These stories of American housewives begin benignly enough: They grocery shop.
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" Racial quotas morphed into "affirmative action," and now more benignly — "diversity.
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Regulators were thought to look benignly on unions that preserved firms' national identities.
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My wit is benignly sarcastic, so I made a comment in that vein.
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A "B-minus date" is the way he would describe it that ended benignly.
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A drunken lark was playing around benignly and crashed a drone inside the White House.
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A battle over burgers began rather benignly this past winter, when Democratic New York Rep.
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" And he praises Seinfeld's "gently sarcastic, benignly neurotic skepticism that merges Jewish cadence with WASP restraint.
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Clinton as a serious candidate worthy of tough questions, while Mr. Trump is sometimes handled more benignly.
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Lithgow sat in the chair, his face upraised as benignly as a child's drawing of the moon.
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Technology used responsibly and benignly by one country or agency can be used for sinister purposes by another.
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The interview starts benignly enough, but things get interesting when Lana asks Lee why she chose this particular program.
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"Homunculus" began to grow, benignly, in 2011 when Mitchell DJ-ed a set at Mississippi Studios, a Portland, Ore.
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His Ruffpac political action committee prepared a television commercial that benignly featured babies and puppies playing in Central Park.
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The country's ruling families had initially given their blessing to Islah, which they saw as a benignly pious group.
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I have to say, I think often one can look quite benignly on the tech companies from that perspective.
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Isobel Lennart's original book has been retooled (with an emphasis on the benignly risqué) by the Broadway polymath Harvey Fierstein.
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The trailer, released in November 2018, launched a flurry of internet reactions ranging from benignly bewildered to straight up panic.
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Inorganic mercury is created by forest fires, volcanoes, mining gold, and burning coal, but benignly stored in soil and vegetation.
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It begins benignly: on an otherwise "clear and sunny" day, every household in an unnamed village gathers to draw lots.
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Because foundations tended to fund liberal causes, they were regarded benignly by most liberals, when they were regarded at all.
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Their world wasn't mad, it was benignly and predictably hostile, filled with neighborhood kids who called them "witch" and threw rocks.
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Chris Kreider, who is in his fourth full N.H.L. season, said he felt "benignly indifferent" to playing the day after Thanksgiving.
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Regardless of whether they're sitting, fishing, or even attacking enemies, everyone will start to boogie, which lends it a benignly trollish air.
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One of the rights ITC claimed was sentencing teenagers to solitary confinement—benignly labeled a "prayer room"—sometimes for days on end.
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" And in another tweet: "I can't believe the number of followers I've lost tonight for benignly expressing sorrow about President Bush's passing.
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Take the example of the benignly named American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), of which Exxon remains a key funder and voting member.
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He envisions benignly mundane uses for RFID implants, such as personalizing an electronic toothbrush so that one's girlfriend might not accidentally take it.
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He envisions benignly mundane uses for RFID implants, such as personalising an electronic toothbrush so that one's girlfriend might not accidentally take it.
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So here's Nicki Minaj, rapping in Spanish and English alongside the Colombian singer Karol G, on "Tusa," a benignly catchy song about heartbreak.
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More benignly, the Boston news media — which writes longingly of those old tribal wars — has noted that a proper blood feud takes time.
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He was a WKA world champ and I benignly set him up with a man-eating friend of the wife's from the British Embassy.
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The efforts started somewhat benignly: with the party's slate card, a party document mailed to each registered Republican in the state naming official endorsements.
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More important, even if it were possible to meddle benignly, the case for focusing a pay policy only on the corner office is weak.
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Mr Corbyn increasingly plays the role of the monarch, smiling benignly from the party platform, while Mr McDonnell does the real work of creating policies.
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Mr. Trump got things rolling on Sunday by benignly suggesting that Mr. Rubio, an American-born son of Cuban immigrants, was not qualified to run.
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Isolated sections of message boards like 4chan and Reddit became hot crucibles of Pepe memery, bubbling forth with depictions both obscenely bigoted and benignly irritating.
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WhatsApp messages and phone calls Manafort's contacts with the two potential witnesses started benignly enough, with phone calls and text messages through the service WhatsApp.
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But the backbone of his stand-up was always his distinctive attitude — the gently sarcastic, benignly neurotic skepticism that merges Jewish cadence with WASP restraint.
