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It's actually an "elixir of immortality" concocted during ancient times.
Weird masks I concocted out of, like, apples and oatmeal.
And sometimes they concocted words from their own quirky experiences.
Instead, St. Louis concocted a breakthrough in the 10th inning.
The confessions, they say, were a fiction he had concocted.
Cocktails were concocted by the Café Royal down the road.
Aciman novel, and the expectation is that Guadagnino has concocted another
Mark Penn: Cohen's plea deal concocted by prosecutors to snare Trump.
There are bromides concocted to justify an increasingly militarized police force.
D3O concocted this remarkable, soft, stretchy, flexible, orange material that absorbs shock.
As a self-concocted alien, he was drawn to other people's otherness.
"Often the bricks are new fakes, the history is concocted," she says. ■
For convention week, the Ohio-based business has concocted two new flavors.
CIBA who concocted a new stimulant by modifying amphetamine, and Rita enjoyed
Rich's family demanded a retraction, saying the conspiracy theory has been concocted.
Republicans who have attacked Mr. Obama at every turn concocted a counterargument.
At first they were concocted by the press or by exchanges themselves.
And all their mother's carefully concocted strictures unravel in a single vacation.
Every batch of steel has its own recipe, concocted for specific customers.
To get sticky, they concocted a combination of boiling water and sugar.
The brewery concocted All Day IPA as a potential high-volume seller.
Herve Leroux, the famed designer who concocted the bandage dress, has died.
Instead, the Trump campaign concocted increasingly far-fetched explanations for the star.
The flavors first concocted were reminiscent of elotes—corn, mayonnaise, cheese, and chiles.
Indeed, there's no minimally persuasive rationale that can be concocted for this vote.
She told BuzzFeed that Kevin concocted the idea due to summer break boredom.
So they concocted the notion of a Princess Consort which is made up.
So he lied to his bosses at Fox and concocted the virus story.
Yet the bill concocted by Republicans in Congress was tougher than he wanted.
"The latest scheme concocted by the Labor Department is the persuader rule," Rep.
To hide the loss, Lake Shore concocted data that showed a stellar performance.
Was the whole thing concocted to deflect attention from the tax fraud accusations?
Turning his hastily concocted deal into robust legislation will be a monumental task.
Or is this just an elaborate fantasy she's concocted in order to cope?
A cover plan was concocted; he would be "killed" while crossing enemy lines.
The defense contended that Mr. Hernandez's admissions reflected a fiction he had concocted.
So Mariah's staff concocted the rolling chair to help ease her foot pain.
This is a woman who could have concocted a halftime shebang of her own.
Hastily concocted political experiments on tens of millions of Americans could deliver unintended consequences.
Stories are concocted which are wrong and build up cloudy pictures for future wrongness.
Homeopathy was concocted in the late 1700s and is based on two core beliefs.
If a concocted scenario can't be proved, then perhaps it can't be disproved either.
Asmara has repeatedly denied this, saying the accusations were concocted by its enemy Ethiopia.
Charmin's "millennial toilet paper" flap might be the most 2019 advertising campaign yet concocted.
More, throughout the exhibition Sonhouse blends his concocted surreal scenes with inventive, painterly surprises.
Martin has concocted many of his characters to buy time for his primary story.
And don't even ask about the illicit alcohol concocted in Greece, Britain or Burundi.
The haircut passage ends with a mélange that only Mlinko's sensibility could have concocted.
In an effort to brainwash her against resisting, he concocted fantastical stories about aliens.
This treat was concocted at a Walgreens counter in 1922, according to the spokesperson.
By sometime in June, they said, he concocted his escape plan with another inmate.
Kapoor's lawyers argue the bribery scheme was concocted by other executives at the company.
I giggled at those recipes that might have been concocted by pre-kid me.
"Justice isn't some left-wing idea that was concocted in the 1960s," he said.
Many of these "secret" menu items began as items concocted by restaurant employees or customers.
Is this an idea you guys concocted in school then enacted in the real world?
But prosecutors dismissed their claims as as an "abuse excuse" concocted to avoid criminal responsibility.
I can throw out 20-trick combos no problem, linking manuals with hastily concocted flips.
He owned a restaurant in Ontario when he concocted what quickly became a global sensation.
She then concocted lies to cover up this abuse of power, blaming a senior deputy.
Seconds later he taunts Jamal for falling for a ruse Lucious concocted involving Freda Gatz.
Mr. Hernandez, he argued, had concocted a fiction in which he had committed the crime.
In America, we've concocted our pro sports leagues to feed our false sense of exceptionalism.
It looks like something the Minimalist sculptor Carl Andre might have concocted as a lark.
The first federal project was concocted during the war, though it remained on the shelf.
She hates it, and in vinegar tones upbraids Jess (Jessica Williams), who concocted the spot.
"I met this parfumier , Julian Bedel, who concocted the scents for this evening," she said.
They say without evidence that prosecutors "concocted" the false statements and accused them of deceit.
A smear campaign was concocted, he theorized, to create more sympathy for a Yovanovitch purge.
Each is also infused with a unique scent concocted by the artist from sundry substances.
The violent video, concocted by right-wing provocateurs, was later disavowed by the White House.
The Rolling Thunder Revue, concocted by Bob Dylan, was precisely a manifestation of its era.
"Fake news" started out as a term to describe sensationalized, fabricated stories concocted for profit.
It's an interesting combination L has concocted – smoked salmon, crab stick, spinach, carrot, and cream cheese.
The next challenge will be obtaining wider agreement to a deal concocted by only four members.
And then the rest of the Giants somehow concocted their own shirtless uniform for their warmups.
Police claim Scherbanic, from South Park, Pennsylvania, concocted "an elaborate criminal plan," according to charging documents.
"My brother, Nate Parker, has concocted a BRAVE TOUR DE FORCE," Lee said in a statement.
How much of Mr Trump's behaviour is concocted is debatable; private Trump is also pretty pantomime.
She had even concocted a fictional nanny, Zenaida Fernandez Gonzalez, who she said had kidnapped Caylee.
Russia characterizes such fears as fantasy concocted by a NATO alliance that seeks to intimidate Moscow.
Unfortunately, that money is spent complying with rules concocted in Washington, D.C.  Change is in order.
Between them, Branagh and Elton have concocted a respectful story of loss, regret and wistful genius.
He has tackled social history, portraits, and history painting, and has concocted figures from his imagination.
Iran has described the evidence as a fabrication concocted by the United States and Saudi Arabia.
The slime is concocted from a mix of spirulina extract, charcoal powder, lime, and lemon juice.
He previously said the officers had concocted a defense for shooting an unarmed man, the Tribune reported.
Siri's personhood is a marketing fiction concocted by Apple—and not a very convincing one, at that.
At first, people are infinitely amused for the new names for shapes his young mind had concocted.
But they all show up in the rather crazy test setup concocted to provoke these undesired behaviors.
Antoni Porowski concocted some homemade peanut butter dog treats, while Tan France picked out the perfect collar.
The three-hour CBS version more explicitly frames the abuse as an excuse concocted for the trial.
The trio concocted a cover story, saying the closure was part of a traffic study, prosecutors contend.
This year we've concocted a delicious little quiz for you to pay homage to pi and pie.
It's an outrageous, brilliant phenomenon concocted by either a single subversive genius or a group of them.
But showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss concocted a far more clever, shocking, and character-driven twist.
Hairstylist Ryan Randall lucked out, having already concocted a beachy, wavy hairstyle that worked for both dresses.
Sometimes the children were punished for concocted "infractions" like washing their hands above the wrists, prosecutors said.
Further, his opinion concocted a constitutional right for broadband providers to engage in bait-and-switch marketing.
Experimenting, he concocted a mixture of oil and tempera, and, sometime around 15183, he went to work.
All to conclude that the crazy conspiracy theories concocted about this tragedy have no basis in fact.
In an elucidating way, Trump's confused and hastily concocted foreign policy advice closely mirrors a medical error.
One thing that is essentially concocted—Ann-Marit, a photographer and Euronymous' girlfriend, played by Sky Ferreira.
At trial, Facebook said ZeniMax concocted its claims because of "sour grapes" over missing the VR trend.
Donald Trump, however, has called climate change a hoax concocted by the Chinese to damage American manufacturing.
Next, the FBI concocted a plan to distract Montes at work so they could search her purse.
Leah suggested a whiskey sour with orange and caramel, while Edwards concocted a chili-strawberry gin martini.
Global warming is a myth — a hoax concocted by a vast conspiracy of scientists around the world.
Mr. Browder said the charges were concocted to discredit him and to undermine the Magnitsky Act sanctions.
Stretched across panels were vivid patchwork fabrics concocted from unsold or worn bits of Eileen Fisher garments.
Rising to the occasion, Mr. Rekdal concocted chia seed breakfast puddings that could be cooked or chilled.
This is a drug deal concocted by the WH and GOP senators to avoid testimony from Bolton.
House Republican Whip Steve Scalise said the allegations against Trump were concocted by Democrats and the media.
Those that concocted this proposal still wear their blinders regarding the value of the provider-patient relationship.
The teenage dancer and her friends who'd actually concocted the idea were too cowardly to fess up.
These untrue claims of unwanted touching and kissing are concocted and, I believe, coordinated for political purposes.
A French historical theme park has concocted a garbage collecting plan straight out of Game of Thrones.
This week we've concocted a special Star Wars-themed episode of Biz Please to celebrate May the 4th.
The border influx was a humanitarian emergency before it became a concocted homeland-security crisis and political pickle.
Bush concocted a story about badgering reporters who had come to her door "yelling questions" about what Mrs.
None of this was motivated by bigotry, racism, Islamophobia or whatever other "ism" or "ia" the pundits concocted.
Many Montenegrins think the story is nonsense and was concocted to encourage doubters to re-elect the government.
Meanwhile it has concocted an unlikely coalition of unhappy castes, headed by a trio of charismatic local leaders.
The actual plan Cruz and Kasich have concocted, however, isn't aimed at Trump's claim to legitimacy at all.
Democrats and the wing pundits concocted a conspiracy in which Trump was a "Russian asset" compromised by Putin.
The clip by Sinclair downplayed the issue of family separations, saying it was concocted by politically motivated liberals.
He looked as if he had bounced out of a sketch concocted by his fellow Englishmen Monty Python.
Claire has concocted a potion that will mimic the symptoms of smallpox, using Jamie as a guinea pig.
These militants acted exclusively in areas controlled by Islamic radicals,concocted #fakenews, staged chemical provocations like in #EasternGhouta.
There, he tries a batch of some alcohol a few Hilltop members concocted ahead of Ezekiel&aposs fair.
And they suggested Stone concocted this false story to hide his true WikiLeaks connection — conservative author Jerome Corsi.
That dog-breeding scheme Darius concocted in Season 1 proved to be surprisingly lucrative, making Earn $4,000 richer.
Burwell in 2015, the vote was 6 to 3 to reject a concocted statutory attack on the law.
His justification is a concocted "fact" to support the forest products industry at the expense of the planet.
The president has called the suspicions "fake news" concocted by sore-loser Democrats looking to explain a defeat.
Mr. Hernandez's lawyers contend his recollections were based on a fantasy concocted as a result of mental illness.
"I think that Gabbard supporters citing these concocted spilled-milk motivations is nonsense," said Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill.
Especially when he has concocted an elegant solution to feed his hungry brother and the other guests, too.
It even names a facility, Fort Detrick in Maryland, where the virus was supposed to have been concocted.
S. government leaders unconstrained by checks/balances, concocted an ill-conceived plan to divert focus from political woes.
Soon top officials concocted a way to get results: If you can't find the crime, fire the prosecutors.
Many villagers say the charges were concocted and that a confession by Lin on state television was forced.
His admissions, they argued, were the result of a fiction he had concocted and of pressure from detectives.
Anyone who believes that Bannon or any other Svengali had "concocted a victory strategy" was "foolish," Robinson added.
"Subsequently, they deliberately concocted facts, concealed the truth and obstructed the investigation," the prosecutors said of the officers.
Sure, there are heaps of lab-concocted cartridges, oils, and balms out there, but why gild the lily?
As it turns out, both the plaintiff and the defendant in this dead cat hoax had concocted the story.
Soon Horowitz concocted a conditioner with baking soda, and that, combined with the right comb, solved Eve's lice problem.
Turns out, the plan was concocted by a local radio station to grab Meghan's attention and hopefully meet her.
The Littler bartender has concocted a cherry- and orange-drenched drink reminiscent of the classic blood and sand cocktail.
This man also quickly recanted any allegations he had made against Boumallouga, describing them as concocted by Bin Othman.
Like teenagers trying to stick to their concocted story, no officer involved said they had any idea what happened.
Today's liberalised electricity markets, where prices are set by the marginal cost of generation, were concocted in the 143s.
I will tell them that the whole Trump-Russia scandal is a fake scandal concocted by me and CNN.
According to the Pearland Police Department, Rachel Childs concocted an elaborate scheme to seduce the caregiver into sexual activity.
He concocted that story and told press it was an 'accidental' recording, intentionally diminishing my role in its creation.
Hillary relies on her allies in the anti-Trump media to gloss over that wrinkle in their concocted narrative.
The cops' hastily concocted plan was to make contact with the hostage-taker by using a public-address system.
But they said she later concocted a story about having been assaulted to pressure him into a financial settlement.
The new ending was concocted by co-writer Jennifer Lee and brought to life by story artist, John Ripa.
For its first wallpaper collection, shown at the ICFF, Heath Ceramics has concocted intoxicating compositions of angles and curves.
It wasn't until the company concocted New York Super Fudge Chunk that the New York business really took off.
In fairness, the consultants who likely concocted this messaging faux pas are hired to craft sound bites that resonate.
He has denied the allegations, which he said were concocted by the Aquino administration to derail his presidential bid.
The potato cream foam and chocolate mousse dessert—ordinarily concocted with cream, butter, and milk—demanded dairy-free substitutes.
What he concocted is strange and transporting, a story that approaches but never enters the realm of magical realism.
Guests sipped special cocktails concocted by the famous Spike Mendelsohn of Good Stuff Eatery, Béarnaise and We, The Pizza.
Trump has fumed about the ongoing probe, declaring it a "witch hunt" concocted by Democrats to damage him politically.
But he instantly concocted a new falsehood, insisting that his opponent Hillary Clinton, not he, initiated the birther conspiracy.
He's even routinely called climate change a "hoax," one concocted by the Chinese to limit U.S. competitiveness in manufacturing.
All of these things concocted a nice brew that made the title seem kind of self-evident to me.
Meanwhile, the allegations were firmly denied by a police chief in Bangalore, who suggested that they were concocted by journalists.
For Saturday's event, florists and designers concocted a "sophisticated and elegant" scheme that incorporates 8,000 flowers on tables and overhead.
Whether the information is true or concocted, authoritative reporting or conspiratorial opinion, doesn't really seem to matter much to Facebook.
Wallace says that he and Boback concocted a new plan, to use a false persona to tip off the press.
He concocted clever blitz packages and tried trick plays and twice went for it on fourth down, converting both times.
There were custom mixed drinks too, all of which Meyers, 45, concocted for Rihanna based on her catalog of hits.
"Such falsified, concocted and irresponsible statements can only escalate the already fragile security situations in the region," the statement said.
Chinese state media branded those reports "fake news" and said the accounts were concocted as a means of gaining attention.
Suddenly Rey becomes a pawn in a plan concocted by the Dark Side, a pawn struggling to resist her programming.
The concocted excuses were allegedly used to explain why Nassar wouldn't attend two events ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Cracker also landed herself in the top with a dress concocted out of straw hats, hot glue, and a prayer.
Certainly, the entire interconnection regime was predicated on the fears of anti-competitive peering and gatekeeper status concocted by Netflix.
Nova's journalistic moments are brief, but whoever concocted them doesn't appear to know much about how real news organizations work.
It was developed by J. Robert Cade, a nephrologist in Florida, who concocted the drink in 1965 to rehydrate athletes.
In 2014, artist Amalia Ulman concocted an entirely fake persona as an experiment, racking up tens of thousands of followers.
But SOA kept demanding excess charges and court fees well above the loan balance, based on a delinquency they concocted.
So I concocted a plan: I would spend an entire workweek—Monday through Friday—saturating myself in all things Trump.
Detective Pikachu is set in the Tokyo-esque streets of Ryme City, a metropolis seemingly concocted just for the franchise.
But "2120 Michigan Avenue," the instrumental they concocted to celebrate recording at Chess, is the closer because it oughta be.
She said the authorities had concocted the allegations "to avenge and crush Jiang Tianyong's long-running work in rights defense."
To some beleaguered riders, that explanation sounded like a concocted excuse for the railroad's continuing struggle to operate on time.
From the 30,000 potential designs, the team selected 40 that represented a range of structures, of which six were concocted.
Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, and Elon Musk, the billionaire inventor, say that they have concocted a dreamy alternative.
But there have also been reputable scientists who concocted theories that, in hindsight, seem woefully misguided, if not downright wacky.
