Is it easier for technology to co-opt power than it is for power to co-opt technology?
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The president can't be trusted not to co-opt, or attempt to co-opt, the leaders of our security and intelligence services, many of whom are his appointees.
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Ultimately the question for Bitcoin in Latin America and elsewhere in the world is following: Is it easier for technology to co-opt power than it is for power to co-opt technology?
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Moon would co-opt the Black Lives Matter movement like this.
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But this time his efforts to co-opt them have failed.
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It is always easier to co-opt than to create anew.
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The Russian government is also trying to co-opt Tatar leaders.
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A decade ago, Trump would have needed to co-opt the
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Nonetheless, Mr. Fico has tried to co-opt the corruption issue.
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The mainstream outfits also are trying to co-opt the streaming upstarts.
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There have been attempts to co-opt the phrase or cash in.
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Google was just trying to co-opt their momentum, the organizers felt.
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Or should they co-opt, sanitize and scale audiences like the Stoolies?
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Did our populist president crush the libertarian moment, or co-opt it?
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"The government is trying to co-opt the religious narrative," he said.
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But if Republicans can't repeal Obamacare, they could instead co-opt it.
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CAPGEMINI: Capgemini's Board of Directors decided to co-opt Laura Desmond as director.
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" Later, Warner says Trump tried to "co-opt the director of the FBI.
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Trump will pick us off one by one/co-opt whoever is left.
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This is why criminals look to co-opt as many computers as possible.
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Team sweaters bear a rune that neo-Nazis have tried to co-opt.
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Lacking the power to co-opt legislative leaders and judges, Trump would have to
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At some point, governments decide it's better to co-opt them than beat them.
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Black protestors seem concerned that the anarchists will co-opt their march and movement.
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Or was someone trying to co-opt a tragedy to turn a quick buck?
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Another option is to co-opt viruses, known as bacteriophages, that prey on bacteria.
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Christians and communists, the drive to attack as well as co-opt and "Hinduize"
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They really just ... It was something amazing to watch them co-opt this guy.
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Reince Priebus tried to co-opt Trump to make him a more normal Republican.
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It is, well, a trash game, to co-opt a term from indie circles.
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A dictator meets an opponent he can't co-opt, corrupt, calumniate, cow or coerce.
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The purges will continue; Erdogan's instinct is to crush opposition, not co-opt it.
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More mainstream conservative politicians attempted to co-opt the Party to broaden their electoral base.
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The way it's used is mostly to coerce and co-opt noncompliant parties into registering.
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But Facebook has relentlessly sought to acquire or co-opt the features of its competitors.
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That doesn't stop those from attempting to co-opt the rally or recruit from it.
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PONIEWOZIK Partly, maybe, because that loopiness was the easiest thing for TV to co-opt.
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"California cannot co-opt the licensed facilities to deliver its message for it," he wrote.
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What I've seen with fandom is that these tech companies really try to co-opt them.
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Rather it sought to co-opt Mr Khan and sculpt an administration more to its liking.
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Our ability to co-opt surveillance technology for our own purposes is becoming cheaper and easier.
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A wise regime would have either ignored him or found a way to co-opt him.
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This is their niche, so of course it is trying to co-opt the Yellow Vests.
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A popular, well-known candidate could co-opt a minor party and inherit its ballot access.
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But "California cannot co-opt the licensed facilities to deliver its message for it," he wrote.
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Even President Donald Trump has been known to co-opt the show's iconic imagery on social media.
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It's just that I can't sit by and watch somebody co-opt conservatism and destroy its credibility.
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Retailers might co-opt the language of inclusivity, but the Big Fat Flea is the real deal.
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Need a holiday hostess gift for your roommate's parents, who let you co-opt their ski cabin?
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It will continue trying to co-opt and coerce other Islamist factions and tribes, especially in Syria.
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But it seems more likely than not that the party is going to co-opt the slogan.
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Why the N.F.L. never figured out a way to co-opt this somehow is a minor mystery.
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I don't think they have the right to co-opt the Statue of Liberty to do it.
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He wants to silence his critics, co-opt their distribution and broadcast the story of his stardom.
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The army and mainstream veterans groups have long rejected the overtures by Robinson to co-opt their cause.
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The expansion of the police state has added to the number of Uighurs it needs to co-opt.
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Apparently, someone thought it would be funny to co-opt the Black Lives Matter movement to encourage drinking.
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This is what happens when Democrats co-opt the symbolism but not the substance of a good idea.
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There's no rhyme or reason to this, just a desire to co-opt religious freedom to inflict harm.
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We do not seek to co-opt the Juggalo March, but rather offer support to those fighting injustice.
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If you don't take their favors one way, they find another way to try to co-opt you.
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It must decide whether to enforce its rule in Gaza or co-opt the PIJ as a partner.
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Benenson also said he felt like Sanders' invoking of Obama is an attempt to "co-opt" Clinton's message.
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Instead, the U.S. should attempt to co-opt former regime elements with access to weapons of mass destruction.
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It was a bold decision for Kia to co-opt the implicit branding — but the vehicle comes through!
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Despite their best attempts to close sites or co-opt them, pirated copies of their wares are easily available.
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But the case cemented the philosophy that Trump would co-opt: Always hit back harder and never admit defeat.
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A fully ascendant liberalism would have co-opt or crush groups that in California politics simply diminished or disappeared.
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With his eye on 2020, he's all about the base, with no apparent plans to co-opt the center.
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It would be well served trying to co-opt China into international governance on the transfer of armed drones.
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Is it not then at least somewhat questionable, and at worst insidious, for them to co-opt this concept?
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Additionally, like in evolution, the robots could co-opt previous parts of their programming to find solutions more quickly.
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One of the group's clear goals was to co-opt unwitting Americans to stage events across the United States.
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Mainstream parties, forced to acknowledge that they cannot contain the far right, are instead working to co-opt it.
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And that's just the useful stuff—let's not delve into how many teams tried to co-opt the Wildcat.
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The real political duplicity here is Republicans' continued efforts to co-opt feminist language while actively curtailing women's rights.
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Hackers could have found a way to co-opt the antivirus or Kaspersky Lab could itself have been hacked.
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One of the single clearest examples of authoritarian drift in Israel is Netanyahu's efforts to co-opt the media.
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But don't let conservative organizations with their own agendas co-opt and water down a movement that's pretty damn radical.
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The region's authoritarians, who once tried to co-opt Islamists, now view them as the biggest threat to their rule.
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They can grant us an insiders' perspective on how Trump was so easily able to co-opt the conservative movement.
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Similarly, any "establishment" rival to defeat Trump will also need to co-opt strains of what has made him appealing.
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Experts say restrictions on worship help those in power mold religious institutions to their liking, or co-opt them altogether.
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Clinton fans were granted their own moment to co-opt an opponent's insult in October, with the final presidential debate.
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He would also co-opt hashtags she invented, aggressively inserting himself into conversations about her organization Women in Toronto Politics.
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Typically, an incoming President seeks to charm, co-opt, and, when necessary, coerce the federal workforce into executing his vision.
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These viral genes co-opt the cell's machinery, using it to make new viruses that escape to infect more cells.
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Some players worried that the league might co-opt their message, or demand they stop protesting in return for support.
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Experts on extremism believe the groups want to co-opt the rally in an effort to fuel a race war.
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One of the objectives is to co-opt ethnic Chinese individuals and organizations in foreign countries or else silence dissent.
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Adele is far from the only pop or rock star to have seen politicians co-opt their music for political purposes.
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Now, with all his talk of "time well spent," it seems as if he's trying to co-opt Tristan Harris too.
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To co-opt Janet Jackson, my all-or-nothing mind had taken the pleasure principle and turned it back into control.
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Can a sleepy New England town ignite or co-opt popular discussion around deeply embedded power structures within the documentary landscape?
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The goal, he said, is simply to silence the GOP frontrunner, and co-opt the media spotlight from his presidential campaign.
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This, to co-opt last year's nautical metaphor, was about a European hull made fast against the slapping of the waves.
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There are also murky waters when some suggest Drake can't appropriate or co-opt Jamaican culture because of his biracial identity.
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The other two options available to the Moderates were to co-opt the populists or to try to steal their voters.
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And why not try to co-opt some of them, Democrats, so that you can actually make this a bipartisan issue.
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And that's the Taliban's value to the Afghan government and to Trump: to co-opt them into denying territory to terrorists.
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The kickbacks case shows how "a criminal enterprise has been able to co-opt the state from within," Ms. Beltrán said.
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The moves are designed to co-opt Democratic talking points and position Trump as a populist champion of the free market.
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That means a President Hillary Clinton — like Roosevelt and Nixon — would most likely try to co-opt a few of them.
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Such attempts to co-opt the mantle of disability rights to ban abortion are not only hypocritical but also deeply offensive.
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It was slightly annoying to watch a brand co-opt a joke format beloved by millennials, but it was largely benign.
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I think when Republicans had their stunning victory in 2010, Cantor et al thought they could now co-opt these people.
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Indeed, when the alt-right briefly tried to co-opt Gritty by putting him in a Nazi uniform, the effort failed spectacularly.
