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"opportunism" Definitions
  1. the practice of using situations unfairly to gain advantage for yourself without thinking about how your actions will affect other people

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GREG GUTFELD, CO-HOST: Well, we talk about political opportunism, but the real political opportunism after terrorism is the application of Islamophobia.
Let's call it what it is — nakedly political opportunism.
For Deutsche, it's a blend of bullish messaging and opportunism.
A combination of Loughran's strange style and Sharkey's cunning opportunism.
"Basically the ideology of Mr Macron is opportunism," Guénolé said.
So this is complete opportunism and it is completely false.
There's no higher theory at work here; it's just opportunism.
Most sickening is the naked opportunism inherent in these proposals.
It does not pass the smell test of political opportunism.
Often, interventions smacked more of political opportunism than ideological resolve.
Opportunism, after all, was the New Republic's bedrock principle. Not
Sometimes there's an unavoidable whiff of opportunism in the air.
Scaramucci's sudden turn against Trump has a whiff of opportunism.
"It's just political opportunism at its worst," Mr. Hewson said.
But for naked opportunism and situational scruples, Jared's my guy.
Call it savvy strategy or naked opportunism -- or maybe both.
Yes, all of them are operating partly out of opportunism.
These engagements reflect the defining theme of Russia's Africa policy: opportunism.
In that spirit, we're setting a standard to sniff out opportunism.
The outrage over Mr. Weinstein also has a whiff of opportunism.
Biden's decision to embrace Warren's plan naturally reeks of political opportunism.
I think it's partly political correctness and partly political opportunism too.
They also give rise to a teachable moment in legal opportunism.
This seems highly unlikely because it runs counter to economic opportunism.
Macron from Valls is the former's opportunism: Macron began to abandon the
"It could be opportunism, because lawyers are smelling blood," Mr. Pincus said.
But Denham says he is unmoved by their calls of political opportunism.
The key factors are instincts, personal relationships, aggressive advisers, and political opportunism.
And don't those charges of "opportunism" reek a little bit of misogyny?
Instead, he blasts Cruz for his opportunism, his rhetoric, his flip-flops.
We can fulfill these goals by setting aside special interests and opportunism.
But they also said political opportunism informed his promotion of conspiracy theories.
The result is just a really unhelpful distraction that smacks of opportunism.
"No manipulation, no opportunism," he cautioned during a news conference this week.
But some say opposition to Christmas skating rinks is just political opportunism.
Such an appearance of rank political opportunism is bad under any circumstances.
Part of the furor may be political opportunism to attack the government.
"We are thematic, but this business is all about opportunism," Singer told TechCrunch.
Instead, he covered himself with the stench of opportunism without accomplishing anything useful.
Ponnuru and Vyse are right about Trump's fundamental incoherence, slipperiness, and unprincipled opportunism.
Democrats say Republicans in North Carolina are taking political opportunism to new heights.
As it is, however, climate denial is rooted in greed, opportunism, and ego.
Effects: Cities on the Continent are showing a mixture of opportunism and dread.
Maybe the Trump administration is queasy about that kind of brinksmanship and opportunism.
But a fair appraisal of the emails doesn't reduce Team Clinton to opportunism.
By picking Fiorina, Cruz was making a risky bet that he could reap all the benefits of being opportunistic (an increase in support and enthusiasm) with none of the drawbacks (that people genuinely dislike opportunism, especially opportunism as transparent as Cruz's).
The next Italian government will be the product of arithmetic, political opportunism, and process.
Healthcare is the mother of all cases where political opportunism and personal responsibility collide.
Nothing brings out a perfectly workshopped diss like a little cross-industry promotional opportunism.
Opportunism, rather than centrally directed purpose, defines many of China's belt-and-road activities.
Instead, Trump's world celebrates basic opportunism where foresight, consistency, and ideological integrity are incidental.
Some will see nothing more than opportunism by two politicians pandering to popular grief.
New York evolved as an economic force on a grid and primarily for opportunism.
And now it is paying a heavy price for public prejudice and political opportunism.
In the Venezuela of Sainz Borgo (a Caracas-born journalist), opportunism has replaced mercy.
On Macron's, from an excess of political opportunism and a dearth of strategic sense.
Pragmatism and opportunism alone drive her decisions, and retaining power is her primary goal.
In the end, it seems, Mr. Saleh was done in by his own opportunism.
And all the news media says now he changed, they think, out of pure opportunism.
No pundit will pay any long-term professional or personal penalty for their obvious opportunism.
She is the author of 'Jockeying for the American Presidency: The Political Opportunism of Aspirants.
The Rockies pushed one across in the third inning with help from DJ LeMahieu's opportunism.
" Mr. Schneiderman has called the pushback from the company and its supporters "First Amendment opportunism.
It's that his performance of outrage is opportunism of the basest and most blatant sort.
This was all made up, for purposes of clickbait, Fox News stories, and political opportunism.
Instead, Trump campaigned surrounded by politicians, operatives and surrogates whose only real commonality was opportunism.
And there is certainly an element of opportunism in what the Trump administration is doing.
But the lurid opportunism that's driving him and his husband to embrace Trump is obvious.
Unsworth was convinced it couldn't work and was irked at what he viewed as opportunism.
Will he make clear that bending to the Washington way is not pragmatism, it's opportunism?
It can also lead to accusations of opportunism if victims risk public shaming by speaking up.
In an interview with BuzzFeed News, Varoufakis put much of the blame on ego and opportunism.
By Election Day, voters preferred her apparent integrity to the opportunism of many of her rivals.
Trump's missive drew widespread condemnation for its opportunism and insensitivity, particularly in the context of Chicago.
But this struggle is not borne of political opportunism; it is rooted in a genuine conundrum.
What hasn't been absent in all this is Rubio's opportunism, cynicism and persistent lack of courage.
The third category involved his characteristic blend, hardly unique among politicians, of naiveté and electoral opportunism.
In the case of a collectible "Minnie" doll, it felt more like cultural opportunism than fusion.
This glib and repellent exercise in "can you top this" genre opportunism has a 2013 copyright.
" Eight years later, Paul Armentano, the organization's deputy director, has accused Mr. Boehner of "financial opportunism.
Some on social media have accused Nike of financial opportunism and validating the oppression of women.
Of course the winds of opportunism and convenience could wipe out those lines in an instant.
Instead, Trump has maintained a relationship with the world marked largely by its bellicosity and opportunism.
The children at our schools deserve better than another round of trite political opportunism on guns.
One critic accused Swift of "gross opportunism" by aligning herself with the march without actually talking part.
After all, who can engender the combination of opportunism and paranoia usually needed to start a business?
"The cynic in me would say there is an understandable level of opportunism taking place," Scheid said.
The backlash over the congressman's disrespect of Auschwitz policy on silence and his shameless opportunism was swift.
America does not need or want leaders that lower themselves to the immoral opportunism on display here.
Whether he came to that message out of conviction or out of opportunism, it's clearly his message.
The sample sizes for forecasting that type of opportunism are large and go back a long way.
This explains the overuse of natural resources, opportunism, and any acts of self-interest over collective interest. 
Long hours and constant communication can foster closeness with coworkers, and work trips offer opportunism, Szekely said.
