Indeed, they may relish confrontation as burnishing their populist credentials.
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Those that do often have reputations sorely in need of burnishing.
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That brand burnishing is something that could benefit SolarCity, he said.
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Rather than burnishing the image of America, he is tarnishing it.
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But in recent months, Patrick has been burnishing his political profile.
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Even traditionally commoditized food products like milk are burnishing local bona fides.
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It was a brand-burnishing interregnum, a time-limited adventure in egomania.
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Others need help getting restarted or burnishing their skills for today's workforce.
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Expecting a tough general election, Lance has already been burnishing his bipartisan credentials.
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With his visit to Jordan, Corbyn appeared to be burnishing his foreign policy credentials.
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So a reminder of its more sordid past is certainly not burnishing its reputation.
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Undeterred by that defeat, Mr. Kobach spent the next several years burnishing his profile.
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If efforts such as these are aimed at burnishing China's image, then they are working.
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He actively promoted King Bhumibol and supported his anti-poverty initiatives, burnishing the king's image.
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The way to watch is to ignore the image burnishing and just feel the moment.
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Instead it went toward soothing the president's bruised ego and burnishing his tattered self-image.
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At the same time, Okafor was not exactly burnishing a reputation as a lockdown defender.
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The typical student is not the one burnishing a fancy résumé with numerous unpaid internships.
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Or is her primary concern burnishing her own brand as this global human rights super heroine?
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Much thought has gone into burnishing the reputation of the only president to resign the office.
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Instead of arguing with Stevenson's detractors, they're raising the new character's profile and burnishing her reputation.
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It was more concerned with pop moviemaking than with burnishing the larger Marvel brand, per se.
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He has spent the past two years applying elbow grease in the hope of burnishing it.
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All the talk of Game 5 burnishing Irving's legacy could sound pretty funny in three days.
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The award appears to have gone a long way toward burnishing his image on the world stage.
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Until then, we continue burnishing Sotheby's for even more success and being very careful on capital allocation.
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And he devotes more airtime to burnishing his bipartisan credentials than he does to criticizing President Trump.
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Mr. Trudeau, intent on burnishing his environmental credentials, introduced a national carbon tax in his first term.
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In the meantime, he'll enjoy some brand burnishing in non-Trump circles for having followed his conscience.
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Burnishing your image while doing some good is just PR 101, no matter how sincere the motivation is.
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It gets to bring more high-quality publishers onto its platform, burnishing its reputation as a premium brand.
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It was effective at burnishing the administration's environmental legacy, but it added little to its real environmental accomplishments.
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TransCanada called the rejection "a symbolic gesture" aimed at burnishing the Obama administration's image on climate change leadership.
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Mr. Stephen studied pastry in his native Melbourne, Australia, before burnishing his skills in Paris and San Francisco.
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So, Biden must focus in coming days on burnishing his already substantial progressive credentials to unite the party.
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Mr. Stone began burnishing his legend as a 19-year-old political wunderkind willing to break the rules.
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He spent the last few years of his life burnishing the story of the Bauhaus and managing its legacy.
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She remains a tart-tongued raconteur, intent as ever on burnishing or, if need be, entirely revising her legend.
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Vans has sponsored the Warped Tour since its second year and credits the festival with burnishing its countercultural image.
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Mayfield quickly pulled his hand away, clapped a couple of times and set about burnishing his Heisman Trophy candidacy.
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He now appears bent on burnishing his legacy by making the country financially self-sufficient again during his tenure.
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She sees her notoriety as a political asset, burnishing her credentials as a fearless speaker of truth to power.
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The move was widely celebrated in the news media, burnishing the popularity of India's tough-talking prime minister, Narendra Modi.
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Despite image-burnishing attempts like the crown prince's Silicon Valley tour, Saudi Arabia remains a paragon of human rights abuse.
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Consumers and investors approve of the green energy, and burnishing the company's environmental credentials helps attract potential employees, she said.
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The past week has arguably been one of the most significant in burnishing President Obama's legacy in the business world.
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They're in the public sphere today, and they've got an interest, however conscious or subconscious, and kind of burnishing an image.
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Turkey's president has a knack for summoning (and burnishing) the legacy of the Ottoman Empire, including its laudable record on religious freedoms.
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The World Cup has transformed Russian cities, but some changes were merely facades aimed at burnishing a grim reality for foreign eyes.
