Coronaviruses wave it from their outer shells like a cudgel.
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Democrats have long used Mueller's probe as a political cudgel.
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Musk's legal team used the damages request as a cudgel.
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Other figures scribble graffiti, or torture a dog with a cudgel.
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Conservatives have used it as a cudgel to damage Kennedy's legacy.
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The phrase was often used as a political cudgel against opponents.
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Look, we have a president who uses Twitter as a cudgel.
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Hanabusa used the false alarm as a key campaign cudgel against Ige.
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Republicans are not likely to stop using Benghazi as a political cudgel.
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Nor should it be used as a cudgel against other immigrant groups.
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It was Google using its Assistant voice command platform as a cudgel.
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Remaking a well-known property is the equivalent of a pop culture cudgel.
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Congress should not allow it to devolve into another nativist cudgel against immigrants.
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Culturally, racism is used as the unspoken cudgel against pro-working class policy.
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Are the tech industry's giants too eager to use lawyers to cudgel competition?
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The remaining jobs are too often wielded as a cudgel of social control.
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The law was often used as a cudgel to intimidate, blackmail and abuse.
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In "Talking to Strangers," he uses theory like a cudgel on sensitive material.
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Google has shown itself willing to use YouTube as a cudgel against its competitors.
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And what a crime for a man to use his genius as a cudgel . . .
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His biggest data point, wielded like a cudgel: America's $500 billion annual trade deficit.
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"The Golden Monkey wrathfully swung his massive cudgel," Mao wrote, in a famous couplet.
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And he's often used immigration as a cudgel to attack Democrats and moderate Republicans.
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But the cudgel, 25 percent levies on foreign-made cars, is a powerful one.
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"Instead, the topic was wielded as a cudgel, hijacked for maximum provocation," she writes.
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The revelation on Wednesday should give Verizon an additional cudgel at the negotiating table.
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Where's the cudgel against Hamas for using schools and hospitals to conceal rocket launchers?
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But that hasn't stopped critics from using the consulting business as a campaign cudgel.
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Libya would not conform, either as cudgel or brag, to the needs of American politics.
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I refuse to have the "Star Spangled Banner" used as a cudgel against principled speech.
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Or was Clinton cynically using claims of sexism as a cudgel to silence her critics?
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Trump had used Saucier's case as a political cudgel against Hillary Clinton during the campaign.
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She's young, blond, opinionated and conservative, and unafraid to use sex appeal as a cudgel.
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Democrats for years ran up massive debt using the cudgel of the last economic recession.
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His 'School for the Manly-Art of Self-Defense' taught boxing, fencing, and cudgel fighting.
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He has not used Twitter as a cudgel against adversaries since his overseas trip began.
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Google has used that cudgel before for various other ends, and that didn't go well.
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And a stream of speakers before the president used socialism as a campaign-season cudgel.
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It is patriotism, as I define it, not as a divisive cudgel but a common purpose.
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Her tumultuous romantic life was often used as a cudgel to break down her "sweetheart" image.
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The State Department of Corrections uses tickets as a cudgel against people who are in custody.
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The other is beloved by leftists, and has served as a cudgel against more centrist candidates.
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But accountability and recognition of genocide should not be used as cudgel in a political fight.
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Impeachment is an important power until such time as it turns into a routine partisan cudgel.
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Trump has sought to use his threats on trade as a cudgel in the NAFTA talks.
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Trump seized on the video, which went viral, and used it to cudgel the corporate elite.
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Not so many elections ago, Obamacare was a cudgel for Republicans to use against their opponents.
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Trump will no doubt use these findings as a cudgel against future inquiries, regardless of merit.
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If you guessed "as a cudgel to continue beating Facebook with," you win today's grand prize.
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Surrounded by followers at rallies, he uses his well-honed sense of timing as a cudgel.
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So far, the Trump administration shows few signs that it intends to employ a similar cudgel.
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The outbreak has been a global phenomenon, sending financial markets plummeting and becoming a political cudgel.
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President Donald Trump invokes the poverty in Baltimore only as a cudgel against his political opponents.
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Dealers didn't like paying for the cudgel that customers used to beat them down on price.
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Ted Cruz, used it as a cudgel against Trump, arguing that he wouldn't nominate conservative justices.
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The reason is that NS2 gives Russia a bigger cudgel to bully its neighbour over natural gas.
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The Trump threat is being used as a cudgel to convince Sanders to give up his campaign.
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Within hours of its splashy Libra announcement last month, Facebook's cryptocurrency plans had become a political cudgel.
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Donald Trump, her Republican rival, will be merciless in swinging the inspector general's report like a cudgel.
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This is not the only recent effort to use judicial ethics as a cudgel against conservative Justices.
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Gardner 20 years after Columbine, Dems bullish on gun reform MORE (R-Colo.) as an electoral cudgel.
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Or maybe they were a shield and a cudgel — a warning he might do anything if Mrs.
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Mr. Crowley's family lives in the Washington area — a fact Ms. Ocasio-Cortez used as a cudgel.
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But legislative attempts to rein in state judges include a panoply of tactics, from scalpel to cudgel.
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The Golden Monkey wrathfully swung his massive cudgel And the jade-like firmament was cleared of dust.
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They have a big cudgel: They still own Purdue and can control the terms of its deals.
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Countries including Poland and France have expressed fear that Russia could use gas as a diplomatic cudgel.
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They overlook the way civility has been used as a cudgel, providing moral cover for immoral laws.
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The Green New Deal has become a political cudgel for Republicans, who regularly use it to hammer Democrats.
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And they know that he&aposs using that as a cudgel to those towers to bring it down.
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There's also precedent for the attacks on the issue serving as a potent political cudgel (see: Romney, Mitt).
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Whatever the political motivations, imperiling Section 230 is a fearsome cudgel against even tech's most seemingly untouchable companies.
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And its emergence could be used as a cudgel against Democrats running for re-election in red states.
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But a false-balance cudgel gripped mostly by liberals is not an effective way to convince undecided voters.
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There are countless points along the axis of irony, a continuum of violence ranging from nudge to cudgel.
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In the short term, their position will give Democrats a political cudgel to pummel vulnerable incumbents facing reelection.
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In the campaign, Trump used the fact that Bill Clinton had signed NAFTA as a cudgel against Hillary.
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Mr. Bolton tried to use those notes as a cudgel in the internal policy battle, administration officials said.
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Many see Trump's use of trade deals as a cudgel in foreign policy negotiations as a dicey strategy.
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Wielded as a single cudgel, the "Hillary Clinton email scandal" has become a powerful weapon against the Democratic nominee.
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Like many Senate Democratic hopefuls, Patrick Murphy has sought to use Trump as a cudgel against his GOP rival.
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Disguised as a tool to fight misinformation, Russia's bills will likely be another cudgel authoritarians can use against dissenters.
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Trump and Republicans have wielded talk of impeachment as a political cudgel, and revived that strategy following Cohen's remarks.
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Democrats are using the lawsuit as a cudgel against Republican candidates from the top of the ballot on down.
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That will give him a cudgel against Ms. Malliotakis and Mr. Dietl, both of whom voted for Mr. Trump.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump's tariffs were initially seen as a cudgel to force other countries to drop their trade barriers.
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The right's culture warriors picked up the cudgel and began swinging, and the plant burgers were guilty by association.
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But when it came time to make the case personally, Mr. Trump opted for a putter over a cudgel.
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China is now using that as a cudgel against us, saying "we'll stop exporting that to you" or ... Mercury.
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Hoyer said the move made Israel a "partisan cudgel" and called it "cynical and dangerous" on the House floor.
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Privacy, it turns out, is a competitive advantage for Facebook, not the cudgel the company's critics hoped it might be.
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Certainly Republican leaders will use the "pass it or else" cudgel to frighten uneasy members and score a few votes.
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The 2013 autopsy has been used as a cudgel by critics of the party's turn toward Trump, racism, and xenophobia.
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Wielding the Justice Department as a cudgel against one's political enemies violates all sorts of post-Watergate norms, of course.
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And GOP defense hawks on Capitol Hill have a new cudgel in their shed to argue for increased defense spending.
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And the new report from Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee is meant to give Trump's defenders a new cudgel.
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Clapton sings with emotion that ranges from worn-out to weepy, and his guitar is a cudgel of cloudy gloom.
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There is no chaos today, but there surely is widespread fear and resentment as his mighty cudgel claims more victims.
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On Capitol Hill, Clinton's impeachment has resurfaced mainly as a cudgel in the ongoing fight over the current impeachment process.
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Having all but given up on entering the country, Zuckerberg is now using China as a political cudgel against TikTok.
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In that way, we can ensure the laws are enforced without letting presidents use the law as a political cudgel.
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It's an idea almost nobody in mainstream politics will address, other than to hurl the label as a bloody cudgel.
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Trump, who has described himself as a "Tariff Man," has used the threat of import duties as a cudgel against China.
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The latest flash point: the recent state budget that served as a cudgel to exert his dominance over Mr. de Blasio.
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During periods of massive change, shame — a tool that requires shared values across a society — can quickly become a divisive cudgel.
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With one phone call, they can wield the lethal weaponry of law enforcement like a cudgel in their personal, petty disputes.
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Not all modern Utopians aim to seize the state in order to cudgel the rest of the world back to paradise.
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"One of the things Trump is doing with trade is he's using it as a cudgel against the Fed," Campbell said.
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The threat of a shutdown looms large in the minds of members, and is usually enough to cudgel them into submission.
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"One of the things Trump is doing with trade is he's using it as a cudgel against the Fed," he said.
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A Watergate comparison is a cudgel, a way of cutting a leader like Trump down to size, to forecast his demise.