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His religious belief is benignly eccentric, and granting him an exemption would cause no third-party harm — except to the principle that Justice Scalia invoked.
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However, if patients aren't harmed and education doesn't suffer, we should probably err on the side of treating our doctors-in-training as benignly as possible.
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More benignly, they could just show Trump and his accountants taking advantage of tax loopholes, as they did in the early 90s, according to the Times.
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Professional athletes are competitive, along a spectrum ranging from Benignly Pathological to Literally Kobe; this makes sense for them, because their working lives are a competition.
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Not even 9/11, the bloody stalemates in Iraq and Afghanistan or the worst economic crisis since the Depression challenged faith in a benignly Americanized world.
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Yet, I expect something more darkly complicated is going on behind Ford's "momma's boy" smile, because nothing can be so benignly simple in a thriller like Mindhunter.
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So far, Beijing has largely treated private success benignly because the biggest stars, like Alibaba, are more valuable to the national cause without official direction or interference.
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He held that the final curtain of every drama, no matter what, should benignly fall upon the whole cast sitting down to a turkey dinner and feeling fine.
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And a closer examination of the stated intentions and actions of the anarchist group often nebulously and benignly referred to as "counterprotesters," include some quite despicable approved tactics.
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It starts out as benignly as possible: JFK was recently elected, and Gregory advocates for a switch to bingo, instead of President Truman's piano playing and President Eisenhower's golf.
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While face swapping for porn lies at the malicious end of the spectrum, more benignly the technology's introduction also sparked a wave of face swapping Nicolas Cage into different movies.
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In the one involving the entrepreneur (Stephen Park) and his son (Eugene Young), a benignly comic caricature veers close to bad-guy Orientalism before veering back for a sentimental ending.
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Whereas, after the Michigan and Mississippi primaries, he gave remarks surrounded by heaps of self-branded steak and wine, he was now surrounded by his slickly coifed, benignly smiling wife and children.
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At the heart of the investigation lies a tool called, benignly, "the Macro," which allowed users to pad the hours they said they committed for pre-certification in the state of California.
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For the first time in my life, I donned that feigned, benignly pleasant expression that you see some people of color wear in white spaces to broadcast that we are not a threat.
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Meanwhile, giant billboards depicting a benignly smiling Mr Yameen—alongside the money his government is spending on roads, mosques, football pitches and the like—have begun popping up all over the capital, Malé.
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Returning to those startling early images of Medusa, with her bared teeth and frightful snake hair, there's a narrative here on how transforming her into something benignly ornamental was another level of control.
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This correction began from a moment of rich valuations that were dependent on a series of positive things happening: global economic reacceleration, rebound in corporate profits and a Fed benignly holding policy steady.
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There's now ... we're in the middle of the sexual harassment things, lack of diversity, huge companies that have huge influence over the whole country and maybe aren't using their power quite so benignly.
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The market is riding the line between a fairly routine reset in valuations and expectations, and a deeper rout that would challenge the consensus assumption of solid U.S. economic growth moderating benignly next year.
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I can see her mind at work in assessment in the piece "Black" (2017), which is almost ornamental, almost a benignly lovely woven tapestry of cord with pockets of hair here and there — maybe.
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I don't know if the kids were trying to show off for the Gonz or if they had no concept that their bad skating was being benignly observed by one of the great skate deities.
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They include Audrey's benignly parasitic husband (an excellent Nicholas Rowe); her best friend, a swaggering and emotionally destructive novelist (Helen Schlesinger); and Audrey's dangerously impressionable daughter (Charlotte Hope), who has artistic leanings of her own.
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Many extensions benignly use this information, but there is always the danger that the all-access pass will be abused or that rogue software will grab keystrokes, login information, account numbers and other private data.
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"If, on the contrary, this information has benignly been muddled due to a lack of capacity on the island, then the federal government must work hand-in-hand with Puerto Rico's government to provide a clearer assessment."
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If, on the contrary, this information has benignly been muddled due to a lack of capacity on the island, then the federal government must work hand-in-hand with Puerto Rico's government to provide a clearer assessment.
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In time, "Wolf Warrior 2" might seem benignly kitschy, though its core ideas about how only the Chinese military can save a nameless African country from bloodthirsty native rebels and amoral European mercenaries, will always be gross.
