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Whatever you do, don't take "Amazon's Choice" at face value.
But Larries refuse to take those denials at face value.
For too many years, I took trends at face value.
"You can't take a model at face value," said Sines.
At face value it appears to be gone for good.
Any remaining bonds will then be redeemed at face value.
And Cramer is willing to take Benioff at face value.
But it's a mistake to take it at face value.
You only need to take Netflix's announcement at face value.
Republicans argued that Strzok shouldn't be taken at face value.
Other than that, don't take web comments at face value.
Still, okay, say the analysis is taken at face value.
It planned to redeem any remaining bonds at face value.
But drone enthusiasts are not taking it at face value.
But it's difficult to take Sondland's explanation at face value.
Initial reviews for the movie took it at face value.
The Senate shouldn't take such vague assurances at face value again.
At face value, there are some immediately obvious advantages to this.
At face value, Jon is a bastard without the Stark name.
"He took what they were saying at face value," Marlon said.
First, imagine if the company took that credo at face value.
Cuervo's expressions of anger are, if taken at face value, unproductive.
Whether one could take his denial at face value was unclear.
Such critics may not accept Mr Romer's apology at face value.
At face value, that is the only function of the website.
At face value, it's offensive, but no one had bad intentions.
"It can't be taken at face value," Giuliani told the newspaper.
And will senators simply accept whatever he says at face value?
Nutsinee KijbunchooAugust 19843, 2016 At face value, this practice seems counterintuitive.
Not every example is going to seem empowering at face value.
I mean, no, I wouldn't necessarily take it at face value.
Even taken at face value, the president's suggestion would be impossible.
I took it more at face value than I do now.
Trump's defenders will continue to take Lutsenko's stories at face value.
Then, like now, FCC leaders took the promises at face value.
Like most Americans, I've generally accepted these polls at face value.
At face value Playboy's leaving Facebook over the data-sharing scandal.
" Duffy said he was going to take Sessions at "face value.
At face value, twice your annual salary seems like a lot.
Taken at face value, it would impose pain for pain's sake.
They just see the work, and take it at face value.
I get why it's tempting to take Manigault's remorse at face value.
It's certainly a feature that at face value sounds suitably pro-safety.
But, taken at face value, this refrain becomes a lot less ominous.
Patients should remember not to take ads at face value, he said.
At face value, ZTE's Axon M doesn't look like a $725 smartphone.
At face value, there's nothing terribly extraordinary about the new Roku stick.
I see no reason not to take the song at face value.
That means other countries have to take Chinese prices at face value.
Taken at face value, this make's Georgia's law look moderate by comparison.
Home prices can't be taken at face value; something always comes up.
It is difficult, for instance, to take at face value the words
However, Wachter-Boetcher does sometimes seem to take at face value companies'
Pruitt purchased the tickets at face value from the OU athletic department.
Donut County is at face value a satisfying, blissfully uncomplicated puzzle game.
It won't be taken at face value or anything close to it.
Some lazy content farms like Distractify also took it at face value.
Why do we accept the language of what's "realistic" at face value?
Sometimes, CNBC's Jim Cramer is content with taking things at face value.
Thomas B. Edsall Let's take Donald Trump's trade policies at face value.
But many in Beijing will take these blunt comments at face value.
Some have become convinced that nothing should be taken at face value.
"Our culture doesn't want to take things at face value," he said.
And we can't take anything we received from Ukraine at face value.
The superhero beatdown in Batman v Superman is presented at face value.
"It can't be taken at face value," he said in an interview.
In the meantime, consumers shouldn't automatically accept these contracts at face value.
We should know better than to take what HBO says at face value.
Some athletes, if their words can be taken at face value, already have.
A: (Long pause.) I think we have to take Dolores at face value.
But there are a few problems with taking those numbers at face value.
The Wall Street Journal said the figures shouldn't be taken at face value.
At face value, the poll appears to be one Facebook itself is conducting.
But it's important to not just take the word "sanctuary" at face value.
"That's a good thing," Woods said, and at face value, he's not wrong.
At face value, Hereditary works as an elegant genre film about the occult.
I was prone to taking what people said and did at face value.
But that phrase "taken at face value" is doing some heavy lifting here.
Conservatives, if one is to take their amnesia at face value, might be.
But Peloton's churn rate shouldn't be taken at face value, retention experts said.
But beyond that, it's hard to take what he says at face value.
Through in-depth, on-the-ground reporting, they take nothing at face value.
But that doesn't mean you can just take primary results at face value.
It makes it difficult for others to accept our words at face value.
Hence, my reading his designs at face value should be what he expects.
I think that people seem to kind of take it at face value.
"It can't be taken at face value," Mr. Giuliani said in an interview.
"Ban the box is a great idea at face value," Ms. Martin said.
Some of the stories told by refugees cannot be taken at face value.
And yet it's always a mistake to take their frivolity at face value.
Until then, you have to take this neat new fitness gadget at face value.
Less happily, the makers take everything she—and everyone else—says at face value.
Behind so many things we take at face value are interesting, non-typical jobs.
"It's hard to believe [Nalcor] at face value when they say stuff," he said.
Yet even Hannity suggested he was unwilling to take Dorsey's explanation at face value.
"In many respects I think investors tend to take reported earnings at face value."
At face value, you could call it an upgraded version of the Fitbit Blaze.
The platform allows fans to resell unwanted tickets, with prices capped at face value.
Which sounds good at face value, but the proposition is more complicated than that.
The public record of lying is too robust to take Trump at face value.
At face value, photos I shot with the device's full 20153x zoom looked impressive.
But we can't afford to take anything regarding Russia at face value right now.
But even taking "gaming disorder" at face value, evidence suggests it is exceedingly rare.
He said in January that "nothing" Trump says can be taken at face value.
Cecily felt she could walk into a gallery and be taken at face value.
Of course, no one is naïve enough to take these statements at face value.
But not all of Shakespeare's contemporaries took his newly minted status at face value.
I will take nothing at face value, ask questions and write my own rules.
Even if these costs seem manageable at face value, they can add up tremendously.
I don't take anybody at face value What's the most compelling report you've received?
But its churn numbers shouldn't be taken at face value, customer-retention experts said.
Each tribute can be read at face value, as specifically applying only to McCain.
L critiques racism in his work has, at times, been taken at face value.
At 13, 11 and 5, they still took everything I said at face value.
It is well past time to stop taking the corps' assurances at face value.
The findings show that mongooses don't just take a sentinel's call at face value.
And the reason for that is that we can't take people at face value.
Moser accepts her grievances at face value and weaves them into his unsparing narrative.
" That said, Belloni added, "We always verify and don't take them at face value.
It is really nice because the emphasis is on selling tickets at face value.
Let's break it down: The question, taken at face value, is a big one.
It also tastefully gives America its due without taking patriotic mythmaking at face value.
At face value, the attackers noted by Trump were indeed beholden to a radicalized ideology.
So, at face value, something like an orange has decayed in their version of time.
Doomsday predictions intrigue us, but we should be wary of taking them at face value.
Unfortunately, some critics of the proposed executive order take these false histories at face value.
MLB decided to take that flimsy defense at face value, and considers the matter closed.
If taken at face value, this appears to show that Wright has Nakamoto's private keys.
No matter what, O'Hare doesn't believe we should take any of them at face value.
Again, at face value, this isn't exactly the worst benefit for a company to offer.
This is a bummer because, at face value, Apple News+ seems like a great deal.
Why is it that in this universe people tend to take things at face value?
At the same time, Trump's ability to solve the problem is, at face value, plausible.
I do not resent it at face value or at any level deeper than that.
If we're to take her words at face value, she was simply debunking misleading photos.
I'm starting to feel like you just have to take the signal at face value.
At face value, it should be a film that you should be able to access.
At face value, it may seem that groceries and luxury fashion have nothing in common.
"If we take this report at face value, the details are not positive," said McGuire.
Set your brain the task of unraveling these clues, and take nothing at face value.
At face value, Cadillac's cars seemed almost identical to those the company produced under Ford.
And taking the groove-led songs at face value, they sound free and invincibly happy.
These hacks have undermined confidence in SWIFT messages, which were previously accepted at face value.
Dr. Ann McKee, the study's senior author, warns against accepting the results at face value.
Like modern voting restrictions, the old laws didn't appear to racially discriminate at face value.
Mr. van Zweden seemed to take the piece at face value — in the best sense.
"We are not asking you to take Rick Gates's testimony at face value," he said.
"I wouldn't take most of the claims of 'Unhinged' at face value," Michelle Goldberg wrote.
That's the real factor determining whether you can take productivity advice at face value: privilege.
Thus nothing that Parnas said in the Maddow interview should be taken at face value.
Instead, she took his threats to sue the Daily Beast and CNN at face value.
And taking those words at face value, somebody might accuse you of not being honest.
Critics, taking news media reports of the nomination at face value, pounced on Mr. Abe.
But let's assume Tomic doesn't need professional help and take his words at face value.
Taken at face value, the term is actually a decent description for the whole electronic genre.
That being said, I'm not keen to start taking everything these two say at face value.
But with $210 billion in mystery cuts, it's hard to take the budget at face value.
What all this means is that ceasefires in Syria must not be taken at face value.
Raw takes cannibalism at face value, as another adolescent urge stubbornly refusing to adhere to reason.
The trouble with siblings is that you're meant to accept what they say at face value.
Which is why it was impossible to take the president's words on Monday at face value.
A Ghost Story cannot be easily explained, and it certainly cannot be taken at face value.
What makes historical sites and areas significant isn't generally just what you see at face value.
Put all of that out of your mind, and let's take the fight at face value.
Should we take all of our activist leaders at face value and not question their methods?
At face value Mr Trump has turned his name into a global brand that prints cash.
His organisation's methodology, based on domestic dollars taken at face value, was sound, he told Reuters.
Jenner takes his trophy husband/dreamboat part at face value, not even beginning to overthink it.
Students and parents have received their financial aid offers, but don't take them at face value.
Moreover, no one who self-styles as an 'Internet supervillain' should be taken at face value.
That track record makes it impossible to take the latest round of allegations at face value.
At face value it makes economic sense, it lowers the cost of capital for the economy.
The survey also found that employees don't always take customers with service dogs at face value.
However, the Russians did, and this at face value reveals either apparent American complicity or naivete.
He secured them at face value when the going rate was as much as 7x higher.
I was able to scoop up great tickets at face value thanks to an Amex presale.
But my every reflex argues against too quickly taking this home run explosion at face value.
We just shouldn't take Iranian spin at face value — especially when it's contradicted by independent evidence.
Still, national media from the onset, abstracted Bland, readily consuming Texas official accounts at face value.
I analyzed online comments to deduce trends, and I certainly didn't take stars at face value.
In the theatre, we tend to take words at face value, since they tell the story.
For others, Haspel's role in the program is less worrisome than it appears at face value.
Taken at face value, this sounds like a peculiar installment in the annals of drone sightings.
What would I think of myself if I had just taken this test at face value?
If someone viewed Climax at face value, they might think it had a negative view on narcotics.
"While confidence, at least at face value was a positive outcome, business conditions deteriorated further," cautioned Oster.
This isn't the case with Trump, whose words foreign leaders can no longer take at face value.
Melissa, this just seems weird at face value, that the markets would climb with all these worries.
Taken at face value, slightly deflated footballs hardly merit the kind of harsh punishment Goodell meted out.
It stirred up rage in the replies as users took the claims of fraud at face value.
I think at face value that ignores the basic fundamental strength that Apple has as a company.
But just taking President Trump's promises at face value would imply a boost to the bottom line.
Trump's everyman-billionaire political identity, taken at face value, is much harder to weaponize than Romney's was.
But all of those findings are fairly weak and provisional—not to be trusted at face value.
But we have to take the report at face value -- it's all we have on the record.
At face value, it seems the pair are dismissing chatter they have swung into a new romance.
At face value, understanding memes might not seem like the most important problem for AI to solve.
To this day, no one takes a word that comes out of Lacey's mouth at face value.
Still, Staples' bonds maturing in 2018 are trading at face value, indicating investor confidence in the company.
But Rwanda's literacy rates, life expectancy, and economic growth numbers continue to be taken at face value.
"That's the real factor determining whether you can take productivity advice at face value: privilege," Henry wrote.
Yet as the police raise doubts about the swimmers, many are taking their word at face value.
Like most hacks, of course, not everything in this version is to be taken at face value.
For now at least, it seems we're going to have to take Jonas' word at face value.
Instead, China experts and academics are pointing out that the video can't be taken at face value.
It's hard to accept at face value this vague explanation for such a costly, high-profile retreat.
It reflects a fundamental ignorance of geography and a tendency to uncritically accept numbers at face value.
That nugget, at face value, may not be surprising to you and it wasn't to me either.
It is all too clear that none of the published numbers can be taken at face value.
A "?" at the end of a clue typically means the clue cannot be taken at face value.
The answer, if one takes the Internal Revenue Service definitions at face value, seemed to be yes.
So how does that fit with what you said earlier, about taking the show at face value?
Again, there aren't many of these polls, but taken at face value there's a case that Mrs.
At face value, a film adaptation of one of Broadway's longest running musicals seems like guaranteed success.
When Sarah believes she's being abducted by aliens, the movie unsettlingly takes her delusion at face value.
Your love can be taken at face value, though you can sometimes be impulsive in your relationships.
