I think I said that, that this is the richest people in the world getting cowed; if they're cowed, the rest of us are screwed essentially.
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It's not only that cowed people won't admit to being cowed, but many of these targets may never even realize they're inhibiting themselves in the interest of self-preservation.
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But the lawyers and their families are not entirely cowed.
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But look, I will not be cowed by any robot.
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The press has been cowed with a barrage of lawsuits.
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The repression, opposition leaders say, has cowed the armed forces.
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But despite looking tired and cowed, Mr Zuma fought on.
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What we do know is that she won't be cowed.
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But the government has cowed independent media inside the country.
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"We're not going to be cowed into silence," he said.
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But Mr. Lighthizer seems emboldened, not cowed, by the conflict.
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She didn't seem like anyone who was cowed or mousy.
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Twitter executives quickly cowed before the oppressive power of caste.
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Opponents too cowed even to try to defy the odds.
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He won't be cowed by a few tweets from Trump.
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Not that the press is overly cowed by Harry's broadside.
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He is no longer cowed or wowed by the office.
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So too, even more gingerly, have its cowed business leaders.
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The diplomatic staffing order is Putin showing he hasn't been cowed.
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Coulter's sleek golden monkey or Gerard Bonneville's cowed and beaten hyena.
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The bankers should not be cowed by the threat of politicisation.
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The government says it will not be cowed by the violence.
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They all seem to have been cowed by their party's shouters.
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In the White House, he would not be cowed by rivals.
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But the federal courts refused to be cowed by Trump's lawyers.
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He has cowed once anti-Trump Republican lawmakers into being his.
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All three did so by refusing to be cowed by City.
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But cowed by public outcry and lack of consensus, never acts.
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Authors were cowed into silence; presses refused to print sensitive material.
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But officials did not appear to be particularly cowed on Wednesday.
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Instead of being cowed, Kardashian is shoring up her bona fides.
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Jakarta residents were shaken by Thursday's events but refused to be cowed.
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He survived it in spectacular form, mainly by refusing to be cowed.
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The latter allowed parliamentary elections, but with only two cowed opposition parties.
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The New York Times refused to be cowed, and good for them.
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Manchester and the rest of Britain will never be cowed by terrorism.
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Vaez said Tehran did not appear to have been cowed so far.
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Cowed, it withdrew its recommendation that the law of succession be changed.
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We can celebrate the maternal body rather than be cowed by it.
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But this reflects conquest, not contrition: critics have been cowed into silence.
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It was a landmark in a region where judges are often cowed.
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For six days, Watts burned as a cowed LAPD stood and watched.
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Cowed, he dropped the pledge, and on Tuesday narrowly survived the revolt.
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Yiannopoulos was widely cowed this week, but he's not without a base.
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Messi has, throughout his time in Russia, seemed inhibited, cowed and stressed.
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But why the cowed silence from my Republican friends who know better?
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Rather than being cowed by U.S. military primacy, China learned from it.
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Remainers on the Conservative benches are mostly cowed and Theresa May is resolute.
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Many influential Red Shirt activists and organizers have been cowed by government pressure.
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As his critics are cowed, the king has focused on accumulating personal power.
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The other terrorists stay on board but are too cowed to do anything.
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"It's very important not to be cowed by Trump's bullying behavior," Baxter says.
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We will not be cowed, we will not be thrown off by anything.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg has accused her of being "cowed" by the European Union.
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It denies wrongdoing and says it will not be cowed into self-censorship.
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You will not be cowed or discouraged by his stream of retrogressive babble.
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Who will not be cowed by conventional constraints and force change upon Washington?
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Had he succeeded, it may have cowed other Barclays whistleblowers from coming forward.
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Leicester, however, does not seem likely to be cowed by its new surroundings.
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Kim likely does not receive accurate information from his cowed national security establishment.
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Still, before Thursday it looked like the teachers had successfully cowed Republican legislators.
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Don't be cowed because Mr. Loughery's book is published by an academic press.
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An abused citizenry falls into "learned helplessness" and becomes more pliant and cowed.
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Of the coming temperatures, even Mr. Goodman admits to being a little cowed.
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"We will never be cowed, nor will we bow to terrorism," he added.
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He cowed manufacturers into shifting their investments from Mexico to the United States.
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Almost none of the suits prevailed in court, but they cowed the company.
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Given Kelly's resume, he is not likely to be cowed by such problems.
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They have been driven from agencies or cowed to silence by the Trump administration.
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He is the candidate who won't be cowed by the media or political elites.
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Iran says it will not be cowed by what it has called psychological warfare.
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A deal this big would shake up a sector long cowed by past mistakes.
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"We're not going to be intimated; we're not going to be cowed," Woodhouse said.
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"Stay there and starve," he shouted at the cowed officers as he left them.
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Conservative speakers invited by students have been disinvited by cowed administrators or conniving faculty.
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The era's heightened nativism had not cowed Americans immigrants, their children or their allies.
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The G.O.P. counternarrative is that Trump has cowed Kim with sanctions and military threats.
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How many unstaged moments have we missed because of some censor or cowed editor?
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The test for the sport is to prove it is not cowed by that.
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"Member states must not be cowed by China's economic and political clout," he said.
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In 23, with his rivals cowed or silenced, Hun Sen held another general election.
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Mr. Zucker vowed that the network would not be cowed by the Trump administration.
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Speaking with Jim Acosta, Rosselló said that he refused to be cowed by Trump.
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England does not appear to be cowed by the status it has been assigned.
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Putin has said that Pyongyang will not be cowed into giving up its weapons program.
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A man who is not an alpha, after all, is a beta – feminine, cowed, dominated.
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Nope. McConnell is so cowed by the GOP base you can almost hear him moo.
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We will never let these cowards win and we will never be cowed by terrorism.
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But as London Mayor Sadiq Khan said, residents refuse to be cowed by this incident.
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Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.), whose demagoguery and meanness had cowed the rest of the Senate.
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Could Trump possibly be cowed by the uproar over the tweet allegedly written by Dowd?
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Most fledgling cooks would be cowed by the idea of preparing a meal for Boulud.
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But Kenyans are determined to show that they will not be cowed by the terrorists.
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Their aggressive tactics on social media have cowed the staid medical establishment into relative silence.
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Rather than being cowed by the debunkers, it seems Goop has been emboldened by us.
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Trump, however, seems to have cowed the Republican Party into shrugging off whatever he does.
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President Trump won supporters simply by calling out this tactic, and refusing to be cowed.
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What's been surprising is how quickly many good people have been cowed into enabling silence.
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"This is our city … and we will never be cowed by terrorism," the mayor said.
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We will never let these cowards win and we will never be cowed by terrorism. pic.twitter.
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In former coups, the population was cowed into accepting, or willingly went along with, martial law.
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Khrushchev brought a brief thaw, but in Brezhnev's time the people were cowed into silence again.
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And even if the judges are cowed, Mr Kenyatta will have to contend with continuing protests.
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And unlike many economists cowed by a frostier political climate, he is unafraid to say so.
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Voters saw Trump's success in refusing to be cowed by political correctness as their own success.
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Rather than being cowed, the Arabic channel has been hitting back hard at its regional neighbors.
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" In an op-ed, Collins responded that he would not be cowed by Banks's "bullyboy tactics.
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Most of Trump's victims are cowed into silence; we never hear what this has cost them.
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But critics contend it was a case of conservatives being cowed by the financial services industry.
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Young people, in particular, just are not going to be cowed by the scary "socialist" label.
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The soldiers know they serve so Americans can speak their minds, not be cowed into obedience.
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She is seldom cowed by political pressure from her own team, much less the opposing one.
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Fear that Oracle would walk cowed shareholders - a reminder to prospective targets that Ellison takes no prisoners.
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Rather than being cowed by the currency move, India's hitherto divided and disparate opposition has been invigorated.
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Weiss expressed her confidence that the neighborhood will not be cowed by the act of violence Saturday.
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But Mr. de Blasio, cowed by the police unions, has not been forceful on that issue himself.
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But wouldn't they be cowed by their party's shrunken majority and failure to win the White House?
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Murray claims that the opposition to this orthodoxy is widespread, if covert and cowed by political correctness.
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In 1954, when others were cowed by the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, Senator Case was openly critical.
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"We will never let these cowards win, and we will never be cowed by terrorism," he said.
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Iranians refusing to be cowed by the regime's propaganda and dictates should know they have our support.
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It's fascinating to see someone who's not cowed by him so effectively wrap him around her finger.
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An underrated aspect of the President's year is the way he has cowed the Republican Party itself.
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For a moment, it looked as if Trump had cowed America's neighbor with his madman foreign policy.
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You have me so completely cowed that even now I don't stand up for myself around you.
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This black woman is not surprised by racism, not cowed by it, and not defined by it.
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Many have fled the country, others are in prison while a third group have been cowed into silence.
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The fact that you cowed him into a risky situation lends further support, I think, to that decision.
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I wasn't going to be cowed by his force of personality, buy his bullying, or by his charm.
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It is far more likely that the markets will be cowed by politics than the other way around.
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That generated a fresh round of yelling at media for being cowed into silence by bad-faith actors.
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It also cowed to Trump's go-to tactic of bullying his opponents in hopes of receiving softer treatment.
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Still, colleges were cowed into compliance after the OCR threatened to cut off federal funding to offending institutions.
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Watching him boss Rick around has diminishing returns, especially after Rick was so completely cowed in the premiere.
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After an era of cowed silence, noted fair-weather feminist and Facebook demigod Sheryl Sandberg finally spoke up!
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"I think a lot of scientists have been cowed into submission by the assaults, the attacks," Mann said.
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Cowed by the tech giants, publications collapse with the fickle movements of markets or Charles Harder's client fees.
