Turns out the guy I knew was bluffing was not.
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Bluffing is an important tool in poker and in politics.
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"There were those who said I was bluffing," he says.
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In fact, the administration appeared to have been caught bluffing.
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Perhaps Trump is bluffing, and everything will be resolved painlessly.
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He is not bluffing and he is not backing down.
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"There may be a sort of bluffing aspect," Shapiro said.
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He has very good reason to think Trump is bluffing.
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He's bluffing and he's only got a pair of twos.
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But he may be bluffing about going ahead without them.
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"I was basically just going in there bluffing," he said.
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CONWAY: I don&apost think anybody thought each other was bluffing.
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Xi is not bluffing with his military on a war footing.
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"No, I don't think he's bluffing at all," Pitt, 55, said.
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The first is that bank executives are bluffing over moving jobs.
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Either way, it's too dangerous to assume North Korea is bluffing.
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" Asked if Kim was bluffing, Trump said, "We'll see what happens.
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Nevertheless, Kushner seemed to conclude that the U.N. agency was bluffing.
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"I think he was bluffing," Ms. Meadows said with a frown.
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Kiké Hernandez drew a leadoff walk by way of this bluffing.
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Top American diplomats and generals were convinced that Pakistan wasn't bluffing.
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But shrewd planning and a little showbiz bluffing did the trick.
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"I think he might be bluffing," one top GOP aide said.
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Which leads us to the second possibility, that Pelosi isn't bluffing.
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It later turned out he was bluffing and was not armed.
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Until then, they're simply bluffing and using young people as pawns.
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And that maybe the president will stop and maybe he&aposs bluffing.
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But only Davie was clever enough to realize that Nick was bluffing.
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We won't know for sure for a few days if Kim's bluffing.
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If they (skeptics) think we are bluffing, they are playing with fire.
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Did Trump really tape his conversations with Comey, or was he bluffing?
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We can't know whether Sally Hemings was serious about staying or bluffing.
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It's possible Trump was bluffing, which certainly sounds like a bad idea.
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Anyhow, I don't mean bluffing about shit hidden on the board, Alexander.
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It's time for the Trump administration to stop bluffing and get serious.
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It's sort of just about how everybody's bluffing their way through everything.
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It will probably also not quiet speculation that he might have been bluffing.
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She refused to accept any jail time and thought the DA was bluffing.
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He got caught bluffing and, when Yovanovitch and others called him, he folded.
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And at least one Republican Trump ally thinks the president is not bluffing.
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Fox thought it was calling his bluff, but he wasn't bluffing at all.
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She also thinks the President is bluffing with his "fire and fury" warning.
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But even if Ramsay was bluffing before he died, it's still possible. Ugh.
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Our government must modernize our NC3 and ensure no one thinks we're bluffing.
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"I didn't believe him ... I thought he was bluffing," Hodari told Business Insider.
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Other elements, like betting and bluffing, add to the game's complexity and unpredictability.
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" Bruno splashed Macallan into two tumblers and said, "Backgammon isn't a bluffing game.
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Doubling isn't the same as bluffing—both players can see the entire board.
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Either Trump didn't understand or he was bluffing to cover Macron's put-down.
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"I'm not bluffing," he said, adding that Russia was ready to defend herself.
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"We're not bluffing, this is real, and it is a serious threat," Sen.
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" Loughlin apparently "refused to accept any jail time and thought the DA was bluffing.
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Brexiteers have been largely unmoved by Japanese companies' warnings, assuming that they were bluffing.
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That stopover caused South Korean media to accuse Trump of "bluffing" with his announcement.
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Then he'd quietly sell his shares before everyone figured out that he was bluffing.
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"Kim Jong Un wouldn't go everywhere and visit China twice if he was bluffing."
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"We weren't bluffing Robert Moses, but we had a real bluff," Mr. Bray said.
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He threatens to send in American ground troops, instead, but Conway thinks he's bluffing.
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"Even though I think they're bluffing, we should not let down our guard down."
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While some Trump critics say he is bluffing, closing the southern border is not unprecedented.
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"Hongmeng is part of our long-term strategy...we are definitely not bluffing," Liang said.
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For anyone thinking Cardi's bluffing just to scare Offset, we're told she seems deadly serious.
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He completely screwed up negotiations with a number of parties by repeatedly and transparently bluffing.
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The game relies as heavily on bluffing and subterfuge as it does on deck building.
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Maybe. But given the fallout that awaits, it's just as likely that he is bluffing.
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She's bluffing, fabricating, groping for a direction in what must often seem like a void.
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According to former WikiLeaks insiders, Mr. Assange had damaging information about Ecuador and wasn't bluffing.
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I hope he's not just bluffing but, if past is prologue, he probably is. 5.
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"We're not bluffing, this is real, and it is a serious threat," Cornyn told Politico.
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"It was very important that we realized that he may not be bluffing," he said.
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If they only give you 10s, it's very likely they're bluffing and trying to overcompensate.
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There was some speculation that PG&E was bluffing in order to force aid from California.
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But the relatively high prices may also suggest that some investors think Mr Maduro is bluffing.
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Put that way, the Korean dilemma arguably revolves around a single question: is Mr Trump bluffing?
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And she is bluffing — she makes a lot of money, but she has virtually no power.
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"Most presidents after Nixon were skittish to do much taping," said presidential historian Douglas Brinkley. Bluffing?
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But if Cohen's bluffing or can't deliver, this Russia bombshell is much ado about nothing. 2.
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BUT...EU leaders think she is bluffing because no deal would spell economic and legal chaos.
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But Nardelli said that's precisely what makes it so effective: You never know if he's bluffing.
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"It gives the president an opportunity to say, 'Look they have nothing, they're bluffing,'" said Smikle.
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But remember — pimps are like Richard Nixon, they do a lot more bluffing than they do protecting.
