The US risks becoming a bit player, losing more leverage.
|
|
Since then he has been a bit player at best.
|
|
From bit player in your life, you become the auteur.
|
|
Huawei was a bit player in shaping today's cellular networks.
|
|
He's a bit player, lacking the resources to protect himself.
|
|
And smartphones are almost all Android, with Apple a bit player.
|
|
He turned out to be a mere bit player in the drama.
|
|
Until today, Papadopoulos had seemed a bit player in a year-long scandal that starred Manafort, former national security adviser Mike Flynn, and even the president's own son, Donald Trump Jr. He is a bit player no longer.
|
|
He even became a bit player in the scene during the mid-80s.
|
|
The child is reduced to a bit-player in the abuser's psycho-drama.
|
|
"At this point of our story, he's a bit player," Mr. Newman said.
|
|
Girl was only a bit player in this year's awards season, and Vikander is
|
|
This practice exposes a bit player to the same mandatory sentence as a kingpin.
|
|
Japan has seemed a bit player in the North Korean drama in recent months.
|
|
For all the pageantry on show in Sochi, Russia remains a bit player in Africa.
|
|
Jefferson was a bit player, but the Warriors won 47 games and a playoff round.
|
|
It makes perfect sense to have him around, but not as merely a bit player.
|
|
For all its heft elsewhere, in gaming Google continues to look like a bit player. ■
|
|
But the White House's efforts to cast Manafort as a bit player have often strained credulity.
|
|
In some ways, I had convinced myself that Trump was a bit player in this tragedy.
|
|
Like it or not, at this point, Trump is only a bit player on tax reform.
|
|
And as in Warhol's Jackie portraits, John F. Kennedy is somewhat of a bit player here.
|
|
A person of color could be cast in a film but appear only as a bit player.
|
|
He's been a loyal soldier and a bit player in a show where Trump is the star.
|
|
But he is at best a bit player in the pitiful saga of Trump's first 100 days.
|
|
Woodlawn installed former Hollywood bit player Joey Rappa as its "managing member" in public fillings, Bloomberg reported.
|
|
He played just 41 defensive snaps the rest of the season and remains mostly a bit player.
|
|
Yet it seems to have become a bit player, confined to a narrow and often irrelevant role.
|
|
In a best-case scenario, I could see Ataribox becoming a bit player in the home console market.
|
|
Huawei dominates the Chinese market, where the once-market leading Korean firm is now nearly a bit player.
|
|
I was a two-bit player and Jason a perennial All-Star — center fielder and shortstop, leadoff hitter.
|
|
His meetings with Russian officials in July 2016 have been dismissed as the actions of a bit player.
|
|
Rice's "bit player" role in the Benghazi drama is, in fact, a major through-line of the memoir.
|
|
That leaves J&J, a big company but a bit player in the opioids market, as the sole defendant.
|
|
Mainly, though, he was a bit player in the company's actual work who wasn't personally involved in the fraud.
|
|
But much may depend on his decisions about who counts as central and who counts as a bit player.
|
|
"Carbon Dioxide, CO20143, is merely a bit player in climate change," reads one slide Mr. Soon presented in 2013.
|
|
Is it too early to conclude that Mr Gennett must not be the bit player that we thought he was?
|
|
Instead, Republicans heaped blame on the Environmental Protection Agency, which made mistakes but was a bit player in this drama.
|
|
He's eventually reduced to being a bit player in his own administration — and an unwitting betrayer of the human race.
|
|
He's eventually reduced to being a bit player in his own administration — and an unwitting betrayer of the human race.
|
|
I fully believe that it was the turning point for his career, from rap radio bit player to actual Bawse.
|
|
The evidence suggests technological change has played the predominant role in reducing manufacturing employment; globalization is a bit player by comparison.
|
|
And to have a person of the stature of Donna Brazile, this is not a bit player coming out and saying this.
|
|
But while she stands atop a grand staircase, looking imperious and sporting a towering bit of headgear, she's really a bit player.
|
|
Insisting he was only a bit player in Belgium's jihadist network, he gave no information about any impending attack, the authorities said.
|
|
Britain is consumed with domestic sniping over its pending departure from the European Union, making it a bit player in these proceedings.
|
|
But for a candidate who had been expected to be a non-threatening bit-player in the Democratic primary, the achievement was enormous.
|
|
The hacker's name was Saud al-Qahtani and at the time he was a bit player in the royal court of King Abdullah.
|
|
"Central banks are a bit player in the current crisis," Ethan Harris, global economist at Bank of America, wrote in a research report.
