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The voters who foisted Barack Obama on the Democratic elite—before they foisted him on the country—forced them to cut a deal with the devil.
Massive demographic changes have been foisted upon the American people.
"This wasn't a mandate foisted upon an agency," he said.
This vacation was foisted upon me when I was 12.
BYRNE No, I think tragedy has been foisted on them.
Unqualified Hindu nationalists were foisted on educational and cultural institutions.
It also touches on Lilac's distaste for unattainable standards foisted on women.
How does this exist, and why is it being foisted upon children?!?!?!
The American Library Association foisted "Banned Books Week" on us again this week.
In fact, some might have foisted some blame onto Dao for not disembarking willingly.
Nobody was clamoring for another entrance, and yet we got one foisted upon us.
The men who foisted this system on us were hardly more enthusiastic about it.
If this burden is foisted on the counties, some might wheeze under the strain.
Chinese football fans often feel powerless to resist things foisted on them from above.
Silicon Valley has foisted their experimental efforts on the public for far too long.
Americans never voted for this -- it was foisted upon us by a globalist ruling class.
The show foisted Colton Underwood on us, the "Prince of Paradise," seemingly for no reason.
Americans are rejecting this healthcare scheme foisted upon them more than at any other time.
And there, I think, is the lie foisted upon us, not least by artists themselves.
These are the compromises foisted upon us by powerful corporations and the politicians they own.
Her look isn't meant to imitate something foisted on her by the indecencies of society.
Militant feminism and radical homosexuality have been foisted on the American people against their will.
"She may not want to do it, but it's been foisted upon her," he said.
This category and this baggage gets foisted upon Africans and members of the African diaspora.
Because every girl wants a surprise meeting with bae's mother foisted on her with no warning.
"It is a radical change that is attempting to be foisted on the American people," Sen.
The bad Moses displaced hundreds of thousands of poor people and foisted other calamities on the city.
Wilson demanded unconditional surrender, offering terms more in line with those Ludendorff had himself foisted on Russia.
The FCA would also address other problems foisted on the American economy by the Dodd-Frank Act.
They feel the Vermont senator is channeling their frustration about the injustices foisted on the working class.
I foisted copies on friends and raved about its feminist, surrealist horror to anyone who would listen.
But a growing international audience has foisted clout and visibility upon mezcal, which may bring unwanted pressure.
How many thousands more have to suffer the indignity foisted onto me and others for no objective benefit?
Unwanted and vulnerable, "witches" often have no choice but to embrace the identity foisted upon them to survive.
Similarly, he believes homeownership is a rip-off foisted upon unwitting citizens by a $14 trillion mortgage industry.
The shocking queen is just one more stereotype foisted on us—but my stories don't ever shock me.
Some of this can be explained away by citing unfairly lofty expectations foisted upon him in his teens.
They also complain that the nominees were foisted on them at midnight only hours before a weekend vote.
Mr Hu and Mr Jiang had to work with successors who had been foisted on them by party elders.
It's a combination of 'foisted' and 'forced,' which also happen to be his two favorite ways to meet women.
By the end of the day, they'd foisted up Trump's tweet as an exhibit in the very hearing itself.
Now, this tiny, hand-to-mouth organization has foisted the issue onto Washington voters in a Presidential election year.
One is that there are some of what the philosophers call category errors that have been foisted upon us.
To seek mental health care in America is to have drugs foisted on you like you're backstage at Coachella.
As with the rest of these dad-rockers, Leonard's music wasn't foisted on me, I was drawn to it.
They had never had any choice in the matter; being different was something that had been foisted upon them.
For a long time now, computers have foisted a forced homogenization among the cultures and languages of the world.
"It is a radical change that is attempting to be foisted on the American people," Cruz said in a statement.
It's another example of a legal fiction -- an unreasonable expectation foisted upon citizens, but to achieve a greater good: finality.
Arbitrary expectations and rules, based on pure fantasy, are foisted upon athletes so that we can enjoy a good story.
Despite my objections, she foisted a bowl of grapes on me, which I happily ate while she dissected a pomegranate.
After all, "queer" never belonged to us; it was foisted upon us, and we reconfigured it to make it ours.
They're foisted upon us by Christine Mak, an events manager who provides samples to customers across the Wing Yip branches.
It's interesting that looking out into the universe, we saw our own future and foisted it onto others, already successful.
Chinese officials rejected Washington's characterization that they had exploded the deal, saying that the US had "foisted promises" on China.
With the promo work surrounding a new album, do you ever feel that those easy genre classifications get foisted upon you?
Some locals, wary of having foisted upon them the regional mayor that was a condition of other devolution deals, still worry.
The difference is he's bumping up against the bumbling-dad stereotype that's foisted upon anyone who parents while male these days.
Is the idea that games should kick off on Saturdays not simply the tradition of one generation being foisted upon another?