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Unclear if Justin has anything scandalous/unflattering ... or if he's bluffing, but Jodie wasn't taking the chance.
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Cerreti admitted later that she was bluffing: she would have listened to anything Pesce had to say.
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German-born Enders insisted Airbus was not bluffing, adopting a more partisan tone than in previous statements.
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But Trump may also have been bluffing; he claimed testimony from those individuals could imperil national security.
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Tehran may be bluffing on the Strait of Hormuz, but its threat already sent oil prices up.
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He's bluffing — ineptly — with his cards turned backward so everyone can see he doesn't have a good hand.
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And therein lies the problem: Even if Trump is bluffing, the North Koreans can't be sure of that.
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Ms Savchenko is not bluffing: she has been on several hunger strikes, including one that lasted 82 days.
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"Maybe they're bluffing," I hear a member of the anti-anti group say as she makes a sign.
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Libratus is most interesting because it's managed to master a game where bluffing is a core, necessary component.
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That is: that Stone was just bluffing and making insinuations to try and hype up his own importance.
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Mr. Ghani's advisers have seized on that, insisting that threats of mobilization against the president are mostly bluffing.
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Some think he was simply bluffing and attempting to breathe optimism into the stock market and the economy.
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President Trump has hinted threateningly at the existence of tapes; so far it sounds like his characteristic bluffing.
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If the N.H.L.'s leaders are indeed not bluffing, it will be time to tread even more lightly.
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I enjoyed a Gutshot, a delicious, dry Irish Stout, as well as a light, crisp Bluffing Isn't Weisse hefeweizen.
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Canada knew that Trump's initial Friday deadline wasn't firm and, thus, that the Trump administration was bluffing a bit.
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And as Wilson points out, plenty of teams have played this game before that we now know were bluffing.
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Their plea came after they reportedly originally thought prosecutors were bluffing when they rejected a more lenient plea deal.
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Hydrogen bombs are even more destructive than atomic bombs, so it's very scary—but experts think North Korea's bluffing.
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After the latest back of threats, there may be a third reason: the criminals could very well be bluffing.
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The big question facing markets now is: is the Bank bluffing again, or is it really different this time?
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Backed by his hawks, even if Trump is bluffing again, he will have effective wingmen to continue the illusion.
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President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he is not bluffing about the possibility of slapping tariffs on European cars.
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"It seems like he's sitting at a poker table bluffing rather than making serious decisions," a Mexican legislator said.
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"You should ask some of the other people in my career when they've bet on me bluffing," Avenatti responded.
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Joseph Nye, of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, had taken note of my convening -- and maybe my bluffing, too.
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Trump later said he was bluffing about the recordings to keep Comey honest in his testimony about their encounters.
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"Tehran is not bluffing," Henry Rome, an Iran expert at the Eurasia Group, wrote in an email on Tuesday.
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"You should ask some of the other people in my career when they've bet on me bluffing," Avenatti replied.
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In the end the moderate leaders were either bluffing or party leadership managed to flip back some of their supporters.
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Whether Trump is fed up with the old approach, or is simply bluffing about a military option, is anyone's guess.
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Advocates, at least, now have some stretch of history they can point to for evidence that internet providers were bluffing.
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The Chinese commerce ministry described it as a tactical statement, hinting at its belief that Mr Trump might be bluffing.
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"Unless clients are bluffing on risk tolerance questionnaires, robo-advisors are doing what they are supposed to do," Smith said.
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We often think of bluffing as a uniquely human trait; something that relies on our ability to lie and deceive.
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"So it was very important that we realize that he may not be bluffing," He told CBS' Face the Nation.
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And as tempting as it might be, bluffing is a no-no when it comes to pitching, the experts warned.
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It turned out he wasn't bluffing and, when the deadline passed, he summarily fired all 11,359 of the striking controllers.
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The four-month clock is ticking, and people who've heard Trump share his feelings about Iran don't think he's bluffing.
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Perhaps Mr. Trump is simply importing the brinkmanship and bluffing he espoused, in his real estate days, as negotiating tactics.
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If the administration chooses the latter, then what happens if Pyongyang isn't bluffing and actually fires on a US warplane?
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Most analysts believe that Mr. Trump is bluffing on tariffs and that they are being used as a negotiating tool.
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But Mr. Wallace preferred driving to the countryside, bluffing his way past military checkpoints and making contact with the guerrillas.
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During a "Fox News Sunday" interview, Kudlow tried to calm trade war fears but added Trump was "not bluffing" on tariffs.
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Pyongyang might be bluffing — no one can be sure — but if it fulfilled such threats, a major war would be on.
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When asked questions, he responds like a student who hasn't done the reading and is bluffing until the teacher moves on.
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It was a dramatic moment, as those on Capitol Hill and beyond wondered if Mr. Rubio was grandstanding, bluffing or both.
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"North Korea is bluffing," said Chang Young-keun, a missile expert at Korea Aerospace University near Seoul, the South Korean capital.
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He also said he believed Hyde to be bluffing about the surveillance, calling him "a weird individual" who is constantly drunk.
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Ross Douthat Anyone who tells you, with perfect confidence, what a Trump administration will do is either bluffing or a fool.
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In the majority of cases, the hackers are bluffing, and don't actually have embarrassing materials though, in some cases, they do.
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However, over time the act of simple bluffing in the marketplace got out of control with the advancements in technology and automation.
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The couple's plea comes after it was reported they originally thought prosecutors were bluffing when they rejected a more lenient plea deal.
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" DeepStack would bet more than Sturc expected, making it difficult to tell whether it had a good hand or was simply "bluffing.
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Foster said her party, which has 10 lawmakers in the UK parliament, was not bluffing in its tough stance on the talks.
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Seen through the lens of a potential pardon, Cohen could be using this week to signal to Trump that he's not bluffing.
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After Black announced that she and Warren had spoken, many Twitter users shared their excitement, while a few accused her of bluffing.
