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On the face of it, the bad vibes are strange.
On the face of it, the ban makes little sense.
On the face of it, it seems the perfect solution.
On the face of it, that looks like an overreaction.
On the face of it, that appears an impossible leap.
On the face of it, this is a convenient change.
This is on the face of it a bit odd.
On the face of it the future looks promising, too.
On the face of it, Apple had the stronger arguments.
On the face of it, this is an absurd argument.
On the face of it, Sina makes an attractive target.
That's seems a poor deal on the face of it.
On the face of it, the region seems well integrated.
On the face of it, much of this seems odd.
On the face of it, such fears are indeed warranted.
On the face of it, this isn't so completely outrageous.
On the face of it, Mrs May should win easily.
On the face of it, the report was unimpeachably reasonable.
On the face of it, nothing connected these two incidents.
On the face of it, I shouldn't have been surprised.
IVON WIDIAHTUTI'S job is, on the face of it, straightforward.
On the face of it, it doesn't look like much.
This sounds inclusive and egalitarian on the face of it.
On the face of it, the East has come far.
On the face of it, this should be good news.
Earnings, on the face of it, have been very strong.
On the face of it, the order is common sense.
Themadh's question, on the face of it, is utterly bizarre.
On the face of it, the NSS is pretty straightforward.
On the face of it, she embodies everything that is untraditional.
On the face of it the result should not matter much.
On the face of it, both developments are good for Airbus.
The "invisible" stand is pretty silly on the face of it.
ON THE face of it, Vladimir Putin got everything he wanted.
On the face of it, I'm pleased with my new options.
On the face of it, his plan worked like a charm.
On the face of it, this wider picture looks grim, too.
On the face of it, Adele's choice is a curious one.
On the face of it, this seemed like an odd move.
On the face of it, that is not a big obstacle.
On the face of it, Fox is having a standout season.
On the face of it, these three are totally different issues.
On the face of it, the change doesn't appear very major.
On the face of it, things might look tricky for the nationalists.
That doesn't seem like the worst idea on the face of it.
On the face of it, Grover seems like a pretty dangerous tool.
The weakness of demand is, on the face of it, somewhat puzzling.
On the face of it, such a strategy does not look wise.
On the face of it, though, he is paying a high price.
This would, on the face of it, sound like a terrible idea.
On the face of it, the Watch Series 3 maintains that trend.
On the face of it, the ballet demonstrates the opposite of suspense.
On the face of it, Canadian cannabis firms do not need cash.
On the face of it, Gillibrand has a lot going for her.
This might, on the face of it, seem attractive to the ECB.
On the face of it, the stars do seem aligned for Russia.
On the face of it, that should be good news all around.
On the face of it, that looks like proof of disparate treatment.
On the face of it, Murray was an unlikely advocate for Wallace.
On the face of it, this is 'just a bit of fun'.
On the face of it, it looks like good news for Democrats.
And, on the face of it, things look bad for superstring theory.
On the face of it, parasites use a variety of similar strategies.
The notion of nationalists organizing sounds, on the face of it, ridiculous.
On the face of it, these tests seem like the perfect stocking stuffer.
On the face of it, at least, Automattic seems a much better match.
A medicine- should, on the face of it, look like a minty mint.
ON THE face of it, this should be a triumphant day for China.
On the face of it, Republicans in Congress also still support the President.
On the face of it, an invocation of article 50 cannot be withdrawn.
On the face of it, Tunisia has made an admirable transition to democracy.
"It would just seem so unfair on the face of it," she said.
"The video, on the face of it, is difficult to watch," Kirby said.
On the face of it, the island foxes should have vanished long ago.
On the face of it, it seems like standards should be better, right?
On the face of it, that suggested the bad news was getting worse.
On the face of it, Shaw's idolization of Stalin is a great puzzle.
On the face of it, such losses fit in poorly with lesser ones.
The judgment, on the face of it, was a victory for Lt. Gen.
On the face of it, esports and European soccer are hardly similar industries.
This might seem like great news for Israel, on the face of it.
Apple bobbing isn't, on the face of it, the most child-friendly game.
It looked, on the face of it, to be just what the doctor ordered.
On the face of it, Massachusetts has a good chance at legalizing recreational marijuana.
Here, on the face of it, the signs are not encouraging for Mr Putin.
On the face of it, focus groups have as much credibility as water dowsing.
On the face of it, the two ventures seem to be a good match.
On the face of it, there are plenty of reasons to plump for youth.
On the face of it, Trump's bravado is a superficial part of the campaign.
On the face of it, this should be a windfall for American soft power.
On the face of it, comparing yourself to a large financial institution seems crazy.
China's privacy regulations can look, on the face of it, as strict as Europe's.
On the face of it, Apple's rejection of the judge's order seems quite wrongheaded.
On the face of it, the kit man's responsibilities are practical and self-explanatory.
ON THE face of it, Londoners have done relatively well since the financial crisis.
On the face of it, this is the main worry of the family man.
On the face of it, this might provide more information about the U.S. population.
On the face of it, the agreement signed by Trump and Kim seems promising.
Mr. Garcia's multihyphenate feat of filmmaking is eyebrow-raising on the face of it.
On the face of it, preventing student loan defaults sounds like an admirable goal.
On the face of it, that would seem like an easy thing to do.
"On the face of it, this sounds like bad news for people," he writes.
On the face of it, at least two presidents have been impeached for less.
On the face of it, the very idea of a nuclear subsidy is absurd.
But on the face of it, mindfulness might seem counterproductive in a workplace setting.
On the face of it, Mr Chan's party is unlikely to pose a real threat.
However, Trump's promise to bring back manufacturing wasn't, on the face of it, completely absurd.
On the face of it, the purpose is to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
On the face of it, Seismic is addressing a big problem with a familiar approach.
On the face of it, the so-called True Touchpad Interface looks good, if unspectacular.
On the face of it, that is an unlikely spark for a change in sentiment.
On the face of it last year was a pretty dismal one for the company.
On the face of it, last year was a pretty dismal one for the company.
On the face of it, the protests were about something narrow and technical (see article).
On the face of it, anti-bribery pressure on European firms should increase further still.
On the face of it, the group's companies certainly generate enough profits to pay creditors.
On the face of it, this perception—of evangelicals as irate ultraconservatives—has some legitimacy.
On the face of it, this wage pattern is consistent with the Stolper-Samuelson theorem.
On the face of it, this could be bad news for both Microsoft and Amazon.
On the face of it, the FCC's scheme is designed to help companies like Roku.
This opera does not, on the face of it, have much to do with race.
On the face of it, this reported Huawei speaker would have been a similar arrangement.
On the face of it, U.S. companies should be happy about that kind of news.
But on the face of it, neither side is showing much concern about the rapid escalation.
On the face of it, the intervention by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has two positive aspects.
On the face of it, Donald Trump is an implausible candidate for evangelical Christians to support.
To me, on the face of it, there's no obvious place to go, no obvious story.
On the face of it, the vacancy to become chief executive of Lululemon doesn't ooze appeal.
On the face of it, then, perovskites should already be transforming the business of solar power.
On the face of it, the chance of any of that debris hitting someone is low.
JOBS On the face of it, the labour market is the strongest part of Britain's economy.
On the face of it, legally, in the world of football, have they done anything wrong?
On the face of it, McConnell has dropped some tax cuts for no reason at all.
On the face of it, QuikStories is Instagram Stories or Apple Clips for the action camera.
On the face of it, putting Android at the centre of an antitrust case seems silly.
On the face of it, "User Not Found" wouldn't appear to have that kind of power.
Gersdorf, the court's chief justice, is not, on the face of it, a likely communist stooge.
