Now, these same politicians are trying to curry favor with them.
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Morales next set out to curry favor with the White House.
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Each side is attempting to curry favor with the United States.
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It's not just what helped him curry favor with primary voters.
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Stone didn't exactly curry favor with the judge during the trial.
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That could be an attempt to curry favor with the White House.
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The five families have sent their sons to curry favor with Veronica.
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Employees compete to curry favor with the leader, and proximity grows important.
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Was it too much pay to curry favor with the president-elect?
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They want to curry favor with the Saudis now to gain access.
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Others will try to curry favor with the likely next president, Hillary Clinton.
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They're doing it to curry favor with and buy influence with Hillary Clinton.
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That incentive to curry favor with the Russian state raises several key questions.
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Or they could curry favor with board members by sharing that valuable information.
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Other major corporations routinely employ hardball tactics and curry favor with power brokers.
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Buying more F-35s also helps Japan curry favor with US President Donald Trump.
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WASHINGTON — Sports has long been the place politicians go to curry favor with constituents.
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Some see his decision as an effort to curry favor with the Trump administration.
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Trump is betraying this country by trying to curry favor with his new comrade.
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One might guess that Mr. Andreessen was trying to curry favor with Mr. Zuckerberg.
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Suppose that you're a C.E.O. who wants to curry favor with the new administration.
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"So if there is a time to curry favor with Trump, that time is today."
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I want to hear how the Russians were trying to curry favor with the Clintons.
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Olympus employees had previously tried to curry favor with Chinese officials, the inquiry's report suggested.
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Typically, moderates have worked behind the scenes to strike deals and curry favor with leadership.
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Many workers see after-hours requests as an opportunity to curry favor with the boss.
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Russian elites have been known to mount independent initiatives to curry favor with the Kremlin.
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Do not bow to pressure to change your coverage, to curry favor with the administration.
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Some say her move to the left was politically calculated to curry favor with downstate voters.
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In order to succeed in Silicon Valley, founders must curry favor with venture capitalists and investors.
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They have repeatedly tried to curry favor with Trump and protect themselves from being held accountable.
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Trump needed to curry favor with the Russian government to obtain approvals for the Moscow project.
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Politicizing clean water in order to curry favor with big dollar dairy donors is downright immoral.
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Hiring him came to be seen as a way to curry favor with the Trump administration.
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Inside Turkey, Mr. Erdogan, too, was accused of trying to curry favor with the country's voters.
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Others say it was simply a way for the group to curry favor with the president.
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Foreign diplomats have already admitted to spending money at his hotels to curry favor with the president.
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As different actors curry favor with President Donald Trump, their respective policies seem to appear and disappear.
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Both deny association with any camp, and both have tried to curry favor with Washington and Moscow.
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Mr. Trump's businesses have already become vehicles for foreign and American officials to curry favor with him.
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The U.S. president has been criticized for his efforts to curry favor with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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In a tweet later Tuesday, Mr. Cruz knocked Mr. Trump for trying to curry favor with establishment politicians.
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Foreign countries have rented rooms and held events at Trump properties, perhaps to curry favor with the president.
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It looks like what's happening is that T-Mobile is trying to curry favor with the White House.
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Officials from foreign governments have realized they can curry favor with Trump by spending money at his properties.
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"If people want to curry favor with the government, or the Party, they'll collect it," said Professor McCausland.
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So it's smart of him to use his biggest advantage — unlimited wealth — to curry favor with elected officials.
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Her clear aim was to curry favor with Mr. Trump and she may well have scored a success.
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Liberal lawmakers accused the company of seeking to curry favor with the administration to ward off regulatory scrutiny.
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And so, you know, they were trying to curry favor with the Clinton campaign -- it's quite evident here.
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Indeed, it seems to be an unusually craven attempt to deny reality and curry favor with the president.
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Beyond his successful Syrian diplomacy, other key Middle Eastern countries have also been rushing to curry favor with him.
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He encourages industry groups that want to curry favor with his administration to book events at his DC hotel.
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Throughout the campaign, Gillum, who is black, accused DeSantis of making remarks designed to curry favor with white supremacists.
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The Trump administration has worked hard to curry favor with China, seeking further cooperation on issues like North Korea.
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His announcement can be viewed as an attempt to curry favor with a state that overwhelmingly voted for Trump.
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He's welcoming cyberattacks on elected officials and candidates by authoritarian regimes hoping to curry favor with the Trump administration.
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The announcement could be little more than a PR move or a way to curry favor with the administration.
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That revolving door between the federal government and private groups trying to curry favor with it is hardly new.
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We saw a clash of the moderates and carefully orchestrated attacks in an effort to curry favor with voters.
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Democrats and ethics watchdogs accused Mr. Chaffetz of political "retaliation" and of trying to curry favor with Mr. Trump.
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His entire interaction with politics had been transactional; he wanted to curry favor with politicians, so he gave them money.
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The complaint said such plaintiffs are injured when foreign governments try to "curry favor" with Trump by favoring his businesses.
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She said New Delhi could even ask refiners to cut imports below the waiver level to curry favor with Washington.
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Rather, it's an attempt to curry favor with their former boss at a moment when both are on the outside.
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McCarthy has gone to great lengths to curry favor with the president, who fondly calls him "my Kevin" in public.
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Yes, they had to curry favor with Mr. Redstone, but they knew his mercurial side and the bad corporate governance.
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Barr also denied that he wrote it to curry favor with the White House, claiming that he distributed it widely.
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Trump called O'Brien a "wack job" on the "Today" show — while, O'Brien says, continuing to curry favor with him privately.
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Donald Trump flouts the Constitution, raking in money from supplicants who curry favor with him by patronizing his gaudy hotels.
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That invited the idea that the incoming administration was trying to undermine the departing president and curry favor with Moscow.
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Mr. Scaramucci, in a telephone interview, disputed any suggestion that HNA was trying to curry favor with the Trump administration.
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They also warn foreign governments could try and curry favor with the Trump administration by staying at the D.C. hotel.
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Lutsenko has made and retracted several claims since 2017 that were allegedly meant to curry favor with the Trump administration.
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Ms. Kelly counted those gestures as part of an attempt to "curry favor" with reporters before announcing his presidential bid.
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Those connections can involve efforts to steal state or corporate secrets, curry favor with American government leaders or influence policy.
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Critics and watchdog groups have expressed concerns that foreign officials can patronize Trump's business to curry favor with the president.
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Critics and watchdog groups have expressed concern that foreign officials can patronize Trump's businesses to curry favor with the president.
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They claim their business has suffered as diplomats and politicians patronize Trump establishments to curry favor with the Oval Office.
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Reports of foreign diplomats staying at Trump's hotels have raised concerns that these individuals could curry favor with the incoming president.
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Why it matters: It's another step Facebook is taking to curry favor with premium publishers and cut back on fake news.
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Packaging the service as an add-on to existing cable bills allows AMC to curry favor with cable and satellite companies.
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Outraged Egyptians accused their once-popular president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, of giving up land to curry favor with the Saudis.
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When asked how he would curry favor with members of Congress, Kasich said he would call their mothers on their birthdays.
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Stephenson, an early supporter of Trump, maintained through the legal process that he never tried to curry favor with the president.
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But he downplayed his role and told the Post he never used his position to curry favor with the Trump administration.
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Pandora, the internet radio giant, was one of several digital music outlets then trying to curry favor with him, Questlove said.
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Clinton could use the enticement of another term as attorney general to curry favor with Ms. Lynch in the email investigation.
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If Trump thought this tariff gambit would curry favor with the business community, his strategy has proven to be sorely mistaken.
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Some also suggest that he may have exaggerated his connections in order to curry favor with the campaign after his ouster.
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President Morales, a former television comedian who performed skits in blackface, a knave, knows how to curry favor with President Trump.
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Ms. McGehee worried that companies might be tempted to direct business to the Trump children to curry favor with their father.
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Was it too high, is there pay for play, was it too much pay to curry favor with the president-elect.
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The government has argued that the wife's job was meant to curry favor with Mr. Percoco, an assertion his lawyers reject.
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Because of these connections, some are speculating that the Enquirer may have pursued the Bezos story to curry favor with Trump.
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By the spring of 2019, Parnas and Fruman's efforts to curry favor with the authorities in Ukraine had hit a stumbling block.
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"It's not something unfamiliar to people working anywhere else who want to get ahead and curry favor with those above," Kingston said.
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"Remaining silent in an effort to curry favor with Turkey is as morally indefensible as it will be ineffectual," Mr. Schiff said.
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And if they hoped to curry favor with groups like the NCAA, they will almost surely find that they've failed there, too.
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The digital coin industry is increasingly trying to find ways to curry favor with regulators on fundraisers known as initial coin offerings.
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Like pollsters, they will have to assess which kind of consumers they can write off and which ones to curry favor with.
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But companies had every incentive to pretend that the tax cut was responsible, if only to curry favor with the Trump administration.
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Now that you don't have to curry favor with donors or run for re-election, you can continue to make a difference.
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Bannon, Schweizer and the Mercers went on to curry favor with Trump when he became the GOP nominee and, later, the President.
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The Albanian government hoped its hospitality would curry favor with Washington, according to the foreign minister between 2013 and 2019, Ditmir Bushati.
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And he knew that Republicans would blast him as a coward who was trying to curry favor with the likely future president.
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Our nation's enemies, and some of our friends, will seek to either curry favor with or damage America through the Trump businesses.
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The report cites an unnamed US official who has analyzed intelligence reports pertaining to Russia's plans to "curry favor" with the new administration.
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The determination is a setback for legislation Republicans hope will expose Democrats as soft on Iran and curry favor with pro-Israel donors.
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The prosecutors argued that Lee made these "donations" as a way to curry favor with Park, ensuring the 2015 merger could go through.
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He also faces new questions about China's efforts to curry favor with Mr. Kim, whom many Chinese regard as a bizarre, bumbling figure.
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As Axios Jonathan Swan points out, this is "How to Curry Favor with Trump 101," and he'll get a thankful phone call today.
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The pro-Trump outside group would be able to tap wealthy donors who are now eager to curry favor with the incoming president.
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If CHAI keeps taking foreign cash, it could be a magnet for foreign governments or individuals hoping to curry favor with the Clintons.
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It is also seen as an important tool to curry favor with poor and working class voters, especially heading into October's general election.
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Though Jordan's bid is a long shot, it could mean that other candidates have to work harder to curry favor with the caucus.
