So you might as well ingratiate the public as well.
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And I'm not saying this to ingratiate myself with Congress.
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Both institutions have worked to ingratiate themselves with the administration.
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Gail: And, of course, to ingratiate herself with the president.
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Lawyers go to extreme lengths to ingratiate themselves with witnesses.
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"Maikel did, though, to ingratiate himself" with the Chavez government.
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It was slightly embarrassing, watching Sara try to ingratiate herself with Hina.
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Butina was not above using her youth to ingratiate herself, federal prosecutors allege.
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This drive to colonize does not ingratiate the plant to native wildflower fans.
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The second, a scripted, more "presidential" and curated Trump, meant ingratiate establishment conservatives.
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Toyota and other companies eager to ingratiate themselves have advertised plans to build factories.
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He also used his Hispanic heritage to ingratiate himself with potential customers, officials added.
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Brady managed to ingratiate himself to the locals quickly when he arrived in 2000.
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She said that other members message the host in an effort to ingratiate themselves.
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Glosserman said Abe and other U.S. allies have learned how to ingratiate themselves with Trump.
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Handing an assassin's knife to her brother is a weird, weird way to ingratiate himself.
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As he fights extradition, he has obvious reasons to want to ingratiate himself with Trump.
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Anyway, it's through his porridge recommendation that Jamie hopes to ingratiate himself with the king.
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Before we go any further, let's ingratiate anyone unfamiliar with what exactly "the sesh" is.
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That's the corrupting process that's traced in Sofia's attempts to ingratiate herself with the guys.
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Because most pedophiles present a wholesome persona, they are able to ingratiate themselves into communities.
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As Russia is trying to ingratiate itself back into international sports community, some darkness lingers.
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After discovering Blachford was worth millions of dollars, Cunanan decided to ingratiate himself into Blachford's life.
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Several major tech companies have moved to ingratiate themselves with the Trump administration in recent weeks.
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Meanwhile, characters can give you contradictory goals that might ingratiate you with one faction or another.
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But Graham's efforts to ingratiate himself go beyond mere policy issues, as he suggested to Leibovich.
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It's a chance to ingratiate executives with the press and steer the narrative about the company.
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Nonetheless, Epstein was apparently able to amass enormous wealth and ingratiate himself with scientists and academics.
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Amid that wave of activism, Democrats at all levels of politics have rushed to ingratiate themselves.
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She has an ability to ingratiate herself with her subjects that gives her images a natural intimacy.
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Now Sanford, who has made no such effort to ingratiate himself with Trump, may lose his job.
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So he had been questioned once or twice, but he managed to ingratiate himself with the police.
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If Instagram can ingratiate users to watching organic videos, it could make video ads easier to swallow.
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Tai and Anna chose two very different play styles to ingratiate themselves to their new Brains overlords.
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Despite his attempts to ingratiate himself with Stalin's regime, he fell under increasing suspicion in the 1930s.
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Yes, Washington reporters looking for access do ingratiate themselves with politicians in order to get face time.
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I ingratiate Myself clumsily, a minor Lord of Misrule, Into the conga line of squeals and grunts.
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Ixmiquilpan was one of his favorite towns in Mexico, but it didn't always ingratiate itself with outsiders.
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Moreover, China would give Trump a symbolic win and ingratiate him to make concessions in other areas.
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But the point of a Sister Souljah moment isn't to ingratiate a candidate to the party base.
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For our part, we can stop mythologizing journalists and trying to ingratiate mainstream reporters into the Left's ranks.
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Hadid made sure her fingers were primarily covered in metal to ingratiate herself with her boyfriend's droid culture.
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Lonergan doesn't cushion that blow or go out of his way to ingratiate the characters in other ways.
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Many of those who absorbed his speech were struck by his restraint, his apparent desire to ingratiate himself.
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During the primary and caucus season, she did everything she could to ingratiate herself to the Clinton campaign.
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The director, Lee Cronin, perhaps hoped to ingratiate his characters to the audience by presenting them as immaculate.
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What is clear is that the proposal surely won't ingratiate Buttigieg with Netanyahu's right-wing party in Israel.
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Obama has repeatedly used his background and internationalism to ingratiate himself with his audiences and to advance his agenda.
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Trump on Sunday charged that Comey tried to ingratiate himself with Clinton because he thought she would be president.
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That this biography even exists is a testament to Holbrooke's almost uncanny ability to ingratiate himself with the press.
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Still, Sophie decided to ingratiate herself with her new, powerful family by adopting their culture — and learning their language.
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Meanwhile, Republicans are flocking to his resorts, perhaps to ingratiate themselves to the president or just run into him.
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I lingered near the entrance until three female students rang the doorbell, and tried to ingratiate myself with them.
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He only says things that will ingratiate him to the same MSM that destroyed him during his failed run.
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Who wants to be that hapless colleague who tries just a little too hard to ingratiate himself to others?
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By keeping celebrities' embarrassing secrets, the company was able to ingratiate itself with them and ask for favors in return.
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Martha McSally, an Air Force veteran who's tried hard to ingratiate herself with President Trump and his voters this year.
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Asking successful people questions has two benefits, said Carter: You learn from them, and you also ingratiate yourself to them.
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Signing LNG supply agreements with U.S. companies also gives European countries an opportunity to ingratiate themselves with Trump, he added.
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The idea that the staff of a shop might try to ingratiate themselves with the customers occurred to no one.
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Or it may be he hoped to ingratiate himself to Trump, a man who had criticized him in the past.
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Grenell, 52, has done little to ingratiate himself to his host country since taking up the position in May 2018.
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Zlochevsky might have thought he could ingratiate himself with the Obama administration by buying an association with the vice president.
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"They have no need to ingratiate themselves with him, and he doesn't have much to dangle before them," he said.
