That made the white bikes something of a cause célèbre.
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And it's been something of a cause célèbre ever since.
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Her defiance of her captors made her a cause célèbre.
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They briefly helped make Salento's wax palms a cause célèbre.
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His case was a cause célèbre for many devout Christians.
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Ted Cruz last year made O'Rourke a liberal cause célèbre.
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The lawsuit quickly became a cause célèbre in Turkey and abroad.
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His case has become a cause célèbre for Mr. Trump's supporters.
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Last fall its fate became something of a local cause célèbre.
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The cause célèbre, in other words, has become a cause celeb.
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D'Souza's case was a cause célèbre for many on the right.
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Her athletic eligibility became a cause célèbre in the past week.
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Mozambique's cashew industry became a cause célèbre for anti-globalisation activists.
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The comments jolted Washington, and Trump himself made Ellis a cause célèbre.
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The push to release the memo became a cause célèbre among conservatives.
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Conservatives are trying to turn one page's temporary suspension into a cause célèbre.
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Along the way, their relationship has become a cause célèbre on the pool deck.
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"This thing has become a Democrat cause célèbre," Rove said on Fox News Thursday.
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Then one for a former Navy sailor whose case was a conservative cause célèbre.
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This is a cause célèbre for conservatives, who argue their voices have been silenced.
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Slick Rick was, at times, a cause célèbre, but largely among the genre's elders.
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The compelling demo made That Dragon, Cancer a cause célèbre within the indie game community.
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But arresting Gross, or someone like him, will create a hero, an international cause célèbre.
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He also trails Mr. Buttigieg, who has become a cause célèbre for many party donors.
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"Nor do their cases share the same 'glam' and celebrity factor as this cause célèbre."
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Mr Robinson has become a cause célèbre for far-right activists across Europe and in America.
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The memo, like the texts, has become a kind of cause célèbre in the conservative movement.
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" His case became a cause célèbre for some on the right, who cheered Trump's decision. "Bravo!
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After a summer when the burkini became an international cause célèbre, it's not an irrelevant question.
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What's the point: Many liberals have made it a cause célèbre to try to defeat Cruz.
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No matter how nuanced the actual curation, it could easily devolve into a popular cause célèbre.
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A lot of the initial enthusiasm for his project dimmed, although it became a cause célèbre elsewhere.
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Mr. Brunson's imprisonment has become a cause célèbre among evangelicals, an important voting constituency for Mr. Trump.
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The Tennessee convict whose plight became a cause célèbre is due to restart her life. Then-Gov.
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Several visitors stood transfixed, staring at and photographing the Burberry glasses, which soon became a cause célèbre.
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This case is reminiscent of the 2002 gang rape of Mukhtar Mai, who became an international cause célèbre.
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She just wanted a quick abortion and had no inkling that the case would become a cause célèbre.
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No, I just remember too many seasons when Royal became a waiver wire cause célèbre and did nothing thereafter.
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As the Dakota Access Pipeline becomes a global indigenous rights cause célèbre, the injustices are becoming harder to ignore.
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The issue of free speech on college campuses has for years been a cause célèbre among young conservative activists.
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After video of her arrest at a Brooklyn social-services office went viral, Jazmine Headley became a cause célèbre.
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Savage publicly protested, and the rejection became a cause célèbre covered by newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic.
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The boy's fate had become a cause célèbre in Kosovo and the government was under pressure to rescue him.
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They stand to make Keystone XL a cause célèbre in the tradition of the long-postponed Dakota Access Pipeline.
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His imprisonment had become an international cause célèbre; his wife, Lilian Tintori, had visited Donald Trump in the White House.
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What appears to have induced Trump to take the call is the island's cause célèbre role with right-wing Republicans.
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But it was in the runup to her 2016 run that it — and Shelton herself — became a conservative cause célèbre.
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The Marie-Simone case became a cause célèbre, and the victim, with the support of some Algerians, eventually obtained justice.
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L'affaire Marie-Simone est devenue une cause célèbre et la victime, soutenue par des algériens, a fini par obtenir justice.
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The photograph of his mutilated face turned the killing into a cause célèbre in Chicago, where the picture was published.
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Their case had become an international cause célèbre, with journalists, human rights activists and world leaders calling for their release.
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The issue has become a cause célèbre among conservatives, who argue that their voices are being silenced on liberal campuses.
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Browder's case became a cause célèbre for bail reform efforts, as it encapsulated the issue of cash bail's fundamental unfairness.
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Take, for instance, the way pornographer Larry Flynt became a cause célèbre for freedom of speech in the United States.
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In handling his case, the government needs to tread carefully, ensuring that it does not transform him into a cause célèbre.
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Long before abortion became the cause célèbre of the 1980s evangelical, the group was marked by its opposition to racial integration.
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And in the UK, where Brexit is the cause célèbre of populist politicians the world over, attacks on minorities have increased.
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Yet in the meantime, the project became such a cause célèbre for Democrats that it still resonates on the campaign trail.
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"It is a real cause célèbre," she said by phone on Wednesday, as both sides want "actual ownership" of the marbles.
