But it will take more to burnish the firm's brand.
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Most great athletes embellish and burnish stories about their past.
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Qassem Soleimani to burnish his credentials as commander in chief.
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Swing vote politicians are often looking to burnish a moderate image.
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It allowed her to burnish her reputation as a compassionate conservative.
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Qatar has already sought to use football to burnish its image.
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But research over the past decades has helped burnish their reputation.
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That did not hamper her ability to burnish her national credentials.
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They should be trying to burnish is instead of eroding it.
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She has also sought to burnish her credentials with foreign appearances.
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This final stage is a chance to burnish yourself as a candidate.
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Ferrero has worked to burnish Nutella's reputation in the US, as well.
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It's an opportunity for President Xi Jinping to burnish his diplomatic credentials.
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Both built newsrooms to burnish their legitimacy and nab even more dollars.
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Starboard has been seeking to burnish its credentials in the pharmaceutical sector.
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Then he must burnish his conservative credentials and deliver his governance principles.
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Its shape and burnish call to mind a cloche, hiding a surprise.
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Mr. Schroder's film seems expressly designed to further burnish Mr. Ingels's reputation.
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Forget diplomatic rationale: Mr. Trump needs their acceptance to burnish his ego.
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He does it intentionally to burnish his tough-guy, common man image.
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An occasional quote from a high-profile associate helped burnish the myth.
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Five immense, specially built vertical ovens will crisp and burnish the ducks.
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A yolk, broken on top, gives it a burnish in the oven.
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He does not need an Indy 20183 victory to burnish his reputation.
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The familiar logos of the vanquished seemed to burnish the Astros' achievement.
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I even wanted the usually silky ricotta cheese to burnish and caramelize.
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Monday's decision marks the institution's latest attempt to burnish its environmental credentials.
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The remarkable story of the brothers' lives helped to burnish that image.
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But it offers little chance for Trump to burnish his foreign policy credentials.
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If Mr Abe wants to burnish his legacy, he had better get moving.
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Going green lets companies burnish their environmental credentials with investors, workers and customers.
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To burnish the Jackson legend, Trump distorts and manipulates the record of history.
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"We both know this will do nothing but burnish your reputation," she says.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, aiming to burnish their progressive credentials in a competitive primary.
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Hyperbole is not unexpected from a government keen to burnish its liberalising credentials.
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The Wells Fargo scandal involving phony accounts helped burnish the CFPB's watchdog brand.
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Lucky people no longer require columnists to burnish their progress; they have Instagram.
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If looking for a way to burnish their credentials in this field while
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Reporters can burnish their credentials before heading off to gigs as talking heads.
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At the same time, Trump has worked to burnish a pro-Israel image.
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He says Trump would be ready if given another chance to burnish his legacy.
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The downfall of boxing as a sport only served to burnish the Ali years.
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Indeed, the forum itself seemed designed to burnish its credentials as respectable—even virtuous.
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They are spectacles, intended to ignite enthusiasm and burnish the Facebook and Google brands.
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By landing the investors, Sechin will further burnish his standing within Russia's ruling elite.
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Therefore, seems to me we need to burnish the idea she will bring change.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. presidential trips are an opportunity to project power and burnish statesmanship.
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He was brought on last July in an attempt to burnish the president's image.
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He took a trip to Israel and Egypt to burnish his foreign policy credentials.
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It may also cast shade on the image Cassini worked a lifetime to burnish.
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Each had decided on his or her brand and worked assiduously to burnish it.
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May, but who has in recent months tried to burnish his hard-Brexit credentials.
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His visit served to burnish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's credentials as an international player.
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Iranian officials saw the approaching Arbaeen festival as a way to burnish Iran's image.
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For Collins, Murkowski and Romney, seeking witnesses could help burnish their independent bona fides.
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A successful auction could burnish his legacy and may bolster his struggling political party.
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Success will burnish his reputation after the early tumultuous months of the Trump presidency.
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Meanwhile, Deutsche Boerse has been trying to cultivate local ties to burnish its image.
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This would burnish the reputation of cryptocurrencies, with more and more companies trusting them.
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The contractors were hired to burnish Verma's personal brand and provide "strategic communications" support.
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Trump also wanted to use fake identities to burnish his sexual reputation and avoid responsibility.
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Perryman said sanctions-led scarcity would further burnish the appeal of high-grade Russian names.
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It is hard to see how it will burnish his reputation among Tory party members.
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By offering degrees online, universities are making it easier for professionals to burnish their skills.
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Cynics note that the crisis may help Theresa May's potential successors burnish their leadership credentials.
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What this God really wants is adulation — and to burnish the record of his accomplishments.
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Or simply a public relations decision to burnish a brand tarnished by years of protests?
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But even then, they usually tell only carefully vetted tales that burnish the SEAL image.
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And the letters he saw, far from damaging Baldwin's reputation, would burnish it, he said.
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But that was crude regal propaganda, intended to burnish a child's ego and embarrass Tyrion.
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For Nikki R. Haley, the ambassadorship is an opportunity to burnish her foreign policy credentials.
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They got his services pro bono, and he got the chance to burnish his legacy.
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Kirill is trying to burnish his image at home after corruption scandals swirling around church property.
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The company has tried a series of rebranding moves over the years to burnish its reputation.
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Promare follows Galo Thymos, a cocky, fearless member of Burning Rescue, an anti-Burnish rescue team.
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Such trips are often used by senior officials to burnish their international credentials ahead of promotions.
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Since last year's conference, Trump has made several moves designed to burnish a pro-Israel image.
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"I think he's just trying to burnish his image in the Trump White House," said Sen.
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"Their single goal will be to burnish their reputation," Tim O'Brien predicts of the Trump administration.
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Burnish makes the comment, "They would make a nice belt," when they are presented to him.
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Their corporate sponsors outsource work, crowdsource innovation, and burnish their reputations while concealing their business goals.
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His dayslong Asian trip has offered opportunities to burnish his legacy, particularly on fighting climate change.
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The deal also was an early effort by Mr. Schwarzman to burnish his reputation in China.
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Jarvis often uses his social media accounts to burnish his reputation as a jet-setting dealer.
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These are stories that burnish the audience's progressive credentials without really testing them against formidable opposition.
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Andrew Cuomo can burnish his eco-credentials by taking strides toward a fully electric transportation sector.
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And in Silicon Valley, other tech firms began exploiting the outcry to burnish their own brands.
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Mr. Poroshenko might also burnish his presidential campaign by looking like a tough leader challenging Russia.
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The international gathering could burnish Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's domestic image as an international statesman.
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For Mr. Putin, the meeting was a way to burnish his reputation as a global leader.
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But having their support could help burnish his reputation as an innovator and an admired entrepreneur.
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To many, his vulgar jokes only burnish his bona fides as a man of the people.
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Mr. Najib has tried to burnish his reputation by reaching out to the Muslim Malay base.
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Moreover, it will deeply burnish the anti-business bias for which the state is becoming famous.
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The uncharitable read is that Ivanka's dabbling in this subject to burnish her image, and nothing more.
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Love him or hate him, that would certainly burnish his legend-in-his-own-mind negotiating skills.
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High school students hoping to burnish their transcripts with extracurricular activities can expect to pay even more.
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It is wonderful for CEOs who can burnish their brands by embracing the latest fashionable good cause.
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The view in Berlin is that Mr Renzi's belligerence is intended to burnish his image at home.
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It will have a chance to burnish its credentials when it hosts 10th-ranked Oklahoma on Saturday.
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In the mid-1960s, Henry Ford II decided to burnish his company's reputation by getting into racing.
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Sanchez, whose popularity has been declining, may hope the conference will burnish his international and environment credentials.
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Some tech firms saw Google's crisis of conscience as an opportunity to burnish their own patriotic credentials.
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No amount of ads featuring Mr Iacocca badmouthing foreign brands could burnish the firm's ageing line-up.
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Not only would that promote global security, but it could help burnish Mr. Obama's foreign-policy record.
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He used his farewell address to defend his brief record and burnish a legacy of dubious accomplishment.
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The public scrape with the billionaire, Harris advisers said, can only help to burnish Harris' progressive credentials.
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As governor, Mr. Edwards accepted invitations to the White House, eager to burnish his image with conservatives.
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It's a game changer — a brand play by Samsung to burnish its image as an innovation leader.
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YOU LOOK FOR COMPANIES WITH A CERTAIN HIDDEN JEWEL A CERTAIN WAY YOU CAN BURNISH THAT JEWEL.
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For Ms. Haley, an ambitious politician, the ambassadorship is an opportunity to burnish her foreign policy credentials.
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Still, the historical Dow stat does further burnish the confidence of some who are motivated by momentum.
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And he is likely to want to burnish his centrist bona fides with an eye on 2020.
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Wood Furniture: Once a year Burnish tables, bureaus and the like using just a few time-tested tips!
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" The ad also tries to burnish Rubio's credentials, telling viewers that the Florida senator is a "recognized leader
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For the 36-year-old William, it marks a high-profile visit that could burnish his international credentials.
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Certainly it seems that the event will be used by Amazon to burnish its own cutting-edge reputation.
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Mr Trump's effusiveness about his friendship with Mr Kim is also likely to burnish the dictator's image internationally.
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Almost 70, he has perhaps just weeks before retirement and appears to be trying to burnish his legacy.
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Experts said he was trying to change his positions abroad in order to burnish his image and authority.
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We burnish our brand and brag about your work and ours on Facebook and Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram.
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So, they started a modest advertising campaign to try to burnish the reputation of the Koch Industries name.
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Mr. Manafort's deputy, Richard Gates, reportedly also oversaw a lobbying campaign in Washington to burnish Ukraine's image there.
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Politicians lie to puff themselves up, to burnish their résumés and to cover up misdeeds, including sexual affairs.
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These lawmakers want to be seen as making the bill more extreme to burnish their conservative bona fides.
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A well-executed one could burnish their image and turn voters against Republicans who side with the president.
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PROMOTING TECH In 2014, the government started French Tech, a sprawling program to burnish the country's tech credentials.
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Will this be enough to burnish the court's reputation, and answer the charge that it has been biased?
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It's fitting that he did it not only to advance Trump's interests, but also to burnish his own.
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Is it a show of strength to burnish his position with Guterres as he discusses his political ambitions?
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"Conclusive" science gets more media coverage, which can burnish a researcher's reputation, which can lead to greater opportunities.
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He suggested he was merely seeking to "burnish his credentials" with the Trump team, the Mueller report says.
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Other LME users believed the LME launched the electronic trial in an attempt to burnish its credibility with regulators.
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This rollout will not burnish China's scientific reputation since the research community expects to be part of the conversation.
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Rather, it was contrived to burnish the mainstream media claim to political neutrality, and the neutrality of parent companies.
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Those supporters want to relish a victory over opponents; presidents want to burnish political capital by broadening their appeal.
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Local Democrats, eager to burnish the state's liberal credentials in 2018, vehemently disagree with that vision of the future.
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Some Republicans think Obama's desire to burnish his legacy before leaving office will make him more amenable to compromise.
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The beach culture of Rio, where watching beautiful bodies is a kind of spectator sport, helped burnish his legend.
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Mr. Trump acted for his own sexual gratification, despite his marriage, and to, in his mind, burnish his image.
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One article concluded that some local officials were falsifying data to burnish G.D.P. numbers and many other economic indicators.
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That will help burnish his image before next year's presidential election, when he is expected to seek another term.
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The St Petersburg International Economic Forum is used by Moscow to burnish the country's image as an investment destination.
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Ms. Sun said she wanted to travel to the United States to burnish her image in China and abroad.
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His latest attempt to acquire all of Sky was part of a push to burnish his company's global reach.
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Documentary portraits of this type often incorporate testimonials from affable, encouraging experts who smilingly help burnish the subject's reputation.
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Finally, Rosenstein announced his resignation this week with a sycophantic letter to Trump, evidently meant to burnish Trump's image.
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Despite his rhetoric, Trump will ultimately want an agreement that will burnish his credentials as the world's best dealmaker.
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The country has sought to burnish its spiritual image by promoting itself as the birthplace of Buddhism and yoga.
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The video seeks to burnish Klobuchar's centrist bona fides and takes aim at the current political rancor in Washington.
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I try to avoid cooked up, ephemeral books that are meant to burnish the appeal of celebrities or politicians.
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The backdrop was chosen to burnish his image as the candidate who would revive France, especially for young people.
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There will be strong pressure on Democrats up in 2018 to burnish their bipartisan credentials and participate in legislating.
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The candidates' role is to burnish their own images, while making clear just how bad their individual opponents are.
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I try to avoid cooked up, ephemeral books that are meant to burnish the appeal of celebrities or politicians.
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Among those companies was Davis Manafort Partners, a consulting firm that Yanukovych used to win elections and burnish his reputation.
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It could also burnish its image with new lines of business as it prepares to go public likely next year.
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My goodness, Presidential candidates for decades have been making overseas trips before the election to burnish their foreign policy credentials.
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Mr. Obama is increasingly competing with the presidential candidates for public attention, even as he looks to burnish his legacy.
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On March 28, Facebook moved to banish data brokers from its platform as part of efforts to burnish its image.
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Mr. Trump tried to burnish his image as a statesman last week with a hastily arranged trip to Mexico City.
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The millions of dollars that MbS has spent in Washington to burnish his image have not served him well.Israel-Palestine
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Often he seems content to burnish the myths and personality cults that color so much popular thinking about the internet.
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To burnish his credentials, on ads and business cards, Howard Seidler appended an alphabet of suffixes to his name: Esq.
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But a U.S. withdrawal from the deal would give China more opportunity to burnish its image as a global leader.
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Switzerland's largest city, however, is gambling on an ambitious development known as Europaallee to burnish the neighborhood's style and reputation.
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Critics say the LDP mostly wants to burnish its image overseas before the Olympics, with an eye to luring tourists.
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Ms. Loeffler, a prominent political donor and political newcomer, has spent the weeks since trying to burnish a conservative record.
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And they all used their time on stage Tuesday night to burnish their images as would-be Donald Trump slayers.
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The Chinese startup's growth into one of the world's biggest e-commerce companies has helped burnish Son's tech investor credentials.
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A report by the federal auditor into government spending next year will either burnish or batter its reputation for rectitude.
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After his 2008 conviction, Mr. Epstein took great pains to burnish his reputation — and the foundation played a key role.
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Just as appearing to stand up to the authorities can burnish corporate reputations, seeming to kowtow to them can do harm.
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Christopher Isherwood's 1939 novel "Goodbye to Berlin," which became the basis for the musical and movie "Cabaret," helped burnish the mythology.
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If he wants to win the nomination rather than simply burnish his reputation, Buttigieg needs a game-changer in Iowa. Sen.
