"Cowards who despite all their titles, when it became time to speak the truth, they showed they were nothing more than opportunists, ambitious opportunists."
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Urban landscapes are breeding a brave new world of opportunists.
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" In this vein, Daniels calls the alt-right "innovation opportunists.
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Short sellers are generally reviled by corporations as malevolent opportunists.
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There are the "professional opportunists," who make their living by theft.
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They're actually more like opportunists who take what they can get.
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That, in turn, makes life easier for opportunists such as Mr Pruitt.
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"Scammers are opportunists," said Katherine Hutt, spokeswoman for the Better Business Bureau.
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Were they just opportunists looking to elbow their way closer to power?
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They're cynical moves by opportunists who benefit from the attention they bring.
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Even so, on the world's biggest social network, opportunists find a way.
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It's a drama with few heroes but plenty of knaves and opportunists.
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The decimation of a landscape's vegetation may draw in opportunists as well.
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The movement, built on honesty and simplicity, is being corrupted by opportunists.
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I get that all these people sound like bullshit soft criminal opportunists.
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"Scammers are opportunists who will go where people are spending money," Hutt said.
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There are opportunists in these movements, but perhaps most believe what they say.
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A bigger group of non-ideological "opportunists" dabbles in that and other businesses.
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I just feel they're opportunists and that they exploit their Twitter followers' fears.
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Opportunists in the Middle East and elsewhere are taking what they can get.
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Finally, these two regions have political opportunists behind this push for greater autonomy.
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They're opportunists who lunged for an adventure that they had probably never envisioned.
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Like the president, Mr. Trump's most loyal supporters dismiss his critics as opportunists.
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Many of Trump's allies run the gamut of true believers, ideologues, and opportunists.
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These are politically motivated opportunists who use their offices for their own personal enrichment.
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And while the rescue mission was largely successful, it was not absent of opportunists.
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The phenomenon also provides an easy opening for political opportunists, such as Mr Trump.
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Political opportunists have pressured the NIH to misuse "march-in" against certain expensive biopharmaceuticals.
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If they avoided taking a position the question, would voters punish them as opportunists?
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Instead of rewarding performance and effort, the system rewarded inefficient, costly opportunists and cheaters.
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But in the end, the opportunists tend to fare better than the true believers.
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Sometimes, these opportunists even think it's OK to use your computer when you're not around.
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Careful opportunists win and the establishment worries that Sanders won't be careful or opportunistic enough.
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Ever the opportunists, the Waldos agreed to meet up after school at 4:20 p.m.
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It's another Trumpism, casting powerful women like E. Jean Carroll and Megyn Kelly as opportunists.
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And there are the "outside opportunists," who simply see a vulnerable object and grab it.
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"The moment you change something in the ecosystem, opportunists take over," says van der Meer.
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The amateur hunters and the independent and commercial hunters aren't all venal, money-grubbing opportunists.
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With rare brews fetching high resell rates, of course, opportunists want in on the action.
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Critics, the governor and his supporters contend, are political opportunists who have misconstrued the law.
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Critics say short sellers are cynical opportunists who destroy shareholder value for their own gain.
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This is an orchestrated campaign, where all kinds of uninformed opportunists have joined the choir.
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He had denied all charges, saying the allegations were "utterly repulsive" lies by fantasists and opportunists.
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To increase their chances, opportunists beef up their computing power with more energy-intensive mining rigs.
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I feel like, a lot of people, when something happens all these opportunists will come out.
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In fact, his army never exceeded 600 men, mainly Cossacks and war-hungry opportunists like himself.
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Now, the government is trotting out yet another measure to hamstring opportunists in the pork market.
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Ignoramuses often think of themselves as men of ideas, and even opportunists can have their convictions.
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Once again, California opportunists may be among the biggest beneficiaries of a new mini-housing boom.
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The government has made sure to bar all the good candidates; the ones left are opportunists.
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Looks like some opportunists tried to make off with it but underestimated the weight of the panels.
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All the while, Cosby maintained his innocence through his lawyers, who called the accusers liars and opportunists.
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That might thwart opportunists with a bellyful of beer, says Andrew Charlton of Aviation Advocacy, a consultancy.
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They are said to be opportunists who suffer the president's rough edges because they love his policies.
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Trump won't hang around by proxy, in a next generation of opportunists with his surname or agenda.
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He is the epitome of the "reckless opportunists" that, as the sociologist Aeron Davis says, run Britain.
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After a hurricane, candidates typically take great pains to make sure they don't look like political opportunists.
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It might appear that wealthy individuals are extreme opportunists who leap at every opportunity sent their way.
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Some point to opportunists in search of trophies because of the value of their metal and gems.
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All ideologies are vulnerable to opportunists, but the purity demanded by libertarian conservatives has made theirs especially susceptible.
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" John Feal, a 9/11 first responder speaking alongside Stewart, called Paul and Lee "opportunists" and "bottom feeders.
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The most famous group of opportunists are the teens and young men from the small country of Macedonia.
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Second, you have the opportunists — the politicians and media figures who have seen some advantage from elevating Trump.
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President Trump had cast them as an invading horde of opportunists looking to game the American immigration system.
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A group of opportunists spent weeks buying up 100,000 medical masks from pharmacies around the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
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Most Americans were disappointed when opportunists played politics with hurricane-caused tragedies in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico.
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Outside of the executive branch, other LGBTQ opponents or opportunists are lining up in opposition to existing law.
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Humans are, instead, the consummate opportunists: When given the chance to eat meat, by scavenging or, later, through the
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The opportunists recognize that the economy will not be derailed by visas, green cards, refugees or immigration, Cramer said.
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Simultaneously, opportunists on the UFO side of things have tapped into the QAnon conspiracy to grow their follower counts.
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It's also become a prime target for corporate opportunists with lots of money poured in by forward thinking brands.
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Ideologues, opportunists, and internet marketers built a massive new universe of partisan news on the web and on Facebook.
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These incentives have helped to shift the Republican Party from a party of opportunity to a party of opportunists.
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Prisoners were often keen observers of human behavior, opportunists who wouldn't hesitate to use me for their own ends.
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Still, despite enthusiastic efforts of roadside opportunists, the absence of reliable roads remains an insurmountable barrier to economic opportunity.
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Here, everything from mice to snakes, McDonald's leftovers and Starbucks' scraps, can be fair pickings for these ultimate opportunists.
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On the other hand, some people — fast-moving, sophisticated economic opportunists who buy low and sell high — like volatility.
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The influx of opportunists was a boon for California's economy, and hastened its admittance into the union in 1850.
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" Murrow declared that, despite the best efforts of political opportunists, "We will not walk in fear, one of another.
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Democrats can pick up the flag that the current crop of opportunists and careerists have trampled in the mud.
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There is often resistance to increasing what these jobs pay, or otherwise improving their benefits, for fear of attracting opportunists.