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He found Bean in the town square, guzzling whiskey, berating the cowed townsfolk, and waving around a pistol.
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Murray, who was gay and had enormous drive, was neither immune to Roosevelt's charm nor cowed by it.
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He also wanted students to enjoy physics — rather than be cowed by it — as much as he did.
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Even senators from Mr Peña's cowed Institutional Revolutionary Party assented to the death of a law they recently favoured.
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To say that McGonagall was "cowed and intimidated" by Harry Potter is to willfully ignore everything about the character.
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Which has cowed and paralyzed opinion leaders, policymakers, politicians across the spectrum, and impeded their ability to think clearly.
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However, according to one Fed watcher's interpretation, the FOMC is feeling a little less cowed by Wall Street sentiment.
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But other MPs, far from feeling more cowed as Brexit day looms, seem to be growing in rebellious confidence.
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To many, Mr Macron now looks like a president who can be cowed by flying bricks and sagging polls.
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"I've been doing this too long to get cowed by the idea that any case is unwinnable," Lichtman said.
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Instead, she paints in binary shades to create a revisionist history inhabited solely by angry men and cowed women.
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It involves everything from supporting open-minded colleges to refusing to be cowed away from that clever Halloween costume.
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But despite the intense stress and fear that OSA's presence inflicted, supporters of the clinic refused to be cowed.
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But it was under his tenure that UMNO's leaders became so hard to dislodge, and Malaysia's courts so cowed.
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The media is largely weak and cowed by government pressure; state television unfailingly reflects the government's point of view.
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It is a new "silent majority" that has been cowed into submission by a liberal press and cowardly politicians.
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And Democrats, cowed by years of anti-debt, tax-and-spend messaging, pay regular lip service to debt reduction.
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But instead of being cowed, Flake is launching a broad attack on Trump over the president's core issue: immigration.
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"I was trying to prove to myself that I would not be cowed or seduced by power," he writes.
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Fear that Oracle would walk away cowed shareholders — a reminder to prospective targets that Mr. Ellison takes no prisoners.
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"Giving Godhead" blows several giant craters out through the walls of our inherited and now somewhat cowed Western selves.
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As white farmers were driven from their lands, political opponents were jailed or murdered and the media was cowed.
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The four were forceful in their positions and not cowed by questioning from House members who opposed witnesses' views.
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I'd been temporarily cowed by John's attack, but it wasn't until I got high that I got really paranoid.
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The media, which should be pointing out Mr Erdogan's mistakes, are so cowed that they repeat his conspiracy theories instead.
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Her generation of educated, urban young Russians has very little in common with the cowed Homo sovieticus who still abounds.
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In a country where violence cowed too many people and journalists were killed for their reporting, she talked, and talked.
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John Cornyn of Texas told colleagues Monday night that Republicans would not be cowed by the Democrats' act of rebellion.
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Every lynching victim, every slaughtered dissident, every rape victim and PTSD-cowed citizen has suffered for a concrete scientific untruth.
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The news media should neither be cowed by Trump's bombast and track record, nor should they be fixated by it.
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Chinese state media, reflecting the government's stance, has said China will not be cowed in the face of U.S. threats.
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I have shopped those stores for years, sometimes cowed by them and sometimes snide in the face of their rejection.
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Financial market analysts doubt current Fed policy makers are likely to be cowed by Trump's outbursts over their policy choices.
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He's essentially accused the US intelligence agencies of being cowed by Trump into holding on to facts for political reasons.
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With her conspicuously burned hand and slightly cowed demeanor, this Mag isn't the baleful, suffocating force that Ms. Manahan was.
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But the news from the Pentagon undermines any idea that the President's ruthlessness cowed Iran from staging an effective retribution.
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In 1997, at the height of his powers, Kasparov was crushed and cowed by an IBM supercomputer called Deep Blue.
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But this is precisely the time to demonstrate that the United States will not be cowed by North Korean threats.
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But when he ascended to the top of a historic Parisian maison, he did not seem cowed by the height.
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But Faber, who is also known as Dr. Doom for his usually pessimistic predictions, noted that China wouldn't be easily cowed.
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His newly proposed budget requests billions to modernize America's nuclear arsenal, another signal to Moscow that the U.S. won't be cowed.
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Never cowed by art dealers or collectors, always wary of the commercial art market, he learnt to trust his own experience.
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Paradoxically, Saipov's perverse mission failed: New Yorkers were not cowed, and he was denied the martyrdom that he was clearly seeking.
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But Banyan insists there is more to the PAP's longevity: a "favourable electoral system" and a cowed electorate, among other things.
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Cowed law clerks became powerful judges (and can anyone imagine a male judge encouraging 156 women to testify about being violated?).
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It's established that they don't want to get fired, and Maeve has physically cowed them (she's pretty handy with a scalpel).
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There isn't a lot of air in her scripts, and I can see how an actor could feel cowed by them.
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Lacy soon realizes what a dangerous situation she has gotten into — and like any Grisham hero, she is anything but cowed.
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Mayor Roland Ries told reporters the city would not be cowed by what he said was indisputably an act of terror.
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It may have also cowed his opponents, who didn't want to be blasting a man who'd just survived a knife attack.
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Clarence Thomas got rewarded by the cowed Senate Judiciary Committee and ended up with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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"I ask my fellow lawyers who fight for what is right and just to continue and not be cowed," he said.
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Not easily cowed, Pelosi offered a counter: "What is at stake in this is nothing less than our democracy," she said.
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But police continue to drive the inquiries, and the threat of being labeled pro-ISIS by the media has cowed many judges.
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Iran, which has distanced itself from the previous attacks, has said it would not be cowed by what it called psychological warfare.
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Some say the case cowed Microsoft, giving Google the space to be successful and, ultimately, grow into a giant of its own.
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Thomas A. Mesereau Jr., one of Mr. Cosby's lawyers, shredded any sense that the defense would be cowed by the #MeToo moment.
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Mr Niehoff does not think "the media are easily cowed", but a nine-figure verdict "gets the attention of any rational person".
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Only now, as he was caught describing methods of sexual assault on tape, Trump has been cowed by his own filthy record.
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Accordingly, Iran uses its sea power in the Gulf to show it will not be cowed by Washington's naval presence, analysts say.
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Cowed, Krista gives Vera access to her file on Elliot, telling him that Mr. Robot is the key to her client's psyche.
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He shows how policy makers, cowed by a powerful logging interest, hid the true danger of the smoldering mountain from their constituents.
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That's unfortunate, particularly if we continue to watch in cowed silence as violent crime grows, as mass shootings happen, as children disappear.
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For Washington to be cowed by Tehran is not the elephant afraid of the mouse — that's too generous to the Iranian regime.
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Film students, history buffs, and anyone else who's ever been cowed by the splendor of the moving image — that covers everybody, right?
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I find so much of it to be an illusion or a delusion and I'm not going to be cowed by anyone.
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For decades, the Myanmar military has kept Rakhine villages cowed and, according to human rights groups, has coerced children into forced labor.
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Despite personal tragedies that would have cowed most people, he has soldiered on and given us an example of courage and resilience.
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Ingrid Engen, just 21, took a little time to assert her influence but never seemed cowed by Amandine Henry, her illustrious opponent.
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Lenders continue to hesitate or retreat from doing business with the company, cowed by the scrutiny that other financial partners have received.
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Some faculty leaders have argued that campus administrators have been cowed by the president's office, which oversees the system's $31.5 billion budget.
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A single Republican willing to stand for morality and honesty and proclaim independence from their cowed and complicit party would make history.
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Russia's leaders are convinced that Western democracy is a threat to the authoritarian order in a country they have cowed into submission.
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But they're more like faces, laughing at the figure in the sunlight, who seems cowed and humiliated, rooted to the ground. video
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If anything, they're even more cowed & cautious, fearing that being out of favor w: POTUS (and his party) limits their earning power.
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Because in politics as in business, Trump thrives on chaos, on keeping people off-balance, on keeping them cowed, scared and angry.
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They will see a Washington completely cowed by industry, and they will not like it—nor will they spare Democrats the blame.
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The president, cowed by his base, engineered a very unpopular government shutdown for which most people held him (and his party) responsible.
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It may have also cowed his opponents, who didn't want to be seen blasting a man who'd just survived a knife attack.
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While Epstein's attorneys in Florida cowed Acosta in part through a vicious campaign to attack the victims, the SDNY needs to stand firm.
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The trouble here is that the people of Mexico, and Pena Nieto himself, refused to be cowed by the bully of the North.
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We will not be cowed by a killer; we will double down on the kind of activism that we believe our tradition requires.
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Iran, which has distanced itself from the previous attacks, has said it will not be cowed by what it describes as psychological warfare.
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Even if those or similar terms were on offer, moreover, Mr Trump seems too cowed by his right-wing critics to accept them.
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Far from being cowed by the brutal murder of Jan Kuciak, a journalist at Aktuality, Slovakia's doughty investigative reporters step up their game.
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Indians hear such criticisms less often because Mr Modi has cowed the press, showering bounty on flatterers while starving, controlling and bullying critics.
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"This is our city … and we will never be cowed by terrorism," the mayor stressed Watch his comments in the video player above.
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They are no longer so cowed by history or so grateful to the party for the improvements in living standards they have enjoyed.
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And back home, another round of primaries and clashes with the cowed congressional GOP only served to cement his power over his party.
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Over the years, Christians have been cowed into silence by their extremist persecutors — abetted by a government that has failed to protect them.
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Already, politicians like Chuka Umunna—who withdrew from the leadership race because of the added media attention—have been cowed by the press.
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But it was only sad in the old world, I reminded myself, where people stayed cowed by the bitter medicine of their lives.
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Unchecked by cowed or complicit Republicans in Congress, Trump invokes executive authority to alter policies and practices long established by law and treaty.