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He believes that the new administration sees places like Ma'ale Adumim more benignly than did former President Barack Obama, whose administration blocked much building here and in the nearby E1, an especially contentious area closer to Jerusalem.
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Sometimes a Supreme Court dissenter is conscious of writing for the future—hoping that subsequent generations will come around to her point of view, and look upon her benignly as having been on the right side of history.
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Elfin forests have small, short trees, usually no more than about 30 feet (9 meters) tall, and canopies loaded with epiphytes—plants that benignly take root and grow on the trunks and branches of other, typically much larger plants.
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Things start off benignly enough; in fact, despite the staggering total price tag of this gift guide, the reality star has actually put together a surprisingly affordable list of items to help you and yours spice up your sex life.
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Christie, who had previously been allowed to operate benignly, says he has become a target for law enforcement after he sued the state—and subsequently Big Island police chief Lawrence Mahuna—in a battle to stop the Green Harvest seizures.
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And recent events have focused attention on the social media platforms' policing their own domains, benignly or otherwise, including their manipulation by Russian hackers and bots, their willingness to accommodate repressive regimes' desires to spy on users' emails, and so forth.
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STRASBOURG (Reuters) - The European Commission is ready to discuss with Italy several options to address problems in its banking sector, the vice president of the EU executive said on Monday, signaling state support would be viewed benignly under EU fiscal rules.
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The benignly named Clean Power Plan to coerce states to redesign their electric sector around low- to zero-carbon intensity instead of cost and reliability may be the most expansive arrogation of power by a single agency in U.S. history.
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With music by Ted Shen, it has an Act 1 libretto by Ellen Fitzhugh, retrofitted from Shen's and Fitzhugh's unsuccessful mini-musical, "Just One Q." Conducted by Deborah Abramson and performed by a six-piece orchestra, the music does its job benignly.
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What's now called stop-and-frisk policing—in which police aggressively sought out suspected minor criminals on the streets, most of them minority kids—was, he suggests, a kind of schismatic variant of what had originally been called, more benignly, "broken windows" policing.
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Before the Dutch referendum last year, Mr. Kornilov campaigned against the Ukraine trade deal, describing himself benignly as "a Ukrainian expat in The Hague" who was "stunned by the seemingly endless stream of lies and propaganda" about Russia and felt obliged to respond.
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More notable is how the owners and players were casually leaking details a week ago that made it seem like the CBA negotiations were going along fine, even benignly, and now, all of a sudden, there's going to be a lockout in a week. Maybe.
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The facts in this latest charging document, along with those in the indictment earlier this year detailing the activities of the benignly named Internet Research Agency, provide a clear window into the coordinated and strategic attack perpetrated by the Russian government against our democracy.
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That's because under the benignly named "Migration Protection Protocols" policy, they are being returned to some of Mexico's most dangerous cities, where they are being preyed upon by highly organized cartels that have found a lucrative new source of revenue in Trump's approach to migration.
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PARELES Suave, leisurely and benignly affectionate, Keith Urban reaches back to doo-wop chords and piano triplets for a song that methodically works out the possibilities of its title: "Let's put a kiss at the top of your list/We can be naughty or nice," he offers.
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Minchin is not a household name yet, but he is a semi-famous Australian who also wrote the lauded musical Matilda and appears to be elbowing into the overtly sentimental, benignly kitschy musical theatre space that has been occupied by Andrew Lloyd Webber for the last three decades.
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Since "perfect mother" is a construct that even the guiltiest and most privileged of parents don't really believe exists, the survival of the gag depends on upping the ante, of being ever more "human" — that is, more unconventional, more sloppy, more benignly neglectful, more potty-mouthed — than your predecessors.
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The flooding at McCormack-Williamson was unintentional, but scientists and environmental groups say deliberately creating similar areas — floodplains to allow the state's rivers to overflow more naturally and benignly — is a way to help ease the strain on this water infrastructure, especially as climate change poses new challenges.
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Is this the kind of society we want to live in — where right-wingers can do any vicious thing they want to anyone and shrug it off, while people on the center-left are supposed to expel from public life anyone who says a single wrong word or has done something benignly intended in the past that now does not fit changed norms?