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When it did surface, it was often used as a cudgel against activists like those supporting the Black Lives Matter movement.
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The issue became a political cudgel, and Democratic politicians he had supported, including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, condemned Mr. Weinstein.
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It also hands President Trump a huge cudgel with which to flay Democrats in a race that promises to be close.
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I don't doubt their mother may wield guilt like a cudgel depending on the circumstances of her relationship with your partner.
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It has used the issue as a cudgel against Venezuela and Iran, but soft-pedaled with Saudi Arabia and North Korea.
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As demand surges, China could deploy its natural resources as a diplomatic cudgel the same way that Saudi Arabia uses oil.
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They say Beijing may see its sizable population of global travelers as a cudgel in its battle with the United States.
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While we have freedom of speech, we also have billions of for-profit lobbyist dollars acting as a cudgel against our interests.
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WE ARE CARRYING THE CUDGEL FOR LOTS OF PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD, BUT WE ALSO ARE REQUIRING THEY MUST DO THEIR PART.
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Given Trump's discussion of using failing insurance markets as a political cudgel against Democrats, the president could also veto such an effort.
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The White House, the Republican National Committee, and a number of journalists have used it as a cudgel over the past day.
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Any increase in crime could be used as a cudgel, but what constitutes an increase in crime can be open to interpretation.
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In other words, Pelosi just gave Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and President Trump a really big cudgel in their spending negotiations.
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The Justice Department says AT&T will use Time Warner's content as a cudgel against its competitors in the traditional video space.
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Senators in both parties are using former President Clinton's impeachment trial as a shared cudgel to accuse the other side of hypocrisy.
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The tariffs were said to be a cudgel to persuade allies to back the United States in its trade actions against China.
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They say Mr. Trump should not expect others to follow his lead just because the United States wields the biggest monetary cudgel.
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Riding post-punk-inspired but cudgel-like riffs, Miller's gravelly intonations of conspiracies and ruined governments speak all too loudly in 2017.
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"It has become a symbol too often used as a campaign cudgel by both parties rather than a serious policy matter," Obama said.
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But Foxconn's plans are so amorphous that it doesn't even make a good political cudgel: two days later, Foxconn said it was staying.
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Rouhani is a wily insider, and has in the past proven adept at using such dissatisfaction as a cudgel against the hardliners' control.
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Even if he never expects that nominee to actually be confirmed but rather to wield as an electoral cudgel, that is his right.
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"At its worst, the anthem is used as both an ideological cudgel and as a cynical marketing ploy," wrote Deadspin columnist Drew Magary.
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In popular culture, one often thinks of the shillelagh as a short stick, a small bat, but that weapon is actual a cudgel.
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The left only uses such efforts as a cudgel to silence their political foes, then turns around to call them Hitler when needed.
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A few rogue employees and school operators, he says, have been used as a cudgel by critics ideologically opposed to the education business.
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But Republicans pounced on the speaker and accused her of using the State of the Union as a political cudgel in shutdown talks.
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Trump could have shown their speculation to be mere speculation, and used it as a cudgel to discredit their reporting on his campaign.
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A performative anti-whiteness is common among white lefties seeking a rhetorical cudgel against blue-collar Archie Bunkers and popped-collar frat bros.
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In this case, Mr. Trump is using a tariff as a cudgel to induce Mexico's cooperation in keeping immigrants from America's southern border.
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Privacy advocates view the government's interest in wielding Section 230 as a cudgel and existential threat to the internet as we know it.
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Since the rally, TimberUnity has been hijacked by more experienced Republican operatives who plan to use it as an ongoing cudgel against Democrats.
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"Accountability and recognition of genocide should not be used as cudgel in a political fight," she said following her vote against the resolution.
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And what was once a tool to flag potentially troubling nominations is now being used exclusively as a political cudgel against the president.
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The thought of using Twitter as a political cudgel "would have been completely against our values," says Macon Phillips, Obama's first digital director.
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Grimmer minds, like that of Frank Meyer, the magazine's—and later the conservative movement's—chief ideologue, grabbed Voegelin and made him a cudgel.
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Instead of being put on the defensive, Trump and the Republicans are now wielding the cudgel of "socialized medicine" against Democrats in general.
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One of Breitbart's central ideas was that the left uses Hollywood as a sort of cudgel to assert its superiority over the right.
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Her refusal to detail the costs was turned into cudgel by Buttigieg and others to question not just her policy but her honesty.
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The trailer for Future Man uses nostalgia as a cudgel, beating the viewer until they enter a numb state that only vaguely resembles amusement.
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Matt Bevin, the unpopular Republican incumbent, has strongly aligned himself with President Trump and invoking impeachment as a cudgel against his opponent, Andy Beshear.
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Whatever the inadequacies of Mr Mueller's quirky prosecutorial cudgel, it is clear that Mr Manafort is not the hapless victim of a bad law.
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Republicans were angry that Comey didn't recommend an indictment, but used his testimony about Clinton's carelessness to cudgel the Democratic candidate throughout the campaign.
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It has now moved from a legitimate movement of awareness to a cudgel the president (and others) wields to create further discord and division.
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"Out" parties have used the anti-corruption message as a cudgel against "in" parties forever, and the same metaphors often pass back and forth.
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President Trump's tariffs, which were initially seen as a cudgel to force other countries to drop their trade barriers, may be here to stay.
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And I'll use trade policy to try to boost well-being for American workers, rather than using it as a cudgel on unrelated issues.
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Yet where progressives argue for openness and inclusion as a cudgel against President Trump, they abandon it on Nob Hill and in Beverly Hills.
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But Thomas Carothers, a senior vice president at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, believes that Soros was simply a useful cudgel for Orban.
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Today, dictators are again waging war against the free press, only this time, they're using Trump's term — fake news — as a cudgel, said Flake.
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The Magnitsky Act should not be allowed to become a cudgel wielded by non-citizens as they seek to beat our allies into submission.
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But, at first look, Trump appeared to have avoided the kind of misstep that would give his detractors a cudgel to beat him with.
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During the 1990s, as digital technology infiltrated the recording process, some mastering engineers wielded compression like a cudgel, competing to produce the loudest recordings.
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Mr. Trump's language, and allegations of "deep state" excesses, are now embedded in the political conversation, used as a cudgel by the president's supporters.
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Former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer became known as the "Sheriff of Wall Street" using the Martin Act as a cudgel against investment banks.
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Democratic presidential hopefuls have used the refinery issue as a cudgel, echoing farm groups who say Trump has betrayed them by siding with Big Oil.
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If you widen the definition of insurance churn to any change in your insurance plan, then it becomes a cudgel against Medicare-for-all too.
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Washington (CNN)Bernie Sanders says he'd "revise" the gun manufacturers' bill that has become Hillary Clinton's chief cudgel against him in the Democratic presidential primary.
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During a Senate Republican policy lunch Tuesday, Trump signaled he wants to use the Green New Deal as a cudgel in 2020, according to Sen.
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"Always have hope in your heart," Kesha told the crowd, before shouting her way through the song, using it as a diary and a cudgel.
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And that pain will be used as a cudgel by parties seeking to amp up the pressure on the other side in the days ahead.
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Overseas development assistance Military spending may be the biggest cudgel Washington has to bring to bear, but it's also the least likely to be cut.
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The more cynical worried it might be shrewdly wielded like a partisan cudgel to go after Clinton and severely damage the reputation of the FBI.
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Democrats will continue their push on Wednesday to fill the Supreme Court vacancy after being handed a new cudgel on Tuesday by the court itself.
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Given his general distaste for media consolidation, Trump could nudge the FCC to use its media oversight powers to cudgel his frenemies in the press.
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Unless it is overturned, it will remain on the books and be used as a cudgel by any president that wishes to defy congressional subpoenas.
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It was used as a cudgel against his predecessor and his opponent, a means of showing how much stronger he would be against America's enemies.
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But it's what happens when a party insists on being too democratic and when candidates use democratic appeals as a cudgel to undermine their opponents.
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But tech employees are increasingly finding that public attention on some subjects of gravity is an effective cudgel against the historical strength of corporate management.
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Republicans warned that impeachment will become the new normal: a political cudgel to grab any time the president and the House are of opposing parties.
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They're well on their way to getting all this done under the Congressional Review Act, a legislative cudgel that has rarely been used until now.
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I'm sure that some people wanted "putted" there, another golf term, but it's CUDGEL — the GEL being the same three letters as LEG in DOGLEG.
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Yes, the shutdown, once a rarity, is now a regularly used cudgel against Members of Congress who have the audacity to ask for amendment votes.
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Since Christmas, President Donald Trump has been cynically using homelessness as a political cudgel to attack blue-state Democrats who are making his life difficult.
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Reporters are hounding GOP members on Capitol Hill to respond to the controversy, and Democrats are using it as a cudgel against down-ballot Republicans.
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"It seems like it's used as a cudgel of shame to say, 'You're not sufficiently paying attention, you're not attending, you're not present,'" he said.
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But climate hawks are equally invested in the notion that China is racing ahead, since that serves as a cudgel with which to attack conservatives.
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It has now devolved into a cudgel, used by the Right, the Left, and even the president-elect to discredit anyone they disagree with or dislike.
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Her actions could even imperil other providers, as abortion opponents could decide to use her as a cudgel to push for more restrictions on the procedure.
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And party leaders, who control fundraising flows, have a powerful cudgel to discipline members in their own party to get in line, regular order be damned.
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And yet, with "ban the box," more rejected candidates will sue companies for not hiring them ,using the new law as a cudgel to intimidate employers.
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"In a particular way, this president has used it as a cudgel to activate, I think, some of our worst tendencies in this country," she added.
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"It's important that we stop seeing religion used as a kind of cudgel as if God belonged to a political party," Buttigieg told NBC's Craig Melvin.