Such opportunism is far from rare; it's just not often that we see it exhibited so starkly.
Here's Whitman's full statement: Chris Christie's endorsement of Donald Trump is an astonishing display of political opportunism.
But the abortion lands Norma in the hospital, setting off a chain of misunderstandings and malicious opportunism.
This is political opportunism, not an effort to create peace in the lives of the Eritrean people.
British anger at such brazen examples of political opportunism has been remarkable, and reached beyond social media.
Unrepentant opportunism belies a staggering lack of character and caring that can't simply be vanquished from memory.
It was a combustible mix, full of humanity, greed, righteous anger, opportunism, politics, official blindness, and violence.
The multidimensional conflict in Syria has long been bedeviled by local and international players' contradictory aims and opportunism.
Otherwise it's just good optics and opportunism, and not real change for the majority of women in America.
The picture painted was unflattering to both: the Iron Chancellor's brutal opportunism matched by the financier's fawning subservience.
They become representative not just of what ails politics, but what ails America writ large: opportunism, privilege, entitlement.
" If "Negroes wallowed in corruption, opportunism, displayed spectacular stupidity, were wanton, evil and ignorant, their case was made.
She is the author of "Jockeying for the American Presidency: The Political Opportunism of Aspirants" (Cambria Press, 2010).
"All this reeks of is political opportunism and that's what defines Kirsten Gillibrand's career," one Democratic strategist said.
"I don't see Manafort going in as an agent of Russian imperialism, but of personal opportunism," he said.
" Education press secretary Liz Hill told The Hill that Clark's call for DeVos to resign is "political opportunism.
Yoav Gallant, the minister of construction and housing and a retired general, criticized the claims of political opportunism.
But what we know already is that Harvey didn't blow away the opportunism and narcissism at Trump's core.
But that would require Trumpism to be driven by some deeper set of principles instead of illiberal opportunism.
The Deitch installation underscores Mr. Ai's activist role, in which genuine concern tends to be tinged with opportunism.
I do not admire anyone who, whether through political opportunism or astonishing naiveté, embraces the Green New Deal.
I do not admire anyone who, whether through political opportunism or astonishing naiveté, embraces the Green New Deal.
When The Last Jedi hits theaters in December, I'll be watching to see if her opportunism presents itself again.
Environmental forces interact in unpredictable ways with human greed, opportunism and cruelty—and sometimes with mankind's better angels, too.
If opportunism and crisis management were Olympic sports, he'd probably be awarded a gold and maybe a bronze, respectively.
"It might be opportunism based on that move down in tech shares," CMC Markets chief strategist Michael McCarthy said.
And, while it may be true that I am a proponent of lowering taxes, the opportunism here just reeks.
They eschew the opportunism of others, who seek to turn the crisis into an excuse to dismantle environmental laws.
Metaphorically speaking, it's about opportunism and greed — but some historians believe it originally had a much more literal meaning.
Will the voters of Virginia send a clear signal that they reject the mediocrity and corporate opportunism of Gillespie?
Such opportunism is the hallmark of authoritarians constantly on the lookout for ways to consolidate or expand their power.
While Mr. Trump's camp dismiss the dossier as malicious fiction or pure political opportunism, some elements have been corroborated.
Bellocchio admires his bravery and his virility, but doesn't turn away from his hypocrisy, his opportunism or his cruelty.
For many analysts, somewhere between pure luck and outright manipulation lies opportunism, and they call that a Kremlin specialty.
One man's sophisticated and pragmatic approach to public policy can be the other man's grab bag of corrupt opportunism.
And remember that on certain social issues, Trump himself has been leading the charge, if only out of opportunism.
To her supporters, her responsiveness to public moods and her mix of caution and opportunism make her an exemplary democrat.
But it certainly looks like opportunism (or worse, ignorance) on the part of Noto and Twitter to send this tweet.
When economic and political dealing is embedded in dense networks of social interaction, incentives for opportunism and malfeasance are reduced.
Conte said Salvini had violated the coalition's commitment and he had acted with political opportunism, according to a Reuters translation.
Some is born of opportunism and fear that the next president will set his voters on Republicans who defy him.
Some argue that the American elite is functionally an old-fashioned aristocracy that owes its income to nepotism and opportunism.
Maybe that was simple opportunism because that's where Rogers was fighting and because, unlike the UFC, Strikeforce didn't tax sponsors.
Sometimes these tricks are mere opportunism, but sometimes they are the well-organized work of national and transnational criminal groups.
The group is not beyond opportunism in taking credit for attacks in which it appears to have had no role.
"It is not opportunism," Eduardo Amadeo, deputy for the ruling Cambiemos party, said, adding security was a pressing domestic issue.
But in Erdogan's references to Ataturk, some see political opportunism rather than a sincere attempt to bridge an ideological rift.
Sarah Palin — before opportunism trumped conservatism — and she spent countless hours in the Lone Star State campaigning on his behalf.
But I don't feel like we're a dying band, so it didn't feel like there was opportunism attached to it.
Even so, Republicans see the opportunism from Trump's opponents to exploit the Russia scandal for their own gains, without context.
"The fact that any political campaign is trying to use this moment for political opportunism is unconscionable," he told POLITICO.
It's precisely this opportunism that requires civil society groups around the world to look outward even as governments look in.
It is at least partly opportunism, given that some lawmakers are simply reframing longstanding policies or priorities as "climate" policy.
He seeks justification in his opponents, whom he characterizes as promoting open borders, encouraging racial divisiveness and employing political opportunism.
" Spicer also accused Manigault Newman of making up false claims in her book, calling it "complete opportunism and completely false.
That type of regret can telegraph superior intellect even while admitting to something destructive, and can have unmistakable whiffs of opportunism.
Concerns about wildfire-fueled economic opportunism extends to price gouging displaced residents on everything from hotel rooms to rising rental prices.
Why it matters: This is as much about trade war opportunism as it is about diamond bracelets in little blue boxes.
" The company has called the New York lawsuit "baseless allegations" based on "closed-door lobbying by special interests" and "political opportunism.
A long-term contract that specifies the rent, tenure and so on protects both parties from the opportunism of the other.
It's the opposite of the opportunism required to go along with the president because you might get something out of him.
He then floated "Whatever Flavor You Want This to Be" for Hillary Clinton, needling the Democratic front-runner's perceived political opportunism.
Venezuela's main opposition parties have previously accused the smaller factions that signed a pact with Mr. Maduro of opportunism and corruption.
One question that night (and during the campaign generally): Was Bloomberg's party switch just opportunism to avoid a clogged Democratic primary?
Sessions's militancy about it appears to have more to do political opportunism than his responsibilities as the nation's top law enforcer.
Jorge Kawas, a Mexican security analyst, told VICE News that ambition and opportunism will likely fuel further divisions within the Sinaloa cartel.
Point blank, the opportunism that comes with cultural staples should have nothing to do with the erasure of those that represent it.
There was an adolescent beauty and friendliness to the town that couldn't last, that made it easy prey for opportunism and exploitation.
We will not let opportunism undermine the political map of the region in the form of a "greater" Sunnistan, Shiistan or Kurdistan.