Instead, we must stay alert, watch and listen very carefully, and not accept anything at face value.
But it's been so pervasive for so many years that consumers now take it at face value.
I'm too old to take threats at face value, but there's no reason to doubt the spirit.
At face value, it appears that there is not much Trump can do about high oil prices.
Yael: Did anybody else think it was weird that Dom took what he said at face value?
Why isn't the best political response to take the choice they are being offered at face value?
At times, influencers collaborate to the point that ideological differences become impossible to take at face value.
Ali Khan says it's important that readers don't take every academic article they read at face value.
Don't take every control at face value: You can do more with some than their little icons imply.
We've been trained over quite some time not to take him or his Twitter account at face value.
Previn (and, by inference, Allen) seems to take at face value that Dylan's story should not be heard.
After last week's episode, it's difficult to take anything in Westworld at face value, and that includes William.
"It seems a little crazy to take those numbers at face value," Rogowski says of the Quinnipiac polls.
Italy's treasury would buy the bonds held by around 40,000 retail investors at face value, the sources said.
They say they significantly increase your odds of getting a match, let's just take that at face value.
People were trying to judge it at face value as somebody who was just trying to get attention.
Taken at face value, this is an opportunity for Peña Nieto to turn the page on his troubles.
The new RBI governor will also have to decide whether to take the GDP figure at face value.
You can accept the story at face value or not; Sacca told the story to make a point.
But an economy growing at such a healthy clip seems, at face value, unlikely to need such support.
The Paul Feig-directed thriller appeared too absurdly stylized, too sinfully delicious, to be taken at face value.
On your resume, information is more or less taken at face value until it's time for your interview.
Even years into the Trump era, there's still a reluctance to take the president's word at face value.
Katchadourian takes the advertising emblems at face value and a fantasy of lineage to an oddly logical conclusion.
If we were to take this report at face value, half the people cited should be in prison.
At face value, the law is rather impressive, borrowing from and adopting best practices from around the world.
If you take DHS's response at face value, it appears NPPD does not have its own technical capability.
Mueller may well have said these things, but Giuliani's recounting of them shouldn't be accepted at face value.
Take this at face value: Detroit has 50% more venture-backed startups than it did three years ago.
"Anyone who took [Machado's] story at face value should probably give it a listen," said one representative response.
Democrats are unlikely to accept at face value the notion of a carve-out in the nepotism laws.
I never allowed myself to just take at face value who they are or how they presented themselves.
"At face value, the stories are fun and funny to read, but weightier questions lurk below the surface."
Anyone can call themselves a financial adviser, at least for now, so don't accept titles at face value.
This has made American policymakers more likely to heed allies' demands and take their claims at face value.
At face value, the stories are fun and funny to read, but weightier questions lurk below the surface.
Actual politicians who came courting at CPAC over the years normally took the institution's mission at face value.
Ticket prices for the final, which ranged from about $215 to $2000 at face value, quickly spiraled upward.
Here in the narcissism capital, Mr. Lin's sweetness and sunshine can be hard to take at face value.
Employers accepted them at face value, which is as much as they're required to do under the law.
That's not a high bar, and I wouldn't take most of the claims of "Unhinged" at face value.
A driver of another car told cops Desiigner had a gun, and they took it at face value.
When I've been presented with stuff that people say is conspiracy, I don't take it at face value.
Privacy valued In Germany, which has strict privacy laws, many are willing to take Merkel's explanations at face value.
KERNEN: But is it possible that all those things are actually, just take them at face value as positive?
And in medicine, there's a different guiding principle that places a premium on sharing significant results at face value.
"Being inclusive and accepting diversity goes far deeper than accepting differences at face value and being tolerant," she said.
He "spent" them at "face value" in exchange for goods and services, cheekily challenging the value ascribed to money.
The series protagonist — at face value — is Nolan Gallard (RJ Fetherstonhaugh), an adrift player whose father is in prison.
The local newspaper, the Missoulian, noticed, and published a story taking Anglin's threats at face value, which went viral.
I don't think anyone should take anything Big Tech says at face value, but Apple's actions spoke loudly, too.
Unprompted, Ms Li relates how her daughter, a banker, warned her against taking private firms' promises at face value.
Ask the deeper questions, stop accepting everything at face value — especially when it looks to pathologize a particular community.
Taking either side at face value, it seems like one of the most important conversations we can be having.
Have you ever noticed how no one takes sentences that start "I'm not a racist, but…" at face value?
Jo Rosenthal, an artist, activist, and curator, thinks that at face value the letter seems like a good idea.
In the meantime, consumers are left to take Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, and AT&T's promises at face value.
"I don't think you should take this 235,000 at face value," Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs, told CNBC.
Susan Collins, Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio, did initially take the administration's rationale for dismissing Comey at face value.
Obviously, we shouldn't take Corsi's book — and particularly his repeated claims of innocence and memory failure — at face value.
However, that's difficult for Kramer — who's still dealing with the aftermath of his cheating — to accept at face value.
Good journalists should not be willing accept such distorted pretenses at face value, nor assume good faith without evidence.
But Trump's sole justification for deploying US troops to Syria, taken at face-value, have conflicted with the Pentagon's.
However, this does not mean that Trump should simply embrace the Democratic Party's platform on immigration at face value.
Taken at face value, that means Trump would allocate more than half a trillion dollars to reviving America's infrastructure.
In the meantime, even people who should have known better took the CDC's low case numbers at face value.
" Hence Western State's guidelines state that "a runner's self-declared gender at registration will be accepted at face value.
Taken at face value, those numbers suggest she's primed to benefit the most from the format of the caucuses.
As former law enforcement, I was well aware of the pitfalls of taking every related accounting at face value.
Taken at face value, Trump did not sound much like a man hellbent on tilting health care policy rightward.
Infidelity, as a literary theme, interests me less at face value than just about anything I can think of.
After all, Fox & Friends misread the Hill report, and Trump took what he saw on TV at face value.
There's no nuance or subtlety—you're just a happy little idiot bumbling along, taking the world at face value.
There, Putin also denied Russia's efforts to interfere in the election, and Trump reportedly took it at face value.
Pluto is the planet of secrets, and it doesn't accept anything at face value, making you a little paranoid.
When you're shopping for a home and looking at listings online, remember not to take what's there at face value.
Some conservatives are already taking Nunes's memo at face value and lambasting the FBI as a partisan, anti-Trump agency.
In his telling, Barr appeared to accept at face value the idea that Trump was really alarmed by actual conflicts.
While a standalone messaging app may not sound like a Snapchat rival at face value, it sure as hell is.
It's a clever enough cyberpunk idea, but it takes Reeves' essential blankness at face value, and minimizes his formidable physicality.
What does you think someone who takes Trump's comments at face value understands when they hear his references to Chicago?
I'm not suggesting we should naively take what's said on stage at face value, but paying attention can be instructive.
She survives such a challenging childhood (which she accepted at face value), only to be reborn as a young adult.
As much as we wish we could take what we find on the internet at face value, we just can't.
When "Flashman" was first published in America, about a third of the 40-odd reviewers took it at face value.
As a journalist, I've been trained to look for truth, to not accept pat answers or anything at face value.
Apart from money, Latin American governments like—and take at face value—China's stance on global governance and climate change.
It's our good pal Donald Osborne, back with three cars that you definitely should not judge at face value. Here.
At face value, the idea seems antithetical to the Google mission because the company is so dependent ads for revenue.
" Kim recognizes that their project needs to go further, and that "explaining things at face value doesn't cut it anymore.
Taken at face value, these sound like the types of blustery promises that are all the rage with EV startups.
Taken at face value, this suggests a role for social media in the transmission of Germany-wide anti-refugee sentiment.
And so, nudging various artists into a single 'political' and 'potent' definition isn't useful if just taken at face value.
"The EU ... have overlooked the childish tricks and are taking the extension at face value, taking it seriously," Cherry said.
"The EU ... have overlooked the childish tricks and are taking the extension at face value, taking it seriously," Cherry said.
But no one really takes this pretext at face value, given that Trump faces no serious opposition in those contests.
Public colleges tend to be more affordable at face value, and also come with larger class sizes and larger campuses.
Incidentally, that pageant includes an octopus (as well as two lobsters.) At face value, the octopus serves as comic relief.
During repeated instances in the past, Trump has also emphasized that he takes Putin's denials about interference at face value.
So while it whiffed on that earnings number, things may not seem as grave as they look at face value.
At face value and for newcomers to the sport, it is difficult to understand the hype surrounding Diaz and Masvidal.
In "Bajrangi Bhaijaan", the chicken song is a song that people can easily enjoy at face value, and people do.
Quillette, founded by Australian writer Claire Lehmann, had a field day with Lenihan's "study," which it took at face value.
Even if we take that claim at face value, it's worth examining whether the trade-offs would be worth it.
Yet taken at face value, Tuesday's speech may be seen by history as a signature moment in the Trump presidency.
I learned to riddle out problems, to dig through old books for good answers, to accept nothing at face value.
In other words, even taking the Stop and Frisk data at face value, we should all care about these differences.
Most people took public health experts' reassurances at face value and assumed the low numbers of reported cases reflected reality.
In "The Great Gatsby," Fitzgerald warns readers against accepting society at face value, a lesson that Yancy emphasizes as well.
But let's just take her story at face value and assume it happened exactly the way she said it did.
If you're looking to save money, don't take things at face value; results can vary greatly from site to site.
So eager is Lind to be sympathetic to populists that he begins to take their talking points at face value.
But even taken at face value, a 6.4 percent noncitizen voting rate would account for only one-fourth of Mrs.
The New Me By Halle Butler At face-value, The New Me does not sound like a light-hearted read.
The moves were relatively modest, with one analyst pointing toward some market hesitancy to accept Trump's statements at face value.
"If you buy a ticket on the primary market, you're buying it at face value plus booking fees," said Monari.
But at least according to vocalist-guitarist Carl Shane, you'd be advised not to take such sentiments at face value.
Tons of my friends at school were from London, and I just took all their poverty stories at face value.
Sanders' communications director says that the tickets were purchased "privately at face value," but declined to say how much they cost.
"The Fed has gone into damage limitation mode and the market is taking it at face value," a metals trader said.
That said, it's not necessarily a huge stretch for people to have taken the Harahan Police Department's "warning" at face value.
Everything is taken at face value in the doc, painting an image of Iran that's far more dystopian than the reality.
At face value, beauty competitions represent an idealization of women as beautiful objects, valuable so far as they are physically appealing.
So, when Musk said he could sell all 500,000 cars he can make next year, Cramer takes it at face value.
You are now going to the game at face value or a fraction of what tickets are on the secondary market.
But without detailed methodology describing how the researchers found this phenomenon getting stronger, the results can't be taken at face value.
These remarks are phrased like there's no argument to be had, so we are inclined to accept them at face value.
At face value, Audrey's antics seem crazy — we have no context for her blathering, so we assume she's cuckoo banana pants.
Taken at face value, the hashtag suggests that the idea of repealing of women's right to vote is a popular one.
We are now living in the age of fake news; where mistruths are presented as truths, and believed at face value.
While Notch's tweet has since been deleted, Shkreli's offer to buy out the floundering imageboard is being taken at face value.
The answer to the second question would be "absolutely not," if I took the Southern Poverty Law Center at face value.
"I am surprised that he accepted at face value apparently what happened to the American who was held there," she said.
"I will take people at face value and where they are today and what they're doing for the bureau," Kraninger said.
The President stressed he was not accepting Putin's denials at face value, instead saying he merely believed Putin was being genuine.
You might think reporters would have learned by now not to take what people like Mr. Chaffetz say at face value.
He doesn't need to lie, but he does need you to suspend disbelief, to not take every metaphor at face value.
At face value, a woman in rope bondage within a patriarchal culture can seem like a vexing exacerbation of male dominance.
What's next: Trump should take Putin's high talk of sovereignty and borders at face value and use it to his advantage.
In this environment, it would have been absurd to take accusations of assault and harassment made against Clinton at face value.
It will serve as a test of whether negative ads, which are generally disliked at face value by voters, are effective.
There are plenty of reasons not to take the overall stability in economic growth, or even slight acceleration, at face value.
But some advocates on K Street say they are taking Trump at face value when he boasts about being a dealmaker.
There's another reason why Trump's backing for a public release of a Mueller report should not be taken at face value.
But to Gabbard's defenders, the refusal to take Gabbard at face value is tantamount to targeting her for her unorthodox views.
This is encouraging investors to buy discounted loans in the secondary market rather than buying new primary loans at face value.
There was the gruesome possibility that Fiachra simply expected Bobby to take developments at face value, and be happy for Tombes.
The question mark in the clue should alert solvers that the clue itself is not to be taken at face value.
If not for the video recording that later surfaced, the report would have likely been taken by many at face value.
But it's also somewhat difficult to take his statements at face value given recent comments he's made about Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman.
Mundane dream, taken at face value — but the story it tells is that you are, or should be, prioritizing your morning routine.
Behind drug use are issues that, at face value, may not seem related — what some experts call the root causes of addiction.
While the sample size was a healthy n=19,957, the scientists had to take the words of the parents at face value.
Hulu paid the creator $250,000 to be interviewed, according to The Ringer, but the doc doesn't take his words at face value.
Photo: Dima YarovinskyMade up of colorful scrolls cascading down a wall, artist Dima Yarovinsky's installation "I Agree" is beautiful—at face value.