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In Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, she has become a cause célèbre, and about 2,000 people rallied in her support on Sunday.
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"Net neutrality is slightly easier because it's become a cause célèbre, it's very popular," said Katharine Trendacosta, policy analyst at EFF.
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His case became a cause célèbre among Koreans in the United States, and his trial was closely followed in South Korea.
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It has become an environmental cause célèbre across Australia, with legal challenges, protests and celebrities painting "Stop Adani" on their cheeks.
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The case became a cause célèbre, and America adopted a law barring entry to officials suspected of involvement in the lawyer's death.
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The missionaries bringing them to Christ stood by the Cherokee, making their removal a cause célèbre in liberal circles throughout the Northeast.
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Wukan became a cause célèbre in 2011 when Mr Lin led prolonged protests against the alleged seizure of land by local officials.
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During the Obama administration, the centrist cause célèbre was the national debt, with elites urging the two parties to balance America's budget.
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President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Thursday on a cause célèbre for conservative activists: upholding free speech on college campuses.
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The song was also downloaded 22,000 times and received an increase in radio play as it became a cause célèbre this month.
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Prodded by Fox News, Mr. Trump has made Chief Gallagher a cause célèbre, trumpeting him as an argument for his re-election.
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Laura Moser, an early cause célèbre for progressives this election cycle, badly lost a Tuesday night Democratic congressional primary in the Houston suburbs.
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Al-Qunun, 18, became an international cause célèbre earlier this month when she took to social media after her transoceanic journey went awry.
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She quickly became a cause célèbre; in October 2014, still in a Russian jail cell, she was elected to Ukraine's parliament, the Rada.
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The protests became something of a cause célèbre in the fall of 2016, but were initially not well covered by mainstream American media.
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Police responded by blockading the village, turning it into a cause célèbre—including in some of the feistier of China's heavily censored media.
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The case eventually became a global cause célèbre; Bob Dylan wrote a song about it, Denzel Washington starred in a movie about it.
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Savchenko's case became a cause célèbre in her home country with her countrymen hailing her as a symbol of Ukrainian defiance and identity.
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The wife of Vice-President Mike Pence — an "award-winning watercolor artist" in her own right — she has made art therapy her cause célèbre.
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But they've become the latest cause célèbre amongst the crowd that believes that Zuckerberg and Facebook have long sought to tamp down conservative voices.
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For a neofolkie heartthrob and indie cause célèbre like Bon Iver's Justin Vernon to release a whole album deconstructing his voice is quite another.
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In France, however, the cause célèbre of the press is a centrist figure intent on making the old divisions of left and right obsolete.
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What makes this particular food unique is that it's the first to be modified by CRISPR, the current cause célèbre of the biotech world.
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In just a few months, blockchain went from the cause célèbre of crypto-anarchists and tech evangelists to the biggest idea in mainstream banking.
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Harris introduced, in the days leading up to the second debate, her own version of Medicare-for-all, the cause célèbre of the left.
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Ms. Manning, a transgender woman, became a cause célèbre for free speech advocates and for gay and transgender activists while she was in prison.
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And in 2014, a cause célèbre about a criminal ring of women who drugged men and stole their money dominated tabloid headlines for months.
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But I also think that the sheer fact this became (if even for a moment) a cause célèbre is a sign of the times.
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Their case became a cause célèbre in London, including a last-ditch — but ultimately unsuccessful — effort in Parliament to keep them from being extradited.
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It's the latest example of Trump using a near-limitless presidential power in the service of a cause célèbre for extreme segments of the right.
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In Los Angeles, a city obsessed with Playmates, moral superiority, and celebrity attorneys like Mesereau, Mathers's case has become a bizarre cyber-bullying cause célèbre.
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His case, which became something of a cause célèbre, helped cement the friendship between Murray and Eleanor Roosevelt, who had grown interested in Waller's plight.
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Ms. Dixon's death became a feminist cause célèbre after some women accused the authorities of suggesting that women were responsible for preventing attacks against them.
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He joined the defense team for the former Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher in a war-crimes case that became a cause célèbre for the president.
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And Trump clearly was not happy with the application of law and rules to Gallagher after the SEAL became a cause célèbre on Fox News.
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As the case goes to trial on Wednesday, Mr. Hernandez has become a cause célèbre for some critics of New York City's criminal justice system.
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And he's become somewhat of a cause célèbre among the far right and some conservatives, who believe the ban on Jones violated the First Amendment.
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Convincing President Donald Trump to pardon Gallagher and others accused of war crimes has become a cause célèbre in conservative media and among some top Republicans.
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In 2014, her case became a cause célèbre in El Salvador when a group of lawyers requested a presidential pardon for Vásquez and 16 other women.
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The move draws attention to both the horror of the conflict and the growing willingness of well-known Americans to adopt it as a cause célèbre.
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This Palestinian doctor, pictured with his family, has become a cause célèbre in Israel after helping save the lives of Jewish settlers in the West Bank.
