" Pate said it "misrepresents the role of my office, and worse, misrepresents Iowa election law.
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" Pate said in a statement that the use of the mailer "misrepresents the role of my office, and worse, misrepresents Iowa election law.
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The letter "misrepresents the role of my office, and worse, misrepresents Iowa election law," Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate said in a statement.
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Her viral post, she said, misrepresents her views on the country.
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He seems to recognize this, since he routinely misrepresents his positions.
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Trump's tweet misrepresents what's going on with immigration on the Hill.
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But portraying mass shootings as a mental health problem misrepresents the evidence.
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Ignoring unpaid work also misrepresents the significance of particular kinds of economic activity.
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If the board misrepresents its performance, other agencies may do so as well.
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She's chiefly known for one thing, which vastly underrates and wildly misrepresents her.
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Partially. But the Toughman Contest misrepresents itself when it claims to be safe.
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It misrepresents the United States as a safe harbor for women fleeing violence.
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The idiom that describes one as "retreating into one's interiority" misrepresents the situation.
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The administration has identified a real problem, but misunderstands, or misrepresents, the cause.
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Brazile misrepresents the impact of the deal with the Clinton campaign that she describes.
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To the Editor: I think that Michael David Lukas misrepresents Hanukkah and its meaning.
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OD: Well, I think it's an overall realization that James O'Keefe often misrepresents things.
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But the timeline drawn out in the court document once again misrepresents what occurred.
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"If someone misrepresents you, I have evidence to get the truth out," he explained.
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For you and the President to continue saying it did, gravely misrepresents their work.
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But these claims are based on a major factual error that misrepresents state election law.
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To suggest that he didn't know Bannon dramatically misrepresents the connection between the two men.
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"I find it annoying," adds local musician Mihir Joshi, who says the video misrepresents India.
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But it misrepresents what the Trump administration is actually doing, and what could happen next.
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It seems to me that every time he speaks, he misrepresents facts about common situations.
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That's why biological determinism misrepresents the experiences of many more people than might first appear.
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The policies specifically ban content that misrepresents dates, locations, and eligibility requirements for the census.
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He called it an insult, saying that it misrepresents the town, creating the impression of conflict.
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To say it's a who's-who kind of misrepresents the breadth and depth of the scene.
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I always do - trade, jobs, military, vets, 2nd A, repeal Ocare, borders, etc - but media misrepresents!
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Friday night, he launched another Twitter tirade against her, claiming she misrepresents his views and positions.
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His claim misrepresents how NATO functions and conflates several different measures of the alliance's military spending.
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But he's also said he was "vindicated" and "proven innocent," which misrepresents the meaning of acquittal.
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Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza said the "ridiculous lawsuit" misrepresents the constitution and is aimed at scaring bondholders.
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Mayo completely misrepresents the nature of a meeting held between CNN staffers and Mayo staffers in March.
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But anyone suggesting that Facebook is akin to a pinned football player misrepresents its resilience and power.
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In addition, the bill also enhances the penalties if an individual misrepresents such information in an application.
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Talk to your kids about how porn misrepresents body types, women, people of color, and same-sex intimacy.
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The end result is a massive marketing campaign that totally misrepresents what has been invested and what hasn't.
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Acting as a representative without the official authority is deceitful, and misrepresents the interests of the United States.
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This falsehood so profoundly misrepresents the nature of innovation and capitalism that it's hard to take them seriously.
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The site also links to articles in a way that misrepresents race relations, political parties, and legislation historically.
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Accusations that he misrepresents himself have been voiced in the past, but were now amplified by social media.
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However, we feel MacGillis's article misrepresents our mission, including the many ways we have served our remote students.
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ALEC is a lobby group that routinely misrepresents climate science to advance the agenda of its corporate members.
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This not only misrepresents how technology is built and deployed, it impedes discussion of meaningful solutions and progress.
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Although he's often framed as a hero in the broader sexual revolution, this both overstates and misrepresents his influence.
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By ignoring the scholarship in American Judaism by women, Beckerman misrepresents the field and misses its most important developments.
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Some have accused us of being pawns of the Russian government, but this misrepresents our principles and basic operations.