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As Lyft continues to burnish its image as the kinder, gentler alternative to bad-boy rival Uber, its growth is accelerating.
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But Paul Williams, a political scientist at Griffith University, said the inquiry would likely burnish Morrison's image as a caring leader.
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"They are absolutely thrilled with our ability to help burnish and validate their assertions about the strength of what they're offering."
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Putting more passengers in the air could free its already clogged highways and burnish the city's cutting-edge image of itself.
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Water injection appeared again in the 1980s in some turbocharged Formula One cars, which did much to burnish turbocharging's public appeal.
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At the time, Christie believed that securing the backing of Democratic officials would burnish his national reputation, according to trial testimony.
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What Mr. Obama has done here is unusual — asking someone else to burnish a legacy of which he is personally proud.
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The Australian novelist Gerald Murnane has become known for works of difficult genius, and his latest will only burnish that reputation.
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The riveting fighthe would analyze two nights later in Brooklyn between Jarrett Hurd and Austin Trout would only burnish that proclamation.
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That's when they hope to be in Durham, New Hampshire, for the Frozen Four with the chance to burnish their dynasty.
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Throughout his half-century of practice, Mr. Boies has shown an almost unerring instinct for picking clients who burnish his reputation.
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It was his predecessor, Barack Obama, who gave MBS a pass to burnish his martial credentials by waging war in Yemen.
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That commitment to art cinema — and specifically to the international auteurs who burnish its standing — is only part of the story.
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This win helped burnish Klobuchar's credibility with rural and lean-Republican voters and will likely be the backbone of her campaign.
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More likely, the administration is trying to burnish its tough-on-trade image after criticism of several trade concessions to China.
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In our private and our professional lives, we're prodded to burnish our images, to advertise our assets, to sell, sell, sell.
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Intangible assets like a company's brand image, which legions of public relations professionals work to burnish, could be counted as productivity.
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The way they've been mythologized has really done them a disservice, and I'm trying to kind of burnish them a little bit.
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Mr Lee is trying to burnish his credentials to be the face of Samsung for the next three decades, says Mr Chung.
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But they all serve to burnish his image as a volatile young man in a rush to get things done his way.
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Primary challengers have cast McConnell as a symbol of Washington's dysfunction, and sitting senators have bashed him to burnish their conservative credentials.
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It may also help burnish India's credentials in social sector spending, which lags even other developing nations, HSBC said in a report.
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For the moment, the suspicions alone have imperiled Saudi Arabia's carefully crafted plans to reform its economy and burnish its image abroad.
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He is in the process of setting up an NGO to provide legal assistance to officers and burnish the police's image nationally.
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If wading knee-deep into the movie awards season is intended to further burnish its credentials, then "Manchester by the Sea" delivers.
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As ecology minister, De Rugy has helped burnish Macron's environmental credentials at a time France is defending the Paris climate pact abroad.
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Carving out thermal – along with less significant coking coal production - would burnish environmental credentials more than a February decision to cap output.
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The military has recently sought to burnish the image of the prince, a partnership that may also have cemented the generals' power.
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However, keeping these secrets became harder and harder as Schneiderman continued to burnish his reputation as a hero of the #MeToo movement.
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And he can burnish his legacy in the bargain, at the same time he makes good on his past promises to Dreamers.
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That would burnish the case for independence, still the long-term goal of the Scottish National Party that runs the Scottish government.
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"That I, like many of those he targeted, was a fellow Indian only served to burnish his tough-guy aura," he wrote.
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They're doing things like volunteering in hurricane-stricken areas, taking extra classes or honing their sports skills to burnish their college applications.
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If Mr. Biden, as Mr. Byron suggests, was also coming to Kentucky to burnish his own fortunes, there may be good reason.
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That and similar work helped burnish the career of the lead author, Brian Wansink, director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab.
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Mr. Cuomo has downplayed the challenge in recent days, even as his political operation has busily sought to burnish his progressive credentials.
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More likely, though, he'll end up slinking off to wherever McMaster and Rex Tillerson hang out to quietly burnish his own reputation.
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Some media outlets have even capitalized on it, using the president's antipathy to the press to burnish their reputations and sell subscriptions.
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All the things that make Texas Texas — the state's flag, shape, food, books, music, politics and even chain stores — burnish the brand.
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BAD REPUTATION The reputation belongs to the pioneering rock frontwoman Joan Jett, of course, and this documentary is here to burnish it.
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The food wasn't memorable, but we enjoyed it just the same, dining in the low light that gave everything a lazy burnish.
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Success would not only be remunerative; it would help burnish Deutsche Bank's credentials as a serious challenger to the Wall Street elite.
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The young Mr. Kim, who took over the following year after his father's death, has worked to burnish his own madman credentials.
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There's also something to be gleaned, though, from looking at who exactly Facebook trotted out to burnish its claims of newfound credibility.
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Russian culture is portrayed as a powerful tool of the Kremlin to manipulate American public opinion and burnish the image of Russia.
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Warren's Medium post also laid out a number of other commitments to try to limit big money and burnish her progressive credentials.
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Now it is Mr. Tsipras who faces an election, and he is expected to use the trip to burnish his own image.
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The charge that Facebook did not report the full extent of the complaints it received could undermine its efforts to burnish its reputation.
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The charge that Facebook did not report the full extent of the complaints it received could undermine its drive to burnish its reputation.
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Cory Booker of New Jersey — are considered potential candidates for Democratic nomination in 2020 and will be looking to burnish their national profiles.
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It is one of Russia's most high-profile business events, and Moscow uses it to burnish the country's image as an investment destination.
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The effect for both Rossi and Hülkenberg was to burnish their reputations and give Formula One team owners another look at their talent.
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Before regional elections held on July 21st in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, candidates rushed to burnish their credentials as supporters of the separatist cause.
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The ATF was humiliated by the episode and sought to burnish its image, the show makes out, by focusing on the Branch Davidians.
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What the pan will not do is burnish the oysters to look like the photograph on the package; they will be delicious nonetheless.
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The president has long sought to discredit political rivals and burnish his populist credentials by spreading conspiracy theories alleging plots to unseat him.
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A CBO score showing drops in coverage could burnish their conservative credentials and prove that they're getting government out of the healthcare business.
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Like the Soviet Union, Mr. Putin invested in the Olympics as a means to burnish Russia's international reputation and his own political fortunes.
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Taken together, they burnish California's image as a liberal haven, and as the center of resistance to the agenda of President Trump's administration.
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It was deeply unpopular with unions, and caused a rift inside the Administration, but Clinton wanted to burnish the Democrats' pro-business credentials.
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Vickie Brenner, who was hosting Bennet in her family's home, tried to help people make a familiar connection and burnish his progressive credentials.
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The phrase electrified the German right, which accused the Chancellor of selling out the country in order to burnish her cosmopolitan image abroad.
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The stakes here are more about "getting it right, first," so as to burnish one's reputation as a political analyst or insightful observer.
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A win in a trilogy fight against Diaz would both burnish his reputation and prove a popular pay-per-view draw with fans.
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They have good reason: Buybacks allow them to return cash to shareholders, burnish key measures of financial performance and goose their share prices.
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In its battles with local government, Uber is happy to burnish its green credentials when it thinks doing so will help it curry favor.
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It was also viewed as an attempt by Cornell to burnish its reputation against more-venerated Ivy League counterparts like Harvard, Yale and Princeton.
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But with every single delegate taking on outsized importance, this year could lead a candidate to try to burnish strength on the convention floor.
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"I've spent as much time with Xi Jinping as anybody has," Biden has boasted on campaign trail, hoping to burnish his foreign policy credentials.
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GDC starts this week in San Francisco, and Google is looking to burnish its reputation among game developers with a handful of new announcements.
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As with Warren and the Armed Services panel, his decision was interpreted as an effort to burnish his resume for a potential presidential run.
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While Beijing has been keen to burnish its anti-protectionist credentials in contrast to Trump's "America First" policy, the reality can be quite different.
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Many tastemakers (in fashion, art, interior design) are still gay men — but their gayness is not a secret and may even burnish their credentials.
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Voting for Trump's pick could help burnish a more bipartisan image, but could also risk alienating the base, which is needed to win reelection.
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To burnish its credentials as a technology leader, Mercedes developed a prototype version which drove around 100 kilometers (62 miles) autonomously the same year.
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"Tech entrepreneurs are seeking to burnish their party credentials, gain brownie points," said Duncan Clark, the chairman of Beijing-based investment advisory firm BDA.
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And to further burnish its watchmaking credentials, the house acquired a stake in the business of Romain Gauthier, a highly regarded independent Swiss watchmaker.
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The fair-trade label could burnish Chobani's brand among its large base of health and socially conscious consumers on the East and West Coasts.
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Sometimes they offer pieces of anodyne content designed to burnish the reputation of the United States to newspapers in the countries where they serve.
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In addition to standard consulting work like doling out economic advice and helping burnish Prince Mohammed's image, they have taken on more unconventional assignments.
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But the public-relations apparatus responsible for managing Amazon's relationship with our democracy has continued to undertake information operations designed to burnish its image.
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The situation in Iran is also giving Warren and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg a moment to burnish their foreign policy credentials.
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Kika's Treats ships them frozen, and all they take to achieve a party-ready burnish is about 20 minutes in the oven without defrosting.
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Democratic female veterans are supposed to burnish the party's hawkish cred, not doggedly pursue diplomacy and engagement and call out the American war machine.
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But then "The Restless Wave" seems to be trying to do several things at once: reflect on the past, express gratitude, burnish a legacy.
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The new car has the potential to further burnish GM's image as an engineering powerhouse, which has long been the role of the Corvette.
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It allowed Mr. de Blasio, in one moment, both to burnish his anti-Trump credentials and to wrap himself up in police uniform blue.
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A weak dollar continued to burnish the value of gold, driving the precious metal 0.5% higher on the spot market to $1,536.54 per ounce.
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That will significantly reduce government revenues and handicap the social welfare agenda that was supposed to burnish the image of an increasingly unpopular president.
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She'd told them she was filming an indie movie in Canada — and even sent them bottles of maple syrup to burnish the cover story.
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Colleges have a clear incentive to tamp down their admission rates, which figure in annual ranking surveys and help burnish schools' sought-after status.
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So as a result, the Democratic convention has spent a surprising amount of time attempting to burnish Clinton's credential as militarily tougher than Trump.
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Trump had said she was politically motivated to keep interest rates low to continue to support the economy to burnish then-President Barack Obama's legacy.
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He wants to wean SAA off its state support, which is a major risk to South Africa's credit rating, and burnish his economic reformist credentials.
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But while Jokowi's running mate Ma'ruf might burnish his Muslim credentials, it could also impact the level of support Jokowi receives from more liberal voters.
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Although the PML-N is now casting itself as the persecuted champion of democracy, the party did little to burnish it before Mr Sharif's ousting.
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But de Blasio seems ill-equipped to have it, having clearly pegged this virtually meaningless issue as a way to burnish his feminist bona fides.
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Cuomo, a powerful political operator and son of a former governor, seemed nervous enough about Nixon's candidacy that he scrambled to burnish his progressive credentials.
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Like many of the Jews who wore the kaiser's uniform, he hoped that service in the army would burnish their credentials as loyal German subjects.
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In his thesis, Guadagnino described Demme as a quiet subversive, bringing countercultural values and political criticism onto the screen under the burnish of Hollywood fantasy.
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Dealers for various other car companies have complained less formally about the automakers' pressing them to buy vehicles as a way to burnish sales data.
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The Olympics, Wu said, are a uniform and unifying competition that can help streamline the sport and offer professionals a chance to burnish their reputations.
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Harris used her seat on the powerful Judiciary panel this year to burnish a national image ahead of the 2020 presidential election (The Washington Post).
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At El Vez in Battery Park City, the chef, David LaForce, roasts a pig's head to a glorious burnish, making it the centerpiece for dinner.
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The annual event, the 14th of its kind, is used by Putin to burnish his leadership credentials and send messages to foreign allies and foes.
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But it was among the most decorated, amassing awards and rapturous reviews and helping Amazon Studios burnish its reputation in the area of original content.
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The exterior is stained a rusty hue; over the decades, as the whooshing trains kick up reddish metallic dust, it will further burnish the building.
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But the time is long gone when we can withhold moral judgment about the human depredations against nature or burnish human predators with cultural relativism.
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As China took off in the modern era, local leaders tried to burnish the city's image and show Wuhan taking part in the country's rise.
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As China took off in the modern era, local leaders tried to burnish the city's image and show Wuhan taking part in the country's rise.
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But others criticized the president for being theatrical, with some saying he was using the senators as a prop to burnish his 100-day record.
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Ms. Lahren started to burnish her reputation as a conservative commentator in her first job out of college, as host on One America News Network.
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Klobuchar also enjoyed a boost as she works to burnish her centrist credentials, leaping 9 points from October when she polled at just 1 percent.
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In Uttar Pradesh, which elects the bulk of India's lawmakers, Congress this year drafted in Gandhi's charismatic sister, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, to burnish its fortunes.
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Those were among a diminished number of corporate events compared with recent years at SXSW — a calculation, perhaps, that music won't automatically burnish a brand.
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Though Reagan, by then president, opposed the holiday, congressional Republicans realized that endorsing the bill could help to burnish their party's civil rights bona fides.
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The humanitarian effort is likely to burnish the reputation of the Israeli military, which is usually viewed as an occupying force and formidable war machine.
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All eyes, however, will be on Mr. Trump and Mr. Kim, both of whom hope to use the meeting to burnish their own personal brands.
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Until this week, 2020 Democrats had largely avoided taking major shots at each other and preferred, instead, to burnish their own credentials or bash President Trump.
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The landmark LGBTQ ruling might not be enough to turn that diplomatic tide, Tsang said, it will burnish Taiwan's reputation as a liberal bastion in Asia.
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It will take more than a well-argued academic paper, however, to burnish the image of an industry neither lender nor borrower deals with by choice.
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He could have sold them off cheaply in a private transaction, or presented them to the Chinese government to burnish his reputation and gain influence there.
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Now, despite the risk of escalation between the nuclear-armed states, the temptation is for him to burnish his image by giving Pakistan another bloody nose.
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Agreement with Macron, a would-be modern-day Bismarck, would likely burnish Trump's not insubstantial sense of self and buy him some much needed international credibility.
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That photo has been unceremoniously splashed across the pages of the German press—and not in an attempt to burnish Kruse's reputation as a footballer stud.
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Tesla has accelerated into the automotive fast-lane by making electric cars that appeal to rich folk keen to burnish their credentials as environmentally aware techies.
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With just five months left in office for Obama, the speech is a chance for him to burnish his legacy on the environment and climate change.
