I didn't predict it.... This issue that I'm an opportunist, I don't really understand this term 'opportunist.
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Justin Bieber can spot an opportunist from a mile away ... at least now he can, and the opportunist is Selena Gomez.
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The sweet spot in American politics is to be an opportunist without seeming to be an opportunist, which means inexperienced candidates generally have an advantage.
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He was seen as an opportunist joining, by kissing up to Trump, and he was considered an opportunist leaving, for trying to look principled by dissing Trump.
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Iraq's ruling Shi'ite leaders deride him as a destabilizing opportunist.
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Trump is who he has always been, an unapologetic opportunist.
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Mr. Coffman rejects the characterization of himself as an opportunist.
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" "But Tantaros is not a victim; she is an opportunist.
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That is, a spineless feminist who is also an opportunist.
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The prime minister is an ideological opportunist, not a purist.
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But it's also saddled Clinton with a reputation as an opportunist.
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This is, of course, a disingenuous argument from a career opportunist.
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Inside Austria, many see him more as opportunist than grand schemer.
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" Trump, on the other hand, "feels like more of an opportunist.
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First came Cyrus, of course — an opportunist, but a genuine one.
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Bannon's actions indicate that, if nothing else, he's a vicious opportunist.
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Meredith wasn't a gold digger so much as she was an opportunist.
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Oh yeah, he was an opportunist, a self-mythologizer, and a fantasist.
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More often, she is a sad, status-seeking, increasingly homicidal opportunist/prostitute.
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"Don't be an opportunist and kowtow to radical forces," the newspaper wrote.
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Based on news reports, he mostly just seems like an insecure opportunist.
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In this universe, Pitbull is an opportunist, an internationalist, a thought leader.
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Jews. For the first time in modern history, a right-wing opportunist has
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"I get the impression that he's an opportunist," Javid says on the reunion.
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He is also, despite his image as a man of principle, an opportunist.
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" King adds that he doesn't think Putin is a Republican, "he's an opportunist.
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"I'm not an opportunist," said Hierro, who was part of Lopetegui's coaching staff.
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A fox is definitely nature's greatest opportunist, and possibly nature's greatest pizza lover?
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People wonder if he a real true believer, too, or just an opportunist.
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Murder, at least in this part of the world, is an equal opportunist.
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" The Iranian government swiftly condemned the president's remarks, calling them "deceitful and opportunist.
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If she is an opportunist, she doesn't seem like a very skilled one.
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He is a brilliant mercenary, a visionary opportunist, a man seemingly without loyalty.
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Zhang was, as Buemi had discovered, an opportunist, not a high-powered executive.
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But many voters considered Mr Karoui, who is facing corruption charges, an opportunist.
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" The Iranian government swiftly condemned the president's remarks, calling them "deceitful and opportunist.
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"It's time to stand up to these fake opportunist feminist champions though," they wrote.
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Mr Orban is more opportunist than strategist (and has a well-concealed pragmatic streak).
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I think he's an opportunist who's taking an advantage of the climate he's confronting.
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Omarosa Manigault Newman is certainly a trailblazer in the field of opportunist Trump worshippers.
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After all, Putin is not a micro-managing grandmaster so much as an opportunist.
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I don't respect her, and I think she is a self-serving, manipulative opportunist.
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Read more: Britain's Trump or a liberal opportunist: Who is the real Boris Johnson?
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Is Steve Bannon an earnest ideologue or is he a cynical and grandiose opportunist?
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But critics have dismissed him as an opportunist cashing in on anti-Muslim bias.
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If people see you in politics as an opportunist, it is destructive to your appeal.
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Austin, according to Maas, is still a city for the enterprising opportunist of any level.
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I anticipated that I would be perceived as an opportunist or part of a conspiracy.
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It does risk him being labelled an opportunist — or, dare we say it, a techlash populist.
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She is not the gold digging opportunist, willing to pass up real love for something shiny.
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Once there, the opportunist would be treated to celebrity entertainment, decent food and plenty of booze.
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Toomey called McGinty a "political opportunist" and again pointed to his support from Giffords and Bloomberg.
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Some might think that Cramer is being glib, but he considers himself to be an opportunist.
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Darla Shine reportedly called Lewinsky a "lying opportunist whore" regarding her affair with former President Clinton.
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But again, he's an opportunist, and he'll seize every chance he has to weaken rival states.
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"If you are an opportunist, it looks like this would be of interest," Dr. Fuller said.
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" In a tweet, Trump Jr. wrote that Bannon is "not a strategist, he is an opportunist.
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When I met with Lucke, he characterized Petry not as an ideologue but as an opportunist.
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The Trump campaign is digging in against Machado, casting her as an opportunist and a liar.
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He was an entrepreneur and an opportunist, a showman, a creative dynamo, and a (sometimes inadvertent) visionary.
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She's terrified she is either viewed as a flirt, or an opportunist cashing in on that perception.
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Rubio's missed hearing will be fodder for Democrats who are trying to cast him as an opportunist.
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" To turn off Sanders supporters, the RNC would cast him as a "shameless opportunist and career politician.
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Clinton is a dangerous opportunist, as demonstrated by her history in both her professional and political life.
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But Puigdemont is a reckless opportunist determined to destroy the middle ground where any answers will lie.
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Let's just get this out of the way: Milo Yiannopoulos is a tedious, nihilistic, mean-spirited opportunist.
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Social media users unleashed profanity-filled tirades against Ms. Wazir, calling her a liar and an opportunist.
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He was a hero or an idiot, an opportunist or an activist, depending on whom you asked.
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You are telling me Bannon was more of an opportunist than a Trump loyalist from the jump?
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The incident sparked a plethora of comments on Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter, condemning VCG's opportunist business practice.
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Or do you see him more as an opportunist who knows a good bet when he sees one?
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Nergal: The next question that comes up after watching the movie is: Was Øystein really such an opportunist?
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He loses if the race is between a longtime Georgian in Handel and a political opportunist in Ossoff.
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Elizabeth Warren is proving to be an equal opportunist when it comes to taking on social media companies.
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When I became a parent of young children I also became a purposeful and relentless opportunist of sleep.
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The Kardashian women's public image supports the trope of the beautiful opportunist, out for money and/or fame.
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He is being portrayed, by some, as a cynical opportunist, trying to make money from his royal connection.
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And yes, Trump is an amoral opportunist with a business record of failures and dealing with shady individuals.
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Once he tacitly accepted the party's embrace, he began to morph from a conservative stalwart to an opportunist.
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It started with Antoine Griezmann's opportunist goals for France and continued as Eden Hazard's dancing feet lifted Belgium.
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The answers he reached from 1939 to 1941 reveal Stalin as both consummate opportunist and narrow-minded ideologue.
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This Inky is a raconteur and a patient opportunist who escapes on a dare from his tankmate, Blotchy.
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This animal was a bit of an opportunist, waiting for scraps on the ledge of a kebab restaurant.
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It's only natural that Trump, an opportunist who sees everything in transactional terms, makes for an untrustworthy ally.
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To sit down would be to fall asleep and make herself vulnerable to an opportunist, one of Rev.
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Like other autocrats, he is an opportunist, and will capitalize on opportunities to advance his agenda whenever possible.
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The Opportunist liked to pamper themselves through experiences and was often tempted by promotions and incentives along the way.
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Do you see Donald Trump as a fascist or an opportunist who latched onto a wave of reactionary politics?