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I think that was Samsung's concern with the second recall or the second problem, making sure that it wasn't opportunists.
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But for the opportunists, it is a time of plenty—a chance to snag assets from banks at a discount.
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Every Presidential scandal generates a dramatis personae—heroes, scapegoats, opportunists, and bitter-enders whose roles are unknowable at the outset.
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I see them as opportunists who want to brag to their friends about how they tried to win my soul.
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It outlined a shift in narrative that called out our opponents for being opportunists with little concern for the people.
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As Moscow prioritizes fuel stocks for separatist militias over the region's civilians, low-level opportunists tend to run most operations.
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"I feel like, a lot of people, when something happens all these opportunists will come out," Hilton continues in the transcript.
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Opportunists will point to bottled water as an example of where a portable, premium version of a cheaper product has succeeded.
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The included 4-foot KryptoFlex cable is just one more layer of security discouraging opportunists from nabbing a wheel or seat.
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One of these opportunists that stands to undermine the U.S.'s $1.5-trillion commercial aviation industry is Norwegian Air International (NAI).
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This unsavory application of one of tech's current darlings will almost certainly be wielded against it by opportunists of all stripes.
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But more than most opportunists on Capitol Hill, Rubio has used the Trump presidency to elevate his stature and amass power.
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First, in terms of colluders, it should be obvious that acolytes and opportunists need to be rooted out and let go.
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It's an absurd argument, meant to paint abortion providers, falsely, as money-grubbing opportunists who endanger — rather than advance — women's health.
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Those who pay the price — and their children and then those children's children — can only resent the opportunists for their plight.
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And political opportunists and autocrats, who are a greater danger to our nation than any external enemy, would have no foothold.
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When a large proportion of voters are not well-informed but are disenchanted and angry with politicians, opportunists can exploit their emotions.
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He sought to isolate it by polarising politics between "the people" and the "neoliberals" and by engineering a ramshackle coalition of opportunists.
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They're showing us who they are: not patriots, but craven opportunists, ready to undermine democracy itself to maintain their grip on power.
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Government supporters also fear that the political crisis could create a political void that is filled by opportunists from the extreme right.
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The Food and Drug Administration has also warned the public about fake coronavirus cures from opportunists trying to capitalize on the outbreak.
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These days, political parties are seen not as natural habitats for idealists but for fast-talking and often hypocritical opportunists and careerists.
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It was true of the sycophants and opportunists before whom he dangled cabinet appointments during the campaign and then, oh, never mind.
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They are mostly glitchy and cheaply made, and the result of opportunists seeing a need and kind of, not really, fulfilling it.
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Airbnb condemned the exploitation of its platform, but the case shows how the site has given opportunists a new kind of hustle.
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Broadly speaking, I think you're right, though a lot of this, in my view, is just rank hysteria ginned up by xenophobic opportunists.
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The government is in the hands of racists, anti-gay and anti-trans bigots, misogynists, predators, and opportunists, and I've seen the results.
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Whenever Jeffries is asked what the Prince family thinks of copycats, she demurs; Thornton Prince, after all, was the first of the opportunists.
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That made it easy for opportunists with a political agenda to blur the distinction between innocent refugees and terrorists to exploit the situation.
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Trump rode to victory on a cloud of vapors and vapid promises, and now he is assembling a council of acolytes and opportunists.
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Weir plausibly depicts near-future colonization technology, and showcases the opportunists and laborers who eke out a living in this expensive, precarious habitat.
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I don't think Republicans have really learned from this experience and become less alarmist about deficits; they're mostly just being opportunists and hypocrites.
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The European Union's intelligence agency has since stated that it believes the coup plotters included various secularists and opportunists as well as Gulenists.
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Just as it is reaching peak fame, the previously innocent world of natural wine is coming under threat by opportunists and big business.
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" But it tries, at length, to empathize with Trump's supporters, who C.K. argues see all the presidential candidates as "bullshit soft criminal opportunists.
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Image Source: Apple A new wave of Bitcoin-mania surged through the internet this weekend—and with it, a new crop of sketchy opportunists.
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"What I believe, first of all, is there are good people on both sides and there are political opportunists on both sides," Sanders said.
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Still, though, if tests have shown that fairly simple additions can deter opportunists, then the tools are a potentially useful option for Indian users.
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But many others are internet marketers or opportunists looking to cash in, and it's creating tension and division between established publishers and the upstarts.
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Another way that marketers, spammers, and other opportunists are cashing in on the partisan news boom is to play both sides against each other.
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The election-fueled, Facebook-incubated cottage industry of Macedonian teenagers and nihilist opportunists ready to cater to the paranoid masses had yet to emerge.
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The reminiscence of the rock genre adopts a tragic hue, punctuated by gluttony, drugs and the conscious theft of black culture by white opportunists.
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So it's easy for political opportunists to take the budget and use it as a hostage whenever they have enough will to do so.
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You put that label on pitches and policies as different as hard-wired xenophobes, plutocratophobes, economic chancers, thoughtful progressives, trade protectionists and political opportunists.
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Rather, they are opportunists, according to Andrea Flack, an ornithologist from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, who was not involved in the study.
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Through coercion, fraud, and force, they are able to easily recruit their targets so they can be exploited by war profiteers and Godless opportunists.
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Airbnb condemned the exploitation of its platform, but the scheme showed how the home-sharing site has given opportunists a new kind of hustle.
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Others may be opportunists who see a chance to gain high office by pledging to be more of a loyalist than the current cabinet.
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" "To all those political opportunists who are seizing on the tragedy in Las Vegas to call for more gun regs ... you can't regulate evil.
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He despairs that the ANC has become "open to opportunists" and that too many people use its power to gain "access to riches in society".
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And some opportunists within the different religious factions saw that as a chance to advance their own religion at the cost of all the others.
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Less sentimental opportunists hurriedly tapped eBay searches into their phones, cross checking Tekserve's auctions with the greater internet market in hopes of finding arbitrage opportunities.
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A standing-room-only crowd of true believers and opportunists crammed into the vast domed hall of a former Gilded Age savings bank in Williamsburg.
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Must we stand by holding our collective breath while those opportunists in a position to do something use this delusional man to enact their agenda?
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He can even be the victim of opportunists like Sasha, who care only about the accusations insofar as they can be exploited for personal gain.
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Feral cats aren't the only opportunists to seek out wildfire-blighted places: Hawks and other natural predators also seize the chance to simplify their hunt.
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And in doing, they have opened American politics to foreign influence and corruption — both from opportunists, like Russia, and enlisted allies of Trump's, like Ukraine.
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Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Elliott Gould, Don Cheadle and others play the motley crew of con men and opportunists who sign up for the job.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The laws currently prohibiting marijuana possession in the United States owe a lot to the sinister legacy of racist opportunists.