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What's striking here is that Gilead's leaders chose to utterly eradicate the fourth estate rather than co-opt it to their advantage.
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He believed — he personified -- the idea of holding onto one's own identity in the face of policies that would co-opt it.
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But even more remarkable were the opportunities she took to co-opt some of Trump's tactics while upping her own nonverbal game.
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But it's easy to co-opt "time well spent" as a value once you've already captured the attention of 2.2 billion users.
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Clinton appeared in her concession speech to be trying to co-opt Sanders' message about an economy stacked against the middle class.
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Here was this older man, tired of his barren wife, using his power to co-opt a subordinate into a sexual relationship.
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Genevieve LeBaron and Peter Dauvergne examined how corporations like ExxonMobil and WalMart co-opt and neuter dissent in 2014's Protest Inc.
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Now a terrorist with a racist worldview has taken it upon himself to co-opt a cause and mow down innocent officers.
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It is offensive to the ears to hear Biden, or Hillary Clinton, cynically co-opt revolutionary rhetoric to sell these miserly ideas.
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The objective of using such tactics abroad is the same as it is at home: co-opt elites and make them loyal.
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If we continue to allow conservative operatives to hijack religion or co-opt it to do violence to others we are complicit.
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Of course, Ghost in the Shell isn't the only recent picture to co-opt Asian culture while downplaying or erasing Asian characters.
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Cullors tweeted that she agreed with filmmaker Ava DuVernay, who said the ad would "sanitize and co-opt a black protest movement."
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Democrats should do what political parties have always done when independent or third-party candidates catch fire — co-opt their good ideas.
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Mainstream parties could feel compelled to co-opt populist positions, much as Britain's Conservative Party adopted leaving the European Union, or Brexit.
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Instead, Democrats should co-opt the Republicans' catchiest talking point and make the 2020 election the centerpiece of their post-game impeachment talk.
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The bad part about that is so many folks can take it and run with it, and misuse it, and co-opt it.
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He has managed to co-opt some doctrinaire Muslim groups, such as the Indonesian Ulema Council, by appointing senior members to government committees.
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"There's a fear the federal government might co-opt these commercial systems and gain access to them, but it's really unfounded," says Meehan.
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After all, Trump is able to co-opt anti-monopoly arguments because the Democrats have generally neglected the issue, creating a political vacuum.
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The big challenge in both Iraq and Syria is to co-opt the Sunni Arab tribes, or risk a revival of jihadist insurgency.
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Much will depend on how many opposition figures the president can co-opt to keep Mr. Karzai at least partly on the margins.
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Public trust in the government has been decimated, while criminal networks and gangs have found boundless opportunities to expand and co-opt officials.
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Our results show how Trump's purported attempt to co-opt Ukraine's precarious position with Russia worsens divides inside Ukraine and weakens US influence.
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The criminals' campaign to co-opt local politics in and around Chilapa was at first a quiet, somewhat hidden phenomenon, Mr. Rendón recalled.
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Perhaps it was inevitable, then, that the second wave of convenience technologies — the period we are living in — would co-opt this ideal.
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When Bavaria's center-right party tried to co-opt the populist message and challenge Chancellor Angela Merkel over immigration, it suffered election losses.
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When companies try to co-opt a cultural holiday for material gain, they risk subverting or even trivializing the tradition behind the event.
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In interviews, he has revealed how China controls listed companies to finances its intelligence projects, surveil and profile dissenters and co-opt media.
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Candidates shouldn't get away with slapping the Medicare for All label on whatever they want to co-opt the popularity of Bernie's' plan.
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And when politicians co-opt the pulpit, they pervert Scripture's prophetic message, delimiting faith's concerns to the narrowness of their partisan political agenda.
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Some immigrant families co-opt Thanksgiving for themselves: I was recently at an Indian Thanksgiving dinner where we soaked everything in tamarind soup.
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But it's also skewering the absurd ways in which corporations co-opt the language of environmental and localist movements to reel in consumers.
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Or, as Daniel Rauch and David Schleicher of Yale University argue, governments might instead co-opt the new transport ecosystem for their own purposes.
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Some believe that Microsoft might co-opt their codes for future products or that they'll be strong-armed into exclusively using the company's products.
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The Italian poet Ludovico Ariosto used the latter version in a line people might want to co-opt for any holiday toasts they're giving.
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Amid the current economic slowdown, the central government has used tax incentives and other benefits to co-opt private entrepreneurs into the Communist party.
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Today, Truth in Advertising's mission has gotten modern updates by projects like NOAD and Brandalism, who work to creatively co-opt the advertising space.
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Perhaps the museum and the city should have punted when the NFL proposed to co-opt the space and history of these iconic steps.
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"[Straight people] have no right to co-opt the term or idea until meaningful social, political, and economic equality is truly reached," she says.
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Nonetheless, Mansour was ultimately able to either co-opt or neuter his various rivals for the leadership and defeat many of the splinter groups.
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He accused it of fostering maritime disputes, undermining pro-democracy movements and trying to co-opt local and state officials in the United States.
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In the restive Muslim regions, Mr. Putin has empowered local leaders to press agendas of traditional Muslim values, to co-opt an Islamist underground.
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Authoritarian governments have also learned to co-opt social media, using it to disseminate propaganda, rally sympathizers or simply spread confusion, Professor Chenoweth said.
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The U.S.-led case against Huawei is essentially that Beijing might co-opt the Chinese company's hardware and software to spy on the West.
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But opponents called them merely the latest in a series of attempts by Poland's increasingly authoritarian government to co-opt and control independent institutions.
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Having already shared some of the president's populist leanings, he has worked to co-opt and shape the president rather than rail against him.
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"Donald Trump is trying to co-opt women's health with empty promises and hollow sound bites," said Planned Parenthood executive vice president Dawn Laguens.
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Once the gusher of oil revenue arrived, it provided the scope to co-opt almost all social groups and make them clients of the state.
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US was a magnet for right-wing internet trolls attempting to co-opt the stream and provoke LaBeouf, and they arguably succeeded on several occasions.
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With Bacurau, Filho and Dornelles co-opt the trappings of genres often considered quintessentially American, especially the western, and turn them against their imperialist origins.
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Gain control of critical infrastructure, co-opt the media to spread disinformation and sow the seeds of discontent, and spy on everyone within the government.
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A power structure is able to co-opt all kinds of ideas and people, but it doesn't mean that anything's changing in any significant sense.
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The highlight of my meditation sessions is a particularly productive Sunday, when I co-opt my sister's much quieter room while she's on a run.
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Otherwise, the wolves of Wall Street and the Don Drapers of the world will parachute in and co-opt our scene—and they're already trying.
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He has even managed to co-opt one of the most simple words in the English language into a singular, quintessentially Trump-esque punctuation: Sad!
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They move to the center and co-opt parts of the other party's program in order to become more mainstream in a new political climate.
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Even his counter attacks on Trump seemed prepared, and his attempts to co-opt Trump's off-the-cuff strategy ended up being a colossal disaster.
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Some Iranian American organizations such as the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) boycotted the speech, accusing Pompeo of seeking to co-opt legitimate Iranian grievances.
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The third ill wind is China emerging as a superpower, wanting to control the narrative and co-opt people and preempt any criticism of it.
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"There probably needs to be some introspection about how certain people who engage in horrendous mistreatment of women can co-opt the media," she mused.
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But Catherine sees an army of men encircling her, plotting ways to co-opt her authority, and she has no intention of giving it up.
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READ: How teachers are fighting the white nationalists brainwashing their students It's not uncommon for hate groups to co-opt the meaning of everyday things.
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If they gain enough popular support—the sting—one or both parties will adapt to the electorate's demands, and co-opt the third party's ideas.
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In February, the Center for American Progress released a plan called "Medicare Extra for All," a particularly shameless attempt to co-opt Medicare-for-all's popularity.
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For instance, one example the team offered was an editorial "in the style of," to co-opt cover bands' lingo, Paul Krugman's New York Times editorials.
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The malware they have named Adylkuzz is designed to co-opt computers to mine a cryptocurrency named Monero designed to be even more secretive than bitcoin.
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That includes AT&T, which sought to co-opt the net neutrality rally by pledging its support for the concept — but not the government's existing rules.
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The prime minister elevated Ms. Listhaug to the justice post in January, in an attempt to co-opt and moderate the hard-line anti-immigrant populists.
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Hilde Midthjell, the company's chief executive, vowed to face down any attempts by white supremacists to co-opt symbols that belonged to a shared Norwegian heritage.
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The island's Aboriginal residents are divided on whether a white artist, like Mr. Parr, has the right to co-opt Aboriginal history and tell their stories.
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One thing I've noticed on the left and the right is the attempts to co-opt class politics rhetoric while you're really just dressing up neoliberalism.
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GEBCO hopes to co-opt shipping companies and other waterborne industrial concerns, together with various academic groups, into contributing to an ad hoc fleet to do this.
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Early on, the Bush administration was not interested in nation-building and was happy with a conciliatory president who would co-opt corrupt warlords, not imprison them.
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In April, Kendall faced criticism for starring in a Pepsi ad that critics said was a tone-deaf attempt to co-opt a movement of political resistance.
