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He's making a show of sending thousands of troops to the border.
Trump is certainly making a show of the work he is doing.
Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and Steve Bannon are all making a show of deference.
And the few who aren't are probably making a show of avoiding Trump news.
Making a show of supporting one candidate, or criticizing another, is a form of unsolicited opinion.
He's not fighting the "erratic" narrative; he's publicly ignoring it and making a show of being fairly responsible.
"Let me think about it," she says, stepping aside, making a show of looking at the pastry case.
The pious calculation is that by making a show of our iron borders, Australian multiculturalism can be protected.
Simpson struggled to do so in front of the jurors, making a show of how the gloves didn't fit.
And he tried to point it out, making a show of asking her what she'd like to be called.
That proposal may set up a fight with more centrist Democrats who typically refrain from making a show of criticizing the military.
U.S. lawmakers are making a show of their support for protesters and ratcheting up pressure on President Donald Trump to the same.
Since the U.S.' withdrawal from the agreement in April, Macron has been making a show of stepping up as a climate leader.
Welp. After making a show of keeping the headphone jack around for a few extra generations, OnePlus is finally succumbing to the inevitable.
As a group they write polyphonic songs in which voices weave buoyantly between each other, making a show of feminine solidarity while undercutting it.
Bonus prediction that is oddly specific: At some point, Kesler does something to McDavid that leads to Milan Lucic making a show of wanting to fight him.
Having made its customary claim that it will do a better job of decision-making in future, Facebook is now making a show of enlisting outsiders for help.
Air traffic controllers in Canada are making a show of solidarity with their U.S. counterparts affected by the partial government shutdown with a coordinated effort to buy them pizza.
The Republicans now making a show of defending womens' dignity might acknowledge the contradiction between saying that it's bad to grab vaginas, but necessary to subject them to government authority.
No group has claimed responsibility for several small blasts in Bangkok in recent months, but they have fueled speculation that opponents of military rule are making a show of defiance.
Instead of doing everything in one go, and making a show of suspending the Constitution, you pass a series of laws that amount over time to the destruction of democracy.
Facebook's now doing so in the same manner it's handled previous controversies over user privacy, offensive content, and other complaints: by looking inwards and making a show of self-regulating.
His campaign, regardless, is making a show of force in the state and several of his supporters, including both of his adult sons, will be in the state on Monday.
Coryn Wolk, photographer, Philadelphia: My father is recovering from a mild case of coronavirus, and my mother is making a show of staying six feet away from him until his quarantine ends.
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Algerians took to the streets on Friday, making a show of strength of their last weekly protest before a presidential election that they have rejected as meaningless.
Also possible: Mr. Lighthizer may simply be making a show of force on past environmental commitments to help ease the revised Nafta treaty — the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement — through forthcoming congressional hearings.
Despite making a show of pulling out of the summit, Trump and top U.S. officials continued to work toward planning the event and teased the possibility that it might take place as previously scheduled.
At home, Mr. Greitens gleefully clashed with legislators and the statehouse press corps, making a show of his willingness to take on the establishment and boasting about his approach in interviews with conservative news media outlets.
He is also making a show of holding town hall-style event after town hall-style event — he is on track to hit 100 before Primary Day, and his team is working on securing permits for fireworks.
New Jersey's Cory Booker staged what he described as a "Spartacus" moment during the third day of hearings, making a show of defying Senate rules to release "committee confidential" documents that weren't as damning as his performance suggested.
The Kavanaugh case could inaugurate a widespread cultural backlash to the #MeToo movement — of people, from the elected level down to the grassroots, making a show of public resistance to the emerging norm of believing sexual assault accusers.
Making a show of not understanding the appeal of Trump or Kim Kardashian (or the rest of Kardashian's sisters) has become a badge of courage of sorts, in that their critics can cobble together a public personality by rejecting these figures.
NASCAR CEO Brian France, along with retired race car driver Bill Elliot and his son Chase have endorsed the billionaire businessman for president, making a show of their support at Trump's rally on Monday in fronts of thousands, CNN reports.