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That was right about the time that a new batch of opportunists came around, offering to solve the latest problem facing distressed homeowners on Woodbine Street.
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Fault lines have also opened within the tribes between traditionalists and opportunists at odds over how to manage ancestral lands and preserve native customs and culture.
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However, along with the advantages of healthy competition come the opportunists — those fueled by competition but seeking to cheat the system to gain the upper hand.
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Opportunists know how to game the system and can file a challenge that can cause the value of a patent (or a company's stock) to plummet.
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Fifty-fifty indecisive split decision between two comical, narcissistic, hateful, opportunists kind of shows who we are, and that we don't really know what we want.
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Thanks to them, the groups out there and media opportunists who want to paint the whole profession as brutal and corrupt have the ammunition they need.
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As thoughtful observers on the front lines of global poverty, they appreciate that development stalls in sub-Saharan Africa, for example, because of opportunists, not saviors.
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Opportunists are selling copies of George Orwell's "1984" on Amazon with nonsense on the pages, exploiting a legal quirk echoing the plot of the novel itself.
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Opportunists without funds of their own are looking for investors, said Miguel Angel Martinez Aroca, president of small and medium-sized solar energy producers association Anpier.
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Not do-nothing, say-anything, neophyte opportunists who know a lot about how to bully and bluster but not so much about truth, justice and fairness.
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One thread running through "Fire and Fury" is the way relatives, opportunists and officials try to manipulate and manage the president, and how they often fail.
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In a world filled with climbers, fakes and opportunists, from our street corners and churches all the way to Washington, D.C., you were the real deal.
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The global community of companies, coders, and opportunists who control the bitcoin network is now on the verge of revolt after more than two years of infighting.
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Over the course of about two dozen interviews, I found a mix of curious and skeptical developers, obviously true believers, hedging corporate futurists, and cold hard opportunists.
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Even among the opportunists, weirdos, trolls, and pawns who make up the cast of the Russian plot to interfere in the US election, Joseph Mifsud stands out.
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Joseph Mifsud Amid the opportunists, weirdos, trolls, and pawns who make up the cast of the Russian plot to interfere in American politics, Joseph Mifsud stands out.
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Experts also worry that political opportunists, who regard the current refugee convention as being too generous, would use its renegotiation as an opportunity to dilute current obligations.
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" Andrews warned police "would not hesitate to arrest and detain opportunists and trouble makers who defy lawful authority by disturbing peace and good order in the community.
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So much racism in this country is enflamed by political opportunists who tell economically vulnerable people to blame each other for the problems they all are facing.
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This leaves droves of new opportunists dabbling in what has been dubbed a "Wild West" marketplace, with regulators still weighing up how best to tackle the space.
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Many opportunists looking to sell their services seem to boil down to a millennial cliché: overeducated, underemployed and eager to cash in on their 1990s-childhood nostalgia.
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"I would say the opportunists who are using my name or my family name to advance themselves, from comedians to journalists to performers, book writers," she replied.
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In case I've not made it clear, the Dark Zone is a place of great distrust, crawling with gun-toting opportunists, everyone in a constant face-off.
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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.
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The big problem in science is not cheaters or opportunists, but sincere researchers who have unfortunately been trained to think that every statistically "significant" result is notable.
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And there lies the challenge to each of us in a country suffering from loneliness and ripped apart by political opportunists seeking to capitalize on that isolation.
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But if a financial crisis strikes tomorrow, better to have them with Trump's ear than some of the fools and opportunists who were attached to his campaign.
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When directed by opportunists, malefactors and sometimes even nation-states, they pose a particular threat to democratic societies, which are premised on being open to the people.
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Mr Carlson-Wee's enthusiasm is a sign of the coin mania that has been sweeping Silicon Valley, drawing in the familiar mix of ideologues, entrepreneurs and opportunists.
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Others, however, often reveal themselves to be opportunists seeking to take advantage of the crisis to push an agenda they have long held for entirely different reasons.
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While he supports real victims of abuse coming forward to share their stories, T.I. warns us of opportunists looking to capitalize on the climate with false accusations.
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"Many opportunists may try their luck in between the shortcomings of this law," Nur Khan Liton, a spokesman for the Child Rights Advocacy Coalition in Bangladesh, told CNN.
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Season 4 has been especially pointed about how the Valley's oversized population of nerds, bros, and opportunists has fostered a business culture where pettiness is rewarded, not scorned.
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Yeah, we deride lawyers as ambulance chasers and opportunists, but they also form a vast network that works, more often than not, to hold the big cheaters accountable.
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And it did not take the city long to take note of the money swirling around, without direction, and into the hands of what it considered morbid opportunists.
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The president-elect is no orator or political showman, but he does exude authenticity and conviction in a country where most politicians are assumed to be cynical opportunists.
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Goldstone and others involved with the June meeting may simply have been opportunists pursuing their own private agendas — or a uniquely Russian combination of personal and Kremlin interests.
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Resigned to the fact that it was unlikely to win an appeal, the internet provider called the publisher "greedy opportunists," and then blocked Elsevier's own website in protest.
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Fortnite opportunists have plagued the internet since the game's launch; WIRED has previously looked at the scourge of fake app downloads connected to the game's controversial Android launch.
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It's also the word favored by nationalists regardless of the context, to paint displaced people coming from impoverished nations as opportunists and not victims of a humanitarian crisis.
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Richard Nixon's misfortune was to be surrounded by opportunists willing to sell out the president rather than go to jail (the fanatical G. Gordon Liddy being the exception).
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First, there is no Trump movement as yet; there is only Trump himself, his brand and his cult of personality, plus a parade of opportunists and hangers-on.
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Political attitudes and behavior are enormously complex, and so we are shameless opportunists, delighted to exploit clear glimpses of underlying patterns and processes wherever we can find them.
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In terms of colluders, "opportunists" are those who ingratiate themselves with toxic leaders for personal gain, while "acolytes" share the same values, beliefs and goals as the leader.
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By my reckoning, there's already proof of attempted obstruction of justice, but that's receding in a thick fog of collateral nefariousness and a teeming cast of unsavory opportunists.
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On Monday morning, Matt Bevin, governor of Kentucky, said that "you can't regulate evil" and encouraged people not to be opportunists, seizing on tragedy for more gun laws.
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While their actions might be morally dubious at a time of global pandemic, the group of opportunists who bought up the medical supplies do not face any charges.
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Not precisely midfielders, more gifted opportunists who lurk just behind the front line, they could not begin to marshal and direct the team, as Modric and Rakitic did.
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Mr. Jalel said his forces had caught many of the culprits, saying they were not members of the Free Syrian Army but opportunists who had exploited its advance.
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Critics scorn electables as opportunists who switch allegiance depending on which way the electoral winds are blowing, and accuse them of selling their loyalty to maintain access to resources.