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Robert Lovett, a Republican, was an executive with the investment bank Brown Brothers Harriman, then served as a deputy to General George Marshall and as Harry Truman's Secretary of Defense, and helped create NATO and the C.I.A. Lovett was one of the so-called foreign-policy Wise Men, a term that captured how benignly Wall Street-Washington traffic was viewed in that era.
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While no one can fairly suggest the mayor or police commissioner -- either Bratton, who retired from the de Blasio administration in 2016, or O'Neill, who succeeded him -- have ordered cops to "stand down" or benignly submit to assaults, it is difficult not to see the periodic demonization of the profession as something of an open invitation for those who desire to attack the police.
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The duo of John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman is unlike other radio broadcasts in the sense that where one team might employ a wild card—a play-by-play man prone to curlicues or puns or narcolepsy, say, or a benignly sozzled ex-player given to MC Escher-esque digression—the Yankees employ two of the most relentlessly, intensely weird broadcasters in the sport, at the same time.
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McPhee's reliance on and reverence for these benignly ruthless guides will ring true to anyone fortunate enough to have worked with meticulous, devoted editors like them, as will the desire to pass along to the next generations, medieval-guild fashion, the tradecraft he learned from their incisive comments — as Zinsser did with us undergraduates; as I do with Atlantic authors, trying to be at once relentless inquisitor and relentless champion, and with my own writing students; as McPhee has done, comma by comma, for more than four decades, with the "half a thousand Princeton students" who are among the book's dedicatees.
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For ten years, comments Barbara Hanawalt, the pipe rolls "benignly enter payments to the king from his 'dear and faithful' John FitzWalter".
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D. José da Ave-Maria died in Angra on 30 October 1799, and was a wise and peaceful bishop, much appreciated for his life, who was devoid of pomp, being almoner and benignly indulgent with offenders.
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A family friend once remarked, "I never saw more lovely children, nor a more pleasing sight than the King's fondness for them." On the other hand, Queen Charlotte invoked fear in her daughters and, according to royal historian A. W. Purdue, she was not "benignly maternal".
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Composition of example product as shown in the product's Safety Data Sheet Although the base polymers may be considered benignly soft, the composition with other materials greatly enhances their abrasive powers; to the extent that a heavy-duty Scotch-Brite pad (which contains both Aluminum oxide and Titanium oxide) will actually scratch glass.
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Their vast mental powers give them the means to enforce this edict. The detached Tengren is satisfied with the outcome until he realizes the sentence includes him, at which point he belatedly speaks up for the more benignly inclined humans. The Timeless Ones grant the exception, giving him and Ilsa the right to remain and help rebuild Martian society.
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She uses assistance from grandfather Akira, an eccentric old man who is a former animator and occasional model. Eight-year-old Sachiko periodically sees a silent, giant- size double of herself which mimics or benignly watches her. She contemplates ways to rid herself of it. Uncle Ayano is a sound engineer and record producer who comes to stay for a visit.
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Walker, p. 291 Valerius writes many stories of other Roman fathers which generally are contrary to the stereotypical image of being brutal and harsh.Walker, p. xv Some of these examples are in Book 5 Chapter 7 titled The Love and Indulgence of Parents towards Their Children.Walker, p. 189 He writes that the real fathers are the ones that are benignly permissive and show indulgence.
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More recently FIANZ leadership was tagged "..as a conservative businessmen's club of relaxed Muslims, well integrated in New Zealand society and benignly sexist."Kolig, Erich, New Zealand's Muslims and Multiculturalism (2010) , page.31. Other lingering criticisms reflect cultural matters. Despite a concern with the "public" appearance of following the Sunnah, the Federation has sometimes created the impression of acting as a personal vehicle for certain office bearers.
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He also starred in and directed the films Big Bad Love and Dawn Anna, both co-written with James Howard, his brother. His wife, Debra Winger, starred in both films. In 2010 he played Kale Ingram, a benignly duplicitous supervisor at an American intelligence agency, in the cerebral TV series Rubicon, which was canceled by AMC after 13 episodes. Howard appeared in the 2011 feature Moneyball.