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McConnell may just be bluffing about working with the Democrats, but the fact that he's even making the threat is telling enough.
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"With an incredibly bad hand, Putin is bluffing the hell out of the West," Browder told Reuters at his offices in London.
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"Such elated spirit and bluffing may greatly get on the nerve of the dialogue partner even at the slightest slip," he said.
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Now Sheila had been bragging about her Ping-Pong skills off camera the entire honeymoon and I really thought she was just bluffing!
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Mike Scott of The Waterboys claimed their 1985 hit "The Whole of the Moon" wasn't a depiction of Prince, but he was bluffing.
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"We'll know who's bluffing and who isn't in two weeks," David Axelrod, the top adviser to Mr. Obama's campaign, said at the time.
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But there is still a risk they will box each other in, or else Kim concludes Trump is bluffing and oversteps the mark.
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Even if the bloc were bluffing, it is not clear that there would be time to draft a new pact by the deadline.
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The character's conceit is a mask that's always in danger of slipping, which complicates his heroism with moments of bluffing, comedy and doubt.
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"It seems like he's sitting at a poker table bluffing rather than making serious decisions," said Senator Armando Ríos Piter, a Mexican legislator.
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Do the avatars sitting across from you convey sufficient subtle eye contact, body language, and social presence that you can tell if they're bluffing?
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The think tanker said both governments should "really calm down," and he warned that bluffing was unlikely to reap dividends in the ongoing negotiations.
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"You're trying to call my bluff, but I'm not bluffing," Beck cooly tells the professor when he suggests she's making the other women up.
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The whole thing is an exercise in bluffing; they want to shield themselves from the left while claiming that they've repealed and replaced Obamacare.
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"They are bluffing that B-1Bs are enough for fighting an all-out nuclear war," said a statement from Pyongyang's Korean Central News Agency.
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If Cohen is bluffing or can't deliver what he claims, then this is the political equivalent of Al Capone's vault -- much ado about nothing.
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Trump may be bluffing or bullshitting or just plain lying, but these bluffs, bullshit, and lies are being woven into every major American policy.
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Mr. Stone claimed during the campaign that he had a back channel to WikiLeaks, but now says he was merely bluffing to unsettle Mrs.
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Mr. Redwood also said she had failed, giving the European Union the impression that she was bluffing and would not go through with it.
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The Circle provides emotional safety rails for the catfishers and the catfishees, as the rules expressly allow for bluffing and playing around with identity.
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The SEC says Musk was essentially bluffing to goose stocks -- he never had the means or plans to take the company private at all.
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"He is mad as a mama wasp and he is determined to get the nominations through, and I don't think he's bluffing," Kennedy said.
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It's perfectly possible either or both factions of Republicans are bluffing, simply hoping to pull the negotiations as far to their side as possible.
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Sometimes he's bluffing, as with last week's threats to withdraw from NAFTA or demands that the government funding package include money for his border wall.
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I'll attempt to explain, but bear in mind that hardly anyone on the planet truly understands quantum physics, and some of them are probably bluffing.
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Real life consists of bluffing, of little tactics of deception, of asking yourself what is the other man going to think I mean to do.
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But even if they are just bluffing, North Korea's leaders can't be sure about that, because they don't have a great read on American intentions.
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What that means: Cohn and Mnuchin aren't bluffing when they say they want to slash the corporate tax rate to 15% from the current 35%.
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Even before he formally entered the race in June, politicos and pundits were seized with early signs of denial -- Trump was bluffing again, they said.
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"Some level of bluffing is helpful as long as you really put your money where your mouth is and deliver on those things," she said.
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We will find out soon whether Trump is serious or bluffing (or whether he simply needs someone to spend 10 minutes explaining reality to him).
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Kudlow said the door is open to talks, but stressed that Trump is not bluffing about imposing tariffs if China does not change its behavior.
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In this case, Mr. McCarty means the giving away or expression of some emotions, cracks in a bluffing poker player's armor — also known as TELLS.
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Separately, President Trump said he did not record meetings with James Comey, the former F.B.I. director, largely confirming suspicions that he had been bluffing previously.
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Contrariwise, the lives of tens of thousands of Americans and millions of South Koreans are endangered, which may prompt Kim to assume Trump is bluffing.
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There's some possibility that people think he's bluffing about possibly raising the price of their avocados or futzing with the supply chain for the auto industry.
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Finally, the fallout from Owen (Kevin McKidd) punching Koracick (Greg Germann) is that Amelia (Caterina Scorsone) was not bluffing when she told Owen that they're over.
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Bluffing or not, many in Iran are worried about Trump's tough talk towards the Islamic Republic, and what his new administration will mean for the country.
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Or playing poker with a group of friends spread across the country, and being able to tell if a buddy is bluffing from his body language.
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This latest action on steel and aluminium could be a gambit to show that Mr Trump is not bluffing when he threatens to erect trade barriers.
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" August 9: North Korea releases a statement slamming the "reckless nuclear war frenzy" of the U.S.: "The U.S. imperialists' ridiculous bluffing never works on the DPRK.
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"Russia and Saudi Arabia are both bluffing now and are trying to play the same card that we saw in December," a Russian industry source said.
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Is North Korea pressing to see how much they can gain by bluffing, prancing, and provoking others whom they consider unwilling to do what it wants?
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They are bluffing their way through questions the same as you and me, they still struggle to open jars, and stub their toes on door frames.
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"It would have been very awkward for the South Korean military to come out and clarify when they knew that Trump was bluffing," Mr. Shin said.
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Go deeper: Exclusive: John Bolton hits Trump for bluffing on North Korea nukes Evidence of new work at North Korea site linked to long-range missiles
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Libratus's achievement is another big step forward for AI: poker is a game of imperfect information, and it had to work out when its opponents were bluffing.
