Mr Macron enjoys picking fights when expedient, especially with Poland.
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Core heuristics refer to someone's ability to make expedient decisions.
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It has always been politically expedient to fight the establishment.
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So they let my goyish pediatrician do an expedient snip.
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The availability and familiarity of Scripture made biblical analogies expedient.
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Simple: Because it was the politically expedient thing to do.
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Equating money with value is in many cases a necessary expedient.
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Given Western beauty standards, it was much more expedient for Mrs.
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Moreover Mr Koch's philanthropy, like Carnegie's, was to some degree expedient.
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Clearly, Everytown only applied its methods when expedient to its agenda.
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I trust them more than this "do what is expedient" administration.
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He said supplies via Ukraine will continue if they are economically expedient.
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Tools to be used when expedient to accomplish objectives, and otherwise ignored.
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So he's taking the action that's politically expedient given his internal focus.
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In this movement, black women's concerns and voices were not politically expedient.
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I could never sustain an expedient "I" for more than a paragraph.
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Instead, observers assume that Mr Abe considers the timing expedient, for several reasons.
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All have been happy to use the EU as a punchbag when expedient.
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Because politicians do what is politically expedient – I want to do what's right.
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I don't even expect you to do what's right ahead of what's expedient.
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Instead, he was just being expedient and trying to save his own hide.
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It may seem politically expedient to take a step back, rather than forward.
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It is simply the most expedient way to get rid of the assets.
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There are always unintended consequences to what seems expedient or easiest to administer.
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The remedies must address the identified harm and not merely be politically expedient.
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"Referendums in Britain are a political expedient, not a constitutional requirement," he said.
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This decision could not have been easy or expedient, but it was necessary.
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A sparkling, sublime footwear choice is the most expedient way to demonstrate taste.
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Still, it is evidence of what's right being put ahead of what's expedient.
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Seems she can turn the human touch on and off, when it's expedient.
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"It's always about doing what's right, not necessarily what's politically expedient," she said.
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But a measure made expedient by war is no precedent for times of peace.
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Commercially expedient and redundant though they are, the Now That's What I Call Music!
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While the news may not cover all issues, it is the most expedient source.
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The American Medical Association even urges the expedient passage of appropriate hate crimes legislation.
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Doing nothing may be politically expedient; lawmakers always prefer saying yes to their constituents.
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Regardless, the FBI has become an expedient political scapegoat to distract from the truth.
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These politicians are taking the politically expedient track for political gain or political survival.
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The videos illustrate Grindr's use as more than a technical expedient to hooking up.
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A consensus is building around the simple expedient of sending cash to every American.
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Please don't settle for something counterproductive just because it's politically expedient to support it.
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The commission says the system is not only expedient but also fair and just.
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Republicans haven't just embraced Trump's nativism and politics of resentment because it's politically expedient.
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Trump was effectively sacrificing trans people's rights because he saw it as politically expedient.
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It's one of the first things that goes out the window when you're dealing with warlords in a really expedient way, and strong men in a really expedient way, and all of the relations are general to general and spy to spy.
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When necessary and expedient, Trump and his team use "alternative facts" to make their case.
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Postponing meaningful reform may be politically expedient, but it will only make the problem worse.
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But some mourn what they see as an expedient and effective tradition of the seas.
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"But what is expedient for law enforcement is not the test," Mr. Byrd's lawyers wrote.
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KN: It's almost like he's doing whatever is politically expedient for him in the moment.
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Mr. Gangi called the mayor's promise to close Rikers Island in a decade politically expedient.
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However, I could possibly use it to build what is known as an expedient shelter.
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Gillibrand's office says it responded to the allegations of harassment and retaliation in an expedient fashion.
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Mr Assad's dungeons have produced generations of radicals, who are occasionally set free when politically expedient.
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" This is probably the most expedient path for Democrats: To become the new "party of no.
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For many of them, a pill was an expedient way to try to help their patients.
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For too long, politicians have been making promises based upon polling or what was politically expedient.
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"It's an expedient argument to say 'you just don't have the right business model,' " Nimbley said.
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Gillibrand's office had previously argued that senior staffers responded to the allegations in an expedient fashion.
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Mr. Kanders, for different but comparably expedient reasons, asserts a similar position of no-fault neutrality.
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He was quite capable of startling marriages of political convenience, some ending in equally expedient divorce.
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The case for corporate blame is, at any rate, probably more expedient than it is empirical.
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"The (safety) measures which are taken are expedient measures," he told a conference call with reporters.
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Facing elections this October, the transition to the eco will likely be politically expedient for Ouattara.
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He is the only official member of his party, an expedient to ensure control over it.
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It also means not getting sidetracked by "shiny object syndrome" or by what seems easy or expedient.
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Otherwise, we really have no choice but to conclude that they are telling a politically expedient lie.
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" The company added that "judging by the false statements in the complaint" it expected "an expedient dismissal.
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" But she says the steps López Obrador has taken so far on corruption are "weak" and "expedient.
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Francis has weakened the Curia's grip partly by the simple expedient of ignoring it at critical junctures.
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These activists believed that politicians would sell out the movement when it was expedient to do so.
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However expedient in this election cycle, the party's decision to use religiously inflected language reflects a shift.
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Ultimately, combating gun violence is not only politically expedient, but it is also necessary and critically important.
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That seems expedient, perhaps indicating that Shelton will in fact reflect the president's views at the Fed.
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"I look forward to your expedient intervention to resolve this unfortunate and unnecessary delay," Mr. Brezenoff wrote.
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It's a reminder that human reasoning can be used toward many ends, including rationalizing whatever is expedient.
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It was one in which her daughters were expected to play a key role, through expedient alliances.
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The move was expedient, but the outcome turned out to be much better than Mr. Defontes anticipated.
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Rather, for most politicians, it's a cynical, politically expedient talking point that changes with the electoral winds.
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Trump, in trying to counter this debacle, has begun with the expedient of laying out the truth.
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True leadership is doing the right thing, even when it's not expedient and comes at personal cost.
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The tradeoff Trump sabotaged — pricing out at $28503,22019 a head for the Dreamers — though expedient, was unworthy.
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Or, because it was politically expedient, since blacks were now able to exercise their right to vote?
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In the face of this challenge, Harvard has resorted to the desperate expedient of promulgating racial stereotypes.
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When it became expedient to pretend the whole thing never happened, they started pretending it never happened.
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Ingenious field-expedient solutions to provide more detection and better identification are a smart way to protect Americans.
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And that principle guided every decision he made as president -- no matter what was popular or politically expedient.
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Erdogan has a track record of choosing politically expedient short-term fixes that are badly received by markets.
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Breaking Bad often suggested that when the chips are down, most people will make the morally expedient choice.
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Trump's politically expedient, feigned outrage over the process at this point in the election cycle is intellectually dishonest.
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Clinton: She used to call TPP the "gold standard" of trade agreements ... until it wasn't politically expedient anymore.
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That is a very good argument for having the referendum when it is less politically expedient for Cameron.
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She contacted LAPD who, through an expedient investigation, determined the white powder Greaves discovered was the drug Misoprostol.
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We know that as president she'll do what is right for our nation, NOT what is politically expedient.
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In an interview with NPR, Obama complained about the "politically expedient" shift in some Republicans' position on Russia.
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Fairfax is not on my team, so it is not necessarily politically expedient for me to defend him.
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Both men may find that a widely reviled figure like Maduro makes for an attractive—and expedient—foil.
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Diem neutralized the religious sects by the expedient of having Lansdale use C.I.A. funds to buy them off.
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Critics might also point out that Trump's list of promises kept is an incomplete and politically expedient one.
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" Tom Bossert, Mr. Trump's former homeland security adviser, said the president's bullish statements have not been "politically expedient.
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Hart was respected for standing up for what he believed was right, rather than what was politically expedient.
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And Democrats of all stripes went on cable news to hammer the decision as shortsighted and politically expedient.
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There's nothing wrong with boiling peeled beets in salted water, and sometimes it is the most expedient way.
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Expedient as it was, his choice of the Kurds to fight IS put America at odds with Turkey.
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Converting to Christianity, welcoming missionaries, and relinquishing more than forty male concubines for monogamy emerge as expedient moves.
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But beyond that, most Americans believe deeply in fair play and still view impeachment as an extreme expedient.
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To say "Nazi" in reference to the mobs who wrought havoc on Charlottesville last year, arguably, is expedient.
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Anyone with money and power has access to the West, but many find it expedient to pretend they don't.
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As cricket's popularity has surged, the Taliban have found it politically expedient to ride on the team's coat-tails.
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They shouldn't be; her life and career have been defined by her cunning penchant for making politically expedient choices.
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What was initially sold as a short-term crisis expedient measure looks set to last longer than a decade.
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He was elected for a third consecutive term in 2016 by the expedient of banning the main opposition candidate.
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From the start, the show set up a dichotomy between the Starks and the more mercenary and expedient Lannisters.
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When Samsung pressured Google to dump Motorola, Google did the expedient thing and kept its biggest Android partner happy.
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More fundamentally, he's advancing the politically expedient lie that Christianity itself is somehow under attack in the United States.
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Girls are not passports, but neither are they political footballs to be tossed around when it becomes politically expedient.
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Although she is liberal now when it is politically expedient, she was a moderate member of the House. 3.
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This suggests that improved bilateral relations may be another campaign promise that ultimately may be discarded when politically expedient.
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"Time and time again, Hillary has done and said what is right, not what is politically expedient," Giffords said.
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But I was never on call at a hospital that required expedient parking, so I didn't get the plates.
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In the end, even those campaigning for Remain thought it expedient to make calls for "legitimate" discussion around immigration.
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Various political players with their own agendas have found it expedient to remove any obstacles to Mr. Duterte's rule.
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And look: The history of TV is the history of expedient business decisions that worked out through good execution.
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His colleagues were irritated at his audacity to attempt to interject a conservative principle into a politically expedient compromise.
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Although often a short-term expedient, most women who start to work part-time continue for longer than intended.
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On the contrary, Sanders has conspicuously refused to support measures that would enhance Obamacare, even as a temporary expedient.
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"We welcome your visits and pray/advocate for an expedient, humane conclusion to the government shutdown," the center said.
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His record as a senator for almost four decades is full of questionable judgment calls, messy compromises, expedient affiliations.
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The expedient politics would have been to oppose it, especially because he was being threatened with a Democratic primary.