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Recode's own Kara Swisher has written on this site that President Trump has cowed some of Silicon Valley's most idealistic dreamers into compliance.
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But our backs are against the wall and if we are cowed by fear now, there won't be another chance to speak out.
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You start to blame everything that goes wrong on the media, which are apparently fake news and need to be cowed and regulated.
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At a news conference on Thursday with Mr. Warner after the meeting with Mr. Rosenstein, Mr. Burr said he would not be cowed.
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At a community meeting, some accused city officials of brushing aside their concerns after they had been cowed by the opposition in Maspeth.
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Members of the city's Muslim, Christian, Jewish and Sikh communities said they wanted to show that Manchester, while shocked, would not be cowed.
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They also cite a separation between their news and entertainment divisions, and point to signs that the network would not necessarily be cowed.
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Yet I'm nonetheless cowed by the rhythm and the elegance of Kerouac's prose, how he taps into the wild energy of adolescent wanting.
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Donald Trump has the power to hold on to the presidency, as long as elected Republicans, cowed by the conservative base, support him.
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The military had been shockingly quiet about these developments in recent years, leading many to believe that Erdogan had successfully cowed them into submission.
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His decision is consistent with the Democratic Party's larger, cowed deference to the GOP when it comes to running the country's national security bureaucracy.
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Voters understood he was enjoying his electoral adventure because he was not cowed by his opposition nor intimidated by the job beyond the campaign.
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In the end, the banter made little difference: The English seemed focused, the Welsh were not cowed, and the atmosphere was electric, yet sporting.
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" In that speech, Kavanaugh said the cases represented occasions when judges "stood up to the other branches, were not cowed and enforced the law.
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In the same stroke, the crown prince has cowed businessmen and royals across the kingdom by taking down the undisputed giant of Saudi finance.
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What Booker did -- with clear intent -- on Thursday morning was to show he's not going to be cowed by the rules of the Senate.
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True, the Global Times, a chest-thumping tabloid, accused the American president of "gambling" that China will be cowed by his "capricious and obstinate attitude".
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The protesters, meanwhile, have shown they are not cowed and that they can organise without the internet, which the junta shut off a month ago.
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You won't have time to be cowed, because you will be too busy working and learning and communing with other girls and women like you.
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Rather than be cowed, Fowler said he hoped the grouping would help bring out his best and that McIlroy has been a frequent practice partner.
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He's never built a wall, never banned Muslims from the United States, never cowed the government of Russia or China with his superior negotiating skills.
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Further, the Obama administration was cowed by congressional Republicans into distancing themselves from a DHS report in 2009 on the dangers of white supremacist terrorism.
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She was at her best when being relentlessly grilled by House members on Benghazi, so she should not be cowed by similar behavior from reporters.
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Ultimately, the countries that can most materially impact the policies of both the Israelis and the Palestinians will not be cowed by threats or bluster.
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With critics cowed into submission and rivals pushed aside, there is no obvious alternative-in-waiting who might provide Saudi Arabia with sober, responsible leadership.
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He had given regulators more power to fine and punish independent news outlets, or to drive them off air, yet Origo did not seem cowed.
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And he took a cue from Isaiah as he said Mr. Trump's supporters should not be cowed by counterprotest: "I am not afraid!" he said.
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He and others here acknowledge, however, that China's economic clout has cowed corporations — and countries — fearful of losing access to the world's largest consumer market.
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MBS' iron grip on his Kingdom is tightening, already cowed critics won't dare whisper, and no royal would risk his wrath stepping out of line.
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But Hong Kong, an "autonomous region" that for months has been in increasingly violent revolt against the Communist Party's interference there, refused to be cowed.
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We know that Canada's strength comes from our diversity, and we will not be cowed by those who seek to divide us or promote fear.
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For now, he said, both are engaged in "messaging for the domestic populations, to show that each side is in charge and won't be cowed."
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Mr. Trump exerts a powerful hold on his party, and lawmakers are cowed by the belief that opposing him will end in their political destruction.
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But in a subsequent Senate trial, the betting is that Republicans -- cowed by their pro-Trump constituents -- would vote to keep the President in office.
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A good president needs to surround himself with people willing to stand up to him, people who aren't cowed by the trappings of the office.
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"Instead of fact checking and letting the news team full of real reporters do our job, they cowed to right-wing pressure and advertisers," wrote Sampathkumar.
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Seen as out of touch with the poor, and with its clergy cowed, the church faces a third challenge in coping with Mr Duterte: cautious leadership.
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan vowed his city wouldn't be cowed by terrorism, while British Prime Minister Theresa May promised a tougher attitude to fighting homegrown extremism.
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The opposition is often cowed or idle, the news media controlled by government or oligarchs with their own business agendas, the courts struggling to gain authority.
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Whatever your personal feelings about the president, it is clear that he cannot be cowed into submission the way so many politicians have in the past.
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It wasn't long ago that threats far less terrifying that those would have cowed any UFC fighter, much less one as uncontroversial and amenable as Johnson.
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Levandowski, rather than being cowed by the incident, later defended it as an invaluable source of data, an opportunity to learn how to avoid similar mistakes.
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One of our columnists writes that even legislators who are not digital natives should not be cowed from regulating technology companies as they have other industries.
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CAIRO — In his desire to wield sweeping power, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt has suppressed politics, cowed the media and jailed legions of opponents.
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Even though they were the majority, Democrats were cowed by Thomas wrapping himself in the charged symbolism of the civil rights movement he had always scorned.
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The staff members of the Soviet embassy in Israel — Yuri Kotov among them — were less confident than their bosses in Moscow that Israel could be cowed.
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Most people, even many in those demographic categories, have had contact with racial minorities through their families and workplaces and are not cowed by Trump's rhetoric.
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Puerto Rico, which lost to the Dominican Republic in the 333 championship game, may not beat the United States, but it is unlikely to be cowed.
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"This is a shocking incident to occur just on the eve of Christmas but we will not be cowed by it," Turnbull told reporters in Sydney.
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The surprisingly high number of invalid ballots hinted at quiet defiance from an electorate cowed into voting, but distressed by the kneecapping of democracy in Cambodia.
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In Crazyhead's first two episodes, brash and brilliant demon fighter Raquel (Susan Wokoma) is cowed only when she runs into a man named Sawyer (Luke Allen-Gale).
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His day job involved crushing all forms of dissent among the cowed population of 32m, but in practice nothing happened in Uzbekistan without Mr Inoyatov's say-so.
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Tanzania's politics have never been truly open, but what is different now is that even CCM, which is by far the country's most stable institution, is cowed.
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A more diverse committee might have been less cowed by Thomas's talk of "high-tech lynching," and might have more easily remembered that Hill was also black.
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Clinton's remarks were intended in part to show she would not be cowed and that she could go toe-to-toe with him in scornful put-downs.
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U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May described the attack as "sick and depraved" while London Mayor Sadiq Khan vowed Britain's capital city would not "be cowed by terrorists".
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Thankfully, there is a strong and vibrant community of young pro-Israel activists who refuse to believe the lies and who refuse to be cowed or silenced.
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Before meeting with Mr. Abadi, Mr. Obama made a hastily scheduled appearance at his hotel in Midtown Manhattan to urge Americans not to be cowed by terrorists.
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He'll also take cover with his ultra-loyal political base, rely on Republicans who are too cowed to repudiate him and fog an issue with alternative facts.
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Its domestic market is now too large, its technology too advanced, its overseas friends too numerous and its military too strong to be cowed by economic bullying.
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Clinton's remarks were intended in part to show she would not be cowed, and that she could go toe-to-toe with him in scornful put-downs.
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Democrats, who believe their leverage will only grow when they assume the majority in the House in January, did not appear to be cowed by the tactic.
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If Woods is to win his fifth Masters title, he is going to have to vanquish a group of players who do not appear cowed by him.
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Serie A has seemed a league cowed by the memory of what it used to be, unable to live up to the gilded ghosts of its past.
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The move by the automaker is the latest example of a foreign company being cowed by the growing power of a critical, but increasingly nationalistic, consumer market.
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Many see a test of whether the courts can protect freedoms even as Beijing exerts more influence over Hong Kong's compliant local government and increasingly cowed press.
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We have to really be proud of who we are as Jews and affirm that loudly and clearly and not be cowed or scared to be Jewish.
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The governing Justice and Development Party, known as the A.K.P., uses the largely cowed and co-opted media to target new enemies and scapegoats for its failures.
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He was cowed into trying to prove that he's not a puppet of Russia and as a consequence has brought us closer and closer to nuclear war.
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Turned by the other side Cowed, bullied or simply out for their own self-preservation as politicians, it should be concerning that honest dissent is not tolerated.
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It wasn't the performance of a President shamed and cowed by impeachment ahead of a vote in the GOP-led Senate expected to acquit him on Wednesday.
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No one knows or writes about Washington better than Mark Leibovich, but are we supposed to feel sorry for silent-yet-disaffected Republicans cowed by Trump's tweets?
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She sat for Horst P. Horst and worked with Irving Penn, but even collaboration with the greats neither cowed her nor cracked her witty, no-nonsense mien.
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People who used to think there's no use running, because they would never win or it's too big an unknown, are much less cowed by those factors.
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The sauce and mussels were excellent, though the tagliatelle was cowed by the picada, so much so that the pasta could only provide backup texture for the dish.
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The central bank has been slow to tackle this and seems cowed by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president, who insists that high interest rates cause inflation (see article).
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In early 2002, we were a cowed people, but when the first dings of Conversation's cowbell rang across the post 22002/215 landscape we knew we'd be alright.
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On that very first day we witnessed a cowed-looking press secretary insist to reporters summoned to the White House that Trump's inauguration crowd was larger than Obama's.
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Guess which day his mom wants him to revisit the store, to prove that he's not superstitious or easily cowed by the bullies she believes left the note?