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A slapdash assassin tournament midway through the season makes it especially evident how the series uses its fight scenes like a cudgel instead of a paintbrush.
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In the previous years, abortion-rights forces had effectively used the lack of a rape and incest exception as a cudgel against the anti-abortion movement.
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Robot as a patsy for her own self-preservation, wielding his recent abuses — "I'm not gonna let you hurt me again" — as a cudgel against Elliot.
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Background reading: President Trump's tariffs, initially seen as a cudgel to break down trade barriers, increasingly look like more permanent measures intended to shelter American industry.
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That has included steep tariffs on imported goods, which President Trump has wielded as a cudgel to force companies to relocate manufacturing to the United States.
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Latinos should support the impeachment inquiry because the president who has wielded the law like a cudgel against our communities should not be above it himself.
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Mullins then went on to use Majors' death as a political cudgel to attack reduced marijuana enforcement and the prospect of legalization in New York City.
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But now Democrats plan to turn the tables on Republicans, using the GOP's failed attempts to repeal ObamaCare as a cudgel in the 2018 midterm elections.
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Mr. Cuomo, known for his savvy and sometimes cudgel-like approach to negotiating, has said he is powerless to make the Senate's Democratic factions get along.
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Prosecutors accused Dean Skelos of forcing companies with business before the state to pay his son, with the threat of losing his political support as a cudgel.
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And while he didn't delve deeply into the political race Thursday, Obama is expected to use the Supreme Court issue as a cudgel in the coming election.
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But after a local politician was assassinated on February 19th, apparently by separatists, law and order has become another cudgel with which to beat the state government.
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Even if he never expects that nominee to be actually confirmed but rather to wield as an election cudgel, he certainly has the right to do that.
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But for years Republican members of Congress stressed economic plans to change the tax code to provide incentives -- not a cudgel -- to retain businesses from relocating operations.
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No, when vulnerable Democrats wield Obamacare as a political cudgel against Republicans, they have one very specific section in mind: Title I, the protections for preexisting conditions.
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When education is discussed, whether the focus is teacher pay, unions, common core standards, or school choice, state education rankings are invariably used as a political cudgel.
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High taxes are often cited, particularly by Republicans, as the reason California is a difficult place to put down roots, but the real cudgel is housing costs.
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In some poor neighborhoods, the Olympics served as a cudgel to speed the overhaul of public clinics that had been plagued by long waits and poor service.
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The next day he lamented in the interview with The Times that "it happens again and again before an election, unpacking the Fascism cudgel" against his party.
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While the G20 is a forum for international cooperation and reducing trade barriers, Mr. Trump has seized on stiff tariffs as a favored cudgel against trading partners.
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Fairly or not, conservatives have used it as a cudgel against liberal judges, attacking them for inventing new rights to protect minorities, political dissenters and criminal suspects.
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That's offered her a cudgel against candidates closer to tech donors and all contributors, such as Pete Buttigieg, who she says is in the pocket of billionaires.
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But, reality aside, fear-mongering about Ebola served as a useful political cudgel for Trump, who at the time was publicly mulling whether to run for president.
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Mr. Duda argues that the Soviet agreement with Germany paved the way to war, and that Mr. Putin is reviving Stalinist propaganda as a modern-day cudgel.
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The president has been adamant that the meddling did not alter the outcome of the presidential race, but it has become a political cudgel for his opponents.
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Even without that cudgel, the firm can cut back equity partner compensation as much as 25 percent annually — a brusque sign that it is time to leave.
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But now Democrats plan to turn the tables on the GOP, using the GOP's failed attempts to repeal ObamaCare as a cudgel in the 6900 midterm elections.
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Against that math, GOP operatives are licking their chops over the prospect of using impeachment as a cudgel to attack centrist Democrats in battleground districts next year.
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Editorial Wielding their power to take a cudgel to local laws, Iowa's Republican-controlled Statehouse is moving to make workers in four counties take a pay cut.
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This is a time for restraint and careful deliberation, and for leaders who clearly understand that nuclear weapons are too dangerous to be brandished as a cudgel.
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The measure is the biggest overhaul of the tax code in a generation, and Democrats vowed to use it as a cudgel in the 2018 midterm elections.
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Democratic presidential hopefuls have spent a lot of time in Iowa because it holds an early nominating contest, and they have used the refinery issue as a cudgel.
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After Mr. Rubio attacked Mr. Trump for having paid a hefty fine for hiring illegal workers, Mr. Cruz took up the same set of facts as a cudgel.
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At last week's debate, debate moderators and centrist candidates used the issue as a cudgel against the senator, who has risen to the top of the 2020 field.
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Rather than creating unfettered markets, where the ready availability of public cash can attract unscrupulous providers, technocrats wield a heavy cudgel—the threat of closure—to force accountability.
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And while he may be happy for another cudgel against the despised U.S., Putin won't be satisfied in the role of second fiddle to the giant next door.
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The daily drip of allegations and hearings will further enrage Trump, and his anger will only intensify as Democrats continue to use Russia as a cudgel against him.
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Some analysts speculate that Cohen may be angling for a presidential pardon, and that he is using the threat of cooperation with Mueller as a kind of cudgel.
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As a reminder, this is a sitting government official using litigation as a cudgel to stifle my free speech and, frankly, intimidate and harass me and my family.
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Federal prosecutors tried to compel journalists to name their sources in open court, searched their phone records, and wielded the Espionage Act as a cudgel against government whistleblowers.
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Trump will likely use his vow to deport millions of people as an applause line and a cudgel to attack Democratic presidential candidates during his rally on Tuesday.
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In the lands where Marxism became a warrant for one-party rule, it was turned into a cudgel to wield against enemies whose opinions were declared objectively false.
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Their tax law is the political definition of milquetoast — the public doesn't care about it at all, and Democrats don't even find it that useful as a cudgel.
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Mr. Mattis could use the commission's report "as a cudgel" to prod the vast and often unwieldy Pentagon bureaucracy to respond to the panel's findings, Mr. Edelman said.
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Through their actions, they have proven that they cared about the deficit primarily for its usefulness as a political cudgel, an easy way to curtail Democratic policy goals.
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The monkey king is an imaginary being with the strength of a superman, an ability to fly and a predilection for using his immense cudgel for destructive purposes.
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House Democrats have accused Trump of using the assistance as a cudgel to pressure Kyiv to announce investigations that could benefit him politically, which the administration has denied.
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Too often, our impulse today is to view each new development, domestic or international, as a cudgel for denouncing those on the other side of our partisan divide.
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President Trump has declared that his forthcoming order will use the cutting or denial of federal research funds as a cudgel to force compliance with free speech edicts.
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Religion and the inherent power of faith communities are instead being perverted, used as a cudgel against the disenfranchised, whether immigrants, the L.G.B.T.Q. community, or other underrepresented groups.
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Mr. Duda argues that the Soviet agreement with Germany paved the way to war, and that Mr. Putin is reviving old Stalinist propaganda as a modern-day cudgel.
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Which means one of two things: either Kushner doesn't know how sensitive this issue is, or he doesn't care and is using it as a cudgel against Palestinians.
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But from now on, here's my rule: anyone who tries to use Venezuela as a cudgel in U.S. political debate doesn't deserve to be part of that debate.
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But House Republicans have come up with their own cudgel to compel healthy Americans to purchase coverage, with the goal of offsetting the costs of insuring sicker patients.
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He regarded the media as a cudgel for his cases, maximizing exposure, inviting new evidence from would-be whistle-blowers and sometimes inciting responses from the White House.
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Being able to cite a report signed off on by members of both parties will give them cover to turn it into a cudgel against the president-elect.
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If we create models for mental health disorders, are we not also creating a model for normality, which can be used as a cudgel as well as a tool?
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But instead of treating stacks and sleeves as unpredictable forces, Altered Carbon depicts them as a cudgel that decadent immortals use against the helpless poor in dully predictable ways.
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ABC's Jon Karl began by pressing Sanders to explain how it's not hypocritical for Trump to use Omar's comments as a political cudgel when he's refused to denounce Rep.
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He fights an inclination toward grudges ("acrimony pageants") and, now and then, with weariness or exasperation, has had to cudgel back against charges of misogyny and, more lately, Islamophobia.
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With more than 19533,000 tweets since taking office, Mr. Trump has used Twitter as a springboard to change policy, a cudgel against critics and an outlet for self affirmation.
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And beyond criticizing Goldman directly, Sanders has used it as a political cudgel as well, criticizing his opponent, Hillary Clinton, for accepting large speaking fees from the banking firm.
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Trump has slapped tariffs on imports from allies and rivals alike and has used tariffs as a political cudgel, as he did with Mexico over the border, unnerving businesses.
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A few hard-line Russian nationalists have again taken up that cudgel, demanding that Turgenev's books be removed from school curriculums because he was too smitten with the West.
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In a pair of court filings Thursday night, House Democratic lawyers in the McGahn and Mueller grand jury materials cases used Sekulow's impeachment argument as a cudgel against Trump.
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" In April, the party (rebranded as National Rally) called for European nations to use trade barriers as a cudgel against "rogue states that abandon the fight against climate change.
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"Michigan's choice to wield the cudgel of driver's-license suspension for nonpayment of court debt dramatically heightens the incentive to pay," Circuit Judge Alice Batchelder wrote for the majority.
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The vote failed, but it put Republicans on the record on preexisting condition coverage, an issue Democrats are using as a cudgel against their opponents on the campaign trail.
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Mr. Trump or relevant agencies could try to slow walk such sanctions — and might even use the threat of imposing them as a cudgel against China in trade negotiations.