But most of the correct points USA Today made about that issue were lost in a self-made haze of naked opportunism.
The real opportunism is coming from those who are disregarding scientific facts in order to advance a fatal policy of climate denial.
The museum has announced no plans to continue the collecting once they've departed, contributing to a hint of opportunism around the project.
Andrew Tremlett, the dean of Durham cathedral, reckons his institution has kept the right balance between ancient dignity and 21st-century opportunism.
I'd had some guilt about the opportunism of the e-book startup, but had no qualms about disrupting the Big Data space.
Some may call what Gillibrand is doing political opportunism, but what I call it is admitting publicly what we all say privately.
The political opportunism behind the Republicans' determination to undo legislation that makes federally financed health care more broadly available has deep roots.
A combination of back-room deals and lethal opportunism had turned toy sellers into industry titans, mathematicians into owners of TV channels.
His opportunism and lack of principle, while shameful, may yet mean that he is more open to deals than most of his predecessors.
His feelings about the failure of America's trade regime (see article) show how opportunism and gut feeling tend to guide Mr Trump's thinking.
But Cruz's backpedalling on such a dramatic display at the convention should raise questions about his tendency to embrace political opportunism over principles.
The elder Falwell's 1980 embrace of Reagan over Carter, an evangelical Sunday school teacher, represented the triumph of political opportunism over biblical principles.
Officials say the popularity of fentanyl among the cartels hews to a familiar narrative: changes in the illegal drug market and basic opportunism.
State Republicans accused McAuliffe, a Democrat, of political opportunism and pursuing the cause in the hopes of shoring up votes for his party.
They are heirs to an ancient tradition of humble, loincloth-clad wisdom seekers, but opportunism seems to come with the territory as well.
Lam's repeated invocation of the Poon family's grief was seen as just "political opportunism at its worst," said Dennis Kwok, an opposition lawmaker.
It exposed an ideological opportunism and factual slipperiness that left her exposed from both the left and right within the Democratic Party's electorate.
Gingrich transformed the GOP, shifting its base from a postwar to a post-Reagan conservatism, one built on opportunism, media manipulation, and political nihilism.
Turkey's future remains uncertain, but Putin is a master at turning such situations to his advantage, so we can count on more Kremlin opportunism.
When not pressed into service through force, a combination of desperation, misguided devotion and sheer opportunism drives young Syrians and Iraqis to join ISIS.
We can listen to voices promoting the politics of fear and opportunism, or we can pay attention to the science and prioritize community safety.
" For Philbrick, both Arnold and his enemies offer proof that "the greatest danger to America's future came from self-serving opportunism masquerading as patriotism.
The plant has instead become the target of scorn for some here who view it as another example of corporate opportunism and government gullibility.
Truly thanking veterans for their service means helping them when they need it most and rise above political opportunism to support veterans in crisis.
"We have interracial marriages — our family is a microcosm of the U.S." Where some perceive racism and nativism, others see a different -ism: opportunism.
And judge him by those who enabled his rise, out of cowardice or opportunism, two words that will follow Chris Christie to his grave.
Air time in Philadelphia isn't cheap (unless you're Steak Em Up), and Wallace will have the resources to fight against attacks on his opportunism.
So Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross—whose opportunism has afforded him a $2.9 billion net worth and the nickname "King of Bankruptcy"—has a solution.
He said Mr. Trump's interest in evangelicalism stemmed not from opportunism but from wanting to atone for a life largely devoid of conventional religiosity.
"If you're opportunistic in helping people, that's the right kind of opportunism," said Mr. Walden, a former chief counsel of the Federal Aviation Administration.
" Heschel cautions against "an outward compliance with ritual laws, strict observance mingled with dishonesty, the pedantic performance of rituals as a form of opportunism.
Compare that to Harris, who, in an interview with NPR on Monday, Harris disputed that her early position on Kavanaugh's impeachment was political opportunism.
"On both sides there is some naked political opportunism at work," said Ian Bond, director of foreign policy at the Center for European Reform.
The next president shouldn't imitate Trump's slipshod opportunism, but the idea of pushing aggressively for growth-oriented monetary policy makes a lot of sense.
And clearly he wanted to also use that speech to recast their marriage as a great love story rather than a tale of political opportunism.
The property market in Britain is benefiting from this spirit of adventurous opportunism, at a time when it needs all the help it can get.
If so, then a certain amount of political opportunism can actually be good for the country, keeping focus on policies with tangible, short-term benefits.
House Federalists disliked Burr's political opportunism — Burr had once been a Federalist, though not an ardent one — but their distrust of Jefferson ran much deeper.
However, moving up the financial stack a bit, we can see that, in general, opportunism begins to outweigh any particular affinity to a particular locale.
Though it is easy to chalk it up to generational change, a more accurate interpretation probably has to do with ideology, opportunism and spin-doctoring.
Tell Corporate America that you appreciate their ethical opportunism and their election cash, but you are going to stick with workers, thank you very much.
It is unclear whether his America First platform was largely a product of political opportunism, or if he is truly committed to the nativist cause.
Approaching the late innings of a close game with flexibility and a healthy sense of opportunism is probably the ideal way to go about things.
Jimmy bobs and weaves, moving between naked opportunism and glimmers of nobility, on an endless cycle of glee and guilt, without ever coming into focus.
What does it matter if he denies climate science today, as a whole new belief system may spring into place tomorrow in response to opportunism?
The same opportunism once used to exploit economic trends beyond your control in order to gain a narrow political advantage is subsequently deployed against you.
Efforts to limit the very solutions to that crisis are ignorant in the extreme and are a dangerous manifestation of rank partisanship and political opportunism.
Musicians and fans who weren't inclined to accept the notion of a conceptual exercise had a lot to say about opportunism, irreverence, even exploitative appropriation.
Blogs served a need and presented an enthusiasm and care not found anywhere else, then they got swept up and distorted by opportunism and monetized content.
" However, in an article the collective wrote to accompany their Documenta 14 video, Abounaddara criticizes precisely these kinds of projects as "a form of political opportunism.
However, the current fall in oil prices results not only from the decrease related to the coronavirus in overall demand, but further from opportunism by Russia.
The result, which replaces Moncler's Gamme Rouge and Gamme Bleu high-fashion lines, was part art installation, part political opportunism, and all fashion sleight-of-hand.
A system built upon concentrated wealth among a few, and a lack of upward mobility for the masses, will undoubtedly lead to instability and political opportunism.
Cybersleuths, historians and strategists will debate for years whether Russia's actions reflected a grand campaign of interference or mere opportunism on the part of Mr. Putin.
South Africa was boycotted during Apartheid even though artists who violated the boycott, like Elton John and Dionne Warwick, used the same arguments to justify opportunism.
Unlike the Socialists of the 1930s, the Kremlin and its friends today are driven not so much by ideology as by opportunism (and, in Russia's case, corruption).
They are bound by their streaks of opportunism and by their campaigns tailored to resentful voters brimming with the conviction that society's deck is stacked against them.
Philosophically, Clinton supporters would no doubt like to frame the debate as her pragmatism vs his idealism, but the better comparison is her opportunism vs his authenticity.