|
|
But if R&B was a bit player a decade ago, it has at times felt like a ghost in the years since.
|
|
It remains a bit player in smartphones, the product that made Apple's fortune, but sustained demand for the devices has enriched Sony regardless.
|
|
He was only a bit player in Infinity War and he's likely to remain that way, or not appear at all, in Avengers 4.
|
|
But what tonight will likely determine is whether he will be a bit player in those debates or a real competitor for the nomination.
|
|
That essentially skyrockets Google from being a bit player in the wearables industry to one of the top brands in the world seemingly overnight.
|
|
As a bit player in the live-streaming wars, the platform's strategy is to recruit celebrities — and, crucially, their audiences — to shoot to relevance.
|
|
And they all still fare better than some others — like Jubilee, who is relegated to bit player in a couple of early, throwaway scenes.
|
|
Whether the interactions were real or illusory, every guest took part in the show as a bit player or as part of a larger trick.
|
|
Despite being one of the first companies to recognize the potential for smartwatch technology, Google has been relegated to the status of a bit player.
|
|
And the target was Trump, not Pence, whom the Clinton campaign regards as a political bit player who will vanish into obscurity after the election.
|
|
Africa has traditionally been an unsophisticated bit player in American media, often portrayed as backward, savage, and chaotic in everything from news coverage to films.
|
|
Although Mitsubishi is a bit player, it is increasing new-car sales faster than most other automakers and is expanding its sliver of the American market.
|
|
In an interview, Mr. Assange called Russia a "bit player on the world stage" and said that scrutinizing superpowers like the United States was more relevant.
|
|
Mr. Cuomo was once considered a bit player on the national stage, an abrasive presence who made his share of enemies among his Democratic Party peers.
|
|
The story of Adrenaclick is paved with blunders and missed chances, leaving it a largely unknown bit player with a single-digit share of the market.
|
|
Topping the established leaders would almost certainly require doing better in the U.S., where the company has been selling largely online and remains a bit player.
|
|
Otherwise its piece of the pie will continue to shrink, and Uber will go from ride-sharing giant to just another bit player in a crowded market.
|
|
Rather than a strong woman paving her own way, you end up with a bit player in production orchestrated by the forces she's was trying to subvert.
|
|
A bit player in the first Star Wars movie, with just ten minutes of screen time, the fear-inducing character quickly became the center of the action.
|
|
That the U.S. is a bit player in this unfolding national drama is not surprising: bilateral commercial, security, and political relations with Panama run long and deep.
|
|
Over the course of President Obama's administration, Malik has gone from being a frequent bit player in right-wing conspiracy theories to being a champion of them.
|
|
More recently, he has emerged as a bit player in the special counsel's investigation into Russian interference in the election and any connection to the Trump campaign.
|
|
The daughter of a well-off Iranian psychiatrist, Salimpour was an aspirational Hollywood bit-player who moved to Los Angeles to become a perfume star in 2005.
|
|
However, Google hasn't really clarified what it hopes to get out of that deal, or how it can shift from being a bit player in the phone business.
|
|
Julian Jacobs, forecast as a bit player coming out of high school, has blossomed into USC's on-court leader and leads the Pac-12 in assists per game.
|
|
It's as close as you can get to a general rule in politics: Once a candidate is considered a bit player, the image becomes almost impossible to shake.
|
|
The life of a bit player who has appeared in hundreds of films and television shows offers a surplus of material for creating this type of visual timeline.
|
|
But the documents make it clear that Parnas was not a bit player -- he was in direct communication with members of the incoming Zelensky administration in spring 2019.
|
|
Donald Trump—gaudy real-estate brander, reality-show star, educational huckster—has been in the glare just as long, but as a bit player in the national phantasmagoria.
|
|
Rob Goldstone may look like a bit player in this story, but he is an avatar of the new power brokers in the age of politics as entertainment.
|
|
Gas is pummelling coal in America, but remains a bit-player in India and much of South-East Asia, since it has to be imported and is relatively expensive.
|
|
And Industrial Bank is no bit player: it has more than 5 trillion yuan in assets, which in America would be enough to make it the fifth-biggest bank.
|
|
Nebula was supposed to be a bit player, a sibling-rivalry sideshow at best, when Karen Gillan signed up for an eight-day shoot for Guardians of the Galaxy.
|
|
Austin Sefarian-Jenkins, the monster tight end from Washington, should be right up there with Evans, but between injuries and clashes with the coaching staff, he's barely a bit player.