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Their nefarious plans come to the attention of Countess Aurelia, the benignly eccentric madwoman of the title. She is an aging idealist who sees the world as happy and beautiful. But, advised by her associate, the Ragpicker, who is a bit more worldly than the Countess, she soon comes to realize that the world might well be ruined by these evil men—men who seek only wealth and power. These people have taken over Paris.
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The tissue nanotransfection technique was developed as a method to efficiently and benignly deliver cargo to living tissues. This technique builds on the high-throughput nanoelectroporation methods developed for cell reprogramming applications by Dr. Lee and Dr. Gallego-Perez of Ohio State’s Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering department.. Development was a joint effort between OSU’s College of Engineering and College of Medicine led by Dr. Gallego-Perez (Ph.D), Dr. Lee (Ph.D), and Dr. Sen (Ph.
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He argues that the policymakers all over the world must change their preconceptions and accept that we live in one world. The national interests must be balanced with global interests and the power must be shared. Mahbubani urges that only through these actions can we create a world that converges benignly. He states there is conflict between "the West and the Rest." and offers three forms of general action that non- Western civilizations can react toward Western countries.
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Scotland Street in Edinburgh's New Town Publishers Weekly said that 44 Scotland Street was "episodic, amusing and peopled with characters both endearing and benignly problematic." Library Journal said that "Smith's insightful and comic observations, makes for an amusing and absorbing look at Edinburgh's high society." Bookseller said that "the writing style is understated, and the humour subtle but at times devastating." A stage adaptation, entitled The World According to Bertie, was performed at the 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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Born in Lexington, Virginia, Mann was the third of three children. Her father, Robert S. Munger, was a general practitioner, and her mother, Elizabeth Evans Munger, ran the bookstore at Washington and Lee University in Lexington. Mann was raised by an atheist and compassionate father who allowed Mann to be "benignly neglected". Mann was introduced to photography by her father, who encouraged her interest in photography; his 5x7 camera became the basis of her use of large format cameras today.
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A mobile cinema brings Frankenstein to the village and the two sisters go to see it. The film makes a deep impression on Ana, in particular, the scene where the monster plays benignly with a little girl, then accidentally kills her. She asks her sister: "Why did he kill the girl, and why did they kill him after that?" Isabel tells her that the monster did not kill the girl and is not really dead; she says that everything in films is fake.
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Any skillful > mechanic, with [the prior art] before him, would readily construct the > requisite machinery.55 U.S. at 180. Nelson argued that the Court ought to "construe specifications benignly, and to look through mere forms of expression, often inartificially used, to the substance, and to maintain the right of the patentee to the thing really invented, if ascertainable upon a liberal consideration of the language of the specification." These inventors did not suppose that their invention was the arrangement of machinery.
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What Sir Kay fails to achieve through brute force and rudeness, Sir Gawain achieves through courtesy. And in the end, the humour of courteously complying with his host's every instruction in his castle, even when this requires throwing a spear at him and sleeping with his wife and daughter, releases the Carle from a horrific spell and allows Sir Gawain to bring the strange, threatening and mysterious, benignly back into King Arthur's realm, as is his role.Hahn, Thomas (Ed). 1995.Lupack, Alan.
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If the operating system's memory is corrupted, the entire computer system may crash and need to be rebooted. At times programs intentionally alter the memory used by other programs. This is done by viruses and malware to take over computers. It may also be used benignly by desirable programs which are intended to modify other programs; in the modern age, this is generally considered bad programming practice for application programs, but it may be used by system development tools such as debuggers, for example to insert breakpoints or hooks.
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Published in 1852, Aunt Phillis's Cabin contains contrasts and comparisons to the anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, which was published earlier that year. It serves as an antithesis; Eastman's novel deliberately referred to the situation in Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, where plantation owners abuse their repressed, disloyal slaves. In contrast, Eastman portrays white plantation owners who behave benignly towards their slaves. Eastman uses quotes from various sources–including Uncle Tom's Cabin–to explain that slavery is a natural institution, and essential to life.
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Later, he had many opportunities to study this tigress whom he named Padmini after his elder daughter, and she tolerated his presence benignly. In August 1981 Rathore was nearly killed by a group of villagers who resented being sent away from the park area because they used to collect fees from others for allowing their cattle to graze there. He was beaten up and left for dead with several fractures and a head injury, and it took several months for him to recover. Later he was given a bravery award for this.