But to make the best of the situation that's been foisted upon you, I'd skip further discussion with your former boss.
This Hobson's choice, between surrender or ouster, has been foisted upon Mr. Rosenstein by the cowardice or complicity of congressional Republicans.
At least Froseth plays her character with a knowing and willful hatred for the narrative Miles has foisted upon on her.
The attempt to redeem Jeri is no more successful than the soap-opera-style plots foisted on the supervillain parents in Runaways.
It was on a scale rarely seen in protests against the eight years of austerity foisted upon Greece by its international lenders.
More and more, she turns to her diary to write free of the constraints that her public persona has foisted on her.
MIAMI — Over the past five years, Jeremy Lin has felt multiple disparate identities foisted upon him: undrafted underdog, franchise savior, overpaid mercenary.
Further, it was a year of justice and accountability for at least some of those who foisted this administration on the country.
In the end, Williams avers that race is a construction foisted on all people by the majority, and that it is unhelpful.
For decades, American schoolchildren have had cows' milk foisted on them, along with artery-clogging cheese and other fat-laden animal products.
Elected officials held a news conference on Sunday to complain about how the new plan was foisted on them without many details.
Instead, they demand that shareholders and bondholders, be 'bailed in', forcing them to accept heavy losses that would otherwise be foisted on taxpayers.
This re-education method was perfected by Chairman Mao and is now being foisted on American children under the guise of 'understanding history.
And with slapstick routines foisted on their attendants, Kurwenal and Brangäne, much of this high-serious opera hovered on the edge of farce.
"It's been a project born in secrecy and foisted on the city and public without proper procedures," Mr. Emery said in an interview.
It's terrible — I'm always making fun of Texas for the politicians they've foisted on us, and now look what we've gone and done.
The comedian recently moved to TriBeCa, where, he said, he lives with dozens of Bed Bath & Beyond coupons his mother foisted upon him.
To the Editor: For years many businesses large and small have closed because of the large rent increases foisted upon them by landlords.
Like many military rulers, Mr. al-Bashir liked to claim that power had been foisted upon him, and that he wielded it reluctantly.
She was convinced that vaccination was a cynical scam, foisted on the public by a conspiracy between doctors, vaccine manufacturers and government officials.
I was suffering from severe respiratory illness as a direct result of environmental factors unfairly foisted on black and Latinx communities in Buffalo.
If we've been consuming and sharing misinformation, we like to think that it's because some outside force has foisted those messages on us.
Nobody likes change, including higher fuel levies, especially when foisted upon them by a 40-year-old former Rothschild banker lacking the common touch.
The rest of us just foisted our spam mail onto it, at least until 2013, when the service was formally folded into Outlook.64.
I was abandoning, as much as possible, the proprietary, control-freakish environments that Apple and Microsoft have increasingly foisted on users of personal computers.
Trumpism is an outgrowth of the kind of propaganda right-wing politicians and media have foisted on Americans for the entirety of Obama's presidency.
But the constitution the army has foisted on the country guarantees it control of important ministries and enough seats in parliament to block reforms.
In addition to justifying Roosevelt's actions, she cast remorse over the incident as political correctness, foisted upon impressionable history students by left-wing educators.
I've lost count of the number of times I've foisted a copy of Chris Kraus's I Love Dick on unsuspecting friends over the years.
Plus, unlike mobile apps, which you consciously have to choose to download and use, interactions with bots could very well be foisted upon us.
We have had a healthcare law (ObamaCare) foisted on us that was based on lies/mistruths (choose your own word) that continues to collapse.
The Voice was a place where I realized we could push back against the lazy zombie narratives foisted on black folks by non-blacks.
Or is she some other version of herself, foisted upon her by a system she was born into as a child and barely understands?
They are foisted into an identity all their own, one they must learn to live with just as their parents learned to live as queer.
"There is a long, storied legacy of the trans deception trope," he said, which can be "unwittingly foisted on actual trans people" in damaging ways.
"It was a tragedy foisted upon us and far and away one of the saddest moments of our lives, and personally of mine," Levine said.
Alas, being a country, we have to have an anthem foisted upon us, a murmured burr to bumble through at sporting events and royal appointments.
Howard corroborates the story with a Vine of Harden's tear-streaked face under a plastic Mickey Mouse ear hat, which Howard also foisted upon him.
Often, the lowest bidder is a struggling company that itself is at the mercy of terms and conditions foisted upon it by the larger entity.
How could so many bishops have so consistently looked the other way or worse, paid off victims or foisted predatory priests on unsuspecting parishes elsewhere?
And if these cases are successful, Big Oil will finally be forced to assume a greater portion of the costs they have foisted on taxpayers.
Hated: Plantation weddings Listen, there's nothing wrong with the whole barn wood-burlap-mason jar wedding aesthetic that Pinterest foisted upon the masses this decade.
"The wacky Ambassador that the U.K. foisted upon the United States is not someone we are thrilled with, a very stupid guy," Trump tweeted Tuesday morning.