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By the same turn, it's also difficult to critique the P.C. left—as I have—without being drowned out by snide opportunists in the business of ridiculing college students.
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It's an industry where, for dozens and dozens of bloodsuckers and opportunists, I have encountered very few people that have helped combat my cynicism toward the Canadian music biz.
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"Dear Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel, opportunists from the hard right want Britain to crash out of Europe, even though a majority now wants to stay," the group wrote.
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The war veterans say that Ms. Mugabe and her backers are opportunists who wield influence only because of their proximity to the president and do not have popular support.
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These were not, for the most part, refugees fleeing persecution or war, but opportunists — mostly "hungry young men," as he put it — acting "very rationally" to improve their lot.
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Op-Ed Contributor TRIPOLI, Libya — For years now, opportunists of all stripes, local and international, have tried to profit from Libya's seemingly endless instability by disrupting its oil production.
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Could the young men at the center of "Leaving Neverland" have been both victims of Jackson and be money-grubbing opportunists seeking to tarnish his legacy for personal gain?
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"There's women who are opportunists, gold diggers, they use you as a stepping stone to advance their career," Bobbitt says, referring to his ex-wife in an interview in Lorena.
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When heavy rains come in to saturate the desert, locusts—ever the opportunists—breed like mad and fill the soil with their eggs, perhaps 1,000 per square meter of soil.
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But in religious terms, Mannix is a wise man among fools, opportunists and the misguided — a man who makes a difference in the world while making his daily appointed rounds.
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That dubious honor may belong to more money-focused rave promoters, who like good opportunists, saw the growing dance music phenomenon as something to be reamed for all its worth.
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Extreme, long-shot campaigns often attract a Star Wars bar collection of extreme opportunists and conspiracy theorists — and the Trump campaign was the Good Ship Lollipop for many such types.
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As prices rose across the board, President Tayyip Erdogan called on Turks to report stores and "opportunists" that were excessively hiking prices, and vowed to raid their stores if necessary.
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The opportunists include Michael Steinmetz, a marijuana entrepreneur who bought an 80-acre property in Mendocino County, California, that once belonged to Fetzer, one of the state's biggest wine producers.
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And once they do, they will begin to say what seems obvious to us: Our employees are opportunists profiting from their connection to a very wealthy and quite lonely man.
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America's history of the exploitation of domestic terrorism by political opportunists is replete with case studies, from the Red Scare of the nineteen-twenties through the abuses following 9/11.
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Not for the first time, technologists pursuing a vision of an open and decentralized network have found themselves surrounded by a wave of opportunists looking to make an overnight fortune.
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But then opportunists saw how successful this kind of crime was, and it began spreading rapidly: society matrons, industrialists, millionaires, members of the Chicago Cubs, all began getting Black Hand letters.
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And that means voters who are so angry and disappointed that they're either going to stay home or vote for a third party (divided major parties often invite third-party opportunists).
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Opportunists and ideologues have assembled the beginnings of a real coalition against these companies, with a policy core consisting of refugees from Google boss Eric Schmidt's least favorite think tank unit.
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These aren't always the most high-minded or important principles, but they've helped distinguish him from scores of unprincipled opportunists who've held and hold positions of high power in our government.
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The important thing is to prevent hostile powers, scam artists, and opportunists from turning all Facebook's wonderful tools—which are otherwise used to further peace, love, and understanding—against its users.
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But with a transient population of down-and-out gamblers and a glut of homes that have already been foreclosed, opportunists can still take their pick of thousands of empty houses.
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Some were opportunists, taking advantage of the chaos to carry out illegal activities; some had been infiltrated by the cartels, which used them to expand operational bases and to attack rivals.
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Apart from the obvious shots of men praying next to their AK-47s, most of the locals depicted in 13 Hours are either creeping sharia zombies, scowling bystanders, or unreliable opportunists.
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Disingenuous political leaders, talking heads and media members, and craven opportunists have shifted the conversation from calling out injustice and inequality to offering up patriotic bona fides and asking for unity.
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And as it's growing, it's not being dragged down by political lifers or opportunists, but being borne aloft by passionate people who are working to find realistic and legitimate paths ahead.
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On television, as in real life, dramatic reorganizations of society benefit two types of people: the ideological leaders behind the shift and the opportunists who join the revolution for personal gain.
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Not the least of the opportunists was the master-brander president himself, who tried to spin the embarrassing flub into a knowing joke once he saw that everyone was laughing at it.
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A new, shady line of work is already emerging: opportunists are said to be snapping up 1,000-rupee notes at a deep discount from those with too much stashed cash to declare.
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Apathetic opportunists like Haynes, as well as the nature of corporate bureaucracy, are probably responsible for more human suffering than all the serial witness murderers and sadistic nerd-gods in the world.
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Dr Mary Shawa of the Ministry of Gender, Disability and Social Welfare in Malawi denies that there is a market and insists that the murderers are opportunists acting on rumours of payments.
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Brower's column asserted Trump "doesn't understand what it means to be first lady" after she told Hannity the hardest part of her role was the "opportunists" advancing themselves using her family name.
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Erdogan, who has cast the sell-off as an economic attack on the country, has said fines would be imposed against "opportunists" who took advantage of the selling to aggressively raise prices.
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On the other are those who saw him as a lifelong victim — a developmentally arrested and unjustly maligned black entertainer who was a magnet for tabloid opportunists, corrupt cops and scheming frauds.
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Sadly, the "still not safe" claim has also been frequently used as a cudgel -- by opportunists aiming to take advantage of the fame, fortune and narrative that the Flint water crisis offers.
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These are among other hallucinatory fictions peddled by opportunists like Mr. Cruz as they comfort an arms industry enriched by a gun mortality rate far higher than that of any other modern nation.
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But if earnings were considered the main priority, then opportunists should look to Switzerland, which ranked first in the survey's "economics" table (Singapore was second), and had topped the overall table in 373.
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Bitcoin's core developers have stuck to the old ways, holdout supporters are lobbying for integration of the Lightning Network that should speed things up, and opportunists have created spinoffs with faster transaction times.
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Upon taking in how truly finite Earth is, will everyone be committed to a more sustainable and interconnected future, or would some opportunists be inspired to more aggressively square away resources for themselves?
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Fair trade, better education, opportunity, healthcare, lower taxes, strong military and national defense, homeland security, blah, blah, blah, yeah, right, whatever ...standard political pablum fed to you by political and self centered opportunists.
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"A lot of what happened is during the massive rise, you got a lot of opportunists that hopped in thinking that I'll put on an event and make a gazillion dollars," she said.
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As a talisman, it is easily exploited by political opportunists who exaggerate its vulnerability and propose outlandish schemes to protect it, while deflecting more sober deliberations about how best to advance U.S. interests.
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Anyway, a result of decades of zombification is a Republican caucus that consists entirely of soulless opportunists (and no, the fact that some of them like to quote Scripture doesn't change that fact).