What Nixon would do is project onto situations the conspiracies that he would have concocted if in the same position.
And he concocted a scheme to resign in 1916 if he lost his re-election bid to Charles Evans Hughes.
This, in turn, motivates even more withdrawal, more isolationism and apocalyptic fantasy — and more desperately concocted technologies and business plans.
The lines between hyper-partisan content, state-backed propaganda, and stories concocted purely for financial gain are blurry at best.
Mr. Hernandez's lawyers argue that his confessions resulted from pressure applied by detectives and reflected a fiction he had concocted.
They argue that Mr. Hernandez's confessions reflected a fiction he had concocted and resulted from pressure he felt from detectives.
He allegedly concocted a plan to kill Berreth, whom he accused of being abusive to their child and using drugs.
"These untrue claims of unwanted touching and kissing are concocted and, I believe, coordinated for political purposes," Mr. Sondland said.
Police allege that Juliette Parker concocted an elaborate scheme to abduct a new mom's baby to raise as her own.
Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto has even concocted a dish consisting of dark chocolate pasta enrobed in Parmesan-infused cream sauce.
Jerry independently created 'Comedians in Cars' and Mr. Charles only concocted this claim after the show became a commercial success.
The sources say she was on his record label but he dropped her and that's when she concocted the allegation.
Experience teaches you chemical precision, and I concocted drug cocktails like a mixologist: ketamine as a garnish, never a main.
" On Wednesday, Russia's spy chief Sergei Naryshkin claimed the attack had been "crudely concocted by U.S. and British security services.
Supermarket ice cream is 100 percent superior to whatever sloppy bullshit you concocted with your overpriced Williams Sonoma ice cream maker.
Are you sure this story wasn&apost concocted in an underwater lab by Brian Kilmeade and Steve Doocy for "FOX & Friends"?
This stunt was orchestrated by Smollett because he was dissatisfied with his salary, so he concocted a story about being attacked.
First, deal with anti-Semitism on the left — and yes, that's an actual thing, not a smear concocted by political opponents.
This means new ingredients, textures, scents, product categories are being concocted, perfected and delivered to consumers at a super-fast pace.
When police arrived, Lutfi "hurriedly concocted a false story intended to prevent LAPD from arresting them," Silva said in his complaint.
Politicians concocted Tollway Authorities to create an independent, unelected bad guy to take the blame when tolls had to be raised.
Political opponents, critics and conspiracy theorists seized on every word, even the most innocent, and concocted or hinted at faux scandals.
Trump supporters have said the "dossier" and other allegations of Trump involvement with Russia are smears concocted by Trump's political enemies.
Criticism of Jill is based on a "sexist narrative" that was "purposely concocted" to distract from the investigation, Dr. Kelley says.
"The Leave side has concocted a number of myths about the evils of the EU. Many are, frankly, bananas," he said.
The administration then used their comments as proof that the Russia story was concocted by the media and their political opponents.
In the least ideal of worlds, Soderbergh concocted Rebecca Blunt to earn his first feature film in four years some credo.
Mr. Galzin, the Nashville restaurateur, complained that young pastry chefs too often concocted elaborate creations before they had mastered the basics.
Franks himself concocted the idea after working at Deliveroo and finding traditional insurers struggled with the concept of the gig economy.
In one terrible case, Dallas high school coaches concocted fake addresses and stashed top basketball players in a poorly supervised home.
Go deeper: The SEC even concocted a bogus white paper, the must-have academic ballast for cryptocurrency startups (real or fake).
The centerpiece, Rainford's masterfully darkroom-concocted image "Portrait of Marcel Duchamp" (1945), is reproduced in the book in various gonzo versions.
The condo manager who had called us had concocted the story as a pretext to get our son off the property.
The Supreme Court has made it clear that Mr. Ross now needs to come up with more than a concocted rationale.
Cuban officials have denied responsibility for the illnesses and suggested that the Trump administration had concocted an excuse to downgrade ties.
It was Mr. Foye who sounded the alarm in September 2013 about the lane-closing scheme concocted by allies of Gov.
The addition of Kevin Durant feels like one of those twists concocted by nervous producers desperate for a big opening weekend.
The empire-building scheme was apparently concocted by Richard before he died, in order to provide Lorelai with something more stable.
Trump tweeted in May that leaks regarding the probe coming from the White House were "fabricated lies" concocted by the press.
Response: Chief Gallagher has insisted that the charges against him were concocted by team members who couldn't meet his high standards.
Storylines are concocted by producers, who feed it to the players, who are later edited for maximum drama in post-production.
But Alba has also concocted a peppercorn-crusted beef tenderloin option for the host that dares to be a bit different.
The apparel sales were real, but the post was not concocted by a veteran—not a United States veteran, at least.
She concocted a plan to carry out the rest of the mission herself, in which she'll kill herself and her sister Karen.
If he cooked his favorite, penne alla vodka, it would be lovingly concocted from ingredients sourced at specific stores he staked out.
Prosecutors dismissed that, arguing the brothers' motive was purely financial and their claims of abuse were concocted to avoid the death penalty.
But, by signalling that the files had spread, Boback had concocted a potent marketing parable: inadvertent file sharing could have dire consequences.
He and David Sweat (Paul Dano) concocted the plan and, over the course of the next few episodes, will carry it out.
A few bakers have concocted special desserts for Sham an-Nessim—among them a cheesecake that mixes cream, crudités and salted fish.
He has tackled social history, portraits, and history painting, and has concocted figures from his imagination without sugarcoating any of it.   12.
We've now learned after Lochte went on TV, USOC officials talked to him and he repeated the concocted story line and verse.
Directly referencing Linda Vester's allegations, he called her story a "drive-by shooting," concocted as an act of vindication against the network.
" The accident, he claimed, was concocted to provide the swing star with a hero's death, rather than one "in a lousy bed.
The rapper, 22018, concocted the largest glass of gin and juice on Saturday at the BottleRock Napa Valley music festival in California.
When Hicks was being treated, the coppers talked to Ferris, who concocted one hell of a tale to cover for his buddy.
Gabe concocted a much-needed replica of a turd out of one of his Clif Bars that he brought along with him.
He then moved to the rival Bears, where he concocted the 19943 defense that overwhelmed the league with its aggressiveness and unpredictability.
Determined to win a big score, escaped convict Joseph Corbett had concocted a scheme to kidnap Ad Coors for a hefty ransom.
Parsippany High School didn't have an advanced calculus class, so he concocted an ad hoc version and taught Li during lunch breaks.
A key official spokesman singled out a journalist reporting allegations and said the claims were concocted by people with links to insurgents.
Rather than use false optimism to temper broad strife, he concocted false bleakness to harness the loyalty of a narrow, embittered few.
He always had this narrative that Jeff had concocted this whole project and that I was just stupid and naive beyond belief.
Back in 1845, Ettore Zucca, an Italian industrialist, made rhubarb amaro from a tincture his wife's doctor concocted to cure her indigestion.
The scam artist sat there and concocted this in his head instead of telling us the truth that the money wasn't there.
Now, the plan they concocted to increase competition in the telecommunications industry, signed into law two years ago, is starting to bite.
This is a myth concocted to shore up the upper classes' claim over the sport, according to Tony Collins, a rugby historian.
But a great deal of booze was cooked up, concocted and doctored by people who saw an opportunity to make a buck.
Robert Horton, the communications officer for Alabama's Department of Corrections, called the whole thing a "nonfactual" narrative concocted by inmate advocacy groups.
Once it was released, Mr. Trump enthusiastically trumpeted it as evidence that the Russia investigation had been concocted to smear him politically.
We might also blame the Constitution, which concocted an election system administered entirely by the states — a privilege they still guard fiercely.
Mr. Panelo said the president initially "concocted" the story to placate a priest who wanted to hear stories of sinning teenage boys.
Its creator, Vietnamese refugee David Tran, has become nearly as legendary as the sauce he concocted; a personification of the American dream.
The Times also found Facebook accounts that appeared to have been created by ordinary Americans but were actually concocted by Russian agents.
The score, by Burton Lane and E. Y. Harburg, is one of the most enduringly delicious ever concocted for an American musical.
It's a dish I concocted somewhat on the fly, having decided only on chicken, prunes and smoky cumin before I went shopping.
"Today, the sham impeachment attempt concocted by Democrats ended in the full vindication and exoneration of President Donald J. Trump," Grisham said.
In the view of these analysts, the charges against him are spurious and were concocted in order to smear the Turkish president.
He has denied the charges and said that the allegations were concocted by unhappy members of the platoon to force him out.
Hodgson concocted Mystery Science Theater 3000 in 1988 while living in Minnesota, on a break from his thriving career as a prop comic.
In just the last three weeks the Cruz campaign has concocted fake endorsements, fake government documents, and fake breaking news about a rival.
Phillips had concocted a baseless conspiracy theory that appealed to Steve Bannon, the current White House strategist who was then chairman of Breitbart.
In the earliest, most technologically limited days of video games, developers concocted the simplest of designs, leading to some extremely efficient, iconic creations.
I recently concocted an incredible and healthy chocolate cheesecake dip and since I love stuffing strawberries with decadent filling, this recipe was born!
We're calling it the #Nob(Nina-Bob ) She plays CHLOE a Parisian artist, so we concocted this chic European look for her character.
For fall, the teams have concocted a cozy, classic line-up of chunky knits, statement coats, and patterned skirts — but that's not all.
According to Baltimore County investigators, a 52-year-old man and his 28-year-old daughter allegedly concocted a tale about the Dec.
It feels as if this entire scenario was concocted to kill time, and these kinds of scenes are pretty common now on TWD.
Syria and its main backers, Iran and Russia, say claims of chemical weapons use were concocted by rebels, rescue workers and the West.
From what we've seen so far, the strategy appears to be a carefully concocted mix of old and new, bold and risk-averse.
The well-intentioned snack concocted by Fallon was a spicy pickle and her initial reaction implied that spicy food isn't really Lovato's jam.
It was concocted by Ashley O's exploitative aunt Catherine (Susan Pourfar) who controls Ashley's life and dispenses medication to keep her lyrics happy.
Almost every drugstore brand has concocted its own formula, which makes it hard to know which not-so-expensive dry shampoos actually work.
But when he is forced to hold a meeting, Bezos concocted a creative way of making sure it's productive—and it involves pizza.
As Clinton consolidated her lead in the primary campaign, Sanders fans concocted increasingly far-fetched theories to explain why he could still win.
TV also paid $400 million to Greg Berlanti, the man who concocted the Arrow Universe for The CW, to keep his contract exclusive.
Trump and congressional Republicans could have concocted an easy, politically appealing explanation of a meltdown: Obamacare was simply collapsing under its own weight.
Paul Schmidt's free-associative book interprets "Wonderland" as a surreal fantasy concocted by the writer to protect Alice from his sexually aggressive desire.
But prosecutors rebuked that, arguing the brothers' motive was purely financial and their claims of abuse were concocted to avoid the death penalty.
And he concocted an elaborate backstory: dogdaygod was a rival dog trainer who wanted Amy dead because Amy had slept with her husband.
He concocted what may be the first fernet — an Italian type of amaro, or bitter herbal liqueur — using 27 herbs, roots, and spices.
Actual fighter-plane engines "sounded kind of wimpy", she recalls, so she concocted her own substitute from big-cat growls and monkey screeches.
"It's just the latest example of President Trump openly contradicting an explanation concocted, frankly, and then offered by his advisers," the anchor continued.
Some sailors couldn't stop themselves from guzzling saltwater; they swam off toward the imaginary islands their poisoned brains had concocted on the horizon.
Tadej Rupel, the Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia to the Court of St. James's, had concocted the idea with his Slovakian counterpart.
Most recently, Amlo's political party concocted a plan to restructure the 11-person Supreme Court to his advantage by adding 5 more justices.
The crime the laws were meant to prevent — voting by fraudulent voters with fake IDs — is a Republican myth, concocted for partisan reasons.
After that, you're free to enjoy the delicious craft beer you concocted — the Pico Model C yields five liters of beer per brew.
Once Susan sees her son is right, she discovers a plan he's concocted to address the situation — but it may be too extreme.
" Intelligence chief Naryshkin said Wednesday that the poisoning was "an act of grotesque provocation crudely concocted by the U.S. and British security services.
With the hyper-masculine stereotyping of athletes and concocted moral universe of sportsmanship, it's sometimes easy to forget that athletics are inherently emotional.
For Irish immigrants, legalization remains the biggest hurdle, Mr. Staunton told us one day recently at O'Neill's, as he concocted an Irish tea.
Lane allegedly concocted a plan to carry out with Helterbrand and Kaderli, but they delayed the scheme because Helterbrand had a bad back.
The island's long relationship with spices, and the cultures that converged in pursuit of them, have concocted a singular — and delicious — culinary tableau.
It was concocted, and you say what you want, that was a — probably something that's never happened in the history of our country.
And a Massachusetts resident tinkering in his kitchen concocted something with sugar, egg whites and vanilla that you might eat for dessert tonight.
Photos courtesy of The Strokes There are two schools of thought on pop up stores, both of which I just concocted this morning.
The facts: The clear majority of mainstream medical, psychiatric and psychological communities agree that being transgender is not a concocted fantasy or mental illness.
Because they got together and concocted this glorious video of Boogie laying down the basics of this eternal tale of love lost at sea.
High Valyrian is one of the languages concocted for Game of Thrones and, as per Houten herself, it doesn't reference any other active language.
Chris Brown says the owner of the home he rented in Ibiza concocted that story he trashed the joint ... and he has video proof.
The tower was concocted as part of the company's larger campaign known as "The Jetsons," an homage to the 1962 cartoon set in 2062.
America was plunging into its worst recession since the 1930s, pushed to the brink of disaster by toxic products concocted by Wall Street alchemists.
In 1933, Harry's New York Bar concocted the Bucket of Blood by integrating wacky seasonings with tomato juice to add flavor to the vodka.
When visitors stopped by the drive-thru, they got the chance to try out Cinnamon Toast Crunch recipes concocted by celeb chef Jeff Mauro.
Bali's vibrant batik sarongs are art you can wear, and Maldivian dhon riha tastes like seafood curry concocted in the depths of the ocean.
Federal authorities further allege that a number of the suspects had concocted a scheme to use credit-card skimmers to steal personal account information.
What makes the game so enticing is not how it's designed or even the main plot, but the core mysteries that Creatures has concocted.
The case is about whether Mr. Baroni and another defendant concocted the scheme, then covered it up, to punish the mayor of Fort Lee.
Perhaps Americans wouldn't be so worried about made-up news if they realized that all mediated information is concocted or distorted to some degree.
We've concocted a plait that's as simple as it is stunning, and we're going to let you in on our secret with this tutorial.
Reuters revealed in March that FPI cadres concocted a viral video falsely accusing a vagrant of attacking an Islamic boarding school in West Java.
If Apple does actually move to USB-C, we should brace for a level of internet rage only Cupertino-concocted shiny things can evoke.
The Erdogan government has dismissed the telephone recordings as fabrications concocted in 20133 by treasonous adversaries who had infiltrated the Turkish police and judiciary.
The formula is concocted with hyaluronic acid, collagen, Vitamin C, and Dead Sea minerals, which can help create a hydration barrier on your skin.
But the installation artist concocted several artificial scents through microencapsulation that the wall houses, all inspired by the various aromas wafting through Central Park.
There are also unexpected layers of intrigue and mystery, in which secrets are revealed, evidence is destroyed and oddly-concocted sympathy casseroles are eaten.
Mr. Ulyukayev and his supporters insisted the evidence against him was concocted to eliminate a critic of growing state dominance in the oil industry.
They cleaned up blood and concocted an elaborate cover-up in which the inmate was falsely described as having attacked and injured a guard.
Fentanyl's chemical structure and those of related analogues can be modified to create similar yet distinct substances, so new versions can be concocted quickly.
The company has concocted creative deals, tapping into the aviation industries of struggling countries like Ukraine and Venezuela, to keep its own fleet going.
As inventive as they were vindictive, these partisans concocted all sorts of wild theories to explain why Mr. Foster could not have killed himself.
The sort of thing concocted by men whose collegiate experience taught them little beyond how to turn self-serving reminiscences into middling indie movies.
And just like Google, Facebook concocted an intra-company deal to "park profits" in Ireland, where it would pay a tax rate near zero.
And a Massachusetts resident tinkering in his kitchen concocted something that you might eat for dessert tonight, that includes sugar, egg whites and vanilla.
And a Massachusetts resident tinkering in his kitchen concocted something that you might eat for dessert tonight that includes sugar, egg whites and vanilla.
His lawyers contend that he was repeating a fiction he had concocted and that, in the interrogation, he was responding to pressure from detectives.
On Wednesday, the front of the stage at David Geffen Hall was crammed with a motley assortment of percussion instruments, many concocted from junk.
" A group of anti-Trump college students in Eau Claire concocted the perfect Zen protest: singing and dancing en masse to Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody.