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Lance also voted against the GOP's health-care bill, a decision that has helped to burnish his moderate credentials but could provoke frustration from the right.
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After he got a taste of double-digit poll numbers in 2011, I assumed he'd run, but just to burnish the brand, not torch the party.
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Some see conservatives as mostly seeking to burnish their credentials back home, but members of the House Freedom Caucus say they are focused on results. Rep.
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Wheels Automakers have long worked with shopping-mall-friendly lifestyle brands, global fashion houses and the occasional rap star to burnish or amplify their product messages.
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Trump won't need to burnish his "legacy" as other ex-presidents do, by politely writing their memoirs and launching foundations devoted to eradicating poverty or disease.
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Many opposition sympathizers say Maduro uses dialogue proceedings as stalling mechanisms to burnish the international image of the ruling Socialist Party while avoiding any significant changes.
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Out of view is the scanner, Mac, and printer, which are set up opposite a granite slab where I burnish gold leaf and grind earth pigments.
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The contrast between the two President Bushes — 41 and 43, as they came to call each other — served to burnish the father's reputation in later years.
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But it works perfectly for Ms. Sandberg, the author of "Lean In," which made her very famous and helped burnish her reputation as a management wizard.
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At the same time, he continues to burnish his appeal as an outsider willing to take on the Washington establishment, including those in his own party.
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Mr. Hunter, a former Marine, joined the service after 9/11 and served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, experience that helped burnish his political resume.
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Target also launched more than 25 exclusive brands, such as Goodfellow, a clothing label, and A New Day, a homegoods label, that burnish its trendy image.
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It's an effort to burnish her appeal as a can't-be-bought candidate with deep grassroots support, a point of pride she used to bludgeon Buttigieg.
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But many have asked whether the former defense minister is using his current position to burnish his own legacy and promote a whitewashed version of war.
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The Southeast Asian country is relishing its role as peace maker, seeing it as an opportunity to burnish its international standing and balance it foreign ties.
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Heritage also allows governments to burnish their image and questionable legitimacy, to consolidate their power after civil wars, and to project a false sense of normalcy.
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President Tsai herself has made regular statements in support of the Hong Kong protesters, clearly trying to burnish her anti-Beijing credentials ahead of the January vote.
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They meant well, but they helped Trump burnish his role as developer-in-chief, even as he sells Syrian Kurds and regime opponents down the Euphrates River.
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Well-off children often already use the summer to broaden their minds and burnish their college applications at pricey camps or doing summer jobs found through connections.
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And the longer Kasich stays in the race, the more they get paid, and the more they can use the race to burnish their resumes going forward.
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Walker is already in the final two years of his term in Madison and may be looking for some cabinet experience to burnish his own presidential resume.
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The ZEW survey is the latest in a batch of strong German economic indicators, helping Chancellor Angela Merkel burnish her economic credentials before federal elections on Sept.
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The St Petersburg International Economic Forum is attended by President Vladimir Putin annually and is used by Moscow to burnish the country's image as an investment destination.
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What President Trump can learn from Kennedy and Reagan, though, is that it is possible to burnish a legacy by spending political capital on reducing nuclear risks.
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After all, he has managed to burnish his international credentials at events like the World Economic Forum in Davos, where his activities and speech generated significant attention.
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It, too, has failed to gain much in the way of popular support, but the sinecure at least allowed Huntsman to burnish his reputation as a centrist.
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It's as important a record in the scheme of Drake's ego as a "Mission: Impossible" movie is in the scheme of Tom Cruise's: Burnish that brand, baby.
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In early January, the system offered the governor another chance to burnish his liberal credentials when he announced that SUNY would raise its minimum wage to $15.
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"The idea that I somehow took on health care just because I thought it was fun or it would somehow burnish my legacy is nuts," he said.
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When that debris hits our atmosphere, it will burn up and burnish the night sky in the form of meteors in the predawn hours on May 5.
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The move for an independent church could boost his ratings and burnish his legacy, though opponents call it a dangerous electoral ploy that will inflame social tensions.
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President Vladimir Putin has been promoting entrepreneurism and internationalization in Russian science in attempt to burnish the nation's prestige while also diversifying its stultifying, oil-dependent economy.
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Filmed stranded haplessly on a malfunctioning zipwire, Mr. Johnson took an incident that would have humiliated most other politicians and somehow used it to burnish his appeal.
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In his live-action remake of Disney's "Dumbo," Tim Burton plays with a legacy that he has helped burnish for decades, only to set it gleefully ablaze.
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It makes more sense to read "Siege" less as a news report and more as a rhetorical gambit — a twisted bid to burnish Bannon's anti-establishment legacy.
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Ms. Rodríguez described the decision to revoke Hupecol's permit as political, an opportunity for government officials to burnish their environmental credentials by protecting a popular tourist site.
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He got to burnish pro-Israel credentials popular with his base -- especially evangelical voters who were earlier delighted with his decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
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That the Taliban won the commitment in the Doha talks — which excluded the Afghan government — will burnish its legitimacy as a worthy interlocutor with the United States.
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Ultimately, the capital Hanoi won out -- providing Kim an opportunity not only to meet Trump but also to burnish his diplomatic credentials with the communist Vietnamese government.
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Joining hands with overseas hospitals and medical groups would help burnish its allure ahead of a planned IPO in Hong Kong in the second half of 2018.
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Whether the shot was taken in Ojai is a matter for debate, but regardless, it has helped burnish the town's reputation as a real-life Shangri-La.
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This process has been followed for decades in the pursuit of competitive teams, which burnish a university's reputation, inspire alumni loyalty and often help with fund-raising.
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Hyundai, whose profits have tumbled due to a heavy reliance on low-demand sedans, hopes to burnish its brand image by taking the lead in hydrogen cars.
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In an effort to burnish his ability to work with anyone, though, Biden lamented the loss of "civility" that existed between he and the senators he disagreed with.
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Trump had flirted with presidential runs in the past and some initially saw his campaign as a vanity project meant to indulge his ego and burnish his brand.
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As a result, the glamorous "car show girls" have been replaced by male models, fully dressed and equipped with brushes and cloths to burnish the already gleaming cars.
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But for now, as popular scorn at Juncker's predecessor taking a plum job advising Goldman Sachs on Brexit shows , the first worry is simply to burnish their image.
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Obama on Friday concluded a week-long swing through Asia, with stops on the front end in Nevada, Hawaii and Midway Island meant to burnish his environmental legacy.
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For her part, Clinton has decided to forgo the standard foreign tour as a candidate because her aides feel she doesn't need to burnish her foreign policy credentials.
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Nassar had, at that point, already established his relationship with USA Gymnastics — a résumé booster that helped burnish his reputation at MSU and in the area's gymnastics community.
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Normally, presidents seek to burnish their legacy by designating large tracts of land or swaths of the ocean off limits to development, to be preserved for future generations.
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The CPB's cash pays a big chunk of the monarchy's household expenses; it is also used for provincial developments that have done much to burnish the palace's prestige.
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Fedor's legacy will always be marred by the perception that he was handed circus fights and tomato cans to demolish to burnish his reputation as an invincible force.
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By inflicting significant casualties and "planting its flag" on Israeli territory, even briefly, Hezbollah will burnish its credentials as the only force capable of standing up to Israel.
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Mr. Dmitrichenko said the main point was that he emerged from prison with his dignity intact and hoped that the whole episode would just burnish his audience appeal.
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"He has tried to burnish his political brand as the carrier of a conservative, ideological torch," said Sarah Binder, a professor of political science at George Washington University.
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Russian men frequently receive large bouquets of flowers on their birthday, and Mr. Putin has used the occasion to generate positive publicity and burnish a cult of personality.
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With its black pirate flag and anarchist leanings, it recently gained more seats in Parliament and even more attention, helping to burnish Iceland's image as cool and alternative.
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Walmart, which has faced criticism over low pay and poor working conditions, is also trying to burnish its image while expanding its presence in more upscale markets online.
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"The Other Side of the Wind" has often served either to burnish Welles's legendary status or to further establish what dreary minds like to call his unfulfilled promise.
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This country wouldn't have Carnegie libraries, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Ford Foundation, or the Rockefeller Foundation if very rich men didn't want to burnish their legacies.
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One can think of few better ways to burnish the architect's reputation and seed future interest in his principles than to start young builders early on these sets.
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Supposedly set up to promote democratic reforms in former Soviet states, it was essentially a vehicle to burnish the reputation of one client, Akezhan Kazhegeldin, an ex-K.
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Obama's weeklong trip to Vietnam and Japan is meant to cement the president's "pivot" to Asia, part of his final-year effort to burnish his foreign-policy legacy.
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"Being seen as a mediator in regional disputes can only help burnish China's image," said researchers at the China Africa Research Initiative, a program at Johns Hopkins University.
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Clinton's appearance, in particular, served to both provide Mr. Cuomo with a powerful surrogate to attack Mr. Trump and to simultaneously burnish his résumé with regard to women.
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Her scrutiny of the opioid epidemic, which has raged across her Midwestern state, also offers McCaskill a chance to burnish her credentials on an issue of bipartisan concern.
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In his years as a real estate developer and socialite, Mr. Trump leaned on gossip outlets to burnish his image — and place news items to harm his enemies.
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It was that reputation that propelled Mr. Golden to Congress in 2018, and he has worked to burnish his credentials as an independent-minded fresh face in Washington.
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Those transcripts revealed that the president engaged in contentious conversations with two key U.S. allies and pressed them to make concessions in order to burnish his political image.
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It&aposs an effort to burnish her appeal as a can&apost-be-bought candidate with deep grassroots support, a point of pride she used to bludgeon Buttigieg.
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It galvanizes his supporters, allows him to burnish his tough-guy credentials and often ends -- like the partial government shutdown -- with him spinning an alternative reality of victory.
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The firm may need to burnish its reputation further: in August the European Commission told the Irish government to recover up to €13 billion in unpaid taxes from it.
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In her recollections he's unfailingly romantic and loving, because she's repressing all the bad things, choosing to burnish his memory as a way of processing her grief and guilt.
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It is keen to burnish its international image but has faced new criticism over human rights from the European Parliament since an Italian student murdered in Cairo in February.
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And the fact that Warren and Sanders will also be stage on Tuesday night gives each candidate a chance to burnish the moderate credibility by attacking a top progressive.
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The country has been promoting TCM on the world stage, both as away to burnish its global image and influence, and for a slice of a growing market internationally.
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She now hopes to burnish her credentials by focusing on the bread-and-butter of an economy which has been underperforming that of the United Kingdom as a whole.
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LONDON (Reuters) - London Fashion Week kicked off on Friday, declaring itself fur-free for the first time as an increasing number of designers seek to burnish their ethical credentials.
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It probably seemed a harmless wheeze to burnish your public image when it was put to you by (I presume) an Englishman with a camera and a plausible manner.
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Chris Christie of New Jersey is using the worst kind of demagogy to distract attention from his sagging poll numbers and burnish his reputation as a Trump-style Republican.
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As to the press briefings, they have degraded into schoolyard brawls, with many in the press looking more to burnish their confrontational street cred than to elicit worthwhile information.
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He also would not have started their preseason game Saturday night against San Francisco, an opportunity to burnish his improbable candidacy in what is an odd little quarterback derby.
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But these days, Mr. Obama is increasingly using the letters in his travels across the country to try to burnish his record and add more emotion to his message.
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Image consultants say she has helped create a softer, more approachable image for Kim that has aided him as he seeks to burnish his credentials as a world leader.
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Despite considerable investment in new marketing campaigns to burnish its image with consumers, sales of the namesake Volkswagen brand, as well as in the Audi luxury unit, have stalled.
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Cfius is intervening as Mr. Trump prepares this week to burnish his "America First" economic and national security policy by imposing hefty tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum.
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After reading a fascinating chapter tracing corporate efforts to burnish the McDonald's brand with black customers, you might never look at a Filet-O-Fish the same way again.
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Even Hillary Clinton (to keep Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren at bay) and Mr. Trump (to burnish what seemed to be his populist credentials) got in on the act.
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While the borough has struggled with its reputation as a dangerous place, it is perhaps ironic that a threatening figure like the Joker may have helped burnish its image.
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At that time, department officials were investigating whether Mr. Craig and his law firm had participated in a public relations campaign to help the Ukrainian government burnish its reputation.
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From his base in Washington, Mr. Akhmetshin has been hired by an ever-changing roster of clients, often Russians, to burnish their image and blacken those of their rivals.
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FreeWheel's tensions with Google stem from a one-of-a-kind agreement struck in 2009 as YouTube sought to burnish its image with clips from well-known TV channels.
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Some speculate that this is all just an elaborate ruse to sell books, others believe it is a vanity project meant to burnish Schultz's ability to garner a following.
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Instead, Netanyahu is expected to bring up a softball subject the two men can agree on, and use to burnish their diplomatic bona fides: Iran as a regional menace.
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Seeking to burnish their populist credentials, all of the major Democratic candidates who've entered the 2020 fray so far have pledged to reject money from corporate political action committees.
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Several potential Democratic presidential candidates, including Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, and Amy Klobuchar, sit on the Judiciary Committee, and will have a chance to burnish their credentials with Democrats.
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Stella Creasy, a Labour member of Parliament, said Mr. Javid was trying to burnish his antiterrorism credentials as he made a bid to become leader of the Conservative Party.
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But one thing we are certainly getting is a perception of increased openness as spy agency burnish their public image by doing things like opening up official social media accounts.
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To burnish downtown Reno's reputation, the city council is considering several new ordinances, one of which would ban people from lying or sleeping on private or public property without permission.
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North-eastern governors are keen to burnish their green credentials to voters concerned about climate change, but the region has little room for big solar or wind farms on land.
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Saudi Arabia's broader cooperation with OPEC+ since late 2016 has provided much-needed cash to mitigate deficits, burnish sovereign assets for mortgage and fund the Crown Prince's economic transformation plans.
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KS) plans to launch its first sports sedan next year, people familiar with the matter told Reuters, seeking to burnish a sporty, younger image as larger sibling Hyundai Motor (005380.
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A pardon now may make sense for Obama, the groups said, because he may be seeking to burnish his legacy and be able to act with less concern for politics.
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By playing up this limited operation as a major success, Erdogan is attempting to burnish his image as the providential leader best able to steer the country through difficult times.
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"The idea that I somehow took on health care just because I thought it was fun or it would somehow burnish my legacy is nuts," Obama said at the fundraiser.
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Tanaka continued to burnish his bona fides as an ace — and perhaps a late-charging Cy Young candidate — by striking out 21 and carrying a shutout into the eighth inning.