Republican Orrin Hatch accused Democratic senators of political opportunism, noting, "We have folks who want to run for president," though he did not mention any by name.
It's hard not to consider the fact that the bureau has been dealt a series of recent body blows -- some self-inflicted and others pure partisan opportunism.
Winning two out of three races in light winds, Ainslie showed audacity and opportunism in his tactics and familiarity with the Solent racetrack, where his team trains.
Morris said Satterberg's move was motivated by "opportunism and fear," noting that it happened after three local Democratic Party legislative organizations endorsed him, The Seattle Times reported.
Gray markets emerge not out of mere huckster opportunism (although opportunists tend to emerge and benefit from them) but out of a void of resources and options.
Greed and desperation drive the family members to acts of opportunism, cowardice, moral compromise and cruelty, as the Nazis work swiftly to consolidate their power and control.
Johnson draws a fascinating portrait of Rist as a self-rationalizing con man and exposes the culture of secrecy and opportunism that marks his fellow fly-tiers.
Scholars say there was an element of economic opportunism behind the strikes of the 1950s and '60s, as unions exploited their bargaining power in tight labor markets.
When the damage is tallied, it could very well prove to be one of the grossest cases of media malpractice and political opportunism of the modern era.
For a politician who has cultivated a reputation as a straight shooter who puts country before party, the about-face on early elections could smack of opportunism.
Political opportunism One Twitter user joked that Abiy was given the wrong prize and that he and Afwerki instead should have received an Oscar for their performances.
Mr. Khan masks his political opportunism by harping on the same point: If the London apartments were obtained legally, why can't the Sharifs produce the money trail?
Then he put forth what seemed a desperate and unintentionally honest explanation for why he had suddenly challenged Mr. Cruz's legal ability to hold the office: political opportunism.
" Republican National Committee spokesman Michael Ahrens told CNN in a statement, "If you looked up 'political opportunism' in the dictionary, Kirsten Gillibrand's photo would be next to it.
In retaining her dogged openheartedness and honest work ethic, she has been able to prove that hip-hop is the land not of opportunism but of opportunity. ♦
What O'Rourke calls for with sincerity, passion and principle, Cruz now calls for with opportunism, fearing the political consequences of standing with Trump's abuse of the immigrant children.
Her opportunism and campaign's gullibility are easy lines of attack for Culberson should she become the nominee, ones that he couldn't make against the other three major candidates.
In almost identical fashion, Trump and Churchill are attacked by elements in their respective parties which distrust and scorn their approaches, on grounds of opportunism, suffused with ego.
Religious sentiment and political opportunism have kept the issue in the spotlight, where it is likely to remain as the country braces for a parliamentary election this year.
And the second is to compare and contrast the figures Naz meets in prison with those he's met elsewhere (as we already saw with Freddy's opportunism mirroring Alison's).
To Ms Höhler this betokens a values-free opportunism, but to the chancellor's supporters it speaks of Mrs Merkel's sensitivity to the changing needs and attitudes of her electorate.
It isn't clear if this celebration of Taiwan's decision in Chinese state media represented real momentum in a change in Beijing's position or if it was just cynical opportunism.
That telling opportunism lies behind Mr Barber's view that black voters now have "less protection than on August 7th, 1965", the day after the Voting Rights Act was signed.
"There is a bit of opportunism there," said Woodyer, who as the previous CEO of Endeavour Mining helped build that company into one of West Africa's biggest gold producers.
When the N.F.L. promised its eighty-nine-million-dollar donation, after discussions with the Players Coalition, some viewed it as an attempted quid pro quo, or as dubious opportunism.
The word has become such a reliable epithet, smacking of petty opportunism and bad faith, that it sometimes functions as shorthand for everything wrong with our current political moment.
Instead, he has so far elevated into key roles some of the same politicians he had denounced in the past over their political opportunism and checkered records on corruption.
Mr. Johnson, whose laziness is proverbial and opportunism legendary, is a man well practiced in deceit, a pander willing to tickle the prejudices of his audience for easy gain.
Yet from day one to the present, Trump has pretty consistently been anti-Latino and anti-immigrant; it's hard to view Palomarez' shifting loyalties as anything other than opportunism.
There is a faction that has thrown in with Francis completely, some out of theological conviction, some out of opportunism, some out of simple loyalty to the papal office.
Marina Silva, a environmentalist and political leader who came third in presidential elections in 2010 and 2014, slammed the PMDB for opportunism in severing its alliance with Rousseff's party.
Others say the story of Mr. Iyal and Mr. Mohammed is more an example of stupidity mixed with opportunism, pointing out that neither fled their country because of persecution.
That could be turned into a vulnerability, a chance to encourage dissent and division within an elite more interested in its own kleptocratic opportunism than in Putin's historical vision.
In place of supposed Silicon Valley virtues like idealism, flexibility, and merit we now detect opportunism, self-dealing, individualism, overblown promises, and, as always, a great man to lead us.
"Chris Christie's endorsement of Donald Trump is an astonishing display of political opportunism," Ms. Whitman, who was a national finance co-chair of the Christie campaign, said in the statement.
What seems to have got them up and moving is opportunism, deceit, panic, guilt – the furtive battery juices that spark the engine of wickedness that we keep under the hood.
But so much of the safety rhetoric around the border blends legitimate concerns — especially when it comes to smuggled drugs, money and weapons moving in both directions — with political opportunism.
And this is especially true for After the Contemporary, which effortlessly harnesses his obsession with art world inside baseball to a righteous anger fired by political hypocrisy, exploitation, and opportunism.
Along these lines, one has to question Warhol's right to adopt and further sensationalize images of black bodies in pain, particularly if his motive was professional opportunism rather than politics.
It's Congress — and until things change there (which could happen in November) or Republicans at last abandon a policy of hold-my-nose opportunism, Trump will ride out the storm.
Until then, whatever speeches he makes about his supposed empathy with the Jewish people and the horrors they faced in the Holocaust sound hollow and look like crass political opportunism.
At the core of the Islamic State's global success — and vulnerability — is a peculiar blend of theological boldness and criminal opportunism, something Al Qaeda, its predecessor and rival, never achieved.
Some of the Chinese government's efforts became mired in red tape, were exposed as veiled indoctrination efforts or were hijacked by people in Taiwan who collaborated only out of opportunism.
Whether Del Pino and other arrested executives are ultimately found guilty or not, many in Venezuela see opportunism behind the ongoing purge, not a concerted effort to stamp out graft.
Though fresh and meaningful, one cannot help but smell the waft of opportunism by the curators, especially since the exhibition as a whole wrestles with problems of colonialism and racism throughout.
Then there was the opportunism of those who were astute enough to have bought the C-prints that accompanied a Gerhard Richter retrospective at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel in 2014.
The stated reasons for Clinton's opposition to the TPP didn't make any sense and were immediately panned by observers such as Vox editor in chief Ezra Klein as smacking of opportunism.
With poll-driven priorities, his Conservative Opportunity Society—a group of young, right-wing representatives intent on advancing a conservative agenda in the House—was as much about opportunism as opportunity.
Gamergate — you remember, the misogynistic hate movement that started in 2014 — quickly became a cyclone of harassment and opportunism that gave a particular tradition of terror on the internet a brand.