Massive demographic changes have been foisted upon the American people and they're changes that none of us ever voted for and most of us don't like.
Often, these regulations mirror those foisted on the taxi industry — fingerprint background checks against an FBI database to screen drivers, or vehicle inspection mandates for cars.
Chait sees the interplay between radicals and policymakers as a burden foisted on Republicans, while Democrats merely have to fend off demands from an ineffectual left.
Instead they will be foisted onto exporters who, having paid their suppliers and workers in hard cash, will have to accept funny money for their earnings.
Australian-style licorice is pillowy, smooth, thick, and flavorful — the opposite of the hard, flavorless, and pipe cleaner-y disappointment foisted upon us by the Twizzler.
A layoff by any other nameThe Lowe's employees who spoke with Business Insider universally characterized recent role eliminations as thinly disguised layoffs foisted upon store management.
Massive demographic changes have been foisted upon the American people, and they're changes that none of us ever voted for and most of us don't like.
We won $59.41, an unusually generous prize, and got digitally foisted onto the internet's shoulders: I heard from a colleague, a Twitter follower, my friend's mom.
After World War II, the Soviet Union foisted a social experiment on Hungary, forcing us to live in a Communist society for almost half a century.
The helper asked me to sit up, and I foisted myself into a fairly uncomfortable position: Legs straight out in front of me, arms at my side.
Messenger, which Facebook aggressively foisted upon users by disabling the direct messaging feature in the core Facebook app, is said to have over 1 billion monthly users.
THE inconclusive result of Italy's election on March 25th has, paradoxically, foisted a decisive role on a party that emerged from the contest demoralised, defeated and divided.
"The wacky Ambassador that the U.K. foisted upon the United States is not someone we are thrilled with, a very stupid guy," Trump posted on Tuesday morning.
It's called the BBC Micro Bit, and it was foisted on a million unsuspecting children in the UK who apparently needed to brush up on their STEM.
The army insisted that the constitution, which it wrote and foisted upon the country in a sham referendum eight years ago, already involves a degree of federalism.
Before Republicans foisted independent counsel Kenneth Starr on the Clintons, the first family was the focus of an investigation by a DOJ special counsel named Robert Fiske.
Another way to read the titular brothers is through nationality: Subicz's Austria-Hungary is Abel, murdered by Germany's Cain, which fostered Nazism and foisted it on Europe.
People are choosing to leave the state rather than stick around and pay the higher taxes foisted on them by the Democrats that run the government there.
If the GND is foisted on the people—and not to a considerable degree shaped by them—it will be a limited and perhaps self-defeating initiative.
If we were mired in dour circumstances from the onset, we'd lose the turn from simple, childlike understanding to adult responsibilities and consequences being foisted on us.
One of my few irritations with "Feud" is that it presents the actresses' rivalry as being foisted upon them by the studio, the gossip columnists, the public.
Trump continued to falsely claim this was a policy foisted upon him by Democrats and falsely repeated that Congress had to act in order to stop it.
Before he foisted that bunch of helium-voiced terrors on the nation, he provided us with this pleasing novelty hit, which gets a nearly 20153x lift every Halloween.
Having foisted a referendum on the country to solve an internal party battle, the Conservatives are now making a hash of taking Britain out of the European Union.
" As Trump stood, Inslee told the president that teachers should be allowed to educate and "not be foisted upon this responsibility of packing heat in first-grade classes.
It isn't style; I admire his direct and even brusque approach, and his willingness to eviscerate untouchable icons that have been foisted upon us by the intolerant left.
The Soviet Union and its satellites were an apparatus of state terror, resting on an ideology of class hatred, foisted on nations that wanted no part of either.
This year alone saw these policies—which be foisted onto high-paid engineers and contract workers alike in fine print—rescinded at three major firms: Facebook, Uber, and Google.
And the discomfort some feel at the strange dress or speech of a passer-by does not remotely justify trillions in economic losses foisted on the world's poorest people.
In his telling, the years since 1979 have been an aberration, foisted on the country by political Islamists and Iran (which had its Islamic revolution months before the siege).
Whatever sure-to-be-viral horrors Corden's been cooking up for this Sunday, I am positive of one thing: no one deserves to have them foisted upon their eyes.
Still, employees in extremely at-risk positions like these across the country have not been provided benefits for the hazardous, precarious working situations into which they've suddenly been foisted.
Wynne became overwhelmed with the demand for more and better puzzles, and eventually foisted the whole thing off onto his secretary, Margaret Petherbridge, a refined graduate of Smith College.
Local reporting has captured the difficulties months of uncertainty foisted on families, as some were forced to try to find new plans and figure out how to pay for them.
Surely you've heard the conspiracy theory that the moon landing was (gasp!) faked and foisted onto a gullible public with the help of 2001: A Space Odyssey director Stanley Kubrick.