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But much of the political press views her as a secretive political opportunist with a questionable sense of ethics.
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Merely disappointed in the former (a convinced eurosceptic), the prime minister is incandescent at the latter (a political opportunist).
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If Cruz ran in four years as a feel-good Trump 2.0, his target demographic would sniff an opportunist.
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Hell, I have probably become a bit of a bloodsucking opportunist myself after all this time involved with it.
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How she's cold or shrill or an opportunist or just not someone you'd like to have a beer with.
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"I think Assange has become a kind of nihilistic opportunist who does the bidding of a dictator," she said.
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Beaches present the ideal environment for the opportunist public masturbators—bare skin everywhere and long stretches of open space.
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"The accuser is an opportunist, not a victim, and her claim is not credible," he said in a statement.
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Sure, he comes off as an opportunist, but he's had many chances to bail on Naz and never has.
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But a number of the people interviewed describe him as an opportunist who stole millions of dollars from her.
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He was condemned as an opportunist and a sell-out and someone to be shunned by many mainstream Republicans.
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"Assange has become a kind of nihilistic opportunist who does the bidding of a dictator," she said in October.
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Fresh off a meeting with a facile and flaccid U.S. president, how might Putin — ever the opportunist — use this opportunity?
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After the police investigation into Mr Weinstein became public in 2015, tabloids published stories portraying the accuser as an opportunist.
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By the summer of 2011, the limited intervention to protect civilians had drifted into an opportunist policy of regime change.
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"Decades-old allegations against Kavanaugh come out just days before a vote....victim or opportunist?" tweeted Fox News's Tomi Lahren.
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Boris Johnson is the sort of opportunist populist that most worries EU leaders, making it hard for them to compromise.
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"I think he's an opportunist who exploited race and served racism, and that to me is more offensive," Axelrod said.
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" Beal says the man who signed him was "kind-hearted at first but also an opportunist and a free spirit.
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Tau finds that the post-apartheid rebels have become politicians, police and pawns under the thumb of a homegrown opportunist.
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It also features an acidic portrayal of Marwan Muhammad, whom he portrays as an opportunist serving the interests of jihadis.
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"He's just an opportunist," Clooney says of the GOP presidential front-runner in an interview with The Guardian published Thursday.
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" In a closed-door deposition on October 11th, Yovanovitch described Lutsenko as an "opportunist" who "will ally himself, sometimes simultaneously . . .
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Matteo Salvini Siviero sees Italy as a proving ground of what happens to women's rights when an opportunist nationalist wins power.
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McDaniel then switched to run in the special election, opening him to criticism from opponents that he was a political opportunist.
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"He is a talented, charming opportunist, able to size up people and build personal relations," argues Adam Plowright, a presidential biographer.
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But why is he portrayed as a money-grabbing opportunist compared to, for example, the family of the Duchess of Cambridge?
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The Dragon Queen, of course, determining whether or not Varys is a simple opportunist or a true threat to her rule.
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In other words, Trump's establishment supporters seem to be hoping that his authenticity is the expedient work of a conniving opportunist.
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Ever the opportunist, Dan doesn't want to chide his new boss, he wants to participate in whatever scheme he is running.
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If you are an opportunist and a pragmatist, like Vladimir Putin, this sort of moment is suited to your daily arithmetic.
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In fact, the flu is caused by a virus, and B. influenzae is just an opportunist that sometimes infects weakened lungs.
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Nelson, meanwhile, has sought to paint Scott as a political opportunist who isn't being honest about his record as Florida's governor.
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"Please know that I don't like the opportunist (sic) or disrespect," she posted on Facebook, the Free Press reported on Tuesday.
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Maybe even on the campaign trail, Trump is just a racial opportunist, saying things he doesn't really believe to rile up voters.
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So, ever the opportunist, as his mayoral term came to a close, he founded Giuliani Partners, a security and management consulting firm.
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And especially if we continue to endure opportunist politicians who make empty noises that solve nothing and serve no one but themselves.
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One lesson is that Trump is an uninformed opportunist, but the episode does highlight two basic problems for the anti-abortion movement.
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But for the doubters or haters who still thought you were being a political opportunist with your tweets, you sure showed them.
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Mr. Kelly, escalating a feud between Mr. Trump and Ms. Wilson, had cast the congresswoman on Thursday as a publicity-seeking opportunist.
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Mr. Sharpton is many things to many people — a freedom fighter, a boogeyman, a racial opportunist, an aging man just hanging on.
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This once proud man defended his boss, denouncing Representative Frederica Wilson as a publicity-seeking opportunist who crassly politicizes Gold Star families.
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Smuggler's Run takes visitors on a mission to retrieve supplies for Hondo Ohnaka, an opportunist pirate who sometimes works with the resistance.
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This is a political opportunist who will flop with the winds and do whatever it takes to serve his own self-interest.
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Populists embrace a celebrity billionaire, evangelicals welcome a foul-mouthed Lothario, conservatives accept an opportunist whose only ideological commitment is to himself.
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"[T]antaros is not a victim; she is an opportunist," Fox News said in a motion aimed at compelling Tantaros' claims to arbitration.
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Fox News is calling former employee Andrea Tantaros an "opportunist" in the wake of a sexual harassment lawsuit she filed against the network.
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But there is also the business-minded Ivanka, the one that makes us wonder if she is an opportunist instead of genuinely sincere.
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In "Vice," Christian Bale portrays Cheney as a conniving opportunist who steers Bush into an ill-conceived war in Iraq after the Sept.
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"With interest rate hikes yesterday we're seeing foreign money coming back into the country and opportunist buying," said BP Bernstein trader Vasili Tirasis.
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Today Clinton said that Assange became "a kind of nihilistic opportunist who does the bidding of a dictator," referencing Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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To his opponents he is an opportunist who has swallowed the FPÖ's right-wing policies and lacks the muscle to stand his ground.
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To Daily Worker sportswriter Bill Mardo, Rickey was an opportunist who, nevertheless, fully supported desegregation and Robinson once he got behind the issue.
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She is the de facto Democratic nominee for president and whatever she says on the campaign trail is opportunist and about getting elected.
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"By the summer of 2011, the limited intervention to protect civilians had drifted into an opportunist policy of regime change," the lawmakers said.
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Fox News called former host Andrea Tantaros "an opportunist" in a legal filing Monday afternoon over her sexual harassment lawsuit against the network.
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The talk show host called Tom Hiddleston "a bit of an opportunist" in response to his suddenly serious-seeming relationship with Taylor Swift.
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He wrote that Churchill 'wasn't what people thought of as a man of principle: he was a glory-chasing, goal-mouth-hanging opportunist'.
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Schneider and Hart also suggest the Virginia senator is an opportunist for altering his positions on issues during his 22-year political career.
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To make their case that Kaine is an opportunist posing as a moderate, Schneider and Hart contrast the Virginian with former U.S. Sen.
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Unquestionably, the switcheroo risked looking opportunist, as if a big company was piggybacking on the issue of the moment for a marketing opportunity.
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" Shortly after the ruling, Mr. Ortt blasted Mr. Schneiderman again, calling the charges "ridiculous" and the attorney general a "power-hungry political opportunist.
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Either you're a true believer from the beginning, at which point you're probably going to get purged later on, or you're an opportunist.
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For example, punitive measures like sanctions can be a very powerful weapon against the opportunist kleptocrats on whom Mr. Putin relies for support.
