They are opening gambits in a long, unpredictable urban game.
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It's too soon to say whether Putin's gambits will succeed.
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Do you anticipate that viewers will figure out such gambits?
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Sharp-eyed readers will have noticed that each of these gambits failed.
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It was a wobble, but as face-saving gambits go, it's flawed.
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In addition, some observers and analysts regard his statements as mere negotiating gambits.
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But there is also a mirror-image quality to their gambits and ambitions.
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The video and the meal are uncommon gambits for a Vicky Shick piece.
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These usually amount to little more than P.R. gambits and short-term fixes.
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Gambits are essentially rules and scenarios that you use to assign actions to characters.
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Of Lee's many gambits in Gemini Man, the digital character-doubling works the best.
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When it came to independence from the United Kingdom, though, such gambits were absent.
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There's Woody, whose conversational gambits include explaining why he's not "addicted" to Six Flags.
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Whether such gambits reflect the reality of the average consumer is open to debate.
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Both were electoral gambits, announcing their run for a second term in the Elysee Palace.
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The move turned out to be one of the worst gambits of Mr Erdogan's career.
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Recently, though, Google has spun out some of its more successful gambits into individual units.
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Respond to unwelcome chitchat gambits with "a little bit of redirection," as she puts it.
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"She's hilarious and winning as Amy, the character best served by Gerwig's structural gambits," he wrote.
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So it might be more accurate to say that Trump's gambits have not catastrophically backfired—yet.
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And their opening gambits were to argue that the other has no chance of becoming president .
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He can only process accusations — of dishonesty, of cruelty — as social gambits, not as factual claims.
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Recently, though, the tech giant has spun out some of its more successful gambits into individual units.
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On two occasions last week White House gambits were turned back against the President by mocking adversaries.
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It also underlines Mr. Trump's unorthodox approach to one of the riskiest diplomatic gambits of his presidency.
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His legal gambits seem to come off the top of his head -- with or without Rudy Giuliani.
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Taking Cannonball Adderley's 1960s crossover gambits as his model, Mr. Glasper began to tailor the band's approach.
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As for the expected Amazon gambits that leverage its existing properties and hooks, few are to be found.
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Some other leading voices in Silicon Valley have tried other gambits meant to minimize the big banks' involvement.
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With Mr Altmaier at her side, Mrs Merkel has overseen two left-libertarian gambits; one environmentalist and one humanitarian.
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All-or-nothing foreign policy will lead either to failed diplomatic gambits, like this one, or, worse yet, conflict.
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Latvia's finance minister, Dana Reizniece-Ozola, a chess grandmaster well versed in elaborate gambits, derided Mr. Rimsevics's conspiracy theory.
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For Michael Ferro – a true believer in technology as a solver of business woe – such gambits offer a twofer.
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"I don't think his foreign policy gambits will help him boost his domestic standing," Bishop from Signum Global said.
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The book would have been stronger without these imaginative gambits, which only invite the reader to doubt the author's vision.
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These days, however, such gambits seem a touch weary and fruitless, and the movie is burdened by a larger problem.
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If those gambits work, leaders expect the most moderate Republican senator, Susan Collins of Maine, to remain opposed like Paul.
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You run out of escapes, you run out of exits, you run out of gambits, you run out of luck.
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And it is using an assortment of gambits to increase revenue and drive down costs so it can do more.
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You run out of escapes, you run out of exits, you run out of gambits, you run out of luck.
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When he sold neckties, one of his many merchandising gambits before he became president, it was a relatively innocent endeavor.
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If that and some of the show's other contextualizing gambits sound didactic, even alienating in the Brechtian manner, fear not.
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Mike Pompeo's secret visit to North Korea underscores President Trump's unorthodox approach to one of the riskiest gambits of his presidency.
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Snippets of their conversation seem to show real intelligence, but when you analyze what's being said, they're revealed as preprogrammed gambits.
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They know all the usual gambits and ruses of adversaries and have a reputation for defiance, dissembling, obfuscation, prevarication and fabrication.
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That said, Bremmer sees some of Trump's foreign policy gambits paying off, particularly since the U.S. remains the world's only superpower.
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Progressives, in their twin impeachment gambits, are seeking to delegitimize both presidential authority and the moral authority of the Supreme Court.
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While Mr. Johnson's tactical gambits have backfired, there is a strategic thread to them, analysts say, that may ultimately prove successful.
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Five-star hotels and luxury tour operators are trying new gambits to lure in the growing pool of female million- and billionaires.
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In one of its opening gambits, the astronomy group has used high-powered statistical analyses to challenge existing models of the universe.