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GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca will each present trial data on a promising new class of drugs against ovarian cancer on Saturday as Britain's top drugmakers compete to burnish their oncology credentials.
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The move came during a five-day trip to China by the prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, who is seeking to burnish trade, business and political ties with Beijing.
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The overall robust readouts are the latest in a batch of solid economic figures that are likely to help Chancellor Angela Merkel burnish her economic credentials ahead of a Sept.
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If reporting in the coming quarters appears to bear out his projections, it is likely to burnish Tesla's image, and could keep the company's already-elevated share price moving up.
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Long under the shadow of its larger Gulf neighbors, Qatar hopes to use the World Cup — the world's most-watched sporting event — to burnish its place as a global leader.
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Mr. Trump, eager to burnish his self-constructed image as a dealmaker in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, appears open to embracing a step-by-step process.
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By contrast philanthropy is what the megawealthy give in order to burnish their image, see their name chiseled in granite and glass, and, above all, enjoy a huge tax break.
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Some critics immediately began speculating about whether the military moves at the Lebanese border had been timed to distract from the prime minister's legal woes and to burnish his image.
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Voluntarily recognizing the union was also something of a P.R. asset for companies such as Vice and Gawker Media: a fairly cost-effective way to burnish a media outlet's image.
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The long-term recovery work, however, has just begun, and it is certain to test the competence, and burnish or break the reputations, of a roster of high-profile players.
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The effect, however cultivated, helps burnish the image of a nation whose aggression in Ukraine and election meddling have led it to be viewed by many as a hostile power.
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He can take decisive actions on international stage that burnish his reputation as a strong leader who is willing to do what it takes to keep the American people safe.
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This volume, much like his 1994 book, "Diplomacy," is also a sly attempt by a controversial figure to burnish his legacy as Nixon's national security adviser and secretary of state.
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All of these fundraisers build toward the end of the first Federal Election Commission reporting quarter of the year, where candidates will look to burnish their strength through fundraising power.
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In point of fact, there is a perfectly logical explanation for why droves of Chinese tourists are coming to Kidlington, and it is hardly going to burnish the local reputation.
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Trump and Kasich never battled the way other former candidates did, and many Republicans believe he stayed in the race for so long to burnish his vice presidential bona fides.
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The former secretary of State is scheduled to meet with the presidents of Egypt and Ukraine, an opportunity for her to burnish her foreign policy experience in contrast with Trump.
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The lawmakers said information so far provided by the health department has prompted new questions about Verma's role in shaping communications contracts, including some that helped burnish her personal brand.
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House Democrats and a health department auditor are probing POLITICO's reports that Verma directed millions of dollars toward public relations contractors, including some of whom worked to burnish her brand.
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Still, most of them usually tend to reliably side with Democrats on key partisan matters and just defect on a few high-profile issues to burnish their reputation for independence.
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The surprisingly bullish figures are the latest in a batch of strong data that are likely to help Chancellor Angela Merkel and her conservatives burnish their economic credentials before a Sept.
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The relevance of the #MeToo experience here is that it exposed a world in which establishment figures cover up for each other, trade favors and burnish each others' -- often hypocritical -- reputations.
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All of this was done to burnish Kaspersky's image and help it become an accepted vendor for the U.S. government despite its Russian roots, according to people familiar with the strategy.
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That sparked outside speculation that North Korea could perform a fifth nuclear test ahead of the political convention to burnish his image as a stronger leader fighting hard against foreign aggressions.
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And his boast about his earlier role setting up a private channel between Bush and Putin was no more than "an attempt to burnish his credentials," he told the Mueller team.
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The past three presidents have abused the intent of the act in order to burnish their own legacies and have short-circuited the deliberative structures of constitutional government in the process.
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But since it began ceding power in 2011 - albeit under a constitution that keeps soldiers in key posts - the army has sought to burnish its image as a modern fighting force.
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As he acknowledged, the confirmation battle would give the senator a high-profile chance to burnish his conservative credentials as he fights to retain his Senate seat in November's midterm elections.
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UBS gets a set of prints at the end to add to its corporate collection of 35,000 artworks and the association of Ms. Leibovitz's high-profile tour to burnish its brand.
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Neither has blamed him for having Khashoggi killed, but it would serve to burnish the optics of Trump's claims that billions of dollars of US business with Saudi are at stake.
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Both Tambor's misconduct and the actions of the various men in the show's cast who worked to burnish his reputation in interviews have cast a pall over the season for many.
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Instead, she entered into a one-year program at the Kellogg School to burnish her "soft skills and negotiating skills and things you don't have time to practice" at a startup.
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Mr. Pruitt's two moves come as he is dogged by allegations of legal and ethical violations and is seeking to burnish his reputation in the eyes of his boss, the president.
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Residents in Wuhan, Hubei's capital, said that they were not especially aware of Mr. Jiang, who unlike some provincial leaders has not pursued a propaganda campaign to burnish his personal image.
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Even as some denounce Amazon's toll on the environment and call for taxing the company more, this laudable initiative was a smart move for Mr. Bezos and will burnish his reputation.
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Gardner is leading the National Republican Senatorial Committee for the 2018 election cycle, which could burnish his standing with party activists and donors, especially if the GOP adds to its majority.
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The Senate Armed Services Committee, which will vet Shanahan, includes two Democratic presidential candidates — Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Kirsten Gillibrand — giving them an opportunity to burnish their national security credentials.
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PRIVACY PUSH FreeWheel's tensions with Google stem from a one-of-a-kind agreement struck in 2009 as YouTube sought to burnish its image with clips from well-known TV channels.
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You could make a strong argument that, outside of America's elected and military leadership, no American in the last century has done more to burnish our nation's image abroad than Graham.
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Things began to change when the Clinton administration, seeking to burnish its tough-on-illegal-immigrant credentials, swelled the Border Patrol's ranks and adopted a strategy known as Prevention Through Deterrence.
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It is the latest move to honor the Bronx's heritage, part of a continuing effort to burnish the image of an area that was once synonymous with urban decay and neglect.
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The social media post was reminiscent of multiple occasions when his aides blasted out videos of the Speaker mowing his own lawn to burnish the son of a bartender's "everyman" image.
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Duterte's critics say his three-year-old campaign has been a failure, intended to create shock and fear and burnish his tough image without making a dent on big narcotics syndicates.
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Here's what you need to know about the White House Office of American Innovation: Key tasks: Overhaul care for veterans, fight opioid addiction, burnish Trump's legacy, potentially privatize some aspects of government.
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Summers was responding to GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump's claims that Fed Chair Janet Yellen is keeping rates steady to burnish the legacy of President Barack Obama by not jolting the economy.
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Hip-hop reunions have long been a case of sentiment winning over urgency; just because we're excited to see '90s titans working together again doesn't guarantee that the results burnish their legacy.
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But Ms. Ferraro denounced Mr. Santucci, contending that he had prosecuted her husband only to burnish his image and share the spotlight in an investigation that had been begun by federal prosecutors.
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You can see it in committee hearings where, far too often, witnesses are invited not to provide authentic insight but rather to burnish a political argument that the committee chair already embraces.
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Father Moloney's involvement in the case seemed to burnish his heroic image as a rebel priest in the East Village, where "Free Father Pat" graffiti tags could be seen during his incarceration.
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But he also worked to burnish his client's image in the West and helped Mr. Yanukovych's administration draft a report defending its prosecution of his chief rival, Yulia V. Tymoshenko, in 22014.
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So it was changed to Burnish talking about the different kind of dishes he could make with the snakes: "A spicy soup or a salad," is what he says in the dub.
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In a scene when Burnish talks about seeing a Yeti in his youth and then being mocked in public for believing the mythical creature exists, the China dub goes a step further.
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Yet in an attempt to burnish his bipartisan credentials, Issa recently used a photo of President Obama in a campaign mailer touting his support of a bill to help sexual assault survivors.
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In the post-Snowden era, internet companies now issue "transparency reports" intended to convey some information about government demands for information and to burnish their bona fides as protectors of civil liberties.
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The probes surrounding 1MDB have cast an unwelcome spotlight on Singapore, which is one of the world's leading wealth management centers and has been trying to burnish its anti-money laundering credentials.
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Liquidity in the country's money markets is typically tight at end of a quarter as banks and other financial institutions need more cash to burnish their balance sheets and meet regulatory requirements.
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In December, he hired a firm of Washington lobbyists to burnish his image as a potential future leader of his country, and to counter critics who denounce him as a crude warlord.
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But some cities are becoming increasingly sensitive to how much tourists burnish the image they want to project and how much they damage that image, or the physical city and its monuments.
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The club helped the likes of Andy Warhol, Bianca Jagger, Liz Taylor, Diana Ross, Grace Jones, Truman Capote, and Michael Jackson to burnish their reputations with stories fed directly to Page Six.
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After all, Thanksgiving is a symphony of browns — all those casseroles, bakes and gravies — and the Maillard reaction that gives beer its amber glow is also providing the burnish on your turkey.
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Key surrogates have begun a charm offensive that appears designed to burnish the international image of Mr. Bolsonaro, who became notorious as a lawmaker by insulting minorities and praising Brazil's military dictatorship.
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Rather, it was just as easily the avenue for disgraced men to rehabilitate or burnish their image through faux-vulnerability and humility, an act of ego nourishment, and fantasy perpetuation, nothing more.
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BEIJING — One hundred years after thousands of Chinese students marched on Tiananmen Square in a watershed revolt, President Xi Jinping seized on the event Tuesday to burnish his brand of authoritarian nationalism.
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Maybe the show didn't burnish his legacy so much as introduce his songs to people who may not have known them and dramatize the conditions of joy amid oppression that produced them.
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Ms. Warren instead uses her calls to small donors — heavily publicized and advertised on social media — to burnish her populist credentials, and these less talked-about political calls to woo the establishment.
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Trump has repeatedly made clear that his foreign policy is not motivated by a desire to enhance global security—it's driven by his need to burnish his own image as a winner.
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If de Blasio is taking advantage of this opportunity to burnish his legacy, and advance his national relevance, former advisers also wish he'd use his final two years to get things done.
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As Republicans continue to dig in on impeachment, Solomon represents a media figure with mainstream credentials those supportive of Trump can use to burnish their views and their defenses of the president.
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It was supposed to open in 63, a feat of advanced engineering that would burnish its reputation for high-tech excellence and make the nation even less dependent on others for energy.
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The United Arab Emirates, which even has a Ministry of Tolerance, has long sought to burnish its attraction as a cosmopolitan center of glass towers and global commerce with inclusive religious laws.
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The Amazon news was especially sweet for state leaders because it let them further burnish the state's image as a progressive beacon in the South and a leader in the new economy.
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Analysts note that Mr. Putin could have blocked the meeting but apparently concluded that it could burnish his global standing and undermine Western efforts to isolate Russia with sanctions over the Ukraine conflict.
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The repeat visit to Concord High School on June 1 will feature a town hall hosted by broadcaster PBS, as Obama looks to burnish his legacy in the final year of his administration.
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Large mining groups like BHP and Anglo American are investing in solar power, automation and water-saving technologies, betting that substantial up-front investment will both burnish their green credentials and raise efficiency.
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Meanwhile, Sanders will continue on his mission to burnish Clinton's liberal credentials, especially with young voters, of which there figure to be a few on hand at his visit to Western Michigan University.
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Why it matters, from Axios' Steve LeVine: This election won't be competitive, but it could be Putin's last and he needs a big finish to burnish his legacy as a modern-day czar.
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He also connects the booming art market to the rise of a new class of super-rich, anxious to burnish the gleam of their jaw-dropping wealth with the patina of high culture.
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The company, which stopped selling tobacco products in 2014 to further burnish its image as a care provider, already runs about 1,100 clinics and has been steadily expanding the health care it offers.
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It is a political ploy to burnish the president's image and legacy among the climate change establishment, which remains resolute in its apocalyptic outlook even though the real climate refuses to be accommodating.
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A third former official knowledgeable about the effort said the language alluding to leaks ultimately had been dropped and that the statement itself sought to burnish the esprit de corps at the department.
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A Troubling Timeline at Valeant | A growing trickle of head-scratching news adds to gaps in Valeant Pharmaceuticals' financial disclosures, despite attempts to burnish results, Gretchen Morgenson writes in the Fair Game column.
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The creation of the hotel was first announced on "The Apprentice," Mr. Trump's television show, and though it had been tangled in lawsuits, for Mr. Gohari it still had the burnish of success.
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An American retreat would cement Russia's status as a power to be reckoned with in the Middle East and would further burnish Mr. Putin's reputation as a master tactician on the world stage.
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Rafael Correa, the president who decided to grant Mr. Assange asylum, was widely seen as wanting to burnish his credentials as a leftist leader who would not be cowed by the United States.
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In December, before the vote, the main opposition coalition evicted Parra after a local media report accused him and others of abusing their positions to burnish the reputation of a government-linked businessman.
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Trump himself made appearances at the gathering starting in 2011, using his speeches to burnish his conservative bona fides before ultimately going on to win the GOP nomination and the presidency in 2016.
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Facebook to Add Its Name to Instagram, WhatsApp Alex Heath had Friday's big story: Facebook is bringing its branding to its two other big apps in an effort to burnish its own brand.
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Years before entering Congress in 2015, Ratcliffe briefly served as the acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, experience he has touted in an attempt to burnish his national security credentials.
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With the Republican Congress standing firm against a minimum wage increase and other economic proposals from Democrats, the president has exerted the power of the executive branch to try and burnish his legacy.
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The reason, experts told CNBC, could be that Russian President Vladimir Putin is working several angles, including sowing chaos to distract the U.S. and creating an opening for Moscow to burnish its reputation.
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Kennedy had also clashed with Verma during a congressional hearing this fall over her steering of more than $2 million toward public relations contractors, some of whom worked to burnish Verma's personal brand.
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Here are the top takeaways from the town halls: Glowing reviews for Buttigieg Buttigieg, 37, used his hour on CNN to burnish his liberal policy credentials and a composure that belies his age.
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The place is an influence machine: Wing members effectively pay to advertise products to other women in front of the club's feminine backdrops, and along the way, burnish their own brand power too.
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The place is an influence machine: Wing members effectively pay to advertise products to other women in front of the club's feminine backdrops, and along the way, burnish their own brand power too.
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They are pursued, meanwhile, by the wealthy, Yeti-obsessed Burnish (Eddie Izzard) and his lead henchwoman (Sarah Paulson), who want to put the beast on display, and have considerable resources at their disposal.
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During the campaign, Trump made it clear he's no fan of Yellen — accusing her of being politically motivated to keep rates low to continue to support the economy to burnish President Barack Obama's legacy.
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Putin, whose overall approval rating still remains high at over 60 percent, uses state television to burnish his image and every year outlines government priorities in his state-of-the-nation speech to parliament.