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Becerra is a shameless opportunist and career politician who betrayed key constituencies during his failed run for Mayor [of Los Angeles in 2001].
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In his 1996 interview, he comes across as an immensely likable opportunist, whose genius seemed to be finding every angle in any situation.
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Johnson was an opportunist, a dilettante and a showman, better at finessing the social, bureaucratic and economic obstacles to building than at actual design.
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It was an astonishing display of political cowardice that seemed to confirm the worst parts of Rahm's reputation as a principle-less political opportunist.
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CARSON: Look, first of all, I recognize that Vladimir Putin is an opportunist and he's a bully, and we have to face him down.
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Guy, ever the opportunist and single-minded in his focus to score those sweet Endgame premiere tix, immediately offered Reynolds gift up in trade.
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FEMINIST; patriot; opportunist: Yuriko Koike, who was elected governor of Tokyo on July 31st, has been dubbed many things, not all of them flattering.
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That bizarre litany should give you a clue about who Malik Obama really is, or at least what he's become: a somewhat-scammy opportunist.
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Hailed by his supporters as a standard-bearer for the fight against corruption, Mr. Saakashvili has been mocked by officials as a showboating opportunist.
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Alcibiades, Socrates' beloved student and double-crossing political opportunist, is said to have played out scenes from the Mysteries in his home in Athens.
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Fearing exile to Siberia, they lavish him with bribes and fawning attention — which the man, a penniless opportunist, is only too happy to accept.
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A natural opportunist if not much of an imperial adventurer, Frémont decided to keep Vallejo captive and take credit for the liberation of California.
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More situational than ideological — critics would say opportunist — Mr. Trump adjusts to the moment, and his temporary alignment with Democrats could easily unravel tomorrow.
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Some Republicans described him as an opportunist who was making a craven bid to protect his seat in a district that Mr. Trump won.
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Being an opportunist, [Trump] just saw an opportunity to replace Comey with a more compliant F.B.I. director who will make the investigation go away.
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Yet neither Andy Burnham (a gloomy opportunist) in Manchester nor Steve Rotheram (a hard lefty) in Liverpool looks likely to do that on their patches.
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" Mark Pincus, co-founder of Zynga, said Clinton has a "proven record of fighting for the American people ... [who] need an advocate, not an opportunist.
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It's entirely possible that Boko Haram simply exploited the security lapse — indeed, many saw the Chibok abduction as an opportunist kidnapping rather than anything premeditated.
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In an effort to salvage Fontana's reputation, critics and curators have consistently portrayed the artist as an "arch-opportunist" rather than a full-blown fascist.
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This is Hillary the cutthroat opportunist, the Janus-faced harpy, the sly Antoinette who wants to have her cake and let them eat it, too.
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" Another wrote to say Franken resigned over "political gamesmanship being played by Gillibrand," who, as another reader put it, is nothing more than "an opportunist.
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" Or: "She's still the same scabrous and manipulative opportunist that she was when she deflowered a 14-year-old boy at the age of seventeen.
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To all of them he was just a political novice and opportunist looking for a political party; his desire for office was an ego trip.
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Panel discussions will address Italian composers' relations with Mussolini—Mascagni was a shameless opportunist in that regard—and the evolution of Italian opera after Verdi.
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There was a related criticism I saw among the comments: that Trump is a grubby opportunist; he's not principled, so he can't have a doctrine.
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After police appealed for witnesses, the car was found on Tuesday evening in a garage in Dusseldorf city center but the opportunist suspect remains at large.
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Rob Portman in Columbus last week as a too-little-too-late political opportunist for disavowing Trump only after the presidential nominee boasted about sexual assault.
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Critics dismiss him as an opportunist who has curried favor with the Socialist Party as a way of expanding the reach of his own business interests.
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What would you say to critics who call you an opportunist and question whether this was all part of a plan to make a presidential run?
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Nutritionist Ann Louise Gittlemen is basically your mom's version of Food Babe—a fearmongering opportunist who uses buzzwords like "organic" to freak people out about modernity.
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To listen to her critics, the real Clinton is a shape-shifter, with any avowals of authenticity dismissed as the expedient work of a conniving opportunist.
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He was an opportunist, but he was kind, which for my money redeems many faults, and old Victoria had been having a rotten time of it.
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Both constituents of Ms. Gillibrand's and supporters from around the country lashed out, calling her an opportunist, a bully, a simpleton, a betrayer, a big disappointment.
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The one area where I wish Gessen had spent more time was in a deeper analysis of ordinary Putin backers, rather than an opportunist like Dugin.
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It was only a matter of time before an aggressive opportunist with deep pockets stepped forward to make an argument for why Mr. Dorsey should go.
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Moser, a writer and progressive activist, was accused by the party of being an opportunist and Washington insider who moved home just to run for Congress.
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Donald Trump spent most of his life as a political opportunist, learning from his dad that real estate developers must lubricate both sides of the aisle.
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Berg loops the footage with seven different narrations, each adding a dimension to Josselson's character: agent, victim, independent thinker, political organizer, imposter, idealist, scapegoat, and opportunist.
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With many troops overseas or tasked with deterring land grabs from opportunist foreign powers, there is only one American "peacekeeper" soldier for every 22008 or so civilians.
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During the campaign he was criticized by conservatives for being a political opportunist with no real philosophy, but also for having positions that clashed directly with conservatism.
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First, Mr. Bush's allies painted Mr. Rubio, a first-term senator, as an overeager opportunist seeking a promotion while he was shirking his responsibilities in the Senate.
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The overall impression is of a talented, centre-left opportunist who has not quite found her place in her party, let alone the distinctive voice voters crave.
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But Mr Putin has shown in Georgia, Ukraine and Syria that he is an opportunist prepared to roll the dice when he is feeling desperate or lucky.
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But Beckinsale proved she's an equal opportunist when it comes to embarrassment, sharing a blush-inducing detail about her own ensemble from Sunday night's Billboard Music Awards.
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Cosby's layer slammed Constand as a "con artist" and a "so-called victim" during the defense's opening statement, describing her as an opportunist after money and fame.
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Whether it's an aggressive dinosaur in search of a snack or some opportunist players looking to score some free loot, the outcome is nearly always the same.
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Ever the opportunist, daddy decides to give a music journalist the full tale of his orphan beginnings, flipping complaints of inauthenticity upside down in a single move.
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With such a publicity stunt as this, it's crystal damn clear how much of a gross opportunist Ivanka is and calling her anything less is too kind.
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You can stew in your rage and feel victimized by their shitty behavior, but if you're an opportunist like me, you'll find a way to exploit them.
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No longer was he an opportunist tacking in whichever direction led to power, but rather a president whom elites were driving to the left, against his will.
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The opportunist shone through in 1939, when Stalin signed his notorious nonaggression pact with Germany in return for territorial gains in eastern Poland and the Baltic nations.
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Mr. Trump thrives on chaos because at the core he is not defined by a set ideology; rather he is a self-serving opportunist who exploits situations.
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He has in the course of his life been on all sides of many issues, although he was always a liar, bully, misogynist, opportunist and economic isolationist.
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Mr. Genscher was an opportunist by nature, a trait that was useful in his leading a small pro-business, libertarian West German political party, the Free Democrats.
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He's a no-good guy: a gold-hungry imperialist, an opportunist, a sometime politician who (in a Cooverian burst of near-prophecy) recreates truth to suit himself.
