"The companies treat their workers as pawns," Coptis said later.
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Both Koreas were, in effect, pawns in their own war.
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Payton doesn't think of them as people, but as pawns.
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He rules this land, and our favorite characters are just pawns.
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Pawns have been captured, but most big pieces still roam free.
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Biggie and Tupac ended up being pawns in this whole thing.
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Companies like Google and Uber are both kingmakers and pawns here.
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I love you like the pawns in chess love aristocratic horses.
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He's using immigrants as pawns in his political game of chess.
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They're literally playing local governments like pawns, and why wouldn't they?
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And the countries in Latin/Central America were pretty much pawns.
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"We don't want to be used as political pawns," he said.
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The Qatari hostages were suddenly valuable pawns in this geopolitical game.
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Military personnel should not be pawns in a global power game.
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Now are these kids being used as pawns for a wall?
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Men were used as chess pawns in a game of war.
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With more pawns, we can take the queen and king out.
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We're all pawns, and we always realize it way too late.
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These are political pawns to the ultraconservative puppet masters in Washington.
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Until then, they're simply bluffing and using young people as pawns.
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Now, they worry they could become pawns in a geopolitical game.
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"Women were pawns in the game in 2001," Ms. Safi said.
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Every one is feeling we should not make these children pawns.
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The Guptas say they are pawns in a plot to oust Zuma.
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HARMAN: (INAUDIBLE) shame on anybody who wants these kids to be pawns.
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The commoner and the noble alike are merely pawns to be controlled.
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This is anathema to Israel, which sees the militias as Iranian pawns.
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They always have ulterior motives and we are pawns in their game.
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It has long used refugees as pawns to influence the American government.
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Fortress of Pawns I was at the coffee shop with the guys.
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The black king took his place behind a row of white pawns.
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The commoner and the noble alike are merely pawns to be controlled.
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And those sincere dancers turn into pawns in Mr. Shechter's controlling game.
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Patients are mere pawns in the games that hospitals play with insurance.
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They have been dismissed as thugs, vandals, political pawns or simply ineffectual.
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These people are pawns of Australia's decision to use cruelty as deterrent.
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Smaller clubs started to rise, teams they would once have considered pawns.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Chess pawns are weak pieces with lots of potential.
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Conspiracy theorists are peddling lies that these students are simply political pawns.
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But people are sick and tired of being pawns in this game.
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The citizens of Venezuela have become pawns in a global power game.
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"We feel like we're pawns, that we're being held hostage," Elledge said.
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In fact they are being used as pawns in this whole game.
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Both groups are pawns in the big-money game run by franchise owners.
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And the people who will get hurt are just pawns in his game.
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But other Pakistanis wonder whether they are pawns in a larger geopolitical game.
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"This isn't a game, and these DREAMers are not political pawns," she said.
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Making Holocaust victims and their memory pawns in geopolitical rivalries is morally objectionable.
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Some Guatemalans think he and Mr Browder are unwitting pawns of CICIG's enemies.
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"As with most cults, they manipulated people like pawns," Ross previously told PEOPLE.
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The document says that females young and old became pawns in this conflict.
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Some have accused the regime of using detained U.S. citizens as political pawns.
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Adal seems close to calling "checkmate;" he's manipulating the other characters like pawns.
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The episode ends with A driving into the sunset with all the pawns.
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The U.S. government accuses North Korea of using such detainees as political pawns.
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No longer will smaller broadcasters be used as pawns in an immoral fight.
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Public Citizen is now publishing a report, "Sacrificing the Pawns," revealing our findings.
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They have been used as right-wing pawns and left-wing punching bags.
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The Tate Modern, out across the river, stood like a rook among pawns.
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Our divisions leave Iranian Americans vulnerable as pawns in either country's political agenda.
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They are being used as pawns by undocumented individuals to cross the border.
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To Trump, trans troops have just become political pawns for his broader efforts.
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We are almost all pawns of the larger forces that order our worlds.
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Furthermore, he keeps pulling pawns out of his pocket to add to the board.
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Britain cautioned Russia on Friday that individuals should not be used as diplomatic pawns.
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Added Patridge, "In an election year, we're the political pawns here on the border."
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Royal daughters had to expect to be pawns in the game of alliance building.
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It's time that we stop thinking about pawns and start thinking about pawn structure.
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"It's silly to imagine that we're all just pawns of marketers," Herzberg told me.