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Trump, an avid Twitter user, apparently tried to curry favor with Hispanic voters last spring in a move that, by many accounts, backfired.
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And there are lawsuits alleging that his DC hotel, in particular, is being used by foreign governments to curry favor with the President.
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Gerry Connolly, another Democratic member of the committee, also described the bookings as "an obvious attempt to curry favor" with Trump, Politico reported.
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The Bachelor is hoping to be considered for an Emmy nomination and it's pulling out the big guns to curry favor with voters.
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By bringing some hard-charging Wall Street chops into this arena, Jana could stand out and, if successful, curry favor with such investors.
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He found the Islamist administration to be confused, unsure how to assert its authority and pathetically desperate to curry favor with the police.
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As speculation swirled that HNA was buying SkyBridge to curry favor with the administration, his appointment to become the business liaison was rescinded.
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The message to foreign leaders is clear: You can curry favor with the president of the United States by making Biden look bad.
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Seems like a pretty obvious way to curry favor with the new boss while just doing what you were already planning to do.
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But nowhere is MBS' future being more hotly debated than in the country he most wants to curry favor with, the United States.
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Foreign companies, too, might also try to cut special deals with the brand to curry favor with the Trump administration, Mr. Weissman added.
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Throughout that time, ethics experts have sounded the alarm about foreign governments using payments to Trump's companies to curry favor with his administration.
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Mark Zuckerberg struggled to curry favor with the EU this week, with skeptical lawmakers questioning Facebook's dominance and the spread of coronavirus misinformation.
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Most worrisome, foreign officials and others have realized they can curry favor with the president by spending money at one of his properties.
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Unlike other politicians, the candidate claimed, he didn't need to curry favor with special interests in order to raise money for his campaign.
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And foreign countries are already trying to curry favor with Trump by patronizing his US businesses or helping his foreign businesses with permit issues.
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Nothing about this arrangement is illegal, so long as members who have business with the government don't pay extra to curry favor with Trump.
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His policies led to a steep drop-off in boozy government banquets and gifts of premium spirits once used to curry favor with officials.
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By mid-day Thursday, the only affirmation for Reince from a major public figure was Speaker Paul Ryan, which won't curry favor with Trump.
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It's possible that by bringing Nye, Bridenstine is trying to curry favor with the scientific community and Democrats whose votes he's trying to court.
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Insurers are just trying to make a buck and curry favor with an administration committed to the hallucination that all is well with ObamaCare.
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Some foreign diplomats have said they see a stay at Trump's Pennsylvania Avenue hotel as a chance to curry favor with the president-elect.
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The bonuses may be a public relations response to the corporate tax cut, possibly even an attempt to curry favor with the Trump administration.
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The Trump campaign on Friday blasted the lawsuit, calling it a "desperate" attempt by Democrats to curry favor with their donors after losing funding.
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We discovered a close relationship between Drake and H.Wood's owners, who have put their employees at risk to curry favor with their celebrity clientele.
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His contributions to political campaigns were unrelated to conviction; he gave solely to curry favor with those who could do his business some good.
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There is at least one new way for companies to curry favor with Mr. Trump: giving their workers payouts related to the tax cut.
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The event drew ire from Nepal's opposition leaders, who saw the exercise as a troubling way for a democracy to curry favor with China.
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But we know it's not to curry favor with Buffett, who is already a big fan of the bank and its CEO Jamie Dimon.
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Apparently so, since the freedom from abuse of one Saudi woman was worth sacrificing to curry favor with a country where 760,000 Filipinos work.
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Foreign diplomats are flocking to his Washington hotel, down the street from the White House, to spend money and curry favor with the administration.
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The Guatemalan and Honduran governments sought to curry favor with the Trump administration by moving, or considering moving, their embassies in Israel to Jerusalem.
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An NBC News story suggesting the Kremlin was about to hand over Edward Snowden to the U.S. to "curry favor" with the Trump administration.
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A more cynical person might see Musk's collaboration with the Trump regime as little more than a bid to curry favor with the federal government.
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Much of the Democratic establishment, except Warren and Sanders, continues to need to curry favor with Silicon Valley in part to reap its fundraising riches.
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Foreign governments are already trying to curry favor with the Trump administration by staying in Trump's hotels and appointing his business partners as diplomatic envoys.
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But the development also raised speculation that Manafort may be seeking to curry favor with Trump or protecting other associates who worked on the campaign.
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But Monsanto spokeswoman Lord said the company has never paid, given gifts to or done anything else to curry favor with anyone from the EPA.
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They say foreign leaders or diplomats could try to curry favor with the Trump administration by visiting or buying a membership at Mar-a-Lago.
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Annalise: Sending ska to people who you're trying to curry favor with is kind of like insulting someone and hoping they still officiate your wedding.
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"To attempt to curry favor with the Trump campaign by delivering Dr. Carson's campaign infrastructure on a platter is nothing short of amazing," Williams wrote.
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What does matter is that they were willing to curry favor with bigots in the service of tax cuts for the rich and financial deregulation.
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Clinton's critics — chief among them Donald J. Trump — who contend that foreigners used donations to the foundation to curry favor with the Clintons while Mrs.
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But there's another reason: Sessions is a member of the Donald Trump administration (who, according to recent reporting, needs to curry favor with the boss).
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And my concern is that those governments think the way to curry favor with the United States is to take up that kind of behavior.
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Others are standing by Trump and hoping to curry favor with his legion of supporters, whose support they'll need to win a future GOP primary.
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The president has continued his attempts to curry favor with Kim by personally praising him while simultaneously warning him not to take things too far.
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There is already concrete evidence that human rights are taking a back seat to commercial concerns and a desire to curry favor with questionable allies.
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Corporations and foreign governments have already seemingly figured out that spending money at Trump properties is a good way to curry favor with the president.
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Critics and watchdog groups have argued that foreign officials have used visits to the hotel and other Trump properties to curry favor with the president.
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"Going after the president's son in an absolutely outrageous and unprecedented way is probably not the best way to curry favor with anybody," she said.
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Foreign countries are already trying to curry favor with the president-elect by patronizing his US businesses or helping his foreign businesses with permit issues.
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That might curry favor with Trump — who has grown disenchanted with GOP leadership for now — but certainly won't help with the wins Trump really needs.
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If Trump sold his businesses, she said, it would raise questions about whether buyers were paying an inflated value to curry favor with the president.
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Startups will gladly store, manage and deliver your items America's mayors have spent the past nine months tripping over each other to curry favor with Amazon.
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The property has been a flashpoint for ethical concerns about Trump's presidency since foreign governments have tried to curry favor with him by spending money there.
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And then there's another layer, specific to the United States and Trump, having to do with social media companies' efforts to curry favor with the president.
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Foreign dignitaries and others looking to curry favor with the president appear to have taken a keen interest in spending money at his hotels as well.
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The worst-case scenario here is that all of these announcements stop and are just a one-time attempt to curry favor with the White House.
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A Monsanto spokeswoman previously denied that the company had ever paid, given gifts to or done anything else to curry favor with anyone from the EPA.
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The complaint cites multiple cases of foreign diplomats and business executives staying in or holding events at the Trump hotel to curry favor with the president.
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The choice of independent candidates shows Elliott is keen to curry favor with other investors and the Italian government, who have objected to Vivendi's growing influence.
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The hope is that without the pressures of electoral politics, the temptation to make irresponsible fiscal choices to curry favor with special interests will be nonexistent.
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"Foreign governments are spending money there in order to curry favor with the president," Karl Racine, attorney general for the District of Columbia, told reporters Monday.
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Trying to curry favor with Putin, as Trump has clearly done, only encourages him to engage in hostile acts against the United States and the West.
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The FEC has given a free pass to government contractors who violate the decades-old ban on using campaign contributions to curry favor with the officeholders.
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While Beijing has economic interests in Eastern Europe, it also hopes to curry favor with certain European countries to influence foreign policy in the European Union.
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According to a senior U.S. official, Russia might serve Edward Snowden up to the U.S. as an early "gift" to "curry favor" with Trump, per NBC.
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He has said he is pro-life, and it would appear morally hypocritical for him to suddenly change his stance just to curry favor with millennials.
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Mr. Morales's decision was immediately seen as an effort to curry favor with Mr. Trump and, perhaps, to distract attention from his political problems at home.
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In several cases, donations to the fund coincided with city action on a particular project, though donors dispute any effort to curry favor with the administration.
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Defense lawyers countered by casting doubt on the men's testimony, suggesting that they could be embellishing their accounts to try to curry favor with the government.
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The bottom line: E-scooter companies are simultaneously working to curb losses, curry favor with city regulators, and convince investors they're the next great transportation revolution.
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Op-Ed Contributor The Chinese know that one of the best ways to curry favor with any ruler is to shower riches on his family members.
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Those who can curry favor with key government officials have another avenue of funding available to them that those who cannot curry such favor do not.
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Before the inauguration, Kuwait and Bahrain held events at the Trump hotel, and other foreign diplomats reportedly patronized it to curry favor with the incoming president.
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The most egregious mistake, of course, occurred when Mr. Trump scolded and helped isolate Qatar to curry favor with Saudi Arabia, Qatar's rival in the region.
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For instance, he recalled spending tens of thousands of dollars at Best Buy on iPads, televisions and other gifts to curry favor with potential criminal targets.
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We know broadly that many such businesses and governments have been booking events at Trump's hotel in Washington, DC, in an effort to curry favor with him.
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Madeleine Dean (D-PA) demanded if Facebook had bought blocks of hotel rooms at Trump properties but never used them just to curry favor with the president.
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Trump's ability to attract business from clients hoping to curry favor with him because of his position as president would give him an unlawful advantage, they claimed.
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"He doesn't believe the things he's forced to say now in order to curry favor with people who are never, never going to support him," said Rep.
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They said this stems from their hotel's association with the president and an expectation it will attract diplomats, lobbyists and politicians hoping to curry favor with him.
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"We know that foreign governments are spending money there in order to curry favor with the president of the United States," D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine said.
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Foreign diplomats have openly admitted that some see staying at the Pennsylvania Avenue hotel owned by the president-elect as a chance to curry favor with Trump.
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In 1993, the Russian government transferred Bashneft to the regional government of Bashkortostan, at a time when Mr. Yeltsin was trying to curry favor with local leaders.
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The progressive Massachusetts Democrat has been quietly working behind the scenes to curry favor with House colleagues, writing checks and campaigning around the country on their behalf.
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This theory posits that the white woman is the famed Night's Bride, and that Aeron is seeing Euron attempting to curry favor with the new undead overlords.