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Kamala Harris, or whoever, will have her hands full 24-7 rebutting Trump's wild accusations and cuckoo gambits to discredit her presidency.
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He is on the verge of dragging the United States into war with Iran, and his other high-profile diplomatic gambits have failed.
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Russia's strategic gambits also raised eyebrows in Washington this week, with U.S. officials condemning Moscow for its deployment of a cruise missile system.
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As satirical gambits go, the notion of casting her in a gay retelling of the Anne Frank story must rank somewhere pretty low.
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His conversational gambits covered the sort of topics (abortion, religion, sexuality, disability) that people are advised to avoid in potentially non-safe spaces.
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As far as gambits go, affixing a website to the same era that the movie it promotes takes place seems like a safe bet.
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So that means the hype cycle has to keep churning, endlessly, with new casting and new rumors and new trailers and new promotional gambits.
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There are other gambits of this type, bold but unflashy trademarks: monologues that flicker with small cuts, like quick blackouts, or a mini flashback.
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Hot off of MIDSOMMAR, Pugh is having a great year, and she's hilarious and winning as Amy, the character best served by Gerwig's structural gambits.
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Uber and Lyft reported quarterly financial results this week and indicated that their cutthroat competition to woo riders with coupons and other gambits is easing.
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Since you've described a sociable workplace, consider conversational or topical gambits: joking, shared hobbies or interests, talk of sports or family or whatever feels right.
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Democratic senators can use procedural gambits to drag out that judicial confirmation process, a signal to their base that they'll keep fighting hard post-Kavanaugh.
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Munch's refusal to make charming or accommodating paintings isn't about trying to be outrageous or shocking – which are avant-garde gambits — but about recognition and acceptance.
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Plus, the central objects of desire were hot in conventionally gendered ways, and the shows worked through enticing plot gambits that could bring in mainstream audiences.
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Halley's turn effortlessly, even as he may imagine that his late minimal baroque style and the installation gambits—plugged-in rooms, reflective wallpaper, and now music!
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Even as she's become outrageously famous, and her private life has become public gossip chum, keeping the circle tight has been one of her essential gambits.
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The administration's legal gambits have often reflected the chaos and politicized arguments that rock the administration every day and have sometimes hampered its own chances of success.
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Republicans, when they held the House majority between 2011 and 2019, treated the Democrats' MTRs as mere messaging gambits — partisan measures to oppose regardless of their substance.
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Nunberg's questions as to why he must speak with the grand jury after already meeting with investigators are equal parts rhetorical gambits and bids at self-preservation.
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Adweek reports that the Happy Goggles project is the latest in a series of curveball McDonald's marketing gambits, including a previous Swedish campaign featuring Big Mac thermal underwear.
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The monk strap is definitely an acquired taste, but the Wolf & Shepherd Gambits are well-made and packed with sneaker-like comfort that's perfect for the adventurous wearer.
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Equally problematic are many customary market gambits such as annuities and short-selling, which can be viewed as gambling, and thus are prohibited under Islamic law, or Shariah.
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Mr. Mac's production is a hyperextended song cycle blended liberally with inspired patter, history viewed through a queer prism, elaborate audience-involving theatrical gambits and the occasional guest star.
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Of course, it was an approach that was endorsed by the leadership in Frankfurt, not least Josef Ackermann, Deutsche's chief from 2002 to 2012, who encouraged these bold gambits.
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Even though I played through the original on PS2, it still took me a few hours to feel comfortable again with how gambits work when I jumped back into the remaster.
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More government appeals will probably follow, with more of Mr Trump's immigration rules held in limbo while the judiciary sorts out which of the president's gambits square up with the law.
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But it will eventually need to reckon with the tonal confusion these gambits cause because the rapidly shrinking viewership over the past few seasons doesn't seem on board with them either.
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If the trip goes through, Obama will be the first American president to visit the island nation since 1928; he will also firmly entrench one of his boldest foreign policy gambits.
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The move is one of the most aggressive legal gambits to date by a company seeking compensation for a wave of nationalizations under the leadership of late Socialist leader Hugo Chavez.
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But it turned out to be one of the most significant Washington gambits in decades, as political tectonics realigned and McConnell enshrined a robust conservative majority on the nation's top bench.
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As Republicans try desperately to hold on to their congressional majorities next Tuesday, President Donald Trump has taken a series of explosive last-minute gambits in an attempt to boost GOP candidates.
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Opening gambits are naturally lower than the final transfer fee, but for Arsenal to offer less than a side who are about to contest their opening Europa League qualifiers is practically derisory.