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"He doesn't have the moral high ground," Ferguson said of the rapper, calling him an "opportunist" who used the rap as a way to get free press.
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That rules out Mr Sarkozy, with his record of a volatile presidency, troublesome cases of alleged corruption and opportunist moves to steal Ms Le Pen's anti-immigration ideas.
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Sanders people view Clinton as a wolf in granny's clothing, a venal, short-sighted opportunist who forgets where she comes from and pulled up the ladder for others.
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"He has always been a bit of an opportunist," she says, before alleging that Robson went public with the sex abuse claims in an effort to benefit financially.
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"He's a populist without commitment to conservative principles, and an opportunist," John Reilly, 51, a deputy district attorney for Delaware County who is Republican, said of Mr. Trump.
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At home, Mr. Johnson is seen as a deeply ambitious opportunist who masks his seriousness of purpose with a well-polished air of befuddled dishevelment and humorous nonchalance.
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But both Democrats and Republicans have tarred her as an opportunist who shed her support from Wall Street and the National Rifle Association when it suited her ambitions.
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And Andrea's stepfather seems like a rank opportunist, who married a rich woman and didn't count on her kid being the one to inherit most of her money.
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The general's supporters, centered in the east, call him a necessary bulwark against Islamist extremism, while his opponents paint him as a power-hungry opportunist and would-be dictator.
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Speaking to the convention, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Trump was an opportunist who had no clue about how to make America great or to help working families.
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But it was Mr. Cruz who was hit hardest on the issue, as Mr. Rubio teamed up with Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky to portray him as an opportunist.
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Rather, he believes, the weakening of the CJNG leadership structure has sparked a turf war by encouraging opportunist rival gangs like the Beltrán Leyva organization to dispute the territory.
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And Carly Nairn, a 29-year-old from San Francisco, calls herself a "travel opportunist," because she chooses her destinations based on where she can get a free trip.
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That if you scrap this ridiculous and, I admit it, dangerous surface, he is a much more opportunist candidate and his actual politics perhaps will not be so bad.
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And while I don't think this makes him a dangerous sociopath, I do think it qualifies him as a shrewd opportunist for whom power can be a dangerous weapon.
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Macron, on the other hand, is an opportunist and could see his way to becoming Europe's Trump-whisperer -- the one European leader able to communicate with the American President.
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The other Johnson is an opportunist, a shape-shifter who was able to work across party lines as the only Conservative ever to become the mayor of liberal London.
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GOP lawmakers cast Cohen as embittered, for being denied a job at the White House, and called him an opportunist, a liar and a tool of Trump's Democratic opponents.
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Mr. Kelly accused Ms. Wilson — who was in a car with Ms. Johnson when Mr. Trump called and is a longtime family friend — of being a publicity-seeking opportunist.
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Bernie Bernstein is the creation of an anti-Semite — or at least an opportunist appealing to Alabama voters' willingness to believe the worst about a man named Bernie Bernstein.
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Ever the opportunist, though, he knew the integration his opposition craved could not be achieved absent conformance to core Western principles: religious liberty and civilian control of the military.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As he admitted later, Mr. Wilkins harbored suspicions that Dr. King might be an opportunist, Louis Menand wrote in The New Yorker in 2013.
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And one thing that I know instinctively about dance music culture is that whenever someone seems like an opportunist or an outsider, people tend to not trust their motives.
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Cosby's team's primary defense has been to try to paint Constand as an opportunist, using the $3.38 million civil settlement she received from Cosby in 2006 to anchor that claim.
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Opportunist, incoherent and unmoored, the reactionary right will fail to deliver and conservatives will rise again from the rich institutional soil they value so much to check and channel change.
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Key quote: "Iranian people give no credit to the deceitful and opportunist remarks of U.S. officials or Mr. Trump," Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Bahram Ghasemi said, according to the AP.
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"I think Bannon is a bit of an opportunist and Moore was going to win the primary before Bannon got involved," said GOP strategist Alex Conant, who worked for Sen.
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By contrast, Mr. Trump is the consummate opportunist whose self-aggrandizement outruns any interest in how our most successful presidents have used the office to advance the national well-being.
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Trump, being an unprincipled opportunist, had criticized the Fed for keeping rates too low under Obama, but has now flip-flopped and become an advocate of lower rates as president.
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Gilead's economic mastermind, he appears to have entered its leadership as an opportunist, not as a true believer, and he seems to find the results of the revolution largely appalling.
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If Mr. O'Donnell is to win, Republicans must swing enough voters, and they are trying to do so by portraying Mr. Maloney as a political opportunist whose heart is elsewhere.
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When I ventured to see Datuna's exhibition, I was still under the impression that he is a small-time opportunist who's trying to ride a little longer on Cattelan's back.
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In fact, a major contributor to the estimated 58 percent increase in U.S. exports in 85033 were opportunist sales to Asia replacing Australian shipments disrupted by Cyclone Debbie last spring.
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And of course, he saw it in Richard Nixon, the opportunist who had introduced Goldwater that day in 1964, until Nixon finally crashed and burned with Watergate exactly 10 years later.
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It's a professional social network most everyday people are a part of, but only a core group of recruiters, sales professionals, and wildly opportunist industry climbers appear to use it daily.
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"Preet Bharara has shaken the foundations of our capital — whether you're a Republican or Democrat he's been an equal opportunist when it comes to rooting out corruption," New York State Sen.
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His on-demand property storage and rental marketplace raised $25 million in XRP coins back in January in what some saw as an opportunist move to capitalize on the cryptocurrency boom.
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And since November, Rubio has intensified his attacks on Cruz more than any other of his rivals, trying to portray the Texas Republican as a politically craven opportunist lacking conservative convictions.
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Alan Thicke's widow says she was far from an opportunist out for Alan's riches, and says she loved him so deeply ... they were about to expand their family when he died.
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And the will-he-or-won't-he dance with Clinton suggested that de Blasio was just another on-the-make political opportunist, with a commitment to left politics that's purely conditional.
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He isn't an ideologue like Ted Cruz, an opportunist like Marco Rubio, a movement builder like Bernie Sanders, a political legatee like Jeb Bush or a policy wonk like Hillary Clinton.
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Kennedy didn't announce his candidacy until after McCarthy weakened LBJ in the New Hampshire primary; the delay opened him to all the old charges that he was just a ruthless opportunist.
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He devised a new entity for every idea, starting a pattern that would shape Blazer's reputation as a sharp-eyed opportunist who was never at a loss for a moneymaking venture.
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Shortly after Gillibrand announced her exploratory bid for the presidency on Tuesday, the Republican National Committee, citing her position on ICE and others, issued a statement attacking her as an opportunist.
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Podcaster, show host, and geek opportunist Chris Hardwick has released a statement after his ex-girlfriend, Chloe Dykstra, alleged he emotionally abused and sexually assaulted her during their three-year relationship.
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Taken together, the writings form an episodic account of a complex persona under construction, the public face of a man who was at once a ruthless opportunist and a creative misfit.
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On the matters of infidelity, gender and tax evasion, it's hard to know if Giuliani believes what he's saying or if he's just an opportunist (we'll find out his motivations soon enough).
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Until then, the families will be switching to alternate streaming providers that know the difference between authentic – if provocative – opinions and a lying opportunist seeking to make money by any means possible.