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While President Emmanuel Macron of France has tried to curry favor with Mr. Trump, playing the role of the devoted mentee, Ms. Merkel has kept her distance.
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He discards decades of bipartisan policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to curry favor with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, and thus right-wing political support.
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She attempted to curry favor with the French, with whom the Scottish queen was aligned, in order to get her elder son closer to the Scottish throne.
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The lawsuit contends that foreign, state and federal officials deliberately book rooms at the Trump International Hotel and patronize its restaurant to curry favor with the president.
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"She was a spy from day one who sought to use her proximity to the president to curry favor with his detractors," one former official told CBS.
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A recent Washington Post report quoted diplomats who indicated they felt pressure to stay at Trump's hotel as a way to curry favor with the president-elect.
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Some question whether golf club memberships — which can involve upfront payments from $10,1303 to $300,000 — could be used to curry favor with Mr. Trump and his administration.
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He came under particular fire for staying at President Trump's DC hotel throughout the process, which some saw as a move to curry favor with the administration.
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Think about it: Could Britain or Canada curry favor with the incoming administration by waiving regulations to promote Trump golf courses or directing business to Trump hotels?
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A former State Department official suggested to the Guardian that the attendees who came did so for cynical reasons, including to "curry favor" with the Trump administration.
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The basic arrangement through which trade associations, political campaigns, and others seeking to curry favor with the president announce major events at Trump properties is obviously corrupt.
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Ironically, similar critiques were levied against McSally during the Republican primary when she, too, moved further right in order to curry favor with more die-hard Trump supporters.
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You can attempt to curry favor with the Paris mob at execution by delivering speeches and hitting the right emotional notes with each topic to improve your standing.
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The lawsuit alleges that businesses in D.C. and Maryland are hurt because organizations are choosing the Trump hotel over other area hotels to curry favor with the president.
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Trump's wide-ranging business will involve thousands of interactions across multiple countries, and in countries whose foreign governments will have clear incentives to curry favor with the president.
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They said the advantage stems from the hotel's association with the president and an expectation it will attract diplomats, lobbyists and politicians hoping to curry favor with him.
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In what a cynic might call a transparent effort to curry favor with the next administration, Slater personally gave $1,000 each to both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
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The internal probe focused on whether United added flights to Columbia, South Carolina to curry favor with then-Port Authority Chairman David Samson, who had a home there.
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So if Barack Obama is being paid by some corporation to curry favor with a candidate and, in the process, dispenses valuable advice, that would be a contribution.
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But these institutions have been unmoored from their original purpose of objective inquiry by offering policy-for- hire solutions to curry favor with donors who had an agenda.
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The Saudi factor International investors that don't need to curry favor with Saudi's rulers could also hold out for a cheaper price on shares due to geopolitical risks.
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An interim report from the House Oversight Committee paints a familiar picture of Trump associates skirting the law to curry favor with people who can make them richer.
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By going after them, Sessions will likely curry favor with his boss, who has taken to publicly insulting the attorney general for recusing himself from the Russia investigation.
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Big Brother Greg has had a lot of help from out-of-state donors and allies of the Trump administration, perhaps trying to curry favor with the vice president.
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Whether through incompetence or an intentional attempt to curry favor with an ally, Trump has handed sensitive information over to the Russians, arguably America's biggest adversary in the world.
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Why it matters: This gap in tracking means foreign donations in violation of the Constitution could go unnoticed, for example, from adversaries trying to curry favor with the President.
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Their presence, some U.S. officials say privately, appears intended in part to curry favor with Trump as he takes a hard line against Iran, those countries' regional arch-foe.
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They represent a deliberate strategy to curry favor with the public and President Trump while executives gorge themselves on tax cuts, most of which won't trickle down to anyone.
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What it means: The House GOP is trying to curry favor with lawmakers from high-tax states who are not completely on board yet with the tax reform plan.
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"The Trump International Hotel is ... one of the primary ways in which foreign governments are seeking to curry favor with the President, by holding events there, " Wydra told CNN.
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"The Trump International Hotel is ... one of the primary ways in which foreign governments are seeking to curry favor with the President, by holding events there," Wydra told CNN.
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In H.Wood's hunt to curry favor with its celebrity clientele, employees said they were regularly forced to keep working at the club after-hours, serving alcohol to famous people.
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The lawsuit cites the Trump International Hotel, half a mile from the White House, which foreign dignitaries have admitted frequenting as a way to curry favor with the President.
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After all, companies have every incentive to curry favor with a sitting administration by attributing nice things they would have done in any case to Dear Leader's glorious policies.
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The problem is that, going forward, almost every payment to the Trump family business is suspect and raises questions whether it was intended to curry favor with the president.
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So, repealing the rule would violate both the interest of the people and Republicans' own professed ideology — in order to curry favor with big financial firms that fear competition.
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But Cork is losing business to the Trump hotel, which they say — as others have suggested — may be attracting diplomats and politicians looking to curry favor with Mr. Trump.
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About the same time, Mr. Manafort was also trying to curry favor with Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian billionaire close to the Kremlin and an associate of Mr. Kilimnik.
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If you want to curry favor with Donald Trump, you don't need to hire a lobbyist or donate to a super PAC, a favor that would benefit his political prospects.
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"I didn't want to do anything that could even remotely seem like I was trying to befriend you or curry favor with you," Syed wrote in a letter to Koenig.
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To curry favor with the White House, Krzanich personally sought to give Trump credit for a major hiring and investment pledge that Intel set in motion long before Election Day.
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Duterte's move follows sharp criticism during his first three years in office for not pressing China to abide by a historic arbitration win, preferring instead to curry favor with Beijing.
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"The pay-go thing is an absurd idea now given the times and given what's already been done to curry favor with corporate America," Grijalva said, according to the Hill .
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If it can use BandPage's money-making tools to curry favor with artists, they might be more likely to promote their YouTube presence and give it early or exclusive content.
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The Republican National Committee rules are also quiet on what can be done to curry favor with delegates, but the party pointed to the need to comply with FEC rules.
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He was a lifelong company man who couldn't keep the company board satisfied when Trump took aim at U.S. businesses like Ford to curry favor with a weary American workforce.
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He openly uses his office for self-enrichment, through properties including his hotel in Washington and his private club in Florida, where guests also trying to curry favor with him.
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The episode outraged Taiwanese officials, who accused Kenya of violating international law and trying to curry favor with China, which views the self-governed island as part of its territory.
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A private equity firm is suing Goldman Sachs, accusing it in court documents filed on Tuesday of improperly trying to curry favor with the scandal-plagued prime minister of Malaysia.
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In this scenario, boards are incentivized to make decisions not for the long-term good of a broad group of stakeholders but to curry favor with the Twitterer-in-chief.
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While that may seem inconsequential for such a poor country, Kim Jong-un, North Korea's ruler, has been known to use such items to curry favor with his fellow elites.
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Analysts greeted the news with optimism, suggesting it improves prospects for a U.S.-North Korea nuclear deal or was an attempt by Beijing to curry favor with the Trump administration.
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Critics see Langfang's plans as an ingratiating move by a smaller city to curry favor with the Chinese government, particularly in light of Beijing's recent crackdowns on Christians and Muslims.
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As the Democratic presidential contenders worked to curry favor with leading feminists, Trump's campaign gained momentum despite (or perhaps because of) the candidate's repeated use of misogynist and racist epithets.
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The hotel, just steps from the White House, has prompted concerns from ethics experts, who worried that guests may be trying to curry favor with the president by staying there.
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Industry analysts see the widely publicized announcements of new jobs as attempts by car companies to both blunt the president-elect's criticism and curry favor with the incoming Trump administration.
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By not divesting his businesses, Mr. Trump invites corruption by signaling that corporations and foreign actors have many ways to curry favor with him and his administration through his family.
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Some of the cast accused the Soviet Union of betraying the African-American cause to curry favor with Washington, from which the Soviet Union was hoping to receive official recognition.
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Deregulating the financial sector is not about removing shackles on a financial industry that is in fact already thriving, but rather an attempt to curry favor with the wealthiest donors.
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It's not that you want to be indifferent to your associations, but ultimately you can't think you'll curry favor with everyone and offend no one — that's an anti-political ideal.
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And Mr. Bezos's security chief is said to be preparing a 90-page report accusing the National Enquirer's parent company of running its exposé to curry favor with Saudi investors.
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The global reach of Donald Trump's business empire is raising questions about whether foreign governments might try to curry favor with the president-elect by giving his businesses special deals.
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If you want to curry favor with Donald Trump, you don't need to hire a lobbyist or donate to a Super PAC, a favor that would benefit his political prospects.
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The Lounge is a soundproofed, air-conditioned luxury oasis, admission to which requires money, connections, or the good graces of a powerful sponsor eager to curry favor with your readership.
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The China Daily said Britain was trying to "curry favor" with the United States, which has been pushing for greater international participation in freedom of navigation operations in the strategic waterway.
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Equally, a sudden move to curry favor with Israel by becoming the first major nation to moving its embassy to Jerusalem will hardly win America many friends within Israel or abroad.
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So had a group of senators who attend a separate Drollinger-led Bible study; Drollinger says they warned him that Ortega wanted to use the visit to "curry favor" with Trump.
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The other was electioneering by Pakistan's main parties, including the prime minister's party, in which they have supported religious laws and anti-Ahmadi groups to curry favor with the religious right.
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It&aposs also seen by many as an attempt to curry favor with the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, which two days earlier inaugurated its own embassy in disputed Jerusalem.
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Bob Dole's role in Trump's Taiwan call People looking to curry favor with Trump are also donating to the fundraising avenues he maintains post-election -- his transition effort and inaugural committee.
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By offering to refresh its own board, the company could be trying to curry favor with big investors who may not be ready to back the hedge fund's slate, analysts said.
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By offering to refresh its own board, PG&E could be trying to curry favor with big investors who may not be ready to back the hedge fund's slate, analysts said.
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It said Goldman did this to "curry favor" with Najib, who had one brother on Hong Leong's board, and another who worked for a firm advising Hong Leong on its bid.
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During her confirmation hearing, the Clinton Foundation was mentioned 62 times as senators worried that foreign governments could use donations to the foundation to curry favor with the Clinton State Department.
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"He discards decades of bipartisan policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to curry favor with Prime Minister Benjamin NetanyahuBenjamin (Bibi) NetanyahuMORE of Israel, and thus right-wing political support," she continued.
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Speaking at the "Women for Trump" rally at the Tampa Convention Center in Florida on Thursday, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway took the stage to curry favor with women Trump supporters.
