The other, more cynically, is something like, Hell, why not?
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Or, more cynically, did FromSoftware just not give a shit?
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"To lie so brazenly, so cynically," Vargas Llosa told me.
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It's possible to read the post either cynically or optimistically.
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"Russia cynically negotiated a ceasefire it instantly defied," she said.
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Yeah, no, but that's ... Do you worry about the ... That's cynically, but the fact that it's possible to be confused about that is being cynically amplified by theocrats who don't want their religion criticized.
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FPÖ voters didn't just cynically indulge Haider as they are now
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Or Saudi money cynically deployed against every agent of liberalizing transformation?
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Syndergaard, perhaps cynically, insisted his pitch behind Utley was an accident.
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And the public would cynically predict nothing to come of it.
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The Palestinian Authority (PA) argues cynically that such payments relieve poverty.
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He cynically continues to disregard his own people and disregard Mexicans.
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"Sanity is a performance," she cynically ponders before finally being released.
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Badr leader Al-Bayati cynically said the referendum suited his group's interests.
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Indeed, foreign policy under Clinton/Obama has followed a cynically Kissingerish course.
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Either people are confused, or they're cynically betting that others will be.
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Less cynically, it is also a reflection of how celebrities are consumed.
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But those claims were cynically exploited to foster anger among base voters.
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Cynically calculated fake mistake to drive sales of "Force Awakens" Blu-rays?
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Maybe I'm cynically taking advantage of this terrible situation I found myself in?
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You're buying it cynically to make buck off of someone's love and passion.
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That's why most there were appalled by Wolf's un-funny, cynically partisan rantings.
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They have names like Notpetya, Samsam and perhaps the most cynically named WannaCry.
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Tolisso cynically breaks up an Australian counter with a shot to Juric's ankle.
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For whatever reason, Democrats haven't been willing or able to behave that cynically.
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Jim Justice was just following his state's lead—and rather cynically, at that.
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Now, much of the media looks at the company skeptically, critically and sometimes cynically.
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Some would cynically see it as simply a means of charging larger passengers extra.
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"They need to revamp, root out the inefficient and cynically misguided managers," he said.
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Indeed, the road to Trumpism began with ideological conservatives cynically exploiting America's racial divisions.
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Mahajan's prose is elegant and incisive, his scope sweeping, and his sensibility cynically detached.
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Investors typically don't mind gridlock, cynically figuring it means Washington can't mess anything up.
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Yes, sometimes Israeli politicians cynically exploit those threats, but still the threats are real.
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A self-obsessed narcissist who cynically exploits fear, Trump has governed as he campaigned.
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He abuses this position when he cynically reduces this issue to politics, not people.
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Cynically, both non-democratic regimes signed off on the United Nation's sanctions against Pyongyang.
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And in 2010, Suarez cynically stopped a certain goal with his hands, denying Ghana.
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And Donald is cynically exploiting that anger and he is lying to his supporters.
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"Populist movements, cynically funded by right-wing billionaires worried about their own interests," Obama said.
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Some websites cynically exploited touchy issues of social justice to bring in traffic from Facebook.
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Let's find ways to ease the angst and fear of people, without cynically feeding it.
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Or was Clinton cynically using claims of sexism as a cudgel to silence her critics?
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"They are cynically trying to capitalize on the death of four innocent Americans," he said.
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Another parliamentarian cynically noted that transatlantic solidarity lasts only until it affects a country's pocket.
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She is part of a global elite that cynically manipulates whole countries for private profit.
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Too many politicians and journalists were eager, whether cynically or gullibly, to take the bait.
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In recent days, they have cynically used both issues as leverage in the government shutdown.
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In the meantime, protesters have questioned whether such events are cynically intended to provoke reactions.
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He and Mr. Spicer are employing ironic techniques not comically but cynically — to destabilize meaning.
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That makes its irresponsibility in apparently encouraging public worry look like something rather more cynically opportunistic.
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New #McDonalds advert, cynically using the story of a kid's dead dad is trashy beyond belief.
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Would you say that the Republican Party has cynically exploited poor white people for political gain?
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Or does he cynically exploit the horror to legitimise his ruthlessly authoritarian and predominantly Tutsi regime?
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He says that, despite their denials, the regime and Russia are targeting hospitals deliberately and cynically.
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"The GOP will try to cynically attack Doug Jones no matter what anyone does," Wikler said.
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Cynically speaking, this is just how politics works, though that doesn't make it good or acceptable.
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To deflect outside criticism of his regime, he cynically accused his critics of pro-apartheid leanings.
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He is cynically counting on the blind loyalty and endless gullibility of his fiercely loyal base.
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If it was so obviously orchestrated and cynically exploited, might it not be real at all?
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Cook County that the government is cynically capitalizing on the court's concerns about overly-expansive injunctions.
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Payton and his rivals — for the most part, rich and white — cynically play the diversity card.
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Would-be mediators lost no time proclaiming their outrage, suspecting that Johnson had cynically used them.
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He's hopeful, though realistic: "Maybe everything will get—not perfect, but a little better," he says cynically.
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"If you think very cynically, Saudi Arabia is getting real training," Khoury said of its Yemen war.
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And how much of it was driven by what executives like Moonves cynically believed the audience wanted?
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What the company has done is rebrand, rather cynically, what remains its most recent (and best) phone.
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More often, viewers muse cynically that there's no way Jessica's still so positive all these years later.
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The other is that Trump is cynically using terrorist attacks to stoke fears and get himself elected.
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The UN and its ability to act against Syria is being cynically stymied by continuous Russian intransigence.
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Cynically choosing to equate ethnicity with bias is hardly more appealing than simply being ignorant or bigoted.
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I would wager that even the most commercial writers seldom produce work cynically, according to a formula.
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And he did it cynically, because he had been a supporter of civil rights in the '50s.
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The Israeli military accused Hamas of "cynically exploiting women and children" by sending them to the fence.
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To me it seems more likely that he was cynically producing work to finance his car obsession.
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Pavey claimed that runway plan is cynically designed to allow a short-term boost to the airport's value.
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Sometimes, those assertions are used cynically to deflect attention from other culprits and potential causes, among them guns.
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No doubt some eastern European leaders cynically exploited voters' fears about refugee flows that barely grazed their countries.
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Commentators accused Mr Grillo of cynically pitching for right-wing votes in preparation for the election in Rome.
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Only someone determined to cynically exploit the situation would make such a claim and mince the mayor's words.
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But perhaps, more cynically, it could show physicians which social networks are the most fertile ground for advertising.
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But mainstream newspaper accounts cynically reduce real estate coverage to tales about treasure hunts by a lucky few.
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Cynically put, there may well be political advantage in escalating tensions and projecting himself as a tough leader.
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Obama accused McConnell of acting "very cynically" in rejecting the United States the president tried to bring out.
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Ms. Rousseff's defenders say her opponents in Congress are cynically using the law to depose an unpopular president.
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Hamas denied instigating it but the White House backed Netanyahu, saying Hamas "intentionally and cynically" provoked this response.
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Palestinians, for many Israelis, continue their eerie passage into abstraction, a process cynically encouraged by the Trump administration.
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Many journalists have noted that, correctly deeming it proof that the deployment was a baldly, cynically political move.
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McAuliffe touted his order as the restoration of democratic rights, while his critics viewed his motives more cynically.
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The character as written is vain, self-serving and demagogic, cynically manipulating the whiplash passions of his followers.
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Americans should not cynically dismiss the oaths that senators swore to uphold the Constitution and deliver impartial justice.
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Constitutional scholars told Insider that McConnell&aposs maneuver was "cynically Machiavellian" and a "hyperpartisan" manipulation of Senate norms.
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" Ms. Volandes added: "You could look at that cynically, but, having met her, I think it was genuine.
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Traditional liberalism's rule of law scrutinizes the actions of those in power rather than cynically apologizing for them.
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Cynically, this is something a business like WellSet could be tapping into — but that is not Bukowski's intention.
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Ireland was cynically partitioned to ensure that Protestant settlers outnumber native Catholics in one part of the country.
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It can be quite hard to see somebody doing the pop thing cynically, and doing well with it.
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Most politicians — contrary to what you might cynically assume — try not to lie for the sake of lying.
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However cynically bottom-line driven, the big studios seem to be increasingly diversifying their product beyond just varying genre.
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But be warned: You will eventually—sadly, listlessly, and cynically, as the rules of adulthood require—tire of it.
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How can America be great again when a Socialist dictatorship cynically arrests our citizens and holds them without trial?
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When a recession hits, it's somewhat similar to stocks being on sale, depending on how cynically you view economics.
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And some complaints, more cynically, simply seek to discredit reporting that may prove unflattering or damaging to certain interests.
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Five years ago the Americans making money in Ukraine were, like Paul Manafort, mostly doing so cynically and quietly.
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Those who cynically and cruelly dismiss, disparage and spread disinformation about these young leaders are the poorer for it.
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Perhaps, more cynically, it hopes Iran will respond to noncertification by blatantly violating the JCPOA and provoking international opprobrium.
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Cynically underfund a great public service and then advertise only its failures, while ignoring its fundamental and irrefutable successes.
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" 'I told you so' has historically been quite good for the Lib Dems," points out one party member, somewhat cynically.
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Interpreted more cynically, it comes off as an attempt to give himself some credit for just how successful she's become.
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Some, more cynically, are called to provide a seal of legitimacy to something a government was going to do anyway.
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Aside from cynically betraying his marriage, he abused his position to gain influence over an intern who was his subordinate.
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Some Japanese deplore the "emperor system" and blame the United States for cynically preserving and manipulating it after the war.
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It's always a pity when an actor cynically sticks to what he knows will work and leaves it at that.
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Or was she a baseball flip-flopper, cynically falling in behind whichever team was more advantageous in an election year?
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Widely planted, often in the wrong places, cynically overcropped and overpriced, much merlot, particularly from California, was insipid at best.
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The character was created somewhat cynically but thanks to Williams' performance became a beloved part of the Star Wars mythopia.
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Enough of craven politicians who kneel before the National Rifle Association and its cynically fundamentalist approach to the Second Amendment.
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The collusion narrative was cynically orchestrated to delegitimize Mr. Trump's presidency and keep his administration pinned back on its heels.
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Increasingly, though, I've come to the uncomfortable realization that this ethic that I hold so dear is being cynically manipulated.