Consistently aiming to make any traditional notion of "hardboiled" look tame, writer Jason Aaron and artist R. M. Guéra concocted this indelible crime series.
A spokesman for Mr Hun Sen's party said that Mr Ou Virak had claimed the affair was concocted by the party to smear an opponent.
Scion never strayed far from the formula it concocted when "The Fast and the Furious" referred to one movie, not a $4 billion Hollywood juggernaut.
The speciality drink is concocted exactly the way it sounds: a mixture of Captain Morgan Spiced Rum and Pepsi served in a 10 oz. mug.
In 93, the Bush administration concocted the NSEERS program to register non-citizens like me from 29 countries, 211 of which were Muslim-majority nations.
Of course, the "nasty woman" phrase was first concocted by then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at the third and final presidential debate in October.
Various countries have concocted an alphabet soup of initiatives and pilot projects to get older people into work and keep them there, with mixed results.
But Trump himself appears to have concocted comments from Pelosi -- repeatedly describing supposed Pelosi quotes that are the opposite of what she has publicly said.
He concocted the elixir of life, which a certain supervillain was desperate to get his claws on during Harry Potter's very first year at Hogwarts.
There's a grasping arm, a milling machine and a few other half-concocted builds that look like robotic rejects from the Island of Misfit Toys.
Instead, she is the tortured victim, the eye of an elaborate jealousy plot concocted by a character who, for most of the series, wasn't involved.
Roca concocted a dessert using distilled water and pencil tips and put them alongside sounds of playtime, to help her flash back to those moments.
Driven by allergies and assisted by science, creative amateur and professional chefs have actually concocted some recipes that put their gluten-y forbears to shame.
But Baelish has had a burning, unquenchable ambition this whole time, and concocted his long-term plan way before she started skulking around Slaver's Bay.
The Joystick, which lets you touch the screen to drag and drive the Sphero Mini is, by far, the easiest control Sphero has ever concocted.
It comes as a classic hot latte, over ice, and blended like a Frappuccino — we know you've seen those fan-concocted Butterbeer Frappuccino recipes too.
But when it comes right down to it, she concocted something all her own, and that is really what we should be paying attention to.
Elkann, 39, had apparently concocted a fake abduction scheme after running out of cash during a drug-fueled partying binge, a law enforcement source said.
Last, but certainly not least is the carne asada taco with pepita pesto, concocted by none other than actor and all-around badass Danny Trejo.
Instead, he was the unwitting victim of an overzealous FBI and a scheme concocted by two mayoral consultants, Mike Fleck and his assistant Sam Ruchlewicz.
However, despite the well-crafted arguments I've concocted over time in favor of Android, I'm still here with an iPhone and my blue-bubbled texts.
Trying to send something to space by attaching it to a balloon and letting go sounds like a plan concocted by a six-year-old.
Acton had no idea that months earlier a lawyer at the firm, Evan Nelson, had concocted the scientific theory that Valberg was using against Collins.
Some are concocted on the spot in restaurants, but most are sold in cans at supermarkets, convenience stores and liquor shops or in vending machines.
A foreign aroma currently wafts through one of its galleries, concocted from the least expected sources: carpenter ants and sweat samples from Asian American women.
At the Boulton, each musician was compared to a specific bagel; for Haden, Offerman concocted a back story involving bad halibut from a Roslyn trattoria.
Sadly, Americans can expect that this week's debate will again be laced with exaggerated rhetoric concocted to gratify partisans on both sides of the aisle.
Intuition guides Ms. Dhegrae's lineup choices, supported by a numerical rubric she's concocted — spreadsheet and all — that helps to ensure a healthy mix of approaches.
Violence Interrupters, Beat the Streets, the Gun Recovery Unit — Southeast residents are skeptical that the initiatives concocted at city hall and police headquarters are working.
The inquiry exposed extensive prosecutorial misconduct and the widespread misuse of jailhouse informants, who had concocted persuasive-sounding confessions in a variety of ingenious ways.
Together with MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe, the duo concocted a plan to go thermonuclear on the theater business the same day as the acquisition announcement.
In a 1975 interview with The Miami Herald, Mr. Adams recalled the genesis of his first book, as a story he concocted for his daughters.
The management expert Van Arsdale France concocted a training program that serves as a corporate model today, with customers regarded with unfailing courtesy as guests.
Trump has repeatedly called climate change a "hoax" that he doesn't believe and at least once said the it was concocted by the Chinese government.
As a child, the sheer scale of Bierstadt's canvases and the obvious drama of the scenery he concocted were enough to make a lasting impression.
Just as Comey, Strzok, Page and company conspired to clear Hillary Clinton, they likewise concocted their "insurance policy," a scam investigation of then-candidate Donald Trump.
But for all we know this could be a completely new conspiracy theory concocted by Trump to distance himself from the investigation into obstruction of justice.
Then he concocted a bit of viral promo: a video of Bieber and his famous friends dancing along to the song on goofy laptop cam footage.
David Cameron had concocted "Notting Hill Conservatism" that was supposed to appeal to urban liberals who liked economic liberalism but worried that traditional conservatives were "nasty".
Li met up with her candidate and concocted a convincing story on how they met and why she kept their relationship a secret for so long.
But she's concocted a monthly side project for the brand, as well, that will see 12 artists collaborate with the Helmut Lang collective on special works.
Some employees initially doubted the veracity of the news reports, with one suggesting it was a phony leak concocted by Altria to boost its stock price.
Whether or not this is an actual, real-life prototype—as opposed to some bullshit interface concocted by a bored Apple fan—is up for debate.
Authorities say Feldstein and her boyfriend Nicholas Lowe, 24, concocted the escape plan after both were arrested last July and taken to the Washington County jail.
If we had to guess, nothing about the situation set up in this photo is real, and it was actually just a joke concocted by Drake.
Rather, she grew up in a loving family and only concocted this tragic tale to seem more appealing to casting agents and amongst her acting friends.
"At this point, either people believe the whole thing [with Ukraine] is true and everyone's guilty, or it's another thing the Democrats have concocted," Fletcher said.
A disturbance in the jail during which a deputy was assaulted may have been concocted to delay an inmate count and buy them time, he said.
Announcers hyped a concocted rivalry between the shows with surprisingly little verve; John Layfield, in particular, seemed to be going through the motions whenever Raw vs.
In October 2014, after discovering she was in a new relationship, Prockner and several as-yet-unnamed friends concocted a plot to murder Leflar's new boyfriend.
Mr Harari describes scientific research that, in his eyes, proves that the "free individual is just a fictional tale concocted by an assembly of biochemical algorithms".
They said the former police chief had concocted a cover story and never admitted to the defendants he had assaulted the man who took his bag.
Weissmann's team made sure they did not even get bail pending their appeals, even though the charges Weissmann concocted, like those against Andersen, were literally unprecedented.
"Scarface" came out a year after the first movie adaptation of "The Front Page," a satirical Broadway farce that Hecht and MacArthur had concocted in 1928.
Long before the advent of social media, Moscow concocted fantastical rumors that the AIDS virus had been manufactured by American government scientists as a biological weapon.
In keeping with current business imperatives, what Mr. Snyder has concocted is less a free-standing film than the opening argument in a very long trial.
Concocted with heaps of style but only a smattering of substance, Benjamin Dickinson's sophomore feature, "Creative Control," is as brittle and unwelcoming as its characters' surroundings.
Volcano Challenge The greatest skateboarding challenge ever concocted is a direct dig at Scientology, as this firey kickflip challenge was inspired by the Dianetics book cover.
About two years ago, Matt and Nick concocted a ten-year plan: spend a decade working their high-octane and making as much money as possible.
Tom Clarke, a nursing home owner, concocted a strategy to cut carbon emissions by gaining control of millions of tons of coal reserves and multiple mines.
A Russian lawmaker said the British authorities might have concocted the case to sully Russia's image while the country was hosting the World Cup soccer tournament.
The truth is that Turkey's Kurdish problem was not concocted by Western powers but is a result of decades of brutal suppression of its Kurdish population.
But the truth is that her persona is mostly a myth concocted by a media unable to grasp the new reality of a bitterly divided politics.
Soon, classic floral scents — rose, lily of the valley, violet, stephanotis — were sold alongside grooming products, bespoke fragrances concocted for wealthy clients in the shop's cellar.
"Those 35 thousand people aren't going to change their minds," wrote one member, mocking those who would read the press coverage he and his friends concocted.
Remember, for example, "The Protocols of the Elders of the Zion," a notorious forgery concocted by the czar's secret police and published in Russia in 1903.
When the man he hired to kidnap them back refused the job, Sadiq concocted a fantastic story — that the hired man was caught, crucified and beheaded.
But the Trump administration again refused to comply, arguing that he had merely concocted a reason to obscure Democrats' real objective: to embarrass Mr. Trump politically.
But the Trump administration again refused to comply, arguing that he had merely concocted a reason to obscure Democrats' real objective: to embarrass Mr. Trump politically.
An orphan and only child, she concocted Lexie out of scraps of a wished-for childhood, a second self who now haunts her like a ghost.
Ultimately, the rescue officials concocted a plan to have small teams of divers bring out the boys by holding them under their bodies as they swam.
They say the allegations against Chief Gallagher were concocted by disgruntled subordinates who could not meet his demanding standards and wanted to get rid of him.
Ian HaydonPhD Student in Biological Physics, Structure, and Design at the University of WashingtonUnfortunately, people have already concocted compounds at least as horrible as the Joker's venom.
" "Clearly, the Secretary of State decided that he couldn't answer those concerns substantively or persuasively, and so concocted an emergency so he wouldn't have to do so.
The three-course menu includes 11 dishes using nine Cheetos flavors, all concocted by Food Network chef Anne Burrell, according to a press release emailed to Refinery29.
Russian officials contend that the Magnitsky case, which became a cause célèbre in Washington, was a fraud concocted by the West to justify sanctions against Russian citizens.
Milk Train, a dessert café in London, has concocted the latest food trend by serving up ice cream cones wrapped in a massive swirl of cotton candy.
"A bunch of American politicians led by Pence have thrown into confusion right and wrong on these issues, made thoughtless remarks and concocted slanders," Ms. Hua said.
The Cruz, Kasich and anti-Trump forces had concocted elaborate plans to try to deprive Trump of the 1,237 delegates he needs to win the nomination outright.
In Robinson's countersuit, she claims De Niro's complaint "concocted false allegations" and came only after her attorney had notified him that she was considering filing a lawsuit.
Asus ROG has concocted a solution for those pesky monitor bezels that tarnish an otherwise gorgeous three-monitor gaming setup — and it involves lenses and light refraction.
So the person sitting across from you at dinner might not live up to the person you've concocted in your head based on their perfect vacation selfies.
The club was concocted by Constance Hockaday and The Lab in conjunction with — and as a subtle resistance to — the first Untitled art fair in San Francisco.
Xanax is made from alprazolam powder, which is concocted in labs and sold on the darknet from Britain as well as countries like China, Portugal, and Canada.
The so-called "gravity model", concocted in the 1960s by Jan Tinbergen, a Dutch Nobel-prize winner, makes two simple points about the geography of international trade.
To pay for his travels, Ozawa concocted a half-baked scheme to ride a Japanese motor scooter around France to win corporate sponsorship from the scooter's manufacturer.
To this day, I believe her pregnancy was a story that was concocted by her people to explain to the public why she would marry Bobby Brown.
So they have concocted a modified VAT — with a deduction for wages paid — and told American voters that this "border adjustment tax" is a corporate income tax.
Allegedly concocted in the early 1970s in Ozone Park, Queens, garlic knots have since become nearly as important to New York's pizza shops as the pies themselves.
It debunks drafting-table simplifications concocted by urban planners — in her time, these planners were mostly well-heeled white men — who view the city negatively from above.
The charge is that it failed to spot a fraudulent scheme that executives had concocted with staff at Colonial Bank, which had employed PwC as its auditor.
The new and torturous ways of losing that the Capitals have concocted for their fans is something you wouldn't wish on any fan base in any sport.
"We believe Anderson shot and killed her, and concocted the false narrative of her being murdered by an unknown suspect," Raymond told reporters at a news conference.
For those on a budget, British supermarket Iceland has concocted a limited supply of a two-tier elderflower and lemon cake — replicating the royal couple's wedding cake.
His claim that the Russia investigation is nothing but a "hoax" concocted by Democrats upset about their electoral victory has now lost whatever credibility it ever had.
Insider spoke with Erica Howard-Cox, a former Starbucks barista and self-described Disney fanatic who concocted the viral drink back in 2010, about her viral creation.
Still, these Resistance works were pretty awful: In preparation for Trump's July trip to the UK, artist and activist Matt Bonner concocted an absolutely mental idea, mate.
The Waiting Room ($15), concocted by Mr. Trummer's son, Jakob (also a bartender there), is made with tequila, cherry tomato, basil, balsamic vinegar, lime and habanero elixir.
J.P. L'Rain, the one-woman studio band concocted by Taja Cheek, makes music that's a sea of loops: guitar arpeggios, synthesizer burbles, endless layers of vocal harmony.
Sergei Zheleznyak, deputy speaker of Parliament, suggested that the British authorities had concocted the case to sully Russia's image while the country was hosting the World Cup.
He offers protection — mainly against the concocted threat of migrants, whose numbers were in fact plummeting before he took office because of an agreement reached with Libya.
We reveal how one of the biggest fake news stories ever concocted — the 1984 AIDS-is-a-biological-weapon hoax — went viral in the pre-internet era.
But now, a new twist ... officials believe Trindade concocted an illegal, diabolical plot to falsely accuse Neymar of rape in an effort to extort the soccer superstar.
As the winds arrived, President Trump disputed the official tally of nearly 250,22013 deaths from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, falsely claiming Democrats had concocted the number.
Oesterlund's personal lawyer, a veteran litigator named Gary Rosen, dismissed the lawsuit in court as "a leverage point" concocted by Fisher to pressure Oesterlund in the divorce.
Chambers' case went to trial, where his lawyer, Jack Litman, according to Good Housekeeping, concocted a defense strategy that made Levin look promiscuous and lacking in character.
I worried about feeling disconnected and lonely, and even concocted an exit strategy that involved borrowing Jo's car and returning to pick her up a week later.
The president will muddy the waters, as he has with every other investigation, insisting that the facts were concocted by jealous rivals in order to undermine him.
The men who had sent the landscaper to Mexico eventually concocted a scheme to lure him to the Likquid Lounge, a bar in Chester, the person said.
The idea was originally conceived as a joke, concocted recently over drinks with friends, said the organizer, who asked to be identified only by the name Antoine.
Genovés concocted elaborate humiliation scenarios for his captive passengers (the film's elucidation of the toilet situation is, in a word, haunting) under the guise of academic curiosity.
The cleverly-concocted "Party Safe" bags feature an alcohol sensor that turns red if alcohol is detected on your breath (the cue to give someone your keys immediately).
Several, including Devin Nunes, the senior Republican on the intelligence committee, advanced the conspiracy theory that the entire affair had been a hoax concocted by Democrats and Russia.
He went on to kidnap her twice and sexually assault her repeatedly as he concocted fantastical stories about aliens in an effort to brainwash her against fighting back.
Over the years, I've concocted a variety of quick ways to shorten my jeans at home without the employment of a professional needle-wielder (see: here and here).
English has dipped into the Latin well so often that it has frequently concocted words that would be confusing even if you speak Latin as well as Augustus.
Even though she wasn't nominated, she concocted a plan that would allow her to be the one holding the Best Actress statue at the end of the night.
Frankel concocted an old-fashioned insurance scam dressed up as a 1990s-era high-tech investment operation, with Corbally on hand to provide establishment introductions and tactical advice.
To approximate that glossy look, she sourced fat from local butchers and made liberal use of a dark lustrous wax concocted by Karen Durrant, the head of wardrobe.
Of course, it's possible Justice really did wet himself and concocted the elaborate tale to cover up the incident, but even if that's true, hasn't he suffered enough?
Moscow has yet to respond to the latest poisoning, but the Kremlin has consistently denied any involvement, claiming it is a "fake story" concocted by the U.K. government.
The FBI even concocted a fake "Access Denied, This website does not allow proxy connections" page in order to entice the cybercriminal to connect from an identifiable address.
Once every year he also invited a few hundred women to the grounds of State House, where he personally administered another herbal cure he had concocted for infertility.
Our sources say there was nothing pre-planned with Ray, and certainly no devious mission concocted to get back at the Kardashian-Jenner fam ... by either of them.
Officials say he and another man concocted and executed a ponzi-style scheme to take millions of dollars from investors under the guise of a ticket scalping business.
Ian Clark, a reserve guard, said that Barbosa had concocted "his own rule at the end," which meant that McAdoo and Barbosa wound up sharing the day's honors.
The President's strategy also relies on his capacity to maintain the misdirection and falsehood that he has concocted around the issue that has been parroted by conservative media.
But then, so might yours be if called upon to bark wooden dialogue and names that seem concocted by a desperate Scrabble player who's run out of vowels.