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The venture with BAIC will co-opt a BAIC plant in Zhenjiang in the eastern province of Jiangsu which has an annual production capacity of 180,000 vehicles.
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One thing that you covered that particularly interested me was how easy it is to co-opt an unwary participant in political discourse because algorithms reward outrage.
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Now, most major developed economies in the world now have a "digital strategy" focused on how they can co-opt these new technologies to boost economic growth.
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Hacks that co-opt computing power for illicit cryptocurrency mining now target a diverse array of victims, from individual consumers to massive institutions—even industrial control systems.
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The researchers note that if shrews can reverse their own bone loss, we could potentially co-opt the process for treatment of degenerative bone diseases in humans.
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Cruz is trying to co-opt the angry electorate that Trump has tapped into, and his pitch is simple: Trump is the villain you've been mad at.
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But Democrats, if they choose to, could co-opt Republicans' rhetoric to make a much more convincing argument that liberal health care policy increased Americans' personal liberty.
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All that remains is a 77-year-old socialist whose inflated support will splinter off as rivals co-opt the best attributes of his once unique brand.
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But, in this recent stretch of singledom, I've decided to co-opt Valentine's Day and turn it into something I can enjoy with or without a partner.
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In a similar way, Clinton—who has all along opposed setting the federal minimum wage at $15—attempted to co-opt the issue from Sanders Thursday night.
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When brands co-opt the gaze to profit off of feminism, it always looks really silly to me because I immediately read it as forced and inauthentic.
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It takes a special kind of shameless audacity to a co-opt a public workspace to the point that others think of it as your private abode.
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The leak exposed Iran's vast influence in Iraq, detailing the painstaking efforts of Iranian spies to co-opt Iraqi leaders and infiltrate every aspect of political life.
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The left, having previously accused Ford of excluding activists from its grants, now accused it of trying to co-opt and deradicalize activists by giving them cash.
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Immigration moderates from both major parties have certainly used softer language but mostly sought to co-opt or outflank the right wing rather than to rebut them.
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Or that the dominance of written communication in the workplace should co-opt the way we're able to express ourselves in the messages that matter to us, personally.
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The company is aware it's not the only local business to co-opt Halloween as a marketing ploy, so puts a lot of effort into marketing its events.
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Critics, though, see him as an increasingly authoritarian leader who has forced critics into exile and used the government's coffers to co-opt rivals and reward his loyalists.
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If third parties like China co-opt the tool or make use of the same vulnerability, that opens the way for other attackers to follow the same route.
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The genius of modern tyrants has been in realizing you don't need to dislodge democracy; you need to co-opt it, you need to make it your own.
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If conservative intellectuals really want to take back their party, they can't simply expect to co-opt the Trumpkins after November; they will have to argue with them.
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Indeed, says Shukan Bunshun's editor-in-chief, Manabu Shintani, the best way to resist attempts to co-opt the media is to uncover facts that discomfort the powerful.
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Tripoli's resilience has challenged what critics see as a government attempt to co-opt the protest movement by positioning itself as the guarantor of an anti-corruption crusade.
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The hat, for many, represents a continuation of a historical pattern in which white women center themselves and co-opt movements and justice work of more vulnerable groups.
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However for every well-meaning attempt to protect people online, there is an example of lawmakers seeking to co-opt such concerns to stifle dissent and censor criticism.
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Inevitably, these episodes set off a stampede of opportunistic politicians, pollsters, and policy wonks rushing to co-opt the phenomenon and use it to advance some ideological agenda.
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But beneath the showmanship, he appears genuinely concerned at what he says is a concerted effort by Mr. Hun Sen's party to co-opt and threaten Cambodians abroad.
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Long before the end of apartheid, Harry Oppenheimer, the head of the mining company, had led efforts to create — and co-opt, some historians say — a black elite.
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As Mark Bray details in his incisive "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook," there have been occasional attempts to co-opt the bloc look by right-wing fascist groups.
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Ali al-Naimi, Aramco's chief executive from 1988 to 1995, told me recently that the Saudi finance ministry tried to co-opt the company's finances in the 1980s.
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Lagardere on Thursday said its board unanimously decided to co-opt Nicolas Sarkozy and the former head of SNCF railway, Guillaume Pepy, as members of the supervisory board.
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David Cameron, her predecessor, held last June's referendum on leaving the European Union believing it would co-opt nativist sentiment that was seen as too marginal to prevail.
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Rather than simply resisting the efforts of nationalists to co-opt music, during the cold war he actively sought to use the art form to bring adversaries together.
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BlackBerry claims that Facebook "created mobile messaging applications that co-opt BlackBerry's innovations," and cite a number of patents that cover things like messaging security and messaging notifications.
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It's become commonplace for struggling companies to co-opt the rampant interest in cryptocurrencies to excite investors and at least give the appearance of being on the cutting edge.
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General Haftar had worked for months to co-opt forces in the west, some of whom are frustrated with the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli.
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Prisma's options for sharing to Facebook and Instagram Prisma's options for sharing to Facebook and Instagram Rather than trying to compete with these developers, Facebook should co-opt them.
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But anyone whom Trump nominated of his own volition was going to have a difficult time shaking off the stench of Trump's desire to co-opt federal law enforcement.
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Because they see themselves as the only legitimate political actors, they seek to take over the judiciary, to gain control of the media, and to co-opt other institutions.
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Hamas remains dedicated to the Jewish state's demise but is now struggling to co-opt, or harness, a popular and largely non-violent uprising originally organized by ordinary citizens.
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The only thing that upsets me more than those that co-opt our flag and anthem are those that exploit my family's sacrifice and service for their political agenda.
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But over the past decade, criminals have increasingly sought to co-opt local politics by trying to influence the electoral process, using violence to effectively handpick slates of candidates.
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"What they're trying to do is co-opt what historically has been rooted in the black community," he added, referring to the black community's history of social justice activism.
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MH: It's important for artists to generate and frame our own content so we're not always looking at institutions to co-opt and define it outside of our awareness.
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Carrying placards that said, "Stand Up to Racism," Brexit supporters and opponents alike warned that Mr. Robinson was trying to co-opt the economic grievances of austerity-hit Britain.
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Only later did birds co-opt their big, glamorous plumes for flight, which is probably a key reason that some of them survived mass extinction 66 million years ago.
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Its release comes after Trump has fired Comey, publicly campaigned for McCabe's firing, publicly berated Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and tried to co-opt the Justice Department more broadly.
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After the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iran-backed Shiite forces began to infiltrate and co-opt the new government, enabling Tehran to exert substantial influence in Baghdad.
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A crucial part of the story is that the emerging autocracy uses the power of the state to intimidate and co-opt civil society — institutions outside the government proper.
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Qatar's brazen attempts to co-opt and/or suborn U.S. interests through massive investments in flagship enterprises like American Airlines should neither mask nor exonerate its misconduct at home.
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We must disrupt Russian efforts to co-opt disgruntled minorities and to infiltrate Moscow's agents and messages among them freely, even as we prepare to stop Russian armored columns.
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Since assuming power in late 2015, the party has moved to co-opt or weaken potential rivals, beginning with the Constitutional Tribunal, which could have declared its moves unconstitutional.
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Civil rights leaders made a conscious decision to co-opt patriotic symbols and language, believing that doing so increased their odds of winning over both politicians and the public.
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Watch out, Lucas, or Kanye-collaborating artist Vanessa Beecroft will co-opt your appearance for a tone-deaf performance piece that views race as nothing more than an aesthetic choice.
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However, barring a Canadian insurgency, after that initial 24 hours, Canada would be conquered, surrender would be imminent, and the US would quickly attempt to co-opt the Canadian military.
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Facebook has run tons of focus groups, surveys and other user feedback programs over the past decade to learn where it could improve or what innovations it could co-opt.
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The protests were his first encounter with big politics, and he and fellow leaders have had to fend off mainstream opposition politicians who wanted to co-opt their grassroots movement.
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Where it gets tricky is that studios are cynically trying to co-opt the moment, hoping that the same broken system that resulted in #OscarsSoWhite will reward them next year.
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We need to fully understand whether they worked with any Americans and how they there were able to co-opt our political process and societal divisions to accomplish their goals.
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The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which oversees these proxies, has helped them co-opt or take over local humanitarian organizations and charities as a way of acquiring legitimacy and popularity.
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" It also accused the organization of attempting to co-opt and whitewash the local movement, which is primarily led by queer people of color, saying there were "fundamental ideological differences.
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From Britain to Norway, center-right and far-right parties, supposedly sworn enemies, have come to either collaborate directly or to co-opt one another's policy platforms and voter bases.
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Ms. Merkel used the coalition to co-opt many of their ideas, and analysts here believe they need time for therapy rather than another opportunity to ruin themselves in office.
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I'll never forget meeting them because they talked to me about how Black artists co-opt themselves in sort of a plantation narrative to become successful in the art world.
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But when I saw her, I felt like what she was doing was not only rude, but symptomatic of some liberal white people who co-opt the work of others.
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If in a few months the border crisis is eased, Trump can deservedly co-opt a new applause line at his campaign rallies and claim vindication for his hardline border policies.