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Much of China's intellectual elite has also been cowed by an unrelenting campaign of ideological purification in academia and of censorship in mainstream news and on social media.
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President Ashraf Ghani condemned the attack in a statement, saying Afghans would not be cowed by terrorism, but his words were likely to ring hollow with the Hazaras.
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I understand all of that, but I also know that we will cease to be truly free if ever the day comes when the free press is cowed.
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Otherwise, this deliberately disorienting "1984" would seem to be trafficking in the same kind of titillating violence with which Big Brother keeps his populace both cowed and entertained.
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Far from cowed, some Zulu members, in demonstrators' full view, responded by smearing on their parade makeup and pacing the sidewalk, The Advocate and CNN affiliate WVUE reported.
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But Vandeweghe, despite her lack of experience at this level, did not look cowed by the moment, breaking Williams in an intense opening game that lasted six minutes.
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Two U.S. entities -- the National Basketball Association and now Activision Blizzard Games - have been cowed from supporting human rights in Hong Kong due to fear of Chinese power.
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Yet with the mainstream media cowed or co-opted, Kurdish politicians behind bars and dissent equated with treason, the prospect of a free and fair vote is abysmally low.
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And regulators have cowed swashbuckling businessmen, from Wang Jianlin, a property mogul formerly China's richest man, to Wu Xiaohui, an insurance magnate who fancied himself the next Warren Buffett.
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During his speech Friday, Ahmed asked the group whether they would be cowed by fear, or if, instead, they wanted more classes, to come to the mosque more often.
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"The President knows he can trade in such base tactics because he will pay no price in a Republican Party cowed by his fervent political base," Collinson writes. 2.
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"Democrats aren't feeling the heat over this," Democratic strategist Jim Manley said, adding that "no Democrat is going to be cowed" by Trump's threat to shut down the government.
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Defying the ICC, Bashir continued to visit friendly foreign states as he tried to demonstrate he had not been cowed by the international arrest warrant issued by the court.
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The irony being that it was femme gay men, visible and refusing to be cowed, who began gay liberation with the first punches in the Stonewall Inn in 1969.
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His regime has jailed journalists, eviscerated the army and cowed the judiciary, all in the name of rooting out the "parallel state" Mr Erdogan claims the Gulenists have built.
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Ironically, only fellow liberals will be cowed by terror of being branded a racist (a pejorative lobbed at me in recent days — one that, however groundless, tends to stick).
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" Calling Mr. Trump a "small and petty man" who is easily cowed by "strong women," Mr. Cruz said in front of reporters in Wisconsin, "Donald, you're a sniveling coward.
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The US is NATO's single largest partner and funder, so NATO officials feel cowed at the idea saying anything that might look like criticism of Trump's friendliness toward Russia.
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Groups that say they feel compelled to stand up for the rights of white people and for free speech insist that they will not be cowed by anti-fascists.
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What voices of moderation and reason there used to be within the B.J.P. are either too cowed to speak or feel that it is politically inexpedient to do so.
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One of the best relief pitchers in baseball, Betances may not be flawless, but he rarely appears cowed by a boisterous crowd, a difficult jam or a fearsome hitter.
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I think a lot of elite workers don't realize how cowed and intimidated and scared and humbled a lot of low-wage workers are, hotel housekeepers, nail salon workers.
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Many protesters were young people who reportedly get their news from more independent sources, not state-run media, and apparently are not cowed by the man in the Kremlin.
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The EU's executive promised EU lawmakers on Wednesday to find a solution and said that technical work continued, adding that the bloc would not be cowed by U.S. sanctions.
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But this generation wasn't fed activism as a punch line the way I was, and as Donald Trump emboldens conservative teenagers, my daughters and their friends aren't cowed — they're galvanized.
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As President, Trump has found himself in the position of needing experts and experienced hands who, as accomplished individuals with their own reputations to safeguard, were not so easily cowed.
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And to cave under pressure undermines reporters' work by suggesting, rightly or not, that the Washington press corps can be cowed by the play-for-keeps tactics of this administration.
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We owe it to the dead and the living not to be cowed by terrorism and go deeper into the root causes of which the violence is a tragic symptom.
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For five weeks, a cowed electoral commission refused to divulge the result, eventually massaging the figure of Mr Tsvangirai's victory down to just under 50%, thus requiring a second round.
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Ruben Gallego, a combat veteran of the Marine Corps, cautioned the media to not be cowed by a retired general and blasted Kelly in a scathing interview with BuzzFeed News.
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Even though he is aware that those with fewer means may struggle to be as resilient as wealthier residents, he is determined not to be cowed by the growing threat.
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Erdogan has not cowed in the face of rebuke, telling European countries who criticized his decision to invade Syria that he would send Syrian refugees living in Turkey into Europe.
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The fear is that the media and mass hysteria has cowed Trump into fully tanking the economy in response to what they believe is a dangerous, but not apocalyptic, disease.
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Warren and her colleagues wanted a bureau that could resist the political pressures that, in their view, had cowed and co-opted other financial regulators leading up to the crisis.
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Rather than be cowed by a Republican field that, at the peak of the Tea Party movement, had been infiltrated by the party's fringe, Reid turned that to his advantage.
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By February 2017, he was slightly cowed but still held his presentation before an enormous screen on which images of his collection towered over the actual people on the catwalk.
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But in a Republican Party so cowed by this president, with most lawmakers too timid to question even his most grotesque behavior, Ms. Murkowski's expression of concern sets her apart.
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The dam could break And Trump's brazen behavior suggests he is far from cowed by the current Democratic oversight offensive, which he stymied with executive privilege claims and court challenges.
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Expect to hear a lot from Ms. Pelosi about a basic tenet of American government, that Congress is a coequal branch of government that is not cowed by presidential whim.
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Another woman told me that she craves a president who is fearless, really fearless, and that of all the candidates in the race, Trump seems the least bowed, the least cowed.
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NOT long ago even members of the royal family were cowed by Saudi Arabia's religious police, formally known as the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.
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But a successful-looking North Korea summit, a cowed Iran and Chinese concessions on trade would look like winning to Mr Trump and his supporters, and to some other observers, too.
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Ms Pelosi, who unlike most Republicans is not cowed by Mr Trump, noted that the president's party still has a majority in both chambers and so could fund the fortification tomorrow.
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In Australia, Livingston said, drivers have been cowed into compliance by the country's practice of allowing cops to issue random breathalyzer road tests, which the US and many countries don't do.
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All this less than a year after Conmebol, cowed by fan violence in Buenos Aires, transferred to Madrid the final of their blue riband event, the final of the Copa Libertadores.
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That's unlikely to happen, of course, because a majority of our lawmakers are so cowed by the N.R.A. that gun control advocates rarely even consider registration as part of their agenda.
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Yet it is sadly understandable, too, as a timid Congress cowed by the gun lobby fails to enact stronger gun-control laws for a nation increasingly flooded with high-powered weapons.
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And he fretted that his backing of Strange over Moore -- a bombastic anti-establishment candidate -- would make him appear cowed to the Republican machine he'd openly rebuffed during his own campaign.
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As a group, investigative journalists and their sources operate in grave fear of jail time, but not as much as they fear being cowed out of important stories by the government.
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If he was cowed in the least by a New York Daily News endorsement of Clinton that called him "a fantasist who's at passionate war with reality," he didn't show it.
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While she had been tempted to argue, she went on, she had been cowed into compliance by what she said (incorrectly) was a reference to "armed guards" on the race website.
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Mr. Trump said this month that Iran is changing its behavior in the region, implying that its leaders had been chastened or cowed by the American move and were pulling back.
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He imagines a Trumpian autocracy built upon the most ordinary of foundations: a growing economy, a cynical public, a cowed media, a self-interested business community, and a compliant Republican Party.
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If the hawks are wrong, and Iran isn't in fact cowed by the Soleimani hit for an extended period of time, then Trump might find himself once again needing to respond.
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Leaders of his Republican Party -- who have maintained a cowed and shameful silence in the wake of Trump's outbursts -- should disavow the politics of resentment in this and every election year.
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It would be foolish to assume that the Soleimani file is now closed from Iran's point of view; and that Tehran, cowed by the US, will -- as Trump indicated-- stand down.
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Reading Wineapple's book, one is struck by the degree to which the Radical Republicans controlling Congress (in the House, especially) were not cowed by the prospect of reprisal at Johnson's hands.
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There is of course the perennial question of whether cowed Republicans on Capitol Hill will be moved to even discuss the crisis of competence and temperance raging in the White House.
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The report really shows in its totality how people of immense power can be cowed by the military-industrial complex anytime they had misgivings about what was going on in Afghanistan.
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But with more easily cowed county officials — or those who simply couldn't afford a four-month court battle — the fishing expedition would have significantly chilled participation in the legal farm program.
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Ann Coulter, of course, applauded Trump's refusal to be cowed by the "left-wing media narrative" without expounding on how partisanship can change the interpretation of being hit by a speeding car.
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But I just think you have to think about what values you have and if you have those values, not being cowed into saying, you have to have everyone's point of view.
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Ruth's husband Marty (Armie Hammer) is a second-year student at Harvard, and they have a baby at home, but she quickly establishes herself as smart and capable, and not easily cowed.
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Each signal that the Fed is about to tighten policy has resulted in market volatility, prompting Royce to ask whether the central bank will be cowed by jangled nerves on Wall Street.
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It was a rare case in which the government-funded and only semi-autonomous human rights commission brought succor to victims of violence who were too cowed to ask anybody for help.
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And if enough of them are cowed into treating the 20-year-old contents of The American Spectator as fair-game politics, Trump's plan to dupe the young and forgetful will succeed.
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If a prolonged equity funk feeds back into the real economy via cowed business sentiment, reduced corporate spending and investment, the threat of a deeper global economic downturn and even recession mounts.