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Perhaps, as one American editor somewhat cynically suggested, Ms. Jenner's fee scale for appearances does not include lifting a fork.
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It seems cynically designed to relieve city administrators — and the businesses that impact the city's water supply — of their responsibilities.
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Some members of Congress cynically believed the system of family preferences would preserve the white racial majority of the population.
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Only Letterman, once TV's leading advocate for cynically merry-minded shallowness, corresponds to 21st-century notions of the existentially profound.
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We can cynically conjecture that the Washington of today is not exactly what either man devoted their lives to preserving.
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One's survival, Jim and his adversaries cynically assert, depends on fashioning a framework as believable as it is self-serving.
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Cynically, Mr. Cohen predicts that students will game the new set of recommendations; by this logic, no meaningful change is possible.
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Then it's even worse: He's lulling people into a false sense of security, cynically aping French traditions while remaining unbearably other.
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Some reporters and sources close to Kushner and Trump have viewed maneuvering from their camp cynically — and have since the campaign.
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Rubio has speciously and cynically claimed that the Orlando massacre called him to leave his plow and return to public life.
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The closer we move toward the 2020 election, the more the Democrats risk looking cynically political by launching a belated investigation.
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More broadly, the British people are bitter that their leaders allowed the UK to be cynically used by George W. Bush.
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Which is to ask, cynically, which Sanders is the more electable: the Eurocratic redistributionist, or the Ashkenazi son of the commandments?
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No matter how he phrases his denial, Mr. Foster sounds about as convincing a used-car salesman cynically peddling a clunker.
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But the internet makes it easier to create the illusion of a widespread consumer insurgency or otherwise cynically manipulate this tendency.
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The international community can decide, cynically but not illogically, that the country's crisis is too dangerous to be left to Venezuelans.
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Second, and perhaps more cynically thanks to capitalism, offering free services is a way to pipeline eventual customers down the road.
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Max Baucus and other Democratic senators spent months fruitlessly negotiating with Republicans, who, it is obvious in retrospect, were cynically stalling.
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It not only cynically disregards the most basic principles of due process, it also shows partiality, which violates the senators' oath.
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It's hard not to cynically presume that was the director's intention: Appeal to more progressive audiences without alienating the conservative ones.
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" He added that the administration was trying to "cynically pit 800,43 Dreamers against the rest of the 11 million undocumented immigrants.
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People use the manipulation of concepts like love, and hope and prosperity very cynically to get people to get on board.
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In his poetic terms, sometimes treated cynically in today's South Africa, Mbeki's speech was aimed at bringing together a fractured nation.
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All three stories crumbled upon contact with the barest scrutiny, embarrassing the outlets and politicians that credulously or cynically promoted them.
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But the thing is the confusion of the left is being cynically gamed by people who are actually none-too-closeted theocrats.
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Cynically, you could argue that any of these recent actions is symbolic, and that Obama is just trying to pad his legacy.
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To its secular critics, religion is a method of playing cynically on deep human fears: fear of death, loss, calamity, social exclusion.
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More cynically, a league in crisis might not want to fork over cash to have its flaws highlighted and its credibility tarnished.
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Despite this dim view, it's a mistake to see Christmas movies as little more than intentionally—one might say cynically—sentimental rubbish.
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Rather, it laughs maniacally at both sides, cynically acknowledging that all the people we trust to save us have abandoned this ship.
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High-profile employers are responding to this criticism cynically, at best, by agreeing to eliminate mandatory arbitration only for #MeToo-type claims.
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A first step would be to cast our ballots to reject those politicians cynically responsible for undermining the institutions of our democracy.
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It is offensive to the ears to hear Biden, or Hillary Clinton, cynically co-opt revolutionary rhetoric to sell these miserly ideas.
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To address this problem less cynically, we should explicitly include a second dimension to our affirmative action efforts, based on economic status.
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"I sometimes cynically say, 'The drug certainly does not work in blacks when blacks don't get prescribed the drug,'" Dr. Brawley said.
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Most of my friends cynically deride Mr. Trump's slogan, Make America Great Again, citing all that was wrong in the olden days.
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Politician and special interest group pledges with no technical or commercial pathways are what we have become cynically numb to these days.
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"Creep" became the stuff of alt-radio legend, warmly suicidal and cynically tuned into early-nineties vogue, at once brutal and pitiable.
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He was sighted in Utah trying to draw attention to himself by cynically tooting the Democratic dog whistle, calling Trump a racist.
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In 2016 conservatives cynically embraced a man who shared neither their values nor convictions in relentless pursuit of a right-wing agenda.
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"This is a most serious incident, cynically exploiting the immunity and additional privileges extended to foreign representatives to Israel," the agency said.
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"Somehow, all the same things they applauded me for as a millennial, as a female entrepreneur, were now viewed very cynically as opportunistic."
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And some of it has worked just as cynically as they had hoped, with spineless Democrats like Nancy Pelosi denouncing the anti-fascists.
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Even her gleefully sociopathic American Hustle character was someone who cynically exploited those bridges to pull over better cons on her various marks.
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Thus Antitrust was born — a convoluted thriller that, looking back, is both cynically conspiratorial and surprisingly optimistic about the future of Big Tech.
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Do they still have a long way to go in terms of understanding this company and perhaps also viewing it a bit cynically?
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A supermajority required for legislation that could threaten one community has been cynically used by both sides to block measures they merely dislike.
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Somehow, all the same things they applauded me for as a millennial, as a female entrepreneur, were now viewed very cynically as opportunistic.
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Some accused the group of cynically hijacking the demonstrations to serve its own purposes, while still also using young men as cannon fodder.
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And citizens are furious — rightly furious — at a political establishment that cynically breaks its promises and that ignores the will of the people.
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By cynically piggybacking on this story to push his own pet issue, Paul is not only feeding into, but legitimizing, Trump's conspiracy-mongering.
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After a few hours in Theme Hospital's world, I was cynically cutting back on the heat and lining the walls with soda machines.
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More cynically, it is not clear to me that a finding of collusion would have persuaded congressional Republicans to break with the president.
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Mr. Trump cynically cast aside his earlier pro-gun-control position and successfully pandered this year for the group's endorsement during the primaries.
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She and her party have been cynically stoking the passions of the mob because they lack the constitutional power to move their agenda.
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The social networks are not going to do it for us, and our political parties are happy to cynically ride on their backs.
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White House deputy spokesman Raj Shah said responsibility for the deaths "rests squarely with Hamas" which "is intentionally and cynically provoking this response".
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At the same time, too much personality—or what is now often cynically referred to as "personal brand"—can hurt your subscriber numbers.
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Or, cynically, it's Facebook's effort to suck the next billion people of the world who don't have access to the internet into Facebook.
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Political motives -- cynically justified in the name of economics and efficiency -- are overruling science, with wildlife experts excluded from the decision-making process.
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So now corporate entities are cynically encouraging women to engage in beauty and fitness routines to become better people, not more attractive ones.
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Does the irrational conflict between the Jets and the Sharks have a contemporary stage including an honest broker that cynically favors one side?
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" The playwright and TV writer he lived with for a dozen years, Jon Robin Baitz, says: "He's incapable of cynically settling for something.
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They remind us all today of the threat to American values from cynically manufactured fear and the deliberate targeting of a vulnerable minority.
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Cutting off the flow of unaccounted tax dollars to an underperforming, bloated school system that is cynically betraying children should be seriously considered.
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These bills are also cynically drawing directly on real concerns from the disability community, which has dealt with a long legacy of eugenics.
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"I think anyone who makes this about jobs versus the environment is cynically using the workers to avoid talking about air quality," he said.
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And the fact that they have been offered so cynically and aggressively guarantees that the Senate will never be the same after this week.
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Because these characters are almost certainly returning for more movies down the line, audiences could come to regard the deaths in Infinity War cynically.
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For seven years, the GOP establishment knowingly and cynically rode the anti-Obama tiger, feeding the beast with a steady diet of red meat.
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Sure, not all the content that's fishing for children's eyeballs on YouTube is so cynically constructed as to simply consist of keyword search soup.
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Cynically, if you're riding with a bunch of other carpoolers, it does theoretically reduce the likelihood of a Ted Bundy-esque hitchhiking nightmare scenario.
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The U.N. aid chief, reporting to the security council last year, said this was "deliberately and cynically" designed to cause more suffering among civilians.
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Our liberal culture is one of the best things about being European, but it also hinders us in fighting those who cynically exploit it.
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And so the chorus of disappointment has started now that the report has been released to the Senate, cynically synthesized as "bullshit" by Sen.
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Yet the President has cynically chosen to contravene a bipartisan, bicameral vote of the Congress and perpetuate America's shameful involvement in this heartbreaking crisis.
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To Ellison's supporters — largely from the Bernie Sanders wing of the party — these attacks looked like ugly smears cynically deployed to derail their candidate.
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In one small community off the Grand Bassa Highway, Mary Gaye, 44, a women's leader, cassava farmer and coal seller, spoke cynically about politicians.
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So, viewed somewhat cynically from the perspective of strict Mexican national interests, the four-pillar plan has inconveniences for Mexico but also many advantages.
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These wines often achieve their low pricing by using grapes grown in the wrong places, where it is easy to farm cheaply and cynically.
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Mr. Grillo's Five Star Movement has proved effective in opposition, cynically praising Mr. Putin and Mr. Trump while criticizing Europe, vaccines and global trade.
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Although the Thursday letter will surely be deemed a cynically partisan move by those on the left, the lawmakers attempted to address those criticisms.
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He went on social media to ridicule the intern's mischievous allegations, accusing the opposition of cynically exploiting the child for its own dirty tricks.
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It's cynically exploited by businesses for ad-supported "fake news," by scammers raising money online, and by authoritarian governments to spread hate and fear.
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In a statement, the Israeli military accused Hamas of "cynically exploiting women and children, sending them to the security fence and endangering their lives".
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"Children are being cynically exploited with the promise of money, drugs, status and affection," said Nick Roseveare, head of The Children's Society, in a statement.
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It has been cynically deployed to close down overt presence of Cubanidad and Latinidad of Felix's work, cutting off our senses of brown within it.
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"If enacted, it will establish some measure of accountability for those that cynically sell advertising but are unprepared to help curtail sex trafficking," Glueck said.