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When it was politically expedient to appear to be appalled, quite a few of them appeared to be appalled.
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No matter how imperfect our efforts, no matter how expedient ignoring such values may seem, that's part of defending America.
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In 1884, the invented pronoun "thon" was publicized by the coiner, C.C. Converse, as an expedient pronoun for all genders.
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That is why they dedicate so many resources to squelching seditious thoughts and to stirring up politically expedient popular resentment.
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It said it "does not deem it expedient" to disclose now the volume of its financial assistance to the bank.
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Some countries have long chosen to teach in English as a political expedient, because a local language would prove contentious.
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Tom Block, Washington strategist at Fundstrat, however, said Trump could fall behind an idea if he thought it was expedient.
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While it can be politically expedient to campaign on budget cuts, in the case of U.S. infrastructure, it's simply wrong.
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They know I am a citizen candidate, not a politician, who won't do what is expedient, but what is right.
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So if you create the political pressure where progressive ideas are more expedient for him, I guarantee he'll embrace them.
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It's sometimes more expedient to buy a company (and, critically, its engineering team) than to build new features from scratch.
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The marriage of reason was not, in hindsight, reasonable at all; it was often expedient, narrow-minded, snobbish and exploitative.
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And it is expedient because we know these groups have both the will and the capability to harm US interests.
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Some are more than seemingly ambivalent, and some are ready and willing to embrace the forces of racism when expedient.
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She spared no legal expense, jumped at any expedient (including a train line to nowhere) and made every possible enemy.
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That they were completely expedient and taken at the time to gain the support of these influential constituencies in Louisville.
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And given the conditions, would permitting a practice we consider corrupt be not just more expedient but somehow morally justifiable?
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She said the idea of limiting, or delaying, sex education might seem politically expedient, but is ultimately a bad idea.
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This approach is morally satisfying and politically expedient, but it helps perpetuate the conflict and sustain Assad's dependency on Iran.
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That politically expedient response to the horror in Syria fits in perfectly with the two-faced behavior of Trump himself.
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This proclivity toward expedient alteration is precisely what fuels some people's sense of her in particular as disingenuous and even dishonest.
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But it was also politically expedient, according to a person involved in the talks on the agreement and power industry insiders.
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Their ranks are growing, despite repeated warnings from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee that it's not politically expedient to do so.
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It helps that Singapore's constitution allows the government to limit free speech with "such restrictions as it considers necessary or expedient".
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"NSE will consider appointment of more banks for additional roles as may be felt expedient," the exchange said in a statement.
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I think that's important for people to know, because her enemies keep accusing her of being willing to say anything expedient.
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In fact, you can argue that sticking up for Comey is actually the least politically expedient thing that McCabe could do.
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But, of course, at that point it was politically expedient to do so — not exactly a strong display of moral courage.
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Why would Republicans reward them when providing more relief to working families would be much more beneficial and politically expedient, too?
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For many decades, governments have pursued remote control because—for all its intricacies—they have seen it as necessary and expedient.
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In other words, Trump's establishment supporters seem to be hoping that his authenticity is the expedient work of a conniving opportunist.
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"Hamburger added that "being private means they can do the right thing, not the expedient Wall Street way of doing things.
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"As the next stage assumes a competitive comparison of the proposals, it is not expedient to name the banks," she said.
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To help achieve that aim, as long as it is expedient, Chinese owners will stop at nothing to outdo European clubs.
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Puerto Rico politicians are not innocent bystanders, even today Puerto Rico remains insistent on politically expedient spending, not strategically wise spending.
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It would be the most politically expedient and efficient way to get fiscal resources and other assets to combat the crisis.
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Yet Wilson himself found it expedient to use a close political adviser, Edward House, as a back channel to foreign leaders.
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She casts Ayotte's decision on Trump as a microcosm of six years of doing whatever is politically expedient at the time.
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Truly effective solutions will require upheaval in one of our government's largest institutions, and will be neither easy nor politically expedient.
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But textual assignments mean little if the majority party respects those assignments only when it is politically expedient to do so.
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Our leaders are purposefully turning a blind eye to our growing liabilities as a nation to strike politically expedient budget deals.
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The victory means Britain can potentially move forward with an expedient resolution to its yearslong divorce process from the European Union.
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And as the election has drawn closer, Mr Modi has resorted to politically expedient policies that are likely to harm the economy.
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Ryan may also believe that ginning up panic and paranoia like this is politically expedient for Republicans in a hostile election environment.
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It's an expedient scapegoat so they can avoid tough questions about defunding climate programs and dismissing scientists even as climate change accelerates.
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But without Netanyahu to condemn for it, Democratic leaders might find it politically expedient to back off their criticisms of Israel's moves.
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They do provide expedient cover, though, for the increasingly nonsensical actions of our central bank's governing board and monetary policy committee members.
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I believe this is because dealing with such concerns isn't immediately evident, easily profitable, politically expedient or exciting to show on TV.
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The outline is clear: The president would "recommend to [Congress'] Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient" for treaties.
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But mostly there are enablers, both those who facilitated his predations and those who found it expedient to look the other way.
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It seems to me a lot of people — and politicians — are willing to abandon this principle as soon as it's politically expedient.
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But when she makes a mistake or sees it as expedient, she still wants to be able to play the novice card.
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Do you think it could be expedient to have an earlier one, given the current political climate that Huawei finds itself in?
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But after a few years, Chávez became frustrated with the slow pace of democracy, and opted for more expedient but corrupt means.
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There aren't a lot of moments in "A Very Stable Genius" in which people do the right instead of the expedient thing.
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For the Obama administration, however, limiting statutes and legal and regulatory precedent were things to be ignored and not followed when expedient.
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In a press release, Convoy CEO Dan Lewis said the start-up aims to make trucking a more efficient and expedient industry.
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The expedient answer would be to dismiss O'Rourke's telegenic political rise as an anomaly in the firmament of this state's unyielding conservatism.
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That might be politically expedient; immigration is one of the top issues on voters' minds, but also one of the most divisive.
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In past encounters, this conversation often was portrayed as a choice between "activists" and "establishment," or between bold principles and expedient moderation.
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Pastels in Pieces reveals how artists under pressure come up with expedient solutions to thrive under specific material conditions that threatened their livelihood.
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For Alexander Hamilton, life tenure was just the ticket: "the best expedient which can be devised in any government" to preserve judicial independence.
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Firstly, they said a bailout would not be politically expedient for German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who could run for election again in 2017.
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We tend to forget that the first coldly expedient hero to anchor an influential, long-running series named after him wasn't Tony Soprano.
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That may be not only expedient but also just: many investors were convinced that the bonds were as safe as legally guaranteed deposits.
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Mr. Obama got high marks from several music critics for his summer playlist choices, in part because he mostly avoided politically expedient selections.
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Given such promise and the desperate need for new antibiotics, you might think that the path from lab to pharmacy would be expedient.
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It's no surprise, then, that state governments have found it politically expedient to cut higher education funding in favor of other fiscal priorities.
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For some, it may be expedient in the near term to deny or walk away those realities and try to limit family immigration.
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"Time and time again, Hillary Clinton has done and said what is right, not what is politically expedient," Giffords says on the mailers.
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The governor made his argument deploying the progressive rhetoric he has turned to increasingly as his neoliberal leanings have become less politically expedient.
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When that happens, focusing on outsiders — identifying who is not part of the nation, rather than who is — can seem an expedient shortcut.
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To make meaningful progress toward a real solution, the time is now to demand an election process that is expedient, fair and free.
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I always tell people do the right, do the right thing, do the right thing; not the easy thing, not the expedient thing.
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Pressured to act quickly to shore up the CCPs' ability to withstand a shock, the FSB made a politically expedient yet risky decision.
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) has pledged expedient negotiations with the union, but warned that there is not enough money to meet their demands.
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"I wouldn't expect him to have any allegiance to WikiLeaks other than as an expedient way to do something big," the former coworker said.
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And one of the longstanding critiques of Johnson, the former mayor of London, is that he has a habit of making politically expedient promises.
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No, it may not be ethically correct to try to score political points off of disasters, but it's politically expedient and often politically necessary.
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In the wake of these twin disappointments, the American foreign policy establishment has reverted to a pre-9/11 strategy of expedient ally support.
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Outside the United States, such a move would be seen as demonstration that Congress can overturn any treaty if this is seen as expedient.
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What they have done is choose the expedient route of trashing the president in a way that can only serve to further cripple him.
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Let me assure our Western friends: For Moldova, integration into the Euro-Atlantic community is more than a diplomatic initiative or an economic expedient.
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Leaders in recent years, starting with Governor George Pataki and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani , have found it expedient to divert transit funds to other purposes.
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When Bathum began pressuring her for oral sex, she gave in to his wishes, believing it was the most expedient means to an exit.
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A hypocrisy attack would be, Candidate X said one thing and did another thing, so clearly she believes nothing and just does what's expedient.
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Since Obamacare's passage seven years ago, Republicans have made the politically expedient argument that it represented a great leftward leap into the socialist dark.
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If sing-rapping in Spanish is expedient — as on "Bebe" and "Mala," a pair of duets with Anuel AA — then he'll do that, too.
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So, I make expedient and strategic bargains with myself, glossing over some of the sexism and ignoring things that bother me (or trying to).
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In fact, what seems to have recommended both men to Trump was their evident willingness to completely reverse their policy views when politically expedient.
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And even if the myth of a successful moment of German reckoning had been expedient, it would still be politically problematic to exploit it.
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But the timeline — which wouldn't see oral arguments until at least October — could prove frustrating for lawmakers hoping for a more expedient impeachment process.
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It might also require a director willing to tinker with Orange's expedient Grand Guignol ending, one less willing to simply burn the set down.
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What remains are the old myths, now as ever held up by those in power because it remains expedient for them to do so.
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Taxing startup workers versus private-equity partners may be politically expedient, since tech executives largely donate to Democrats, while buyout investors usually back Republicans.
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Deferring to activists and public servants who have already effectively reached diverse populations may be among the most expedient ways to increase art's accessibility.
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He would be counting, instead, on Democrats embracing a candidate from an ideologically and culturally traditional caste as an expedient for defeating Mr. Trump.
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Everyone knows that the Obama administration was "all in" for a new Democrat-led alliance with Russia until it was politically expedient not to be.
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The groundwork for what we now consider fast fashion started after the Industrial Revolution, as new manufacturing techniques allowed for more expedient production, she explains.
