" Meanwhile, Roberts thinks Clinton is "bereft of a selling line and she is bereft of a dream.
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Hollins was working with a roster largely bereft of talent.
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The intelligence community feels beleaguered and bereft of political support.
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His presidency also leaves the party bereft of reliable leadership.
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Collections of stars called globular clusters seem bereft of them.
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His home was dirty and bereft of electricity or water.
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Carlson's show on Monday evening was especially bereft of advertising.
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Its batteries, completely bereft of power, will not turn on again.
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It would be a shadow, bereft of body, color, and light.
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The noise is deafening—and the facility seemingly bereft of humans.
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It's dreary, cold, and bereft of any tradition or basketball culture.
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The "Winged Victory of Samothrace" was bereft of its usual admirers.
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New Orleans, bereft of the corpse, built a monument to Davis.
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Her withdrawal leaves the Australian Open increasingly bereft of major stars.
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He clearly exhibited extreme anti-social behavior, seemingly bereft of conscience.
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The Republican Party is not bereft of leaders thinking about this.
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And it seems bereft of ideas to improve Britain's measly wage growth.
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So are shelves bereft of staples and snaking queues at petrol stations.
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We will find ourselves all but bereft of deep thinking and imagination.
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Think of food deserts, the low-resource neighborhoods bereft of fresh produce.
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Yet the EPA's expanding climate crusade is bereft of legally meaningful justification.
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Bereft of cars, we are now forced to depend on public transportation.
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Sandy left homes flooded, and poor tenants bereft of electricity and hot water.
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But it is now bereft of a strong leader and a winning story.
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As in 2011, the protests have been spontaneous, inclusive and bereft of leadership.
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We follow the evidence wherever it may lead, bereft of fear or favor.
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But St. John's was essentially bereft of talent when Mullin returned in 23.
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Not a word from a United Nations Security Council bereft of American leadership.
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Imagine a world bereft of gates and uncrossable lines, with no discernible rules.
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Since its setback at Volkswagen, the U.A.W. has not been bereft of momentum.
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That's not to say the week will be completely bereft of good times.
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So at least for now, the skies appear to be bereft of intelligence.
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To them, it didn't matter if Alien-Stock was bereft of extraterrestrial life.
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The region's 634m people, often bereft of easy commuting choices, are a rich prize.
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But it's also true that the industry has been relatively bereft of big exits.
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Relying on imported oil has left Puerto Ricans bereft of reliable electricity for years.
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Networks bereft of "must-have" content will face demands from distributors to lower prices.
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In other words, "Stealing the Show" at times feels a little bereft of urgency.
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Several personnel moves followed that left the Cavaliers largely bereft of top-level talent.
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The words, bereft of real meaning, just blow away into the cold north wind.
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The policy has crippled the economy, leaving Eritrean farms and businesses bereft of labor.
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Through last winter, he wrote poems daily; "I felt bereft of song," he said.
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Bereft of ideas, Esparza continually attempted to take Jedrzejczyk down, but it wasn't happening.
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They interpret the language of Schumer and Hoyer as window dressing, bereft of political punch.
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I like Manhunt because, for the most part, it seems eager and bereft of consternation.
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You know things are looking bad when even North Korea says you're "bereft of reason".
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I'm not saying that companies that sell niche, expensive products should be bereft of funding.
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Aisha was bereft; of all her siblings, he was the one she felt closest to.
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If we feel humiliated and bereft of reason, how are we supposed to feel certain?
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Trump is bereft of patriotism, and seems to hate the country he wants to lead.
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But it is not quite true that Boone, 45, is completely bereft of coaching experience.
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Bereft of meaning or satisfaction, they can still vent their frustrations through such an outlet.
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The Supreme Court pointed out that General Electric Capital was not bereft of other remedies.
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A president bereft of fresh ideas, Trump can only fall back on a gauzy past.
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Bereft of a complaint, Montgomery County police have already stated an investigation is not forthcoming.
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He remains bereft of any major wins and is facing an investigation that's threatening his presidency.
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With Brexit in the bag, UKIP is bereft of its main purpose and biggest vote-winner.
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Senators from both parties will be apoplectic if Pompeo comes to Capitol Hill bereft of information.
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Bereft of propulsion, they are at the mercy of the trajectory into which they were deployed.
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Surrounded by a roster bereft of talent, Davis is the lone player who's even sniffed dynamism.
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He cautioned them against a sense of grievance too exaggerated and an outrage bereft of perspective.
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There's a lot of stuff bereft of culture and unmoored from the universe, just floating along.
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Even alive, lawns occupy a state of eerie, suspended animation, bereft of seeding and grass flowers.
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Russia is not bereft of friends in the Balkans, Lamrani said, pointing to Serbia in particular.
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They refuse to say, respecting the vow I have made to remain temporarily bereft of wokeness.
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Children's Books The Bulgaria of my childhood was bereft of the classics of American children's literature.
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The first trial was largely bereft of demonstrations, except for the occasional protester outside the courthouse.
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Our current president is bereft of both eloquence and wisdom and the saving grace of humor.
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It consisted of two teams bereft of confidence, already facing up to a long, arduous season.
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A brain drain has left much of the east bereft of young people, especially young women.
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And why continue to call it "social" media, when we are bereft of real human contact?
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In the back of my mind are the wails of others bereft of Scott Tube-Free.
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It was a blistering denunciation of James Comey who is bereft of judgment and temperament and competence.
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Bereft of one, while it may win the military battle, it will ultimately lose the strategic war.
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"These results are bereft of redeeming qualities," investment firm Tudor Pickering Holt wrote in a research note.
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The fact is, the last couple of Seasons have been woefully bereft of high profile character deaths.
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On a continent bereft of good roads and productive factories, fully 90% of trade happens by sea.
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But it is hard to think of any other big financial institution so bereft of a purpose.
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Democrats seem especially bereft of ideas, especially as the economy barrels ahead, lifting wages and reducing unemployment.
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The loss still leaves many on the left bereft of ideas on how to move forward politically.
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Our planet, along with other rocky planets in the inner Solar System, is naturally bereft of volatiles.
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The Dutch failed to qualify for the current tournament in Russia and find themselves bereft of stars.
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When Curtis Granderson signed with the Mets before the 2014 season, the team was bereft of pillars.
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JPMorgan's board is by no means bereft of alternatives now that Mr. Zames is joining the exodus.
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The marketplace for online services is bereft of meaningful competition, and it is potentially corrosive of democracy.
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The men and women I met were bereft of every vital element that gives meaning to life.
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The ministry is bereft of plant experts, so they sent Neang Thy, the country's leading herpetologist, instead.
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Argentina's high-handed tactics left the country bereft of international investment and brought disaster to its economy.
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Perhaps we can find the answer in our own universe, bereft of dragons though it may be.
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Image: Stanton F. Fink/WikimediaImportantly, the Dickinsonia fossil was bereft of ergosteriods—a biomarker indicative of fungal life.
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That leaves it bereft of the plot, suspense and occasional conflict that made the original "Somm" so gripping.
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Merging with another company risks double the trouble – more brands falling flat and more stores bereft of customers.
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Besides being shallow gestures bereft of meaning, they don't pay the bills or put roofs over veterans' heads.
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Hot glue, bereft of editing software and careful lighting, turns out to be ill-suited to making sandals.
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Possibly as a result of the troubles, co-headliners Migos were bereft of Offset, the group's arguable MVP.
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Skyhook's founders, bereft of other partnership options, had been forced to sell their company at a large discount.
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Grocery stores are short of food and hospitals are bereft of supplies as the country's economic meltdown hastens.
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The scandal has left Brazil's oil industry bereft of investment during the country's worst economic crisis in decades.
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Before the EoR, the universe was bereft of starlight, in a time known as the cosmic Dark Ages.
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"Sunday" is clearly intended as a bigger picture of a generation that feels bereft of ideals and hopes.
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The bread was stiff and underdressed, the batter on the fried shrimp and catfish seemingly bereft of spice.
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Bereft of a plan, Republicans were left to secretly concoct half-baked bills in the dead of night.
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"Bereft of human interaction," a court document read, "his cattle that manage to survive are wild, mean and ornery."
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Bereft of superpowers, Too Much Coffee Man often attempts to salve his depressions with more coffee -- to no avail.
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The researchers noted that the guts of both the obese mothers and their young were bereft of L. reuteri.
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They are now bereft of the single most forceful and outspoken detractor of Mr. Trump in the presidential campaign.
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Venezuelans spend hours every day in line to scavenge grocery shops with empty shelves and pharmacies bereft of medicines.
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The Trump Treasury's one-page summary on the economic effects of the Senate bill is bereft of economic analysis.
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The nation's politics, meanwhile, often brew their own type of disaster, leaving the country bereft of clearly elected leaders.
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The outer edge black hole, or the southern black hole, as Comerford calls it, was surprisingly bereft of stars.
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At worst, I feel mentally hijacked, bereft of the internal controls I used to monitor and manage my mood.
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It was dark, just another poor town on Sri Lanka's Tamil and Muslim-dominated east coast bereft of electricity.
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Bereft of historical recall, misinformed by social media, driven by dreams, they were putting their money on a loser.