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Critics say nationalizations and takeovers during 17 years of socialist rule in Venezuela, under Hugo Chavez from 1999-2013 and now under President Nicolas Maduro, destroyed local production and cowed private business.
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Nor was he cowed when thousands of protesters, some of them aggressive, descended on his clinic and tried to block access to it during the so-called Summer of Mercy in 1991.
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They waved banners with Austen's name on them; they put on pageants in which "Prejudice," cowed by the spectacle of Jane Austen and other lady geniuses, slinks off the stage in shame.
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Attempting to hold this administration to account will be among the new Democratic majority's most vital, and most fraught, duties — especially after two years of cowed Republicans letting the president operate unchecked.
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The only person to push back even a little is the hapless principal (Patton Oswalt), and he is too cowed by Jack's Harvard pedigree to make much of a stink about anything.
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One popular destination is Taiwan, a flourishing Chinese democracy with more affordable real estate and news outlets that have not been cowed by Beijing, as many of those in Hong Kong have.
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This week Trump also walked back his earlier comments supporting a handful of reasonable gun control measures, apparently after the NRA -- and the NRA-cowed members of his party -- got to him.
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Western leaders, perhaps cowed by President Xi Jinping's obvious distaste for hectoring on human rights, were unacceptably subdued before Mr. Liu's death, mostly leaving comments about his case to lower-ranking officials.
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Gustave Newman, a goateed criminal defense lawyer in a host of headline-grabbing cases who genially cajoled skeptical juries and cowed hostile witnesses with his booming baritone, died on Monday in Manhattan.
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At a time when nothing at all seems certain, it felt somehow reassuring that Arsenal was summarily dispatched at Stamford Bridge, crushed and cowed by Chelsea's typical blend of finesse and physicality.
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Algeria's politics, frozen under Mr. Bouteflika, with an acquiescent populace cowed by the prospect of a return to the chaos of the 1990s civil war, is the most unsettled in many years.
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Criticism in the media has cowed this bunch countless times before, especially during the government shutdown in 2013 when the Republicans wilted under the pressure of front page editorials in the major newspapers.
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And while the Trump administration's stated policy toward Iran "is perhaps the most hawkish we have ever seen toward the Islamic Republic," there is little evidence that Iran is cowed by current sanctions.
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Fox News is loyal to the base and to Trump; GOP politicians are cowed into loyalty to both Fox and the president; and the president … well, the president is loyal to no one.
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Realistically, Democrats may be unwilling to pay the price of an impeachment investigation in the knowledge that few GOP senators -- cowed by the President's fervent support from his base -- will vote to convict.
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Mr Rees-Mogg has accused the government of being cowed by the EU. Brexiteers worry about the consequence of Britain's promise in December that there will be no border checks in Northern Ireland.
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Cowed by the "survivors must be believed" hooey — as if there were a link between X chromosomes and truth-telling — Republicans blithely went along, as if this preposterous mistaken-identity scenario were incontestable.
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Few countries seemed cowed, as nation after nation blasted the US at the emergency session of the UN General Assembly, condemning the Jerusalem decision as illegal, destabilizing, and a violation of international law.
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Stephen Glover, a columnist for the Daily Mail, stood by the newspaper's coverage of the court ruling and said he did not think judges would be cowed by the criticism of their decision.
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Ms. Paulson looked wonderful in a sequin-dangling, emerald-green Prada gown that would have cowed a more timid soul; Ms. Clark was her match, in a low-cut, beaded gown and diamonds.
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Rafael Correa, the president who decided to grant Mr. Assange asylum, was widely seen as wanting to burnish his credentials as a leftist leader who would not be cowed by the United States.
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Covering her face with a veil to talk with strangers, Gul spoke of the dangers she faces due to the heinous slurs propagated by ill-educated opponents, but she refuses to be cowed.
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The precarious position of women who work as household help is of particular interest, with both iterations of Abigail cowed, straitened and ultimately stranded, and yet expected to be ladylike at all times.
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"The perception will be that the court cowed to Washington, but the judges are being realistic," said Alex Whiting, a former American prosecutor at the court who now teaches at Harvard Law School.
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Many Democrats, in turn, have said House leaders were cowed by a Republican effort to divert attention from bigotry within their own ranks and that Omar is being held to a different standard.
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The justices "must not be cowed"—wrote the senator who held open a Supreme Court seat for over a year to prevent Barack Obama from filling it—"by the threats of opportunistic politicians".
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Critics say nationalizations and takeovers during 17 years of socialist rule in Venezuela, under Hugo Chavez from 1999-2013 and now under President Nicolas Maduro, has destroyed local production and cowed private business.
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But it's clear that the cryptocurrency community hasn't been cowed by the price swings in recent months, and that elements of Wall Street's pre-crash culture of celebratory excess are everywhere you look.
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Five-times major champion Mickelson, however, refused to be cowed and an eagle three at the fourth followed by a birdie two holes later meant he was only one behind at the turn.
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Much of what the public knows about President Trump's conduct in office comes from journalists who have not been cowed by the enormous power wielded by the executive branch and its investigative capabilities.
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Much of what the public knows about President Trump's conduct in office comes from journalists who have not been cowed by the enormous power wielded by the executive branch and its investigative capabilities.
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The White House staff, too cowed to break their boss of the habit of making things up, is stuck cleaning up the President's misstatements, plugging leaks, and picking pointless, unwinnable fights with media organizations.
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It is, despite Spielberg's claims, neither a purehearted popcorn flick nor a Paul Verhoevenesque subversion, but something uneasily in between, cowed by the idea of the fanboy demographic it seems to be aimed at.
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Some of May's Brexit-supporting lawmakers, such as Jacob Rees-Mogg, said Britain's government must start promoting the opportunities from leaving the European Union and its negotiators should stop being "cowed by the EU".
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Anyone thinking of demanding higher pay, or of joining a union in the hope of organising to grab a share of the returns to increased efficiency, can be cowed with the threat of robots.
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Americans aren't the most combative people, but it's rare for a significant amount of us to become too cowed to express an opinion on something as simple as whom we're going to vote for.
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Far from being cowed by the statements by Flynn's lawyer about a possible immunity request to the FBI and the House and Senate intelligence committees, Trump gave the story new life with a tweet.
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If you, like me, are a bit cowed by the prospect of these final few months of that wait, though, there may be respite—in the form of a two-year-old mobile game?
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Rather than be cowed, as the area affected went into lockdown, locals and supporters from around the world used social media to tell the perpetrators their attempts to sow fear would not be successful.
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" Mallory responded with witty aplomb, and the mugger, cowed, scuttled "down some anonymous alley to reflect on why it is Bad To Threaten Other People, especially pushy Americans who doubt he has a gun.
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But we shouldn't shy away about talking about gun laws right now, or be cowed into not "politicizing" an event that has become so horribly commonplace that there's no way not to politicize it.
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They have been joined by women, labor activists, teachers, students, artists, lawyers — all those who have not been cowed by arguments that the only form of injustice facing Iranians derives from American foreign policy.
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By picking fights with the opposition, Mr. Kadyrov may be trying to further ingratiate himself with Mr. Putin and remind him that Chechnya, once torn by war and now cowed into submission, deserves special consideration.
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People who have spoken to Mr. Zucker in recent weeks say he is not cowed by Mr. Trump's attacks, if irked by the level of vitriol from a man with whom he was once close.
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Insofar as that's Obama's responsibility, it was in not making sure that Biden entered the race, and being cowed by the Clintons, and not finding a successor who could win the coalition he had assembled.
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Two years ago Guatemalans filled the capital's giant central plaza for 20 straight weekends to protest corruption, an unexpected outpouring of revulsion among citizens long cowed by dictatorship and a long and bloody civil war.
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Chelsea plays Liverpool on Sunday, a step up in terms of opposition from the teams it has faced so far, but it is unlikely any of the young players (if Mount plays) will be cowed.
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What her admirers respond to is not so much the gallery of grotesques as her reluctance to be wowed or cowed by them, still less to censure them or to set them up for mockery.
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People who have spoken to Mr. Zucker in recent weeks say he is not cowed by Mr. Trump's attacks, if irked by the level of vitriol from a man with whom he was once close.
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Now, Capitol Hill critics contend the company is allowing itself to be cowed by China, which represents a multibillion-dollar market for the company and is the origin point for many Apple products' supply chains.
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It has cowed the House of Commons, the "despotic and final" authority of the British system, in the words of Walter Bagehot, the Victorian constitutionalist and former editor of The Economist whose name dignifies this column.
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I'm often jealous of cats, what with their lifestyle that consists of sloth, capricious aggression and being pampered, but this is the first time that I've actually been cowed into an inferiority spiral because of one.
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The Land Restitution Law forces businessmen like Echeverri to provide a lot of evidence proving they bought the land without fraud and in "good faith"—meaning, they did not take advantage of peasants cowed by violence.
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While Trump adjusts to the Kelly era, other senior officials have followed senior congressional leaders and even US foes like North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in showing that they are not cowed by the President.
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But with Yaya Touré a shell of the giant he once had been, and with the core of the club aging, this was a City team too meek, almost cowed, in the arena of Real Madrid.
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Today, the sun is shining and I am bursting with pride that so many decent, ordinary British people refused to be cowed by the bullying tactics and politics of the bloated globalists and the liberal elitists.
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The Yankees, though, are unlikely to be cowed after having rallied to knock off the Indians, who had roared their way to an American League-leading 102 victories and had lost only four times between Aug.
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Establishment Republicans of the Ryan-Flake genus don't prioritize protecting our borders or the interests of American workers because they misunderstand and misapply libertarian ideas — and they are cowed by corporate interests dependent upon cheap labor.