|
|
Still not a player: While there are several projects planned, for now the U.S. remains a bit player in the global offshore wind market that's currently dominated by European projects.
|
|
Sondland also told Hill that Trump put him in charge of Ukraine policy, a big split from his attempts during his own testimony to paint himself as a bit player.
|
|
But the whistle-blower was only a bit player, another in a long line of public servants whose vaccine of duty was strong enough to resist the contagion of Trump.
|
|
Mickey Gall, by comparison, is a 24-year-old jiu-jitsu brown belt who was brought into the UFC in February as a bit player in a pro wrestler's MMA odyssey.
|
|
But like a bit player who steals the show, the notorious Bloods street gang has drawn much of the focus in the officers' trial, in State Supreme Court in the Bronx.
|
|
For, if France remains a threat to the EU's economic stability rather than a source of its strength, its president can never be more than a bit player next to Germany's chancellor.
|
|
Despite being the world's best known processor maker, Intel was only a bit player in the mobile space... The founders of Ampler don't want you to think of electric bicycles as special.
|
|
And he told my Times colleagues Jo Becker, Steven Erlanger and Eric Schmitt last summer that Russia was "a bit player" on the world stage compared with the United States and China.
|
|
The Islamic State is a bit player with its hands in lots of cookie jars and civil wars in the Philippines, Afghanistan, and Syria, but it is not planning attacks against Americans.
|
|
There is the story of a gifted actor — a renaissance man, as he is described in the film — and his journey from bit player to fame, fortune and permanent pop-culture icon status.
|
|
They said Judge Williams's ruling turned not on a wholesale rejection of prosecutors' broad legal theory, but rather on his determination that Officer Nero, 30, was a bit player in Mr. Gray's arrest.
|
|
Even bit player Mischa Barton (as the ghost who scares Osment's character in the film's creepiest scene) is a reminder of how many of the film's cast members have struggled in its wake.
|
|
To prepare for his new role, Barnes headed down to Rio de Janeiro with Team USA, and though he was a bit player, he returned stateside with a gold medal hanging from his neck.
|
|
It would appear that NASA's shift to using private sector partners, in conjunction with budget cuts, has now made the United States a bit player when it comes to launching crewed missions into space.
|
|
That left Turner's loved ones to grapple with why the system locked up a man struggling with addiction—who they say amounted to a bit player in a larger drug scheme—for so long.
|
|
As if Allen were a bit player in a wide-ranging conspiracy between the wind, a stubborn floorboard, and maybe even a slight tectonic shift, all leading up to "the tripping of" another player.
|
|
Cohen would morph, in the eyes of history, from bit player best known for statements like "What I'm going to do to you is going to be fucking disgusting" to saviour of the republic.
|
|
He has succeeded in minimizing DeAndre Hopkins to a bit player, and the offense, at its absolute peak, has devolved into the two drives a game where Osweiler hooks up deep with Will Fuller.
|
|
" The charges against Papadopoulos, "a bit player in this whole sorry melodrama," were "preordained at the very moment he agreed to be interviewed by federal agents because if they want you, they got you.
|
|
Ishee is just one character among many you'll meet in four fast-paced, hour-long episodes, a bit player in a global drama unfolding over who gets to wield the awesome power of Crispr.
|
|
It's hard to believe that just a month ago Game of Thrones fans were upset about a cameo, because the latest bit player in the war of the seven kingdoms is clearly a born star.
|
|
Mr. Castro allowed the bases to be constructed, but once they were discovered, he became a bit player in the ensuing drama, overshadowed by President John F. Kennedy and the Soviet leader, Nikita S. Khrushchev.
|
|
Far from a bit player, Agnew marked a watershed moment in American history, when the Republican Party committed itself to the shift from being the party of Lincoln to the party of white racial backlash.
|
|
Samsung Electronics, the biggest smartphone maker globally but almost a bit player in China, on Tuesday posted its slowest quarterly profit growth in more than a year as its Galaxy S9 lost ground to rivals.
|
|
More recent stories about the tenuous alliance to unseat Amazon cite Google as a bit player on the side of Walmart, rather than a tech giant dragging stodgy brick-and-mortars into the future of commerce.
|
|
After years of being a bit player in Trump's Asia strategy, Abe's investments in his relationship with the US President could finally be paying off -- Reiwa may herald a renewed, stronger relationship between Washington and Tokyo.
|
|
And before I go any further, yes, there is a bit player who appears in a few episodes who owns a rocket company (that Axe has a short position on) and is a clear nod to Musk.