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But while Girls expertly conveyed the whirling existentialism of 'adulting,' its four central characters' immaturity was framed cynically rather than mined as pure comedic gold.
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The separatist side "more and more cynically and brazenly is increasing both the intensity and density of its firing," Motuzyanyk said in a televised briefing.
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Lacey and Larkin remain convinced that the furor over sex ads is a moral panic, irrational and hysterical, cynically stoked by politicians and law enforcement.
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"(W)hen you call something 'trickle down,' that's a pejorative phrase designed to cynically look at what we are trying to do here," he said.
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But, predictably, a lot of bad rosé is also out there, wine made cheaply and cynically to sell quickly before it withers in the bottle.
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"More cynically, it helps Abe capitalize on rising popularity in the wake of the North Korea crisis," echoed Rob Carnell, head of ING's Asia research.
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Tribalism is alive and well, and the current occupant of the Oval Office has cynically harnessed the "energy" from that divide for partisan political purpose.
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This is why the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association president, Patrick Lynch, blasted Bloomberg in November when he cynically apologized so that he could run for president.
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But let's not pretend companies haven't cynically exploited this loophole for ages, which lets CD Projekt RED's announcement seem like a benevolent god showing grace.
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Since Christmas, President Donald Trump has been cynically using homelessness as a political cudgel to attack blue-state Democrats who are making his life difficult.
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When I last spoke with him, over the phone, I got the sense that birthing an entire generation of cynically made movies weighed on him.
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Unfortunately, people have cynically seized on this confrontation to divert attention from the conversation we need to be having about anti-Muslim bigotry and white supremacy.
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The problem that I had with Tucker Carlson is he's cynically playing the victimhood form of populism, something I never thought I'd hear a conservative do.
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You could look at this cynically—argue that the odor of the internet is so strong nowadays that people can no longer use their senses properly.
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In June the court's four liberals and Anthony Kennedy ruled that Texan regulations, cynically designed to close down many of the state's abortion clinics, were unconstitutional.
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The videos feature dadaist half-plots that an actual child might create, but they're mass-produced and trend-focused in a way that seems cynically commercial.
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What looks obvious now is that the PIE was cynically trying to conflate the campaign for sexual freedom between consenting adults with the exploitation of minors.
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Two years later, Proposition 22019, cynically entitled "California Civil Rights Initiative," banned all affirmative action by state agencies, including in college admissions, passed by popular vote.
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Cynically, this is a story that could easily be floated as a test to see if the Harry Potter franchise still has some juice in it.
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Political bullies in religious robes are an unedifying spectacle but counter-argument is surely a better response than reviving and toughening old and cynically conceived laws.
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They can also cynically continue to blame Obamacare for whatever horrible things are happening in the market, claiming it has nothing to do with their legislation.
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Any honest observer has to ask whether the truth about Clinton's corporate fiefdom, cynically masked with the trappings of a charity, should sink her presidential ambitions.
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Like Trump, Johnson brilliantly and cynically played to older, white voters and rode a wave of xenophobia, anti-elitist, anti-immigrant, they're-taking-what's-ours begrudging.
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Many felt that Western ideas like liberalism, secularism and freedom of speech had been used cynically against them to maintain the power of a cultural oligarchy.
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Many here view state government cynically (and state politicians often give them good reason to do so), so Moore stands out for them in that respect.
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Or, more cynically, it's a gentle end-run around attention-deficit viewers: Episodes are over almost before you can click the back button on your browser.
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There were demonstrations in late 2011 after parliamentary elections, and in 2012 when Putin cynically returned to the presidency after swapping with seat-warmer Dmitry Medvedev.
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" Stories like Wilkins's, Oriard added, "are confirmation that this ideal that we've clung to for a long time — skeptically or cynically or unconsciously — is still alive.
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The Pole remains cynically detached from politics throughout; the movie's real villain is the murderous American dandy played by Jack Palance in a curly black hairpiece.
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It's prompted several prominent U.S. senators to (sometimes cynically) weigh in, and opened the door to larger, more probing questions about American and Chinese business relationships.
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Unless federal, state and local governments take decisive action, e-cigarette companies will continue to cynically market their candy, fruit and dessert-flavored products to teens.
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Instead, legislative stagnation is cynically defended by those who benefit from it with an unconvincing invocation of the rigors of our system of checks and balances.
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"It's good to be king / Of your own little town … Can I help it if I / Still dream time to time," he cynically sang of self-delusion.
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Its pavements were slick with blood from daily gangland killings, plus the "encounters" in which the police became adept: extra-judicial executions, cynically presented as shoot-outs.
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Either the author of the aforementioned piece was cynically using the joke to stoke the fears of elderly conservatives, or else he is just a fucking idiot.
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Celebrities have displayed, some might cynically suggest performed, public friendships (and feuds) for much of Hollywood history, and celebrities in Hollywood have been grouped in the past.
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It would be one thing if the Senate had 67 Democrats, and the president could claim, cynically or not, that impeachment was some sort of political coup.
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Republicans seem to be realizing it, and they're trying to quietly cash in -- or, perhaps more accurately, cynically deploy a few strategic women to their own benefit.
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Or they could demonstrate that the party remains divided, weak, and hesitant — and that the GOP has plenty of room to continue cynically slow-walking the issue.
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Removing Kavanaugh would require two-thirds of the Senate, and—thinking cynically—impeachment would reopen a debate that is far from a clear political winner for Democrats.
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Mr. Spacey cynically chose this moment to announce that he is gay in a bid to spin a harrowing assault tale into a heartwarming coming-out one.
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President Trump and other top Republicans cynically understand that they are helped by images showing large groups of immigrants hoping to enter the United States without documentation.
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Within those cynically defined contemporary parameters, Youngblood Priest (Trevor Jackson, dressed to the nines and sporting what one character derides as "Morris Day hair") is doing well.
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In cynically promising the resurgence of King Coal, Mr. Trump might as well have been signing a decree that the whaling industry was being restored to Nantucket.
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As recently as November, they cynically boycotted an informal public United Nations Security Council meeting on Venezuela, arguing that the Security Council had no business getting involved.
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That would be an enormous propaganda victory for the CCP, which could then claim, cynically, that each country's tech giants are equally dependent instruments of monolithic powers.
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"I think Trump used this example somewhat cynically as a way of trying to advance the deregulatory agenda," said Dr. Aaron Kesselheim, a researcher at Harvard Medical School.
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This fear plagued my mind—a fear that they might think I was cynically using my illness to benefit myself, or that I am oversharing something very private.
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Politicizing this shared legacy and turning it into a cynically misused political tool will undermine the very foundations of Western democracy, a goal Putin actively strives to achieve.
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Now, with this report, the word also will seal its definition in America's dictionary of politics as code for human tragedy, cynically -- if unsuccessfully -- exploited for political gain.
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Or, more cynically, will Washington keep Romar around just long enough to avoid both a pricey buyout and the risk of losing a likely one-and-done star?
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In his play, Juha cynically tricks his friends to vote for him, only to ignore them once they've lifted him into the branches of a fertile apple tree.
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A healthy voting system is needed more than ever, particularly as Donald Trump is cynically telling voters the process may be rigged (unless, of course, he's the winner).
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Cynically mocked as the "Maduro diet"—named after current president Nicolas Maduro, the successor of Hugo Chavez—Venezuelans have increasingly been unable to feed themselves and their families.
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That decision limited the bill's generosity and opened up devastating lines of attack that Republicans used, cynically but effectively, to portray themselves as defenders of Medicare in 2010.
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But each time, he and millions of Ukrainians became disillusioned as the leaders they helped put into power turned out to be as cynically rapacious as their predecessors.
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Howard Schultz, the former Starbucks C.E.O., who is contemplating a Presidential run, called the proposal "ridiculous" and accused Warren of cynically using a sensational idea to generate headlines.
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We are outraged that highly addictive e-cigarette products have been cynically or illegally targeted at teens, hiding the health risks behind flavors like fruit, mint and menthol.
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Research has shown that an inability to judge content leads to two equally unfortunate outcomes: People believe everything that suits their preconceived notions, or they cynically disbelieve everything.
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Another shopper, Nyasha Domboka, 23, spoke cynically about a truckful of maize meal, also known as mealie meal, that he had just seen in the depot parking lot.
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The president attacks judges on Twitter, Democrats scheme to pack the Supreme Court with justices, and commentators cynically question the legitimacy of federal judges with whom they disagree.
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But to win elections, the forces engaged in this push cynically appealed to darker impulses – racism first and foremost, but also culture war, anti-intellectualism, and so on.
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The hopeless opposite would be to suggest that we are incapable of trudging through the muck, or, even more cynically, to pretend there is no muck, he added.
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Some are cynically confusing legitimate efforts to hold a rule-breaking president to account with the hostility of left-leaning voters and activists, including violent extremists like Mr Hodgkinson.
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With hardly a glance at the politics driving events, it portrays not so much political ideas gone wrong as political naivete turned into a weapon by the cynically ambitious.
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It also feels, less cynically, like a gift to the duo's fans, a last chance to cuddle up with Fisher and Reynolds in an intimate setting before moving on.
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It's unclear if Time's Up is cynically reacting to the blowback it received for the black gowns, or if the initiative is simply evolving into other forms of protest.
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Labour's position on the topic—that it would seek to "retain the benefits" of both the single market and the customs union—is either cynically slippery or simply confused.
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Google makes a big chunk of moolah off its ad business, so cynically speaking, it doesn't have a huge incentive to make things easy for third-party ad blockers.
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Nobody was more guilty of using kid gloves than Cruz, who cynically brown-nosed Trump until the race finally winnowed and pitted the two of them against one another.
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What we have now is a cynically politicized process filled with players who don't really care that much about protecting the environment as they do about scoring political points.
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Then again, Edinburgh—and indeed, Greyfriars Kirkyard—has form when it comes to pandering fantastical bullshit to tourists, cynically exploited by local business owners, and indulged by the press.
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As for why Pop Sirens opted to run this decidedly non-celebrity-news tweet, well, it's a toss-up between being hoaxed themselves or cynically hoping to garner #engagement.
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GM, Fiat Chrysler, Toyota and other members of the cynically named "Coalition for Sustainable Automotive Regulation" chose to side with the Trump administration's efforts to gut existing environmental standards.
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Festival Season—unlike Hunting Season or Ski Seasons, which were cynically cooked up by capitalists to sell rifles and raclette respectively—is the most important time of the year.