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Thus far, Canada and Mexico have made it clear that they will not be cowed by Mr. Trump's threats to unilaterally scrap the trade agreement, a move that would most likely damage the United States economy.
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The open bathrobe, the hotel hot tubs, the syringes of erectile-dysfunction drugs delivered by cowed assistants, the transparent requests for "a massage," the ejaculatory exhibitions — it's not just indictable, it's … ick, simultaneously pathological and pathetic.
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"Dictator Girl" includes lyrics such as: "I must accept everything" and "there are no equal rights", not-so-subtle references to the ruling National Council for Peace and Order, which has broadly cowed opponents into silence.
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A day after President Trump warned that "ridiculous partisan investigations" could harm the nation, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Democrats would not be cowed by Mr. Trump's "all-out threat" to drop their inquiries into the administration.
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Behind the scenes: A New York Times op-ed by Hong Kong activists Joshua Wong and Alex Chow — titled "The People of Hong Kong Will Not Be Cowed by China" — has been circulating inside the administration.
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But it was important for me to show that he had not cowed me; that whatever shots he meant to take at me, he missed; that I was the stronger man and he was the one weeping.
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For a man who laps up and feeds on the adoration of cheering crowds -- and who has cowed former rivals such as Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz -- the charismatic Pelosi reminds him that his power isn't limitless.
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At times their rhetoric hardened into a sort of Trumpism for the left, with rapacious corporations, corrupt politicians and cowed regulators standing in for illegal immigrants and feckless liberals as the cause of all of America's problems.
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It should be shocking that among his alleged targets are women like Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie, both the children of Hollywood elites and power players themselves, who, even so, felt cowed in silence by Weinstein's influence.
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In Italy, which has public debt of around 130% of GDP, populists were carried into office by frustration with the status quo, but cowed into budget sobriety last year after the EU threatened to impose such penalties.
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Cotton and the president-elect seem to have different views of Russia (Cotton depicts an enemy to be cowed by military might, while Trump seems downright chummy with Putin), but they seem aligned on other core issues.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - President Hassan Rouhani said on Friday Iran would not be cowed by "war-mongering policies" against his country, state TV reported, amid increased tensions with the United States following the election of President Donald Trump.
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And while I am not one to be cowed, I do fully believe that I — along with my staff and my patients — deserve protection from our government (including and especially our attorney general) from anti-choice extremists.
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Britain has to decide: Do we want more people like Stormzy—people who are going to represent Britain's youth, who aren't going to be cowed by the old forces that aimed to make everything boring and meaningless?
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The past week may echo Mr. Trump's praise for far-right extremists as "very fine people" after the 2017 violence in Charlottesville, Va., and his cowed performance next to Russian President Vladimir Putin at Helsinki in 2018.
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The past week may echo Mr. Trump's praise for far-right extremists as "very fine people" after the 2017 violence in Charlottesville, Va., and his cowed performance next to Russian President Vladimir Putin at Helsinki in 2018.
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Her father had so emotionally brow-beaten and cowed her mother that she stayed holed up all day and night in a closet, even though it was unlocked, and even when the father was not at home.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's air force scrambled aircraft on Friday as Chinese bombers flew around the self-ruled island, just a few hours after Taiwan vowed not to be cowed having lost another diplomatic ally amid growing Chinese pressure.
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But a man who had got through nine years of solitary by running on the spot, practising qigong and writing 400 poems, in gentian violet, in the margins of Marx's collected works would not be cowed by that.
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At his breakout appearance as the "entertainment" at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in 2017, Minhaj called Donald Trump the "liar-in-chief" among other memorable comments, mostly about the need for a free and un-cowed media.
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Deprived of that opportunity, Mr. Duterte, 73, used much of his third annual State of the Nation address to defend his deadly war on drug users and dealers, saying he would not be cowed by human rights advocates.
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When Hemingway blocks her press accreditation, denying her passage to France to report on D-Day, she refuses to be cowed, hiding in a hospital ship toilet for an entire night before approaching the beaches with the soldiers.
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As the New Republic wrote in March 1950, 'McCarthy is suppressing evidence, distorting evidence, manufacturing evidence and misleading the...public...' Too many of McCarthy's colleagues in the Senate, afraid of being smeared as Communists themselves, were largely cowed.
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Still, his statements about Trump during the 2016 campaign, as the future president gradually cowed into submission the party to which McConnell had dedicated his entire adult life, managed to simultaneously leave everything and nothing to the imagination.
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In 1990, drummer Tobi Vail and bassist Kathi Wilcox's furious, deliberate rhythms and vocalist Kathleen Hanna's unmistakable, undeniable howl came together to make a noise that refused to be cowed by the patriarchal Washington punk scene it formed against.
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If the markets react severely, members of Parliament may be cowed into going "back and take a second look" at the deal, according to Spencer Boyer, a senior fellow with the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement.
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That bridesmaids, the groom's family, a grandmother and a talking cat also crowd the Ensemble Studio Theater's petite stage suggest that Ms. Winkler is not the sort of playwright to be cowed by thoughts of budget or square footage.
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Their arrests stirred anxious speculation among cowed members of the royal family that Crown Prince Mohammed might be sidelining opponents in preparation for taking the throne from his father, who is 84 and has sometimes appeared forgetful or disoriented.
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Yet time and again, the N.F.L. has been cowed by a president willing to use his bully pulpit to win political points and exact a measure of revenge on a league that rejected his efforts to buy a team.
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Conte now has at his disposal a wondrously gifted squad, and one that is not easily cowed: its three red cards already this season, the most recent for David Luiz on Sunday, suggest Chelsea still does not go quietly.
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The FCA's first CEO, Martin Wheatley, was ousted by Britain's finance ministry for being too hardline, at the risk of turning the FCA into a "timid and cowed" watchdog that scrapped a review of banking culture, the report said.
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Anyone wondering if Apple was going to be cowed by the FBI's ongoing pressures might find some relief in the company's most recent hire: Frederic Jacobs, previously a lead developer for Signal, one of the most secure messaging apps there is.
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We spend so much time watching him feel sorry for himself and watching June be cowed by him that it's impossible to sustain the levels of outrage his actions should logically dictate; it would be exhausting to get through the show.
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Trump and his restrictionist supporters are frank about what they want, and why, but the media is often too genteel or too cowed by fear of the charge of bias to faithfully relate what newly energized ethnonationalist populists themselves say.
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"One of the things we can do is show that we aren't going to be cowed is by voting on Thursday and making sure that we understand the importance of our democracy, our civil liberties and our human rights," Khan said.
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But Trump must push ahead with his agenda, and not feel cowed by those who lost the election, worked against him during the election, and — most importantly — showed they don't have a clue what so many American voters really want.
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What you need, then, is somebody who is immediately cowed by your authority and decides to play the game on the terms you've set — one where there are winners and losers and somebody's getting fired at the end of the episode.
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For more, click on Swiss National Bank President Thomas Jordan on Friday defended the independence of central banks, saying they should not be cowed by political pressure after U.S. President Donald Trump called the Federal Reserve "crazy" for hiking interest rates.
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To members of MAD, clinic defense is about standing up for specific clinics, but it's also about standing up, unapologetically, for abortion rights as a moral issue and refusing to be quiet or cowed at a moment when Roe v.
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While Mancunians joke that their city is best known for gray skies and rain, the horror of a suicide bombing that left 22 people dead and 64 injured has been countered by a resolve not to be cowed by militants.
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If Afghanistan has any chance of breaking the cycles of poverty and violence that have dogged it for generations, its hopes must lie in the students who aspire to build a better country and refuse to be cowed by violence.
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"Clear deterrence signals like this are important for allied confidence and for avoiding any North Korean miscalculation stemming from the belief we are cowed into submission," said Victor Cha, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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ZURICH, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Swiss National Bank President Thomas Jordan on Friday defended the independence of central banks, saying they should not be cowed by political pressure after U.S. President Donald Trump called the Federal Reserve "crazy" for hiking interest rates.
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Analysts say that North Korea cultivates a sense of unpredictability verging on irrationality, but that, in fact, the government remains coldly calculating, edging up to the brink of war to keep aggressors at bay and its savagely oppressed people cowed.
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A timely boxing match of a history play, it stars a deliciously piquant Harriet Harris as Smith, the principled, moderate, junior senator from Maine who in 1950 publicly stood up to McCarthy when most of their fellow Republicans were too cowed.
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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.
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MOSCOW — "The Death of Stalin," a blackly comic movie about the Soviet leader and his cowed entourage, has earned widespread praise in Britain as a tongue-in-cheek spoof about a bygone era in a country that has long since collapsed.
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"Like North Korea, Iran is responding to Trump's bellicosity by its own display of strength, to show it is not cowed," said Mark Fitzpatrick, executive director of the Americas office of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a British think tank.
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Swarms of Russian supporters have descended on the Pyeongchang Games, offering an emphatic answer to anyone who wondered if they were embarrassed or cowed by doping allegations that have kept scores of their athletes out of the Games. Nyet. Nyet.
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But of course, these are the very kinds of cases that "necessitate hypotheticals" because "legitimate speakers are often cowed by the severe penalties incurred for violating speech prohibitions," Ilya Shapiro writes in a brief for the Cato Institute supporting Sineneng-Smith.
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No praise was too high for Sharon D. Clarke as the eponymous Ma Rainey, the so-called mother of the blues, and a woman worth reckoning with from the moment she made a majestically belated entrance, her cowed entourage in tow.
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The Hong Kong government of Carrie Lam, the chief executive, had hoped that a populace cowed into silence by six months of increasingly violent unrest would use local elections on November 27.30th to show their exasperation with anti-government protesters.
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Whereas in an actual dictatorship angry mobs can feel comfortable in the assurance that they won't face punishment for doing their leaders' bidding, because the courts are more easily co-opted or cowed by an angry leader, in the US things are different.