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The crisis in Darfur, Sudan, for instance, became a national cause célèbre in the early 2000s even though it had little direct effect on American interests.
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The case has become a cause célèbre in Kiev, Ukraine's capital, where Ms. Savchenko was elected to Parliament in September 2014, three months after her capture.
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Vergennes forwarded it to Washington, and it became a cause célèbre in the new nation, exactly because of its call to a reciprocal humanity of suffering.
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If he's refusing to support them, it's unlikely that the Oregon confrontation will become a cause célèbre among conservatives the way the Bundy Ranch standoff did.
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He then became an American cause célèbre, was released from Romania, reunited with his parents in New York and was ultimately photographed with President Dwight Eisenhower.
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Mr. Carmody's case has become a cause célèbre for press advocates, who say his journalism is protected by the First Amendment and a California shield law.
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The firing of a Google programmer who authored a controversial memo criticizing the company's diversity initiatives has become a cause célèbre for many on the right.
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Russian officials contend that the Magnitsky case, which became a cause célèbre in Washington, was a fraud concocted by the West to justify sanctions against Russian citizens.
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In August, Cynthia Lee rebutted the memo that made Damore a cause célèbre in some corners of the right: I'm a lecturer in computer science at Stanford.
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His feature stories about the NBA, and particularly his profiles of NBA players, were cause célèbre among basketball fans each time a new one hit the homepage.
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Over the next 14 months, Gomez brought widespread attention to Hernandez's story in the New York press, transforming the then 16-year-old into a cause célèbre.
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It has become such a cause célèbre that "democratizing finance" could almost be considered its own fintech category, whose hallmarks include: But is unrestricted access always good?
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The findings also became a cause célèbre among climate change denialists, who cited the papers as evidence that concerns about global warming were at the least overblown.
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"Mental health is clearly becoming a much talked about subject, but we need to make sure it doesn't become a cause célèbre or a fad," he said.
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It might be interesting to watch how Taystee handles being turned into a cause célèbre, but Orange Is the New Black keeps getting distracted by other things.
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This has not stopped anti-abortion campaigners from publicly naming the baby Faustina — which comes from the Latin faustus, meaning "fortunate" — and adopting her as a cause célèbre.
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When another inmate claimed to recognise her as a Romanov princess, a fevered search for the woman's true identity was triggered and became a decades-long cause célèbre.
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The trial has become heavily politicized in Israel, with the soldier turning into a cause célèbre for right-wing politicians — including, prior to becoming defense minister, Avigdor Lieberman.
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This movement, which became an international cause célèbre, became known as "Rhodes Must Fall," and everyone involved was of one mind on the imperative demanded by its name.
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Sostre became something of a cause célèbre, drawing the attention and support of left-leaning figures like Jean-Paul Sartre, Noam Chomsky and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark.
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Her case has been a cause célèbre among human rights groups, though she is but one of 40,000 people who have been detained, most for purely political reasons.
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The Oregon ranchers -- Dwight Hammond, 73, and his son Steven Hammond, 903, of Harney County, Oregon -- are the latest cause célèbre of the so-called "patriot" anti-government movement.
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Pussy Riot, a niche feminist art collective that at one time would have been assigned the kind of witches coven status of Riot Grrrl, became a global cause célèbre.
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Holder's meetings generally focus on combating gerrymandering, his cause célèbre since leaving the Obama administration, but his events are often peppered with politics and -- invariably -- comments about his future.
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Hootie has hovered in a critical no man's land for decades — not a cause célèbre for progressive young thinkers, not outré enough in its day enough to merit reassessment.
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But the uproar made Mr. Prager, a classical music aficionado who has argued that Mr. Trump's election "may have saved the country," into a cause célèbre on the right.
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With two drummers, a tuba and one powerhouse tenor saxophonist — Shabaka Hutchings, London jazz's current cause célèbre — Sons of Kemet have gone from British upstarts to breakout international success.
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Mr. Celdran's protest against the Catholic Church's interference in the passing of a reproductive health bill led to his arrest and incarceration and became a cause célèbre among liberals.
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Police cautioned Connolly over the incident but he quickly became a cause célèbre, drawing support from all corners of the globe, including the backing of basketball star Ben Simmons.
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Fronted by their enigmatic leader, the pipe-smoking, balaclava-wearing Subcomandante Marcos, the Zapatistas' charismatic approach made them a cause célèbre across much of Latin America, and indeed the globe.
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A cause célèbre for religious conservatives is Israel Folau, a rugby star and staunch Christian who was sacked from his club for saying that God's plan for homosexuals was "hell".
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Henry Cuellar is facing a fierce challenge from Jessica Cisneros, a 2380-year-old immigration attorney who has become a cause célèbre on the left and boasts endorsements from Sen.
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A child custody case in 2002 was less of a national cause célèbre, but Moore used the outcome, and his concurrence, to author a vicious attack on same-sex parents.
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Panning the Republican plan as "Obamacare Lite," the Freedom Caucus is gambling that its demands will not kill the repeal effort that has been a cause célèbre for all Republicans.