" To take the typo-filled, rambling manifesto at face value, Friday's attack was inspired by the white nationalist concept of "white genocide.
We should take her art at face value, her frustration implies, and question why we're so shocked by her mere continued existence.
The fesso might cheer a new clean-air law in his city, naively taking an announcement by the elites at face value.
Grant's 18-year-old daughter, Noel Rasmussen, told the Daily Mail not to take her mother's comments about Markle at face value.
Taking the state's official statements at face value, friends and colleagues recoiled in shock, and news of his death filled the airwaves.
Given Netflix's reluctance to come forward with viewer information, though, it's hard to take its figures at face value, without independent verification.
Luckily for everyone, Venus is going to reenter Libra on Wednesday, where it has an easier time appreciating beauty at face value.
For example, the many-worlds interpretation takes the evolution of the wave function at face value and denies that it ever collapses.
But if the last 15 years of Facebook have taught us anything, it's that we shouldn't take Zuckerberg's words at face value.
"At face value, one could suspect that a lot of the pain in China was sort of lessening," said Action Economics' Rupert.
At face value, it seems the category is restricted to Orange Is the New Black, House of Cards, Narcos, and Stranger Things.
As for how he was mislabeled ... some reporter said he was an international artist and everyone just took it at face value.
In the meantime, I'll take their story at face value and await the arrival of Liler Xan approximately 31 weeks from now.
It's beyond unwise to take at face value statements coming from the White House on such sensitive topics, or just about anything.
So if you take that at face value, ad-supported hardware seems to be a fine trade-off for plenty of customers.
I'm drawn to these type of foods because I am a naturally curious person and I hate accepting things at face value.
"We had no reason not to believe the information he was giving us, so we took it at face value," Yates said.
Rather than vet purchasers' claims, the DOD takes other countries' assertions that they would walk away from a purchase at face value.
At face value, you may be thinking these are the familiar stories of survival for lives spent on the fringes of society.
For a while at least, until authorities pushed back, most everyone back home in the States took Lochte's story at face value.
"At face value, I think mostly due to Homer's ever-present antics, that their relationship would not be healthy," says Grinonneau-Denton.
The bonds can also be used as loan guarantees at face value, it added, without saying when the securities will be issued.
"It can't be taken at face value," Mr. Giuliani said of Mr. McGahn's account one day after the Mueller report was released.
No other details were provided, but at face value, such a blast would be 1,000 times as powerful as the Hiroshima bombing.
Taken together at face value, these supply-side considerations can seem overwhelming for startups already facing innumerable daily "fires" that need extinguishing.
John Garamendi of California took Barr's remarks at face value, though he bemoaned that the attorney general had not spoke out before.
Another oddity about assurances we shouldn't panic is that they often rest on taking the disease numbers from China at face value.
Encinia was trained to be overly suspicious and was "terrified" of Bland, Gladwell says — apparently taking the officer's statements at face value.
If you take the administration at face value, the soon-to-be-banned countries are being targeted over their poor surveillance record.
"We don't want to take [the tests done in Japan] at face value," CDC spokesperson Scott Pauley told The San Francisco Chronicle.
In their haste to post articles about the release, almost all the leading news organizations took the WikiLeaks tweets at face value.
Taken at face value, the currently available data shows both GDP growth and payroll jobs growth to be in decisive cyclical downturns.
You can on one hand take it at face value and say that Facebook is taking a step back to their roots.
At face value, some of the Hard Questions posed by Facebook over the last several months do appear to tackle some contentious subjects.
Of course, just because Google is changing some of its products doesn't mean we need to take all its claims at face value.
Andres told jurors that he wasn't asking them to take Gates's testimony at face value, to trust Gates, or even to like him.
If we are to take online customer reviews at face value, it seems Umpqua is only good if not average in customer service.
Meanwhile, competitors like Google aren't taking the challenge of new functionality from a band fo startups at face value (or their last valuations).
At face value, literally, Paul is a handsome, clean-cut white man at the heights of one of the most altruistic of professions.
If Fisher loves this game so much he's willing to put himself out there, we're going to take his attempt at face value.
In aggregate and at face-value, it all looks like typical product iteration from an enormously popular social app looking to to grow.
But it revels in the uncomplicated hilarity of taking animal logic at face value, then it blows that joy up to absurd proportions.
If EPSA's arguments are taken at face value, then neither states nor the feds have jurisdiction over demand response participation in wholesale markets.
You could take it at face value: a big Hollywood action movie, but there was a lot in there that piqued our curiosity.
At face value, this video from The KlingDing is just another charming chip-tune remix made slightly more impressive by its live performance.
At face value, these estimates imply that China is suffering from a budget gap—not to mention a credibility gap—of Greek proportions.
But why would her opponents accept that at face value if she is not also to be held responsible for past electoral losses?
It's only natural: their constituencies will hear that Russians are using bitcoin to hack the election systems and take it at face value.
The magazine strikes a delicate balance between belief and disbelief: Rarely is any subject dismissed outright; rarely is anything accepted at face value.
And it's hard to take her call for women to stop judging each other at face value when she's said things like this.
That seemed like the best way for a television critic to approach a television production, anyway—to take the work at face value.
"The conduct we observed on the video at face value is shocking, disturbing and personally saddening to watch," Napier wrote in a statement.
" He warned against taking anything the North Koreans display at face value: "Whenever they've shown anything, in almost every case they've been lying.
Taking them at face value, the challenge is now for a public dialogue to "break out" that begins to build consensus around responses.
But in a possibly more consequential development, after years of accepting Musk's pronouncements at face value, the press has begun to scrutinize Tesla.
When the artifice of sex industry branding is taken at face value, sex work advocates are broadly dismissed as vapid, frivolous rich girls.
Taken at face value, these technological advances are incredibly meaningful, and they will revolutionize our commercial interactions and expand possibilities like never before.
Here's a quick sampling of comments we've seen in the past 24 hours: I take the Republican senators' comments here at face value.
Though the mainstream media has mostly taken the crisis claim at face value, economists and actuaries debate its extent and even its existence.
But perhaps Delvey is taken at face value because her crimes seem to be predicated on such feminine desires—for clothing and status.
In its current state, you can't distinguish scenes meant to borrow comedy-hour elements from those meant to be taken at face value.
Serves me right for taking at face value a story in The New York Post, which hyped it totally beyond its true proportions.
To see her that way is to take at face value an archetype that she did everything in her formidable power to subvert.
An ABC News write-up stresses the risks of Iranian retaliation, but simply takes Pompeo's claim of an imminent threat at face value.
While that kind of life may sound nice at face value, just pause for a second to think about what it would mean.
Like the statements of a candidate at a political debate, a litigant's claims at oral argument shouldn't always be taken at face value.
He was also accused of obtaining tickets for the World Series and Super Bowl at face value then selling them for a profit.
It was a philosophy that was taken at face value by investors, and adhered to for decades, more or less, for good reasons.
Mr. Hadland, now a professor at the University of Stirling in Scotland, cautioned against taking any of Mr. Maxwell's claims at face value.
In the court of public opinion, we can and should reach reasoned conclusions while not accepting either accusations or denials at face value.
Now, if we take Barr's summary letter at face value, he also claims that there are challenging factual issues, and there may be.
At face value, You protagonist Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley, Gossip Girl's Gossip Girl) is a dreamy bookstore manager who's always there to save her.
In other words, we should take the 21988 polling at face value: Biden's probably in a bit of a better position than those below.
"Everyone in the immediate aftermath of this crime focused on the statement Michelle Martens made and they took it at face value," Torrez said.
This is the worst-case scenario — one that takes Berenson's faulty claims at face value — and it's far from the end of the world.
CHARLES EVANS: Well, I mean, at face value it suggests that the market sees something I have not yet seen in the national data.
You see, simple as they may seem at face value, there's actually a good amount of thought put into those 'lil poops and smilies.
It is a measure of the awe Mr Bannon inspires in America's media that such fighting talk has largely been taken at face value.
"While at face value the slowdown is mainly the result of technical factors, the underlying trend could soon give reason for concerns," he said.
Trouble is, the researchers presented virtually no empirical evidence to support their extraordinary claim, and the credulous media simply took it at face-value.
At face value, maybe, but Hanekamp says that you can still make sustainability a priority whether you choose man-made crystals or natural ones.
Pompeo said in that hearing a few moments after that exchange that the president did take the intelligence community&aposs assessment at face value.
If you take the polling at face value, they will get a lot fewer votes than the other party and retain their majority anyway.
If we ignore the photo and take the words at face value, Donald Trump's entire campaign is still at odds with this entire tweet.
A line like "Nothing costs nothing," for example, can be taken at face value, or by the opposite that it implies: everything costs something.
The son of immigrant parents who left the Dominican Republic to flee a dictatorship, Tom does not take our country's democracy at face value.
Comey graciously demurred, but we can take his version of events at face value and still find the whole affair a D.C. melodrama. Sen.
"Step 11: "I'm selling the second pair to my friend at face value, because I'm about good vibes/karma, when it comes to Yeezy.
"A sworn statement to the court admitting that they spent money on behalf of the campaign should be taken at face value," Goldfeder said.
Romero responded saying they took the woman's story at face value and didn't investigate whether it was possible for an Echo to call 911.
"For now, we have to take it at face value that he is sticking around, and I think that is positive for the company."
This may seem like an exciting offer at face value, but let's break down why it's probably not the best use of your points.
Sullivan decries what she calls "both sides" journalism in which she says statements from Trump and his "deceptive surrogates" are taken at face value.
They took Trump's Helsinki retraction at face value, even though Trump undermined it during the very same news conference at which he offered it.
But even taking Mr. Morales's words at face value, these fighters have been deported and could not be traveling as part of the caravan.
They are reluctant to accept the White House's claims at face value, and do not want to provide Washington with any pretext for war.
The sentencing judge does not have to accept the prosecution's account at face value, and Mr. Manafort's lawyers are expected to vigorously contest it.
Well, taking Barr's summary at face value for now, Mueller was very clear on the contrast between the collusion part and the obstruction part.
And Mr. Trump's response has been far more categorical, if his statements can be taken at face value rather than as a bargaining position.
"You can't really take people here at face value," he said during one "Daledoggle" — a drive around town in his well-used pickup truck.
When taken at face value, Miss Virginia, which is based on the real activism of Virginia Walden Ford, is a great and inspiring movie.
The President's comments were also the latest instance in which he has accepted the denial of an autocratic leader like Kim at face value.
One thing I didn't understand was how my mother could've read so many novels and still take anything anyone ever said at face value.
Absolutely. He's actually showing how these tactics will get you into trouble if you read this book naively and take it at face value.
His lawyer, Lee Wolosky, who also represents Free Joseon, accused U.S. authorities of accepting at face value a false North Korean account of events.
And we can't always take norms at face value — sometimes they hide deeper, more serious threats to the democratic values we claim to cherish.
You could take it at face value: gorgeous shots of celebrations intermingled with images of drag queens, a nostalgic piano tune tinkling over it all.
But don't take this finding at face value yet, as some other outlets have, because history has shown that teenagers like to mess with scientists.
The director of the park, Mike Villas warns people shouldn't take the first visuals at "face value" as all is not what it seems. Yikes!
Still, if you take the numbers at face value, it should provide a bit of an insight into what people are watching, week-to-week.
At face value, it's just echoing the phrase Jaime Lannister uses to refer to the newly knighted Ser Brienne of Tarth (played by Gwendoline Christie).
But ultimately, if we are to take Election Year at face value, it's way too much fun to be a successful takedown of contemporary politics.
Other companies, like Twickets, are tackling the problem by moderating a marketplace that allows fans to resell unwanted tickets, with prices capped at face value.
Facial recognition technology caught an impostor trying to illegally enter the U.S. on a fake passport that may have passed at face value with humans.
Vashukevich says she can fill in those gaps, but Navalny told the Associated Press he's not prepared to take her claims entirely at face value.
Instead of immediately retreating to our corners, we're able to, hopefully, examine this at face value and decide for ourselves what to make of it.
To cover its back, Google stresses that you shouldn't take its predictions at face value, and should turn up to your flight on time regardless.
An analysis by The Economist of filings submitted by over 700 large public companies shows that the data should not be taken at face value.
Do you ever fear that people will only take it at face value and not understand that it's more than just voguing and fancy costumes?
It being the prime minister, when he declares victory after this Potemkin process there is a danger that people will take it at face value.
If millions around the world love the song at face value, we are delighted, but maybe they have been fooled as Eva's adoring descamisados were.
Roll back regulation and you might get a short boom in bank shares, if investors are willing to take those higher revenues at face value.
" But the new director added that she "will take people at face value and where they are today and what they're doing for the bureau.
For more than a decade, according to the Chicago Tribune, the Cubs have offered playoff tickets to local officials at face value, no strings attached.
As is often the case with the wily McConnell, there was some skepticism as to whether that explanation ought to be taken at face value.
Taken at face value, for example, we might conclude that Trump supporters truly believe that the president's weakening of environmental protections is improving the environment.
Although it can be difficult to fully accept such responses at face value, these findings nevertheless carry important implications as the midterm elections draw near.
I want theatergoers to be able to purchase tickets at face value at our box office and our website, rather than on a resale platform.
It's easier for a person to do that than take him at face value, which might force that person to change his or her opinion.
At face value, these efforts seem benevolent, but they obscure the real problem, which is the role that corporate polluters play in the plastic problem.
