It started off innocuously enough:...and then the replies started rolling in.
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Abouammo's seduction by the Saudi government began innocuously: with a verification request.
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In the innocuously titled paper, they jotted down some big ideas and grand designs.
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This is Prigozhin's relationship with a mercenary organization named, innocuously enough, the Wagner Group.
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It begins innocuously—and, much like the game quest that shares its name, by the water.
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We start off, innocuously enough, with this image, tweeted out yesterday by PEW researcher Mike Barthel.
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The bar is loaded to 275 pounds, sitting innocuously on the floor in front of me.
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The video starts innocuously enough, but slowly devolves into North Korea sports shooters aiming at Western forces.
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A weather system passed through the Northeast on Thursday rather innocuously, bringing gusty winds and snow squalls.
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Humming along innocuously in your Finder window, or placed just off to the side in your Control Center.
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Here is a brief history of how the John Lewis Christmas Advert ruined music: It started innocuously enough.
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More innocuously, Lighthouse can also determine whether a dog's been walked and send alerts when kids get home.
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I realize I'm not thinking of much at all, as my attention innocuously turns to the virtual clouds.
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Sure, this science-fiction cycle begins innocuously enough, with bratty teenagers, aggrieved parents and an eco-farming initiative.
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The bathhouse journey begins in a white lobby with a big skylight; elevator music tinkles innocuously in the background.
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Yuengling's week started innocuously enough, at least until Trump's son Eric took a tour of the Pottsville, Pennsylvania brewery.
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So it was only a matter of time until even the most innocuously wheaty little snacks would be under fire.
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I get out of bed and walk into the kitchen, where a pink cake box innocuously rests on the counter.
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Model Georgia Gibbs innocuously shared a photo of a night out with best friend and fellow model Kate Wasley on Jan.
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"My friends really want me to run," she says, referring to colleagues from her newly unveiled, innocuously named Iyi (Good) party.
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That organization helped create the second: the innocuously named National Policy Institute, which became a nerve center of the alt-right.
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Launched from Cape Canaveral at 1237 GMT on Thursday, NROL-61 sent up a classified NRO satellite innocuously designated USA-269.
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Others saw it more innocuously, believing the gesture was a sign that is part of the "Circle Game" played by kids.
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He came to see me for a drug addiction, which had started innocuously in his mid-30s with some occasional recreational use.
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It's possible Manafort innocuously gave the polls to Kilimnik because he is a political junkie and wanted to dig into the crosstabs.
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Even though I speculate innocuously, that man's voice could negatively affect the way others, such as employers or law-enforcement officials, treat him.
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The videos began innocuously, but took a slow, dark turn, with Bree mentioning fights with her parents and Band-Aids appearing on her arm.
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Because if Franken remembers the entire episode differently -- and presumably more innocuously -- than Tweeden does, does he really think he needs to say sorry?
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Mr. Duterte has made headlines around the world for remarks that run the gamut from innocuously bawdy to dangerously sexist, including jokes about rape.
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The ads started out innocuously enough: an app for meditation that can also help social anxiety, likely targeting many people in my demographic and age group.
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Opponents of California's Proposition 61 — innocuously titled the "California Drug Price Relief Act" — had raised more than $109 million to defeat the measure as of Oct.
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The stream, provided by the innocuously named 'Trending News' and subsequently shared by a page called 'NewsFeed,' had more than 3 million views as of Sunday afternoon.
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In Self's hands, the bodega's a playful backdrop for her characters — most of them women — to be bored or joyful, innocuously finishing tasks or happily consuming candy.
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Tippett explained that the president's rhetoric would make it difficult to argue that a similar comment was made innocuously or out of ignorance of its racist connotations.
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Peters says she meant the comment innocuously – that the boy was walking slowly – but Jill Easter perceived the answer to be a snide remark about his intelligence.
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We watched the nearly transparent vertical rods called trumpetfish hunt on the backs of parrotfish, blending innocuously into the herbivorous host before darting off for a kill.
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Swathes of beautiful, fertile land have been given horrible monikers – the Rust Belt, the Meth Belt, and, more innocuously but insidious in its own way, the Bible Belt.
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It begins innocuously enough, a girl sitting in a totally white space rolling up a joint, and then the screen gets overtaken by waterfalls of color and images.
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The rally began innocuously enough when Reed, acquired last month from the Mets, hit Gardner — who was 1 for his last 16 — with a pitch on the foot.