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The fighting between the contestants, the attempts to ingratiate themselves to the boss -- that is what made the show go.
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That's purposely designed to ingratiate herself with the Trump voters who weren't entirely sure she was onboard the MAGA Express.
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Too late, he realizes that this was an opportunity to ingratiate himself with someone who could lobby for his transfer.
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Rebuilding the roster, Crean started to ingratiate himself by winning commitments from some of the state's top high school players.
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Maybe it was simply an innocuous attempt to ingratiate himself with someone who had ties to people who owed Manafort money.
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In one instance, Patton himself tries to ingratiate himself to police chief Ken Wallenstine around a hobby they share: riding motorcycles.
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Comments like these give a candidate such as Pete Buttigieg an easy opening to try to ingratiate himself with minority voters.
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Giuliani has every incentive to ingratiate himself with Barr by taking steps perceived as favorable to Barr or his benefactor, Trump.
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Some Senate Republicans think McCarthy is trying to ingratiate himself with the president while a leadership promotion is on the line.
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Another possibility: Clever teens may ingratiate themselves and be accepted by older peers who "facilitate access to alcohol and cannabis," they said.
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And despite his reputation as a belligerent speechmaker, the insecure Mr. Wallace privately sought to ingratiate himself with friends and foes alike.
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Listening can also help you ingratiate yourself to the other person, which Pearlman says is important when it comes to influencing people.
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Where he has had to fight for even a modicum of his cousin's respect, Tracy's been able to ingratiate himself with ease.
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Airlines were able to ingratiate the aircraft into their fleets easily as pilots didn't need to undergo additional training to fly it.
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Rather than positioning themselves as a David in an industry of chocolate Goliaths, CocoTerra chose to ingratiate themselves and work from within.
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But as Bannon's fortunes began to turn, Miller sought to ingratiate himself with Kushner, who had had long been feuding with Bannon.
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He could ingratiate himself with campaigns and candidates by providing them access to a platform that reached millions of Republican primary voters.
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Yulia Tymoshenko, a former prime minister who wants to supplant Mr Poroshenko, flew to Washington last week to ingratiate herself with Donald Trump.
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But even if the government was keen to ingratiate itself with China by ratifying the treaty, Australia's parliament was having none of it.
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With longer running times and multi-season arcs, characters have been allowed to develop more fully and ingratiate themselves with viewers more completely.
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However, a reflexive decision to placate or ingratiate oneself to any powerful figure, even the President, may prove to be a big mistake.
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His impeccable proof: that the two exchanged niceties and therefore Mr. Putin was using his KGB training to ingratiate himself with Mr. Trump.
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In fact, Kim did not seek to ingratiate himself with Trump, saying simply that the two countries overcame obstacles to reach this moment.
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In his political off-seasons, he made heroic efforts to ingratiate himself with the foreign policy establishment, the media, and, inevitably, Wall Street.
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"If you weren't young and cute enough to be their boy, you could still ingratiate yourself by bringing boys to them," Eric said.
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Even respected modernists, such as the German Peter Behrens and the midcentury American architect Philip Johnson, tried to ingratiate themselves with the Nazis.
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But most analysts think he wants to personally ingratiate himself to America before his term ends in January (Guatemala does not allow re-election).
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To ingratiate themselves with the victors after the war, Italian bigwigs exalted the role of the Jews' defenders while minimising that of their persecutors.
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Theon sells Bran out to ingratiate himself with his estranged father, Balon Greyjoy, though that doesn't work because Balon is kind of a dick.
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He was obsessed with murder and detective stories and loved to ingratiate himself with the cops, inserting himself into local investigations wherever they lived.
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Despite his Lannister legacy, Tyrion's managed to ingratiate himself in Westerosi politics with more finesse than Frank Underwood — and way more genuinely good intentions.
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But she must also put aside her pride and ingratiate herself, even accepting a gift of money from Vic after initially refusing it outright.
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Even amid an steady flow of ethics violations, he's managed to ingratiate himself to President Trump by delivering wins for the White House's agenda.
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And if a President Sanders or his advisers say things I think are foolish, I won't pretend otherwise in an attempt to ingratiate myself.
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I'd say it's just very Mike Judge [whose work is broadly and acerbically comedic] ... It doesn't try to necessarily ingratiate itself to the audience?
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It's therefore possible that Moreno's politics alone would've made Assange's release unnecessary, allowing Ecuador to ingratiate itself with the US despite that thorny issue.
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" He also noted that he wasn't going to investigate Trump's potential personal monetary gains "until there's evidence he's somehow used that to ingratiate his family.
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Displays of toughness may help to ingratiate him with China's president, Xi Jinping, who has called for "a great wall of iron" to safeguard Xinjiang.
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She also joined the Oxford Union, a debating society where politicians in embryo learn to speechify, ingratiate themselves and stab each other in the back.
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At WeMun's mixer, Shosh tries to ingratiate herself back into the good graces of her very successful former friends, but they're not having it, either.
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He said the lawsuit amounted to a political stunt meant to ingratiate Sessions with Trump, who Brown said would be certain to tweet his support.
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The fuwushe manager was a powerful figure, someone you wanted to ingratiate yourself with in the hope of having the chance to buy rare items.
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It was just sophomoric: a trite exercise in cynicism about how to win grants and ingratiate yourself with followers by performing predictable and unalarming work.
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As Noah tries to ingratiate himself, and as Cole confronts the man over his absenteeism, Anton simply wants to luxuriate in the dude's fancy shower.
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They may work to ingratiate themselves with their victims, positioning themselves as special or irreplaceable in the child's life and only gradually introducing sexual contact.
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This reflex — to get along, to be the A student, to accommodate and ingratiate — is one with which many, if not most women, can relate.
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Tottenham Manager José Mourinho might have been eager to ingratiate himself with fans who might still be skeptical about his appointment as Mauricio Pochettino's replacement.