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While he was burnishing his cult of personality, he also became the newest entrant in the "world leaders on horseback" photo genre.
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Admittedly, convincing lawmakers to relinquish such prime image-burnishing opportunities seems as likely as Jared Kushner bringing peace to the Middle East.
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Trump appears more interested in burnishing his own reputation as a negotiator -- better than his predecessors -- than in almost any other consideration.
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But for now it seems to view them as family-friendly brand-burnishing products it can use to highlight its video capabilities.
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However, his acknowledgement of his character flaws at least makes this rollicking memoir more than just one long excuse for burnishing his legacy.
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Support from the 29 year-old Ocasio-Cortez would go a long way toward burnishing Pelosi's credibility with the next generation of liberals.
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Displayed, too, are the tools for applying them: ermine and squirrel hairs for brushes, animal teeth and hard stones for burnishing gold leaf.
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Ms. Longshore's installation, besides burnishing her credentials, was expected to boost traffic on the store's customarily sedate home goods floor, Mr. Mandell said.
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Critics accused the White House of being media-obsessed, led by a president more focused on burnishing his image than pursuing policy goals.
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That is why burnishing the aura of power with gratuitous displays like a military parade with no obvious occasion are constitutionally ill advised.
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And he focused on burnishing his bipartisan credentials while in office -- most notably by driving from Texas to Washington, DC, with Democratic Rep.
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She begins with coating the plate with light-sensitive material, then exposing and developing it and further enhancing it with burnishing and highlights.
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After all, a European trip focused on burnishing foreign policy credentials would probably have places like London, Paris, and Berlin on the itinerary.
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Some analysts say that could tip Europe back into a recession, piling more pressure on the global economy, and burnishing the appetite for gold.
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This raises a question about whether attracting visitors of color is primarily about burnishing the museum's tarnished reputation rather than shifting its underlying character.
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Burnishing his conservative credentials, Mr. Cochran voted for farm price supports for cotton, rice and tobacco, and opposed cuts for the B-22015 bomber.
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The hope is that new businesses will follow apartment dwellers downtown, creating a pedestrian-friendly core, burnishing the city's cachet and bolstering property values.
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Gucci Mane's musical career has been inseparable from the criminal career that has frequently interrupted it, burnishing his legend while sabotaging his professional prospects.
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TransCanada called the rejection "a symbolic gesture" aimed at burnishing the Obama administration's leadership on climate change in the eyes of the international community.
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But it nevertheless proved salutary in the long run, restoring businesses' animal spirits and burnishing the reputation of gold's most prescient critic, John Maynard Keynes.
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Mr. Trump is not the only contender to make the calculation that running for president is win-win, burnishing "brand" value even for the losers.
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By putting Larsen (who's only 48), Stras (42), and Thapar (48) on appeals courts, Trump is further burnishing their credentials for future Supreme Court vacancies.
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Burnishing the original architecture with elaborate yet subtle finishes and bold colors, he has created three backdrops, each showcasing a different part of his personality.
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The pieces are then flattened with a burnishing bone and cut to size to be assembled into a decorative pattern and glued onto a surface.
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If your business depends on bringing in more and more investment, isn't your first priority burnishing your public image for having special skills and insight?
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The clean transportation plan and oil tax are a way of burnishing that legacy and putting the media spotlight on to the administration's climate policy.
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She's been able to succeed where other Republicans have failed by burnishing her bipartisan credentials and has thrived even in tough election cycles for her party.
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Burnishing his reputation as a big bank critic, Sanders has singled out Goldman for criticism in the past, saying it represents the excesses on Wall Street.
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Some of the videos and other messages uploaded into the digital universe by the White House have gone viral, burnishing Mr. Obama's image with younger people.
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He bounced between Last Rites and East Side Ink, two of New York's best known high-end tattoo shops, burnishing his star and alienating his bosses.
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Thus this puzzle was born and tempered, and after a bit of further burnishing under excellent care, may it bring to many a lovely solving experience.
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But in communities where academic expectations run highest, the real culprit is panic: about acing the exam, burnishing the transcript, keeping up with high-achieving peers.
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A native of Sevier County, Ms. Parton has become one of the area's most prominent benefactors, and the gesture burnished a reputation that needs no burnishing.