High-purity meth is now cheap and readily available across the U.S. Jesús speculated that the meth price hike ordered by El Mayo was more about opportunism than the chemical shortage.
In fact, the state's disregard for the water sector is so pronounced that the poor quality of tanker water is as much a consequence of shoddy or nonexistent regulation as opportunism.
They could also pay a severe price for their opportunism if they allow themselves, as Schmitt did, to go along with a totalitarian movement, or a reasonable American facsimile of one.
The Federal Reserve was designed to be insulated from the full force of democracy in order to protect its mandate from political opportunism, to ensure that policy hewed to technical expertise.
One possible answer: the themes of faith-driven terrorism, political opportunism and state-sponsored torture in "Gunpowder," which begins Monday night on HBO, have a startling resonance with our own times.
The Obama doctrine, sometimes dubbed "leading from behind," for its reliance on regional partners and its cautious approach to the use of American force, was the polar opposite of Putin's ruthless opportunism.
" The filing accuses Kathleen Durst's family of opportunism, claiming the relatives chose "to do nothing for 30 years," before trying to "piggyback upon the hype created by a fictionalized HBO docu-drama.
Mr Rajoy accused his foe of naked opportunism, and of trying to govern against the wishes of Spaniards who had soundly rejected Mr Sánchez at elections in 2015 and again in 2016.
Trump is keenly aware of the opportunism and duplicity at work in today's GOP; you don't hijack a party and remake it in your image without the support of some former enemies.
"There are some dark clouds on the horizon but ... I hope the common sense and strong tradition of tolerance of the Indonesian people will prevail over populism and political opportunism," he said.
"Rather than adhere to a principled strategy, successive administrations [have] succumbed to opportunism, cultivating a to-do list of problems that the United States was called on to solve," says Ret. Col.
The "casting couch" is part of Hollywood legend and undoubtedly has some truth to it, but Mr. Weinstein's misuse of his power goes far beyond a few isolated instances of salacious opportunism.
In the past, I've always presumed that when Trump completely changed his position on health care or the Mexican wall or nuclear weapons in Japan, it was due to craven political opportunism.
Allies of Feinstein in California's Democratic establishment have rallied behind the state's senior senator, repudiating de León's critiques as acts of political opportunism from a trailing candidate looking to build his profile.
On tour, though, Nijinsky married one the corps dancers and, although it's unclear whether it was true love or career opportunism, Romola Nijinsky spent the rest of her husband's life caring for him.
Paying lip service to the immigration issue in the summer when tensions are high and then not clarifying where you stand in the fall are exactly the same position of opportunism and emptiness.
Chris Christie's presidential campaign, on Sunday criticized Mr. Christie for supporting Donald J. Trump, assailing him for "political opportunism" and calling on Mr. Trump's other supporters and donors to walk away from him.
While DaniLeigh's version does much better than most, with a reconfigured beat and her newly recorded vocals done predominantly in Spanish, the general opportunism and pandering of the strategy nonetheless stays wholly transparent.
Griezmann's opportunism was matched in the buildup by a probing through pass from the halfway line by Paul Pogba, then a cunning step-over allowing the ball through his legs by Olivier Giroud.
Rather, they should call out far-right populists' political opportunism and use this moment of collective soul-searching about the future of the European Union to create policies that address the people's concerns.
But moving to the district from her more rural home base smacks of opportunism, so she'll have to beat 2016 nominee Matt Heinz and former assistant army secretary Mary Matiella in the primary.
Gilad Erdan, the country's public security minister, said on Twitter that the "apology" — he put the word in quote marks, as if to mock Mr. Abbas' sincerity — revealed distorted thinking and political opportunism.
These public servants don't want their organizations to be turned into the political arm of either party nor do they want to be forced to defend the political opportunism of their senior leadership.
As long as members of today's conservative elite share Schmitt's opportunism, and continue endorsing a Schmittian politics of enmity that overrides any principle or standards, there's no telling how far they will go.
So one way to understand this ugly health plan is that Republicans, through their political opportunism and dishonesty, boxed themselves into a position that makes them seem cruel and immoral — because they are.
"These baseless allegations are a product of closed-door lobbying by special interests, political opportunism and the attorney general's inability to admit that a three-year investigation has uncovered no wrongdoing," Exxon said.
Veteran and former assistant secretary of defense Dan Feehan appears to be the party's favorite, but he could be vulnerable to Republican attacks of opportunism as he hasn't lived here since high school.
Many of my friends and allies have either attended or spoken at TPUSA conferences, putting me in the awkward position of recognizing that even good people can get sucked in by political opportunism.
The Los Angeles Times reports that Uber's brand is shaped by a fundamental attitude of opportunism that risks undermining its relationships with the very people on whom it depends for success: drivers and riders.
We should not just use the rhetoric of equality to mask American opportunism and supremacy, as when we invaded Afghanistan and used the plight of women there as a fig leaf for moral justification.
Donald Trump's hijacking of the party is now no longer a threat but a fact, and to oppose him is to feel normal again by embracing clarity and principle against opportunism and crass huckstering.
" The "baseless allegations," Mr. Silvestri said, "are a product of closed-door lobbying by special interests, political opportunism and the attorney general's inability to admit that a three-year investigation has uncovered no wrongdoing.
Considering the political stakes, and his ultimatum, the money would seem to be a must-have for Mr. Cuomo, though Mr. de Blasio has objected to the plan, calling the governor's actions political opportunism.
Mr Trump is descended from German immigrants who arrived in America penniless and succeeded quickly through hard work, a free relationship with the truth, opportunism, shrewd business tactics and a great sense of family loyalty.
Individuals all throughout German-occupied Europe — guided by coercion, fear, anti-Semitism, opportunism and greed — collaborated in one way or another with the German occupiers and committed heinous acts, and in occupied Poland as well.
For all the rhetoric of national sovereignty routinely espoused by Marine Le Pen, Matteo Salvini and other populist leaders, Mr. Strache's fall shows how these supposedly lofty ideas are a cover for opportunism and hypocrisy.
Lai engaged in political opportunism and careerism, exchanged power for sex with several women, and flouted frugality rules by frequently accepting entertainment from private business owners in private clubs and high-end restaurants, it said.
"There was an element of opportunism about the 50-year issues from last year but there was always the risk they would lack liquidity," said a second banker, who manages bond sales for European governments.
His use of Turkey's autocratic leader to help pull the wool over the international community's eyes smacks not just of opportunism, but also a strategic resolve to draw this NATO partner out of the alliance.
Some liberals have accused Gowdy and the House committee of acting in bad faith, of deliberately prolonging this investigation not out of any personal belief in it but simply as an exercise in pure partisan opportunism.
While it was easy to dismiss these evolutions as political opportunism once marriage equality became more popular, the reality is that a lot of Americans have gone through a similar transformation to support more LGBTQ rights.
Yet if Cruz backs Trump now, he'll be accused of political opportunism and anger his core supporters who hailed his controversial speech at the Republican National Convention where he pointedly declined to endorse his party's nominee.
Then throw in the hopeful eBayers who get there only to immediately list stuff for re-sale and you have a day that now seems to amount to little more than rampant consumerism fuelled by opportunism.