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McDaniel became a conservative cause célèbre, with money pouring in from powerful conservative groups like the Club for Growth and a steady drumbeat of support from talk radio and conservative outlets.
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That huge haul was due in large part to the fact that Ossoff became a sort of cause célèbre for liberal donors trying to send a message to President Donald Trump.
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Mr. Hernandez then became a cause célèbre for people seeking to abolish the cash bail system when he refused to accept a plea bargain that would have spared him jail time.
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Lillian and her gallerist are thrown in jail, the photos are splashed all over the tabloids and the case becomes a free speech cause célèbre, ultimately going to the Supreme Court.
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One open secret of social activism is that nobody can ever really predict when, where, how or why any given issue will change from a lost cause to a cause célèbre.
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A play so serious, so furious and so deeply engaged in the most intractable conflicts of American life that it became both a cause célèbre and a scandal before it opened?
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The authorities were concerned that Roof, who repeatedly stated that he had committed the murders as a call to action for persecuted whites, had become a cause célèbre for white nationalists.
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Stephen McGown's captivity had become a cause célèbre in South Africa, but his freedom came at a price: A retired European intelligence official said that about $4.2 million had been paid.
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As a kind of rightwing cause célèbre, it's also inflicted a different kind of damage, unleashing the kind of ugly, conspiratorial wrath that's come to define the darkest element of Trumpism.
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After his recent jailing, Robinson became a cause célèbre for many on the British and American right who say his case is an example of the government censoring critics of Islam.
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It took less than a day for Donald Trump's White House to turn Tibbetts — against the wishes of her family members — into a political cause célèbre to bolster Trump's immigration crackdown.
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But the troubling circumstances surrounding Der Fall Susanna , the case of Susanna, helped create a cause célèbre, generating intense media coverage—and activating the major fault lines now running through the country.
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Some, like Mayor London Breed, said it appeared to have been appropriate, but later adjusted their stances after wide public outcry; the case has become a cause célèbre among free speech advocates.
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Davis, who cited her Christian faith in refusing to validate same-sex marriages, had become a cause célèbre in those wars, with prominent conservative politicians and religious leaders rallying to her side.
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Since then, her startling command and improbably mature delivery have made her a cause célèbre among fans of traditional jazz, and landed her on stages with some of the music's finest improvisers.
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Given all the good will toward the band, and Rami Malek, who plays Freddie Mercury, that might have been enough to make it a populist cause célèbre, despite middling reviews from critics.
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Mr. Pompeo mentioned the continued detention of Andrew Brunson, an American pastor who has been in jail for about 18 months in a case that has become a cause célèbre among evangelical Christians.
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On September 7th, after weeks of negotiations, he welcomed home thirty-five Ukrainians who had been held as prisoners by Russia, including the film director Oleg Sentsov, who had become a cause célèbre.
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In Trump's characterization — and in the conservative movement over the past two years, where Shelton's case has become a cause célèbre — Clinton's involvement in the case is evidence that she approves of rapists.
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Their appalled shock is the fuel that drives his cause célèbre: headlines, speaking engagements, book deals, guest start spots, all of which serve to edify him as an authority on First Amendment rights.
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Now a 22012-year-old grandmother of 240, Ms. Sauvage has become a cause célèbre for those who want homicide laws changed to take into account killers who are victims of domestic abuse.
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But over the last decade it has become a cause célèbre, grabbing global headlines more than 30 million times as we examine diversity — or the lack of it — in every aspect our lives.
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The case against the ranchers — Dwight L. Hammond, now 103, and his son, Steven D. Hammond, 49 — became a cause célèbre for an antigovernment group's weekslong standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
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Supporters of the chief, including his wife and brother, have made his case something of a cause célèbre, portraying him repeatedly in media appearances as a hero wrongly prosecuted for doing his job.
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But hate speech has hardly been a longtime cause célèbre for the Republican Party, whose members have opposed efforts to expand similar protections to victims of discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation.
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The Twitter posts of the social media division of the Badlands National Park broadcasting the threat of climate change became something of a cause célèbre before they disappeared from the platform on Tuesday.
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Indeed, looting museums was one of the charges that the authorities leveled against Parajanov, a nonconformist who was persecuted and imprisoned on suspicions of homosexuality and became a cause célèbre among Western cinephiles.
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In 2010, he was incarcerated for his political opposition to Viktor Yanukovych, the pro-Russia Ukrainian President, and his release became a cause célèbre for the European envoys who'd visited him in prison.
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That Hillary Clinton made it a cause célèbre, #WearWhiteToVote made it a hashtag, Melania Trump made it a pointed subject of speculation, and the women of the 116th Congress made it a gauntlet.
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Their unjust imprisonment became a cause célèbre for many metal and rock celebrities and fans the world over, and in 2011, after years of appeals and new DNA evidence, the three men walked free.
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Take a look at Booker on policy that matters to tech: He was once a champion of education reform, the cause célèbre of tech donors, but has grown quieter on that issue over time.
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Damore has become a cause célèbre of the hard right over free speech and his claims that the underrepresentation of women in Silicon Valley is linked to inherent biological differences rather than gender discrimination.