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However, while Obama and Romney spent their trips meeting with political leaders and burnishing their foreign policy credentials, Trump appears to be traveling in a nonpolitical capacity.
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Chapman had come on in relief for Lester, who allowed five hits, walked none and struck out five, further burnishing his reputation as a big-game pitcher.
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At the Rio Olympics, the Americans kept firing, burnishing their veneer of invincibility with a 57-point thrashing of China and a 44-point rout of Venezuela.
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How much does the average tenant make in salary, he asked, and do the companies worry that they're burnishing the already obnoxious stereotype of the wealthy techie?
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The episode even ends with Darius not getting the piano in the end, the kind of winking, status quo-burnishing conclusion that American sitcoms have always favored.
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The school, student activists now say, has been overly obsessed with burnishing credentials, turning a blind eye to concerns about the behavior of its alumni and faculty.
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Beijing's steady hand on the yuan's tiller in a week that saw global asset prices buffeted over tensions in the Middle East is also burnishing its appeal.
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The sudden interest by Waymo in burnishing its AI credentials is tied with its high-stakes effort to deploy vehicles that don't require someone in the driver's seat.
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The sheriff should "focus on preparing for Irma, not burnishing your Joe Arpaio-style 'tough cop' credentials with irresponsible tweets," The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida said.
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It helps that they have a roster of experienced and familiar grown-ups on the Philadelphia podium burnishing that argument — Michelle Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, Elizabeth Warren.
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It's worth keeping in mind as Valeant talks of an accounting restatement that the company has been far more aggressive than its peers in burnishing its financial results.
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Mr. Cuomo sought to raise doubts about Ms. Nixon's qualifications — she has never held elected office — to serve and succeed as governor, while simultaneously burnishing his own credentials.
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Soon after becoming president Donald Trump invited truckers to the White House, climbed into a big rig and blasted its air horn, burnishing his blue-collar rebel credentials.
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It is the biggest delegation the Yankees have sent since 19943, and none of the players are older than Betances, burnishing the sheen on the Yankees' youthful retooling.
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For Trump, the decision seems to be in part about burnishing his reputation, at least among his supporters, as a president who acts while other politicians merely talk.
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Sadiq Khan, his successor, is burnishing his chances of becoming Labour leader by running one of the world's great cities rather than marching to disaster next to Jeremy Corbyn.
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The Trump administration — led by Jared Kushner — has been burnishing the Saudis and MBS' image as a visionary-reformer as a key to unlocking peace in the Middle East.
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When I stop in front of the gate, she's in the center of the yard, a mallet raised above her head, the spotlight she works under burnishing her curls.
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Najib and his ruling party have been burnishing their Islamic credentials with the aim of boosting their chances in the general election, which must be held by mid-2018.
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And, of course, Ms. Blanchett, who graces this new adaptation of "Platonov," an early Chekhov play, is not merely a movie star burnishing her reputation with a Broadway debut.
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As well as burnishing his legacy, such a move would also put responsibility for fixing an impoverished country riven by decades of ethnic conflict squarely on Suu Kyi, they say.
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Like his Democratic antecedents, O'Connor has outraised his opponent in campaign cash, deploying that advantage early on TV ads burnishing his centrist bona fides: He tied himself to Republican Gov.
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These shows are good for raising galleries' profiles and burnishing their brands, and also as selling tools, even though the art in them is usually borrowed and not for sale.
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What minimum outcomes from the next meeting could convince cynics the negotiations actually are accomplishing something and not just satisfying the leaders' egos and burnishing their domestic and international images?
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But there would be no such billionaire to step forward to buy Sports Illustrated, which, despite its proud history in sports journalism, doesn't have quite the same image-burnishing cache.
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If you hadn't noticed the ghosts before, they were now front and center — from 19th-century schoolchildren to rows of gun-burnishing guards in front of the museum's shooting range.
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Billions Among other things, "Billions" is a show about American aristocracy, of two men burnishing a legacy that will etch their families' names in the firmament for generations to come.
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But behind-the-scenes funding for the all-expenses-paid meeting came from SOCAR, the state-owned oil company, amid an image-burnishing effort by Azerbaijan's authoritarian leader, Ilham Aliyev.
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Formula E recently reported record revenues and a first ever profit and, burnishing environmentally-conscious credentials with an emphasis on sustainability, feels increasingly in tune with the spirit of the times.