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"The majority of victims we identified thus far are individuals he came to know when he managed to ingratiate himself into their parents' lives," Schorn says.
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When it becomes clear that this isn't a one-time bonus, Molly tries to ingratiate herself with her male colleagues by going to a hockey game.
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Owning Whole Foods will ingratiate Amazon even more into every aspect of its customers' lives—and in this case, the lives of especially high-income shoppers.
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The keynote address will be among Trump's first attempts to ingratiate himself into the political fabric of the Republican Party establishment and its party-building efforts.
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McCarthy and Scalise are jockeying to ingratiate themselves with the president in hopes he can help them win the race for the top GOP leadership post.
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He was the first world leader to ingratiate himself with the unpredictable US President, lavishing Trump with praise, hamburgers and even a gold-plated golf club.
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One particularly dumb conspiracy theory involving Mr. O'Rourke is that he changed his name from Robert to "Beto" in order to ingratiate himself with Latino voters.
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Then "you ingratiate yourself with the family, the mom and handlers," and begin to pay them: rent here, car payment there, maybe just walking-around money.
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Her reticence to ingratiate herself to the public has allowed detractors to paint her as a detached politician, someone who doesn't understand the average Taiwan citizen.
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In Jackson's case, a number of doctors crossed the line by prescribing drugs that were not medically necessary, in order to ingratiate themselves with the singer.
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"Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh," Fey told Believer magazine in 2003.
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"This is a low cost way to ingratiate themselves to the U.S.," said Eric Olson, the deputy director of the Latin American program at the Wilson Center.
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Still, Trump is finding some rhetorical allies among Republicans, either because they share his foreign policy aims or because they want to ingratiate themselves to the president.
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Green: In the near term, Bannon does (and is doing) what everybody who wants to influence and ingratiate themselves to Trump does: Flatter him with obsequious praise.
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Kissinger had worked as a consultant on the war for the Johnson administration and was eager to do anything he could to ingratiate himself with the president.
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Even though Facebook has been banned in China for years, Mark Zuckerberg, its chief executive, has made embarrassing efforts to ingratiate himself with China's president, Xi Jinping.
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In particular, as happens among wild animals, individuals jostle for dominance with others of their own sex while trying to ingratiate themselves with members of the opposite one.
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Brazil's far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, tried to ingratiate himself with Donald Trump ahead of their face-to-face meeting Tuesday — by denouncing immigrants and the "dirty" left.
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There is openly no reason for The Market to exist, other than to ingratiate an overreaching monolith to a public that no longer trusts it or likes it.
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Epstein also often used his money — and the prospect of funding — to ingratiate himself with high-profile scientists like the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, according to the Times.
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Cruz is not well-known in New York, and polls suggest that his quip about "New York values" did little to ingratiate him even to New York's Republicans.
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What critics say: Anyone can "consider" investing in the United States—firms are just jumping at the chance to grab good headlines and ingratiate themselves to President Trump.
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In terms of colluders, "opportunists" are those who ingratiate themselves with toxic leaders for personal gain, while "acolytes" share the same values, beliefs and goals as the leader.
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Her former and latter-day selves, as presented here, are essentially the same eager, questioning and slightly trepidatious individual, torn between the impulses to ingratiate and to challenge.
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It says little about how the company has also subtly lobbied, promised jobs and made research investments to ingratiate itself with European governments over the last 15 years.
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In the past three years, she's shown an ability to ingratiate herself to Trump and score some political victories off him, but she did it by playing cool.
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When he conducted the orchestra on three occasions in 2011, it was at the tail end of an extended campaign to ingratiate this British artist with American ensembles.
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Or perhaps it was a way for Club for Growth, staunchly opposed to Mr. Trump in the 2016 election, to ingratiate itself to the president and his supporters.
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So Hollywood and the news media would want to be on the side of a winner and ingratiate themselves to his supporters, for business reasons if nothing else.
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In leaked audio aired by Australia's Channel Nine, Turnbull poked fun at his own efforts to ingratiate himself with the new US President during a meeting in New York.
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In leaked audio aired by Australia's Channel Nine, Turnbull poked fun at his own efforts to ingratiate himself with the new US President during their meeting in New York.
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It was all part of Mr. Kelly's bid to ingratiate himself with Mr. Percoco, according to the complaint, as it became increasingly apparent that Mr. Cuomo would be elected.
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" He says he learned a lot about "body language [and] people's responses and how to ingratiate yourself" from Dale Carnegie's famous book, "How to Win Friends and Influence People.
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For the last several weeks, Navarro has been on a hunt to determine who is Anonymous, two people said, a move that would likely ingratiate him with the President.
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"I heard the way you ingratiate yourself to voters is to stand on things, so I found this park bench here," Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind.
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When next we saw the dagger, Littlefinger was giving it back to Bran in Season 73 while trying to ingratiate himself to the Stark kids who were suspicious of him.
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At the December presidential forum of the Republican Jewish Coalition, the candidate attempted to ingratiate himself to the audience by touting both this skill set and his knowledge of Judaism.
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As you can see in the BlacKkKlansman trailer, Stallworth takes the call in stride, rattling off a litany of racist comments that he knew would ingratiate him in the KKK.
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"Guo Wengui, to ingratiate himself with me, to thank me, and to maintain his relationship with me, gave me a huge amount of benefits," Mr. Ma said in the video.
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Cousins's ability to maintain that look in a vital division matchup against the Packers (0-1) in Green Bay could further ingratiate him with the already-enthusiastic fans in Minnesota.
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His opposition seems little more than an attempt to incite partisan rancor and now to ingratiate himself with the Trump administration, with an eye to aggrandizing his own political future.
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"Guo Wengui, to ingratiate himself with me, to thank me, and to maintain his relationship with me, gave me a huge amount of benefits," Mr. Ma said in the video.