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Steinem was later forced to walk back her assertion to TV host Bill Maher that young women only supported Clinton's rival Sanders in Iowa to curry favor with his male supporters.
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It's clear that people who want things from the White House have learned one lesson quite well: If you want to curry favor with Mr. Trump, make it about Mr. Trump.
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And if he doesn't do that, you're going to see inertia and you're going to see this resistance from more of the establishment senators that he needs to curry favor with.
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Both the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times have reported further that Trump decided to order the strike curry favor with some GOP Senators ahead of his impeachment trial.
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The bookings for United States military personnel staying at the Trump resort are made by employees of the Glasgow Prestwick Airport, which has an incentive to curry favor with Mr. Trump.
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Dr. Hill conceded during her testimony that Ukraine had "bet on the wrong horse" during the 2016 election, seeking to curry favor with Hillary Clinton in the belief she would win.
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And while over-the-top denunciations of Sanders might have made sense as a cynical way to curry favor with Hillary Clinton in 2016, there's no strategic logic to doing it today.
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They claim they can't compete with the President because he has a "big leg up" with foreign dignitaries and business leaders who want to patronize Trump's hotel to curry favor with him.
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Meanwhile, Fowler reports that Uber's internal culture is one of "complete, unrelenting chaos," with managers constantly trying to undermine one another in order to curry favor with their supervisors and earn promotions.
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Limits and state party rules Any candidate, individual or super PAC looking to curry favor with delegates would have to pay attention to all 50 states' laws and every state party's rules.
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The details: In publishing the pro-Saudi magazine, AMI was looking to curry favor with the Saudis for financial support to acquire Time magazine, Sports Illustrated, Fortune and Money, per the WSJ.
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His rationale is reportedly that refusing to budge on immigration will curry favor with his base of supporters who were unhappy he struck a debt ceiling deal with Democrats in the fall.
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Similarly, investigative reporters have revealed that Russia's efforts to curry favor with members of the Trump campaign were closely intertwined with parallel efforts by China, Qatar, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.
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Volodymyr Fesenko, who runs the Kyiv-based Penta Center for Political Studies, surmised that the lawmakers see an opportunity to get noticed in the U.S. and curry favor with the Trump administration.
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The trial in a London court between the Libyan wealth fund and Goldman portrayed the elaborate dance that banks engage in as part of an effort to curry favor with valuable clients.
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Morales&apos decision to move Guatemala&aposs embassy just two days after the U.S. did the same was seen by many as an attempt to curry favor with U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Ms. Trump's zeal for global renown has been exploited by foreign governments eager to curry favor with her father, just as her husband's financial travails have been viewed as opportunities for influence.
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"Going after the president's son in an absolutely outrageous and unprecedented way is probably not the best way to curry favor with anybody," said Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary.
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But Michael Flynn, a Trump senior aide who would soon be named his national security adviser, quickly handed Putin an opportunity to curry favor with Trump, which the Russian president adroitly seized.
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President Trump is distancing himself from traditional allies, diplomacy is stalling around the effort to denuclearize North Korea and both China and Japan are seeking to curry favor with Southeast Asian countries.
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The notion that Mr. Trump should preserve the Paris accord in a misguided effort to curry favor with corporations and environmentally minded liberals was self-defeating, Mr. Bannon and his allies contended.
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Even before Inauguration Day, the level of leaking out of this White House was unprecedented, as officials sought to curry favor with the press corps and as factions vied with one another.
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According to the Justice Department, the attorney general went with the Trump property only after other venues fell through, and he is not — repeat, not — looking to curry favor with his boss.
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A crucial purpose of the spending by Mr. Jones was to "curry favor with U.A.W. 'Official B,' who also enjoyed the lavish lifestyle," according to the federal complaint, referring to Mr. Williams.
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The House Intelligence Committee announced Tuesday it has begun a formal investigation into whether Russia beginning in 2009 sought to curry favor with the Obama administration to win favorable nuclear business decisions.
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They are concerned that foreign governments and special interests could be booking rooms or holding events at the hotel to curry favor with the administration -- and paying top dollar to do it.
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But that won't prevent businesses from trying to curry favor with Mr. Trump through his family or dispel suspicions that his policies were made with an eye toward enhancing his family's wealth.
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Volker and Morrison stood out in particular for their dismissive tone toward the ambassador, who Republicans will try to paint as a political crony who only wanted to curry favor with Trump.
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The Russian military's decision to highlight its role appeared intended to curry favor with the Turks and exploit growing tensions between the departing Obama administration and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey.
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There are many questions about foreign leaders attempting to curry favor with the president and his family by staying at Trump Organization hotels, and Trump still refuses to release his tax returns.
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In 2016, the New York Times reported that the company was experimenting with a special censorship tool that could suppress posts, a move to curry favor with governments that didn't favor free expression.
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In The Dressmaker, Kate Winslet's character Tilly returns to the town that spurned her as a child — bringing an arsenal of seamstress skills that she uses to curry favor with her former tormentors.
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It's been reported that, when 100 foreign diplomats convened at the Trump International Hotel last week, they heard a sales pitch about staying in the hotel to curry favor with the new president.
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Industry insiders say they are highlighting spending plans already in the works as far back as 2014, hoping to curry favor with Trump and gain some leverage in negotiations over cross-border trade.
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He said that his Washington, D.C., hotel is "probably a more valuable asset than it was before," all but acknowledging reports that foreign diplomats are using the hotel to curry favor with him.
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Before Cook's charm offensive in Beijing in May, Apple announced a $1 billion deal with ride-hailing app Didi Chuxing, a move many experts saw as an attempt to curry favor with Beijing.
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Democrats, while they are hyper-focused on foreign attempts to influence policy, are also focused on any entities that are trying to curry favor with Trump, his family and his administration through gifts.
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"Sinclair has worked hard to curry favor with the Trump administration and Chairman Pai, all to gain the power to push these kinds of deals through," said Free Press policy director Matt Wood.
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Apple also invested $1 billion in Didi Chuxing, China's homegrown version of Uber, a surprising move that was interpreted by China watchers as a way to curry favor with an increasingly aggressive government.
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And Democrats also worry that foreign government officials are booking rooms and events at the Trump Hotel to curry favor with the White House, which could violate the emoluments clause of the Constitution.
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Some Democrats have charged that Trump's businesses, now managed by his sons, have profited from his presidency, saying that foreign dignitaries sometimes stay at the hotel in part to curry favor with him.
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On the surface, this looks like run of the mill graft, and AT&T had numerous reasons to be attempting to curry favor with the administration at the time these payments took place.
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The House even launched an investigation into allegations that groups — including at least one foreign government — tried to curry favor with Trump by booking rooms at his hotels but never staying in them.
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It's no mistake that Omarosa, who was willing to say or do anything to curry favor with Trump during her time on "The Apprentice," was turned into a star by the Trump organization.
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The campaign had been trying to curry favor with the powerful publisher Joe McQuaid, whose endorsement in The New Hampshire Union Leader was among the most highly coveted in the early primary states.
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The senator avoided sounding as if he was trying to curry favor with Mr. Trump, asking whether the president's former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, had not been truthful with federal investigators.
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Even foreign governments that aren't hoping for major policy changes under Trump are devoting unusual amounts of effort to trying to curry favor with the new administration and better understand its key players.
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He said any new investors in Scion go through an "exhaustive, thorough" review to make sure, for instance, they're not offering sweetheart deals to the Trump family to curry favor with the president.
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Push for marijuana retail licenses Part of the alleged scheme revolved around an effort to curry favor with politicians who could help them win licenses for a retail marijuana business they hoped to establish.
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After Trump became president, several foreign countries with embassies in Washington, DC, began hosting parties and events at Trump properties in what ethics experts say was a bid to curry favor with the president.
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Sure, it's possible someone could have found a way to curry favor with Mr. Carter by doing a generous amount of business with that farm, but that was always a bit of a stretch.
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Instead, Parscale and the RNC seem to be trying to curry favor with the president by painting an unduly rosy picture of the situation — an approach that's likely to end in tears for everyone.
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If it happens, it will be because Republicans couldn't keep key factions of their party happy or curry favor with Democrats over immigration — not to mention tweets undermining the negotiations from President Trump himself.
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Gideon Aronoff, CEO of Ameinu, said the optics of holding an event at an establishment owned by the president-elect suggests that the groups are inappropriately trying to curry favor with the new administration.
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Then last week, Apple announced that it had invested $1 billion in Didi Chuxing, China's largest ride-sharing app, which may help it curry favor with the government as it promotes domestic tech firms.
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Facebook, Twitter, and other Western social media have long been blocked by the so-called Great Firewall in China, and Zuckerberg has been very public about his efforts to curry favor with the government.
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Maryland and the District claim they have suffered harm because more people would stay at hotels in their jurisdictions if they weren't eager to curry favor with the president by staying at his hotel.
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Back then, critics accused them of underpricing IPOs — discounting the share price on the day of the offering — to curry favor with the institutional buyers, effectively failing to maximize funding for the sponsoring company.
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If Obama had a chain of hotels where foreign government officials and others trying to curry favor with the Obama administration stayed, the Republican Party leadership would have been demanding investigations into his finances.
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Officials from at least one foreign government and one trade association may have booked rooms in US President Donald Trump's hotels without staying in them in order to curry favor with him, Politico reported.
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A revolving credit allows Klabin to allocate cash towards its capital expenditure plans, while Petrobras can utilize liquidity from its revolving credit to curry favor with rating agencies that could boost its credit rating.
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But every one of these companies has significant areas where the Trump administration can help or hurt them: Of course, big companies always have an incentive to curry favor with a newly-elected president.
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Water is a handy political tool, and to curry favor with their rural base, Iran's leaders — and particularly the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps — dammed rivers across the country to divert water to key areas.
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In its early episodes, it's very much a lightly serialized procedural about a family of bail bondsmen chasing down those who would otherwise escape them while Pete tries to curry favor with the family.
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Mr. Leshchenko said he would appeal the ruling, and that the court was not independent and was doing the bidding of the Ukrainian government as it sought to curry favor with the Trump administration.
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So even as House Republicans suggested that their most at-risk lawmakers should tread gingerly around the embattled president, some of their Senate counterparts taunted Democrats for trying to curry favor with Mr. Trump.
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Critics speculate that Trump got the keynote slot as a way for CES to curry favor with the Trump administration as a way of lobbying against a major trade war with China, reports Variety.