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600 BC or 576–530 BC), overthrowing his grandfather Astyages (585–550 BC) in 550 BC. The Medes then became subject to the Persians. The Persians, who had scant resources for governing their vast empire, ruled relatively benignly as conquerors, attempting to obtain the cooperation of the local elite in governance. They ruled their vassal states by appointing local rulers, or satraps with responsibility for their satrapies (Greek: Satrapeia). However, the Greeks referred to these satraps as 'tyrants', meaning they were neither democratically elected or derived authority from dynasty.
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Flies are important pollinators, second only to the bees and their Hymenopteran relatives. Flies may have been among the evolutionarily earliest pollinators responsible for early plant pollination. Fruit flies are used as model organisms in research, but less benignly, mosquitoes are vectors for malaria, dengue, West Nile fever, yellow fever, encephalitis, and other infectious diseases; and houseflies, commensal with humans all over the world, spread food-borne illnesses. Flies can be annoyances especially in some parts of the world where they can occur in large numbers, buzzing and settling on the skin or eyes to bite or seek fluids.
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According to Ghazi Suleiman Hamed, Deputy Minister for Haj and Religious Affairs, the new Department would operate more benignly than the Taliban version. The minister of Haj and religious affairs Nematullah Shahrani stated that the new department would focus on alcohol, drugs, crime and corruption, even though Afghanistan’s criminal laws already addressed these issues. According to Human Rights Watch, reinstating the virtue and vice department would have a negative impact on women rights, a major lever of development for the country. Shukria Barakzai, a member of Afghanistan's National Legislature, saw in this draft legislation a reminiscing legacy of the Taliban era.
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The Dog It Was That Died has been described as Stoppard's 'le Carrécture', and it takes much of its mannered approach from John le Carré's work. The play takes place against a background of Cold War paranoia, and at the time of its first production it was quite believable that such complex shenanigans could take place. It is full of Stoppard's usual verbal pyrotechnics, particularly in those scenes where the full details of Purvis's career are being explored. The characters of Blair and Purvis are contrasted skilfully – one the benignly complacent bureaucrat, the other a deeply principled fighter for his beliefs.
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This was part of a series of events known as the Caledon Bay crisis Dhakiyarr was convicted of murder and sentenced to death, but seven months later this verdict was overturned in the Tuckiar v The King case. Several reasons were given for the success of the appeal, including that Judge Wells had misdirected the jury. He was regarded more benignly for ordering the doors of Fannie Bay Gaol open following the Japanese air raids in 1942, rather than have them suffer should the jail receive a direct hit. He was himself evacuated to Alice Springs following the air raids, returning in 1945.
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The third presence (Deobia Oparei) enters the cabin; it is revealed in flashbacks that this third Ghost has benignly aided the couple, both saving the man from falling off and later placing the ring for her to find. He rescues the Ghost from his existence and both disappear. Mr. Browman (Muse Watson), a townsman, appears at the door and tells her that he came because he had a feeling that something was wrong and had tried unsuccessfully to communicate with her. They bring her boyfriend out from under the house and take him away on his boat so he can receive medical assistance.
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The United Seniors AssociationUSA Seniors site (USA) is "a conservative, grassroots organization for the elderly just as likely to be flacking for corporate special interests as it is to be representing seniors." The drug lobby pays the group "as a front for its TV and radio 'issue' ad campaigns," which is also "used by several corporate energy front groups pushing for the GOP [ Republican Party ] legislation." A May 2004 article from the center-Left The Washington Monthly elaborated as follows: :Then there's the benignly-named United Seniors Association (USA), which serves as a soft money slush fund for a single GOP-friendly industry: pharmaceuticals.
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Khalfon composed both piyyutim (liturgical poems) and kinnot (elegies), most of which are still in manuscript form. His elegy for his murdered son, David, and his piyyut, Mi Kamokha (, "Who is like You"), both stemmed from the reign of terror perpetrated by Ali Burghul against the Jews of Tripoli from July 30, 1793, to January 20, 1795. Before that time, Tripoli's Jews had been benignly ruled by Ali Pasha of the Karamanli dynasty for some three decades. However, a fratricidal war between two sons of Ali Pasha and an attempt by the victorious son, Yusuf Karamanli, to seize the throne plunged the city into chaos.