A good chunk of what Guilded brings to the table isn't groundbreaking in its own right — taken at face value, Guilded is a lightweight forum.
" Another piece bound for the conventions will also use words not quite taken at face value: giant ice sculptures spelling the phrase "The American Dream.
At face value, SoftBank seems like a godsend: offering big money that founders want, big valuations that investors want, and hot deals that SoftBank wants.
"Equity markets are relying on loose monetary policy, but they are also taking Trump at face value so I expect more volatility ahead," Dall'Angelo said.
President Trump appeared to take Saudi officials' claims at face value, disregarding Turkish assertions that senior figures in the royal court had ordered his killing.
But many have expressed alarm about taking the figures at face value, given the government's track record of suppressing information about this and previous crises.
In a stroke of luck, he just found out that he'll have an extra ticket and offers to sell it to me at face value!
If you take the media portrayal at face value, then why would you pick the older crabbier version of the same progressive vision and approach?
Given Trump's track record—and his thousands of lies as president—there is simply no reason to take anything that he says at face value.
If his approval rating were taken at face value, there would be an argument that his presidency could be in jeopardy before it even started.
Many critics have taken Cheng's articulations of the future at face value, but it is a misconception that the live simulations represent an alternate reality.
When Mark Zuckerberg announces in his earnings call last month that he's really taking the Russia stuff seriously, do you take that at face value?
But that didn't stop a wave of headlines from Fox News, Vibe, XXL, NME, Complex, and countless others taking AJ's original tweet at face value.
We take, at face value, the intention of this prize to be to support and give voice to serious artistic positions and practices based in Germany.
Just don't always take everything you see at face value: Information might be "inaccurate, incomplete or outdated" says Giglio, so run several checks if you can.
In Standing Rock, Indigenous demonstrators had no chance to plead their case and the concerns of law enforcement were accepted by the FAA at face value.
He noted that during oral arguments they accepted at "face value" the administration's justification for the law, that the question was "necessary to protect Hispanic voters."
At face value, the union of young teen girl Sansa to the adult man and infamous brothel patron Tyrion is awful for the eldest Stark daughter.
You cannot take what someone is saying at face value, but you also can't accept as sincere any ensuing explanation for statements that otherwise appear incriminating.
It's hard to take anything Embiid says at face value thanks to his love of humor and obfuscation, so the internet immediately began dissecting his words.
It's difficult to take Trump's comments about Biden at face value because he has cozied up to other leaders who are facing real allegations of corruption.
Taken at face value, Quadrophenia is one of the most fully realized narratives in the rock canon, but now there is the added element of time.
At face value, it appears to be just a simple notebook, but once you pair it with the accompanying app, the pages will come to life.
It's a construction that might be taken at face value when spoken in person but has taken on a whole new, elevated meaning on social media.
An analysis by The Economist of filings submitted by over 700 large public companies shows that the pay ratios should not be taken at face value.
The #MeToo movement has become a "witch hunt" that takes all accusations at face value and fails to give the accused a chance to defend themselves.
Bertke can claim that people who know him know he's "just being an asshole," but it's a throwaway excuse that cannot be taken at face value.
The proprietors of other businesses accepted the currency at face value; they knew how hard Frank worked and trusted he would be good for sandwich repayment.
Many people will take fakes at face value (remember that picture of a shark in Houston?), especially if its content meshes with what they already think.
We no longer take a single word any of these organizations say at face value; we're questioning their motives and communiqués before they're even finished speaking.
Graham's response shows he's willing to take Barr's conclusions at face value — and he has not yet called for the full release of the Mueller report.
Even if Castor's claim is taken at face value, prosecutors have argued the deal did not carry formal immunity without a judge's approval under state law.
For every reality TV tourist delighted at the novelty of Love Island, the fascinating little experiment, there is someone watching who takes it at face value.
Lloyds also said in late January that it would redeem the ECNs not subject to the tender, worth around £700m, at face value on February 9.
At the same time it announced that it will redeem the ECNs not subject to the tender, worth around £700m, at face value on February 9.
At face value, the Golden Globe Awards were the picture of progressive values: Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg skewered Hollywood for being overwhelmingly white and male.
Ms. Herzer's legal team outlined two reasons for continuing the trial: First, the lawyers said, the court should not accept Mr. Redstone's testimony at face value.
Let's accept that at face value and agree that he simply made a humorous remark in which he compared himself to a slain civil rights leader.
"And also a disgrace that nothing he says—not even his denial of something as extraordinary as this—can be taken at face value," Conway responded.
The second interpretation takes at face value Trump's claim that decertification is meant to increase U.S. bargaining leverage and get more out of the nuclear deal.
Although I am not a leading expert in skulls, I think you have to take this at face value and either believe the inscription or not.
And what could seem, at face value, more in line with Europe's progressive values than giving your party's top spot to a 22016-year-old lesbian?
But even if we accept Netflix's numbers completely at face value, the "40 million" number shouldn't be compared to, say, The Big Bang Theory's Nielsen ratings.
At face value, "Loudspeaker" is a euphoric anthem laden with pulsing rhythm guitar, very Haim meets 80s power-pop (we premiered the glorious track last month).
Disingenuous rhetoric aimed at "realistic" climate policy shouldn't, and cannot be taken at face value, and it's on us to see through this actively harmful facade.
I'm willing to take at face value the declaration by Senator Susan Collins of Maine that a Supreme Court nominee who showed "hostility" to Roe v.
But taken at face value, it's a sign that the hot job market is succeeding at pulling people off the sidelines and into the work force.
Since Pelosi is openly liberal with familial ties to the Democratic establishment, it's even harder to take the film's supposed non-judgmental exploration at face value.
The big picture is that the president's dismissals of the very idea that his campaign coordinated with Russians look ever tougher to take at face value.
There is an unsettling trend lately to interview ex-employees of female-founded companies and report their claims either at face value or without any context.
" The conservative news media, in the rare cases in which it invites a Muslim to speak, "accepts this idea of Muslims as leftists at face value.
The juxtaposition illustrates how nothing Trumpworld says can be taken at face value, as well as the disdain the administration has for non-military government workers.
At the same time it announced that it would redeem the ECNs not subject to the tender, worth around £700m, at face value on February 9.
Second, if we accept the quote at face value, an enemy still needs the willingness to make peace and the ability to enforce it once made.
In a region with a plethora of small militant outfits constantly rebranding themselves, claims of such attacks in distant cities cannot be taken at face value.
"Job ads were down sharply in May, which, at face value points to a sharp slowing in employment growth," said ANZ's head of Australian economics, David Plank.
The Republican candidates, if you take their campaign rhetoric at face value, seem hardly more inclined to name a Wall Street executive to a senior finance post.
He noted that during oral arguments they had accepted at "face value" the administration's justification for the law, that the question was "necessary to protect Hispanic voters."
The representative asked Live Nation to place 88,000 tickets for an upcoming tour on ticket-resale sites, bypassing outlets where they could be bought at face value.
At face value, Alvarez's loss to Kim Foxx, a fellow Democrat, and McGinty's loss to Michael O'Malley, also a Democrat, may not seem like a huge deal.
The jokes really just needs to be taken at face value and are actually the perfect buffer from a sullen cycle of bad news and bad tweets.
However, very few economists are ready to take the official data at face value, reckoning that it overestimates the pace of expansion in Asia's third-largest economy.
Covel said he put up his sign in the off chance in hopes that one of his Nottingham families knew of someone selling tickets at face value.
At face value, the $1 billion bet on the Uber rival is a sign Apple is beginning to move beyond its core consumer device market, Munster said.
I just take it at face value that Trump is a deeply corrupt person, who I'm sure is compromised by Russian oligarchs or criminals to some degree.
But even if we take Twenge's data at face value, it's not necessarily cause for alarm — and may in fact represent good news, not a generational crisis.
Once more, it's time to remind everyone that you should never take anything you see online — a screenshot, a picture, a piece of text — at face value.
They blamed the fact that Fortune took the telegram's authenticity at face value on matttomic rather than on Fortune writers not using a bit of common sense.
" Instead, "everyone takes these others that are facsimiles or half-truths or exaggerations of things for the effect of writing—they take those completely at face value.
It also serves as a keyhole glimpse of the hellish stupidity that this country will be forced to take at face value for the next four years.
Remember: Pictures you share may be taken at face value, and/or viewed as representative of your character – not to mention live on forever on the Internet.
Yet, if you were to take TV at face-value then you'd probably only know coming out as a fraught, dramatic, emotional, and sometimes even perilous event.
Taken at face value, the record could be misunderstood as the musings of two angsty and depressed people, but this overlooks an entire dimension of the record.
The NYT seems to have taken ISIS's claim of responsibility at face value even though Bangladeshi intelligence has pinned the blame on Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).
Your computer, being dumb, just accepts this at face value and sends data to the fake IPs on PoisonTap instead of to the actual websites and services.
While experts caution against taking North Korea's claims at face value, the Pentagon and South Korea's intelligence services have said they believed the missile was an ICBM.
How he did it and whether he "strongly pressed" the issue -- or simply took Putin's denial at face value and moved on -- is more difficult to discern.
But I've heard too much of this dishonesty coming out of some of the intelligence community to accept this at face value unless I hear some facts.
Taken at face value this means that Iran, whose output is about 3.8 million bpd currently, is expecting to increase its production and exports in coming months.
By paying $20 for the membership you're able to make sure you can buy those tickets at face value on the floor or on the lower level.
As of Monday afternoon, for example, Seatsmart was selling a standing-room ticket for Game 3—which at face value would cost less than $175—for $2,077.
Taken alone at face value, the earliest dates from the organic ivory and resin materials would have thrown off accurate dating for the wreck as a whole.
Instead, the mistake we too often make is to accept that nostalgia at face value, as if it exists untouched by political, social, cultural, and economic forces.
Even for those who acknowledge our racist history, the 50% price difference isn't about racial bias; it's about accepting the effects of the past at face value.
Yet make-whole calls are also typical and have recently been used to redeem SMR bonds at face value when Treasury yields climbed and their value fell.
The NYT seems to have taken ISIS's claim of responsibility at face value even though Bangladeshi intelligence has pinned the blame on Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).
Putin apparently took his getaway earlier this summer in Siberia, specifically in the Tyva Republic, but why should we take anything about this story at face-value?
All children born in the U.S. with a claim to another nation's citizenship would be excluded from birthright citizenship, if we take the logic at face value.
The international community has been asleep at the wheel, and has taken the number of Palestinians counted by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics at face value.
The last time the entry DEATH VALLEY was in The New York Times Crossword was in 1975, when people took a clue like that at face value.
In my article, I argue that this statistic and its popular interpretation (that gender dysphoria simply "resolves" in these children) ought not be taken at face value.
But many critics — and supporters — simply take the word "sanctuary" at face value, and assume that sanctuary cities are those that protect immigrants from federal immigration enforcement.
There are those who might prefer to take the work at face value and see it simply as a body of work about line, texture, and color.
It's a throwback to a simpler era, when a piece of plain cake was enjoyed at face value — without judgment or fear, just cake for cake's sake.
Here is a closer look at five widely shared images of the caravan, along with why the claims made about them shouldn't be taken at face value.
Rather than win with facts, it's easier just to shout lies or insults loud and frequently enough that they're accepted at face value, rebroadcast and culturally ingrained.
It's hard not to take those "perfect skin" pictures you see on Instagram at face value, and feel as though everyone except you has baby's-bottom skin.
This is not to suggest that prosecutors should take everything a victim says at face value or that prosecutors should refrain from questioning victims on their accounts.
But taking at face value Gunness's concern for "underlying causes," there are actually two: the lingering, vain hope that Israel can still be erased and UNRWA itself.
When the White family's attorney, Carol Powell Lexing, pushed for an explanation, the federal officers conceded that they had accepted the state police's conclusions at face value.
But if that claim is taken at face value, their justification for PJM not acting to counteract federal subsidies, offered in the recent order, makes no sense.
The U.N. nuclear watchdog says it does not take information handed to it at face value and vets it thoroughly before deciding whether to act upon it.
And though the story of queso de bola is part of a much larger history, at face value, queso de bola is, at this point, distinctly Filipino.
"I would say it's unusual what New York City did, but I take it at face value that they did it for a good reason," he said.
And beware of statistics from advocacy organizations whose funding stream depends on stoking fear and outrage — I've learned that they can never be taken at face value.
The big picture, though, is that the president's dismissals of the very idea that his campaign coordinated with Russians look ever tougher to take at face value.
When MBS and his father do it, they are embraced by the president and their justification is taken at face value by far too many news outlets.
At the very least, you should be fully aware that these accounts likely come from these officials themselves and obviously should not be taken at face value.
Taken at face value, it's silly and whimsical, yet the symbolism—the desire to race away from one's problems and head towards the sunset—is impossible to miss.
The truth is, this is all about you learning to take his feelings at face value and not reading into them in ways that make it about you.
In an interview with CNN's "State of the Union," Steyer said he took McCarthy's tweet, which accompanied a video of him making the same remarks, at face value.
Lee admitted that, if we take the IDF's tweet at face value, this is "a high profile example" of a military force striking hackers in the real world.
The story, documenting how this Fallout speedrunner was instead adopting the name "TomatoAngus" for the upcoming Awesome Games Done Quick event next January, takes this at face value.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk did what he does best on Monday when he presented bold, visionary promises that only his most loyal followers would take at face value.