But such hypocrisy is not uncommon: Earlier global hegemons, including the British Empire and the U.S., didn't alway live up to the free trade principles they foisted on other countries.
What often happens instead is that these tasks, rather than becoming respected, well-paid professions, are foisted piecemeal onto socioeconomically disadvantaged women, freeing their more privileged peers to pursue careers.
He is the Horatio Alger of the equine set, a determined athlete who outran his modest pedigree and endured the chaos often foisted upon him by the humans around him.
A band of clean-cut teenagers, most of them Thomas' kids, are on stage, playing the kind of anodyne, soulless, Christian rock music that evangelicals have foisted upon the world.
"The wacky Ambassador that the UK foisted upon the United States is not someone we are thrilled with, a very stupid guy," he tweeted, describing Darroch as a "pompous fool".
"The wacky Ambassador that the UK foisted upon the United States is not someone we are thrilled with, a very stupid guy," Trump wrote, describing Darroch as a "pompous fool".
The American Library Association has denounced this model using strong language, but perhaps it's time for libraries to do more than grumpily go along with whatever gets foisted upon us.
And perhaps most dauntingly for a candidate like Oprah, rather than choosing your own topics, the topics are foisted on you -- often by opponents or mischievous reporters baiting a trap.
Whether that "news" is social engineering driven by foreign botnets programmed to enhance the chances of the "right" candidate, or a more localized attempt foisted by partisan hacks doesn't matter.
Many South Koreans complained that the United States had foisted Thaad on their nation, but they also fumed about retaliatory economic measures taken by China in response to its deployment.
Ms. Smith, a far less famous politician than Mr. Franken, whose resignation came amid accusations of sexual harassment, seemed eager to avoid being seen as a senator foisted upon Minnesotans.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads PARIS — Through his early and spectacular success as the preeminent Art Nouveau graphic artist, a psychic burden was foisted upon the Bohemian artist Alphonse Mucha.
Two years later, Sofia Fernandez fled home in the dead of night, capitalizing on a brief lull in fighting between the warring forces who had foisted her farm into the crossfire.
He has also foisted on them a colossally arrogant junior employee named Scooter (Ben Euphrat), who proves a gratifyingly easy target for Brock (Mark Anderson Phillips), the group's razor-tongued jester.
The current market-dominant salt supplier would certainly cry foul and label it a job-killing regulation foisted upon us by those that care more about dogs than hard-working Americans.
Somehow we accept the association, foisted on us, of these counterfeit confections with a chill in the air, a Jack-o'-lantern on the stoop and a Butterball in the oven.
Certainly, immigration was not a problem foisted on Europe from the outside; the fates of Europeans and non-Europeans were inextricably connected in the 19th century by conquest, colonization and trade.
Pasta salad/grain salad Perhaps people cook pasta, quinoa, rice and other carbs expressly for the sake of producing these salads, but I can't help but feel that leftovers are being foisted.
"It was a tragedy foisted upon us and far and away one of the saddest moments of our lives, and personally of mine," Levine said of Jonah Hill and Beanie Feldstein's brother.
In addition to the awkward Abe shake, Trump has foisted his unusual tug-and-pull style on other high-profile figures, including Vice President Mike Pence and Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.
Jack Bailey, who runs a personal-injury firm in Caddo Parish, says five felony cases were foisted on it last year, even though his three colleagues have no expertise in criminal law.
Another quibble is that the author sees gay marriage as something foisted on religious America by secular America, downplaying the changes in attitudes that he observes so keenly elsewhere in the book.
Fox's 2015 Fantastic Four reboot is the greatest superhero movie disaster ever foisted on fans, suffering from weird wigs, bad action, and a script that feels like it was constructed by a kindergartener.
Like previous measures, the new rule has been foisted on immigration officials with little planning, according to an email sent by the chief U.S. asylum officer to staff who will carry it out.
I do wish, however, that a couple of years ago someone had foisted a clear set of fermentation guidelines on me, along with a list of the right gear to get me going.
They did not speak the language of their captors, who foisted a religion upon them -- complete with a white god -- and preached that black people were inferior and doomed to slavery in perpetuity.
Now, they're poised to be foisted back into the spotlight with the documentary "Growing Up Coy," which has its premiere on June 16 in New York at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival.
Conversely, the kinds of special interest funding that have been foisted onto USAID for decades at such great expense — gender, environmental, diversity and sexual identity spending come to mind — are a different story.
The variety of black people is not, of course, some intrinsic creativity in our D.N.A. It was largely foisted on American blacks by slavery, only more recently occurring as a result of choice.
Who knew that an American Indian tribe struck it rich on land that had been foisted on them, and then paid for it with their lives when white people (of course) got greedy.
Some in French cultural circles contend that the sculpture was practically foisted on the city; they have called it more of a coup for the artist and his private donors than for Paris.