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A chess board with intricate wooden pieces has pawns carved to look like peasants.
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Picou said she feels like Coast Guard families are just "pawns" in the shutdown.
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However, Hillary Clinton's campaign sought them out that they be pawns in her game.
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They were among the many pawns that Mr. Abaaoud was positioning across the Continent.
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To use our military as pawns to retaliate against Speaker Nancy Pelosi is undignified.
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Is the use of pawns the bad new normal in trade and diplomatic disputes?
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NIELSEN: The kids are being used by pawns by the smugglers and the traffickers.
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Both players started aggressively, with Mr. Carlsen advancing his pawns on the queen side.
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"They don't want to be pawns anymore," Josh Lowell, the Big Up filmmaker, said.
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By the end of the series, they feel more like Heaven's pawns than anything else.
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The Mitchums are here to be pawns, really — they're going to take out Dougie Jones.
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Neither of these NPCs are even pawns I myself created, but they are now people.
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Bad sculptors make trash; good sculptors make beautiful works that pawns like to be around.
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Robot got played so hard, they were all used as pawns for the Dark Army.
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Even when she's mad at her son, she's still got to move her pawns around.
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We are all each other's pawns in this game of tangled limbs and clumsy mouths.
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Financial regulatory agencies should not be political pawns nor subject to doing any president's bidding.
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So why should military people and their families be the pawns in the budget process?
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So I think they're being used as pawns, and I really don't like it, frankly.
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Or rather, as in other Naharin works, they look like pawns in this choreographer's game.
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But checkmate remains the ultimate goal, even when they're merely moving pawns around the board.
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"The kids are being used by pawns by the smugglers and the traffickers," she replied.
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Hostages become pawns and condign punishment in the clerical regime's endless duel with the West.
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They deny being Iranian pawns and say they are defending the country from foreign invasion.
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They feel like involuntary pawns in an ugly, vicious game they didn't ask to play.
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Mr. Maduro dismisses the opposition as "little boys" who are pawns of the Trump administration.
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"The kids are being used as pawns by the smugglers and the traffickers," she said.
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In these cases, Black women are just pawns used in the plot advancement of white protagonists.
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But finding out that we were unwitting pawns in Russia's global political chess game is disturbing.
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Others told BuzzFeed News that they were angry at being used as pawns in political games.
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I don't want to call it man-eater behavior, because it's emotional chess with male pawns.
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In addition to boosting the moods of pawns, these sculptures depict events in the colony's history.
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Not that this has made much difference for any of Cersei's other pawns in the past.
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Journalists — including me — now fall into Trump and Putin's autocratic worldview as pawns of their foes.
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Defence lawyers have maintained the women were pawns in an assassination orchestrated by North Korean agents.
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Critics said the House and Senate versions undermine civil rights and use children as political pawns.
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It was like castling in chess, when you sweep your king behind a line of pawns.
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They deny they are Iranian pawns and say they are defending the country from foreign invasion.
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Critics said the House and Senate versions undermined civil rights and used children as political pawns.
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The lives of our service members are not pawns to be moved about a political chessboard.
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As an American, I know that kids shouldn't be pawns while the 'adults' figure it out.
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But he dismisses assertions that the outdoor enthusiast organizations have become pawns of the environmental left.
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At the end of the day, the players are pawns in our quest for a win.
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Girls, particularly, were little more than dull collections of moral qualities, pawns in authors' lofty allegories.
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"Individuals should not be used as pawns of diplomatic leverage," British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said.
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The prisoners released after the successful nuclear diplomacy were widely seen as pawns in that effort.
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Maduro repeatedly calls opposition leaders pawns of the United States intent on toppling him by force.
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Defense lawyers have maintained the women were pawns in an assassination orchestrated by North Korean agents.
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The people competing on the platform to reach children are just pawns within YouTube's business interests.
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"Our children are not political pawns," said Kimberly Shappley, a conservative Houston mother, at Tuesday's protest.
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But in recent decades, presidents have confronted civilians held by terrorists or hostile governments as geopolitical pawns.
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If this season is a chess match, then showrunner Scott Gimple is still fiddling with his pawns.
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Union head Ed Mullins slammed O'Neill for what he characterized as using his officers as political pawns.
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But increasingly LGBT people are used as pawns for political gain around issues of family and tradition.
