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But I still worried: Would I be looked upon pitifully?
But dilution is not looked upon with favor by investors.
Globally, we are looked upon as leaders, but are we?
Most recently, we looked upon the Hunter's Moon in October.
BDS is not looked upon too kindly by many liberals.
I looked upon him as one of my best friends.
It shows how they are looked upon differently than men.
She said the country looked upon them as infected pariahs.
Leaders who waste their workers' time are not looked upon favorably.
The way it's looked upon today is more appropriate, you know?
Before that, Asian immigrants were not looked upon favorably by Americans.
Yet, that innovation is not always looked upon favorably by Western executives.
"I always looked upon that as that we did a good job."
I am not and should not be looked upon as an isolated incident.
Being black in America means that you're looked upon as being the other.
Jawad says that Brexit "should indeed" be looked upon as a feminist issue.
In fact, they looked upon these bills as the work of the devil.
"Helping or mentoring co-workers and colleagues is certainly looked upon favorably," she said.
The presumptive heir, King Charles I of Spain, was looked upon with grave suspicion.
He said Trump's victory over Clinton may eventually be looked upon as an "anomaly".
This is a major transformation in Israel and should be looked upon with great concern.
Many Americans looked upon the white supremacist rally at Charlottesville, Va. with disgust and disbelief.
"And it's important that these are looked upon as natural differences without judgement or guilt."
"I am not and should not be looked upon as an isolated incident," he said.
If you can reach a 4 or above, you're looked upon in society as being cool.
But in Quebec, the locals looked upon me as a God when I wore my fedora.
And for that, he's looked upon in many circles on Staten Island as this great mayor.
Judge Hellerstein praised Mr. Seabrook's rise, saying it was something to be looked upon with approval.
Changing course on the legal battlefield may not be looked upon kindly by judges, legal experts say.
" Melville looked upon "Moby-Dick" and "Pierre" as twins, each penetrating psychological depths, "still deep and deeper.
In some sense, I think that fasting will be looked upon the same way exercise is today.
But if you're black and male, you're looked upon as being a dangerous other more often than not.
But Washington is also being looked upon to help ease tensions between regional powerhouses Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Though sluggish, it was enough to overcome a group of road bikers, who looked upon me with searing disdain.
Yeah, I would say ... and I think the board also has something, should be looked upon for not monitoring.
He looked upon his plan as a practical, even inevitable response to the inequities rampant in the modern world.
These are actions at the heart of our industry and which we have looked upon with pride and admiration.
From behind sandbags and bulletproof glass, the Marines looked upon a desolate vista and could feel menace awaiting them.
An older generation of Koreans, who looked upon her father's presidency as the time the economy took off, embraced her.
Over the past 30 years, the Federal Reserve has been looked upon as a stabilizing force amid turbulent economic times.
Typology was looked upon less as a scholarly path to intellectual understanding than as a doctrinal path to spiritual comfort.
Mr. Stringer's endorsements will be looked upon favorably, said Jonathan Westin, the executive director of New York Communities for Change.
I wiped my eyes as I looked upon the remaining heap of swirled sand, itself a thing of great beauty.
The Old Year was already looked upon as dead; and its effects were selling cheap, like some drowned mariner's aboardship.
When you're an OLD artist you take drastic measures to be well looked upon by colleagues less than half your age.
And the idea is that you're disposable and you're degraded and you're kind of looked upon as nothing but a prop.
"She is looked upon as a liberal and someone who respects human rights, workers' rights and so forth," Ms. Dantò said.
While most of the guys were battling nerves (to varying degrees of success), Chad looked upon his fellow contestants with disdain.
That's perhaps ridiculous and a lot of people looked upon that as being a very serious breach and it really was.
"Spending a lot of money to prospect is probably not going to be looked upon with favor by investors," he said.
They are being repressed anew by reactionary regimes, challenged by violent jihadists and looked upon with suspicion by voters whom they failed.
The princess then turned her attention to Armstrong-Jones, who was looked upon as a humble "tradesman" because he was a photographer.
But all-in-all, the Louisville Bats and the Indianapolis Indians looked upon all they had made, and said it was good.
