But they become conduits for the songs of prisoners who were themselves conduits for an oral tradition that stretches back to at least the early days of slavery in this country.
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In some cases, they were seen as conduits for miracles.
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But I don't mind the backdoor diplomacy of opening conduits.
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They are global information conduits, used for good and ill.
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They and their journalistic conduits must be protected at all costs.
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"These little objects are conduits ... to the Earth's memory," he says.
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Muscles were motors; the heart a pump; the nerves electrical conduits.
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But it seems that wetland trees are much more than conduits.
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He looked at this blank man, these wavering bodies, these conduits.
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The court found that the banks that handled the funds were conduits.
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After that, we're examining highly advanced kites as possible conduits for wind energy.
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They can be conduits of information when scientific integrity is compromised in government.
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In these cases, the sites are conduits for the speech of their users.
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For many riders, the weekend trains are conduits to family, work and school.
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Inside, the conduits route to an equipment room on an underground parking level.
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His paintings can be viewed as opaque sacred emblems, conduits of spiritual revolution.
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Don't be intimidated by journalists; think of them as conduits to your constituency.
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Even our best allies can be conduits for foreign steel from China or elsewhere.
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They can also no longer be considered neutral conduits for information, like telecoms carriers.
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These trenched freeways, once the conduits of transportation around the city, now divide it.
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Three main conduits pay for health care services: Medicare, Medicaid and private health insurance.
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These groups have offered attractive conduits for corporate check writers wanting to remain anonymous.
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"The characters are conduits to these worlds we want to create" Chung tells me.
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Unfortunately, this means interesting women characters become mere conduits for men achieving the throne.
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They are, after all, the gatekeepers, the conduits between actors, directors, producers, and studios.
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But journalists have a responsibility to avoid becoming accidental conduits of hate, he said.
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Similarly, conduits in the wall allow unsightly TV wires to be hidden from sight.
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This reflects a broader decline in network operators' role as conduits for media services.
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They acted as conduits between the governing party and the white-dominated business world.
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For one, other important information conduits, like Twitter or Google, might not voluntarily sign on.
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Is it that sometimes the gods choose complete duds to be their conduits for change?
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Much of it has been channeled through dark money conduits like nonprofits and trade associations.
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But for Gisleson, the readings function mostly as conduits to the netherworld of her memories.
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That makes them excellent conduits for the dissemination of lies and for the encouragement of animosity.
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The conduits initially were stored near an intersection of a surface street and State Route 13.
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Her campaign finance scheme where some state parties are "essentially ... money laundering conduits," as Politico reported.
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It is not unprecedented for U.S. intelligence officials to serve as conduits for communication with Pyongyang.
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That's why now, more than ever, we need competent people abroad as conduits for the country.
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They're conduits that allow us to celebrate its victory, mourn its losses and mull its effects.
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But even these conduits, which Moussouris has worked hard to champion and normalize, can be abused.
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Alibaba has been dogged for years by critics who called its online shopping platforms conduits for counterfeiters.
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BADGER is being designed specifically for small-diameter tasks, such as digging conduits for cables and pipes.
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Instead many offers came from remote bidders, with a small army of Christie's staff acting as conduits.
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Mr Trump expects Canada and Mexico to ensure they do not become conduits for steel originating elsewhere.
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North Korean embassy officials and other elites are well-known conduits of luxury goods into the capital.
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Oxenfree takes on certain The Twilight Zone traditions, turning normal pedestrian objects into conduits for supernatural dread.
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We are powerful conduits in making the lives of our teens more manageable and significantly less stressful.
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In recent years Africa's music and movie-stars have become powerful promotional conduits for consumer goods companies.
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The company has been dogged for years by accusations that its shopping platforms were conduits for counterfeiters.
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Janelle Monáe, Lizzo, and Ty Dolla $ign became expert conduits for the pop-soul-R&B hybrid.
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These continuously shifting forms might suggest window slats, ornamental medallions, lamplit highways, endless stairwells, and electrical conduits.
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Keeping these platforms stable is hard, because conduits that carry good things can be exploited by bad things.
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Bagels, muffins, and salad dressings are all conduits for two of nature's most powerful and potentially lethal opiates.
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In this particular case, many of the oligarchs in question are central conduits of Western money into Russia.
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This plotline turns on a basic assumption about translators: that we are neutral conduits for someone else's meaning.
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For me, it's people who are the conduits, so it's relationships that allow me to connect and create.
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This granular firm-level network data helped us to distinguish two kinds of tax havens: sinks and conduits.
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The conduits that carry the broadband lifeblood of New York City were built more than a century ago.
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The penguins and elephant seals were the conduits ferrying that nitrogen from water to land, the study showed.
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Butts served as one of the conduits to Lee, who was in an assisted-living center in the town.
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The West African country's Trans Niger Pipeline, one of two conduits to export Bonny Light crude, reopened on Oct.
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The commitment to uniformity has long been a foundation of institutions that are conduits to the United States military.
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Congress would have to add a provision allowing non-banks to serve as conduits to SBA Disaster Assistance Programs.
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But social media are also handy conduits for people to register their anger with brands — directly and en masse.
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These conduits would make running fiber along major thoroughfares much easier, saving taxpayers a fortune over the longer haul.
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Like Biden, both have hired faith coordinators to connect with local pastors, who act as campaign conduits to their congregations.
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Shot: On the one hand, journalists want to avoid serving as conduits for propagandists trying to influence an electoral outcome.
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Whether they agreed or not, the process was fundamentally stabilizing as it also provided communication conduits between our distrustful nations.
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Crystals are known conduits for power and wisdom — it's no wonder that such high-powered people are drawn to them.
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Together, these five conduits channel 47 percent of corporate offshore investment from tax havens, according to the data we analysed.
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These banks will now have to ensure that North Korea does not open bank accounts with them by using conduits.
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They have also reportedly explored using European companies detached from the American economy as sanctions-free conduits to Iranian business.
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To dualists, though, our brains are conduits for consciousness and necessary for contemplating our souls, but not identical with them.
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In 1963, they added gates to five conduits on each reservoir to restrict the flow of water to Buffalo Bayou.