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The Guptas have denied the allegations and say they are pawns in a plot to oust Zuma.
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And they are never happier on the let then when they are using kids as political pawns.
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Both of them see the issue and our community as pawns in their political game of chess.
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I pictured Pickett like this king and his troops were like a fortress of pawns surrounding him.
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The burden now falls on the men and women who have been treated contemptuously as political pawns.
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Ms. Rodríguez may use the General Assembly speech to denounce those opponents as pawns of the Americans.
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Please, let's not once again make government workers pawns in a game, where there are no winners.
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What's more, he was way too obvious about the role of the other pawns in the scheme.
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But there is a growing understanding of how pets become pawns in the cycle of domestic violence.
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Smugglers use migrant children as human pawns to exploit our laws and gain access to our country.
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Mr. Hun Sen has long condemned Western powers for treating Cambodians as pawns in a geopolitical game.
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Instead, they become pawns in a contest that is often won by whoever ran the best campaign.
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Defense lawyers have maintained that the women were pawns in an assassination orchestrated by North Korean agents.
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To me, it's like a political chess game that they're playing, and we seem to be pawns.
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It's time for the Palestinian Authority and Hamas to stop using the people of Gaza as pawns.
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Their cases may vary, but their circumstances as pawns in a complex geopolitical game are strikingly similar.
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As always with authoritarians, the people and businesses that will lose time needlessly are just his pawns.
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And in North Korea, three detained U.S. citizens have become unwilling pawns in this complex geopolitical game.
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On more nefarious fronts, professional athletes on Cameo have also been used as pawns in cruel games.
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In Seven Wells and beyond, the men are the power brokers, and the women are the pawns.
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"These buildings are basically pawns in the fight for the future of preservation in the city," he explained.
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As a result, Yemenis have become the pawns in the regional power-struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
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You could have a second row that has three knights and a queen in addition to some pawns.
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In the past two seasons, both Clementine and AJ were little more than pawns in a larger game.
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It's not like there's this media beast that's creating these things and we're just pawns in the game.
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Clearly, the charge that politicians are using Russian children as pawns in a larger game cuts both ways.
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Children are used as human shields and recycled pawns for strange men to enter the U.S. without consequence.
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There's a lot of feeling in farm country that we're being used as pawns in this whole business.
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Women of the early Hellenistic period are mainly depicted as political pawns and the prisoners of powerful men.
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REPORTER: Madam Secretary, can you definitively say, are the children being used as pawns against — for a wall?
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The view of people as pawns to be played for his gain no matter the real-world consequences.
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It is a political ploy that turns Border Patrol agents and immigrants into pawns for the President's benefit.
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It's a ground-level view of a Cold War chess match that has deep sympathy for the pawns.
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He couldn't shake the notion that he and his colleagues had unwittingly become pawns in Berezovsky's big game.
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I hope that people will learn that we are not political pawns, religious fanatics or closed-minded people.
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"We were pawns in that game of trying to make sure he didn't get elected," Wright told me.
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The Houthis deny being pawns of Iran and say they are fighting to evict foreign occupiers from Yemen.
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We cannot allow these individuals to continue to be used as pawns in a dangerous game with Iran.
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They are professionals serving their country – not pawns serving Trump, to be deployed or withdrawn at his whim.
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Mr. Maduro called the opposition a bunch of "little boys," saying they were pawns of the Trump administration.
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Watch more Quick Hits at VICE News Read "Pawns in Syria's Ceasefire, Three Boys Die in Landmine Explosion"
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We are pawns in the hands of a few powerful elites that don't have our best interests in mind.
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" Bobby Orozco Jr., a regional TSA union vice president, said employees were "being used as political pawns by politicians.
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"Afghans are being used as pawns by all foreign countries and militant groups to prove their strength," Ashraf said.
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The Houthis deny they are Iranian pawns and say their revolt is against corruption and defending Yemen from invaders.
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"Children should not be used as pawns in diplomatic disputes," Huntsman said in comments shared by the U.S. embassy.
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They should not be pawns in some game to score political points or surreptitiously do the bidding of corporations.
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Children get used as pawns as families disintegrate, then have to adjust to a life with warring, spiteful parents.
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Whether we were pawns of fate or unwitting participants in a chromosomally arranged marriage, Jess and I quickly bonded.
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But most profound was bitterness that they, the Cuban people, would remain pawns in the U.S. domestic political debate.