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Under Mr Najib and, to a lesser extent, his predecessors, the press was cowed, the electoral system was rigged, the judiciary and bureaucracy were pliant and critics, whether within or outside the government, were harassed or imprisoned, often on trumped-up charges.
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"If everyone is cowed and so few have the courage to say 'this is a bull market and it is hard to bet against,' then you are going to have moments like today where the whole thing just explodes higher," Cramer said.
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In June, the UN added Saudi Arabia to a list of state actors that violate the rights of children in war due to the incredibly high toll the aerial campaign has taken on Yemeni kids, before being cowed into temporarily reversing its position.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Armenia's president has urged German lawmakers not to be cowed by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's warnings of damage to Berlin-Ankara relations and to go ahead with a motion declaring a 1915 mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman forces genocide.
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Now, if this does wind up being a one-off strike and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad seems sufficiently cowed into avoiding these sorts of attacks in the future, then this issue will move off the front-burner in weeks not months.
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The second most shocking aspect of an episode that would have rocked any other administration is that the President knows he can trade in such base tactics because he will pay no price in a Republican Party cowed by his fervent political base.
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Despite a notable crackdown on illegal immigration, Trump's long-promised border wall looks more and more like a pipe dream as it's hard to see wavering Republicans in Congress cowed by a President with the approval of just over 1 in 3 Americans.
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That they may be too cowed or craven to do anything about their concerns is beside the point: All that matters for the purposes of identifying sources of optimism is that their moral barometers aren't broken in quite the way Trump's is.
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"One of the things that we can do is show that we aren't going to be cowed, is by voting on Thursday and making sure that we understand the importance of our democracy, our civil liberties and our human rights," Khan said.
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As national-security adviser, McMaster became associated in the press with the so-called bloody-nose strategy, in which the U.S. might launch a "preventive" conventional attack on North Korea, stunning the regime of Kim Jong Un into cowed recognition of America's power.
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Thanks to her refusal to be cowed, apologize for her role in the affair or her chosen career, or to be defined by a single event in her life, Daniels has turned into something of an anti-Trump feminist folk hero for some.
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We would signal subtly to Saudi Arabia that if they have a problem with Canada over this, then they also have one with the United States, because neither of us will be cowed into curtailing our criticism of friend or foe, when warranted.
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"If they don't achieve the result of killing the people, the second-best goal for these crazy men, women, terrorists is ... (to) give us a life of fear," he told reporters, arguing that it was important not to be cowed by Islamist fundamentalists.
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Impeachment has only extended this pattern, with Republicans voting to shorten the trial even when it makes them look like lackeys, and too cowed in many cases to even take the acquit-but-still-condemn approach that Democrats took with Bill Clinton.
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While the royal decree ending the ban on women driving has been hailed as proof of a new progressive trend in the deeply conservative Muslim kingdom, some women say they have been cowed into not speaking about it - a charge the government denies.
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After Ms. Pelosi said Democrats would not be cowed by Mr. Trump's pressure to drop investigations of his administration, the House Intelligence Committee opened a broad inquiry on Wednesday into whether Russia and other foreign powers may have influence over the president.
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As I've long argued, though, just as Apple shouldn't shy away from new product categories because they can't match the iPhone's scale, neither should any other player in the market be cowed by the impossibility of matching the smartphone's impact on the world.
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State TV ran a clip of a Russian doppelganger of Trump taunting a cowed Clinton lookalike and Margarita Simonyan, the boss of RT, the Kremlin's English-language TV news channel, said she would drive around Moscow with a U.S. flag to celebrate.
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Going a couple days a week in glasses or just taking my contacts out earlier in the evening would probably take care of it, but the thought of those leaking tentacles snaking across my poor eyes has cowed me into a nerdy, smudgy mess.
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Authoritarian rulers in many other countries (Pakistan leaps to mind) have tried to bolster their legitimacy by pandering to religious sentiment only to find themselves in a vicious cycle, in which moderates are cowed, giving rise to ever more extreme demands from the religious fringe.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - North Korea has sent a letter to Australia's parliament, warning it is a nuclear power and will not be cowed by U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to destroy it, according to a copy of the letter published in an Australian newspaper on Friday.
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But from the moment Cohen took the stand on Wednesday to testify in front of the House Oversight Committee and declared Trump to be a "racist," a "conman," and a "cheat," the once-brash (now-cowed) cigar-chomping fixer has found some unlikely allies.
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"The idea that people are being cowed by political correctness and by this attempt to fire people and take people's scalps when they say something mildly errant, even if this isn't mildly errant, this is something that resonates with a lot of Americans," she said.
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On Thursday in Molenbeek, as residents bartered in Arabic at a vegetable and fruit market, Lieven Soete, 73, one of the relatively few native-born Belgians shopping there, said he had come, as he did every Thursday, to show that he would not be cowed.
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What's next: It's unlikely the Trump Administration or the Republican Party would let themselves be cowed by threats from the the EU. But a WTO challenge would still represent a time-consuming obstacle to a policy idea that has generated much opposition in 2017.
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As then-managing editor of The Verge, I wrote an editorial note that was signed by our entire leadership team, declaring that our newsroom would not be cowed by the tactics of Gamergate and other malevolent online movements meant to intimidate journalists and their newsrooms.
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Ten years ago, when the ash cloud from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano grounded flights worldwide, soccer refused to be cowed: Barcelona took the bus to Italy to play Inter Milan; Liverpool took the train to Madrid to make sure a Europa League game could go ahead.
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At a time when so many people have lost faith in government or been cowed into silence or been sucked into yet another pointless Twitter war, it's bracing to remember Ms. Ivins's unrelenting joy in fighting for what was nothing more than right and fair.
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North Korea is ready to halt its nuclear tests if the United States suspends its annual military exercises with South Korea, the North Korean foreign minister told The Associated Press in an interview in which he also warned that his country won't be cowed by international sanctions.
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The outbreak that has rattled the nation does not respond to Mr. Trump's favorite instruments of power: It cannot be cowed by Twitter posts, it cannot be shot down by drones, it cannot be overcome by party solidarity, it cannot be overpowered by campaign rally chants.
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Even as Congress, cowed by the National Rifle Association's opposition, has refused to act to limit the danger of unexamined sales, 19 states, including Nevada, have tightened background checks on handgun sales and 13 states, including Nevada, have tightened them for handgun and long gun sales.
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"To be clear: The president would be putting at risk an American population the size of a medium-size U.S. city — Pittsburgh, say, or Cincinnati — on the assumption that a crazy and undeterrable dictator will be rationally cowed by a demonstration of U.S. kinetic power," he wrote.
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Mr. Trump and his team have successfully cowed Republican critics through sheer political force: The president is overwhelmingly popular among the Republican base — and the White House and national Republican organizations controlled by Trump loyalists have threatened anyone who opposes them with supporting potential primary opponents.
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But the critics' assumption — that Trump's attempts to impress upon Pyongyang that his administration will not be as easily cowed as those of Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama are a mistake — underestimates the damage done by previous unsuccessful efforts to bribe the North Koreans to behave.
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Under Barack Obama, the EPA, the auto industry (cowed by its near collapse and government bailout in 2009), and the California Air Resources Board agreed on a new set of national standards that would gradually ratchet up miles per gallon standards and reduce allowable emissions through 2025.
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Cowed by the insistence of Trump for funding for the wall, Republicans had twice refused to schedule the bills for a vote, thus avoiding the sticky situation in which a Republican president would be forced to sign or veto legislation approved by House and Senate Republicans.
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"We will not be cowed by threats intended to disrupt people's lives or the vital role Jewish community centers play as gathering places, schools, camps, and fitness and recreation centers," David Posner, director of strategic performance at JCC Association of North America, said in a statement.
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And, of course, 12 months earlier came the most remarkable of them all: Barcelona's 6-1 comeback to recover from four goals down against P.S.G., Sergi Roberto scoring in the final minute of more than 180, one of the most expensive teams ever assembled humiliated and cowed.
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With their refusal to be cowed by the abuse and their determination to deliver fantastic football regardless, they also demonstrated to racist elements on the terraces that Caribbean footballers were tough, resilient, exuberantly talented and – whatever was thrown at them – in the game for the long haul.
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At any rate, the Fed's huge bond purchases have cowed, for the time being, the proverbial bond market vigilantes – an unmistakably ominous sign indicating that the eagle-eyed vigils are taking the rapidly sinking bond yields as a clear path of an economy going down the tube. What?
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As I wrote back in July of this year, Trump's selection of Pence was a solid move, cementing socially conservative support and serving as a symbol of those tired of being cowed and humiliated by the cultural shift to the left on almost every issue affecting their lives.
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Lawmakers, long cowed by South Korea's most powerful company, may push through pending legislation that would curtail the company's ability to restructure in a way it deems best for transferring control from Lee senior, who has not been seen in public since falling ill in 2014, to his son.
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" Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, said, "What Joseph's behavior has become is a rallying cry, not just for judicial independence, not just for states' rights, but also a form of civil disobedience, that we, as state duly appointed judges, won't be cowed by federal prosecutors.
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" Ceding that control to TikTok should be worrying, according to a Times op-ed: "Those who complain that American firms like Facebook are invasive and unaccountable are unlikely to prefer China's tech giants, which are often cowed by, and collaborating with, the Party-State's opaque and irascible censorship and surveillance apparatus.
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Unlike the rest of us, who simply reported who said what, trying to be evenhanded, Maureen saw in real time the big story unfolding: how ill-equipped and cowed the white men in power were to conduct a hearing into sexual harassment and the treatment of women in the workplace.
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Where many international and Indian public health experts are cowed into speaking in diplomatic jargon for fear of losing government support for their programs, or even their jobs, Dr. Udwadia stands out as the most influential voice demanding better treatment for India's TB patients and unabashedly criticizing the status quo.