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The results arrived innocuously on Mother's Day—a jumble of data which revealed she wasn't the daughter of the dad who passed away in her arms 14 years earlier.
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Using gaydar as a way to talk innocuously or jokingly about stereotyping -- "Oh, that guy sets off my gaydar" -- trivializes stereotyping and makes it seem like no big deal.
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At the very least, the technology can't be any worse than the innocuously intended cameras that are monitoring public spaces already (and can be turned into surveillance tools easily).
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But now it is Democrats who are using those same laws to funnel money through innocuously named groups that do not have to disclose the identities of their donors.
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Jacobs says SSG's targets included "politicians, regulators, law enforcement, taxi organizations, and labor unions in, at a minimum, the US." And then there was Uber's innocuously named Marketplace Analytics team.
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An archivist at the borough hall of Madison, New Jersey discovered, sitting innocuously in a corner, a genuine Rodin: a bust of Napoleon Bonaparte, carved of marble and weighing 700 pounds.
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Ilhan Omar's comments about the Israel lobby took over the news cycle earlier this year, they struck some as innocuously accurate, others as impolitic, while for others they were outrageous and inflammatory.
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The new album's transformation began innocuously: In August 2017, Mills, who directed the acclaimed Annette Bening film "20th Century Women," emailed the band's management and suggested he direct a video for them.
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The development starts out innocuously enough: Without warning, and without asking user permission, the new single by the Empire label's star attraction, Tiana, starts blaring from the phones of every EmpireXStream subscriber.
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Texas thrash revivalists Power Trip are no fans of authority, so it's pretty funny that they in particular are the latest rock band to have their music be innocuously used by the right wing.
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LastPass sits innocuously on your browser and once you're signed in with your master password, it fills in all your passwords and log-in information every time you need to sign into a website or service.
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It all begins innocuously enough, with the courtship of Zaida (Natalia Reyes) — whose coming-of-age ceremony starts the film in a swirl of color, music and celebration — by a young man named Raphayet (Jose Acosta).
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The FBI is facing plenty of controversy over its Network Investigative Technique (NIT), the innocuously-named malware it used to identify thousands of anonymous users viewing images of child abuse on a hidden darkweb site called Playpen.
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Britta, "a wife, mother and successful businesswoman," runs a start-up called, innocuously, The Bridge, which algorithmically scours the internet in search of despondent people, then matches them up with terrorist organizations to act as suicide bombers.
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"Chrome Dome" begins innocuously enough, but the soft intro quickly gives way to a more urgent sound (it's one of a few tracks that evoke "Duel of the Fates" from The Phantom Menace and Revenge of the Sith).
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The track starts innocuously enough, with sing-song verses and acoustic guitar strums, but then unfurls into a lush pop ballad that's just begging to soundtrack the next finally-giving-in-to-love sequence you secretly cry to at the movies.
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Having just stopped BJ Flores inside three rounds—the first defence of his inaugural reign as a world champion after stopping Ilunga Makabu—Bellew made a beeline to where Haye was innocuously standing at ringside to get in his face.
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It wasn't all rosy—friends got mugged, hearts got broken, I got bitten by a pitbull on Lancaster Avenue, and (more innocuously), responsibilities like school and work horned in on our fun—but it still felt like a golden age.
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And also a bit insubstantial: These operas are deep, dark works, but you wouldn't know that from a presentation that took arias and ensembles from their contexts and placed them in innocuously pretty settings that made them feel merely decorative.
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In the mid-to-late-1970s, he starred in a few hit movies that have nothing to do with the affluent, innocuously jolly obstetrician he played on TV. At the movies, Mr. Cosby could be smooth, immoral and a little creepy.
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In November, an American teenager, Feroza Aziz, posted a subversive makeup tutorial that innocuously begins with instructions on how to curl your eyelashes before morphing into a call for awareness about the persecution of Uighur Muslims by the Chinese government.
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"No matter how innocuously you may choose to represent it publicly, pushing the Jewish 'puppet masters' trope was intentional," Robinson wrote in an open letter to Facebook last week calling for the meeting and asking Facebook for answers regarding the Times report.
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When I was reporting on "vaccine delayers" — or parents who, as Neides suggested, choose to spread out or selectively vaccinate their kids — I learned that their guidebook is the innocuously titled Vaccine Book, written by Bob Sears, a pediatrician from Southern California.