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That document was published by Gizmodo after it went viral internally at Google; after his firing, Damore became a sort of cause célèbre among conservatives ranging from the mainstream to extreme, far-right activists.
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I don't know Behar or follow him on Twitter, but the reaction to his initial Bush tweet and his response to that became a kind of cause célèbre among some people I do know.
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But the survival of a pilot whale that washed ashore in southern Thailand last week, in critical condition and with a belly full of black plastic bags, became a cause célèbre for ordinary people.
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Diesel has become a national political cause célèbre in Germany after accusations that Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW colluded for years to cut corners on emissions equipment, contributing to unhealthy pollution levels in major cities.
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The case became a cause célèbre among local African-Americans and among civil rights lawyers, who saw it as part of a broader effort by the Reagan administration's Justice Department to intimidate black voters.
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That wouldn't explain why United American Patriots has made a cause célèbre of Robert Bales, who pleaded guilty to slaughtering 16 Afghan civilians in their homes during a one-man nighttime rampage in 2012.
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" But whether turning a previously obscure provincial journalist into a national cause célèbre is counterproductive, said Ekaterina Schulmann, one of the purged members of Mr. Putin's Human Rights Council, "depends on your understanding of productivity.
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Okay: Then when black people are obviously victims of local institutions, are you willing to elevate and defend them, to make them a cause célèbre, to act as if their concerns are yours as well?
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A white-tailed deer that went from being a minor celebrity in Harlem to a cause célèbre after its capture, died in captivity on Friday, moments before it was to be driven upstate and released.
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Its most recent cause célèbre is the development of "three-parent babies", in which faulty mitochondria—power stations that drive a cell's metabolism—in an egg are replaced by healthy mitochondria from a donor before IVF.
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I've already written about the season's cause célèbre (an innovative production of "Coriolanus" directed by Robert Lepage) and its unexpectedly mirror-image musicals ("The Music Man" and "The Rocky Horror Show," both directed by Donna Feore).
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Here in a country that has been condemned by the United Nations for its offshore detention camps and refusal to accept arrivals by boat — even when escaping war zones — the athletes have become a cause célèbre.
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Mr. McGown's captivity had become a cause célèbre in South Africa, but his freedom came at a price: A retired European intelligence official said on Thursday that 20133 million euros (about $4.2 million) had been paid.
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Last November, with immigration issues in the news, Sunny Pawar had trouble getting a visa to attend the New York première of "Lion"—a red-tape hurdle that Weinstein turned into a headline-grabbing cause célèbre.
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Trump Signs Executive Order Protecting Free Speech on College Campuses The order links some higher education funds to how colleges enforce free speech rights, a cause célèbre for conservatives who argue their voices have been silenced.
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But a surge of ideological rigorism associated with his Tea Party opponents, some money from the Koch brothers, and a little old-fashioned lobbying from a major airline made killing the bank a right-wing cause célèbre.
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And Pussy Riot, the Russian feminist punk group, whose anti-Putin stunts landed them in prison in 2012 and made them a global cause célèbre, can also release a song in English about police brutality in America.
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AS A child, Oscar Wilde announced that he would like to be remembered as the hero of a "cause célèbre and to go down to posterity as the defendant in such a case as 'Regina Versus Wilde'".
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Mr. Ellison said the final stages of the relationship had been marked by frequent arguments but said he was stunned by Ms. Monahan's abuse allegations and her recent emergence as a cause célèbre of the Republican Party.
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After years of courtroom labor, documentaries like "Making a Murderer" and television shows like "The Night Of" have made the issue a cause célèbre in the criminal-justice world, attracting the attention of a broad national audience.
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Surveillance seems to be the current cause célèbre among conceptual artists, but one of our favorites remains "Evidence Locker," a 2004 project that Jill Magid carried out in collaboration with the agents behind Liverpool's citywide surveillance system.
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During this period, Tàpies began work on a series of lithographs called Assassins, which consists of an homage to Salvador Puig Antich, whose immensely unpopular execution in 1974 under Franco made him a cause célèbre for Catalan autonomists.
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The event showed how a new digital broadcasting infrastructure could turn a routine vote in a state legislature into a cause célèbre — and all but guaranteed federal lawmakers would one day use that infrastructure for their own purposes.
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A Kurdish-Iranian refugee and award-winning writer who was held by Australia for years at a detention center on a remote Pacific island arrived in New Zealand late Thursday, after becoming a cause célèbre for rights activists.
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Consider the case of Austen's turquoise ring, which became a cause célèbre after the American singer Kelly Clarkson bought it at auction, prompting the British culture minister to declare it a national treasure that could not be exported.
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The movie's female star, Linda Lovelace, had recently published a memoir, " Ordeal ," in which she said that her husband had forced her at gunpoint to perform in the film, and her case had become a feminist cause célèbre.
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The president also signed an executive order directing federal agencies to link grants and other funds to how colleges and universities enforce free speech rights, a cause célèbre for conservatives who argue that their voices have been silenced.