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In fact, we increasingly share information via fiber optics and other terrestrial conduits that have zero leakage outside our atmosphere.
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But this new set of arrangements makes journalists look more like conduits and contextualizers, and less like originators of information.
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Recently, however, free speech has come under attack at the very same institutions that served as conduits for this debate.
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"Those conduits of entry, which are called the mucosal surfaces of the body, have to be rich in fluids," Tierno says.
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Memories are thought to be stored among the synapses that serve as conduits for electrical impulses traveling from neuron to neuron.
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We use tweets as jumping-off points just as we use URLs, following them as conduits en route to the story.
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Bandwidth capacity, transmission speed, and conduits of information have replaced spice, silks, and jewels as the bestower of merchant king status.
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Austria, the Western Balkans and Eastern Europe, which are conduits for migrants heading to richer northern Europe, have refused migrants entry.
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Her singsong hooks are conduits to lyrics of shrewd self-awareness and insouciant honesty, and her distorted guitars have palpable strength.
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Some websites seek to be responsible actors, attempting to prevent their websites from being conduits for abusive content and harmful behavior.
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And Amazon's Echo voice-controlled speaker and Facebook's Messenger chatbot platform are rapidly becoming conduits for online commerce and customer support.
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Platforms celebrating community violate our privacy in ways we scarcely realize and serve as conduits for deceptions hiding in plain sight.
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To its north, the Central Asian nations are racked by chaos and corruption, and are conduits for Chinese and Russian interference.
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They should shield providers from liability for third-party online conduct only to the extent such providers truly operate as neutral conduits.
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Furthermore, infrastructure like water pipes and electrical conduits is hidden in the beams, so the whole thing doesn't look like a basement.
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It is one of the most important liquids-rich natural gas conduits between Western Canada's Montney region and the Chicago market hub.
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While using offshore entities isn't inherently illegal, concerns have been raised over their use as tax evasion vehicles and money laundering conduits.
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For Congress, the motivator for Section 230 was that it did not want platforms to be these neutral conduits, whatever that means.
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For Congress, the motivator for Section 2230 was that it did not want platforms to be these neutral conduits, whatever that means.
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Similarly, data unions could be conduits channelling members' data contributions, all while tracking them and billing AI firms that benefit from them.
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Experts note that since taking power, Kim has systematically purged and killed rivals, many of whom had been diplomatic conduits to Beijing.
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GDOT has not responded to a CNN question about what, if anything, was in the conduits at the start of the fire.
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The two Chinese companies are "essential conduits" to help attract other large Chinese businesses to build new facilities in Indonesia, Lippo said.
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Interpreters are much more than conduits for conversations between other individuals, and they are crucial for keeping Trump out of diplomatic trouble.
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Rather, they acted as emotional conduits, channelling, through vocal and physical mimicry, familiar types: your auntie, your cousin, the neighborhood storefront preacher.
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"In the past, we've done spare conduits into a building but not the redundancy," said Tom Sullivan, president of development at DivcoWest.
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He unearths an early painting from 1983, an austere canvas depicting a solitary prison and conduits leading underground to vacant tomblike chambers.
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The proposals challenge the deeply held conviction in Silicon Valley that social media companies are just neutral platforms and conduits for information.
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The name and address of contributors who donate to candidates through conduits must be disclosed, according to federal law, regardless of amount.
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The name and address of contributors who donate to candidates through conduits must be disclosed, according to federal law, regardless of amount.
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The department said the phones weren't a security risk but US intelligence officers recently said they could be conduits for foreign surveillance. 7.
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Instagram and YouTube are conduits for traffickers selling the endangered animals as pets, according to a Monday report from the Cheetah Conservation Fund.
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Since the early 1980s, Halley has honed in on motifs related to barred windows, prison cells, and the conduits and grids composing cities.
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Sometimes these agents are seeded multiple years ahead of actively deploying them as 'fake news' conduits for a particular election or political event.
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As reported in Bloomberg, this amounted to almost 400,000 miles of subterranean cables, pipelines, wires, and conduits that could circle Earth 16 times.
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These lessons are conduits of power, facilitating ways of knowing and doing that preserve and protect a culture of hypermasculinity, elitism, and entitlement.
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Today, social networks like Twitter and Facebook occupy the position once held by those broadcasters, serving as trusted conduits for news and information.
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They are the conduits through which love flows into our lives — and so perhaps the dual patronage of St. Valentine is especially apt.
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Essentially conduits, they are especially useful in places with diffuse centers of power, where everyone is busy trying to anticipate the leader's whims.
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Hardy backup conduits could be installed to reduce the risk of outages, and existing cables and landing points could be outfitted with protective layers.
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Because these sections are hollow, internal channels can be incorporated into them for drainage, along with conduits for services such as gas and electricity.
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It can cost several thousand dollars per space to retrofit existing parking garages or lots, which requires ripping up cement to lay electric conduits.
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While diesel generally flows from the U.S. Gulf Coast to the east through pipelines, marine movements can be needed when those conduits are full.
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Pipes came from halted project The HDPE and fiberglass conduits were meant for a project that a contractor bid for in 2007, McMurry said.
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Most Android OEMs, in fact — companies like LG and Sony along with Samsung and HTC — essentially functioned as dumb conduits for the latest specs.
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They aren't terribly well protected, and rarely, if ever, do the owners discover that their computers have become conduits for spies and digital thieves.
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His staff was very helpful and served as conduits to senior programs in our community to help ease the difficult battles associated with caregiving.
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Its tail was crafted in phallic-looking coils of clay and was peppered with electrical conduits, all of which have been cast in bronze.
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Pipelines started closing five days after Harvey hit, with nothing to pump through key fuel conduits from Texas to New York, Philadelphia and Chicago.
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Although they did not arrest any of Erdoğan's ministers, they detained the sons of three of them, claiming that they were conduits for bribes.
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Being aware of the color somehow makes the city's bindings and conduits and linkages stand out as if they'd been injected with radioactive dye.
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Kiselyov is one of the main conduits of state television's strongly anti-American tone, once saying Moscow could turn the United States into radioactive ash.
