He could be curt with voters, and rarely coddled them.
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These students are so coddled they're not working hard enough.
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The victims of his coddled football players wouldn't think so.
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His querulous nature shouldn't be coddled; it should be crushed.
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There was no leisure time and certainly no coddled kids.
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You're so coddled in these other realms of show business.
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These people are not experiencing conversion, they are being coddled.
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LEON PANETTA, FORMER CIA DIRECTOR: This president basically coddled Mr. Putin.
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She doesn't get coddled at all, just because she's a girl.
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They want reinforcement and for their high to be very coddled.
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At the top programs, they are more coddled than pro players.
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They withstand a little abuse but really appreciate being coddled, too.
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They helped to stabilize the economy but also coddled the banks.
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Here, we get a window into the world of the coddled CEO.
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Head-to-head competition with the coddled mainland banks would be suicidal.
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Conservative critics said Southwest Key wasted taxpayer dollars and coddled illegal immigrants.
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The product of fools, raised by idiots and coddled by affirmative action.
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Those who flout the law deserve to be held accountable, not coddled.
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Park, whose family lives in coddled splendor in a stunning modern mansion.
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We are, after all, living in the era of the pampered, coddled houseplant.
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Maybe the world coddled him too much, thus setting him up for failure?
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But that's for the coddled few who can't manage a little cold water.
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My three children once were among the coddled offspring of Park Slope, Brooklyn.
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"We want you to feel kind of coddled in here," Mr. Katz said.
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How hard will a noticeably coddled candidate work upon reaching the White House?
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This is a guy who has been protected and coddled his entire political career.
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I felt like I was in China being coddled by my cold-phobic relatives.
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Having coddled the Saudis, the US needs to insist that the government come clean.
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" By contrast, "I wasn't coddled, I was put into situations and learned to adapt.
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Domestically, Thatcher presided over years of unemployment and economic policies that coddled the rich.
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Objecting to this sort of thing is for the coddled, the liberal, the élite.
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Only the shortsighted, the stupid, the coddled, and the unprepared would turn against it.
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Not only that, but this coddled group also gets a tax break on their coverage.
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In addition to larger rooms or softer sheets, big spenders want to be coddled nowadays.
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For instance, are young people today narcissistic and coddled, or are we creative and energetic?
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But one who is coddled and promoted, if not taken totally seriously, by Trump haters.
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They were cared for by humans, but not coddled, maintaining a certain measure of independence.
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Favoured insiders might do well—witness the gap between coddled workers and neglected outsiders in Italy.
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And that leaves Cancers constantly upset about how they aren't being coddled more through tough situations.
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There is so much more: A planet dying because for years fossil fuel interests were coddled.
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Yes, D'Alessandro did, at times, see to the welfare of his boss's welter of coddled cats.
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As a recipe writer, she often gave you the leanest, most basic directions, and never coddled.
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Part of me felt accepted, understood and even coddled in the midst of this harrowing event.
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In any case, she adored being coddled, and Ms. Baird says she got that from Brown.
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The coddled child who once told her everything had been replaced by a man with secrets.
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Yet the restaurant's customer base is built of the richest and most coddled people in the city.
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But coddled by the ornate style of early-18th century Europe, Baroque composers hurried to the challenge.
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From: Like These Eggs, We Also Want to Be Coddled in a Tasty Eggplant and Tomato Stew
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Trade barriers shield domestic industry from competition, so coddled industries will suffer when these barriers are lowered.
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"Sickness had seemed to him, then, the height of luxury," a character recalls about his coddled childhood.
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It turns out, two years of being coddled by clients has made my ego even more fragile.
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Fast forward to the 21st century, when tomatoes are welcomed into family gardens and coddled each spring.
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"My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress," Mr. Buffett wrote.
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So forgive me if I have not prioritized pandering to the people that feel entitled to be coddled.
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Puerto Ricans don't need to be coddled, but we need a helping hand to get on our feet.
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Since 1991, give or take a few coddled years, the millennial has been a fearsome thing to behold.
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Her claims also fly in the face of the standard view of tech employees as coddled and overpaid.
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Her show neither coddled nor exploited sob stories — it just cut through them to get to the truth.
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Warm and coddled, it's shiny, opaque and about as runny as fresh cream, which it is, sort of.
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A faction of disgruntled teammates fumed that Wilson was overhyped and coddled by Coach Pete Carroll and management.
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Maia's privilege at once blinded her from reality and coddled her from the downfall of her parents' decisions.
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No. 4: 'They were considered barely human' He was the coddled only child of a wealthy New York family.
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" -Latche, Reddit "My first roommate in college was extremely coddled by his mother (or at least I thought so).
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To invent products like Gmail, Earth, and Translate, you need coddled geniuses free to let their minds run wild.
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They think that boys should be challenged, not coddled, and that football is a good way to challenge them.
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But the people who called out his and others' remarks weren't saying Clinton is weak or needs to be coddled.
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There is no dismissal of trigger-warnings, no descriptions of activist students as coddled or snowflakes or social-justice warriors.