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Once we had sorted the sartorially expedient, we first turned to the world of SoftBank, this time taking a close look at its debt load.
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His vulgarity was applauded by those filled with contempt for the status quo, who discovered that cordial political engagement wasn't immediately gratifying or politically expedient.
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An unusually moralistic, as opposed to calculating or expedient, case for sticking by Mr Trump was made by Eric Metaxas, a high-selling religious author.
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This simple expedient would have eliminated the extra-point try and left the scoring unchanged, except for the couple of missed extra points each year.
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That well-functioning polity does not exist today, but empowering the bosses of big businesses to act as an expedient substitute is not the answer.
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As the etymological origins of the word suggests—it comes from "mekhos," the ancient Greek word for "expedient" or "remedy"—machines are here to help.
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White supremacy and bigotry are not American values, though they more and more appear to be values Trump is willing to embrace when politically expedient.
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In other words, they are leaving billions and billions on the table by opting for the politically expedient move of leaving the gas tax untouched.
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It's a politically expedient plea as calls for regulating tech intensify amid growing concern about China's tech prowess and an escalating US-China trade war.
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This episode helps to illustrate every time the international community has turned a blind eye to some atrocity because it's more profitable and/or expedient.
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She's been a sympathetic character largely because she's been a liberator of the oppressed, but isn't that also an expedient way to build an army?
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I hope they understand that courage means not simply doing what is politically expedient but doing what they believe deep in their hearts is right.
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Taxing start-up workers versus private-equity partners may be politically expedient, since tech executives largely donate to Democrats, while buyout investors usually back Republicans.
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When the sergeant passed out, the commandos frantically tried to revive him — going so far as to perform CPR and a field-expedient emergency tracheotomy.
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How the GOP manages to deliver this complicated mixture, in a politically expedient way that satisfies constituents, is shaping up to be their defining challenge.
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Farrell finds his way between Scylla and Charybdis by the simple expedient of not looking to the right or left, but sailing straight on regardless.
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Base realignment and closure, or BRAC, is the Pentagon's most expedient and efficient tool to generate recurring annual savings, despite congressional claims to the contrary.
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VEB, aside from being under sanctions, has been grappling with bad debt after financing politically expedient projects such as construction for the Sochi Winter Olympics.
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Though he knows it is expedient to talk piously about dialogue and dialectic, in reality everything is experienced in terms of self-promotion and rivalry.
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Public health issues like obesity require big picture solutions that look at the entire diet, not politically expedient Band-Aid responses that target one product.
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If they're given latitude to find the most expedient way to cut insurance rolls and roll back coverage, that's no form of liberty worth entertaining.
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The list of what Pornhub has not been willing to try in the past four years would probably be more expedient, but here we are.
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That has made the Russian-Turkish relationship expedient for the moment and one not likely to unravel -- even over an assassination of a high-ranking diplomat.
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Universality reinforces the idea that free education is not an expedient form of redistribution, but part of a system of collective insurance underpinning an egalitarian society.
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But even if this is as bogus as it sounds, all three countries involved might decide a politically expedient lie is preferable to an inconvenient truth.
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Both are talented and articulate people, who could probably have made comfortable lives for themselves if they had been prepared to make expedient compromises with tyranny.
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When oil prices were high, VEB lent huge sums to politically expedient but financially questionable initiatives such as infrastructure projects for the 2014 Winter Sochi Olympics.
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That was an expedient used against populist parties by military-backed governments in Peru in the 1940s and 1950s and in Argentina between 1955 and 1973.
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It was not the easy or politically expedient decision to make, but it was the decision someone concerned about their ethical and moral obligations would pursue.
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This punitive approach is morally satisfying and politically expedient, but as a practical matter it just helps perpetuate the conflict and sustain Assad's dependency on Iran.
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It may be politically expedient to propose fortifying barriers and tightening immigration controls in an effort to keep the tide of suffering and despair at bay.
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Jealous tends to bristle at the "activist" label, and not because it is politically expedient for him to put his time at the NAACP behind him.
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But partition, which the diplomat Conor Cruise O'Brien once described as "the expedient of tired statesmen," rarely settled disputes between different ethnic groups or political adversaries.
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During the campaign, President Trump took a principled and politically expedient position to pull the United States out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, (JCPOA).
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To listen to her critics, the real Clinton is a shape-shifter, with any avowals of authenticity dismissed as the expedient work of a conniving opportunist.
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It may be politically more expedient to blame someone for the crisis: bad doctors, greedy pharmaceutical companies, or a wealthy family intent on selling their product.
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Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, British officials remain committed to the politically expedient but baseless notion that Hezbollah maintains separate terrorist, military and political wings.
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As Americans, we want them to worry, to fret, to challenge the conventional wisdom — and certainly to contradict politically expedient policy positions when the facts merit.
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" Underwood told the New York legislature that it was urgent to change the state constitution in order to blunt the impact of a "politically expedient pardon.
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In both cases, the wall — either its construction or removal — is treated as the expedient solution, even if far more complex divisions existed before and after.
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Over the years, attempts to improve relations have faltered because the matter was either not a priority for the American government or politically expedient in Brazil.
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Both also borrow extensively from the German Expressionist Max Beckmann: Ms. Culprit uses his expedient black outlines, mildly grotesque figuration and distinctive palette of saturated colors.
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Underpinning the anxiety is the sense that the Republican Party has stood by Trump so far only because it has been politically expedient to do so.
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Complicating matters for Republicans is Trump's well documented willingness to blame members of his own party when it is politically expedient for him to do so.
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"The most expedient and hasty way to accomplish those rollbacks is through the regular guidance documents that we have seen so far from EPA," he said.
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We want to make the right decision; like I said, not the fast one, not the speedy one, not the expedient one, not the easy one.
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Zelenskiy's Servant of the People party has no lawmakers in parliament, making it expedient for him to call a snap election while his popularity is high.
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Restrict off duty and retired law enforcement personnel from entering a venue while in possession of a firearm and you hamper more expedient responses to attacks.
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While recent statements from Chinese officials are encouraging, better outcomes will require not just symbolic documents and politically expedient promises but also greater transparency and stricter enforcement.
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Either the company gave it a try and ran into the same problems, or decided it was more expedient to let things take their normal, slow course.
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" He said he hopes they understand that "courage does not always mean doing what is politically expedient, but what they believe deep in their hearts is right.
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For many remote and rural communities in the US and Canada, the arrival of Amazon Prime, with its low prices and free, expedient shipping was a boon.
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Giuliani said on ABC News's "This Week" that while the president "probably" does have the power to issue himself a pardon, it would not be politically expedient.
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He strove by any means expedient—palette knife, sticks, his thumbs—to transpose the forms and the substances that he saw directly into the stuff of paint.
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Often translated as "flunkyism," it describes an expedient form of politics in which a small state, putting self-determination aside, gloms on to a more powerful one.
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Lincoln's assassination in 1865 made Johnson an accidental president; he had been picked as Lincoln's running mate less than a year before, as a politically expedient choice.
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She said it would be most expedient for the SBA to issue a waiver, but that she would consider action in Congress if the agency did not.
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Like his grandfather (whom the Americans imprisoned on suspicion of war crimes) and great-uncle before him, he views American protection as a necessary but temporary expedient.
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We need a commander in chief who chooses what is best for American interests in the long term, even if it isn't considered the politically expedient choice.
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In Garrow's take-no-prisoners telling, the charismatic president-to-be subordinates his every breath — and his love life — to a politically expedient journey-to-blackness narrative.
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And Poroshenko won favor with Trump by facilitating an $80 million coal deal—the first between the U.S. and Ukraine—that was politically expedient for both leaders.
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"He's just like Hillary Clinton and many others — happy to be friendly with Donald Trump when it's convenient, but eager to attack him when it's politically expedient."
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This level of freedom to criticize Trump on WeChat and elsewhere in China is relatively new, though China often stokes sentiment against foreign countries when it's politically expedient.
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The question now is whether a sequel can find a more expedient tone, or whether there will be another reboot and another Lisbeth in a few years' time.
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For some, partnering on a step-by-step progression through the various levels of autonomy seems the most expedient way to try to bring the technology to market.
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While expedient in the near term to win the technology race of the Cold War, this narrowminded approach has ultimately inhibited innovation, and we are now falling behind.
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The policy especially emphasizes the Confucian concept of "filial piety," stressing children's responsibility to care for their aging parents, an expedient economic move given China's rapidly aging population.
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And whether you consider it expedient art or internet trolling, this won't be the last time we see a dude wearing a dress set on riling the masses.
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That's why even single payer countries all have a secondary health care market where people willing to pay out of pocket can get better or more expedient care.
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In these moments, Klonsky cautions, rule number one is to do whatever works to get the person to survive—tacos and pizza just happened to be that expedient.
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Four years later, however, Gandhi resigned from the Congress, unhappy with its inability to embrace nonviolence not merely as a politically expedient tactic but as a fundamental duty.
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Clinton became a senator from New York, the Clintons mostly spent their summer vacations on the beaches of Long Island, a switch many here viewed as politically expedient.
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It's politically expedient for xenophobic agitators like Mr. Trump to scapegoat the millions of foreigners who have come to the United States in search of a better life.
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When the sergeant passed out, the commandos frantically tried to revive him — going so far as to perform CPR and a field-expedient emergency tracheotomy on Sergeant Melgar.
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And Michael D. Cohen, his former lawyer, has testified that he fraudulently inflated or deflated the value of the same assets in transactions, depending on what was expedient.
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"The F.D.A. isn't entitled under the law to abandon the science and abandon the scientists and to do something that is politically expedient to them," Mr. Flammia said.
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"We expect an announcement within the next day, but we want to make sure we're being expedient and sensible about what kind of decisions we're making," she said.
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They are being given a stark choice: do what is right for the nation or do what is politically expedient for the most corrupt president in American history.
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In addition, its open source repositories should include clear guidance to those who wish to report a discovered vulnerability, and have an expedient process to handle such requests.
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But it was politically expedient for the NRA to scare its members by saying President Obama was "coming for our guns," no matter that the claim was false.
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So, in a way, it's not even a matter of good and bad; the practical expedient for owners is to treat their employees well or risk their business.
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But it is clearly easier and, in Trump's eyes, more politically expedient for him to cry Democratic partisanship than to admit that there is trouble on the horizon.
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It says that states should provide the notification "in the most expedient time possible" but drops the original mandate that states share the information within three calendar days.