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Either way, it provides a warning: Every vow to support the Republican standard-bearer — normally a routine statement, not a fraught one — may now be turned into a Democratic cudgel.
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David Rieff, the author of "In Praise of Forgetting", argues that the commemoration of past wrongs can become a moral cudgel, cynically weaponised over and over again for political ends.
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Sequestration, when it was ushered in, was meant to use draconian cuts to both defense and nondefense discretionary spending as a cudgel to force Congress to compromise on budget cuts.
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"As a reminder, this is a sitting government official using litigation as a cudgel to stifle my free speech and, frankly, intimidate and harass me and my family," Mair added. .
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Trump used his threat of stiff steel and aluminum tariffs as a cudgel to extract the concessions he wanted, helping produce an agreement that had stalled amid disagreements this year.
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Mr. Espy, who would be Mississippi's first black senator since Reconstruction, is hardly a newcomer to Washington, and Republicans sought to turn his record in the capital into a cudgel.
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The April conviction of Bill Cosby fueled a wave of assessments about the comedian's tarnished legacy — and how that legacy was long wielded as a cudgel against poor black Americans.
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There's no question that Trump turned McCabe's firing into a political cudgel, gleefully tweeting about his ouster and claiming it as more proof of the invalidity of the Russia investigation.
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The M.O. of these sourpusses is to take the immense popularity of a brand among young people and use it as a cudgel with which to beat its theatrical adaptation.
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The energy boom has also weakened many of America's competitors, particularly Russia, by both decreasing its revenues and reducing its ability to use its energy resources as a political cudgel.
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But Mr. Menendez's trial had not started when the ruling was issued and his defense team considered the decision as providing a legal cudgel to have the senator's case dismissed.
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House Democrats, who have launched an impeachment inquiry into Trump's Ukraine contacts, have raised concerns Trump used the aid as a cudgel to pressure Ukraine to investigate a political rival.
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But Mr. Grassley has been working hard to win more support, using Ms. Pelosi's bill as a cudgel as he warns that the speaker's prescriptions could succeed if his fail.
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Wielding the label of "degenerate art" as a cudgel, Hitler and his henchmen ruined the careers of significant artists, sending them into exile or to their deaths, sometimes by suicide.
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Richard Neal, ranking member on the Ways and Means Committee, should be Democrats' lead messenger against the tax bill, not Pelosi, given Republicans' reliance on her as a campaign cudgel.
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Given the ease at which Democrats have battered their counterparts with this populist cudgel, it's strange to watch them embrace a different form of corporate welfare: trickle-down social justice.
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Yesterday in Styles Long before "fake news" became a cudgel for the Trumpites, it was the hippest form of protest for Jon Stewart types during the George W. Bush years.
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The podcast also offers the foundation a chance to rehabilitate an image that, in many ways, was tarnished by Republican efforts to use the foundation as a political cudgel in 2016.
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" Buttigieg told NBC that he talks about religion in an effort to convince people to "stop seeing religion as a kind of cudgel as if God belonged to a political party.
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When people who have power require civility from those with less, or none, though, that demand is a cudgel, a weapon the haves use to keep the have-nots in line.
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Brittain has tried to use the law as a cudgel before; in 2015, he claimed that news sites were violating copyright law by covering his revenge porn settlement with the FTC.
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If you narrow the definition of insurance churn to whether or not you have insurance, the argument doesn't work as a cudgel against some of the competing plans like Medicare Extra.
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On Monday, Lajos Kosa, the parliamentary leader of the governing party, invoked the Orlando attacks as a cudgel to repeat the party's campaign against migrants from Syria and other Muslim nations.
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"Accountability and recognition of genocide should not be used as a cudgel in a political fight," Omar said in a statement, adding that the resolution should've recognized other human-rights violations.
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But a series can also have a long television tenure by taking backwoods stereotypes and turning them into a cudgel with which to pound maniacally on all manner of topical subjects.
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Andrew M. Cuomo's economic development guru, on federal corruption charges on Thursday has provided a timely and powerful cudgel to a raft of critics and political opponents running to replace him.
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It should be noted that the possibility of pedophilia is a common mythology that religious conservatives use as a cudgel against gay people, to justify wanting to deny them equal rights.
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Mr. Trump used his threat of stiff steel and aluminum tariffs as a cudgel to extract the concessions he wanted, helping produce an agreement that had stalled amid disagreements this year.
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But the European Parliament does have a role in shaping the direction of the EU. It must, for example, approve or reject an EU budget — and that's no small political cudgel.
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The clause has become a cudgel for Mr. Trump's critics, who argue that the presidency of a businessman raises a host of potential conflicts of interest, leading some groups to sue.
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Sanders has frequently used Wall Street as a cudgel against rival Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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Clinton's use of personal email as secretary of State, which became a major cudgel used against her in 2016, was originally broken in 2015 by none other than the New York Times.
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Ronald Reagan galvanized the country behind his vision of smaller government and lower taxes and used his popularity as a cudgel to bring recalcitrant members of both parties into line behind him.
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They're the most unpopular part of Obamacare, which is why so many Republicans — including Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump — have used high deductibles as a cudgel with which to attack the law.
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Donald J. Trump has exploited social media like no other American president, using it as a springboard to change policy, as a cudgel against critics and as an outlet for self-affirmation.
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Using such diversity mandates as a cudgel, rather than working through market forces, will not only harm those they intend to help, but will also lead to dramatic increases in federal power.
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Democrats have often used the Kochs as a cudgel against the Republican Party at large, denouncing them as secretive magnates who funnel money to policies that mostly help their own bottom lines.
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National security is also at risk, especially since these defamation laws could be weaponized by authoritarian states, wielding the heightened threat of lawsuits as a cudgel to silence reporting about their activities.
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For many on the left, it seemed that those on the right were using it as a cudgel to try to shame them into not being so angry about the election results.
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And while Trump used Covid-19 as a cudgel to attack Democrats, a Senate hearing about Trump's homeland security budget in Washington indicated that even Republicans are unimpressed with the administration's response.
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And Democrats are using the prospect of bipartisanship as something of a cudgel, baiting Republicans to come to them, but demanding a price for entry: Keep the Affordable Care Act largely intact.
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Sadly, the "still not safe" claim has also been frequently used as a cudgel -- by opportunists aiming to take advantage of the fame, fortune and narrative that the Flint water crisis offers.
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Mr. Putin took up his usual foreign policy cudgel at the end, using most of the 90-minute speech to Russian lawmakers to focus on improving the standard of living in Russia.
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A few years ago, I wrote an article on false rape accusations after becoming obsessed with the issue and how frequently it's used as a cudgel when allegations of sexual misconduct come out.
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Pot also became a populist cudgel for Democrats feuding with the Trump administration, in which officials overseeing state regulatory systems for pot were warding off hostile gestures from former attorney general Jeff Sessions.
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And yet, when you watch it as an adult, you see how in the film abortion is less of a political cudgel and more as something that people may deal with in life.
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"Legal action is a critical tool in the campaign against ISIL (Islamic State) but it must not be wielded like a cudgel against those who voice unpopular speech or criticize authorities," Power said.
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If it were overturned, that could mean the end of using Firrea as a cudgel to get banks to pay in the remaining 175 or so civil lawsuits still pending against Wall Street.
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And gleefully smashing car windows with a cudgel in the shape of a long-stemmed flower, as a woman does in perhaps Ms. Rist's best-known piece, "Ever Is Over All," from 1997.
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Her threat to use the subpoena power as a political cudgel proves that Pelosi, like the rest of the Democrats, is only concerned with obstruction and scoring political points to stay in office.
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Mr. Trump's use of tariffs as a cudgel to revitalize manufacturing in the United States is forcing changes across large multinational companies, though they may not always be the changes the president seeks.
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It's true that Mr. Clinton was not removed from office, but Republicans used the fact of his impeachment as a cudgel first against his vice president, Al Gore, and later against his wife.
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As a person appointed by Johnson, the current prime minister, Sunak is expected to help cudgel the UK and the rest of Europe into supporting the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union.
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"From virtually the moment he took office, President Trump has attempted to use the Justice Department as a cudgel against his enemies and as a shield for himself and his allies," Yates wrote.
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It gives him a cudgel to beat Democrats with -- and, if the early returns are indicative, he and his allies will do just that over the coming days, weeks and maybe even years.
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Fetal tissue research has been used as a cudgel against abortion providers ever since this summer, when anti-abortion activists released propaganda videos claiming that Planned Parenthood illegally "sells baby parts" to researchers.
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Lee-Makiyama sees this as an untenable scenario and points to China's ill-fated attempts to use rare earths as a trade cudgel in its dealings with Japan and the US in the past.
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It should not be a partisan issue to say that we do not pressure the attorney general or the FBI to use the criminal justice system as a cudgel to punish our political opponents.
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When CNN's Dan Merica noted on Twitter that Clinton had used her husband's own law as cudgel against her rival, a spokesman for her campaign, Brian Fallon, suggested Sanders was hiding from his role.
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In op-ed after op-ed and television appearance after television appearance, Bolton packaged the military cudgel as clean and antiseptic, where the benefits of an operation would outweigh any cost that may arise.
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The film's music soundtrack is deployed like a cudgel: A musical-comedy-like refrain adds a comic buoyancy; a hard-rock cue suggests Gonzalo's defiance; a stirring Prokofiev crescendo lends grandeur to the climax.
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But Jones, whose story also became a political cudgel (as recently as Trump's campaign, when she sat in a press conference with him), has not had as many opportunities to reengage with the public.
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In her original remarks, Omar made a passing reference to 9/11 while explaining how the issue was used as a cudgel by some to advocate for taking away civil liberties from Muslim Americans.
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For those who have harbored doubts or animosity toward Black Lives Matter — among them police unions and conservative leaders — the Dallas attacks are a cudgel that, fairly or not, they are eager to swing.