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Few think America will act on the threat of imposing "secondary sanctions" on defiant firms, but even fewer care to find out whether Mr Trump is bluffing.
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Rutledge said he would "be happy if everybody was just bluffing and playing games," but pointed out that tariffs have already gone into effect on many things.
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For a man who has built a career on bluffing and intimidation, Trump is surprisingly clumsy when it comes to those tactics, and oblivious of their costs.
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Even if Mr. Trump is just bluffing, as many of his allies say, to gain leverage in some future negotiation, much of the damage has been done.
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All the Democratic Presidential candidates agree the Trump foreign policy is a disaster, shattering alliances while alienating allies, embracing authoritarian dictators, substituting bluster and bluffing for strategy.
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And whereas it became clear that Mrs May was bluffing about walking out, Mr Johnson might just be serious (the fanatics who do his thinking certainly are).
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A day after that flyover, North Korea accused the US of "bluffing" and "blustering" with the flyover and said such actions were inflaming tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
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Poker is also a game of bluffing, where players will try to convince others by making big bets that they have a stronger hand than they actually do.
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If and when I use my account to reach out to sources or act on behalf of a media company, it needs to be clear I'm not bluffing.
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The prototype turned out to be inoperative bunkum, but here's the question: Was Holmes trying to pull off a con or bluffing until she worked out the kinks?
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But this is also Trump we're talking about, and the simplest explanation is that he's bluffing on both counts as damage control, in order to strengthen his hand.
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It is not clear whether this was North Korea's first-ever hydrogen test — a more powerful and advanced type of nuclear device — or if the country is bluffing.
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During a "Fox News Sunday" interview, White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow tried to calm trade war fears but added that Trump was "not bluffing" on tariffs.
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These are familiar rites of passage for young, driven office workers, and the actor Portia Doubleday ably evokes the semi-bluffing self-confidence required to get through them.
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We went to his home, we saw that there was bomb-making equipment later, so it was very important that we realize that he may not be bluffing.
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In contrast, pretty much any hand is playable in heads-up – it's a game of wild-eyed bluffing, psyching out opponents, and one where almost anything is possible.
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While Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un may be bluffing about his willingness to spark such a conflict, the White House under Donald Trump has issued numerous threats of annihilation.
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But the thing about Trump's tough nuclear talk is that even if he's bluffing, this kind of saber rattling could drive more nations to arm themselves with nuclear weapons.
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Analysts and officials in the region have said that North Korea may be bluffing or may have detonated a hybrid atomic bomb that it has been suspected of developing.
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Assuming that Mr Trump is not bluffing, that gap of perceptions must either be bridged soon, or his America First policy towards Iran will look more like America Alone.
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But Ally already has, Kai may have been bluffing about his poisoning but Ally is not, and she's been watching Ivy ingest the cyanide she put into the food.
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Be smart: It's entirely possible that Trump is bluffing about his Friday deadline, or that his Twitter bluster is prelude to an agreement, as we saw with Canada/USMCA.
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Team Trump is at pains to explain why the boss is not bluffing, and why 2018 is, in the words of one senior administration official, "a very dangerous year".
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"Like North Korea, which is often accused of displaying fake missiles during military parades, is the United States, too, now employing 'bluffing' as its North Korea policy?" it asked.
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Democrats are about to find out if Republican senators were bluffing when they said they'd exercise the nuclear option to get Judge Neil Gorsuch confirmed to the Supreme Court.
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President Donald Trump and senior officials had for the past two years assumed Turkey was bluffing and would never invade northern Syria, the news site Axios reported on Sunday.
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And he's followed through on enough threats (strikes on Syria, withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, moving the embassy in Israel) that Kim Jong-un can't assume he's bluffing.
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But Davis was bluffing and went back to second, where Lowrie stood until he was tagged out by Mets C Rene Rivera for the rare "catcher unassisted" caught stealing.
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In this video I make fun of my bluffing, standing in front of and inside various institutions and claiming that they are part of the Joanie 4 Jackie empire.
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Insisting that he is not bluffing, Dr. Molina said that his company might also have to abandon the individual market after this year because so much is in flux.
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Last week, Jeffrey and his aides "thought Turkey was bluffing, that the bluff was for domestic audiences, and that they could make the safe zone work," the person said.
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"If a single bullet lands in the territory of Guam, the United States' bluffing will be revealed to the entire world as fake," reads a caption in the video.
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For each of her characters, Maggie Shen King presents such an insidious, totalitarian trap that each person is only able to wiggle out with a mixture of luck and bluffing.
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The bottom line: Investors who play in the futures contracts market are putting their money where their mouths are in expectation that central bankers are either bluffing or deluding themselves.
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This combination of bluffing and hostage-taking would be a remarkable approach under any circumstances, but it's particularly bizarre because Trump has repeatedly tried and failed to make this work.
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After initially rejecting a plea deal because they believed prosecutors were bluffing, the possible sentencing time increased from up to two and a half years to up to 20 years.
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"How low would presumably be set by whatever can keep IMG on life support – not a happy picture, unless IMG actually has strong IP and Apple is bluffing, " Jefferies said.
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President Trump's post-Singapore summit "admission" that he "hated to do" the "rhetoric," that he was only bluffing at Kim last year, may not necessarily be taken at face value.
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Yesterday's announcement that half the US contingent could be coming home is the equivalent of Trump walking behind his diplomats as they engage in diplomatic poker, and yelling "he's bluffing".
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Supporters of a "hard" Brexit say Germany and other EU nations are bluffing about putting tariffs on British goods and services because their own exporters have too much to lose.
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"Maybe he wanted to leave — I think he was bluffing — but he started packing up his horn," Mr. Gitler said in a 19853 video interview with the filmmaker Bret Primack.
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The Secret Service came under scrutiny after a Chinese woman carrying electronic devices was charged with bluffing her way through security checks at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
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Many have speculated that these conservatives are largely bluffing, and that when push comes to shove they will vote for the AHCA rather than let Obamacare stay in place unchanged.