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Chinese children aren't coddled to eat, and many in this generation have living grandparents who survived bitter times of famine.
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Still, it is a far cry from the days when airlines competed based on how much they coddled their customers.
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They fret about the toll competition exacts from their coddled offspring; they wonder if their child's creativity is being stifled.
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The EU will become more unpopular than it already is if it tries to take on the continent's coddled service firms.
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It's an engine now and if you are not coddled the right way, you're going to get lost in the shuffle.
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My wife coddled him, but I was more: 'One of these days you're going to be depended upon to step forward.
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I felt so coddled as a member of the service with every new little update feeling like a new membership perk.
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The point remains to all but the dimmest: Obama coddled, appeased, nurtured and protected the worlds No. 1 sponsor of terror.
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Earlier that day, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected Mr. Trump's accusation that Beijing had coddled North Korea.
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I hear a lot about a popular straw man — the coddled college "snowflake" who can't deal with ideas that are different.
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His case drew notoriety when his defense argued that his wealthy, coddled upbringing preventing him from understanding the consequences of his actions.
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In case the pandering these-coddled-kids-today point isn't clear enough, one of his officemates proudly displays a soccer participation trophy.
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If inmates are seen as coddled, then society has grown soft and is not doing enough to deter illegal behavior, some say.
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No, wait, the children are being dangerously coddled and attended to and overindulged and pampered by their incompetently anxious, hovering helicopter parents.
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" As he walked, Rank said, "It just feels weird to be part of 'the swamp,' to hear a narrative of coddled people.
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And though the professor ignored my email, I think he made his message clear: You can't be coddled through everything in life.
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Some coaches complained that Adu had been coddled at Bradenton as he struggled to adapt to the rigors of being a professional.
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Calling these students coddled "is an uninformed response," said Dori Hutchinson, director of services at the Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation.
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And this is the man May and Johnson have coddled, in the name of offsetting the Brexit debacle with increased U.S. trade.
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From that coddled perch Trump can take out his big black Sharpie and write higher vote counts over his actual, official ones.
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The Season to Be Stressful Instead of dismissing college students as coddled, celebrate us as more in tune with our mental health.
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If we keep anticipating a coddled robot child instead, then that's our own mistake and we are the ones who should be sorry.
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Fred's skin was much lighter than his half siblings', and he told Hiram that he thought his mother coddled him because of it.
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Plumes of black smoke billowed on the horizon while on the ground, mothers coddled their children while searching for cover behind parked cars.
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It represents getting to that center—[to understand] what it truly means to live in the world and not be some coddled infant.
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Derrik A. Mullin Jr from Kaiserslautern, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, agreed: I'm sick of kids being coddled and having everything sugar coated for them.
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Too often, students are coddled, and too often, students who disagree with the majority of the class or professor feel unsafe speaking out.
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Now, some feared, schools were being reimagined as safe spaces for coddled youths and the self-defined, untested truths that they held dear.
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As a society, we've coddled ourselves into believing that negative experiences are somehow inferior and should be avoided, when the opposite is true.
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From dealing with coddled assholes to navigating sticky professional boundaries, front-of-house staffers spend days staring into social microcosms through tinted glass.
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"Gosar added: "The point remains to all but the dimmest: Obama coddled, appeased, nurtured and protected the worlds No. 1 sponsor of terror.
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But let me just say, this is a group of people who are coddled, that grow up in a very, very deep bubble.
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He leaves behind his well-meaning but coddled wife (Gemma Jones) and three unmarried daughters: Elinor (Thompson), Marianne (Winslet), and teenaged Margaret (Emilie François).
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"Never in our country's history have we had a president so coddled and pampered and protected by the media like Barack Obama," he said.
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He was facilitated, encouraged and coddled by venture capitalists, the media, board members and the entire Silicon Valley mythology that celebrates entrepreneurs as gods.
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Rogue police officers who brutally beat innocent civilians or lie under oath should be dismissed, not coddled and given a slap on the risk.
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Draped in fractured sunlight and coddled by a white duvet, Centineo's beauty, paired with Bahbah's signature subtitles, is heartbreaking in all the right ways.
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Amma, however, was the one daughter who fully accepted Adora's parenting and even took some joy in being coddled-slash-poisoned by her mother.
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Certainly, in order to get their art out there, they've had to endure a level of crap that would have crushed more coddled performers.
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It is a common practice in the United States, but rare to the point of extinction in the guarded, coddled world of European soccer.
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Both women were complex feminists, of a kind, who didn't use the term, preferred men to women, and coddled their sons over their daughters.
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Although some of its projects have coddled corrupt dictators in order to haul off African raw materials, others have delivered concrete economic benefits locally.
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There are too many layers of management, and everyone you work with has to be coddled so they can prove how important they are.
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No one can argue that the publicly available information makes it appear that Briles coddled convicted rapists because they could help his team win games.
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I think we've coddled our players to a point where now I'm coaching a soft team, and that's the one thing I hate to be.