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Until very recently — possibly until this deal — it has been possible for corporations to get handouts simply for dangling the promise of new hires to politicians eager to burnish their reputations as job creators.
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Just that as part of the effort to see deals, win deals, burnish their brand, that the industry has gotten too accommodating toward CEOs and sometimes doesn't deliver the tough love that they need?
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Presidential candidates have long used foreign travel to project a statesman-like image, burnish their foreign policy credentials, divert an unpleasant media storyline or take a break from the hyper-vigilant coverage at home.
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The figures are the latest in a batch of solid data that are likely to help Chancellor Angela Merkel and her center-right CDU/CSU bloc to burnish their economic credentials before a Sept.
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Trump touts true conservative credentials Trump continued his efforts to burnish his conservative credentials Thursday, touting his endorsement from Sarah Palin (without whom, Trump asserted, Cruz never would have won his U.S. Senate race).
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Taken together, the flow of money from Russia provided Trump with a crucial infusion of financing that helped rescue his empire from ruin, burnish his image, and launch his career in television and politics.
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Diplomatic sources in Beijing said China had hoped for at least some senior Western leaders to attend, including British Prime Minister Theresa May, to burnish the plan's credentials and make it less China-centric.
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Wilson, who had been a moderate, pro-choice Republican, lurched to the right on issues like immigration and affirmative action, seeking to burnish his bona fides with conservative GOP primary voters across the country.
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China overtook the United States as the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in 2007 but analysts see the U.S. withdrawal as an opportunity for China to burnish its image as a global leader.
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But critics say the legislation is as an attempt by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) burnish its Hindu-nationalist credentials ahead of a general election, that must be held by May.
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But it was his work on the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City that helped burnish his credentials with Republicans there and his reputation as a problem solver.
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And while they serve to burnish the former administration's questionable decision-making and partisan calculus in the Clinton email investigation, this is the point where a moral imperative meets an overwhelming amount of evidence.
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Some of the world's richest companies (including Amazon) don't offer sick leave to some staff, while billionaires who burnish their progressive image are asking staff to go on unpaid leave (Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic).
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Denying all wrongdoing, Mr. Netanyahu has been trying to project a business-as-usual approach despite his mounting legal troubles, aiming to burnish his credentials both at home and abroad as an international player.
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Already spending billions of dollars on infrastructure projects in Myanmar, China is now also assisting its neighbor in diplomatic efforts to try and help burnish the country's image in the face of widespread criticism.
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Videos of him singing in a church choir, dancing to the "Cupid Shuffle" and crowdsurfing at events regularly went viral, helping burnish his image as a candidate just happy to be with his fans.
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At a discussion about her new documentary, West was asked how she would respond to people who may think she had attached herself to the cause in order to burnish her well-known brand.
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That will help burnish the film's bid for the top prize, since it's near impossible to win best picture if you don't pick up at least one or two other Oscars along the way.
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The report comes months after the HHS Office of Inspector General announced an investigation into reports Verma directed taxpayer dollars to GOP consultants to boost coverage of agency work and burnish Verma's own image.
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Seeking to burnish his foreign policy credentials ahead of the 2020 elections, Trump hasn't ruled out a partial troop withdrawal, even as U.S. Central Command has pledged to harden its blows against the insurgency.
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With Mr. Booker's name regularly mentioned as a top potential Democratic presidential candidate, his efforts to help Mr. Baraka could be seen as motivated, in part, by a desire to burnish his own image.
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The U.S. strikes in Iraq and recent dollar weakness combined to burnish the value of gold, driving the precious metal 0.84% higher on the spot market to $1,541.73 per ounce, around four-month highs.
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The U.S. strikes in Iraq and recent dollar weakness combined to burnish the value of gold, driving the precious metal 0.84% higher on the spot market to $1,541.73 per ounce, around four-month highs.
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These misdeeds were different from the ones Hersey was focussed on in "The Legend on the License," but they take away some of the burnish from his image as the promulgator of sacred rules.
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The point is to burnish his image as the revolutionary living almost ascetically, sharing his food with his comrades, despite the whiff of autocracy, rampant corruption and patronage that soon enveloped his Palestinian Authority.
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A trip to the United States that began as a golden opportunity for Ukraine to burnish relations with its most powerful international backer has turned into a diplomatic tightrope walk for President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
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In the years before his fall, Mr. Manafort took lavish payments to burnish the image of Mr. Yanukovych and the Party of Regions in Washington, even as the party acknowledged only very modest spending.
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Rauner's decision to sign automatic voter registration, and a bill making it easier for transgender individuals to obtain changes to their birth certificates, will burnish his appeal to moderates in both parties, supporters say.
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Trump repeated attacked Yellen during the presidential campaign, accusing her of being politically motivated to keep rates so low for so long to burnish President Barack Obama's legacy by providing continued stimulus to the economy.
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"Toyota can say the Prius did everything they needed," said Stephanie Brinley, principal automotive analyst for IHS Markit, helping burnish the Japanese automaker's green credentials and proving there's a market for gas-electric drivetrain technology.
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To burnish their "party within a party" credentials Brexit Central provided attendees with a purple ribbon to replace the regular blue ribbon issued by the Tory Party to hang the all-important conference passes on.
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His two-year tenure at the school is an important pillar of his public persona that he's used not only to burnish his business credentials but to contrast his academic pedigree with his political rivals.
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The company is trying to burnish its brand in the aftermath of the diesel emissions cheating scandal that has cost it billions of dollars in fines and settlements and sent several former executives to prison.
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"If the Trump administration wants to burnish its reputation on rights it should address problems at home such as its discriminatory travel ban on people from six Muslim majority countries," she said in a statement.
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The beginning of their release coincided with Putin's annual question and answer session, an event he uses to burnish his reputation and which took on new significance this year as his popularity ratings have slipped.
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Democratic presidential candidates are scrambling to showcase their alliance with Ocasio-Cortez, aiming to burnish their progressive credentials in a competitive primary where the New York lawmaker's support could prove critical to their political fortunes.
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Normally when presidential contenders travel abroad, they do so to burnish their foreign policy credentials, cramming their schedules with high-level meetings with foreign dignitaries and opining on the pressing international issues of the day.
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The flood of revenues was used in part by Saudi Arabia, the largest oil exporter in the world, to burnish its Islamic credentials — as well as financing multimillion-dollar arms deals and some grand palaces.
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But no matter how successful the tournament turns out to be, President Vladimir Putin's gambit to leverage the soft power of international sport to burnish Russia's image abroad will fall well short of its ambitions.
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Others may simply conclude that, after the decisive rightward shift of the Supreme Court and the transformation of the most important lower courts, it is time to burnish their reputations for the post-Trump era.
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Manafort's work in Ukraine was mostly to help Yanukovych win several elections, burnish his image in the West and help transform him from a clumsy, inarticulate former coal mining factory boss into a savvy statesman.
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Whenever Olympique Lyonnais Féminin identifies someone it believes can burnish its already glittering roster, its offer is simple: Would you like to be part of the best group of players anyone, anywhere, can put together?
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Luis Miranda, a graduate of the University of Puerto Rico, was eager for "Hamilton" to play at his alma mater, hoping to burnish its reputation and show that its theater could host touring Broadway shows.
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Mr. Greitens was widely believed to have aspirations for higher office, perhaps even the presidency, and had appeared in Iowa, Michigan and Virginia in recent months in an apparent effort to burnish his national brand.
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His position protects him, and affords him the opportunity to meet world leaders, make state visits, and burnish his reputation as Israel's longest-serving leader, all the while casting his opponent as unfit to govern.
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He and the others were kicked out of their parties after a local media report said they had used their positions in the legislature to burnish the reputation of a businessman linked to Maduro's government.
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No prescription drug exists to relieve the pain of being a human being trapped in a marble monument that the public continues to flock to and worship, and one that major corporations continue to burnish.
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New York's biggest police union, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, is sending about a dozen officers to protest Mr. de Blasio in Des Moines, where he is headed to burnish his image on the national stage.
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The placement of the articles was part of a broader campaign by China to burnish its image in the Taiwanese media as part of efforts to win hearts and minds in Taiwan for China's "reunification" agenda.
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At times, Reset scans as strategically engineered to burnish Pao's narrative, which has been reshaped by time and the collective memory of her trial to turn her into a figurehead for the diversity movement in tech.
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He did stress that he was a descendent of the Prophet Muhammad to burnish his Islamic credentials, but he never rose to the level of al Qaeda's Osama bin Laden, who was recognizable the world over.
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The five-yearly Communist Party congress is due near the end of this year and Mr Xi may be tempted to burnish his hawkish credentials by holding several sabre-rattling military exercises in the run up.
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For weeks already, the British broadcasters have scheduled extra programming, trailing tell-all documentaries, while Diana's sons, William and Harry, have organized carefully choreographed events and interviews designed to burnish their mother's memory as a humanitarian.
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Spicer was also using the Emmys to burnish his image before a television industry audience that he may need to cultivate as he seeks speaking engagements and paid television appearances in his post-White House life.
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The recoiling amounts to a rare rebuke for a front-runner: Politicians usually signal that they are not interested politely through back channels, or submit to the selection process, if only to burnish their national profiles.
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It said Narasimhan, a Harvard-trained doctor who has vowed to burnish Novartis's reputation as a maker of innovative drugs and leave years of allegations of wrongdoing behind, "had no involvement whatsoever" in the Cohen contract.
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The government has not said if it will comply, but if it does, possible options include more privatizations and tax hikes — both likely anathema for the MDP, which will be looking to burnish its leftist credentials.
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With Mr Straus wielding the gavel, they could advocate—or in the case of Mr Patrick, who heads the Senate, pass—harmful legislation to burnish their social-conservative credentials, knowing it would never pass the House.
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If Auburn wins the rest of its games, that might do more than burnish Oregon's résumé — it could also put a dent in the hopes of two contenders that will visit The Plains: Georgia on Nov.
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"Is the leader of a major global city supposed to stay in a second-rate business hotel?" he said on one occasion, defending his global travels as necessary to burnish Tokyo's brand ahead of the Olympics.
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The placement of the articles was part of a broader campaign by China to burnish its image in the Taiwanese media as part of efforts to win hearts and minds in Taiwan for China's "reunification" agenda.
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She bought a controlling interest in Capucci's business a few years ago, and in addition to helping him burnish his archive of nearly 700 dresses, she has recently launched his first foray into ready-to-wear.
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They have kept their heads down, haven't tried to burnish their own brands or egos, maintained their loyalty and, as a result, have not had huge targets on their backs like some of their male colleagues.
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He may have come to terms with the idea that he is unlikely to win a World Cup with Argentina; if he is to burnish his legend yet further, it will have to be in Europe.
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Ukraine: McKinsey and Paul Manafort — a former Trump campaign chief who has been convicted of financial fraud — were paid by the same oligarch to help burnish the image of a disgraced presidential candidate, Viktor F. Yanukovych.
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Republicans have since tried repeatedly to pass legislation to clamp down on Iran, accusing Obama of being so eager to burnish his foreign policy legacy that he conceded too much to Tehran in the nuclear talks.
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As Democrats grapple with how to run for office in states President Donald Trump won handily, Biden has sought to burnish his credentials as one of the only national Democrats able to campaign in Trump country.
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And the decision allowed China to burnish its image as a global guardian of the environment, at a time when advocates have raised doubts about the ability of the United States to lead on environmental issues.
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Sure, other catwalk favorites starred in music videos during that era, and fashion photographers like Steven Meisel and Herb Ritts were recruited by stars such as Madonna, Chris Isaak and Janet Jackson to burnish their visuals.
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The reasons for that, however, have less to do with championing creativity than branding -- specifically, Netflix's desire to burnish its prestige with Academy Award nominations, following the inroads the service has already made at the Emmys.
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Seems more like politicians choosing to burnish their resumes with senior administration posts while preemptively insulating themselves from criticism after they willingly jumped into the dumpster fire that the Trump White House turned out to be.
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As candidates burnish their "regular folks" image, they would be wise to worry less about their own ages and more about the country's graying demographics if they want to appeal to the voters needed to win.
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KIEV (Reuters) - A trip to the United States that began as a golden opportunity for Ukraine to burnish relations with its most powerful international backer has turned into a diplomatic tightrope walk for President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
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Widodo, a moderate Muslim from Java island, had to burnish his Islamic credentials after smear campaigns and hoax stories accused him of being anti-Islam, a communist or too close to China, all politically damaging in Indonesia.
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Last week, Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, said in a series of Twitter posts that appearing on Fox would help the network burnish its reputation as a legitimate news organization, and expand its audience for advertising purposes.
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A moderate Muslim from central Java, Widodo had to burnish his Islamic credentials after smear campaigns and hoax stories accused him of being anti-Islam, a communist or too close to China, all politically damaging in Indonesia.
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If coaches can't resist telling your kid to go over to the brick wall for their hundred in a row, we hope you tell them they can't sacrifice your kid's brain to burnish their win-loss record.
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Widodo, a moderate Muslim from Java island, had to burnish his Islamic credentials after smear campaigns and hoax stories accused him of being anti-Islam, a communist or too close to China, all politically damaging in Indonesia.
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"We interpret freedom of expression in different ways," Mr. Putin told three Russian journalists who were writing a book to burnish his image before the 2000 presidential election, when he was a little-known former K.G.B. officer.
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For Kors, the purchase of Versace would burnish its ambitions to become an American counterpart to the European conglomerates such as LVMH and Kering, which have dominated the fashion industry with brands like Louis Vuitton and Gucci.
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Many saw the releases as an attempt by the government to burnish its reputation after the July 29 national election, in which the party of the authoritarian prime minister, Hun Sen, won all 125 seats in Parliament.
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While he would not comment publicly, others said that he had become uncomfortable with the society's growing reliance on donations from businesses with questionable health credentials that he and others suspect are seeking to burnish their images.
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This country wouldn't have Carnegie libraries, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Ford Foundation, or the Rockefeller Foundation if very rich men didn't want to burnish their legacies, which is what people used to call reputation laundering.
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I reached out on social media, asking people to share stories about plans delayed or denied, and many people pointed toward our creativity and quirky humanity as a faint silver lining to burnish this seemingly dark time.
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Toronto has done its part to burnish "Joker" as the real deal not only by giving it a slot, but also by handing the movie's hard-working star, Joaquin Phoenix, one of its inaugural tribute acting awards.
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CHAMONIX, France (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday the melting of Mont Blanc's main glacier is irrefutable proof of global warming, as he sought to burnish his environmentalist credentials ahead of municipal elections next month.