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Her creative direction of the Langham Chicago, which opened in 2013 in a skyscraper built by Mies van der Rohe, won praise, but burnishing that brand felt insufficient as a calling.
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EVEN THE Holy See's greatest defenders would acknowledge this much: this is not an easy time for the Vatican to be burnishing its credentials as a defender of vulnerable youngsters from exploitation.
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But his passion for perfecting every last detail of events — and for burnishing Mr. Cuomo's image — was well-known on the Capitol's second floor, where he occupied an office near the governor's.
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Even if there is bluster aplenty and a long way to go, though, the fact that politicians are burnishing their reputations through public services, rather than patronage alone, is a step forward.
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Some civilian critics, meanwhile, see him as a man intent on protecting officers and burnishing his own reputation, even if it threatens prospects for improving the relationship between the police and minorities.
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Powerful K Street lobbyists, including Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign manager and convicted felon, have made their fortunes by burnishing the images of strongman leaders in the eyes of Washington policymakers.
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Such trips pose risks for any candidate, but particularly one moored to a private enterprise rather than to burnishing foreign policy credentials, particularly at a moment of deep political tumult in Britain.
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He says he wants to prove that government can do big things, but the plans also appear aimed at burnishing his legacy, possibly with an eye toward seeking higher office in 2020.
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In the early going, it's a chatty, beautifully acted drama, both about the relationship between Charlie and Eli Sisters and about how they make people suffer in order to keep burnishing their reputation.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York City Marathon's wheelchair champions Daniel Romanchuk and Manuela Schar once again dominated the competition on Sunday, burnishing their reputation as the most fearsome figures in the sport.
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After loudly criticizing Amazon earlier this year over its wages and treatment of workers, he is now attacking Walmart on the same issues — burnishing his credentials as a champion of the working class.
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It was late 2001 and Mr. Giuliani, despite having withdrawn from his Senate race against Hillary Clinton the year before, was burnishing his national image after his widely applauded handling of 9/11.
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It's worth noting that Ivanka has an advice book out now, full of vague or otherwise impractical tips that are best understood as an exercise in burnishing her image as a successful, professional woman.
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"If Lean In were to have a future, I think it would have to partner with other organizations ... and focus less on the hashtag shit and burnishing the image of Lean In," said Alptraum.
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Burnishing his man of action image, Putin spent Saturday diving to the bottom of the Gulf of Finland in a mini-submarine to honor a Soviet submarine that sunk there in World War Two.
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"We have a 1-to-3-year window to capitalize on an online approach," White said, adding that Wolaco is burnishing a brand via its website, a growing presence on Amazon and social media.
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Netanyahu -- known to supporters and detractors alike as "Bibi" -- focused on burnishing his status as a global player with close ties to both the President of the United States and the President of Russia.
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But years of purges and reform under Mr. Erdogan have dented the military's power, and the failure of last year's coup attempt damaged the army's cohesion and prestige while burnishing Mr. Erdogan's own reputation.
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Though he may be far less wealthy, Trump has been more open about his wealth obsession, devoting enormous effort across many decades to the pursuit of riches and to burnishing his image as a billionaire.
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Gold has benefited from the uncertainty on the timing of the next U.S. rate hike, burnishing its safe-haven draw that has been on full display since the year began as investors shunned risky assets.
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An injury-hampered Kyrgios bowed out of the opening round of the U.S. Open with an assortment of fines, a smashed racket and a tantrum, while burnishing his reputation as the tour's most talented slacker.
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" Michael Kimmel, a sociologist who has written extensively about modern men, told me that while he couldn't know the ratio of earnestness to image burnishing in Ryan's proclamation, "it's interesting that it has currency now.
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They are running in a state where the GOP's marquee candidate will boost the fortunes of his fellow Republican candidates via the targeting and mobilization of Republican voters and the burnishing of the party's image.
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Xi's first five-year term saw him steadily consolidate power at home through a shock-and-awe anti-corruption campaign while burnishing his credentials as a confident leader championing China's interests on the world stage.
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But the promotion says as much about Turcke's boss, Commissioner Roger Goodell, and what he hopes to achieve in his remaining years at the league, as it does about burnishing the N.F.L.'s public image.