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Tesla has been criticized for selling a "Full Self Driving" option that misrepresents what its vehicles are capable of doing.
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Juul also misrepresents its nicotine content by saying each pod is equivalent to a pack of cigarettes, the lawsuit alleges.
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The authors found that the gender mix in these vignettes consistently misrepresents the actual proportions found in the United States.
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"When we use words like travel ban, that misrepresents what it is," Spicer said during his January 31 press briefing.
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The media organizations say Ipsos misrepresents their ratings, showing them to be lower for political reasons, which the company denies.
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At least one misrepresents the facts of what the viewer is seeing, while two others are provided without necessary context.
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At least one misrepresents the facts of what the viewer is seeing, while two others are provided without any context.
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In a recent experiment, political scientist Brendan Nyhan and colleagues found that Trump supporters were willing to admit Trump misrepresents facts.
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"This significantly misrepresents the experience of the vast majority of passengers arriving at Heathrow this summer," he was quoted as saying.
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Following publication of this story, Google spokesperson Taj Meadows said in a statement that it "misrepresents" what happened at the meeting.
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The myth that underemployed, poorly housed young people are joyfully engaged in a project of creative destruction misrepresents our economic reality.
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Iowa's secretary of state on Saturday rebuked Cruz, saying the literature "misrepresents" the role of his office and Iowa election law.
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London (CNN Business)What happens when a major political party campaigning in a hugely significant election misrepresents itself on social media?
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Generations of Americans have told themselves a patriotic story of the supposed first Thanksgiving that misrepresents colonization as consensual and bloodless.
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But there are those, especially the always-optimistic Mnuchin, who assert that static scoring misrepresents the likely effects of the bill.
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Plenty of publications have already enumerated the ways in which The Vietnam War misrepresents history to whitewash US actions in the war.
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Going after Apple for charging high prices is a solid debate club tactic, but it avoids the issue and misrepresents Cook's point.
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It's a scenario that, according to veteran crime scene analyst Matthew Steiner, drums up interest in forensic science but also misrepresents it.
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That image has been shaped by the media, and while it represents some truths, it completely misrepresents the scale of his menace.
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Here are all the ways that the Republican candidate misinterprets and misrepresents the state of oil, coal, and gas in the US.
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This is because simply selecting a few point estimates and plugging them into the Drake Equation misrepresents the state of our knowledge.
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" The FEC also prohibits fundraising that misrepresents "the person as speaking, writing, or otherwise acting for or on behalf of any candidate.
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The FDA historically has authorized over 99 percent of expanded access requests, but that figure arguably misrepresents the actual state of affairs.
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However, the AI could creep people out, make people angry if it misrepresents them or generate monstrous visages no one wants to see.
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Focusing on renaming ICE or redistributing duties, they argue, misrepresents their position and doesn't address their concerns about the agency's treatment of immigrants.
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Richard Blumenthal, who never fought in Vietnam when he said for years he had (major lie),now misrepresents what Judge Gorsuch told him?
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Richard Blumenthal, who never fought in Vietnam when he said for years he had (major lie), now misrepresents what Judge Gorsuch told him?
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We know from U.S. marital records that this is not the case and it only misrepresents a symptom to be the problem itself.
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It also fundamentally misrepresents the law because if Manafort made false representations to try to secure loans, that amounts to a federal crime.
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The new president will be a man who constantly accuses the media of getting things wrong but routinely misrepresents and twists facts himself.
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Not only is this wrong, it also misrepresents the best evidence we have on how Medicaid affects patients' relationship with the health system.
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At least one misrepresents the facts of what the viewer is seeing, while two others are provided without any of the necessary context.
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" It explains the dire implications of a president who "deliberately and continuously misrepresents to the public the grounds for an ongoing criminal investigation.
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Christina Choe won this year's Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for "Nancy," a psychological drama about a woman who misrepresents herself on the internet.
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With Thursday's rules, Facebook will now remove content that misrepresents dates, locations, times, eligibility for or information needed to participate in the census.
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Trump has implemented massive cuts to national public health programs, and he routinely lies and misrepresents empirical findings that he views as unfavorable.