For eons, Dalits have been employed as crematorium keepers, sweepers, toilet cleaners and manual scavengers – occupations that are looked upon as "dirty".
But it is the government in Taiwan who will have looked upon the newly-announced agreement with a particular degree of foreboding.
Whether India moves further right, and Modi begins to be looked upon as a moderate, I think that only time will tell.
Conyers strongly postulated that the performing of personal service or favors would be looked upon favorably and lead to salary increases or promotions.
Secondly, Rajneesh is looked upon with disfavor in Europe and Australia, the only other locales where he has both followers and financial footholds.
Both companies had been hoping that, unlike in 2014, a merger of the two would be looked upon more favorably this time around.
"I think, as an NBA player we're looked upon as role models, regardless of whether you want to be or not," he said.
"This wage number will be looked upon as supporting those looking for four hikes this year," independent bond analyst Adrian Miller told me.
Secondly, this song is a cheeky commentary about women being made into sexual objects that are to be looked upon but never heard.
We cannot have the support of the community if the police are looked upon as racially profiling, [ticket] writing, shooting innocent people, unarmed people.
"Even with legalization, cannabis is still looked upon very negatively," Milian said, explaining why he tries to keep his movie and marijuana worlds apart.
The marriage was happy enough at first, but Maud soon became depressed by the conviction that she was looked upon as a cradle-snatcher.
If I hadn't looked upon her with my own eyes, I might not have believed that such an elephant could exist in our world.
Promises of social justice and racial equity successfully used to sell legalization are now looked upon with suspicion as a hollow and cynical sales pitch.
I did notice, however, that when looked upon closely, the rounded screen corners look imperfectly cut and have a slightly different curvature than the bezels.
Bruce Springsteen Narrates New Audio Version of Memoir, 'Born to Run' "I always looked upon that as that we did a good job," he says.
Obama made sure that we were looked upon as a weak nation by most countries around the world, which couldn't be further from the truth.
The discipline of the seminary was looked upon as repressed, and any kind of check on the will of the individual was seen as negative.
After all, "value" stocks typically boast low price-earnings ratios and other traditional assessment metrics, often looked upon as undervalued relative to its underlying fundamentals.
They are looked upon now "as a national disgrace and violations of the nation's democratic values under the disguise of the national security," Khan said.
They looked upon Gilda as someone who was a gateway, who was a pioneer for women in sketch comedy in particular and comedy in general.
Dissent in Cuba is never looked upon kindly, and this week, with the whole world watching, interviewees seemed to be choosing their words especially carefully.
Livers can be pickled without going broke, and those nights, if remembered, will be looked upon fondly as the best mistakes you could safely make.
But they have clear differences of opinion, and in this politically contentious moment, Mr. O'Rourke said, high-profile bipartisanship is not always looked upon favorably.
He speaks with affection of an era when there were fewer African-American students at Harvard but people like him looked upon them with more respect.
He has regained much of his fame and prestige, Vietnam being looked upon by some in a new light, Frazier having been defeated in a rematch.
Furious at the desecration of her temple, Athena transformed Medusa into a monster with the deadly capacity to turn whoever looked upon her face to stone.
However, many black American looked upon the events as a reaffirmation of what they long since known: vicious racial hatred has always boiled beneath the surface.
Value stocks, on the other hand, boast low price-earnings ratios and other traditional assessment metrics, often looked upon as undervalued relative to its underlying fundamentals.
It used to be that students looked upon college graduation with excitement — the beginning of a road full of promise and, ultimately, an exciting new career.
"He was spoken about a lot and it was with a degree of reverence," she testified, saying he was looked upon as something like a saint.
"His soft blue eye was so attractive that those who saw him for the first time looked upon him as a victim of circumstances," it reported.
They'd be pretty blank-faced if someone mentioned a song title of mine, and I always looked upon that as that we did a good job.
"Assistant coaches weren't even looked upon as full-time employees," said Ray Didinger, a Pro Football Hall of Fame writer and a broadcaster for Comcast's SportsNet Philadelphia.
But they are looked upon with some disdain by the climate intelligentsia, who are united in their belief that such strategies are economically suboptimal and politically counterproductive.
Trump has spoken of being friends with Xi, and has at times looked upon the latter leader's decision to make himself president-for-life with obvious admiration.