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But he said it was a complicated situation as loggers paid some of the locals to co-opt them into their activities which was also pitting indigenous tribes against each other.
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China, which Trump is seeking to co-opt as a partner in this battle, warned both sides Friday that whoever starts a conflict in the region, there would be no winners.
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The difference, of course, was that the Vermont senator did not co-opt the message, he internalized it, he believed it and he wanted to lend his voice to the cause.
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This "declined to its lowest point in 12 years in 2015, as political, criminal and terrorist forces sought to co-opt or silence the media in their broader struggle for power".
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In 1968, Nixon was the master of the blended approach, adroitly combining a feint at ending the unpopular Vietnam War with a law-and-order appeal to co-opt panicky whites.
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Mr. Duterte has surrounded himself with a sycophantic cabinet, and his administration is trying to co-opt or intimidate the democratic institutions or traditional political forces that might act as counterweights.
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By attaching a hashtag to King's work, he hoped to co-opt it, allowing the racist hordes that follow his website to laugh and take pride in the trauma of others.
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The proposal arrives as congressional lawmakers continue to probe the extent to which Russian-aligned agents sought to co-opt Facebook, Google and Twitter before and after the 2016 presidential race.
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One of the first things I learned, when my friends and I started to get some attention, is how quickly politicians try to co-opt youth movements for their own agendas.
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And where they're trying to … sort of co-opt a lot of the words of our nation — freedom and liberty — it's time we regain that, regain the language of our nation.
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The US has imposed billions in tariffs on a slew of Chinese goods in recent months, and it's now trying to co-opt an international organization to escalate its trade war.
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One may argue that the reverse trope — that of women donning shorter haircuts and "men's" clothing — is less negative for women, since it can be empowering for women to co-opt masculinity.
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Republican members of the Assembly had suggested they might give him a crappy office in Carson City (he said he'd co-opt Mötley Crüe's tour bus and park it outside the capitol).
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" There is Saudi money everywhere, he said, because "the Saudis have to co-opt that many Americans to have a mere chance to be seen as the opposite of what they are.
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The United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party has been accused of operating in Australia to co-opt ethnic Chinese individuals and organizations in foreign countries or else silence dissent.
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The long-governing Institutional Revolutionary Party pioneered the use of ad spending to co-opt the news media, but the practice continued after the National Action Party won the presidency in 2000.
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It must defeat the Saudi-aligned Gulf monarchies, undermine the Hashemites in Jordan, and confront or co-opt a similarly neo-imperial Turkey, all while avoiding a fall from Russia's good graces.
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This is a moment of extreme tokenism, one in which exhibition spaces co-opt political movements or artistic identities and pat themselves on the back for their diversification, for their "radical" inclusion.
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That means people who want to deceive us can co-opt it, using the term (and people's vague familiarity with it) to cast doubt on evidence they don't like they look of.
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His songs tell different stories than my own experiences — and the last thing I want to do is co-opt his narrative — but they really did shape how I see the world.
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Okja extends a more standard anti-factory farming stance in order to skewer the absurd ways in which corporations co-opt the language of environmental and localist movements to reel in consumers.
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The group has reportedly often sought to co-opt entire congregations into its ranks, allegedly using seduction, extortion, and threats to ensnare house church leaders and force them to join the sect.
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Two years ago they released two leading jihadists, Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi and Abu Qatada al-Filastini, in an attempt to co-opt their followers into their own war on Islamic State.
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I passed on that prequel because it seemed like an attempt to co-opt the first person button mapping of other tired game series Call of Duty with less than spectacular results.
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One path: Trump, who has boasted of enjoying the overwhelming support of U.S. law-enforcement agents, sets about attempting to co-opt or weaponize the FBI, and his government begins to collapse.
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A Financial Times investigation into United Front operations in several countries shows a movement directed from the pinnacle of Chinese power to charm, co-opt or attack well-defined groups and individuals.
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His research found that ISIS made a concerted effort to co-opt the rival group, Hurras al Din, starting in January 2017, more than a year before the group announced its formation.
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New Knowledge found that the IRA's efforts went beyond the digital, as the group regularly tried to co-opt unsuspecting Americans to complete real-world tasks or hand over their personal information.
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If they've been police officers for 10 or 20 years they don't know how to do anything else, so when they're fired it's very easy for organized crime to co-opt them.
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We'd argued with the haters and we'd argued with the gay people who said that legal marriage would co-opt us, diminish us, turn us into a caricature of "normal" married people.
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Okja extends a more standard anti–factory farming argument in order to skewer the absurd ways in which corporations co-opt the language of environmental and localist movements to reel in consumers.
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Despite their gains, there have been attempts to co-opt the movement the phrases "all lives matter" and "blue lives matter" derail the conversation on racial inequality that the organization brings to light.
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The use of trusted pools of participants is where the utilities spy an opportunity to co-opt a potentially insurgent technology; they will use it to remain central to the decentralisation of electricity.
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"We've known it's possible for hosts to co-opt envelope proteins to protect themselves from retrovirus infection, but this is the first time it's been demonstrated in hominids, our direct ancestors," said Bieniasz.
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Parks & Rec is arguably the least appropriate show for the NRA to co-opt — and the team behind the fictional town of Pawnee, IN made it abundantly clear to the gun rights organization.
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The Kremlin preferred to co-opt the powerful by allowing them access to rents, and to placate any public discontent with cash and foreign conquests, most notably the annexation of Crimea in 2014.
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I find it ironic that these products co-opt scientific terminology and research, given that many wellness consumers are driven by a desire to turn away from western medicine in the first place.
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Now it has to work to preemptively disarm any future privacy crises or other scandals, and co-opt the "Time Well Spent" rallying call before it becomes a "Time to leave Facebook" movement.
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"What we've seen is an attempt by mainstream politics and politicians to co-opt movements that galvanize people in order for them to move closer to their own goals and objectives," she said.
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White voters without a degree were still a majority of the party's voters in the early 1990s, when Democrats were seeking to co-opt Republican messages on welfare and tough-on-crime policies.
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I'm aware that what Breitbart is doing when it publishes a writer like Kassam is to co-opt the principle of representation and use his identity as a shield to promote inflammatory ideas.
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It's one thing to make work inspired by a specific musical style—it's another to co-opt the struggles that gave rise to it in order to package and promote your own work.
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In effect, the strike managed to divert public attention away from Iran's efforts to co-opt the Iraqi state for its own gains and onto the United States' apparently dangerous presence in the country.
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In Thuringia, it has been trying in its campaign to co-opt the spirit of the protests in old Communist East Germany that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years ago.
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The vandalism here is more symbolic, but it still raises necessary questions about control and privatization of digital real estate, and how massive corporations can co-opt this endless canvas of pixelated pseudo-reality.
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While there does genuinely seem to be a consumer push to be less ageist when we talk about skin and older women, we've seen what happens when companies try to co-opt these efforts.
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In a series of posts on Twitter, Cuban said he believed Trump was "clueless" to any attempts by Russia to co-opt surrogates and campaign officials at the height of the 2016 general election.
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What we object to is when these faux food marketers co-opt the universally recognized name, reputation and image of milk, but don't offer the same natural, unprocessed goodness of what they are mimicking.
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At first, it seemed like a way to show solidarity or self identify as a fire survivor; recently it's felt more like it's being used, in the way financial interests always co-opt movements.
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North Korea was the first nation to co-opt the tool, for an attack in 2017 — called WannaCry — that paralyzed the British health care system, German railroads and some 200,000 organizations around the world.
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It's an open question whether Trump has truly descended into self-parody or whether he has just learned to co-opt the strategies of those who would use satire to hold him to account.
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But there's also a different story, in which Trump didn't as much defeat Rand Paul's worldview as co-opt its more effective messages, while exploiting libertarianism's tendency to devolve into purely interest-based appeals.
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To co-opt a movement that has allowed so many women to come forward and give a voice to their experiences of sexual assault seems like nothing short of an attempt to silence them.
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"The genius of it is that they rigged in favor of an opposition candidate who they could co-opt," Jason Stearns, a Congo expert at the Center of International Cooperation, told the Washington Post.
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"Our team must work tirelessly to stay one step ahead of criminal attackers who seek to pry into personal information and even co-opt devices to commit broader assaults that endanger us all," wrote Federighi.
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And its effort to tie itself more closely to a financial services ecosystem comes as Visa finds itself under threat from some of the very startup technologies that the company may look to co-opt.
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Because it's celebrated within range of Halloween, and features an assortment of macabre imagery and costumes, some people assume it's just "Mexican Halloween," while attempts to co-opt the holiday have been repeated through history.
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Instead of forcing these companies to unionize, to pay unsustainable operating costs in major cities, or banning them altogether, the president-elect and his economic team should not co-opt or discourage these emerging enterprises.
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With a majority of the Democrat base now claiming to prefer socialism to capitalism, a flood of leftist Democrats (some newly minted) are seeking to co-opt Sanders' platform of free this and free that.
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But with Rise of the Republic, Rome 2 now has a screen where you can have members of your dynasty scheme and flatter their way into their opposition's good graces, and co-opt promising rivals.