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The issue of free speech on college campuses has for years been a cause célèbre among young conservative activists, who point to instances around the country in which conservative voices have been shunned by liberal students and professors.
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But this truth-hunting posture has turned him into a cause célèbre for organizations concerned about "cancel culture" and political correctness run amok—the attacks on race science become attacks on academic freedom and freedom of speech itself.
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The FT-4X is the product of Toyota's Calty Design Research Newport Beach design studio, which also came up with its fun Concept-i vehicle from CES this year, which was likewise a cause célèbre among us tech watchers.
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Opposition in Europe to the death penalty — and harsh corporal punishment, including the flogging of a Saudi blogger who has become something of a cause célèbre in Europe — is just one element of the criticism of the Saudi monarchy.
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The Black Lives Matter movement has received a great deal of credibility from the news media, and had recently become the "cause célèbre" for multi-millionaire stars like San Francisco 85033ers Quarterback Colin Kaepernick and pop star Beyonce Knowles.
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He asked what happened to Imran Awan, a Pakistan-born Capitol Hill aide, who pleaded guilty this month on unrelated fraud charges after becoming a cause célèbre for conservatives who questioned whether he was linked to the committee's hacking.
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But in recent years, work-life balance has become a cause célèbre among tech workers, who are questioning whether a shot at the brass ring is really worth it if you don't get to see your children grow up.
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Mary Stewart Burgher, a 60-year-old retired Houston native who worked for the World Health Organization in Copenhagen, became a cause célèbre in Denmark this month after she was ordered to leave after living there for 32 years.
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It's also worth seeking out Payne and Taylor's 1996 debut feature, Citizen Ruth, which satirizes the abortion debate via the story of a wastrel (hilariously played by Laura Dern) who becomes a national cause célèbre after she gets pregnant.
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Unlike Anthony — whose acquittal sparked the kind of mass outrage not seen since the O.J. Simpson trial — Routier's conviction slowly became, thanks to her family's appearances on talk shows, something of a pre–social media cause célèbre about wrongful conviction.
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PRRI itself is known for its careful cultural analysis of everything from the United Methodist Building in Washington, DC, once a de facto monument to the mainline cause célèbre of Prohibition, to Macklemore's celebration of "same love" at the Grammy Awards.
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He's not the first Democrat to experience that this year — next door in Georgia, Democrat Jon Ossoff became a cause célèbre this summer, pulling in millions of dollars for a House bid in a Republican district that he ultimately lost.
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In her innocence, Jane was seduced by her master's younger son, Edmund, who promised to marry her when she got pregnant, but killed her instead, in a manner so brutal that the case became a cause célèbre among her fellow servants.
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Recently Moran has been exploring the work and legacy of James Reese Europe, an influential composer and bandleader in the early years of jazz whose military band, known as the Harlem Hellfighters, became a cause célèbre in Europe and at home.
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Robinson's choice of Fox News over a British outlet reflects his apparent determination to build on that momentum, which has turned this obscure figure from the margins of British politics into something of a cause célèbre for the global alt-right.
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Meek Mill, an African-American man whose given name is Robert Rihmeek Williams, became a cause célèbre for musicians, celebrities and criminal justice reform campaigners who said his case was typical of a U.S. legal system that treats minorities unjustly.
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After the sentence, Meek Mill, an African-American whose given name is Robert Rihmeek Williams, became a cause célèbre for musicians, celebrities and criminal justice reform campaigners who said his case was typical of a U.S. legal system that treats minorities unjustly.
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For, while Bernie Sanders' plight in the face of the Democratic Party's superdelegate system has become somewhat of a cause célèbre, the Republicans' plight in the face of their voters' preference for a man like Donald Trump is certainly a cautionary tale.
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The Art of Collecting JERUSALEM — The 50 paintings in "Twilight Over Berlin: Masterworks from the Nationalgalerie, 1905-45," many of them labeled degenerate by the Nazis, have become a cause célèbre since the show opened at the Israel Museum here in October.
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In the last week, Ms. Headley has become a cause célèbre for New Yorkers who depend on food stamps and cash public assistance and who say they are often met with hostility and are sometimes threatened with arrest at city benefits offices.
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The case against Mr. Flynn, who twice pleaded guilty to lying to the F.B.I. in the Russia investigation, is a cause célèbre for Mr. Trump and his supporters, who say the retired general was ensnared in a "deep state" plot against the president.
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Mr. Hernandez had become a cause célèbre for some critics of New York's bail laws, often compared to Kalief Browder, the teenager who committed suicide after being held for three years at Rikers on a robbery charge before the case was dismissed.
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It became a cause célèbre when "The Burning Bed," a 1980 book by the New Yorker writer Faith McNulty, was made into a television movie with the same title in 1984, with Farrah Fawcett as Francine and Paul Le Mat as Mickey.
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Anti-Muslim activist Tommy Robinson has become the latest cause célèbre in right-wing circles both in Europe and North America, with many demanding his release after he was arrested for filming outside a UK courtroom on Friday and sentenced to 13 months in jail.