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Alejandro Velasco, a New York University professor who studies colectivos, said the groups were later joined by criminal "opportunists" who learned that "adding a little ideology to their operations" could win them impunity.
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"These are opportunists," says Valeria Aragão, a police inspector in charge of a 403-member counterfeit squad that in recent weeks has conducted raids across the city, confiscating all manner of ersatz Olympic goods.
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It's increasingly clear that anything goes in Silicon Valley's craven attempts to placate opportunists on the right — both within Congress and without — so long as that corporate cognitive dissonance keeps the lobbying wheels greased.
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Notes • The cultural implications of the case have been measured throughout in headlines and news broadcasts, in opportunists like Glenne Headly's grandstanding lawyer and in the blowback directed at the Khans within their community.
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Although their propaganda perpetuates the falsehood that they are killing in the name of Allah, the reality is that most ISIS fighters are being exploited for the benefit of war profiteers and Godless opportunists.
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Having amassed hundreds of thousands of new followers with their tag-team approach to "have you no shame, sir"-ing Trump, they did what any opportunists worth their salt would and wrote a book.
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In the British version the forces of populism won a stunning victory in the Brexit referendum but lacked real leaders (save hacks and opportunists) and a clear plan for pushing forward (save implausible promises).
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Yet the coalition led by his party, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), is a rogues' gallery of opportunists that includes Christian evangelicals, multibillionaire business allies, and proud sympathizers of the Chavista regime in Venezuela.
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With the New York International Fringe Festival, normally the biggest fish in the pond, on hiatus for 2017, a number of opportunists have leapt forward with new summertime options for New York City theatergoers.
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"If the Republicans have lost a lot of seats in the Congress and they blame Trump for it, then there are going to be people who emerge who are political opportunists," Mr. Bergman said.
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Whenever Donald Trump spews toxic rhetoric about building a giant wall or China, he's following in the footsteps of a long line of shitlord opportunists capitalizing on the ignorant masses to massage their own brands.
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With the rebel group no longer controlling the forest areas (and the lack of any other government entity to regulate them), opportunists moved in to log and clear land to plant coca and other crops.
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Reluctant Trumpists, trolls, silent voters, lifelong GOP supporters, strategic opportunists seizing on the tides of neonationalist ideology, overt racists—they were, and continue to be, hierarchically compressed into a one-dimensional latitude: The Trump Voter.
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Over the decades since the elder Falwell helped start the modern religious right, politicized evangelicalism has expanded beyond a handful of organizations, producing a multitude of spokesmen, among them pastors, activists, televangelists, authors and opportunists.
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When this reputation is exploited by marketing departments or PR savvy opportunists the efforts of these real people to improve the conditions of Goldsmiths are used to accrue value, monetary and otherwise, to the institution.
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The best place to start isn't with the Republican Party's leaders — the opportunists, the cowards, the sleepwalkers — but with its voters, and the once-reasonable assumptions about voter psychology that Trump seems to have disproved.
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The Republican establishment, including its cadre of lobbyists, Kristol continued, has a deeply ingrained instinct to accommodate those who threaten from without and to collaborate with the buffoons and opportunists who have established beachheads within.
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"There are opportunists who try to paint this problem as indicative that they are not occurring, when they actually are," said Brian Levin, the director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism.
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Among these opportunists are corporations that have raked in vast profits through "racial sensitivity" training of educators in school districts with high rates of suspensions of black students resulting from school violence and predatory behavior.
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But if they had lost touch with their district or if they had some other baggage (or if they had talented opportunists waiting to exploit any chance to jump in the race), they were toast.
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Ethereum's big gamble has spawned a rebellion comprised of several factions: true believers in the cryptocurrency, speculative opportunists, and possibly even bitcoiners who have turned to sabotage in order to see Ethereum go down in flames.
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"Everybody thinks that politics is for the corrupt, for opportunists, so the challenge now is to give it a new meaning and a new value," according to Cecilia Chacón, a youngish city councillor in La Paz.
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The clear objectives of Pueblos Sin Fronteras are to exploit the humanitarian policies of the United States and to take advantage of our asylum system that was carefully crafted to protect the oppressed, not reward opportunists.
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"I remember right after the [Weinstein] story broke, I just was going through my feed and there was so many men in particular that were calling these women liars, they were calling them opportunists," Crews says.
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And while there's a grotesque comedy to Herold's gang of dupes and opportunists as it trundles from one atrocity to another, the script's emphasis on the transactional nature of power is too chilling to encourage chuckles.
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But the real lesson ought to be that if party leaders uniformly refuse to speak up for the concerns of the nationalist right, the void will simply be filled by showmen and opportunists — with scary consequences.
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But while most of those others seem be the work of young, apolitical opportunists cashing in on a conservative appetite for viral nonsense, operators of Patriot News had an explicitly partisan motivation: getting Mr. Trump elected.
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Now these same agents of disinformation are banking that the American people will continue to be duped; that we'll believe that there was no undermining of the election by Russia, WikiLeaks, the FBI and immoral opportunists.
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Even if he had a good ear for sound advice, and the patience required to follow it, he is surrounded by amateurs and opportunists who send him endlessly careening between contradictory goals and various tactical dead ends.
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He and his lens were equal opportunists when it came to personal style, and I'll be forever grateful that my style and I — during my lowest days and also my highest — had a place in his pages.
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Using this data, I was able to speak to a wide array of the activists and entrepreneurs, advocates and opportunists, reporters and hobbyists who together make up 2016's most disruptive, and least understood, force in media.
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He complained that the American media has consistently misconstrued the way Russia works, presenting marginal opportunists and self-interested businessmen with no real link to the Kremlin as state-controlled agents working on orders from Mr. Putin.
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He believes the controversy around Warren's past claims of Native American heritage is more damaging than people realize and will play into Trump's argument that coastal elites — Warren is a former Harvard professor — are hypocrites and opportunists.
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This administration continues to perpetuate the narrative that asylum seekers are opportunists — but the countless stories I have heard from immigrant survivors of gender-based violence fleeing unspeakable danger in their home countries paint a harrowingly different picture.
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If Democrats reject such a deal, the more independent minded and centER left voters at their behest will see them for what they really are: opportunists willing to squander the futures of 800,85033 people out of partisan stubbornness.
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It was just seven years ago that Republican incumbents were facing populist challengers who promised ideological revolution, just a little while ago that the establishment was losing primaries to a mix of true believers, opportunists and erstwhile witches.
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Ward paints the couple as cynical opportunists who hope to have it both ways — retain their businesses and socialite reputations, both of which have reportedly already suffered, while working in Trump's White House, with all the controversy that brings.
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Gisele Bündchen is shining a light on the impact the record-breaking Amazon rainforest fires have on the world, as well as calling out all the "opportunists" who have had a hand in devastating the region over the years.