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At the least, banning it from acquiring more social networks of sufficient scale so it couldn't snatch another Instagram from its crib would be an expedient and attainable remedy.
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Mr Chalmers thinks an expedient fudge on army size could be found, but there may be a price to be paid in terms of urgently needed new armoured vehicles.
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Bob: No, just that, as I said the administration last week came out and said that their intentions would be to handle the license applications in an expedient manner.
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Local rent control efforts are also mounting pressure on state officials, like Governor-elect Gavin Newsom, to push rent control through by more expedient means than a ballot initiative.
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The Trump administration's decision this week to drop Florida from its offshore leasing plan was quickly derided by many as a politically expedient giveaway to the state's Republican Gov.
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Hence such matters might be treated in discourses among the educated or also in theological schools, although it is not expedient even there I think unless done with caution.
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"If Mr. Trump did win in court, a President Elizabeth Warren might take the precedent as license to circumvent Congress whenever it is politically expedient," the editorial board wrote.
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Time and again, Mr. Abe has dissolved the Diet for politically expedient reasons by exploiting ambiguities in the Constitution, a ploy to try to divide and conquer his opponents.
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It'll serve you well, even in the moment if it sometimes feels like it's not the most expedient thing to do, just know that long term it'll pay off.
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"It's always about doing what's right, not necessarily what's politically expedient," said Corinne Wood, a former Republican lieutenant governor and abortion rights advocate who spoke at Mr. Rauner's announcement.
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They're expedient and efficient, and in most cases, a complaint will result in at least a refund, if not a credit, to your account for whatever inconvenience was caused.
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The problem in "Bombshell" is that Megyn and Gretchen have for years gone along with abusive male power to get along, at least while it was expedient for them.
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Is it more expedient to build a product or a new feature in-house, or to acquire a company that already has what you want, and bolt it on?
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In that regard, it's easy to see why it would be politically expedient for candidates to distance themselves from both a controversial president and an unpopular Republican-led Congress.
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The work, with the paradoxical name, Quick Sand, is arguably one of the least expedient ways to turn your kitchen chairs to dust, but arguably one of the most gratifying.
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It proved to be more expedient to blame the preceding Democratic administration for starving the FBI of funds, and to boost massively the money and powers at the FBI's disposal.
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In America's White House there is an incumbent who is anything but religious; but Donald Trump finds it expedient to cultivate the evangelical Christians who are his most loyal constituency.
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The characters' new terror of her implies where the final episode is going to go: with her seen not as beautiful, wise, and sometimes expedient, but as an irredeemable monster.
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A decade later, Married at First Sight pushed these sorts of expedient televised relationships to the absolute extreme, getting couples agree to marry each other without even having met before.
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"If Mr. Trump did win in court, a President Elizabeth Warren might take the precedent as a license to circumvent Congress whenever it is political expedient," the editorial board wrote.
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Only then can we begin to recapture what the Founders had in mind about presidents recommending such measures to Congress from time to time as may be necessary and expedient.
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"Some countries are simply short of money at the moment and find it more expedient to prolong the service life of the arms and equipment they already have," Putin said.
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They find it more politically expedient to promote fear than to critically debate and legislate on how to conduct counterterrorism operations that actually make communities safe—without sacrificing human rights.
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Further, to show that his views on this deal are more than politically expedient, Mr. Delrahim needs to be just as tough on other mega-mergers that come before him.
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Richard A. Friedman In the wake of the Las Vegas massacre, politicians are once again promoting the politically expedient notion that better mental health care could stop such mass killings.
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In moments like these, complaints about tribalism can be politically expedient — a way of making even the most consequential debate seem like a mere spat between loyalists on either side.
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Politicians have turned to the military as a shortcut to power and their politically expedient knocks on the doors of the barracks have allowed the generals to divide and rule.
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As for Trump, he reminded everyone that first and foremost he is the Donald, ideology is an expedient and the GOP is merely a vehicle for his ambitions and agenda.
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The suffrage struggle itself took on a similar flavor, acquiescing to white supremacy — and selling out the interests of African-American women — when it became politically expedient to do so.
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But PG&E's board might still decide to seek bankruptcy because it could conclude that is the most expedient way to resolve the thousands of wildfire claims against the utility.
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While focusing so narrowly on a physical barrier may have been politically expedient, it belies the technological innovations and staffing solutions that have actually worked for US Customs and Border Protection.
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For the most part, Mr. Parker tempers the violence both of slavery in its everyday existential horror and of the revolt (the rebels kill only men), choices that feel commercially expedient.
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Before he hit upon the happy notion of allowing air currents or a gentle touch to introduce movement, Calder activated his sculptures through the less elegant expedient of jerry-rigged motors.
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He expects it will happen "to the Syrian Kurds as soon as its expedient" for the U.S. On whether a political solution is possible now: Right now, not really, per Phillips.
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"Clearly, for Xavier Becerra its not about what is good for the caucus, but what is politically expedient for Xavier Becerra," Vela said in a statement sent to The Hill. Reps.
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As Judiciary committee chair he would do "the right thing rather than the politically expedient thing," said Representative Mark Pocan, who co-chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus to which Nadler belongs.
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The most expedient way of changing norms and deeply ingrained behavioral patterns, according to Sheehy-Skeffington, is through two-way communication, which encourages a dialogue between participants and within the community.
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"Given that we've actually had this kind of push upon us – we felt that it was expedient to actually recenter the issue back on Palestine," Abu-Shanab told Radio New Zealand.
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"Her choices are often made based on what's politically expedient for her at the moment," says Jim Morrison, the host of For & Against, a progressive political talk show on LGBT issues.
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This episode handles it better than most, through the simple expedient of looping Lorelai into the plot and letting Lauren Graham's face express exactly how uncomfortable the whole thing feels. 121.
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Political figures in both parties have seized on anti-tech sentiment in recent years, and the Hawaii representative's lawsuit is just one example of politically expedient posturing against major tech platforms.
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On the other hand, he is a Tea Party conservative, and whatever he thinks about climate change — or the name of the political science field — it's politically expedient to ignore it.
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Beneath his expedient rhetoric, Douglas's main goal may have been to line the pockets of his speculator friends, who stood to reap immense profits from the development of a transcontinental railroad.
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While the United States has vacillated between expedient deals, halfhearted sanctions, pleas to China for greater intervention and doing nothing, the North has methodically advanced its nuclear arsenal and missile capacity.
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It may be politically expedient for the left or the right, or in this case both, to pillory a devoted public servant simply for doing his job in a difficult situation.
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Speaker, how many world leaders, for how many decades have seen and known what is coming but have decided that it is more politically expedient to keep it behind closed doors.
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First, that these Champagnes are essentially marketing and money grabs, products of neglectful agriculture and expedient winemaking, answerable only to the bean counters who run the corporations that own these houses.
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But one wishes here, as elsewhere, that Johnson Sirleaf's biographer would reckon directly with the president's responsibility for her more expedient choices, rather than depicting her as a victim of circumstance.
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The new exemption for sanitary products is seen by some as a politically expedient move to help the governing Liberal Party try to rebuild its reputation after a recent political putsch.
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And although for now the attention is on migrants from outside Europe, populists will readily exploit French fears of Polish plumbers, or German angst over Romanian welfare tourists, should it prove expedient.
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Other analysts warn that pressure for a robust dynamic score raises the danger of a politically expedient number that could help reform pass Congress but lead to higher deficits down the road.
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Ford, meanwhile, found an expedient way to meet rising emissions standards: it will use VW's electric vehicle platform to produce 600,000 EVs for Europe — worth up to $20 billion in future sales.
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It seems that liberals are just as ready as their opponents to sacrifice their principles when it is politically expedient—and we shouldn't let them get away with it when they do.
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What's more toxic is the conspiracy of silence from those who find it politically expedient to avoid speaking out against a seemingly treasonous web of connections between the president and foreign adversaries.
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VEB is under Western sanctions over the Ukraine conflict and has been grappling with a mountain of bad debt after financing politically expedient projects such as construction for the Sochi Winter Olympics.
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" Mr. Santarsiero suggested that a vote for Mr. Fitzpatrick would be a vote "for someone who's with you maybe 10 percent of the time, when it seems politically expedient to be there.
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To date, the discussion by political leaders in both parties in the world's greatest democracy is stuck in a roundabout of expedient partisan and populist rhetoric that only stirs resentment and anger.
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He's completely capable of treating Rian as an equal and acting as though all the normal societal conventions are in play, until it's no longer expedient to mask his true, murderous intent.
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Zuckerberg tries to flip the critics' arguments on their head, saying it's "dangerous" — not just politically expedient — for a candidate to urge a social media company to take down a foe's message.
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We followed our training: listening dispassionately and asking follow-up questions to gather as many details as possible, then writing our report in an expedient manner for circulation to the intelligence community.
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After four years of economic crisis, it was expedient to put all the blame on Madrid, and that helped distract attention from the stunning corruption in which these Catalan leaders were drowning.
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They get blowback about it from their employees, and most have always seen cost shifting as an expedient way to shave their annual premium increase rather than as a meaningful cost containment strategy.
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Even if this rule got rid of the really bad stuff, Jorjani has not been afraid to ignore the rules when it's politically expedient or would be embarrassing for [Interior Secretary] David Bernhardt.
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Alrosa, which has a monopoly on diamond production in Russia, said on Friday it was "expedient" for it to buy Kristall when the state-owned company is privatized, which is expected by 2019.
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Derailing the proposals now essentially rests on whether enough MEPs can be convinced it's politically expedient to do so — factoring in a timeline that includes the next EU parliament elections, in May 13.
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IS IT accurate and/or expedient to use the word "genocide" to describe the persecution of religious minorities by the terrorist group known as Islamic State, Daesh or a variant of that name?
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It took Facebook two years to realize that white nationalism is just an expedient synonym for white supremacist values rather than a harmless form of pride akin to American pride or Basque separatism.
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Because, while bypassing Congress may be the politically expedient choice for a frustrated administration, it does not instill confidence in the business community and it is certainly not a sustainable long-term strategy.
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Expedient wars, counter-terrorism conflicts and anti-genocide programs must always be fought with just cause, and as intricate contests of mind over mind, not as narrowly tactical struggles of mind over matter.
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"Unless we can get people into medication assisted treatment programs in a more expedient manner, people will continue to misuse and abuse alternative prescription medications to avoid withdrawal and reduce cravings," he said.