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If the Trump White House thinks they're getting someone competent, even if they are cynically looking for a fixer who can cover up scandal, they've made a bad hire.
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His party cynically tried to add language against abortion into a sensible House bill to fund economic relief for families and businesses impacted by the coronavirus on March 12.
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While we have seen leaders cynically throw gas on simmering conflict, the underlying social and political tension can often be traced to economic, demographic, and cultural changes sweeping America.
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Frank Bowman, a constitutional-law professor at the University of Missouri School of Law, called McConnell&aposs move "cynically Machiavellian" and a partisan manipulation of Senate norms and rules.
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On the contrary, Mr. Trump serves a movement that will cynically praise the Constitution in order to destroy it, and of which Mr. Barr has made himself a hero.
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Every year, Apple tries to cook up a holiday commercial that will move us and, perhaps more cynically, warm us to the thought of spending substantial money on Apple gear.
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Still, Foer has retained his sure ear for language, as well as his endearingly earnest belief that it is worth thinking about big questions rather than cynically tossing them aside.
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D'Angelo says that he admired YouTube's swift response to creator outcry about its new verification policy, and everyone said they understand that YouTube is not cynically sabotaging its own creators.
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Trump kicked off his litany of media attacks Tuesday by accusing reporters of cynically turning what should have been a positive story about his charitable work into a negative one.
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Cynically, you could view this as Apple doubling down on its Apple Authorized Service Provider program, instead of truly giving customers complete freedom in picking who they'll pay for repairs.
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To put it cynically: In a post-truth world, universal democratic values such as free speech and artistic freedom can also be perceived as political interests, rather than inherent values.
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Lyft's "friends with transit" policy could be viewed cynically as a way to win favor with regulators, but last-mile trends are also playing out with smaller on-demand vehicles.
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In theory, Trump is making an effort (however cynically motivated) to reach out to African-Americans and LGBTQ Americans, two groups that haven't been particularly fond of the Republican Party.
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East Germans seeking refuge from the cynically implausible Heile Welt offered by communism retreated to "the niches": private book readings among intellectuals, or nude bathing with friends by pristine lakes.
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Where it gets tricky is that studios are cynically trying to co-opt the moment, hoping that the same broken system that resulted in #OscarsSoWhite will reward them next year.
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David Rieff, the author of "In Praise of Forgetting", argues that the commemoration of past wrongs can become a moral cudgel, cynically weaponised over and over again for political ends.
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And then, cynically and brutally, the game unravels all of the brilliant setup that it's done around race in order to make the stakes that much more real or serious.
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Trump has acted very cynically in exploting these legitimate concerns of the electorate for his own benefit and in the process has stirred up a lot of division and racism.
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Was he a liberal Republican—who still talks about witnessing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington as a young Senate intern—who cynically adapted to changing circumstances?
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All of this analysis assumes, cynically, that the best way to get you angry is to tell you that poor, dark skin people might get something that betters their lives.
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I have heard it said, rather cynically, that we can't know for sure whether the green ray appears in "The Green Ray," or whether it is only in Delphine's mind.
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The House and Senate tax bills probably would provide a tiny lift to the economy for a couple years — enough, supporters no doubt hope, for them to cynically claim success.
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But the Sansa-Arya-Baelish triangle also symbolizes the way political self-interest cynically preys on the nobler intentions of those who really would like to make a better world.
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And despite charges that they are cynically jeopardizing national unity, the ultra-Orthodox believe genuinely that their conduct is what actually guarantees the security of Israel and the Jewish people.
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Like most of these new alternatives, it has cynically borrowed a cause — it calls itself a site that ''stands for free speech absolutism'' — that the more mainstream platforms borrowed first.
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While Congresswoman Wilson wildly and cynically overstates the similarities between the Niger and Benghazi attacks, she is not the only one who is playing politics with the more recent incident.
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In particular, one party, the Republicans, spent the past decade with egregiously and cynically un-implementable promises about shrinking the federal government and repealing Obamacare, when they should have known better.
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Cynically, the answer could be yes, but these single men are ostensibly going on the show to find love, and they understand that they'll be meeting lots of different potential partners.
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And it's why Mark Zuckerberg has been crisscrossing the country on a listening tour that many people cynically assume is the start to a run for president, despite the CEO's denials.
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Smear tactics and cynically spun counter-narratives are also of course the bread and butter of murky interest groups seeking to manipulate public opinion without disclosing their actual agenda (and funders).
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Given Leica's willingness to cynically rebrand (and then overprice) Panasonic cameras, I have to be dubious about the value of this partnership until either company discloses some substantive benefits from it.
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" The co-founder of the disruptive start-up One Big Switch, Lachlan Harris, told me more cynically, "We just want to make sure there's something for us when WE need it.
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Both of these arguments are red herrings, cynically setting up alternative futures, designed to create a culture of fear and intimidate people into defending the status quo power of Big Tech.
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That particular TUF season was also a dud in the sense its main purpose, cynically speaking, was to promote the two coaches' light heavyweight bout at UFC 175 in July, 2014.
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"Hamas of course bear principle responsibility as their operatives have cynically exploited the protests and we are clear that Israel has the right to self-defense," Britain's ambassador Julian Braithwaite said.
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Macron told ministers in a cabinet meeting on Tuesday the Italian government had acted cynically and irresponsibly in its refusal to welcome the Aquarius, according to French government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux.
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The consuming battle to rule Westeros — the "game" cynically named as such by the villainous Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) — is precisely what kept the continent from uniting to face this threat.
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Or, more cynically, given Keanu Reeves' recent current run of pop-culture hype (specifically, the popularity of John Wick 3 and his viral "breathtaking" E3 appearance), it's possible both Warner Bros.
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However clumsy Mr. Zelensky appeared in the role of a Trump appeaser, it was not his or Ukraine's fault that Mr. Trump tried so cynically to bend them to his schemes.
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Responsibility for the violence on Monday rested "squarely with Hamas," said Raj Shah, a White House spokesman, for "intentionally and cynically provoking" Israel by urging Palestinians to storm the border fence.
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"Now, Republicans will cynically point to the dip in enrollment they caused, declare the Affordable Care Act broken and move to steal the affordable health coverage of every American," she said.
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Too bad, because it's a spellbinding tale of political hubris — Mr. Christie cynically shifting roles from tough-talking rival of Donald Trump to fawning acolyte after Mr. Christie's own candidacy failed.
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In a country where citizens disagree on even the most basic interpretation of Mr. Erdogan's actions — is he desperately defending a country under siege or cynically maneuvering to seize more power?
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But national ones have moved towards the American model, by soliciting donations from private and corporate donors—"a way for the rich to launder their souls", as one director cynically puts it.
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His base, seeing Beijing respond politically and cynically – China's retaliatory tariffs target exports from regions that are home to Trump voters – will understand, helped along by low unemployment and a growing economy.
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I've been coming to Mobile World Congress for close to a decade now, and I've never seen the iPhone copied quite so blatantly and cynically as I witnessed during this year's show.
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At a time when HTC has cynically fallen in line with other iPhone copycat makers, it's heartening to see others like Xiaomi putting the strength of their convictions behind their latest devices.
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But the historic value and recognition of this brand should not be cynically dismissed — there's still a chance for Yahoo to come back if it starts doing more things right than wrong.
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President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin have not commented on the standoff with the opposition, but Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, a Putin ally, has condemned the protests as cynically orchestrated mass disorder.
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In April, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi accused Trump of cynically attempting "to ignite anti-immigrant fervor" after the administration announced a plan to deploy National Guard troops to the southern border.
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With respect, the Left does not get to cynically play to identity politics when it benefits them to do so and run away from those positions when they highlight unpleasant philosophical inconsistencies.
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He can order Secretary of State Michael Pompeo to tighten adjudicatory criteria to require additional documentation that is cynically calculated to be impossible to find as a way of stalling "suspect" applications.
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We can even deliver to Vladimir Putin a list of citizens of Ukraine who in the near future will be very uncomfortable in the country they cynically plundered using their high positions.
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" And the one for Aries, while technically presented as a positive, is still framed incredibly cynically: "You will dance on your enemy's grave this week, finishing third in the grave-dancing contest.
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"Hamas is intentionally and cynically provoking this response and as the secretary of State said, Israel has a right to defend itself," White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah said on Monday.
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Whether arm-twisting the competition or lighting a fire under the patrician Corning, she is the model of the cynically uncynical type who makes no distinction between dirty politics and true belief.
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But for the United States to demand that her murder be solved while cynically enabling the corrupt politics behind it makes it more likely that hers will not be the last killing.
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"They cynically enjoy superiority by imagining the victims groaning, and do not feel any remorse," professor Susumu Oda, a mental health specialist at Tsukuba University northeast of Tokyo, said at the time.
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One of the trickiest cases was in February 2008 when Iraqi officials claimed that a bomber in Baghdad had Down syndrome, and that her condition had been cynically exploited by terrorist handlers.
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That last question led him into a story about lobbying in California for a bill to crack down on companies that exploit students with debt and finding that legislators viewed it cynically.
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It's easy to view "The Call of the Wild" cynically: There goes Hollywood again, sanding the edges off a beloved novel — this time about the human-canine bond — to create disposable entertainment.
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But it is being cynically manipulated by the "sharing" or "trust" economy — where we trade homes, cars or belongings through third-party administrators such as Airbnb — in ways that threaten our privacy.
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Sessions' attack on cannabis patients cynically hurts the very people who so enthusiastically sent this administration to Washington, the ones Democrats and Republicans in West Virginia came together to try to protect.
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To cynically pretend that athletes are being offered an education when, in fact, they are simply being herded past whatever standards we all expect of legitimate universities is fraud, plain and simple.
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The modern NFL is made mostly of various kinds of shit—on-field shit, off-field shit, shitty injuries, shitty quarterbacks, shitty sponsorships, cynically shitty medical studies, and usually pretty shitty games.
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But whether you interpret followership cynically or optimistically, it's a fact of political life in the US. And it may be a problem for a politician like Trump, whose follower base is dwindling.
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This is the result of such a close relationship between private prison companies and the government that hires them—are policies like the bed quota just cynically designed to make these businesses money?
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The prospect of a President Trump is indeed worrying, but after years of nativism and cynically pandering to the baser instincts of the masses, Mr Trump is the candidate the Republican Party deserves.