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The hotel has come under scrutiny by American government ethics experts who worry that foreign governments, special interest groups and others will book rooms and events there to curry favor with the president-elect.
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And his office's efforts to restart an investigation into the oligarch who owned the company that paid Hunter Biden were seen among some Ukrainian officials as an effort to curry favor with Mr. Trump.
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Back then, critics accused them of underpricing IPOs — discounting the share price on the day of the offering — to curry favor with the institutional buyers, effectively failing to maximize profits for the issuing company.
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But Zuckerberg is hardly the only tech executive trying to curry favor with the president: Apple's Tim Cook is doing something similar, and unlike the Facebook executive, he's doing it out in the open.
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The armed groups have grown for several years and often curry favor with local politicians by promising to deliver votes from entire neighborhoods as long as authorities allow them to carry out their crimes.
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Here's one way Airbnb plans to fight back: The company is going to have a significant presence at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia this week, aiming to curry favor with Democratic political figures.
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The approval came around the same time the US and China were trying to jump-start trade talks, raising the possibility that the Chinese were trying to curry favor with Trump at a key moment.
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Shrugging off the headphone jack today is inconsistent with the narrative HTC has been pushing for a while, whereas to curry favor with fans, a company needs to be able to tell a consistent story.
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That includes Trump's Washington hotel, which has raised eyebrows from ethics groups concerned about Trump's lease from the federal government and the potential for foreign governments to curry favor with Trump by spending money there.
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The Times recently reported that David Cornstein, a jewelry-store owner who now serves as the U.S. ambassador to Hungary, is taking extraordinary steps to curry favor with Viktor Orban, the country's illiberal prime minister.
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Chinese tech giant Huawei has asked some of the world's best phone hackers to a secret meeting in Munich later this month as the company tries to curry favor with global governments, TechCrunch has learned.
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His hotel in Washington, D.C., has been a subject of particular criticism, with ethics watchdogs and political opponents expressing concern that foreign officials could patronize the property to try to curry favor with the president.
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Kudos to the senators who urged President Trump on Friday to move ahead on delayed arms sales to Taiwan amid congressional concern the White House is ready to curry favor with Beijing at Taipei's expense.
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His Washington D.C. hotel, the much-publicized site of his fake-out presser in which he temporarily disavowed his Birther stance, has been a hotbed for foreign diplomats seeking to curry favor with the President.
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Part of the reason China was willing to take a harder line against North Korea was to curry favor with the U.S., but Trump has proposed tariffs on Chinese exports anyways, ratcheting up trade tensions.
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"Last year was a tough year," she said, "because people were beating on us with nonsense," a reference to bruising political attacks claiming that donors were using the foundation to curry favor with the Clintons.
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You teach with two goals: to prop up literature that is long dead and to curry favor with the wealthiest students just so you can indulge in the fantasy that you belong to their world.
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That organization has not taken a strong public stand on Russia's systemic doping as it seeks to curry favor with global sports leaders in a bid to hold the 2024 Summer Games in Los Angeles.
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Alan Mnuchin rejected any suggestion that he had been brought into the deal by Mr. Blavatnik or that Mr. Blavatnik might have purchased the stake in RatPac to try to curry favor with his brother.
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Kadyrov's statement, like those before it, looked instead like a symbolic show of loyalty to curry favor with Putin who the Chechen leader said in the same interview he saw "rarely" and only when summoned.
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And Beijing, which has an interest in influencing the new president's China policy to suit its own needs, could easily try to curry favor with Trump by awarding the trademark protections faster than is the norm.
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America's NATO allies have been shaken by Trump's harangue against them in Brussels over their under-spending on defense, and his unrestrained effort to curry favor with Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Helsinki.
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We all understand that if you want to curry favor with someone, paying big money to stay at his hotels and golf on his greens is a good and not particularly subtle way of doing that.
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That's according to a senior U.S. official who has analyzed a series of highly sensitive intelligence reports detailing Russian deliberations and who says a Snowden handover is one of various ploys to "curry favor" with Trump.
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But the embassy moves are also seen as political maneuvering to curry favor with the U.S in the hopes of preserving foreign aid and easing some pressure on them in regards to the current migration crisis.
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Speaking to press at Tuesday's event, Bolt Mobility's executive vice president of operations Will Nicholas made it seem like the company was hoping to curry favor with the people of New York in the legalization fight.
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The mayor's outside nonprofits have been criticized by government watchdogs, who say they allow for donors seeking to curry favor with City Hall to give large donations that would otherwise not be allowed under city rules.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's regional governments are falling over each other to curry favor with President Xi Jinping, jostling for roles in his New Silk Road plan to boost economic and cultural links through Asia to Europe.
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If you didn&apost believe a witness yesterday, chances are great you&aposre not going to believe that witness tomorrow, particularly if they are under indictment and have a reason to curry favor with the government.
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Russia sending Snowden back to the U.S. is one of several options Moscow is considering to "curry favor" with Trump, NBC News reported Friday, citing a senior U.S. official who had analyzed intelligence reports on Russia.
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"This arrangement raises serious concerns about the length Novartis was willing to go in order to curry favor with this Administration, and perhaps more troublingly, what it expected or was promised in return," the letter says.
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They're using the language of the movement to try to curry favor with female voters and slam their opponents, but they failed to support a woman when she spoke out against one of their political allies.
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Instead, he still owns and profits from the Trump Organization, including a hotel located just blocks from the White House that's regularly patronized by foreign governments, Republicans, and businesspeople looking to curry favor with the president.
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She has regularly praised Mr. Trump's economic policies, and now favors near-zero interest rates, a position likely to curry favor with a president who has called the central bank the "biggest risk" to the economy.
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When one side of the conflict develops a remedy for malaria, you infiltrate the factory where it's being made and destroy it, lest it be used as a propaganda tool to curry favor with the locals.
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Israeli and Arab critics alike suggested that the mayor, whose term is up next year, was looking to curry favor with the Israeli right and aid his future prospects for national office by treating Arabs harshly.
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Bezos, in a blog post last week, suggested that either President Donald Trump or the kingdom of Saudi Arabia had possibly played a role, or that National Enquirer may have acted to curry favor with them.
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Warren and Jayapal in a letter to T-Mobile CEO John Legere last month questioned whether T-Mobile was attempting to "curry favor" with the president by having executives spend tens of thousands at his hotel.
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After unsuccessfully trying to curry favor with his emotionally distant father (Ben Gazzara) and obsessive mother (Anjelica Huston), Billy and Layla go bowling and check into a motel, where they acknowledge the real connection they've developed.
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Business seems to have decided that Mr. Trump is a paper tiger on trade: The flow of corporate relocations to Mexico, which slowed briefly while C.E.O.s tried to curry favor with the new president, has resumed.
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By doing that, he would eliminate the many pay-for-play opportunities and other forms of corruption that could be exploited by him and by corporations and foreign governments seeking to curry favor with his administration.
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I can guarantee every woman who's been in a supposedly liberal space in the past has dealt with at least one man who used Schneiderman-like tactics to curry favor with women, only to exploit them later.
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That is because neither Clinton will occupy a prominent role in government in the immediate future—curtailing the willingness of at least some big donors to try and curry favor with the foundation by writing large checks.
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While his golf courses have taken a hit as players stay away, his hotel in Washington D.C. is flourishing from diplomats and lobbyists booking rooms and hosting events in an attempt to curry favor with the administration.
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An Oklahoma bill was stalled by a legislator who reportedly was looking to curry favor with law enforcement groups; in New Mexico, a lawsuit claims that the authorities are ignoring the state's recently passed anti-forfeiture law.
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Critics, including Cal Jillson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University who has followed Mr. Cornyn's career, regard it as an attempt by Republicans to curry favor with voters who were demanding action after the Parkland shooting.
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But why would a Ukrainian gas company give Hunter Biden millions of dollars for a board seat in an industry he knew nothing about if they weren't trying to curry favor with his father, the vice president?
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It was not clear whether Mr. Pompeo made his announcement in an 11th-hour bid to bolster Mr. Netanyahu, or to curry favor with American evangelicals who fiercely support Israeli settlers and are a core Trump constituency.
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But Dr. Jackson's confirmation bid unraveled amid accusations by onetime colleagues that he was a bully who drank too much and loosely dispensed strong drugs to curry favor with the powerful politicians and political aides he admired.
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The firm imposed a ban on new international deals, previously a major potential source of expansion, in an effort to address criticism that foreign countries could curry favor with the President by striking deals with his sons.
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Or was he simply operating independently, seeking to curry favor with key Eastern European figures to mitigate his own plight and financial exposure, given his millions of dollars in debt owed to Oleg Deripaska, a Russia oligarch?
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Both Kroll and Hylton date the Smith brothers and Sinclair's interest in politics to their desire to curry favor with the FCC in the late 1990s, as their aggressive approach in acquiring networks began to attract regulatory scrutiny.
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Since opening in September 2016, the Trump International has become Washington's hub for Trump, from Cabinet secretaries and foreign dignitaries seeking to curry favor with the administration to the president himself, hangers-on and red-hat-wearing tourists.
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The new lawsuit, filed in December but made public on Tuesday, claims Mr. Kay's decisions on grants have reflected his personal whims and a desire to curry favor with certain institutions, rather than Mr. Brown's priorities and wishes.
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The media and the development world scorned, calling it a naked bid for good press and an attempt by world leaders, especially those in Saudi Arabia, to curry favor with the American president through his daughter's pet project.
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The attorneys general of D.C. and Maryland are working together in a lawsuit alleging that Trump has received illegal gifts through the Trump International Hotel amid claims that foreign dignitaries stay there to curry favor with the president.
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"The unmitigated gall of Barry Bennett and Doug Watts: To attempt to curry favor with the Trump campaign by delivering Dr. Carson's campaign infrastructure on a platter is nothing short of amazing," Williams wrote in a Facebook post.
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Tebow, he maintained, is not arriving to sell tickets, generate publicity or — more pointedly — curry favor with Tebow's agent, who also happens to represent Yoenis Cespedes, whom the Mets would very much like to keep beyond this season.
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Of course, Mr. Duda was not the first European leader to seek to curry favor with Mr. Trump by appealing to his sense of self — or by injecting an element of flattery into the geopolitics of the day.
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House Democrats, who have launched a broad impeachment investigation that currently includes whether Trump has illegally profited from his businesses while president, say Republicans are trying to curry favor with the president by spending money at his businesses.
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To have gotten their jobs, they not only had to have track records of talking nonsense, but to have suddenly started talking completely different nonsense — reversing their long-held positions to curry favor with the Very Stable Genius.