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Maybe the family separation issue is a cudgel that's useful for attacking the Trump administration but which, as a principle, will be abandoned as soon as Democrats retake power in 2021, 2025, or beyond.
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During a speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) made a remarkably cynical effort to use election fraud in North Carolina as a political cudgel to attack Democrats.
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YOU KNOW, SO THERE WAS A NEED TO, I THINK, WHICH DAVID HAS PICKED UP THE CUDGEL FOR, BUILD NEW SOURCES OF REVENUE THAT ARE MORE STABLE, THAT TEND TO BE MORE COUNTER CYCLICAL.
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Ms. Trump has also complained to colleagues that people try to use her as a cudgel against Mr. Kelly, imparting a level of anger at him that she says she herself does not feel.
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But Anatoliy Hrytsenko, a former Ukrainian defense minister, said that any recalcitrance from Western countries would create suspicions in Ukraine that they were using the tragedy as a cudgel in their conflict with Iran.
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Over the years, Pat has become a cultural cudgel used to mock those with unfamiliar gender expressions — an all-purpose insult hurled at people who do not fit conventional definitions of masculinity or femininity.
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Her loss of power has been the High Sparrow's gain, as evidenced by the ability of his cudgel-wielding lackeys to show up at the Red Keep and "order" Cersei to come to the Sept.
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He also said that the ruling against executive recruiter Nosal, which relates to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, would give companies an unfair cudgel to use against former employees and competitors in civil disputes.
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" Similarly, regarding religion, he told the Post, "I think there's an opportunity hopefully for religion to be not so much used as a cudgel but invoked as a way of calling us to higher values.
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Mrs May's plan is to hold yet another vote on her deal and to cudgel Brexiteers into supporting it by threatening them with a long extension that she says risks the cancellation of Brexit altogether.
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Republicans had, again, used Pelosi as a cudgel in the campaign -- bashing Ossoff as a national Democratic pawn who would go to Washington and vote for a radically liberal agenda championed by the California Democrat.
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It seems that when a fight was brewing, each Irishman used whatever weapon served him best, whether it be a shillelagh, cudgel, camán, or any other striking apparatus that could be easily and effective welded.
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It turns emotion into a cudgel that smashes the distinction — and even in our relativistic age, there remains a distinction — between evidence out in the world and internal sentiments known only to each of us.
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Some journalists argue that while they share the collective alarm, they object to the method of response, believing the news media are handing Trump "another oratorical cudgel to beat them over the head" (Wichita Eagle).
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I noted last December that in countries with lower thresholds for defamation claims like Australia, the wealthy and powerful can wield the legal system as a cudgel against those who try to expose their wrongdoing.
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For Hannity, Wheeler's investigation did double duty as drama and political cudgel: If Rich was involved in the leaks, then the contention that Russia had undertaken the hack on behalf of Trump would be discredited.
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Mr. Trump, however, has not hesitated to use human rights as a cudgel against unfriendly countries, like Iran, North Korea and Venezuela, whose records he criticized in his State of the Union address on Tuesday.
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The Trump administration cited a domestic law created to enable presidents to cut off finance to rogue regimes, deploying a remedy for unfair trade — tariffs — as a cudgel in an unrelated dispute over immigration policy.
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"Republicans are terrified that Democrats will use the issue of pre-existing conditions as a cudgel to beat up Republicans," said Michael F. Cannon, the director of health policy studies at the libertarian Cato Institute.
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HONG KONG — Singapore introduced draft legislation on Monday that it said would combat false or misleading information on the internet, but critics said the measure could be used as a cudgel against the government's critics.
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Josh Hawley (R-MO) sponsored a proposal for making sites earn the approval of a government committee before getting liability protections — effectively turning tech policy into a cudgel to punish companies with opposing political views.
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Any reluctance from Western countries to help would create suspicions in Ukraine that those countries were using the tragedy as a cudgel in their conflict with Iran, said Anatoliy Hrytsenko, a former Ukrainian defense minister.
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Writers voted overwhelmingly to give their unions that cudgel; 6,310 ballots were cast, representing 68 percent of eligible voters, with 96 percent in favor of a walkout if no palatable deal was offered by studios.
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And because UBI does not have the same tinge of big government as other entitlements, conservative political movements can readily claim UBI for their own and use it as a cudgel to dismantle public programs.
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Here's how people got it wrong this week: When you're using a fresh tragedy as a cudgel to make a larger point, one really good idea is to make sure you have your facts straight.
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On the other are those who feel that the church has already done enough on the issue, and that the problem is behind them and has become a cudgel used by enemies of the church.
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No matter how many times Jeri brandishes the word "allegedly" like a cudgel, or Malcolm's lawyer girlfriend, who also works for Jeri, lectures him on the importance of defense attorneys, the firm comes across as evil.
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Charlie Kirk is not the first public figure, on either side of the political spectrum, to cherry-pick or willfully misinterpret data, statements, or proposals, transforming them into "facts" intended to cudgel the opposition into submission.
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For in America as in Germany, the term, which means "lying press", is used not only as a cudgel against allegedly out-of-touch media elites but also to validate whatever conspiracy theory the shouter espouses.
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But using the system as a cudgel to punish critics or those connected to an investigation into him and his associates set a dangerous precedent — and that's what McRaven and others are objecting to right now.
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"It should not be a partisan issue to say that we do not pressure the Attorney General or the FBI to use the criminal justice system as a cudgel to punish our political opponents," Obama said.
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An Irishman would have probably carried both, a long shillelagh as a cane-cum-weapon, and a cudgel, a shorter stick that, at some point, became synonymous with the shillelagh although the two are distinctly different.
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Some see complaints, whether made to Mr. Condon's office or its counterpart, as sometimes playing a destructive role in schools, as teachers or principals might file complaints as a cudgel against those with whom they disagree.
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Finally, for those who oppose Obamacare — which is to say, most Republicans — the mandate is also useful as a political cudgel, a widely disliked signature provision of a law they oppose for a multitude of reasons.
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Many of his clients have been poor and black, and in court, on Capitol Hill and in his writings, he has railed against capital punishment, arguing it is a politically motivated cudgel that is unequally applied.
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Liberal pundits were nonplused by the shock of the president using his "indoor voice," as he traded the cudgel of "American carnage" for "the torch of truth, liberty and justice" in his maiden speech to Congress.
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The Iraq issue dogged John Kerry in 219 and Hillary Clinton in 22003, when it contributed to Barack Obama's meteoric rise, and again in 22003, when Sanders and Trump used it as a cudgel against her.
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Medicare for All would transfer all payment responsibility to one public agency (as opposed to a bunch of private companies), and that act of combination produces the big price tag that conservatives use as a cudgel.
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Conor McGregor will use Diaz's newfound wealth as yet another cudgel to beat him with, as confirmation of McGregor's primacy, and money will once again be at the center of the build-up to an MMA fight.
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Caveats aside, this first group of Red Originals represents an important first step for YouTube's nascent subscription service: it's a cudgel to wield against competitors and bait for YouTube users who haven't yet purchased a Red subscription.
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Right-wingers like Mr. Cruz use religion as a cudgel in all kinds of areas – starting with denying women the right to make medical choices and limiting the civil rights of lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual Americans.
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The call spurred an impeachment inquiry in the House, where Democrats are investigating, among other things, whether Trump used military aid to Ukraine as a cudgel to press Kiev for investigations that could aid his reelection bid.
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Charges now brought in connection with its material, or any attempt to extradite #Assange to the United States for prosecution under the deeply flawed cudgel of the Espionage Act 1917, is an attack on all of us.
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Otherwise, it becomes all too clear that the Logan Act is just being held in reserve so that it can be deployed as a partisan cudgel against the next hapless Republican official who aggravates the professional bureaucracy.
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What had seemed a perfectly orchestrated ribbon-cutting, just days before Thursday's primary, quickly morphed into a cudgel for the governor's opponents, who accused him of putting politics above public safety and called for a federal investigation.
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Lowry effaces the authoritarian purpose of Orbán's closed-border nationalism, the manner in which Hungary's leader uses it as a cudgel to delegitimize his political opponents and justify increasing state control over every sector of Hungarian society.
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At the last Democratic debate, in New Hampshire, Ms. Warren had used the fact that neither she nor Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota had a super PAC as a cudgel to hit the rest of their opponents.
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Trump-friendly news organizations seized on the detail, wielding it as a cudgel against Mr. Comey and focusing on his leaking while playing down other developments from the hearing, like his assertions that the president had lied.
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The inside story is told in documents collected by The New York Times The Obama administration, he said, had become intent on killing the coal industry, and had used federal lands as a cudgel to restrict exports.
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Buttigieg, who has run one of the feistier campaigns, targeted Warren last fall over "Medicare for All," questioning her plan to pay for the national health insurance program that has become a catchall cudgel for the moderates.
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While it is a part of the executive branch, the Justice Department has typically sought to maintain some independence from the White House to guarantee that justice is applied fairly and not wielded as a political cudgel.
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Florida Republicans have spent $11.29 million on ads discussing taxes, while also stressing health care ($6.75 million) and "term-limits" ($5 million) -- a tactic conservatives have seized on to cudgel Nelson, a four-decade veteran of politics.
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In addition to taking his usual unearned credit for a program that President Barack Obama signed into law in 2014, Trump used his non-accomplishment as a cudgel against a deceased foe whose accomplishment it really was.
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It's the latest example of Trump wielding the power to pardon as a cudgel in the culture war, granting pardons to or commuting the sentences of figures who waged partisan warfare or have become right-wing folk heroes.