But there's no denying that all the tension and questions surrounding Kyrie's leadership qualities and his impending free agency last season foisted a weight upon the Celtics that is noticeably absent this season.
Ahead, WENS talks to Refinery29 about setting her own agenda for her love life, embracing the brown-skinned Disney princess roles foisted on her in childhood, and her love of Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
A jail nurse, Sharon Allen, told the council the jail was filling up with mentally ill inmates and described how a nurse had to leave early because an inmate foisted feces at her.
In wartime, no strategy is off the table, and the militant feminist Andrea Dworkin was fighting a war — one she didn't choose, she said, but one that the patriarchy had foisted on her.
Often that means blistering a Bluetooth speaker with something punishing—say the chattery, crowd-dispersing chaos of Wolf Eyes' "Stabbed in the Face"—especially when the responsibility has been unwillingly foisted upon me.
While Mark Zuckerberg famously claimed that privacy is no longer a "social norm," it's less a case that people don't expect privacy, and more that a new social norm has been foisted on us.
It is indeed possible that many former detainees now have jobs, as the Chinese government claims they do — but the important question is whether those jobs have been foisted upon them against their will.
Banks have started to run screaming from the subprime auto-loan market, after spiking defaults raised questions about the same deceptions foisted on auto borrowers that we saw with mortgage borrowers a decade ago.
Consumers saw teaser interest rates that morphed into unaffordable rates soon thereafter, high fees that were foisted upon borrowers at the closing table and loans packed with unnecessary and costly products like credit insurance.
" He added, "I just think this is a circumstance where we need to listen — that educators should educate, and they should not be foisted upon this responsibility of packing heat in first-grade classes.
While the BBC continues to get some things very right, it's commitment to fulfilling the criteria foisted upon it as a national broadcaster means that much of the good is buried under the mediocre.
The army, which under the constitution it foisted on the country remains a law unto itself, rakes in millions from jade and timber in border regions, giving it a strong incentive to let fighting continue.
Why does the song of the summer have to be something foisted on us by the record industry to enjoy during a specific period of time adjacent to when the "something" in question was released?
Where so much fiction about the immigrant family tends to become an exercise in anthropology, a study of inherited customs foisted on a child caught between cultures, Patel's characters are fundamentally engaged with the world.
But there's not solid evidence for it when it comes to other kinds of drugs, and some people don't like the approach at all — yet it's often what's foisted on patients in American addiction treatment.
For Mido, fame was foisted upon him in his teens – essentially in exchange for potential rather than achievement – and he was a national hero before he'd hit escaped adolescence; acceptance and identity were never an issue.
Now layer on top of that the fact that the onerous and ineffective rules of conducting commerce aren't being foisted on you directly by your own government but rather by unelected European Union elites in Brussels.
Now layer on top of that the fact that the onerous and ineffective rules of conducting commerce aren't being foisted on you directly by your own government, but rather by unelected European Union elites in Brussels.
The idea of home (white, Protestant) was foisted on various Native American tribes by the numerous treaties divvying up their homelands, forcing them into deadly reservations, breaking down their cultures—and teaching women how to knit.
SZ: Well, this is my rejoinder to this detestable propaganda that the tech companies have foisted on our societies, telling us that, as long as we have nothing to hide, we have nothing to worry about.
And while it is certainly appropriate to ask whether, or how, "screen time" is productively spent, Ms. Riley conflates all screens into a kind of digital snake oil foisted upon American children by greedy corporate interests.
As do I. I have listened to all the blame foisted on the Clinton campaign for doing this or that wrong, or the media for not exposing Mr. Trump, or for giving him too much airtime.
Many children had terrified reactions to seeing these two famous clowns everywhere, or to having clown memorabilia foisted on them by well-meaning adults — an anxiety most notably typified by the famous clown scene in Poltergeist.
For one thing, both characters are a living, breathing examination of how to move past trauma and tragedy — though Dolores has tragedy foisted upon her again and again, while Fleabag bears a hand in creating her own.
But a 1965 law in New York foisted these costs on the state's 62 counties, leaving poor defendants at the mercy of inadequate local funding — a system that the state's chief judge called "severely dysfunctional" in 2006.
Such is Mr. Kaine's view from the great election comedown of 2016: that quadrennial moment of humility, electoral grieving and reverse culture shock, foisted upon members of the losing ticket as they resume less glamorous public lives.
These companies are then foisted onto the public with IPOs even though they have no clear business model; people invest with the belief that that X or Y unicorn is the next Facebook or Amazon or Google.
Politicians in 2005 and 2007 clearly had no special knowledge about the economic conditions of today, and likely only limited awareness of even then-present conditions, and thus foisted requirements on the economy that are not feasible.
"It sounds like here is an English tradition being foisted upon indigenous Australia — what a horrible colonial thing to do," said Mr. Morrison, the former artistic director of the Queensland Music Festival, one of the project's main supporters.