Withdrawing from Syria is not, on the face of it, an inherently bad or indefensible policy.
Not high by historical standards and, on the face of it, surely manageable for most borrowers.
I didn't even know that, but I just think it's terrible on the face of it.
On the face of it, these items have nothing in common that I can think of.
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ON THE FACE of it, unions are more emboldened today than they have been for years.
And Mary's ex, Mark, is a disturbing bystander, on the face of it a clingy pest.
Disastrous day for Trump On the face of it, this was a disastrous day for Trump.
On the face of it there is no reason why we should even know about this.
On the face of it, this death was precisely the kind we are told to avoid.
On the face of it, the upheaval in Venezuela would seem to check all his boxes.
But, on the face of it, it would appear that something has clicked for the specialist striker.
It's not, on the face of it, encouraging: Compensation has fallen on average 8 percent from 2014.
So, on the face of it, economic and social forces should be left to do their work.
On the face of it, Nicki Minaj has been snubbed to a lesser degree by the Academy.
The presidential election on March 18th showed, on the face of it, little prospect of any change.
On the face of it, China's largest province, with a population of 108m, also faces severe problems.
"On the face of it, it looks fair because it is supposed to be voluntary," said Sarma.
On the face of it, Ms Tsai is in a strong position to provide a new start.
On the face of it, Oldman is an unlikely candidate—the face, indeed, being the main impediment.
On the face of it, their position is noble, but it ignores the realities of pay-go.
Modest numbers concentrated in non-swing states do not on the face of it carry significant weight.
On the face of it, this might not seem the right time to be investing in Turkey.
"We think it's ridiculous on the face of it," Nunes said during an interview on Fox News.
On the face of it, Shakespeare and the Resistance is a book about history, not the present.
On the face of it, Tesla and India seem to be an ideal fit for each other.
On the face of it, we were discussing the kinds of bias that shape every American industry.
But much has changed since, and on the face of it, junking the treaty might seem reasonable.
On the face of it, it would seem Ellis would be the ideal person to write it.
On the face of it, the trade seemed reasonable for both sides, perhaps even favoring the Reds.
On the face of it, it might seem absurd to claim that sustained excellence was somehow detrimental.
On the face of it, Muslim Britons responded to the London Bridge mayhem in some impressively positive ways.
On the face of it E. J. Dionne Jr. and Matt K. Lewis could hardly be more different.
On the face of it, the merger shouldn't inspire the kind of pushback we're seeing from the DOJ.
On the face of it, the blockchain does not lend itself easily to staking out intellectual-property claims.
On the face of it, it looks like AMG may have a real rival to Porsche's impressive Panamera.
LONDON (Reuters) - On the face of it, the first quarter of the year followed the 'risk on' script.
That central banks would be pausing in the aftermath of Brexit is, on the face of it, puzzling.
On the face of it, the veneration of Kuyt on Merseyside seems disproportionate to his achievements at Liverpool.
The company hasn't disclosed a sum, but on the face of it, at least, Earin certainly makes sense.
"On the face of it, it seems that you are no match for this ruthless power," he said.
On the face of it, Sanders's spin that this vindicates the "no collusion, no obstruction" line seems right.
On the face of it, the answer seems simple: A nightcap is that final drink of the evening.
On the face of it, this story is ridiculous, something we expect from a cheap paperback spy novel.
On the face of it Boeing's case against Bombardier pits a US industrial giant against a Canadian competitor.
This would make a restructuring more orderly and predictable, but not, on the face of it, more likely.
On the face of it, the process turns on differing interpretations of what Mr Kim actually pledged to do.
On the face of it, this is horrific -- so many churches shorn of the very symbol of their faith.
On the face of it, these are three isolated events that can be dealt with on their own terms.
On the face of it, that might not sound like a huge advance but, bear with me, it's notable.
BS: [I recognize that] on the face of it, it sounds like something that only big companies can do.
Hence China's aim to encourage more of such auctions to make solar, on the face of it, subsidy-free.
On the face of it, the system is essentially a giant trackpad, featuring the company's proprietary Pressure Grid technology.
In 2000 BP promised to go "beyond petroleum" and, on the face of it, the majors have indeed changed.
That link, despite looking legitimate on the face of it, did not actually go to a real Instagram page.
So on the face of it, "Home" should have been the episode that finally pushed me over the edge.
The threat of a Jacobin-style insurgency in modern Britain would seem, on the face of it, rather remote.
On the face of it, this suggests that a law against no-deal should have the numbers to pass.
On the face of it, there's nothing surprising about Instagram's founders leaving six years after the company was sold.
On the face of it, China is an awkward player at a forum that celebrates free trade and markets.
More pleasure and/or mutual romantic love in the world seems, on the face of it, a good thing.
"On the face of it, this sounds like bad news for people," Branson admits (and Elon Musk certainly thinks so).
On the face of it, the pick seems odd — what would the governor of landlocked Iowa possibly know about China?
On the face of it, that means London and Brussels are heading for another cliff-edge showdown later this year.
This literary trend took off before the referendum, and on the face of it has little in common with Brexit.
The system is designed to favour electoral alliances which, on the face of it, should prejudice the stand-alone M5S.
On the face of it she is as different from the publicity-shy and humourless Maybot as you could get.
But even many of Gulliver's fellow countrymen admit that the decision is, on the face of it, a bit odd.
On the face of it, the addition is a no-brainer, riding on the surprising success of Amazon's home assistant.
Well, he got a call this weekend from President Trump, which on the face of it isn't a bad thing.
Comparing instantaneous valuations for two stocks and drawing broad conclusions from such comparisons is ridiculous on the face of it.
On the face of it, Bolt represents a kind of return to Sphero — back to the early days of Orbotix.
On the face of it, this seems like a conflict of interest, of the sort clearly forbidden by federal law.
Mediator On the face of it, there is something Strangelovian about the proposed merger between AT&T and Time Warner.
"On the face of it, there would seem to be a substantial deficit remaining in the pension schemes," said Field.
As incongruous, at least on the face of it, is the selling point Yakutian diamonds have for the carat-crazy.
On the face of it, the loss of "miscellaneous itemized deductions" for many taxpayers might not sound all that significant.
On the face of it, failing to carry out the wishes of British voters expressed in the referendum is undemocratic.
While on the face of it, the idea seems sound; in reality such a strategy is more likely to be disastrous.
On the face of it, the video is similar to the sort offered up by Facebook on the occasion of anniversaries.
On the face of it, giving a woman an occasion to ask a man to wed would seem an empowering moment.
On the face of it, it wouldn't make an incredible amount of sense that Apple would want to ease that transition.
On the face of it, the flow of money into index-tracking funds might be expected to make shareholders more passive.
On the face of it, it doesn't make much sense, and it could be an anomaly for aggressive investors to exploit.
But it's still just on the face of it quite impressive to produce an advance of the size that they did.
On the face of it, this charming little game is about making cheese and tending to Tikvah's modest flock of goats.
On the face of it, one wouldn't think that Ms. Kimball Coe and another seminarian, Kofi Kenyatta, have much in common.
On the face of it, Team Lannister is in a strong position: Cersei has fresh troops, and a lot of them.
On the face of it, no single attack was that significant in the context of Afghanistan's long and drawn-out conflict.
On the face of it, Donald Trump is not exactly the sort of leader you would expect Christian conservatives to rally around.
On the face of it, however, it looks pretty similar to those old holographic baseball cards they made back in the day.
That result, on the face of it, isn't a complete shock because Qatalyst does occasionally help companies raise money instead of sell.
On the face of it, cabin crew make decent salaries: $50,500 a year on average, according to American government data from 2017.