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Two years ago, she accepted a ride to a bar with a man and was found guilty of prostitution; her case became a cause célèbre when she challenged her conviction, saying she was just going out for a beer that night, and won her appeal.
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Maddison, now something of a cause célèbre whenever the England national team squad is announced, is a case in point: Leicester scouted him for several months, as all teams would, but was then willing to take the plunge, and declare its interest, as others prevaricated.
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The hearing, in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, brought together yet again the chief players in the long-running drama, who, for more than a decade, have done their part to turn the case into an unlikely cause célèbre in the Brooklyn criminal-justice system.
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Mr. Pulphus, a high school artist from St. Louis, may never become a free speech cause célèbre akin to Mr. Ofili, the professional London artist whose depiction of a black Virgin Mary, encrusted with a lump of elephant dung, caused a furor in 1999.
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Mill, whose real name is Robert Williams, became a cause célèbre of fans and fellow rappers after he was sentenced to up to four years in prison for popping a wheelie, which a judge ruled violated his parole from a case in 2008 that prohibited reckless driving.
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The mass sexual assault on women in Cologne on New Year's Eve in 2015, mostly by Arab men, has become a cause célèbre, as has the attack in December 2016 by Anis Amri, a 24-year-old Tunisian who had been denied asylum six months earlier.
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The Iranian drama, became something of a cause célèbre in the wake of President Donald Trump's executive order blocking citizens from seven predominantly Muslim countries — including Iran — from entering the U.S. Farhadi condemned the ban last month and declared that he would not attend the Oscars.
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The Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network—an organization founded by the parents and siblings of Terri Schiavo, who was in a persistent vegetative state for fifteen years and became a cause célèbre for the right-to-life movement—offered to use its contacts to find a facility.
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Over the last year, Fiona has become something of an international cause célèbre, largely because of the efforts of Ms. Curley, the zoo's communications director, and her four-person team, who started posting Fiona's every move to social media from the day she was born on Jan.
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For nearly 15 years, the case of John Giuca has stood as an unlikely cause célèbre in Brooklyn's criminal-justice system, batted between different courts as Mr. Giuca's lawyers claimed that prosecutors withheld evidence from the defense and relied on testimony from witnesses who were untruthful.
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Ordering the release of the documents had been a cause célèbre for Mr. Trump's most fervent supporters on Capitol Hill and at conservative media outlets, who have for months been claiming that the release of the documents would help prove a liberal plot to undermine Mr. Trump.
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Without uttering a word to students at the University of California, Berkeley, Ann Coulter on Wednesday made herself the latest cause célèbre in the rapidly escalating effort by conservatives to fight liberals on what was once the left's moral high ground over free speech on campus.
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The controversial group has faced trouble since its inception as a GoFundMe effort, becoming a cause célèbre on the right and raising millions of dollars after Kolfage initially promised to donate all of the funds to the federal government to build President Trump's long-promised border wall.
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And let's hope that a White House currently under siege from numerous sides and looking for a win, makes this effort a cause célèbre — and a place where conservatives and liberals alike can agree that it is time for the application of some fresh ideas and solutions.
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Somewhere in the crowd was Martin Shkreli, the hedge-fund manager and pharmaceutical executive whose gigantic price increase on the drug Daraprim had made him a headline-grabbing villain and, through the alchemy of 2016 provocation politics, had become a cause célèbre to some Trump die-hards.
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Burton was a cross-genre producer searching for his niche when "The Grey Album" — his unauthorized mash-up of Jay-Z's "The Black Album" and the Beatles record known as the White Album — became a cause célèbre (and almost ended his career before it started) in 22019.
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In recent months, Kesha's battles have made her a cause célèbre; countless other performers have offered their public support, and Taylor Swift said she would give her $250,000 ("to help with any of her financial needs during this trying time," a representative for Ms. Swift said in a statement).
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But the Democratic brand has become so toxic in states such as Alabama that if the national party rallies behind Mr. Jones and turns his candidacy into a liberal cause célèbre, it could only doom him by pushing Republicans reluctant to support Mr. Moore back to their partisan corner.
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If Stefano Cucchi's case was already well known here, thanks to his sister's perseverance, it became an even greater cause célèbre after the presentation in August at the Venice Film Festival of "Sulla Mia Pelle," ("On My Skin") a dramatization of his final days, directed by Alessio Cremonini.
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All it takes is one ideology-driven lawyer or documentarian crafty enough to make the case a cause célèbre and suddenly the victims' families get to spend the rest of their lives going to hearings, or, worse, see their loved ones' killer ennobled and released on a technicality.
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The story of Lake Urmia's recession is well-known and well-trodden - Leonardo DiCaprio has even made it an environmental cause célèbre - but Noroozi captures the human experience, and how in spite of forces we cannot control, we can cherish what is ours for as long as we still have it.
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The fate of the young, undocumented immigrants, known as Dreamers, has become a cause célèbre on the left, and Democrats are under intense pressure from progressive advocacy groups to ensure that the protections conferred by the Obama-era program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, are enshrined into law.