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Still, the test will help Kim further consolidate his power by burnishing his image as a powerful leader and satisfying the government's hard-line military constituency, at the beginning of a big year for North Korea.
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As chaos engulfs the White House and the State Department descends into irrelevance, the former South Carolina governor has emerged as a vigorous, independent voice in U.S. foreign policy, burnishing her credentials within the Republican Party.
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Four years later, Bill Clinton rushed back to Arkansas from the campaign trail to oversee the execution of a mentally disabled man convicted of killing a police officer, burnishing an image of being tough on crime.
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Early versions of school resource officer programs — in Flint and Saginaw, Michigan; Tucson, Arizona; and Miami, Florida— were focused on burnishing the image of law enforcement in the eyes of children, developing a trusting relationship early on.
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Critics said the case itself showed he was unfit to be prime minister although other commentators suggested it could boost his leadership campaign by burnishing the anti-establishment image the Eton and Oxford-educated Johnson has cultivated.
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Despite being off the campaign trail, Scott will be a near-constant presence on television as the storm approaches, updating residents on the state's preparations and burnishing his image as a crisis manager weeks before the Nov.
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But he and Governor Andrew Cuomo, a fellow Democrat who spent the last year burnishing his own progressive bona fides while running for another term, had argued that the deal's job creation benefits far outweighed any cost.
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MAUCHLINE, Scotland (Reuters) - John Brown has lovingly polished each and every one of the curling stones to be used at the Pyeongchang Olympics, buffing and burnishing the granite in a workshop whose machines look older than him.
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His management style—fomenting chaos and insecurity among his subordinates so they compete to please him—might have served him well as an entertainer but less well in enterprises that involve more than performance and brand-burnishing.
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SAN FRANCISCO/SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has wowed the smartphone industry with the first foldable screen, burnishing its innovation credentials, banishing "fast follower" criticism and, at nearly $26,22, setting a new standard in premium pricing.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The German economy picked up steam in the first quarter helped by strong exports, booming construction and higher household and state spending, burnishing Chancellor Angela Merkel's economic credentials as she gears up for national elections.
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But it might be good this weekend to do some burnishing of your pie-making skills, or to smoke-test some new recipes for the holiday table: stuffing-stuffed mushrooms, say, or corn casserole, or mushroom bread pudding.
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By not speaking publicly, he insulated his office from credible accusations of leaks and evaded Mr. Trump's attacks on the inquiry, burnishing Mr. Mueller's image as an apolitical arbiter supervising the most politically consequential investigation in a generation.
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But by the end of "Always at the Carlyle," which is more interested in burnishing a reputation than in exploring it, the introduction seems to operate more like the ill-advised topic sentence for this superficial love letter.
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The strategy she came up with is credited by some as driving then Prime Minister Gordon Brown's subsequent bank bailout plan, burnishing her credentials for her latest role - representing major banks as Britain negotiates to leave the European Union.
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Mr. Putin has achieved his main goals in Syria, including shoring up Moscow's foremost Arab ally; preventing the West from forcing a leadership change from the outside; and burnishing Russia's image as a major player on the world stage.
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That might be a myth of course, and "Garry Winogrand," directed by Sasha Waters Freyer, follows the American Masters template in burnishing the artist's legend, even as it also brings a gently skeptical perspective to bear on his achievements.
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The further the story develops, the more this lack of conspicuous magnetism reads like a deliberate choice, a strategic way of taking away some of the odious star power and fame-burnishing mystery that Manson accrued over the years.
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Such generosity and care, for the journalists, reflects the role that so many of them have played in burnishing the mythology of the Masters; it also suggests an effort to keep them away from the course and the clubhouse.
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The feud between Trump and McCain has been legacy-defining for both men, burnishing the president's reputation as a man who wasn't beholden to the GOP of old and the latter as a maverick willing to defy his party.
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Although he offered his help in burnishing Qatar's reputation in 2010, Nuseibeh has close links to the U.A.E. elite: He is a relative of both the U.A.E.'s minister of state and the country's ambassador to the United Nations.
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Perhaps he is burnishing his credentials for some post-electoral enterprise; it has long been rumoured that he means to launch a conservative media company targeted at the "alt-right", a fringe of racists and conspiracy theorists, after the election.
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She trained for it, nabbing degrees in entrepreneurship at Zhejiang University, Purdue University and Ecode de Management de Lyon while also burnishing her operating skills via a marketing stint at Proctor & Gamble, and strategy consulting at Estrin & Co. in Paris.