As such, comparing instantaneous valuations for two stocks and drawing broad conclusions from such comparisons is ridiculous on the face of it.
On the face of it, the conservative activists tasked with choosing the Republican Party's next presidential candidate are in a confounding mood.
Within weeks, I'd moved back across the continent, and on the face of it, it was like our marriage had never happened.
DETROIT — On the face of it, Ana Rivera could have had almost any choice when it came to educating her two sons.
On the face of it, the group's new advice seems to make sense, but it completely ignores the risks of not swaddling.
On the face of it then, it was an airshow win for Airbus, who may also soon announce that Emirates A380 order.
IT WOULD BE hard to think of a business that is on the face of it quite as dull as Norinchukin Bank.
So on the face of it, the wealthy are giving themselves a big gift, and sending the bill to the middle class.
Nor are two American teenagers in a war-torn country, on the face of it, a bad premise for a Y.A. book.
It is strange, on the face of it at least, to think that Bert may be speaking to me from the grave.
"On the face of it, these concerns would fall away if the Disney/Fox transaction went ahead as announced," the CMA said.
On the face of it, the purchase might not seem to upset the grocery cart, either for Amazon or for the supermarket business.
On the face of it, that also kills TPP for the 11 other Pacific Rim countries that signed it in February (see article).
That may not seem so bad on the face of it; after all, platforms like Facebook and Twitter prioritize engagement above all else.
The purplish-brown "Marble Dust Paintings: Prugna" also features, on the face of it, nothing more than marble dust on a pine panel.
One, outlined in San Francisco this week at the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining conference, seems completely unsinister on the face of it.
For example, at 31 Across, you might have written in WHER[EAR]IGHTTOKNOW, which doesn't make much sense on the face of it.
Yes, on the face of it, the argument doesn't make any sense: How can condoning the killing of animals actually aid their survival?
"On the face of it, partisans have lined up predictably in their respective camps," Schar School dean Mark Rozell told The Washington Post.
On the face of it, finding a reconstruction that satisfies all of the constraints from all the tables the bureau produces seems impossible.
On the face of it, she appeared to do what most authors do, which was illustrate the social issues most personal to her.
On the face of it, a pedal-bike seemed a laughably inappropriate expeditionary conveyance: vulnerable, unsteady and — let's be honest — inherently daft-looking.
On the face of it, Dvilinskas' firm's business model has been rocked by the EU vote, but he has no plans to leave.
" Notre Dame spokesman Paul Browne issued a one-sentence statement saying: "The assertions on the face of it are maliciously and preposterously false.
On the face of it, the story of Dakari Johnson — a 20173-year-old backup center for the Oklahoma City Thunder — is familiar.
On the face of it, then, this is a straightforward story of economic misery leading voters to ditch one political party and embrace another.
On the face of it, Hel's desperate quest to find out where her copy of The Pyronauts went seems a little ridiculous at first.
On the face of it, the realm of emotional health, well-being and happiness may seem soft, vague or downright meaningless to business executives.
On the face of it, that might make sense: Mr Mueller is now the gatekeeper to much of the information gathered by the FBI.
On the face of it, understanding text fully requires so much quintessentially human knowledge that machines may take decades and decades to match us.
Modi, on the face of it, seems better placed to win elections than last time around, but business confidence has gone the other way.
Now that we see what's happening, it looks, on the face of it, like it would be a lot better if people had left.
On the face of it, active managers, who attempt to identify market inefficiencies to deliver higher returns for investors, should be doing relatively well.
On the face of it, this weekend represents the best chance in a long time for Arsenal to beat Chelsea in the Premier League.
First, on the face of it, the president seems willing to risk a stock market plunge to pursue a policy that Wall Street opposes.
"On the face of it, seems like a pretty big concession," said Brian McKeon, who was a senior Pentagon official during the Obama administration.
On the face of it, Mr. Corbyn, a teetotal, vegetarian, 68-year-old bicyclist, and the hip, young grime M.C.s make for unlikely allies.
On the face of it, Trump's fixation with strength and his own ferocious rhetoric -- as well as the appointment of vehement Obama critic, retired Gen.
On the face of it, Uber has had a terrible week in its legal brawl with Waymo, Google parent company Alphabet's self-driving car effort.
"On the face of it, the ZEW index suggests ...(a German) recession is a significant risk," Jennifer McKeown of Capital Economics wrote in a note.
On the face of it, the action tells the government to stop enforcing coercive measures that force people to buy health insurance and are unpopular.
"We have taken on Amazon on all fronts," says Alibaba's Mr Hu. On the face of it, Western clouds should be able to stay ahead.
ON THE face of it Samsung, South Korea's biggest chaebol, as the country's family-controlled groups are known, has had a good couple of months.
"On the face of it, RBS was looking to boost its own revenues potentially by damaging and pushing other business to the brink," he said.
Still, the underlying technology is actually pretty cool here, once you're down shuddering from how weird the whole thing is on the face of it.
On the face of it, the Surface Studio isn't the best looking all-in-one we've seen around (though it is, without question, impressively thin).
On the face of it, this narrative is backed by solid evidence put forward by the organizations that are meant to know about these things.
On the face of it, the August employment report was very strong with the economy adding 201,000 jobs, following a soft 147,000 gain in July.
Editorial On the face of it, anyone living in one of the ubiquitous five-story tenements ringing central Moscow should be happy to move out.
The rejection makes little sense on the face of it, considering that the Steam Link is simply a remote desktop app operating on your own network.
The thing is, the idea of building tunnels to "solve" traffic sounds, on the face of it, no wilder than Hyperloop or a mission to Mars.
Wednesday's Queen's Speech in England saw David Cameron's much-publicized prison reforms take an interesting and, at least on the face of it, surprisingly liberal turn.
ON THE face of it, the dominant literary forms of the modern age and the classical one—the novel and the epic poem—are almost opposites.
"It was a cordial discussion, considering the topic, and you could see how you could argue both sides on the face of it," said one source.
Pixie's approach is rather similar on the face of it – a guitar picked-shaped device (points) that adheres to a frequently misplaced item, like a keychain.
We're left with an estimate of the dark energy that is finite (maybe), but poorly determined theoretically and, on the face of it, much too big.
On the face of it, such a deal would continue a long-standing trend towards consolidation among mobile operators, both in Britain and other rich countries.
ON THE face of it business executives and Formula One drivers have nothing in common, other than the fact that they do their jobs sitting down.
On the face of it, Mr Sarkozy's chances of securing the nomination for "Les Républicains" (the Republicans), and getting his old job back, are not high.
On the face of it, Veteran is the harsher noise album, while All My Heroes Are Cornballs incorporates cushier beats, sweeter pop elements, a softer glow.
On the face of it, this seems great — Facebook would be helping to identify those who would hurt others while they're still in the planning stages.
On the face of it, "The Illusive Eye" is a more modest affair than its predecessor, but it's animated by philosophical ambitions that are exciting to ponder.
I think the administration addressed some of the deficiencies in the due process area and there is nothing on the face of it which discriminates against Muslims.
On the face of it, the self-titled first product from the new startup with a familiar name isn't too radical a departure from the smartphone set.
"On the face of it, this does not have strong grounds," Michael Hirson, practice head for China and Northeast Asia at Eurasia Group, told CNBC on Tuesday.
On the face of it, this seems largely uncontroversial, and even, as the China Daily touts, a way to strengthen the rule of law in Hong Kong.
On the face of it, the XT looks fairly similar to its predecessor, maintaining the same square form factor, but sporting a new black coat of paint.
Health has always been core to what Fitbit does, and everyone's moving to a subscription model anyway, so the offering makes sense on the face of it.