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It not only saves her the troublesome currents that accompany Trump these days, but it also denies her biggest political rivals a chance to ingratiate themselves with the US leader.
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Trying to ingratiate himself with the White House, and settle his own scores, Mr Lutsenko declared that the stuff about Mr Manafort was all part of an anti-Trump conspiracy.
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Because both face potential criminal liability in the U.S., both have reason to align themselves with Trump and try to ingratiate themselves to the president's allies, according to Ukraine experts.
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Epstein's history with the scientific community shows a man eager to ingratiate himself neatly into a scene dominated by white male thinkers hailing from the most elite institutions around the world.
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It is subject to the laws of supply and demand, as are all commodities in trade, and one need not ingratiate oneself to any oil regime in order to buy oil.
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Hoping to atone for her involvement, Bamford tries to ingratiate herself at a Filipino community center in Los Angeles, and ends up accidentally letting a bunch of strangers plan her wedding.
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The hotel has raised concerns for government ethics experts because guests, including foreign government officials, can try to ingratiate themselves with Trump and the US government by spending their money there.
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After his surprise election, Trump could have tried to ingratiate himself with the GOP establishment the way Ronald Reagan did after running as a far-right "maverick" in 1976 and 1980.
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A quiet, casual demeanor helped ingratiate him with working-class voters in his House district south of Cleveland even as he held on to the traditional Chamber of Commerce Republican vote.
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Plot: All unemployed, Ki-taek and his family take peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks, as they ingratiate themselves into their lives and get entangled in an unexpected incident.
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And at times it seems as if she can't decide whether to attack at all, like when she cozies up to Sanders in an apparent attempt to ingratiate herself with his supporters.
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Oscar's not necessarily done anything to ingratiate himself with Disney -- the owners of the iconic film franchise -- since the release of the final movie in the third trilogy, 'The Rise of Skywalker.
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At last I could ingratiate myself with my wife's famously prickly grandfather and uncle, two stoic Midwestern-types who view new technology with the same skepticism they direct toward the mainstream media.
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Apple's partnership with Hermès was the first major partnership Apple has entered with one of its main products in years as it attempts to ingratiate the Apple Watch with the fashion world.
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Van der Zwaan "took steps to ingratiate himself with" Gates and Manafort and hid that from his law firm, "and that's why he lied," Jackson said Tuesday before she delivered his sentence.
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A wave of other high-profile hopefuls have also used the past few weeks to introduce themselves, some going living room to living room to ingratiate themselves to the state's exacting voters.
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A summary of a July call between President Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky released by the White House Wednesday reveals Zelensky's efforts to flatter and ingratiate himself with his American counterpart.
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In many ways, that's a good fit for McCarthy, who has worked to ingratiate himself with conservatives in the House and has always been a stronger political messenger than a policy mastermind.
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"Forgive me, Mother, I will do what I must," he thinks as he seals a contract to follow and ingratiate himself with Etta, using her to pursue the goals of his father's family.
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The Politico report characterized Ocasio-Cortez's chance of the committee appointment as "strong" and said other more senior legislators have sought to ingratiate themselves with the youngest woman ever to serve in Congress.
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Minions are inescapable, and if the 2003 movie Elf taught us anything, it's that even the most annoying creature can ingratiate itself to a group of people by simply refusing to ever leave.
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Once the paparazzi attention becomes detrimental to Daisy — and thus to the royal family's — reputation, Daisy is reluctantly shipped off to Scotland for the summer to ingratiate herself among her sister's new set.
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Unlike other Cabinet officials who sought to ingratiate themselves with the President and defend him publicly, Mattis maintained an independent streak -- repeatedly rebuffing the White House's requests to appear on Sunday talk shows.
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It's the thread that connects his close ties to the George W. Bush administration, his across-the-aisle outreach to the Obama White House, and his awkward zeal to ingratiate himself with Trump.
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The ability and willingness to ingratiate himself to others would prove indispensable into adulthood as he charmed new investors or flattered rockers, movie stars, politicians and the wealthy to appear in his pages.
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They are even looking into allegations that groups — including at least one foreign government — tried to ingratiate themselves to Trump by booking rooms at his hotels but never staying in them, POLITICO reported.
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Schiff also raised details of the newly released whistleblower complaint, saying that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sought to "ingratiate himself" while making clear that he would like resources to help combat Russian aggression.
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Page alleges that by sharing the messages with reporters, DOJ aimed "to influence the public reception" of Rosenstein's testimony the next day as well as "ingratiate" Sessions and his department with the president.
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But Ocasio-Cortez is making clear -- in word and deed -- that she's not content to play the Washington game -- make as few waves as possible, ingratiate yourself to leadership and hope they reward you.
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Mr. Bloomberg's convention speech on Wednesday night had the billionaire's beholden-to-no-one air, while Mr. de Blasio's seemed in some sense an effort to ingratiate his way back under the Clinton canopy.
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We were talking about a passage in Book 6 in which Athena dramatically enhances Odysseus' looks so that he can ingratiate himself with the rulers of an island where he has just washed ashore.
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" He said that by supporting the repeal, Italy's senators had jeopardized "the health of the weakest and most defenseless children" in order "to ingratiate themselves with the most ignorant, selfish… part of the country.
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In many ways, that's a good fit for McCarthy, who has worked to ingratiate himself with conservatives in the House and has always been more of a strong political messenger than a policy mastermind.
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Ingratiate himself with the audience — and his fellow contenders on the stage — by saying he will spend unlimited amounts of money to defeat Donald Trump by supporting whoever wins the Democratic nomination, including Sanders.
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"Taking that line of, 'Oh yeah, we have to polygraph people' was a way to ingratiate themselves with him, but it wasn't an idea that ever went anywhere because it was absurd," they added.