Importantly, business travellers have to pay their travel management companies transaction fees on each segment as the airlines have foisted a new level of complexity and inefficiency upon the industry that must be paid for by the customer.
Trump ran as the "anti-elites" candidate, casting himself as someone not bound by the political correctness and liberalism that Democrats, the media and even many establishment Republicans had foisted over the average person over the past decades.
The theory, say Kasich backers, is that the governor could be a compromise pick, somebody who is not as polarizing as the two leading candidates but is also not a "white knight" foisted upon the party by elites.
Until quite recently, I thought Alexa was a joke, a wild, hypothetical Orwellian item that might one day be foisted upon the world, not something that anyone might actually desire, pay for and willingly allow into her home.
Not just the books with silver medallions on their covers, but every hardcover featured at Barnes & Noble, every paperback foisted upon you by a friend or a relative or even a stranger—what if they were all pretty good?
Thoroughfares in central Athens turned into a sea of people waving blue and white Greek flags in what locals said was the largest gathering in decades, easily outdoing rallies against austerity foisted by lenders on the crisis-hit country.
One person familiar with the matter said that Labruna was foisted on Commerce at the urging of 29-year-old PPO director John McEntee, who has been charged by the president with keeping his administration stocked with loyal officials.
She said she assumed that Mahoney sent the song to MGM; that someone there "foisted it" on Rodgers and Hart; and that Jack Robbins, who ran MGM's music-publishing unit, saw potential in the melody a little later on.
" It concerns her that this wasn't something the parents were pushing for, that it was foisted upon them, but Dr. Muth did lay to rest one major concern a parent might have: "Nutritionally, I don't think it's an issue.
It's being foisted on us by huge telecom companies that know internet access is fundamentally a commodity and want something new to sell at high prices instead of competing to improve service and lower prices on the networks they have.
Visitors who have lived in China commonly return home with bad stories about baijiu, which often have less to do with the liquid itself—though its hangovers are legendary—than the way it has been foisted on them at raucous events.
On Monday, defense attorneys criticized the volume of discovery materials that were being foisted on them ahead of the trial date — Bondy said he could only sift through electronic files after using an air conditioner to cool his computer processor.
As he holds merger talks with smaller rival Commerzbank an assignment foisted on him by German government officials opinion is split on whether this head down attitude will serve Deutsche Bank well as its future course hangs in the balance.
He did it with the language he inherited from the colonizer, within the Western tradition that was foisted upon him, claiming all its literature as his patrimony even as he infused it with his own motley identity, thereby changing it forever.
Generally annoying communities like r/the_donald, equally irritating counter-Trump group r/EnoughTrumpSpam, and GamerGate hub r/KotakuinAction will no longer be foisted on logged-out users or those who never signed up for a Reddit account in the first place.
In the end, the most significant thing to come out of the season was the return of #OscarsSoWhite, which put Hollywood's racially biased ways under the microscope and foisted the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences into the hot seat.
Please, just put down that flimsy freebie tote that was foisted on you at that work conference five years ago, or the cool thrift-store find with unique, Memphis-y design but non-working zipper — save it for those Instagrammable picnics.
I worry about Sanders's chances against Trump, but a candidate foisted on the party over the furious remonstrances of a disempowered base would almost certainly fare worse, while permanently alienating the young people who should be the Democratic Party's future.
The president has told friends that he believes chief of staff John Kelly, with whom he has a strained relationship, foisted his deputy Nielsen upon him, according to two of the people, complaining that he didn't know what he was getting.
As he holds merger talks with smaller rival Commerzbank – an assignment foisted on him by German government officials – opinion is split on whether this 'head down' attitude will serve Deutsche Bank well as its future course hangs in the balance.
This is the story of a woman choosing something that such close proximity to the presidency had already foisted upon her: to be something in public, and something else in private, and to live both those timelines with equal gumption.
"Malaysia does not want a trade war with Europe but if one is foisted on us, we will respond with might and tact," said Mah Siew Keong, Malaysia's minister for plantation industries and commodities, speaking at an industry conference in Kuala Lumpur.
As it was, the army had been using lèse-majesté and other laws to suppress all manner of inconvenient debate, over the incompetence of the ruling junta, say, or shortcomings of the illiberal constitution it foisted on the country earlier this year.
"We can't wait to get 'I love you, you love me' stuck in heads everywhere, yet again," David Carrico, Valparaiso's founder, said in a press statement, in what has to be one of the most sadistic promises ever foisted upon an innocent populace.
"It's been a project born in secrecy and foisted on the city and public without proper procedures," said Richard Emery, the lawyer for the City Club of New York, a group that seeks to promote thoughtful urban land use driven by public discussion.
The villain was the one responsible for regulating the entire mortgage process, from origination to securitization but who did nothing as all these mortgages were being written and all these mortgage derivatives were being ginned up and foisted on supposedly savvy institutional investors?