Washington (CNN)Back in the early chapters of Donald Trump's headline-gobbling campaign, the White House looked upon the spectacle as little more than a diversionary amusement.
And the cryptogeeks and libertarians looked upon it, and said lo, we smile upon this, for it is good, and decentralized, and solves the Byzantine Generals Problem.
As for the potential impact on the $3.7 trillion U.S. municipal bond market, Lew said each issue is looked upon independently based on risk and credit quality.
When Chris looked upon the group of boys gathered around him at the park for football practice, he knew that some of them would likely be lost.
Tsingdao is kind of an outlier because it has mass scale and volume but is also looked upon as being more premium than other domestic beer brands.
Mr. Trump looked upon the crowd in the Rose Garden and announced his decision: The animal was hereby pardoned for the crime of being born a turkey.
Yes, Dany makes them promise to give up their people's thieving, pillaging, and raping ways, but that detail will almost certainly be kindly looked upon by future historians.
LeBlanc has been a spot starter in Seattle's rotation but might be looked upon to fill the gap while RHP Taijuan Walker works things out at Triple-A.
Whether you agree with their brand of feminism or not, pedalling a message of female solidarity and empowerment in the process can hardly be looked upon with disdain.
Most people haven't sailed around the world like Magellan or looked upon it from space or sorted out the relevant math involved in tides, gravity, and so on.
Bush will be looked upon to help address the void in production the Steelers have yet to fill since losing Ryan Shazier to a spinal injury in 2017.
The Millennial Question As the generation now coming of age, millennials are largely looked upon as the group to decide whether homeownership grows or shrinks in coming decades.
"But it was still looked upon as some kind of a threat that I was letting children into the school that don't belong at P.S. 24," she said.
Valentin "Taty" Castellanos, who has 10 goals in 17 starts, will be looked upon to pick up the slack in the absence of the 28-year-old Brazilian.
"When there are people in this country who are not looked upon as equal to the person standing beside them," she said, "there's always work to be done."
Looked upon as the Googler who would find a way to bring the company back to growth and profitability, Mayer was named CEO of the company in July 2012.
Similarly, in the chicken category, the beloved Chick-fil-A took the top spot while less favorably looked upon brands like Popeye's, Church's and KFC rounded out the bottom.
I'll be a hypocrite however, since I do believe that losing shouldn't be a negative thing necessarily, instead it should be looked upon as a valuable lesson for growth.
In his benign and gentle manner, he is broadly looked upon as a type who would not hurt a flea, but I would not want to be that flea.
"Many of these people, who looked upon him as a spiritual person, seeing that he was not able to protect himself — naturally, there was a devaluation," Mr. Swamy said.
He will most likely be looked upon as a chief emissary to the Capitol Hill, K Street and donor constituencies that Trump explicitly campaigned against — the chief of swamp.
"Warren won't be looked upon as a leader because she'll be presiding over a House and Senate full of men," said Nicole W., a 33-year-old Trump voter.
Due to its small size, comfortable form factor, and utilitarian functionality, the Zipit was looked upon fondly by reviewers and consumers alike, and received the iParenting Media Award in 2005.
I think, in the long term, the presidents who have taken our country to war are looked upon as stronger and more able than the ones who tend toward peace.
The point of a reconstruction is not to produce a copy of the painting as it appears today, but rather to extrapolate how the painting would have looked upon completion.
" On tearing down Confederate statues: "That's a hard one for me ... I have never looked upon the carvings on Stone Mountain or the statues as being racist in their intent.
In his zeal to combat mass incarceration and social injustice, Krasner has dismissed victims of crime and looked upon members of law enforcement and their families as ignorant and intolerant.
If it is, you would think that the renewable energy industry, which has garnered nearly $100 billion in domestic investment over the past two years, would be looked upon favorably.
I'm not really sure how [that happened], but honestly, I think machines are somehow looked upon to answer for talent and creativity, which is solely the domain of the musician.
He had high ambitions for the unity of Continental Europe and France's foremost place in it, and looked upon a newly isolated Britain with scarcely concealed irritation bordering on contempt.