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When Judge, the new Giants coach, talked about the team reflecting its "blue-collar" fans, he may have been trying to ingratiate himself with certain types of people, but he was really honoring himself.
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There is a clear political advantage to championing the fashion industry; it has the potential for Mr. de Blasio to ingratiate himself to a segment of the population that has felt underappreciated by him.
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House investigators are looking into an allegation that groups — including at least one foreign government — tried to ingratiate themselves to President Donald Trump by booking rooms at his hotels but never staying in them.
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By picking fights with the opposition, Mr. Kadyrov may be trying to further ingratiate himself with Mr. Putin and remind him that Chechnya, once torn by war and now cowed into submission, deserves special consideration.
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While it is illegal to work for two branches of the government, Nunes appears motivated far less by his duties as a congressman and more by a desire to ingratiate himself to the White House.
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Its character-focused vignettes and combat mechanics ingratiate vitality and immediacy, but the game's sheer spectacle impresses that the First World War—its tragedies and its consequences—are present inand prescient to the modern world.
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With the Senate relegated to a back seat, the Emperor's court rises to prominence, with people like Krennic and Tarkin jockeying for position, currying favor, and exploiting every possibility to ingratiate themselves with the Emperor.
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But Meadows said McCarthy has been making more of an effort to ingratiate himself with the Freedom Caucus this year, and hinted that the Speaker's race has come up in conversations on the House floor.
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The narrative playing out on the skit tracks—where a thirsty youth pastor named Father Jervel bends over backwards to ingratiate himself to the now-famous boys—might be the record's most cutting social comment.
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V is trying to ingratiate him- or herself with a different gang called the Voodoo Boys, since their leader could help V learn more about a mysterious brain chip that apparently holds the secret to immortality.
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One Republican even suggested that McCarthy is only entertaining the idea of a rescission package to ingratiate himself with the president and conservative House members — two constituencies whose support could be crucial in the Speaker race.
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The actor stars in the duo's video for "Dance Off" from This Unruly Mess I've Made, and it does more to ingratiate them to the public than any of their near-constant apologies for their existence.
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg faced Congress, and though Google CEO Larry Paige was invited, he declined to make the trip—a move that didn't ingratiate him with Congressional watchdog Mark Warner.
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Mr. Newhouse did not ingratiate himself when he fired Mr. Shawn a little over a year later, replacing him with Robert Gottlieb, who was then the editor in chief of the book publisher Alfred A. Knopf.
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He's using this time to ingratiate himself on the global stage and build his own power (militarily and economically), while we suspended a major joint military exercise with South Korea and our maximum pressure campaign dissipates.
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They are even looking into an allegation that groups — including at least one foreign government — tried to ingratiate themselves to Trump by booking rooms at his hotels but never staying in them, POLITICO reported last month.
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Insisting he had not been not trying to "ingratiate" himself with the Trump administration by writing the memo, Mr. Barr played it down as based on mere speculation about the basis for Mr. Mueller's obstruction inquiry.
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Jerry Jones says Monday's team trip to the National Museum of African American History and Culture was not a P.R. stunt to ingratiate him with black fans ... it was the players who pushed for the visit.
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And while Trump never managed to ingratiate himself with his peers, his very failure to do so became part of his electoral appeal to voters looking to stick a thumb in the eye of their social betters.
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In more than two hours of conversation, from November 2015 to June 2016, an oddly deferential and courtly Bannon deployed an arsenal of leading questions, shameless flattery, and subtle prodding to ingratiate himself with his future boss.
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Rather, the goal is to ingratiate themselves into the athlete's inner circle and remain on the payroll, by hook or by crook, all while brandishing their association with Famous Athlete X as a validation of their work.
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When young Johannes discovers the refugee Elsa in his house, he commits to writing a book about the supposed Jewish menace, in a bid to ingratiate himself to the Nazi brass who deem him a feckless coward.
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Still, Zelensky is enormously flattering throughout, attempting to ingratiate himself to Trump by imitating his speech—going as far as to talk about "draining the swamp" in Kiev and referring to him as a "great teacher" throughout.
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With unusual speed, corporations, possibly to preserve their brand names, and partly to ingratiate themselves with their next generation of customers, have begun distancing themselves from, if not explicitly cutting business ties with, the National Rifle Association.
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Part and parcel to Milo's affinity to abuse quotes like a high school student desperate to hit a page count, Dangerous is nothing if not an attempt to ingratiate himself back into any group who will have him.
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Rudy Giuliani's campaign to lead the State Department without an iota of foreign policy experience speaks to this, as does Bannon's use of radio interviews with Trump to ingratiate himself and alter the candidate's positions with leading questions.
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Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 99% (certified fresh)Synopsis: "All unemployed, Ki-taek and his family take peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks, as they ingratiate themselves into their lives and get entangled in an unexpected incident."
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For those who lived at the margins during high school — and I was one of them, an adolescent made of nerve endings and giant hair and an outsize desire to ingratiate — this is a bitter pill to swallow.
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Rep. Devin Nunes, the godfather of disappointment, released his memo on Friday, capping off another chapter in the life of the California congressman and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee who exists solely to ingratiate himself to President Trump.
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Donald Trump was a win for Kanye West because he now has access to a man who can relate to being ostracized by corporate America and those elites in power that West himself was trying to ingratiate himself to.
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After taking a break from years of relentless touring, he was able to explore his adopted hometown of Nashville—where he settled after leaving his native Akron, Ohio in 2010—and ingratiate himself into the thriving local music scene.
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Wasserman Schultz seems to be running her own campaign to ingratiate herself to Clinton so that Clinton will keep her on in her present position or, even better, will offer her a high-profile Cabinet job if elected president.