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But they refused to answer questions, making it clear they saw reporters as mere pawns in their P.R. tableau.
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As undocumented youth ponder their fate, they are being portrayed in the media as pawns in a larger game.
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Some have accused us of being pawns of the Russian government, but this misrepresents our principles and basic operations.
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Our future should not be at the whims of any particular administration eager to use us as political pawns.
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Even when financial elites and corporations do something, they are a combination of pawns and partners of DC elites.
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That same night, Mathews — who has accused his wife of using their children as "pawns" — shared a snap with Greyson.
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The Guptas have denied any wrongdoing, saying they are pawns a plot against Zuma, who has also denied any wrongdoing.
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Panelo said there were "strong indications" that Advincula and Bikoy are the pawns of conspirators who seek to oust Duterte.
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François-André Danican Philidor, who wrote about the game in the 18th century, described pawns as "the soul of chess".
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Its adherents deny being pawns of Moscow, but they are obliged to offer public prayers for Kirill, Moscow's powerful patriarch.
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These factual outbursts frequently end up being terribly funny, but there's something about the fiction of Pawns that's fascinatingly creepy.
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And after my pawns had made a few of these sculptures, they'd begun to affect how I looked forward, too.
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Potential military recruits will also be considering the possibility they might be used as pawns serving Trump's own financial interests.
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In the past, RFS critics have used companies like Wendy's as pawns to drive a debate about food versus fuel.
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He was playing three-dimensional chess while the media was still trying to figure out which way pawns could move.
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But many Gazans still feel like they are being used as pawns in a power-struggle between the two groups.
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Venezuela and Cuba already have a history of warm relations and both are wary of being seen as American pawns.
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These are men in constant danger, and only Mendoza seems to realize they're pawns in a game they can't control.
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Consumers are merely pawns in the game of special-interest squabbles that use the regulator to get a leg up.
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The Guptas have also dismissed such reports, saying they are pawns in a plot to get Zuma out of office.
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Similar to the voter registration issue, Illinoisans are being used as pawns in a political struggle, but at great cost.
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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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He claimed the allegations were orchestrated by the Clinton campaign — discrediting the accusers themselves by portraying them as mere pawns.
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There are no winners in the use of journalists as diplomatic pawns by the world's two pre-eminent economic powers.
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It radically centered the female experience in the drug world, and showed how women are used as pawns in it.
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"Five Star politicians are just pawns that go through Rousseau — they don't have a future," said Mr. Galazzo, the professor.
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Did they treat young teenagers as counterterrorism pawns, Moaveni and the girls' families wonder, rather than victims needing urgent rescue?
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His challenge to China over Taiwan has inspired excitement there — as well as trepidation over possibly being used as pawns.
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Then they toot on all their little "dog whistles" to send all their little demographic pawns scurrying in various directions.
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He can use the extraordinary force of his office to strong-arm other countries into serving as his political pawns.
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"Our federal employees deserve to be treated with respect, not held hostage as political pawns," Sanders said during his address.
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"Chicago will not let our police officers become political pawns in a debate," Emanuel, a Democrat, said at a news conference.
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Despite the secretary's attempts at sophistry, there's no serious debate anymore that this administration used children as pawns against their parents.
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Yes, Julia was right to sniff that Eric was planning on using Devens and David as pawns in the game later.
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Like a cat playing with her toys, Cersei immediately takes her pawns into a creaky dungeon to torture them to death.
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Claudia wonders aloud if Noah and his gun are just pawns in a game he still doesn't know how to play.
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Yet even this slight, sidelong aspect of the game represented a new way of historicizing what I made my pawns do.
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Yet President Trump is using those families as political pawns, putting their lives at risk to advance his own partisan agenda.
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It is unacceptable to continue using them as pawns in an ideological battle between politicians voicing differing and often inflexible opinions.
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The local's president, Joe Puleo, characterized department officials as using the officers as "pawns for their political favoritism" in this case.
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And, perhaps, we as pawns have some influence on that outcome too and could turn our story into a better one.
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In other cases, detained Americans have become geopolitical pawns, often trapped in a kind of legal limbo for months or years.
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"China is pushing its own pawns," he said, particularly in parts of Africa where for decades French dominance has been undisputed.
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We're all pawns in a grand experiment to be manipulated by digital stimuli to which no one has given explicit consent.