It's not crazy to suspect that what is driving these firms (and bigger companies like Uber, a ride-sharing start-up you may have heard of) to purge themselves of bad actors isn't morals, but opportunism.
Members of the Independent Democratic Conference have been repeatedly accused by fellow Democrats of opportunism, because of their alliance with Republicans — an arrangement that has afforded them perks like larger offices and staffs, and committee chairmanships.
Not some coherent ideology that puts the people's interests first, but a policy based on opportunism, on cultivating a grandiose sense of national identity and then presenting that identity as being threatened by domestic and foreign enemies.
There was some opportunism in the move, since it was one of the few issues in which she could tack to the left of Sanders, but it also reflected Clinton's sense of where the party's base was.
Dutch language Flemish newspaper De Morgen said on Monday that the Magnette's stance was both a matter of principle and opportunism, a chance to boost his reputation and to become leader of the center-left in Belgium.
Cooked-up narratives about foreign infiltration are normally the province of the right, but the center-left has cooked up one of its own—or at least, overhyped what little remains known—for reasons of political opportunism.
Now just four games to the finish line, Leicester is leading by five points and needs to hold its nerve and hang on to the principles of spirit and opportunism that have gotten the club this far.
But the video — which was criticized for opportunism, and for equating Swift's experience as a celebrity with potentially dangerous homophobia — didn't deserve to be named video of the year, especially in a year with such strong contenders.
There's the danger of alienating fans who bristle at being told which causes they should care about, countless opportunities for a public relations nightmare, and the possibility that your good intentions could morph into opportunism or exploitation.
Street Scene It is not just coincidence that after 123 years of serving institutions and the ultra-wealthy, Goldman Sachs has decided that it will start catering to the common man: It is opportunism borne of necessity.
In politics, Bill Clinton's personal weakness was joined by the partisan opportunism of House Republicans to give us an impeachment process that was more scandalous than wrongdoing -- lying about an affair -- that it was supposed to punish.
While people in popular tourist destinations have increasingly been asking what happens to local communities and neighborhoods if you throw open the door to short term rental opportunism without considering the impact on long-term residents and rents.
That means more Judge Reed O'Connors, the GOP hopes and assumes, and more opportunities for a conservative Supreme Court to overturn liberal policy, whether on the basis of conservative theories of jurisprudence, rank opportunism, or thinly veiled bigotry.
In a preview of what is expected to be one of the most bitter and most expensive Senate races in the country, within minutes of Mr. Rubio's announcement on Wednesday, Democrats accused him of political opportunism and hypocrisy.
If international donors do not engage Palestinian leaders to remove the ambiguities surrounding succession, the PSF might become embroiled in transition politics either because of the messy structure of the succession process or by some security chiefs' opportunism.
But when you take all of Trump's actions and comments together, a clear pattern emerges — one that suggests that bigotry is not just political opportunism on Trump's part but a real element of Trump's personality, character, and career.
Calling Trump a "dishonest demagogue who plays to our worst fears," she called Christie's bombshell endorsement Friday "an astonishing display of political opportunism" and called on Christie's supporters and donors not to follow him into the Trump camp.
The year saw Donald Trump's protectionism, Chinese expansionism, a reborn nationalism in India and Japan, Iranian empire-building, and Russian opportunism all combine to undermine the international cooperation that has sustained the 70-year-old postwar global order.
Bolton even promised to testify in the trial if he was subpoenaed by the Senate — though he has otherwise declined to comment on the case, prompting accusations of opportunism ahead of the release of his tell-all book.
Though Americans helped design the stock exchange and other elements of the post-Soviet economy, the state-owned industries that made up the backbone of the old system were swiftly privatized in a frenzy of corruption and opportunism.
Interviews with 10 current and former employees, all of whom asked to remain anonymous, paint a picture of ThirdLove's transformation, from a data-driven bra brand to a bastion of diversity and inclusion, as one of keen opportunism.
But it's also possible the president is cognizant of the political opportunism that drives the British leader, and is willing to go along with Johnson's changing tone to burnish his own political fortunes, people close to Trump say.
While Middleton welcomed the removal of the Confederate flag from the lawns of the state capital after weeks of debate over its racist symbolism and roots in slavery, she also accused Republican Governor Nikki Haley of political opportunism.
But as Matt Yglesias of Vox notes, Rubio's ascent has been marked by repeated acts of rebellion and opportunism — many of them successful, all of them quite normal for politicians, but condensed into a relatively narrow span of time.
"easyJet's opportunism makes sense given Monarch's footprint at easyJet bases," analysts at Credit Suisse said in a note, saying the move for Air Berlin showed easyJet's ambition to make a move if slots in its key bases became available.
I thought Cunanan's dad's final moments of opportunism might be enough to make him lash out at the police in anger and potentially die by suicide in the process, but he seemed to finally be resigned to his fate.
The other side: "These baseless allegations are a product of closed-door lobbying by special interests, political opportunism and the attorney general's inability to admit that a three-year investigation has uncovered no wrongdoing," Exxon said in a statement.
Farmer, Ward, and Karl had come all this way to find a visitor from the stars, only to be confronted by a small but swift maelstrom of very terrestrial habits: fear and anger, hope and disappointment, opportunism and greed.
We have seen the pictures of our children and they were not smiling, because they had realised that they would not die for a great cause but simply for hollow and shallow opportunism filled with hypocrisy and double standards.
"They may have high approval ratings from one small subset of people," said Lara Brown, director of the Graduate Program in Political Management at George Washington University and author of Jockeying for the Presidency: The Political Opportunism of Aspirants.
Kurz's short-sighted opportunism lends the far right and its illiberal ideas a stamp of legitimacy, signaling to Austrians and the rest of Europe that a party like the Freedom Party has a rightful place in our modern democracies.
Instead, he has spent much of his post-"Soldiers" career arguing against the very tenets of historical memory: what started out as a legitimate campaign for reparative justice, Cercas feels, soon degenerated into a pageant of sanctimony and opportunism.
" But he pays a backhanded tribute to the former liberals who now hail Mr. Putin as Russia's savior and hold posts in government, the state-controlled media and state corporations, believing that their opportunism "saves us from real fascism.
I couldn't be sure — as I walked among the mastic and then headed home to pump yet more of it inside me — whether this was a story of human ingenuity or human gullibility, of shrewd enterprise or blunt opportunism.
Still, Mr. Scott's campaign — which on April 28 emailed reporters photographs of the governor's participation in a Puerto Rican festival in Orlando — characterized Mr. Nelson's trip two weeks ago, and his subsequent Orlando airport news conference, as political opportunism.
After a few years in Moscow, Voronenkov had amassed a sizable amount of money from graft and had become part of the lawless opportunism of the previous era that Putin promised to root out when he came to power.
Keller Lenkner also accused Uber of opportunism, positing that if Uber managed to get the firm bounced from the Diva case it would "surely will use (the disqualification) to attack Keller Lenkner's ability to represent drivers" in thousands of arbitrations.
With the Super Tuesday primaries next week, Senators Ted Cruz of Texas and Marco Rubio of Florida finally laced into Mr. Trump, battering him for his business deals, his thin knowledge of policy and what they characterized as his political opportunism.