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Mr. Trump used the caravan as a cudgel against the Mexican government, accusing it of doing little to curb illegal northward migration, and as grounds to deploy the National Guard to the southwest border of the United States.
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I'm interested in reclaiming the notion of armed self-defense from those who have long used it as a cudgel to repress dissent and terrorize marginalized communities, and emphasizing its potential as a transformative tool toward collective liberation.
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Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), #MeToo is a welcome, long-awaited development, a signal that American society may finally be willing to grapple with the ways men use sexual dominance as a cudgel against the women they work with.
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House Democrats are investigating whether Trump sought to use the promise of a White House meeting and $400 million in security aid to Ukraine as a cudgel to press Kyiv to open investigations that could benefit Trump politically.
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The failures of a pundit like Maddow, who devoted a truly insane amount of her show to Trump's connections to Russia, and a few cherry-picked stories are being used as a cudgel to beat the entire media.
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And it codifies the idea of using Section 230 immunity—without which no online platform could realistically risk hosting user-generated content at scale—as a cudgel to force private businesses to adopt government-approved content moderation practices.
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Mr. Trump feasted on both events, citing the first in countless denunciations of the Obama administration — which he accused of going easy on his Democratic opponent — and wielding the second as a cudgel in the campaign's final days.
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Gardner 20 years after Columbine, Dems bullish on gun reform MORE (R-Colo.) has donated $10,000 in campaign contributions from a GOP lawmaker accused of sexual harassment as Democrats look to use the allegations as a political cudgel.
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The Communist Party exerts overwhelming control over media content inside China's so-called Great Firewall, and it is now using it as a cudgel in an information war over the protests that have convulsed Hong Kong for months.
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The Communist Party exerts overwhelming control over media content inside China's so-called Great Firewall, and it is now using it as a cudgel in an information war over the protests that have convulsed Hong Kong for months.
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" Charlotte Clymer, a spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign, also slammed Pence for appearing at the event in a statement to NBC News and accused him of using his "perception of faith as a cudgel against vulnerable communities.
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Perhaps someday we'll see a system that meaningfully expands its number of verified users in a way that makes us trust the platform more — and isn't secretly using it as a cudgel with which to beat its rivals.
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Since the end of the civil rights movement and under Republican strategist Lee Atwater's "Southern strategy" that used racism as an unstated cudgel against Democrats, the Republican Party itself has played a welcoming host to racial tensions and fears.
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That's almost certainly why, as soon as Apple took the step of entirely banning Jones and his content, the cudgel fell: All of a sudden, the more controversial action would have been to allow Jones and Infowars to remain.
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Into this charged situation came Milo, a colorful character with Breitbart credentials and shock value, an openly gay avatar of the alt-right who frequently uses that aspect of his identity as a cudgel to say whatever he wants.
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The fact that Hunter Biden seems to have done little more than rely on his family name to help advance his business interests has not stopped those dealings from becoming a political cudgel on the campaign trail of late.
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Trump has tried to use them as a cudgel in negotiating trade deals like the update to NAFTA, which was signed Friday and will henceforth be called the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), although it still needs congressional approval.
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The person showcased and celebrated in Tumblrs, photo captions and satirical statements from the candidate herself is revolutionary not just for her political stature, but for demonstrating that likability is no longer the heaviest cudgel a woman can wield.
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Comments from the Minnesota lawmaker last month about 2628/28500, criticizing its use as a cudgel against Muslim Americans, have been the subject of intense criticism that escalated on Friday when Trump highlighted them in a video he tweeted.
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It has been a rhetorical cudgel Republicans used to bash Democrats as soft on the threat of Soviet communism, and to portray the left as wanting to raise people's taxes to give money to undeserving, lazy, shiftless, poor people.
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Mr. de Blasio repeated the word several times during a 36-minute news conference, brandishing it as a kind of rhetorical cudgel to beat back critics of his progressive agenda and potential opponents to it in the state Capitol.
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Enemies of Francis within the church who consider his inclusive approach damaging have seized on the abuse crisis as a cudgel, at one point demanding his resignation for covering up the actions of Mr. McCarrick and other abusive clerics.
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But Mr. Bader cautioned that Mr. Trump's threat of tariffs could still be a purely tactical move and a cudgel to force concessions from China, similar to the approach he has used with several of America's closest trading partners.
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But legal scholars and former law enforcement officials fear that the measures Mr. Rosenstein has resorted to could weaken the Justice Department's historic independence, allowing the department to be used as a cudgel to attack the president's political enemies.
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No real evidence has emerged that the company is really trying to silence right-leaning people, but it has become an effective cudgel for Republican activists and politicians, and Zuckerberg was repeatedly questioned about it when testifying before Congress.
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Some left-leaning lawyers believe House Democrats should still pass a bill to neutralize the threat and either force Republicans to agree or use their inaction as a cudgel against them for failing to protect Americans from the lawsuit's potential fallout.
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Wonks from the Congressional Budget Office dealt it a harsh blow last week when they released a forecast that by 2026 the AHCA would increase the number of Americans without health insurance by 24m, gifting Democrats with a useful cudgel.
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After learning that the Huber investigation is not likely to produce charges, Trump has become more insistent that Durham finish his work soon … [Trump] wants to be able to use whatever Durham finds as a cudgel in his reelection campaign.
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President Donald Trump intends to intensify enforcement of food safety regulations as a cudgel in international trade negotiations, according to leaked recordings of a what appears to be a phone conversation between Trump and Wilbur Ross, his nominee for Commerce Secretary.
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The latest cudgel is the "fiduciary rule", which is intended to prevent financial advisers from elevating their own interests above those of their clients and in practice makes it hard to manage money in exchange for trading commissions rather than fees.
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It should not be Democratic or Republican, it should not be a partisan issue, to say that we do not pressure the attorney general or the FBI to use the criminal justice system as a cudgel to punish our political opponents.
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By the time Lévi-Strauss took up the cudgel, photography was beginning to catch up with tourism, and since then travel writing and travel photography have come to seem, to the skeptical, like two sides of the same counterfeit token.
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The threat of extradition is a powerful cudgel for the Colombian government: Convictions in the United States result in harsh sentences in maximum security prisons where FARC members are cut off from their comrades and exercise no influence or power.
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Wielding those figures as a powerful public relations cudgel, lawyers for the women's team have for years used the yawning gap in their calculations to create the widest possible disparity between what U.S. Soccer pays its men's and women's teams.
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The debate about abuse and harassment has even fed complaints about Twitter's most prominent fan, President Trump, and his use of the site as a cudgel against everyone from Kim Jong-un of North Korea to Jemele Hill of ESPN.
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Arguably the lowest point in Trump's speech came when he escalated his one-sided feud with elected officials representing one of America's blackest cities by turning victims of gun violence in Baltimore into a political cudgel to wield against Democrats.
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It is also the latest attempt by the president's critics to oppose Mr. Trump's aggressive immigration policies, using the courts as a cudgel against his travel ban, enhanced immigration enforcement efforts and now, the decision to end the DACA protections.
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"After hearing nothing about Burisma over the course of the last couple weeks, the Republicans will revive it in a perfect demonstration of what this means to them, which is to be a cudgel to beat Joe Biden with," said Rep.
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He might win the battle with the bureau over the pending release of a scurrilous memo concocted by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee, a cudgel created to attack everyone who's been in charge of the federal investigation of Team Trump.
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"On the basis of this Russian propaganda, he withheld $400 million in military aid to a nation Russia was fighting – our ally," Schiff said, reiterating the allegation Trump used military assistance as a cudgel to push for investigations from Ukraine.
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"It should not be Democratic or Republican, it should not be partisan to say that we don't pressure the Department of Justice or the FBI to use the criminal justice system as a cudgel to punish our political opponents," he said.
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It's a convenient example for the government to use as a cudgel to attempt to force Apple to change its stance, except the idea that the Justice Department can't access data on the terrorist's iPhone is almost certainly not true.
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And as Ford wrote, such a policy could hypothetically be used against religious institutions that do support marriage equality under a future presidency, the IRS being used as a cudgel to bash religious believers of whatever stripe who don't occupy the Oval Office.
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" Omar's office, on Thursday, sought to clarify that the congresswoman was stating she believes there is academic consensus on the fact that the genocide happened, emphasizing that her vote was a protest of the House using the genocide as a "political cudgel.
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Sondland did not connect Trump directly to the effort, but his reversal adds to the growing body of evidence that the Trump administration sought to use security assistance as a cudgel to press for the investigations — undercutting talking points by the administration.
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If this White House had any sense of ethical obligation, fundamental fairness or even self-awareness, it would agree to -- even demand -- an FBI investigation, to demonstrate that their alleged commitment to law and order isn't just a cudgel used against perceived opponents.
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But a new report by PEN America, to be released on Monday, questions that story line while warning of a different danger: a growing perception among young people that cries of "free speech" are too often used as a cudgel against them.
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It's a frustrating example of how the broad blanket of national security can be used as a cudgel against even the most lighthearted attempts at figuring out what the government is doing, but hey, it's not like the NSA is transparent about anything.
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"It should not be Democratic or Republican, it should not be a partisan issue, to say that we do not pressure the attorney general or the FBI to use the criminal justice system as a cudgel to punish our political opponents," Obama said.
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China's military expansion in the South China Sea may be the most prominent point of friction, but it does not help that China is distracted by a slowing economy and that trade with China has become a cudgel in the American presidential campaign.
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Previous texts exchanged by Peter Strzok and Lisa Page had already landed the pair in hot water, and have been used by Trump as a cudgel to attack both the investigation into Clinton's emails as well as the special counsel's Russia probe.
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"A Problem From Hell" quickly became a cudgel in the debate over invading Iraq; as Power notes, several pundits clamoring for war invoked her book, arguing that the 1980s Iraqi campaign of genocide against the Kurds gave the United States a casus belli.