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He has spent the past few years burnishing his pro-European credentials, but some suspect he will now take a populist turn to engineer a return to power—or simply manipulate his replacement, Peter Pellegrini, from his perch as party chairman.
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Ankara has invested heavily in Somalia over the past five years, with one eye on rich economic pickings should stability ever return and the other on burnishing President Tayyip Erdogan's image of Turkey as a global promoter of compassionate Islam.
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They were all too happy to say that the sky was not blue if it meant burnishing their credentials as serious and objective, and fell over each other to back away from what was right in front of their eyes.
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The face-altering effects being offered here are more obviously aimed at burnishing and beautifying the appearance of selfies, which FaceApp is hoping people will be willing to pay for, including a "makeup" filter and a "hipster", goatee-adding option.
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It's safe to say that Carlson was doing two things: trying to claim the scalp of someone who is incidental to his vision for the future of the Republican Party, while burnishing his own reputation as an enemy of corrupt elites.
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At one extreme is a company like Boeing, which, as I noted last week, has thrived by burnishing its ties to Mr. Trump, who posed for photos in front of a 787 Dreamliner at a nonunion Boeing plant in South Carolina.
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TOKYO, May 212 (Reuters) - Japanese stocks rose in thin, choppy trade on Tuesday morning as growing expectations of an imminent U.S. interest rate hike helped the dollar hold onto recent gains against the yen, burnishing the profit outlook for Japan's exporters.
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But a government campaign to streamline China's bloated mining industries and crimp supply that has dragged on global commodity markets has buoyed hopes of an enduring recovery in prices of materials such as iron ore and copper, burnishing their appeal to fund managers.
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And if other star players are sufficiently eager to play alongside Neymar that they too transfer to PSG, further burnishing its brand and propelling it to a series of Champions League titles, the eye-popping deal might actually wind up paying off.
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As more business leaders stand up for L.G.B.T. rights, which they deem important to assembling the best work force and burnishing their brands, more politicians find that their own positions can have a serious impact on their relationship with the corporate community.
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So uneasy is he with self-promotion and image-burnishing that he rarely photographed the pieces he made for Progetto Domestico until a year or two ago, and never kept much of an archive — he just let them go out the door.
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"Trump loves optics, and he loves brands, and he has been burnishing the optics of the presidency, which he thinks need to be dramatically improved," said Christopher Ruddy, the chief executive of the conservative Newsmax Media and a longtime friend of Mr. Trump.
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Branching into b2b looks a more solid strategic step for Prisma, positioning the team to offer developers an accelerated route for burnishing the feature-set/UX of their own apps, and selling these b2b services with the help of demonstrable AI-powered visual effects expertise.
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ATHLETICS-NYC-ROMANCHUK Romanchuk, Schar the unstoppable stars of wheelchair racing NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York City Marathon's wheelchair champions Daniel Romanchuk and Manuela Schar once again dominated the competition on Sunday, burnishing their reputation as the most fearsome figures in the sport.
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Mr. Biden dived into Ukraine in hopes of burnishing his statesman credentials at a time when he seemed to be winding down his political career, as his elder son, Beau, was dying and his younger one, Hunter, was struggling with addiction and financial problems.
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While the burnishing process was in progress the other day a number of suspicious yellow spots suddenly made their appearance, and upon a close investigation of these phenomena it was discovered that the famous harness was not silver after all, but only plated brass.
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And amid persistent speculation that Mr. Cuomo might be eyeing a presidential bid, some saw the move as a way of building his national profile and burnishing his liberal credentials, by throwing his lot in with Mr. Murphy, who ran on a progressive agenda.
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The "Ultimate Deal" lurks in the background During the race, Netanyahu -- known to supporters and detractors alike as "Bibi" -- focused on burnishing his status as a global player with close ties to both the President of the United States and the President of Russia.
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IL has been promoted by the Israeli government, including on a website run by the Ministry of Strategic Affairs, the government department tasked with burnishing Israel's image abroad and fighting the international BDS campaign to boycott, sanction, and divest from Israel over its treatment of Palestinians.
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Some of the websites created for the front companies in the operation have unusual ties to a string of sites an expert says are aimed at burnishing the online reputation of a Russian oligarch, as well as to an individual based in Israel and a web developer in Romania.