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To get them to buy in and play for the team doesn't happen in these kids' generation with them being coddled like they have been.
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Before: You were unusually imperious, even for a corporate big shot — waited on hand and foot by lackeys who stroked and coddled you for decades.
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The staff looked on, nonplussed, as the women coddled him and shared food with him in a way that they didn't do with one another.
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While students are being depicted as coddled and fragile, the administration is stacking bricks in its institutional wall to avoid engaging with their real concerns.
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So, theories seem to point towards either a stifling authoritarianism setting children up for a fascist sensibility, or an exceptionalism borne from being molly-coddled.
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"Some of the tensions that exist in society around whether tech is a coddled elite that really earns its pay existed here," Mr. Kelman said.
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Employing American football and chest-thumping chants, Tang Haiyan offers an answer to a country that worries that its sons are too coddled and feminine.
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I've ridiculed friends who would ask for exam deferments or homework extensions, siding with those who argue that my generation is coddled by overprotective parents.
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She coddled her overweight young daughter with sweets and made her sit in public places with a handkerchief behind her head to ward off lice.
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Besides being stupidly presumptuous, don't you think the old-time grapplers who wrestled shirtless thought the people who wore singlets back then were coddled little cowards?
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Diners can indulge in varied menu of breakfast and lunch dishes, including coddled eggs and Maine lobster, as well as afternoon tea sets starting from $52.
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In much of the region inefficient and coddled state-owned businesses endure, and rent-seeking, corruption and protectionism are all more common than they should be.
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It's a moment long overdue for an industry in which women are the overwhelming majority of workers but men are often the coddled "geniuses" with power.
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Images of schools gyms packed with parents have been widely shared on Chinese social media prompting a debate on whether China's only children are too coddled.
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The directors coddled Kalanick's antics — part of a founder-above-all ethos in tech — and looked the other way as evidence of trouble continued to grow.
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But the camera keeps darting back to the car itself — particularly, its hood ornament, a gleaming Mercedes three-point star, the figurehead of Finestra's coddled egomobile.
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For years, Republican politicians coddled Trump, enabled him, sought his endorsement when he was making many of the same kinds of arguments -- remember the "birther" business?
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Many bosses, especially in Brazil's coddled manufacturing sector, are none too keen on cutting subsidies or lifting barriers to trade that shield them from foreign competition.
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Whatever the merits of particular cuts, Mr Duncan Smith is right to complain that targeting them at working folk is unfair when oldies are so coddled.
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Nong Petch, the original creation that harbors her son's spirit, remains Mama Ning's coddled favorite despite the hundreds of other dolls that now inhabit her house.
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And as the generation that has felt the full impact of China's one-child policy, a number of China's millennials have been, yes, coddled by their parents.
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The videos illustrate a range of scenarios: Some show the mammals being coddled as pets, while others picture them sparring among themselves or being hunted by humans.
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And the most coddled person on the show is, by far, Gen Xer David, who has to cover his ears when his teammates chop wood too loudly.
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Why has the Trump administration, which has coddled, armed and hosted Prince Mohammed, not yet unequivocally supported Turkey's demand to investigate the consulate for a full reckoning?
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Witness recent accusations that liberals live in a "coastal bubble," full of coddled elites who understand more about avocados than about the crises of Rust Belt towns.
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Of the many challenges Mr. Winston faces, a meta one is this: a lack of sympathy for his constituents because they are assumed to be coddled millionaires.
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A common narrative is that too many students, especially those at elite universities, are coddled products of helicopter parents who run to counselors at the first obstacle.
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Iovine was aware of concerns that Nicks was too coddled and immature to make a solo record as good as the records she'd made with Fleetwood Mac.
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Office improvements are designed to make white-collar employees—and prospective recruits, many of whom expect to be coddled—feel fitter, happier and, employers hope, more productive.
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In the days after the violence, some have spun this story as one about what's wrong with elite colleges and universities, our coddled youth or intolerant liberalism.
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Her easy eggplant and tomato stew is finished with a coddled egg and served with crusty bread, and it's the perfect way to take advantage of eggplant season.
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Your book, which argues that America's youths are largely coddled and ill equipped to compete in the global economy, is full of references to ancient history and philosophy.
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I thought I'd be transitioning from loser to Liam but, in the company of these bona fide action stars, I ended up feeling more like a coddled contest winner.
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Yet elderly folk have also been coddled by the Conservatives—most obviously by the "triple lock" on the state pension, which David Cameron, Mrs May's predecessor, implemented in 2011.
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He has routinely trampled over red lines laid down by the EPP, yet still the group has coddled him, cheering his election victories and dismissing calls to expel Fidesz.
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The Trump administration's beef is that India hasn't opened up its industries to U.S. firms and that Turkey is wealthy enough to no longer be coddled with special treatment.
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"His ideology claims that citizens are helpless peasants only capable of being coddled by a gov't that immorally usurps the labor and wealth earned by others," argued user JustinLP18.