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Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli reportedly thought prosecutors in her college admissions cheating case were bluffing when they declined a plea deal that called for 2.5 years in prison.
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But when that deal was rejected, T-Mobile's owners turned out to have been bluffing, and an independent T-Mobile actually unleashed a wave of competition and innovation around the industry.
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Mr. Trump said on the campaign trail that his businesses had succeeded in part because, in negotiations, he had relied on bluffing, threats to walk out and ruthless, zero-sum transactionalism.
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However, equities rebounded to close well off their lows on news that a Chinese delegation would come to Washington for talks and as traders bet that Trump's tweet was just bluffing.
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Whether with imports of steel, aluminium and cars, or the bilateral relationship with China, at some point the Trump administration may decide to show the world that it is not bluffing.
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While Trump's vision of foreign and domestic politics as a series of zero-sum deals has won over some voters and terrified many abroad, Giuliani essentially admitted that Trump is bluffing.
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None mentioned the fact that the pic was Photoshopped until the second photo, when at least one person pointed out that she was bluffing, prompting her to "babysit" the comment section.
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Between the CNBC interview, Kudlow's comments, and Axios' report, it's clear that the administration is doing everything it can to try to convince China—and Trump's base—that he isn't bluffing.
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But Mr. McConnell's promise was as much about bluffing as it was about confidence, giving the nomination an air of inevitability even as five undecided senators will determine Judge Kavanaugh's fate.
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There are tons of fun celebrity guests, such as Ted Danson, who you can see in this exclusive clip trying to figure out which one of these bluffing masters is lying.
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But the US shouldn't assume that Duterte is bluffing or looking for leverage, said Gregory Poling, director of the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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Despite Trump bluffing, briefly, and claiming he would veto the government funding bill and force a shutdown at the end of April if it didn't have money for the wall, he caved.
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For example, Pluribus was remarkably good at bluffing its opponents, with the pros who played against it praising its "relentless consistency," and the way it squeezed profits out of relatively thin hands.
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Different strategies for different games mean it's less predictable, and it can switch in a minute should the bet patterns change and the hand go from a calling to a bluffing one.
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"I think Ferrari are bluffing and that they are a lot quicker than they are showing," Britain's triple world champion Lewis Hamilton told reporters last week, even as the Italians went fastest.
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To remedy this, the system was programmed to play in a "balanced" manner, employing a set of strategies, like bluffing, that prevented Pluribus' opponents from picking up on its tendencies and habits.
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The game's reliance on bluffing makes for especially animated evenings, fueled by multiple glasses of Ricard and water — the amount consumed in inverse proportion to the amount of palombes in the sky.
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Then the credits roll, and we hear Hannah bluffing her way through the lyrics of Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car," the song she made Marnie stifle when she sang it behind the wheel.
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Not bluffing Mulvaney was also trying to make clear that Trump is dead serious about the blanket tariffs on Mexico, which would start June 10 at 5% and rise to 25% by October.
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" Trump has also tried to intimidate North Korea by dispatching warships and bombers to the Korean Peninsula, but another KCNA article published Sunday decried such tactics as "useless muscle-flexing" and "exhausted bluffing.
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Trump blasted top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer, warned Mexico he wasn't bluffing about a new tariff offensive, accused Joe Biden of plagiarism, boasted about the size of his crowds and rebuked the media.
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The Global Times, a hawkish tabloid under the ruling Communist Party's top newspaper the People's Daily, called Trump "bluffing and unpredictable" but said he did not have plans to overturn America's international relationships.
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But what we're seeing on Capitol Hill right now with the Obamacare repeal efforts is not only a case of bad bluffing, but a bunch of Republicans who aren't even hiding their cards.
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By leaking to Axios, Trump's staff has extinguished any hope that this harebrained theory might work; the North Korean government is fully capable of reading Axios and figuring out that Trump is bluffing.
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The Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps rejected him as 4-F, medically unfit for combat, but he enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve in 1965 by bluffing on his eye test.
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There is also the highly complex process of bluffing to contend with, all of which adds up to a game requiring reasoning and intelligence — something machines have so far found difficult to manage.
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" The comment largely confirmed suspicions that Mr. Trump had been bluffing when he tweeted, "James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!
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But Mr. Cheon said he feared that what appeared to be a duel of bluffing between Mr. Trump and Mr. Kim could lead to a military strike and counterstrike "through misperception and misunderstanding."
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In April, the former Full House actress was offered a plea deal that came with a much lighter two-year sentence, but she reportedly believed that prosecutors were bluffing and rejected the deal.
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I theorized a few weeks ago that he was bluffing, but he sure seemed comfortable on Sunday, overseeing the fence with his grimbly-gunk, and he even turned down a chance to escape.
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"We weren't bluffing, and they were wilfully ignorant if they thought differently," said a senior prime ministerial aide at the time, referring to a message from Johnson to lawmakers that he expected loyalty.
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David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, a Washington research group, said North Korea "may be bluffing" in making very large claims for what was actually a small atom bomb.
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It is overwhelmingly likely, then, that Comey's version of events is the correct one, and Trump is either bluffing about the recording altogether, or the recording would confirm that Trump lied about what transpired.
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The applicant, Andriy P. Pasishnik, an executive at the state oil and gas company, later said he did not have the backing of Mr. Poroshenko or Mr. Kononenko, and said he was just bluffing.
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But that may be a result of a belief among many farmers that the president is just bluffing, trying to get a better deal for all American exporters by making threats on tariff impositions.
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"Two confrontational, nationalistic, and militaristic leaders playing chicken with each other, while the world is watching to see which one will be caught bluffing, or if there will be a hellacious war," Dalio wrote.
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Wicker and Thompson both insist that the blindfolded guards were in little real danger, that the prisoners were bluffing, and that there was no way that they would, in fact, have murdered their hostages.