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A $205 billion wall of maturing loans from CMBS conduits originated in 2006 and 5003 creates the potential for further CRE lending growth through 2017.
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And you do need these kinds of conduits for people to be able to influence and inspire and have that human connection closer- Oh merchandising.
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WhatsApp groups are one of the primary conduits for distributing what can literally be sets of instructions for people to carry out these protest actions.
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So, GDOT, which already paid for the unused conduits, took control of them "in hopes that it could be used for another project," McMurry said.
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Like other utilities in the state, PG&E should provide the basic "make ready" infrastructure — bringing wires, and conduits to parking spaces around the region.
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As its currents are rechannelled down copper conduits to power far-off cities the river itself will be trapped behind a series of concrete walls.
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The reason I chose to cite Rozen and Goldberg as important conduits for the administration's foreign policy message is based on two kinds of evidence.
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And the PBMs could act as "conduits" for gathering sensitive information about health insurer rivals, which could lead to "price fixing" or "collusion," AAI said.
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The main conduits of direct cash are disability payments and Social Security for the elderly which, by definition, do not go to able-bodied adults.
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Two disease-focused nonprofits paid a combined $6 million to clear allegations that pharmaceutical companies were using them as conduits to pay for patients' medications.
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The dense supply chains that grew up around China served as conduits for technological know-how, transmitting the elements of sustained innovation to underdeveloped economies.
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State governments could be administrative conduits, keeping records while passing on funding to private consultants, who would manage the money in place of state treasurers.
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Those deficits are conduits for transfers of American wealth and technology that support China's economic development and its global network of influence and zones of interests.
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And we have conduits, pathways, to selling it to all the various businesses that autonomous driving can impact, through traditional OEM channels, and through mobility services.
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All added up to the same thing: conduits to inject cash at different rates and for different durations or, by letting them expire, to withdraw cash.
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The state was storing high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipes and fiberglass conduits under the I-85 overpass, and the fire spread to the pipes, McMurry said.
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It contains e conduits that transfer information from the brain to the muscle as well as its own neural networks, or circuits that control these movements.
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An earlier, multibillion-dollar effort financed by international donors yielded a network of 35 sewage treatment facilities, 500 miles of conduits and 85 pumps, he said.
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In the months after Trump's inauguration, there was no shortage of expressive opportunities for the left — protests, actions — but few electoral conduits for its new resolve.
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Since interstitium spaces might act as conduits, "this raises the possibility that direct sampling of the interstitial fluid could be a diagnostic tool," the researchers wrote.
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The Swedish Committee and Emergency said they did not interact officially with insurgents, but built relationships with local elders who acted as conduits to the militants.
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In the West Elm store, electrical conduits were threaded artfully among the wood ceiling joists by Sean Burns, the job captain for McGowan, the general contractor.
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The information breaks down into money donated to support the convention and money going to the DNC PAC, DNC Services Corporation — just two conduits for contributions.
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It doesn't help that Valerian and Laureline themselves (about which more in the next section) are such unengaging conduits through which to view this particular story.
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For us to acknowledge that they are candidates; that they are more than voices, more than just decorative conduits through which men can project their own skill.
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But the "government-sponsored enterprises", Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which operate as conduits between mortgage firms and the capital markets, are still very much in evidence.
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There are both too many tourists and not enough; Wow Air, one of the major conduits of Icelandic tourism, declared bankruptcy in March after an unsustainable expansion.
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For too long, platforms have enjoyed generous legal protections and an equally generous cultural allowance: to be "mere conduits" not liable for what users post to them.
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Then, as the community effort ramped up -- and Spanish-speaking police officers or interpreters were rarely available -- the activists became the main conduits to detectives, they said.
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In spite of this staggering vulnerability, almost all policymaking ignores end-users and abandons the opportunity to transform users from conduits into a defense mechanism against cyberattacks.
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Chinese firms have come under greater scrutiny in the United States in recent years over fears they may be conduits for spying, something they have consistently denied.
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The analyses provided by the State Department did not prove that the Twitter accounts that stoked the South American protests were direct conduits of the Russian government.
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Before TimesMachine and ProQuest and Google and The Times's own Information Bank, before there were any electronic conduits into newspaper's historical content, the Index was simply indispensable.
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Mexicans would come up with other conduits to send the $100 a week that their parents, children or siblings back home rely on to pay the bills.
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"Social media platforms have served as world-wide conduits to spread vitriolic hate messages into every home and country," the committee majority noted in a press release.
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Lenders who offer this popular form of property finance are called "conduits" because their loans are quickly whisked into bond deals instead of being kept on their books.
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But after seeing the performances at this festival, I saw other conduits to meaning — how ritual and quotidian acts can be made larger and more significant when staged.
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There are industrial chambers, conduits that look like they're filled with molecular models, and one jungle environment that Valerian hop-skips across like a third-person platformer videogame.
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California, where permitted by local codes, allows the storage of a variety of materials, though policy doesn't mention HDPE or fiberglass conduits specifically, DOT spokesman Mark Dinger said.
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The value is less in proclamations and joint statement than in creating and sustaining conduits for sharing and shaping ideas, as I explained here in the Nairobi context.
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The mostly white men who built the tools of social networks did not recognize the danger of harassment, and so the things they built became conduits for it.
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A wealth of information is also spread privately across Facebook's messaging services like WhatsApp and Messenger, two conduits that have been identified as prime channels for spreading misinformation.
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American-registered corporations that are foreign-owned, foreign-controlled, or foreign-influenced can serve as conduits for foreign spending, all thanks to the infamous 2010 Citizens United decision.
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Cybersecurity experts have become increasingly concerned about the vulnerabilities of the vendors, software suppliers and other election third parties as conduits for hackers to attack critical election systems.
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There were those who condemned the books as conduits to witchcraft, and there were those who viewed them skeptically as being influenced by secularism, potentially undermining Christian values.
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The Canadian government stepped in to buy the Trans Mountain pipeline from Kinder Morgan, the American operator of one of the main conduits of oil from Alberta's tar sands.