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Katie McGinty (PA) – Former federal and state environmental regulator Katie McGinty, ever the revolving door opportunist, may attempt to play up her energy industry ties in a desperate appeal to Pennsylvania workers.
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Is it more of an opportunist thing — you didn't set out that day to evade the fare, but because the gate happened to be open, you followed a bunch of people through?
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The book was widely criticized by other Bush operatives, who painted McClellan as an opportunist who never voiced any skepticism about the administration's foreign policy decisions when he was on the inside.
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Karoui's legal troubles have reinforced the perception among his critics that he is a self-serving opportunist, and among his supporters that he is the victim of political machinations by influential rivals.
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Opportunist fake news producers who were creating such content purely to make money typically gave up trying to monetize left-leaning fake news because it didn't go viral as easily on Facebook.
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This time, defense lawyers are trying to portray Constand as an opportunist who feigned romantic interest in him and then leveled a false accusation of sexual assault so she could file a lawsuit.
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When what she did was take a principled stance — her overall platform is prioritizing the interests of women and being quite progressive on gender politics — she was called an opportunist and a betrayer.
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Speaking in the study of his home, surrounded by floor-to-ceiling shelves of books and documents, Lello said 5-Star had no political culture and described Di Maio as a clever opportunist.
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The estranged husband of Jim Carrey's ex-girlfriend -- who died of a drug OD -- is an opportunist who is trying to smear the actor to make a buck ... so claims Carrey's indignant lawyer.
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Whereas the main takeaway from Veep used to be that everyone in politics is a craven opportunist, season five has made a point of amplifying just how awful Selina's team is in particular.
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That plotline connects with the goings-on at the plantation, of course, as do other threads, including one involving an opportunist named August Pullman (played with aplomb by the very busy Christopher Meloni).
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No. Ever the opportunist, Drake's using this thing with Meek to wring out more street cred, and that's an unusual gambit around someone who's seen the inside of real jail a couple times.
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It has simply forced a truth that many people have always known out into the open: The president is an opportunist willing to say or do whatever, whenever to get what he wants.
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Much of the Trump administration's bellicose immigration agenda revolves around the notion of hard, bright lines between the deserving and the undeserving: citizen and noncitizen, documented and undocumented, worthy refugee and lying opportunist.
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"Trump is a philosophically unmoored political opportunist who would trash the broad conservative ideological consensus within the GOP (Republican Party) in favor of a free-floating populism with strong-man overtones," National Review said.
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Mr. Schneiderman's move is likely to inflame allies of Mr. Trump, who see Mr. Schneiderman as an opportunist bent on making political hay, and whom they see as unlikely to treat Mr. Trump fairly.
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It's hard to say what's really going on, but it sure looks like an opportunist who wanted their site to go viral managed to troll the Observer, the Reporter, and, in the end, us.
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"Trump is a philosophically unmoored political opportunist who would trash the broad conservative ideological consensus within the GOP (Republican Party) in favor of a free-floating populism with strong-man overtones," National Review said.
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"Robyn was a nobody, she was an opportunist," Whitney's eldest brother Gary declares angrily in the film, also alluding to intentions he and his father John once had to try and scare Robyn away.
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"The guy spent 70 years on this earth showing no regard for working people," Mr. Obama said, describing Mr. Trump as a wealthy opportunist who is pretending to be something he has never been.
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But critics say the former Mayor of London, educated at the exclusive Eton College and Oxford University, is an opportunist member of the political elite seeking to get the top job at any cost.
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Some observers, however, are questioning the veracity of Bannon's accusations in "Fire and Fury," with many calling him an opportunist and a self-promoter, skeptical of how much stock to put in his words.
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Those skeptics worry that if Mr. Trump keeps getting cast by Republicans as a champion of conservatism — when they believe he is just an opportunist with no real ideological core — the movement is doomed.
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An opportunist rather than a true believer, she joined the new regime to avoid being killed by it, and though she's complicit in its crimes, she helps take it down by publishing its secrets.
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I do this because it's fun and I think these comments are hilarious and I'm glad that it resonated and people are having fun with it, but I am also still kind of an opportunist.
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The bad news is that if this referendum to leave the EU fails, career opportunist and cynical politicians will make wisdom and its corresponding desire for more freedom and political accountability much harder to attain.
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A key player in the death agony of Rome's traditional republican system of government, he was lauded by his admirers as a defender of constitutional propriety and dismissed by his foes as a vacillating opportunist.
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Which would mean, in turn, that the only non-Trumpian candidate who would have a path to outright victory is Ted Cruz, a man variously despised as an opportunist and feared as Barry Goldwater 2.0.
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Everything I had read about him revealed him to be a bombastic opportunist with a gift for making every situation about himself — a stunt master and escape artist who was finally paying for his misdeeds.
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To me, Trump is an alien presence in the Republican Party, an opportunist who could just as easily have hijacked white working-class voters among the Democrats or as part of a third-party bid.
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Steve is not a strategist, he is an opportunist Trump was surprised by his victory in 2016 Leading up to Election Day in 2016, Trump and several aides reportedly believed he would not be president.
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In this environment, Seurat, like every determined artist an opportunist, could take what he wanted and leave the rest, making something new that bordered on abstraction without completely forsaking the avant-garde's opposition, naturalistic painting.
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It's a little too perfect but invests her with an element of discovery that's otherwise mostly lacking, especially compared to Garland's relationship with a shady opportunist (Finn Wittrock) who quickly insinuates himself into her life.
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And Iran's foreign ministry spokesman had already rebuked Trump's remarks on the protests before he released these videos, saying: "Iranian people give no credit to the deceitful and opportunist remarks of U.S. officials or Mr. Trump."
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Police and others will need to prepare against more possible attacks—co-ordinated or opportunist, to build on the shock now felt in Europe—and see whether any conspirators choose this moment to flee across borders.
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Perhaps de Blasio has never been as progressive as his early cheerleaders made him out to be; he might simply be an opportunist who saw, early on, the way the wind was blowing and adjusted accordingly.
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Separately, the Turkish Competition Board said on Monday night there had been opportunist, excessive food price rises, notably for fruit and vegetable products, and said it would impose severed fines on those found to be responsible.
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An opportunist and eventual oligarch after the fall of the Soviet Union (he was the country's richest man), he became a prominent critic of President Vladimir V. Putin and is now seen as a reformist voice.
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As Mr. Ban crisscrossed the country after his return, paying homage to the dead at national cemeteries and shaking hands with street vendors, his detractors trailed him, holding signs that called him "an opportunist," or worse.
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No, it's just the actions of a spiteful man (Comey), an opportunist (McCabe), and a gabby partisan (Strzok) — bureaucrats who seek political advantage without the bother of seeking election, tactical operators without the will to power.
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Unrepentant revolutionary statements made by Michel at her trial make for compelling reading today, given the incidents of racial intolerance and social division that have been relentlessly fueled by irresponsible, opportunist politicians these past 12 months.
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I was perfectly fine saying nothing at all, but I'm not okay with being made out to be a liar, or people thinking that I did this for money and people are like, 'Oh, you're an opportunist.
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Meanwhile, the boring reality is almost certainly that Graham is an opportunist who is leaning so hard into pro-Trump positioning precisely because he was so stridently anti-Trump in the past and needs to make amends.
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But, as she showed on Thursday night, perhaps someone who plans excessively and sees to every last detail is what we need, rather than an opportunist whose thoughts can be summed up in 140 characters or less.