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The world flagrantly flaunted its excesses in over-stocked grocery stores and through the valorization of coddled Pokémon who still had caregivers, while the law demonized these dispossessed Squirtles.
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Part visionary, part snake oil salesman, he may have thought of himself as a bona fide creator of wealth, unique amid Latin America's coddled barons of industry and commerce.
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But only the most coddled of our society get to build a career in restaurant criticism, which remains the ultimate arbiter of what sophisticated eaters value in their food.
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His outsider campaign and "political revolution" was about shaking up a coddled and corrupt bipartisan political order that many believed she and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, embodied.
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I would almost go back just for the simple coddled egg, cooled with a dollop of black-truffle mousseline and garnished with tiny fingerling potatoes, pioppini mushrooms, and leeks.
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Some of the president's supporters wrote that Mr. Kim, as a dictator responsible for global instability and widespread suffering of his own people, deserved to be insulted, not coddled.
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Either way, it might be wise for the GOP to pick a Syria critique of Clinton: either that she coddled Assad or that she unwisely pressed to topple him.
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A few hours later, on my last evening in Mexico, I am coddled on a red velvet banquette at one of the city's most talked about restaurants, Dulce Patria.
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The big argument of "Refuge" is that refugees should be given jobs rather than coddled as victims, and that governments should harness the forces of globalisation and capitalism to help.
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The administration's current approach is akin to throwing the rule book in the trash and replacing it with a despot who needs to be appeased and coddled at every step.
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Giant Spoon's title for the Westworld brand activation, "Live Without Limits Weekend," fed into the show's idea of elite, coddled vacationers stepping outside the real world and into a fantasy.
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A tangle of tax breaks is unlikely to be relinquished without a fight, and the coddled manufacturing sector cherishes the subsidies and trade barriers that shield it from foreign competition.
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The Trump administration has already coddled strongmen -- from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Chinese President Xi Jinping, to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
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Our students deserve more credit than they get in these types of polemics; as I've argued elsewhere, they are far from the coddled, entitled softies that they're often painted as.
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Not to mention that politicians are often coddled with staff aides enthusiastically tending to their needs and frequently very reluctant to challenge them — or get an earful when they do.
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For months, the "hosts" are kept on healthy diets, coddled — and watched closely by the Farm and its administrators — all with the promise of a generous bonus at the end.
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Those records were eventually broken in a league transformed by precision-passing offenses and increasingly coddled quarterbacks, many groomed since childhood and arriving at the annual N.F.L. draft as celebrities.
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Coddled by government, the automotive industry, which runs a larger trade surplus than any other export sector, has been slow to adjust to the rise of electric and autonomous cars.
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The party was long tangled in the web of cronyism, corruption and vested interests (ranging from oligarchs to the coddled armed forces) that left Greece uncompetitive, administratively dysfunctional and, ultimately, bankrupt.
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Millennials are cast as lazy, coddled, and censorious, thus the supposed proliferation of "safe spaces" and "trigger warnings" on college campuses and the push for better labor conditions in the workplace.
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Polling and analysis by The Economist found that Trump is propelled in part by a wave of white "racial resentment" that blacks are coddled whiners, protected by a stifling political correctness.
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"It's just a rule of thumb in history that if you are so much coddled by the elites it must mean that you don't want to frighten them," Mr. Harari said.
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Don't get her started on the proliferation of cupcake shops, the cultural obsession with youth or, especially, how coddled college students are walled off from anything that might possibly alarm them.
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There's been debate ever since on whether the government should have stepped in, and whether the Fed coddled the economy with near zero percent rates for too long after the crisis.
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Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister, viewed it as part of his programme of structural reforms, since it would have exposed coddled Japanese industries such as health care and agriculture to more competition.
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I loved the casual way wealth was on display — these coddled upper-middle-class Californians had such few cares in their lives they had to invent petty trifles to fill their days.
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Officer Dot Com: CCCSD: Maybe it was just nice to hear someone state the obvious: these thugs are scum and don't belong in civilized nations nor should be coddled, like under Obama.
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" Teo lashed out at an investor who he believes has been leaking information to the media (psst Jon, it's more than one), and repeatedly complains about "whiners" who want to be "coddled.
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" The authors also laid the groundwork for a thousand think-pieces attacking "coddled youth" and "trigger warnings," cautioning that millennials in their upbringing would be "the most watched-over generation in memory.
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The latter is about a coddled white teenager, but at least his stepfather (the capable Courtney B. Vance) gets to say that, if Ben were black, he'd have been incarcerated long ago.
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Despite the apocalyptic tone that often accompanies screeds against supposedly coddled students and their trigger-free safe spaces, the issues involved strike me as far more complicated than the overheated rhetoric suggests.
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I knew all of those niceties would go flying out the window at terrific speeds the moment a tiny person was screaming in my ear, waiting to be fed, changed, and coddled.
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The Fed seems set to tighten policy—a sign that the American economy has recovered, yes, but a big test for a market that has been coddled by near-zero rates since 2009.