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It begins innocuously enough by opening web pages for Club Penguin and Google searches on topics like "how to buy weed," but things start getting weird when the screen starts inverting its colors to a soundtrack composed of Windows XP error pings.
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More innocuously, I've used parking meter apps in the United States, but none of them was as easy to use as Pango — and that's saying something, since it only works in Hebrew and I have to translate the alerts it sends me.
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Mr. Neighbor (Brian Huskey), working the same vaguely unsettling vocal inflections as Fred Rogers, invites young viewers to come along as he prepares for his "31st annual fifth birthday party," a journey that starts out innocuously but soon veers into "Psycho" territory.
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The bill, innocuously titled the "No Rate Regulation of Broadband Internet Access Act," is just the latest effort in a multi-pronged Republican campaign to undermine the FCC's ability to protect net neutrality, the principle that all content on the internet should be equally accessible.
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Let's cut down on the plastic, and the next time you're tempted to innocuously trash some plastic straws, just remember that same "harmless" plastic is somewhere puncturing a turtle's brain through its nostril and killing a fish through literally explosive bowels… and its next stop?
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The team similarly mixed the funny and the fraught in "Edith's 50th Birthday," a Season 8 double episode of "All in the Family" from October 1977 that begins innocuously enough: Archie Bunker and the family are planning a surprise party for Archie's wife, Edith (Jean Stapleton).
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In 2002, some six million women were using hormone-replacement drugs to relieve menopause symptoms — one chemical was substituted for another, innocuously, it seemed — when a large federal study showed that after five years, the drugs increased the risk of breast cancer, heart attack and blood clots.
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In 2002, some six million women were using hormone-replacement drugs to relieve menopause symptoms — one chemical was substituted for another, innocuously, it seemed — when a large federal study showed that after five years, the drugs increased the risk of breast cancer, heart attack and blood clots.
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Who among us has not downloaded a complex virus to the family computer while watching porn, vehemently denied it, and then sat innocuously in front their dad—who's turning increasingly purple—as a tech guy reels off a very specific list of recently visited addresses to him over the phone?
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It includes not only Russia's FSB and GRU intelligence agencies, but also its St. Petersburg-based intelligence agency known as the Special Technology Center, a security contractor known as Zor Security, and an innocuously named agency in Moscow known as the Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization Professional Association of Designers of Data Processing Systems.
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One of the players involved in the hunt gave a helpful walkthrough on Imgur of how the team solved the puzzle, including a look at their well-earned mount: How to get Riddler's Mind-Worm The hunt began in Dalaran, where the first page sits innocuously on a bookshelf in the Legerdemain Lounge.
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While today the abbreviation is used rather innocuously in most instances, recent reports have shown that a growing number of white supremacist groups have begun to adopt the ancient acronym to symbolize their movement — and use it in a militaristic mode starkly different from the ways in which the Romans actually applied it.
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What seems like a generic campaign ad pitching Erica Smith, a North Carolina state senator, as "the only proven progressive" in the state's high-profile Senate race is actually part of a multimillion dollar investment from a mysterious super PAC — the innocuously named Faith and Power PAC — with apparent ties to Republicans.
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While the contents and capabilities of the NROL-37 mission's payload are classified (the satellite is innocuously labeled US-268), its need to hitch a ride on the world's biggest rocket strongly suggests it is the seventh member of the Mentor/Orion family, an extra-large class of signals intelligence (SIGINT) satellites which help provide eavesdropping capability to US intelligence agencies.
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Are we starting to see the mythic thread itself into the main river ever so slipperily ever so innocuously?
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Also, in 2012, paintings of Hindu gods and goddesses Manish Harijan depicted in super hero costumes and innocuously displayed in the Siddhartha Art Gallery were considered as offensive to Hinduism, and the police shut down the gallery.
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When a man named Ethan speaks to her innocuously, she insists that they exchange numbers. She applies for the receptionist position and is hired by CEO Avery LeClaire. Renee asks Ethan out and enters a "bikini body" contest. She wins over the crowd but loses the competition, and tells Ethan that she doesn't need external validation to know she's beautiful.
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By day, Dr. Frankenstein (Gordon Mitchell) works innocuously in his lab. But at night, he works to perfect Mosaico (Xiro Papas), a monstrosity pieced together from dead bodies. Once completed, the behemoth escapes from the lab and embarks on a killing spree. Local beauties begin popping up dead, murdered in a variety of gruesome ways, as authorities attempt to stop Mosaico's rampage.