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With Thursday's rules, Facebook will now remove content that misrepresents dates, locations, times, eligibility for or information needed to participate in the census.
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"In my opinion, [the article] overstates the risks and misrepresents the level of evidence used to support its conclusions," Abbey wrote back to Puccio.
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The headline misrepresents the truth while also playing into a baseless conspiracy theory that has circulated online, which alleges the CIA aided opposition protesters.
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SAM LIPSCOMBGambier, Ohio Your article on Margrethe Vestager, the EU's competition commissioner, misrepresents the issue with sweetheart-tax deals ("Big Tech's nemesis", September 16th).
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"I don't think it necessarily misrepresents the underground party scene," another well regarded Boston DJ and artist, who asked not to use his name, explained.
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" The quote in question originated in a 2014 tweet, but misrepresents her use of "for good," which, in this instance, was intended to mean "forever.
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Feinberg's article focuses on the most frequent claim against Zito: that she misrepresents reliably Republican officials and donors as swing voters whom Trump won over.
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Officials from the FBI and NSA, however, have told Durham that the theory is incorrect and misrepresents how the intelligence community functions, the Times reported.
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Mr. Burger argued that the band's reputation as a right-wing populist act was largely a creation of the media, which misrepresents and misconstrues his lyrics.
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It is deeply disappointing to see people of Whitman and Kerrey's accomplishments and intellect put their names to an article that distorts and misrepresents our work.
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Without such documents, Singh said, they faced an "unacceptable choice between forgoing a passport, and making a false declaration, and using a passport which misrepresents their identity".
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And in some cases, it grossly misrepresents the history of segregation in the US — a pretty unforgivable misstep in a movie that purports to be about racism.
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"Comptroller Stringer's report severely misrepresents the impact of our platform on housing and is full of elementary methodological mistakes," said Andrew Kalloch, a policy manager at Airbnb.
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Human rights group believe that figure, provided by the Philippine National Police (PNP), misrepresents the scale of the bloodshed, pointing to large numbers of killings by shadowy gunmen.
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The result is an online collective where past crew members can reminisce and outsiders can view a cultural narrative that Rosales feels the media typically misrepresents as violent.
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Though we quibble about diction, and though critical evaluations will diverge, we can at the very least agree that a translation that misrepresents the author's meaning is bad.
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A scene that misrepresents at least three communities in a single exchange is especially disappointing in a show that's trying to make people feel less weird and alone.
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While it may be an attempt to satirically explore bullying, its comedic execution and social message may not be enough to offset the perception that it misrepresents body positivity.
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It's working overtime to make the system more fragile for the sick and the poor, even as it misrepresents to Congress and the American public what it's up to.
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When Mourdoukoutas suggests that libraries "don't have the same value they used to" because of places like Starbucks, he fundamentally misrepresents the role of the library in a community.
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If the president continues to criticize the former director — or presents a version of events that FBI employees feel misrepresents the bureau — onlookers suspect that those leaks will continue.
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" He claims the headline misrepresents his interview, where he condemns the donation, but says that "if you're going to take the money, you damn well better make it anonymous.
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As long as Trump misrepresents the circumstances surrounding the migrant caravan, we will move no closer to solving the problem of so many families arriving at our southern border.
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The Regulators Siddhartha Mukherjee's article about twins and epigenetics misrepresents the processes by which genes are regulated and how the environment influences the genome ("Same but Different," May 2nd).
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The truth: This dramatically misrepresents the number of Somali refugees from the US who have joined ISIS, which a New York Times story pegs at no more than 15.
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"This is the market at work," he tweeted (Kirk's rationale knowingly misrepresents Yelp's role as a site that should reflect customer experience, not the political opinion of any outraged bystander).
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Biden would call for a steady hand as President Donald Trump continually downplays and misrepresents the severity of the virus, while Sanders pointed to structural issues undergirding the current crisis.
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In their research, Rosenblat and Stark also identified a phenomenon some have called "phantom cabs," in which the app misrepresents the location of cars on its map to its users.