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We're also served poorly by an occasionally reflexive pessimism bereft of adequate nuance or a sufficient sense of triage.
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The government banned drinking, partying and loud music, leaving the city on mute, bereft of its melody and verve.
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In a word: France today is an orphan, bereft of the two conflicts that long drove its political life.
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This is easy to do: Look for the white passenger jets bereft of any markings except a red stripe.
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Even so, despite the overwhelming evidence of their success, these worthy life-saving organizations remain bereft of adequate funding.
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Topographic approaches can sometimes be so wrapped up in form, repetition and consistency that it is bereft of emotion.
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Unless you're a cyborg bereft of what us humans quaintly consider emotions, then the answer's a big fat no.
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Through Chip's eyes and Krisel's direction, Bakersfield is boring and blanched, bereft of the capital-C Culture Chip craves.
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So if recent history is any example, Austin may not be bereft of widespread ride-hailing services for long.
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Bereft of power, leadership and direction, they have found in opposing him a unity of purpose and gush of talent.
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The AAP brand of political discourse is bereft of political civility, is disruptive and faces a deficit in public trust.
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"It was our worst performance of the tournament as we were totally bereft of ideas in attack," Buslje told reporters.
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Trump, then, is a kind of Bizarro Chomsky—one bereft of a conscience, of any sense of right and wrong.
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Asia was bereft of the usual leads as the U.S. markets were closed on Wednesday for the Independence Day holiday.
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As a viewer, you become inured to the murder, bereft of emotion while waiting for the ending credits to roll.
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Like most Toyota products, the 2018 C-HR XLE is well-made, bereft of any obvious fit-and-finish faults.
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The FBI has long pledged fealty to simply following the evidence, investigating potential federal crimes, bereft of fear or favor.
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I don't think I was alone in feeling bereft of what had come to feel like a deeply personal relationship.
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Sound dialogue is not possible with such a guy bereft of reason and only absolute force can work with him.
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The scenes in many of Oliver Clasper's photographs are utterly mundane, bereft of any dazzling camera tricks or rich colors.
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He has his pal Lance to banter with; Charlotte is mainly alone, bereft of repartee, until the arrival of Fred.
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" To that, North Korean state media on Monday called Trump an "old man bereft of patience" and "heedless and erratic.
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After all, economists are finding themselves in uncharted territory, using unfamiliar data sets, and are bereft of a good precedent.
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As elsewhere in the West, traditional parties bereft of compelling ideas are in crisis, buffeted by social-media-driven mobilizations.
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She'll never be a lovable actress, but neither can she be ignored; she's so on , and so bereft of peace.
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If they prioritise preserving their heirs' fortunes, then states that taxed inheritances after 2001 should have become bereft of billionaires.
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Peruse Twitter today and you'll invariably come away believing the country is full of resisters and bereft of problem solvers.
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We walked past broad lawns and wide lakes fringed with forest, all heavily manicured and completely bereft of bird life.
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It must be a mistake or misfortune that has left me bereft of what has become an exterior brain for most.
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His face literally looks blank, bereft of anything but the simple irritation of having to spend another day in this life.
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In a matter of days, Ford's retreat has turned the factory site into a barren plain bereft of its economic promise.
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For now the SPD is stuck in a grim present, torn between constituencies, lacking leadership and bereft of election-winning ideas.
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If the speculators get their way, bitcoin might end up being another dry financial tool, bereft of its world-changing potential.
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It's because of ambition, after all, that Superhot finds something wholly original in a genre that has become bereft of originality.
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That leaves the offense, presently bereft of Lucas Duda and David Wright, its infield corners, which is hitting but .237/.301/.
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The climate for free-trade deals is not propitious these days, and Mr Fox's department is bereft of experienced trade negotiators.
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Delegates will, for example, find their hotels bereft of the large welcoming banners and displays of flowers common in previous years.
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When all that disappears, it's as bereft of purpose as Escobar in exile — it barely knows what to do with itself.
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The film is almost startlingly bereft of the bombastic "for your consideration" scenes we have come to expect from historical biopics.
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James Johnson, the previous coach, had been there for only two seasons and he left behind a roster bereft of talent.
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Yet Mr. Trump's tweet, and the Fox show on which it was based, were bereft of any context, sympathy or understanding.
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It will most likely mean that Trump and congressional Republicans will be bereft of resources to prevent wholesale losses of coverage.
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If you want to understand why Hench and Bobbie are so bereft of social skills, just wait until she wakes up.
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McEwan grew up an army brat, spending his early years in places like North Africa, a dry landscape bereft of color.
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The investment manager said investors were not "bereft" of buying opportunities, and recommended U.S. energy and banking stocks over government bonds.
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Mars: It's like Earth, except half the size, extremely cold, exposed to high doses of radiation, and bereft of breathable air.
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AJ Styles lost to Jericho, meaning neither's standing really changes—if anything, Styles now seems utterly bereft of purpose in the promotion.
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The men's ATP tour has long been bereft of Aboriginals, with promising juniors failing to make an impression in the professional ranks.
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Bereft of European allies, the head of the newly-formed Church of England reached out to the Muslim powers beyond Europe's rim.
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Negative rates are a sign that Europe is awash with savings and bereft of plans to put them to use (see article).
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Moving to the southern hemisphere was quickly ruled out, because it would leave the northern sky bereft of an extremely large telescope.
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And considering that You Fail Me Redux is almost entirely bereft of bonus material, why should Converge fans buy this record again?
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Bereft of these sips, in a situation where you would normally take to them like a duck to water, coping appears impossible.
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Contriving somehow both to dawdle and to rush, "Murder on the Orient Express" is handsome, undemanding, and almost wholly bereft of purpose.
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Aided by this impenetrable disguise, he slips out of the White House and, bereft of a security detail, goes on the lam.
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For the founder of a political convention, he seemed oddly bereft of a political ideology, or at least one he would share.
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Bereft of goals, she is a teenager grasping onto whatever hoist she can find, clambering towards whatever looks or feels like freedom.
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Felver's families crack, and those left behind, bereft of compassion, turn diabolical in their pursuit of torture: of others and of themselves.
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Most unbearably, Igor Burov on a bench in a Moscow park, slapping his knees in his helplessness, bereft of a second son.
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TYSHAWN SOREY TRIO "Verisimilitude" (Pi Recordings, 2017) Mr. Sorey's latest and best album is bereft of almost anything resembling a steady cadence.
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Meanwhile, bereft of a dominant leader, the CDU has struggled in state elections, which is usually a bad omen for any party.
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On a number of occasions, Buttigieg revealed a naive theory of politics that seems bereft of serious reckoning with power or policy.
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Bereft of a political or financial basis, it was doomed; its former staffers have been forced to scramble to find new homes.
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Deafheaven songs are punishing yet uplifting experiences, and we've been bereft of them for almost three years since 2015's New Bermuda.
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In many sections he comes across as a sad, small man, unable to control his impulses, unable to listen, bereft of true friends.
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" North Korea mocked President Trump's "fire and fury" warning Thursday, calling the president "bereft of reason" and his comments "a load of nonsense.
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Conversations were to remain strictly spoken in French; in theory a positive exercise, but one that rendered me often bereft of meaningful nuance.
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Yet these long-desired moments are oddly bereft of feeling, marked by one-sided hugs, constrained dialogue, and the faintest touch of reminiscing.
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We are, according to mainstream media, a subculture-less generation; bereft of identity, reduced to selfie-takers with no hope of financial solvency.
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The state-appointed boss of the SNCF railways, Guillaume Pepy, says it is nothing more than a "petition" bereft of any legal value.
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The president's relentless focus on reinforcing his base of blue-collar whites leaves him bereft of goodwill among more diverse and upscale Democrats.
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An epileptic man bereft of medication fell into repeated seizures, while another untreated patient lay strapped to a bed, bound at the ankles.
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In Rotten Tomatoes' critics' consensus, they say that it's "loaded with gleefully offensive and often scatological gags, but it's largely bereft of laughs."
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It came out last year and has had 28 million plays on Souncloud since, but has been bereft of a video till now.
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Her stylized compositions, comprised of geometric patches of lucid color, recalling tile mosaics, portray domestic interiors eerily bereft of any signs of life.
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And with that, a city whose lifeblood was its thousands of bars and eateries — from steakhouses to neighborhood bars — was bereft of them.
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"What he uttered is just sophism of an imbecile bereft of elementary quality as a human being, let alone a politician," KCNA said.
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The pitch, according to superdelegates who have heard it, is a soft sell — determined, but low pressure and bereft of any Hillary-bashing.
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In traditional stores, the shelves are often full of items that no one wants and bereft of others that were hotter than anticipated.
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It is an argument for the sake of argument—cold, sterile, and bereft of any attachment to morality, honor, or other higher principles.
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And yet there is something effective about the approach, bringing the betrayal of both sides into focus, conjuring a world bereft of potential.
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It is not merely the result of intellectual sloth but of an untrained mind bereft of information and married to stratospheric self-confidence.
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So instead, he unleashed his carnage at the North Valley Jewish Community Center, which was full of children, but bereft of any security.