On the face of it, Donna Seaman's project, to rescue seven visual artists "from oblivion," as the jacket of "Identity Unknown" claims, seems like a noble one.
On the face of it, India's new citizenship law might seem quite reasonable in its offer of expedited citizenship for migrants of minority religions from neighboring countries.
On the face of it, this was in line with government policy: The party has embraced Wang for exemplifying an incorruptible spirit and matching words with deeds.
Despite a seemingly decent outcome on the face of it, many Lazada investors were left disappointed, and the company itself ran out of money thanks to spiraling loses.
DINESH D&aposSOUZA, FILMMAKER, "DEATH OF A NATION": I think on the face of it, it should not be surprising that the Russians tried to influence our elections.
On the face of it, the cartoon seems blatantly racist, although as always Charlie Hebdo has defenders who argue that it is an ironic commentary on racist attitudes.
On the face of it, the close races might reflect a strong political climate for Democrats in three deep-red states that President Trump easily carried in 2628.
As a result the forum—on the face of it a celebration of the initiative—will in reality find Mr Xi seeking to contain a backlash against it.
China in and America out: on the face of it a geopolitical revolution is under way, breaking the chain of American alliances in the Pacific that contain China.
On the face of it, these changes would leave people with pre-existing conditions more vulnerable to uninsurance, medical bankruptcy, and death than they are under current law.
On the face of it, it doesn't seem that such justifications would be chosen by someone who believed they were about to be cleared by the Mueller investigation.
On the face of it, high-risk pools make some sense, particularly if you are one of the lucky Americans who is mostly healthy most of the time.
"I have found that on the face of it, (Mallya) was doing everything he could by using honest or dishonest means to keep the company going," she said.
And so I think it will be clear on the face of it that this isn't something that people are paying to have, that advertisers are paying for.
On the face of it, this violin-and-piano duo looks unlikely: Mr. Kavakos is serious, contemplative; Ms. Wang, more renowned for rhythmic funk and hair-raising virtuosity.
It was a strong statement on the face of it, though was notable in failing to name any of the victims, all often the focus of Trump's ire.
The principal towns of the Gascon heartland are for the most part unprepossessing: gritty market hubs that, on the face of it, hold little appeal for the tourist.
But as far as we can see, at least on the face of it, there doesn&apost seem to be any outward reason why this paper would be targeted.
That's good news on the face of it, but there's an important catch: Pompeo may just feed and amplify Trump's worst instincts rather than being a voice of reason.
On the face of it, raising interest rates and withdrawing crisis-era stimulus is a clear sign that economies, markets and the financial system at large can take it.
ON THE face of it, last July's nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers (known as the Joint Comprehensive Programme of Action) looks to be in good shape.
On the face of it, the bill is in line with what a lot of researchers argue for: open access not just for journal papers but for data too.
But on the face of it, we're talking about $100,000 in Facebook, some Twitter stuff, a bunch of trolls in Macedonia, and then a bunch of other stuff spread around.
On the face of it, Deeptrace's deepfake tally of less than 15,000 videos sounds like a pretty small figure, especially when you think of the countless number of videos online.
I think we've dug our own hole; the idea of technology is great and on the face of it we've never been more connected but a backlash is obviously happening.
On the face of it, these results would suggest a certain level of controversy or uncertainty about the role that sugar-sweetened beverages play in contributing to obesity or diabetes.
Her visit to the University College London to see a professor and his neuroscience research unit was, on the face of it, one of her less glamorous, more serious duties.
His "Background Story: Shangfang Temple" seems on the face of it to be a traditional Chinese landscape, a translucent sky with brown hills and trees coloured in yellow and green.
On the face of it, the report's findings will terrify many U.S. citizens, especially given the current geopolitical tensions with China, Russia and North Korea and their capabilities in cyberspace.
On the face of it, the top 50 largest bank holding companies, representing 85 percent of the bank holding company assets in 123, have become leaner from a regulatory perspective.
On the face of it, this is an odd duo, but Mr. Bell, the lyrical, pristine violinist, and Mr. Denk, a cheeky and offbeat pianist, make for a fine partnership.
On the face of it, there is a benevolent domino effect happening: As more investors choose cheaper funds, the assets in those funds grow — and the corresponding costs further decline.
On the face of it, a hacker obtaining a dump, and then sending it to Hunt who plans to allow people to check its contents for free is pretty counterintuitive.
"On the face of it, the quality of spending has worsened because revenue expenditure has gone up more than capital expenditure," said A. Prasanna, an economist at ICICI Securities Primary Dealership.
"Rajasthan is a feudal sort of a state, and on the face of it everything looks like it did ten years ago, but actually there are huge social changes," he says.
It's really inane stuff on the face of it, but like any successful YouTuber, Mr. Chi City was a hit because of his personality: Positive, always laughing, and excited about life.
It didn&apost, you know, at least on the face of it, that question appears to be very similar to the one that was shouted by a number of organizations there.
On the face of it, the early optimism contrasts with the pre-referendum warning from former Prime Minister David Cameron that a Brexit vote would put a "bomb under the economy".
Publishing an essay that, on the face of it, would cause pain to a number of people besides the author requires an editor to inform himself or herself about that trial.
"On the face of it, the deployment of the Hai Yang Shi You 719 would appear to be both a commercial decision and a demonstration of China's sovereignty rights," Thayer said.
Slow in responding On the face of it, the lack of a reaction from North Korea appears odd, but it might not be that unusual given the hermit nation's past behavior.
On the face of it, it is easy to accept the story that those with high incomes are doing much better than before, more so than middle- and low-income households.
AG: I think, what-, you know, on the face of it, you're talking about lowering corporate taxes, promoting repatriation, and, of course, well, the big infrastructure project, the big infrastructure program.
On the face of it, the elevation of MBS to crown prince, replacing his older cousin, Muhammad bin Nayef, means only that his job title has caught up with reality (see article).
Poets would not be a part of society if poetry was not crucial, because — and I say this as an occasional poet, myself — on the face of it, poetry is largely useless.
On the face of it, it's a bit of an odd move from a company with global reach that has never been afraid to launch into a new category with guns blazing.
On the face of it, this sounds like a win-win trend, as host countries benefit from the migrants' skills, who in turn benefit from the more stable economic environment they enter.
Communities like this have found a home on the service and many now feel threatened by what appears on the face of it to be a bit of a Draconian new ruling.
Why would you sell stocks that are (in aggregate) soaring to new heights while pouring money into bonds that, at least on the face of it, offer little by way of yield?
Pashinyan - a 42-year-old former journalist who has spent time in jail on charges of fomenting unrest - said that on the face of it the ruling Republican Party was conceding defeat.
A mercurial emirate On the face of it, for Riyadh and friends to place a fellow member of the Gulf Cooperation Council under siege is odd if their real enemy is Iran.
On the face of it, you might not have a problem with cops reading public social media posts or tweets: individuals presumably took the decision to put the information out there themselves.
So, on the face of it, at least, there is still substantial bearishness embedded in the pound pricing - a large chunk of which would presumably dissipate on a status quo EU vote.
"While this may not be all that exciting on the face of it, it could imply a solid quarter for the Taco Bell and KFC concepts owned by Yum Brands, " he said.
While that's not particularly exciting on the face of it, get this, the company is confident enough about the on-board battery that you can use it to wirelessly charge the competition.
On the face of it, there appeared to be some merit to this idea: The team observed some attrition within the near miss group in the aftermath of an unsuccessful grant application.
The U.K. then followed suit and instituted its own ban, which targets a slightly different list of airports, which — at least on the face of it — doesn't make a lot of sense.
On the face of it, anyone can deduct 100 percent of a plane's purchase price and maintenance expenses if the plane is used for nonrecreational purposes or leased to a flight school.