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Pelikan describes much of the dispute as dealing with "regional differences in usages and customs," some of which were adiaphorus (i.e. neither right nor wrong). However, he goes on to say that while it was easy in principle to accept the existence of adiaphora, it was difficult in actual practice to distinguish customs which were innocuously adiaphoric from those that had doctrinal implications.
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Inspired by "jasmine" protests in North Africa and the Middle East, in February 2011 Chinese dissidents began calling for pro-democracy demonstrations in multiple Chinese cities. Though organizers initially proposed that participants shout slogans, they later revised their plans to encourage citizens to stroll innocuously around particular locations at predetermined times. In response, Chinese authorities launched a concerted crackdown on dissidents, journalists, rights lawyers, artists, and others who had agitated for democratic reform.
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Suguna has above 5,500 technical support staff in incubation and feeding sections. From a small village in Tamil Nadu, Soundararajan Bangarusamy and his brother have come a long way in setting up their poultry business. It began innocuously enough with Soundararajan's father urging him to begin a business of his own right after high school, and his mother giving him Rs 5,000 as initial seed capital. Today, Suguna is a leading poultry, poultry vaccine manufacturing and poultry nutrition company.
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Within the squadron was an innocuously- named "Detachment 2", whose mission was to perform unconventional warfare missions. Following the September 1950 breakout from the Pusan Perimeter, the detachment moved north to Seoul's Kimpo Airport (K-14). From there, Detachment 2's aircraft would soon become active far behind enemy lines as far north as Manchuria. Det. 2 supported Far East Command (FECOM) Technical Intelligence, Fifth Air Force, the CIA, and varied United States and South Korean irregular partisan units.
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Work on the site began, innocuously with the clearing of the village gate in 1940s, but proceeded to more elaborate consolidation of the cistern and the area around the resource by 1966. In order to attract more tourists to the site, a overlook was constructed in 1999 (in the north). Work to rehabilitate the facades of the historic centre were initiated at the same time, as part of the Aldeias Preservadas project, between the local government and the building's property-owners.
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Covert interrogation can refer to several interrogation techniques. An example is the covert questioning of a subject in a neutral public place where people innocuously gather, with the intention of the unsuspecting subject not comprehending that the interrogation is occurring. The covert interrogator may present themselves toward an interrogation subject in a friendly manner, while concealing the ulterior motive of subtly questioning them. In this manner, law enforcement and military agencies can collect intelligence about various suspects, such as criminals and terrorists.
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Writing for Allmusic.com, music critic Richie Unterberger characterized them as a group that "never had an ounce of credibility", with music that was "innocuously bland in the extreme." These sentiments may be contrasted with the fact that the band was well thought of by the Beach Boys, to the extent that Brian Wilson and Hinsche co-wrote one of the band's original songs, and their final single, "Lady Love". That single was released by Reprise Records in 1970, after the group had broken up.
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Irving Underhill's participation in the Underhill Society of America began innocuously enough, serving as a "family photographer". Over time he became Treasurer between 1906 and 1932 and later President of the Society between 1946 and 1950. When Society President Francis Jay Underhill was travelling through Europe in 1928, Irving Underhill was the recipient of numerous postcards. Irving Underhill applied his photographic talents to Underhill subjects as well, such as in 1931 when he took a photograph of the Myron Charles Taylor residence in Locust Valley.
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1, New York: McGraw- Hill, 416 However, studies have also described paradoxical phenomena associated with temperature and itch, where applied short-term moderate cold temperature stimulus enhanced the itch.Florian et. al, 2006, Short-term alternating temperature enhances histamine-induced itch: a biphasic stimulus model Such a phenomenon might be explained by "paradoxical heat", which is when one has the perception of heat when, in fact, the skin is innocuously cooled. Thus, the exact effect of temperature on itch remains unclear, with different levels of heat and cold proven to both enhance and inhibit itch.
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Van de Water, p. 284 A crowd gathered at the assembly, demanding answers from Ira Allen. He demurred, claiming that Chittenden, who was not present at the time, was in possession of the relevant papers and would deliver them.Van de Water, p. 285 A series of more innocuously-worded dispatches was then forged by Nathaniel Chipman and delivered to the assembly to satisfy its demands for information.Van de Water, p. 286 The assembly considered the offer put forward by Congress and rejected it on October 16, but it agreed to consider negotiations over its boundaries.