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If some of the items in the Taper collection were ultimately sold, the state-run museum would hardly be bereft of Lincoln exhibits.
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And when male sexuality goes undisciplined, bereft of the deep emotional bonds once demanded by self-respecting women, sex is sought for pleasure alone.
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Some American citizens, bereft of hope, have organized into brutal gangs that splash their beliefs all over the walls with graffiti and crude signs.
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But bereft of a goal (if they were given one, it seems they've long since forgotten it), the exchanges revert to a circular pattern.
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The worry is that this apathy will last beyond parliamentary elections in July, leaving Timor-Leste bereft of meaningful opposition at a critical juncture.
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"What he uttered is just sophism of an imbecile bereft of elementary quality as a human being, let alone a politician," read the statement.
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You likely have accounts at forums you haven't been to in a decade, and social media services so bereft of users they resemble graveyards.
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"Jack the Ripper: the Women of Whitechapel" is an impressive work of art, if you like unrelenting tension, menace and misery, bereft of hope.
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" The report states that "sound dialogue is not possible with such a guy bereft of reason and only absolute force can work on him.
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They all include special provisions, often added in the dead of night, that are bereft of economic rationales but loaded with powerful political ones.
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And once celebrated startup founders like WeWork CEO Adam Neumann, have been pilloried for presiding over businesses brimming with hubris but bereft of profits.
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Fellini lightens the mood with strolling players and circus tunes, but the slide and the swings, in "Dogman," are noiseless and bereft of kids.
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Asian share markets were mixed as another day awaiting clearer news on the progress of the trade negotiations left investors bereft of trading motivation.
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Without Neumann, WeWork is now rid of the excesses and liabilities, but it's also bereft of the special energy that fueled its rapid rise.
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The first reason is that Congress, bereft of its own power to check the executive, is making it harder for courts to do so.
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To make demonstrative proclamations, bereft of context, and without the benefit of interviewing the sender or the recipient of these text messages is dangerous.
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Asian share markets were mixed as another day awaiting clearer news on the progress of the trade negotiations left investors bereft of trading motivation.
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Instead, she looked for scenes bereft of people, where viewers are more likely to experience a sense of uneasiness and dread than outright terror.
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Because the ideologies of the past century have been largely discredited as false utopias, we are bereft of the notion of a better future.
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Where I see a riot of buildings born of utility and bereft of any unifying aesthetic, he sees a story, a timeline, a testament.
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But as a virtual unknown bereft of close ties to the security apparatus, he is not regarded as a plausible successor to Mr. Putin.
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It is easy to pity them, but difficult to imagine that this could be you, suddenly bereft of a solid place in the world.
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This research also revealed that even though Ju/'hoansi did not have to work particularly hard, they were neither indolent nor bereft of purpose.
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After 23 long and lonely years, bereft of her velvety musings, Australia will finally have chance to openly weep at the feet of Adele.
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It wasn't much of a roster to lose, overloaded with ill-fitting players and bereft of shooting and playmaking, but he did lose it.
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The 9th Circuit's order upholding Judge Robart's nationwide temporary restraining order (TRO) is nearly as bereft of legal analysis as was the original TRO.
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Would a kid bereft of the unstinting love, the intellectual curiosity, and the worldly means of the Suskinds be able to follow Owen's course?
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Inexplicably pining for this charmless doofus, Eloise alternates between stalking him and trying to make him jealous, endeavors equally bereft of laughs and dignity.
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Thousands of donated hay bales, to feed surviving animals bereft of their grasslands, have been rolling into town on the backs of tractor-trailers.
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Pharmacy shelves are often bereft of essential medicines, causing a fall in life expectancy and the re-emergence of previously eradicated diseases, including diphtheria.
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While I'm knocking the SE for being proof that Apple is bereft of good ideas, I can't actually knock the phone's performance or form factor.
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Christmas cards: Dear Shylock, in this seasonWhen we're all bereft of reason,As upon my rent you gloat,I would like to cut your throat.
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A lot of these candidates are new to politics, often from humble backgrounds, bereft of the big-money connections that white Democrats long relied on.
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Now all of a sudden Democrats had to think for themselves, and they found themselves as bereft of distinct ideas as they were in 2002.
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In fact, it puts militaries and their personnel in a weird, existential place: Be a broadsword of bloody vengeance, or be bereft of meaning altogether.
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She is afraid, seemingly bereft of help except for these two men who understand their civic duty to be preventing this woman from being harmed.
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Or rather, he has ushered in a free-for-all, no longer shaped by American prescription, bereft of even the semblance of a moral compass.
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The room bereft of drunken, sunburnt tourists and cotton candy-sticky kids—but there's still a sense of anticipation in the air, a quiet one.
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" The report also said that "sound dialogue is not possible with such a guy bereft of reason and only absolute force can work on him.
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Bereft of supporters and under pressure from an impeachment inquiry, Mr. Trump spent much of the day defending his decision and lashing out against rivals.
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Soon after, the shuttering of Dévi (where Suvir Saran was known for his inspired masala schnitzel) left the city mostly bereft of voguish subcontinental fare.
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"Sound dialogue is not possible with such a guy bereft of reason and only absolute force can work on him," the statement said about President Trump.
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Visiting Egyptian officials are shocked that it is hidden by trees on the banks of the Thames, covered in pigeon droppings and bereft of helpful signs.
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South Yemen united with the more populous, tribal and rugged North Yemen only when the Soviet Union collapsed, leaving the south bereft of an external backer.
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"Sound dialogue is not possible with such a guy bereft of reason and only absolute force can work on him," the KNCA report quoted him saying.
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With White Nights so bereft of hetero romance, but filled to the brim with female characters, chances are high that some of the characters are queer.
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Tehran's disputations against NCRI allegations bereft of evidence shows the regime is worried the NSC review of the nuclear deal might be affected by the disclosures.
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Neighboring terrestrial worlds are either bereft of moons, or in the case of Mars, which has two, they are not large enough to block the Sun.
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Apart from the heavily garrisoned police station, whose approach road is strewn with rocks, tyres and barbed wire, the town is bereft of a government presence.
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Something about Gloria evaded our grasp, whereas Marina feels all too solidly present and, despite the defiant poise of Vega's performance, oddly bereft of moral ambiguity.
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Now, bereft of a significant general election victory to call his own, Bannon's blitz is at risk of getting bogged down by a brewing GOP counteroffensive.
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Later, during the break, newly bereft of music, she checked these words against an online dictionary, clarifying their gender and their endings and making small corrections.
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Just as the impoverished island nation, bereft of resources and capacity, struggled to prepare for the storm, the recovery has been hampered by the same shortcomings.
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And beyond an obsessive fixation on "Problem Solvers" and "Problem Makers" learned from their absent father, they are completely bereft of ideology, background, or motivational underpinnings.
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Suddenly you're bereft of an identity that you used to have, a persona, and suddenly you don't know where you are and you're all at sea.
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"Sound dialogue is not possible with such a guy bereft of reason," Kim Jong Un said in a statement published on Korea's state run news agency.
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"'The Broadway Melody' is interesting as an example of an early Hollywood musical, but otherwise, it's essentially bereft of appeal for modern audiences," writes Rotten Tomatoes.
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The fact that there were supercooled water droplets at minus-20 indicates the air was very clean, and nearly bereft of any aerosols or other impurities.
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Barely entertaining, bereft of any discernible point, it merely captures a moment in time visually and then goes away as quickly as it arrived on the screen.
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For the country's youth, that figure stands at around 30%, according to the UN. Many of those demonstrating are young Iraqi adults, bereft of choices and opportunities.
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That seasonal explanation for a sluggish venture investment climate seems comforting on the heels of a muggy July and August that were conspicuously bereft of big exits.
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The streets of Kirkuk and Suleimaniyah provinces ruled by Mr Barzani's old rival, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), are pointedly bereft of campaign posters and bunting.
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Following a phone consultation with a stylist, a selection of new clothes for those bereft of bags can be delivered to their hotel room within 90 minutes.
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Bereft of a fifth vote to seal Abood's demise, the justices split 4-to-4 in Friedrichs and put the 40-year precedent back on life support.
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For years, gynecologists have had a bird's-eye view on a phenomenon that is now so popular as to be almost commonplace: female genitalia, bereft of hair.
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Yet Rubin left Google a year later, leaving behind more than a half-dozen companies located in multiple countries, reportedly bereft of leadership or a coherent vision.
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And, yes, having deciphered text-message exchanges on innumerable criminal cases during my career in the FBI, I understand that, bereft of context, communications can be misinterpreted.
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They're never going to be stuck in Homeland, for instance, bereft of its animating premise but unable to find a conclusion to its would-be short story.
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Excluding Chandler and Ross from their digs still brings the Friends theme song to mind; bereft of Frasier's whip-fast dialog, his massive apartment seem almost quaint.
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" He knocked the traditional Election Day reporting that is bereft of early results, leaving journalists to fill airtime by saying things like, "Oh, it's raining in Cleveland.
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As day broke on Wednesday, more than 15,000 people found themselves homeless, bereft of their few worldly possessions and forced to sleep on the Philippine capital's streets.