On the face of it, this is regulation working exactly as it should: Something shocking has been revealed and lawmakers and agencies are working together to get to the bottom of it.
On the face of it, therefore, the current yield curve means that the bond markets are trusting the U.S. Federal Reserve's monetary policy to keep inflation under control for the foreseeable future.
On the face of it, matching people on interests seems to make sense – if you love shopping and relaxing more than hiking or dancing, you probably want to meet more moms like you.
On the face of it, they involve a welcome shift away from the current regime, which obliges foreign firms to win numerous approvals and is both burdensome and often influenced by domestic politics.
"On the face of it, we're just releasing some big animals into the forest," says Rob Stoneman of Rewilding Europe, a group overseeing the project with the Worldwide Fund for Nature, a charity.
JS: I am intrigued by your interest in de Kooning  — an artist whose existentialist search, rather than a conceptual one, seems, on the face of it, diametrically opposed to your project in painting.
LONDON (Reuters) - Brokers specializing in researching mid-cap stocks are sharpening their focus and hiring rather than retreating ahead of sweeping regulatory changes that on the face of it could hurt their business.
"Norwegian is in need of execution and capital, frankly, and maybe IAG can give that so it definitely on the face of it makes strategic sense for IAG," Davy analyst Stephen Furlong said.
"There may be in some narrow legal-eagle place where that is not obstruction of justice; to the rest of us it is obstruction of justice on the face of it," Lockhart argued.
On the face of it, his agreement to launch talks between Likud and Blue and White appears to go back on a promise to his right-religious allies to negotiate as a bloc.
"Whilst on the face of it the plans look positive, not all existing colleagues will have the transferable skills for the newly created roles and will mean some face redundancy," the union said.
" On the face of it, his statement represented a significant breakthrough in the Russia investigation, since earlier this month Trump questioned why an interview would be needed because there had been "no collusion.
On the face of it, the tweet is reminiscent of some of the rhetoric he used during his inaugural address, when he called for national unity beyond dividing lines of race or gender.
It certainly seems odd on the face of it that the company would sue victims but it&aposs all about MGM protecting itself from what could potentially be a series of devastating financial claims.
Here's what they might be thinking: For Trump: On the face of it, the raid is an argument for the US to stay on in Syria to gather intelligence and strike ISIS at will.
The list of demands, in particular, has become a standard activist strategy for the campus left; but a demand is, on the face of it, a strategy for disengagement and perpetuation of hostile relations.
On the face of it, digging the country deeper into debt feels like a dangerous idea—an irresponsible choice on a par with running up your personal credit card to take that Bahamas cruise.
The Washington Post's new motto, "Democracy Dies in Darkness," doesn't appear partisan on the face of it — but for a newspaper in 2017 it's not hard to guess what "Darkness" it is referring to.
On the face of it, it's good news for women — we're more than happy fending for and spending time with ourselves, thanks very much — but the reasons behind the data are potentially pretty disheartening.
On the face of it the meaning is that there really is no need to look beyond any sort of seeming homogeneity within Silicon Valley's tech workforce (which is mostly white and overwhelmingly male).
On the face of it, the militia is supposed to help police deal with minor law and order issues, but some residents said their function is to notify police about any stirrings of dissent.
On the face of it, a unity government made up of the biggest parties might well offer the sort of strong and stable option that mainstream Israel is looking for in these trying times.
On the face of it, that sounds a lot like the "Ferguson effect": the idea that crime is up because police officers are afraid to do their jobs in the face of public scrutiny.
The conversations were research for his new play, "One Giant Leap, 211 Years On," about the Apollo 211 moon landing on July 250, 73 — not, on the face of it, a tear-jerking topic.
Getting through university is one very rough proxy for this sort of foundational skill, which helps explain why so many employers stipulate degrees for jobs which on the face of it do not require them.
On Thursday, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution broadly calling out hate, on the face of it one of the least objectionable things the United States Congress might do on any given day.
But on the face of it it's hard to understand how, short of a total system failure, this could happen, when the entire car has essentially been designed around preventing exactly this situation from occurring.
On the face of it, Hope is a sticker-based messaging app that automatically shows when its users get home OK after a night out or a date — but crucially without revealing their exact location.
TALLINN, Estonia (Reuters) - Veteran espionage researcher Jon DiMaggio was hot on the trail three months ago of what on the face of it looked like a menacing new industrial espionage attack by Russian cyber spies.
On the face of it, Barr's comments in an ABC News interview look like a daring assertion of independence amid the storm over Trump's intervention in the sentencing process for his political trickster Roger Stone.
On the face of it, the amiable Spaniard has transformed the footballing fortunes of the oil-rich nation since taking over as their 11th head coach in the space of a decade in July, 2017.
"At this point we don't know that's what caused this, but on the face of it, it certainly seems inadequate - the pilot training material did not raise the details of this new system," Cruz said.
On the face of it, today's big Google event in San Francisco was all about hardware, but let's be real here – there's always something bigger going on with Google below the shiny glass and metal exterior.
On the face of it, the snap inspection carried out this week aimed to check combat readiness, as well as test changes implemented to the structure of the Russian armed forces, its operations, weapons, and technology.
On the face of it, this theory seems to have some merit; a "killer app" like warm coats could be the kind of evolutionary technological innovation that separates the boys from the men (pardon the analogy).
Breakingviews On the face of it, buying shares in Saudi Aramco – the world's largest oil company – is a no-brainer for any investor, even with the price of crude threatening to fall below $30 a barrel.
In its press material, LeEco refers to as a "global internet company," a phrase that doesn't really mean that much on the face of it – but when you're LeEco, it's probably best to be purposely vague.
On the face of it, it sounds devastating until you read that ICE nabbed the father in court while he was dealing with a felony domestic abuse allegation that he pled down to a misdemeanor assault.
"Interestingly, these nominations would not on the face of it be consistent with the notion that Trump will seek to foster low rates and a weaker dollar by nominating doves," Guha said in a research note.
The recent migration row that threatened to sink Germany's government looked, on the face of it, a gloves-off in-house policy battle between Chancellor Angela Merkel and a rebellious coalition ally, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer.
On the face of it, there aren't a lot of similarities between Illinois and Hawaii, barring, perhaps, a certain love for the kind of local culinary specialties that cause nutritionists to sigh and shake their heads.
On the face of it, it's tempting to read the pair as two sides of the same coin: two talented mavericks, each story proof, in its own way, of the importance of drive, dedication and reform.
On the face of it, our friend exceeded all qualifications for the job, and my wife and I each wrote glowing recommendations for him, including to the head of the department to which he was applying.
"I'm only looking at the first week of June, and on the face of it there's not much change," said Roy Mason of Oil Movements, a UK-based firm that estimates supply by tracking tanker shipments.
"On the face of it, it was extremely concerning ... everyone got up in a rather orderly fashion and started filing toward the interior areas of the hotel" because the venue had no basement, Luchs told CNBC.
On the face of it, that idea might seem attractive: two of the world's largest militaries and intelligence communities working together against the Islamic State and other jihadist networks to achieve progress that neither could alone.
"Autonomy Cube," a 2014 collaboration between by two Americans, the artist Trevor Paglen and the journalist and hacker Jacob Appelbaum, is on the face of it a minimalist sculpture of motherboards trapped in a transparent glass cube.
On the face of it, Sebes was the grand master of what are now timeworn football hipster stereotypes, from niche formations to heavily accented team sheets, socioeconomic game theory to tactical nerdiness of all shapes and forms.
Jennifer Mercieca, an expert in American political discourse at Texas A&M University, said in an email that the "deplorable" comment "sounds bad on the face of it" and compared it to Mr. Romney's 47 percent gaffe.