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The harness places the battery pack on the small of a soldier's back and includes eight conductive fabric conduits that can be used to connect to a USB port.
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But as smartphones become conduits of our identities, and messaging emerges as the heart of the mobile experience, our chat apps must flex to encompass every form of expression.
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When broadband providers want to upgrade their networks or deploy service in a new area, they need access to public rights of way, such as utility poles or conduits.
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Each one is as humdrum, and specifically individual, as you or I. Everything has the shimmer of unmediated transparency, as if the performers were conduits for thought made visible.
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These shell companies often have no real operations or staff in Britain, but have been conduits for millions of pounds in revenue generated by online businesses around the world.
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But the government alleged the drugmakers used such charities as conduits to improperly pay the copay obligations of Medicare patients using their drugs, in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute.
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This includes sight lines that play to maximum effect, with forced perspective and seamless presentation while hiding things like heating and cooling units, conduits and ducts and regular Earth buildings.
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No public deals have taken place in Europe, although Fitch understands there has been at least one private transaction, and ABCP conduits have been buying handset receivables for some time.
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" In October 2016, Erickson emailed an acquaintance that he'd helped secure "a VERY private line of communication between the Kremlin and key [Republican] leaders through, of all conduits, the [NRA].
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George Washington warned of the "baneful effects" and "constant danger" of parties in his farewell address, arguing that they served to inflame anger and jealousy, or as conduits of corruption.
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Alibaba has been dogged for years by accusations that its online shopping platforms were conduits for counterfeiters and critics say it has not done nearly enough to stop the problem.
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This means that any road construction using federal funding, there has to be an opportunity to also lay down fiber cable conduits, which can be used for high speed internet.
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However, it is likely inevitable that so long as people crave social connection and self-worth, they will channel those desires into social media conduits, and react with predictable sensitivities.
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Ordinary smart devices, like baby monitors and webcams — the array of devices comprising the "internet of things" — were hijacked by hackers and transformed into conduits for a massive online assault.
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RAPID is a $27 billion project located between the Malacca Strait and the South China Sea, conduits for Middle East oil and gas bound for China, Japan and South Korea.
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Batteries are more flexible and do not require the same infrastructure, including water and fuel supply conduits, as conventional generators, avoiding the need for long environmental reviews and permitting processes.
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Earlier seismic scanning and listening to geological tremors have produced 2D cross-sections of parts of Axial, pinpointing key features like its faults, conduits, and primary and smaller magma reservoirs.
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But the government alleged that the drugmakers used such charities as conduits to improperly pay the copay obligations of Medicare patients using their drugs, in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute.
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Lightbulbs, along with refrigerators, coffee makers, microwave ovens, baby monitors, security cameras, speakers, televisions, and thermostats have, in the past few decades, transformed from ordinary objects into conduits for the future.
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Profiting off these corporate cities were magnates with neither the resources nor inclination to protect users, clinging to an inaccurate and outdated image of their companies as neutral conduits for communication.
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The earlier overland routes were once the conduits for most trade between Europe and China and India; they faded into irrelevance when European ships started circumnavigating the Cape of Good Hope.
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But in reality, it operates sort of like a freestanding bureaucracy, with conduits to other parts of the government that don't involve going through the White House or the attorney general.
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This is why the United States and Russia must urgently reopen essential conduits and reestablish points of direct dialogue before we are inevitably engulfed by a cyber-fast crisis or incident.
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And if they choose to be First Amendment speakers rather than neutral conduits, then they should be willing and able to defend the material they label as "fact checked" in court.
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Export-Import Bank of China and China Development Bank, the main funding conduits, reveal few details of their loans, making it hard to gauge how much they ultimately cost African taxpayers.
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It was published in June for the United States Military Training Mission to Saudi Arabia, a small force of roughly 140 military advisers and conduits for American arms sales to Riyadh.
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Therefore, there isn't any reason for donors seeking to influence federal races to use state candidates as "conduits" to evade the federal contribution limits — not that this had ever been likely.
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They often help U.S. companies set up joint ventures or licensing agreements to enter China - the type of deals some U.S. policy hawks have criticized as conduits for transferring intellectual property.
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The National Transportation Safety Board has been investigating the fire and bridge collapse, which is blamed on the ignition of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipes and fiberglass conduits stored under the overpass.
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Now, servicers, the conduits for mortgage payments, must provide those protections more than once, offering them to borrowers who make current payments after they have worked out an agreement to avoid foreclosure.
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While the company awaits FDA approval, it is already looking ahead to other applications for Humacyl, including using it to connect blood vessels and other conduits for the regeneration of human organs.
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Russian private military contractors are critical conduits between repressive regimes and various subsidiaries of Russia's state-owned arms conglomerate Rostec, as well as major state energy companies such as Stroytransgaz and Gazprom.
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And the conduits to white nationalist radicalization — from books like The Turner Diaries and The Great Replacement to white nationalist propaganda once circulated via newsletters and now shared online — are constitutionally protected.
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The recent growth in cross-border supply chains has created conduits along which cost changes in one part of the world flow into the prices of goods that emerge from factories elsewhere.
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Analysts have called Rosneft one of the main global conduits for Venezuelan crude, a leak in the U.S. pressure on Maduro that the Trump administration will seek to plug with Tuesday's sanctions.
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After all, the company's hardware plays have largely served as an in to other services, and all the Echo devices the company moved were really just conduits for brining Alexa to the masses.
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Beltway operatives like Donna Brazile and Leah Daughtry, both influential figures at the Democratic National Committee, have been conduits who have helped him grow his relationships with the black political class in Washington.
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And he remains one of the most digitally connected musicians in history, embracing a profusion of platforms, from LiveJournal, Myspace and Ustream to Tumblr, Snapchat and Twitter as direct conduits to his fans.
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Some of the banks designated on Monday have served as "financial conduits" for the Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics and the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, according to the US government.
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The journalists' consortium found that Mossack Fonseca had created 2131 of the 230 shell companies linked to Mr. Bedjaoui that Italian prosecutors are investigating as possible conduits for bribes from 2007 to 2010.