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Bereft of language, status and self in a foreign land, Unnikrishnan's characters radiate desperation and desire as they perform backbreaking work and cope with second-class citizenship.
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While older Huawei phones still have access to Google&aposs Play Store, new phones are bereft of Google-made apps and services, known as Google Mobile Services.
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Trump's first term, while succeeding in traumatizing US allies and causing global disruption, is largely bereft of the big wins the great dealmaker promised back in 2016.
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Both are not only land-locked but also bereft of any LME warehouses, suggesting that arbitrage, even by displacement, is not the only reason for higher COMEX stocks.
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After an evening bursting with visual opulence but bereft of much political discourse, we're left wondering: Why can't we make good on our word to smash the patriarchy?
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It is a dirge, for sure—one for the hardcore heads—that's bereft of the immediacy of Come My Fanatics or Dopethrone and comes steeped in black despair.
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It's stuff I should fear, because, justifiably, I don't want to bleed out under a charred Kia, phone bereft of texts, a tarantula creeping slowly toward my face.
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This loneliness can be exacerbated for gay missionaries bereft of resources from the church and cut off from the internet, where many find solidarity with other gay Mormons.
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Bereft of knowledge, of the empathy that drives and is essential for actual service, Trump is willing to act upon impulse, without knowledge, and is driven by fury.
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The mortal departure of Thatcher and President Ronald Reagan left the world bereft of the kind of leadership and resolve that it so desperately needs at this moment.
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No, Michelle took the tack her husband favored, which is to demonize the opposition by arguing their point of view is totally bereft of any redeeming value whatsoever.
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Some scholarly specialists might ask for more details, but I found his versions reliably thorough, blissfully bereft of jargon and nicely paced to blend with the private story.
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Finally, Trump was the night's big loser, though he gave perhaps the most mature speech of his campaign — brief and gracious — bereft of the Dean scream many anticipated.
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Appropriately, his team almost entirely bereft of overseas players; in a real sense, there will be no truer representation of British football in the Premier League next term.
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They are fallible human beings forced to make split-second, consequential, life-and-death decisions in real time, bereft of 20/20 hindsight and slow-motion videotaped reviews.
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David has invented a wholly new iconography for a modern ruler, bereft of the old monarchical symbols, in which authority derives not from divine right but from valor.
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Indeed, at times Cora seems to be already traversing a future bereft of full freedom—the landscape blighted by proto-Jim Crow, her journey a private Great Migration.
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Kim's calculation is that internal enemies can be kept under a chokehold as long as they know that any rebellion is likely to be bereft of foreign support.
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At the same time, I was very concerned - I didn't want people to walk away feeling completely hollowed out, hopeless, bereft of any kind of feeling of empowerment.
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It's noticeable on No Code, and even the somewhat return-to-form of Yield, but even on their most difficult records, no album was bereft of crowd pleasers.
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Many admire the youthful new French president's energy and oratory after years in which Paris, long a driving force of the European Union, has appeared bereft of self-confidence.
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And while women often ensure credit of each other's work, many recent articles on the subject by men are bereft of any mention of the pioneers that came before.
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Curiously, given the gap between Mr Macri's centrism and the Fernández duo's populism, the campaign so far has been bereft of ideas, says Sergio Berensztein, an analyst and pollster.
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And though we may be bereft of daily HRC cameos — save for her occasional walks in the woods with Bill — we're very grateful these days for Congresswoman Maxine Waters.
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Ultimately, the Taliban and their allies want an Afghanistan bereft of foreign militaries and influence in order to implement whatever local cultural, religious and economic goals they may have.
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That Treasury Secretary Mnuchin didn't co-sign the Wall Street Journal op-ed is evidence enough that this administration is bereft of actual plans to secure our vital interests.
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She's bereft of allies, surrounded on all sides by enemies, and has been on a moral downward spiral for several seasons (and she hardly started out as Mother Theresa).
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Just as clearly, Trump's style of governing — bereft of truth, lavish with chaos, crude and divisive — has diminished his standing and given his rivals an enormous window of opportunity.
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It's an agenda bereft of any serious efforts to remedy the problems that trouble vast segments of the American public, including the disaffected voters who flocked to Mr. Trump.
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If you yield to these strolling, often lighthearted sequences, it's because they seem plausible and bereft of strain; and also because, though nothing explodes, you realize that anything could.
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But for years, lawmakers have spoken of this athletic tradition in near-reverent terms, recalling friendships deepened and legislative partnerships forged in a Capitol often bereft of bygone comity.
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There should be fury in France at the moment over growing inequality, over unaccountable police violence, over a normalized state of emergency, over a political scene bereft of any vision.
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Kim Rak-gyom – the Korean People's Army's strategic force commander – further said that Trump is "bereft of reason," and that his comments were "a load of nonsense," per the Times.
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It's hot in Philadelphia, which the media has relentlessly complained about, and this convention—bereft of any real surprise or violent conflict—is long and dull, at least until primetime.
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Susan and Anne start out sharing a one-bedroom apartment in New York City, piled with boxes and bereft of ornamentation save for Anne's mattress on the living room floor.
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"From the 16th of next month, mining companies in the state will be bereft of any leases," said Alvares, who was in the court when the judgment was read out.
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A masterwork in its own right of [freezing] cold, machine-like aesthetics so bereft of any 'organic' inspiration it achieved a kind of sublime beauty in its very in-humanity.
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Kim Rak-gyom – the Korean People's Army's strategic force commander – further said that Trump is "bereft of reason," and that his comments were "a load of nonsense," reported the Times.
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Embedded into the very narrative structure of Seasonal Associate is Geissler's awareness that the laborer under capitalism, bereft of control, splits into multiple selves who are alienated from each other.
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The main duty-free mall, converted from an old nightclub, is bereft of customers, its shelves of cigarettes and single-malt whiskey standing as still and pristine as museum exhibits.
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Jack Barker's plan to confine Richard's revolutionary technology to a clunky box may have been bereft of imagination, but a storage box for corporate data is at least easily understood.
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Second, Trump's "softening on Saudis" is consistent with his realism per Morgenthau; ditto for his vision of a new alignment in the Middle East based on interests bereft of values.
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The chapter by Matt Hancock, the health secretary, is shockingly bad: a predictable paean of praise to technological innovation bereft of interesting examples and written in a succession of clichés.
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The entire industry had shifted toward all-audience "tent pole" films, and Sony, which was bereft of franchises, seemed incapable of delivering them on a consistent basis, if at all.
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Mr. Trump's America First attitude also leaves Mr. Macron in a position no French president has faced since the end of World War II: a world bereft of U.S. leadership.
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In terms of wielding party politics, blacks are punching way below their numerical weight, all the while posing and signifying a fashionable "wokeness" bereft of real perception or effective strategy.
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In a sunlit room bereft of electricity, telephone connectivity and coffee, this group of passionate tech industry leaders spent the next couple of hours on an important and substantive topic.
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He largely got a free pass because the roster was bereft of talent, but the Knicks spent millions on free agents last summer, signing veterans like Robin Lopez and Arron Afflalo.
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"Their private quarters remain an oasis of civility and, yes, refined taste in a political arena so often bereft of both," wrote journalist Mayer Rus of the largely neutral, simple interiors.
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Only about 30 doctors are left in rebel-held Aleppo, coping with hundreds of wounded each day who are being treated on the floors of hospitals that are bereft of supplies.
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It's of a world in which Tom Bilyeu's wisdom is available to you, aspiring business leader bereft of foresight, at any time, on any platform, in any medium, always and forever.
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The 2016 shortlist was bereft of superstars—a good thing, in my opinion, but one that regularly results in whining from the British publishing establishment—and instead consisted of relative unknowns.
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Kolhatkar lays out the frightening prospect of a world free of inefficiency and want, economically sustained by progressive taxation of the wealthy but bereft of satisfying employment for low-skilled workers.
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But most striking are clinic patients who felt bereft of anyone to confide in at the time of their pregnancies, and who want to reassure others that they are not alone.
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Ms. Chauviré's loyalty to her mentor was evident in her departure from the Paris Opera Ballet, but she also knew that the company was by then bereft of a resident choreographer.
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White American pugilists also saw England as the preeminent location for aspiring champions and their departure, along with African fighters, left the United States bereft of some of the best talent.
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"What the Constitution Means to Me" likewise pushes back against blind adherence to gods — or laws, as we now call them — that ultimately leave many of us bereft of their protections.
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Curator Vivian Endicott Barnett has successfully applied a show-don't-tell philosophy to her exhibition, which accomplishes the rare feat of building a rich historical narrative bereft of many didactic texts.
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All of us struggle with shrinking attention spans and a public sphere that is becoming a literary wasteland, bereft of sophisticated language or expressions of empathy beyond one's own Facebook bubble.
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" At least some of the non-government attendees at the unveiling meeting found the big picture presentation bereft of other important details, including the effective distinction between forbidden "reconstruction" and allowable "renovation.
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And seen through that lens, Fast, Cheap is about nothing less than our grand experiment – the struggle not only to be human, but to create order in a world bereft of it.