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If you fail to convince the world that your newly revealed authentic self is an organic change motivated by who you really are as a person, you risk coming off as little more than a crass opportunist.
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Drake, at the end of her statement, acknowledged that she might be called an opportunist and a liar, but after the release of the "Access Hollywood" tape, she said she felt the need to come forward publicly.
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" Sebestyen's Lenin is not a coolly rational mastermind but a whimsical opportunist, who promised his followers everything ("bread, peace and land"), bypassed his own dogmas as it suited him, and flew into "petulant rages over minor matters.
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Jason is a congenital opportunist, and when he is given a chance to marry Glauce, the beautiful daughter of his host in exile, he tells Medea that, unfortunately, he has to leave her—but it's nothing personal.
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The wealthy media owner is often presented as either a philanthropist stepping in to save a legacy brand from oblivion, or as an opportunist trying to launder their reputation and influence the political conversation in their favor.
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Traut may not have been a Satanist, but he was certainly an opportunist, and he recruited local guitarist and songwriter James Vincent to help Coven put material together for their debut album, Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls.
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Eventually though, the opportunist rock bands dabbling in "electronica" would move on, while Radiohead was sinking deeper into the catalogs of acts like Autechre for inspiration and reconfiguring their onstage setup to include Ableton and triggered percussion.
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Often dismissed as a tactician and opportunist, he was looking more like a grand strategist as Mr. Trump bluntly rejected European demands for an exemption from what Brussels considers illegal and unilateral tariffs on steel and aluminum.
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If I'm honest, and therefore critical, I may sound like an opportunist, because an easy solution would be to promote me into a leadership position, or assumed to have sour grapes because I'm not already in one.
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Mr. Johnson, by contrast, is just enough of an opportunist to see that delivering Brexit, in however self-injuring and punitive a form, gives him both the political power and the regulatory latitude to do things differently.
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"A man who is irresponsible, inconsistent, an unethical opportunist and who exuded the highest degree of disreputability should not be on the Fletcher Board," Caballero wrote in an editorial published by The Tufts Daily on Nov. 6.
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You've got a company that has challenged the model, clearly consumers wanted it, we've all used it, I used both coming here so I was an equal opportunist with Uber and Lyft coming up from the capitol.
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But early on in the season, Frankel framed Radziwill's much-younger boyfriend as an opportunist because he refused to work for free for Frankel's nonprofit endeavors in disaster relief, which offended Radziwill, and it went downhill from there.
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"Upon information and belief, Charatan, a cold blooded opportunist, conspired and agreed to help Durst conceal his murders of Kathie and Berman in exchange for a substantial financial return of tens of millions of dollars," the suit says.
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Dozens of interviews and an examination of thousands of pages of documents portray Mr. Dowless, a former car salesman, as a local political opportunist who was quick to seek ballots, collect them or offer rides to the polls.
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Steve is not a strategist, he is an opportunist The White House declared war on Bannon Wednesday over quotes in a forthcoming book by Michael Wolff detailing the inner workings of the first days of the Trump administration.
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Exley is on the right side of the law and of history, but he's also an insufferable twerp; Vincennes is a blatant opportunist, but as played by Spacey (with an ever-present twinkle in his eye), he's a blast.
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Even an opportunist the likes of Marco Rubio took himself out of the running to be Trump's vice president, telling CNN recently that the GOP standard-bearer would be better off picking someone more in tune with him philosophically.
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Clinton's haters use her willingness to stand by her man to show that she's a steely Tracy Flick-ish opportunist who will say or do anything, including staying in a marriage of political convenience, to get what she wants.
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As Vi recounts her story, we learn that Phasma is an opportunist who will do anything — including sacrificing those who are close to her — to survive, and the First Order merely represents a useful place to utilize her skills.
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By supporting the Trump candidacy, Mr. Ryan has revealed himself to be a weak opportunist, far from the ideas man and budget wonk he made himself out to be when he secured the vice-presidential nomination four years ago.
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Theon, however, may be the show's most complex and relatable character, a foiled opportunist and traitor forced into heroism only by accident and after exploring every other option (and being castrated and having his penis mailed to his father).
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As Kanishk Tharoor wrote in The Nation, "historical Robert the Bruce was as cynical and ruthless an opportunist as you could find," though The Outlaw King shows him leader of a monolithic band of Scots fighting an English occupation.
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Predictably, the Texas trip bolstered his messianic standing among liberals, and invited claims, from detractors, that he is little more than a flagrant opportunist, inserting himself, as The New York Post put it, into a fight he doesn't understand.
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Critics say Ugyur's slash-and-burn approach to the Democratic Party is little more than an opportunist attempt to corner the media market for disaffected liberals, and that now he and his ilk are trying to do the same for politics.
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Zan reveals himself as an opportunist, someone motivated by money to build a following online via "likes" and shares, exploiting the music of Paper Boi, which, Zan argues, exploits Paper Boi's past, and whatever ethos he gleaned from selling drugs.
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READ: Cruz targets Rubio ahead of Iowa caucuses With that history in mind, Cruz allies have pummeled Trump over the past week as a political opportunist who cannot be trusted, given his past positions on issues like partial birth abortion.
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Pilchman said that Caban, 23, seems to be "quite the opportunist," and that "there's very little truth to the damages that he claims," which include post-traumatic stress and claims that he lives in fear after his violent confrontation with Golden.
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It's tempting to dismiss Ms. Haley — who is thought to harbor presidential ambitions — as an opportunist trying to sound high-minded while still remaining in the good graces of Mr. Trump and, more important, of the Republican voters who adore him.
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In a statement Saturday afternoon, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Bahram Ghasemi, was quoted on state television as saying that "Iranian people give no credit to the deceitful and opportunist remarks of U.S. officials or Mr. Trump," according to The Associated Press.
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Slowly but inexorably, Kotkin teases out his subject's contradictions, revealing Stalin as both ideologue and opportunist, man of iron will and creature of the Soviet system, creep who apparently drove his wife to suicide and leader who inspired his people.
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" The magazine's own editorial was titled "Against Trump," and it began by calling Trump "a philosophically unmoored political opportunist who would trash the broad conservative ideological consensus within the GOP in favor of a free-floating populism with strong-man overtones.
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One way to view the current situation is that Mr. Trump is an opportunist who has astutely ridden an economic expansion that had long been underway – and is now hoping it will carry him through a drawn-out trade battle.
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Many Republicans are hoping to avoid witnesses altogether and move straight to a vote to convict or acquit the president, and some in the GOP have taken to questioning Bolton's credibility, painting him as an opportunist looking to boost book sales.
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Her history of drug addiction has been scrutinized, her abilities as a mother questioned, her erratic public behavior ridiculed and her marriage to Kurt and even his subsequent death treated as proof that she's nothing more than a wilful opportunist.
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A well-placed source described one opportunist involved in the region's burgeoning black market: a geologist who regularly works in the Middle East and lives in Ukraine, characterized as a Breaking Bad figure of sorts but "without the extreme moral degradation".
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Biographers of the monarch's last years, beginning with William Shawcross's unsurpassable The Shah's Last Ride (1988), have always understood that he was as much an opportunist as he was a visionary—how else could he have survived 37 years on the Peacock Throne?