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What grinds my gears about Clinton isn't just the fact that he hasn't seemed to really learn his lesson; it's that other people have coddled him so that he really doesn't have to.
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As the Washington Post observed in 2016, Twitter coddled right-wing outrage artists like Milo Yiannopoulos and Chuck C. Johnson for years even as they directed their followers to harass their perceived enemies.
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Your ADHD lover does not need to be coddled and they do not have a get out of jail free card for every time they forget something important or act like an asshole.
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Coddled students who are used to getting trophies for everything don't want to engage with stuff they don't like, so they wrap themselves in entitlement and demand trigger warnings to protect their feelz.
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There are many good and patriotic Americans who support Trump, but there are also white supremacists who support him and should not be coddled, courted or have any place in the Republican Party.
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Front Burner It's an indulgence, but if coddled eggs are your solo breakfast luxury, you will need just one of these elegant Jenaer Glas vessels based on a 26s Bauhaus design by Wilhelm Wagenfeld.
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Swisher agreed that Facebook's execs have been "coddled" by the board, which includes several prominent tech figures including Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Marc Andreessen, PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and Netflix CEO Reed Hastings.
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But, of course, Trump had it easy for his first two years, coddled by a Republican House and Congress who abdicated their constitutional responsibilities by simply looking the other way whenever Trump acted unilaterally.
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It's easy to be contemptuous of such family dynamics, and if you look online, you'll see plenty of articles condemning both the control-freak parents as well as their over-coddled, under-challenged children.
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"In the context of the last eight years, it's a joke to conservative America, and it's a joke" to Trump voters, Mr. Bellows said, adding that the mainstream press had "coddled" President Barack Obama.
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But I don't think members of the public are demonstrating ignorance when they claim that drug prices are too high, taxes could be fairer, privacy laws are too weak and monopolies are too coddled.
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Most home invasion films subtly portray the white American victims as coddled into a deceptively placid existence by the trappings of modern capitalism — one that leaves them hopelessly unequipped to deal with the intruders.
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In China, a School Trains Boys to Be 'Real Men' Employing American football and chest-thumping chants, Tang Haiyan offers an answer to a country that worries that its sons are too coddled and feminine.
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And increasingly florists are returning to ferns, this time not as status symbols or coddled exotics but as envoys from deep time that have steadfastly weathered it all, reminding us that this, too, shall pass.
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Wealthy pensioners have already been coddled during Britain's period of austerity, enjoying protected benefits (such as free access to the BBC, taken away this week to much bleating) even as working-age welfare has been slashed.
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It's all too easy to beat on "Iron Man" as a vestige of a more regressive era, when we made movies that coddled the egos of affluent, straight white men (well, even more so than today).
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Well, think about it, if you're coddled along, I mean, I think maybe Mark Zuckerberg and his peers really think it's a meritocracy out there, but it is not, obviously, as anyone with a vagina knows.
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He feels like a voice of reason, reminding anglers that prized and much-coddled bass have only even been in New Hampshire since the 1800s, and that yucky fish like lampreys are native and ecologically important.
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If you're trying to ensure that your guests — of all drinking stripes — feel coddled, use garnishing, color and glassware to make sure that your booze-free concoctions are just as good-looking as the loaded ones.
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"Kids can be cruel, and it's coddled," said Alan Brown, a gay activist in the area who helped organize the community event, where one of the students spoke about her experiences at North Bend High School.
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They can rest assured that the deprived, the aggressed, the micro-aggressed, the transgressed, the trigger-warned, the disenfranchised, the marginalized, and the un-coddled will always find succor and redress in the halls of academia.
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Its virtual disappearance since has made it seem like an abstraction, one of those common experiences of yesteryear that old-timers think kids today are too coddled to abide, like schoolyard fistfights, helmetless cycling, and child labor.
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Mr Abe has taken some steps, most notably by agreeing to expose coddled industries to foreign competition via the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation trade deal that America abandoned and which Mr Abe pursued without it.
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But the lack of engagement at work isn't necessarily the result of a coddled upbringing: For a lot of young people, their first job is the first time they've had to contemplate the shape of their careers.
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Certainly some of Crispin's outrage is little more than the familiar complaints of a Gen X-er railing against millennials: They're all such coddled little sellouts, and don't they know the real world doesn't have trigger warnings?
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He could make a virtue of the defect by emphasizing his distance from everything that defines the worst aspects of millennial culture — the coddled minds and censorious manner and inability to understand the way the world works.
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No one said Obama met with Rouhani in person," Mr. Gosar tweeted after an outcry over his post, arguing that his point was that "Obama coddled, appeased, nurtured and protected the worlds No. 1 sponsor of terror.
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Mercedes If you make luxury cars, some rule apparently says, you must also make a whole line of super sporty versions of your cars, to reach the customers who want to be both coddled and seen from behind.
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RNC official cites 'My Little Pony' to defend Melania Trump In the highlight of the night, Christie turned Quicken Loans Arena into a courtroom as he branded Hillary Clinton a liar who coddled tyrants, terrorists and American enemies.