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After the vote on the Macedonia deal, expected at the end of this week, Mr. Tsipras is expected to try to burnish his leftist credentials, introducing measures to increase the minimum wage and protections for indebted homeowners.
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The move to begin gradually releasing the whales in their natural habitat was announced last week during President Vladimir Putin's annual question-and-answer phone-in, which he uses to burnish his image among the Russian public.
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California-based tech companies continue to set ambitious renewable energy targets, and the trend is gaining steam beyond the sector as corporations seek to burnish their environmental credentials, said Roberto Cominotto, investment director for energy equities at GAM.
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Tight U.S. sanctions imposed in 1997 over human rights abuses and support for terrorism (Osama bin Laden briefly called Sudan home) helped him burnish his image as a populist defender of his people against a neo-colonial West.
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On Friday, U.S. President Barack Obama will be the first incumbent president to visit the site of the first atomic bombing, and his arrival on Abe's watch was supposed to burnish the Japanese leader's credentials as a statesman.
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It's a surprisingly efficient hour for everybody's favorite formerly dead lord commander, and it only continues to burnish the reputation of Jon, a character I had written off as unsalvageable as recently as the start of season five.
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China's central bank is reportedly considering a widening of the yuan's trading band after a major Communist party meeting this year, a largely cosmetic move that would burnish its reform credentials as official policy focuses on reducing debt.
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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's acting president has ordered the overhaul of a police unit following allegations of human rights violations, his spokesman said on Tuesday, as the government seeks to burnish its security record ahead of February's presidential election.
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Whatever extra measures he hopes to burnish his record with, for example, to equalise pay between the sexes or increase the modicum of gun control he attempted this month, will probably have to be enacted by executive decree.
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The controversy has also shown how difficult it is for the Communist Party to police its own propaganda policies, meant to burnish Mao's public halo but without reviving fears of a return to purges and tumultuous mass campaigns.
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But Ryan's "Better Way" push also will allow the youngest Speaker in modern history to highlight his independent streak and burnish his political brand, should he decide to mount his own White House bid in the years ahead.
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Third, it can spur innovation as manufacturers redesign their luxury products and burnish their brand through low-carbon advancements to avoid this tax; some of these advancements might even improve more affordable products purchased by the middle-class.
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The founder of JANA Partners has tapped British musician and activist Sting to sit on the new fund's advisory board and burnish his credentials with green and socially conscious investors he hopes will pledge at least $1 billion.
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Trump, seeing an opportunity to burnish his brand, released a fiery public letter about the troubled project and made a claim that foreshadowed the one he would later make on the campaign trail: I alone can fix it.
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After years of reputational decline because of an army coup in 2014 — one of a dozen successful putsches since the country abolished an absolute monarchy in 1932 — Thailand's military has been handed an opportunity to burnish its image.
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Widodo, a moderate Muslim from central Java, has had to burnish his Islamic credentials after smear campaigns and hoax stories accused him of being anti-Islam, a communist or too close to China, all politically damaging in Indonesia.
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Fresh from his triumph in last month's European parliamentary election, when his League party came top of the polls in Italy, Salvini went to Washington to burnish his credentials as a dynamic EU leader with a glowing future.
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Now that there's blood in the water, conservatives like Cruz and Lee could decide that voting "no" on Graham-Cassidy will burnish their credentials with conservative voters more than voting yes on an imperfect bill that ultimately collapses.
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But it's also possible the president is cognizant of the political opportunism that drives the British leader, and is willing to go along with Johnson's changing tone to burnish his own political fortunes, people close to Trump say.
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KIEV, Sept 23 (Reuters) - A trip to the United States that began as a golden opportunity for Ukraine to burnish relations with its most powerful international backer has turned into a diplomatic tightrope walk for President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
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Her spending of taxpayer money has also been under scrutiny by the HHS inspector general, after POLITICO reported in March about her extensive use of outside public relations consultants, some of whom worked to burnish Verma's personal brand.
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It limits the ability of presidents to gain too much power, and there may well be some positive consequences that come from freeing presidents to burnish their legacy — to play for the history books — in their second terms.
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But social media posts, particularly on Instagram, open up a trove of evidence for prosecutors and a relatively new hazard for aspiring hip-hop personalities looking to burnish their images as gangsters or outlaws, even if they're not.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's central bank is considering a widening of the yuan's trading band after a major Communist party meeting this year, a largely cosmetic move that would burnish its reform credentials as official policy focuses on reducing debt.
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Subway has been trying to burnish its image and move past the public disgrace of its longtime spokesman, Jared Fogle, who recently received a 15-year prison sentence for possessing child pornography and paying for sex with underage girls.
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But this was the first in Europe, and, according to Alvaro Morilla, an analyst with Kantar Retail, it hints at a new model for how e-commerce companies will test products, learn about consumer tastes, and burnish their brands.
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For months, Carter's team had worked to burnish his policy accomplishments, elevate his position as the incumbent, and lay down the tracks for a state-by-state primary campaign, which included raising millions of dollars and hiring field staff.
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Political experts said Ms. Murata, 48, could help burnish the image of the Democratic Party, which has been struggling to regain credibility after an ill-fated three years in power before Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office in 2012.
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Saudi Arabia's attempt to burnish its image around the world — which included a big-money PR tour and meetings with to Apple and Google — have faltered of late, not least because of the attention heaped on Jamal Khashoggi's murder.
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But there was some daylight between Clinton and Sanders when it came to specific gun control policies—and Clinton seized on it as a way to burnish her progressive credentials and raise questions about those of her unlikely rival.
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While primarily slated to take place in Gaza, they could worsen the West Bank's security situation if they spread there spontaneously or in an attempt by Fatah to flaunt its ability to mobilize crowds and burnish its nationalistic credentials.
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To the Editor: If true, Michael Wolff's claim in his book "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" that Donald Trump ran to burnish his brand, not win the office, is yet another case of life imitating art.
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In Ukraine, McKinsey and Paul Manafort — President Trump's campaign chairman, later convicted of financial fraud — were paid by the same oligarch to help burnish the image of a disgraced presidential candidate, Viktor F. Yanukovych, recasting him as a reformer.
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China: President Xi Jinping commemorated the 100th anniversary of the May 4 student protests against Western colonialism, using the moment to burnish his brand of authoritarian nationalism while playing down the anti-authority themes that emerged from the movement.
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Scenarios for Trump's opponents are grim too: It may be too late for second thoughts, but Democrats must burnish their arguments about why Trump is not the people's' champion — not how many times he broke the law as president.
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After Prince Mohammed was elevated to crown prince in 2017, he pursued a campaign aimed at convincing the world that Saudi Arabia was changing culturally, with a series of reforms that were methodically rolled out to burnish its image.
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Mr. Tien said he suspected that the move against the three lawmakers was a way for the city's top official, Leung Chun-ying, to burnish his credentials with Beijing before next year's selection process for chief executive, his post.
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Walmart would recognize economies of scale (accretive), buttress their grocery offering (the gangster unlock of the last five years in business), burnish their data set, and go Yoda on Amazon&aposs a-- — old, but not to be trifled with.
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In the case of Eduard Streltsov, a player in the 1950s and 1960s known as the Russian Pelé — he is famed as the inventor of the back heel — the chimera of Soviet history has helped to burnish his reputation.
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For decades, lobbyists and lawyers have collected millions of dollars to burnish the images of sometimes unsavory foreign interests in Congress and the news media, often skirting requirements that they disclose the work under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
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Marine Le Pen, who has long aimed to burnish her credentials with foreign appearances, did not meet either Trump or anyone from his team during that visit and was photographed having coffee in a public area of the building.
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On Tuesday, she announced she hired an aide who is an expert on national security, a move that could help burnish her expertise in that area, as well as the publication of a new book, which will become available in April.
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A dozen moderate Democrats from red and purple states are using the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act — which rolls back some Dodd-Frank regulations for small and medium-sized banks — as a chance to burnish their bipartisan credentials.
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Policy sources have told Reuters that the central bank is considering a widening of the yuan's trading band after the Communist Party Congress, a largely cosmetic move that would burnish its reform credentials as official policy focuses on reducing debt.
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As part of a charm offensive as the election nears, last month Di Maio visited Washington to burnish 5-Star's image with the U.S. administration, and party officials met in Rome with representatives of large international banks and hedge funds.
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JOHN SOLOMON, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR, THE HILL: Yes, there&aposs a lot of speculation that maybe this is an effort by Brennan to burnish his image or correct his story or the New York Times to get right with its earlier reporting.
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For Zipcar's partner Volkswagen, the deal is a way to burnish the company's now-tarnished reputation in the wake of the diesel emissions scandal that has cost the company roughly $25 billion billions and seen the company's former chief executive indicted.
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To many observers, it seemed as though Mr Tsipras's Syriza movement was looking for ways to balance its failure to cast off creditor-imposed austerity and burnish its leftist credentials with a more liberal approach to social and personal questions.
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But Putin, keen to use the summit to burnish Russia's diplomatic credentials as a global player, said he believed any U.S. guarantees might need to be supported by the other nations involved in previous six-way talks on the nuclear issue.
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Eurosceptic politician Boris Johnson and his rival Jeremy Hunt, who are vying to be Britain's new prime minister, both sought to burnish their Brexiteer credentials in a political debate late on Monday, reviving fears of a no-deal Brexit among traders.
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - The financial and political fallout from Britain's vote to leave the European Union has added to a string of setbacks for President Barack Obama as he works to burnish his legacy before his presidency ends in January 2017.
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Mr. Evers said that he was considering the giveaway since before the mass shooting, intending to burnish his pro-gun credentials in Florida's conservative western Panhandle, where he is running to fill the seat being vacated by Representative Jeff Miller.
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The king's third wife, Srirasmi Suwadee, was considered a princess until she and at least nine of her relatives were purged five years ago, after the palace alleged that they had used their royal connections to illegally burnish their wealth.
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To the Editor: Your editorial suggests that President Obama could, within the remaining months of his administration, burnish his legacy by canceling the development of a new nuclear-armed cruise missile or eliminating the land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, or both.
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The only persona interest he might seek to further is to further burnish his reputation as Chief Justice, and it seems that serving as "swing vote" would in the long run serve to highlight his reputation as a strong Chief.
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Mr. Procel said those assertions were contradicted by correspondence indicating that law school employees knew that the graduate employment figures affected the law school's national ranking — which, in turn, helped burnish the school's credibility and draw more students to enroll.
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Street Scene Perhaps trying to burnish his legacy on financial reform, President Obama has recently trumpeted his signature steps to transform Wall Street in the years since the financial crisis that confronted him as he began his term eight years ago.
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While there is nothing wrong with being spurred to give by school or religious requirements, or by the desire to burnish your résumé, you might consider some questions about how to give in a way that goes beyond the superficial.
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He described how Mr. Manafort had illegally operated as the hidden hand behind a multiyear campaign to burnish Mr. Yanukovych's reputation in the United States and damage the image of his main political opponent, Yulia V. Tymoshenko, Ukraine's former prime minister.
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Though Mattis is busy using a new memoir, Call Sign Chaos, to burnish his public reputation as a voice of reason in the age of Trump, he almost single-handedly made "lethality" the favorite battle cry of the modern Pentagon.
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Now, Canadian air traffic controllers have helped burnish the country's image as the do-gooder of the world by sending hundreds of pizzas to their American counterparts, who have been working without pay since a government shutdown began on Dec. 103.
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It is meant to burnish his image as he leaves Congress, the improbable final chapter — at least for now — of a meteoric ascent in Republican politics that stalled unmistakably with the rise of Mr. Trump and his anti-establishment fervor.
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In the end you got the sense that Pence did as much (maybe more) to burnish his own brand than Trump's – and even if he's widely deemed the winner, what lasting good will it do for his undisciplined, self-defeating nominee?
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The former South Bend, Indiana, mayor is using his experience to both burnish his national security credentials and subtly answer questions voters may have about how the youngest candidate in the race would confront life-or-death issues like war.
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He was also charged with falsifying records filed with the Justice Department under the Foreign Agents Registration Act to conceal his lobbying work on behalf of Sri Lanka to help burnish the country's reputation in Washington amid human rights concerns.
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Asked why he's prepared to be commander in chief, Sanders made sure to burnish his bipartisan credentials by pointing out that he helped pass a resolution in Congress to stop U.S. support for the Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen.
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In the wake of Epstein's death, as authorities investigate his potential co-conspirators, it's equally important to look at the judgment of those who helped him burnish his public image by presenting himself as a friend of science and innovation.
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He led campaigns including #MoreMusic, under which Target partnered with singer Gwen Stefani for a live video that aired during the Grammy Awards and released exclusive tracks from artists such as Adele, part of an effort to burnish Target's cool image.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facing rising anger from young people for their role in accelerating climate change, chief executives of major oil companies launched an effort on Monday to burnish their image on the sidelines of the United Nations Climate Action Summit.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facing rising anger from young people for their role in accelerating climate change, chief executives of major oil companies launched an effort on Monday to burnish their image on the sidelines of the United Nations Climate Action Summit.
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I have never had a job that didn't feel tenuous, which means I have never had the freedom to not obsess over my personal brand and whether I'm doing enough to burnish it through work, social media, skill-building and networking.
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I have never had a job that didn't feel tenuous, which means I have never had the freedom to not obsess over my personal brand and whether I'm doing enough to burnish it through work, social media, skill-building and networking.
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While the South Korean firm hopes the new foldable handset will help burnish its innovation credentials, consumers will be keen to see whether Samsung has overcome technological challenges and screen glitches that forced it to delay the Galaxy Fold last year.
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"It is certainly possible that a country that is looking to enhance or burnish its ties to the United States may look at the NOPEC legislation and say: 'Well, we don't want to be a part of this organization anymore,'" Cohen said.
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But bears, the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, told state television last year, know better than to mess with President Putin, who likes to burnish his macho image by wandering, sometimes shirtless and often with a television camera crew in tow, through remote forests.
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Rather than a wholesale swallowing of tech giant T&Cs in exchange for free access to the NHS brand and "NHS-verified" information which helps Amazon burnish Alexa's utility and credibility, allowing it to gather valuable insights for its commercial healthcare ambitions.
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STANFORD-LE-HOPE, England (Reuters) - The first freight train to run from Britain to China departed on Monday, carrying goods like vitamins, baby products and pharmaceuticals as Britain seeks to burnish its global trading credentials for when it leaves the European Union.
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Many analysts expect Diaz de Leon will want to burnish his inflation-fighting credentials since his previous position at the finance ministry leaves him exposed to criticism that he may favor lower rates to foster growth and keep government financing costs down.
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But the celebrities are so charmingly goofy, so confident in their stupid costumes, that it just serves to burnish their Hollywood sheen while paradoxically making them seem more genuine and likable (hence why even the famously selective Beyoncé deigns to make an appearance).