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Netanyahu has hinted he could call a snap election to bolster his mandate in a bid to stave off political opportunists and mounting legal probes; polls suggest Israelis would reward him at the voting booth if he did so.
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"The media and opportunists act as if the two factions in Charlottesville represent the attitudes of the whole country," he tweeted on Thursday of Saturday's headline-making protests by white-supremacist groups in Charlottesville, Virginia that left one dead.
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These days we tend to see power less as the rightful inheritance of the world's winners (us!) and more as the end product of a disgraceful cycle of opportunists oppressing their way to the top of the human heap.
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"We see the highest-ranking woman in the U.S. Senate under attack by political opportunists, and we are determined to fight just as hard for her as she fights for California," SCN Strategies partner Sean Clegg told the Times.
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As they approached the Afghan capital, Kabul, the final destination for their message, they were nervous — about political opportunists who could hijack their message, and about the elites of a capital long separated from the pain of the countryside.
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Whether talking about new order acts like the above or old guard ones outed by accusers (Fabolous, Nas, Russell Simmons, R Kelly, etc.), this problematic defensiveness by fans is only exacerbated by the opportunists and enablers within the industry.
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On one side is the National Rifle Association, which came out swinging Wednesday with an inflammatory speech by its chief, Wayne LaPierre, who branded those who want tighter gun laws as freedom-hating "European-style" socialists and tragedy opportunists.
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The most abject figure in this universe is the queen herself, whose illnesses, eccentricities and neuroses make her seem helpless and pathetic, easy prey for opportunists like Abigail and Sarah, who push her wheelchair and tend to her moods.
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They are lyrical opportunists, caught up with the challenge of finding memorable nuance in the psychology of space, or in the moody atmosphere of their own feelings, or even in the tension of being stared back by their subjects.
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Ted Cruz scrambles to reverse fortunes in Indiana "I see it now as some of the candidates being opportunists, they're taking advantage of a situation, they're exploiting it," said Robert James, 57, of Indianapolis, a forklift operator at the plant.
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But where there is rapid expansion and big bucks, there are opportunists waiting to take advantage — and chances are you've read enough stories of lipo and fillers gone very, very wrong to know that med spas don't have the cleanest reputation.
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The bank wants to stabilise its share price by attracting "more long-term shareholders and fewer opportunists", and will start working on that after the end of the second quarter, Chief Executive Giuseppe Castagna told Il Sole 24 Ore on Sunday.
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In Trump and his campaign, Mr. Putin spotted a golden opportunity — an easily ingratiated celebrity motivated by fame and fortune, a foreign policy novice surrounded by unscreened opportunists open to manipulation and unaware of Russia's long run game of subversion.
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We also meet a whole host of more peripheral figures—nationalists, communists, guerillas, polemicists, idealists and opportunists—all in their own way preoccupied with their role in the making of the modern Middle Eastern state-system that we know today.
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Matt Bevin tweeted, "to all those political opportunists who are seizing on the tragedy in Las Vegas to call for more gun regs...You can't regulate evil..." Democrats mobilize Democrats, now, don't hesitate to push gun control when tragedy strikes. Sen.
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"Cybercriminals are opportunists who are aware that the potential cost to an organization of not paying a ransom is higher during these days and we expect them to attempt to capitalize on this," Goody said in an email to The Hill.
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Except that these promises were mostly just a con job, the Trump inner circle is a parliament of opportunists, and his administration's policy agenda has been steered by the Republican Party's business elite rather than by the voters who elected him.
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Travis's ex died at the end of season one, after a zombie bite, and his son perished near the end of season two, after leaving his dad to hang out with some American tourists turned murderous end-of-the-world opportunists.
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We're told there's no specific threat on O.J.'s life but several inmates in the prison have life sentences "and nothing to lose" and may be "opportunists" looking to hurt or kill Simpson before he leaves to raise their own profile.
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Women who choose to speak publicly about the sexual misconduct they've suffered generally pay a high price for it, and even as they weather threats, trolling, and multi-faceted harassment, they find themselves painted as self-serving opportunists courting publicity for personal gain.
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While some officials acknowledge that most of the unsuccessful asylum-seekers are still fleeing some sort of need, others paint them as criminal opportunists engaging in widespread fraud — people who only left their home countries to take advantage of US asylum law.
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As an actual elected official, Romney will inevitably end up being unabashedly who he is — one of the most shameless opportunists in the history of American public life, who invariably ends up disappointing people who expect him to stick to anything for long.
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Much like "The Big Short" and "The Wolf of Wall Street" (which also co-starred Mr Hill), "War Dogs" is, on one level, a celebration of those devil-may-care opportunists who spot a little-known way to turn a big profit.
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Three young opportunists from diverse Miami neighborhoods — a banker (Adam Brody) from Brickell, a hacker (Otmara Marrero) from Hialeah and a gang leader (Edi Gathegi) from Little Haiti — try to build a better Bitcoin while an F.B.I. agent (Martin Freeman) hunts them down.
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Today, 10 months into the outbreak, we have a witches brew of political disenfranchisement, distrust of authorities, rebel militias, mercenaries, opportunists, and militants loyal to the Islamic State fueling a deadly epidemic by preventing the medical response from getting ahead of the virus.
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The problem is not so much that fishing crews are nefarious opportunists angling to exploit marine preserves, but rather that there is simply no real incentive for them to broadcast their IMO numbers—or even to register them in the first place.
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Opportunists are sure to put their own self-interests ahead of any ethical concerns and the greater good of the organization, while acolytes are likely to possess the very same values and beliefs that got their leaders into trouble to begin with.
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Her work is obviously influenced by TV shows like Battlestar Galactica, Farscape, and Firefly, in that it trends more toward a galaxy full of rusty, beaten-up spacecraft and wisecracking opportunists than it does the gleaming ideals of the Star Trek franchise.
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Late in 2018 the duo from Odessa, a Black Sea port immortalised in Isaak Babel's stories about Jewish gangsters and opportunists written a century ago, pitched up in Kiev offering something different: connections to Mr Giuliani and access to the White House.
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A recent agreement between Major League Baseball and the Cuban Baseball Federation, which must be approved by the United States government, opens an opportunity for Cuban players to get to Major League Baseball without endangering their lives and being exploited by opportunists.
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He made his reputation on TV as a potentate, both by bragging on talk shows that no one could possibly outwit him or overpower him (he was the master of The Art of the Deal), and by telling opportunists that they were fired.
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However, as I quickly learned, a passionate community of people throwing around money is like blood in the water to the shark-like scammers and opportunists who, in late 2014, co-opted the Dogecoin community and fleeced its members for millions of dollars.
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I saw the space being overrun by opportunists looking to make a buck, rather than people investing in evolving the technology (which, even back then, we knew was facing real technical issues.) Over the following two years, I monitored the space from afar.