McMillan and Morin are shrewd stewards of their restaurants'—and their own—reputations, and their sobriety can seem like a marketing maneuver: by making a show of reforming their ways, they are taking credit for addressing problems that they long helped to perpetuate.
Claims about his honesty parse only if you believe the real-life Drake resembles the persona he plays; otherwise the question remains as to why, rather than making a show of refusing to hide an irritating persona, he doesn't just construct a nicer one.
And then there are the political candidates, wandering around, making a show of relatable fair-food eating, glad-handing, and introducing themselves to everyone, because everyone could potentially sway their local caucus, the traditional manner in which the state helps determine the trajectory of the presidential election to come.
In the House of Representatives, meanwhile, Democrats are poised to spend this week making a show of their newfound majority: • The Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing for the "For the People Act," a voting-rights bill that was symbolically introduced as the first of the new session.
Reporter after reporter at the conference asked people like Gates about the journalist's contention—in his recent book Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World—that making a show of Doing Good while benefiting from late capitalism doesn't make you a some kind of change agent, but a kind of soft fraud.
WASHINGTON — President Trump plans to travel on Tuesday to the Pittsburgh community that was the site of a synagogue massacre over the weekend, the White House said Monday, making a show of national solidarity in the face of anti-Semitism and hate even as he keeps up a steady stream of attacks on his perceived opponents.
In the other story, corporate America just performed another bait and switch at the common good's expense — making a show of paying bonuses and raising wages after the passage of the corporate-friendly Republican tax bill, but actually reserving most of the tax savings for big stock buybacks, enriching shareholders rather than employees in an economy where wage growth still disappoints.
The conclusion is inescapable, and would seemingly bode ill for Facebook's home hardware line: Even when the company appears to be going out of its way to collect less data about you than usual, making a show of how the device is "private by design," its own spokespeople can still struggle to articulate exactly what they are collecting, and how it might be used.
As China rebounds, the government and some businesses are making a show of helping other countries where sickness and death counts are rising, On March 12, Jack Ma, the cofounder of Alibaba, donated 500,000 Covid-19 testing kits and 1 million protective face masks to the US. Tencent, the company behind the ubiquitous WeChat app, announced a $100 million fund on March 24 for international efforts to combat Covid-19.
Making a Show of It. Gelf magazine. Retrieved June 17, 2014.Crabapple, Molly; Leavett, John; Howard Des Chenes (May 20, 2008). Backstage. Act-i-vate. Retrieved June 17, 2014.
Sherwin-White 28-31. If Pilate was not required to send Jesus to Antipas, he may have been making a show of courtesy to the tetrarchBruce 16-17; Hoehner 88. and trying to avoid the need to deal with the Jewish authorities himself.Hoehner 88.
A Sicilian woman cunningly conveys from a merchant that which he has brought to Palermo; he, making a show of being come back with far greater store of goods than before, borrows money of her, and leaves her in lieu thereof water and tow. The story that Dioneo tells is found in Alphonsus's Disciplina Clericalis and the Gesta Romanorum, both of which are written in Latin.
After dark, a man named Mick Taylor comes across them and offers to tow them to his camp to repair the car. The group goes with him to an abandoned mining site several hours south of Wolf Creek. Mick regales them with tall stories of his past while making a show of fixing their car. He then gives the group water which causes them to fall unconscious.
Guajardo, after making a show of loyalty to Zapata by executing a turn coat Zapatista chief, Victoriano Barcena, arranged a meeting with Zapata at Chinameca Hacienda at which he was supposed to deliver badly needed ammunitions. After Zapata arrived,on April 10, 1919, a guard of honor presented arms to him, but on the third signal of the bugle they opened up fire at point blank range, killing Zapata.
A distressed Laura explains to Curt that she needs to take care of her uncle and therefore will be leaving with him, unable to marry Curt. Curt decides to help Henry catch the rustlers instead. Henry proceeds to do exactly that, making a show of it before the town's citizens. Burt and Curt are also arrested, Curt coming to realize that Laura's sweetness and love for him were all an act.