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Images: GettyIn an email accidentally sent to a BuzzFeed reporter, a Facebook spokesperson said the idea of a Muslim registry is a "straw man"—a sham argument that misrepresents another's belief.
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Several asylum and refugee officers told me they worry that the ban, and the inflamed discourse about refugees more generally, misrepresents their highly comprehensive vetting process, and undermines core American values.
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Just as some historians have criticized "Hamilton" for playing down the founding fathers' position as slave-owning elites, musicologists might argue that the show similarly misrepresents Hamilton's cohort as musical populists.
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But this history, which privileges the actions and concerns of white students like myself, is incomplete, and it misrepresents what made the protests so powerful — the leadership of the black students.
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This false equivalency not only misrepresents the prevalence of false accusations — by presenting sexual assault as something women report and men are accused of, it could perpetuate myths that hurt male survivors.
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But this is only in one scenario in which the agency wildly misrepresents air quality science, according to Dan Cohan, an environmental scientist at Rice University who specializes in air quality management.
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Update 12/21 04:45 PST: Grab has provided an additional response to this story as follows: The article misrepresents the positive relationship we have with the OSM community across Southeast Asia.
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Google's ad policies don't directly address state media branches like CCTV, although Google has rules for political advertisements and prohibits content that misrepresents the product or organization an advertisement is talking about.
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Mr. van Hove's casting misrepresents the real solidarities that form at the margins of U.S. citizenship — and perhaps more dangerously, shifts our focus away from the enduring problem of white supremacist violence.
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Helsley made it clear he wasn't a fan of the props -- or the "Tomahawk Chop" chant that comes with it -- earlier in the Cards' series with ATL ... saying it misrepresents Native Americans.
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In it, he also asserts that not only does the film fail to accurately characterize Scruggs&apos behavior, it also misrepresents the role that the paper&aposs reporting played in exonerating Jewell.
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Charles Falconer misrepresents the prosecution guidelines on acts of assisting suicide as offering dying people a choice between going to Switzerland for legalised assisted suicide or staying at home and seeking "amateur assistance".
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The GSA responded to the report with a rejection of its core assertions, saying it misrepresents Murphy's testimony, fails to mention several key meetings and miscalculates the cost of razing the FBI headquarters.
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In a court of law, witnesses who lie or knowingly misrepresents facts or their expertise can be subject to contempt of court ruling and prosecuted for perjury, potentially incurring fines or even jail time.
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Since that time, some have argued that the exit poll often underestimates the Democratic share of the Latino vote, or that it misrepresents the preferences of Latinos more generally, as is the argument here.
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Omitting the citizen activism behind the flag's removal is good PR for Haley and the Republican Party, but it misrepresents the way that activism and social policy have worked in the past few years.
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These inaccuracies have resulted in an article that undermines Edge of Arabia's current Arab Art & Education Initiative in New York, and misrepresents our long-term objective to mobilize and empower Arab artists across borders.
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The feud between Donald Trump and CNN reached new heights on Monday, as the network came back swinging against the president's latest attacks, including that CNN International misrepresents the U.S. to its global audience.
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Interactive: The many paths from Trump to RussiaGiven those incredibly high stakes, the White House has come out forcefully -- insisting that Comey's memo as reported misrepresents the tenor of the conversation on that February day.
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" Todd Zywicki, executive director of George Mason Law and Economics Center and a longtime trustee at the Center for Excellence in Higher Education, called the notion "insulting," saying "it totally misrepresents what we were doing.
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They say it ignores how much tax Apple has already paid to Ireland, misrepresents the tax rate the company is subject to there, and reflects either a willful misreading or an ignorance of tax law.
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"We have a hard enough time trying to shift the narrative about what this movement really is and he stands in front of thousands of his followers and completely misrepresents the @MeTooMVMT," Ms. Burke wrote.
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Striking back: Jacobson has published a response to the new study here, defending the idea of creating a reliable systems built on 100 percent renewables and alleging that the newly released study misrepresents his team's work.
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The critical report triggered a vehement response from the government that called it "biased" and "unfounded," and insisted that it misrepresents both the problems the country faces, and the efforts being made to deal with them.