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The book's main character is Eulalia, a young daughter of an abolitionist from New England and the wife of a plantation owner named Moreland. At first indoctrinated by her father's views on abolitionism, Eulalia initially condemns her husband's use of slaves on his plantation – even though he is behaving benignly towards them – but she soon realises how well off Moreland's slaves truly are. As time passes, Eulalia also discovers a plot by a group of local abolitionists to stage a large-scale slave rebellion, with aims to "free" the otherwise-content slaves of the plantation and to murder both Moreland and Eulalia, despite their kindness to their slaves.
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Later writers have dealt with the ideas discussed in The Nice and the Good, and the way they inform the characters' behaviour, often in relation to other Murdoch novels. Peter J. Conradi notes that The Nice and the Good, an " 'open' and benignly comic" novel, contrasts sharply with its " 'closed' and apocalyptic" predecessor The Time of the Angels. "Open" and "closed" refer to Murdoch's own way of classifying novels as either driven by character (open) or by plot (closed). Writers on theology have been particularly interested in how The Nice and the Good, among other Murdoch novels, relates to the question of morality in a post-religious age.
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Hybrid rocket motor detail of SpaceShipOne A hybrid-propellant rocket is a rocket with a rocket motor that uses rocket propellants in two different phases: one solid and the other either gas or liquid. The hybrid rocket concept can be traced back to at least the 1930s. Hybrid rockets avoid some of the disadvantages of solid rockets like the dangers of propellant handling, while also avoiding some disadvantages of liquid rockets like their mechanical complexity. Because it is difficult for the fuel and oxidizer to be mixed intimately (being different states of matter), hybrid rockets tend to fail more benignly than liquids or solids.
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The 'Mazing Man series depicts the misadventures of Sigfried Horatio Hunch III, a benignly deranged little man in Queens, New York City, New York who dresses in a homemade costume and performs deeds like unclogging drains and watching out for local children. Viewed as a harmless kook by his neighbors, he saves a child from being hit by a truck in the first issue, earning him some respect and notoriety, not to mention a steady stream of appreciation (and food) from the mother in subsequent issues. "'Maze" tends to sing Simon and Garfunkel songs when struck on the head. His best friend is Denton Fixx, a writer for BC Comics who looks like a beagle.
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Critics of multiculturalism often debate whether the multicultural ideal of benignly co-existing cultures that interrelate and influence one another, and yet remain distinct, is sustainable, paradoxical, or even desirable. It is argued that nation states, who would previously have been synonymous with a distinctive cultural identity of their own, lose out to enforced multiculturalism and that this ultimately erodes the host nations' distinct culture. Sarah Song views cultures as historically shaped entities by its members, and that they lack boundaries due to globalization, thereby making them stronger than what others may assume. She goes on to argue against the notion of special rights as she feels cultures are mutually constructive, and are shaped by the dominant culture.
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" More benignly, a spirit may appear to a family member in a dream and request a spouse. Marjorie Topley, in "Ghost Marriages Among the Singapore Chinese: A Further Note," relates the story of one 14-year-old Cantonese boy who died. A month later he appeared to his mother in a dream saying that he wished to marry a girl who had recently died in Ipoh, Perak. The son did not reveal her name; his mother used a Cantonese spirit medium and "through her the boy gave the name of the girl together with her place of birth and age, and details of her horoscope which were subsequently found to be compatible with his.
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That same year, KMEL signed popular New York radio personality and San Francisco native Alex Bennett. Bennett anchored the morning position which was followed by well-liked veteran Tony Kilbert covering mid-day, music director Paul Vincent covering the afternoon, then Mary Holloway, Michael St John, and Doc Phillips in the evening and overnight. The station played mostly cuts from about 30 top rock albums, interspersed with a few lesser known songs such as on the "Fresh Kamel Trax" feature highlighting new albums at noon and at 8 pm. With news reporter/sidekick Joe Regelski, Bennett built a large following over the next two years, becoming known as a "benignly nasty" morning DJ, "the guy everybody loves to hate", according to Promotion Director Kenny Wardell.