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Women took purposeful steps to reshape their fortunes while, on the other side of the fence, our beloved Tyrion Lannsplained slavery to former slaves and the High Sparrow did his usual poverty-porn self-mythologizing for Margaery, who sees his empty brand-burnishing pieties for what they really are.
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The network that championed "Rock the Vote" in the 1990s and tackled issues like abortion and AIDS on "The Real World" is burnishing its activist credentials again amid a new wave of teens fighting for a change using non-traditional methods to promote causes ranging from gun control to gay rights.
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If Trump were truly driven by an obsession with burnishing his own political legitimacy, his optimal strategy would be to downplay the effect that Russian actions had in 2016 while taking steps to assure that his re-election campaign doesn't become tainted with the same stench as his first one.
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The measure, which puts additional obstacles in front of women in a country where abortion can already be difficult to obtain, established Verona as Italy's conservative center, a reputation that will receive further burnishing starting Friday, when this city in Italy's north plays host to the annual World Congress of Families.
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Visitors to the Oval Office say Mr. Trump is obsessed with the décor — it is both a totem of a victory that validates him as a serious person and an image-burnishing backdrop — so he has told his staff to schedule as many televised events in the room as possible.
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Gary Barnett, president and founder of Extell Development Company, said that he fully expected that with the anticipation of a significant corporate tax cut driving up the stock market, people will be motivated to invest in real assets, further burnishing New York's reputation as a safe haven for foreign capital.
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In the parlor game that has captivated Israel in recent weeks, some on the right, though, fear that Mr. Mandelblit could take a tough line against his one-time patron to prove his independence, burnishing his credentials for what they suspect is his ambition to serve on the Supreme Court.
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Andrew Cuomo, fighting a tough reelection battle while also burnishing his resume for a possible presidential run, is touting big, high-profile infrastructure projects like the $4 billion Mario Cuomo Bridge over the Hudson River, nearing completion north of New York City, and the $219 billion renovation of New York's LaGuardia Airport.
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Unlike Obama, however, Booker failed to lay a foundation by burnishing his bipartisan and foreign policy credentials before turning to his campaign themes, Link said, suggesting Booker didn't talk enough early on about his seat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and his bipartisan work on criminal justice reform and opportunity zones.
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So naturally, our poor tech CEO has to oppose Trump, and what better way to do so while burnishing their progressive credentials than by giving their employees paid time off to protest the administration, all in the hope that those protests will change policy so that those very employees can be replaced by cheap labor from overseas?
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Washington books tend to be dull by design: the safe campaign memoir by a senator or governor, bloodlessly telling of his or her rise as he or she prepares to embark on a White House run, or the legacy-burnishing memoir by a retired cabinet official, recounting equally bloodless tales of challenges met, competitors bested and obstacles overcome.
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Bloomberg is one of just three candidates in the crowded field who skipped the interview for the coveted primary endorsement, opening up the former New York City mayor to criticism that he is making an end run around the traditional primary vetting process by refusing to defend his record while financing an avalanche of TV ads burnishing his image.
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Does throwing down the literal death dunk, the dunk that killed, add an unspoken edge to his legend, burnishing his reputation and making him a totem of fear for the rest of his career, a career that is much the same as the one he has, but marked by, in addition to unceasing victory and success, The Specter of Death Itself?
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The visual legacy of this moment — in which young people burnishing Czech flags, middle-aged ladies their handbags, and old men their satchels all put their bodies in front of soldiers and tanks — is most closely associated with the images of Josef Koudelka (on view now in a large retrospective of the photographer's work at the newly re-opened Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague).
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I bobbed along with the pumped-up crowd, up and over the gridlock (motorcycle crash), collecting fliers written in Mandarin, passing smiling food vendors, and burnishing my half-baked thinkpiece—"CES gets compared to a carnival, but CES Asia really feels like one"—and we finally arrived at the entrance to the Shanghai New International Exposition Center, marked by a slightly dystopian-looking banner.
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You may find you need more time flexibility; you have been out of the job market for years and so your confidence is knocked; your skills are no longer as relevant as they were before; or you just want to rethink your career; plus many employers — whether they say it or not — seem less interested in you because of all of the above, and no level of burnishing your resume on LinkedIn will help.
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