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The slogan #GoldOpen was chosen not just as a play on the film's opening, but also in part to blend and co-opt the racially tinged labels of "yellow" and "brown" sometimes attributed to Asians.
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But one necessary component is missing: a uniform, galvanizing ideology that could plausibly animate a centralized totalitarian state to co-opt civil society, driving out dissent by employing a combination of surveillance, repression and propaganda.
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But China's attempt to co-opt island leaders through the inducement of Belt and Road initiative infrastructure financing and even less transparent means convinced Canberra that it had been too complacent about its own neighborhood.
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This, the immigration skeptics argue, is proof that they are right: Democrats and other center-left parties can co-opt Trump and the European far right simply by leaning into their anti-migrant bona fides.
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I'm concerned about the growing Salafist threats across Africa and particularly al-Qaeda's ability to co-opt existing ethnic tensions and other rivalries that are driven by climate change, desertification, scarcity of resources and population pressure.
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To use Black products without understanding Black history shows how Asian artists, and especially K-pop groups, strategically co-opt favorable parts of the hip-hop aesthetic while discarding the unjust parts of the Black experience.
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That message didn't really resonate with the web community, which has largely seen it as (at best) a Google project and (at worst) an attempt to co-opt the entire web with a Google-controlled format.
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"Defendants created mobile messaging applications that co-opt BlackBerry's innovations, using a number of the innovative security, user interface, and functionality enhancing features," Canada-based BlackBerry said in a filing with a Los Angeles federal court.
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It can introduce new vectors for hackers to co-opt data and would do nothing to address encryption designed out of country or illegally, which, given encryption's basis on simple math, have already been developed worldwide.
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The Sandinista party disqualified rivals from running in municipal elections in 2008 and has since used a combination of financial incentives and arbitrary legal cases to co-opt segments of the opposition and sideline the rest.
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"As an independent agency charged with protecting the public interest and overseeing the public airwaves, the FCC must resist any attempts to co-opt the broadcast-licensing process to suit the president's whims," the letter reads.
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"When the industry realizes they couldn't win on something, they try to co-opt it, and that's exactly what's going on now," said Stanton Glantz, a tobacco researcher at the University of California at San Francisco.
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But an entirely unrelated group also made moves to capitalize on the shredding: Brands, willing as ever to co-opt any movement or trend, have already begun to turn Banksy's stunt into marketing, Adweek reported Wednesday.
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It suggests that if Trump would want to shut down this investigation, he can't do so by firing Mueller — and that his efforts to co-opt the Justice Department have been unsuccessful for the time being.
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Mr. Malkovich certainly commands attention as a tuxedoed tyrant who at the start eviscerates a writer (played by Matthew Pidgeon, Mr. Mamet's brother-in-law) whose work makes him "puke," to co-opt Fein's chosen word.
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We've known this since 2017, with earlier reports indicating the troll farm attempted to co-opt the Black Lives Matter movement and incite race-based violence via social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
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In restive Muslim regions in southern Russia, Mr. Putin has empowered local leaders to enforce their interpretation of traditional Muslim values, partly in an effort to co-opt Islamist extremism, which has largely been driven underground.
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When the Coalition Provisional Authority disbanded the Iraqi military under its policy of de-Baathification, Iran exploited the resulting sectarian bloodletting between Sunnis and Shia to co-opt former Iraqi military officers to their own ends.
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But, in this particular instance, he seems to co-opt Elizabeth's abduction and repeated rape for the purpose of talking about how his struggles are "worse" than her trauma — a trauma that Ed Smart never experienced.
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By outsourcing a challenge, and seeking to co-opt the energy and ideas of third parties, Twitter is also reframing what's broken in a way that starts to spread responsibility for the problems its platform is causing.
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Even though the company later pulled the ad and apologized, its behavior was part of a larger pattern: companies often co-opt social causes to promote their brands, without ever addressing the roots of the injustices themselves.
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General Hicks: Again, one of the larger questions out there is how much of this has to do with battles over resources where people co-opt Salafist movements as much as they are co-opted by them.
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Considering the widespread flak that recently befell Pepsi when it released its own faux protest commercial, it seems like a shoot-yourself-in-the-foot move to attempt to co-opt protest iconography to sell a product.
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Opinion polling of Ukrainians shows that Trump's purported attempt to co-opt Ukraine's precarious position with Russia worsened divides inside Ukraine and weakened US influence, according to Ohio State University professors Erik C. Nisbet and Olga Kamenchuk.
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What we didn't know was, at the same time that this investigation was proceeding, the president himself appears to have been engaged in an effort to influence, or at least co-opt, the director of the FBI.
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If the FBI receives a credible allegation that there is some effort to co-opt, coerce, direct, employ covertly an American on behalf of the foreign power, that's the basis on which a counterintelligence investigation is opened.
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Sports are zero-sum: Auriemma's UConn is not a global superpower that can ally with others to strengthen his influence, nor a hip-hop legend who can guest on rising stars' tracks to co-opt their energy.
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In response, the C.I.A. would have observed that taking out the general would deprive Iranian moderates, like President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, of any leeway for compromise, enabling hard-liners to co-opt them.
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It both certifies that the beer came from one of the nation's independently owned and small-scale breweries and signals that these upstarts are fighting back against the corporations trying to co-opt their authenticity and craftiness.
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This research may be scientifically valid, but the tobacco and sugar corporations should be required to conduct their own studies rather than to co-opt the underlying mission of NIH by essentially controlling the agency's research agenda.
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While not directly related to the r/news fiasco, the confusion and general nature of Reddit has allowed well-organized subreddits to co-opt r/all and make themselves seem much more popular than they would otherwise be.
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Regional experts, including Autesserre, say a divided opposition, known as the Rassemblement, and a strategic play by Kabila to co-opt several opposition figures in his government are also to blame for the inability to mobilize the population.
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Two examples: While there were many amateur Tea Party activists, the movement was supported by the Koch brothers' preexisting infrastructure, and the Koch organization sought to co-opt the movement to emphasize its budget-balancing, small-government message.
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Any attempt by pundits or lobbyists to muddy the waters around this proposal is an obvious attempt to co-opt the campaign's momentum with an eye toward weakening future legislation and protecting the interests of health-industry profiteers.
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"The planning field has learned how to co-opt the language, but they don't follow the process that Jane advocated," which involves enhancing existing neighborhoods rather than building new ones and stresses local engagement in the planning process.
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But recently developed "immuno-oncology" drugs, which co-opt the immune system to fight tumours, are so effective that, in around a fifth of cases, there is talk among experts that the patients involved have actually been cured.
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A long-term pact between Moscow and Riyadh would effectively co-opt Russia to the Saudi-led OPEC cartel while strengthening Russia's hand in the Middle East where the United States has long been the dominant super-power.
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The biggest concern is that individuals with malicious intent, often alerted and supported by social media, join those protesting over a specific incident or incidents, and co-opt the issue for the purpose of causing damage and harm.
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Trump's grand vision for the event has increased costs, created logistical complications and prompted onlookers to worry that the president will co-opt a holiday associated with national unity and turn it into a de facto campaign rally.
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As businesses and governments around the world look for ways to skirt the traditional news media, The Post has become a test case for how a new owner can co-opt an established brand to promote certain viewpoints.
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Mike Pence jumped to Donald Trump's defense Friday after the former acting director of the Central Intelligence Agency denounced the Republican nominee as an "unwitting agent" of Russian President Vladimir Putin's operation to co-opt the presidential election.
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Sure, the situation the seemingly hesitant Anne (Aisling Loftus) describes at the start sounds pretty grim: an episode of domestic abuse that two film-industry figures are eager to co-opt as the basis for a movie. (Mr.
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"I can hear something I love in a piece of media, and I can co-opt it and insert myself in that narrative or alter it even," said musician Mark Ronson in his 2014 TED Talk on sampling.
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Rather than trashing all of Trumps policies, Bloomberg is the only candidate who can co-opt Trump, attracting moderate Democrats and independents and not a few Republicans, promoting sensible centrist policies with a more decent, more humane style.
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"There are many options for the Congolese government at the moment, ranging from repression to trying to co-opt part of the opposition, all the while banking on the relative apathy or complicity of foreign governments," he said.
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Trump's first truly major campaign rally, in August 2015, was in Phoenix with Arpaio and some of the "Angel Moms" (mothers of people killed by unauthorized immigrants) he would continue to co-opt as a candidate and president.
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They had tried for years to co-opt Haftar, 248, into a political settlement that would stabilize the major oil and gas producer after almost a decade of conflict that had acted as a breeding ground for Islamist militancy.
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And as DiResta notes, the right's choice to take up the hashtag — which seems more motivated by laziness than a desire to co-opt — is an indicator of how little each group is listening to the other's rallying cries.
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"The slow implementation of the Peace Agreement in the areas worst affected by the armed conflict and the absence of the state enables armed actors to co-opt territories and keep killing human rights defenders with impunity," she said.
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In many ways, it is an ideal tool for mobilizing small but highly vocal pockets of opposition against one's enemies, as it can co-opt some people with genuine fears about child trafficking into perpetuating smear and harassment campaigns.