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"I think he is part nihilist, part anarchist, part exhibitionist, part opportunist, who is either actually on the payroll of the Kremlin or in some way supporting their propaganda objectives, because of his resentment toward the United States, toward Europe," she said.
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Johnson isn't a xenophobe or nativist—he likes to remind us of his own exotic background, a bit Turkish, a bit Jewish, "a one-man melting pot"—but he's an unprincipled opportunist, and his conduct over the referendum was blatantly cynical, or frivolous.
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Democrats — and even some Republicans — in Missouri have accused him of being a political opportunist uninterested in his official duties as the state's top prosecutor, and the turmoil in the attorney general's office has added to the questions about his leadership skills.
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The beard is a powerful symbol, but local interpretations of Mahmoud's ranged widely: some people said that he was a true fundamentalist, while others claimed that he was an opportunist who had briefly latched on to the Salafi movement before discarding it.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE (I-Vt.), pitting a socialist against an opportunist.
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BANJUL/DAKAR (Reuters) - France flexed its muscles in West Africa on Monday granting millions of euros in aid to Gambia to support its democratic transition amid fears of regional instability and took aim at Russia over its "opportunist" role in Central African Republic.
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Jason ChaffetzJason ChaffetzHouse Oversight panel demands DeVos turn over personal email records The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by JUUL Labs - Trump attack on progressive Dems draws sharp rebuke GOP senators decline to criticize Acosta after new Epstein charges MORE is the ultimate opportunist.
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While Mr. Stewart has disavowed some on the extreme right, interviews with dozens of his friends, colleagues, supporters and fellow Republicans yielded a portrait of a political opportunist eager to engage the coarsest racial fringes of his party to advance his Trumpian appeal.
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Nikolai, who now runs Viral Spark, a social media marketing and consulting company, and has received renown as a Snapchat creator, was an opportunist: He saw the potential to build a massive audience of Vine fans, and collection of Vines, long before the platform died.
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Sadr, who opposes foreign influence and rails against corruption but is a political opportunist, told his followers to abandon anti-government protests and clear sit-ins last week after reaching a deal with Iran-aligned parties to name Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi as new prime minister.
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The irony, missed in much the reporting, is that whether she was part of some Russian "active measures," dirty-tricks campaign, or merely a sharp opportunist who knew the best way to get an audience with the Trump team, the Kremlin gains, either way.
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In a pair of Tufts Daily op-eds published earlier this month, Caballero called Scaramucci "irresponsible, inconsistent, [and] an unethical opportunist" who "sold his soul in contradiction to his own purported beliefs" and will "diminish the values" of Tufts by remaining on the board.
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In January, Swift was accused on social media and by female commentators of being an opportunist feminist for not doing more to support the massive women's marches across the United States that brought the likes of Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry and Madonna onto the streets.
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"I understand that I may be called a liar or an opportunist, but I will risk that in order to stand in solidarity with women who share similar accounts that span many, many years," Drake said at the press conference Saturday in Los Angeles.
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"The opportunist Russia-Turkey convergence will raise renewed concerns about Ankara's western ties but will not lead to a departure from NATO," Wolfango Piccoli, co-president of risk consultancy Teneo Intelligence, said in a note Tuesday, adding that relations would only slowly return to normal.
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Muhammad Ali , whose refusal to serve in the Army during the war in Vietnam once inspired government prosecution, is remembered fondly as someone whose grievances were clear, detailed, and issue-focussed, unlike those of Kaepernick, whom Travis regards as a cliché-spouting social-justice opportunist.
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Again, Cosby's lawyers are likely to try to paint Constand as an opportunist, but now that jurors have heard the multimillion-dollar figure, they might question why Cosby paid such an eye-popping sum if he were innocent of the charges, as he has maintained.
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His journey from a Massachusetts moderate to a conservative businessman to an elder statesman may have kept Romney afloat as a political figure, but it also contributed to his reputation as an inauthentic opportunist -- tacking in whatever direction he felt the party was headed.
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An opportunist and a maestro with a syringe, Dr. Morell responded to the incessant demands of Patient A, as he calls Hitler in his notes, with an escalating regimen of injected vitamins, hormones and steroids, which included extracts from the hearts and livers of animals.
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To many in Britain, Mr. Trump appeared less a friend tossing a lifeline than an opportunist angling to exploit Britain's estrangement from Europe by pursuing a trade deal that would crack open Britain's health service and foist chlorine-washed American chicken on British shoppers.
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Klaus Mann's Mephisto, written in exile from Nazi Germany, is a roman-a-clef based on the life of one such opportunist, the actor Gustaf Gründgens, an ex-Communist who joined the Nazis to become the director of Germany's state theater during the Third Reich.
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BUDAPEST — Sebastian Gorka — national security aide and all-round Donald Trump attack dog — failed his way upwards to the White House, having been denied security clearance to work in the Hungarian parliament, defeated in a local mayoral race in the 2000s, and widely dismissed as an opportunist.
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With few other explanations to hand, suspicion has turned to Zuma and finance minister Malusi Gigaba, who some see as a political opportunist who regularly denounces the evils of "white monopoly capital" - shorthand for the disproportionate financial clout of the white minority, a lingering legacy of apartheid.
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Riding in the back of an S.U.V. last month, he was responding to criticism raised by both Democrats and Republicans that his swift rise made him a political opportunist who was looking ahead to a Senate bid when he ran for attorney general two years ago.
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A day after the prosecution's key witness in the Harvey Weinstein trial dissolved into tears on the stand, defense lawyers on Tuesday again chipped away at her allegation that he raped her — portraying her as an opportunist who had a long romantic relationship with the movie mogul.
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That may be of little solace to liberal voters in Britain who see Brexit as a disaster and Mr. Johnson as an opportunist, but at least Mr. Johnson is not likely to succumb to the turnstile dysfunction or rule by tweet of Mr. Trump's White House.
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President Trump, ever the opportunist, has been aggressively moving since his inauguration to attack the rights of transgender men and women — seeing a hot button or third rail issue he thinks he can deploy to his advantage as he attempts to carve up the Democratic opposition.
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Asked why his fellow senators are reputed to have such a distaste for Cruz, Graham accused the winner of the Iowa GOP caucuses of being an "opportunist" to his core -- one who "gets ahead at our expense" and will "run down other Republicans" to advance his own ambitions.
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Instead, the path forward will be analyzed by Clinton veteran (and close Brock ally) James Carville; the flagrant opportunist and rumored Trump appointee Harold Ford Jr.; and Jon Cowan, the president of the centrist neoliberal think tank Third Way, which has pushed for deregulation and embraced Wall Street.
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For those who view Ms. Pirro as a camera-hungry opportunist — an accusation that has followed her from her days as a local prosecutor, when she sought out appearances with national TV hosts like Geraldo Rivera — her recent success is evidence of a willingness to bend principles for fame.
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"Yesterday, the greatest economic power in the world has freely elected a bigot, an opportunist, an angry and dangerous man as their new president, as their commander in chief," Mr. Levit said, going on to denounce Brexit and the rise of the far right in France and Germany.
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Meanwhile, even those who did cooperate with filmmakers — namely, former Cambridge Analytica business development director Brittany Kaiser, who exists as something between a whistleblower and an opportunist (and bizarrely appears in a luxurious swimming pool for much of her screen time) — are contextualized by the damning evidence of their accountability.