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Furthermore, the U.S. congress should continue to use their oversight role to push the Department of State to report on all human rights, not just the ones that happen to be politically expedient.
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"How many world leaders for how many decades have seen and known what is coming but have decided that it is more politically expedient to keep [climate change] behind closed doors?" she said.
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But in the manner of more conventional dramas, the dinner and its aftermath strip away what the rest of the play has built up, and for reasons that seem more expedient than characterological.
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McConnell may have been elected to represent the state of Kentucky, but he works hard to make sure that no one in Congress can get anything done unless he judges it politically expedient.
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Shouldn't it go without saying that the United States has long exercised its soft power by building embassies and other buildings whose architectural nonconformity conveys an expedient message of optimism, innovation and freedom?
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Expedient shelters are not intended to be lived in for much longer than a few days, but, if assembled correctly, one could shield its inhabitants from the radioactive fallout of a nuclear explosion.
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That's why we cannot withdraw from global fights -- to expand democracy, and human rights, women's rights, and LGBT rights -- no matter how imperfect our efforts, no matter how expedient ignoring such values may seem.
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Alone, they are politically expedient (and often ineffective) ways to "do something" while we avert our eyes, again, from America's lasting racial wounds as we continue to pass those wounds down to our children.
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The effect is to take the sheen off all this merchandise, with an expedient handmade aesthetic in which stickers and rubber bands effect rough-and-ready renamings, ranging from the caustic to the fanciful.
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That's why we cannot withdraw from global fights - to expand democracy, and human rights, women's rights, and LGBT rights - no matter how imperfect our efforts, no matter how expedient ignoring such values may seem.
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It may be politically expedient to have a 2:1 Republican majority on the Commission when taking controversial measures like rolling back net neutrality rules, but ultimately the job to be done needs five.
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Though Trump may be in general election mode, he demonstrated Thursday that he still not risen above calling out his critics -- even if that is not the most politically expedient move at this moment.
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But if the events of the past year have taught us anything, it's the folly of expecting elected Republicans to do the right thing when it comes to Trump, rather than what's politically expedient.
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It also has a relatively high proportion of well-educated middle-class whites, who tend to favour Mr Cruz over Mr Trump, though mainly because they are told this is the politically expedient choice.
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The findings showed that, while this new position might not increase fertility, it's probably a more expedient means of mating since it leaves the frogs less vulnerable to predators while they're getting it on.
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As a result he woke up every day with a sense of urgency and fearlessness to do the right thing on behalf of his constituents, not do what was expedient for his political career.
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Still, there's an argument to be made that Navy should have been more upfront about this sooner, enabling those affected to lock down their accounts and change their passwords in a more expedient fashion.
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The occupiers allowed Japan to develop an expedient myth that its people and its emperor — officially considered synonymous — had been innocent victims rather than willful perpetrators of the militarism that the new Constitution rejected.
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He also defended his mayoral administration's policy of stopping people on the street to search them for guns, a police tactic that predominantly affected black and Latino men, as a necessary expedient against crime.
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While Trump is clearly attuned to the political power of white working class anger — in 2016 he ignited a blue-collar insurgency and mobilized white men in particular — his campaign rhetoric is also expedient.
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This is inferior because it lacks a credible threat of personal punishment, inevitably deteriorates into prolonged litigation incompatible with expedient oversight and forfeits its constitutionally-recognized absolute final authority over contempts to the courts.
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Instead, we need them to take responsibility for the health of our information ecosystem — and for our democracy more generally — by resisting the temptation to repeat falsehoods, no matter how politically or personally expedient.
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While leaving more of the talking to Trump may be politically expedient, it is disadvantageous to the press, because the briefing format allows for different types of questions and a fuller range of questioners.
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Another major problem with the rule was the CFPB had tried to pass it off as an informal "guidance document," presumably to circumvent the formal, less expedient rulemaking requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act.
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"Moving forward, placing S. 204 on the suspension calendar would be the best and most expedient way to proceed, and we have no doubt that such an effort would be successful," the two wrote.
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VEB is under Western sanctions over Moscow's role in the Ukraine conflict and has been grappling with a mountain of bad debt after financing politically expedient projects such as construction for the Sochi Winter Olympics.
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The goalposts for what's socially acceptable or politically expedient are continually moved, and it's up to observers to keep providing reminders that they've shifted, and that "status quo" isn't a moral imperative with any weight.
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The breach exploited by the Tribune was through one of tens of thousands of private Aadhaar registration providers who had been licensed to process ID applications—an understandable expedient given the huge number of applicants.
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Elizabeth Alexander, a former Senate and White House aide to Biden, wrote in a USA Today column that he supported women and was a champion for their rights even when it was not politically expedient.
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We learn later that the plan is to court highly qualified yet unavailable candidates and severely unqualified candidates (like Big Head) to make Richard's reappointment look like the correct choice rather than the expedient one.
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At the same time, cuts in flying time -- an expedient way for the military to save cash -- have eroded pilots' skills in recent years, increasing their chances of making a fatal mistake in mid-air.
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But cases of abuse necessitate a different, more expedient tack—one that the therapist in Big Little Lies appears to have been using, and that happens in real life, too, according to an actual therapist.
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In the letter, the company said that "succumbing to political pressure to do what is expedient" would fly "in the face of our fiduciary responsibility as stewards of the company for the benefit of shareholders."
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Anyone who experiences an unwanted word or gesture should tell the person involved that they would like them not to say/do that — not wait a decade and contact the media in an expedient moment.
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The racist caricatures were damaging enough, but for Mr. Trudeau they also seemed to validate a troubling critique of his character: His critics have long said his liberal image was merely a politically expedient veneer.
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Saying they would order a fast pullout with little mention of what that actually means for the thousands of Afghans relying on American help may be politically expedient but is careless and cruel in reality.
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MOSCOW, Jan 17 (Reuters) - The chief executive of Russian diamond miner Alrosa, Andrey Zharkov, said on Tuesday it was not expedient to sell another 10 percent stake in the company in 2017, RIA news agency reported.
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Whichever route the government takes, polarisation has already set in, between those in Hong Kong who hold themselves out as loyalists, or think it is expedient to do so, and those who hold liberal, democratic values.
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Anyone convicted and fined more than S$2,000 is barred from becoming a member of parliament for five years—another restriction the authorities must still deem necessary or expedient for the maintenance of something or other.
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The resignation of Hariri, embroiled in a scandal last month for giving millions to a South African model, was a politically expedient sacrifice for President Michel Aoun and his son-in-law, Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil.
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Malls may find it cute and expedient to have robotic security guards roaming the corridors, but they clearly need to take account of these mechanical lumbering beasts which weigh 300 pounds and stand five feet tall.
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But it is almost certainly the case that these are expedient, calculated positions, and that the same conservatives will re-embrace a more orthodox worldview as soon as the primary is over, no matter who wins.
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"The truth is that the Saudi-Israel contacts are episodic, expedient and hard to pin-down," said a senior Saudi Arabia consultant at Menas Associates, who requested anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the topic.
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Analysts said that as people protested the Thaad installation and South Korean businesses pressured the government to improve relations with China, Mr. Moon might have decided that suspending the progress of the system was politically expedient.
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) has pledged expedient negotiations with the union but has warned that there is not enough money in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) budget to meet the union's demands, according to CNN.
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I bet most parents who use the timeout -- which seems to work in the short run (perhaps because it triggers a child's fear of abandonment, according to developmental psychologist Aletha Solter) -- do so because it's expedient.
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"Given the public interest in an expedient product exclusion process that offers due process and procedural fairness, we urge you to implement improvements to each area of concern outlined above as soon as practicable," they wrote.
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The algorithms that manage internal operations strongly favor doing whatever is the most expedient, efficient and effective, even if that means excluding some people from information or services, or leaving the door open to amplifying societal biases.
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Perhaps these were obvious monsters, like the Doctor's foes, the Daleks, who could be confused by the simple expedient of throwing a coat over their heads or (in early series) defeated by their inability to climb stairs.
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On the one hand, it is expedient for Russia to have a more or less friendly diplomatic interlocutor in the Western world at a time when it is under sanction from just about every other Western authority.
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It's why people like Marco Rubio, who is famous for engaging in the most expedient form of politics, held their noses and spoke positively on Trump's behalf: If Trump wins, their place in the party is secure.
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Afghan leaders have also been frustrated over the last few months because they believe that Pakistan has gotten their hands on more fulsome information and expedient readouts of the US-Taliban peace talks than Afghan officials have.
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If Bisping, who turned 37 the day after his defeat of Silva, hopes to earn a title shot while he's still in his competitive prime, the most expedient route would be a bout with another relevant contender.
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In order to win his party's primary and eventually a narrow victory in the general election, Bacon reached for the politically expedient policy proposal, in spite of the future human cost to his district of following through.
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"To provide for the return of a portion at least of our faithful and long-tried friends, it was thought expedient to build a new church at their very door," the rector of Trinity Church, the Rev.
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Mr. Eastwood's filmmaking is expedient (no fuss, no muss), detailed and distinguished by sudden beauty, as when Sully, after the accident, stands alone while framed against the wintry lead-gray sky out of which he just fell.
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These types of proposals and rhetoric might be temporarily expedient in some political settings, but treating carried interest as ordinary income is not a recipe for economic growth, nor will it make the tax code more efficient.
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" She adds that while it may be politically expedient, giving the middle class a large tax cut is counterproductive: "There's very little economic growth to be expected from reducing the marginal tax rates on middle-income earners.
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Information-technology corporations, which incorporate thousands of ideas into one gadget and see themselves as victims of patent trolls, are strong supporters of this relatively cheap and expedient avenue to challenge patents once they have been written.
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Year after year, the city increased its reliance on the cluster sites, largely because the apartments were the most expedient, least intrusive way to help the city meet its legal mandate to provide shelter to anyone eligible.
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That's important, because the November election is a critical opportunity to defend the Republic through the straightforward expedient of voting Mr. Trump from office and thereby issuing an essential rebuke to the leaders of today's Republican Party.
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The world's most powerful country cannot withdraw from global fights to expand democracy, and human rights, women's rights, and LGBT rights, he continued, no matter how imperfect its efforts, no matter how expedient ignoring such values may seem.
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No matter how expedient it might be for landlords and background check companies to use those tools, they say, it will lead to blocking people who otherwise would have been accepted by a more personalized form of screening.