"On the face of it, it's ludicrous that we would ban e-cigarettes, but permit the sale of tobacco and cannabis," said Dr. Steven A. Schroeder, a professor of health at the University of California, San Francisco.
On the face of it, the two seem unlikely allies — Fiorina's a pro-business conservative (who ran to the right during the primary), while Cruz is known for his unwavering support of the Constitution and the Bible.
"How to Write an Autobiographical Novel" is a disarming title for an essay collection by Alexander Chee, given that he's fresh from the success of a novel that on the face of it was anything but autobiographical.
On the face of it, the idea of hostility between the two East Asian neighbors is sharply at odds with excellent trade numbers and Japan's unrelenting efforts to keep open the bilateral flows of commerce and finance.
Last week's disclosure, on the face of it, was pretty tame: In 4033 Mr. Trump and his wife, Melania, paid $38.4 million in federal tax, or about 25 percent of a reported income of nearly $153 million.
On the face of it, this seemed a clear though perhaps unintended admission by Donald Trump Jr. that he had gone into the meeting expecting damaging information, and the episode is clearly grist for Mr. Mueller's mill.
On the face of it, the two seem unlikely allies — Fiorina's a pro-business conservative (who ran to the right during in the primary), while Cruz is known for his unwavering support of the Constitution and the Bible.
"On the face of it, it seems like investors are really bearishly positioned, but when you dig through the data, you find that investors are actually more bullishly positioned than they've been in a long time," he said.
On the face of it, this seems to be a warning to Conservative anti-Brexit rebels: back May and vote against a customs union, or else risk bringing down the government and let in the opposition Labour Party.
On the face of it, the former FBI director's compelling testimony to the Senate—the opening statement of which was released Wednesday—of an attempted obstruction of justice by President Donald Trump, is one that merits further investigation.
Virginia Woolf's declaration that "human character changed" somewhere around December 1910 was, on the face of it, a flamboyantly overstated reaction to an art exhibition organized by her friends, but it named something people felt to be true.
" On the face of it, the two experts disagree: Tyson sounds confident that today's science is mostly right about the universe, whereas Greene, when asked to estimate that the chance our current cosmological models will survive, replies: "Tiny.
While on the face of it that might appear to be a nice bonus, early patients found that their penises had become longer than the prostheses and were now sporting a gully where the penis meets the body.
On the face of it, Spain's national election on Sunday followed the familiar European script: highly polarized campaign, the emergence of a far-right party, no party with the parliamentary seats to form a government on its own.
"On the face of it, the Liaoning branch of the National Bureau of Statistics has reported some decent economic numbers for the past few months," said Victor Shih, an associate professor at the University of California, San Diego.
I first encountered the imposition of cashless dining a few years ago at a branch of Sweetgreen on Wall Street, which, on the face of it, seems like a strange place to dismiss the significance of actual money.
On the face of it, the transformation of a department store — the first in the country to install an elevator — into the headquarters of a start-up is simply a story of the new economy cannibalizing the old.
On the face of it, the $1 billion of bonds Nigeria hopes to sell by the end of March might seem unattractive, especially at a time sentiment towards African debt has soured after Mozambique missed a coupon payment.
Long-term psychotherapy to help build confidence and a sense of self-efficacy might be one element, as would other measures that on the face of it might not seem to be within the realm of psychiatric treatment.
What Trump actually proposed, according to his speech text, was this: On the face of it, the first of these is a national-security policy: It's supposed to prevent people from entering the US to do it harm.
But on the face of it, some aspects of the case seem reminiscent of Dahmer, who raped, murdered, dismembered, and cannibalized young boys and men—primarily black and Asian men—and sometimes performed sex acts with their bodies afterward.
On the face of it, the UFC's reported 20k/20k offer to Khalidov was derisory and didn't exactly offer the clarity of vision expected of a promotion which often purports to operate its business with 20/20 visual acuity.
Although not spelled out clearly, the guidelines could, on the face of it, allow the state to integrate its many databases: everyone's hukou and dang'an, information from electronic surveillance, the tourist blacklist, the national model-worker programme and more.
On the face of it, Duncan Smith resigned as welfare minister over cuts in benefits for the disabled, but his dramatic exit was immediately seen by commentators as intended to destabilize Cameron and Osborne as the Europe debate intensifies.
Our calculations show that any show that was on the face of it like "Hamilton" should be grossing just over a million dollars a week—decent, though not quite up to the show's actual gross of $1.7m a week.
On the face of it, the President appears to undercut a holiday season campaign by Hill Republicans and the pro-Trump media to discredit Robert Mueller's probe by saying he believes the special counsel will be "fair" to him.
On the face of it, it's an idiosyncratic grouping, to put it kindly: "The Lover" (1985); "Practicalities" (1990), her riffs on alcohol, men and other forces of mayhem in her life; and her posthumously published journals, "Wartime Notebooks" (2008).
So building a gender-reversed remake of the 1987 film "Overboard" — at that time a lively vehicle for Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell — around Ms. Faris and Mr. Derbez is not a deplorable notion on the face of it.
"On the face of it, [Netanyahu] has gone from being the factor which has kept the right, and Likud, in power, to the single obstacle to them retaining power," says Jason Pearlman, former spokesman for Israel's President Reuven Rivlin.
Jared Kushner, a 38-year-old senior adviser to President Donald Trump, is, on the face of it, an unlikely pick for the man who&aposs recently been ordered to get the US-Mexico border wall back on track.
"For both sides, a deal would make a huge amount of sense strategically and on the face of it, an amalgamated business would represent a powerful combination in the U.S. sports betting market," Davy analysts wrote in a note.
Next week's talks in Sochi may end up establishing the regime and Moscow as security guarantors in areas where Turkey has yet to establish total control, and ensure the Syrian Kurdish military presence is, on the face of it, minimal.
On the face of it, the new device features most of the same features as the Gear, including the circular bezel, which doubles as a control — one of the primary features the line has going for it versus Apple's offering.
What this technical meeting suggests is that OPEC wants to convey to the market that it's taking this output discussion very seriously; however on the face of it, it appears the "market is actually losing hope now", Mahesh told CNBC.
"On the face of it, this looks like a rebuke to populism, and a solid vote in favor of a more solidly integrated Europe," said Karl Schamotta, director of global product and market strategy at Cambridge Global Payments in Toronto.
For example, a VPN ban reportedly came into effect in March, but nothing seems to have happened on the face of it at least, with providers being kept in the dark about if and when the ban will be rolled out.
On the face of it, the I.P.O. recalls a period a decade ago, when an initial wave of offerings by China's biggest state banks on overseas stock markets resulted in megalistings attracting eager investors among foreign funds and Wall Street banks.
Giving the green light to such an expensive project, called Tengiz, looks on the face of it to be an unusual move, but analysts say the field has been lucrative and important for Chevron and its partners, who include Exxon Mobil.
Flynn became convinced that the jihadist attack against the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in 22016 was orchestrated by Iran, which on the face of it made little sense since the Shia regime in Iran rarely cooperates with Sunni militants.
"While on the face of it equivalence appears to be a very attractive route because it implies very little work, when you get down to the first level of detail there are unanswered questions," he told Reuters in an interview.
On the face of it their plans, which they say may also include a form of parallel currency, could push the budget deficit far above targets agreed with the EU, setting up a clash with the European Commission and Italy's partners.
On the face of it the banking industry, at least outside the United States whose continued reliance on cheques makes them a bit of a laughing stock to the rest of the world, looks like it's moving forward slowly and steadily.
On the face of it, a shortage due to increased demand seems like a good problem to have, but ultimately a lack of processors could create a major issue if the market continues to grow, perhaps ultimately reversing some of that success.