Vanessa goes on to appoint former surgical registrar Thandie Abebe-Griffin (Ginny Holder) as a locum on the cardiothoracic ward, causing tension with consultant Elliot Hope (Paul Bradley), who Thandie once accused of racial discrimination. Vanessa Left on 30 March. She left after making a show of Michael in the Board Room. Michael decides that she should leave after Mark says that he has written his resignation and that Maria should be given compensation for her back injury.
Robert Christgau asserted that, without its predecessor's reliance on samples, "Ocean resists making a show of himself—resists the dope hook, the smart tempo, the transcendent falsetto itself." Ocean, a baritone, sings with casually expressive vocals, free-form flow, conversational crooning, and alternating falsetto and tenor registers. Similar to Nostalgia, Ultra, Channel Orange has interludes that feature sounds of organs, waves, tape decks, car doors, channel surfing, white noise, and dialogue. They exhibit an analog sound quality, and some end abruptly.
In 1199, Michichika became a . He tried to lessen the shogunate's opposition by appointing the heir Minamoto Yoriie as , but shortly thereafter received news that Yoritomo had fallen seriously ill. Once Yoritomo's death was publicly announced, it would become necessary to delay Yoriie's promotion, and so Michichika hurriedly conducted both appointments in a simplified fashion. Teika once again criticized Michichika for enforcing the appointment while knowing of Yoritomo's demise and then expressing his condolences and making a show of mourning the next day, calling this an "egregious plot".
When the Swedes in consequence showed little enthusiasm to help lower tolls for the Dutch in the peace negotiations of 1644, the States General were finally forced to put their money where their mouth was. A Dutch fleet of 48 warships was assembled that, in July, 1645, escorted three hundred Dutch merchant vessels through the Sound, making a show of not paying any toll at all. The Danish monarch watched the imposing spectacle in person from the ramparts of the castle of Helsingør, being politely saluted by the Dutch. The king made no response.
Mulligan has other plans: he convinces Jud Walters (Fernando Hillbeck), a small town entrepreneur and close friend of Joe to prepare something against Joe, in exchange of having his debts erased and an extra 10,000. Jud tells Joe that somebody is opening up the safebox of the bank. Joe goes there, but nothing has happened, and there is only a drunk man who is not doing anything wrong apart from making a show of himself. When Joe offers him a hand, the drunkard is shot, and Joe is accused of killing him carelessly.
By the end of campaigning in 56 BC only the Morini and Menapii of the coastal Low Countries still held out.Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Gallic War Book 3; Cassius Dio, Roman History 39.40–46 In 55 BC Caesar repelled an incursion into Gaul by the Germanic Usipetes and Tencteri, and followed it up by building a bridge across the Rhine and making a show of force in Germanic territory, before returning and dismantling the bridge. Late that summer, having subdued the Morini and Menapii, he crossed to Britain, claiming that the Britons had aided the Veneti against him the previous year.
In response to the "axe murder incident", the UNC determined that instead of trimming the branches that obscured visibility, they would cut down the tree with the aid of overwhelming force. The parameters of the operation were decided in the White House, where President Gerald Ford had held crisis talks. Ford and his advisers were concerned about making a show of strength to chasten North Korea, but without causing further escalation.Gawthorpe, Andrew J. (September 2009), "The Ford Administration and Security Policy in the Asia-Pacific after the Fall of Saigon", The Historical Journal, 52(3):697–716.
They appealed to the King concerning a disputed sum of £800 in account between them, accusing each other, as before, of sundry enormities and malfeasances. About the same time Kildare, in accordance with a royal mandate, assembled a large force, and marched into Munster to arrest the Earl of Desmond, making a show of great eagerness, but sending private instructions to the Earl how to keep out of the way. He next turned north, and by diplomacy and force pacified the O'Neills and O'Donnells. In 1526, he was ordered to England and he took with him his married daughter Alice, Lady Slane so that she could report back on his progress.