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"It just stretches, I think, most people's credibility that if Papadopoulos had this knowledge and he wanted to try to further ingratiate himself with the campaign, that he wouldn't have shared that with somebody on the campaign," Warner said.
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May's critics say she rushed into the move to ingratiate herself with Mr. Trump because she is desperate to conclude a quick trade deal with the United States to help compensate for Britain's looming departure from the European Union.
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In this case, Maryland and DC governments say they have been harmed because foreign governments and officials from US states choose to stay or hold events at the Trump International Hotel in Washington to ingratiate themselves with the President.
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Because I am not a fan of the professional technique used by Wolff to ingratiate himself to Trump to gain insider access for his book, I would recommend great caution before drawing conclusions about the allegations within its pages.
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The standard reading of "The Prince" views it as Machiavelli's attempt to ingratiate himself to the returning Medicis by offering them what amounted to a book-length job application: a treatise filled with underhanded tactics for seizing and maintaining power.
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Instead, it is made up of a chaotic matrix of clans and players pursuing often conflicting aims and aching to ingratiate themselves by correctly interpreting the signals from those higher up the ladder, even as they fear taking an inadvertent misstep.
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Some former and current Uber employees who spoke with BuzzFeed News felt that one way to avoid falling to the bottom of the stack ranking pile was to ingratiate themselves socially with their managers and other power players inside the company.
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In January, Reuters reported that Mexico and the United States were looking into whether armed U.S. federal air marshals could be deployed on commercial cross-border flights, the latest example of Mexico seeking to ingratiate itself to its northern neighbor.
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However, when it comes to getting you into the mindset of 47—when it comes to how games, generally, can ingratiate players to superhuman characters—the PlayStation 2–era Hitman: Contracts (2004) and Hitman: Blood Money (2006) are graceful examples.
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In court, McClatchey saying he had provided the insider tips to ingratiate himself with the plumber, Gary Pusey, in hopes of getting a "simpler, less stressful" job outside of Wall Street with his 20-employee plumbing business in Long Island.
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"Epstein's purposes in 'lending' Jane Doe (along with other young girls) to such powerful people were to ingratiate himself with them for business, personal, political, and financial gain, as well as to obtain potential blackmail information," the court documents said.
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Mr. Mulvaney, a golfer with a 7 handicap, has long sought to ingratiate himself with Mr. Trump, spending time with him on the president's courses and proposing quick-hit, tweetable policy proposals to get Mr. Trump through a difficult news cycle.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump is seriously considering a plan to block $250 million in military assistance to Ukraine, a move that would further ingratiate him with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and has directed senior officials to review the aid package.
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When the buyer turns out to be a fae named Agreus (David Gyasi), she hatches a Jane Austen-esque plot to save her family from financial ruin by having him pay her to ingratiate him into The Burge's high society.
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May, who is currently on vacation, has been accused by some critics of trying to ingratiate herself with Mr. Trump in the hope of building stronger trading ties with the United States after Britain's planned withdrawal from the European Union.
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Entranced, Kostis takes to the island's nude beaches to find the woman, Anna (Elli Tringou), and once he does, tries to ingratiate himself into her hedonistic band, which adopts him as both a quasi-mascot and an emotional punching bag.
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Today, allies and adversaries around the world—from Ukraine to China to the UK—woke up knowing precisely how to ingratiate themselves with the leader of the most powerful nation on the planet: Investigate his rivals, sway the election in his favor.
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The likely motive behind JFS announcing such a split, whether real or simply a feint, is an attempt to unite the disparate Syrian rebel groups into a more coherent force and allow JFS to further ingratiate itself within the broader rebel movement.
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Whether Eliot is addressing his wife as Ophelia (he develops a bit of a Hamlet complex), delivering pizza to ingratiate himself with a volunteer fire brigade (I told you about that, right?) or singing that unexpectedly affecting song about the luckless underclasses, Mr.
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The founders asked for my opinions on the app's user interface and the quality of the inventory, and on how we could best ingratiate ourselves with the online reading communities, the largest of which would soon be acquired by the monopolistic online superstore.
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But the temperature has turned sharply against tech giants — and, by extension, the people who lead those companies — and just as donors are wrestling with who to support, Democratic campaigns are wrestling with how publicly they want to ingratiate themselves to those donors.
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Peter Schweizer, whose book, "Clinton Cash," sent the Clinton campaign into damage control as she kicked off her bid in spring 2015, said he foresaw attempts by foreign actors to ingratiate themselves to Trump's children, who will take over the President-elect's business empire.
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The requests, required for national security reasons, weren't unusual -- but it's impossible to know whether foreign governments were interested in the building because of its prime location, or because renting there would allow diplomats to possibly ingratiate themselves with Trump or members of his administration.
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And now, in an attempt to ingratiate herself with New York City's massive Asian-American community, former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton took time before the primaries this Tuesday to have a delicious cup of boba tea in Queens.
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Mr. Snowden, it suggested, was trying to ingratiate himself with Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, just days after WikiLeaks had released embarrassing emails showing that Democratic Party officials had derided the campaign of her main rival in the primary, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
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And whereas Swift managed to coax (either grimacing or effusive) confessions of being a Swiftie from all corners of the media by merely massaging her core fanbase and releasing decent pop tunes, Zayn has done everything to ingratiate himself with the cool kids first.
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The premise — about a con man who's pretending to be somebody else to ingratiate himself to a family of bail bondsmen he thinks he can scam — is exactly what you'd expect from a broadcast network trying to make its own version of Breaking Bad.
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He did so to ingratiate himself with Mr. Seabrook, defense lawyers said, just as he did with other key city figures, including Philip Banks III, who was a top police official and sometimes chauffeured Mr. Rechnitz in his police vehicle, and Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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" He has a habit of making light ethnic jokes about himself, like a kid trying to ingratiate himself at a new school: "I'm Asian, so I know a lot of doctors," or "The opposite of Donald Trump is an Asian man who likes math.