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And it also misrepresents the nature of the last intifada, which was a meticulously preplanned event waiting for a convenient pretext (Ariel Sharon's September 2000 walk on the Temple Mount) to look like a spontaneous one.
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Pro-Brexit Conservatives say that completely misrepresents their aims, emphasizing a "one-nation" approach they say will balance all the population's needs, help Britain's economy to grow and retain the country's influence on the world stage.
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Some of Shirley's relations have complained that the film misrepresents the two men's friendship, and downplays the dangers Shirley faced, but it won Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy), Best Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali) and Best Screenplay.
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The central misdirection, however, is MF's claim that he is writing "an official accounting of events, as they happened," of his career as "the Widow Killer" to counter an unauthorized tell-all that he feels misrepresents him.
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"Anything of that nature that misrepresents this country, given that this was a non-New Zealand citizen, imperils the future and safety of the New Zealand people and our people abroad, and that is totally unfair," Peters said.
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" In response to the report, published today in the journal Health and Technology, DeepMind and the Royal Free issued a statement saying that the study "completely misrepresents the reality of how the NHS uses technology to process data.
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When he writes that "While Qing-dynasty China reacted to the prodding of the West by retracting like a sea cucumber, Japan swelled up like a distressed puffer fish," he misrepresents both East Asian history and sea cucumbers.
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"The ad misrepresents Vice President Biden's position in this exchange from 2005 by manipulating footage to suggest he means one court when he means another," Biden campaign national press secretary Jamal Brown told CBS News in a statement.
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" Suketu Mehta, who wrote the article in 2011 about an immigrant from Africa, said in an email that Ms. Coulter "grossly misrepresents my writing" and that his article "substantiates none of her despicable stances on Trump's child hostages.
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Bristol Palin's ex-husband Dakota Meyer is not a fan of Teen Mom OG. As the latest season of the MTV reality series chronicles the couple's emotional divorce, Meyer, 30, is speaking out about how he feels the show misrepresents parenting.
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But if a nominee cannot even honestly describe his own opinions in sworn testimony, and instead misrepresents or distorts them to help win confirmation, how can he be trusted with a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land?
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"I definitely don't want to use my real name, just because we're all independent, self-employed contractors and I wouldn't want to say something that misrepresents the company," said a seller in Columbus, OH, who prefers not to state her political leanings either.
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" Additionally, SB 1128 states that those who "knowingly and willfully misrepresents herself or himself, through conduct or verbal or written notice, as using an emotional support animal and being qualified to use an emotional support animal commits a misdemeanor of the second degree.
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While Sanders played a major role in the debate over health care reform, and helped craft an $11 billion inclusion into the final measure, his claim to have "helped write" the measure misrepresents his part in creating the central pillars of Obamacare.
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"The Court's statement that the government 'might want to spend time on a loan that was granted' misrepresents the law regarding bank fraud conspiracy, improperly conveys the Court's opinion of the facts, and is likely to confuse and mislead the jury," prosecutors wrote.
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When Senators Durbin and Murphy object to talk of "chain migration," they are taking a stance against the implicit prejudice behind it — the way that the term, like "anchor baby" and "green-card marriage," dehumanizes immigrants and misrepresents the difficulty of immigrating.
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The complaint alleges that YouTube misrepresents how much violent content is on the site, and fails to tell users that the responsibility to get videos of victims' deaths taken down is on them—and most often, on the families of the victims themselves.
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Adam Schiff, the Intelligence Committee's ranking member, railed against his Republican colleagues, arguing that their memo "misrepresents highly classified information" from secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Courts, which will ultimately have a chilling effect on U.S. agencies' willingness to share classified information with Congress.
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Nunes memo Democrats have claimed the House Intelligence Committee memo misrepresents the facts and intelligence officials worry that its release could compromise classified information, though Trump is minded to approve its publication, an official familiar with the matter told CNN last week.
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To keep the company in line, the FTC is imposing a $12.8 million fine, with only $50,000 due today and the remainder used as a way to enforce the judgement and in the event Cure Encapsulations misrepresents how much money it has on hand.