FORT WORTH, Texas, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Texas and a dozen other states plan to ask a U.S. judge in Fort Worth on Friday to halt Obama administration recommendations regarding bathroom access for transgender students, arguing they are unlawful "radical changes" being foisted on the nation.
"So the next time you think of all the disastrous policies that have been foisted on the people of New York, you can thank Donald Trump for bankrolling those efforts," Cruz said, name-checking New York politicians that Trump has financially backed such as Rep.
So, to recap: The lives of over 300 million Americans are being affected by policies foisted on them by a Senate "majority" that represents less than one-fifth of them and a president who was elected with three million fewer votes than his opponent.
And, perhaps, the less passive one: Newsletters have a "push" component, meaning content is foisted upon recipients, as opposed to the "pull" aspect of the typical blog or social media post, where content is made available for people to find of their own accord.
" By Tuesday, Trump seemed even more angry, tweeting: "The wacky Ambassador that the U.K. foisted upon the United States is not someone we are thrilled with, a very stupid guy.... I don't know the Ambassador but have been told he is a pompous fool.
" She argues that, given her party's manifesto pledge to revisit the independence issue in the wake of a "material change" to Scotland's circumstances, the push for a second referendum is a necessary response to a situation "foisted upon us by a Conservative government we didn't vote for.
Defiance of the north is expressed in the defence of Tamil and other regional languages against the imposition of Hindi, and also in the rejection of caste (and of Brahmin power in particular), which Dravidian ideologues regard as a curse foisted upon the country by Aryans.
While it's true that I do love spectacle, and I do love to yell "AMERICA" in a husky voice every time I crack open a can of Bud, I don't like my beer-fueled patriotism foisted upon me like some red, white, and blue cold sore.
But the responsibilities foisted on them are not the same: Relatives of white victims can choose to become activists—they might take up, say, the cause of gun control—but they aren't required to, and they never have to, prove that their very lives have value.
Every evil the United States has foisted upon its Indigenous people has been accompanied by the message that, no matter the range of violence or unfairness at hand, the actions doled out by the troops or the politicians were in the best interest of Native communities.
But on Thursday, Wells Fargo's former chief executive John G. Stumpf was fined $22018 million — the largest individual fine in the history of the bank's main federal regulator — for his role in a toxic sales culture that foisted unwanted products and sham bank accounts on millions of customers.
So long as Russia does not admit that its doping program was a unique conspiracy inspired by the Kremlin's obsession with status, hatched at high levels of government and foisted on athletes by the very agencies that were supposed to protect them, Russian sports will remain tainted and suspect.
Still, it's worth noting that the administration as recently as a few weeks ago appeared to be dragging its feet on that new round of anti-Russia sanctions Congress foisted on Trump, and could find ways of slow-walking them even if they do comply with the law.
Contrary to popular belief, most edtech is not foisted upon our schools from above as it was in decades past, but rather, classroom teachers are pulling it in — especially by those whose students are increasingly left behind by a global economy that favors the connected, the computer literate and the experienced.
But a few years ago, drawing inspiration from the hand-me-downs of her youth, she tried to make her own version of a garment she had hated having foisted on her as a child: the nubby winter layer well-known to anyone who has stopped by a Patagonia shop.
Yet, the framework has been aggressively foisted on the community by Google, which has backed the project not just with technical talent, but also by making algorithmic changes to its search results that have essentially mandated that pages comply with the AMP project's terms — or else lose their ranking on mobile searches.
Of the three artists in the exhibition, Sironi goes farthest in admitting the outside world into his work, with paintings such as "Venus of the Ports," a darkly pessimistic apparition of prostitution along the docks, and "La guerra (The War)" (also 1919), with its blinded, shattered veteran foisted upright like a breathing corpse.
His rough and sometimes nasty demeanor worries the hand-wringers in the elite media and other institutions, but it is no more coarse in the minds of many everyday Americans than the sex-saturated, expletive-laden, and violence-edifying content foisted on America by the same cultural elites that tell them Trump is a cretin.
Founders face incredible pressure to keep up with the fundraising of their peers, so they are constantly seeking capital (or finding it foisted upon them!) Investors race to put money into companies before their valuations spike into unicorn territory, so they are willing to forego certain things (aka metrics) to get ahead of their competitors.
Kenneth S. Axelson, a J. C. Penney executive who was foisted on New York City Hall as a deputy mayor during the 22 fiscal crisis to restore integrity to the city's extravagant budget, and who left after a year with his goal largely accomplished, died on May 2000 in Rockport, Me. He was 22011.
For years, Fifth Third Bank, a large regional bank based in Ohio, opened unauthorized accounts in customers' names as part of an aggressive sales strategy that foisted credit cards, online banking services and other products on people without their knowledge, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday by one of the bank's federal regulators.