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By contrast, right-wing populism sets up a triadic antagonism between the people, the elite, and a third segment of the population that is supposedly being coddled by the political establishment: Muslims, immigrants, effete intellectuals, and so on.
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The siblings were guarded by the Secret Service and were so coddled that when Buzzie went to school for the first time, he had never before unbuttoned his own shirt or flushed a toilet, according to his memoirs.
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I can guarantee Hannity won't quiz Trump on his relationship with Russia, his multiple bankruptcies or even bother The Donald with concerns about the way he's trampled the little people in his narcissistic and coddled march through life.
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" The consequences for America's civic-republican colleges deserve protest, too, not least because journalists and public intellectuals have descended upon them to shift blame for our civic and political crises onto presumptively coddled students and "social justice warriors.
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Colleges and universities are meant to be places of learning and intellectual growth, where old assumptions and ideas are challenged – not pain-free zones where delicate sensibilities are coddled and no one is exposed to disturbing or challenging ideas.
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Because the families opting out were disproportionately white and middle class, testing proponents dismissed them as coddled suburbanites, while insisting that urban parents, who had graver concerns about the quality of their children's schools, were supportive of the tests.
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But while the online masses blamed Rotondo himself, and Omer seemed to pinpoint the people who coddled him, it's important not to let the individual characters in this story distract from the larger structural forces that got us here.
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In 2008, at a convention in Kentucky — some 450 ventriloquists all staying in the same hotel — Ustav was taken aback by how many people pushed their puppets in strollers, or otherwise coddled them as if they were real children.
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I had a close extended family, an Italian-American mélange of aunts and uncles and grandparents that coddled me, the baby of the family, and who made it their mission to fill in the gaps that my mother couldn't.
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Politicians have coddled the ultra-Orthodox community because of the powerful voting bloc it provides, and yet the social damage that minimal regulation of these yeshivas creates is virtually never called out as an anti-Semitism of its own.
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So while it's possible that any disgust with the president will be taken out on the Republican lawmakers who curtsied to and coddled him, it's not out of the question that those lawmakers would be regarded, and judged, separately.
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Another way that venture capital is unlike private equity proper, Nicholas explains in his first-rate history, is that the venture-capital industry was itself a product of speculative funding, tamed and coddled into being by the U.S. government.
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"The market needs to be coddled and gently eased into a slightly higher interest-rate environment, and that appears to be what the Fed is doing," said Tim Ghriskey, chief investment officer of Solaris Group in Bedford Hills, New York.
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In the second season, the show has even more fun exploring the absurdity of the whole thing — a massive global corporation creating manufactured wish-fulfillment narratives that only a coddled 1 percent of the population will ever be able to enjoy.
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We have to marvel at Kev's evolution: he started as a shallow, two-dimensional TV star, but no longer coddled and sheltered by his sister or dating every random woman who crosses his path, this Kevin is a compassionate, empathetic man.
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It was Mr. Lukianoff who made the argument, in a widely read opinion piece in The Atlantic, that today's students are "coddled" and demanding protections against offensive words and ideas at the expense of intellectual rigor and the First Amendment.
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A surprise interest rate cut by the U.S. Federal Reserve on Tuesday pumped yet more money into financial institutions but it also added to a growing sense of panic among investors coddled by a decade of constant stock market gains.
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After the verdict Monday, New York public defender Eliza Orlins denounced Vance as having "coddled Harvey Weinstein for years," while New York City councilmember Carlina Riveria said Weinstein's conviction would've happened in 2015 if not for Vance dropping the case.
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We should recognize that the current generation of students, roundly ridiculed by an unholy alliance of so-called alt-right demagogues and campus liberals as coddled snowflakes, realized something important about this country before the pundits and professors figured it out.
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There is also a distinctly cultlike element to the family dynamics, from the myths that both parents weave in order to maintain control, to the unquestioning relentlessness shown by Sky, the coddled youngest daughter, whenever something threatens the family home.
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It is in the F.A. Cup's third round that the lesser lights have the chance to bloody the noses of the great and the good, when the coddled elite come unstuck in airless, ramshackle stadiums and on haphazard, mud-ridden fields.
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And while the show doesn't name him, Irons has been shown riding a pale horse, a symbol of Death and one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, and coddled with a staff of robots — a feat that would require a genius.
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But it will get harder to assert that his fans need to continue being coddled from our rough-and-tumble political process -- that Clinton should not risk alienating them for the fall -- as Sanders becomes the candidate he has long claimed he isn't.
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It has been hard through the first half of this year — coddled as I am by my Democratic-leaning surroundings and Labour-leaning Facebook feed — to believe that either of two things could happen: Donald Trump winning the presidency, or Britain leaving the European Union.
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If the Sparkle Ponies are not being coddled and worshipped by their pack of Instagram followers, they can be seen wandering through The Deep Playa without a cause, often trailing closely behind the one-percenters like a bunch of selfie stick-wielding dementia patients.