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The two sides play quite differently: Corporations play a bluffing game, setting up defenses and punishing the Runner for diving too deep while trying to protect their agendas long enough to score them for points.
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"A negotiation strategy that includes bluffing/threats can be successful in a two-party negotiation setup, but is more likely to deliver self-defeating results in a complex system such as global trade," he said.
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Even if Iranians conclude that regime change proponents are bluffing — and past American hints at a possible military intervention in Venezuela have so far come to nothing — sanctions still put the country at severe risk.
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"Two confrontational, nationalistic, and militaristic leaders [are] playing chicken with each other, while the world is watching to see which one will be caught bluffing, or if there will be a hellacious war," he wrote.
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In his sharpest criticism yet of his old workplace, John Bolton suggested the Trump administration is bluffing about stopping North Korea's nuclear ambitions — and soon might need to admit publicly that its policy failed badly.
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The second is that Davis is bluffing—either in a misguided attempt to let the public know how fully Cohen is jumping ship or an even more misguided attempt to try and butter up federal investigators.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Nerves are fraying in the Brexit talks, negotiators are trying to work out if the other side is bluffing about walking away, and a ticking clock is fast narrowing British options come March 2019.
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Always an epicurean before he was a stoic, Hemingway is at his worst when he is boasting and bluffing and ruling the roost, at his best when he is bending and breaking and writing down breakfast.
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"Two confrontational, nationalistic, and militaristic leaders playing chicken with each other, while the world is watching to see which one will be caught bluffing, or if there will be a hellacious war," Dalio wrote in August.
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The whole website echoes with the same bleak, bottomless bluffing as Kirk Van Houten showing Homer Simpson around his depressing bachelor pad, and the vibe throughout is somewhere between abject and just kind of bummed-out.
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Through toughness and clever bluffing, she removes him from the drabness and anti-Semitism of Vilna to a life of comfort in Nice, always, always reminding him that his mission is to become a great writer.
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REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov Nerves are fraying in the Brexit talks, negotiators are trying to work out if the other side is bluffing about walking away, and a ticking clock is fast narrowing British options come March 2019.
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If the players' association feel that the league is bluffing and is fully planning on going to the Olympics either way, it would be financially foolish for the players to accept the deal and extend the CBA.
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So we'd be bluffing if we said we were shocked to hear that the new version of the classic, the Facial Spray With Aloe, Cucumber, and Green Tea, has been flying off Ulta shelves at record speed.
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"North Korea seems to be trying to tell the world that their repeated recent threats about launching nuclear strikes on the U.S. are not bluffing," Uk Yang, a North Korea expert at Korea Defense and Security Forum.
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At the same time, Kudlow was downplaying worries that the United States was about to enter into a trade war with China—and strongly hinting that Trump was bluffing about slapping $100 billion in tariffs on China.
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Far from being an invisible presence in his narrative, Reed is frequently the star of it: bluffing his way past guards, being threatened with assault by suspicious demonstrators, narrowly avoiding being shot by soldiers against a wall.
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"She has told me that for the first few years she definitely thought it was bluffing, but as we got closer to the wedding and especially after she got engaged, she realized I was serious," said Weinstock.
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Backgammon, he says, has a certain purity: It doesn't rely on bluffing, like poker, but because it incorporates dice, there's an element of chance; you can't plan your moves out in advance, like you can with chess.
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President Trump was bluffing when he tweeted that he knows the successor to White House counsel Don McGahn, and instead he is vacillating about new legal leaders as he girds for open warfare with Democrats and Robert Mueller.
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The Administration became convinced that Netanyahu, after years of threatening to use force against Iran, was bluffing, that he was really trying to goad the Americans into taking a harder line and even launching strikes of their own.
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Mr Trump is betting that Iranian leaders are bluffing when they say that the narrow, time-limited nuclear weapons freeze they grudgingly agreed with America and other world powers some three years ago is their best and final offer.
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Democrats call the Republicans' bluff Democrats call the Republicans' bluff Democrats are about to find out if Republican senators were bluffing when they said they'd exercise the nuclear option to get Judge Neil Gorsuch confirmed to the Supreme Court.
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He hoped, in this gambit, to benefit from two factors: the idea that people would assume that no President would take the risk of bluffing on such a matter and his belief that he could get away with anything.
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LG: Intel is now not communicating very well, it's still unclear whether or not Intel just doesn't have the same information as Microsoft, or whether Intel is bluffing a little bit because ultimately this could come down on them.
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"Two confrontational, nationalistic, and militaristic leaders playing chicken with each other, while the world is watching to see which one will be caught bluffing, or if there will be a hellacious war," Dalio wrote in August 2017 on LinkedIn.
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Mr Johnson claims he is working flat-out to get a better withdrawal agreement from the EU. Yet in his flailing performance before MPs this week, like an undergraduate bluffing his way through a viva, he was found out.
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French President Emmanuel Macron was tougher, saying the two sides had not yet completed even half of the work on the financial settlement and accusing Britain of "bluffing" by using the media to suggest there could be no deal.
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Because showers happen every day, and because they are so fundamentally unimportant, they are the perfect forum for dragging these little tyrants of preference into the light and forcing them to confess that they have, all along, been bluffing.
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The two dueled in a hilarious game of "Box of Lies," and while bluffing their way through the game, Baldwin reverted into his pursed-lip caricature of the president — and even managed to throw in a political jab about deportations.
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The leak of the contents of one executive's emails does not necessarily indicate the hackers have compromised HBO's entire email network, something the network denies—and since the hackers are demanding an undisclosed amount of money, they could be bluffing.
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Liam Fox, the international trade secretary, has warned that Britain is not "bluffing" about being prepared to abandon trade talks, while David Davis, the Brexit secretary, has said there is "lots going on" to prepare for a "no deal" outcome.
