built its identity and business strategy on insulting, antagonizing, and otherwise challenging AT&T and Verizon to offer pro-consumer packages and lower pricing, and the Court finds it highly unlikely that New T-Mobile will simply rest satisfied with its increased market share after the intense regulatory and public scrutiny of this transaction.
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It wasn't that long ago that, if mental illness was represented at all on TV, it was as a mysterious, antagonizing force or a punchline, like Monk's depiction of OCD; as a catch-all excuse for being a bad person on shows like House; or whatever Criminal Minds has had going on for the past...14 years.
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Many of the most influential officials, organizations and donors in the party remain torn between their concern about Mr. Sanders's chances in the general election, their fear of antagonizing his supporters, and their belated and often-rueful recognition that he has assembled a political movement with appeal well beyond the youthful, left-wing base he built in 2016.
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A second shift was a subsequent agreement between South Korea and the United States to begin formal consultations on the deployment of an anti-ballistic missile system known as THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD.) China has opposed the potential deployment of THAAD in Korea and it remains highly sensitive in South Korea due to concerns over the risk of antagonizing China.
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Throughout his deranged campaign, Trump made a point of antagonizing some of Silicon Valley's biggest players, and demonstrated such a shocking lack of understanding for anything even remotely tech-related that it prompted us to question whether he had ever used a computer (he has.) Now, no one knows why Trump appears to be so averse to the geniuses over in California except Trump himself.
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It has been barely a month since she became leader of Myanmar's first democratically elected government since 1962, with the title of state counselor, and she no doubt fears antagonizing the Buddhist nationalists who angrily demonstrated outside the United States Embassy in late April after the embassy referred to the "Rohingya community" in a letter of condolence for Rohingya victims of a boat sinking.
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In Bloomberg, he would draw the ideal opponent, an effete Manhattan billionaire who, unlike Trump, has not assumed the mantle of a class traitor; who has endeavored to take everyone's guns and sodas away; who has a record of antagonizing key constituencies within the Democratic base—women and people of color—through his personal behavior, the corporate culture he cultivated, and the policies he's enacted and defended.
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It is not clear whether the back-and-forth will do anything to change the contours of the race, which is especially close by the standards of a state where Republicans tend to rout their rivals, but many party officials believe that Mr. Moore has steadied his candidacy and that they should back — or at least avoid further antagonizing — someone who could soon be in the Senate.
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The Israelis balked at the idea, wary of antagonizing the Obama Administration, which had refused to sell armed drones to the U.A.E. John Kerry, Clinton's successor at the State Department, had tried to re-start peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, but, when the negotiations collapsed, in 2014, Netanyahu asked Isaac Molho, one of his most trusted advisers, to concentrate on fostering political contacts with Arab states.
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Trump's threat against the press could be dismissed as merely the latest bluster in his boisterous presidential run if it were an isolated incident, but it follows a troubling pattern of behavior in the Trump campaign, which has a long and well-documented track record of antagonizing the press through ad-hominem attacks, threats of violence and trying to delegitimize it as a credible player in American public life.
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Just prior to meeting with the NYT on Tuesday, with the hope of a more tempered and "presidential" president-elect emerging from his cocoon, Trump threw a flurry of tweet jabs at the beacon of mainstream media: This is the president-elect trying to bring an adversary to heel, staying in Trump classic bully, hyperbolic character, continuously antagonizing the opponent, hoping to get into their head and give him a better negotiating position.
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Such a chain of events could lead to a particularly perilous consequence: returning to the possibility of military conflict with Iran, at a time when the United States is already facing a nuclear standoff with North Korea , would court the prospect of a two-front war—an act of self-sabotage more immediately damaging to American security than reviving the xenophobic slogan "America First," withdrawing from the Paris climate accord , or antagonizing our allies (Mexico, Australia, South Korea, and counting).
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