With Top Chef, we'll never get to taste the crudo that Jeremy made this season or the bread Marjorie baked or the disastrous strawberry bungle that Phillip concocted.
Many people who buy guns are simply racked with an irrational fear, one of several concocted and promoted by the N.R.A.: fear of crime or fear of government.
Other pieces targeted the snobbery of New York's social world, lampooned journalistic clichés and concocted playful absurdities, such as the pope giving battle orders to the Swiss Guard.
Other pieces targeted the snobbery of New York's social world, lampooned journalistic clichés and concocted playful absurdities, such as the pope giving battle orders to the Swiss Guard.
"Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana" is an officially licensed (and promotional) history of the medieval combat-and-quest game originally concocted in 1974 by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.
Madonna's people concocted a scheme to snag precious parking spots in front of her super expensive NYC apartment, and the authorities came down on them like a brick.
Before Moulin Rouge, Romeo + Juliet, or his trippy take on The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrman concocted a crazy colorful world about ballroom dancing, forbidden love, and inner beauty.
Moran started out by reading Palomba her Miranda rights, and then implied that the police had evidence that she concocted the rape claim to cover up an affair.
Abetted by Patrick Orth's careful, almost obsessively calm camerawork, Köhler has concocted an uncommonly subtle and deliberately ambiguous work, one that's delicately rewarding, if you meet it halfway.
Warriors 120, Spurs 108 SAN ANTONIO — Gregg Popovich, the coach of the San Antonio Spurs, had concocted a plan to combat the Golden State Warriors on Saturday night.
"Today, the sham impeachment attempt concocted by Democrats ended in the full vindication and exoneration of President Donald J. Trump," said Stephanie Grisham, the White House press secretary.
As he entered his plea, Mr. Scahill admitted to Justice Charles Solomon that he had "concocted a scheme" to trick investors into putting money into a phantom production.
Defenders of Mr Trump have revived baseless allegations against AntAC, a renowned rule-of-law group, that were originally concocted by Ukrainian officials the group accused of corruption.
But soon, doubts about Mr. Smollett's account played into a different narrative: that it was a real-life "false flag" concocted to shame the president and his supporters.
House of Cards will obsessively track a diabolical plan along the winding road to fruition, but it prefers to leave the psyche that concocted the plan in shadow.
North Korea, perhaps the world's most isolated country, denounced the findings by the commission of inquiry, calling them lies and propaganda concocted by its enemies, principally the United States.
But one of the brand's best-sellers isn't actually makeup at all; instead it's her Magic Cream, a face moisturizer that Tilbury concocted on her own for her clients.
According to federal prosecutors in New York, he concocted a multi-year scheme to hide millions in income from the IRS and skirt $1.7 million in existing tax liabilities.
It just so happened, when this narrative was concocted in 2005, that Congress was considering relaxing federal law to allow Americans more leeway to purchase medications from Canadian pharmacies.
This approach could work with Trump, who concocted the story of potential rogue agents as culprits and compared the unjust treatment of MBS to that of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
The husband later said he concocted that story and then shifted to the claim about a ghost, repeating an account Benavides-Ruiz had earlier given to a family caregiver.
Spacey's lawyers alleged the phone contains deleted text messages that show his accuser "concocted and exaggerated" the encounter in order to impress his friends, according to an NBC affiliate.
Leonardo da Vinci's most famous creation is undoubtedly the Mona Lisa, but the artist was also a brilliant engineer who concocted endless contraptions including some formidable machines of war.
This concept of a "gene drive" was decades-old, but no one had successfully concocted one in a lab, let alone applied it to a global public health scourge.
Right-wing conspiracy theorists concocted something called "Pizzagate," a "fake news" story that alleged Democratic leaders were running a pedophile ring out of a restaurant in Washington, DC. 104.
Trump has suggested global warming was a "hoax" concocted by China to hurt U.S. industry and vowed to scrap the Paris climate accord aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
Tekashi69 believes UK customs agents refused him entry into the country because of his recent rap beefs ... and concocted lies about his criminal past just to keep him out.
After learning that TCW would not renew her contract, Tirschwell "must have felt that she had run out of options," and "concocted a story that is false," Ravich said.
Now it seems Spicey's concocted a new plan to make it back onto the small screen: starting a TV talk show that sounds about as exciting as an infomercial.
The Obama administration approved massive illegal surveillance on Americans and concocted an array of new prerogatives including a presidential right to assassinate Americans who were suspected of terrorist associations.
A few weeks ago, he left behind that messy, artificially concocted number — 4,257 — which was a consolidation of Suzuki's hits in Japan (1,278) and his hits in North America.
After losing the election to Yameen the following year, Nasheed was sentenced to 13 years in prison in 2015 on charges that he said were concocted by Yameen's government.
For nearly two years, Marielle put on her chemist hat and concocted various vegetable tannin recipes, eventually arriving at a process that is 100-percent natural, with zero waste.
Its imagery of cozy warmth and gliding ease had been concocted in defiance of a lethally dangerous environment where you were entirely dependent on protections devised by other humans.
Where the chemical solution from the vet failed, dad concocted an altogether more ethnic remedy of vinegar and kerosene, more suited to a bonfire than to a medical treatment.
He also got involved in "embarrassing public spats" with figures like William F. Buckley Jr., who concocted a flattering blurb by Schlesinger to paste mischievously on his own book.
The president concocted a frightscape, the caravan from hell ready to storm our white picket fences, the military deployed as a political stunt, the Constitution inches from the shredder.
The music was from OPN's new album, "Age Of," which was concocted in studios and on computers but was now being painstakingly reverse-engineered for real-time concert performance.
Online forums have concocted an imaginary alt-right country called Kekistan, whose flag is basically a Nazi flag, only green, with a cluster of Ks instead of a swastika.
In his 91 years, Wright, who suffered a raft of personal tragedies, concocted an intoxicating elixir of a persona, mixing rank self-aggrandizement with no-way-but-forward tenacity.
An inveterate viewer of reality shows like Bravo's "Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles" and HGTV's "Property Brothers," she concocted "Bajillion" and its diverse coterie of hypercompetitive real estate brokers.
Wright used his concocted injury story to apply for two medals — the Army's Combat Action Badge and the Purple Heart — even using the name of a fellow soldier, Sgt.
Detractors on both the right and the left have said the wage gap is a myth, concocted from skewed stats that don't account for hours worked and experience earned.
In response to the growing hysteria, which was fanned by figures like Beck and Sarah Palin, Stewart concocted a different kind of event with a very Obama-esque message.
Bellowing Sun was initially concocted as a multi-media experience, and this, perhaps is where the records' themes—light and the modern world, death and decay—are most prevalent.
The idea behind this mode of therapy is that, by facing the thing that frightens you, you'll see that it's much more benign than what your imagination had concocted.
Problem is ... McKenzie says he never got the watch OR the money back -- instead, he claims Kevin concocted a bogus story about the watch being stolen by some thugs.
In the 1980s, he created an Israeli comics superhero - "Uri Ohn", or "Virility Uri" - whose nemeses tend to be concocted villains rather than representations of Israel's real-life foes.
Phillip Capriccio, the second-generation owner of a wholesale liquor business near Los Angeles, concocted a tequila-like agave wine a decade ago and began stocking it on his shelves.
This work included a Twitter campaign concocted by pro-Kremlin bloggers that was set to launch the night of the election, centered on the hashtag #DemocracyRIP, according to the report.
Through systematic brainwashing, Applewhite concocted a narrative convincing the group they needed to free their mortal souls to board a spaceship flying in the wake of the Hale-Bopp comet.
Indigo then concocted new combinations of germs intended to help crops grow faster or in harsher conditions (it harvested its first crop last fall: 50,000 acres of drought-resistant cotton).
That was unlikely, but I was still curious, What sort of fake story had this advertiser concocted about the British Thespian and how would it work to promote this business?
They fear that if they pass nothing, their base will destroy them, and they fear that if they pass the desultory quarter-measure they've concocted, the country will destroy them.
Of all the schemes that real-estate developers have concocted to get their hands on public subsidies for their projects over the past few decades, TIFs are perhaps the schemiest.
In his opening statements Tuesday, Mesereau said Constand concocted false allegations of sexual assault knowing that his client would likely pay a hefty amount to make the case go away.
Ms. Kane insists that some in the state's male-dominated political establishment have concocted her political difficulties to retaliate for the disclosures, and to prevent more emails from being leaked.
Faced with searing examples of unconscionable police violence against unarmed black men, of concocted justifications laid bare by video, too many still speak of isolated cases and overblown racial hysteria.
To make matters worse, while writing this very piece my editor kindly suggested I at least get into the summer festival mood by listening to Spotify's graciously concocted Glasto playlist.
Williams' legal team tried to show the tax issue was concocted by ETE as a last-ditch effort to back out of a deal that otherwise was relatively air-tight.
" In a 2009 segment of his show, Glenn Beck concocted a strange fantasy about "put[ting] poison" in Nancy Pelosi's wine, gleefully muttering, "I want you to drink it now.
You realize the normality of how it's all run, that it's just a business, and everything you've concocted in your head is all smoke and mirrors: Photoshop and great lighting.
But the Riches' story isn't just about conspiracy theorists — it's about a conspiracy of Fox News contributors who concocted a lie while purporting to be trying to find Seth's killer.
Chris Brown called himself a "piece of sh*t" this morning after ranting against R&B singer Kehlani ... essentially saying her suicidal episode is a P.R. stunt concocted for sympathy.
More notable is audit data showing that the narrative Sopko concocted in July 2628 — alleging that TFBSO spent $28500 million on a prototype natural gas fueling station — was pure hokum.
Trump took an important step by disbanding the Interagency Working Group that concocted the metrics, and he halted the use of social cost of greenhouse gases in the rulemaking process.
Downstairs awaits "From Cotton via Velvet to Tragedy," a 1991 film concocted entirely by (and starring) Mr. Duwenhögger, which suggests the underground pioneer Jack Smith working solo, in slow motion.
In 2007, a group of recent Yale graduates concocted the idea of broadcasting every moment of the co-founder Justin Kan's life, through a Web site that they called Justin.tv.
She has said that some in the state's male-dominated political establishment have concocted her political difficulties to retaliate for the disclosures and to prevent more emails from being leaked.
In its complaint, Hyperloop One contends that Mr. BamBrogan and the other plaintiffs concocted an "unlawful" plot to create a competitor, while they were also abusive and failed to perform.
It's an ironic outcome for a man-made substance that was concocted in a 19th-century lab specifically to be a potent cure-all for the evils of… guess what?
He had concocted the stage character, based on a 19th-century New Orleans medicine man, for another singer but took it on himself when that performer declined to go along.
Enhancing the movie's story line, Mr. Wheeldon and the book writer, Craig Lucas, concocted a transporting musical that turns Paris just after World War II into a kaleidoscope of romance.
In remarks on his official website, Khamenei was quoted as saying he was certain the United States had concocted a plot after the nuclear deal to "infiltrate" the Islamic Republic.
The government alleged that when the House Intelligence Committee asked him to testify in their Russia investigation in 2017, Stone concocted a false cover story to hide whatever actually happened.
The story, concocted from clichés that were already droopy when they appeared in almost every other jukebox musical ever written, does not require you to put your thinking cap on.
Episode 1 (15 minutes) reveals how one of the biggest fake news stories ever concocted — the 1984 AIDS-is-a-biological-weapon hoax — went viral in the pre-internet era.
Like Trump, she managed to get at least the right nouns in circulation as red meat for a base less interested in the formal arguments being concocted by Trump's team.
The defense argued that the confessions were fictions concocted by a man with mental illness and a low I.Q. who had been subjected to almost seven hours of police interrogation.
Here in the States, California and Washington have both concocted their own burdensome, inefficient, and prohibitively expensive regulations, with more states likely to follow suit if Congress does not act.
But he didn't deserve to die in the underhanded manner concocted by his queen Cersei and her co-conspirator/cousin/lover, Lancel Lannister: drunk on wine, gored by a boar.
I chose Mudkip because I felt bad for betraying that part of myself, for hiding from some nugget of my truth to the point that I concocted this ridiculous experiment.
" Mr. Craig's defense team insisted that prosecutors had concocted a charge out of a few minor omissions of facts that Mr. Craig was never under any obligation to reveal. "Mr.
It's a simple but resilient method, Testut says, and it builds off years of exploits and other tricks the iOS developer and jailbreak communities have concocted to bypass Apple's restrictions.
Concocted by a team of food scientists in Silicon Valley, it is made from wheat, coconut oil and potatoes, yet it aims to be more than just another veggie patty.
RELATED: Read: Oral arguments in Supreme Court census citizenship case The chief justice did not question whether Ross had concocted his justification for the citizenship question, as Furman had found.
But it did increase the likelihood that Belichick, aided by the defensive play-caller Brian Flores, again had concocted a strategy to foil a prolific offense in the Super Bowl.
The evidence suggests that the Yangshao people may have concocted a 5,000-year-old beer recipe that ushered the cultural practice of beer brewing into ancient China, a press release says.
As science and technology advanced at the turn of the 20th century, illusionists concocted new and innovative ways of tricking their audiences by blurring the line between science and the paranormal.
There is, to be fair, some inherent commentary in the idea that Fury's security program, at first an echo of our own government overreach, is actually concocted by the Bad Guys.
Jeremy Renner has come out swinging against the latest attack by his ex-wife, claiming she's a woman scorned and a liar who concocted grotesque allegations against him out of vengeance.
Pre-sentencing court documents filed this week by the defense said the other inmate pretended to show an interest in converting to Islam and then concocted the scheme against the judge.
Like just about everything else in Rogue One's third act, it was concocted by one of his editors — and shot a few months before the release of the Star Wars standalone.
JJ started things off with a little of fried chicken skin topped with caviar—a salt-on-salt assault paired with a forbidden rice sake highball concocted by William Sears. Kampai!
Unions rolled out a misinformation campaign broadcasting worker grievances at his Carl's Jr. and Hardee's restaurants, though the number and nature were politically concocted and his corporate stores are business models.
They suggested that he had concocted a story about being singled out and beaten, and hoped to gain financially from a lawsuit against the city over the attack that is pending.
The Lodi Dodi Smoke Burger concocted by St. Norbert College's campus dining chefs is a favorite among students and was a finalist in the James Beard Foundation's 2017 Blended Burger Project.
Chad Anderson, the chef, has concocted a menu that blends Lowcountry fare and international dishes aimed at tourists who need a break from (or may balk at) the hearty local cuisine.
An independent investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against Georgia Tech coach Josh Pastner found the claims to be "concocted" as part of an extortion scheme, USA Today's A.J. Perez reported Monday.
Ms. Kane has said that some in the state's male-dominated political establishment have concocted her political difficulties to retaliate for the disclosures and to prevent more emails from being leaked.
Time and time again, the GOP leadership has concocted a scheme behind closed doors, and at the last minute dumped it on their conference while demanding that they fall into line.
But, when Ennis went on the stand in that case, she told the judge she had concocted the story to get back at Foster as revenge for breaking up with her.
This is why "fake news"—originally a description of untrue stories concocted by conservatives that went viral on the internet—was appropriated by conservatives to defend Trump and undermine his critics.
Tired: "I made a new guideline for quarterly goals and metrics" Wired: "I formulated a new guideline for quarterly goals and metrics" You concocted that guideline with the precision of science.
Then he concocted a dry bhang masala — a more organic alternative to the bhang lassi, he assured his buyers, than what is available at any of the Government Authorized Bhang Shops.
Suspicions have been compounded by local opposition politicians who have exploited the crisis ahead of national elections this month, spreading rumors that Ebola was concocted by the government to exterminate them.
The jury found that the detective, Kevin Desormeau, had concocted a story about witnessing a man deal drugs to two women on a street corner on a summer evening in 2014.
The president lashed out fiercely at Mr. Cohen on Thursday, calling him a "weak" prevaricator who concocted a false tale about the hotel deal in hopes of winning a lesser punishment.
No doubt health care is a more comfortable campaign issue for Democrats than the minefield of immigration policy, but the caravan is not simply a political sideshow concocted by Mr. Trump.
Then, I concocted a Caprese-inspired salad from ripe cherry tomatoes tossed with garlic-basil oil and cubes of milky mozzarella as a topping, instead of arugula or other leafy greens.
When Bourdain was writing for "Treme," he concocted a scene in which a character named Alan Richman visits a restaurant in New Orleans and has a Sazerac thrown in his face.
The 2015 nuclear agreement, known as the JCPOA, had been "crafted as a confidence-building measure to alleviate any concerns, real or concocted, over the nature of our program", he said.
And while some dismissed Monday's war of words as a media-concocted feud, others affiliated with Mr. Sanders accused Ms. Warren's team of a cynical political move to imperil his reputation.
Amazon's own stock was down about 0.7 percent Tuesday, as the company offered shoppers hundreds of deals on the shopping holiday it concocted to promote its Prime membership and other products.
On a formal level, Mr. Morris's works are not as compelling as those by Reinhardt, the undisputed master of the form with his mysterious, self-concocted powdery pigment covering the canvas.