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In his earlier features, Mendonça Filho used different spaces and homes — a middle-class neighborhood, a derelict plantation, an apartment threatened with demolition — as conduits to ideas about history, community, surveillance and power.
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In 2003, the Supreme Court upheld the law based on a "prediction … that state and local candidates and officeholders will become the next conduits for the soft-money funding" of federal campaign ads.
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Monday's China Daily, an English-language government newspaper, referred apprehensively to the maritime exercises in an editorial, noting that the Indian Ocean is one of China's main conduits for trade and oil imports.
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"FinCEN will continue to take action against foreign banks that disregard anti-money laundering safeguards and become conduits for widespread illicit activity," U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement on FinCEN's website.
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The federal government yesterday published the final rule for changes to the H-1B visa program, which is one of the primary conduits for technical talent to come and work in the United States.
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The Netherlands and the United Kingdom also play a crucial – although a heretofore obscure – role in the tax-avoidance game, acting as conduits for corporate profits as they make their way to tax havens.
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His bereavement was triggered by questioning about whether platforms deserve CDA 230's protection when they stop being passive conduits and actively make editorial decisions about content on their platforms — such as traditional publishers.
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You want to talk about BDE (OK, nobody does anymore, I know), Cavallari served it in spades, usually from a pool, using only her flip phone or flipping her long side bangs as conduits.
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In a unanimous decision, the high court ruled that safe harbor did not protect payments if financial institutions were merely conduits, reversing the law in the key bankruptcy courts in Delaware and New York.
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Companies not only serve as victims, but as often unwitting conduits for criminal activity, according to the report, and the Justice Department is trying to increase how often it works with companies on investigations.
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The deepening secrecy means it's unclear who Ivanka Trump's company is doing business within China, even as she and her husband, Jared Kushner, have emerged as important conduits for top Chinese officials in Washington.
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The calls signaled a willingness to serve as conduits for information, and a budding awareness that, in some circumstances, a story's status as a leak is more persuasive than the imprimatur of its publisher.
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For universities to fulfill the critical role they were designed for, it's essential that they not simply serve as conduits for the viewpoints espoused by the loudest or wealthiest voices in the wider society.
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To King, the social markers that make kids outcasts in school — from being nerdy to being overweight to enduring acne — also make them uniquely outfitted to be conduits for readers' social anxieties and fears.
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Researcher Sari Autio-Sarasmo at the University of Helsinki&aposs Aleksanteri Institute said the Finnish capital and Vienna, the capital of Austria, were important conduits between the East and the West during the Cold War.
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The deepening secrecy means it's unclear who Ivanka Trump's company is doing business with in China, even as she and her husband, Jared Kushner, have emerged as important conduits for top Chinese officials in Washington.
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"It's one of opportunities to make this and I think that we should add it because we do not know exact scenarios right from the launch," he says of including private conduits alongside public chats.
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The migrant crisis has prompted deep tensions within the region and between countries with Austria, the Western Balkans and Eastern Europe – that have become conduits for migrants heading to richer northern Europe – refusing migrants entry.
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Billions of dollars are still pouring into business schools to inspire similar claptrap, while university science departments—less-direct conduits to frenetic moneymaking—scramble for funding, and the humanities torturously ride out a planned obsolescence.
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Part of the floor was being repaired—the polished terrazzo had a gash like a busted lip that exposed the building's pipes and electrical conduits, and pieces of jagged concrete were strewn across the corridor.
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RIGA (Reuters) - Latvia is investigating whether its banks acted as conduits for Russian funds used to interfere in elections and politics elsewhere, after it received a warning from the United States, officials have told Reuters.
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Cables will enter the building through eight conduits — four in the front and four in the back — enough to accommodate multiple service providers and offer built-in backup, known as redundancy in the tech world.
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Federal Election Commission, politically active nonprofit groups and trade associations have offered vastly expanded conduits for political spending, and as a result, corporations are under more pressure than ever to spend to influence our elections.
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These funds plus other Arab funds — many of which move through Dubai and other conduits for unrecorded transfers — help Moscow circumvent the sanctions we and our allies have imposed due to its aggression in Ukraine.
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This string of text, in a three-inch typeface, follows the gallery's irregular contours, wrapping around the walls and dodging behind the pilasters, sprinkler pipes, and electrical conduits of the tidy but still raw space.
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The internet is no longer just a medium for newsgroups and electronic bulletin boards, which were the conduits for authentic user-generated content that the drafters of the C.D.A. had in mind two decades ago.
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Rather than treating politicians as mere conduits for the interests they hear from, this approach argues that politicians' own judgments and priorities matter most, and that these judgments and priorities are shaped by their experiences.
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They were critical conduits for implementing sweeping reforms of the financial system following the 2008 crisis and will likely be an important channel for Trump to make good on his promise of rolling back those rules.
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"Whether we use European conduits or partial migration to America or anything else as part of our future strategy in order to mitigate some of these risks, absolutely, we'll do what we have to," he said.
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The New York attorney general's office identified several previously unknown entities that are "believed to serve as conduits for transfers from Purdue to the Sackler Defendants" based on the documents provided by that unnamed financial institution.
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The project, Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development (RAPID), is a $27 billion complex located between the Malacca Strait and the South China Sea, conduits for Middle East oil and gas bound for China, Japan and South Korea.
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The coordinated inauthentic activity that Facebook revealed on Tuesday shows that bad actors are determined to influence U.S. politics, sow division and set Americans against each other—regardless of whether they use conservatism or liberalism as conduits.
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According to a report in Melbourne's Herald Sun, the Australian Council for the Promotion of the Peaceful Reunification of China is an "agent of the Chinese state" whose members are "covert conduits" to influence policy in Australia.
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Congress is considering the Broadband Conduit Deployment Act of 2017 to implement a "dig once" policy to encourage installing broadband conduits during the construction of highway projects, which would reduce costs for broadband providers in unserved areas.
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Most of them run through these conduits; they're protective concrete and cement liners that run along both sides of the tube, and within them are pipes that carry the cables, insulating them from fires or other damage.