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I can't really imagine it because the prospect of it is so challenging that my mind's eye flat-out refuses to conjure any kind of visual accompaniment: I am bereft of imagination.
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"For all of the government insinuation and media coverage of Hollywood style, spy-novel allegations, in reality this case is bereft of any tradecraft or covert activity whatsoever," he said last week.
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By then the French had stopped the German advance and even recovered most of the terrain they had lost, reduced by then to a lunar landscape bereft of vegetable or animal life.
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Once J Balvin, Ricky Martin, and the rest left the stage, the awards ceremony was bereft of anything resembling Spanish-language music, with most of the popular acts not even in attendance.
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Virtually bereft of critically-acclaimed masterpieces and instead characterized by visceral (albeit empty) spectacles of annihilation, the genre provides audiences with an embarrassment of riches in the "So bad, it's good" department.
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" Frustration: Russell Berman in The Atlantic: "A frustrated president, bereft of legislative wins and desperate to make a deal, turned away from his party and into the unlikely arms of the opposition.
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The clear hunger for competently made left-bashing content in a market otherwise bereft of it has made D'Souza's films three of the top ten highest grossing political documentaries of all time.
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Queen Cersei is terrifying; Queen Cersei cosplaying as her dead son is even more terrifying; Queen Cersei bereft of the last of her humanizing children is the most terrifying thing of all.
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It was a time when newspaper pages, bereft of hard news, yawned open to devour tales of, say, "killer" Siberian chipmunks attacking humans in England — as The Sun recounted seven years ago.
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Clinton's loss, it was the Democrats who found themselves bereft of high-profile leaders, relegated to the sidelines of power in Washington and bracing for arguments over their party's philosophy and mission.
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But there are already signs that business leaders are worried about what they see as a drift toward the sclerotic Germany of old, led by an unpopular government bereft of new ideas.
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Currently in its fourth (and final) season, Banshee has enjoyed supportive critical attention and a devoted fan base since it debuted in early 2013, but it's remained sadly bereft of mainstream attention.
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Consideration needs be given to afford judicial discretion, as applied to each individual case before the bench -- bereft of blanket mandates that leave judges helpless but to comply with some risky restrictions.
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For reasons we'll be plumbing for many years to come, America in 2016 elected a president bereft of those traits, and the country ever since has been in a moral free fall.
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He thought back to when he was an assistant coach during the 2015 N.B.A. finals, and the Cavaliers were so bereft of healthy bodies that they went with a seven-man rotation.
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The Nets have a bleaker outlook; they are bereft of picks after a disastrous 2013 trade with the Celtics and have turned to dealing for depressed assets that they hope to revitalize.
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Picking up right where Frozen left off, Olaf's Frozen Adventure finds Elsa and Anna bereft of any family holiday traditions, prompting their little snowman friend to go in search of the kingdom's best.
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Huge swaths of lifers get priced out of housing, resulting in an increasingly homogeneous population bereft of children, immigrants and communities of color, says Jennifer Friedenbach, head of San Francisco's Coalition on Homelessness.
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Last year, with retro game collecting on the rise around the world and the original Japanese copies of games becoming more desirable, I found an Akihabara largely bereft of its once-massive stock.
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And its conclusion (announced in a judicial proceeding) is that, because your child's disability will render his life so poor and bereft of meaningful benefits, it is in his best interests to die.
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His response was an act of kindness in a conflict that is often bereft of it, particularly amid the violence of the past nine months, when Palestinians have killed more than 30 Israelis.
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Today, she said, the area is so bereft of opportunity that locals were excited about possible jobs when a strip club considered opening; another desirable source of growth was a potential new courthouse.
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But the fundamentalist camp, bereft of its familiar markers, may turn against the Saudi kingdom to claim a new kind of legitimacy — and wage a sort of holy war against the holy land.
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Located near a PATH train hub and within the soaring Oculus structure designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, the Westfield World Trade Center mall was largely bereft of shoppers on Tuesday afternoon.
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Severino tossed eight scoreless innings and allowed just three hits against a Tampa Bay team bereft of offensive stars, and Giancarlo Stanton weighed in, too, homering in the at-bat preceding Sanchez's blast.
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I learned writing my book that when you unleash a vast new supply of potent legal drugs on a population as bereft of community as ours, the consequences are painful, enduring and nationwide.
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And yet the very Palestinian politicians who've led negotiations over a future state of Palestine for more than two decades appear unsure about how to effectively respond -- leaving their people bereft of hope.
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"The detonation of another large suicide device in a busy, civilian-populated area is egregious, cowardly and bereft of humanity," said Pernille Kardel, the United Nations secretary general's deputy special representative for Afghanistan.
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It hits women doubly, she argued, cutting public service jobs often held by women and leaving them bereft of the infrastructure — care for children and seniors, for instance — that enables them to work.
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Bereft of that instrument, our interests will suffer as these tariffs rebound on Asian economies and further convince them that America is unreliable, unpredictable, and worse, does not know what it is doing.
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She did have longtime Florence + The Machine harpist Tom Monger to her right, so she wasn't completely bereft of extra flourishes, but it was still an impressively restrained set on its own terms.
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In addition to the build-your-own pizza, the box also contained a second crust, chocolate frosting, and candy-coated chocolate bits (bereft of any particular branding) to craft a dessert pizza of sorts.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden was called a "snob bereft of elementary quality as a human being" by North Korea's state-run KCNA news agency Tuesday night, after he criticized leader Kim Jong-un.
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"We need to make it clear that people are bereft of their own resources and we are seeing malnutrition and acute malnutrition among children," Robinson, a former Irish president, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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"The Meyerowitz Stories" is a comedy, charitably stuffed with good lines, yet the basic story is that of a neighborhood Lear—the hectoring hero, bereft of a kingdom and surrounded by nothing but fools.
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With the Big Ten and the Southeastern Conference combining for 11 of the Associated Press poll's top 25 — and six of the top 10 — several conferences find themselves comparatively bereft of highly regarded teams.
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First, at the Leona Vicario shelter in Juarez, Mexican authorities and international aid agencies care for hundreds of asylum seekers, bereft of resources, and fleeing gang violence under the government's "Remain in Mexico" protocol.
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For the most part, the stories told in these shorts, many of them supplying or at least implying a lesson, aren't as strong as their visuals, and the program is practically bereft of humor.
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It echoes in small, solitary hotel rooms, on the luxurious driving seat of a Mercedes 2911x4, on Parisian streets that appear empty of humanity, and along a Normandy countryside that seems bereft of nature.
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If you like your doom excruciatingly slow and utterly bereft of any light or hope, this Santa Barbara quintet (which, fun fact, includes two former members of Uphill Battle) should be right up your alley.
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And PUBG isn't shy about including elements of luck; even the most skilled player might find themselves landing in an area oddly bereft of weaponry beyond a frying pan and getting rifled in the back.
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There are four of them in my Brooklyn neighborhood, in fact—tapered monuments of pebbled concrete, still with their rusted metal brackets where the mailboxes were once affixed but now bereft of the boxes themselves.
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Giles was the primary offseason acquisition for the Astros, a hard-throwing arm for a bullpen bereft of them, and one that cost the club five players, including top prospects Vince Velasquez and Mark Appel.
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It's an infernal reversal of the biblical begats as scores of artisanal enterprises with names out of poetry are swallowed — big gulp by big gulp — by giants who turn them into brands bereft of authenticity.
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In an op-ed in The Times earlier this year, Shulem Deen, who was raised in a Hasidic family but left the community, wrote that his yeshiva education left him bereft of even basic knowledge.
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He argues that his article is a defense not of Mr. Trump, who he writes "has proved himself bereft of the temperament of a successful president," but of the democratic institutions of the United States.
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Sunday said he would call a confidence vote in his government after his coalition ally quit, leaving him bereft of a parliamentary majority and raising the possibility of snap elections.
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After all, if, when mainlines decline, they truly leave their old provinces bereft of "a persuasive language of the common good," that does seem like it could potentially lead them to more cynical or extreme politics.
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SEOUL, May 22 (Reuters) - North Korean state media slammed former U.S. vice president and 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden for criticising leader Kim Jong Un, calling him "bereft of elementary quality as a human being".
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The majority opinion was "conspicuously bereft of any reference to history", he wrote, and undertook a "psycho-journey" to reach its conclusion that prayer coerces graduates and thus violates the First Amendment's rule against establishing religion.
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Ménochet is formidably good at conveying the promise of violence, and, when that promise is kept, we are subjected to a final act that, though bereft of bloodshed, is as draining to watch as major surgery.
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But it is one of the wrinkles of the new right that their lifestyles are familiar and modern — and so are some of their ideas: They bemoan rising inequality and a consumerism bereft of moral meaning.
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Op-Ed Contributor In recent weeks, supermarket shelves in parts of France have been bereft of the butter that sustains French cooking and baking, not to mention the quintessential Gallic pleasure of a baguette au beurre.
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Hundreds of police officers armed with machine guns, helmets or balaclavas and bullet-proof vests swarmed over an area of Paris popular with, but suddenly bereft of, late night shoppers, cafe customers and dance club revelers.