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Featuring Caruana reading a book of Carlsen's games, the video also briefly showed Caruana's open laptop, on which a series of what appeared to be his possible opening gambits were clearly displayed.
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But it couldn't always pull off other gambits, like its attempts to turn Chandra into a more important figure within the narrative, or even some of the more tangential material in Rikers.
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And while Pelosi has managed to tamp down the number of defectors following that defeat, GOP lawmakers have reveled in the chaos they've caused for leaders across the aisle through the procedural gambits.
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With Trump in the White House, negotiating and making real policy on many important issues — like immigration and health care — will be replaced by maneuvers and gambits largely aimed at the 2018 elections.
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Whether or not there are mom-and-pop investors who felt hoodwinked by some of their favorite celebrities, neither Khaled nor Mayweather offered an apology or admitted any wrongdoing for their promotional gambits.
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It's one of the oldest courtroom gambits in America: A prosecutor in a criminal trial asks a key witness if he sees the person who committed the crime anywhere in the room. Pause.
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"We are very conscious of the ticking clock", Philip Hammond told reporters at a meeting of EU finance ministers in Brussels, adding that EU officials' comments on "fantasy" Brexit gambits were "not particularly helpful".
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"Billions" needn't be shamed for its allegories (except maybe the chess one) because it is dealing in complex financial and legal gambits that are hard to explain without harness racing as a visual aid.
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That means turning a blind eye to Trump's financial conflicts of interest, erratic behavior, and dishonesty while accepting his various doses of xenophobia, Islamophobia, and racism as the electioneering gambits that deliver the goods.
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All that Pelosi does -- from her handling of impeachment demands to gambits on health care and social services -- is to position her party for 2020 in the hope of making Trump a one-term president.
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Breaking Cersei's enemies' naval power and bringing her daughter's murderer to justice were gambits to win her hand in marriage, but instead, Cersei just tells him he'll get his reward when the war is over.
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But those gambits usually fail because, while Republicans can pass anything they like in the House with no Democratic votes, they are going to need Democratic support to pass a spending bill in the Senate.
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The opening of the House Judiciary Committee's second impeachment hearing took up the better part of the morning, and was often disrupted by procedural gambits from Republican committee members aiming to slow down the proceedings.
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As you explore the world and come across enemies, your team will act autonomously based on the gambits you have in place (though you can also pause the game and issue direct commands if need be).
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Both gambits are widely seen by energy economists, consumer advocates, manufacturers and the broader business community as an effort to subvert competitive electricity markets that have lowered energy prices for consumers and U.S. manufacturing for decades.
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Through legal challenges, executive actions, and fresh legislative gambits, the GOP is trying to dismantle a program that's brought health and hope to tens of millions of desperate families, while improving insurance coverage for many others.
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It relies on a succession of legal arguments, procedural gambits, and factual claims that, in toto, look retrofitted to support a predetermined policy conclusion: minimizing or avoiding regulations on fossil fuel power plants, at all costs.
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" The report also lists a "wide range of coercive and intrusive regulatory gambits to force the transfer of foreign technologies and [intellectual property] to Chinese competitors, often in exchange for access to the vast Chinese market.
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Similar marketing gambits and other savvy moves catapulted rival Xiaomi into becoming the No. 1 smartphone seller in India in the final quarter of 2017, capturing a crown that Samsung Electronics Co Ltd had held for years.
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The ex-NFL star teamed up with the Los Angeles Gambits to play the 'Harry Potter' sport for his new show, "Mostly Football," with Yahoo Sports and Complex (airing on September 6 at 4pm PT/7pm ET).
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"It seems that investors are not panicking as much as they were, aware that these are opening gambits that will ultimately need to be negotiated quietly and away from the headlines," said INTL FCStone analyst Edward Meir.
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Netanyahu has closely aligned himself with President Trump and has made a series of tactical gambits — like vowing to annex parts of the West Bank if re-elected — to help shore up support among right-wing voters.
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Packer alternates between Fremdscham for Holbrooke's lower gambits—such as offering at least one Wall Street banker ennoblement at the Council on Foreign Relations in return for business—and awe at the man's sheer capacity to climb.
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Moving against Barr and McGahn in such a manner, and potentially other senior administration officials who are blocking Democratic oversight gambits, could be a way for Pelosi to let off some of the steam in her restive caucus.
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Given Trump's volubility, it is not always easy to judge whether his threats -- like declaring a national emergency to fund the wall -- are negotiating tactics, serious gambits or just ideas that occur in the spur of the moment.
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For the past six years, Drake has been Bobby Fisher on HGH, employing countless Bronstein delays and Blackburne shilling gambits to leap from a low level YMCMB roster filler to one of the best rappers in the world.