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While that limited series, based on Gabriel Sherman's book, features the Murdochs only as supporting players, the HBO show clearly uses them and other powerful media families as conduits to explore the excesses of the modern age.
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Now, officials worry that the know-how from these specialized battlefield plots and operations is seeping into everyday social media conduits, where they are available for aspiring terrorists and even lone actors in their own lethal plans.
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We could also pass the Disclose Act, which would help end secret spending by dark money groups (which can end up being conduits to foreign spending) and ban spending by corporations that are foreign-owned or -controlled.
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For all their faults, analysts acted as conduits for company information to be passed to investors who could not afford their own research (charities and small pension funds, for example) and, via the media, to the general public.
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But in 2017, we'll see a greater push towards a diversity of cryptocurrencies as investments, and ETFs, hedge funds, and derivatives will start to act as conduits for institutions to gain exposure and get into the cryptocurrency game.
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Fuel from Egypt used to be smuggled through tunnels, many of them now destroyed by Cairo, which said they were conduits for weapons and militants battling Egyptian forces in the neighboring Sinai peninsula - an allegation denied by Hamas.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Democratic lawmakers urged the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday to better protect U.S. oil and gas pipelines from cyberattacks, after a report they requested detailed a lack of federal oversight of the critical conduits.
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The billionaire CEO's move is proof of the immediate effectiveness of the Treasury's sanctions, aimed at throttling Western investment in the country and cutting the international reach of Russian business magnates who act as conduits for that investment.
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Both Maliki and Amiri are viewed as conduits through which Iran can exercise political power, said James Jeffrey, former U.S. ambassador to Iraq from 2010 to 2012 and a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Affairs.
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One day, the fantasy holds, if they're anointed and hard working, they can make their way up the bureaucracy to become a board member themselves with their own conduits of power and their own agents in the world.
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So to understand the role slacktivists play in political action, we have to understand how they integrate within the social media networks—and how this influences the conduits through which a movement can mobilize resources and build up visibility.
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The data comes amid a debate in Ireland about its hosting of such conduits, pitting critics, who see a risk to the country's reputation, against those who want to keep them to help attract business from London after Brexit.
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"We were fully prepared to sue if the president carried through on his promise to gut the law and allow our churches and charities to be turned into conduits for political spending," said Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The relatives of thousands of Indians who died cleaning sewers protested in the capital on Tuesday, aiming to stop the practice of workers entering underground conduits to unclog drains and remove waste with their bare hands.
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Nearly everyone has had that moment, whether we remember it or not, and probably lots of them, when we were nothing but conduits of joy and goodness and also wanted nothing more than to share that with someone else.
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The syrupy concoction is a crucial ingredient for making feathered headdresses, hide quivers, obsidian-blade sticks and other forms of ceremonial dance ornaments, or regalia, that are at once works of art and living conduits to the spirit world.
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Fry and Egerman — a longtime friend of Warren's who helped build support for her first run for office — are courting big donors in the Northeast by organizing trips, hosting events and acting as conduits for information about the campaign.
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A U.S. Justice Department investigation into allegations that drugmakers illegally use charities as conduits to cover Medicare patients' out-of-pocket drug costs as a way to encourage the use of expensive medications is facing a major court challenge.
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We'd now do well to consider the ultimate cause of this type of lead poisoning: the built-in legacy of America's last leaded century, those old, ever-dangerous conduits by which so many of us still get our drinking water.
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Whatever the eventual purpose, it's clear Facebook is treating its growing family of hardware devices as conduits for a shared vision for the future, one in which AI is layered throughout Facebook-owned platforms and not restricted to singular products.
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The sanctions were expected to be followed by additional U.S actions in coming weeks, as the Trump administration works to dismantle the main banking conduits exploited by Iran and its Revolutionary Guards to convert Iranian rials into euros or dollars.
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From not installing software patches or conducting routine updates to clicking on malicious hyperlinks and attachments in spear-phishing emails, and using weak passwords on devices, regular people — all of us computer users — continue to be the conduits for most cyberattacks.
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In addition, if we improve the public's literacy regarding mental health and substance abuse issues, we can harness them as informal helpers and conduits to the formal mental health care system for their friends, family members, neighbors, and co-workers.
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The poetry world can be insular, Balkanized and obscure — name three star poets — and The New Yorker is one of the largest conduits between its various inlets and a wider world than most of the poetry journals can hope to attract.
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Financial companies and trusts, which are some of the most popular conduits for banks looking to get around tighter lending rules, have been partnering with other firms based as far afield as desert-locked Gansu province, Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia.
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In a Peter Halley painting there are rectangles locked behind bars ("cells" and "prisons," as he calls them, which reference social control and containment, not just incarceration) and lines that sprout from them ("conduits," pathways for the flow of information).
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On the exterior of the installation he will display six new paintings; they are still prisons and conduits, but now Halley has mashed his canvases together to form ungainly new shapes, as though his cells are staging a jail break.
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They are concerned that Google and Amazon are flooding the market with cheap speakers that they subsidize because they are not merely conduits for music, like Sonos's devices, but rather another way to sell goods, show ads and collect data.
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They are the information conduits for fire-safe practices and specific initiatives like the "sweat equity program," under which the county will pick up woody debris the same way it picks up garbage, provided that homeowners bring it to the curb.
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As I see it, there are four main approaches that Facebook, and to some extent other companies that are major conduits for news, can take at this point: This is in many ways the status quo, though it's becoming increasingly untenable.
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Sedgwick argues that men, desperate to prove their heterosexuality but trapped in a culture that does not allow them to engage emotionally or authentically with one another, use women as "conduits": safe outlets for them to express their desire for one another.
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More of us are becoming broadcasters, and so broadcasters need to provide content quickly that can compete with this, or at least provide conduits to use that user-generated content more effectively, and this is one route to helping make that happen.
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"Britain will work with our major European partners to find out who really owns the secretive shell companies and the trusts that have been used as conduits for evading tax and laundering money and benefiting from corruption," British finance minister George Osborne said.
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Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development (RAPID), in the southern Malaysian state of Johor, is a $27 billion project located between the Malacca Strait and the South China Sea, conduits for Middle East oil and gas bound for China, Japan and South Korea.