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Theresa May's chief Brexit negotiator has suggested the prime minister is bluffing when she threatens MPs with the possibility of Britain leaving the EU without a deal if they fail to support a revised exit treaty, it was claimed last night.
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"I think Ferrari are bluffing and that they are a lot quicker than they are showing," said the Mercedes driver, who won 10 races last year but still lost out in the title battle to now-retired team mate Nico Rosberg.
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QL Score: -5 Bryan: When Carol started cutting through her bonds with the rosary, I felt an incredible sense of relief: yes, after all of the back and forth with Alicia Witt's character, she had just been bluffing after all.
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To the contrary, I think their supposed reservations are basically a tell—you know, the subtle tip-off a bad gambler does when he's bluffing—that lets the rest of us know just what actually matters in major college sports.
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Richard Thompson Ford is a professor of law at Stanford Law School and the author of several books, including Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality and The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse.
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It also wasn't surprising that people immediately started pushing the mechanic to its limits, with PCGamesN reporting that, after trying to repeatedly get their save deleted, Ninja Theory was actually bluffing and the warning was nothing more than a trick.
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To appreciate Trump's full ignorance of policy details and tactics for bluffing through, I encourage you to read the transcript of either his interview with the Washington Post editorial board or his foreign policy interview with the New York Times.
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We deplore this stuff, in theory, but under the right circumstances we are entranced by the audacity — at the hacker's skill of spotting the weak spots in the systems that bind the rest of us, and bluffing straight through them.
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It is unclear whether that message is making it through to Mr. Xi — or whether he has chosen to ignore it after concluding that Mr. Trump is bluffing and that the United States will back off, as it has in the past.
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More recently, however, Trump seems to have had a habit of making a different play — of bluffing that he has tapes that will supposedly prove him right in some dispute or another, in an effort to get his opponent to back down.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Companies are not bluffing when they threaten to move business from London due to uncertainty over Britain's departure from the European Union, mayor Sadiq Khan said on Monday, adding a transition deal would allow them to make plans more securely.
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As for Russia's Skyfall, expert observers suspect that Russia is either bluffing and that the weapon's stated development is a deception or that Russia is covering up its failings as it tries to get a Cold War-era bad idea to fly.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - As influential voices within the U.S. business community warn China that U.S. President Donald Trump is serious about tough action over Beijing's trade practices, there is little sense of a crisis in the Chinese capital, where officials think he is bluffing.
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The weeks after Trump's announcement on tariffs were unsettling for Cobb, as he tried to cope with the impact of the new tax and guess at the intentions of a president who seemed to be intent on escalation but also quite possibly bluffing.
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The SEC is reportedly in touch with Tesla to confirm that Musk's tweets were factual — in other words, that Tesla is legitimately considering going private — as he could have violated federal securities laws if he was merely bluffing or speaking off the cuff.
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Yet the swift and severe economic impact of closing the border -- on industries like auto manufacturing, retail and fresh produce, and on US exports to a top trading partner, Mexico -- could finally stay the President's hand and suggests he could be bluffing again.
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Here's a behind-the-scenes look at the "joyously nasty" Wolff, and some thoughts on the flattery and bluffing that got him such up-close access to the Trump crew — he didn't play by the unspoken rules of traditional "access journalism," for starters.
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They are gambling that the governments of Britain, France and Germany are bluffing when they say the current deal is so much better than no deal at all that they will strive to keep it alive, even after their American ally has walked away.
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" An article in the South Korean newspaper JoongAng Ilbo compared the United States to North Korea, asking, "Like North Korea, which is often accused of displaying fake missiles during military parades, is the United States, too, now employing 'bluffing' as its North Korea policy?
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Assuming Evans isn't bluffing, there will be a storytelling opportunity for Captain America to pass his leadership of the team to another captain who happens to share many of his defining qualities (time displacement, an outsider to the core group, a US service member).
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If you're wondering, the Mexican president knew that Trump was bluffing because the United States was already imposing the maximum of each type of customs duty on Mexican goods that we were legally permitted to levy under NAFTA and the WTO agreements, under existing conditions.
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By appearing willing to accept No Deal — an economically bad outcome for all sides — the UK government hopes to win concessions from the EU, which, the theory goes, won't be on offer if it seems that Johnson is bluffing, or may be blocked in Parliament.
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Finally, there's the possibility that Cohen was lying all along about having important Trump-Russia information — that he was bluffing to try to get Trump cash, and that now that the bluff has failed, he's just decided to stop putting out these false stories.
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They want a dramatically lower corporate tax rate (Axios reports that Mnuchin and Cohn "aren't bluffing when they say they want to slash the corporate tax rate to 15% from the current 35%") and to let companies deduct all their investments immediately, instead of over time.
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Determining when and how to bluff separates adequate players from the truly transcendental, and bluffing is all about imperfect-information gaming, since it involves predicting or guessing at the unpredictable behaviors of an opponent who has a potentially completely different set of information from your own.
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While Mr. Putin may have been bluffing about these weapons, as some experts suggested, he cleverly focused on a vulnerability of American-designed defenses: They are based on the assumption that enemy nuclear missiles fly high and can be destroyed well before they reach their targets.
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Trump and his advisers may believe China is just bluffing, and that Beijing knows its economy is so intertwined with that of the US that it would literally be too costly for the country to escalate tensions with the US. That could be a catastrophic misjudgment.
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Whether Mr. Trump is truly prepared or bluffing, presidential advisers, military officials and experts whom the White House has consulted leave little doubt in conversations that the Trump administration is confronting North Korea's nuclear program with a different set of assumptions than its three immediate predecessors.
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So, I don&apost know if this is just bluster, bluffing that he feels dissatisfied that in the negotiations he&aposs had with members of the Senate that they haven&apost given him more or said to them is going to get what he wants for his wall.