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Nonetheless, Mr. Putin paid a visit to Ms. Alexeyeva on her 90th birthday that was both a gesture of respect and, apparently, a sly effort to co-opt support from Russia's most prominent dissident for the annexation of Crimea.
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But far from trafficking in sensationalism, "Harrogate" probes the damaged psyche that leaves Patrick in evident free-fall, occupying a dark recess of the soul that exists beyond vision, to co-opt an image from Ms. Ridgeway's final speech.
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WM: Well, one of the crazy things I've been thinking was — I mean, this is kind of grim, but I think about it all the time when you see these white nationalists co-opt the language of oppressed people.
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Though Jalaiah is very much a suburban kid herself — she lives in a picturesque home on a quiet street outside of Atlanta — she is part of the young, cutting-edge dance community online that more mainstream influencers co-opt.
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If he can elicit from that pioneering show about dreams deferred anything like the muscular power he found in "Ma Rainey," it looks as if — to co-opt a lyric from "Follies" — we really are going to love tomorrow.
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In the meantime, a number of people working in extractions have come up with their own code of conduct and set of best practices, that they hope the government will one day co-opt and enforce on everyone else.
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For the sake of establishing a timeline, some of the first mentionable metal musicians to co-opt the trill were guitarists like Iron Maiden's Adrian Smith, Celtic Frost's Thomas Gabriel Fischer, and Saint Vitus's Dave Chandler in the early 80s.
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The state will continue trying to co-opt religious groups it believes are safe, and to crush the ones it perceives as more dangerous, which means that traditional religions such as Buddhism and Daoism are likely to be the winners.
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It's a line Republicans in both the House and Senate — not to mention President Donald Trump — have used many times since Democrats opened an impeachment inquiry into Trump's alleged attempts to co-opt US foreign policy for personal political gain.
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Muslims humiliated by colonialism and the failures of socialism and nationalism, under which home-grown autocrats tried to co-opt Islam for their own benefit, longed for an alternative that made sense in a world of nation-states and elections.
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They said the banks did this by using their positions on the board of co-defendant EquiLend to co-opt that company as a vehicle to maintain monopoly control over the market and, as a result, charge excessive fees to investors.
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" The company claims that Twitter "created mobile messaging applications that co-opt BlackBerry's innovations, using a number of the innovative user interface and functionality enhancing features that made BlackBerry's products such a critical and commercial success in the first place.
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And Elliott Associates, after failing to successfully work with Apollo Global Management on an Arconic takeover, is seeking to raise $2 billion for an actual takeover fund — not so much evolving into private equity but seeking to co-opt it.
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Pepsi has left many people with a bad taste in their mouths with the release of a new protest-themed commercial starring Kendall Jenner, which critics say is a tone-deaf attempt to co-opt a movement of political resistance.
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But at the time of their release, they easily could have been seen as the crumbling Hollywood studio system first resisting, then finally giving way to a youth movement it had tried to co-opt before it essentially took over.
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While the 'WEXIT' banner is the most obvious homage to Brexit on the part of the Wenger Out movement, it is certainly not the only example of how some amongst them have attempted to co-opt the Vote Leave platform.
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"You contest this space, you create armies of bots, you enlist influencers, or co-opt, or intimidate them, and you manipulate this landscape now," Alexei Abrahams, who researches disinformation at The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, told VICE News.
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"But beginning in 2015, various fringe groups connected with the alt-right attempted to co-opt Pepe by mixing images of Pepe with images of hate, including white supremacist language and symbols, Nazi symbols, and other offensive imagery," the lawsuit reads.
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Joining her is another senator, who is in a hotly contested race, and since pushing the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act last fall, has been consistently seeking issues he can co-opt to remain in the limelight during the re-election cycle.
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Nixon insisted he had a secret plan to win the war, a claim that Humphrey could not counter or co-opt, given that he was Johnson's vice-president; if he knew how to end the war, why hadn't he told Johnson?
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In my career as the president of two state universities and a consultant to nearly 50 higher-education institutions, I've observed dozens of college presidents skillfully co-opt their governing boards into approving costly projects that make schools look more attractive.
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In fact, he left a Europe that was subject to bloody religious wars and, incidentally, to the Catholic backlash of the Counter-Reformation, which strove to co-opt the Protestant emphasis on personal devotion in new styles of traditional piety.
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So I did what I did to stand in solidarity with them, and to send a message to Hollywood that we aren't going to sit idly by while they co-opt and transform stories seemingly meant for other demographics of viewers.
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Opponents worry that the visit will be seen as a tacit endorsement of a Polish government that has been criticized by its European Union partners for moves to co-opt the news media, its political opponents and, most recently, the courts.
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Sessions' spectacularly ill-advised move does not empower him to co-opt these state and local resources; it simply directs his limited federal resources to go after marijuana enterprises that might be complying with previous federal guidance, state laws and regulations.
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Facebook "created mobile messaging applications that co-opt BlackBerry's innovations, using a number of the innovative security, user interface, and functionality enhancing features that made BlackBerry's products such a critical and commercial success in the first place," according to the suit.
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While it's not uncommon for white supremacists to try to co-opt pop culture icons (including Bart Simpson and My Little Pony), it is rare for one of these characters to be perverted — as Pepe has been — to a hate symbol.
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Jamia Wilson: I think that especially in a context where a lot of people are attempting to co-opt feminism for financial or cultural capital gain, a big part of maintaining our integrity as a movement is defining ourselves, or someone else will.
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They said the banks did this by using their positions on the board of co-defendant EquiLend LLC to co-opt that company as a vehicle to maintain monopoly control over the market and, as a result, charge excessive fees to investors.
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"As we have seen elsewhere in the world, ISIL seeks to co-opt existing terrorist groups, as well as local insurgencies and conflicts to expand its network and advance its agenda," said Thomas-Greenfield, who heads the State Department's Bureau of African Affairs.
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This gesture manages to co-opt a deeply confrontational question that asks people to take an active stance on a political issue, and turns it into another desperate attempt for museums to connect to millennials via a spectacle-oriented opportunity for narcissism.
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Sure, the pieces on his chess board (to co-opt Sir Stuart's metaphor) acted unpredictably in a few instances — he didn't see the stepmother twist coming, and that gunpowder order had to be rushed — but eventually, they lined up just right for him.
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"If the FBI receives a credible allegation that there is some effort to co-opt, coerce, direct, employ covertly an American on behalf of the foreign power, that's the basis on which a counterintelligence investigation is opened," Comey told committee Chairman Richard Burr.
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Now that women's liberation is cool again, now that the f-word is cropping up on billboards, catwalks and talk shows, the pressing question is how far radical feminists can allow the mainstream to co-opt our movement without cheapening the message.
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Many industry experts are not sure, noting that at least in the publicly described version of events, it would be possible for an intelligence agency to co-opt most modern anti-virus software packages to scan for specific files without a company's knowledge.
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Once a crisis seems like it could cause social instability — especially when public blame appears to shift from the local to the central authorities — the government starts reining in the media and tries to co-opt it into delivering a unified, official message.
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To counteract popular support for an Islamist insurgency that erupted after the Soviet breakup, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has granted wide latitude to the regional leader, Mr. Kadyrov, to co-opt elements of the Islamist agenda, including an intolerance of gays.
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In the short term, Trump's dismissal of Comey rid him of a troublesome, powerful figure who assessed that the President wanted to co-opt him into a patronage-style relationship and to infringe ethical barriers between the White House and Justice Department.
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I asked McIntyre why they opted to create a whole new system, rather than go to the USDA—which regulates organic certification in the U.S.—and co-opt some of their practices, or ask to integrate these new ideas into their existing format.
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But this double game was in line with decades of Saudi government policy, which saw religious extremists as a terrible threat to the kingdom, but that sought to fight the extremists at some turns but to co-opt or appease them at others.
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We certainly know that Russia played a role here, that Russian-backed trolls — we're talking about specific trolls that have been identified by lots of scientists, the intelligence community, as well — sought to co-opt social media to spread their message around the 2016 election.
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This is beyond that, because if foreign powers are ... Even folks who aren't part of the Russian government are trying to spread misinformation, co-opt social media, cause trouble around elections, then it's certainly an issue that Congress and the federal government should be exploring.
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Outcome According to the former intelligence official, a successful recruitment of an intelligence source hinges on the final step of the process involving the spy's decision to co-opt the target by finally making the pitch for him or her to share sensitive information.
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The choices the United States has in response to this are: co-opt/form an entente with one of the rising powers, or try to play the rising powers off against one another and hope that they don't successfully join forces against the United States.
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"Decisions were taken in a top-down fashion but often resulted in the oil-funded recruitment of many clients into the growing state apparatus, not least to co-opt and control society - essentially exchanging jobs and state services for political quiescence," according to Hertog.
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Since 2002, the Chinese Communist Party has used WTO membership and the certainty of low tariffs to co-opt American business owners, enabling the creation of large margins by tapping into an economy that allows for poor labor laws, poor environmental regulation, and subsidies.
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Conservative mainstream parties sometimes try to co-opt some of their rhetoric, but they, along with media and economic elites, often attempt to isolate the ethno-national parties, framing them as being outside the national consensus and agreeing that they will not cooperate with them.