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Schumer also didn't ingratiate himself with McConnell when he voted in 85033 against the noncontroversial nomination of McConnell's wife, Elaine ChaoElaine Lan ChaoToxic McConnell-Schumer relationship strains impeachment talks Pelosi gets standing ovation at Kennedy Center Honors Lobbying world MORE, to serve as Transportation secretary.
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From a strategic perspective, this network of start-up investment vehicles lets Alphabet take early stakes in some of the hottest products built outside of the Googleplex, get a first look at emerging technologies, and ingratiate Google with the next generation of business leaders.
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Nonetheless, his underlings plainly thought that making the daily commute a misery for thousands of people would ingratiate themselves with the boss — a point reinforced last week in a federal courtroom in Newark, where David Wildstein, a "Bridgegate" plotter, was sentenced to three years' probation.
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A foreign entity that engaged in such research and provided resulting information to a campaign could exert a greater effect on an election, and a greater tendency to ingratiate the donor to the candidate, than a gift of money or tangible things of value.
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" Trump isn't the only one who has lasered in on Cruz's general inability to ingratiate himself with human beings: In a Facebook post attacking Cruz for preemptively criticizing Sarah Palin for maybe supporting Donald Trump, Bristol Palin wrote, "Is THIS why people don't like Ted Cruz?
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Bono apparently donated to the Clinton Foundation for the same reason I suspect most rich people donate millions of dollars to politicians and Super PACs: because they want to ingratiate themselves with other powerful people so they might one day call upon them for a favor.
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This repetitive, sycophantic, and self-serving book, which is oddly written in the third person, is meant to ingratiate themselves to Trump—or "the boss," as he's referred to again and again—a man whose intellect, leadership, and stamina they praise for a tiresome 264 pages.
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These incursions coincided with a period of intense Russian activity in the U.S., including the hacking of the D.N.C., a pro-Trump social-media blitz , and the arrival of Maria Butina, who is accused of being a Russian agent sent to ingratiate herself with American conservative leaders.
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After graduating from high school, he traveled repeatedly to New York and Los Angeles — his father's day job at Delta gave him access to free flights — where he slept on couches and worked to ingratiate himself with rap-adjacent tastemakers like Ian Connor and Luka Sabbat.
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A profane and fast talker who likes to dress well, a quick study who understands the world of geopolitics, local politics and technology, he managed to ingratiate himself with important members of Congress, and through them and his contacts with reporters single-handedly tarnished Nazarbayev's and Kazakhstan's reputation.
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Unsettling to watch Trump seemingly more comfortable with Saudis than with NATO allies who share treaty obligations and democratic values In contrast to the way he needled and hectored America's democratic allies in NATO, Trump made every effort to ingratiate himself with Saudi Arabia's brutal, dictatorial royal family.
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That expansion did not ingratiate the West to new Russian leaders nor prevent the rise of an authoritarian-style government under Vladimir PutinVladimir Vladimirovich PutinWhy Americans should care about Ukraine FBI hand-slapping outweighs any lies by Michael Flynn Democrats feud over health care, Trump strategy in Iowa MORE.
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"I think he's going to try to show that these women were trying to ingratiate themselves with this powerful Hollywood mogul, that they were not victims, that they were willing participants in various sexual encounters," said Gershman, a former prosecutor who is now a law professor at Pace University.
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Until the very end, even as he expressed remorse for his actions on Wednesday, Mr. Wildstein was adamant that all he had wanted was to ingratiate himself with the man he referred to throughout his career as the "one constituent" that mattered to him, personally and professionally: Mr. Christie.
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President Donald Trump's current deputy chief of staff sent an email referencing an effort to get Trump campaign officials and Russian President Vladimir Putin together for a meeting in what appears to be yet more evidence of Russia's attempts to ingratiate itself with the Trump campaign, CNN reported Wednesday.
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Being named to the Democratic Congressional Committee's Red to Blue list provides candidates with the crucial institutional backing they need to ingratiate themselves with local and national Democrats, attract major donors, and rack up endorsements from big-name groups like EMILY's List, which often take their cues from the DCCC.
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Even if the Republican ticket fails in the battle for the White House, Mr. Pence wants to preserve his future viability, a goal that has created a delicate dance for him — leaving him wary of offending Mr. Trump and his base, while also eager to ingratiate himself with the Republican establishment.
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In this year's Chinese New Year celebrations, a comedy skit on one of the country's most-watched television programs sponsored by the state compared an unmarried woman to a secondhand cotton jacket, while another showed, without irony, a female official teaching a subordinate how to ingratiate herself to her male boss.
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He does all the little things that will ingratiate him with Coach Bill Belichick, and even if his ceiling is a bit lower than Ole Miss's D.K. Metcalf, Harry is a classic Patriots pick as someone who can compete from day one and will otherwise stay out of the way.
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Bezos himself had suggested in his own online post that he had become the enemy of Saudi Arabia and Trump due to coverage of the murder of Khashoggi in the Washington Post, and pointed out that AMI had long sought to ingratiate itself with both the kingdom and the President.
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The CIA is always eager to put its best foot forward by showing its willingness to support the new President and his team, convince the new chief executive that it is worth the money in terms of manpower and budget, and look for ways to ingratiate itself with the new national security crowd.
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"I think that what we see here is a guy — the governor — really attempting to ingratiate himself with Donald Trump doing everything he can including taking a political hit in his home state but still he's getting wet, outside the umbrella," said Brigid Harrison, a political science professor at Montclair State University.
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Although as president, Mr. Echeverría, Mr. Díaz Ordaz's successor, tried to ingratiate himself with university students through a rhetorical veering to the left, the criticism he kept receiving from the newspaper Excélsior (very much in the spirit of '68) exasperated him enough that he maneuvered a coup (in July of '76) against its editor, Julio Scherer.