For similar reasons, Berlin concocted a public relations ruse around Lenin's journey across German soil, the notorious sealed train — a convenient myth for Lenin, also, to distance himself from German sponsorship.
The White Supremacist Drug Dealers And Lydia Quayle Die When Walter learned that Todd and Jack were forcing Jesse to cook meth for them, he concocted a plan to free Jesse.
They argue that admissions made by Mr. Hernandez to investigators — that he took Etan into the basement of the bodega where he worked and choked him — were fictions he had concocted.
By making room for both Sylvester Stallone ("Cliffhanger," Saturday) and a Czech medieval epic ("Marketa Lazarova," Sunday), the Quad's programmers have concocted one the strangest frozen blends since prosciutto ice cream.
National Briefing | Midwest Two Republican ex-lawmakers were charged Friday with felony misconduct in office after their affair snowballed into a political scandal when one of them concocted a bizarre cover story.
But even though the Warsaw native was a heavy favorite following victories over Nathan Cleverly and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., Smith's father had already concocted a fight strategy around Fonfara's Achilles' heel.
OK, so this—yes, this is French toast made out of pizza—might sound like a bit of a stoner idea, concocted by baked flatmates staring at cold, stale pizza at 4AM.
To see that, you only need look at how gleeful the assassin was during last week's "I'll Deal With Him Later" as she concocted a deadly "perfume" to kill a fragrance mogul.
It's an interesting question why the plan Ryan concocted is such a shoddy piece of work, and why Ryan didn't spend more time building stakeholder support or mapping out a sensible process.
"President Jammeh and his team concocted a declaration to be endorsed by (regional bloc) ECOWAS, the United Nations and the African Union that gave him every guarantee, essentially impunity," Mankeur Ndiaye said.
A week earlier, General Petr Pavel, the Czech head of NATO's military committee, had revealed that a false report of a rape by German soldiers in Lithuania had been concocted by Russia.
Confronted with his lack of past statements opposing the invasion of Iraq, he concocted a bizarre story about having opposed the war in secret phone conversations with the conservative pundit Sean Hannity.
The Sugar Reform Act is a step in the right direction, removing some of the most intrusive government intervention in the marketplace ever concocted by a special interest group – the sugar lobby.
" Borowitz even helpfully concocted some spin for the Clinton campaign, quoting a made-up spokesperson as saying, "We have every reason to believe that Hillary Clinton will be a fully conscious President.
For Trump, "no collusion" is a shield—proof the Russia inquiry that has dogged his presidency is a sham concocted by his perceived enemies: the Democrats, the media, and the deep state.
Moreover, he repeatedly lamented the fate of workers in Delaware who would probably suffer and lose jobs, thanks to what he described as the legions of M.B.A.-holders who concocted the transaction.
The interdisciplinary practice that he has concocted over the last 15 years fits a cultural moment in which museums are featuring more performance, and institutions like the Shed are designed for it.
At one point, when a character says, "I've concocted so many false stories, you think I can't come up with one more" – it is as if he is talking about the script.
In this case, citizens are concerned about protecting marine life and the integrity of the public process from an ill-conceived plan concocted in secret that was struck down in federal court.
"Today, the sham impeachment attempt concocted by the Democrats ended in the full vindication and exoneration of President Donald J. Trump," Stephanie Grisham, the White House press secretary, said in a statement.
First, to vindicate Mr. Trump's false claim that the Obama administration had tapped his phone, the White House concocted a sham show-and-tell with the House Intelligence Committee chairman, Devin Nunes.
Even more important is the fact that canvassing forces politicians to look voters in the eye—to deal with their constituents as individuals, rather than as concocted stereotypes such as "Workington Man".
Walking my dog late at night, my conniving obscured by the neighborhood shadows, I concocted and dismissed dozens of outlandish plans, each with the approximate sophistication of a fifth-grade Halloween prank.
It's pretty difficult to argue that a can of fake fruit and sugar concocted by the biggest brewery in the world is an objectively superior drink to a precious small-batch sour.
Video projections by Adam Larsen throw branches, falling rain, and rushing water against the ephemeral and changing scrim of ribbons, while the air is permeated by scents concocted by artist Beau Rhee.
As prosecutors discovered, the trio had concocted the entire story, and not only do they face a mix of federal and state charges, but GoFundMe refunded the donations of all 14,000 contributors.
Get the recipe: Raw matcha ice cream cake Pocky — the classic Japanese biscuit treat — typically comes dipped in milk chocolate, but here, we've concocted a matcha white chocolate coating to keep it festive.
Together, they've concocted a rip-roaring heist movie about three women forced to earn back the money lost by their husbands in a robbery that, as the title suggests, went very, very wrong.
But the cryptocurrency plan concocted within his company is in trouble—partners are leaving, regulators are vowing to ban it, and legislators like Waters think Facebook should declare a moratorium on the plan.
A Satmar rabbi, Hillel Handler, stood and suggested that the measles outbreak was an anti-Hasidic conspiracy concocted by Mayor Bill de Blasio, as a cover for diseases imported by Central American immigrants.
A COUPLE of days after the chemical weapons attack in Syria, some Twitter users in America began sharing a theory: the pictures had been concocted as a pretext for launching a missile attack.
Jennifer Briskin always knew she wanted her "Papa" to be a part of her wedding, but she wasn't sure how to incorporate him into her special day – until she concocted a brilliant plan.
According to Gizmodo, a story about a zoo in China holding an online contest to name its newborn gorilla was concocted by a fake website created on Friday and called The Boston Leader.
Release date: November 10 Why it matters: Writer-director Martin McDonagh (In Bruges) has concocted what looks like a mad, dark comedy, with a cast led by the always stellar Frances McDormand (Fargo).
The team eventually decided that he would not attend the combine and concocted a story about "family issues" that were keeping McCloughan away, referencing the passing of his elderly grandmother three weeks prior.
Since Alabama has never impeached a governor before, new procedures had to be devised, whereupon, Mr Henry says, the party establishment concocted rules to "make it so difficult as to nullify" the prospect.
But behind every creative sandwich, salad, or pizza combination you've ever concocted, there's a local store keeper or restaurant owner who makes it their mission to offer that choice to you – their customer.
According to Cosmopolitan, New York City's Gelso & Grand has concocted a colorful, sugar-laden dessert hybrid that mashes up the classic cannoli with Funfetti cake, macarons, and a smattering of rainbow-colored sprinkles.
Imagine strolling on a private beach, taking a dip in a secluded cove, and sipping on a sundowner concocted by your own personal bartender — this is the dream these secluded hotels are selling.
I was mainly the group's pianist, but since three of us played the trombone Leonard concocted a "Seventy-Six Trombones" number complete with unison choreography — a winner with any mob of patriotic alcoholics.
She had heard rumors about a young heroin addict in Southeast Washington, she said, but had never found him and so concocted a composite of several characters she had met during her reporting.
That yammering came frequently from polarized talking heads on the left and right who were not so much trying to explain the story as to push their concocted versions that served adversarial purposes.
Over the summer and fall, Eden concocted a cockamamie scheme, called Operation Musketeer, to stage an Israeli invasion of Egypt, followed by an Anglo-French peacekeeping force for the "protection" of the canal.
A soft drink concocted with iced tea and lemonade has become known as the Arnold Palmer, joining the Shirley Temple on the short list of drinks named after famous people in their lifetimes.
Drawing on his own frustrations in a new era of film production, Mr. Godard concocted a narrative that, like his movies "Contempt" (1963) and "Passion" (1982), chronicles a film that doesn't get made.
But otherwise, Mr. Trump has mocked the notion of election meddling by Moscow, at times calling it a "hoax," concocted by Democrats and Hillary Clinton, his opponent in the race, after they lost.
Mr. diGenova has endorsed the notion that a secretive group of F.B.I. agents concocted the Russia investigation as a way to keep Mr. Trump from becoming president, a theory with little supporting evidence.
A star like Mr. Paul has his pick of sponsorship deals, but he took a liking to his new neighbors, so he concocted a bet — or, more accurately, a social media story line.
In the same segment, Falwell falsely claimed that the media is overhyping the threat of COVID-19 specifically to hurt Trump and suggested that the virus is a bioweapon concocted by North Korea.
Dr. Richard Gallo, a dermatologist and biologist at the University of California, San Diego, and his colleagues recently concocted an innovative microbial treatment for eczema, a disorder characterized by red, itchy, inflamed skin.
Lancaster dished to Jacobus about a concocted personal life, claiming to have had an extramarital affair with Atwater and talking of made-up plans to meet with CNN host Chris Cuomo in Paris.
The show is bound for the United States and Canada, courtesy of Simon Fuller, the English entertainment entrepreneur who concocted "American Idol" (and its British predecessor, "Pop Idol") and managed the Spice Girls.
MOST SITE-SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE The updated commedia dell'arte concocted by the artist-choreographer Ryan McNamara in collaboration with the composer John Zorn was part of the Works & Process series at the Guggenheim Museum.
Concocted by Fegan's grandmother, "Diana's Special" is a tour de force of shredded lettuce, white onions, and stir-fried ground pork, sandwiched between two deep-fried flour tortillas and liberally sprinkled with Parmesan cheese.
According to Paul, although this exhibition had been concocted long before, those developments changed the show and reframed it, yet at the same time, these events can be subsumed under the exhibition's major themes.
"The screenshots produced by the Commonwealth suggest that additional communications on (the accuser's) cell phone will reveal the truth: (the accuser) concocted and exaggerated elements of a story to impress his friends," he said.
For one week, I lived the kind of life that's scientifically concocted by marketing professionals, the kind of life that Bill O'Reilly probably thinks of when he gets riled up about annoying young people.
Many Americans have come to embrace a novel political ideology, concocted by pro-gun lobbying groups, which holds that firearms are the cornerstone of political liberty and that restricting them would cause more crime.
In "Toasted with Everything" (2018), the largest painting in the exhibition, DiBenedetto has concocted a gaggle of escapees from a bad horror film as a way of depicting the insides of our damaged psyches.
Ranch dressing was founded in the 1950s by Steve Henson, a plumber working in Alaska who wanted to liven up his coworker's meals and concocted the sauce of buttermilk, mayonnaise, herbs, spices and garlic.
Even though the left-wing "snowflake" concocted by the right is a strawman, online liberalism has developed a style of politicking that encourages a tendency to factionalism and internal squabbling that benefits its opponents.
Members of her family said that her husband had concocted the adultery charge because of a land dispute between their families, and that he had wanted to inherit his wife's interests in the land.
The first scene, clumsily concocted from disparate sections of music, is limp in the way it lets Siegfried depart for the lake when nobody is noticing, and then carries on pointlessly after he's gone.
At the same time, it's also turning us into paranoid voyeurs who jealously look through every post to see if we've been excluded from the fun for some reason we've concocted in our heads.
DMX was arrested in 2017 after federal prosecutors in New York say he concocted a multi-year scheme to hide millions in income from the IRS and skirt $1.7 million in existing tax liabilities.
Pink gin, a Victorian-era throwback said to have been first concocted by the Royal Navy, achieves its pale salmon color from the botanicals and bitters used to mellow the spirit's strong juniper profile.
There's nothing fake about the hostility between Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier -- so says UFC honcho Dana White ... who says the hatred these guys have for each other was definitely NOT concocted for publicity.
The makeup maven recently came out with a new, matte black color to add to her collection, but before she concocted a stellar goth lippie of her own, she was forced to get creative.
Why we 'save' daylight for the later hours of the dayDaylight-saving time was originally concocted as a way to save energy in the evening, and was implemented during World War I in Germany.
The abolitionist movement was strong in New England, so the flexible Lyman concocted a new story: the proceeds from the act were going to purchase the freedom of Heth's great-grandchildren, back in Kentucky.
"When you have the Chinese ambassador and the foreign minister saying through their propaganda machine that the United States military somehow concocted this virus and spread it in China, it's absolutely false," Texas Rep.
That did not prevent the military-controlled government, however, from arresting the pair on obviously concocted evidence, subjecting them to brutal intimidation and interrogations and charging them under the colonial-era Official Secrets Act.
The club has hardly made a secret of the fact it felt Financial Fair Play was a ruse concocted by the game's traditional elite to keep upstarts like City and P.S.G. in their place.
Sergei Zheleznyak, deputy speaker of the lower house of Parliament, said that the British authorities might have concocted the case to sully Russia's image while the country was hosting the World Cup soccer tournament.
The owner could not afford the bills for vet care "so they concocted a story to get the canine help for free," the Sheriff's Office said in a second news release posted on Facebook.
"Throughout this process, these Members of Congress have provided guidance to the White House team, which was prohibited from participating in the proceedings concocted by Democrats in the House of Representatives," the release said.
The movie's story line, concocted by Hausner and Géraldine Bajard, recalls that of the much-remade classic "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," in which emotional humans are replaced by unfeeling drones hatched from pods.
The art world connection isn't immediately apparent, but almost everything you can make out was concocted by Mr. Goh and Ms. Li's handpicked list of artists, including Tessa Modi, Leander Capuozzo and Mohammad Asgari.
Ms. Kirkland would remember the large peach tree in the yard, and the strange brew concocted by her grandmother that saved her from a typhomalarial fever when she was near death at age 5.
Around 2000, though, he became entangled in what prosecutors said was a plot to bilk insurance companies of more than $200 million through a fake charity concocted by Martin R. Frankel, a stock trader.
Alongside the legendary Port Arthur duo UGK, rappers like Z-Ro, Lil' Keke, Lil' Troy, Paul Wall, and Lil' Flip concocted a narcotized bang and sparkle that one can still hear in hip-hop.
Because the exotic Pyongyang-blessed, faceless Pyeongchang pageantry known as the 2202 Winter Olympiad has morphed into political theater whose success hangs on the degree of glitz concocted and gullibility of the audience assembled.
Biden himself has called the accusation false and has said Trump concocted it to distract from the whistleblower investigation: "Trump's doing this because he knows I'll beat him like a drum," Biden said Saturday.
He argued that Watergate had been a political trick concocted by Democrats, that Nixon had not been guilty of any crimes and that even if he had been, his accomplishments had outweighed any missteps.
The police identified the man as Jeremy Wilson, and said they had arrested him after investigators found the vehicle, impounded it and concocted a story to draw Mr. Wilson to a station house in Chelsea.
So, the witch hunt is about the phony bias political investigation into whether or not Trump and the Trump campaign concocted some grand conspiracy with Vladimir Putin to defeat your precious Hillary Clinton, nice diversion.
A recent example, reported by British journalist Paraic O'Brien, documented a concocted story written on an Estonian woman's Facebook page that was picked up by a Russian-funded site and rebranded as a news story.
One month later, Mr. Le Roux said, the two men followed the plan he had concocted: posing as real-estate buyers, they lured Ms. Lee in a Toyota van into the countryside near Las Piñas.
Whipped potatoes are made with $325-a-pound white cheddar cheese from the U.K. The cranberry sauce is concocted using strawberries from Japan, Mexico and Canada and infused with a $0003,750 bottle of French wine.
Alla Ilyina, a 32-year-old Russian woman, concocted an elaborate plan to escape coronavirus quarantine at the Botkin Hospital for Infection Diseases in St. Petersburg, including short-circuiting a lock, the Moscow Times reported.
Noor Salman, 30, was arrested in California in January on federal charges she knew before the June 2016 shootings that her husband, Omar Mateen, was planning the attack and concocted a cover story for him.
But here's a fun little fact you might not know: Tillerson, unlike Trump and many of his other cabinet picks, doesn't believe that climate change is a fairytale concocted by phony scientists in underground lairs.
One senior official in the LNR's information ministry, who had become increasingly disillusioned by the separatist cause, is understood to have concocted and aired anti-rebel news reports online while simultaneously overseeing pro-rebel broadcasts.
During Prohibition, it was still possible to obtain some spirits for medicinal use, and Lyon had concocted a number of ways to use chemistry and ingenuity to craft the most loved spirits of the time.
FROM PEN: Watch Jennifer Lopez Tear Up Remembering Her Twins Being Born Once Susan sees her son is right, she discovers a plan he's concocted to address the situation — but it may be too extreme.
The outbreak has revealed the existence of a vast, unregulated, shadowy marketplace of illicit or bootleg vaping products that are essentially a stew of unknown chemicals concocted, packed and sold by unknown manufacturers and sellers.
But this reputation appears to have been largely concocted by the press and his own aides, in an effort to make an awkward, emotionally immature young man more appealing and "accessible" to the British public.
This is the art of growing tissue (in my case, human skin cells) on the bottoms of plastic petri dishes, where they are kept alive in a specially-concocted brew of nutrients and growth factors.
When they went to go question him, he reportedly confessed that it was really he who had sent the email and concocted the hoax all because he couldn't afford to take his girlfriend on vacation.
Basson and Maloney concocted a plan to use the technology behind MORPHiS—distributed hash tables—to build a program to increase government transparency, not unlike the many proposed applications of the bitcoin blockchain for government.