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A proposal to build a local branch of the Beijing-based National Palace Museum in Hong Kong has been met with opposition, with many residents decrying the project as a means to curry favor with the mainland Chinese government.
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And I hope he contrasts his position with that of Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton, who would permit abortions even in the ninth month — an un-American, unethical stance that is meant to curry favor with left-wing women's groups.
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Miller -- a legit Top 5 heavyweight contender who's lined up to fight either Wilder or Anthony Joshua this year -- says Wilder got used by Trump to curry favor with African Americans ... and it's a stain on his public image.
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By rejecting corporate PAC money, our constituents know that when we make decisions and advocate for specific policies, we do it because we believe it's the right thing to do, not to curry favor with big-monied special interests.
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Such divorces were already declared illegal by the Supreme Court in 2017, and some critics view the follow-up legislation as an unnecessary attack on Muslim families; others see it as an attempt to curry favor with Muslim women.
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Yet these economists, despite what often seem like pathetic attempts to curry favor with politicians, are routinely passed over for key positions, which go to almost surreally unqualified figures like Moore or Larry Kudlow, the Trump administration's chief economist.
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They're also not making a peep about Hunter Biden's long history of other questionable deals and jobs that may not be illegal, but only a total naif wouldn't surmise they were attempts to curry favor with his powerful father.
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"Some countries will no doubt see this as a way to curry favor with President Trump," wrote Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, and Norman Eisen, chairman of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, two nonprofit watchdog groups.
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Trump doesn't care about corruption — he runs a network of clubs and hotels where interested parties can spend huge sums and curry favor with the administration — but he is worried about Biden's popularity with Democrats and the wider public.
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As with his decision to withdraw from the global climate agreement, Mr. Trump's approach to Cuba reflects a craven desire to curry favor with his political base, in this case conservative Republicans from Florida who are viscerally anti-Castro.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Washington restaurant has sued U.S. President Donald Trump and the company that operates his landmark Washington hotel, claiming that patrons have shifted business there to curry favor with his new administration, the owners said on Thursday.
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We won't spill too much ink on the insanely fucked-up gender dynamics the game is enforcing (you are trying to curry favor with a horse and your personality is as successful as it matches with his), but it's pretty remarkable.
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Tokyo (CNN)An educator accused of using his clout to curry favor with Japanese politicians, including the first family, told lawmakers under oath Thursday that he believes political intervention helped him secure a deal to purchase land from the government.
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Or the former KGB lieutenant colonel might have sized up his American counterpart, and decided that repeating Trump's own self-compliments back to him would be the easiest way to curry favor with the leader of Russia's former Cold War rival.
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On his disclosure last year, Trump reported $75 million in income from the property, which has been at the center of conflict of interests concerns over the possibility that foreign governments can curry favor with the President by booking rooms.
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All of sudden, it's possible for them to be like Carrier or Ford or Fiat Chrysler and try to curry favor with the new president by promising to bring back or save U.S. jobs in its remaining drug manufacturing plants.
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The scenario: If the hotel or restaurant near a Trump property is losing business because foreign governments think a good way to curry favor with the president is to stay at one of his hotels, that could be grounds to sue.
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It's unclear if Rosenstein authorized the release of the texts, but some legal analysts thought the DOJ made the messages public the night before Rosenstein's big hearing to curry favor with the anti-Mueller crowd on the House Judiciary Committee.
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United's Chief Executive Jeff Smisek resigned in September in connection with an investigation that has addressed whether the company added flights to Columbia, South Carolina to curry favor with then-Port Authority Chairman David Samson, who had a home there.
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And in spite of Sanders' insistence that the visit to the Vatican was a departure from the campaign trail, his warm welcome at the Holy See might curry favor with New York voters — about a third of whom are Catholic.
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"A Washington restaurant filed an unfair competition lawsuit Thursday against President Donald Trump and the company that runs his D.C. hotel, claiming he's siphoning away customers who hope to 'curry favor' with his administration," NBC's Rich Gardella and Tracy Connor write.
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"While on the campaign trail, a non-incumbent presidential candidate has not yet taken the oath to 'preserve, protect and defend the Constitution' and may speak to a host of promises merely to curry favor with the electorate," she said.
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Ramon Casiple, head of the Institute for Political and Electoral Reform, said Duterte's allies might be pushing the proposal to curry favor with the president, who tended to "think aloud" about ideas that may be impractical on a national scale.
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Visits to Mexico City and Detroit may curry favor with a largely white media establishment, but until minorities are taken seriously and not treated as mere props, Trump will continue to feel the squeeze, stuck between Barack and a hard place.
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While I may be wrong, I do firmly believe that this is why the young Hill reporter wrote was in effect a hit piece profile of me; to try to curry favor with her sources at the NSA, CIA in particular.
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But the degree to which he has chosen to curry favor with some of the world's most unsavory leaders, while lavishing far less attention on America's democratic allies, hurts America's credibility and, in the long run, may have dangerous repercussions.
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"Business is booming at the Trump International Hotel in DC, not because of the décor, but because corporations and foreign governments want to curry favor with the president," Robert Weissman, Public Citizen's president, said in a statement at the time. Rep.
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As recently as 2014, nearly half the City Council accused the Walton Family Foundation, which is funded by the company's founding family, of trying to curry favor with New Yorkers by donating "toxic money" to local efforts to support charter schools.
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The official said Barr did not select the Trump hotel to curry favor with the President, noting that he had originally booked space for the party -- an annual event that he throws for family and friends -- at Washington's Willard Hotel.
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While some prominent Democrats argued the Iowa caucuses debacle should be the end of the caucuses altogether, Trump took the opportunity to curry favor with voters there by trying to place blame on the national Democratic Party instead of state officials.
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He could then invite President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt and King Abdullah of Jordan — two Arab leaders keen to curry favor with the new president — to join him in convening a summit meeting with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
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Wealthy donors and foreign governments would also see the sons as a way to curry favor with the president, as demonstrated by the "cuff links and camouflage" fundraiser scheduled for next week's inauguration that the sons have since backed out of.
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That omission has been interpreted as an attempt to curry favor with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt, whose troops control part of the border with Gaza and whose intelligence service determines when and which Hamas leaders can leave Gaza.
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The public can only guess at the source of these funds, whether they be foreign governments or wealthy domestic interests—and to what extent unknown sums pouring into other Trump businesses are being used to curry favor with the president.
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Alongside the United States, Britain is one of only five countries in the NATO military alliance which meet an obligation to spend 2 percent of economic output on defense — something May has used to curry favor with U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Similarly, emails between BP and the Science Museum suggest the oil company was attempting to use the Cosmonauts exhibition to curry favor with officials in Russia, where BP has a 19.75% stake in the mostly state-owned oil company Rosneft.
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The lawsuit further alleges that by firing Hubbuch, Rupert Murdoch is attempting to curry favor with President Trump, who reportedly reads the Post every morning and has shown that he will lash out at both journalists and outlets that offer any criticism.
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"The pay-go thing is an absurd idea now given the times and given what's already been done to curry favor with corporate America," Raúl Grijalva, an Arizona congressman who heads up the heavily minority Congressional Progressive Caucus, told the Hill in June.
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Multinational companies have for years gone out of their way to curry favor with leaders in China, one of the world's largest technology and consumer markets, which are overseen by rival regulatory agencies eager to score wins against high-profile foreign companies.
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Trying to get him happy with his seats at the opera, at the various musicals, and I feel like what he's trying to do curry favor, with a person high up in the White House, who can, in turn, do something for him.
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The key question in light of the organization's apparent track record of never having run-ins with the law is whether Chinese authorities were more likely to crack down on the investigators in an attempt to curry favor with the Trump administration.
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Before that, Yasunori Kagoike, an educator accused of using his clout to curry favor with Abe and his wife, told lawmakers under oath that he believes political intervention helped him secure a deal to purchase land from the government at a steep discount.
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The plaintiffs said they are legally injured when foreign governments try to "curry favor" with Trump by paying to use his businesses, such as the Trump International Hotel in Washington or a high-end restaurant at a Trump hotel in New York City.
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" She added, "His only mistake was his friendship with Jona Rechnitz, a criminal who has admitted bribing a union official and who is desperately trying to get others in trouble in order to curry favor with prosecutors and save his own skin.
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Falcon is demanding improved election conditions, including a later vote date, U.N. observers, an end to "harassment" of Maduro opponents, and the removal of government handout booths known as "red spots" to curry favor with voters often set up near polling centers.
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We spent some time at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, which has cemented its status as a gathering spot for the president's supporters to see, be seen and curry favor with people in power, one $24 chocolate cigar at a time.
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It's not clear if Lutsenko agreed, although it looks like his efforts to curry favor with Trump's inner circle may have been part of a larger plan to oust Marie Yovanovitch, the US ambassador to Ukraine and a vocal anti-corruption critic.
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This is, you might say, not exactly great news for a company currently trying to curry favor with the FCC to approve its controversial merger with T-Mobile, a $26.5 billion deal that would bring together the third- and fourth-largest U.S. carriers.
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"But the degree to which he has chosen to curry favor with some of the world's most unsavory leaders, while lavishing far less attention on America's democratic allies, hurts America's credibility and, in the long run, may have dangerous repercussions," the board wrote.
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Read: Mueller: Manafort lied to us after striking plea deal The only apparent explanation for Manafort to want to share information with Trump's lawyers would be to curry favor with the president in hopes of getting a pardon, legal analysts told VICE News.
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Everyone from politicians and powerbrokers to Saudi-funded lobbyists has ended up staying there as Trump moved into the Oval Office—situations that sound suspiciously like attempts to pump money into Trump's coffers, or at least to curry favor with him and his administration.
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Other types of internal data include the email addresses of reviewers, who merchants can then reach out to in an attempt to curry favor with tactics like offering free or discounted products, as well as "proprietary sales information," including keywords, sales volume, and buying habits.
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The Times also wrote that Facebook supported the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, which was opposed by sex workers' advocates and by numerous tech companies, in part to curry favor with senators on both sides of the aisle who had criticized it in the past.
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Although it was just an aside in a sweeping case alleging that the 29-year-old Russian worked to curry favor with American conservatives, the claim that she had offered sex for a job dominated much of the news coverage about her for weeks.
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He is working to sow discord between the surviving Stark siblings: he attempted to curry favor with Bran by (who saw through his machinations with his Three-Eyed Raven powers) and now he's planted a scroll that will cause tension between Arya and Sansa.