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It's time this question be asked and answered with an increase in Medicaid benefits and quality and a reversal of the cynically political process of just patronizing as many potential voters as possible.
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It was a critique rooted in a history of white women either genuinely not understanding or, more cynically, choosing not to understand their role in maintaining the racist infrastructure of the United States.
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Instead, his trade team appears to cynically view Section 28500 — and the pretext of national security — as a convenient loophole to impose the tariffs that Trump has been clamoring for since his election.
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Sully isn't cut along the cynically frayed lines of assorted current screen heroes, with their nihilism lite and butchery, nor does he fit the existential mode, the man in revolt, like Jason Bourne.
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Then you look up toward the end of your second term to behold a Republican presidential nominee who is cynically exploiting racism and xenophobia to put the White House within his own reach.
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"The perpetrators of this barbaric act cynically and cowardly targeted a wedding, killing dozens and leaving scores wounded," said Ned Price, a spokesman for the White House National Security Council, in a statement.
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By the strictest definition, an October surprise is news specifically (and cynically) timed by one side or another to sway an election, with evidence that it changed voters' minds and moved the polls.
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She's either knowingly and cynically spreading political poison or is so lost inside the paranoid, alternative reality of "Trumpworld" that she believes there's something to the notion that Hillary Clinton is a murderer.
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" Mr. Trump has "astutely but cynically played the polarization card," something Mr. Baker judges to be the "most irresponsible and destructive course of action taken by any major political figure in American history.
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As BuzzFeed News reported earlier this year, individuals outside of the United States make a lot of money by cynically churning out totally fabricated news catering to extreme partisans — Trump supporters in particular.
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But Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, said allegations of Russian involvement were "bogus" and that his illness was being cynically used to escalate an anti-Russian campaign in Britain.
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Chinese officials cynically believe—and will say in private—that Western leaders and envoys raise human rights out of a sense of reluctant obligation, in order to placate activists and public opinion back home.
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"Either Trump is paving the way for a trade deal later this month, or he's cynically driving up equity indices ahead of U.S. mid-term elections," said Kit Juckes, a strategist at Societe Generale.
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If we're serious about addressing ingrained inequality, from schools to prisons to workplaces, Americans will need to trust government to make reforms, and support the kind of leadership we've come to view so cynically.
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Since Helsinki, I think the administration has decided to project strength in a serious way, and I don&apost mean this cynically, but to remind people of how many good things it&aposs doing.
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"The space barons are shrewdly — one might say cynically — tapping into our respect for astronauts and our idealism about what space represents," New Yorker writer Ceridwen Dovey wrote in a piece published last year.
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Mr. Carter feared that the accord would reveal too much to the Russians about American targeting intelligence, and argued that Moscow was cynically dragging out the process in President Obama's final months in office.
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Production houses cynically and hypocritically capitalized on the situation by hiring back these writers for a fraction of what they had earned previously, on the condition that their work be attributed to other people.
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Human rights groups described these as trumped-up charges, staging a situation in which Maduro was likely to cynically use Holt's jailing as a bargaining chip for opening lines of communication with U.S. officials.
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" Lawyers for Ford said in a statement that "senators claiming to want a dignified debate should not repeat lies constructed by the Judiciary Committee that were cynically designed to win support for Judge Kavanaugh.
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Because of the destructive game played most cynically, and with the greatest indifference to judicial integrity, by Mr. McConnell, the notion of jurists as unbiased umpires in robes has become, for now, dangerously naïve.
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Joe Biden may actually believe he's a Bartlet pair, all the way down to the initials; or he may be cynically seeking to fly "West Wing" nostalgia all the way to the White House.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili tendered his resignation as governor of Ukraine's southern Odessa region on Monday, accusing President Petro Poroshenko of cynically obstructing his attempts at reform and supporting corrupt clans.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin dismissed as absurd on Tuesday allegations it was behind the hacking of U.S. Democratic Party emails, saying unidentified individuals were trying to cynically exploit fear of Russia for electoral purposes.
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When Elisabeth and a group of women are led into a gas chamber (in real life she was starved to death), the movie focuses a woman with Down's syndrome to cynically ramp up the tragedy.
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" Foster's sister was not impressed, writing in an op-ed that the comments were "cruel" and accusing Trump of "cynically, crassly and recklessly insinuated that my brother, Vincent W. Foster Jr., may have been murdered.
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To look at it cynically, marketing these products without the focus on age is a savvy and diabolical way to get younger women to buy more, while also subtly feeding them an anti-aging agenda.
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Furthermore, the UN has clearly become a political entity, drifting further and further away from the principles of its charter; an entity cynically controlled by those uninterested in steering it back to its founding values.
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That feeling, or something like it—the yearning for mastery, or, more cynically, the yearning for the illusion of mastery—has helped make a basically nerdy series from a basically nerdy publishing house impressively popular.
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Maybe he's cynically trying to rally his base with this "very winning, strong issue for me," as he told Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones in a phone call earlier this year, according to a deposition.
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In March this year, a damning report by the British government's Digital Culture Media and Sport select committee said that the team had cynically abused the anti-doping system by using therapeutic-use exemption certificates.
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Many producers try to slake that rosé thirst with cynically made pink wines that have the life span of a tsetse fly before they fade away like the Cheshire Cat, leaving only the marketer's smile.
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"It appears as though oil interests are cynically trying to gin up support in Congress for the weakest possible standards to ensure that cars and SUVs have to rely on even more oil," he said.
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He will cynically exploit Biden's long, unsavory record as a legislator—his deep ties to the financial services industry, his role in unpopular crime and trade bills—to try to dampen enthusiasm for his candidacy.
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The Arkansas law, cynically entitled the Abortion-Inducing Drug Safety Act, would leave only one of the state's three abortion clinics in business because the other two, operated by Planned Parenthood, offer only medication abortions.
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Or was he instead looking for personal gain and, in the case of the Bidens, cynically seeking to engineer a basis to be able to call his political rival "corrupt" on the 2020 campaign trail?
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If enacted, it will establish some measure of accountability for those that cynically sell advertising but are unprepared to help curtail sex trafficking," and"[f]rankly, we are stunned you must even have this debate.
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Nevertheless, Northam's words about a proposed change to Virginia abortion law — one with no chance of passing — have been grossly and cynically mischaracterized by the right in the service of ginning up a moral panic.
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Not only was the plan roundly criticized by net neutrality advocates, who argued that Facebook was cynically mainlining its brand and products to people without other options, but regulators in India effectively blocked it in 2016.
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They say the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP, which reigns in Assam as well as in Delhi, India's capital) has cynically designed it to rally its Hindu-nationalist base in advance of next year's general election.
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These can be upgrades, costumes or weapons for their in-game characters, or (more cynically) a lottery-style "loot box" whose contents are unknown in advance, but might prove valuable enough to resell to other players.
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Watch: 18 charts that explain gun violence in America It's always been a little bit unclear to what extent anyone really does believe this as opposed to cynically peddling theories for partisan advantage or personal profit.
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The reign of King Bibi is thus a parable of modern politics: the rise of a talented politician and a long success based on a perplexing mixture of carrying out sound policy and cynically sowing division.
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If factory farming is an ugly product of the corporatization of American culture, so is the twisting of activist movements — from environmentalism to feminism to political ideologies — into corporate lingo, ideals cynically transformed into sales slogans.
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It's critical that we also make clear to the Venezuelan people that food, medicine and international humanitarian aid are ready to be delivered to them in their country, but their dictatorship cynically will not allow it.
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"Hamas is intentionally and cynically provoking this response," White House spokesman Raj Shah told reporters, adding the United States did not believe the opening of the embassy or the latest violence would affect its peace plan.
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Clearly it is not on the run — in part because a succession of Pakistani governments and the military have cynically used terrorist groups for their own purposes, encouraging them to act as proxy fighters against India.
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Nor is this to say that Iran and Saudi Arabia were the first or only countries to cynically exploit Sunni-Shia lines for political gain: Saddam Hussein did it too, and so have some Islamist groups.
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They are words that, however sincere, have come to seem routine — even cynically so, to some Americans who see in them an evasion of the gun-control debate — when American communities find themselves plunged into grief.
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"In merely delaying their suit, Republicans cynically continue to sow uncertainty in the health coverage of millions of Americans," said Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the House minority leader and an architect of the health law.
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" Which could, if you're cynically inclined, be read as Facebook dangling a carrot to governments — along the lines of: "We might be able to scratch your security itch, if your regulators don't break up our business.
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Human Rights Watch's director of terrorism and counterterrorism, Nadim Houry, said he did so "cynically, as a cover to prosecute peaceful critics and to revive the infamous [Hosni] Mubarak-era state security courts," the Associated Press reported.
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But the company once judged to have cynically copied Apple's iPhone design has exceeded all expectations this year: the 2017 version of Samsung's TouchWiz brings its software design right up to the high standard of its hardware.
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That they consistently decline to consider the most basic economic principles bespeaks either a profound ignorance of those principles or (perhaps more accurately, if more cynically) an acute awareness of what might be gained from their violation.
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But others, like Mr. Brown from New York, said it was a "farce" to say that African-Americans like Sheriff Clarke were being cynically used by Republicans to deliver stern rebukes to people of their own race.
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The man was quite simply in a Paul Potts biopic—the story of an unlikely opera singer who won Britain's Got Talent in 2007, perhaps the perfect synthesis of his cynically minded exploitation of the nation's heartstrings.
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But Booker's argument — that race is a superficial thing that is cynically deployed to divide Americans and distract them from their common interests — is really the argument Democrats from Lyndon Johnson through Barack Obama have long employed.
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But don't pretend you don't know that, when you go beyond constructive criticism and cynically try to rally negative sentiment toward the W.S.L., when you try to take us down, you are not just going after us.
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Where the editorial board and your recent article on Uber cynically see manipulation, participants in the gig economy see a unique opportunity to earn supplemental income while maintaining the freedom and flexibility to be their own boss.
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In the face of such a manufactured crisis, the Trump administration could cynically claim to be increasing Medicaid funding by offering governors a small fraction of the existing A.C.A. expansion back as part of a block grant.
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The fact that analysts are proposing such sum-of-parts methodology could be viewed cynically as a Wall Street maneuver to bolster estimates of the stocks' value, to sing the same bullish tune in a different key.