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There were, to be clear, many problems with that depiction, but his ability to burnish it over the years in the face of facts (an anti-poverty crusader whose policies would strip health insurance from millions?) has been the hallmark of his career.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Volvo Cars said on Monday it will introduce a 180 km per hour (112 mph) speed limiter on all new vehicles as the Swedish automaker seeks to burnish its safety credentials and meet a pledge to eliminate passenger fatalities by 2020.
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He is, after all, a dude who in 1970, ruined Ray Fosse's career by steamrolling him in an All-Star game, and subsequently used the cheap shot to burnish the self-aggrandized "one true hard-nose" version of himself to sell tacky crap.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - With national security again a major U.S. election issue after bombings in New York and New Jersey, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump sought to burnish their foreign-policy credentials on Monday by meeting world leaders at the United Nations.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian rocket on Monday placed domestic and foreign satellites in three different orbits on a single flight, a first for the nation and a low-cost option that could burnish its reputation for pioneering affordable options in space.
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But the excellent cast and resourceful staging further burnish the reputation of Opera Philadelphia, a company that, with the recent inauguration of an annual fall festival focusing on new work, has swiftly become one of the most creative and ambitious in this country.
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And he was quick to invoke his relationship with Mr. Hurd, to deflect attacks from Mr. Cruz that he was too far left for Texas, and to burnish his self-styled standing as a high-minded antidote to the Capitol's seemingly intransigent partisanship.
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A renovation, completed in late 2015, with updates this spring and summer to some of its signature restaurants, adds a new burnish to this destination, just as Mexico City itself is becoming a must-go spot, especially for the international jet set.
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Bezos's decision to donate $10 billion comes at a time when many are debating whether billionaire philanthropy is actually a good way to improve the world, or whether it's a gambit that mostly enables the ultrarich to burnish their images and exert influence.
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Now Ivana Trump, President-elect Donald J. Trump's first wife, says she wants to become ambassador to the Czech Republic, leading some in her homeland to hope that she can inject some glamour into the central European country and burnish its global image.
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While Mr. Obama would like to burnish his legacy with an unprecedented military aid pact with Israel, some observers in the United States and Israel believe that Mr. Netanyahu is calculating that he can reach a more advantageous deal with a future president.
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For Biden, large job cuts in a key battleground state could have been a ready-made opportunity to burnish his blue-collar bona fides and force Republican President Donald Trump to defend how a major refinery in the state shut on his watch.
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Buttigieg, 37, used his hour on CNN to burnish his liberal policy credentials and a composure that belies his age, and delivered a series of crowd-pleasing lines when he slammed President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and the Trump administration.
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As Ajax proved last year, a compelling outsider adds a sense of intrigue that can burnish even soccer's most exclusive competition: a new face among the old, carrying with it an air of revitalizing freshness, of raw joy, that improves the spectacle.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, March 18 (Reuters) - Meat companies JBS SA and BRF SA took out full-page advertisements in Brazilian newspapers on Saturday in efforts to burnish their image a day after police conducted a series of raids investigating bribes at meatpacking facilities.
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"If, however, negotiations on the Japan-EU Economic Partnership Agreement unexpectedly collapse or a final deal is not ratified by both sides, Abe's push to burnish his leadership credentials and advance a robust trade policy agenda will suffer a large setback," they wrote.
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Hinting at the challenge ahead, the CIA is engaged in an extraordinarily public campaign to burnish Haspel's image and correct what it says is a swath of inaccurate reporting about a career intelligence officer who, up until a year ago, was virtually anonymous.
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And in a move that may prove politically risky, Hickenlooper sought to burnish his pragmatic image by announcing last week his opposition to the Green New Deal, the sweeping Democratic proposal that would radically alter the United States' approach to combating climate change.
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It had rarely been used in prosecutions, even as prominent Washington lobbyists, consultants, lawyers and former public officials collected ever-larger, often six- and seven-figure paydays from foreign interests looking to burnish their sometimes unsavory reputations in the United States capital.
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"There's little doubt that Najib will use this White House visit to burnish his credentials going into next year's election in Malaysia, and redouble his repression of critics using the stamp of approval from this visit," HRW's deputy Asia director Phil Robertson told Reuters.
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MPs needed to drink in the House of Commons' numerous bars in order to build up a network of supporters (or to spread poison about their rivals) and to be able to match journalists drink-for-drink in order to burnish their public image.
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The "right" relationship can burnish or expand a star's image (think of how Jenny Slate made Chris Evans look deeper and more approachable), while the "wrong" one can tarnish or contradict it (remember how Hiddleswift made Tom Hiddleston come across like a publicity-hungry fool?).
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If SpaceX is able to create an escape pod that works, Musk — who enjoys a kind of cult status in the business world for building superior products in challenging, capital-intensive industries — will only further burnish his reputation as a kind of Tony Stark figure.
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If one of those Texas towns lands the new headquarters, it could also deliver something of an added political coup for the likes of Cruz — a failed 2016 presidential candidate who may wish to burnish his business bona fides in a future White House bid.
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In addition, Xinhua said Ding paid huge salaries to the company's employees - the company paid 22 million RMB ($22 million) to employees in November 22.6 alone - and insisted all secretarial staff wear designer outfits and expensive jewelry to burnish the company's image of profitability.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Police detained an executive of BRF SA on Saturday, as the meat company and rival JBS SA took out full-page advertisements to burnish their image after raids to investigate alleged bribes paid to conceal unsanitary conditions in Brazil's meatpacking facilities.
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Prosecutors said the resulting traffic jams in the town of Fort Lee, New Jersey, were intended to punish its Democratic mayor for refusing to back Christie's re-election bid, as the governor's aides tried to burnish his bipartisan credentials before his 2016 presidential campaign.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Public trust in President Vladimir Putin has fallen to its lowest level in 13 years, according to a Russian state pollster, a setback for the Kremlin which works hard to burnish Putin's image as a wise father-of-the-nation-style leader.
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While North Korea may dominate the headlines as Trump tries to cajole Xi into tougher sanctions on the Hermit Kingdom, the unspoken narrative will be Trump's efforts to burnish his own credentials as a man of true global power, exerting his will over Xi's reticence.
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Brady, now in his 17th season, has expressed a desire to continue playing into his 40s and burnish his legacy — which may or may not have been tarnished by his nasty dispute with the N.F.L. "This isn't the time for me to reflect," Brady said.
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"Davos in the Desert" in Riyadh last year was a classic -- designed to burnish the image of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and which followed allegations that he played a role in the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi (allegations which he vehemently denies).
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Bashir, subject of an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes in Darfur and hoping for a financial lifeline from the International Monetary Fund, has tried to be measured in his response to burnish his international image, diplomats say.
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Bruce Bartlett, a scholar who has worked at the Cato Institute and the Heritage Foundation, said it was becoming the norm in Washington for lobbyists and consultants like Mr. Verdery to vie for nonresident scholar posts to help them burnish sales pitches to corporate clients.
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But earlier this week, aides to Mr. Trump, apparently disappointed with that number, expanded the definition of "career opportunities" to include many other initiatives, including retraining of workers inside companies for different jobs, continuing education programs and other measures intended to burnish worker skills.
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The S.E.C.'s efforts to aggressively stop accounting problems stems from the history of companies like Enron and WorldCom, where small steps to burnish the financial statements burgeoned into frauds that took down the companies, ended in thousands of job losses and cost shareholders billions.
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Still, some banks have balked at the raft of requests, say market participants — especially those coming from apparently healthy companies with high credit ratings that appear to be drawing down lines of credit largely to burnish their balance sheets in case of future problems.
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The issue has stirred months of mass demonstrations in Greece, and the decision to support the deal by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who has sought to burnish his reputation as a statesman, may yet come back to haunt his government in elections this year.
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Sports in general, but especially soccer — given its global appeal — are an ideal way for tycoons to purchase prestige and for countries to burnish their reputations, particularly when governments have unsavory associations with issues such as human rights abuse, gender inequality or antidemocratic politics.
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By regaling young readers with stirring tales of the beloved president's exploits, Hagedorn aimed not simply to burnish his hero's reputation but also to forge the next generation of virtuous leaders, who might draw inspiration, as Roosevelt had, from the lives they encountered in books.
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Ms. Jolie also seemed aware of how she might be beheld by the public; the removed ice queen to Mr. Pitt's affable down-home Missouri boy (his revealing interview in the summer issue of GQ Style helped burnish his image as the more relatable one).
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With Buttigieg and Warren competing for similar high-education voters in Iowa, and with Buttigieg overtaking Warren in polls in the first caucus state, the Massachusetts senator saw an opportunity to burnish her populist credentials at the expense of the mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
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But since Xi took power five years ago the government has on occasion released personal details, as it seems both to burnish his image as an approachable man of the people who will lead China to greatness, and control the narrative about who he is.
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Normalising relations with Sudan, where Arab states gathered in 1967 to issue what became known as the "Three No's" - no recognition of Israel, no peace with Israel and no negotiations with Israel - would allow Netanyahu to burnish his diplomatic credentials a month before Israel's March 2 election.
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We, too, are using our children on the Internet to burnish our personal brands, from the C.E.O. who wants to let everyone know she still takes the time to attend her child's piano recital to the stay-at-home caregiver wanting recognition for his exhausting work.
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Prosecutors said the massive traffic jam they deliberately created in the town of Fort Lee was intended to punish its Democratic mayor for refusing to back Christie's re-election bid, as the governor's aides tried to burnish his bipartisan credentials in advance of his run for president.
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Even though some of those events meant simply stopping in a county and inviting a few Iowans onto the bus in a gas station parking lot, Klobuchar has used the accomplishment to burnish her ability to win back voters who gravitated toward Trump four years ago.
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Kim's "unofficial" visit to China this week marks his first known trip outside the North since taking power in late 2011, and it helped burnish the image he has recently been cultivating as a leader who has to be shown respect by the world's most powerful.
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The complaint against Ms. Wiener provides a rare look at how looters, smugglers, art dealers and others may conspire to plunder relics from Indian shrines or Cambodian jungle temples, ferry them into the United States, give them fake pedigrees, and burnish them for sale as lawful imports.
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As the next election approaches the prime minister has also sought to burnish his party's credentials as the defender of Islam, while at the same time raising the suggestion that an opposition win would result in diminishing the influence of the religion in the national arena.
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China also appears eager to act quickly to take advantage of a period of enhanced leverage, as the White House prepares for a historic meeting with North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, next month in Singapore that would burnish Mr. Trump's reputation as a deal maker.
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Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat who may be weighing a presidential run in 2020, has eagerly sought to burnish his legacy by focusing on infrastructure, from personally unveiling the first part of the Second Avenue subway to taking an inaugural joy ride across the new Kosciuszko Bridge.
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Simply put, a movie's release pattern shouldn't be the most interesting thing about it, and the stunt again invites the question -- especially after the service's creative dud "Bright" -- what aligning itself with expensive sci-fi misfires does to burnish the Netflix brand over the long haul.
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Given the recent cascade of announcements from automakers seeking to burnish their green bona fides by pledging to spend billions on electric vehicles, how is it that a major auto show held in our nation's capital features just two U.S. electric vehicles from a single U.S. manufacturer?
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While there is all sorts of data that suggests endorsements don't really move voters, for Harris, Lee's endorsement helps her burnish her progressive credentials and adds to her California show of force -- and 400 delegates will be up for grabs in Harris' home state on Super Tuesday.
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Much of the ire aimed at tech has little to do with Airbnb's business — its battles are largely around rental regulatory issues — but Chenault will certainly add some burnish and experience to Airbnb, after what has been a long and successful career at the finance company.
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Some members of the Supreme Court might have wished to burnish their liberal credentials, before turning to more contentious matters like the government's brief to expand its troubled universal-identification system, or to allow a Hindu group to build a temple on the site of a razed mosque.
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Salpeter offers a scaled-down version of what VaynerTalent promises: For about $2,000 a month, she'll rewrite your LinkedIn profile and help you become a regular on Facebook and Twitter, where she encourages clients to comment on articles as a way to burnish their credentials as thought leaders.
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There are many areas where his desire to burnish his legacy could hinder his wife's attempts to hold together today's Democratic party: Imagine, for starters, Bill Clinton defending NAFTA or financial de-regulation as fiercely as he shot back at the Black Lives Matter protesters on the crime bill.
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Read more: Disney has dominated the box office for years, but experts say it will face challengers in 2020One joke that needed tweaking was a sequence when the movie's villain Burnish (voiced by Eddie Izzard in the non-dubbed version) is presented with a group of whooping snakes.
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The revelations also point to an outsize role for a former senior member of the pro-Russian political party, the Party of Regions, in directing money to both Republican and Democratic advisers and lobbyists from the United States as the party tried to burnish its image in Washington.
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Human rights critics fear the sports event will strengthen the hand of President Vladimir V. Putin, who has made good use of the tournament to smooth over an unpopular pension reform at home and burnish Russia's image abroad, and bolster his authoritarian, conservative and nationalist approach to governing.
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The Japanese government, eager in the late 19th century to harness the newest Western ideas, sends Shimamura to Paris and then Berlin and Vienna to burnish his credentials at the feet of the men who are creating the fields of neurology and psychology: Charcot, Tourette, Binet, Breuer, Freud.
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Skadden's work is part of a trend in recent years of lobbyists and lawyers earning increasingly larger paydays by marketing their connections in Washington to foreign politicians, countries and companies willing to pay hefty fees to burnish their reputations in the United States and on the international stage.
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Following an inquiry from the Department of Justice, Mr. Gates and Mr. Manafort are also now weighing whether to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act in connection with an effort in Washington several years ago to burnish the image of a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine.
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But he has been criticized by government watchdog groups in the United States and Ukraine for what they characterize as the perception of a conflict of interest, and trading on his family name by allowing it to be used to burnish the reputations of Burisma and Mr. Zlochevsky.
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A résumé listing the purported athletic career of Olivia Jade Giannulli was included in court documents filed recently by prosecutors in the nation's largest college admissions scandal, providing a fresh look into efforts to burnish the credentials of children of wealthy parents and assure their acceptance to prestigious schools.
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The success of the military-led operation could help Prayuth, who, as army chief, launched a 2014 coup that ousted a civilian government, burnish his image in the approach to a general election that some Thais hope will see the austere military veteran emerge as chief of a new civilian government.
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There was a question hanging in the air: could an extraordinary political moment like the January 2017 inauguration actually shift mainstream museums' behaviors so that they recognized their responsibility to social, racial, and economic equity, a responsibility deeper than the need to burnish their brands by just referencing these issues?