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This is among the broadest and most oratorical announcement videos we've seen so far, totally bereft of the line graphs we saw in Senator Elizabeth Warren's kickoff or the vivid personal biography in Senator Cory Booker's.
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Snaking and surging through the chilly and lopsided footpath, one passes through a sequence of monotone ochre panoramas bereft of motion, a psychic no-go zone just as forbidding as a seething wall of curled barbwire.
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Long cut out of all wills and bereft of any funds, the Beales were unable to maintain the 28-room house, which by that year was derelict and rife with stray cats (among other wildlife) and fleas.
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The Thrilla in Vanilla had given us the battle of dads that we'd come for, and it had even given us some unsatisfactory live-tweeting from Donald Trump, but it had been virtually bereft of internetty goodness.
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Just by describing this show, it seems like everything the new vampire shows were going to be: light, saccharine, and bereft of the violence and gore that made vampires so fun to watch in the first place.
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It seems unlikely they would trade one of them for—to reach for a Phelps-ian analogue in a world sadly bereft of Ken Phelps-es—Reds shortstop Zack Cozart, given that they already have Xander Bogaerts.
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The Happy Days actor and underwear model (in case you needed a primer) have been mentioned again and again over the last two weeks as bywords for how pathetically bereft of star power the Republican convention was.
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Sunday said he would call a confidence vote in his government after his coalition ally quit, leaving him bereft of a parliamentary majority and raising the possibility of a snap election.
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I am often asked why Washington's foreign policy consensus can seem unusually inclined to interventionism and other assertive foreign policy positions, and why, compared with other policy fields, it is relatively bereft of more libertarian-minded scholars.
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It's been almost two years since the actresses revealed that they were co-writing a script, yet on Friday nights I still find myself bereft of the perfect girl-power comedy to watch while eating take-out.
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Though its economy is smaller than the Saudi one and bereft of oil, Dubai claims to have attracted 21 of the world's top 25 banks, drawn by its barely taxed, lightly regulated "free zone" for foreign firms.
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In an op-ed in the Washington Post this week, he outlined plans for changing the rules in federal prisons whereby inmates are holed up in tiny cells bereft of human contact, often for months on end.
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Similarly, the famed pottery bazaar in Istalif, north of Kabul, is largely bereft of customers today but chock-full of work made with imported chemical glazes rather than the ancient glaze laboriously extracted from the ishkar plant.
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Andanar, from Duterte's office, said the cases against Ressa and Rappler were "bereft of any government participation" and that it was "unreasonable to conclude that the administration is in any form harassing them or abusing its power".
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The main point of "The British Library" (which also includes a web component for visitors to contribute their experiences) is to honor the scholarly achievements of immigrants who came to the UK bereft of natural-born citizenship.
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Minority voters remained, but bereft of the material and social capital required to dominate elite decision-making, they were largely excluded from an agenda driven by the new Democratic core: the educated, the coastal, and the professional.
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And the old spin room, bereft of spin, began in 2016 to become something else, simply another free-floating space in an endless campaign, another place for candidates to seek attention in a world where overexposure is irrelevant.
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With increasing urgency, contemporary projects are shedding the traditional tropes of the genre—they're bereft of cheap suspense and glittery melodrama, there are no werewolves in sight, no vampires running amok—in exchange for something real and palpable.
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We were left similarly bereft of the ability to function properly when we caught a glimpse of Clinton when she stepped out at the Professional BusinessWomen of California conference in San Francisco yesterday wearing one badass leather jacket.
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Bansal, who started Flipkart in 2007 with Sachin Bansal (no relation) and still retains a four percent share, told Bloomberg that India-based founders are bereft of quality consultancy and software services to handle growth and company building.
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Specifically, the piece was entirely bereft of the kinds of mirror selfies taken by people with well-defined abs that purportedly owe their conspicuousness to the liberal consumption of bacon, butter, coconut oil, salmon, lard, steak, and eggs.
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The New York recordings, solo or close to it, bring out the solitude in the songs: The singer endlessly wandering, bereft of the woman he loved, wondering what could have been different, coming to terms with it all.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Sunday said he would call a confidence vote in his government after his coalition ally quit, leaving him bereft of a parliamentary majority and raising the possibility of snap elections.
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Opinion Columnist What America saw before the Senate Judiciary Committee was an injudicious man, an angry brat veering from fury to sniveling sobs, a judge so bereft of composure and proportion that it was difficult not to squirm.
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As clearly as Franken frames himself as a sorry-not-sorry misogynist, Franken's later account of his time in Congress reminds readers of the heart and humor he brought to the Senate, a chamber notoriously bereft of either.
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JUST three months ago, a veteran golfer approaching the age of 1.63, with a case full of trophies but bereft of a major championship victory, at last broke through to secure one of the sport's four most coveted crowns.
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Pauley said the CFTC's request for approval of a deal requiring a monitor's appointment to ensure that the bank reports swaps data properly was "bereft" of any details showing it was fair, reasonable, adequate and in the public interest.
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"Sound dialogue is not possible with such a guy bereft of reason and only absolute force can work on him," it said of Trump, adding that it will keep closely watching the speech and behavior of the United States.
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The Turkish defense sector's current pain notwithstanding, the country is not bereft of options, suggesting it will ultimately manage to push through the tough obstacles by turning to alternative exporters and relying even more on its own defense industry.
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Within a day, Pyongyang declared Trump "bereft of reason" and announced detailed plans for firing four ballistic missiles that would fly over Japan and land between 19 and 25 miles off the shore of the US territory of Guam.
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The poll is not bereft of good news for the abstract cause of Affordable Care Act repeal — 20 percent of people say the law should be totally repealed, while 50 percent say Congress should repeal "part" of the law.
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On those mornings when I'd stand sleepily in front of my wardrobe, bereft of inspiration, I'd call to mind my army of sisters: Kate Moss, Brigitte Bardot, Twiggy, Debbie Harry, Drew Barrymore, Lauren Bacall, Soo Joo Park, Cher Horowitz.
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It wasn't exactly a vivid performance, but it was an eerily consistent one, and it answered the question of how a man who supposedly prides himself on his virtue defends a running mate who is often bereft of it.
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The move to find bigger space inside the Beltway also comes after vocal concerns from billionaire donors like Paul Singer that Rubio was running too small an operation, one bereft of the scope needed to win the White House.
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Bereft of US leadership, the UN is struggling to respond to new threats, like cyberwar, and to prove its relevance and primacy in a world now awash in competing multilateral organizations, like the Group of 20 and the BRICS.
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Not only is mainstream publishing overwhelmingly white, it is also nearly bereft of black writers like him: American men of letters descended from Southern slaves, who position themselves as part of a grand and omnivorous intellectual and artistic tradition.
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"Sound dialogue is not possible with such a guy bereft of reason and only absolute force can work on him," said General Kim Rak-Gyom, the commander of North Korea's Korean People's Army (KPA), according to North Korean state media KCNA.
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What they do reflect is a president who was not prepared for these conversations, was unfamiliar with the issues and focused on politics rather than policy, and was bereft of any sense of the leaders with whom he was dealing.
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Trump likes to assure these beleaguered voters that he will restore their vanished status, but the reality is that his chaotic appropriation of right-wing populism — its threats and its promises — is fraudulent, as bereft of value as his bankrupt casinos.
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In a Monday night court filing, McKinsey labeled Alix's May 9 lawsuit was "the litigation equivalent of a thermonuclear device," bereft of support for its "stark allegations of fraud" or to show any scheme to harm Alix's rival firm, AlixPartners.
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In a Monday night court filing, McKinsey labeled Alix's May 9 lawsuit "the litigation equivalent of a thermonuclear device," bereft of support for its "stark allegations of fraud" or to show any scheme to harm the firm he founded, AlixPartners.
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Huawei was unable to make guarantees about whether existing customers will continue to receive Android software updates, while its statement is bereft of any mention of whether future phones will ship with the current flavor of Android or something else.
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He takes over a state where many are disillusioned and angry at the way the outgoing Republican governor, Chris Christie, has left New Jersey, riddled with debt, schools bereft of funding, exorbitant property taxes and a dismal public transit system.
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But even this reaction cannot conceal how bereft of ideological features the event is, indicating instead the brutal secularization of politics in a region marked by the desire for hegemony of its three remaining powers — Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia.
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Gerard Manley Hopkins didn't live to see the havoc wreaked by the chemicals that poison us now, but he knew something about the vulnerability of the natural world: What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness?
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" She pins her hopes on a rejection of the bill by Senator John McCain of Arizona, writing, "When the pressure to take one for the team was immense to give his party bereft of victory a win, McCain said no.
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Just as it was patently clear that the world of mainstream sports was bereft of the best talent before being integrated in the 1940s, we felt the same about its counterpart in the academy — and feel vindicated for so believing.
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And there may be no minute that lasts as long or causes as much distress as a minute spent on an unmoving New York City subway train, somewhere in a dark tunnel, bereft of explanation or knowledge when motion will resume.
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" Mr. Bruni calls sleep deprivation, "a perfect shorthand for childhoods bereft of spontaneity, stripped of real play and haunted by the 'pressure of perfection,' to quote the headline on a story [about campus suicide] by Julie Scelfo in The Times….