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Party officials, who had considered the president a reliable supporter, said that they would not give up on what they called urgently needed reforms of a dysfunctional and coddled judiciary, but that they would wait to see the president's bills before taking further action.
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I wrote a play that explored a relationship between a 25 year old black artist and a 65 year old white art collector, to parse the ways I was cradled, coddled and collected by white institutions and how I've collected and used them in turn.
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On the more tactless end of the spectrum, there are snarky jokes about the perceived weird speaking patterns and lack of social graces among "sheltereds" or "blindies"—fellow sightless individuals who are regarded as having been too coddled by their time in schools for the blind.
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Mr. Gondelman is pushing back on the caricature of the millennial generation as coddled narcissists — besides defending participation trophies, he also stands up for selfies — while lampooning those who suggest that the problem with the way we raise kids is an abundance of sensitivity and generosity.
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In the past few years, this concern escalated to a moral panic about the crisis of free speech on college campuses, in which socialist professors and coddled millennials obsessed with "trigger warnings" and "safe spaces" are the chief villains in an anti–political correctness morality play.
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Editor's Letter In her "Sign of the Times" essay, Sadie Stein writes about how we rarely take the kind of holidays many of our parents enjoyed — to a resort where we are coddled like children and the most taxing activity is deciding between reading and napping.
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Billy Wilder, the movie's director and co-screenwriter, intended to skewer Hollywood and its disposable culture, but there's something else at work in the film, too: the pride that Wilder felt about his position in the industry's hierarchy, in that closed world that coddled its own madness.
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The tensions are testing the new Trump administration and its uneasy allies South Korea and Japan, which have complained for years that China has simultaneously chastised and coddled the North, refusing to enact stiff enough measures to force it to abandon its nuclear and missile programs.
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Trump, who has in the past talked of the need for a resumption of harsh interrogation tactics like waterboarding for terrorism suspects, said authorities need to "get information" from the bombing suspect "before it comes no longer timely," but that instead he would probably be coddled.
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After three decades of push and pull, state enterprises, with combined assets of 130 trillion yuan (HK$146 trillion), now provide only part of the jobs and tax revenues in the country, although they are still coddled with cheap credit from the banking system and other preferential policies.
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After introducing me to his constant companion, Charlie (a slobberingly gregarious Labrador-Rottweiler mix), Lippman walked me through hundreds of plants, coddled by 80-degree daytime temperatures and 40 to 60 percent humidity, and goaded into 14 hours of daily photosynthetic labor by high-pressure sodium lights overhead.
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In Apocalypse, those villains were two misogynistic ruling warlocks — Baldwin Pennybacker (BD Wong) and Ariel Augustus (Jon Jon Briones) — who were tired of witches' rule, as well as the Murder House ghost baby Langdon, an impulsive boy in a man's body who has been coddled all his life.
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It's one more capitulation to Trumpism in a list that now includes the abandoned beliefs that international alliances make us safer, free trade makes us richer, immigration makes us stronger, a free press makes us freer, human rights make us better, and tyrants should be confronted, not coddled.
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It would be nice if our European allies remembered the time United States came and rescued Europe after a series of terrible decisions it made, from a draconian Treaty of Versailles, which helped launch a madman in Germany whose behavior was coddled by Neville Chamberlain's effete "Peace for our time" absurdity.
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For the last three years, we have been living with a sense that the other shoe is about to drop—that the president will do something so crass or foolish that it will sever his connection to the voters who adore him and the Republican officials who have coddled him.
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With the fact that after more than five years of war 4.8 million Syrians are refugees and 6.1 million are internally displaced and Trump Jr., even with his coddled New York existence, can surely make the calculation that this amounts to almost 2.5 million more human beings than live in the five boroughs?
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With a snarl and a strut, a two-handed backhand and a steel racket, he became tennis's first rock star — a hip-swaggering punk who had been promoted like a boxer by his manager, coached and coddled by his mother and grandmother, and refused to join the 1972-formed players association, the ATP.
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The health insurance industry, the Democratic presidential frontrunner, and many feeble liberal pundits who have more to fear from a sub-par oyster at Le Diplomate than the possibility of navigating Medicaid coverage, are insistent that many people like their private insurance, and those people must be coddled and protected at all costs.
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Thus coddled, the lasers in the present incarnation, known as Advanced LIGO, can detect changes in the length of one of those arms as small as one ten-thousandth the diameter of a proton — a subatomic particle too small to be seen by even the most powerful microscopes — as a gravitational wave sweeps through.
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This policy repeal would go some serious way to lifting the burdens of those who feel they are getting a raw deal — their premiums rise while illegals and welfare recipients are coddled — and would assuage the equivalent of two million job losses, in terms of hours worked as well as full time positions lost.
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Instead, Mr. Trump has been Regan and Goneriled all the way to the presidency, flattered and coddled by his advisers, the Republican establishment and his family to the point where flattery and coddling are useless and no amount of careful management can keep him from revealing state secrets and then bragging about it on Twitter.