The story of the British twin brothers Alex and Marcus Lewis in the documentary "Tell Me Who I Am" might have been concocted by the novelist Ian McEwan in one of his more unforgiving moods.
Mingling technology "solutions" with crystals, and media communications with folkloric energy and healing materials, Ms. Cameron-Weir has concocted a glamorous but slightly paranoid science fiction in which past, present and future are effectively compressed.
Salman was arrested in California in January on federal charges she knew before the June 2016 shootings in Orlando that her husband, Omar Mateen, was planning the attack and concocted a cover story for him.
Worse, the Russians had slipped in concocted evidence designed to incriminate Grigory Rodchenkov, the former director of Russia's antidoping lab who blew the whistle about its corrupt practices after he fled to the United States.
But he said that cases against dissidents like Mr. Díaz are orchestrated by the state security apparatus, because judges, fearful of losing their jobs, go along with evidence that is often flagrantly concocted, he said.
The pope said the people of the Amazon should not be "approached with a type of entrepreneurial eagerness that seeks to give them pre-concocted programmes aimed at disciplining" them, their history and their culture.
In between songs, he changes clothes — an entire Mardi Gras of dizzying costumes has been concocted from trash by the designer known as Machine Dazzle — and goads the audience into all sorts of participatory acts.
But when she concocted a plan to swap original letters for copies — she needed $5,000 to pay the dealer — he wrote to her that he would probably be on probation soon because he had AIDS.
At a speech and press conference on December 20, though, the Russian president went further, claiming that the charges against Butina were concocted and that she pleaded guilty only under threat of a lengthy prison sentence.
Sources close to the new couple tell TMZ ... when they initially started chatting a couple weeks ago by sliding into each other's DMs, they concocted a plan to piss off Tyga -- start pretending they were dating.
When he showed up for his first makeup test for Saru, the brand new alien Fuller had concocted for him to play on Discovery, Jones recognized some pivotal issues with the initial design of the character.
While Americans are enamored with our rainbow bagels, cronuts and even the Raindrop Cake, pastry chefs at the Oirase Keiryu Hotel, in Japan, have concocted a brand new edible, exotic dessert to captivate our taste buds.
U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested global warming is a "hoax" concocted by China to hurt U.S. industry and vowed during his election campaign to scrap the Paris climate accord aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
The princess's candidacy led to speculation that the royal family had concocted a plan to unite the two warring factions of Thai politics and thus end the 13-year-old feud that has riven the country.
Snoop, along with rapper Warren G and Top Chef winner Michael Voltaggio, concocted the signature cocktail live on stage before an official Guinness World Record representative presented the group with a plaque to commemorate the event.
The View co-host says she and her dad enjoy doing "normal stuff" together, like bird watching, screening cowboy movies, and eating a specific chili dish concocted by Meghan and her husband, conservative writer Ben Domenech.
"He [Harris] chose a way to kill this child that would be agonizing and torturous, and he did it because he thought he had concocted a crime that he could get away with," Boring tells PEOPLE.
Not every pairing is a winner, though, and a date like Nicola (Gwyneth Keyworth), who Coach pairs Frank with for a whole year, is so horrible it could only be concocted by a sadistic computer program.
Apparently folks in the area had heard rumors that the actor was around, so a few hardcore fans that worked at Big Star Sandwich Company concocted a plan to get his to pay them a visit.
We can say, with some certainty, that the reason given for Comey's firing—his handling of the Clinton email investigation—was concocted for political reasons, since Trump very publicly welcomed Comey's interference on the campaign trail.
"Bangkok had no gin bar!" said Niks Anuman-Rajadhon, the bar's co-owner, who sported a black T-shirt and a pompadour Elvis would have envied, as he concocted a batch of martinis with fresh pomegranates.
After Russian operatives carried out a nerve-agent attack in 2018 in the British city of Salisbury, pro-Kremlin sites concocted a story that Yulia Skripal, a victim of the poisoning, had been raped and impregnated.
Mr. Hernandez's lawyers, however, described him as a man who might seem odd, but had limited intelligence and, in his confession, was repeating a fiction that had been concocted as a result of his mental illness.
While wilding out at Momofuku Milk Bar in one of the previous New York episodes of Fuck, That's Delicious, he may have unknowingly concocted the greatest drinkable ice cream creation of all time: the Baklava Milkshake.
While Trump might think that climate change is a hoax concocted by the Chinese, and his new EPA head might think fossil fuel emissions aren't that bad, not all Republicans in Congress agree with their conclusions.
Trump and House Republicans have concocted a campaign-like strategy, devoid of relevant facts, to protect Trump's achilles heel — his and his staffs' apparent collusion with the Russians and then his own apparent obstruction of justice.
Colbert writes about physical attraction with a real sizzle and she has concocted her bizarre love rectangle so ingeniously, readers will be dying to know — on the most basic level — who will end up with whom.
Their old flat, with its sunny terrace, was where an American coterie — which included Terry Southern, Bill Styron, James Baldwin, Harold Humes and George Plimpton — had concocted the fiction and poetry magazine called The Paris Review.
"Yes indeed!" proclaims the front wall in electrified letters, backed by ads for old-time New Orleans goods like Sum-Good coffee and chicory, and Charles E. Erath's Red Hot Creole Pepper Sauce, concocted in 1916.
To get around the fact that they had no warrant, the partners concocted a story about how a passer-by had flagged them down and told them of being threatened by a neighbor with a gun.
Politically aware Canadians are not at all concerned with this scenario, as it has been artificially concocted to demonise the honourable tradition of conservatism, supported by Canadians whether they vote Conservative or Liberal in federal elections.
In the mid 19th century, they concocted bigger-than-life heroes that riled up audiences with bravado and vulgarity and simulations of working-class strength, eventually at the expense — or with the assistance — of black culture.
" In her book, "Pitch Invaders: The Modern Black Football Revolution," Stella Orakwue wrote that black players are judged "not on the basis of their individuality but on the basis of concocted group characteristics, enshrined in mythology.
Alexander Vindman's recent public testimony in the House's impeachment inquiry, the Fox News host Laura Ingraham and a guest concocted an insulting fantasy on her show: the idea that Colonel Vindman might be a Ukrainian spy.
He is facing prison time and widespread public scorn over accusations that he concocted and carried out a false attack with racist and anti-gay details, capitalizing on broader anxieties about hate crimes under President Trump.
For the uninitiated, WWE concocted its initial brand split in the early 2000s when, swelled by the ranks of vanquished and signed WCW and ECW wrestlers, the company made its Raw and Smackdown events distinct entities.
Last year, we concocted Waypoint High, an alternate universe where our favorite characters of 2016 were awarded Senior Superlatives, danced together at the prom, and snuck out of class to get high in the tennis courts.
On GMA, the attorney also maintained his client was a pawn in the scheme concocted by the other two men and that she had only intended to help raise money for Bobbit, who was a homeless veteran.
No matter where you stand in the crypto debate, it makes sense that a carefully considered means of implementing exceptional access would be far superior to a scheme that's hastily concocted in the aftermath of a disaster.
But U.S. President Donald Trump, who took office in November, has called global warming a "hoax" concocted by China to hurt U.S. industry and vowed to scrap the Paris climate accord aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
President Bashar al-Assad told AFP that last week's chemical weapons attack is "100 percent fabrication," and that the U.S. concocted the whole story in "order to have a pretext" for the missile strike on his forces.
Speaking through her attorney, Kate McClure is now claiming that she was involved in an abusive relationship, and that falsified, feel-good story was concocted by her boyfriend and a homeless man for a viral GoFundMe campaign.
But according to the city's code, Chicago could win up to three times that amount if they are successful in their suit against the actor, who they claim filed the false report and concocted the fake attack.
While there are countless conspiracy theories focused on unraveling the chain of events that led to the abundance of dirt-cheap Supreme at K-Marts nationwide, the O.G. discoverer of this miracle concocted a particularly plausible theory.
The lawsuit claims this elaborate ruse was concocted by Andi, 30, and her multi-millionaire car dealer father, Alan Potamkin, 70, who was concerned that Blackmore would not sign a prenuptial agreement (which he ended up signing).
"And so a myth has been concocted in a pro-Clinton environment, that Clinton is the 'pragmatic' choice, the one that you as a Democrat simply have to vote for if you want to beat the GOP."
In Logan Lucky, those pieces include some excellent meta-jokes (including one about "Ocean's 7-11") and set pieces (a homemade explosive concocted with bleach, salt, plastic bags, and gummy bears provides a whole mess of hilarity).
TORONTO — The World Cup of Hockey, concocted in the N.H.L.'s marketing lab and repackaged for a new generation of fans, will take another shot at trying to get the formula right over the next two weeks.
In the confession, a videotape of which was played at the trial, Mr. Felix said the scheme had been concocted by one of his cousins, Erskine Felix, and was carried out with the help of other relatives.
"This is something that I concocted just driving on the Long Island Expressway, and having the HOV lane, and sitting in bumper to bumper traffic and just watching the conga line of Priuses going by," Filippides explains.
Like many other right-wing nationalists, Orban has concocted lurid anti-Semitic fantasies featuring Soros as the head of the globalist conspiracy bent on promoting mass migration as a way of undermining the sovereignty of traditional nations.
It's worth casting back to affirm that TNA being a credible wrestling company wasn't just a fever dream concocted by wrestling nerds desperate for anything as a counter to WWE's Triple H/John Cena/Randy Orton stranglehold.
Leo Rosten, the great lexicographer and humorist, pointed out that words like "boychik" (young boy), "boarderkeh" (female boarder) and "nextdoorekeh" (apartment-house neighbor) were concocted by immigrants tailoring their Yiddish to the English of their adopted land.
The director Jessica Glause, who created the libretto based on interviews with refugees in the cast, has concocted a blend of humor, horror and youthful energy that hardly feels like a didactic documentary about Europe's refugee crisis.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Under this program, F.B.I. agents concocted a false internal narrative connecting Dr. King to foreign enemies, allowing agents to justify threatening to publicize his private life and encouraging him to commit suicide.
Prosecutors allege that Elmezayen had money troubles, and concocted a scheme to drive off the pier at the Port of Los Angeles with his sons and ex-wife his only passengers, according to NBC in Los Angeles.
" And a Florida man named Harlem Suarez is accused of having concocted a script for his pro-Islamic State video, one in which he theatrically vowed to help "raise our black flag on top of your White House.
Asked about criticism that China was seeking "infiltration" of the West, Wang Guoqing, a spokesman for parliament's largely ceremonial advisory body which meets in parallel with the legislature, dismissed it as a new word "concocted" to besmirch China.
A 25-year-old nursing student is speaking out after she escaped her kidnapper by jumping out of the trunk of her own moving car — a plan she concocted after remembering a video she had seen on Facebook.
But a few weeks later, Moore described the allegations as a conspiracy concocted by liberals, the LGBT community, and socialists to tarnish his campaign and again contended he had no idea where any of this was coming from.
His company, Hivory Towers, wants to convert all the world's literature into profit by way of a knowledge vacuuming machine concocted by Dr. Quack, a talking duck who's head is encased in a jar of water, Futurama-style.
The startup is willing to develop special bricks to suit specific projects, and its brick chefs have most recently concocted three new blocks: an icy-looking "Salt," the brown "Lentil," and "Radish" — which resembles a classic red brick.
To grease the lucrative scheme, Mr Singer bribed proctors of admissions exams to fake scores and bribed athletics officials to accept wealthy children with concocted sports résumés, according to court documents unveiled by federal prosecutors on March 12th.
If Romney's campaign concocted its own polling to convince itself it was winning in 2012, then Team Trump is retreating into another universe altogether, another sign that his campaign represents the triumph of the right-wing echo chamber.
Our Johnny sources are scoffing ... they never believed she was supposed to be in London a week ago and that the story was concocted so she wouldn't have to be cross-examined under oath about the alleged beating.
The Russian Embassy in the UK, which previously made headlines for its stint in the President Trump Meme War, has concocted an innovative method to garner social media support: it's turning its Twitter followers into automated news bots.
When the West prohibited the gold trade in 2013 as a sanctions violation, the police report alleged the network concocted records of shipments of food at preposterous volumes and prices to continue giving Iran access to foreign currency.
Now, says Mr Main, thanks to the profusion of information and readily available advanced technologies, we need "a very, very large 'red team'" of hundreds of outside technologists to brainstorm the types of attacks that might be concocted.
"After almost three years of reporting from South Sudan, my press pass was revoked (for 6 months) because I was told that I 'concocted misinformation intended to create panic and fear of unknown,'" she tweeted on Oct. 31.
He told a story from high school in which, as a prank concocted with his friends, he showed up at his teacher's house in black boxer shorts with duct tape wrapped around his body, pretending he'd been kidnapped.
The accursed control room, where Rachel Goldberg (Shiri Appleby) and Quinn King (Constance Zimmer) concocted their most Machiavellian reality TV schemes, blazes, the flames forever wrecking the massive television screens the duo used to spy on their subjects.
In 2007, he founded a sober living house in Malibu, Riviera Recovery, where he concocted what would become SunLife's signature smoothie, the Wolverine, a date- and banana-based drink that also contained maca, bee pollen and royal jelly.
It also asserted that he had concocted the plot months earlier while dining at the home of a friend whose mother was identified as a deaconess at the Friendship United Methodist Church of Wyoming, Ohio, a Cincinnati suburb.
But U.S. President Donald Trump, who took office in November, has called global warming a "hoax" concocted by China to hurt U.S. industry and vowed to unpick the Paris climate accord that is supposed to curb rising temperatures.
Notably, there are the tax reductions and spending increases concocted by the Trump administration and Congress, which added an estimated 0.8 percent to quarterly G.D.P. growth while more than doubling next year's federal deficit to nearly $1 trillion.
The bombs, this theory went, were not actually part of a plot to harm Democrats, but were a "false flag" operation concocted by leftists in order to paint conservatives as violent radicals ahead of the elections next month.
From this seemingly disparate collection of ingredients, she concocted one of the best chiles rellenos I've ever had — deeply savory, tantalizingly sweet, brawny and rich, but also brothy and light, and completely unlike any other version out there.
Beyond a dubious "It Ain't Me Babe" and a startlingly rearranged "Times They Are A-Changin'," LaVette's picks are obscure, half of them '80s titles left off both of the compilations since concocted to salvage his lost decade.
Now, maybe Swift and Perry have no real beef and concocted this entire story just to boost their profiles and sell albums via a mutually advantageous tabloid drama, and they're both laughing all the way to the bank.
That is the conclusion of an investigation by Major League Baseball: Its players had concocted a scheme to tip off its hitters in real time as to precisely which pitches they would be receiving from the opposing pitchers.
The Beatles and their producer, George Martin, concocted eerie, unforgettable sounds from hand-played instruments and analog tape tricks; "Strawberry Fields," which miraculously interweaves two arrangements of the song in two keys, remains a marvel of internal disorientation.
Here's how those villagers concocted their nuoc mam: During the dry season, scarce water is diverted from one parched rice paddy to another, starting with the paddies at higher elevations where streams trickled down from the inland mountains.
In her suit, Tyna claims Urlacher -- along with his lawyers and a reporter for the Chicago Tribune -- concocted a diabolical plot to convince officials and the public that the shooting was NOT a suicide, but rather Tyna murdered Ryan.
Top-notch pastry chef and frosé pioneer Kelly Fields concocted this recipe, which blends wheat flour with a little bit of rice flour to give the baguette a dense but soft crumb that's perfect for sandwiches and their spreads.
Hunter's attorney, Marlon Kirton, identified Le Roux in a number of court filings, essentially arguing that Hunter was just following orders, and that the plan to kill a DEA agent and smuggle drugs was concocted by the DEA itself.
Watch The Dog Lover, for example, without much understanding of the dog breeding industry, and it's easy to believe that "puppy mills" are an idea concocted by manipulative animal rights activists who have no idea what they're talking about.
"Even in the Skripal case, a grotesque provocation crudely concocted by U.S. and British security services, some European governments are not following London and Washington blindly but are instead choosing to carefully make sense of what happened," Naryshkin said.
But quotes keep popping up on Twitter that are being attributed to Assange's alleged victims—quotes that claim one of Assange's accusers didn't want to charge Assange with anything and that the local police concocted the sexual assault allegations.
This time, Mr. Cosby's defense team has taken a more aggressive stance toward Ms. Constand, describing her as a "con artist" who engaged in a consensual encounter and then concocted a story of assault to score a big payday.
Earlier Tuesday, Cosby's lawyer opened the defense's case by portraying Constand as a "con artist" bent on extorting money from the famed comedian, saying she concocted a false story to pay for her education and set up a business.
But he will say that conservatives have slowly done a "one-hundred and eighty degree turn and concocted from whole-cloth" what they call "a unitary executive theory," to give presidents authority over the entirety of the Executive Branch.
Instead, what passed among the three of us that afternoon was an innocuous tension, nearly unnoticeable, because my grandfather had shrugged off the jumbled word I'd spotted on the road, dismissing the silly game concocted by the highway department.