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I think the answer will depend on whether it's really possible for us to fall in love with characters that seem rather cynically designed to coast on the fumes of goodwill inspired by a wholly original show.
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Mr Fico shifts shape with the political wind, Czech voters are preparing to elect an agriculture tycoon, and the Polish and Hungarian governments cynically manipulate the EU's refugee crisis when they are not undermining their own countries' institutions.
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These include having a compelling vision and communicating it clearly and often; being proactive and change-oriented; appealing to followers' personal values; conveying optimism about future possibilities; and treating followers as human beings rather than cynically and manipulatively.
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"The [Bashar al] Assad regime has cynically allowed limited amounts of aid into Darayya and Muadhamiya but it has failed to deliver the widespread humanitarian access called for by the international community," said UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond.
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So hip-hop fans have become cynically accustomed to the ritual of stars serving brief sentences and then returning in a blitz of new music, in no case more so than that of Atlanta trap star Gucci Mane.
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What they'll find, should they be gullible enough to bite, is a thinly sketched out, wildly violent satire, one that rather cynically uses the current backdrop of partisan tribalism as the hook for an old-time exploitation piece.
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A more likely interpretation is that several of the coalition's members are prepared to play the politics of race, either cynically or as a matter of conviction, and that the rising prominence of One Nation has emboldened them.
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The saddest part of the danger being created by this policy is that, accidentally or cynically, it revives a trope that a globalized world ought to have discarded: that immigrants are dirty and dangerous and inherently embody risk.
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"Barr is cynically exploiting [child sexual abuse material] as a pretext for attacking the privacy of law-abiding Americans who would benefit from having secure communications tools," said Berin Szoka, president of the Washington-based think tank TechFreedom.
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Many Sanders voters see a cynically orchestrated hit piece by Warren or her allies to save her candidacy and hurt Sanders in the final stretch of the campaign, coming more than a year after the meeting took place.
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But no one looked more out of place than billionaire Tom Steyer, who, cynically gaming the DNC's system for debate qualifications, spent a staggering $47 million in the third quarter to goose his poll numbers enough to qualify.
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They will shamble on as a regional force, largely and ironically confined to the sorts of states and racist white former Dixiecrats that Richard Nixon cynically courted with his Southern in the aftermath of the Civil Rights act.
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Which, again, is what makes the evidence from this study so helpful: It offers reasons for both the conservative sincerely worried about voter fraud and the operative cynically hoping for lower Democratic turnout to let this issue slide.
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Cynically, you could see the decentralization of governance as Facebook's attempt to avoid regulation—though, multiple reports say Facebook has been in close contact with various banking regulators, including the U.S. Treasury, Western Union, and the Bank of England.
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Recall that these are the same folks who last year cynically urged Democrats to oppose adjustment assistance for unemployed American workers—a Democratic priority since President Kennedy—in an unsuccessful, scorched-earth effort to defeat Trade Promotion Authority legislation.
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Paul Krugman So Republicans are going to nominate a candidate who talks complete nonsense on domestic policy; who believes that foreign policy can be conducted via bullying and belligerence; who cynically exploits racial and ethnic hatred for political gain.
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Israel's internal security service, the Shin Bet, said that Romain Franck, a French citizen, had "cynically exploited" lenient scrutiny of diplomatic vehicles to smuggle 70 pistols and two assault rifles on five trips from Gaza through the Erez crossing.
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For several months spanning the spring and summer, volunteers such as Garcia made up an unheralded network of care ensuring basic safeguards—food, security, and transportation—for migrants caught up in a cynically manufactured crisis at America's southern border.
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But Chris Spinato of Reverb, a U.S. non profit working to reduce the footprint of the music industry, said festivals do genuinely want to cut emissions - and risk a backlash for cynically using green schemes to gain cultural capital.
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In the past, if I told you the Democrats had nominated seven women for Congress you might have cynically assumed Pennsylvania had seven districts where the party was so outnumbered the Republicans would triumph if they nominated a collie.
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At the time they were running, Biden accused Giuliani, who had earned such high marks for managing New York City after 9/11 that he was nicknamed "America's mayor," of cynically using the tragedy for political gain years later.
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This is not necessarily done out of sinister intent, and it does not mean that Clinton and her team are cynically or even self-consciously allowing the rich to influence their thinking in exchange for campaign or charity donations.
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As vice president of the opposition coalition, Al-Jizawi was called a "revolutionary of the trenches" who offered an activist's perspective and lent credibility to a team cynically criticized as "hotel revolutionaries" detached from the struggles on the ground.
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"Even though the Farrow family is cynically using the opportunity afforded by the Time's Up movement to repeat this discredited allegation, that doesn't make it any more true today than it was in the past," Allen said in a statement.
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"Hamas continues to orchestrate belligerent activity throughout the Gaza Strip, cynically using Gazan civilians and endangering children by sending them to the security fence as a cover for terror activity," the Israeli military said in a statement that summarized Friday's events.
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Yet Thiel's speech wasn't used to advance the rights of the LGBTQ community, but to instead do what Republicans have long accused the Democrats of doing — to cynically exploit a person's identity in order to advance a regressive political agenda.
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Sadly, I experienced one of Morrissey's backhanded quips firsthand during a show at Radio City Music Hall in 2012, when he cynically relayed an anecdote to the audience about having finally found a cab driver in New York who "speaks English".
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"[D]o we worry that publishing an oped that leans this aggressively into our newfound position on Keystone will be greeted cynically and perhaps as part of some manufactured attempt to project sincerity?" spokesman Brian Fallon emailed to the group.
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Safran believes some in the Australian far right cynically latch onto mainstream issues to get media attention -- from the controversial Safe Schools program that aims to educate children about homophobia to fears that money raised in Halal certification supports terror groups.
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During this discussion, you have called me, and not through implication, not through something where you're reading in between the lines, you've called me a slanderer, a liar, intellectually dishonest, a bad-faith actor, cynically motivated by profit, defamatory, a libelist.
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But then if you're seeking to counter cynically disingenuous spin designed to deliberately skew the detail of the argument so as to avoid properly engaging with technical and moral complexity, well, you're entitled to be a little blunt in the rebuttal.
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Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski cynically dismissed concerns about reports that a migrant girl with Down syndrome had been separated from her mother at the southwest U.S. border as a result of the White House's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy.
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Another way to view this, more cynically, is to wonder aloud if the President doesn't realize or perhaps doesn't believe that many of those Democratic women were elected as a direct response to his own first two years in office.
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Rick Perry, Secretary of Energy While the others on this list have cynically used climate denial to earn their companies record profits or systematically dismantle and attack regulations, Rick Perry is uncomplicated, a caricature of standard Republican climate skepticism and denial.
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That's what I did, carefully and cynically choosing the easiest elective merit badges, like Pets ("Requirement 3: Present evidence that you have cared for a pet for four months") and Collections ("Requirement 2: Explain the growth and development of your collection").
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"While Egypt faces security threats, the government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has exploited these threats cynically as a cover to prosecute peaceful critics," Nadim Houry, director of terrorism and counterterrorism at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.
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Unlike Russia's state-run networks that cynically push disinformation to further Kremlin policy goals of undermining the West, the paper is delivering its own bespoke version of the truth—and has found an especially receptive audience for it in Germany.
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Before a court could decide that Mr. Trump had cynically declared an emergency under false pretenses, the court would first have to decide that the law permits judges to substitute their own thinking for the president's in such a matter.
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Bartholet argued that when the posture of Democratic senators is examined cynically, I just wonder how much credibility it has with Democrats openly talking about the need to do this so they could be in the superior position to the Republicans.
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In a year in which the Super Bowl halftime show has become a referendum on political mindfulness, in which the N.F.L. has become a staging ground for conversations about racial justice in America, Maroon 5 was a cynically apt choice.
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Similarly, reality TV series like The Real Housewives, Vanderpump Rules, and their many cousins in Bravo's stable of programming operate on cynically breaking down the fantasy that rich people are exceptionally smart or powerful by showing us very affluent people acting like fools.
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Days after the Supreme Court scolded Texas for cynically citing woman's health as its excuse for clamping down on abortion clinic regulations—rules that would have shuttered more than half the state's clinics—Mr Abbott composed a fundraising letter introducing the burial concept.
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Yet those who saw her as cynically piggybacking on her husband's success underrated her accomplishments; by her mid-20s, she was a Yale legal scholar and social activist of national repute; her speech at Wellesley had been widely covered in the press.
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He accused Le Pen, who was shown smiling and taking pictures with the workers, of cynically trying to exploit the situation and lying to workers when she said she would put a end to U.S.-based Whirlpool's plans to relocate production to Poland.
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"The Hamas terrorist organization cynically uses Gaza residents, especially women and children, as human shields and places them at the forefront of the violent riots, terrorist attacks and the terror of arson, demonstrating their contempt for human life," the military statement said.
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But in the same way crappy Season Passes prompted many to believe (often erroneously) developers were cynically holding content until after release, Forza Motorsport 7 and Shadow of War's financial experimentations are poisoning future attempts at the same idea, good or bad.
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"We should beware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security and the entire free world, all while cynically waiving the American flag," Reagan said in a 1988 radio address.
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Equally politically devastating would be any kind of recording of President Trump speaking cynically about the core group of supporters who have kept him afloat; that could be the one thing that erodes the steady support he enjoys within the populist Republican base.
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As with so many women-in-tech events I've attended, it was hard to shake the uneasy feeling that the event rested on some false promises, and I wondered, cynically, whom such events most benefited: the attendees, or the well-publicized corporate sponsors.
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Cruz, Schilling and many others are obsessed with — or cynically exploiting — the hallucinated scenario of male sexual predators suddenly feeling emboldened to stalk little girls in public bathrooms, presumably because they could, if caught, claim that they identify as women and belong there.
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But he was also driven and insecure, so desperate to guarantee he would be the next prime minister that he cynically abandoned his own previous positions on the European Union in order to try to secure support from his party's Euroskeptic right wing.
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But since their testimony would more likely harm Trump's case–and Republican senators' electoral prospects alongside it—than aid it, they have every reason to keep that evidence out of sight and then cynically claim that the case against him went unproven.
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Somewhat cynically, we would note that those companies — Lycos, Yahoo, Excite — had a roughly four-year lead over Google at the time, and Google has been massively dominant for nearly all of those 22 years since (because of, yes, its network effects).