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"We don't want to prohibit satirical accounts, but in the same way you can't put out a brochure that misrepresents who you are and makes slanderous allegations and is not reported as part of kind of campaign effort on social media," he added. Rep.
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To the Editor: Pete Wells's review of Andrew Friedman's "Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits and Wanderers Created a New American Profession" (June 3) misrepresents the content of this comprehensive book and paints a false picture of the era.
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Biden's and Warren's presidential campaigns are urging for the ad — which is set to air this week in Iowa, New Hampshire and Delaware, along with print newspaper ads that are in production — to be taken down, with Biden's camp saying it "misrepresents" what actually happened.
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Turkey's Preacher Dexter Filkins's article on the Muslim scholar and preacher Fethullah Gülen, the founder of the social and religious movement Hizmet, of which I am a participant, misrepresents Gülen and leaves unchallenged a series of claims against him ("Turkey's Thirty-Year Coup," October 17th).
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"As members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, we were deeply dismayed to learn about how the museum's exhibit misrepresents the CIA's torture program, sanitizing depictions of how techniques were applied and suggesting that torture is effective in stopping terrorist attacks," the senators wrote.
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The book, according to the anonymous accuser, has her attending a juvenile criminal proceeding that must have been closed to outsiders; it misrepresents the amount of time she spent living in the neighborhood; it describes scenes containing characters that by Goffman's own account were by then dead.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's use of inflammatory and violent language in misrepresents the complexity underpinning these issues.
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But a closer look at the clips, first tweeted out by Jayda Fransen of the fringe nationalist group Britain First and then retweeted by Mr. Trump, reveals more, including that one video misrepresents the facts of what the viewer is seeing, while the other two lack context about what is happening.
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"Larry Ellison's personal implicit endorsement and financial support of Donald Trump not only damages our brand perception and misrepresents the diverse views of our company, but it adversely affects the morale of the individuals and communities who comprise Oracle," said the group behind the petition, called Oracle Employees for Ethics.
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So that's not really what deters me, I don't know about you guys but when let's say someone you actually do respect kind of misrepresents your point, this is something I've wrestled with, because Twitter can be really confining too, it's like I'm not going to say something that thoughtful in 140 characters.
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Throughout the film, Churchill and a few others struggle with whether it's okay to fudge the truth in order to bolster the spirits of the population, a quandary made concrete in a radio address from Churchill to the nation that plainly misrepresents the facts of the war for reasons of public morale.
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Clinton's challenge was evident from the moment she walked onto the stage at Hofstra University on Long Island: How much respect should she show to a rival of unparalleled incivility, who misrepresents the truth with abandon, crassly rates women's looks on a scale of 1 to 10 and casually denigrates entire ethnic groups — a man whose words Mrs.
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The so-called Made In Hawaii Statute specifies that "No person shall keep, offer, display or expose for sale, or solicit for the sale of any item, product, souvenir, or any other merchandise that is labeled 'made in Hawaii' or that by any other means misrepresents the origin of the item as being from any place within the State" (emphasis added).
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A film made by a man that is entirely about men but understands its characters and represents them accurately — both as members of their gender and as unique individuals — is much less a failure to women than a film about women, made by a man, which misunderstands and misrepresents women on every level, repulsively warping the ways they engage with the world and why.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellPelosi, Schumer press for gun screenings as Trump inches away The malware election: Returning to paper ballots only way to prevent hacking First House Republican backs bill banning assault weapons MORE (R-Ky.) and his Democratic challenger are fighting about an ad his campaign released about her "extreme" record on abortion that Amy McGrath claimed has doctored audio that misrepresents her position.
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Word of the Day noun: a theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor; consists of comic skits and short turns (and sometimes striptease) noun: a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way verb: make a parody of adjective: relating to or characteristic of burlesque _________ The word burlesque has appeared in six New York Times articles in the past year, including on March 22 in the obituary "Chuck Barris, Producer and Personality of 'Gong Show' Fame, Dies at 87" by Neil Genzlinger: The performers, who were often terrible, would be allowed to go on until one of the judges couldn't stand it anymore and sounded a gong, putting an end to the spectacle.
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