And that the problems, which I am not ignoring, are not looked upon with an eye of fear and segregation, but with sincere interest in the cause of the issues.
"I have looked upon the forty-some odd years of the band, and there's certainly been some great moments of joy and incredible moments of frustration and downers." he says.
But does Florida—facing oblivion by climate change, looked upon with pity by the rest of the country, the subject of torrential tongue-clicking chronicles of its death foretold—give up?
Facebook's embarrassing Free Basics setback in 2300 hurt the company's reputation domestically, but WhatsApp—which had almost become essential to life in India—was still looked upon favorably by the government.
Given Bunz's original "no money allowed in this zone" ethos, some community members have looked upon the plan to launch a cryptocurrency—and the attendant confusion—as a betrayal of sorts.
He was looked upon by many in the press corps as a crackpot, and—ironically given his place in the history of AIDS coverage—is a fierce opponent of gay rights.
He had power, but with six strikeout titles in only eight seasons as a regular at a time when whiffing carried a huge stigma, he was looked upon as highly flawed.
The old man, heeding spirits that have impelled many other captives to the hills—"Those escapees looked upon the trees as if contemplating a cathedral"—runs away from a sugarcane plantation.
Not a journalist, or a poet (a choice that would have been looked upon as delusional but worthwhile in a city that reveres poets), or even a professor, but a writer.
To land the card — which is looked upon as the American Express "Black Card" of Sea Girt — means skipping the line with a friend and the cardholder not paying a cover.
He looked upon the structure's 40-story sloping concrete towers and a cat's cradle of cables with the smile of a 10-year-old who had just finished a model airplane.
So much of her personality is threaded through the album, and as one of popular culture's most fondly looked upon players, she was always going to make a year-defining record.
Fashion is often looked upon as frivolous and inconsequential despite the fact that everyone on Earth participates in it, and not least because it's a culture industry primarily associated with women.
You said you did!) It took place on a crumbling staircase (cool), as a dragon periodically flew overhead (cool), and as we looked upon the zombified remains of Gregor Clegane (COOL!).
A woman, like a child, ''has been looked upon in the courts as needing especial care,'' the Supreme Court pronounced in 21992, unanimously upholding Oregon's 22007-hour restriction in Muller v. Oregon.
The WHA was often looked upon as the second, bruised banana to the NHL's big, flawlessly yellow banana—but once you look at the data, it's clear that this is a misconception.
An actress from California named Nicole said she joined D.O.S. at the invitation of Allison Mack, known for her role on the television series "Smallville," whom she looked upon as a mentor.
I mean, it's no secret that we have been divided as a nation, that our politics is polarized, that standard politicians are not looked upon favorably, Congress has a terrible approval rating.
Who among us has not looked upon a bacon-wrapped hamburger and thought, You know, this is pretty good, but if someone could pierce it with a hot dog, I could die happy.
Whereas traditional taxis are looked upon suspiciously, Uber and Cabify allow for both traceability, on-demand services, and predictable prices, providing a safe and dependable mode of transport where there often isn't any.
"If you told anyone you were using any kind of dating process other than church or your friend network, you were looked upon as desperate, a loser, even a seedy person," said Conru.
William Burns, the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former deputy secretary of state, said that "a dysfunctional Ukraine" will be looked upon fondly by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The 193-year-old Eaves has 219 power-play goals and will be looked upon to kickstart the Ducks' dismal play with the man advantage, which is just 22-for-21 in February.
"Even when he became a grandfather I still looked upon Ari as my own child, my own son and whatever problems he encountered I would be the first he would come to," she says.
A woman who befriended Lanza online said he was "singularly focused and obsessed with mass murders and spree killings" and looked upon school shooters "with respect and understanding," according to heavily redacted FBI documents.
"The market is troubled by lack of supply at a time when emissions standards are being tightened and any correction at this stage will be looked upon as a potential buying opportunity," he said.
Then comes nothing, inaction, as it becomes clear the people in charge of the country have looked upon all of this and decided nothing really needs to change, that this is just what happens.
" He told a false story about a female member of Congress that was meant to suggest she was a grandstanding empty suit, as he lamented that once "women were sacred, looked upon with great honor.