UN officials meet Ugandan rebels, BBC, 25 September 2005 Four days later, President Museveni declared that, if Congolese authorities did not disarm the LRA combatants, the UPDF would be sent across the border in pursuit.DR Congo militia deadline expires, BBC, 30 September 2005 This sparked a diplomatic row between the governments of the DRC and Uganda, with both militaries making a show of force along their border, while the Congolese ambassador to the United Nations sent a letter to the UN Secretary-General demanding that an economic embargo be placed on Uganda in retaliation. The Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) planned to deploy 2800 troops to the area.LRA UPDATE: CONGOLESE TROOPS MOVE TOWARD ABA.
Ugandan army recruiting children , BBC, 15 February 2005. In mid-September 2005, a band of LRA fighters, led by Vincent Otti, crossed into the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for the first time. President Museveni declared that, if Congolese authorities did not disarm the LRA combatants, the UPDF would be sent across the border in pursuit. DR Congo militia deadline expires , BBC, 30 September 2005 This sparked a diplomatic row between the governments of the DRC and Uganda, with both militaries making a show of force along their border, while the Congolese ambassador to the United Nations sent a letter to the UN Secretary-General demanding that an economic embargo be placed on Uganda in retaliation.
The Lucca Conference renewed the First Triumvirate and extended Caesar's governorship for another five years.Cicero, Letters to his brother Quintus 2.3; Suetonius, Julius 24 ; Plutarch, Caesar 21, Crassus 14–15, Pompey 51 The conquest of the north was soon completed, while a few pockets of resistance remained.Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Gallic War Book 3; Cassius Dio, Roman History 39.40–46 Caesar now had a secure base from which to launch an invasion of Britain. In 55 BC, Caesar repelled an incursion into Gaul by two Germanic tribes, and followed it up by building a bridge across the Rhine and making a show of force in Germanic territory, before returning and dismantling the bridge.
On May 31, Xu Hai's raiders laid siege to Tongxiang with an arsenal of siege engines at their disposal, including siege towers mounted on boats, wheeled battering rams, and Portuguese breech-loading swivel guns. However, Tongxiang was protected by a new wall that was completed in 1553 and competent defenders who withstood the siege. The attackers eventually lost interest in costly assaults and settled with trying to starve out the defenders. Ruan E sent out strongly worded calls for help in which he denounced Hu Zongxian's policy of appeasement and urged quick action, but Hu Zongxian did not make an effort to relieve the siege other than making a show of force since his men suffered from low morale after the defeat at Zaolin.
A pizza delivery boy is lured inside and tricked into playing with them, eating (for example) green jello off a plate while blindfolded, but after making a show of helping him escape the danger he realizes he is in, the five women hunt him down and the video ends with his uniform on display in a glass case that was last seen empty in the girls' house. The music video reflects the image change the group underwent from "Red Flavor". Lai Frances of PopCrush stated that "the K-pop quintet ditched the saturated sets for darker schemes while channeling their inner Wednesday Addams". Similarly, The Michigan Journal felt that it gave off sinister cult vibes and compared it to "a creepy 1930's Hollywood horror film".
Doué-la-Fontaine Zoo in France said Copenhagen Zoo had not broken EAZA rules, but called the events "shocking" and wondered why a more "soft" solution had not been found. Dublin Zoo in Ireland was "saddened" by the giraffe's death, calling it "cold, calculated, cynical and callous". The director of Hellabrunn Zoo in Munich, Germany said the zoo would never kill a giraffe or do a similar public dissection, which had left him "speechless". He said some animals such as goats and guinea pigs are slaughtered as food for predators, but without "making a show" of this, and that the killing of animals has been more accepted in Scandinavian zoos for a number of years, but he did not know the exact reasoning behind the Copenhagen Zoo's decisions.
Howe was not planning a regular naval battle of orderly lines and formal engagement but was instead relying on the inexperience of the French revolutionary crews to provide his captains with an opportunity for a large scale victory. Howe ordered his captains to turn towards the French fleet and for each ship in the British line to cut the French line, raking ships either side as they did so before engaging them in close combat and relying on superior British training and firepower to subdue the enemy. These tactics were only partially successful, primarily because the British captains had never been issued such an order before and many refused to enact it as too risky, most simply engaging the French from a distance or making a show of crossing the line before turning in for close engagement too early. Several captains however were aware of the spirit of the order and made efforts to break through the French line.

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