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And so when movements from #MeToo to refugee rights and Black Lives Matter demand that those truly marginalized by society get more of its fruits, you can be sure that opportunists will be telling white men that these gains can only come at their expense.
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There are the "internal opportunists," inside men like Vincenzo Peruggia, who hid in a storage closet in the Louvre and made off with the Mona Lisa, a fantastic coup he then ruined by trying to sell the painting to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
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Not only would this hurt innovation long-term, it would also risk the policy pendulum swinging back to allow patent trolls and other opportunists to continue to take advantage of the patent system to harm main street businesses with bogus patent infringement suit threats.
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"To drain a swamp, you need an army corps of engineers, experts schooled in service and serious purpose, not do nothing, say anything, neophyte opportunists who know a lot about how to bully and bluster, not so much about truth, justice and fairness, " he said.
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After Lee's wife Joan died in late 2017, the comic book legend "became the target of various unscrupulous businessmen, sycophants and opportunists who saw a chance to take advantage of [his] despondent state of mind," according to the complaint Lee filed in Los Angeles.
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Prosecutors described them as calculating opportunists who tried to compartmentalize "double lives" while working regular shifts at the club, participating in decisions to hire and fire bartenders and dancers and frequently exchanging text messages about club business, even while they were at work in Manhattan.
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"I would say the opportunists who are using my name or my family name to advance themselves, from comedians to journalists to performers, book writers," Trump told Fox News' Sean Hannity on Wednesday when asked what has been the hardest thing about being first lady.
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No president in my lifetime has been surrounded by such a populous crowd of scammers, grifters and shameless opportunists, and Cohen was Exhibit A, doling out hush money, threatening disobedient reporters, and bellowing and swaggering through a world lit by neon and shimmering with gilt.
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Nevertheless, it's clear that the narrative of "unvetted Bernie Sanders" functions, just as it did in 2016, as a preemptive attack-response by his ideological opponents within the Democratic Party—and a few conservative opportunists on the margins—to his mounting success in the polls.
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We have many enemies in this war: the alt-right, political opportunists, foreign subversives, profiteers, corporate lobbyists — all of them seeking the same ends by the same means: to promote their own interests by taking advantage of ignorance, distrust and a poorly educated electorate.
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Throughout the campaign, the alt-right was a large, amorphous group of disparate and overlapping factions — neo-Nazis and white nationalists; young, excited, digitally savvy Trump supporters; alienated and anxious white men; media-hating opportunists; and any number of trolls, from the nihilists to the anti-SJWs.
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Matt Bevin tweeted, "to all those political opportunists who are seizing on the tragedy in Las Vegas to call for more gun regs...You can't regulate evil..." Still, the House did opt to shelve a bill this week that would have loosened restrictions on purchasing gun silencers.
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" Melania Trump's pity party On Wednesday, Melania Trump complained to Sean Hannity that the hardest thing she has to deal with as first lady is "opportunists who are using my name or my family name to advance themselves, from comedians to journalists to performers, book writers.
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While I don't doubt that Kelly possesses the full range of human feelings, as St. Félix pointed out, what she's actually good at is tamping down those compassionate instincts in order to expose politicians and pundits as the bloviating opportunists they almost always turn out to be.
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But a steady stream of idealists, romantics, opportunists, mercenaries and filibusters have jumped into foreign frays anyway — riding with Pancho Villa in Mexico, fighting fascists in Spain, ferrying arms to Cuba, battling communists in Africa and even trying to establish new slave states in Central America.
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But perhaps the biggest tragedy of all this, besides a bunch of opportunists laying claim to the origin story of a living legend, is that neither project bears the Madge seal of approval—meaning we may never know the whole truth surrounding key moments in Madonna's early career.
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Deadwood, built on land stolen from the Lakota Sioux, had attracted exiles, fugitives, optimists, gamblers with nothing to lose, bloody-minded opportunists, cynics, and seekers who had come to try their luck, or to escape bad luck, in terrain that lay largely beyond the reach of the law.
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But $1,200 annual supplement subscriptions, and notions about cutting out entire food groups that target suffering women speak to the importance of taking women's pain seriously within the medical establishment, otherwise, their time, money, and actual health and happiness are at risk of being chipped away by opportunists.
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The New York Times reports that in some countries where "1984" is in the public domain opportunists are printing cheap versions of the novel and listing them on Amazon, avoiding paying royalties owed to Orwell's estate in the US.Read more: '1984,' George Orwell's classic dystopian nightmare was published 70 years ago.
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Nothing about the appearances of Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh changed that basic reality — not the undeniable power of her account, not the sob-swallowing anguish of his attempt at self-exculpation, and certainly not the relics and opportunists croaking and preening and shouting from a decaying institution's bench.
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Set during the Soviet twilight, the protagonist of Stone Dreams is an Azerbaijani intellectual from Agulis (known today as Aylis), an ancient Armenian town in Nakhichevan that its worldly Armenian merchants had modernized into a "Little Paris," well before Ottoman Turks — aided by Azerbaijani opportunists — massacred its Armenian community in 20173.
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"We missed the opportunity for population-wide containment,'' he said, "so now we need to be strategic opportunists: Let those who are inevitably going to get the virus, and are highly likely to make an uneventful recovery, get it and get over it, and get back to work and relative normalcy.
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The major theme that emerges is Dylan's near-constant ability to transcend the obstacles of cultural commodification and categorization, though Scorsese leaves open the question as to whether Dylan has always been a shapeshifter, or if he became one to evade political opportunists, the press, and the weight of history.
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In many ways, "Miss Saigon" is a colonial story, where none of the Asian characters are portrayed in a positive light — yes, they are victims of a war, but they are also characterized as opportunists, villainous, and, at the center of the story, Kim is written to be very weak.
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There's the rise, which is usually assisted by self-deluding opportunists who believe that they can restrain the ascendant authoritarian figure; old Bolsheviks like Grigory Zinoviev, countering Trotsky, played just as significant a role in Stalin's ascent, largely through abstention, as the respectable conservative Franz von Papen did in Hitler's.
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This is a book about the collection of cronies, opportunists, misfits, functionaries, family members, and public servants who have tried to construct something that acts and operates like a presidency around a man who neither acts nor operates like a president, a man they all know shouldn't be the president.
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And I should say, too, that although it is true that social media platforms speed the circulation of rumors and lies, they did not create cynical publics who have so little faith in media and government that they make no distinction between journalism and fake news or between legitimate political leaders and populist opportunists.
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"The opportunists who don't want to miss out on cabinet posts might now be tempted to jump ship, though Mahathir's published list of MPs could have drawn the lines such that it now makes no sense to move over, given that they have been explicitly identified as Mahathir supporters," Cheng wrote in a note.