But chatting with a half-dozen or so Oscar campaigners, the Bagger learned that the reasons long-shot movies and performers are foisted into the awards fray are almost as numerous as the prizes Hollywood doles out to itself each year (though, she dares to say, publicists' justifying their paychecks surely plays a part).
Where to watch: Rent or purchase (Amazon, iTunes, YouTube) Bliss (Ellen Page) rebels against the traditional femininity foisted upon her by her mother and finds herself on a roller derby team with the likes of Smashley Simpson (Drew Barrymore), Maggie Mayhem (Kristen Wiig), Bloody Holly (Zoë Bell), and more (she takes on the name Babe Ruthless).
But the controlled bursts of raw energy bounding through Paradise fly in the face of despair, reflecting the natural-born, scuffed and scruffy resistance of young artists to the reactionary politics foisted upon them (as well as the culture wars to come), refusing to be stunned into silence, doing everything they could to be seen and heard.
Trump foisted on the public and the world a massive alteration in immigration policy before it could possibly have been adequately vetted by the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security or Immigration and Customs Enforcement, among others, all of whom play a critical role in the processing of individuals into this country from abroad.
I've found that it's helpful to be proactive about it; making a conscious choice to be alone with your thoughts for a set period of time (with a set end time) and taking baby steps feels way less overwhelming than having it suddenly foisted upon you because none of your friends are responding to your texts.
The runoff will effectively hinge on what Alabama Republicans are more uneasy with: Mr. Strange, an appointed senator many believe has been foisted upon them by state and national party insiders, or Mr. Moore, a highly controversial jurist who was once taken off the bench after he refused to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the Supreme Court building.
Because of you and me, and the 10 billion tons of carbon that we put into the atmosphere last year, the flowers of the near future must rely more and more on dumb luck as their tried-and-true blooming strategies leave them stranded and vulnerable to the unnatural climate that we have foisted upon them.
This definition was foisted on the American left by Republicans in the 1970s: the likes of Richard Nixon and George Bush senior liked to talk about "limousine liberals" who advocated "progressive" policies on crime and social integration so long as they could protect themselves from the consequences of those policies (eg, by sending their children to private schools and living in gated communities).
If one people violently conquered the territory of an indigenous people, forced them to declare allegiance to the conquering nation and creed at the point of a sword, foisted a culture, religion and language on the conquered people and treated those who refused as second-class citizens with far fewer rights, there would rightly be outcry, derision and, above all, condemnation.
Photo: Ted S. Warren/Pool (AP)Lu Wei, the former chief of the imposing Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) and one of the primary architects of the mass censorship foisted on China's estimated 700 million internet users, pleaded guilty this week in Chinese court to taking some 32 million yuan (about $4.6 million) in bribes, the Associated Press reported on Friday, citing state TV broadcasts.
Some key Cabinet secretaries opposed him on core philosophical issues (see Defense Secretary James Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin.) Others had lethal ethical problems (EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.) Behind the scenes: Trump's frazzled transition team foisted the job of political vetting onto the Republican National Committee.
Emanuel Maiberg, Motherboard Weekend Editor While it is true that it is likely possible to affect third-party add-ons with this particular piece of malware, the attack is actually foisted upon the Blizzard UI code itself, and has been confirmed by people dissecting the exploit; and as of today, the exploit developer themselves; that it works against anyone; add-ons or no add-ons.
Pew's researchers also recorded regular expressions of anger "about the barrage of unsolicited emails, phone calls, customized ads or other contacts that inevitably arises when they elect to share some information about themselves" — with, for instance, study participants complaining about the lack of relevant ads foisted into their eye-line, and wishing for more control over the marketing content they are being exposed to.
It defies belief that the culture wars were "foisted" on Trump, since he's been eagerly engaging in them for decades in various forms, going back at least to 1989 when he took out a full page ad in the Times calling for the execution of the Central Park Five (a group of non-white teens who were accused of a brutal rape, which they were later exonerated of).
The effects of this bargain on all of us have been well documented — even if some of its political consequences, as with the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal, are continually ramifying — but the lives of the people who work in the industry and have foisted it on us are less well known, and this is where Corey Pein's "Live Work Work Work Die" attempts to fill in the picture.
It seems every day brings yet another story about college students behaving badly – be it a violent protest, like the ones that took place across the country in 2017 at places like UC Berkeley, Middlebury College, and New York University – or some outrageous politically-correct behavior foisted upon fellow classmates, such as Evergreen College's "Day of Absence" where white students and faculty were asked to leave campus for the day to discuss and reflect on issues of race and privilege.
But, when a white Fox News anchor denounces "massive demographic changes ... foisted on the American people;" and folks don't understand why Roseanne got the boot for saying senior adviser to the Obama administration Valerie Jarrett looks like a monkey; and at the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal, I was forced to share the stage with a hack comic who exclaimed to an audience that, "Comedy ain't for talking about racism or sexual orientation or being an immigrant -- it's about making people laugh," it is clear that everyone could use a bit of a refresher on the topic.

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