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On Friday, the case dominated the German news media and became the latest cudgel for Chancellor Angela Merkel's opponents and, some predicted, a potential turning point in the migration debate in a country where some 1,223 asylum seekers still enter every month.
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Mr. Rosenstein has agreed to meet increasingly onerous demands from Mr. Trump and his allies, and legal scholars and former law enforcement officials worry that such moves could allow the Justice Department to be used as a cudgel to attack presidents' political enemies.
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Even after he retired as a judge, Mr. Lacey wielded his cudgel as the court-appointed independent administrator of the corruption-riddled International Brotherhood of Teamsters, ousting Barry Feinstein in 1993 as president of Local 237, which represents New York City employees.
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Appearing on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" on Wednesday night, Omar made her most fulsome comments about the issue, responding to Colbert's question about what it's like to have been used as a political cudgel during her first few months in Congress.
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And it's not just the raw number of things that Trump says that are partially or totally wrong, it's how he glorifies what he is doing -- and uses his fact-free approach as a cudgel with which to beat up the media.
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Trump saying that African-American unemployment had hit its lowest rate was seized on by his supporters as a cudgel to bash Democrats, while critics said Trump was taking credit for a trend that began seven years ago, long before he took office.
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The developments have exacerbated concerns among his critics that Trump used the funds as a cudgel over Ukraine to get the country to investigate his political rival — something the president has denied took place in the form of an explicit quid pro quo.
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"There's so much rancor in politics and partisanship that we allow ourselves to get drawn into different corners to the extent that some people actually want to use the funeral of a Supreme Court justice as some sort of political cudgel," Earnest said.
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Here are the rest of Obama's remarks on the topic: It should not be a partisan issue to say that we do not pressure the attorney general or the FBI to use the criminal justice system as a cudgel to punish our political opponents.
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After you slime someone as not so cool (see Elon Musk, see Jeff Bezos, oh, see a bunch of them), it's always a bit of a shock to get an invite to the tower and free branded water instead of a cudgel in the dungeon.
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And while Obama may have already resolved to merely make the Supreme Court justice a political cudgel with which to bash obstinate Republicans, I believe that he places a value on getting his justice seated that goes beyond just the political or policy gains.
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The model minority myth—the idea that Asians are successful because they have better values and work harder than other minorities—is pervasive, and often used as a cudgel by whites against black and Latinx Americans for their supposedly wayward values and lax worth ethic.
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Or he was using it as a cudgel, like I want to get this and I want to ... To me, it's not a well-thought-out theoretical thing, it's more like ... I just don't think it's as smart as it was, I just don't.
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He never sued to open up the clubs to minorities, he accused the city of Palm Beach of holding his club to tougher standards than segregated private ones, and used inclusion as a cudgel to get limitations imposed on the club by the city removed.
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The union, which also met with the president at the White House, says the program veered well beyond its advisory mission and was used as a cudgel against rank-and-file officers, who were then pulled away from policing to comply with new bureaucratic requirements.
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Temporary exemptions on imports of steel and aluminum from Australia, Brazil, Canada, the European Union, Mexico and South Korea have been scheduled to expire on May 1, and the Trump administration has been using that deadline as a cudgel to extract concessions from those nations.
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And Mr. Trump's cudgel comes attached to what analysts call a nearly impossible demand of the Mexican government: that it stop hundreds of thousands of migrants a year from fleeing poverty and violence across the region and making their way to the American border.
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During that Ohio debate, Warren's rivals sought to use Sanders' frankness about the fact that taxes would go up for the middle class under his "Medicare for All" plan as a cudgel against Warren, who kept insisting that middle class costs, overall, would not rise.
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Even now, the extra step of determining whether to start the investigation is less than trade hawks might have wanted, but softens the blow to China and gives Mr. Trump a cudgel to hold over it if he does not get the cooperation he wants.
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Republican congressional leaders Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy, for example, apparently saw the B.D.S. debate as yet another cudgel with which to beat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrats over the head with the trumped-up charge of disdain for America's Jews.
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A tireless vigilante who wields the law like a cudgel to enforce his prickly, often paranoid, brand of Egyptian nationalism, Mr. Sabry claims to have filed more than 2,700 such public interest lawsuits in the past 40 years, often firing off several in a day.
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After demanding for days that President Trump end the separation of illegal immigrant families at the border, Democrats responded to his executive order stopping the practice with only new appeals -- drawing GOP accusations that they&aposre more interested in using the issue as a political cudgel.
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But even if some in the media are unwilling to state this clearly, the president has long positioned American identity as something naturally inherited by whites and only conditionally granted to other races, wielding patriotism and citizenship as a cudgel to be used against people of color.
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The infrequency of a presidential or Supreme Court impeachment—two of 44 chief executives and one of 112 justices—and the even more rare conviction—no president or Supreme Court justice has ever been convicted of impeachment charges—shows the device is a rarely-used cudgel.
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Most of the people here were unaware of the threats of arrest and deportation made by President Trump and other US officials, and even fewer knew that their journey had been used as a political cudgel by conservative forces in the run up to our midterm elections.
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He has said the extensive paper trail that Judge Kavanaugh has left as a White House staff secretary and a judge could give Democrats a cudgel to slow the process and prevent the judge from being seated by the start of the October session of the court.
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They did not want Jason to be forgotten, nor did they want him to become just another partisan cudgel in the increasingly political fight over the nuclear agreement, which had quickly become, in Washington, a referendum on the Obama administration's larger policy of tenuous outreach to Iran.
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"That the Trump administration is using humanitarian aid for schools and hospitals as a cudgel to punish those who disagree with their policy decisions is deeply troubling," said Jeremy Ben-Ami, president of J Street, a Washington-based liberal advocacy group for peace in the region.
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That history, and some inconsistencies in accounts of the events Archbishop Viganò described, have prompted questions about how concerned he really is about the handling of Cardinal McCarrick and whether he is more interested in using the case as a cudgel against a pontiff he opposes.
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Mr. Newsom laid out a series of proposals, and repeated an offer to work with the Trump administration, which has used the issue as a political cudgel, taking Democratic leaders to task for presiding over a worsening homelessness crisis despite billions of dollars spent to address it.
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The revelation that Michael T. Flynn, President Trump's national security adviser, apparently discussed sanctions with Russia's ambassador to the United States in the weeks before the inauguration has given Democrats a new cudgel to revive discussions of Mr. Trump's ties to Russian President Vladimir V. Putin.
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The misstep on a relatively minor story — it was never mentioned on any of CNN's television networks — left some White House staff members jubilant, believing it handed them a new talking point to use as a cudgel against mainstream media organizations they feel are largely biased against them.
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Democrats, who now control the House, have made clear they will not approve the new agreement without changes that could require all three countries to sign off, and the White House may use the tariffs as a cudgel to force Canada and Mexico to agree to any alterations.
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"It shouldn't be Democratic or Republican to say that we don't pressure the attorney general or FBI to use the criminal justice system as a cudgel to punish our political opponents -- or to protect members of our own party from prosecution just because an election's coming up," he said.
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In 1997, former Vice President Al Gore took up the cudgel against the EU on behalf of a planned merger of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, saying that the United States was "watching the outcome of their (EU) deliberations extremely carefully," the New York Times reported at the time.
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In July 2015, Astorino pointedly held a news conference in front of Bill and Hillary Clinton's home, using affordable housing as a political cudgel to demand: Now, I have a question for Hillary Clinton, who's in her home today right behind me: does she think she lives in a discriminatory town?
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But regardless of their advice, Democrats widely agreed that the Burisma matter wouldn't weigh heavily on Biden's chances because it's been thoroughly debated for months and the facts are on his side — even as the president's allies in the Senate are planning to use Burisma as a cudgel against Biden.
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He has repeatedly attacked Republicans — including Vice President and fellow Indiana native Mike Pence — for what he has describes as "moral hypocrisy," arguing that religion is not "a kind of cudgel as if God belonged to a political party" and that Democrats are fully capable of winning back evangelical voters.
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Earlier this month, former NATO Ambassador Kurt Volker provided text messages between himself and other diplomats in which they described concerns that Trump was using a potential White House visit for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and possibly even military aid, as a cudgel to force the besieged country to probe Biden.
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As Skocpol showed, early programs to support poor mothers and their children didn't take hold; the Reagan administration diced up dozens of small, targeted programs, and welfare was a political cudgel for decades, until the welfare reform law of 1996, which so diminished the program that it now helps barely a million households.
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House Democrats are investigating whether President TrumpDonald John TrumpFive takeaways from the Democratic debate As Buttigieg rises, Biden is still the target Leading Democrats largely pull punches at debate MORE and those around him sought to use the aid as a cudgel to press Kyiv to open investigations that could help him politically.
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Cuban-Americans of some prominence, including Jorge Mas Santos, the son of Jorge Mas Canosa, who used the foundation as a cudgel against the Castros, had told Mr. Obama that there would be broad support in the exile community for loosening travel rules, to allow Cuban-Americans more freedom to go back.
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These exceptions suggest the administration is looking to use the threat of steel and aluminum tariffs as a cudgel to get a better deal out of those two close allies — which are also major exporters of metals to the United States — in mostly unrelated negotiations to revamp the 25-year-old agreement.
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The response, and ensuing confusion, reflected one of the deepest fault lines among Democrats heading into 2020 — on an issue the party hopes to use as a cudgel against President Trump as effectively as it did last fall, when their vow to protect the Affordable Care Act helped them recapture the House.
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But Mr. Flanagan's remarks seemed to do little to quell the questions around the stipend deal, which Senate Democrats have seized on as a powerful cudgel to attack the Republicans and their partners in the Independent Democratic Conference, an eight-member breakaway group that helps the G.O.P. maintain leadership in the Senate.