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Lester, who chose not to throw to first base in Game 1 even when he clearly had caught Francisco Lindor cheating off the bag, let Davis get a huge lead on the first pitch to Jason Kipnis, but Davis wisely anticipated a pitch-out and was merely bluffing.
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Despite the glaringly obvious clues pointing to her jealous husband, no Roy Grace mystery can be resolved without one of the detective's intense interviews, which he compares to "games of poker," having perfected the fine art of bluffing, along with the unnerving skill of reading a subject's body language.
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There's also rampant speculation that Musk, who is not exactly known for his wise judgement on what to tweet or not, was bluffing and all of Tesla's announcements since have been an attempt to weasel their way out of a bad situation that could get the company in trouble with regulators.
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"It's a little bit of a poker game they're playing there because it seems like she's bluffing and he reads her bluff, but she wanted him to read her bluff — this was all part of her game," showrunner David Benioff observed in a behind-the-scenes video from the finale.
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Douglas Berman, a professor who specializes in criminal law and criminal sentencing at Ohio State University, said "the defendant has an absolute right to cross examine the witnesses against them," but prosecutors could be bluffing about what they have on Chapo in order to make him take a plea deal.
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The former Chicago Bulls star, who considers both President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to be his friends, says he thinks the two world leaders are pretty similar — and are bluffing in their heated rhetoric about their readiness for a potential nuclear conflict that could kill millions.
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The Secret Service, which is responsible for protecting senior U.S. officials including the president and vice president, former presidents and visiting heads of state, came under scrutiny last week after a Chinese woman carrying electronic devices was charged with bluffing her way through security checks at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
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Poker offers some unique challenges not seem in more "simple" games: There are multiple players, and each player only has limited information, allowing for bluffing and other advanced strategies (unlike chess where a bot could, with enough computing power, theoretically calculate every possible outcome of every move their opponent makes with absolute certainty).
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"We're not bluffing, this is real, and it is a serious threat," Senate Majority Whip John CornynJohn CornynThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Democrats keen to take on Cornyn despite formidable challenges The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape MORE (R-Texas) told Politico.
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But President Richard Nixon forged a new conservative majority by bluffing Justice Abe Fortas off the court with a smear campaign, causing a shift in the court's balance that has persisted down to the present day with the Senate's refusal to give Judge Merrick Garland, Barack Obama's choice for the court, a hearing.
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TUNE IN MONDAY: Chris Wallace to conduct exclusive interview with Putin , after Trump summit Despite anger in London, Trump finds support in Britain's pro-Brexit working-class towns FOX News Poll: Trump not tough enough on Russia, approval of Mueller down Piers Morgan on Brits protesting Trump: 'Obama's tenure was massively overhyped' DEMS BLUFFING OVER ICE?
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The question of whether Prime Minister Boris Johnson has a new plan to reach a deal with the EU or is bluffing to run out the clock before an abrupt exit goes to the heart of the political crisis in London, where opponents of an exit with no deal have seized control of parliamentary business to stop it.
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Then you made a very intensive effort to learn how to read and write, but explain to me what it's like kind of going through life hiding the fact that you can't read, bluffing your way through situations that would require you to be able to read, like just even sitting down in a restaurant and ordering off a menu.
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The question for Democrats is whether the White House is bluffing on its border wall demands so that the administration can later tell Republican voters that they pushed as hard as they could to get the money, particularly with so little to show legislatively for Mr. Trump's first 100 days besides the confirmation of a Supreme Court justice, Neil M. Gorsuch.
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White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Sunday that President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE isn't bluffing in his threats to impose tariffs against China.
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Stocks were vulnerable to a sell-off on trade headlines because some are over-valued at a time when the U.S. Federal Reserve is raising rates, said Jim Paulsen, chief investment strategist at The Leuthold Group in Minneapolis "Trade is not as big an issue for us as overseas economies and it's easy to believe Trump is bluffing because he does a lot of it." said Paulsen.
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By contrast, President Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's handling of the partial government shutdown and its denouement have been widely perceived as a "humiliating defeat" and an admission that he may have been bluffing all along.
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Much more probable are severe restrictions on the Chinese operations of America's global-leading companies like Apple and General Motors in their Chinese operations, as Apple generates 21% of its revenues in China, while GM sells more automobiles in China than it does in the U.S. Many business leaders and stock investors are betting that the President is bluffing, and will back away from his threats.
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And an increasingly unstable global geopolitical environment, characterized by power grabs by rising developing nations such as China and resurgent giants such as Russia, is challenging US leverage more than at any time since World War II. Trump's disappointments dim the mystique central to his political appeal as an instinctive deal maker who can get his way through bluffing, charm and lightning business reflexes.
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As we saw during the AHCApocalypse last week, he enjoys bluffing as a political strategy — as when he threatened to force the House to hold a doomed vote on the American Health Care Act so that everyone in the caucus would have to go on record as a friend or a foe, only to demur at the last minute when Paul Ryan pointed out to him that this would create huge political problems for his members.
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Iran's government has rejected that idea, and President Hassan Rouhani has insisted that one man cannot repeal the deal or change its terms READ MORE: Iran warns Trump not to wreck nuclear agreement Historically frosty ties Some of those attending Friday prayers said they believe Trump is bluffing: "This new president Trump, he is making a lot of promises, but I am sure he will not stick with them," said a man who told us he works at Iran's central bank.
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Trump hits Turkey with sanctions over military operation against Kurds in SyriaTrump's latest conspiracy theory is that the Kurds released ISIS prisoners to pull the US back into SyriaTrump suggested the Kurds were releasing ISIS prisoners, but US officials say Turkish-backed forces are actually doing thisUS officials are considering pulling nuclear weapons from Turkey, effectively severing the US-Turkey allianceTrump thought Turkey was bluffing and would never actually invade Syria, report saysTrump has delivered what Russia wants in Syria — at zero cost — and 'Putin likely can't believe his luck'
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