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The word means "nation" in Biblical Hebrew (the feminine form of goy, gewiya (גויה), denotes a body, whether alive (human: Genesis 47:18; angelic Ezekiel 1:11) or dead (human: 1 Samuel 31:10; lion: Judges 14:8)). In the Torah, and its variants appear over 550 times in reference to both the Israelites and the gentile nations. The first recorded usage of goyim occurs in and applies innocuously to non-Israelite nations. The first mention of goy in relation to the Israelites comes in , when God promises Abraham that his descendants will form a ("great nation").
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Long was drafted by the St Kilda Football Club with their first selection and twenty-fifth overall in the 2016 national draft. He made his debut in the fourteen point win against at Etihad Stadium in round four of the 2017 season. Long was nominated for the AFL Rising Star for his performance in the draw against at Etihad Stadium in round five of the 2018 AFL season, during which he recorded fifteen disposals, eight tackles, four marks and a goal. The 20-year-old somewhat innocuously suffered a fractured metatarsal in his right foot whilst playing against the Demons in round 7.
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Although the group's articles of incorporation innocuously stated the group's purpose as the creation of "a spirit of mutual helpfulness among its members; to advance them intellectually and socially; and by co-operation among them, to promote their material interests and well- being," in practice the organization served economic and political functions, lending aid to needy Irish immigrants and organizing to fight bigotry and discrimination against the Irish in America.Irish America: Volume 8. Irish Voice, 1992; pg. 8. Of prime importance to the early organization were orphans, the indigent elderly, and financially strapped young men pursuing Catholic priesthood.
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The release of Harriet's first edition of The Family Shakespeare passed rather innocuously, not attracting much attention. There were three reviews: one in favor, complementing the tastefulness of such a "castrated" version; one against, decrying the edits as wholly unnecessary; and a third, in which the reviewer suggested that the only satisfactory edition of Shakespeare would be a folio of blank pages. At first, Thomas Bowdler's new and complete second edition seemed to be on the same track. However, between 1821 and 1822 The Family Shakespeare found itself in the middle of a dispute between Blackwood's Magazine and the Edinburgh Review, the leading literary journals at the time.
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He innocuously mentions that he meant to tell Captain Mainwaring, but he did not want to "upset him". Jones offers to let Godfrey stay with him, which he accepts. Later, Frazer makes a call to the home of the government minister in charge of building the new aerodrome, Sir Charles Renfrew McAllister, in the middle of the night - and threatens him with exposure for his youthful transgressions if he does not re-consider the scheme. The next scene shows the platoon helping to load the furniture in Hodges' van as he prepares to move out, with a melancholic Godfrey and his sisters watching as their possessions being carried away.
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Until at least the early 18th century, the word was used innocuously. It was used as an intensifier without apparent implication of profanity by 18th- century authors such as Henry Fielding and Jonathan Swift ("It was bloody hot walking today" in 1713) and Samuel Richardson ("He is bloody passionate" in 1742). After about 1750 the word assumed more profane connotations. Johnson (1755) already calls it "very vulgar", and the original Oxford English Dictionary article of 1888 comments the word is "now constantly in the mouths of the lowest classes, but by respectable people considered 'a horrid word', on par with obscene or profane language".
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During Labor Day weekend in 1946, young, virginal Ida Parsons innocuously plays as her father hosts a raucous party at his home on Lake Michigan. Amid the festivities, an older, drunken man named Tom Rice staggers outside and propositions Ida. When she refuses, he chases her into the woods and brutally rapes her; her dogs break out of their pen and they attack and fatally maul Ida's rapist. Thirty-six years later in 1982, Waspy brothers Eric and Nick are borrowing their father's yacht to take their girlfriends, Sandy and Donna, on a weekend outing along with their sister, Carla to St. Martin Island.
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The title-page of Caledonia, Hamburg, 1802 Berlepsch's book Caledonia included early translations and reviews of Robert Burns. Her translations are credited with encouraging an acceptance and appreciation of Burns's work. There were numerous reviews in German newspapers and journals after Berlepsch's translations were published. In her writing Berlepsch deals particularly with the subject of women's rights, a topic she first raised in 1791 in a journal article innocuously titled "Some Characteristics and Principles Necessary for Happiness in Marriage," in which she ponders the pervasiveness of misogyny and the costs of women's conventional submissiveness.Ruth P. Dawson: “'And This Shield is called—Self- Reliance,' Emerging Feminist Consciousness in the Late Eighteenth Century.“ In: German Women in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, A Social and Literary History, ed.