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In a report, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau found some servicers, the conduits for mortgage payments, are falling short of the rules put in place after the housing market imploded that allow borrowers to modify their loans and find alternatives to foreclosure.
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But today, nearly a decade later, investigators are known to have an interest in the money that Mr. Manafort and his colleagues made in Eastern Europe, how those funds were paid and the offshore conduits such as Cyprus through which that money traveled.
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Social-media companies monetize everyday selfhood: our preferences and personal data are tracked and sold to advertisers; our relationships are framed as potentially profitable conduits; we continually capture one another's lucrative attention by performing some version of who we think we are.
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CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - TransCanada Corp said on Friday maintenance planned for the 590,000 barrel-per-day Keystone pipeline in May, one of the main crude conduits from Canada to the United States, will not impact its ability to ship contracted volumes for that month.
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Before it, though, there were bands like Bikini Kill, who could say for us the shadowy things we could often not articulate, offering their lines as conduits for the confusion and anger produced by a hard world that did not care and would not listen.
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In just one series of transactions, western banks including Citi, Barclays and Deutsche Bank were conduits for $22 billion illicitly shipped out of Russia from 2011 to 2014, according to an investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and Russia's Novaya Gazeta.
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Many of the people pumping up the median salaries for those six counties are highly paid lobbyists and lobbying firm attorneys who act as the conduits for all that money corporations, unions and lots of foreign governments spend in hopes of influencing our government.
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Sethe, Baby Suggs, Denver, and the novel's namesake, Beloved, were the literary conduits who put a face to the pain of black women living in a white America, a pain that was not rendered obsolete by the pyrrhic victory of the American Civil War.
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One possibility is that Giuliani "was actually representing these two individuals sort of as conduits for some foreign source of money, and making arrangements for them, for example, to participate in the political process—which as we know was an FEC violation," Rosenstein says.
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The New York channel is one of the few conduits the United States has for communicating with North Korea, which has itself made clear it has little interest in serious talks before it develops a nuclear-tipped missile capable of hitting the continental United States.
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Of course, there's another reason why I cringe at the idea of Batman whispering suggestive comments to Wonder Woman throughout Justice League, and it has nothing to do with being tired of women characters always being used as conduits for flirtation (though I'm certainly tired of that).
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State will review storage policies; NTSB investigating McMurry said the state will review its policies on storing materials under bridges and elevated highways -- an issue in this case because authorities say last Thursday's fire started where the state kept high-density plastic conduits and other construction materials.
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When the FBI began investigating the Clinton emails, in 2015, agents had taken special interest in Abedin because she was one of the four aides who served as conduits for most of Clinton's State Department messages, screening them, forwarding them and printing them out for her boss.
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Early in December, Israel attacked tunnels that the Iranian-supported terror organization Hezbollah built from Lebanon into Israel, to use as conduits to cut off and attack northern Israeli towns — surpassing the potential of Hezbollah's growing rocket arsenal which will, eventually, be launched against the Jewish State.
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Published on July 20093 in the academic journal Scientific Reports, the paper Uncovering Offshore Financial Centers: Conduits and Sinks in the Global Corporate Ownership Network shows that offshore finance is not the exclusive business of exotic, far-flung places such as the Cayman Islands and Bermuda.
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Unlike cybercriminals, who target banks to maximize financial profit, the attackers had monitored the financial transactions of a targeted list of clients of Lebanese banks, which experts said had been used as financial conduits for the Syrian government and Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group and political party.
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Such works were not merely conduits of outrage in the face of repression, injustice, incompetence, and corruption; they were correctives to an aesthetic that referred only to itself, a refocusing of art on the body, and a realignment of concerns from the formal to the social and political.
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And of course, wash your hands with soap and water (or use hand sanitizer if you can't find a sink) regularly—especially before you eat or touch your eyes, nose, or mouth, all of which are conduits that allow flu viral particles to enter your body and infect you.
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That means the Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development (RAPID) complex in the southern state of Johor, an ambitious $27 billion project in an area strategically located between the Malacca Strait and the South China Sea, conduits for Middle East oil and gas bound for China, Japan and South Korea.
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But they came into the industry at a time when careers could be made by very specific gatekeepers and kingmakers: department stores, who held the keys to national reach, and glossy magazines, which served as the conduits to consumers, dictating trends and the names everyone needed to know.
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Federal prosecutors have been probing whether a pro-Trump super PAC, Rebuilding America Now, and the fund that raised money for Trump's inauguration accepted donations from American shell contributors serving as conduits for foreign money — called "straw donors" — while Trump associate Tom Barrack was fundraising for the groups.
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Aside from their first names and initials, Bowie and Byrne don't appear to have too much in common musically, though both were endlessly open to possibilities and happy to be conduits for other kinds of music, and both allowed Eno carte blanche to use the music studio as compositional tool.
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And, indeed, the social media firms themselves, whose platforms have been the unwitting conduits for lots of this stuff, shaping the data they release about it — in what can look suspiciously like an attempt to downplay the significance and impact of malicious digital propaganda, because, well, that spin serves their interests.
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In his latest, Wray widens the lens, integrating a smaller-scale family story into larger cycles of history, but although the scenery and the scope have changed, Waldy Tolliver and Will Heller are looking for the same thing: invisible conduits, systems of conveyance hidden from view, the secret order to things.
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Davidson and the third school I looked at, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, do extensive outreach to make sure that North Carolina kids from geographic areas and backgrounds that aren't ready-made conduits to top colleges know about them and about aid that can make them affordable.
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Legitimate news organizations shouldn't have trouble meeting the criteria, which include a searchable archive available online, contact information available online, and a minimum of 200,000 monthly unique visitors in the U.S. Publishers that are primarily conduits for user-generated content, or that advocate for a single issue, will not be exempt.
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An elite, halfway-underground network of scientists, sages, eccentrics, and psychedelic cognoscenti—including Brave New World author Aldous Huxley and Saskatchewan-based psychiatrist Humphry Osmond—had started experimenting with psychedelics including mescaline and LSD in the mid-1950s, believing the drugs to be powerful conduits to transcendental, other-worldly experiences.