"The market is troubled by lack of supply at a time when the emission standards are being tightened and any correction at this stage will be looked upon as a potential buying opportunity," he said.
And even when social media did upend regimes, during the Arab Spring, we looked upon it with pride as a validation of Western values — with little thought for what those tools would expose at home.
"In the political environment we're in, companies will certainly be looked upon more favorably that make capital investments or do M&A," said Robert Kindler, the global head of mergers and acquisitions at Morgan Stanley.
"The market is troubled by a lack of supply at a time when the emission standards are being tightened, and any correction at this stage will be looked upon as a potential buying opportunity," he said.
This careful framing is evident in "Masquerade No. 3" (1989/2016) as well, a photograph foregrounded by the backside of a naked man, who is being looked upon by a man in a suit passing by.
Just as the first Americans looked upon a new world full of potential for a grand experiment and freedom self-government, so do their descendants have a responsibility to defend the old world from its worst self.
What the Schilldog did manage to do was ask Fox Business's Trish Regan if she's ever looked upon a young boy and thought to herself that maybe she'd like to date that young boy in a decade.
Or, who among us has not looked upon a hot dog and thought, You know, this is pretty good, but if someone could jam it inside a hamburger that is wrapped in bacon, I could die happy.
Just as the first Americans looked upon a new world full of potential for a grand experiment in freedom and self confidence, so their descendants have a responsibility to defend the old world from its worst self.
Once upon a time, such planets were not looked upon favorably in the extraterrestrial life sweepstakes, because they were almost undoubtedly tidally locked, keeping one side faced to its star and the other facing out in space.
Just as the first Americans looked upon a new world full of potential for a grand experiment in freedom and self government, so their descendants have a responsibility to defend the old world from its worst self.
The backing from the former Alaska governor puts a major figure of the conservative movement, who is also looked upon favorably by evangelicals, into Trump's corner with less than two weeks before the start of voting in Iowa.
He reminisces about his joy in spending time with her while he ran the party in California, in his book calling her a policy wonk with a "wicked sense of humor," and said he's always looked upon her favorably.
We were not aware of anything like that happening here and we told her that we were going to make sure this year it was going to be very, very looked upon and that we won't accept anything like that.
His eclectic and compressed training — he spent only two years at Juilliard — also meant that he didn't have time to absorb the enmity that simmered between modern dance and ballet, two artistic camps that looked upon each other with suspicion.
At that time, while Turkey might have looked upon the PYD and its YPG militia as affiliated PKK organizations, it did not view them as an existential threat, the way Turkey has increasingly viewed them since they partnered with us.
"Put simply, the outside business in which Polos and Glover chose to be involved was not a benign enterprise that might have been looked upon favorably" by top government officials, the prosecutors, Martin S. Bell and Andrew D. Goldstein, wrote.
When my cousin married in 2000, the attendees who dared to celebrate, looked upon the wedding in silence -- fearful that the Taliban's Vice and Virtue squad (the so-called moral police) would catch them and penalize them for breaking the law.
But it was perhaps not surprising that the President should not even reflect on how the fearsome political climate plays into such behavior -- even though the man in the Oval Office is often looked upon to set a moral example.
"She is exceptionally well positioned to continue to excel at her position, and should be looked upon very favorably for a promotion as soon as possible so that she can make full use of her talents going forward," Lacey concluded.
The start of Daylight Saving Time (DST), when our clocks "spring forward" by one hour, is often looked upon with dread, as we clutch, Gollum-like, to that precious hour of sleep that is inevitably snatched from our grasp at 2:00 a.m.
No matter how sophisticated the law is, any allegation that derogates from the stereotype is likely to be approached with a degree of suspicion...no other crime is looked upon with the degree of blameworthiness, suspicion, and doubt as a rape victim.
"Whereas Chinese-brand car and SUV offerings were once looked upon with disdain or rejected outright, they're now increasingly accepted," said Michael Dunne, president of Hong Kong-based consultancy Dunne Automotive, citing "a clear sea-change" in buyer perceptions about Chinese brands.
The Queen, who has a special relationship with the regiment as she is its colonel-in-chief, appeared to discreetly wipe away a tear way from her cheek as she looked upon the statue of the Lion of England, the regiment's emblem.