"In light of Sandberg's continuously changing story on the Soros research there's no way their denials about attacking other critics can be taken at face value," he said.
Adding to the sense of surreal unreality, Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told CNN's Brianna Keilar Wednesday that Trump's words should not necessarily be taken at face value.
Twitter is more than 10 years old, and since this is the first example of this happening in Southeast Asia that explanation already seems inadequate at face value.
Rejected applicants have criticized the department for taking sometimes misleading objections by domestic suppliers at face value and for not allowing importers a chance to rebut their arguments.
At face value something can sound so bizarre or jarring, but through the power of lyric and song resonates with facets of experience difficult to describe more factually.
While at face value that sounds like a gimmicky selling point, Mahindra's electric scooter was proof that a connected rideable can provide you with a ton of value.
Taken at face value—before you press "play"—The Body seems to present its nihilism in easily digestible chunks, song titles and album names and T-shirt slogans.
At face value, for busy people at a company like Google, quick ways to send out messages to help winnow down a rapidly filling in-box sounds promising.
"Taking it at face value, there are some serious concerns," said an investment banker who declined to be identified as he was not authorised to discuss regulatory issues.
Taken at face value, the negligible median pay rise would appear to appease shareholders fretting over high CEO pay at a time when the S&P 500 index .
So there's a reason to be cautious about accepting at face value the company's claim now that Russian Brexit meddling existed on its platform but was not significant.
"The Istanbul cat movie," as I've taken to calling it, is certainly compelling at face value—many of the documentary's New York showings last weekend were sold out.
While that seemed more plausible than taking their image at face value, a certain youthful naivety and suburban Anglo ignorance reigned in the days before Google and Wikipedia.
We would encourage anyone who is taking what Ken Kratz says at face value to take that information and claims of evidence and go back to the transcripts.
While listening is a good place to start, it will almost always lead you down the wrong path if you take what the customer says at face value.
But they all paved the way for Ms. Fowler to be heard and believed, and for subsequent stories about sexist tech culture to be accepted at face value.
"There is an unsettling trend lately to interview ex-employees of female-founded companies and report their claims either at face value or without any context," she wrote.
This very rosy vision for the economy in 2020 depends, if you take their projections and comments at face value, on the Fed's stepping up its rate increases.
It's that these kinds of statements continue to be taken at face value when they are made, as if they were offered by a normal, reasonably honest person.
When we take complaints about "PC culture" or "identity politics" at face value, we open up space for grievances about "white interests," whether we want to or not.
My assessment was confirmed several months after submission when the puzzle was accepted at face value and without my need to make any revisions (another first for me!).
We've also learned we are both very inquisitive people and always want to know the 'why' rather than just take something at face value or someone else's word.
"The car industry really did take the prospectus of the E.U. at face value," said Stephen Adams, a partner at Global Counsel, a political risk firm in London.
He added that no information coming out of Ukraine could be taken "at face value" given the amount of politically driven disinformation that could emerge from the country.
Second, active listening means hearing the words women are saying and taking them at face value, even if those words contradict your prior assumptions or your own agenda.
"This is going to sound super corny, but fact-checkers don't really take anything at face value," said Alexios Mantzarlis, the director of Poynter's International Fact-Checking Network.
If Americans take his discourse at face value, they will be living in a paranoid society willing to trade fundamental freedoms and principles for a sense of security.
As such, you should always take a queer person at face value when they have disclosed their sexual orientation to you, be it monosexual, bisexual, pansexual, or otherwise.
So you can give tickets away, you can sell it for $20, you could sell like a pair for $100, or you could sell it at face value.
Turning to Italy, Scholz said he took Italian policymakers' pledge to respect EU budget rules "at face value" but sent a warning to the euro zone's largest debtor.
We're told there are few skills more important for kids to learn these days than computer literacy—and we're supposed to take that word, literacy, at face value.
At face value, the donation is a much needed investment in early childhood education that could potentially help fill the child-care gap for many low-income families.
Mr. Son's formula also counts SoftBank's $25 billion portion of the Vision Fund, including performance fees, and $55 billion of cash on its balance sheet at face value.
Ms. Ardern told the New Zealand news media that she was taking "at face value" China's explanation that the event had to be canceled because of scheduling issues.
The easy assumption for me, even as a small boy in the Arkansas Ozarks, was that people who took the Bible at face value had to be kidding.
You don't need to take the Russian government's narrative about this at face value to see that in practice, American foreign policy always mixes geopolitical and humanitarian concerns.
Google would say it's using all the information it collects in a responsible and helpful way, something you may or may not be confident in accepting at face value.
Taken at face value, it appears the lawyers were paid handsomely and they managed to get a large corporation to give a ton of money to their alma maters.
Like modern voting restrictions, the old laws didn't appear to racially discriminate at face value, but due to selective enforcement and socioeconomic disparities, they disproportionately kept out black voters.
But on the other hand, if you take the Cabinet order's language at face value, and take what the president is saying as credible threats, then it becomes grayer.
It was doubly awful in that most people took it at face-value, when it was actually just a hilarious in-joke for those sufficiently in the know, i.e.
At face value, the Here Ones are just another pair of expensive wireless earbuds that have been created because of Apple removing the headphone jack on the iPhone 7.
The media and his opponents, on the other hand, took his rhetoric at face value and tried to extrapolate what that sort of approach might mean in a president.
The market may be in the midst of a cavalcade of earnings reports, but Jim Cramer asked investors not to take Facebook's post-earnings stock decline at face value.
After his story was taken at face value by Daily Dot, many others (including Popular Science) aggregated their own stories without so much as a phone call to Afra.
Economic and other activities conducted by Chinese entities and individuals can never be taken at face value because they can be compelled to serve the demands of the Party.
While the film can be viewed at face value as an alien story, it's also an interesting exploration of otherism, and how we react to outsiders of any sort. 
Even if one accepts the allegation by Schiff at face value and interprets the tweets as a veiled threat against Yovanovitch, it still does should not constitute witness intimidation.
Even if the Justice Department finds she did not commit a crime, it's unlikely Republicans will take that at face value, with the Lynch meeting only providing additional ammo.
Brian Fallon, the campaign spokesman, told me he had been warning reporters against taking the emails at face value and reminding them not to lose sight of their provenance.
Although it is sometimes taken at face value, the new poem that Wright describes is certainly not "The New Poem," which, despite its austere rhetoric, is full of yearning.
It means whatever you want it to mean: "It makes NO sense at face value and so it's incongruous with normal memetic referencing in a pleasurable way," he said.
Like modern voting restrictions, the old laws didn't appear to racially discriminate at face value — but due to selective enforcement and socioeconomic disparities, they disproportionately kept out black voters.
And it just, no matter what these outlets are reporting, people take it at face value, this is wrong or this is fake news, and that's where Trump is.
And that may be Lil Nas X's surprising legacy — inspiring a wave of artists and listeners who, despite his very pronounced wink, chose to take him at face value.
But to do so would be to allow ourselves to fall into the trap of taking Kadyrov's propagandist rhetoric about what is and is not "Chechen" at face value.
Like modern voting restrictions, the old laws didn't appear to racially discriminate at face value — but due to selective enforcement and socioeconomic disparities, they disproportionately kept black voters out.
"In light of Sandberg's continuously changing story on the Soros research, there's no way their denials about attacking other critics can be taken at face value," Mr. Vale said.
"I don't think we serve the composers of these often-transgressive masterworks if we completely take them at face value and only do them in one way," he said.
Even taken at face value, the number of jobs for which the president-elect has taken credit represents a tiny drop in the bucket of American manufacturing job loss.
Because this unfolded in the Middle East, where events are rarely taken at face value, it did not take long for the episode to become bound up in geopolitics.
Would he have been so willing to withdraw peacefully and see his own empire dismantled if he had not, to some degree, taken our professed beliefs at face value?
Sara Hall, an Asics-sponsored runner, told Outside Online last year that because of the shoes, "it&aposs hard to really just celebrate performances at face value right now."
The two-day window given for reporters to observe the closure would be too short for verification, he said, warning against taking a carefully choreographed ceremony at face value.
Taking things at face value with Trump is as error prone as it was when he was merely a candidate, instead of the next president of the United States.
That designation effectively ensured that Black would not be contacted by MIT fundraisers who didn't know about the Epstein connection and who might take his donation at face value.
For 30 chocolates, a package will set you back $39 plus shipping, which, at face value, is an obscene amount of money to pay for a small jar of treats.
Even though sociologists Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou describe how millennial Asian exceptionalism looks enticing at face value, the concept of Asian exceptionalism is still a paradox and a trap.
Let's just take that at face value and assume it'll be on most carriers — Jannard's a good salesman, and the carriers likely want a fun up-sell device like this.
And despite the attempts to verify their results in other ways, the sample size of the first experiment alone should make us guarded about accepting its findings at face value.
Cohen had no known official role involved in the campaign's legitimate digital wing, so this at least has every appearance of being as shady as it seems at face value.
But it's probably best not to take the participants' word for what went on at face value, considering they are only now bothering to admit that it even took place.
"If you take Trump's policies at face value, they are favorable for economic growth and inflation," said David Lefkowitz, senior equity strategist at UBS Wealth Management Americas in New York.
They must either erect barriers to advertising that could deter innocent businesses and cost too much to administer and maintain, or they have to largely take advertisers at face value.
At face value, Trump's STEM initiative may leave a positive impact on US schools—it affords kids access to programs that would greatly benefit them in the current job economy.
"Their issues are very much about communication – being able to talk to the other person and trusting that what they say is taken at face value," she told the magazine.
"Sterling will focus on news headlines around PM May's U.S. visit which, at face value at least, should be positive for the currency," said Commonwealth Bank currency strategist Adam Myers.
"She's that history teacher you'd want to have because she'll give everything to you at face value," adds Desiree Haywood, 28, the secretary for the South Carolina Democratic Black Caucus.
But now that she's actually talking back on social media — staging a "Leave Britney alone!" moment of her own — her fans seem unwilling to take her words at face value.
More recently, the paper was criticized by this magazine for taking its both-sides-style reporting on impeachment so far as to take right-wing conspiracy theories at face value.
But if you take this claim at face value, then the data on Trump's faltering image suggest he is inflicting real damage on the Trump Organization's single most important asset.
Even if taken at face value, the memo still does not prove what Republicans claim, namely that the entire Russia investigation was born out of a Democratic dirty tricks campaign.
If one only takes the story at face value, the idea of one's best friend turning into a terrorizing flesh-eating succubus that targets high school boys feels fairly unrelatable.
Two of the people we reached—informal presidential advisor Newt Gingrich and FBI director James Comey—replied to the emails they'd gotten, apparently taking the sender's identity at face value.
One big bank admits that it is selling at face value high-risk loans to the government that it expects will make a 24-2700% loss due to homeowners defaulting.
Even if we take Neocore's statement at face value and presume it was a joke, what does it say about an industry when the initial response is believing it's true?
President Trump's post-Singapore summit "admission" that he "hated to do" the "rhetoric," that he was only bluffing at Kim last year, may not necessarily be taken at face value.
At the time the IAEA bristled at being told what to do, saying it does not take information presented to it at face value and sends inspectors "only when needed".
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Europe should take Donald Trump's post-election words about partnership and fairness at face value, even if recent isolationist rhetoric creates political uncertainty, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann said.
Javier Zarracina/Vox "Our research emphasizes that industry-funded science needs to be heavily scrutinized, and not taken at face value," said Kearns, the lead author on the JAMA paper.
I wanted to take the situations at face value: the encounter with animal ferocity, with danger, with fear, with monstrous things — two people get eaten after all, that's quite violent!
While subsequent research from Theda Skocpol put immigration, not the deficit, at the center of the Tea Party's motivations, mainstream outlets took the GOP's anti-deficit talk at face value.
"Well, you know better than I do, so I think you should run for the Senate," Feinstein responded—the tone a little too icy to be taken at face value.
"When a defendant's own lawyer puts in the offending evidence, it is in the nature of an admission against interest, more likely to be taken at face value," he wrote.
So, taking the model at face value, the official said, means whatever job losses could occur from the new immigration plan would be overwhelmed by the reduction in foreign workers.
These elements signal the requisite humility of the icon painter, but Strau's text, in its play with signs and symbols, warns us not to take his words at face value.
But that requires genuine engagement and thought, and it's easy to opt out of genuine engagement and thought when you're laughing, in favor of taking the joke at face value.
So even if you can take F.Lashes' safety claims at face value, there are so many other similar products hitting the market that may not be as concerned with your health.
Yes, at face value, it appears that Tim Cook is making the rare effort of publishing a bunch of words in an international publication to distract from Apple's recent revenue woes.
In this case, she's the scrappy girl who refuses to take the mayor's proclamation at face value, digging for answers and eventually leading a rebellion against the corrupt powers that be.
At face value, The OA, about a formerly blind woman who was held captive and experimented on for over seven years, is a show that creates a lot of baffling questions.
"Iran's threat to close the Strait of Hormuz was a reflexive response that we do not take at face value," analysts at Eurasia Group said in a research note published Monday.
Taking these trends at face value, it looks like the GOP is going be under continuing pressure to keep climate skepticism central to Republican orthodoxy, at least for the foreseeable future.
"But designers have a hard time accepting the world at face value, and I can't pick up a spatula without finding a problem that could be solved," she jokes to PEOPLE.