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Arpaio first came to national prominence in the early 1990s when, as newly elected sheriff of Maricopa County, he pushed the construction of Tent City -- an open-air jail he viewed as not only a solution to prison overcrowding but also a way to burnish his tough-on-crime persona.
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After Hamilton's death, Elizabeth's friends tried to raise money to support her, even as she toiled for the rest of her life to burnish her husband's reputation, including buying up reprints of his confession of his affair with Maria Reynolds (unscrupulous publishers printed more copies just so she would buy them).
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Outside analysts had expected a dramatic gesture like a Musudan launch, or possibly the country's fifth nuclear test, in an attempt to burnish Mr. Kim's image before the congress, which begins on May 6 and is widely seen as a platform for the young leader to bolster his grip on power.
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The businessman, now a CNN contributor, distinguished his campaign with a happy-go-lucky style -- videos of him singing in a church choir, dancing to the "Cupid Shuffle" and crowd-surfing at events regularly went viral, helping to burnish his image as a candidate just happy to be with his fans.
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But there on the guest list in recent years was Maria Butina, looking to meet high-level American officials and advance the interests of the Russian state, and Yulia Tymoshenko, a Ukranian opposition leader, seeking a few minutes with President Trump to burnish her credentials as a presidential prospect back home.
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Mr. Cuomo is facing particular pressure to burnish his progressive credentials: The actress and education advocate Cynthia Nixon, who is challenging him for the Democratic nomination for governor, has blasted him for what she called his "massive disinvestment" in schools and in other areas that affect black and Hispanic residents.
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Among the leading contenders are a traditionalist struggling to distance herself from the chancellor, a former rival of Ms. Merkel's seeking to burnish his political credentials after a nine-year hiatus in finance, and a 38-year-old upstart who argues that the party needs to appeal to a new generation.
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The burst of tributes to Mr. Philby reinforces an escalating campaign by the Kremlin to burnish the image of the K.G.B., the former employer of President Vladimir V. Putin and many of his senior officials, and to make loyalty to the state the bedrock of Russia's resurgence as a great power.
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Her words make all the more stark the realization that from fashion, the third pillar of Mr. Weinstein's power base, an industry in which he made major investments going back more than 15 years, and with which he hoped to burnish his empire, the overwhelming response has been a ringing silence.
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Klobuchar's reputation for being a difficult boss, while counted against her by some staff on Capitol Hill, could also accrue to her benefit, helping to burnish a tough campaigner reputation from the primaries, and enabling her to play a "bad cop" role in a general election against a vulnerable Trump record.
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But about two years ago — by the time Instagram had established itself as the dominant digital destination for style-adjacent people and companies looking to build and burnish brands through images — YouTube executives began to realize that some of its fashion and beauty creators were starting to attract large audiences.
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But other recent reports, in addition to Swan's account, have indicated that Cohn would not be the pick and Yellen might be reappointed despite Trump's past criticism on the campaign trail that she was politically motivated to keep interest rates low to burnish the economic record of then-President Barack Obama.
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The director was right to think that the FBI is keenly concerned with its public perception: Hundreds of pages of FBI documents BuzzFeed News has obtained in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit reveal that the FBI actively seeks to control and burnish its image through consulting work on films.
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Vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) is all the rage in Silicon Valley, so don't be surprised if we see a few car and / or tech companies try to burnish their credentials by trotting out some multi-rotor thingamajig with an electric motor and little chance of becoming a viable mode of transportation.
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Judge Garland "would help to burnish the sense that the Supreme Court is above politics and not just an extension of politics, and would set a good tone for restoring — or at least increasing — the American people's confidence in our justice system," Mr. Obama said in an interview with NPR's Nina Totenberg.
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It was because Kelly's reluctance to talk about his son's death in public has become part of the legend of John Kelly — ironically, the idea that Kelly is too noble to use the death of his son to burnish his own reputation has burnished that reputation more than anything Kelly could have said.
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While the Astros have put forth the best starting rotation in baseball over the first two months of the season, the Yankees could at least turn to Luis Severino, who continued to burnish his status as one of the American League's best pitchers — and one who continues to shine against the best.
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The plan for the Series A is thus to step on the gas and scale their hosting platform, burnish the product experience and beef up the protocol to be able to support more governments and enterprises seeking digital sovereignty, messaging autonomy and strong encryption to keep their secrets in increasingly volatile geopolitical times.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE has a secret weapon as he seeks to burnish his image in Cleveland: his daughter Ivanka Trump.
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Mr. Obama used the last Summit of the Americas — which brings together 35 countries every three years — to burnish the United States' image in the hemisphere, holding a historic meeting with President Raúl Castro of Cuba as he pushed to normalize relations with Havana for the first time in a half-century.
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Mahathir characterized the event, rather dismissively, as a "simple case of murder," and appears eager to burnish his reputation as a champion of sovereignty among developing countries; his eagerness to befriend Pyongyang may also stem from a desire for first-mover advantage in a country he believes is on the brink of opening up.
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Callamard conducted extensive interviews and reviewed intelligence information in Turkey -- which is the world's leading jailer of journalists, according to CPJ, but has leveraged international attention on Khashoggi's murder at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to burnish its image -- in the US and in Europe, though she was not granted access to Saudi Arabia.
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The Al Sauds have survived by making three compacts: with the Wahhabis to burnish their Islamic credentials as the custodians of the holy places of Mecca and Medina; with the population by providing munificence in exchange for acquiescence to absolutist rule; and with America to defend Saudi Arabia in exchange for stability in oil markets.
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Experts say China has been ramping up attempts to win the hearts and minds of citizens in Belt and Road nations through language, traditional media and social media campaigns, echoing the cultural firepower previously wielded by Western nations, which have leveraged everything from language centers to Hollywood and blue jeans to burnish global influence.
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Experts say China has been ramping up attempts to win the hearts and minds of citizens in Belt and Road nations through language, traditional media and social media campaigns, echoing the cultural firepower previously wielded by Western nations, which have leveraged everything from language centers to Hollywood and blue jeans to burnish global influence.
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Joe BidenJoe BidenThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump takes unexpected step to stem coronavirus Democrats start hinting Sanders should drop out Coronavirus disrupts presidential campaigns MORE this week rolled out endorsements from unions in a slew of upcoming crucial primary states, a move intended to burnish the former vice president's support among white, working-class voters.
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Even should his negotiators fail to get the country to declare itself safe for asylum seekers, however, Trump will likely announce whatever progress is made as a win (as he did following the release of the joint declaration) and will likely use that progress to burnish his immigration credentials heading into the 2020 presidential election.
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Mr. Macron has made a gamble, given Mr. Trump's unpopularity, that he can court him but not be tarnished by him — or even that he can burnish his own reputation as a leader who is so psychologically astute that he can gain the ear of an American president who is in many respects his polar opposite.
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For Trump, a New York real estate magnate and reality-TV show host who has never held political office, it marks the second time in recent weeks he has tried to burnish his foreign-policy credentials to compete with Clinton, the former Secretary of State under President Barack Obama and a U.S. Senator from New York.
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So eager has Mr. Cuomo been to burnish his anti-Trump credentials that he broke the news on CNN of a multistate lawsuit against the Trump administration's child-separation policy in late June before an agreed-upon embargo by the state attorneys general who were filing the suit, according to two people with direct knowledge of the episode.
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Almost all the images of other empresses in this show would not have been seen outside the Forbidden City, but Cixi employed the newly arrived technology of photography to burnish her standing; at the dawn of the new century she posed in a resplendent silk robe, towers of plums by her side, the picture of stability.
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Suggest that, perhaps, Abu Dhabi's investment in Manchester City is not rooted exclusively in a love of the sport and happy, hazy, 1990s memories of Georgi Kinkladze, but in a desire to burnish the reputation of a Gulf state with a questionable human rights record, and a relatively small but highly concentrated burst of fury is guaranteed.
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Amy KlobucharAmy Jean KlobucharPoll: Biden holds 85033-point lead nationally over Warren Robert Reich sees Democratic race as Warren, Sanders and Biden: 'Everyone else is irrelevant' Democrats lead Trump by wide margins in Minnesota MORE (D-Minn.) drew sharp contrasts with some of her progressive primary competitors Friday night as she sought to burnish her moderate bona fides.
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A series of revelations has intensified the feud and drawn in congressional investigators — including POLITICO's reports that Verma directed millions of dollars toward public relations contractors, some of whom worked to burnish her brand and asked taxpayers to cover the cost of $47,000 in stolen jewelry and other goods that were stolen during a work trip.
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This month marks the seventh anniversary of the law's enactment, and Mr. Obama is using the occasion to burnish his legacy, arguing that it was only because of his swift efforts to pump federal money into the economy when he took office in 2009 — and over near-unanimous Republican opposition — that the country recovered from the depths of a painful recession.
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The fact that Agnew was a golf enthusiast—that he often skipped out at least one day a week to hit the links when serving as governor of Maryland, that he often watched golf on television and was known to cringe when he watched a pro miss a five-foot putt—dovetailed perfectly with the reputation he sought to burnish.
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Those decades in the political wildness now burnish his progressive credentials—he can claim to be the Democrat most committed to Medicare for all, and he can also point to his recent campaign against Amazon as helping push the company's minimum wage to $15, an example of him flexing his political muscle to help downtrodden workers in the real world.
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As he rehearsed for the winter season, he mused on all he has been learning while making the transition from symphony orchestra to ballet conductor: how to choose tempos that suit the dancers, how to burnish the playing with fewer rehearsals than many symphony or opera orchestras typically get, how to watch the dancers and be flexible enough to stay with them.
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Photos pretty quickly began to be used as propaganda: to encourage tourism, burnish the reputation of a celebrity, bolster support for a politician, proffer a flattering portrait of a loved one, give a favorable impression of land available for an investment deal, or to encourage Americans and recent immigrants to move deeper into the country to settle in a faraway town.
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For all its slick effects and brooding burnish, the film is a by-the-numbers retread of can't-miss Alien tropes amassed over four decades of deep-space marauding: crustacean-like face-huggers, entrail-splattering chest-bursters, acid-laced alien blood — they're all here, ensconced in the appropriate H.R. Giger-esque grotesquerie that has always been the saga's visual blueprint.
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The president, who is looking to burnish his environmental legacy, also visited remote Midway Atoll — a pristine spit of land within the marine preserve that is home to rare species of sea birds and marine life — in what he described as an effort to provide a powerful visual for Americans who may not grasp the stakes of the climate change challenge.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE is reportedly slated to meet with Henry Kissinger this week as the presumptive GOP presidential nominee looks to burnish his foreign policy bona fides.
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Many 2020 Democrats have repeatedly sought to burnish their appeal by hitting Trump over his comments on race, with Biden saying the president's reaction to the 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Va., when he said there were "fine people" among both white nationalists and counter-protesters, helped him decide to jump into the race and several others labeling the president as a bigot.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersRepublicans, rooting for Sanders, see Biden wins as setback Sanders says Biden winning African American support by 'running with his ties to Obama' Sanders condemns his supporters' 'ugly, personal attacks' against Warren MORE (I-Vt.), who faced off against Clinton in the 2016 primary, is banking on strong showings in Texas and California to burnish a strong delegate lead.
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WASHINGTON — Making their closing arguments in a closely watched trial, federal prosecutors and defense lawyers presented diametrically opposed versions of the conduct and motives of Gregory B. Craig, one of Washington's best-known Democratic lawyers, who is accused of lying to the Justice Department about work he did to help a foreign government burnish its reputation in the United States.
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Now, Romney is a senator trying to burnish his "moderate" credentials by acting extremely concerned about Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpMnuchin knocks Greta Thunberg's activism: Study economics and then 'come back' to us The Hill's Morning Report - House prosecutes Trump as 'lawless,' 'corrupt' What to watch for on Day 22020 of Senate impeachment trial MORE's crimes—while doing nothing to stop them.
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READ: Why climate change could sway 2020 voters in Iowa But House members who win tough districts in wave years often believe it's because they've managed to strike the perfect moderate tone, try to burnish that reputation by splitting with their party on key votes, and get wiped out of office anyways when the other party has a good election anyways.
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"Now that Modi is beginning to campaign for another five-year term as prime minister — and hoping to advance his party's particular interpretation of a more coherent and unified polity — part of his campaign strategy is to embrace a tough approach to the insurgencies within India and burnish his credentials as a candidate firm on security," analysts at political consultancy Stratfor said in a note last week.
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Sen. Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Warren offers plan to repeal 1994 crime law authored by Biden Panel: Jill Biden's campaign message MORE (D-Mass.) came out in support of graduate student employees' unionization efforts at the University of Pittsburgh as she tries to burnish her progressive credentials in a Democratic presidential primary field.
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Rather, the more interesting question is whether China can identify and pursue independent moves that burnish Xi's leadership, while tamping down tensions and reducing the risk of a military confrontation between the United States and North Korea, or whether the United States finally takes stronger self-defensive economic measures against North Korea that also prod Chinese firms into going along with efforts to strengthen North Korea's economic isolation.
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The area also carries substantial cultural significance as a sacred place to native Hawaiians, and historical importance as the site of the Battle of Midway, a decisive Allied victory that was a turning point in World War II. For Mr. Obama, the designation comes as he is increasingly looking for ways to burnish his legacy on protecting the planet, by using his authority to preserve huge amounts of pristine space and by demonstrating the depth of his commitment to confronting climate change.
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In his first days in office, 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 engaged in a pair of heated phone calls with Mexico's and Australia's leaders, berating them for what he deemed to be one-sided deals and urging them to make concessions to burnish his own political image.
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And the event will allow him to burnish his image—there is speculation that delegates might honour him by calling his musings "Xi Jinping Thought" (making him the first named leader since Mao to have thought with a capital T). The congress may also offer hints about whether Mr Xi intends to break the unwritten rule that Politburo members retire at 68 (he is currently 63) and stay on beyond 2022, when he would be expected to retire as general secretary were he to stick to the usual ten-year term.
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Sen. Bernie SandersBernie SandersHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' The exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Warren offers plan to repeal 1994 crime law authored by Biden MORE (I-Vt.) announced Thursday he will accompany patients with diabetes on a bus trip to Canada to buy insulin that's available at cheaper prices than in the U.S. The move comes as Sanders seeks to burnish his progressive bona fides as he vows to lower drug costs if elected president.
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During Craig's trial in D.C., prosecutors from the Southern District sat in on some of the testimony as they considered whether to charge anyone else in connection with a FARA violation or other offenses in the effort to burnish Ukraine's image in the U.S. Despite testimony from Gates that he told top lobbyists Vin Weber and Tony Podesta they would be working for the Ukrainian government, soon after the trial wrapped up, prosecutors informed the men they would not face charges despite the fact they did not register until long after the lobbying project concluded.
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