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Co-hosted with Doug "DJ Douggpound" Lussenhop and Vic Berger IV, the more-or-less weekly program employs a live call-in format, in which fans awkwardly ask questions or otherwise attempt to curry favor with Heidecker while the team shamelessly overindulge on radio drops.
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What we're watching: Whether the U.A.E. will shift to fighting al Qaeda and ISIS in Yemen, which could also curry favor with American lawmakers, and how their alliance plays out in Libya, where the U.A.E. supports a rebel leader fighting the UN-backed government.
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As tighter privacy regulations loom in Europe, American tech companies are trying to curry favor with lawmakers in the U.S. But Twitter stands to benefit from stricter privacy regulations by making it "distinct from the competitive landscape," according to former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo.
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Trump handed control of the Trump Organization to his adult sons when he took office, but critics and ethics experts have questioned whether his ownership of the D.C. hotel might prompt foreign leaders to stay there in order to curry favor with the Trump administration.
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Both the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times have reported further that Trump decided to order a strike to curry favor with GOP Senators who favor a more hawkish, aggressive US stance towards Iran ahead of his impeachment trial in the Senate.
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Whether it's being approved by a moderator to join a group, seeking out a time or space or venue based on terms dictated by someone else, or being forced to curry favor with someone for them to share information—that's gatekeeping in my book.
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One official at the White House described Pruitt as taking extra steps to curry favor with Trump, including suggesting tacking on additional import restrictions onto a review of fuel efficiency regulations as a way to strengthen the administration's aggressive stance on tariffs and trade.
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That fact concerns the president's critics, who fear that his businesses are — at best — being financially buoyed by his office, and that — at worst — are an avenue through which individuals, corporations, foreign countries, and even the military can curry favor with the country's chief executive.
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That fact concerns the president's critics, who fear that his businesses are — at best — being financially buoyed by his office, and that — at worst — are an avenue through which individuals, corporations, foreign countries, and even the military might curry favor with the country's chief executive.
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Societe Generale macro strategist Kit Juckes shared the skepticism over Johnson's ability to get a fresh divorce deal agreed, suggesting the hardline stance the new prime minister is taking is an attempt to curry favor with voters previously lost by the Conservatives to the Brexit Party.
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Investing money in the same districts where NASA has a presence is considered politically important for private rocket companies to curry favor with key lawmakers in Washington DC. Meanwhile, NASA has shown a growing appetite to hire private companies to take over some of its duties.
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While Kim sought to curry favor with Trump before the Hanoi meeting, their second one-on-one summit, officials across the U.S. government as well as allied governments worked to prevent the president from giving up too much in the negotiations, the current and former officials said.
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"To be clear, this amounts to the president of the United States receiving a direct and significant financial benefit from special interests, foreign and domestic, that have chosen to spend money on events at his properties to curry favor with his administration," CREW states in the report.
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Under Videgaray, Mexico has become increasingly willing to cooperate with United States on some issues, which senior U.S. and Mexican officials say is part of a strategy to curry favor with Washington in hopes of winning a beneficial renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump is sharing some of his campaign warchest with congressional Republicans ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, part of a joint effort with the Republican National Committee announced Thursday to protect GOP majorities in Congress and curry favor with Republicans on Capitol Hill.
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T-Mobile and Sprint have denied doing anything inappropriate to curry favor with administration officials, and Mr. Pai cited their pledges on 5G service, increasing access to broadband internet in rural areas and finding a buyer for Boost Mobile as the reasons he supported the merger.
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Ukrainian prosecutors like Yuriy Lutsenko and Kostiantyn Kulyk coming forward with tales of Ukrainian election meddling have likely been part of a larger plan to curry favor with Trump's inner circle and oust Marie Yovanovitch, a vocal anti-corruption critic who was the US ambassador to Ukraine.
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In this first tumultuous summer of the Trump administration, the hotel has cemented its status as a gathering spot for prominent conservatives and a place for the president's supporters to see, be seen and curry favor with people in power, one $24 chocolate cigar at a time.
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Trump is facing multiple lawsuits that accuse him of violating anti-corruption provisions of the US Constitution by continuing to keep his interests in his businesses, even as foreign officials have reportedly said that they've patronized those businesses in order to curry favor with the president.
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We see many attempts by Trump to curry favor with workers by talking (and sometimes acting) tough on trade and immigrants, by cutting taxes and regulations that he blames for declining factory jobs and by claiming credit for all positive economic numbers emerging since his election.
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She said that though Trump Jr. is not a government employee, he&aposs nonetheless politically influential, incentivizing foreign officials such as the Mongolian leader to treat him favorably out of a "desire on the part of a foreign government to curry favor with the president&aposs family."
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Anthony Skinner, director of the UK-based forecasting company Verisk Maplecroft, told Bloomberg that Erdogan could be hoping that a continued onslaught against Kurdish militants would curry favor with "staunch Turkish nationalists" from the nationalist MHP, who were never in favor of peace talks with the Kurds.
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The plaintiffs allege they are injured when foreign governments try to "curry favor" with Trump by favoring his businesses, such as the Trump International Hotel in Washington, or a high-end restaurant at a Trump hotel in New York City, leading to lost patronage, wages and commissions.
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The move was seen as an attempt to curry favor with Putin, with whom Vekselberg has not been as tightly connected as some other billionaires in Russia, said Timothy Frye, chair of the political science department at Columbia University and an expert on post-Soviet affairs.
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Then when her enemies attempt to push her out of the presidency via the 25th Amendment, she suggests that her vice president is in cahoots with Russia to instead punish everyone who's trying to get her removed from office and curry favor with the American public.
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"That breach, and the limited movement from the US in relaxing restrictions on Huawei, means that Xi has effectively given up on efforts to curry favor with Trump," Michael Hirson, practice head, China and Northeast Asia, at consulting firm Eurasia Group, said in a note Saturday Beijing time.
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The Clinton Foundation's policy of continuing to accept foreign money through the election has raised concerns from some good government groups and newspaper editorial boards because it is seen as a legally permissible way to curry favor with the Clintons that would not be permitted through direct political giving.
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So, in what appears to be an effort to either drum up some good publicity or curry favor with her new Verizon overlords, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced today that she has agreed to bravely forego both her bonus and her equity grant because of the security woes.
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It's an opportunity to curry favor with House members and senators on the ballot this cycle by campaigning and raising money for them while also elevating their own profiles and meeting local party honchos, said Mitch Stewart, a founding partner of 270 Strategies and a veteran of Obama's campaigns.
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Read more: How one Epstein victim was said to be recruited from Mar-a-Lago, and all the other connections between the accused sex trafficker and Trump's Palm Beach resort"If you want to curry favor with him, you spend money at his properties," Hooper told the Herald.
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In March 2010, Kim Jong Il reportedly authorized the sinking of the Cheonan — a South Korean naval vessel that sank in the Yellow Sea, killing 46 seamen — to curry favor with the military, which wanted revenge for a North Korean ship the South Korean navy sank months before.
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In a unanimous ruling released Monday, the court overturned McDonnell's corruption convictions, determining that the former Virginia governor did not exchange any "official act" for the over $175,000 in loans and gifts he and his wife received from a herbal supplement dealer attempting to curry favor with the state.
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While critics of Mr. Trump have argued that he ended the program to curry favor with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, there were in fact dim views of the effort in both the Trump and Obama White Houses — a rare confluence of opinion on national security policy.
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"The Carrie Lam government is still trying to curry favor with the opposition, thinking that she has the support of the pro-Beijing people," said Lau Siu-kai, who was a top Hong Kong official until 2012 and is now one of Beijing's top advisers on Hong Kong policy.
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Does the Justice Department oppose the merger either under direct presidential or White House pressure or in an attempt by department officials to curry favor with a president who believes in using all forms of power to reward those he considers friends and punish those he considers enemies?
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It is a view about the Constitution, one that Judge Gorsuch has already expressed in a judicial opinion: The framers lived in an age when judges had to curry favor with the crown in order to secure their tenure and salary and their decisions not infrequently followed their interests.
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Mr. Trump's inauguration came at a moment when some international figures were paying large sums to Mr. Trump's associates in an effort to curry favor with an administration that came into office with few ties to established players on the world stage, and with an uncertain foreign policy agenda.
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Michael Sanchez has been reported to be the source since shortly after Bezos published a Medium post alleging the blackmail attempt in February 2019, including a Daily Beast article asserting he had blown up his sister's spot at least partially to curry favor with Trump (who really, really hates Bezos).
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New Defense Secretary Mark Esper said this week that he had "heard from everybody about JEDI Cloud, that's one of the things I'm going to take a hard look at," according to CNN, and the JEDI contract is seen as one way he could curry favor with his new boss.
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The questions include whether the group was simply working as an arm of his campaign and whether giving money to it may have been a way for those with business before the city — or those seeking such business — to curry favor with him without being subject to campaign-finance limits.
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The decision by Chinese authorities to hold Thursday's high-profile public sentencing while trade negotiations are ongoing is likely to be seen as an attempt to curry favor with the US. Stopping the flow of the deadly drug into the US has been an important part of Trump's policy agenda.
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There was a moment in 1799 when, seeing an opportunity to curry favor with the British Empire and the hostile Americans, he treacherously betrayed an antislavery conspiracy in Jamaica — a coldblooded act if ever there was one, even if it served the narrow interest of the emancipated slaves in Saint-Domingue.
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Ms. Trump will also maintain a stake in the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. The hotel, just down the street from the White House, has drawn protests from ethics experts who worry that foreign governments or special interests could stay there in order to curry favor with the administration.
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That left many in Washington and the Middle East wondering whether the Saudi crown prince was quietly doing the bidding of Mr. Trump, trying to curry favor with the Americans, or freelancing in order to put pressure on the Palestinians or to make any eventual offer sound generous by comparison.
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But inside the White House medical unit, a military-run office with a few dozen doctors and nurses, Dr. Jackson was viewed as a bully and someone who kept sloppy medical records, drank too much and loosely dispensed strong drugs to curry favor with the powerful politicians and political aides he admired.
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This is a both a useful Democratic move to not be out-anti-anti-Semitism'ed by the GOP, and a way to curry favor with a key slice of the party's elite donor base, for whom, according to the New York Times, military and diplomatic support for Israel is a high priority.
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Washington (CNN)The criminal indictment against two associates of President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani describes an elaborate, months-long scheme to funnel foreign money into federal and state elections around the US to curry favor with politicians on behalf of at least one Ukrainian government official and a Russian businessman.