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Imagine for a moment if there were a scrum of diligent and capable Chinese and Indian engineers in front of Facebook and Google (as there is a scrum of Mexicans outside every Home Depot in the US), each ready to take the job for less than the coddled American inside stuffing his face with the free ribs.
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"I waited around all weekend while grimes coddled her boyfriend for being too stupid to know not to go on twitter while on acid," Banks wrote in an Instagram story on Sunday, alleging that Musk was on drugs when he made his social media announcement that he is "considering" taking his public company, Tesla, private for $420 shares.
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While reporting the article, Gizmodo reached Musk through Twitter direct message to ask about Banks' post that she "waited all weekend while grimes coddled her boyfriend for being too stupid to know not to go on twitter while on acid" and Banks' suggestion that, "It was probably some weird threesome sex shit to being with."[Bloomberg]
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This concept – that we were to be coddled by a hive brain designed to show us exactly what we needed to know when we needed to know it – continued apace until it was supplanted by the concept of User Generated Content – UGC – a related movement that tore down gatekeepers and all but destroyed propriety in the online world.
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Both have emerged from the New York Botanical Garden's Nolen Greenhouses, a network of closed-to-the-public greenhouses where a small batch of corpse flowers is coddled and cultivated along with the 93,29 other plants — like Japanese chrysanthemums, oil ferns and night-blooming cactuses — that are planted in the garden's grounds and exhibitions each year.
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Patrick's candidacy, however, is unique in that it can be understood as the logical endpoint of a media culture which hews to the belief that what Wall Street guys have to say about the world is, by definition, endlessly fascinating—and which, consequently, treats these flagitious aristocrats as wise men of society who must be consulted, courted, and coddled by whoever wishes to be president.
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Admissions folks like to place their bets on a scrappy, self-sufficient kid of a single mom versus the coddled student who crumbles at their first B. Single mom kids have the ability to succeed without compromise These high school juniors and seniors have the right to know that though elite schools are hard to get into, if they're accepted, money probably won't be an issue.
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It's also just a compelling look at how both Dolores and William have changed in the decades since they first met, when she was a Host unaware of her reality (still being protected and somewhat coddled by Arnold) and he was a young businessman certain that whatever he was seeing in Westworld was what the rest of the world was going to become obsessed with.
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It's also a snapshot of a moment when comedy's freshest counterculture impulse was gleefully crass and willfully offensive, built on thumbed noses and middle fingers — what scanned at the time as a liberating response to a rigid and hypocritical culture, but will appear to a weighty chunk of today's viewers as the childish dregs of an entire cohort's glib, bratty chauvinism and coddled, almost toddlerish self-regard.
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But the film has little to say about how the country contributed to the growth of jihadism before that: how its intolerant Wahhabist brand of Islam fed extremist ideology; how Saudi Arabia (and America) helped to create the embryo of al-Qaeda by supporting Arab volunteers fighting against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan; and how Saudi Arabia long coddled the likes of the Taliban, who sheltered al-Qaeda.
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The aim here is to be part of the neighborhood: A guide to the area generated by locals is loaded on an in-room iPad; for a nominal day fee, non-overnight guests who stop in for a meal get access to the pale blue pool, surrounded by a stone terrace and striped umbrellas; and dogs are not just welcome but coddled with a bed, water bowl and treats.
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Our personalities developed off of one another: I am an attention-seeker; Kris is cool as a cucumber, a chef, and a great musician who likes and is like funk music; Chase is the serious one, quiet, contemplative, a tradesman who works through his emotions with his hands; and Luke is, of course, the baby, loved and coddled, and perhaps the least fearful of us or at the very least the only one who snowboards.
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Even before Lasch's book, Ronald Reagan, during his first run for president, held up an actual career criminal — a con woman, identity thief and suspected kidnapper believed to have bilked the government of untold thousands of dollars — as a symbol of excess, conjuring around her a world of fantastical "welfare queens": enemies of the bootstrapping individualist spirit of America, coddled and demanding and overly dependent on programs they were, in fact, legally entitled to use.
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I was at the main march in Washington, D.C., as it happens, and my recollection of the pussy hats is that they were worn by women of all ages, but were particularly favored by a certain kind of middle-aged woman: happy to be there, yet mad as hell at the political situation; defeated but proud to march with her daughters; and very definitely including Generation X, which would seem to contradict Daum's entire premise that coddled millennials have undermined the feminist project with their crude hashtags and embarrassing outfits.
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Indeed, criticizing Trump for inconsistency when it comes to foreign policy is a bit rich when you consider that both Democrats and Republicans have treated Pakistan as an ally, knowing full well that its secret service has trucked with terrorists and coddled the Taliban — the people killing U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan; they've both treated Saudi Arabia as an ally because we needed its oil, knowing full well that its export of Salafist Islam has fueled jihadists; they both supported decapitating Libya and then not staying around to support a new security order, thus opening a gaping hole on the African coast for migrants to flow into Europe; they've both supported NATO expansion into Russia's face and then wondered aloud why the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, is so truculent.
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