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" Ball claims Warren's "attempts to co-opt revolutionary rhetoric in service of an establishment campaign, like Disney doing socialism, satisfied no one and left her unable to win more than 1 county and Iowa and an embarrassing distant fourth behind Klobuchar in New Hampshire.
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There's so many companies like yours who you could come up with, I'm just thinking, just Box or Dropbox or something like that, come up with great ideas and then the bigger companies co-opt them, essentially, and then they use them for other purposes.
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Though there are some barely detectable political similarities between Trump voters and the LGTBQ community, and probably some very, very marginal crossover, it doesn't mean Trump voters are right to co-opt the vocabulary of coming out to espouse their political beliefs free from argument, or recourse.
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Are we just hours away from a sweeping indictment that makes public the pee tape and explains every intimate detail of a years-long plot to co-opt Donald Trump as a Russian intelligence asset dating all the way back to 143, as Jonathan Chait has argued?
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" "You can imagine in a case of this significance watched this closely the special counsel's team is not going to do this unless they have pretty darn ironclad evidence that Manafort is trying to corrupt or co-opt these witnesses," Schiff said on CNN's "Cuomo Primetime.
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Only in the last few years did he learn how much they had influenced the Reagan administration: As Lawrence Wittner wrote in his history of the period, Toward Nuclear Abolition, intense protests convinced the Reagan administration to co-opt the rhetoric and energy of the antiwar movement.
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German experts say the march was part of a growing trend that has seen far-right groups attempt to co-opt May 1, a date associated with workers, trade unionists and the political left, in a bid to position themselves as representatives of the working class.
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Analysts said his advance amounted to a bet that, in part by creating an aura of inevitability about his emergence as Libya's next strongman, he could strike deals with local armed groups around Tripoli to co-opt them, as he has done successfully in other regions.
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But when — when a foreign power is using especially coercion or some sort of pressure to try and co-opt an American, especially a government official, to act on its behalf, that's a serious concern to the FBI and at the heart of the FBI's counterintelligence mission.
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But you have to hand it to the creative team — not least the hardworking sound designers Pete Malkin and Benjamin Grant — for carrying a full-on assault of this sort straight across the finish line, to co-opt the language of sports deployed by the play.
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The 1979 Camp David peace treaty between Israel and Egypt meant that the Palestinians had lost a cornerstone ally in the region, while the much-heralded 1993 Oslo Accords served to co-opt the Palestinian leadership and maroon their followers into tiny enclaves under ultimate Israeli control.
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A Trump administration that was laser-focused on both a message and agenda of economic nationalism would be a formidable political force, particularly if they could co-opt liberal ideas on domestic policy and leave the left to oppose Trump on pure race and identity grounds.
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"This is the first time we've had a president who is a brand, and it's not unusual to see various markets try to co-opt brands for their own success," said Greg Portell, lead partner for consumer industries and retail practice at global consulting firm A.T. Kearney.
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PAFA provided this space to Granwell — who has most often worked in artist-run spaces, in particular Tiger Strikes Asteroid — not as a means to co-opt alternative methods, but because it's leaders seems to understand the supporting role it can play in the development of artists and curators.
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The China of Xi Jinping is a great mercantilist dragon under strict Communist Party control, using the power of its vast markets to cow and co-opt capitalist rivals, to bend and break the rules-based order and to push America to the periphery of the Asia-Pacific region.
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His book traces today's often-disguised forms of rightwing extremism through the decades and across the globe to show how infiltration is a conscious and clandestine program for neofascist groups that seek to co-opt and undermine both the mainstream and the new social movements of the left.
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Local jurisdictions and law enforcement agencies have argued that their policies are actually about making communities safer -- by building trust with local communities -- and say that what the government is actually trying to do is co-opt their precious resources to carry out what should be federal officers' job.
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We resume where we left off from episode one of this season, with Mirror Universe Daryl (half-melty-face Dwight) trying to co-opt Daryl's identity and gear while dishing out a maximum amount of psychological torture by blasting a classic song by The Jam to set the mood.
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One of the reasons that protesters might co-opt the Joker's likeness is to send a signal to the people in power, said Andreas Beer, a research fellow at HoF-Institute at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg who has previously written about the use of masks in protests.
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The cables — sent by the Ministry of Intelligence and Security, Iran's version of the C.I.A., from 20143 to 2015 — detail work by Iranian spies to co-opt Iraq's leaders, pay Iraqi agents working for the U.S. to switch sides, and infiltrate every aspect of political, economic and religious life.
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"Now there are reports that not only did Trump send Rudy Giuliani, his personal lawyer, to carry out his scheme and co-opt the State Department — and, as alleged, allies of Giuliani were also working a side deal at the same time to make millions in Ukraine," Biden said.
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A wealthy political organization or foreign power may be able to co-opt or infiltrate nodes in a distributed network to a far greater extent than if there were a single party organization that could weigh the risks and downsides of this collaboration on behalf of the entire party.
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Between Rubio and Ted Cruz, who was also on offense, there was still probably too much talk about how Trump is not a real conservative, and too little in the way of efforts to actually co-opt the valid parts of Trump's critiques of organized conservatism and the Republican Party.
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After seizing power in a rapidly summoned conclave, he proceeded to consolidate his hold over the movement, deflect attempts by the pro-Taliban clergy (ulema) to question his authority, co-opt or eliminate dissidents, renew the Taliban's war strategy and defy all efforts to maneuver the Taliban into peace negotiations.
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Instead, a lot of Russian liberals worry she's a Kremlin puppet — and playing a part, whether she's aware of it or not, in a scheme dreamed up by Putin's political wizards to co-opt, divide and discredit Russia's pro-democracy youth vote, and help push Putin's regime into its third decade.
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It becomes clear that these artists were themselves cogs in the Soviet propaganda machine, a role that may have been forgotten 100 years later, in a contemporary climate where rock bands co-opt political imagery for their own ends (something that, 15 years ago, Hal Foster referred to as 'fetishitic constructivism').
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If conservative intellectuals like Frum really want to take back their party, they can't simply expect to co-opt the Trumpkins after their champion loses in November; they will have to argue with them, forthrightly and bluntly explaining what is wrong with—and anything but conservative about—the Trump worldview.
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I haven't gotten any physical tats, but spiritually, sure: If a girl even responds to my text, I feel sired to her for life, and I'm ready and willing to be savagely disposed of by her, only to co-opt the damage she's done as a cornerstone of my future personality.
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In essence, the accommodation acts like a permission slip that allows the government to co-opt the employer healthcare plans, so theoretically, it would be the government, not the employers, providing the organization's employees with access to contraceptives, as well as "abortifacients," which are medications that can induce a miscarriage.
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When a small town in Nebraska is given an opportunity to build Costco's new chicken processing plant, environmentalists in the area were faced with a fundamental dilemma: try to convert people to their way of thinking or co-opt a xenophobic cause they don't believe in to shut down the project?
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It's not exactly dishonest—nobody who's ever had to leave a bar and go straight to a laundromat is getting confused by the branding—but people who can afford a Gretsch with dinner don't need to co-opt the dirty old dives for the cheap-whiskey lushes among us, too.
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While money is at the heart of almost every copyright case, the lawsuits over "We Shall Overcome" and "This Land" also have a decidedly political tinge — they seek to decide who gets to co-opt the message of songs that were written in service of a particular point of view.
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But when lines like these spin an "empowering" campaign, or, in the case of Zara's line, co-opt the language of feminism, or body-positivity, there's a worry that the right people aren't being serviced by them, and that the movements they ally with may suffer because of that allyship.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In a social media landscape overflowing with brands that co-opt the language of social movements to appeal to hyper-conscious consumers, R.I.S.E. offers a heartening alternative: dissident cultural activism that leverages the immediacy of online sharing culture to give voice to Indigenous resistance.
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"Google's theory is that, having invested all those resources to create a program popular with platform developers and app programmers alike, Oracle should be required to let a competitor copy its code so that it can co-opt the fan base to create its own best-selling sequel," Oracle's lawyers wrote.
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We've seen a lot of brands who are helmed by women of color and queer folk, but I feel like it's the bigger brands who come and see these ideas and that it works, so they co-opt it and make so much money and make carbon copies to send to everyone.
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Today's China seeks not to marginalise competing groups and belief systems but to co-opt them…Today's Chinese state, much like the [pre-communist] imperial state, can be a generous benefactor, helping to rebuild temples, train new Buddhist and Taoist clergy and set up international exchanges with the faithful in other countries.
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Observers warn that Germany's turmoil is a telling sign of how much this disruptive new nationalist force, once dismissed as a fringe movement, has already transformed the German political landscape, forcing some on the center-right to co-opt AfD's hardline positions on immigration and identity to try to blunt its rising appeal.
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The animals of Manor Farm throw off the shackles of their farmer masters, only to find that the great ideals of Old Major (a boar version of Karl Marx) get twisted into an even worse system by the pigs Snowball (a Lenin/Trotsky parallel) and Napoleon (Stalin) who co-opt the revolution.
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Today, the transformative logic of ganhua (感化) — the reformation of vile character traits through examples of moral superiority — underpins China's education system, incarceration theory and even the work of the United Front, the C.C.P.'s shadowy influence machine, whose agents try to court or co-opt nonparty members and Chinese living overseas.