|
|
The reality is that with other powers like China, Russia and North Korea confronting the United States, Australia is a bit player, a friend the Americans know they can invite out for dinner and then stand up.
|
|
Because screaming into the abyss is cheaper than a therapist's co-pay and because I'm trying to go back to a time when I was more than just a bit player in the story of their lives.
|
|
And President Donald Trump must decide whether, despite his self-image as a master dealmaker, he is willing to sit on the sidelines and watch as he is portrayed as an unreliable bit player in the drama.
|
|
The company's satellite TV business loses hundreds of thousands of subscribers a year, Blockbuster shut down in 2013, and Dish's Sling TV, with about 2 million subscribers, is still a bit player in the video streaming market.
|
|
Then, purporting to advance a theme of security, we heard from such heroes as one of the dudes from "Duck Dynasty," a washed-up bit player from "Happy Days" and some soap opera guy I never heard of.
|
|
In some episodes, Mr. Jackson has barely a dozen lines — he is a bit player, part of a team built largely to emphasize how many different sorts of misfits Bull (Michael Weatherly) can wrangle to work under him.
|
|
And though the Trump administration has said Mr. Page was a bit player who had no access to the candidate, the wiretap shows the F.B.I. had strong evidence that a campaign adviser was operating on behalf of Moscow.
|
|
These two conclusions create a split screen, leading both versions of Nadia and Alan to end up in Tompkins Square Park as long-running Russian Doll bit player Horse (Brendan Sexton III) kicks off a parade of joyous misfits.
|
|
His death already seemed like a shady plot device designed to make Season 3 as shocking as possible, and pinning a major character's demise on such a bit player as Laurel's dad feels like a bit of a copout.
|
|
Despite being the world's best known processor maker, Intel was only a bit player in the mobile space dominated by Qualcomm, Apple, and Samsung, and it finally chose to cut its losses and cancel its next planned chip, Broxton.
|
|
Uber is losing ground in the US, its biggest market, to a rival once written off as a bit player, as the ride-hailing company reels from a series of crises including the temporary absence of its chief executive.
|
|
This week's bit player is Trump Organization lawyer Michael D. Cohen, whose emails with the Kremlin about building a Trump Tower in Moscow have landed him on front pages and on MSNBC chyrons during breaks from Houston flood coverage.
|
|
With Putin the big power broker in Syria and the US now just a bit player, Trump's challenge will be to leverage the minimal hand Obama left him in securing US interests here and in the Middle East at large.
|
|
She thought N-glycanase might be more than just a bit player in the cell's waste management system, so she decided to check whether it interacts with another protein that turns on the proteasomethe recycling machine within each of our cells.
|
|
When the conversation did turn to China, Trump seemed stuck in the 1990s -- when Beijing was a bit player on most global and regional issues, and his suggested approach revealed a fundamental misunderstanding of the entangled nature of U.S.-China trade.
|
|
FIFA, the world governing body, is facing three major decisions in the coming weeks and months, and Saudi Arabia, long a bit player among soccer's ruling classes, is positioning itself as one of the most powerful influencers in each of them.
|
|
Long seen as a bit player in the daily drama of the White House, Pence has largely been content in his role as loyal sidekick, allowing for no daylight with Trump as he collects the trust of Trump's loyal political base.
|
|
He was on the July 25 call between Trump and Zelensky He is theoretically overseeing US foreign policy with regard to Ukraine And yet, despite criticism that he hasn't stood up for State Department employees, Pompeo has remained something of a bit player.
|
|
Jung captured a series of moments where Kwon was forced to reveal his political leanings in light of the court case, saying that his views most closely matched the now-inactive Progressive Party, a bit-player in South Korean politics promoting democratic socialism.
|
|
Stephen Kohn, a partner at U.S. law firm Kohn, Kohn and Colapinto who is representing Danske whistleblower Howard Wilkinson, told Reuters that Danske may be only a bit player in a scheme to move wealth from countries like Russia to the West.
|
|
From Stitch Fix's Katrina Lake to Silicon Valley's new girls club of VCs to Lesbians Who Tech, these women exhibit intelligence, assertiveness and passion for what they do in ways that make even Gal Gadot's "Wonder Woman" look like a bit player.
|
|
As Timothy L. O'Brien, the author of TrumpNation, wrote in Bloomberg: Weisselberg isn't a bit player in Trumplandia and his emergence on the Cohen-Trump recording — as someone possibly facilitating a scheme apparently meant to disguise a payoff — should worry the president.