"They pretty much miss every operational target they set, both in terms of costs and volumes, so it's very hard to take new project proposals at face value," the person said.
They took the servicers' argument at face value, and did little to pressure them to do sustainable loan modifications like reducing principal balance, even if that would be positive for investors.
The reactions to those comments exposed a notable split between Trump's inner circle and other high-profile Republicans, many of whom seemed to take Comey's version of events at face value.
AT FACE value, there is little sense in the $5.6 billion proposal by Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, owned by Hon Hai of Taiwan, to buy Sharp of Japan.
We look at historical events and we take primary sources at face value but a lot of them are sensationalized and the events are described as really heroic or really dastardly.
Kwame: Ejiofor's Mordo might be the best thing to come out of the movie, when it comes to presenting us with characters we're expected to accept as "complex" at face value.
But as Amy Sullivan of Yahoo News noted, the press coverage was too credulous, simply taking what the Trump team said at face value without getting any documents to confirm it.
Because no one could prove the letter was a sham -- which it has turned out to be -- the only option for reporters was to take it, generally speaking, at face value.
Even though the court upheld the visa denial, Mark Haddad, who represented the woman in court, said Kennedy's cautionary view shows that courts should not take government policies at face value.
OK, maybe the shadows get a little wonky along the feet, but wow I sure was just about to accept that we suddenly advanced decades in mechanical engineering at face value.
However, the damage had already been done to what is still considered a fringe sport in Denmark—most of the article's readers would have certainly taken it in at face value.
Taken at face value, the story — a love tangle set during the Crusades — is full of improbable plot twists designed to let the characters milk some emotion and display their voices.
The Bears always said with a straight face that Perry was a legitimate offensive threat and not just as a gimmick, but it was hard to take them at face value.
"Based on my knowledge of the debates going on in the White House, I take it at face value that the president means he's going to 25 percent Friday," he said.
Perhaps this particular meeting did indeed lead nowhere, as Trump Jr. claims (though his story has already changed so much that it's difficult to take the new version at face value).
"There is an unsettling trend lately to interview ex-employees of female-founded companies and report their claims either at face value or without any context," Haney wrote in the post.
"At face value, I was very excited to hear about this merger because inventory is hovering near historic lows, and that hurts home buyers and renters very hard," Mr. McLaughlin said.
"Even if we have some good numbers, people won't take them at face value given what's going on between the U.S. and China," said Hiroshi Watanabe, economist at Sony Financial Holdings.
His lead defense lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, appeared to channel some of President Trump's advisers when he said that his client's messages on social media should not be taken at face value.
Schiff didn't take the hypothetical at face value, but he essentially said that if Barack Obama had done the same to Mitt Romney under the same circumstances, it would be impeachable.
After a meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin a few days later, he credulously stated that Putin had denied Russia's involvement—a denial that Trump seemed to accept at face value.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, taken at face value, they can seem nonsensical—"Shining bright like a diamond / We're beautiful like diamonds in the sky"—but when delivered with enough vigor they feel profound.
If we parents don't point it out, show how it works and teach why it is false, over time our children are more likely to accept racist messages at face value.
In Lebanon, Western diplomats and Lebanese officials said, the Saudis expected the resignation would be taken at face value and bring about a mass outpouring of popular support from Hezbollah's opponents.
During my meeting with Kononenko, I asked whether they could really take Voronenkov's own account of his travails at face value, knowing his biography and the lies that had built it.
It would be convenient from the standpoint of establishment Republicans to simply let bygones be bygones, take Trump's newfound appreciation for NATO at face value, and move on to repealing Obamacare.
They are reliable indicators, these and a few other surveys and I would point out that if you took them at face value they would suggest that the economy is actually contracting.
"At face value, it would suggest that the market sees something that I haven't yet seen in the national data," Evans told CNBC's Steve Liesman during a "Squawk Box " interview from Chicago.
But given President Donald Trump's antipathy towards net neutrality and the lack of apparent support in Congress, it's hard to take the industry's claims to support the open internet at face value.
You can't take every account at face value: different people will run impersonation accounts to have political effect, or to spread spam and malware, or just for the fun of causing trouble.
It also shows we've moved beyond the message that the more typical movies can teach at face value, and are instead examining uncharted territory by heightening the stakes and diversifying the protagonists.
But researcher Ben Nimmo said that while much of the public support for Russian athletes online was authentic, the Twitter activity showed not all of it can be taken at face value.
Taken at face value, that sentence isn't inherently strange: after all, everyone wants their app to be the next big social networking thing, and stickers are just table stakes at this point.
"On net, better than we were expecting at face value, and with a backdrop of confidence in the new CEO," J.P. Morgan analyst Stephen Tusa said in a note to investors Tuesday.
Late last week, privacy advocates warned that Apple was sending iOS user data to Chinese company Tencent, an alarming development for anyone who had taken the company's privacy promises at face value.
Of course, it is easy enough to believe all this information at face value, but PEOPLE decided to go even deeper, right to the source, to see how sustainable Beyond really is.
Bots are automated programs that post from social media accounts of their own accord, with varying levels of human curation and, at face value, many are indiscernible from accounts managed by people.
Meanwhile, right-wing media organizations do not hold themselves to the same standard—Fox News's infamous slogan "Fair and Balanced" came at the expense of liberals who took it at face value.
The animated film was an amalgam of Middle Eastern and South Asian visual inspirations, and the live-action takes this at face value, doing the same and adding literally nothing to it.
But to the extent that his past rhetoric can be taken at face value, he clearly believes that the United States has strong economic pressure it can bring to bear against China.
" At a Thursday press conference SEC officials said many investors took the tweet — which many thought was a joke because of the marijuana reference with the $420 stock price — "at face value.
Even if you take Peeple and its cosmetic changes at face value, you're still left with an app that treats a person like a mere conglomeration of cells destined to be judged.
The decreased guidance reflects a $2.2 billion purchase-accounting adjustment to record deferred revenue at face value as well as retention payments and the earlier-than-expected ending of IBM's share buyback.
When you invite a bunch of journalists for a visit, you're going to get some people who take your bullshit at face value and write about how everyone was working very hard.
Obviously, when talking about an artist like Manson—who has spent his entire career toying with perception, like a hall of mirrors for pop culture—nothing should be taken at face value.
When Salesforce purchased Quip last summer for $750 million, it seemed at face value to be an unusual acquisition for the cloud CRM company — Salesforce tends to concentrate on more vertical targets.
Taken at face value, the disclosures about the Comey memo appear to provide the clearest sign yet that Trump tried to pressure the FBI and the Justice Department over the Russia investigation.
"It affects you, because you don't know how people are going to see that – [whether they'll] take it at face value and walk away feeling you are that person," Alex told NME.
Despite claiming to be the first candidate with a detailed plan to pay for "Medicare for All," she is trillions of dollars short, even if one takes her numbers at face value.
Falchi and O'Connor are trying to figure out why patients respond if they are pretreated with a drug that seems, at face value, to have nothing to do with the immune system.
Our model will take the post-debate polling at face value, but there is perhaps an argument to be made that applying a post-debate correction to the polling numbers is worthwhile.
"At face value, the score proves $22019 should be a no-brainer for Congress, with benefits far outweighing speculative job loss," said Christine Owens, executive director of the National Employment Law Project.
At the least, readers of "Chaos Monkeys" will think twice before taking at face value tech leaders' high-minded arguments for refusing to assist our national security apparatus in fighting terrorist threats.
Earlier this week, Euan Graham, director of the International Security Program at the Lowy Institute, told CNN that the North's offer of talks with South Korea shouldn't be taken at face value.
"Disclosures are to be taken at 'face value' as correct, unless there is a patent omission or ambiguity or the official has independent knowledge of matters outside the report," the procedures say.
"At face value, the latest UK services PMI looks very concerning ... but it seems that 'the Beast from the East' played a big role in this miss," noted James Smith at ING.
In attempting to understand Pleasants' decision to join the British Free Corps and the Waffen-SS, we can either take his explanation at face value or come to a more sceptical conclusion.
Stone penned an August 5 Breitbart article in which he took Guccifer's story about being a lone hacker who stole the DNC emails at face value and argued Russia probably wasn't responsible.
But now that he is dead and the societal circumstances that made him so effective in the early-to-mid 90s have changed, the music won't translate to everyone at face value.
" For her part, Haneywrote on Instagram, "There is an unsettling trend lately to interview ex-employees of female-founded companies and report their claims either at face value or without any context.
Editorial They can be hard to spot — let alone take at face value — amid the usual spray of insults and bombast, but every now and then President Trump emits a sensible idea.
Wednesday's vote will be conducted by secret ballot, which suggests that protestations of loyalty, even from cabinet ministers who took to Twitter to state their support, cannot be taken at face value.
But one has to hope that in formulating the appropriate policy response to the very difficult economic times we are now facing, his administration does not take his rhetoric at face value.
Cheng Xiaohe, an associate professor of international relations at Renmin University of China in Beijing, said that Mr. Xi's government had learned not to take Mr. Trump's Twitter messages at face value.
Indeed, the department found numerous cases in which the city failed to investigate brutality allegations or took at face value a police version of events that was later undercut by video evidence.
I wish the president would take that at face value and understand he got more electoral votes, he got sworn in as president, he is president, he won it, he earned it.
If you're an NFL season ticket holder, according to TickPick, you're automatically entered into a lottery for a chance to buy tickets at face value, which could range from $800 to $2,750.
Instead of taking information at face value, you rely on sharp psychic senses to suss out insecurities, weak spots, and hidden desires, and then weaponize them or use them to seduce others.
"If a government gives us documents—especially if a court system gives us documents and certifies them as correct—we generally take them at face value," the former senior U.S. official said.
Conservatives like longtime Republican operative Peter Smith didn't take Clinton's explanation for why she deleted the emails at face value and questioned whether they could have contained scandalous behavior or criminal evidence.
This brings us to one of the biggest obstacles standing between consumers and the experience of drinking natural, low-intervention, organically farmed wine: It can, at face value, be hard to identify.
That's not to say he won't rip someone eventually—who knows, maybe Durant goes on a hate-bender—but until then, it might be wise to just take his words at face value.
On one hand are some transgender people and activists, who advocate for "gender self-identification": the belief that the world should take at face value a person's declaration of their own gender identity.
"I am sure he's a fine NBA general manager, and I will take at face value his subsequent apology that he was not as well informed as he should have been," he said.
"It's always a good idea to see what you did last year for a lot of reasons, it's not a bad idea, but I wouldn't just take it at face value," says Perlman.
And anyway, there's a much more dramatically interesting option in the scenario suggested by this ending at face value: All of the Roys and their associates having to choose between Logan and Kendall.
"Paimon" is a real thing from the odder corners of Christian mythology, and if we take the Satanic Panic at face value, then somebody out there is trying to resurrect him right now.
China says that when it joined the WTO in 2001, the other member countries agreed that after 15 years they would treat it as a market economy, taking its prices at face value.
At face value, that seems much worse than merely sharing some donuts and coffee with Putin during the opening of a Russian-owned gas station or having a public meal with Russian officials.
THIS. It might not be a crime at face value, but Carlos Santana's complicity in the creation of "Smooth" by Santana featuring Matchbox 20's Rob Thomas cannot, and will not, be forgiven.
At face value the mood seems justified as many negative factors (China's financial gyrations, volatility in oil prices, weaker growth in the U.S, and new clouts over Europe's banks and debts) are colluding.
Hilarious though the chowder goblins are at face value, in the context of his elaborate Twitter fable, they take on a richer significance as recurring figures, a kind of entourage of the weird.
But the assertions that his remarks should not be taken at face value were at odds with statements put out by Mr. Trump and his aides right after his news conference on Wednesday.
Despite my efforts to bring unity instead of hate to our scene, there were those that had already formed an opinion, based on stories they heard instead of taking us at face value.
That can even mean finding jobs that, at face value, would seem unrelated to a certain position but actually rely on many of the same skill sets, like veterinary technicians and prison guards.
The professors largely take Dodd-Frank at face value: When a big bank fails, we should try to use the bankruptcy courts first and resort to orderly liquidation authority only in extreme circumstances.
Such claims, like those of a used car dealer who claims a mechanic of his choosing has found the car to be in tiptop condition, should not be taken seriously at face value.
But given Barr's efforts to spin and minimize the contents of the Mueller report ahead of its release, the president's critics are finding it difficult to take the OLC opinion at face value.
The result is a look at the case that arguably provides a public disservice by essentially taking Syed and his presentation of himself at face value — which effectively makes it an unreliable narrator.
For advisers to a would-be President to take at face value an offer of clandestine assistance from Moscow is foolish at best, reckless for sure and potentially treasonous in the worst-case scenario.
To this day, I still don't understand exactly why: It must have been some combination of fear, fever, intoxication, and perhaps my ongoing Aspie tendency to take what other people said at face value.
Knowing Charlie Brooker, it's a mistake to take these observations at face value as each episode will no doubt delve far deeper into what these different elements of tech have unleashed on our lives.
"At face value, the amount quoted of 100-150 million pounds would be disappointing for the whole business and compares to management's own assessment... at FY 2018 of 291 million pounds," Liberum analysts wrote.
In other words, pulling cards and taking their meaning at face value can be a helpful practice if you're seeking guidance or advice, but this won't give you a specific snapshot of your future.