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Then, with stories about the Fox sisters and their fans appearing regularly in the newspapers, "talking boards" began popping up as more expedient ways for people to talk to spirits in their own home, according to Smithsonian Magazine.
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Conservative writer Ben Shapiro on Thursday accused both Democrats and Republicans of treating the FBI however is politically expedient amid the agency's release of its report into the allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
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Historically, this process was as fraught with political dissension, as exemplified by the application of the Missouri Compromise prior to the Civil War, or as expedient as the circumstances may have required, as in the case of California.
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"You can tell, in the mannerisms, in the body language, in the language itself, of Mitch McConnell ... he's where he is because he thought it would be expedient to make sure the government didn't shut down," he added.
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By blocking Senate consideration of such measures, McConnell helps these senators avoid making expedient short-term votes that could hurt them in 2020, while letting them continue to criticize the shutdown without having to vote against their president.
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Wrangling the four Richmond women toward a decision about forming a Cadillac crew of their own, Ms. Sampson indulges in some over-expedient plotting: Everyone has a very timely and distinct personal crisis that coincides with her choice.
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This lack of public support for the decision suggests that Zinke was more moved by politically expedient forces: special interests who want to drill and mine in the monuments and out-of-the mainstream politicians such as Rep.
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Alternatively the more expedient option would be for Congress to target funding for enforcement of the rule, which if unaltered will adversely impact millions of Americans by putting the federal government between Americans and their retirement savings decisions.
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He proceeds like the enemy army that sees the inefficiency in denying individual households access to the communal water supply and instead opts for the expedient of well poisoning, which in one fell swoop achieves the general goal.
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While it has become politically expedient to malign and scapegoat immigrants, Mr. Trump and Republican lawmakers across the country recognize that finding a way to excise them systematically from payrolls would have a crippling effect on several industries.
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The chirpy children's rhyme "Love on Me," the zippy, exploding loops on "Tell Me You Love Me," and the tropical bubblegum of "Hunter" initially sound expedient before sinking permanently into your brain and skittering joyfully round and round.
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The publishers of Handbook for Mortals made their way to the top of the New York Times list via the expedient measure of calling up various independent bookstores and asking if they reported to the New York Times.
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In Federalist #78, Alexander Hamilton wrote that keeping the judiciary independent of the other branches of government is "the best expedient which can be devised in any government, to secure a steady, upright, and impartial administration of the laws".
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If this administration is serious about effecting strategic change in Afghanistan and precluding the ability of groups like al Qaeda to strike our homeland, then withholding US dollars and military equipment to Pakistan is potentially both necessary and expedient.
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We make tactical and operational decisions that are expedient in the short term, but give no thought to the long term consequences or how those decisions fit within the broader framework of our policy — because there is no policy.
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Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which launch rockets at Israeli civilians whenever expedient, don't care if Israel leaves the West Bank because they have always wanted to "liberate" every inch of "Palestine," which includes Jews nowhere near the disputed areas.
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One reason is primal: We keep nervous, vigilant watch over our mortality and an expedient means for us to mark time is to keep up on who among the prominent, or even casually known, has checked out for good.
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Should the FBI send letters to Congress upon discovery of new and unanalyzed material for elected officials to share—when politically expedient—even if the Director himself acknowledges that the material may or may not be significant at all?
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"Since it seems politically expedient right now to question my motives and actions, and those of my office, let me state publicly and clearly that I welcome an outside, nonpolitical review of how we handled this matter," Foxx wrote.
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All of this happened nearly six years ago, when the league found it more expedient to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to retired players who contended the N.F.L. had concealed the dangers of repeated hits to the head.
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A big table is a commonly prescribed centerpiece for expedient shelters, as it acts like a tentpole that can be surrounded by thick, protective materials serving as ad-hoc walls The dining room tables at IKEA, however, aren't ideal.
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Mr. Trump will need to ensure that as he goes about his disrupting business in an expedient fashion, and that he doesn't violate any of these important laws implemented to ensure that government conducts business with integrity, fairness and openness.
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Zelenskiy, a comedian with no prior political experience, won the presidency by a landslide last month but his new party has no representation in parliament, making it expedient for him to call a snap poll while his popularity remains high.
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The White House announced it would impose tariffs on Chinese tech products in May earlier this year, kicking off an extended delay in the deal between Qualcomm and NXP even after Qualcomm tried to close the deal in an expedient fashion.
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We encourage the Commission to seize this opportunity to make a brave, even monumental, gesture that will resonate for generations to come, rather than a politically expedient fix that will be easily absorbed– and quickly forgotten– by the status quo.
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There are bigger, classic Star Trek themes running through the show as well: the tension between scientific discovery and exploration is constantly butting up against more expedient and pressing dangers for the crew, like war with the Klingons, and survival.
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Zelenskiy, a comedian with no prior political experience, won the presidency by a landslide last month but his new party has no representation in parliament, making it expedient for him to call a snap poll while his popularity remains high.
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If you are going to stand up and say that you are the single best person to represent a district, a state or the country, you are also taking on a responsibility to do what is right, not what is expedient.
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Leveraging your particular strain of politically expedient pseudo-feminism to sell books is fine and all, but don't expect us not to call you out — not when you have a literal seat at the most powerful table in the world.
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By 2010, at least six years after soldiers began falling ill, the Defense Department was still assuring Congress that open-air burning was "the safest, most effective, and most expedient" means to dispose of military trash in a combat theater.
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From Nixon to Obama, past presidents have found it politically expedient to crack down on leakers as a way of shoring up executive authority—while also, in the Obama administration's case, selectively leaking information that reflects favorably on the president.
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Mr. Poroshenko's campaign included trade deals that were politically expedient for Mr. Trump, meetings with Rudolph W. Giuliani, the freezing of potentially damaging criminal cases and attempts to use the former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort as a back channel.
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Now, as a direct result of those three entities, expedient politicians and race-baiting so-called "community activists" like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, a War on Police has surfaced; and America is now tragically caught in the middle of it.
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Earmarking state and local projects in Congress encourages senators and members to put a $100 obligation on future officials and taxpayers in their home states and districts in exchange for a politically expedient, but small, grant of $8-$9 today.
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Tuesday's Senate vote, where Democrats were urged by their leaders to take no stance at all and vote present, however expedient, is indicative of the broader trend — a defensive crouch from Democrats in response to an onslaught from the right.
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"A joint and impartial investigation will not only promote the expedient resolution of the issue, it will also be in accordance with international law ... which places paramount emphasis on the use of peaceful means to resolve international disputes", Panelo said.
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It's unclear why Nixon would have thought this was a politically expedient favor to ask; but what is clear is that Paul Sr. will make far more money off this new oil business than he will lose paying the ransom.
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"If a department head can deprive the citizens of their right to know what his department is up to by the simple expedient of maintaining his departmental emails on an account in another domain, that purpose is hardly served," Sentelle wrote.
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If he has a record of willingly throwing black lives under the bus in the name of an ineffective and unconstitutional policing program, what would he do if it becomes politically expedient to throw black people under the bus as president?
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I have been pleasantly surprised that despite being a new fund, we have managed to win deals, as entrepreneurs were impressed that we offer unique perspectives, an expedient diligence process and decisions that are not based on popular sentiment or market trends.
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"This enforcement action highlights the importance of financial institutions remediating known compliance program deficiencies in an expedient manner, and when that is not possible, the importance of implementing compensating controls to mitigate risk until a comprehensive solution can be deployed," OFAC said.
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"I knew him from his expedient work making sure there weren't al-Qaeda attacks in Kurdistan between the invasion and the departure of US forces," said Elissa Slotkin, who served three tours as a US intelligence officer in Iraq during the war.
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Even when it comes to industrial heat, which is so complicated, sensitive to prices, and varied in application — where CCS may be the best short-term expedient — it still remains true that falling clean power costs make everything easier in the long term.
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Drones might one day blanket cities dropping off Amazon goods, but in the short-term, there's plenty of opportunity for them to help out in limited engagements, where delivery via other means would be difficult, impossible or just not quite expedient enough.
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Trump told the dinner, which raised $23 million for Republicans running for the House of Representatives, a story about wanting to kiss a general he met in Iraq who had promised an expedient end to a campaign against Islamic State militants in Syria.
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Clinton, said that in some ways, the fact that Mr. Sanders was feeling "compelled to misrepresent his record" was a positive sign that gun regulation was now a winning issue, and one in which it was "no longer politically expedient to pander" on.
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And we've submitted quite a few licenses for our product and the administration had announced, the U.S. administration had announced last week that they're going to try to process the licenses from the industry in an expedient fashion, so we're encouraged by that.
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Kristol is a neoconservative, a small and relatively secular faction within the Republican Party which has found it politically expedient to ally itself with evangelical Christians, who are far more numerous but often lack the academic and policy expertise of the neoconservatives.
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Simply holding a second referendum to undo the outcome of the first (the traditional expedient, when countries such as Ireland and Denmark voted to block EU treaty changes) looks politically impossible, despite the millions of signatures on a petition calling for one.
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"This is all about whether the arrangement is a short-term expedient to deal with this particular crisis in the oil market, or whether it reflects a realignment in world oil," said oil historian Daniel Yergin, vice chairman at consultancy IHS Markit.
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Azeri Energy Minister Natig Aliyev met U.S. ambassador to Baku, Robert Cekuta on Friday, and both officials agreed that it was "more expedient" to keep the global oil output cut deal in place only until the end of 2017, not March 2018.
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Editorial The family detention centers the Obama administration has been operating in Texas and Pennsylvania have been an expedient way to handle the soaring numbers of Central Americans, many of them young children, who have arrived at the Southern border since 2014.
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I have to say one thing I got wrong about McConnell this past year was that I was surprised by the decision with the Supreme Court and the Scalia seat because it seemed like he was doing something ideologically driven and less expedient.
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This self-evident reality was articulated by writer Octavius B. Frothingham in 1890: The masculine represents judgment, the practicable, the expedient, the possible, while the feminine represents emotion, what ought to be … The predominance of sentiment in woman renders her essentially an idealist.
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Initially, we're linking it with several sites in the Bay Area to test and iterate, and collaborating closely with organizations like Quest Diagnostics and Labcorp who are also working on additional approaches to making testing more accessible and expedient in other areas.
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And that is the scary thing about observing wiliness at home: how readily and quickly we bend, not when there is truly no other choice, but when there are plenty of other choices, the wily one being merely the easiest and most expedient.