|
|
Sanchez has so far made herself out to be a reluctant bit player in Chapo's cartel, claiming on the witness stand that she could not extricate herself from his drug business, and that the kingpin threatened her with death if she ever betrayed him.
|
|
But it was Donald Bruce White — a former Broadway actor who began his food career as a bit player on "Josie's Kitchen," a local cooking show that predated Julia Child's "The French Chef" — who created the city's modern catering industry in 1962, the Lees report.
|
|
Sanders, for decades a bit player in the House and Senate who remains a political independent, is now comfortably among the Democratic party's most popular (if polarizing) figures -- and best draws, both on the road and in television studios, where he's become an unlikely fixture.
|
|
The firm continually appears as a bit player in a massive conspiracy to discredit the conventional narrative of the DNC hack, or delegitimize the Trump presidential victory, or cover up the murder of Seth Rich, or hide the existence of a global pedophile ring.
|
|
But I've tried to deserve the privilege as best I can, and I've been repaid a thousand times over with adventures, with good company, and with the satisfaction of serving something more important than myself, of being a bit player in the extraordinary story of America.
|
|
But Republicans who wrote the memo, in making the warrant for surveillance of Mr. Page the crux of their case against the F.B.I., suggest that he was far more than a bit player and that is why they believe the bureau recklessly cut corners to get it.
|
|
Despite being one of the first companies to recognize the potential for smartwatch technology, Google has been relegated to the status of a bit player, seemingly struggling to comprehend why the playbook that made it the dominant player in smartphones has failed to do the trick with watches.
|
|
Instead of ushering in a new progressive golden age in one of America's most liberal cities, de Blasio's administration is mired in controversy and incompetence—and yet the mayor continues in his hopeless, self-defeating quest to graduate from a bit player to a leading figure on the national stage.
|
|
When news broke recently that the US Justice Department is preparing criminal charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the story reverberated across not only London, where Assange is holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy, but also in Iceland, where a bit player in the WikiLeaks story has been living for five years.
|
|
So far, people think that it is unlikely that Amazon would stand an antitrust investigation because e-commerce is still a small part of all commerce (as evidenced by the five percent of all retail sales figure), and Amazon would argue that in the world of "omnicommerce" it's still just a bit player.
|
|
The tale that follows doesn't raise Billy above what he is, a bit player who in the end isn't chosen to winter with Byrd on the frozen continent, but he's not without his moments of heroism, and besides, to the consuming public at home, substance here matters less than the quixotic journey.
|
|
She was only a bit player in the drama between the women (among them, Tamra Judge, the second longest-running Orange County housewife, who was also fired at the end of the 14th season), having alienated herself so extremely in previous seasons that she dare not offend anyone important, lest she has no one left to film with.
|
|
Indeed, the case files reflect how their operating theories morphed from one to another without explanation, a bit player in one crime becoming a suspect in another without any previously known connection to it, and witnesses who helpfully turn up just as the cases are about to go cold, with crucial information leading to the supposed killers.
|
|
McCain, who also serves as the chairman of the Senate armed services committee, shared a statement on the honor on Twitter: "I've been blessed to spend my life serving something more important than myself, of being a bit player in the story of America #LibertyMedal" The evening was also filled with patriotic anecdotes and stories from McCain's personal narrative.
|
|
Beloved sitcom bit player Buzz Aldrin did, too: And so did a freakishly-bearded Ted Cruz: Even Trump's wonky tie managed to inspire a few solid jokes: And of course, last but certainly not least, was Joshua Trump—the sixth-grader who was invited to the State of the Union after apparently getting bullied about his name at school.
|
|
The official suffrage history reduces the poet and novelist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper to a bit player, even though she was central to the struggles for both African-American and women's rights and delivered what has come to be recognized as a visionary speech on the relationship between the two at the founding meeting of the American Equal Rights Association in 1866.
|
|
Along the way, there are mishaps galore, near misses and hairbreadth escapes, managed by our intrepid young archetype with the aid of some unexpected (and mostly unwelcome) allies and hangers-on: a thievish waif, a good-hearted witch, a literal straw man with arguably more humanity than your average human, as well as the occasional colorful bit player, like the innkeeper with the interesting side job of vivisectionist.
|
|
If Democrats do retake the House this fall, not only does Ryan give up the gavel but he subjects himself to becoming a bit player in the Democratic sideshow of using the legislative power of the House to push back against administration policy on issues such as health care, immigration, the environment and gun control — all for the purpose of creating GOP division, vetoes and framing political choices for 85033.
|
|