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With the deal struck, Sadr - an opportunist who has at different times fought the United States, decried Iranian meddling, and supported then abandoned protests - now looks set to have a big say in the selection of a new government which must be picked by next Monday, officials and lawmakers say.
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For Nawaz's detractors, of whom there are many, it's this very chameleon quality, this at-homeness in disparate roles and spaces, that has earned him a reputation as something of a charlatan, a preening opportunist cashing in on his own sensational travails by means of society's abundant anti-Muslim bias.
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Protests: Many in Britain saw the president as an opportunist trying to pursue a trade deal that would benefit the U.S. Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the opposition Labour Party, spoke to anti-Trump demonstrators, condemning his war of words with London's mayor as well as the trade deal he described.
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We expect this in a portrait, though the gaze is downright startling in his "Portrait of Rafaello Menicucci" (1627-28), a social climber and political opportunist who seems more than any other figure in the show to want to leap out of his frame and hand you his business card.
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At long last, on October 31, his false promises of a better Britain will be exposed when the U.K. finally does crash out of the EU. If Johnson embraces his opportunist side, like the single market-supporting mayor of London he once was, there is some reason to believe that Britain can avoid this crisis.
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The keywords that trigger items for sale do only that, and only when you've entered them into the shopping extension, so it means that Viber doesn't amass that data, which if you are a cynic or opportunist you may see as a lost opportunity; or if you are a privacy advocate, may be encouraged to hear.
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Spears's record label tried to tone down "...Baby One More Time" by removing the "hit me" from the title, but the song is still knowing in a way that's closer to CrazySexyCool than "As Long As You Love Me." Like any good opportunist, Martin found a way to turn the old thing into the next big thing.
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Take a core sample from almost any story about Hillary Clinton in the massive armamentarium where they are stored and—like one of those Simpsons subterranean pan shots, revealing layers of absurd archaeology—all the Hillarys we have come to know will appear: the A student, the opportunist, the mastermind, the rat fink, the pragmatist, the truth-twister.
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When American companies growth hack, they make long-term plans that involve "model building, A/B testing, and making discoveries from big data," observed Xu. By comparison, Chinese companies fighting in a more competitive landscape are more agile and opportunist as they don't have the time to ponder or test out the different variants in a campaign.
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"By focusing on 'whether she was really raped at all,' and painting Plaintiff as an opportunist and a liar, Defendants seemed to be assuring themselves that the only reason why a woman would report a sexual assault is for personal gain, rather than to prevent similar crimes from occurring again or to right an injustice," the complaint reads.
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" He also slammed 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 in the interview with The Guardian, calling the GOP White House hopeful an "opportunist" and "xenophobic fascist.
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Pragmatism over partisanship While President Trump is bombastic in his political pronouncements, he is still an opportunist at heart and when presented with the chance to score a win, at least seven times out of 10 he will take the victory (I would've said 10 out of 2018, but again, we are talking about the unpredictable Donald Trump).
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Album Review An opportunist who parlayed a sort of social-media telegenic glow into a music career, a curio who embraced a quixotic anti-style and became a regular fixture on the Billboard charts, 6ix29ine has become one of the emblematic rappers of the SoundCloud generation, even if rapping itself isn't of much interest to him.
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While some of his allies within the party see in him a leader capable of delivering a decisive break from the European Union, he has a wide range of critics who see him as a self-serving opportunist who is quick to criticize but has only airy promises of future British greatness to offer as a plan.
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The publisher, Bauer Media, was responsible for articles in the Australian magazines Woman's Day and Women's Weekly, among others, that painted Ms. Wilson as the kind of nefarious shape-shifter that might appear in a Hollywood screenplay — a "serial liar" and opportunist who assumed a false name, age and biography in order to advance her career.
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Not least among the conservative "Never Trump" objections to the candidate is that he would be a disaster to the Republican Party — not just because his beliefs, such as they were, were anathema to the party's best traditions, but because at heart he was a destructive opportunist with no core convictions beyond his own immediate advantage.
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This practice of changing the rules in service of political expediency drives others — Christians and non-Christians alike — to censure white evangelicals, especially those who espouse virtues like chastity out of one side of their mouths and use the other side to support the policies of a groping, thrice-married opportunist who once claimed he has never needed to ask God for forgiveness.
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" Indeed, the lawsuit makes this case further: "By focusing on 'whether she was really raped at all,' and painting Plaintiff as an opportunist and a liar, Defendants seemed to be assuring themselves that the only reason why a woman would report a sexual assault is for personal gain, rather than to prevent similar crimes from occurring again or to right an injustice.
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Few say it publicly, but in DC I'd hear it all the time from supposedly liberal men: Franken as a martyr and Gillibrand as "opportunist" While Franken's resignation has attracted both significant attention and backlash, it's also far from the first time that Gillibrand has been vocal about combatting sexual harassment and assault — issues she's been working on for years.
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In a $2350 million lawsuit filed Monday in State Supreme Court in Mineola, N.Y., by Carol Bamonte, Mary Hughes and Virginia McKeon, the three sisters of Mr. Durst's first wife, Kathleen Durst, Ms. Charatan is described as a "coldblooded opportunist" who in cooperation with Mr. Durst "conspired and agreed to conceal the whereabouts" of Kathleen Durst's body from her family.
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Todd YoungTodd Christopher YoungOvernight Defense: Senate fails to override Trump veto on Saudi arms sales | Two US troops killed in Afghanistan | Senators tee up nominations, budget deal ahead of recess Senate fails to override Trump veto on Saudi arms sale GOP chairman yanks Saudi bill after Democrats muscle through tougher language MORE, pounced on Bayh's late entry in the race with statements Monday calling him an opportunist.
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Friends and family of Zhang's have described her to the Miami Herald as a mere opportunist who sought the status that comes along with access to the President and his family, and a defense attorney who previously represented Zhang had said in court that she was had gone to Mar-a-Lago that day to attend an event peddled by a Chinese businessman who promises access to influential Americans.
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Harrison, who served as the first African American chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party, formally announced his campaign this week with an online video in which he blasted Graham as a political opportunist who supported 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 only after doing so became advantageous.
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Von Braun -- an "opportunist" party member, whose commission in the SS was apparently part of the "Reichsfuehrer-SS" Heinrich Himmler's plan to seize control of the V-2 -- became not only an American citizen (along with the rest of his team) but a pop culture celebrity, Walt Disney's ambassador of spaceflight on primetime TV. By the time he restored the prestige of the Western world in January 1958 with a satellite of America's own to answer the Soviet Sputnik, there would be no reconsideration of his status as a first-class American.
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Rudy GiulianiRudy GiulianiSenators take reins of impeachment trial in marathon question session Ted Cruz clarifies after Lev Parnas's lawyer calls senator's tweet 'fake news' Republican group launches ad campaign calling for witnesses in impeachment trial MORE on Monday ripped former national security adviser John BoltonJohn BoltonSenators take reins of impeachment trial in marathon question session Democratic senator to force vote requiring Roberts to weigh in on witnesses Overnight Defense: Bolton, GOP senators see close ties challenged | Republicans fume over Dem maneuver on Iran bills |Trump criticizes Democrats over war powers vote MORE as an opportunist after a report on Bolton's forthcoming book said it contained damaging allegations against President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats outraged over White House lawyer's claim that some foreign involvement in elections is acceptable Senators take reins of impeachment trial in marathon question session White House announces task force to monitor coronavirus MORE and sharp criticism of Giuliani.
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