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Initially, we're linking it with several sites in the Bay Area to test and iterate, and collaborating closely with organizations like Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp who are also working on additional approaches to making testing more accessible and expedient in other areas.
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The fight is well staged and at least in its emphasis on the human toll of war — the panting, clanging misery of men in armor dying in one another's grip — owes a stronger debt to Welles than to Olivier's antiseptic, politically expedient vision.
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"The lack of an explanation on what is necessary and expedient is worrisome, there needs to be a body of multiple stakeholders that reviews these decisions," said Kriti Trehan, a partner specialising in technology law at the Law Offices of Panag & Babu.
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So you need courage and leadership by countries that have the evidence, that have the science, that are getting the expertise — rather than sort of everyone racing to the politically expedient decision, which is just to close down borders and shut down travel.
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"Throughout our work, we've tried to play the long game for Connecticut, not doing what is politically expedient, but rather what we believe is in the best interests of the people we serve today, and for generations still to come," he said.
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Without the immediate funding of these programs, the expedient approval by Trump and then by HHS and other agencies, and the active increase in participation by Native youth, it stands to reason that the number of surviving languages will drop further by 2050.
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"The lack of an explanation on what is necessary and expedient is worrisome, there needs to be a body of multiple stakeholders that reviews these decisions," said Kriti Trehan, a partner specializing in technology law at the Law Offices of Panag & Babu.
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"Given the public interest in an expedient product exclusion process that offers due process and procedural fairness, we urge you to implement improvements to each area of concern outlined above as soon as practicable," Hatch and Wyden wrote to Ross in a letter.
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"We do expect on-scene commanders to use their field-expedient means to make assessments about civilians, and if they can't satisfy themselves that they are not there, then they bring it up to a higher level and they don't strike," he said.
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Speaking to CNBC's "Street Signs Europe" on Friday, Stephen Roach, senior lecturer at Yale University's Jackson Institute, slammed the deal as "hollow" and "flawed," adding that it was "politically expedient" and would fail to address the structural issues that sparked the trade conflict.
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"I am satisfied that the replacement of the current trustees with trustees who are willing to ensure that proper legal steps are taken in the California proceedings is not only expedient, but necessary to safeguard the trust assets," Judge Christopher Toogood said in his judgment.
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The Greek developer dodged the restrictions by the simple expedient of using point-of-sale machines linked to Greek banks to take money from the credit cards of Chinese in China—a breach both of Chinese law and the rules of Greece's golden-visa scheme.
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They worked out a bird's level of threat tolerance by the simple expedient of having one of their number (as far as possible the same person each time) walk towards it, and then measuring how close that individual could get before the bird flew away.
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"It is much better to do what's right and lose an election than to do what's politically expedient and lose your soul," Mr. Carson said with a sense of resignation during a Tuesday night event that mixed a campaign pitch with a Christian prayer service.
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The senators asked Mnuchin, who also chairs the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, the interagency body that investigates the national security implications of foreign investments, to pursue a "thorough, conflict-free, and expedient review" of the deal in the event PDVSA defaults.
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" Those who sign the letter pledge to "fight to reclaim Congress's constitutional authority to conduct oversight of U.S. foreign policy and independently debate whether to authorize each new use of military force" and "act to bring the Forever War to a responsible and expedient conclusion.
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Timothy Egan They will remember, a century from now, who stood up to the tyrant Donald Trump and who found it expedient to throw out the most basic American values — the "Vichy Republicans," as the historian Ken Burns called them in his Stanford commencement speech.
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"This is another instance of the Trump administration halting legal immigration by denying people the opportunity to file for immigration benefits in the most expedient manner," said Margaret Stock, a retired United States Army lieutenant colonel and an immigration attorney who frequently handles such cases.
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" Resistance had to start with the first oath, he asserted, for it was "a typical expedient of demagogues to bring the most loyal citizens, and only the loyal ones, into a conflict of conscience by branding nonconformists as un-Athenian, un-English, un-German.
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Whether politicians fully embrace gender equality or not, such legislative maneuvers are expedient for governments that want to appease liberals at home, placate foreign governments critical of their human rights record and distinguish themselves from Islamist rivals who generally follow a far more conservative line.
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But under the government's latest proposals, critics say, longstanding efforts to tighten rules on evidence and train a functioning police force would most likely be abandoned for a more expedient approach to dealing with crime, leaving untouched a central problem plaguing Mexico today: impunity.
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Between the lines: While some of Jokowi's appointees are capable, such as the respected finance minister, he has drawn heavily from the army, which still often operates with near impunity, and has chosen other politically expedient figures with little regard for corruption or civil liberties.
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Her bitter opponent, the powerful Interior Minister and leader of the CSU, Horst Seehofer, wants a radical and expedient "national solution" because the neighboring states Austria and Italy don't want to cooperate for fear of getting stuck with migrants that Germany intends to throw out.
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With France's Caribbean, African and Arab diasporas celebrating the win with enormous enthusiasm and seeming to identify with heroes like Zidane, Desailly, Thuram and the rest, it was expedient to present the World Cup as a symbol of unity for FIFA and the French political establishment alike.
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She's made fighting Trump the central core of her message, and she has the chops needed to take on powerful men, having stood up for sexual assault victims when it wasn't politically expedient, most notably Al Franken, for which she has taken undue amounts of flak.
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At nearly every moment, just about everyone makes the politically expedient choice rather than the obvious moral one, starting with Kennedy's maddening decision to huddle with Gargan and a friend, US Attorney Paul Markham (Jim Gaffigan), instead of immediately calling the police and reporting the incident.
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Concerning legal matters, because Bridgewater is culturally committed to the pursuit of truth, we have always had a strong preference to not "settle" claims but rather to be judged by the appropriate legal or regulatory system, even though that is not the expedient thing to do.
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He's remained loyal to the big issues associated with Sessions — a hardline approach to immigration and criminal justice — but he's happy to abandon Sessions to shield himself from personal legal scrutiny, and he'll be happy to abandon Sessions's issues too if for some reason that becomes expedient.
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"It's politically expedient for the Republicans to point the finger at a Democratic president, but the reality is that a massive grassroots movement combined with market forces have been the real drivers of change," said Mary Anne Hitt who heads the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign.
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The deal to keep 1.8 million barrels of crude from the market is likely to embolden U.S. shale producers to ramp up their production, but it is also a deal that both Russia and Saudi Arabia would see as politically expedient and critical to their domestic finances.
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The Russia angle is expedient because it simultaneously delegitimizes Trump's Electoral College victory as a product of foreign intervention and excuses the Democratic Party's many failings over the course of the election, starting with the nomination of a candidate who was out of step with her times.
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Local operators are also the ones who'll need to work with city and any other relevant governing officials, which is a big reason why this probably seemed like the wisest or at least most expedient path to getting revenue from markets outside the U.S. for Bird.
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"Anyway, making it so Immigration and Customs Enforcement can detain the kids along with their parents is only a minor improvement — since ICE is already running out of space to hold people, and looking at 'tent cities' as a supposedly temporary expedient," the editorial board wrote.
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It's perhaps due to this hyperbole-campaign, not to mention America's formal Soviet-containment and informal anti-Arab stances, that U.S. politicians found it expedient to enshrine American Jewry's support of Israel (mostly individual and community philanthropy) as American policy (alliances, arms agreements, aid packages, and loans).
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In private, some Republican lawmakers offer a plainly expedient defense: they disdain the President, but, as long as he is popular with more than ninety per cent of the Party rank and file, confronting him would open the door to primary challenges from even more compliant successors.
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For decades, no U.S. president has had any interest in getting into a skirmish over this, as it was far more expedient to "keep the peace" rather than get into an escalating trade war that may cost American jobs, reduce productivity and maybe cause creeping inflation.
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Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Mr. da Silva's predecessor, responded in an opinion article, saying that casting the country as a "democracy in ruins, in which the rule of law had given way to arbitrary measures" might be politically expedient for Mr. da Silva but was not true.
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As a word, "caravan" is a politically expedient bludgeon, part of a decades-long project started by anti-immigrant groups (NumbersUSA, Center for Immigration Studies and Federation for American Immigration Reform, to name a few) using dehumanizing vocabulary to describe immigrants in nefarious, fear-inducing ways.
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Some of the true believers in the Trump base would simply continue to support Trump, even if he worked closely with Pelosi and Schumer, while others would become so disillusioned with politics, because Trump decided to pursue the politically expedient path, that they disconnected with politics entirely.
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I have exerted that power by the simple expedient of never having acquired a smartphone, averting "addiction" to such a device, saving time for better pursuits than gazing at a tiny screen, and staying out of the vast data set your special section so frighteningly describes.
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By contrast, the role that Congress generally plays now (and has for decades) is to delegate a bunch of politically difficult choices to administrative agencies and then engage in random drive-by bureaucracy bashing and show hearings when it's politically expedient, usually in a deeply partisan way.
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After all, CIA staffers should make it a high priority to take time to breathe and center themselves after all the hard work they do torturing innocent people at black sites, denying it for years at a time, and providing weapons and military training to politically expedient allies.
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The intoxicating blend of genres previously unheard in Soho and the surrounding area, combined with the sense of exclusivity engineered by the strict policy—a policy that Sullivan considers "expedient rather than elitist"—resulted in a club punters visiting with a near-religious fervour to dance and show off.
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Maybe in this calculation God should be written with a small "g" because a god whose image can be used to support one's every politically expedient position -- even if that position flouts one's stated religious principles -- isn't a god to be worshiped, but rather one to be pitied.
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Although short-term political interests can coincide with the needs of poor countries—funding for research into climate change and public health, for instance, can be funnelled to British universities and firms—greater transparency and oversight are needed to stop spending on projects simply because they are politically expedient.
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This parallel track approach — where each issue is dealt with according to its own schedule and in the most appropriate forum — offers the best path forward for the U.S. and EU. For both sides, pursuing talks via separate tracks that capitalize on low-hanging fruit is politically expedient.
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To design a ghillie suit for a mission, Army snipers "start with a base layer of artificial camouflage," Smith said, explaining that this allows them to "be a little more expedient in the field" because "it gives us a base we can change from a little bit more rapidly."
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As a result, the European Union they created is decidedly and unequivocally antifascist, and not only in instances in which fascism lies in contradiction to the bloc's economic interests, but also in situations where fascism could perhaps be expedient for the pursuit of the union's own political interests.