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I watched the fifth season of House of Cards in the midst of Fox News's retraction of a story on the death of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, who was murdered in an apparent robbery but has become a cause célèbre among conspiracy theorists who believe he leaked DNC emails to WikiLeaks.
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The case of the five became a global cause célèbre last year, casting doubt on China's assertions that it was improving women's rights and embarrassing the leadership during celebrations in New York to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1995 United Nations' Fourth World Conference on Women, which took place in Beijing.
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Juan Carlos Cruz, an abuse survivor with whom Francis has spoken at length, said the pope recently told him Archbishop Viganò nearly sabotaged the visit by inviting the critic, Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk who became a conservative cause célèbre when she refused to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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On Tuesday, a Missouri appeals court said it had no choice but to dismiss a case that sought to allow the elected prosecutor in St. Louis, Kim Gardner, to obtain a new trial for Lamar Johnson, whose case has become a cause célèbre for many recently elected district attorneys across the country.
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As Lind notes, Trump has made the killings of American-born people by immigrants a kind of cause célèbre, appearing at events with the family members of victims and holding a gathering for "permanently separated" families of victims as his administration was being criticized for separating children from their families at the border.
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The father has become a cause célèbre in conservative media and drawn support from Republican politicians like Senator Ted Cruz of Texas because he has said he does not believe the child identifies as a girl, and does not want the child to receive medical treatment to transition, if that becomes necessary in the future.
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A similar thing unfolds in the season's single worst storyline, which follows Nancy (Natalia Dyer) and Steve (Joe Keery) as they attempt to atone for the death of Nancy's friend Barb, who became an internet cause célèbre based on how little the show seemed to care that she got lost in the parallel dimension known as the Upside Down.
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Gangsta Garden, founded by Ron Finley, became a cause célèbre after he repurposed a barren strip of public property in front of his house in the South Los Angeles neighborhood as a garden and then fought the city when it tried to fine him for violating a law requiring sidewalks and curbs be free of obstruction.
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The Hurst case was a cause célèbre in 1936 when a Harlem resident and postal worker named Victor Hugo Green began soliciting material for a national travel guide that would steer black motorists around the humiliations of the not-so-open road and point them to businesses that were more than happy to accept colored dollars.
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The Castile case became a cause célèbre for the Black Lives Matter movement, and the officer involved was subsequently charged with manslaughter; but even when outcomes aren't as tragic or dramatic, groups like the ACLU have long contended that traffic stops are one more area in which racial bias in policing is played out, to the detriment of non-white drivers.
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First Words When a grand jury decided late last month not to indict the two police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old whose killing outside a Cleveland recreation center became a cause célèbre of the Black Lives Matter movement, the task of announcing the verdict fell to the Cuyahoga County prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty.
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Through this collective lens, the band has been tagged as underrated and overhyped, although the needle has far more often swung towards the former direction to the extent that, in conversation, several colleagues have wondered if I Like It When You Sleep… is this year's Music Critic Cause Célèbre a la last year's entry, Carly Rae Jepsen's E-MO-TION.
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Caught up as a witness to history in one of the nation's major controversies, Ms. Eaton, an obscure civil rights pioneer in her younger years, became a cause célèbre after Mr. Obama cited her courage in his response to a 49 article in The New York Times Magazine about growing efforts to dismantle the protections of the Voting Rights Act of 21941.
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That law, most of which was repealed in 28503 under then-President Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson Clinton22019 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Buckingham Palace: Any suggestion Prince Andrew was involved in Epstein scandal 'abhorrent' The magic of majority rule in elections MORE, Hillary Clinton's husband, once separated commercial and investment banking, and its return has become a cause célèbre of the left.
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The case of the "quiet kid who was good at soccer" hauled from high school to a deportation center turned Mr. Rivera-Sarmiento into a cause célèbre in Houston, a textbook case of what immigration advocacy groups fear could happen as schools tighten discipline in the wake of school shootings, the police ratchet up sweeps for gang members and local law enforcement draws closer to the federal immigration authorities.
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With the music industry shaken by copyright decisions in recent years — like the $2.8 million award that the creators of Katy Perry's hit "Dark Horse" were ordered last month to pay to a Christian rapper — the Led Zeppelin case has become a cause célèbre for songwriters, intellectual-property lawyers and even the Trump administration, which took the unusual step of filing a brief in support of Led Zeppelin.
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Online anonymity has allowed trolls to wreak havoc, but in sensitive situations like the #MeToo movement, anonymity has been the cause célèbre: When anonymous whisper networks that are turned into publicly available documents on the internet, like the list of "Shitty Media Men" and the list of sexual harassers in academia, their creators have either been described as radically feminist, or are threatened, accused of bullying and sued for defamation.
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FX's spy drama about two married KGB agents living in 1980s Washington, DC, and posing as normal American citizens began its life as a critical cause célèbre, eked out a six-season run despite extremely low ratings, and then unexpectedly became a minor hit thanks to the power of streaming and the fact that "Russians infiltrate the US" went from feeling like a throwback plot to feeling incredibly timely and relevant.
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