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And to a certain extent, as American politics has been shaped by the gravity well that is Donald Trump's ego — with a Republican base eager to defend his every move, a Democratic base eager to deplore it, and politicians in both parties rushing to ingratiate themselves with their respective bases — it's why it matters to everyone else too.
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But his closeness to Mr. Trump is seen as invaluable at 10 Downing Street, the official residence of Ms. May, who is so eager to ingratiate herself with the new administration that she recently scolded the departing secretary of state, John Kerry, for his speech criticizing Israel, a highly unusual move that shocked the Obama administration.
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We fought a revolution in part against the mercantilism that prevailed in Britain, where the king and members of Parliament played favorites and people who wanted to ingratiate themselves with the government did business with companies in which powerful politicians had an interest (the South Sea Company and the East India Company were the two most notorious examples).
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"I can confirm that my client while working undercover for the FBI and in the employ of the Russian energy firm TENEX witnessed numerous, detailed conversations in which Russian actors described their efforts to lobby, influence or ingratiate themselves with the Clintons in hopes of winning favorable uranium decisions from the Obama administration," attorney Victoria Toensing said.
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"He's been floating that out for quite a while, to keep himself relevant to the whole discussion, and he would also like to ingratiate himself to Trump," said Ken McCallion, an attorney who brought a federal suit that was later dismissed against Firtash over the alleged natural gas scheme on behalf of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
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These events pushed Russia into the cold in 2014, but it has not done much to ingratiate itself back into the international community, given its support for the rogue regime of Bashar Assad in Syria, its alleged responsibility for a nerve agent attack in the U.K. and suspected meddling in elections in the U.S. and Europe, where populism is destabilizing its neighbor.
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" In Jeune Afrique , François Soudan accused her of choosing themes that were gratuitously offensive to ordinary Moroccans in an effort to ingratiate herself with a French élite: "To be bankable in the media right now on the Left Bank of the Seine, the good Arab is obliged to be secular, Islamophobic, preferably libertine, and, if possible, under threat (for the preceding) in his country of origin.
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The final court case also made no mention of any connection to the influence peddling conversations the FBI undercover informant witnessed about the Russian nuclear officials trying to ingratiate themselves with the Clintons even though agents had gathered documents showing the transmission of millions of dollars from Russia's nuclear industry to an American entity that had provided assistance to Bill Clinton's foundation, sources confirmed to The Hill.
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What they found particularly disappointing, instead, was the servility with which his young counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, sought to ingratiate himself with Mr. Trump, pretending that he had won the Ukrainian presidency by imitating him, claiming to have appointed a new prosecutor general who would be "23 percent my person," and happily joining in the Euro-bashing that has become one of Mr. Trump's trademarks.
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Instead, Zinke behaves like an errand boy for the coal and petroleum industries, a faux cowboy who made his showboat debut as interior secretary by riding a horse to his first day in office, where he got right to work ransacking national monuments and pillaging Native American shrines, all to further the president's war on America's natural legacy and ingratiate himself to Utah's quick-dollar Senator Orrin Hatch.
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In advance of his meeting with Trump in 85033, Abe prepared by taking golf lessons, and last summer sought to ingratiate himself with the president by inviting Ivanka TrumpIvana (Ivanka) Marie TrumpDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Trump Jr. dismisses conflicts of interest, touts projects in Indonesia Ivanka Trump talking to lawmakers about gun reform legislation: report MORE to visit Japan and talk about women's empowerment as part of his "womenomics" campaign.
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Robert A. Katzmann, the chief circuit judge who wrote the opinion for two of the judges on the panel (the third wrote a dissent), didn't need to consider the nuances of the relationship and how Dr. Gilman might have benefited (or suffered) emotionally, because the two had a straightforward financial relationship: Dr. Gilman earned hundreds of thousands of dollars in consulting fees from Mr. Martoma, and so he had every reason to ingratiate himself by divulging the information.
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When that no longer suited, she endeavored to ingratiate herself with him—she invited him to dinner, she publicly thanked him for a gift of a floral arrangement, she stood side by side with his wife as he performed at the BRIT Awards—and when he received a Vanguard at the same awards show that started the drama, it wasn't one of his many friends or peers that handed it to him, it was Taylor Swift.
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It says something about the immediate future of the "special relationship" so revered in London that the British politicians most experienced in dealing with America's president-elect are Nigel Farage, a Brexiteering rabble-rouser (who stumped for him and is currently flying to Washington, DC to ingratiate himself further with the incoming administration) and Alex Salmond, a former first minister of Scotland (whom Mr Trump branded "a has-been and totally irrelevant" in a tiff over a Scottish golf resort).
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The alienating effects of Gironcoli's art — the imagery redolent of authoritarianism, dehumanization, and torture, as well as the reflective surfaces, created with metallic paint to conjure a distinctly anti-sensual, if coldly erotic, atmosphere — are of a piece with his outsider persona; unwilling or unable to ingratiate himself with the right people in Vienna's cultural elite, he lived in desperate poverty until 1977, when he was unexpectedly awarded a lifetime appointment as professor and head of the Master School of Sculpture at the city's Academy of Fine Arts.
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"It just stretches, I think, most people's credibility that if Papadopoulos had this knowledge and he wanted to try to further ingratiate himself with the campaign, that he wouldn't have shared that with somebody on the campaign," Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark WarnerMark Robert WarnerFacebook users in lawsuit say company failed to warn them of known risks before 2628 breach New intel chief inherits host of challenges Overnight Defense: US, Russia tensions grow over nuclear arms | Highlights from Esper's Asia trip | Trump strikes neutral tone on Hong Kong protests | General orders ethics review of special forces MORE (Va.) said recently on CNN.
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