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I must say that the issue of resilience was one that I worried and wondered about from the beginning: For far too many Americans in this digital age, stamina is rare, attention spans are short and the urge for instant gratification, or at least for expedient resolution, is enormous.
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Jeanne Button, who was consigned by her parents to taking sewing courses in college that led to an expedient degree in home economics, but who finessed what might have been a humdrum job into a glamorous career as a Broadway costume designer, died on April 21981 in Manhattan.
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But CIAG, in its success thus far, is a reminder that the art world is not necessarily the best equipped to diversify itself, and that deferring to activists and public servants who have already effectively reached diverse populations may be among the most expedient ways to increase art's accessibility.
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Trump's approach to burden-sharing sends the message to our allies that the United States may abandon them as soon as the short-term cost-benefit calculus suggests doing so — such as when defending them risks war, or when the next recession makes bashing "free riding" allies politically expedient.
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"I think we'll do whatever it takes to make it happen, but it's only economically expedient (to buy a home) if we know we're going to stay for more than a year or two or even three, and right now things are just far too up in the air," Kelley said.
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Though the Constitution mandates that the president "shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient," for most of American history that meant a written message, not a speech.
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As long as voters punish politicians who try to do what they believe to be the right thing as opposed to the politically expedient thing, we are going to have a Congress that looks very little like our founding fathers imagined -- but looks a lot like the country as a whole.
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This was certainly a man who felt the need to convince himself, and the world, that to intervene in this or that global trouble-spot was not merely expedient, or the least bad option: it was morally imperative, and staying one's hand would imply a kind of moral laziness or worse.
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Sebastià Alzamora's startling BLOOD CRIME (Soho, $25.95) avoids that fate by the simple, daring expedient of ignoring the supernatural-horror elements of its plot more or less completely and concentrating instead on the real-life horrors of its historical setting: Barcelona in 1936, at the outset of Spain's devastating civil war.
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While this might be expedient for those who have adopted the casual style for the sake of reflected machismo, the majority of those who identify as casuals today seem far more concerned with football, fashion and music than street fighting, as well as the social side of the casual phenomenon.
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This is why anti-corruption crusades are expedient platforms for demagogues and authoritarians who, like Duterte, have no serious interest in corruption — the Philippines had generally improved under his predecessor and has slid back down the rankings during his presidency — but are eager to tear down institutions for very different reasons.
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It seems that with the later introduction in Leviticus of a law banning all male homosexual intercourse, it became expedient to bring the earlier material up-to-date by doing away with two now-superfluous injunctions against homosexual incest — injunctions that made sense when sex between men was otherwise allowed.
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However, the new bill modifies the reporting requirements for state election officials to share information about suspected cybersecurity incidents with the federal government; it says that states should provide the notification "in the most expedient time possible" but drops the original mandate that states share the information within three calendar days.
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Unlike most, it allows the government to limit that freedom with "such restrictions as it considers necessary or expedient" to maintain national security, friendly relations with other countries or public order and morality, as well as to protect "the privileges of Parliament" and to prevent "contempt of court" or "incitement to any offence".
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" In a statement released Friday, the UNWGAD said that Sweden and the UK should work to guarantee Assange's "safety and physical integrity, to facilitate the exercise of his right to freedom of movement in an expedient manner, and to ensure the full enjoyment of his rights guaranteed by the international norms on detention.
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An alternative vision of WWE, without its expedient reliance on the lowest common denominator, might be presented in the form of Shinsuke Nakamura, a global superstar who came over from Japan, spent a year in NXT, and made his in-ring debut for WWE's main roster in the pay-per-view's opening match.
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One of the most expedient moves our government can make today to bolster our exports is to normalize trade with Cuba—a major market 90 miles off our coast that imports much of its food from countries thousands of miles away, all because of dated trade restrictions from nearly 60 years ago.
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When the previous Wheeler FCC decided that its new self-defined mission of net neutrality, was important and urgent enough to implement without Congress, net neutrality morphed into an expedient legal question of what potential FCC legal authority was the most effective means for the FCC alone to mandate maximal net neutrality regulations.
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Expedient politicians – at the Federal, state and local level, who are either too lazy, racially biased, and/or under-informed, do our nation and its citizens no favors by having an emotional reaction instead of a patient, informed and studied response to police enforcement actions where minorities are killed during police encounters.
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A savvy media manipulator, he's also managed to avoid suffering serious damage for his more controversial votes, like his opportunistic support for Wall Street deregulation in the lead-up to the 2009 financial crisis, or for waiting to throw his weight behind gay marriage until it became politically expedient to do so.
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But the garage and wall suggest Related wants, as much as possible, to make the yard seem like a quasi-gated development, in keeping with Mr. Ross's concept and marketing of Hudson Yards as a wealthy, exclusive enclave, separate from the surrounding streetscape except where access seems expedient for Related or is unavoidable.
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Asked if it was expedient to prolong the cuts deal that includes OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers, Novak said: "It's too early to talk about it in the middle of March, (the matter) should be discussed and a decision should be made at the end of April or in the middle of May".
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While imprisoned, Ms. Gathers had an impeccable record and consistently maintained her innocence, even at three parole hearings, where it may have been more expedient to admit to the crime in hopes of being released, said Lisa Cahill, a lawyer with Hughes Hubbard & Reed, which represented Ms. Gathers, along with the Legal Aid Society.
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But the problem with McAuliffe's comments isn't just that they reinforce a widely held suspicion about Clinton's position on the TPP, it's that they reinforce a widely held perception of the candidate herself: that she's dishonest when it's politically expedient, and that she shares her real plans with elites like McAuliffe and not the public.
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Even if the Department of Homeland Security finds it expedient to control the conduct of the New York legislature by acting against its constituents — denying them access to federal programs at airports and border crossings anywhere in the nation simply because of their state residency — doing so clashes with the most basic conceptions of justice.
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It explains:The Working Group therefore requested Sweden and the United Kingdom to assess the situation of Mr. Assange to ensure his safety and physical integrity, to facilitate the exercise of his right to freedom of movement in an expedient manner, and to ensure the full enjoyment of his rights guaranteed by the international norms on detention.
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" The Democrats also added that this follows what they called a "troubling pattern of conduct that has emerged over the past two years that appears to demonstrate that President Trump views the pardon power as a political tool, or even worse, as an expedient mechanism for circumventing the law or avoiding the consequences of his own conduct.
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They were to decide if Harris simply forgot that Cooper was in the SUV and drove on to work rather than dropping him off at daycare or, as the prosecution contends, he wanted an expedient way out of being a parent in order to carry on affairs with other women and have a child-free lifestyle.
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That is a rule of law the founders knew, understood, and undoubtedly relied upon when they drafted the Fourth Amendment — for what would have been the point of the Amendment if the government could have instantly rendered it a dead letter by the simple expedient of delegating to agents investigative work it was forbidden from undertaking itself?
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Labelling bots is not discussed in the report — presumably because Facebook prefers to focus attention on self-defined spam-removal metrics vs muddying the water with discussion of how much suspect activity it continues to host on its platform, either through incompetence, lack of resources or because it's politically expedient for its business to do so.
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The high-end hotel chain, which includes the Trump Soho and Trump International in New York and properties in Chicago, Las Vegas and Waikiki, Hawaii, knew about the initial infiltration as early as June 2015, but did not warn customers for nearly four months, which the attorney general's office said violated state laws requiring expedient notification.
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And I wouldn't write off Cersei just yet; although all of the queens of Game of Thrones owe something to our imagining of Cleopatra (especially Dany), I think that Cersei, now that she's alone, will pull some surprises out of her gown, like Cleopatra switching between Mark Anthony and Julius Caesar depending on who was most politically expedient.
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Conway said Wednesday that she is not advising Republican candidates to talk about the opioid crisis as a political issue during the midterms, but said that the fact that Democrats who are up for reelection in 2018 are willing to stand with the President to act on opioids signals that it is politically expedient to do so.
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The idea is that the central bank should make decisions based on economic data with an eye toward serving the long-term interests of the country, rather than taking whatever action would be expedient in the near term for politicians facing re-election, according to Sarah A. Binder, a George Washington University political science professor who studies the Fed.
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When Ms. Millett talks about the "politically expedient character of patriarchal convictions about women," I think about the health care debates of the past year, the reference by one state legislator to pregnant women as "hosts" and of the fact that not a single female senator was invited to help write the health bill this past spring.
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At a loss to shake her disconnect with large segments of the electorate beyond her base (and ever aware of her dismal likability quotient), she often resorted to rhetorical stunts: tossing in Yiddish phrases when speaking to Jewish groups; adopting a Negro dialect when speaking to black groups; waxing in and out of Southern speech patterns whenever it proved expedient, etc.
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"If Mr. Trump did win in court, a President Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Warren offers plan to repeal 1994 crime law authored by Biden Panel: Jill Biden's campaign message MORE might take the precedent as license to circumvent Congress whenever it is politically expedient," the editorial warned.
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"If Mr. Trump did win in court, a President Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall In shift, top CEOs say shareholder value not top goal MORE might take the precedent as license to circumvent Congress whenever it is politically expedient," the newspaper's editorial board cautioned.
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Since Donald Trump was elected president in November 2016, she's emerged as a major force for women and one of his most vocal critics, voting against more of his cabinet nominees than any of her colleagues and sometimes even breaking rank to stick up for women when it isn't politically expedient, like when she led the call for the ouster of former senator Al Franken, who was accused of sexual harassment.
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"I think that Warren's DNA test, which shows her likely to have a smidge of Native ancestry, is first of all politically expedient for her, in that it absolves her of lying, and that gives her much needed credibility in the face of the right's attacks on her, led by Trump," said Dina Gilio-Whitaker, a citizen of Colville Confederated Tribes and an Indigenous studies scholar and writer.
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"But the process now is that we file licenses to try to get approval and we've submitted quite a few licenses for our product and … the U.S. administration had announced last week that they're going to try to process the licenses from the industry in an expedient fashion so we are encouraged by that," Swan said, adding that he has no idea how long the applications will take.
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RELATED: House committee subpoenas Trump financial information from accounting firm "The reported discussion between you, President Trump, and other Department personnel follows a troubling pattern of conduct that has emerged over the past two years that appears to demonstrate that President Trump views the pardon power as a political tool, or even worse, as an expedient mechanism for circumventing the law or avoiding the consequences of his own conduct," the letter from the Judiciary panel reads.
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