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As I watched First Man's story unfold and thought about how out of control the controversy around it had become — with politicians like Marco Rubio and Donald Trump, right-wing opportunists like Dinesh D'Souza and Mike Cernovich, and astronaut Buzz Aldrin himself making statements about it — I couldn't help but recall my experience with Noah.
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Some of those who worked at the agency in earlier years said that it had changed over the past decade, and that an attitude of contempt toward migrants — the view that they are opportunists who brought on their own troubles and are undeserving of a warm welcome — is now the rule, not the exception.
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But the contemporary moment shows especially clearly how vulnerable populations are pitted by political opportunists against the most precarious workers in their chosen destinations, so a truly toxic political condition takes hold where the language of security, both physical and economic, is presented as a zero-sum game that trumps humanitarian and ethical concerns.
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So we seize on tech mishaps and old-fogey tendencies because it feels good to paint the picture of Trump's people as bumbling, out of touch goons — when in reality it's seasoned, morally compromised guys like Stone and opportunists like Nunberg who very intentionally got us into this mess, when none of us saw it coming.
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It's time, then, for Republicans to pray in public and demand that everyone stop politicizing an event with obvious political implications: To all those political opportunists who are seizing on the tragedy in Las Vegas to call for more gun regs...You can't regulate evil... This is not the time for disingenuous claims of gun control.
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As a result, we fawned over self-driving cars and next-generation artificial intelligence while questions about the politics of all this new technology — the emotional backlash from manufacturing workers losing their jobs to automation, the interference of foreign hackers in American elections, the ability of partisan opportunists to flood Facebook with propaganda — went mostly unanswered.
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The hardest and most time-sensitive types of content—hate speech that falls in the grey areas of Facebook's established policies, opportunists who pop up in the wake of mass shootings, or content the media is asking about—are "escalated" to a team called Risk and Response, which works with the policy and communications teams to make tough calls.
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" The complaints also claims that Duffy and Champion took advantage of Lee while he was grieving the loss of his wife Joan in 2017: "Upon her death, Lee at the age of 94 became the target of various unscrupulous businessmen, sycophants and opportunists who saw a chance to take advantage of Lee's despondent mind, kind heart and devotion to his craft.
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"The food company is unlikely to want to share the exclusivity they have enjoyed in the term, by virtue of this European trade mark registration and decades of use, and they would certainly not want to open the door to non-Icelandic opportunists who might try to ride upon the success of their British brand in the EU," she told CNBC via email.
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And into that vacuum come right-wing nut cases, opportunists and grifters and narcissists like the president of the United States, and in the extreme, actual Nazis and white supremacists and, you know, populists of that flavor, who we shouldn't want to empower and we're empowering them, not just in the States, but I mean it's even worse in Europe.
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The coup attempt appears to have been carried out by a hodgepodge coalition of officers: some loyal to Fethullah Gulen, a reclusive cleric who lives in Pennsylvania and was once an ally of the ruling party but is now its fiercest enemy, alongside strict secularists and some other opportunists who probably knew they would soon be dismissed from the military.
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In the spring of 2003, Merlan attended a Pizzagate rally, where a small band of committed believers—child abuse survivors, alt-right opportunists, evangelical Christians, and a father with a child holding a sign that read IF YOU SEE ME WITH JOHN PODESTA, CALL THE POLICE—gathered in front of the White House to demand an "unbiased" investigation into the Democrats' supposed pedophilia ring.
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Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiOn The Money — Presented by Wells Fargo — Trump signs first phase of US-China trade deal | Senate to vote Thursday on Canada, Mexico deal | IRS provides relief for those with discharged student loans House delivers impeachment articles to Senate Senate begins preparations for Trump trial MORE has exposed her own fellow Democrats as political opportunists with no respect for the Constitution, and they are not happy.
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In "The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World," Sharon Weinberger, an executive editor at Foreign Policy and the author or co-author of two previous books about the military-scientific complex, traces the ups and downs of this agency, with its "mix of geniuses and mediocre bureaucrats" and the "procession of nuts, opportunists and salesmen" who pitched wild ideas and often won contracts to pursue them.
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Strzok said he wasn't certain there was a "broad, coordinated effort" to hijack the election and that the evidence of Trump campaign aides talking about getting dirt on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonThe exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Poll: Trump trails three Democrats by 22019 points in Colorado Soft levels of support mark this year's Democratic primary MORE from Russians might have been just a "bunch of opportunists" talking to heighten their importance.
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The leading intellectuals of today are hucksters and opportunists who, far from being honest, misrepresent their own credentials — sometimes by calling themselves "philosophers," without being philosophers; or by trading on novels they have written, without ever having written a good one; or by saluting the grandeur of the French past, as if they had a right to do so, when, in reality, their own heritage might be that of a Jewish immigrant from Poland or North Africa.
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What they're saying: On Tuesday, the Party convened a gathering at the anniversary at which Xi Jinping urged patriotism among youth, striving for brighter China (Xinhua): My thought bubble: Be wary of underestimating how many believe in the patriotic and increasingly jingoistic propaganda and Xi's repeated claims that China is closer than it has ever been to national rejuvenation, or of how many sycophants and opportunists there are in a country as large as China which see safety and opportunity in embracing the Party line.
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It's on his Republican primary opponents and their staffers, who either failed to uncover or failed to deploy the information becoming public now; it's on Republican voters, who saw traces of this kind of behavior in Trump's documented record and either didn't care or applauded it; it's on Trump's inner circle for ignoring what they knew and lacking the curiosity to search for more; and on Trump himself for preferring to surround himself with opportunists and yes-men rather than people of even minimal character.
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But since there is no perfect anti-Trump messenger, since every prominent Republican is in some sense part of "the establishment" that he is successfully railing against, the argument eventually carries you to a kind of ludicrous fatalism, in which the rogues and opportunists and has-beens of the G.O.P. rally noisily around the Donald, but the party's more capable and honorable public servants are supposed to lie back and hope the hostile takeover somehow fails without saying much of anything beyond the occasional "don't go too far, Donald …" interjection.
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Now, faced with the Covid-19 pandemic (which is not quite as severe as the one caused by Solanum), I haven't been able to stop thinking about World War Z. The parallels between Brooks's novel and our reality are eerie, from China trying to cover up the spread of the virus early on to a US-based outbreak occurring just 45 minutes north of New York City to opportunists hawking a fake cure to the American response being slowed due to the virus emerging during an election year — and that's just the beginning.
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He does a dance of hyperbole for his rallies that is intoxicating to them, he does it with the media in a way that they chase and are effective about it, but at the end of the day, in this context, it spells nothing but trouble..." FOR THE RECORD, PART ONE -- Melania Trump gave an interview to Sean Hannity on Wednesday night... She said the hardest part about being FLOTUS is "the opportunists who are using my name or my family name to advance themselves, from comedians to journalists to performers, book writers..." (CNN) -- A troubling story about the U.S. Agency for Global Media: The "U.
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