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To truly brand an honest inquiry into conservative intellectual life as "Never Trump," such an effort would also have to show how Trumpism is in fact a culmination of long-unruly, demagogic, and cynically jingoistic tendencies in the house of the American right.
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And cynically, she writes, she thought that no one in power would care about the spreadsheet: Sexual harassment and assault, even when it was violent, had been tolerated for so long that it seemed like much of the world found it acceptable.
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"This only reinforces the perception among some that Trump either doesn't understand the threat or is cynically approaching the North Korea issue from a political rather than security perspective," Frank Aum, a North Korea expert at the US Institute of Peace in Washington, told me.
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Those quotes, in addition to a January 2018 statement in which Allen dismissed Dylan Farrow's accusations of abuse as "'cynically using' #MeToo for attention," emerged just as the studio was getting ready to promote the film Wonder Wheel, "effectively sabotaging those efforts," the documents claim.
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So far, Britain's decision to leave the European Union has been the anti-globalists' biggest prize: the vote in June to abandon the world's most successful free-trade club was won by cynically pandering to voters' insular instincts, splitting mainstream parties down the middle.
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While partisans—especially, one must suspect, Biden's potential rivals for the Democratic nomination—cynically try to exploit this moment for political gain, it will be the rest of us who will lose if they are successful in their attempts to stymie bipartisanship and national unity.
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When GOP candidates like Nehlen, encouraged by Trump statements cynically peddled to stoke fear in our proud nation, feel free to not only say bigoted things, but to put them out front in their campaigns, we can clearly see that Republicans have crossed a bridge.
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And he's a bigot, whose attitudes show that, at worst, he has contempt for Latinos, Muslims and anyone who looks like the "other," and at best, that he's cynically scapegoating immigrants and people of color to ratchet up his support amongst white working-class voters.
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Cynthia worries about hurting her friend, Maxine argues that a good friend has to tell, and Jerrod cynically argues that successful men cheat, and the world accepts it: "Hillary Clinton's running for president, and we think she's weak because she should have left," he says.
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"If a president routinely and cynically leverages our nation's armed forces for short-term political advantage, the professional ethos" of the officers corps will be degraded, said Karl W. Eikenberry, a retired three-star Army general and a former commander of American forces in Afghanistan.
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But rather than throwing away their power in pursuit of moral purity, or cynically accepting the realities of American politics, the party is finding its way to a more calculated wisdom: that power and idealism may undermine each other, but they are also inextricably linked.
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And racism has been cynically exploited for decades by Republicans to hold together their overwhelmingly white coalition and by Democrats who know that if they can just be less racist than the Republicans they won't have to actually deliver material benefits for working-class people of color.
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Op-Ed Contributor WHEN Donald J. Trump removed himself from the Republican debate last week and threw a huge public relations party for himself, he did what many politicians before him have done: He cynically used United States military veterans to elevate his own political standing.
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This was darkly illustrated by Mr Trump's equivocating response to the recent white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, which Trump voters appear untroubled by and Mr Bannon defends in the same cynically partisan fashion as he shrugs off concerns over the racist undertones of some of Breitbart's coverage.
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So far, turning your money into cryptosex tokens seems advisable if you're willing to bet on a trip to Tittie Island, and not much else (unless you want to cynically gamble on a quick cash-in-and-get-out play, regardless on the coins' technical worth).
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A 14-month investigation found serious flaws in Sky's medical record keeping while last year a damning report by the British government's Digital Culture Media and Sport select committee concluded that the team had cynically abused the anti-doping system by using therapeutic-use exemption certificates.
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I am not surprised, but I am gobsmacked by just how cynically the Republicans have been operating and the extent to which the Kochs have taken over one of our major political parties, and how the whole situation is poisoning our public life and public debate.
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He is not alone, as a Times investigation of the bloc's lavish farm subsidies demonstrates in shocking detail — the governments of several formerly Communist Eastern European states have also cynically taken advantage of the union's largess through opaque deals, feeding a new class of land barons.
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Now, if you're thinking—understandably but cynically—that having something defined as a war crime won't make a difference on the ground, you might be interested to hear that the International Criminal Court convicted someone based on charges of sexual violence for the first time this year.
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He was not just old for a running back, he was coming out of retirement in what could cynically have been described as a stunt by the team to bring in a hometown hero to ease the blow of the team leaving Oakland in the near future.
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And predictably, the anger they've elicited gave way to pure mockery, potshots replaced critique, and the realization that these pundits were almost always wrong, and were indeed cynically all but programmed to be so, took a back seat to how dopey and half-baked their work was.
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The current immigration debate has brought out some of the worst instincts in our nation; some mocking a helpless asylum seeker, others – including the former director of the CIA – cynically expropriating genocidal imagery of the Nazi Holocaust to becloud the facts and superheat an already toxic political discourse.
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The game appears, at first blush, like a collision of opposite sides of the modern games industry, taking the survival elements of PC gaming megabits and the anti-action strolls of artsy but commercially unpredictable "walking simulators" (though it's unlikely Fullerton and her team cynically targeted either market).
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"It's definitely part of a bigger trend, and it's part of a, I would say generously, a belief or, cynically, a marketing ploy, where edtech is considered a panacea for all that's wrong with education," said Josh Golin, executive director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood.
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Now, I would argue that in part, very cynically, somebody like a Mitch McConnell or Roger Ailes at Fox News I think specifically mobilized a backlash to this vision in order to accomplish pretty routine, commercial or power... (CROSSTALK) AXELROD: Well, let me try something out on you (ph).
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Sessions' steadfastness contrasts favorably to how we were treated by other senators who cynically voted to override the President's veto prior to the November election, and then immediately colluded with the Saudi government against the 9/11 families as soon as they returned to Washington a few weeks later.
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"Politically and cynically this is of course very beneficial for me," Igor Dodon, the leader of the Socialist Party, said of Ms. Nuland's meeting in early May with Mr. Plahotniuc, whose nickname is Plaha, a Russian word that refers to the block of wood used in an execution.
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There can be only two interpretations of Wilson's comment then: Either she misunderstands what really happened in Benghazi, which would be inexcusable for someone who served in Congress during Republicans' Benghazi hysteria, or she cynically appealed to misconceptions about Benghazi in a bad-faith attempt to smear the president.
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I cynically volleyed that question to coworkers in Slack last week when reports started circling that Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, She's Gotta Have It) was in consideration to direct an adaptation of Nightwatch for Sony, possibly with a script from Luke Cage's Cheo Hodari Coker.
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That attitude is encouraged by many in government, up to and including the current president, who cynically foster feelings of disillusionment by hawking fake tales of rigged systems and illegal voters, even as they raise millions of dollars from wealthy donors and draw legislative maps to entrench their power.
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"There is a possibility that the UK acted cynically, supporting the Directive in the European policymaking process in anticipation that it would damage the economy of the EU's digital single market," says Martin Kretschmer, director of the UK Copyright and Creative Economy Centre at the University of Glasgow.
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Virtually all the good men and women in this party's leadership have been purged or silenced; those who are left have either been bought off by lobbies or have cynically decided to take a ride on Trump's Good Ship Lollipop to exploit it for any number of different agendas.
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Several Republicans are pushing for public release because they have become convinced it will be exculpatory or, more cynically, they expect it to leak to the public anyway -- and it's safer to have the full thing in view, not just cherry-picked parts that boost one side or another.
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One year after President Donald Trump signed the cynically named Executive Order 13768, "Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States," which emphasizes the deportation of all "removable aliens" instead of focusing on those who pose a threat to public safety or national security, Syed was taken.
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While Otero Alcántara was missing, Vice Minister of Culture Fernando Rojas cynically tweeted that he had just seen him at an art opening, but that in any case, Otero Alcántara has no artistic standing and that he is not representative of the 50,000 artists that make up the Cuban art community.
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In fact, many of the key accomplishments of the "Beijing-friendly" Ma are now regarded in an entirely new light; rather than instruments of normalization and reciprocity, it is now difficult not to regard those successes cynically, as mere tools for Beijing to lock Taiwan ever more tightly into its embrace.
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The same pattern has prevailed in the presidential campaign, in his complicated relationship to Trump — obsequious at first, cynically imitative on issues where Trump's demagogy has worked, and finally self-righteous and dudgeon-filled now that the name-calling and scandal-mongering have been turned against his reputation and his family.
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Cynically, one could argue it was still "worth it" for the school to bring in Dotson, Austin, and Dominic Artis, because those elevated the stature of the program while they were eligible and on the floor, providing a stepping stone to a No. 1 seed in the NCAA men's basketball tournament.
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Domestically there was a cost, too, as Nixon started the counter-reformation to the '803s, flouted the Constitution, created enemy lists, launched the war on drugs that would eventually lead to mass incarceration, and cynically did everything he could to destroy the leadership of the black community and the antiwar movement.
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The HFPA could have invited the talented singer/actor/fashion icon Billy Porter to host -- or, to make up for the lack of female directors, a female comic like Kate McKinnon or Tiffany Haddish -- but instead, it cynically bet on Gervais's propensity to insult large swaths of people to draw viewers.
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You'll have a good sense of why if you watch her nominated turn in Yorgos Lanthimos' "The Favourite," as a miserable, miscarriage-riven Queen Anne, shifting from one intense relationship, with Rachel Weisz's Sarah Churchill, who dominates her with a possessive love, to Emma Stone's Abigail Hill, who cynically flatters her.
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"In a rush to vilify a single manufacturer whose medicines represent less than two percent of opioid pain prescriptions rather than doing the hard work of trying to solve a complex public health crisis, the complaint distorts critical facts and cynically conflates prescription opioid medications with illegal heroin and fentanyl," Purdue Pharma said.
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"While I think the teachers have some noble and worthy demands that need to be addressed, I think the union leadership is at best behaving cynically, at worst using whatever leverage they think they have to squeeze the most out of a system that doesn't have anything left to give," Martuniuk said.
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At a Brussels summit marked by unusual harmony among the 27 leaders, there was a flash of the cross-Channel acrimony which some fear could wreck any deal when officials accused London of cynically vetoing some EU spending and demanded it back down or face disrupting the start of talks next month.
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"While I think the teachers have some noble and worthy demands that need to be addressed, I think the union leadership is at best behaving cynically, at worst using whatever leverage they think they have to squeeze the most out of a system that doesn't have anything left to give," Martyniuk said.