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"We are very conscious of the ticking clock and the need to make significant progress for the June European Council", Hammond said, adding that a comment from a senior EU official on "fantasy" Brexit gambits were not "particularly helpful".
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His gambits on health care and Iran mirror his decision to put the fate of undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children in the hands of Congress when he canceled the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
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A shock-and-awe sequence of policy moves and legal gambits, many by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, may elevate immigration past the Russia investigation and the accelerating economy into an issue with the capacity to shape the midterm elections.
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What in the World Births by cesarean section are so common these days that it is easy to forget what they were like before the advent of modern medicine: desperate gambits to save a baby by sacrificing the mother.
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But his lack of experience with the West gave him weak instincts for how allies, particularly the United States, functioned and thought — a blind spot that would frequently lead him to miscalculate how they would view his riskier gambits.
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But his lack of experience with the West gave him weak instincts for how allies, particularly the United States, functioned and thought — a blind spot that would frequently lead him to miscalculate how they would view his riskier gambits.
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" In one of the most classic gambits of 20th century presidential history, the President will try to use the power of the bully pulpit to increase public pressure on Congress to give in to his demand to finance a "border wall.
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If you just use those two weapons, you can attack a grid like this with some success, and there are lots of other gambits that make a cryptic a cryptic that are similarly constant and logical, once you've figured them out.
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Scott-Railton came prepared with AP reporters and hidden recording devices in tow, while "Lambert" brought a pen that appeared to have a "tiny camera lens" concealed within:Like Bowman, Lambert appeared to be working off cue cards and occasionally made awkward conversational gambits.
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Phasing out nuclear power, which provides around a fifth of Spain's electricity, is part of a package of energy market proposals that was one of the last gambits of the Socialist government before parliament was dissolved ahead of a general election next month.
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And while Washington slogs through a daily riot of scandal and chaos, China is pressing forward with its aggressive territorial gambits in the South China Sea in areas also claimed by US allies and is expanding its soft-power trade and investment expansion throughout Eurasia.
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The message is a clear warning to moderate Democrats, some of whom have joined Republicans this year in supporting last-minute procedural gambits — known as motions to recommit — which grant the minority party a last-ditch opportunity to alter legislation before a final vote.
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Ms Yerushalmy's structural ideas, a grab-bag of postmodern gambits, don't equal the scholars' intellectual variety; despite the continually rearranging surface (new combinations of scholar and dancer, new arrangements of where the audience sits, attempts to thread the sections together), a sameness sets in.
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As the company defends challenges to its patents in the courts, generic manufacturers such as Teva and Mylan have been trying to game the system by asserting challenges to Allergan's patents through the PTABs, gambits that wouldn't pass muster if held to traditional legal standards.
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Given the Rams' penchant for trickery, it's possible they will mimic one of the more famous gambits in Super Bowl history, when New Orleans entered halftime trailing Indianapolis, 10-6, with the Colts, guided by Peyton Manning, slated to receive the second-half kickoff.
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It also underlines that the decision by McConnell to refuse to confirm President Barack Obama's pick for the court, Judge Merrick Garland, before the 2016 election, that could have led to a liberal majority, as one of the most far-reaching gambits in recent political history.
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Sign up here for more analysis of US politics for global readers The former KGB major's foreign policy gambits are all in the pursuit of restoring Russia's lost post-Cold War influence and prestige, whether he's interfering in the 2016 US election or playing chess in the Middle East.
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Tesla has just over $3 billion in cash, but it's burning through roughly a billion a quarter as it embarks on one of the most daunting gambits in automotive history: taking production of its mass-market vehicle from zero to 400,000 or more a year in just 18 months.
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To Stewart's point, though, it must feel doubly bizarre for him and Colbert to navigate political comedy in an era when the man holding the highest office in the land is someone whose crude words can no longer be explained away as ratings gambits for a reality show.
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"Instead of allowing the public to vote on a much-needed public school construction bond, legislative Republicans are making them vote on barriers to the ballot box and irresponsible gambits that could jeopardize public school funding that is already lagging," said Ford Porter, a spokesman for the governor.
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This is in keeping with a show that loves to try out big structural gimmicks and gambits, like when it separated Jimmy from the rest of the cast for its season four premiere, or spent an entire episode on the couple's across-the-street neighbors whose life Gretchen subtly coveted.
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Here's a non-exhaustive list of her gambits: She's sold exercise equipment; started a clothing line; opened a clothing store, a beauty salon, and a tanning salon; and sold cheap lingerie at a markup to strippers, until a club owner with three missing fingers demanded a percentage of her profits.