A formula concocted by professors at Cardiff University in Wales suggests that anyone brave enough to attempt to complete their collection by themselves would have to purchase 967 sticker packets, with a total of 4,832 stickers costing nearly $1,000.
In truth, the administration has concocted a tortured, flimsy argument—that cleaner cars will cost thousands more, and kill thousands more people—to scare Americans into believing that the government should scrap its most consequential policy for reducing emissions.
Most notoriously, they alleged that his campaign had "colluded" with Russia, while the true source of that came from information concocted through the use of the FBI by the Obama administration to spy on members of the Trump campaign.
Meanwhile a false narrative took hold that the US military concocted the story about Lynch and fed it to the Post in an attempt to bolster popular support for the war, which at the time was already very strong.
To the extent that he has antecedents, it's figures like the myth-theorist Joseph Campbell and the poet Robert Bly, whose "Men's Movement" in the 1990s was a Jungian stew concocted as an antidote to fatherlessness and extended adolescence.
It is what threatens the fundamental rupture in the fabric of the game best reflected in that Bayern-concocted plot for a breakaway super league that would involve pulling players out of all international soccer, including the World Cup.
Climate change science is not actually a hoax concocted by China and the scientific community, but many see it as serving the interests of globalists from both parties who allowed the devastation of American manufacturing and the working class.
For decades now, popular histories have concocted false stories that the majority of the public had never supported prohibition, or that prohibition was conceived by a "radical fringe" of Bible-thumping, rural evangelicals trying to codify their Puritan morality.
"The Spider Network" is at its most compelling when describing the quotidian activities of the "network" of traders and brokers who tirelessly concocted strategies to influence the benchmark rate — or at least convince an important client that they had.
In that time, he has artfully concocted perfumes for the aforementioned brands, as well as Cartier (one of his very first briefs in 1981, FYI), Giorgio Armani, Yves Saint Laurent and Marc Jacobs — yep, Daisy is one of his, too.
She became interested in cuisine watching Jacques and Julia Cooking at Home on PBS Food; one day, the pair concocted their own vinaigrette, and Lucianovic realized she could replicate the tasty dressings she'd had in restaurants rather than buying it bottled.
The YouTube of 2018 isn't just about making video more accessible; it's created cottage industries around influencers, given voices to those who'd lacked it—sometimes with disastrous results—and concocted a whole new way to push us over the edge.2.
TMZ broke the story ... Short says he never had sexual contact with the woman and he knows what's behind the allegation ... he says she was on his record label but he dropped her, and that's when she concocted the allegation.
"Paul M. Rosenfeld concocted a twisted plan to draw attention to his political ideology by killing himself on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.—risking harm to many others in the process," US Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said in a statement.
Ginkgoa is the French band led by a singer from New York, Nicolle Rochelle, and a French songwriter, Antoine Chatenet; they've concocted a perky, lighthearted, electronics-tinged, mostly English-speaking version of Hot Club cabaret, full of eye-rolling flirtation.
It's high-grade satire of the kind that Patricia Highsmith might have concocted (or been envious of) had she been around in the 211.55st century, mixed with glorious melodrama normally reserved in the final acts of a 215.29th-century opera.
It's important for President Trump to avoid the mistakes of President Barack Obama, who blundered into making commitments he could not keep, overly extended the United States, and concocted pie-in-the-sky slogans – like the fictional "pivot" to Asia.
Vince and the gang may have been concocted for cheap laughs, but they ultimately contributed to the normalization of a culture that demeaned women to the point where sexual assault was considered an unfortunate downside of an otherwise glamorous job.
Software also hunts for clues that someone on one of hundreds of watch lists has concocted a fake identity—the giveaway could be the opening of an account with a password or phone number once used by a corrupt official.
" He explains that both he and Shan'ann's family agreed that forcing Chris to make a public confession could put them "in a position where we were listening to some concocted BS story, just to try to satisfy the plea agreement.
Rumbaugh, who was part of the scientific team testing the formula the medieval scholars concocted, noted that vancomycin, the current treatment for MRSA, proved to be less effective a treatment in the team's experiment in a mouse chronic wound model.
And after Hanna and Caleb got cuddly in front of Spencer and concocted their own (probably ill-advised, but that's how it goes in Rosewood) scheme to catch the new 'A,' the characters may all be returning to their teenage crushes.
The same goes for Grill 'Em All's "Behemoth," a half-pound cheeseburger that demands the use of two entire grilled cheese sandwiches instead of hamburger buns, concocted in honor of one of the heaviest Polish black metal bands of all time.
From Coinage: See Where 6 Stars Were Before They Were Famous Though both BSB and *NSYNC once battled for chart dominance, their perceived rivalry — which Carter previously told BuzzFeed was concocted by a bored media — is seemingly far behind them.
"To ensure the eroding of democracy isn't an issue that is lost in the news cycle, our design team from Chicago concocted a creative way to keep our warped voting districts top-of-mind," the font's creators said in a statement.
We got Marcia leaving Fox Studios in NYC Wednesday and asked about Shapiro's claim on Megyn Kelly's special that he's the one who concocted the scheme for O.J. to try on the glove, after putting it on his own hand.
Instead, university officials concocted an alternate plan: The city and state would help turn several blocks of downtown Brooklyn into a new technology center that would support the school while simultaneously restoring Brooklyn's downtown to some semblance of its commercial heyday.
But because of Rich's place of employment, and some reckless (and retracted) suggestions by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, denizens of the right-wing fever swamps have concocted a conspiracy theory that Rich was murdered for supplying DNC emails to WikiLeaks.
Armed with the threat of financial sanctions, the Treasury Department concocted a set of statutorily unauthorized "intergovernmental agreements" to force our trading partners to abrogate their privacy laws and effectively turn their domestic tax services into branch offices of the IRS.
The giant food and beverage company, whose original soda was concocted by a pharmacist using sugar, lemon oil and nutmeg, is returning to its roots by deploying its vast research and development operation to improve the taste of tuberculosis drugs.
In April, the chief lawyer for Fox charged that Ms. Tantaros had concocted sexual harassment claims to gain leverage in the contract dispute; her lawyer, Judd Burstein, said the book dispute was a pretext that Fox was using to silence her.
This means that any accusation would not only be false, it would also have been concocted by Trump's enemies in the Justice Department — bureaucrats willing to use the power of the state not to advance justice, but to destroy Trump.
In the wake of the 2000 presidential election, he concocted ethnographies of the habits of conservative voters to tell a story about cultural divisions and the red-blue divide that just so happened to confirm everything his readership already believed.
Soon after my first interrogation, I realized that the sole purpose of my incarceration and torture was to force me into a false narrative, concocted by the Guards, of espionage and betrayal of Iran by myself and its reformist politicians.
She loved White Chocolate Mochas and added the flavor to many of the drinks she concocted behind the counter, so it was only natural that she would do the same once the ultra-popular PSL returned to stores for the fall.
The hustler from Queens concocted several marketing companies—at least on paper—usually registering them in Delaware to capitalize on the state's liberal corporate tax laws, where it's easier to form hard-to-trace shell corporations than in most states.
The goal is to shunt blame for a concocted drive-by shooting onto some unnamed rival gang, and in the last episode, during a hospital visit with Hector, Nacho referred to a show of muscle that cowed an uppity crew.
And they concocted a complex legislative strategy that they hoped would let them pass both of those big bills without any Democratic support — bypassing the Senate's filibuster first for one, and then for the other with the special budget reconciliation process.
But The Post said that it had discovered inconsistencies in her account and evidence that the woman concocted the sensational claim to try to dupe reporters and coax them into discussing the political impact her story could have on Mr. Moore.
He might win the battle with the bureau over the pending release of a scurrilous memo concocted by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee, a cudgel created to attack everyone who's been in charge of the federal investigation of Team Trump.
Each product is made with a blend of honey, turmeric, ginger, coconut milk, and coconut oil, concocted to celebrate and care for natural hair in all its different textures — and all are available for purchase at your local Sally Beauty.
If the unlikely combination of hip-hop and Shakespeare rings a bell, it's because the writer-composers, directors and stars of the show — known as the Q Brothers, GQ and JQ — have concocted this kind of madcap mash-up before.
Writing under the literary (sic) influence of "Fifty Shades of Grey," its author, the pseudonymous JP Delaney, has concocted a thriller that jumps between the stories of Emma, who once lived in the house, and Jane, who lives there now.
A jury convicted the two ex-officials after hearing evidence that they concocted a fake traffic study to justify the lane closures, which lasted for four days during the first week of school on the busiest bridge in the world.
" Robinson's own lawsuit fires back at those accusations, saying the legal action against her is made up of "concocted false allegations" that were designed to "inhibit Ms. Robinson from pursuing her claims, destroy her reputation, and obliterate her job prospects.
Instead, McConnell and White House Counsel Pat Cipollone appear to have jointly concocted a strategy only to allow the House managers to argue their case before McConnell calls for a quick party-line partisan vote to dismiss the articles of impeachment.
While the Momofuku-concocted sandwich will be off the menu, for now, Popeyes and the rest of the reigning fried chicken sandwich champions will have to watch their backs if it enters the market for good in the new year.
Based on his own study of declassified Soviet and British documents, Dr. Kramer said he believed that Operation Long Jump was a fiction concocted by the Soviets to enhance their image in the eyes of the British and American intelligence services.
After completing his deliveries to Manhattan's Garment District, he went to Stillman's Gym on Eighth Avenue, near Madison Square Garden, to watch legendary trainers like Ray Arcel and Whitey Bimstein handle their fighters while managers concocted deals on pay phones.
Nailma Souza, 40, who owns a nail salon in Salvador, a city that has been hit hard by the outbreak, is certain that Zika was concocted to divert attention away from a cure for cancer that the authorities want to keep secret.
Hoping to seize upon the universal disdain the electorate feels for tech companies that abuse their privacy, the Democrats have concocted a plan to beat back the data vampires—a little incentive for those still on the fence in this November election.
I told the second lie when I was in first grade: My best friend and I concocted a story about seeing a man covered in blood standing right outside the fence of our school's playground, holding the chain links with his bloody palms.
But perhaps the next great advancement in the industry is not currently being concocted in a lab or patented by a celebrity dermatologist, but is something that occurs inside yourself on an individual level, and that only your personal choices can impact.
Mr Clement argued that one district was packed with black voters only in order to comply with the Voting Rights Act; the other was concocted with "an avowedly political draw" designed to entrench the Republican majority by concentrating Democratic voters in fewer districts.
Legend has it that Putin secreted the elder Sobchak, suffering from heart problems, out of the country for medical care in the face of an tightening corruption investigation against Anatoly Sobchak at home, thought to have been concocted by Boris Yeltsin's Kremlin.
To show their importance, researchers concocted a devilish experiment in which speakers were asked to tell about a near-death experience, while listeners were given a distracting task like pressing a button every time the speaker used a word starting with "T".
A Texas woman who allegedly concocted a plan with her boyfriend to kill her ex-husband was found dead in an apparent suicide on Monday — just one day before she was scheduled to appear in court for a capital murder charge, reports say.
In 2015, organizers of the Cyber Security Challenge—a gaming competition aimed to bolster the skills of aspiring security professionals—concocted a fictional scenario that explored the possibility of blowing up Boris Johnson and other VIPS gathered at a green tech meeting.
The majority of Larry shippers believe the fake baby plan was concocted by various power players at One Direction's label and management company in order to draw attention away from Louis and Harry's romantic relationship and debunk claims that Tomlinson is gay.
In the course of the trial, William Weber, Ronald DeFeo's defense attorney, testified that the entire story had been concocted by him and the Lutzes and that he had provided the couple with salient details of the DeFeo murders to substantiate their account.
Twenty years after he first started treating people in the Downtown Eastside, and a year and a half after he concocted a crazy plan that could help save their lives, Tyndall is realizing he might need to start playing by the rules.
It's very likely that this game all began, just like the "Jenna Thing," with Ali and her submissive group bullying someone, tormenting A until they concocted the perfect game of revenge that got out of hand (shout out to Lucas is A.D. believers).
Some newfangled serums may work well on their own as replacements to your traditional serum, while others, concocted like superfood versions of makeup, self tanner, or SPF work as companions to traditional serums, giving skin a double shot of good-for-you ingredients.
After two decades of yarn-spinning, Mr. Seger, 47, who left the hotel in 2001 and recently helped open the Tuck Room in downtown Manhattan, has decided to come clean that he concocted not only the drink but also the story behind it.
Haftar re-asserted this concocted image of strength last June when he repelled an attack by Ibrahin Jadhran, a blacklisted militia leader who guarded the Ras Lanuf and Al-Sidra oil terminals with his Petroleum Facility Guard company after the 2011 revolution.
In a labored attempt to make the matter of marriage more of an issue, Ms. Sittenfeld has aged Liz and Jane, putting them on the cusp of turning 40, and concocted money problems for their parents that put financial issues on everyone's mind.
LA native Freya Estreller of Ludlow Cocktail Co. knows this and she has concocted the absolute perfect beverage for such occasions: Spritz, a line of cocktail-esque effervescent wine spritzes that are unlike any other wine beverage on the market right now.
He argued that Lee had concocted the story line as part of a deeper conspiracy, one intended to "make Ron and the rest of the police look like they were interested in fighting racism," despite what Riley characterized as evidence to the contrary.
It doesn't turn out to be as riveting as that scene from "Mad Men," but it did inspire me to Google the name Morton Heilig, sometimes called the father of virtual reality, who, half a century ago, concocted a contraption called Sensorama.
They accused him of throwing stones at Indian forces in the bitterly disputed border territory, as part of a group working with a terrorist organization from Pakistan — charges Mr. Yousuf's friends and family say were concocted to punish him for documenting antigovernment protests.
Steve Smith, the national team's captain and one of its greatest players ever, admitted that he concocted a plan to illegally tamper with the ball during a series in South Africa, outraging fans of a sport that has always professed some moral sanctimony.
One of the more famous slimes in history, the slime dumped on children and children-adjacent celebrities on Nickelodeon from 1981 to modern day, has long been concocted at home by fans, and two of the more popular recipes involve lime Jell-O.
Edward Gorey — who concocted the famous opening credits for the PBS "Mystery!" series — was himself a tantalizing mystery, one that Mark Dery, in an over-ample new biography, sets out to solve, only to acknowledge at the end that it can't be done.
Not long after the GDC—the building company behind that street maze called the Compound—went bankrupt and stopped building, a new scheme was concocted to fill the void by building another series of what can only be described as non-places.
In reality, the mission's planners knew that they would be suicide missions, and concocted a plan to avoid losing face against the United States: they used identical twins, one of whom died in space, while the other pretended to have gone and returned.
Those who have yet to embrace amari — the hyper-trendy bitter aperitifs originally from Italy but now concocted far and wide — might consider starting with the new one from La Boîte, the New York spice specialists, made by Cardinal Spirits of Bloomington, Ind.
DMX is a free man The raspy-voiced rapper was arrested in 2017 after federal prosecutors in New York say he concocted a multi-year scheme to hide millions in income from the IRS and skirt $1.7 million in existing tax liabilities.
In real life, according to the BBC, Queen Elizabeth and Sir Anthony Eden, the Prime Minister at the time, actually concocted a plan in 1955 that would have let Princess Margaret marry Townsend while keeping her royal title and a small allowance.
Following the model of the grab-bag performances that Cunningham billed as Events, concocted of excerpts from old and new work, Mr. Atlas pieced together his installation from some 20 dance videos projected in staggered sequences on angled screens, in a single gallery.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Artworld polymath Greg Allen has made an odd, ritualistic, perhaps metaphorical memorial by creating a digitized work that elaborates on another piece of art, one originally concocted by Félix González-Torres, "Untitled (Death by Gun)" (1990).
President Obama is no stranger to fiction, having concocted stories about ObamaCare making health care affordable; a military strategy of leading from behind; magically disappearing red lines; a deal to stop Iran from going nuclear; and nonexistent achievements that earned him the Nobel Peace Prize.
According to Andy Kroll's profile in the New Republic of Jeff Roe, the man behind Cruz's campaign, this particular line of attack bears some very strong similarities to an ad Roe concocted in 2008 to bring down Kay Barnes, a Democrat running against Rep.
If the whole thing had been built in one go when it was first concocted in the late 296s—stretching all the way down to Houston Street, the destination of MTA's phase 296—it would have cost a mere $0003 billion in 2000 dollars.
So the scammers look to be using the same playbook as the Macedonian teens who, in 2016, concocted fake news stories about US politics to generate a mint in ad clicks — also relying on Facebook's platform to distribute their fakes and scale the scam.
"Hoobraj allegedly concocted an elaborate story about having cancer when she did not, using GoFundMe pages and accepting money raised by a local high school, all supposedly to fund her medical care," Acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Joon H. Kim said in the prosecutors' statement.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch said as much amid a furor last week over her encounter with former President Bill Clinton on an airport tarmac in Phoenix, which sparked claims by Republicans that a fix was being concocted to ensure Hillary Clinton was not charged.