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According to "The Curious Case of Kiryas Joel: The Rise of a Village Theocracy and the Battle to Defend the Separation of Church and State" (Chicago Review Press, $27.99), New York State is also where the "establishment clause" of the First Amendment's freedom of religion protections was cynically abridged exactly two centuries later.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump's condolence call to the widow of a slain soldier exploded into a vicious row that swamped the White House on Wednesday, with the soldier's grieving mother accusing the president of disrespecting her family and a defiant Mr. Trump complaining that his words had been cynically twisted for political purposes.
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The article points out the dangers of believing — or doubting — everything one reads or simply not having the skills or the desire to verify information: Research has shown that an inability to judge content leads to two equally unfortunate outcomes: People believe everything that suits their preconceived notions, or they cynically disbelieve everything.
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You might cynically conclude that this means these companies are trying to buy influence—but it also seems likely that some of these people are unhappy with the things being done by their employers and feel, for all of their relative wealth and status, that they are powerless to change things from within.
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More cynically, you might wonder if this isn't just all a big exercise in PR. After all, fans might be more willing to keep shelling out their cash to watch a losing team that's been put together by a guy whose jersey is hanging in the rafters or the closet of their childhood bedroom.
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Fans of Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead are currently dealing with these very questions, because the series' respective networks have started attempting to censor some fans' predictions, lest they ruin the viewing experience for others (or, more cynically, to prevent those predictions from diverting the buzz that typically surrounds big episodes and storylines).
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He's also one of the music world's most successful and respected acts, and I'll bet you there are some shadowy record executives (look how shadowy they are!) who want a piece of the action, thus locking some poor session pianist in a room for 24 hours until they've reinterpreted Blonde to cynically make some pennies.
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"The proposed system design of [Libra] will show us whether Zuckerberg and company will lead the revolution of trust-based ecosystems, or rather, cynically strip the innovation of blockchain tech to simply do more of the same — control and sell our data," said Danny Brown Wolf, head of partnerships and strategy at Orbs, an enterprise blockchain.
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The other problem with Revival is that, for stretches, it seems to be constructed cynically, focus-tested for Spotify: a sterile Ed Sheeran feature here, Pink and Skylar Grey churning out centrist pop hooks there, X Ambassadors doing Imagine Dragons-lite on a song meant to apologize to the ex-wife he murdered twice on record.
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"My guess is that most Western analysts, perhaps a bit cynically, would assume that Chinese officials were fully aware of the nuclear trade, given the strong ties between the Pakistani and Chinese nuclear establishments," said Toby Dalton, a nuclear nonproliferation expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former official at the Energy Department.
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More than anything, Zimbabwe teaches us that if the South African people's legitimate demands for land and wealth redistribution remain unaddressed for too long in the post-apartheid era, it will take only the right political entrepreneurs to cynically capitalize on a hollow rhetoric of "radical" and "revolutionary" demands to consolidate power in the face of widespread dissent.
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What emerges from this type of coverage is a narrative in which a young woman fabricates a story about domestic abuse and cynically manufactures several years' worth of evidence to support it, which she then leaks slowly to the police and the public in a vicious attempt to slander her husband and steal all his money.
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Many of the characters make earnest posts on social media about how important it is to love and help each other (while others make snotty posts cynically calling out their coworkers), and the Hampton DeVille owned news network BNN adds a little victim counter in the corner of the screen that makes a little "ding" every time it goes up by one.
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It could be that GoFundMe decided to bring in YouCaring either to help it build out its business in the tips-based space, or to work more closely with high-profile fundraisers, or (more cynically) to take out its closest independent rival in order to have less competitive pressure around how it chooses to build out fees and tips in the future.
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Against that backdrop, which interpretation of Ivanka Trump's performance in public life seems more plausible: that she tried very hard to negotiate with her father on climate change—to use The Art of the Deal on him as it were—and failed miserably, or that she's cynically severed any connection between her image and reality in order to maximize profit?
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Now, obviously, to the extent that the real issue is simply racist panic about people with brown skin (a large minority of the public) or a desire to find an issue to cynically demagogue about to distract attention from your plutocratic economic policies (a small but very influential group), then the path to citizenship doesn't help you with any of that.
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"It was only upon learning that the allegations would be published in the press that the Met and Gelb, cynically hijacking the good will of the #MeToo movement, brazenly seized on these allegations as a pretext to end a longstanding personal campaign to force Levine out of the Met and cease fulfilling its legally enforceable financial commitments to him," it says.
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Instead of well-intentioned wellness-based altruism, some people, including registered dietitians and program veterans, saw Weight Watchers as cynically cultivating the next generation of young women to get an early start on the join-lose-regain-rejoin cycle that many dieters experience, at an age when studies show that young women are at the highest risk of developing eating disorders.
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Her government has cynically offered to repatriate any Rohingya who can prove they lived in Rakhine State, knowing full well these people fled with little more than the clothes on their back, that many of their villages no longer exist and that there are no guarantees for their safety amid a hostile Buddhist population and a military that remains unchecked.
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I think Andy Ngo's work is designed to confirm some truly ugly American instincts: that something inherent in Islam makes Muslims unassimilable, that minority groups using their status cynically is as big a problem as discrimination against them, and that a tiny pocket of the American left poses as great a threat to the freedom of Americans as a federal government careening toward permanent minority rule.
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On Tuesday, while conservatives were trying to advance these two popular, commonsense bills, the left was focused on Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann Warren Sanders condemns his supporters' 'ugly, personal attacks' against Warren The Hill's Campaign Report: Biden riding wave of momentum after stunning Super Tuesday Delegate battle ahead likely favors Biden MORE cynically scoring political points on Mike Bloomberg for straying from their abortion talking points.
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Against that backdrop, Elizabeth Goitein, who oversaw a recent study of presidential emergency powers for the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, said that Mr. Trump's move, if he indeed followed through, would be an abuse of power and set a precedent that risked making it "open season" for presidents to cynically claim that a national emergency existed to evade democratic constraints.
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The "pro-stay" elites that include the leadership of both major British political parties, most corporate leaders, and even the most famous British celebrities, are cynically selling the EU as some kind of ATM that just might stop spitting out whatever pittance it gives to the great British unwashed if they don't shut up and comply with this massive, powerful body in Brussels that none of them elected.
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She observes cannily that "among the mother writers of today probably two of the most distinguished are Karl Ove Knausgaard and, in his way, Louis C.K." I have often thought (perhaps cynically) that male writers have more literary freedom to detail 21st-century parental domestic life, and only when a goodly number of men are stay-at-home parents will this country ever pass laws about universal pre-K.
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By its own measure, one of the country's major political parties went rogue decades ago and has set about systematically disenfranchising millions of Americans, put the greater part of the population under the thumb of a permanent ruling minority, and has now slipped any remaining traces of civic decency, cynically installing a man it knows to be a ranting incompetent in the White House, just to advance its own, completely self-interested ends.
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One of them, Representative John Fleming, a Louisiana Republican, is cynically fund-raising off his fervor: "Friend, I'm fighting back with an impeachment vote against the head of the I.R.S." With a Republican meeting on the matter set for this week, Mr. Ryan is caught between the sort of right-wing pressure that ground down his predecessor, John Boehner, and the concerns of less fanatical members, who are wary of looking frivolous before the voters.
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Fusion's two clients For these and other reasons, Browder argues that Fusion GPS and its founder Glenn Simpson have cynically played both sides of the geopolitical divide -- siding with the Kremlin and its emissaries against a landmark Russian human rights and corruption case, which prompted painful US sanctions on Russian officials, while at the same time taking bipartisan cash to illuminate a dark nexus between a US presidential contender and the Kremlin.
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Nonetheless, Boeing's reticence allowed a narrative to emerge: that the company had developed the system to elude regulators; that it was all about shortcuts and greed; that it had cynically gambled with the lives of the flying public; that the Lion Air pilots were overwhelmed by the failures of a hidden system they could not reasonably have been expected to resist; and that the design of the MCAS was unquestionably the cause of the accident.
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One of the virtues of Steve Inskeep's new book, "Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War" (Penguin Press), is that it tracks this American phenomenon back to something like a satisfying starting point—the life of the Frémonts and their pursuit, in the eighteen-forties, of the Oregon Trail, the very first real American adventure that was cynically stage-managed for propaganda (and commercial) value.
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The main culprits quickly shaped up to be the paparazzi, who had hounded Diana in life (and whom she had used almost as cleverly and cynically as they used her); the royal family, which stood by without helping as her marriage deteriorated and had cast her out after her divorce; and maybe the public, which felt some sense of culpability in its own eagerness all those years to feast on gossip — even intrusive, unflattering gossip — about Diana.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE spoke to that anger with optimism, while Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE cynically exploited it with rage-filled rhetoric.
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Within the United States, within the European Union, challenges to globalization first came from the left but then came more forcefully from the right, as you started seeing populist movements -- which, by the way, are often cynically funded by right-wing billionaires intent on reducing government constraints on their business interests -- these movements tapped the unease that was felt by many people who lived outside of the urban cores; fears that economic security was slipping away, that their social status and privileges were eroding, that their cultural identities were being threatened by outsiders, somebody that didn't look like them or sound like them or pray as they did.
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Within the United States, within the European Union, challenges to globalization first came from the left but then came more forcefully from the right, as you started seeing populist movements — which, by the way, are often cynically funded by right-wing billionaires intent on reducing government constraints on their business interests — these movements tapped the unease that was felt by many people who lived outside of the urban cores; fears that economic security was slipping away, that their social status and privileges were eroding, that their cultural identities were being threatened by outsiders, somebody that didn't look like them or sound like them or pray as they did.
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Critics accuse Sturgeon of cynically using the Brexit issue as an excuse, at a time when the polls show no clear public desire for a second vote (about half of respondents are opposed to a second referendum in the next couple of years, while just over a third want one, says Curtice.) Their only comfort is that a second referendum can only be held with authorization from Westminster – permission that British Prime Minister Theresa May has indicated she is not prepared to grant, as the U.K. focuses instead on securing the best Brexit deal possible from the E.U. Following Tuesday's vote in Holyrood, Britain's Scottish Secretary David Mundell underlined the point, saying Westminster wouldn't entertain any talks on a second referendum until after Brexit – and any transitional period – was complete.
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