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This beloved nautical institution — it is not really floating, but sits atop an underwater pier — was conceived in one of New York City's bleakest hours, and its startling success infused life, and hope, into a decaying waterfront bereft of both.
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These statements also obligate us to consider the issues of funding for missile defense and modernization of our nuclear deterrence on the basis of real assessments — not polemical assertions — based upon a kind of civil theology bereft of empirical validation.
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I also caution that a Europe bereft of credible security structures as the blood-soaked 85033th Century has proven, would likely break into right-leaning mini-pakts, ententes and treaties that over time could boomerang badly for a stretched Russia.
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Migrants who have left a countryside bereft of economic opportunity to work in cities are at the mercy of employers' often unfair contracts and labor practices, as well as of the state: a worker without a registered household has few recourses to injustice.
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It is a pleasure to accept the un-privileging of human choice and glide with it into a nihilistic landscape of potential points of interest bereft of privileging human desire — the very thing that brought about the general climate of the Anthropocene.
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Now Andy is bereft of purpose, and into this void comes the man who lobotomized his mother, Dr. Wallace Fiennes (Jeff Goldblum, giving his best performance in years, not eschewing his usual quirky persona but instead twisting it into something extraordinarily unsettling).
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While people in countries like the UK have been able to play Pokémon Go before its local launch by downloading the app from the US store or sideloading it, doing the same in Japan presents you with a map entirely bereft of pokémon.
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It should be clear who the actual bullies are: not the students but the powerful right-wing pundits who, bereft of any solid arguments, have decided to launch personal attacks on students who survived one of the worst school shootings in American history.
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This demographic, empowered through education and jobs, can power Africa's continued transformation, or conversely, a youthful population bereft of hope, could be increasingly drawn to radical ideologies and would be more likely to embark on treacherous boat rides across the Mediterranean to Europe.
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Starting with 290's Fear, Emptiness, Despair and ending with 20123's Words from the Exit Wound, these albums were bereft of the band's signature speed and, in its place, was the kind of groove-oriented sound that had come into vogue.
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TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - As millions of Mexicans lined up on Sunday to vote in the country's largest election in history, others were huddled at the door to the United States, fleeing violence and bereft of hope that a new government could staunch it.
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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has labeled Joe Biden a "fool of low IQ" and an "imbecile bereft of elementary quality as a human being" after the U.S. presidential hopeful called North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a tyrant during a recent speech.
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To her left, she names the women and men who owned slaves during the last major census of Virginia slaveholders in 1860 — a class of people who are often privileged to be anonymous and amorphous, their memories and descendants often bereft of culpability.
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Dismissing the notion that his campaign was bereft of foreign policy expertise, the candidate read aloud a list of five people who had offered to advise him on world affairs — including "Carter Page, Ph.D." Mr. Page was unknown in Washington foreign policy circles.
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As the list of failed states continues to grow — Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia and at least 30 other countries — the United Nations finds itself bereft of leverage and ability to do the very thing for which it was established.
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But all too often, many critics of feminism can be as ahistoric as the "left" they despise, imagining a past blissfully bereft of any potential for sexual misconduct, in which no woman would ever think to "speak up" because nothing was worth speaking up against.
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It is usually only when the "peasant workers" flock back to their home towns to celebrate the lunar new year that Beijingers grudgingly admit the migrants are essential—for a grim few weeks the city is bereft of delivery boys, street vendors and domestic helpers.
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The idea is that gamers who are looking to complete their sweet, illuminated gaming rigs won't be left with empty memory slots on their motherboard bereft of LED lighting in the event that they don't want to spring for a full 64GB of RAM.
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The books use a frame narrative to split the story between present-day Kvothe (under the name of Kote) as a broken innkeeper, seemingly bereft of his powers and music, and the history of his life as he recounts how he got to that point.
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It is far safer to join this sort of false crusade bereft of the common sense approach, because this same crusade will be quick to label you one of the many favorites that the Left likes to throw around: racist, bigoted, privileged, and far worse.
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Those who feared bloodthirsty Martians, as depicted in H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, may have let out a sigh of relief, while fans of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom space operas might have been disappointed to find Mars bereft of drama and romance.
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By missing the first scene you will be bereft of some ostensibly essential plot material concerning a rocket crash, alien organisms fetched from the East Malaysia scene of said crash, one such alien organism taking over a variety of human bodies, and so on.
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Sleep deprivation is just a part of the craziness, but it's a perfect shorthand for childhoods bereft of spontaneity, stripped of real play and haunted by the "pressure of perfection," to quote the headline on a story by Julie Scelfo in The Times this week.
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PARIS — It had the makings of a singularly unequal contest: a former K.G.B. officer and seasoned master of no-holds-barred global intrigue versus a former comedian bereft of any experience in power politics and battered by his country's bruising encounters with President Trump.
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Instead, they sent forth a team bereft of its top-line players: Kristaps Porzingis sat out his fourth straight game with a lower-back injury, Derrick Rose will not play the rest of the season after knee surgery, and Carmelo Anthony had the day off.
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"There is not anyone else who does the kind of work done by these experts," Offutt said, predicting economists and statisticians would simply take jobs at the numerous universities and nonprofits that litter Washington, DC, rather than relocate to the heartland, leaving ERS bereft of expertise.
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When I asked the machine about my plaid shirt, an ad popped up on the app's feed showing me a few other, similarly colored plaid shirts — none particularly stylish or different enough from the one I own, bereft of brand name — that I could buy on Amazon.
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The two performers adopt the doo-wop derived character of lovelorn suitors (the old genre is also there in Soulja wordlessly imitating the repetitive da-da-da-da of texting), but they're utterly content to receive their affection through a digital interface, bereft of any actual intimacy.
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Those of us in Vermont who have known Mr Sanders since the early 1980's might describe his as energetic (he keeps up with those half his age during the rigors of a national campaign), bereft of the soothing accents of new presenters, and principled and trustworthy.
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Even during the preseason, the Wolverines' offense was a glaring red flag to anyone who bothered to look close enough, between two veteran quarterbacks whose absolute ceiling was competence, a running back group bereft of a true game-breaker and no established pass catcher to speak of.
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So I think that in terms of wanting to leave a socially positive legacy, many of them are motivated to innovate through concepts like universal basic income, finding that Washington is as bereft of new ideas in social terms as it is of new technological ones.
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Just as the existentialists came to prominence in postwar Europe by holding out the possibility of "fiendishly difficult" freedom through choice, an unending but authentic struggle, so might their thinking have a place among people who feel overwhelmed by choice and bereft of authenticity in their lives.
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And the likes of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan saw opportunity in the chaos: Trump, bereft of any real belief system or policy agenda, could be molded to move long-standing priorities of the party -- from judges to a tax cut.
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Such escapism feels necessary right now, a tonic to the toxicity of the story-cycles of our contemporary moment, where information flashes on a screen and disappears, leaving one bereft of the deeply imagined mythologies — the merrows and mermaids of lore — that have, for centuries, sustained us.
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Its bereft-of-the-dial status wasn't a demotion, though, but an indicator of how most small-screen comedy would soon be consumed: on countless channels and platforms at a time, regardless of when or where it first aired, by sensibly sized—and this is important—ultraloyal audiences.
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Investor Hansi Hansmann (left) with Runtastic CEO Florian Gschwandtner (right) Investor Hansi Hansmann (left) with Runtastic CEO Florian Gschwandtner (right) The same concentration of capital and innovation that makes Vienna such an attractive location for entrepreneurship has left the rest of the country largely bereft of meaningful startup culture.
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"A regime bereft of any source of legitimacy, save for its promise of guaranteeing security to the nation, stops at nothing to inflate a discourse of national security around which to rally an otherwise disgruntled citizenry," Abdel Rahman wrote last year in Reset Dialogues on Civilizations, an online magazine.
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Clinton's America applauded itself from the apex of boomer self-assurance; Bush's was gilded and blustering and fragile, both strident and utterly bereft of ideas; Obama's was cosmopolitan and smart from afar and naively inclined to assume facts not in evidence about the trajectories of various important things.
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While his admirers praised his courtly, charismatic and measured approach, Mr. Annan was hamstrung by the inherent flaw of his position as what many people called a "secular pope" — a figure of moral authority bereft of the means other than persuasion to enforce the high standards he articulated.
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Like "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" and "Starry River of the Sky" before it, "When the Sea Turned to Silver" is a classic quest novel: A young person, bereft of helpful adults, hungry and in danger, embarks on a mission that takes him or her far from home.
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The robot was not entirely bereft of human supervision, since researchers still had to intervene when the robot accidentally left the space it was meant to learning in, and when it fell over — although they were able to tweak its algorithm to stop it wandering out of the space.
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When: February 17053–March 17043 Where: Aperture Foundation (17033 West 17023th Street, 17013th Floor, Chelsea, Manhattan) This exhibition takes to heart the idea that the masses of people incarcerated, in addition to everything else they lack, are also bereft of dignity — particularly in the ways they are portrayed publicly.
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The industry is bereft of reliable data for China, but watchers are generally in agreement that Didi is ahead of Uber, even though China remains Uber's "most important" market, according to the head of Uber China — who also believes Uber can take the top spot in China over the next year.