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The idea that sexism becomes out of bounds only when it's directed at Melania (or Ivanka) is laughably hypocritical, and shows how little this administration and its enablers actually care about women -- sexism, for them, is a cudgel with which to criticize their detractors in a way they know liberals won't fight.
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His suggestion that black UCLA players were "ungrateful" because they did not thank him specifically after their release from house arrest in China further illustrates how the president often seems to perceive personal slights as being un-American when expressed by a person of color, and how he often wields patriotism as a cudgel.
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While the social media giant stopped short of ultimately doing so, it did wind up using this data as a cudgel against competitors, sharing it with partners that it sought to collaborate with and with other businesses that had positive relationships with Facebook execs — all while withholding it from those it viewed as a threat.
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" The unspoken running gag of Steve Johnson's Mr. Eaux character (who "met W&J while selling them a set of walnut handled steak knives from the trunk of his El Dorado," the show's website says) is that black issues are merely a cudgel that African Americans use to gain pity or free "Obama phones.
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This is not to say that the goal of every piece of legislation should be a new cudgel with which to beat electoral opponents, but it would undoubtedly work out better for a Republican president to point to his great bill than a Democratic 2020 contender who had nothing to do with the process.
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Trump and his allies say they will continue to use public polling on the issue of impeachment as a cudgel against Democrats as long as it fits their narrative that voters care more about pocketbook issues than they do about whether Trump violated the norms of presidential behavior, or abused the powers of his office.
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Yet too often in recent years, he has applied it improperly to broad social challenges, using it as a cudgel against the needy, akin to NBA Hall of Famer Magic Johnson failing at coaching because he couldn't understand that not everyone he tried to teach had been gifted with his unique set of God-given talents.
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Since the beginning of the Trump administration and even since the launch of his presidential campaign, as Trump has been beset by Democrats linking him and his supporters to white supremacy and racism more broadly, conservatives and Republicans have retorted that Democrats have in the past, and are currently, using racism as a hypocritical cudgel when the need arises.
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That nationalist rhetoric and Trump's willingness to use his Twitter account as a cudgel has so rattled some companies that they are putting on hold mergers and acquisitions that may involve significant job cuts or moving production or tax domicile abroad, out of fear that such deals could be seen as "unpatriotic", several top Wall Street bankers said.
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"There are going to be honest disagreements sometimes between Fish and Wildlife employees and state employees, and I'm not sure, why would we want to give people that cudgel over certain federal employees who are doing their job, some of whom, you know, have gotten death threats for their work on endangered species," Van Hollen said to Wyoming Gov.
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" On behalf of Algren's next effort, "The Man With the Golden Arm," Hemingway raised an even blunter cudgel against writers who weren't two-fisted enough: "Into a world of letters where we have the fading Faulkner and where that overgrown Lil Abner Thomas Wolfe casts a shorter shadow each day, Nelson Algren comes like a corvette. . . .
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To which the dissidents reply: Anyone who has led them to four consecutive defeats, bringing their House caucus to its lowest point in the last 90 years, and whose name has become a cudgel with which to beat every House candidate put forward by the Democrats, ought to be astute enough to know when it is time to go.
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During a mid-October debate in Westerville, Ohio, Biden, Buttigieg and Klobuchar used Sanders' frankness about the fact that taxes would go up for middle class under his "Medicare for All" plan, which Warren had embraced, as a cudgel against the Massachusetts senator, who kept insisting -- without fully explaining how -- she would not do the same.
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Carter is the co-host of BadChristian, a terrific podcast where three Christian guys (Carter, Toby Morrell, and Joey Svendsen) navigate the world of the modern American church, which has come to stand in for a whole bunch of movements — especially political ones — that have turned it into yet another cudgel in the culture wars between the right and left.
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But the most interesting revelation in the Times piece was that the White House was considering using a pending merger as a cudgel against CNN for its perceived anti-Trump behavior: White House advisers have discussed a potential point of leverage over their adversary, a senior administration official said: a pending merger between CNN's parent company, Time Warner, and AT&T.
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Claire McCaskillClaire Conner McCaskillEx-CIA chief worries campaigns falling short on cybersecurity Ocasio-Cortez blasts NYT editor for suggesting Tlaib, Omar aren't representative of Midwest Trump nominees meet fiercest opposition from Warren, Sanders, Gillibrand MORE (Mo.), one of the most vulnerable Democrats up for reelection in the Senate, is using this as a cudgel against her GOP challenger, Josh Hawley.
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Others said Mr. Trump's sudden declaration was merely an instance of a now-familiar pattern wherein the president reacts angrily to something he sees in the news — in this case, reports of a large group of migrants from Honduras traveling through Mexico with hopes of reaching the United States — and seeks to use it as a cudgel against his political opponents.
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"The only reason that the U.S. would strike now is to put pressure on the EU, and maybe get something out of the EU." Several trade experts and EU officials say that tariffs stemming from the WTO ruling on Airbus could be used as a cudgel, forcing European negotiators to include agriculture in bilateral trade talks, which have largely stalled in recent months.
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Sex work became an issue in the Queens district attorney race, not only because Cabán said she would not prosecute sex workers for loitering and other offenses, or because the sex workers who supported her campaign made it an issue themselves, but because her detractors fashioned it into a useful moral cudgel, a way for tabloids to invoke New York's bad old days with a feminist gloss.
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In particular, they are investigating whether Trump sought to use military assistance to Ukraine and the White House meeting as a cudgel to press for the investigations that his personal attorney Rudy GiulianiRudy GiulianiBiden: Impeachment hearings show 'Trump doesn't want me to be the nominee' Sondland brings impeachment inquiry to White House doorstep FBI sought interview with whistleblower at heart of impeachment probe MORE was pressing for.
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Spotlighting sexual misconduct has become a cudgel in the hands of those who would unseat President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE, lessening its impact and even its validity.
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Some press coverage, however, suggested that the PEN America report — titled "And Campus For All: Diversity, Inclusion, and Freedom of Speech at U.S. Universities" — had exonerated campuses from the charge that they insufficiently protect free speech, and that it sided with students who think "cries of 'free speech' are too often used as a cudgel against them," as the New York Times put it.
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Director: Robert Greene (Actress, Fake It So Real) Cast: Kate Lyn Sheil (You're Next, Netflix's House of Cards) Distributor: None yet Because this experimental documentary about depressed TV reporter Christine Chubbuck played at the same festival as Antonio Campos's more conventional dramatization — and because Greene's film is openly critical of the very idea of restaging Chubbuck's on-air suicide — it's tempting to use Kate as a cudgel against the other Christine.
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With interest in the Clinton email probe so pitched, and internal FBI dissent boiling over, exculpating Clinton ("the case itself was not a cliffhanger") while criticizing her conduct ("extremely careless") was arguably the only way for him to conclude the inquiry without harming the FBI's integrity, causing a revolt within its ranks, or allowing the closure of the investigation to be turned into a one-sided partisan cudgel.
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McCain that Bannon should "take a seat" and ripped the former Trump aide for using military service as a political cudgel after what President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE said about McCain's father, Sen.
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Mr. Cook, who has called privacy a "fundamental human right" and taken Facebook and Google to task for the misuse of user data in the past, could effectively become a technology regulator of last resort — using the power of Apple's iOS operating system as a cudgel to force software companies to respect user privacy and play by the rules, or risk losing access to millions of iPhone users.
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Trump is going to use -- and use -- the news of the Clinton campaign funding the anti-Trump dossier In the wake of The Washington Post's reporting last night that Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped pay for former British spy Christopher Steele's work to compile a dossier on Trump, the President made clear that he will use that as a cudgel against all comers questioning his campaign's ties to Russia.
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But after a court decision in June affirmed the validity of the team's collective bargaining agreement, and thus barred the women's team from wielding its biggest cudgel in its ongoing contract talks — the threat of a strike before the Olympics — there is little that the team can do to press its case in the short term beside leveraging its high profile heading into Rio as the defending World Cup and Olympic champion.
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But by saying Wednesday, including on The View, that she wouldn't "run for second place," Abrams appeased those allies who view her as overqualified to be Biden's running mate and reframed such an arrangement, were she to be involved, as a decision she'd make of her own agency, rather than be used as a political cudgel for a candidate many of her allies believe is too old and out of touch with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.
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Towards the endgame, I'd managed to knock together one hell of a build: a fast sword (Balanced Blade V-L) that spreads inflammable oil onto enemies, a shield (Cudgel III) that passively reduced damage by 30%, an accessory (Topaz Amulet VIII) that automatically poisoned anyone who touched me, and a truly killer combination of Fire Grenades (with friendly attack worms upon an enemy's death) and Magnetic Grenades (100% bonus damage to enemies on fire, 100% bonus damage to poisoned enemies).
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The persistent difference between Poland and the UK, where a slim majority of voters opted for Brexit, is that regular Poles don't want to leave the EU. With 72 percent of voters backing Brussels, Poland has the highest EU-approval rating of any member nation—a fact that makes it hard to see "Polexit" rhetoric as anything more than a safe way to cudgel immigration and progressivism without risking subsidies and spending that currently brings 8.9 billion Euros into the Polish economy.
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" The Washington Post: Trump wants U.S. attorney John DurhamJohn DurhamTrump tweets test Attorney General Barr The Hill's Morning Report - Sanders on the rise as Nevada debate looms A tale of two lies: Stone, McCabe and the danger of a double standard for justice MORE, who is conducting an internal investigation ordered by Barr into the origins of the Russia probe, to "finish his work soon" to be able to use "whatever Durham finds as a cudgel in his reelection campaign.
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