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We matter when we vote the way they need us and we are pawns for their goals when we do not.
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Only by seeing certain people as lesser or a threat can you treat them like political pawns on your broader chessboard.
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With all the nefarious pawns in play right now, it wouldn't be surprising to see her killed by some Whisperer treachery.
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But to some unscrupulous actors and industries, they represent nothing more than political pawns, instruments of profit, and – most horrifically – food.
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The U.S. military — and the Reserve and National Guard, in particular — long have been pawns in the federal discretionary funding game.
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It's an absolutely thoughtless conflict, one that makes these superheroes into nothing more than Luthor's pawns and victims of a misunderstanding.
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Whether or not it's fair, e-commerce companies will be the pawns in government efforts to force change around this issue.
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The Guptas have also repeatedly dismissed such accusations, saying they are pawns in a political plot to get Zuma out of office.
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By holding and then transferring them down the line to ORR facilities, the government is turning children into pawns for immigration enforcement.
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Plus Ben Shapiro tell us how Democrats are really the ones exploiting the children as political pawns in this battle over immigration.
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Though considered an empty threat, it was the kind of rhetoric that allowed Mr. Maduro to characterize his opponents as American pawns.
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Mr. Mitsotakis responded by accusing Turkey of exploiting the refugee crisis and "using the persecuted as pawns in forwarding its geopolitical goals."
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Bush Sr. also used youth of color as pawns to further his drug agenda, and was also inhospitable to the LGBTQ community.
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Such claims from pro-Sanders progressives are common on social media, rendering Clinton supporters fools, hawks or pawns of the status quo.
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If we do take a look, it will be because we care, not because we're slavish pawns in the space-industrial complex.
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Mr Littlefield thinks of these robots as pawns to be put in harm's way without risking loss of life or great treasure.
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Because he was never elected, he faces a primary challenge by one of his own former pawns, ex-attorney general Heather Dunbar.
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The privilege is a valuable protection to keep spouses from being used as pawns by politicians or threatened as leverage by prosecutors.
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Lost between these poles are black politicians themselves, who have instead been reduced to pawns in a fight between left and center.
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The Trump plan stops the nonsense and says no to using generations of Palestinians as pawns to keep the 1948 war alive.
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And while the Houthis are allies of Iran, I think the Saudis exaggerate when they suggest that the Houthis are Iranian pawns.
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When teachers and professors turn the classroom into an arena for anti-Israel animosity, students become unwitting pawns instead of safeguarded learners.
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Her obstacles — sometimes co-opted as pawns — include the beautiful Poppea; the noble, lovelorn general Otho; and a couple of bumbling courtiers.
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We're not actors Ashley Paseltiner, 16, is sick of people calling her and her fellow classmates pawns in a bigger political game.
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Films like the wonderful Afronauts are a sendup of the way in which African countries were pawns in a Cold War game.
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A White House spokesman said it was "increasingly clear" North Korea sought to use U.S. citizens as pawns to pursue a political agenda.
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A small sample of the discussion taking place:The administration is saying several things at once, all while using these people as political pawns.
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When it doesn't, the president insults the dead, brushes off the wounded, uses the living as political pawns, and venerates the war criminal.
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Young men who, by some minor miracle, are living out their childhood dreams, are made to feel like pawns in someone else's game.
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Diplomats who visited them both have said they believed they were part of a television prank and were unwitting pawns in the killing.
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So it's interesting to read theories that Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and other Native Americans are being used as pawns by environmental activists.
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Yet Lockheed continues to use job creation, as well as its employees' present jobs, as political pawns to get yet more taxpayer money.
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"In prime-time TV, and from a management perspective, they are pawns of this president," Cuomo said during another part of the interview.
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How long did it take for our politicians to start manipulating these troop deployments to serve as pawns for their political party programing?
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Is there a generational argument to be made as we see the younger characters become tragic pawns of the older characters' untrammeled excess?
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Some immigration advocates argued that the administration's policies are effectively making thousands of Central American asylum seekers pawns in the standoff in Washington.
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Commenting on the case earlier this month, British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said individuals should not be used as pawns of diplomatic leverage.
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Like lots of other proprietors of small, privately owned shops, Tansky believes pawns offer an essential service to the underbanked and financially strained.
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Mr. Trump, like his predecessors, is likely to ease the squeeze after Pakistan sacrifices some jihadi pawns to save the king and queen.