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But their body language was at times tense, and the sometimes confrontational tone of the meeting was made clear in Mr. Macron's comments afterward during a joint news conference, where he signaled his intent to play a forceful role on the global stage and not be cowed by other world leaders.
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The people of Hong Kong will not be cowed by the C.C.P. On the very same day five years ago, the C.C.P. smashed Hong Kongers' dream for electoral freedom by announcing that it would add more controls to the way the city's leader, the chief executive, is nominated and elected.
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Communications giants are wealthy, smart, and opportunistic, and so far our new government seems to be no match for them — whether we're talking about an FCC that has cowed to the industry it's supposed to regulate or a Congress and White House that still don't seem to understand how the internet works.
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With traditional journalists physically cowed into losing some control of their own voice, Facebook and Twitter became the place where critics, journalists, and activists of the coup could speak freely and organize a resistance that manifested itself in physical rallies, demonstrations, and the publication of leaked tapes proving the corruption of coup supporters.
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Problems at home Diplomatic troubles with China came at an awkward time for Lee, who has faced a political crisis at home, a rarity for Singapore, where his People's Action Party has dominated politics since independence and politicians critical of the government have faced defamation lawsuits, leaving the opposition largely cowed and ineffective.
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Yet as the film progresses, its gratuitous peppering mostly recalls the hideous scene in Pulp Fiction in which Tarantino cast himself as a slacker with a black wife just so he could repeatedly say, "Do you see a sign in my house that says dead-nigger storage?" to a cowed Samuel L. Jackson.
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To a nonnative Londoner (I am German, married to a Welshman who, for the record, was also appalled at that headline) there is something admirable in this reflexive British spirit of not being cowed and pushing back against any notion that the country is "reeling," even if it can seem a bit defensive.
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In the last pages of the book, there is a perfunctory attempt to rouse an audience cowed by the weight of recounting so many of Trump's depredations, from his toxic failure to lead after Charlottesville to his lesser known effort to label all migrants "enemy combatants" and have them sent to Cuba.
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Any committee members with misgivings were unlikely to speak out, given the array of punishment they could face, and party elders who may have once opposed such a move — including Mr. Hu and another former president, Jiang Zemin — are too old or too cowed by Mr. Xi's anticorruption investigations to muster resistance, party insiders said.
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We were too cowed to ask whether her archive was anywhere, whether it was on its way anywhere, whether ours would someday ever go anywhere, what an archive contained, whether we could ever use the word archive to describe the shaky notes that made up our own collections of artifacts of having tried to write.
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By any measure, the principal figures in both works are women, and to label them as girls is to tint them with childishness, as if they were easily cowed by circumstance or stormy feelings, and thus more liable to lash out, or to sink into a sulk, rather than submit their troubles to adult consideration.
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WASHINGTON — The House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday began a broad inquiry into whether Russia and other foreign powers may be exercising influence over President Trump, acting only hours after a defiant Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared that the House would not be cowed by the president's "all-out threat" to drop its investigations of his administration.
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The whole apparatus—the disrespect, the shirt sales, Cody's success, the flaunting of solidarity and friendship between wrestlers over being cowed by corporate propriety—is a future which runs counter to WWE's manufactured reality, where their position as global pro wrestling leader is unassailable and wrestlers, no matter how talented, can easily slip into an unending midcard Limbo.
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If you thought that the confluence of the US indicting Russian agents just before Trump's alone time with Russian President Vladimir Putin and subsequent cowed press conference was awkward, your head is going to spin in a few months, when special counsel Robert Mueller prosecutes former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and then voters head to polls.
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On Sunday, Kvitova returned to the game more than a month earlier than expected, and in just 1 hour 14 minutes, she showed the tennis world that she would not be cowed, delivering a convincing 6-3, 6-2 victory over 63th-ranked Julia Boserup of the United States in the first round of the French Open.
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Ninez Cacho-Olivares, who was one of an extraordinary cadre of newswomen who faced down the dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the 1980s when most of their male colleagues allowed themselves to be cowed or co-opted — but who later unexpectedly turned around and supported President Rodrigo Duterte in his crackdown on independent journalists — died on Jan. 3.
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And it remains to be seen if the don't-mess-with-me attitude that cowed Republican primary rivals like Jeb Bush will have a similar effect on a regime that has managed to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile that could reach the United States while making progress toward miniaturizing a nuclear warhead that would fit on top.
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Jackson described Merricat and Constance as "two halves of the same person," and it's possible to see all of her female couples as depictions of the two contradictory halves of her own personality: the potent, angry woman, whom she characterized in her letters as Snarly Shirley, or Sharly, and the cowed woman who felt trapped inside her house.
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Lady Bird marked a rare opportunity for viewers to identify with a female coming of age story; Mudbound highlighted the privilege that white women still hold over their Black peers, even as they themselves are cowed by the patriarchy; and Wonder Woman gave us a glimpse of what it looks like to smash those same forces holding women back to pieces.
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And now the base has lost faith in their quisling leaders and turned to a guy who seems like he really won't give up, who seems like he really isn't cowed by the media or Washington elites, who seems like he believes what they believe and recognizes the stakes are high enough that something needs to be done about it.
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The schemes revealed in those four indictments were startling, and showed just how deeply a drug culture had taken hold in a sport whose participants claim to love their horses, how complicit horse owners were in pursuit of big purses, and how cowed the trainers were even as they groused about their crooked competitors but were afraid to hold them accountable.
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Wallace had come to regret the impasse, because it precluded their discussing the things they shared: They'd both been the first people in their families to go to college; they had both been cowed upon arrival by the size of this particular Midwestern city; they were both unusual among their friends in that they were unaccustomed to the easiness of life.
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First came the cities of the Iraqi south that Saddam Hussein kept cowed and squalid, the holy shrine cities of Najaf and Karbala, through to the Iranian province of Khuzestan, which saw the bloodiest fighting of the Iran-Iraq war, an indigenously Arab region where mourning congregations chant in Arabic, and whose inclusion in this spectacle of transnational identity and power has clear unifying purpose.
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Although my former colleagues in the insurance industry are too cowed by the president-elect to say so, Republican insistence on repeal without having a meaningful replacement at the same time will drive most insurers out of the individual market and leave the 10 percent of Americans now covered by some aspect of the A.C.A. without coverage — especially if Medicaid expansion is rolled back as well.
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Mr. Trump, who has no prior government experience, leaves the impression that he is cowed by the weighty responsibility of sending more Americans into battle, and is looking to put that onus on Mr. Mattis so he has somebody to blame if things go wrong, as he did when he fingered the generals for a botched raid in Yemen in January, in which one member of the Navy SEALs was killed.
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And whether through millions of small-dollar donations that added up to rival the biggest checks from the biggest donors to the biggest super PACS, or in doggedly making economic inequality and the broken political system core issues of the Democratic platform, the Bernie Sanders movement has and will continue to force a Democratic Party long cowed by centrist blue dogs to return to the populist beating heart of the party's progressive wing.
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In a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck GrassleyCharles (Chuck) Ernest GrassleyWhite House denies exploring payroll tax cut to offset worsening economy Schumer joins Pelosi in opposition to post-Brexit trade deal that risks Northern Ireland accord GOP senators call for Barr to release full results of Epstein investigation MORE (R-Iowa), Ford wrote that she would not be cowed by death threats and the media frenzy sparked by her accusations.
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If multiple media that dominate the public face of debate, the experts on television, key leaders in both political parties, professors, bishops, and even (in Trump's case) the pope make it overwhelmingly clear that there is only one respectable choice in an election, two things can happen: 1) People can be cowed into changing their minds, out of fear of being tainted by association with a cause that is widely detested by people of obvious power.
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Cowed by Iranian threats and the specter of an Iranian atomic bomb, Obama, John KerryJohn Forbes KerryLet's not play Charlie Brown to Iran's Lucy The Memo: Democrats struggle to find the strongest swing-state candidate 2202 caucuses pose biggest challenge yet for Iowa's top pollster MORE, and our always suspect European allies abandoned a 2628-year-old policy of containment, handed over more than $28500 billion in cash, and turned the Iranians loose to set the Middle East ablaze.
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"The fare is very good, but the servants are all Irish, who seem cowed in the dining-room, and go about as if they had corns on their feet and for that reason had given up the pick and shovel … " William failed to see the stark reality faced by many Irish workers in California at the time: That the "luck of the Irish" (a term originating from the occasional success of Irish miners in the Gold Rush) was exceedingly rare, and that most immigrants ultimately made their way to the cities for stable employment.
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"The fare is very good, but the servants are all Irish, who seem cowed in the dining-room, and go about as if they had corns on their feet and for that reason had given up the pick and shovel … " William failed to see the stark reality faced by many Irish workers in California at the time: That the "luck of the Irish" (a term originating from the occasional success of Irish miners in the Gold Rush) was exceedingly rare, and that most immigrants ultimately made their way to the cities for stable employment.
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The numbers, underscored by the stirring aerial images of crowds across the globe, might have cowed a more reasonable president and forced him to reckon with the damage his rhetoric has already done and the force with which people — his people — might resist, but Trump has yet to show the capacity to be swayed by criticism or even suggestion (although, when the president tweeted his now-perfunctory dismissal of his critics by wondering why the marchers hadn't voted, he didn't seem to doubt that there were a lot of them).
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Still, there was something especially moving about the pointless courage of our women at that moment, though it could not keep two men from arriving in the village and doing their worst—it never has and never will—and yet there came that brief moment when the tall, dim one seemed cowed and unsure, as if the woman now spitting at him were his own mother, which passed soon enough when the short, sly one kicked the spitting woman in her groin and the formation broke and bloody chaos found no more obstruction to its usual plans.
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