But because of the timing, and because of the fact that many of the lower-ranking mods were connected to CisWhiteMaelstrom, not everyone took the senior mods' rationale for the purge at face value.
Terrorism experts warn that nothing should be taken at face value in the propaganda material left behind by hate crime suspects, which aim to provide fodder for social media pickup and mainstream media coverage.
Yet security was vital: Six former directors of SWIFT said any breach of the broader system could put the bedrock of SWIFT – the willingness of banks to accept messages at face value – at risk.
Financial futures markets - taken at face value - point to an 80% chance that the BoE will lower Bank Rate by a quarter point to 0.50% before Carney steps down at the end of January.
"When options don't seem to have present value and every company looks the same at face value, companies are forced to resort to incentives, like offering SoulCycle classes and Warby Parker sunglasses," Ambrust added.
He stands by the initial report that Manziel showed up drunk, but then goes through a bunch of legal qualifying to say that he will have to take the Browns denial at face value.
"Trump is taking what Xi Jinping says at face value—on Tibet, Taiwan, North Korea," Daniel Russel, who was, until March, the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, told me.
Placed in this context, these latest scare-mongering claims — even if taken at face value — do little to advance arguments in favor of tightening prohibition, and provides ample ammunition to wage for its repeal.
And in fact, examining a criminal in their cultural context can be a much better way of getting a full picture of their crime, rather than taking their story of themselves at face value.
China had insisted that they treat it as a "market economy", countering their view that the price of Chinese exports could not be taken at face value due to state interference in the economy.
The back-to-back rulings this week suggest that some judges are increasingly unwilling to take at face value representations from the Trump administration about the contents of documents being withheld in FOIA cases.
Seen in this light, the vision of "fire and fury" should be taken very seriously and at face value, an apocalyptic statement resulting from a highly unorthodox theology with no basis in the Bible.
And indeed, David Sanger's news analysis in the New York Times takes the Pentagon's deterrence account at face value without noting that the secretary of state actually claims the attack was about something else.
Eventually, there's a murder, and when the "solution" finally arrives, it's impossible to accept at face value or feel that it resolves any of the conflicts brought into the open by a woman's death.
At the moment when Trump needs Americans to believe him, it is not surprising there is reticence among his critics in Congress to take his thin explanations for the Soleimani attack at face value.
After composing the piece, Bruckner suggested a scenario for the first movement that is hard to take at face value — about gates opening to a medieval city, knights on horses, woodland magic and such.
Even if we take what she says at face value, her beliefs don't line up with those of the Red Temple priests and priestesses we meet later — they believe Dany is the Chosen One.
Even there, nameless government agents are portrayed by the titular "wolf," a pop-up book villain that's outsmarted in the end if the song's major-key resolution is to be taken at face value.
A jump of 3 percent at face value may not seem high, but for a company like Apple, that's tens of billions of dollars to its market cap as it marches toward $1 trillion: ( function() {
Over the 19 minutes of footage—edited down from who knows how long—Neistat is content to take every vague response from Kyncl at face value, never asking a follow-up question or demanding specificity.
Regarding the company's acceptance at face value that Cambridge Analytica had deleted the data they weren't supposed to have (to Recode): At the time it didn't seem like we needed to go further on that.
"For rural parents, at face-value, the reasons to migrate to cities seem obvious: better access to jobs, healthcare and education opportunities for their children," said Laurence Chandy, UNICEF director of data, research and policy.
Advocates for decriminalization have been wary of taking Harris's position at face value because of her history with the issue as the district attorney of San Francisco, when she opposed a measure to decriminalize prostitution.
Besides a few who were "skeptical," Sey said he was even more struck by how many straight men took him and a dating profile at face value and slid into his DMs — no questions asked.
They are selling them at face value ($55 per ticket), which I agree to instantly — my husband is a diehard nerd and I don't want to miss out on these tickets by lowballing these guys.
It's clear that Mueller's team and the prosecutors in the Southern District aren't just taking at face value the words of someone who has been pleading guilty to lying to investigators, banks, and tax authorities.
And, while Trump's insistence that news with which he doesn't agree is "fake" generates frustration in newsrooms across the country, it is something that is taken at face value by lots and lots of Republicans.
Frank D'Amico, the plaintiffs' lawyer, said in a statement Morgan did not rule on Goodell's authority to act, and the NFL's inaction denied his clients a chance to buy Super Bowl tickets at face value.
I mean Bran was quite literally a sitting duck here But before we try answering all those, let's talk about why we shouldn't take Bran's assessment of the White Walkers' ultimate goal at face value.
So before taking all machine learning at face value, think about the raw results as indicators of existing bias, and make sure your system was created in a business without bias, using data without bias.
"One of the things that I think is really interesting about this is that there's what characters say that they want, but it's very clear that you can't take that at face value," she says.
These are all good, charming things, but if sports has taught us one lesson over and over again, it's that we shouldn't be too willing to accept the virtuousness of professional athletes at face value.
At the same time the comments of local people in Russia's popular social network VKontakte showed that some people were reluctant to take this at face value — or at least willing to joke about it.
Many conservatives didn't take Clinton's explanation for why she deleted the emails at face value, and questioned whether the deleted emails could have included some incriminating information that might reveal scandalous behavior of some kind.
I'll admit I took the happy ending completely at face value when I first saw the film, and it was only in discussing it later with some friends that I realized others saw it differently.
The latest round of protests in Chicago over the police is, at face value, about the police shooting of 37-year-old Harith "Snoop" Augustus, a black barber working in the city's South Shore neighborhood.
That is probably a statistical aberration, but taken at face value it implies that the progress toward pulling more Americans into the work force has not been as consistent and compelling as it had seemed.
Instead, the court insisted, it was confined to a more "circumscribed judicial inquiry," considering the order at face value and upholding it "so long as it can reasonably be understood" to have a legitimate justification.
"At face value this is good news as competition in the HIV space has heated up, threatening GSK's highest-margin business," said UBS analysts, adding that they needed to see more details on the trial.
Everyone in China knows better than to take what Communist Party mouthpieces tell us at face value, but when 1.4 billion lives are at stake, is it still possible to live with the half-truths?
To ensure the band's concert tickets are being sold at face value, they've partnered up with Ticketmaster -- the ticket sales company the band once battled after accusing it of refusing to lower its service fees.
Sondland's current explanation is difficult to take at face value, because it would be strange for Trump to request an investigation into one very specific company that happens to be linked to his political rival.
The Republican leadership seems to have accepted this claim at face value and can't seem to let go of the notion that there are grave political consequences for not kowtowing to the illegal alien lobby.
Nor should the quote from Kevin M. Terry of the General Service Administration — that "historic integrity has been restored, and the wasting asset is now being put to productive use" — be taken at face value.
"At face value, it might suggest that patients are showing up at the ER sicker or with more serious injuries," says Jonathan Mathieu, chief economist at the Center for Improving Health Care Value in Colorado.
A third and perhaps most intriguing possibility is that Trump will simply take the data at face value, claiming that under his administration jobs are plentiful, wages are high, and the unemployment rate is low.
Trump appeared to accept Putin's denials of any Russian election interference at face value, even though the entire US intelligence community assessed that the Kremlin mounted a sophisticated campaign to help him win the White House.
At face value, the end of Facebook Direct could appear to be a win for Snapchat, which sees ephemeral messaging as its primary use case and differentiator after all of Facebook's apps cloned its Stories feature.
Every character in the show does have that kind of complexity, but in this final episode, we see so much of the complexity of who she is and nothing is ever at face value with her.
Michael O'Hanlon, a Brookings Institution senior fellow who specializes in defense strategy, said "no claims like Trump's should be taken at face value," but that we don't have the information to assess his claims in depth.
I do not mean that if you suspect a friend or family member is in danger — is being abused, perhaps — you should take his or her insistence that he or she is fine at face value.
"Whether taken at face value or not, religious narratives are often rich in their intricate examinations of morality, which is something to be appreciated with or without god," Catanese says of his choice to include them.
Thus far, the series has been more or less taken at face value as the happy-go-lucky "misadventures" of a wholesome nuclear family living a life of innovative luxury a few centuries into the future.
He accepted denials at face value, despite 911 calls, photographs depicting abuse, his own wife's concerns about the safety of her friend, and a litany of troubling infractions at work, including some of a sexual nature.
As Adam and Reuben narrate their things, sending the room into peals of laughter, we learn what essentials touring artists must have at hand, and to almost never take what these two say at face value.
Let's take that at face value, because in all likelihood that's being saved for the upcoming spinoff show literally called the Long Night (which, again, still feels like cheating the story we started eight years ago).
Lost also changed the way people watch TV. It taught them to look for clues, to not take everything at face value, and to not always assume that narrative answers would be spoon-fed to them.
Taking the statement at face value, the minutes do not suggest that an increase in rates next month is a done deal — it is the same old "data dependent" Fed trying to have it both ways.
They don't all seem to consider how their words taken at face value might impact their relationship with their faves if they were ever to meet or interact—tone notoriously doesn't always translate when written down.
Another reason the FBI might not have taken Trump's professed ignorance at face value was that Trump had already brushed up against his share of wise guys in New York's gritty construction business, without apparent concern.
Axe should know better than to take this information at face value (and maybe he will think better of it eventually), but also, team Chuck this week should know better than to try to flip Taylor.
The bottom line: The U.S. officials say the administration won't impose on the Israelis or Palestinians to accept the plan, but may release it so the parties and international community can judge it at face value.
Mr. Richardson, who had been asked by Mr. Kasich to become involved in the case because of his experience in dealing with North Korea, suggested that the punishment should not necessarily be taken at face value.
And let's not forget all the unseen risk being absorbed by individual Uber users getting into cars with strangers and taking at face value the company's claims it is be safe for them to do so.
He assumed that if Mr. Trump's policies were taken at face value, it would increase the deficit from 3.5 percent of G.D.P. this year to more than 10 percent by the end of Mr. Trump's term.
It might be that some of things he says should be said at face value, but it is equally plausible to conclude that he has no intention of following through with the statements from the night.
Some experts, however -- including a former US Food and Drug Administration commissioner -- have expressed skepticism over taking China's figures at face value, given the government's track record of suppressing information about this epidemic and previous ones.
Some studies suggest they do, others find that they don't, but even if we take the rosiest interpretations of the literature at face value, the number of lives saved by this massive, widespread intervention is small.
The piece puzzled over the fact that microfinance, which had supposedly been transforming the developed world — a claim it took at face value — had such modest results when it's put to work in the United States.
Some of these very same voices are now taking the statement of this one Hamas person at face value to be perfectly true without verification, and parrot it as some sort of evidence that incriminates Palestinians.
That's because Trump appears to have accepted Putin's denials of any election interference at face value, even though the entire US intelligence community believes the Kremlin mounted a sophisticated campaign to help him win the White House.
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I&aposm referring specifically to President Trump saying that he wasn&apost sure if he was going to take the intelligence community&aposs assessment at face value that they -- that the Russians had interfered in the election.
These lawyers, who almost certainly had zero interaction with the president, had no reason to suspect, much less to know, any reason that the second order, signed by the president, should not be taken at face value.
If we take the NHL's explanation at face value and concede the spotters weren't permitted to pull Crosby, it still begs the question of why no one on the Penguins' medical staff put Crosby in the protocol.
So, for now, put these new multiverse findings in the "possible but not proven" column, and know that you're a little smarter than the parallel universe version of yourself that actually took this study at face value.
Live Nation's provoking the ire of concert lovers everywhere, because it's fessed up to the shady practice of putting tickets directly on resale sites ... before the public even has a chance to buy them at face value.
Critics of Mr Trump see pure hypocrisy in his praise for a boxer whose fellow Muslims would—if the Republican is to be taken at face value—be banned from entering the country under a Trump presidency.
At face value, the prospect of paying top dollar to live in what was once a "crappy old storage room" might not sound appealing but ADUs are much needed housing options to an area desperate for them.
But his decision to take Moore's denials at face value for his own convenience is far from the only occasion when he has taken solace in a preferred version of the truth to satisfy his political requirements.
And the news media, I'm sorry to say, both bought into the narrative that deficits were our most important problem — abandoning the usual conventions of reportorial neutrality — and took G.O.P. claims of fiscal probity at face value.
"It's all well and good that they're making friendly noises to one another, (but) to take what a South Korean official says at face value without any formal confirmation from Pyongyang is very odd," he told CNN.
"They want to have ambiguity about their organizational affiliations, because it makes it more difficult for them to achieve their goals if they are known as Al Qaeda — so we don't take these denials at face value."
He also acknowledged that he resold tickets, including for the World Series and Super Bowl, he bought at face value for a profit, earning more than $42,000 in income he didn't report on his federal tax returns.
It can only damage the sport to those willing to elevate the fight into something it's not, which would make them the only people alive dumber than those actually taking De La Hoya's message at face value.
Yet it's fundamentally not all that surprising that some large segment of the public takes the rhetoric about the selflessness of America's military posture at face value and simply wonders why we're bothering to be so generous.
"Some people say 'there aren't genres,' but I have the luxury of playing and opening for different people because I play solo, so people have to take the songs at face value whether they like them," he says.
Richter told the Melbourne Magistrates' Court that Milligan had used "character assassination" in her book, associating Pell's name with other priests who had been accused of abuse and accepting some allegations made by some accusers at face value.