So suggesting something that, on the face of it, goes completely against what we've been trying to do for the last 40 or 50 years, people are going to push against that — particularly the people who have been doing this for years.
On the face of it, Amazon isn't asking much: just create a chatbot using Alexa that can talk to a human for 20 minutes without messing up, and you get a $1.5 million prize (with $2 million in other grants and prizes).
Asking the search engine's parent Alphabet to help create a new tech hub in Saudi Arabia is, on the face of it, a reasonable fit with Mohammed bin Salman's grand plan to diversify the kingdom away from oil revenue, known as Vision 2030.
October 27th, 2016 The iPhone 7 might not, on the face of it, be the most exciting upgrade ever — it's the first time Apple's used the same basic industrial design three years running, with a more dramatic overhaul set for next year's model.
On the face of it, lenders in South Africa are relatively well represented among the general population with more than 80% of adults having access to a current account, according to a 2018 report by FinMark Trust, a Johannesburg-based financial inclusion organization.
To some, that may not seem so bad on the face of it — right now, it only affects some 22009 schools — but many of these schools use their robust endowments to cover partial or full tuition costs for veterans who served after Sept.
ALGIERS (Reuters) - On the face of it, Algeria's state-dominated economy has weathered six months of turmoil well, with flightloads of public sector workers heading abroad for holidays even as protesters who ousted the veteran president in April now target his allies.
On the face of it, Haftar, a Gaddafi general and former CIA asset, should have taken over the government within weeks, but whether he succeeds now is a factor of how quickly the Turkish military can reach the sands of North Africa.
The manuscript — which seems on the face of it to be a speculative thriller of alternative history — is discovered not long after his death and is eventually published with notes and commentary from the author's friends and relatives as well as his editor.
On the face of it, "Patti Cake$" sounds like the ultimate bad Sundance movie (or a Disney princess movie): Patti Cake$ has a dream and she follows it with a song in her heart and a charmingly kooky posse (Cathy Moriarty included).
They provide a simple value ranking that — on the face of it, at least — seems to make sense: The place where both robots and humans run into problems is situations in which adherence to a rule is impossible, because all choices violate the same rule.
On the face of it, the encounter appears to be a clear example of Giuliani using his relationship with the President to pursue a personal or business goal -- in a way that risks Trump's best interests -- supposedly the sole concern of a contracted lawyer.
On the face of it the fossil record shows a decrease in diversity during the last ~10 million years of the Mesozoic, but I don't think the fossil record of the late Mesozoic is sampled well enough to demonstrate a trend leading inexorably to extinction.
And on the face of it, the political uproar following the Brussels attacks should play to the Democratic front-runner's strengths, given her fluency with foreign policy as a former secretary of state and two-and-a-half decades of experience on the world stage.
On the face of it, the killing of Caughman fits into the FBI's category of "domestic terrorism": Perpetrated by individuals and/or groups inspired by or associated with primarily US-based movements that espouse extremist ideologies of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature.
On the face of it, they have a big advantage over onshore import terminals - cheaper by half at around $21-27 million, twice as quick to deliver and flexible to boot because the vessel can journey to other destinations once it is not needed.
It was whipped up by opposition-research firm Fusion GPS, former British spy Christopher Steele and partisans in the Obama administration, creating a vast echo chamber with information that was never substantiated in any material way and, on the face of it, was preposterous.
"FOLDABLE DISPLAY NEUTRAL AXIS MANAGEMENT WITH THIN, HIGH MODULUS LAYERS" is pretty simple, on the face of it, especially when compared to already announced and soon to be launched offerings from Samsung and Huawei (not to mention the Xiaomi concept that got everyone all excited).
While on the face of it, that might seem disappointing (after all, the rate has gotten down to 4 percent at times in the past), the fact that it isn't doing so should be a good sign that the economy isn't bursting at the seams.
"The Asco acquisition is on the face of it a very good fit for Schneider's core portfolio of low voltage control and automation technologies in the building sector and demonstrates, at the price they have paid, capital discipline," said Kepler Cheuvreux analyst William Mackie.
Randall Munroe: I've always been enthusiastic about taking a really bad idea and then following it to its logical conclusion, or figuring out if it's really a bad idea or not, even if it's really obvious on the face of it that it is.
BEIJING (Reuters) - On the face of it, China's central bank has room to cut interest rates to try to lift the economy, but sources say evidence companies and banks are hoarding cash has reinforced policymakers' view there is no major benefit in easing policy further.
Arts | Long Island On the face of it, a painting of some of the founding fathers laboring over the Declaration of Independence would seem to have little in common with the image of a drink-swilling, red-nosed court jester before he starts his on-command tomfoolery.
And on the face of it, those behind-the-scenes workers appear to be nothing more than a cross-section of the population, all completing "human intelligence tasks" with the hope of fulfilling that age-old promise of making money using nothing more than a home computer.
"If there was an idea going round that the European Union has been firm on the face of it but today is weak and febrile when it comes to the fundamental principles, well that would not be the case," said the official at President Macron's Elysee department.
CASH STILL KING On the face of it, lenders in South Africa are relatively well represented among the general population with more than 80% of adults having access to a current account, according to a 2018 report by FinMark Trust, a Johannesburg-based financial inclusion organisation.
"The charges against them on the face of it appear indiscriminate, unwarranted, part of a malicious campaign to threaten human rights defenders, independent journalists, writers and thinkers in the country from critiquing the government and its policies, and an attempt to muzzle dissent," the petition said.
"Whilst a marginal drop in sales may not on the face of it seem significant, it has to be taken in the context of a low benchmark and, crucially, what should have been perfect shopping conditions last month," said Sophie Michael, BDO's head of retail and wholesale.
When the two sides meet in Kaliningrad on Thursday in their first competitive encounter since that night in Bologna when England won 1-0, there is little at stake on the face of it since both are sure to progress from Group G to the last 16.
On the face of it, an ad informing women, in a secular context, that they don't have to bow to the imperatives of a religious patriarchy would seem to qualify, but the broader mission of administrators is to protect a range of sensitivities that ultimately become unclassifiable.
On the face of it, implied sterling volatility derived from the options market appears to be low, but that merely reflects an ultra-low volatility environment for world currency markets at large and traders note sterling volatility is sharply higher than on other major developed currencies.
And on the face of it, the new Joker appears to lean into those events in a way that the previous Dark Knight trilogy did not, almost as if Phillips wants to move beyond an endlessly interpretable allegory about terrorism toward a more immediate kind of representation.
For Trump, many of the names being thrown out for top Cabinet positions are the same small group of Republican politicians he has acting as his surrogates -- political veterans who on the face of it are the opposite of his "Drain the Swamp" battle cry on the trail.
On the face of it, Gatto's bill seems sensible—there's certainly no reason why you shouldn't be able to cancel services online—but I can also see a perfect storm of bad menus, security questions and captchas making these even worse that talking to someone on the phone.
On the face of it, Zidane and Pearce don't have a huge amount in common beyond a shared penchant for mildly psychopathic on-field violence, but the Frenchman would do well to look to Pearce for an example of the dangers of listening to your heart in these situations.
"On the face of it, removing this uncertainty would seem like good news for RBS investors, reflecting the fact that executing a disposal of Williams & Glyn was a key hurdle that the group needed to overcome before it could recommence paying dividends," Shore Capital analyst Gary Greenwood said.
The reason this scandal rises above the level of Mr Trump's others is that, on the face of it, the president appears to have acted against America's national interest—by freezing aid to a vulnerable ally—in order to pursue a vendetta against a political rival at home.