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What has raised the most eyebrows, though, are the grants from the Open Society Foundations, one of Soros' main conduits for shaping progressive policies, as well as the Charles Koch Foundation, which is part of the network of Koch family foundations that have provided millions to libertarian and Republican Party causes.
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Josh: The Giuliani-Ukraine story will get the full New York press corps treatment next week as the two Giuliani associates charged with serving as conduits for U.S. political donations from Ukraine, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, make their first appearance before the federal judge in Manhattan assigned to their case.
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If it is the good-willed intention of the president and others on both sides of the partisan divide to "drain the swamp," then using back-channel conduits to covertly sneak in more toxic sludge with the hope of poisoning those with whom you disagree ensures failure — for us all.
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Citing counterterrorism needs and the fact that the Dominican Republic and Haiti are conduits for cocaine bound for the United States, the United States helped create and train Cesfront, the border force that most likely deported Jean in March, and has provided biometric equipment of the sort used to process immigrants and deportees.
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According to documents that were unsealed by the Mueller investigation, Papadopoulos had made at least six attempts to set up a meeting between the Trump campaign and Russian representatives throughout the course of the 2016 presidential campaign, using a London-based professor named Joseph Mifsud and a female Russian national as conduits.
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Today, the City Council of St. Petersburg, Florida, is considering a first-of-its-kind ordinance to protect their local elections from "super PACs" — post-Citizens United political committees that have become corrupting conduits for big-money interests — and from high-spending corporations that are owned or controlled in significant part by foreign nationals.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve moved again late on Tuesday to broaden the flow of credit in response to the coronavirus epidemic, saying it would offer short-term loans to the two dozen Wall Street primary dealers who are important conduits for the sale of a broad range of bonds and other financial assets.
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For example, legislators should require tax returns and other financial disclosures from presidential candidates and other high-ranking public officials; enhance campaign finance disclosure and eliminate conduits for foreign money by passing the DISCLOSE Act and the Honest Ads Act; and require greater corporate transparency in secrecy-prone jurisdictions like Delaware, Nevada, and Wyoming.
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WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve moved again late on Tuesday to broaden the flow of credit in response to the coronavirus epidemic, saying it would offer short-term loans to the two dozen Wall Street primary dealers who are important conduits for the sale of a broad range of bonds and other financial assets.
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As far as I can tell, every one of the handful of well-known scientists who have expressed climate skepticism has received large sums of money from these companies or from dark money conduits like DonorsTrust — the same conduit, as it happens, that supported Matthew Whitaker, the new acting attorney general, before he joined the Trump administration.
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"To the extent that platforms like Facebook and Twitter position themselves, or [are] capitalizing or raising their profile, as sort of being central to democratic processes, I think they gain a legitimacy as being core information providers and information conduits in democracy," said Daniel Kreiss, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Media and Journalism.
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And without these tech tools the highly engaged Catalan independence movement would undoubtedly create alternative conduits to spread their messages and mobilize supporters (as others have pointed out, the movement's cohesiveness is founded on neighborhood solidarity and grassroots political structures; tech platforms can't take credit for the underlying community solidarity which is yielding such a demonstrably high level of political engagement among local people).
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Elsewhere, geometric abstraction meets extreme figuration; a 19673 painting by Peter Halley uses cells and conduits to elucidate networks of power, surveillance and cruelty à la Foucault, while Nayland Blake deploys a marionette and a miniature theater inspired by the writings of the Marquis de Sade (in works from 1991-94 that provide some literary-historical context for the National Endowment for the Arts culture wars of that time).
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But that's categorically not true about USB-C: some USB-C ports have the high-bandwidth Thunderbolt 3, but most don't; some USB-C ports can also charge the device they're on or other devices, but that's not true for all; and then you've also got USB-C cables adhering to different standards and specs, and some of them don't support data transfer of any kind, serving only as power conduits for charging.
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I spoke to Kazuhiko Wada, president of Kamewa Shoten, one of the 200 or so intermediary companies that act as conduits between the handful of wholesalers and the wider industry, as well as Mina-san, an excitable member of Kamaume, an intermediary found deep in the warmly lit maze of stacked styrofoam and wooden boxes, low hanging poker table-style lights, kanji-emblazoned signs, and impeccably organized chaos of the inner-market.
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If Obama's aim was solely to settle a grudge against Netanyahu, there were many conduits available to him other than the UN. Or, if Obama's aim was a tough-love attempt to advance Israel's security and protect its legitimacy, as Secretary of State John KerryJohn Forbes KerryA lesson of the Trump, Tlaib, Omar, Netanyahu affair Trump's winning weapon: Time The Memo: O'Rourke looks to hit reset button MORE unpersuasively argued in a speech on Dec.
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It goes something like this: The sharp, super-sleuth investigative skills of top officials within the Justice Department and our intel community enabled them to identify Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE and his campaign as treacherous conduits to Russian President Vladimir Putin himself.
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The lack of racial diversity at many fashion brands is still very much an issue; Calvin Klein, once a tent pole of American style, just announced it was closing its designer-led Collection line; there's a general sense of an identity crisis at New York Fashion Week as young designers jump ship for other cities or decide to sit seasons out; and everyone is worried about the future of department stores, once the style conduits to the country.
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These groups look like they're conduits for bottom-up, grassroots expressions of discontent with the role of government in American lives, but according to Mayer their money comes "from giant, multinational corporations, including Koch Industries, the Reynolds American and Altria tobacco companies, Microsoft, Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, GlaxoSmithKline, and Kraft Foods" — and the draft bills, "news" stories, and opinion papers generated by these groups are aimed squarely at promoting state policies that will bolster the bottom lines of those companies.
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Back in the day, of course, there was no Instagram or live stream; people mostly viewed shows with their actual eyes as opposed to through the lens of their tiny cameras; designers only did two collections a year (or two we knew of); editors and glossy magazines still served as the conduits of choice for fashion information; diversity was pretty much nonexistent; and even if fashion people had read "Silent Spring" in school, they probably thought it had nothing to do with them, or their jobs.
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