Cortefiel's loans were trading at 100.58% of face value on Europe's secondary loan market on July 26, according to data from Thomson Reuters LPC, after the news that existing lenders will be repaid at face value, or par.
Even when people say, "I played Doom, the video game, and I listened to Marilyn Manson," we take it at face value and have all these cultural conversations about the role of video games and music in violence.
For years, these terms and approaches have been guiding myriad choices in our lives, yet the vast majority of us have just had to accept these decisions at face value because we don't understand the science behind them.
Though, taken at face value, his hyperbole shows a profound pessimism about the durability of American institutions, his broader point is that once you start saying some people are just too rich, where do you draw the line?
If the positive correlation theory is taken to be true, then at face value, Antarctic sea ice extent may continue to decrease throughout 2016 if ocean temperatures fall far short of the record-high values observed last year.
"Shows like Broad City and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt flip conventions on its head by adding a dark element or making fun of it — you can't take it at face value," says New York magazine film critic Emily Yoshida.
In effect, Russians took Trump's anti-establishment rhetoric at face value and, perhaps, projected their own president's outsized role in domestic affairs onto the American system and expected radical change in spite of traditional U.S. policy toward Russia.
By 2005, the Getty had enough confidence in the cabinet's authenticity to put it on display with a new dating of 1580—finally taking those numbers, which are painted on one of its wooden panels, at face value.
Instead of just listening to what they say and taking it at face value, they practice active listening by paying closer, deeper attention to the root of their partner's concerns so that they can address them more directly.
Taken at face value, they imply that the smart money expects inflation will remain extraordinarily low for years to come, and that growth will stay so weak that central banks won't be able to raise rates for years.
"We felt that the recent smoothing in trade war discussions felt too quick and too easy to take at face value," Neil Campling, co-head of global thematic group at Mirabaud Securities, said in a research note Thursday.
If you take both of those items at face value, it doesn't leave you much room to believe that the Trump campaign worked with Russians in a sophisticated campaign to buy ads on Facebook aimed at electing Trump.
A number took at face value the flood of TV attack ads that outside Republican groups had been airing, trying to tie Mr. Lamb to Representative Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader, whose social positions make her unpopular here.
But sometimes it is useful to take politicians at face value: Mr. Lieberman, who was defense minister when that bill was written, is committed to passing it and sees no reason to make it acceptable to Haredi parties.
It would be a mistake to take exchanges like this at face value or to gesture at them as more proof of Trump's deficiencies — to act as though this is the moment that might finally wake people up.
"The media and the public are far less gullible now than they were [in 2003], but even now there's a tendency to take administration claims at face value, or at least semi-seriously," Krugman wrote in his newsletter.
More, as college admissions remain competitive, the lack of amenities around some HBCUs can deter potential students who may be unfamiliar with the schools' histories and educations and take their rural locations at face value, college officials worry.
"It was not a good idea to take at face value the words of an indicted war criminal," she dutifully writes, describing how after the interviews she made a habit of looking up anything factual Karadzic had said.
Rather, some people (about 8 percent of the adult population, if we take the survey data at face value) are willing to believe anything that sounds plausible and fits their preconceptions about the heroes and villains in politics.
Taking the GOP's conspiracy theories and bald lies at face value, all he could say was that impeachment had devolved into an "intensely partisan" and "very divisive" fight, with "both sides" sensing that "political vandalism" had taken place.
The documents, taken at face value, suggest that American spies had designed hacking tools that could breach almost anything connected to the internet — smartphones, computers, televisions — and had even found a way to compromise Apple and Android devices.
Even after the death of kayfabe, wrestlers still close ranks regarding wrestling's reality through a combination of keeping quiet and telling only truths that are so strange or nonsensical that it's hard to take them at face value.
They have to do that because Barr has released very little about the investigation, and I don't think any lawmaker would, or should, take his summary at face value, given the importance of the matters he's dealing with.
In the best possible light -- meaning if you take the accused players' version of events at face value -- what happened at Minnesota was awful and beyond any norms of behavior any father should be comfortable with for their sons.
Yet another norm shattered Even for Trump, who took Russian President Vladimir Putin's denials of election interference at face value at a notorious Helsinki news conference, his willingness to embrace Pyongyang's assessment of the Democratic front-runner was daring.
"At face value, Walmart doesn't fit neatly into the framework we are recommending in 2019 as we model EPS declining in the low single digit range and its about 20x P/E multiple is above historical levels," Gutman wrote.
While Gab losing its support from certain payment processors seems, at face value, to be a deserving consequence for a platform teeming with hate speech and calls for violence, Stripe's policy goes beyond just punishing those for being shitty.
"I think we can take at face value what [Trump] is doing now, which is elevating women to positions of great leadership," she said in the hallways of the summit as Loesch gave her fiery speech in the background.
Without this, it's impossible to say at face value if bidding on, say, three extra seats would actually be cheaper than buying a business or first class seat (which would then come with additional class perks for the price).
But those complaints, like the lawsuits against them, can't be taken at face value because the critics are usually "an attorney who's trying to make a profit, a competitor who's trying to make a profit, a squatter," he said.
At face value, the visual album Endless offers the sort of spectral R&B that's had people anxiously clamoring for a follow-up to Channel Orange since that album's 2012 release, but it's come delivered in some strange packaging.
If we take these statements at face value, Oppo and OnePlus "sharing some common investors" could simply mean that they're privately held subsidiaries with the same ownership, but it's impossible to say exactly who owns what without further clarity.
So, all I ask is that you not take every single health news story you read at face value—click through to the study, look who did the research and who funded it, then weigh your own conclusions accordingly.
Additionally, her defense of her father — taking his words at face value over the words, and evidence, of a considerable number of women — seems to be a classic example of victim-blaming, or believing the accused over the accuser.
But let's take matters at face value and ask the question as to what a Saudi-Russian task force is likely to discover as they monitor and report on the current and likely state of the global oil markets.
But don't take the backlash at face value, says Recode's Jason Del Rey: Even though it represents yet another way in which Amazon is trying to enter our daily lives, Amazon Key might be legitimately useful for some consumers.
The clothes called things out at face value: There was a full tracksuit, aptly emblazoned with the word 'MISERY,' dresses with the phrase 'Save The Planet' stamped across the front, and Swarovski-studded hair slides and earrings reading 'Paranoia.
And while 'playing by the rules' may at face value seem detrimental to doing business, MyBucks - as a key driver of FinTech throughout Africa and beyond -  respects and endorses the regulations in every region where we choose to operate.
"While taken at face value it appears U.K. patients are most skeptical about the use of AI and robotics in healthcare, closer examination reveals a significant potential market," PwC healthcare partner Brian Pomerings said in a statement on Tuesday.
"First Amendment experts told Insider it's unlikely that a court would accept the legal distinction between a personal and government Twitter account at face value and would instead "examine whether in reality the account is used for government purposes.
Stephens questioned the models of climate science, but isn't it possible to take him at face value — to accept that he thinks global warming is at least partially man-made — and see where he takes his argument over time?
The explanation for this shocking move — that Mr. Comey's bungling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server violated longstanding Justice Department policy and profoundly damaged public trust in the agency — is impossible to take at face value.
But some ideas being put forth will be bad for veterans, including one plan that sounds benign at face value but, upon closer inspection, is revealed to create fewer options for veterans who most need the VA healthcare system.
Finigan also expressed concern about a meeting that I'd had a few weeks earlier with Lyndsey's editor in the U.K., Helen Garnons-Williams, to discuss the book's editorial process, and whether she had taken Lyndsey's story at face value.
But whether in video skits—the "Heartbreaker" remix and "Honey" being most obvious—or that infamous episode of MTV's Cribs, the joke's actually been on the people who take everything Mariah seems to do or say at face value.
I think there's certain economies to scale, to bring in companies together, but I think that without question, I take them at face value that a key driver may be the primary driver of long-term values addressable advertising.
This means that that small number actually makes a big difference, and that when we stop taking the number at face value, it actually shows that black people are being killed at disproportionately higher rates than their white counterparts.
Like its credit sequence, you can take Transparent at face value, sitting back and watching Maura navigate her a late-in-life transition, from deciding whether she wants to undergo surgery to forming a chosen family beyond her blood relatives.
Taken at face value, over 20143 million comments against repealing the open internet rules were submitted by August 22, when the Emprata study pulled the data, and a little over 8.5 million comments in favor of repealing the rules were submitted.
Part of the reason for the build up is the inclusion of put options in many of the bonds - with rising yields, investors are taking advantage of the option to sell back their paper to the issuer at face value.
But one of the dangers of taking the wage increase at face value for Asian Americans is that it perpetuates the "model minority" myth — that Asians, unlike other people of color, are uniquely primed to climb up the socioeconomic ladder.
And there's also the cultural framing to consider: González-Rojas said that some Latinxs in communities she's worked with don't have the political consciousness to know what "pro-life" means in relation to abortion, so they take it at face value.
Grace Gatpandan, public information officer at the San Francisco Police Department, told BuzzFeed News that the department is aware of Citizen, and that people should take the information they see on the app at face value, not necessarily as fact.
But while The Great Hack's subjects hammer Cambridge Analytica for all sorts of deceptions, they appear to accept its sales pitch at face value — and so do the filmmakers, who present company marketing material and promotional speeches as unchallenged fact.
Of course, no one was really expecting Bezos to stay atop the list for long — and these kind of absurd proclamations tied to personal wealth are a bit of silly tech industry posturing when you take them at face value.
" At a Q&A after the film screened at the LGBTQ film festival Outfest in July, Ernst addressed mounting criticism: "I knew it would be challenging work, at least at face value, to [have the movie] come out in 153.
"You have made harsh charges on the basis of allegations made in lawsuits and other court filings that have not been adjudicated and have accepted at face value claims that have been thrown about in years of slanted media coverage."
At the time of sale, the highest priced adult Platinum ticket at face value was $300, but just a week before the two teams were due to meet, resale site Viagogo has a gold level ticket being sold for $6000.
While the nation's largest gun lobby champions the latest bills in its press releases, local lobbyists who take the NRA's absolutist rhetoric at face value find themselves chafing at its corporate model of working hand-in-glove with Establishment politicians.
I think if you are sensitive to art and aesthetic and aren't just consuming it at face value, or you think this looks "sick," but you don't create that timeline in your head… I don't think people are that smart.
If their party programs are taken at face value, the Greens want to press ahead with deeper European integration and the FDP wants to hold it back - a conflict that could frustrate coalition talks with Merkel, who wants a "stronger Europe".
Taken at face value this lends support to the view that China is heading for a better spring season after a gloomy autumn and winter cast a pall over the outlook for demand in the world's largest consumer of commodities.
The criminals behind such heists are exploiting banks' willingness to approve SWIFT requests at face value, rather than making additional manual or automated checks, said John Doyle, who held a variety of senior roles at SWIFT between 1980 and 2005.
"Some reviewers and commenters on social media have taken elements of the book at face value, which, we believe, misses the point of the book as a work of artistic parody and satire," read a company statement, released via Twitter.
And while a slightly closer inspection would have shown that Popes are traditionally politically independent and no evidence has been found that Hillary Clinton has financial links to the so-called Islamic State, many people took the stories at face value.
"WHAT I CANNOT BUILD, I CANNOT UNDER­STAND" can be read at face value, as a declaration of the synthetic biology principle that life must be constructed to be understood, and yet, as a misquote, it reads as a flaw in construction.
If their party programmes are taken at face value, the Greens want to press ahead with deeper European integration and the FDP wants to hold it back - a conflict that could frustrate coalition talks with Merkel, who wants a "stronger Europe".
The emails, taken at face value, appear to show a willingness by Trump Jr., a vital member of his father's political and business inner circle, to accept information purportedly from the government of Russia to help his father's presidential campaign.
Much like the tourists who queue up outside Leonard's Malasadas, the player enjoys the sugar pastries at face value, unaware that they carry a strong legacy—Portuguese immigrants brought the confection to Hawai'i when they came to work the sugar plantations.
"Under their argument, any service that advertises having high speeds is courting pirates and therefore a contributory/vicarious infringer, and thus immediately liable if it doesn't accept rightsholder allegations of infringement at face value and terminate subscribers when asked," Rose said.
He said that once he was in the arena, security officers no longer looked for a barcode and simply checked the seat number — even for "Courtside Club" tickets, which averaged $605 to $905 at face value during the 2018-19 season.
While these numbers are hypothetical — it's impossible to predict the future of the market or a woman's earning potential — it provides a startling look at how the wage gap can cost women far more than it appears at face value.
Even seemingly benign articles celebrating the record number of women running for president as good for women generally—a sentiment that's hardly objectionable at face value—arouse immediate suspicion on the feminist left over where the argument's likely to go next.
While Donald J. Trump has in the past expressed support for abortion rights, the anti-abortion leaders here said they took at face value his statements that he had converted to their cause and would appoint conservatives to the Supreme Court.
The relatives of Robert LaVoy Finicum said they were not accepting at face value the FBI's statement that the 54-year-old rancher from Arizona had been armed when he was fatally shot after fleeing from a traffic stop on Tuesday.
It's all part of his strategy to steer your attention away from punishing Russia any further and to show the world that you take his word at face value despite strong evidence against him and the assessments of, well, everyone else.
Most attempts to have these bans codified into law have been rejected by the courts because they are unconstitutional at face value; because of this, passing and defending abortion bans can be seen as a waste of millions of taxpayer dollars.

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