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Portion Control formed in 1979 with a line-up of Dean Piavani, Ian Sharp and John Whybrew. The trio's first release, the cassette-only A Fair Portion (including Andy Wilson of the Passage on bass), was issued in 1980 by Ladelled Music, followed by three further cassettes on In Phaze Records, Gaining Momentum and Private Illusions No 1 (both 1981) and With Mixed Emotion (1982). Author S. Alexander Reed, in his book Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, said that Portion Control's early sound "blends innocuously with the moodier moments of Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle", and at times "demonstrated a gift for gritty, teethgrinding distortion, not unlike Esplendor Geometrico". Their first full-length vinyl release, I Staggered Mentally, was released 22 November 1982 by In Phaze.
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Quinto also observed, > He's definitely somebody that has been overcome by a hunger and overcome by > a pursuit for power and for importance that did start a little more > innocuously than it evolved into. When asked if he thought Sylar was irredeemable or not, Quinto responded, > I think there's a certain point at which you cross a line and it's sort of > irrevocable.... I don't know what the writers have in mind, but it would > probably be kind of a challenge at this point, you know? Quinto has also responded to the question of whether Sylar could ever be good, commenting that > I don't really look at him as, you know, absolutely good or bad. I think > that he is constantly walking a line of ambiguity within himself and > uncertainty within himself that defines the way he acts.
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For Edmonds, the constraints were necessary for the facts innocuously to be shown to the lay reader, yet be available to experts reading between the lines. After Henry FitzMaurice Stacke, the first author of Military Operations: East Africa, Volume I died and Charles Hordern was appointed as replacement, Hordern wrote that Stacke had been frustrated by being obliged to The avoidance of hindsight was consistent with the education Edmonds received at the Staff College on the teaching of Carl von Clausewitz (1 June 1780 – 16 November 1831), that the critic must only use the information available to a commander and his motives, rather than what the commander did not and could not know. Using knowledge after the event could show arrogance and a lack of critical judgement. In writing the first Gallipoli volume (1929), Cecil Aspinall-Oglander ignored the convention and on the draft copy, Edmonds called his account biased and lacking in the objective judgement necessary for an official historian.
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Around the beginning of the 16th century, there was much discontent in the Holy Roman Empire, caused by abuses such as indulgences in the Catholic Church and a general desire for reform. Martin Luther, 1529 In 1517, the Reformation began with the publication of Martin Luther's 95 theses; he had posted them innocuously in the town square, and copies of them to German nobles, but never nailed them to the church door in Wittenberg as is commonly said. Rather, an unknown person decided to take the 95 theses from their obscure posting and nail them to the Church's door. The list detailed 95 assertions Luther believed to show corruption and misguidance within the Catholic Church. One often cited example, and perhaps Luther's chief concern, was a condemnation of the selling of indulgences; another prominent point within the 95 theses is Luther's disagreement both with the way in which the higher clergy, especially the pope, used and abused power, and with the very idea of the pope. In 1521, Luther was outlawed at the Diet of Worms.
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Writing a review for the website PopMatters, Neil Kelly described the lyrical style of The Wack Album as being based on "quotable trash-talkin' lyrics, frequent profane comedic diamonds and straight-up gangsta flow"; he describes group member Andy Samberg as "the master of comedic cultural criticism, dropping honest views of social trends in the modern world innocuously amidst fart jokes and gangsta beats", and claims that a number of songs pay homage to hits of the hip hop genre, including the Snoop Dogg-influenced "Perfect Saturday". The group is said to adopt a "nerdy-outsider persona" on multiple tracks, namely "I Don't Give a Honk" and "We Need Love". Despite the comedic nature of their lyrics, some songs are claimed to be serious in message, including the gay marriage-related "Spring Break Anthem". Writing a review for AbsolutePunk, Cody Nelson summarised the lyrics of a number of the album's songs; for example, "Go Kindergarten" is described as "a one-upping take on songs that feature lyrics directing people in the club", and "Semicolon" is said to be a parody of the setup and punchline format of many hip hop songs.
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