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People who follow Uzbekistan closely say that, based on what is known so far of Saipov, he appears to be one of "a forgotten generation" of Uzbek men who left the former Soviet republic for a better life bereft of a proper religious education and unequipped to navigate the West.
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Politically stained leaders of the FBI, CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), in concert with politicians bereft of principle and a flaccid press, grabbed onto an obvious Russian intelligence propaganda operation hook, line and sinker and ran with it like they were Vladimir Putin's errand boys.
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And though the failures of radicalism are a common enough theme of fiction ("American Pastoral"), film ("Running on Empty") and earlier plays ("Other Desert Cities"), "Days of Rage" renews the genre merely by asking how far we would go to stand up to a government we consider bereft of values.
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" But as A.N.C. members began gathering on Saturday to elect a new leader, many analysts described the still-dominant party as a shadow of what it once represented — bereft of ideals, roiled by insiders fighting over diminishing spoils, abandoned by a growing list of disillusioned graying party heroes known as "stalwarts.
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The continual cries of this afflicted child, bereft of its parent, affected me very sensibly, I was moved with compassion, and charging myself as if accessary to what now appeared to be a cruel murder, and endeavoured to prevail on the hunter to save its life, but to no effect!
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Trump's tweet stating that Kim "does not want to void his special relationship with the President of the United States or interfere with the U.S. Presidential Election in November" indicates the president is "bereft of patience," former North Korean nuclear negotiator Kim Yong Chol said, according to The Associated Press.
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He worried that a world bereft of a taste-making aristocracy and dedicated to the theoretical proposition of human equality would reduce people to the level of undifferentiated atoms: mediocre narcissists who, in their determination to exercise their rights, reduced themselves to the level of equal dependency on an all-powerful state.
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"Congress party has always supported every step for reservation and extending support to the economically poor sections of the society, bereft of caste, community or creed without interfering with the constitutional mandate of reservation given to Dalits (lower caste), to Adivasis (tribal) and to backward classes in any manner," said a Congress spokesperson.
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But they fall far outside the stated boundaries of Trump's foreign policy, and reflect an administration bereft of a consistent, considered approach to the world — an approach that would make America's actions predictable to both our friends and enemies, and guide the commitments we're willing to make in the event of escalation or reprisal.
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If he thinks yelling "gay guy" at his opponent is a winner in 2020 in San Diego County (just east of America's largest city with a Republican Mayor in a nation almost bereft of them), a place where Republicans theoretically need to appeal to gay and lesbian voters — Issa has the wrong people advising him.
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Because the Sixers did not even pretend to try to win—not by tanking game by game, but by running out a series of teams so bereft of NBA talent that they would lose despite going all out—and because of GM Sam Hinkie's opaque, high-handed media approach, this annoyed a lot of people.
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James dragged some otherwise shitty Cavaliers teams to the NBA Finals during his first stint with the team, because he was great enough to do it; he did the same trick last year with a team that was, by the tipoff of Game 2, more bereft of talent than any NBA Finals team in history.
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Even easily recognizable images — Bill Clinton at a signing ceremony, Andre Agassi at a tennis match — are stripped of the immediate, topical details to reveal the dead rote of a president trudging from state event to state event, or a sports celebrity replaying the same matches again and again, bereft of any joy or purpose.
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MOSCOW — Bereft of friends in Western capitals since its 21949 annexation of Crimea, Russia is celebrating the memory of the British K.G.B. spy Kim Philby, a stalwart supporter who stood by it through thick and thin – and spent the last 21949 years of his life in Moscow, often drunk and miserable but still loyal.
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You wanted to kill yourself, Bobby suspected, only when the access to any feeling at all, whether good or bad, was completely eroded, when you found yourself, as many poor souls did, mired upon an undifferentiatedly flat and horizonless plane of Unfeeling, bereft of access to any avenue of actual or potential emotional excitation.
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As pointed out by the Washington Post's Jeff Stein on Twitter, the one man capable of rebooting the vending system had a truly admirable work-life balance: Miguel was not answering his phone during his Friday night commute home to his town three hours north of the City, leaving the MTA bereft of IT support for this specific issue.
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Hungry City 9 Photos View Slide Show ' Among the city's million unseen threads, this one starts at B & K French Cuisine, a tiny Harlem counter with a few metal stools and a kitchen bereft of gas, and leads across the ocean to Restaurant Alain Ducasse at the Plaza Athénée Paris, where the ceiling rains down Swarovski crystals.
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You are given a police badge and the ability to arrest rather than kill, but almost all the game's levels degenerate into a gun fight—Hardline is easier when played as a war shooter, and the criminals are characterized as so dangerous, so bereft of nuance or humanity, that killing them outright becomes the sensible option.
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He is tasked with building up a young team that, while not unskilled, is bereft of the trio of stars who terrorized the rest of college basketball for the past four years: the generational talent that is Breanna Stewart, perhaps the greatest point guard in program history in Moriah Jefferson, and a legitimate top-15 UConn player of all time in Morgan Tuck.
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This becomes more evident when we consider that even the simplest of creatures that may otherwise be bereft of a conscious or explicit value judgement system have been imparted (through evolution) the discerning ability to know that doing a certain "A" set of things will make it more probable for them to survive, as opposed to doing a certain "B" set of things.
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Clinton is "bereft of a dream" and needs a better selling line Roberts, who is also the chairman of Publicis advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi — a firm famous for its emotive Conservative Party election campaigns and where he has worked since 1997 — said Trump has two clear things going for him, which are winning over the hearts of many American voters.
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My little bald skull so astounded him that he almost departed from this life the moment I entered it and, indeed, it was a misfortune and harmful thing for him that he did not, because after that night he never had anything but misery and was destroyed and rent by the world and bereft of his health as long as he lived.
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This then, is what has Trump and his party dancing in the endzone and exchanging high-fives: A slapdash package of tax giveaways, hastily cobbled together without public hearings or normal deliberation, bereft of rigorous analysis, passed on a strict party-line vote, that is regressive, a "borrow and spend" budget-buster and even more insanely complicated than the status quo.
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After all, without King, we wouldn't have modern works like Stranger Things, whose adolescent ensemble directly channels the Losers' Club, King's ensemble of geeky preteen friends from It. Without The Shining, and Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece film adaptation, "Here's Johnny!" would be a dead talk show catchphrase and parodies like the Simpsons' annual Treehouse of Horror would be bereft of much of their material.
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The joy and the curse of this year's Indians, with the exceptions of Kluber and their young and brilliant shortstop, Francisco Lindor, is that they are almost totally bereft of traditional stars—the kind of guys who'll do a photoshoot for Sports Illustrated in the morning, a commercial for DraftKings in the afternoon, and light up Sunday Night Baseball in the evening.
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Trump Towers, the luxury homes that Trump Jr. was in India to promote, are a perfect version of the Trump American dream: a gold-plated, high-rise ziggurat of opulent apartments in a polluted, dystopian Delhi suburb where private security stands guard over gated enclaves; a financial, industrial, and now residential hub bereft of basic amenities like public transport, community spaces, and even sewerage systems.
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Sure, Senator Sanders's embrace of the presumptive Democratic nominee included all the inclinations that many of us have come to find, shall we say, a tad grating about the man: his interminable, self-congratulatory stump speech, wearingly bereft of humor, argument, story or anecdote, more a listing of all bad things in the world and how they must be put right, delivered in his usual droning shout.
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Then, of course, majority of the people never got an opportunity to form assets for themselves and the one that was much more devastating was disposition of land, where land was taken away from the people and they then had to resort to being either migrant labourers in the mines and farms and they were bereft of any form of asset through which they can economically lead more viable lives.
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Filled with flashes of visual beauty and a fistful of interesting ideas, Knight of Cups is — like much of Malick's most recent work — something that asks to be experienced rather than understood, but by pushing his experimental inclinations further than ever before, he's ended up with something that's strangely bereft of poetry or emotional resonance, resulting in a movie that may be off-putting to all but the most ardent Malick die-hards.
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Hispanics are about twice as likely as whites to find themselves bereft of a photo ID on election day, and the impact is even more pronounced for blacks, who are three times more likely than whites to be excluded from polling places because they lack proper ID. The law falls harder on the poor, too: it has no effect on 97.4% of voters with incomes between $100,000 and $150,000 but effectively disenfranchises more than a fifth of voters earning less than $20,000.
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I don't disagree with what you're saying, but I want to be clear about what it means: You're basically saying that the Republican Party is so bereft of principles at this point that it doesn't matter if the Trump campaign colluded with a hostile foreign power, or if members of the Trump campaign and family lined their own pockets at the expense of American prestige and interests, that none of these things will be part of the political calculus for Republican leaders.
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And I am left standing on the sidewalk, bereft of the narrative I want from life in the Vanderpump bubble: the sense that I live among these people, and that as much as I mock the cast members' disheveled apartments, and their fixation on the idea that Lisa Vanderpump is a tastemaker, and their dumb drama and their even dumber need to tell me about it, I am still allowed to go to their parties, and to know all of their secrets because of their show.
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