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Attorney General William Barr was photographed dining at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC, on Wednesday night — a business his boss, President Donald Trump, still owns and profits from, and one that has become something of a de facto clubhouse for businesspeople and government officials looking to curry favor with the president.
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Still, money contributed to inaugural funds is often done in an effort to curry favor with the elected official and those who have power over regulatory agencies, like the FDA, Jessica A. Levinson, a professor at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, and president of the Los Angeles Ethics Commission, recently told us.
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Even if CREW amends its complaint to include claims by a direct competitor of a Trump Organization business – like a rival hotel asserting that guests chose to stay instead at a Trump property to curry favor with the president – it will have to show its lawsuit can redress the supposed Emoluments violation.
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He and two young colleagues from Mr. Reagan's campaigns — Charles R. Black Jr. and Roger J. Stone Jr. — formed the core of a new breed of consulting and lobbying outfit that parlayed campaign-forged connections into big contracts from American businesses and foreign interests seeking to curry favor with the Reagan administration.
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The F.E.C. ruled that Microsoft could offer "enhanced online account security services to its election-sensitive customers at no additional cost" because Microsoft would be shoring up defenses for its existing customers, not seeking to curry favor with political candidates, and would be acting on a nonpartisan basis out of business interests.
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In February, Judge Joseph H. Gale ruled instead that the expert had most likely placed a "lowball" estimate on that painting and a second work so as to "curry favor" with the owner, an estate facing a potentially large tax bill, and thus win the business of selling the works at auction.
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Trump has made it clear that foreigners and Americans alike can curry favor with him by staying at one of his hotels, and Zelensky got the message: "Actually last time I traveled to the United States, I stayed in New York near Central Park and I stayed at the Trump Tower," he said.
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They point out that Trump's Hamilton hissy fit overtook coverage of the conflicts of interest posed by his incipient presidency — from questions about his connections with India's newly appointed US trade envoy to stories that diplomats are being encouraged to stay at Trump Tower as a way to curry favor with the president-elect.
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Wisconsin is trying to get the Taiwanese iPhone manufacturer Foxconn to employ up to 10,000 people in the state at a $7 billion display panel manufacturing plant, per the AP. The problem: Several states are vying for the manufacturer — Michigan just passed new economic incentives to try and curry favor with Foxconn, for example.
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As part of its big insurance play, Lyft also announced that it would provide automated phone calls for users without a smart phone: At the time, we predicted this could help the company curry favor with MA payers and their enrollees, who are over the age of 65 and may not have access to smartphones.
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In another case, the Justice Department is trying to get the full 2nd Circuit to review an emoluments case filed by a government watchdog group and a collection of hotel and restaurant owners who said they were losing out on business because customers were flocking to Trump's Washington hotel to curry favor with the president.
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"Giving to the Trump family would be seen by many foreign leaders as the way to get in with the Trump administration," said Meredith McGehee, an adviser to the Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit group, who worried that companies might be tempted to direct business to the Trump children to curry favor with their father.
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Think of the motivation: lots of companies are raising wages at least a bit in the face of tight labor markets; pretending that it's because of the tax cut is a cheap way to curry favor with an administration that has no hesitation about using regulatory and antitrust decisions to reward friends and punish enemies.
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Painters such as Mario Radice, Mauro Reggiani, and Atanasio Soldati were entirely new to me, and while not particularly groundbreaking, their work comprised a colorful, idiosyncratic response to Synthetic Cubism at a time when many Italian artists, seeking to curry favor with Mussolini's imperialist fantasies, took a sharp right turn toward Neoclassicism in all of its sentimentality and bombast.
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Perhaps Manafort has determined on his own that his best chance to earn a pardon is to walk away from Mueller (though it is unclear why Manafort would curry favor with Trump by cooperating with Mueller and then lying; Manafort could have sent the same message of loyalty by refusing to cooperate at all in the first place).
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Once again, 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 appears to be bending over backward to curry favor with Putin.
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But some members of the medical unit, which houses a few dozen doctors and nurses, described Dr. Jackson as a bully and a sloppy record-keeper, who drank too much — sometimes becoming intoxicated during overseas trips with the president — and loosely dispensed strong drugs to curry favor with the powerful politicians and political aides he admired.
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In December 2017, a federal judge dismissed a case filed in New York by an ethics watchdog group alleging that Mr. Trump's failure to divorce himself from his New York and Washington properties was causing financial harm to other area businesses as groups and individuals opted to patronize Trump properties to curry favor with the administration.
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In December 2017, a federal judge dismissed a case filed in New York by an ethics watchdog group alleging that Mr. Trump's failure to divorce himself from his New York and Washington properties was causing financial harm to other area businesses as groups and individuals opted to patronize Trump properties to curry favor with the administration.
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In the main, the Clinton campaign is probably correct in its belief that it can count down the clock to November without seriously addressing the twin controversies that continue to dog her candidacy: her use of a private email server as secretary of state and the suspicion that unsavory entities made large donations to the Clinton Foundation to curry favor with the Clintons.
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Calls for the Council to submit more than one candidate's name to the General Assembly seem to have fallen on deaf ears, as have proposals for the next secretary general to stick to one seven-year term, so as not to have to curry favor with the world powers for reappointment to a second, five-year term, as is the case now.
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"The obvious — and at times explicitly stated — goal of this Committee is to discredit and otherwise damage witnesses to Russia's interference in the 85033 election, all as part of an effort to protect a President who has sought to placate and curry favor with a hostile foreign power and who demands that the Justice Department stop investigating him," they wrote.
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Guests at the hotel include foreign diplomats and politicians who could be looking to curry favor with Mr. Trump — but even the act of paying their bills as they check out after the inauguration may open Mr. Trump to a challenge that he has violated the United States Constitution, which prohibits federal government officials from taking payments or gifts from foreign governments.
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But the ledger was released by an independent Ukrainian government agency, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, and publicized by Sergii Leshchenko—a Ukrainian member of Parliament who, despite Senator Kennedy's claims that Poroshenko "worked" with Clinton in 2016, grew to oppose Poroshenko and accused him of launching a politically motivated investigation into the ledger's release to curry favor with Trump.
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The stays, reported by The Washington Post, "raise questions about whether T-Mobile is attempting to curry favor with the President through the Trump Organization and exacerbate our concerns about the President's continued financial relationship with the Trump Organization," Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, and Representative Pramila Jayapal, Democrat of Washington, said in letters to the Trump Organization and T-Mobile.
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Although withdrawing from the treaty might suit President Trump's desire to curry favor with Russian President Vladimir PutinVladimir Vladimirovich PutinWhy Americans should care about Ukraine FBI hand-slapping outweighs any lies by Michael Flynn Democrats feud over health care, Trump strategy in Iowa MORE in the short term, over the longer term it promises to be yet another sore point between Washington and Moscow.
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But others aren't taking Sessions's memo too seriously, saying it's more of a political maneuver to curry favor with 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 than anything else.
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One GOP source involved in House races said they viewed any potential leadership race between Scalise and McCarthy as a financial windfall for their party, with the two men scrambling to see who can raise the most campaign cash in order to curry favor with their colleagues, adding to Ryan who will continue to be a presence on the fundraising circuit, the source said.
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The cases revolve around the Constitution's once-obscure emoluments clauses, which critics say President TrumpDonald John TrumpThe Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - House panel expected to approve impeachment articles Thursday Democrats worried by Jeremy Corbyn's UK rise amid anti-Semitism Warren, Buttigieg duke it out in sprint to 2020 MORE has flouted, giving foreign diplomats an opening to curry favor with him by patronizing his businesses.
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The investigation, conducted by Senate Finance Committee Democrats who released a report on their findings Friday, found that top officials at the NRA used the organization's financial resources — largely collected by member dues — to curry favor with two Russians, Aleksander Torshin, the deputy governor of the Central Bank of Russia, and his deputy Maria Butina, who said they had access to top Russian officials.
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Though Facebook told media outlets Kaplan is a longtime friend of Kavanaugh's and attended the hearings in a personal capacity, according to the New York Times, on internal boards employees accused the VP of trying to curry favor with Republicans:"Let's assume for a minute that our VP of Policy understands how senate hearings work," one program manager said in a post about Mr. Kaplan that was reviewed by The Times.
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But it was belied by the fact that a top Defense Department official told Congress last May that Ukraine had made good enough progress on anti-corruption efforts to merit the aid — not to mention the glaring hypocrisy stemming Trump's refusal to divest from his business, one that enables foreign governments, corporations, and US politicians to curry favor with him by patronizing his properties and directly enriching him.
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One of the things I talk about in the book is that Trump was very well aware of what it meant, at least in the 1990s when he talked about it in relation to Pat Buchanan's campaign, and called Buchanan an anti-Semite and said that he was using the phrase to curry favor with the right-wing wacko nut jobs, which he obviously decided was a good tactic in 2016.
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Some foreign governments have taken actions that benefit or facilitate Trump-branded projects abroad, raising questions about whether such moves are intended to curry favor with 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's administration, according to a McClatchy report.
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The fact that APCO's support for CGI was undercounted could raise questions about the thoroughness of Hillary and Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson Clinton21625 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2900 Buckingham Palace: Any suggestion Prince Andrew was involved in Epstein scandal 'abhorrent' The magic of majority rule in elections MORE's conflicts disclosures as well as the attractiveness of their foundation and of CGI to special interests seeking to curry favor with the State Department.
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The committees are keen to learn what the informant knows about any Russian efforts to curry favor with Bill and Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE, to win Obama administration approval for Moscow's purchase of large uranium assets in the United States or to secure billions in new uranium sales contracts with American utilities.
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After Donald Trump announced his decision to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, Guatemala became the first country to follow suit; Eric Olson, the deputy director of the Wilson Center's Latin American Program, labeled it a blatant move to "curry favor with the U.S." The embassy was inaugurated in May, a few weeks after Senator Marco Rubio, who has largely controlled the direction of U.S. diplomacy in Latin America under Trump, suspended $6 million in State Department funding to the CICIG, pushing unsubstantiated claims that CICIG is under Russian influence.
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" Anthony ScaramucciAnthony ScaramucciThe Hill's 12:30 Report: Trump tries to reassure voters on economy Trump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE, who briefly served as Trump's communications director, has tried to redefine the meaning of "drain the swamp" by saying last month that the real target may be less a swamp and more like a "gold-plated hot tub," in which "special interests and lobbyists curry favor with elected officials to maintain the order of what is sometimes called 'Crony Capitalism.
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