Wikileaks regularly tweeted throughout the convention, including during Clinton's speech, at one point hitting back at criticism from Edward Snowden for not curating their leaks "Opportunism won't earn you a pardon from Clinton," they tweeted at the controversial former CIA employee.
"He is entirely delighted with inviting scrutiny because of course, he is no-one who knows nothing about anything and was pushed out of the Trump team a long time ago for just this type of opportunism," the representative added.
But as liberals face criticism that their attacks on Kavanaugh are nothing but political opportunism, they can point to a concrete example of how the party believes in the principle that bad acts should be punished, even when it is inconvenient.
"When his fever has gone down, Jean-Michel Aulas will see the obscenity of his opportunism and will quickly return to the values that make him a great footballing operator," OM president Jacques-Henri Eyraud told Le Journal du Dimanche.
Regardless of which cohort you belong to, the best strategy, when confronted with a costume party invitation in your mailbox, is one of wardrobe opportunism: Use the holiday as an excuse to acquire high-end fall goods you've been eyeing.
Even if our sympathies perfectly line up with the substance of what is said, many of us will find ourselves annoyed — at the prospective opportunism, the posturing, the stridency, the absence of connection in some cases between words and meaningful action.
Mr. Appleby said he could not recall even a whiff of racial insensitivity or opportunism from Ms. Klobuchar as a prosecutor, and he said she had embraced priorities that were typical for many district attorneys and politicians at the time.
"The foreign policy Russia is pursuing in Africa today is driven largely by opportunism — a departure from the ideological approach of the USSR, which invested heavily … to create client regimes among revolutionary and post-colonial leaders," Stronski writes for Axios Expert Voices.
Context: Opportunism drives the foreign policy Russia is pursuing in Africa today — a departure from the ideological approach of the USSR, which invested heavily in military and security ties and economic development to create client regimes among revolutionary and post-colonial leaders.
"Given that insiders receive generous stock-based compensation, insider buying of any kind is rare, and the fact that these two purchases are coming on weakness does suggest that there may be some opportunism in their decision to buy here," Magee said.
I think it's because of the naked opportunism of it: McGregor, turning to the camera to spend a good 20 percent of the allotted commercial boasting about how the money he was making from the commercial would send his son to college.
But his study further concludes that much of the backlash was driven by political opportunism from the American alt-right, particularly members of that movement who were deeply involved in 2014's anti-feminist and proto-alt-right Gamergate movement in the video game community.
The fact that he has lately emerged as Mr Trump's most dogged volunteer legal defender —even though Mr Dershowitz says he disagrees with all the Republican's policies except his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital—adds to the whiff of opportunism that surrounds him.
"We're fed up with his opportunism, we're fed up with his hypocrisy," wrote six Gannett-owned newspapers, including the Asbury Park Press, the Cherry Hill Courier-Post and the Morristown Daily Record, in a joint editorial asking for Christie to quit or be recalled.
While many of the songs from this period reek of opportunism, and include cringe-y videos (the BBQ scene in "Boys Round Here," dear God) this sonic narrative set the stage for the streaming era, where no musical collaboration could be considered too farfetched.
What once appeared to be a straightforward hate crime prosecution is shaping up to be a high-stakes legal battle involving not only an alternate suspect, but allegations of sloppy police work, prosecutorial misconduct and political opportunism being leveled by the defense in court filings.
When the Reds' asking price dropped low enough, the Yankees swooped in to acquire Chapman on the cheap, a bit of opportunism that General Manager Brian Cashman readily acknowledged, even as it drew criticism from some domestic violence experts, fans and a city councilwoman.
But what's on the line in these epic, expensive, cast-of-thousands set pieces is no less human: whether the kind of goodness that Ned Stark embodied and instilled in his children can have any place in a world shaped by injustice, cruelty, and opportunism.
"From where I sit, this looks like political opportunism and an attempt to take advantage of the public's lack of knowledge about how this works," said Kier Weyble, Cornell Law School's director of death penalty litigation, who represents several South Carolina death row inmates.
Though it's dangerous to extract cosmic significance from an opener, it would not be surprising if Game 1 of this Eastern Conference semifinal served as a template for the remainder of the series: low-scoring and bruising, studded with excellent goaltending and bursts of opportunism.
" She lambasted colleagues on both sides of the aisle for "irresponsible words of bitterness and selfish political opportunism," saying the Senate itself, "as the greatest deliberative body in the world" had become "debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination.
But we see Russian opportunism all over the world destabilizing countries like the Ukraine, and that&aposs the path he seems to be on at the moment, and he needs to think again because America has a strong president, and that is not going to be acceptable.
But when you take all of his actions and comments together, a clear pattern emerges — one that suggests that bigotry is not just campaign opportunism on Trump's part but a real element of his personality, character, and career that could guide how he governs as president.
Pop a check next to 'opportunism' which I still maintain is one of the single most powerful traits a fighter can have—it is what makes men like Carlos Condit so great after all, the ability to snatch at even the hint of poor positioning or distraction.
It cannot be said that Escobar wasn't reaping what he sowed, but amid the smoke, he can also whiff the hypocrisy and opportunism of Judy Moncada and the Cali cartel, who are ruthless in running businesses that are poised to grow with him out of the picture.
On the economics front, his administration has been a revolving door for hacks and hucksters who are skilled at media manipulation and addicted to opportunism, but who would wash out at a major automaker in a matter of months when forced to deal with the managerial challenges.
The fanboy side of Christie is probably the single most animating quality about him, more than the bullying style he can exhibit when challenged (by smaller targets) or the opportunism he has been accused of or the tell-it-like-it-is persona he once inhabited.
" The company issued a statement after Ms. Underwood's office filed the new lawsuit, asserting that "these baseless allegations are a product of closed-door lobbying by special interests, political opportunism and the attorney general's inability to admit that a three-year investigation has uncovered no wrongdoing.
When a moment of mistaken identity gives Daniel the chance to turn his life around, it initially looks as if he's giving in to opportunism; in the fullness of time, however, his deception begins to seem more and more like a genuine vocation coming into mystical focus.
Why it matters: This deal is largely about trade war opportunism, as Tiffany has been hammered by decreased Chinese tourism to the U.S. It's tried to offset that by opening more stores within China, but it's been hampered there by new Chinese tariffs on U.S.-made jewelry.
Stamm — whose wry, spare fiction I can't recommend highly enough — had given a speech insisting on the necessary separateness of art from politics; to introduce the topical and overtly political into fiction, he thought, was a form of impoverishment, or even worse, of opportunism and self-promotion.
But putting aside the opportunism of Zuckerberg's argument for a moment, which he made only after Facebook failed to enter the Chinese market and regulators began knocking on his door, his point about the vulnerability of the American model of free speech around the world is correct.
She left for a dat when she might have been evicted because of a suspicious asthma attack, and demonstrated her ideologically shape-shifting opportunism, trying to create alliances with the women against all the men, and trying to involve Keshia Knight Pulliam in a "black girl magic" alliance.