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Then he began importing Western goods and exporting oil, and founded his bank—classic oligarch gambits, though unlike others who earned that label, he did not take part in the loans-for-shares scheme of 1995-96, in which huge state assets were privatised for a song (though he tried to).
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And it's managed this rise in its fortunes despite the fact that its storytelling is frequently completely ridiculous, often predicated on its characters hiding incredibly elaborate strategic gambits from each other, to the degree that it's hard to imagine how they kept something so skillfully from seemingly everybody they knew.
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Tesla has just over $3 billion in cash, but it is burning through roughly $1 billion a quarter as it embarks on one of the most daunting gambits in automotive history: taking production of its mass-market vehicle from zero to 400,000 or more a year in just 2.23 months.
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Putin is seen as a guarantor of order and economic prosperity, and, thanks to a series of audacious international gambits— including the annexation of Crimea and Russia's bold-faced interference in the U.S. presidential election — he's the man who has put Russia back on the map in terms of national dignity.
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The United States and countries in the region are increasingly alarmed by the gambits China is using to strengthen its hand: constructing artificial islands suitable for warships and fighter jets, planting oil rigs in disputed waters and using its coast guard to protect China's fishing boats while they operate in waters claimed by others.
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Among the episode's less successful gambits, both narratively and creatively, was Darlene's ploy to to use Agent Dom's badge to gain access to the F.B.I. The most effective lies being mostly true, Darlene outlined the stressers that have legitimately plagued her all season — the deception, the isolation — as part of a duplicitous seduction attempt.
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The kinds of bold gambits on which McConnell has embarked—blocking Merrick Garland from the Supreme Court is a particularly galling example—are based on the idea that not only should power be used to the fullest extent possible, but that Republicans will more likely be punished for not acting than they will for taking aggressive action.
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Part of the president's forthcoming, five-day focus on "tech week," as sources previously described it to Recode, the White House will seek investors' views on ways to make it easier for them to fund new gambits in drones, the so-called "internet of things" and the 5G wireless technologies that make some of those tools possible.
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While the hedge fund stopped short of calling for Stephenson's removal, it did call for the addition of new board members and spent many paragraphs criticizing Stephenson's decision-making, particularly his three largest M&A gambits: the failed purchase of T-Mobile, the $67 billion acquisition of DirecTV and the $104 billion takeover of Time Warner.
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At restaurants across the country, raw vegetables have suddenly been thrust to the forefront as bravura opening gambits to a meal, massed on great wooden boards (as at Clever Rabbit in Chicago) and rising from giant terracotta urns, with stalks reaching higher than diners' heads, evoking feathers in a war bonnet (at Santina in New York).
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Pyongyang's likely gambits: Strengthen its rule by meeting with Trump on equal footing Convince Beijing that sanctions are no longer needed Exacerbate friction in the U.S.-South Korea alliance Roll back U.S. military presence in Korea Embarrass Trump by testing missiles before the summit What's next: So far, the U.S. has only fallen into the first trap — but the others loom.
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To really get into this show, you'll need to wade your way through a few messy episodes, but by the series' fourth hour — featuring one of the more ingenious "This is all in the protagonist's head!" gambits of recent memory — The Magicians has started to find itself, and by the final stretch of the season, it's evolved into something wholly unique.
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But it's hardly the first game to encourage players to avert their gaze from the TV. Spin the Bottle: Bumpie's Party, from Copenhagen-based indie KnapNok Games, is one such game, and it opens with the boldest of gambits, immediately demanding you turn off the TV. Sure, the Wii U's GamePad is still in use, but often its main function is as a surrogate instruction manual or scoreboard.
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That's because doing so risks weakening the US stance on the issue of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and opens up the US to similar foreign policy gambits from countries around the world seeking a sweeter economic relationship with the US. "It opens up the thinking in everyone's mind around the world that they can haggle for a better deal and get the US to give up on longstanding positions," said Michael Green, the National Security Council's senior director for Asia in the Bush 43 White House.
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But it is striking to note, in Tom Holland's book on the Roman Republic, "Rubicon", that Crassus had a rich father and that he would inherit from his father the recognition that wealth was the surest foundation of power And, given Mr Trump's tendency to flip-flop on issues such as abortion, the following sentence in Mr Holland's book also rings true Principles, to Crassus, were merely gambits in a vast and complex game, to be adopted and then sacrificed as strategy required Crassus never quite achieved total power, being part of the first triumvirate with two even more famous figures, Pompey and Julius Caesar (with the best will in the world, it is hard to put Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan in the same category as those two).
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