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The Pope did not appoint him as Prefect, because at the time the Popes themselves were Prefects of the Holy Office. The post of Secretary was then the highest-ranking office in the Dicastery. Merry del Val as secretary was responsible for running the daily affairs of the Holy Office, in which capacity he reportedly explained Pope Pius's policy of non possumus to Theodore Herzl and his emerging movement of Zionism, saying that as long as Jews deny Christ's divinity, the Church could not make a declaration in their favor.Catholicism, France and Zionism: 1895-1904 When the British Catholic diplomat Mark Sykes visited him to speak about the same topic, Merry del Val was more supportive, indicating that the Holy See would look benignly on the project.
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Political parties were to be abolished in favour of "leagues of electors", and all farmland was to be appropriated by the government. Manning, benignly neglectful of the Social Credit Board to this point, took this as "a direct challenge to his leadership, a shot across the bow".Brennan 94 He quickly introduced a resolution in the legislature to "condemn, repudiate, and completely dissociate" the legislature from "any statements or publications which are incompatible with the established British ideals of democratic freedom, or which endorse, excuse, or incite anti- Semitism or racial or religious intolerance in any form". In November 1947 he announced that the Social Credit Board would cease to exist effective March 1948,Brennan 95 and in February 1948 he asked for and received Byrne's resignation as deputy minister of Economic Affairs.
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Three volumes were planned, consisting of six issues each: "The Golden Age," "The Silver Age" and "The Dark Age." "The Golden Age" showed the world some years later: a utopia gradually being transformed by alien technologies, and benignly ruled by Miracleman and other parahumans, though he has nagging doubts about whether he has done the right thing by taking power. Gaiman's focus in "The Golden Age" is less the heroes themselves than the people who live in this new world, including a lonely man who becomes one of Miraclewoman's lovers, a former spy (whose tale recalls J.G. Ballard's short story "War Fever"), and several duplicates of Andy Warhol. Eclipse followed up "The Golden Age" by publishing the standalone, three-issue mini-series Miracleman: Apocrypha, written and illustrated by a variety of other creators, with framing pages by Gaiman and Buckingham.
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The third single from Made in Germany, the Nena-penned ballad “In meinem Leben” (In my life) was released two days after Nena’s 50th birthday and is, according to Allmusic, “a touching glimpse of autobiographical thoughts on Nena's life so far.” While the album version is a calm guitar ballad with strings, the radio version was remixed into a pop rock ballad with drums and an electric guitar, neither of which are present in the album version. The promotional video features Nena singing the song against a backdrop of footage and photos from her entire career and with both the fathers of her five children, together with some of those children, benignly looking on. Sometimes likened to a German My Way, however Nena admits to a variety of excesses and indiscretions ranging from smoking, drugs and drinking to betrayal and undermining her strength.
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Critics of multiculturalism in Canada often debate whether the multicultural ideal of benignly co-existing cultures that interrelate and influence one another, and yet remain distinct, is sustainable, paradoxical or even desirable. In the introduction to an article which presents research showing that "the multiculturalism policy plays a positive role" in "the process of immigrant and minority integration," Citizenship and immigration Canada sums up the critics' position by stating: Chinatown is an ethnic enclave located in the city centre Canadian Neil Bissoondath in his book Selling Illusions: The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada, argues that official multiculturalism limits the freedom of minority members, by confining them to cultural and geographic ethnic enclaves ("social ghettos"). He also argues that cultures are very complex, and must be transmitted through close family and kin relations. To him, the government view of cultures as being about festivals and cuisine is a crude oversimplification that leads to easy stereotyping.
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Willing to offer an alternative to the most basic fundamentals behind liberal democracy, he also non-accidentally addressed some words of scorn to "that terrible man who was called Juan Jacobo Rousseau" during the foundational meeting of the Falange. Just as other Falangists, Primo de Rivera partially embraced the sense of Castilianist essentialism from the Generation of '98, but, conversely, he was also distinctly aware of the cultural plurality of the peoples in Spain, and thus the Falangist national project for Spain was framed following the orteguian legacy as one of "unity of destiny in the universal". It has been noted that at some point he benignly put his hopes on politicians far from his own Fascist stances such as republican Manuel Azaña (in this case for a very brief time) or socialist Indalecio Prieto as potential candidates to alleviate his self-imposed burden for "saving" the country. According to Álvarez Chillida, Primo de Rivera's written works did not feature a marked antisemitism when compared to other Falangist leaders.
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