It's almost that time of the year again: The time for us to all band together and mutter about how Valentine's Day is a "holiday" concocted by greeting card companies to move more cardboard and force us to be constant disappointments to our loved ones.
The Syrian government and its Russian and Iranian allies have denied that any chemical weapons were used and blamed rescue workers and rebels for what they called concocted videos said to show the suffering of victims as a way of demonizing the Syrian government.
"The criminals invented a story that the whole thing was phony," he told The Guardian, a fabrication that mutated into the idea that Sinatra's father had concocted the whole thing to further his son's career and one that continued to haunt him for years.
Last month, we got a better sense of what a Cosby defense might look like when Agrusa told the Hollywood Reporter she planned to rehabilitate the alleged serial sexual assailant's image—and also maybe propose that Constand had concocted a false memory of the assault.
While Evelyn had made the blue icing, Christie concocted the white and since Patrick consumed a more or less equal amount of both, they fought to the death of their union and long after the last breath of the cat as to who was responsible.
Trump has concocted a fake version of the existing US immigration system in which family unification visas allow people to "bring over unlimited numbers of distant relatives" and proclaims this the source of both economic woes and threats of deadly violence from MS-13 gangs.
Malcolm put on a glove, and the whole process felt slightly surgical—I was reminded of those doctor pornos I used to watch as a kid as Malcolm injected me with an oil blend I concocted (black walnut, sweet almond, grape seed, avocado, coconut).
Trump clearly understands that in politics, it is far better to be on offense than defense, but his offense is ultimately offensive because he is pointing out a perceived — or even concocted — flaw in another person to distract from the very same flaw in himself.
The bombing that Varnell believed he was planning was entirely fake, concocted by the FBI to entrap him: What he thought was a bomb was not, what he thought was a stolen cargo van was not, what he thought was a detonator was not.
Laverty had revealed a few years earlier that it was common practice for the Chicago police to withhold from defense attorneys what they called a "street file," a raft of evidence that all too often refuted whatever official account of events had been concocted.
Misha Defonseca Faking Holocaust memoirs has become a genre of its own: Herman Rosenblat admitted that his book Angel at the Fence was fabricated, and Benjamin Wilkomirski's tale of surviving German camps in occupied Poland was proven to be about a falsely concocted Jewish persona.
Barely able to believe their good fortune, Stewart and McAuley concocted a long letter from Ethel Malley explaining that her brother had lived an unfulfilled life, of which she plainly disapproved, and had died of Graves' disease, in Sydney, at the age of twenty-five.
Last summer, he dramatically entered the Senate chamber and cast a decisive vote against the administration's ghastly health care bill, partly on grounds that it had been concocted in haste and without hearings and had thus failed the basic requirements of sound legislative process.
Mr. Cordero ultimately sued the officers, claiming they had concocted the grounds of his arrest and put him in a holding cell in the 83rd Precinct station house for no other reason than to justify filing for a total of 22 hours of overtime.
Thatcher's name is an epithet, and austerity is the latest villain: London bankers concocted a financial crisis, multiplying their wealth through reckless gambling; then London politicians used budget deficits as an excuse to cut spending on the poor while handing tax cuts to corporations.
She concocted wild stories about her past in which her father and mother eloped because of her Native American heritage, none of which appears to be true if you examine the historical evidence at the time, as I did last week on this show.
" In response to Charles Blow's argument that "Many people who buy guns are simply racked with an irrational fear, one of several concocted and promoted by the N.R.A.," Jacqueline wrote in October: "I'm not sure that the fear I have for my life is irrational.
In a recent article entitled, "Liquor wins quality medal for preserving national smack," the state-run Pyongyang Times claims that the Taedonggang Foodstuff Factory has concocted a ginseng- and rice-based liquor of such high quality and "suaveness" that it creates no nasty after-effects.
The stakes suddenly seem quite a bit higher than ever before: Even a news consumer who ignores political stories could unwittingly play into a political agenda simply by sharing viral junk online, extending the influence of a bad actor who concocted the "news" to begin with.
Suddenly the fake attack was canon; it was shared with the Wall Street Journal, which happily reported it; and a new reason was concocted to explain away why the baseless 2014 "attack" had never been reported via official channels before: Wheeler had wanted it kept secret.
Prosecutors allege that McClure, 29, and her then boyfriend Mark D'Amico concocted a plan, along with homeless veteran Johnny Bobbitt, to spin a tale that Bobbitt had spent his last $20 to pay for gas for McClure after her car broke down on Interstate 95 in Philadelphia.
So perniciously has Putin exercised his power that now, even the internet is no longer a voice of the opposition, but a well of information poisoned by trolls, who systematically spew concocted lies into the information flow with the sole intent of polluting everything they touch.
But people on Twitter, including right-wing commentators with name recognition like Ann Coulter, James Woods, and Candace Owens, tweeted that the devices, described as being similar to pipe bombs, were a scheme concocted by Democrats to boost sympathy and turnout before the midterm elections in November.
Later that night (or like, a few minutes later based on the exposition — starting to seriously feel like I need an explainer on how time works in Midnight), Hightower kidnaps Olivia as part of a honeypot scheme the Scooby gang concocted that ends with Hightower chained up.
" Before he began to acknowledge his difference, that something deep within him was trying to come out — and after his mother put her foot down on his desire to wear masculine clothes — Lou concocted ways to present or, in his words, "be thought of as a boy.
As it turns out, the film was originally the briainchild of Jordan Peele and screenwriter Alex Rubens, who concocted a story that comically depicted code-switching, or the practice in which people change their voice and mannerisms to suit whomever they're talking to at a given moment.
The Obama administration offered conscientious exemptions to churches and other houses of worship from the so-called "contraceptive mandate", and—following litigation—concocted a work-around whereby religiously affiliated non-profit groups could opt out while female employees could receive free birth control through a third party.
In Daniel Handler's  Lemony Snicket books, the three Baudelaire children (Violet, Klaus and Sunny) are cycled through an endless sequence of cruel horrors — baby Sunny is threatened at one point with being dropped from a roof — all concocted by their greedy relation, Count Olaf (Neil Patrick Harris).
In the years since, the Senate has if anything become even more dysfunctional, so it appears very much in hindsight like Bayh concocted a high-minded excuse for retiring when his political fortunes looked bleak, and has come out of retirement now that his fortunes look better.
This confusion about Gypsy's true age — for both Gypsy and others — is likely to play a large role on the series since it's a prominent part of the trailer and was a big deal in Gypsy's eventual understanding of the web of lies her mother had concocted.
Donald Trump, currently trying to cast himself a softer candidate with an eye for policy, returned to his old ways with a vengeance on Thursday as he mocked an African-American pastor in Flint, Michigan and concocted a false story about his visit to her congregation.
Charging royalties for ideas that are obvious or were concocted so long ago that they are already in the public domain — like making a call by touching numbers on your smartphone screen, or fastening your trousers with a zipper — exact a cost but provide no benefit.
Turkey's foreign minister claimed that the prosecution's evidence was concocted by Gulenists, a movement led by an Islamic cleric living in exile in Pennsylvania; the movement has been banned in Turkey as a terrorist group and blamed by Mr. Erdogan for the failed coup in 2016.
In a video statement released after his arrest this month, Mr. Ghosn insisted that he was innocent, saying that the charges against him were the result of a plot concocted by Nissan executives afraid of taking the blame for years of bad financial results at the company.
A statement from the White House said the lawmakers "have provided guidance to the White House team, which was prohibited from participating in the proceedings concocted by Democrats in the House of Representatives" throughout the House proceedings and would continue to do so in the Senate.
The crushing economic inequality in college athletics (especially in football and basketball, the so-called revenue sports) has been justified by the "free" education that "student-athletes" — a term concocted by former NCAA Executive Director Walter Byers — receive, if indeed they go to class and graduate.
In particular he recommends Krave's Matcha Hemp Hydrating Cleanser, which, as the name implies, is concocted with matcha, hemp oil, and vitamin B for an extremely delicate application experience that's about a billion times more soothing than whatever else you've been putting your poor face through.
From the mid-1950s through the end of that decade, he concocted a yowling blend of hopped-up blues, country and then-emergent rhythm & blues that ended up as the template for what became widely accepted as rock 'n' roll (though the term predated his rise).
If anything, this antiquated air makes the film a little too arch and over-concocted for its own good, and I'd love to see the director unleash his talents on the mercenary fetishism—"a transaction of ecstasy," as Miss Luckmoore's boss would say—of our own age.
As we reported, a federal grand jury indicted the Chrisleys in August ... alleging they concocted a scheme from 2007 to 2012 to fabricate docs and provide false information to banks when applying for and receiving millions in loans ... money they allegedly used to fund a lavish lifestyle.
Like a fever dream concocted from YouTube videos and threads from the /Futurology subreddit, it's a vision of a dystopian future that convinced enough Hawaii legislators (almost all of them, actually) to consider researching UBI as a way to address the human fallout of technological advancement.
Matt Steinglass at the Economist decided to turn the tables on D'Souza and concocted a byzantine explanation for D'Souza's conservatism, based upon his family's caste, Catholicism, and position within the Portuguese Indian territory of Goa, that is just as unnecessary as D'Souza's explanation for Obama's liberalism.
The first compilation, released in 2014, dove into the strain of bumping deep house that producers like Mike Muñoz, Caucasian Boy and Natureboy concocted in New York and New Jersey in the mid-90s—one that is light on effects and filters, yet heavy on the music's soulful roots.
Bernstein Litowitz and Kessler Topaz contend that ethics expert Charles Wolfram of Cornell agrees they have not breached client confidentiality – and they argue that NYC funds concocted ethics accusations to divert attention away from defects in the funds' bid to lead a securities class action against Kraft Heinz.
But we were able to see the new Mac Pro running software like Logic, Lightroom, and Final Cut Pro X. By all accounts, it seems like even the base version of the Mac Pro is among the most powerful creative production and editing machines Apple has ever concocted.
Instead, the world's biggest smartphone company has concocted a simulated Apple Store where a long-haired employee with an Apple logo on his T-shirt provides customers with unsatisfactory responses to their spec-related queries about the iPhone X. All of which make the S9 look better by comparison.
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" It means they've concocted a scene specifically to make some boob tube aficionado in his stained undershirt stand up from his Lay-Z-Boy, kick over his TV dinner tray and scream to his wife, "Hey, Myrna get in here … the hot redhead just took off her necklace.
Autonomous driving company Waymo alleged today in court that the formation of rival Otto was a ruse concocted between its founder Anthony Levandowski and eventual acquirer Uber to hide the fact that he immediately went to work for the ride-hailing company after leaving Waymo's parent company, Google.
The global upheavals of the late 1960s ranged from Red Guards in China, pursuing a millennial cult concocted by Mao Zedong to help him win an intra-party power struggle, to affluent Western youths who had stumbled on the joys of long hair, psychedelic drugs and sexual promiscuity.
The drinks are concocted from a wide array of esoteric liquors and liqueurs, which might on different nights include a custom gin made in Vermont that looks and tastes like whiskey, or a 138-proof "Elixir Vegetal" brewed by the monks of the Grande Chartreuse monastery in France.
Allen's response, repeated in various press outlets and once again in Apropos of Nothing, and currently supported by his adopted son Moses Farrow, is that Mia Farrow concocted the whole story about what happened to Dylan in a twisted quest for revenge after Allen left her for Soon-Yi.
Anti-Chinese sentiment seethed long before the arrival of the first immigrant in the Americas; it sprang up "from the thorny territory of the imagination," nurtured by reports from spurned missionaries to China who concocted stories of "irremediable pagans, child murderers" that were enthusiastically taken up by American tabloids.
Mr. Trump has been longing for some way to hang on to his soul mate Prince Mohammed and lucrative Saudi arms deals from Day 1, and he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief over the story the Saudis concocted after more than two weeks of lies and evasions.
In essence, here's the plot, which reveals itself in pieces: Some fevered corner of the right-wing internet has concocted the notion that rich liberals, the kind who work in glassy offices and own vacation homes, round up a bunch of "deplorables" every year and hunt them for sport.
Ms. Clifford, known by the stage name Stormy Daniels, said Mr. Trump defamed her when he suggested that she had concocted a story about being threatened by a man in 2011 who told her to "leave Trump alone" after she sold her story of the affair to a publisher.
But since the two were friends and lived near each other, they concocted a plan: A friend who lived far away would actually win the $10,000 prize ticket which would be cashed, given back to the butcher, and then out of that $10,000, Jacobson earned a $2,000 kickback.
On just one of those pages, his lawyers recount how Democrats exercised "shameful hypocrisy" as they "concocted an unheard-of procedure" and held those infamous "secret hearings in a basement bunker" while journalists "happily fed the public a false narrative" and the poor president was denied any rights whatsoever.
Mark D'Amico Mark D'Amico — who with his girlfriend and a third party concocted a viral, heartwarming, and completely fake story about a man who was homeless giving a woman his last $20 to help her with car trouble — pleaded guilty for his part in the scam, prosecutors said Friday.
Mosquitoes, not meth, spread the Zika virusPhoto: Kevin Frayer (Getty Images)A social media prank concocted by a Louisiana police department over the weekend went unexpectedly viral and began being taken seriously by some, forcing the officers to clarify that—actually—local stockpiles of methamphetamine weren't tainted with the Zika virus.
In 2014, New York Magazine published "The Sandy Hook Hoax," an article detailing the incredible levels of abuse the families of Sandy Hook victims received from conspiracy theorists who believed their children never even existed—that the shooting was concocted as a way of getting increased gun control on the agenda.
In a 1980 Marvel comic, the Hulk is pummeled by colorful robots on a gridded floor, the text "CHECKMATE!" in red all-caps letters; the 1960s series Strange Tales: Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., illustrated by Jim Steranko, featured the villain Prime Mover, a chess-playing robot concocted by Doctor Doom.
Since then, she's made up whole stories out of thin air — like a fake "Bowling Green massacre" to stoke fears about Muslims, or a fake scandal about Barack Obama bugging Trump using "microwaves" that she concocted in an attempt to justify the president's baseless claims about wiretapping in Trump Tower.
But again, as my TC colleague Josh Constine pointed out, the parental consent system Facebook has concocted is laughably easy for teens to circumvent — merely requiring they select one of their Facebook friends or just enter an email address (which could literally be an alternative email address they themselves control).
Nellie Ohr worked on the same Fusion GPS project as Steele, who concocted the dossier, and Ohr himself established a secret backchannel with Steele, who had been dismissed for lying to the FBI, all apparently so that Steele was never far from learning about the investigation or having input into it.
It probably won't surprise you to hear that when it comes to climate change, as with so many issues, Mr. Trump has gone deep down the rabbit hole, asserting not just that global warming is a hoax, but that it's a hoax concocted by the Chinese to make America less competitive.
It was a classy contrast from no handshake by Hillary and Donald at the start and the tacky tableau concocted by Donald Trump, who sat three of the women who have accused Bill of sexual assault in the front row, after debate officials rejected seating them in the Trump family box.
So the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife concocted a model criticized by scientists for unrealistically assuming the rapid population growth of early wolf expansion would be sustained over time, instead of factoring in known population density limits that halt wolf population growth when all available wolf territories become occupied.
It has been not so much created as concocted by Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz — who sold soap to an Axe body wash generation with "Gossip Girl" and "The O.C." — as a layer cake of nostalgia and novelty to tempt both extremes of the 18-49 demographic so coveted by advertisers.
The fake article concocted by the group quoted Tamir Pardo, a former director of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, as saying in a talk at Harvard that Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's defense minister, had been dismissed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after it was discovered that he was a Russian mole.
His administration simply concocted a fanciful national-security narrative about why the steel industry needed protection from foreign steel imports — this despite the industry's enjoying a 70 percent share of the United States steel market and despite the Department of Defense finding no national-security harm from global steel imports.
In its complaint to the Federal Election Commission, the Campaign Legal Center alleges that de Blasio and his campaign "concocted a shell game" that allowed wealthy donors to make excessive contributions to the mayor's 2020 presidential campaign by contributing to his political action committees, Fairness PAC and NY Fairness PAC.
Instead, the new series is taking a satiric, over-the-top look at the post-phenom existences of the stars some 30 years later -- a notion concocted by Garth and her original series co-star and real-life bestie Tori Spelling, who serve as executive producers as well as performers.
And with almost all ominous-sounding reports like this one from Australia's Sydney Morning Herald claiming that security agencies from the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have concocted a campaign to "kill Huawei," this probably won't be the last time western governments attempt to prevent further Huawei expansion outside of China.
There is also the uncomfortable fact that while the government has concocted elaborate formulas to come up with largely notional support prices, recent research sponsored by the OECD, a club mainly of rich countries, shows that for the past two decades even those prices have nearly always been lower than international ones.
That tension has also reached the political realm: In May last year, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, the Christian governor of Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, was sentenced to two years in prison for blasphemy against Islam in a highly controversial case that his supporters say was concocted by radical Islamic groups bent on destroying his career.

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