"On the face of it you're talking about lowering corporate taxes, promoting repatriation (of taxes) and the big infrastructure program, and that all adds to more growth — hence this very great interest (in the overhaul) and the 26,000 mark in the stock market," Angel Gurria told CNBC on Wednesday.
In 2016, on-demand companies whose businesses depend on the independent contractor model—letting workers choose their own hours and, at least on the face of it, act as their own boss—will start to feel the pressure from the public to treat their on-demand workers as real employees.
On the face of it, the last-minute pivot provokes the question of why he did not inquire about the human toll of the proposed attacks, that US officials said were on missile batteries and radars, before signing off on the mission to avenge the downing of the unmanned US aircraft.
On the face of it, the executive order is not hostile to any particular religion: it suspends travel for 90 days from six countries (Iraq was taken off the list when Mr Trump released his revised order in March) and imposes a 120-day pause on the entry of new refugees.
On the face of it, this is supposed to be a history of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator; it turns out to be something much stranger — an inventive and beguiling biography of the idiosyncratic mother-daughter pair who developed the indicator using their own, decidedly unscientific, interpretations of human behavior.
"Basically, it is not revenue neutral on the face of it and it would require some awfully optimistic assumptions in terms of dynamic scoring, meaning growth will be so huge the tax cut will pay for itself," said Ed Yardeni, president and chief investment strategist at Yardeni Research Inc in New York.
On the face of it, then, ABC television took a risk when it commissioned a new season of "Roseanne", a popular sitcom about a blue-collar clan's trials and tribulations, built around the premise that, 63 years after the show last aired, its fictional family is now divided by Trump-love and -loathing.
This intractable distance, one might even say deniability, is what makes Minnis's new work, on the face of it, so breezy and clear, so hard to place at a time when a premium is being put on the idea that poetry should be legible as the reflection of a given identity position.
Here, thousands of people—a lot of them children—are siphoning their money away to corporations who, on the face of it, are game producers, but in essence are income rakers to the fullest extent, who so far have only stopped the extreme cashflow from idiotic obsessives after someone's told them to.
But when each invited the other to choose a canvas from their respective studios, Matisse chose Picasso's still life "Pitcher, Bowl and Lemon" (21945) while Picasso chose a small portrait of Matisse's beloved 28-year-old daughter, Marguerite — on the face of it, a strikingly personal piece for Picasso to have selected.
It was surprising for me, to come into this organization that is, on the face of it, all about art and artists, and to find that was very, very, very little knowledge about artists, about the art world, about what artists's need or want or think or feel — or any of that.
"That Schedule 7 powers are being used to compel disclosure of passwords is concerning on the face of it, but the fact that an activist has now been arrested for refusing is plainly inappropriate," Eric King, visiting lecturer in surveillance law at Queen Mary University of London, told Motherboard in a Twitter direct message.
A few days after Samsung debuted the Galaxy Fold on stage at an event in San Francisco, Huawei has just shown off its solution, the Mate X. On the face of it, the device looks like it may well be a step up from the Galaxy device, right down to its three large screens.
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"Everybody is betting today… on a deal between China and the U.S. but the problem is that on the face of it the tensions are getting greater and, second, the problem - the spillover effect of this tension - is becoming more and more evident," he told CNBC's Joumanna Bercetche at the start of the OECD's Spring Forum in Paris.
"On the face of it this is a positive gesture toward implementing the agreement, but whether this is going to be sufficient to bring about long-term advancement and stability has yet to be seen," said Johnnie Carson, a veteran American diplomat specializing in Africa and now a senior adviser at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington.
This sounds, on the face of it, like a reasonable compromise: Maybe Democrats would be willing to cave on citizenship for all unauthorized immigrants if they thought this was the only way to keep them from being deported; maybe Republicans would be willing to grant an "amnesty" if they were confident that immigration laws would be enforced in future.
Derek Starnes and his wife, who booked their accommodations via the popular online lodging website, were vacationing in Longboat Key, FL. The couple was sitting in the master bedroom of their condo when Starnes, who works in the Information Technologies industry, noticed something odd about the smoke detector above their bed: a tiny dark circle on the face of it.
On the face of it, it appears to show the President, who is effectively the nation's chief law enforcement officer, calling on his own Justice Department to pursue a prosecution against one of his political enemies -- a scenario which, if carried out, would represent a departure from the standards of conduct normally expected of those who sit in the Oval Office.
This methodology does strike me as more useful in determining the cultural reach and significance of arts organizations than merely counting visitors, because on the face of it, a museum can be meaningful to me in the other ways stated above — and perhaps in particular for primary- and secondary-school-age children who have grown up with electronic devices as interfaces for experience.
What had begun as a discussion about race was now, on the face of it, a conversation about manner, conducted largely by the white people in charge of him — members of a board who would still, after everything was over, be left grappling with the question of what role white elites should ultimately play in the education of poor black and brown children.
But at the moment, the White House lawyers in the middle of the latest scandal to threaten Donald Trump's presidency do have something to worry about: Their actions at the center of the uproar are under intense scrutiny as a formal congressional investigation gets underway in a matter that, on the face of it, doesn't look good for those involved.
On the face of it, Mr. Trump's estate tax plan seems tailored for someone like himself: His wealth is tied up in real estate, which his heirs would not have to sell so would not be subject to the capital gains tax for assets above $10 million, and he has not been particularly charitable, so he would not benefit from a deduction for philanthropic gifts.
Nokia isn't tipping its hand about any further moves into the consumer space, but a rep from the company did tell me that these pieces are "definitely part of a broader vision," which, on the face of it, does seem to imply that the company is considering an even more deliberate step into the consumer space after largely existing as a networking and telecom company for the last few years.
On the face of it this is perfect fodder for a technothriller game in the Front Mission style, but there is perhaps a lack of excitement for the game that comes not from its lack of focus on mecha, its breaking with turn-based tactics, or its PS3 style graphics, and rather from exhaustion with the technothriller conceit as, like cyberpunk, it more and more simply depicts a familiar reality.
But though on the face of it the Summit pledges seemed impressive—a new Climate Ambition Alliance of 65 nations, corporations worth $2.3 trillion promising to drastically reduce emissions—nobody, as far as I could tell, proposed plans for reducing the vast carbon and political footprint of corporations such as Exxon, Chevron, and Shell, which since 2018 alone have invested $50 billion in new fossil fuel expansion projects.
" Trump, on Tuesday, withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, and then on Wednesday announced the release of three American hostages by North Korea as the details were finalized for a summit next month with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.  Referring to the specifics of the Cohen case, Giuliani also said: "No one has told us what the details of that are, and on the face of it, it is hard to tell.
And while on the face of it you would expect China and Russia to oppose moves to condemn Internet censorship, given both nations exercise considerable and growing control over web usage in their respective nations, Russia's representative on the council Alexey Golytyaev sought to shift focus onto online privacy rights during today's meeting of the Council — warning of an "imbalance" in the resolution text and urging that more attention be paid to safeguarding privacy rights online.
His two attempts to suppress travelers from some majority Muslim countries from entering the US were very tourism un-friendly just on the face of it, as is the illogical new policy of not allowing airline passengers from eight majority-Muslim countries to use their laptops and tablets while they fly to the US. The bizarre new proposal to demand the social media passwords of incoming travelers from such places as Europe, Australia and Japan would be even more unwelcoming.
"  The odd couple dynamic will be a valuable one for Wally, Kreisberg teased: "It's an interesting relationship because a version of Wells was so important to Barry in Season 1, and a version of Wells was so important to Cisco in Season 2, and then this year it's Wally who gets this version of Wells that, on the face of it, may not be the world's greatest teacher, and yet every episode we find that moment for him to drop this wisdom bomb on everybody else that shocks them.

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