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The clear demarcations of class and values traditionally associated with dress have been eroding for a long time now, because of both the general social revolt against formality and fashion's own tendency to co-opt and thus denature so many of what were once the outfits of the outsiders and the disenfranchised.
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"The accusations, and I reiterate, the accusations made by this news organization claiming the existence and use of a co-opt plan by major insurance companies and law enforcement to falsely prosecute insurers to boost company profits — which, as a result, pay police salaries — are unfounded and false," DeLuca said in the statement.
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They're talking about corporate sponsorship in public schools when the vending machine pops up, or the Jane Magazine takeoff where this hipster 30-something is trying to go into high school and establish trends for all the girls, and trying to co-opt stuff that young people are doing as her own trend-setting.
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More recently, according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Russia attempted to co-opt populists on both ends of the ideological spectrum by facilitating both the Occupy movement, via the Russian television network RT, and the far right, members of which have looked to Vladimir Putin as an exemplar of traditional values.
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To grow and flourish within its human host, the cancer cell must co-opt dozens, or even thousands, of nonmutant genes to its purpose — turning these genes "on" and "off," like a pathological commander who has hijacked a ship and is now using all its normal gears and levers to take a new, malignant course.
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Working with The Intercept, The Times reviewed hundreds of reports and cables sent by M.O.I.S., Iran's version of the C.I.A., from 2700 to 250 that detail work by Iranian spies to co-opt Iraq's leaders, pay Iraqi agents working for the U.S. to switch sides and infiltrate every aspect of political, economic and religious life.
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Three former US intelligence officers have been sentenced for espionage-related charges involving China (there may be more as many espionage cases don't go public), which means that China was able to identify and co-opt at least three Americans who had at least some degree of counterintelligence training because of their professional backgrounds.
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Topics that Republicans have tried to co-opt and make their own and I think that&aposs really when you look at the odds and we&aposve talked about this a lot before, you see a lot more Democrats featuring their service to this country and leading with that which I think is a great trend line.
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By focusing his rhetorical firepower largely on minority faiths that have grown in size and influence in the United States over the past 60 years — displacing the old Protestant monopoly — Mr. Trump is stoking a tribal hostility toward those who worship differently, one that hucksters have seized on throughout history to infect and co-opt America's faith communities.
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As the site's default subreddits have become unwieldy, smaller communities have figured out how to co-opt r/all, which is why, even on a normal day, the site's most popular posts are some mix of Donald Trump memes, "screenshots of black people being hilarious on social media," anti Hillary Clinton conspiracy theories, and complaints about Reddit censorship.
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Trump can adopt or co-opt the Democrats' infrastructure platform outright if he likes, but he can't easily entice them to compromise with him, and he can't entice House Speaker Paul Ryan or Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to advance a trillion dollar direct-spending bill filled with environmental and labor protections that the GOP exists to oppose.
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In the past, the simplest and cleanest way to cut through and ultimately co-opt this shaky coalition would be to place a broad, moral filter over it — the Native Americans, compelled by religion and solidarity, can be held in patronizing, lobotomized regard and the misguided veterans and young, feckless activists can be sneered at and dismissed.
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" (That one, you may recall, was a major hit for Katy Perry.) Far from succumbing to a premature death, this Juliet lives on to quickly discover that her beloved Romeo was in fact an unrepentant cad and that she possesses a self that is worth finding, to co-opt the psychological discourse trafficked by "Dear Evan Hansen.
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FIBA has decided to co-opt a similar qualifying model to the one its FIFA counterparts employ to establish the field for soccer's World Cup — except that basketball's international governing body has no authority to compel N.B.A. or Euroleague teams to release players to join their national teams for the requisite "windows," as they're known, scheduled for this month and again in February.
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Working with The Intercept, The Times reviewed hundreds of reports and cables sent by the Ministry of Intelligence and Security, Iran's version of the C.I.A., from 2014 to 2015 that detail work by Iranian spies to co-opt Iraq's leaders, pay Iraqi agents working for the U.S. to switch sides and infiltrate every aspect of political, economic and religious life.
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The story, written by Kenya Barris (Black-ish), Karen McCullah, Tracy Oliver (Barbershop: The Next Cut), and Erica Rivinoja, rarely strays from this objective, even though the film contains a few moments — including one about how white women co-opt black slang, and another about marketing the idea of "having it all" to women — where it seems like there's plenty of opportunity to do so.
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Watching an interloper (who claims to love punk whilst shitting on literally everything it stands for) stride in and embarass himself by insulting someone who represents decades of blood, sweat, stitches, and hard fucking work is cringeworthy at best, and a damning example of why it's been so shitty watching high-end fashion brands (and even fast fashion emporiums like H&M) co-opt underground subcultures.
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Punk rock has so often been about exposing the hostility beneath the passive-aggressive pieties of those in power; when those same powerful people adopt that pissed-off tone and combine it with a vague notion of fucking with The Establishment, they start to co-opt the messages that punk, metal, activism, protest, and resistance of all kinds have been working on for years.
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Democrats are seeking to co-opt President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's message on pharmaceuticals against him and capitalize on voter anger at drug companies in the midterm elections this November.
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The KRG's sustained attempt to co-opt Assyrian material and cultural heritage is rooted in fears that the very presence of anything Assyrian serves as a direct challenge to Kurdish claims of legitimacy over lands that have been subject to a decade-long program of Kurdification, annexation, and land-grabs, aided and abetted by the apathy of the central government in Baghdad and the chaotic interregnums after the Iraq War and the fall of ISIS.
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On encryption Hannigan called for "some very practical cooperation with the industry", although he did not get so specific as to detail what this practical cooperation would entail — although he dropped some leading hints as to the intelligence agency's thinking, suggesting the preferred route might be to co-opt companies to help security agencies exploit weaknesses in their own encryption systems to afford access to spooks when a legal warrant is requiring it.
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Twitter informed congressional investigators of its findings in a series of briefings in Washington, D.C., on Thursday — and the revelations are sure to stoke further speculation on Capitol Hill that Kremlin agents sought to co-opt social media platforms to stir social and political unrest in the U.S. The company's inquiry appears to have started in earnest earlier this month, after Facebook said roughly 470 Russian-linked accounts had purchased 33,000 advertisements, some of which sought to stoke racial or religious discord.
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That's because this production, directed by Ethan Heard without some of the graceful subtlety that made his "Fidelio" with Heartbeat Opera so powerful last season, takes its aim at the men who tend to co-opt Susanna's tale: Daniel, who in the Bible is depicted as her savior; Stradella, who puts her story in the mouths of male narrators and performers; artists, who have painted scenes of her, front and center and often nude, while clothed men look on hungrily.
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In a weeklong exposé of the methods the club has used to circumvent UEFA's Financial Fair Play regulations — to, in a comment attributed to Simon Pearce, one of the club's most influential executives, "do what we want" — Der Spiegel and Football Leaks have depicted a club that has, for almost a decade, worked tirelessly to deceive and co-opt the game's authorities, to make sure the rules do not apply to City; and whenever it has not gotten its way, it has reacted with petulant anger.
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Mark WarnerMark Robert WarnerFacebook users in lawsuit say company failed to warn them of known risks before 2018 breach New intel chief inherits host of challenges Overnight Defense: US, Russia tensions grow over nuclear arms | Highlights from Esper's Asia trip | Trump strikes neutral tone on Hong Kong protests | General orders ethics review of special forces MORE (D-Va.), the vice chairman of the Intelligence Committee, accused Trump during the hearing of engaging "in an effort to influence or at least co-opt the FBI" and signaled at its conclusion that Comey's testimony left him with more questions.
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But a number of academics and lawyers, among them a group of feminist Harvard law professors (including Gertner) who released a public letter in August calling for reform, have cited reasons Title IX policies should concern progressives, too: that overly broad definitions of misconduct, encompassing most drunken encounters, threaten to erode distinctions between consensual and nonconsensual sex; that anecdotal evidence (there's little hard data available) suggests men of color are disproportionately punished; that a conservative administration could co-opt the campus-rape debate to further its own aims; or that perceptions of bias could trigger a backlash casting women as liars.
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That's why they're trying desperately to co-opt Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann Warren22019 Democrats push for gun control action at forum On The Money: Trump blames impeachment inquiry for stock market drop | Trump to hit EU with new tariffs after WTO ruling | Warren outlines tax on federal lobbying Hillicon Valley: Clapper praises whistleblower complaint | Senators urge social media giants to take action against 'deepfakes' | Tim Cook asks Supreme Court to protect DACA | Harris pushes Twitter to suspend Trump MORE, and then their long time friend at arms length, Joe BidenJoe BidenHouse Republicans voice concerns about White House's impeachment messaging Giuliani consulted with Manafort on Ukraine info: report Top Pence adviser was on Trump-Zelensky phone call at center of whistleblower complaint: report MORE, and basically anyone who is not named Bernie SandersBernie Sanders2020 Democrats push for gun control action at forum Sanders heart procedures shines spotlight on age of top Democrats Sanders uses health scare to promote 'Medicare for All' MORE.
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