For all his rhetoric about socialist revolution and brotherhood, he looked upon Kim Il-sung, North Korea's first leader (and Mr. Kim's grandfather), as something of a little brother, and like Chinese emperors of yore, expected the Korean leader to come to him.
These artists' alliance with the powerful and polarizing formalist critic Clement Greenberg greatly helped them early on, but hindered them in later years when Greenberg's reputation and influence were on the wane, and painting, especially formally-oriented abstraction was looked upon as retrograde.
IPv6 will become the de facto for mobile networks and IPv4-only fixed networks will be looked upon as off Our data says IPv6 is 27 percent faster, Facebook says 10 to 803 percent faster, LinkedIn says between 10 to 40 percent faster for mobile.
Currently, Jeksetra' core membership are looking to round out the lineup—no easy task in a scene where metalcore rules, and black metal is, as it was in its earliest days, looked upon as a dark oddity best left to the brooding, insular outsiders.
" The Trump presidency invited a re-evaluation of The Reactionary Mind: In 2016, a New Yorker headline called it "The Book That Predicted Trump," while in March Bookforum recommended it as an "indispensable guide to how adeptly conservatives looked upon the age of Obama.
MECCA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Hisham Mostafa briefly forgot the war in Syria and his financial worries as he looked upon Islam's holiest sites for the first time, standing among hundreds of thousands of white-clad Muslims gathered in Mecca ahead of the haj pilgrimage.
Parts of his deposition testimony were read into the record at the Montgomery County Courthouse where Mr. Cosby is facing charges that in 2004 he drugged and sexually assaulted a young Temple University staff member, Andrea Constand, who looked upon him as a mentor.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly celebrating the Rugrats 25th anniversary, the show's co-creator Paul Germain explained that death and divorce were both looked upon by Nickelodeon as subjects too dark for a kids' show, so the writers never really explained the absence of Chuckie's mother.
This included extending refunds for surcharges on green electricity to companies, something Altmaier said he expected to be looked upon favorably at a European Commission level as Germany, unlike its European Union neighbors plans to exit all of its nuclear power and much of its coal simultaneously.
Since our efforts today at stopping the further spread of the bomb is likely to be looked upon in years to come as largely futile, there is a haunting episode, not included in the book, where Fermi's phenomenal intuition may once again have come to the fore.
She's a strong fundraiser who has about $3 million in her campaign account, has kept a relatively high profile in the House and is looked upon fondly by Breitbart News head Stephen Bannon and his allies, who have been looking to back a candidate in the race.
People with HIV are "looked upon by some as being dangerous, and it's very difficult and painful for people to feel that way," says Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and an early government figure to champion the scientific validity of U=U.
Paris may also be looked upon more favorably in an international political light at the moment, given that France recently rejected the far-right presidential candidacy of Marine Le Pen while the United States elected the nationalist Donald Trump, who is unpopular in many parts of the world.
The band — made up of Takuya Kimura, Masahiro Nakai, Goro Inagaki, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi and Shingo Katori — are looked upon as the New Kids on the Block of Japan and were the first boyband in the country to successfully transition from singing into hosting their own variety show SMAPxSMAP and acting.
Putting aside the historical significance of this election with respect to Hillary Clinton's accomplishments, as well as the less fortunate reality of Donald Trump's success, this election will be looked upon as a time of political revolution because of the amazingly impressive work of a 74-year-old senator from Vermont.
Also, because there are no hooks—there's no Twiggy, no Rolling Stones—everything was faceless, so it came, went and changed everything, but it's not looked upon with the same fondness as the 60s because it didn't breed that level of labels and attachments that the mainstream media might've got a hold of.
I would hope to say that most of our members are open to some form of counseling now when they need it, when prior to that, people were very afraid that they would be looked upon as being weak, that this is our job and if you can't take it you shouldn't be in this job.
His quote from the TLS (found on the Guggenheim's exhibition site for ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow) reads in full: From the beginning we looked upon the term [ZERO] not as an expression of nihilism—or as a dada-like gag, but as a word indicating a zone of silence and of pure possibilities for a new beginning as at the countdown when rockets take off—zero is the incommensurable zone in which the old state turns into the new.

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