An estimated three to six million miles of lead pipes across our country still carry water, and most all of them are vulnerable to similar dangers, whether at the hands of short-sighted and prejudicial bureaucrats or politicians whose ideology or opportunism leads them to blithely dismiss well-established science.
" On Shelton's evolving stance on interest rates, Warren wrote, "This drastic switch in your opinion to reflect President Trump's preferences suggests that your judgments are informed by political opportunism rather than sound economic analysis that a Fed Governor is expected to undertake when making decisions that will affect millions of Americans.
Of course, people change their minds, but Trump's about-face here looks more like political opportunism: He needed the religious right to win the White House, and without any sense of irony, presented himself as the only choice to defend traditional Christian values, the "right to life" chief among them.
Locating an individual's cultural specificity or claim to a culture is far more complex than looking at their race, class, or genetic material, particularly in the US, with its history of racial genocides, colonialism, mass immigration, and opportunism and exploitation, all of which dramatically alter and generate cultures over time.
This was particularly true in African nations, where the combination of poverty, opportunism, and cultural misunderstanding of the meaning of adoption—often construed as temporary guardianship rather than permanent relinquishment of a child—led to children repeatedly being offered, or in some cases taken, for adoption based on mistaken beliefs or outright profiteering.
Yet thanks to an updated formula for determining positions on the Billboard 200 that accounts for online activity, as well as some savvy opportunism from the label, the album, "Epic AF," has become a disruptive presence on the charts, landing in the Top 20153 four times by exploiting — or mastering — the new system.
In an unusually detailed answer and counterclaim, Mr. Chihuly's lawyers also on Friday told of the artist's deteriorating mental state, and said the lawsuit was "nothing more than an ugly and reprehensible display of opportunism and exploitation" by the man, who the lawyers said was seeking money to keep quiet about the artist's condition.
While there are questions over U.S.-Philippine ties, thrown into question by Duterte's angry rejection of U.S. concern about his bloody war on drugs, Vietnam's relations with the United States have quickly expanded owing to some U.S. opportunism in the wake of a bitter row in 2014 between Vietnam and China over the South China Sea.
A much quicker way is just to go to the gym for three or four months... And not be a bell-end...…not be a bell-end and have a weird combination of showing respect for people whilst at the same time obeying the laws of sexual opportunism that a lot of doggish guys seem to follow.
During last year's election campaign, the Goggleboxers had their political leaders sussed: accurately identifying Nigel Farage's anxiously frenetic attention-seeking ("He thinks with his mouth"), Ed Miliband's lurking self-doubt ("He doesn't quite know what he is doing") and Boris Johnson's faux-bumbling opportunism ("Beware the fool, because in all Shakespeare plays, the fool is actually the clever one").
His rush to become part of the comeback story appeared to be a mix of hero worship and opportunism: Mr. Trump has cheered on Mr. Woods throughout his career, and his long relationship with the golfer helps bring one of the most prominent African-American athletes to a White House that has been boycotted by many others.
The Guardian's Maria L. La Ganga visited the Bunny Ranch and, while pointing out the brothel owner's opportunism in endorsing Clinton to get attention for his business, had conversations with the workers that show why the election really is important to them: Taylor Lee, a 26-year-old from Houston, used to be a cake decorator before arriving at the brothel.
Just as the 2016 vote ruptured the progressive momentum of the Obama era, the 843 election signaled a departure from the idealism of the Carter administration, which was driven by the primacy of human rights, toward an ethos of me-first opportunism sanctioned by a genial television personality-turned-corporate mouthpiece-turned-reactionary politician (albeit one with eight years of governing experience).
Al FrankenAlan (Al) Stuart FrankenNative American advocates question 2020 Democrats' commitment Reid says he wishes Franken would run for Senate again Al Franken urges Trump to give new speech after shootings: 'Try to make it sound like you're sincere, even if you're not' MORE (D-Minn.), has stirred some ill will among Senate Democrats — who sense a whiff of political opportunism.
Mourinho's opportunism — edging his way into a deal that City seemed to have tied up — is to be praised, but it is telling that both United and Arsenal, likely to replace Sánchez by signing both Mkhitaryan and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, now out of favor at Borussia Dortmund, will end the January transfer window having invested in hugely expensive players available only by chance.
Meg Whitman is slamming Chris Christie's endorsement of Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's White House bid as an "astonishing display of political opportunism" and calling on Christie's donors to reject Trump, according to NBC News.
There will be plenty of time to call out the inevitable opportunism of corporate America (and it looks like I'm going to have a lot more free time on my hands in the coming months to do exactly that), but for now, let's note some of the folks who are pitching in by donating supplies or easing some of the burden on a strained and uncertain population.
Harrison, who serves as an associate chair of the Democratic National Committee, declared his candidacy in a video posted online in which he accused Graham of political opportunism for flip-flopping in his support for 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.
Following the familiar pattern of a classic "whodunit," Fatwa articulates the complex social issues that contribute to radicalization in a manner that is rather bleak: a cloistered culture of toxic masculinity that produces an echo chamber of violent ideas; the desire to control women and their bodies in the guise of spiritual righteousness; and the opportunism of agitators who see an opening to preach hate and gain power in a society still reeling from the effects of political upheaval.
"It's not about decriminalizing the sex trades and making sure people are safe in their work and have real ways to exit if they want to, it's about political opportunism while still getting to do the dangerous moralizing on sex work that, quite literally, kills people in our country, people such as Yang Song," said Nina Luo, a Decrim NY steering committee member, referring to a sex worker who killed herself in New York last year.
To be sure, Netanyahu feels as betrayed by American Jewry as American Jewry feels betrayed by him, and it's difficult to tell to what degree these feelings have been motivated by disgust and spite (Netanyahu hating American Jewish naivete, American Jews hating Netanyahu's cronyism and violence), and to what degree they've been motivated by opportunism and self-interest (Netanyahu wanting the evangelical money and political cover, American Jews wanting to shore up their credentials on the identitarian left).
Clinton is probably the most famous hair lightning rod, whether it was her chopping and changing while in the White House as first lady (seen as reflecting the opportunism of her husband's policies), her I-don't-care-I'm-getting-down-to-work scrunchies as secretary of state, her John Barrett styling trip while on the campaign trail (average price per cut: $600) or her postelection lank and limp blues, she is far from the only politician scrutinized.
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 latest tweets denying Puerto Rico's approximate 3,000 death toll as a consequence of Hurricane Maria, and his self-serving claim that his administration's handling of its aftermath was an "unsung success," has provoked general condemnation for his lack of empathy to the suffering of many, and for his political opportunism in the face of then incoming Hurricane Florence.
José Roca, the artistic director of Bogotá's FLORA arts center (and formerly at Tate Modern) remarked online that, while criticism is always welcome as a safety valve, to criticize Salcedo for opportunism is to not acknowledge her decades of engagement with political violence in Colombia: In a country where oblivion is a policy of the state, Salcedo re-inscribes these events in the public eye through strong symbolic acts, such as the chairs sliding down from the Justice Palace […] García Márquez inscribed the banana massacres in the collective consciousness of Colombia through literature, at a time when the government was diligently busy with dispersing the evidence, Salcedo has done the same with other violent events, and in many cases achieves this through inviting others to constitute themselves as participants in the act of public inscription.

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