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These militias, after all, are pawns in Iran's larger game of strategic competition against Washington and feature prominently in the regime's regional designs.
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission used Tom and the employee as pawns in a strategy to change the law without going to Congress.
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Opponents say those being released - and the nearly 200 others still detained - are pawns of a "dictatorship" that unjustly punishes protest and dissent.
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And what the President of the United States wanted to do to these human beings was turn them, literally speaking, into political pawns.
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The appearance of the squid storms reminds citizens they are still pawns in a cosmic game they could never even try to understand.
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Right now we have a situation with some teams having four queens and five rooks and others have one king and 18 pawns.
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In other words, as Goa noted, these governments seem to be using the experiences of migrant workers as little more than political pawns.
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The first Cuban Twitter users were portrayed on national television as pawns in the new offensive by the United States against the revolution.
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But several federal employees said they still felt angry after being treated like pawns, they said, in a five-week-long Washington standoff.
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According to CPJ, Colombia journalists have often been used as pawns in the ongoing armed conflicts and are targets for kidnapping or aggression.
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Team black has Ganon as the King, Twinrova as the Queen, Iron Knuckle as the Bishop, Phantom Knights, Armos Rooks, and Deku Scrub Pawns.
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Women work hard but are largely overlooked, used as pawns in a way to carry on the cruel clockwork that is our patriarchal society.
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But we should blame the adults who use them in this way, turning them into pawns in a political struggle, through their own propaganda.
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But the real depths of oddity come from Pawns—the companion warriors you summon to assist you as you battle beasts across the realm.
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The Guptas have also dismissed reports of their alleged influence, saying they are pawns in a political plot to get Zuma out of office.
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So we have to distinguish between the Russians and their government, because, just like many Americans, they are just kind of pawns in this.
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Zuma has insisted his ties with the Guptas are above board and the Guptas say they are pawns in a plot to oust Zuma.
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The Guptas have also routinely dismissed reports of their influence, saying they are pawns in a political plot to get Zuma out of office.
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The dozens of desperate bidders, from Detroit to Stonecrest, were nothing but pawns in a rigged, zero-sum game they've been losing for decades.
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And there are countless tales of other emotional and financial suffering," the op-ed reads, calling the federal workers "pawns in this Washington game.
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Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies accuse the Houthis of being pawns of Iran and launched a military intervention to restore Hadi to power.
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They have since become pawns in a tussle between Afghanistan, the United States and the Haqqani militant group, the Taliban faction that seized them.
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Their opponents had, for the past few months, been using substitute fielders not only as replacements for injured players, but also as tactical pawns.
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Bill NicholsSan Francisco To the Editor: Fred and Cindy Warmbier are finding out just how bad it feels to be pawns of Donald Trump.
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"No one wants to have to borrow money," says Tansky, who regularly makes $5 or $10 pawns to people needing gas or diaper money.
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The administration's family separation policy has already done potentially irreparable harm to those children who were used as pawns in the president's political agenda.
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Their cases may be different, but the circumstances in which they now find themselves, as pawns in a complex geopolitical game, are strikingly similar.
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They frame the obvious paradoxes, such as how conservative support of Lorance entails casting the troops who testified against him as liars or pawns.
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End users who are being crowdsourced and coopted to act out via app instruction as if they're pawns on a high tech chess board.
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"Chicago will not let our police officers become political pawns in a debate," Chicago's mayor, Rahm Emanuel, a Democrat, said in announcing the lawsuit.
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Speaking of that play, two of its cast members have lent themselves as unknowing pawns in the Roy children's latest game of human chess.
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The Guptas, whose businesses stretch from media to mining, have denied the allegations and say they are pawns in a plot to oust Zuma.
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"I'm dissatisfied at how the Republicans and Democrats are using family, an institution God created, as pawns for their benefit," Mr. De Jesús said.
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These kids are being used as pawns to persuade parents to give up their asylum claims and to warn others against coming to America.
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"It's a pity that some Hong Kong people and organizations have been used as pawns, especially in the U.S.-China trade war," he said.
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For her part, Hillary Clinton dismissed her husbands accusers and Monica Lewinsky as pawns in a "vast right-wing conspiracy" to undermine her husband.
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The author empathises with the resentment felt by Muslims over being used as geopolitical pawns and over the arbitrary borders that were drawn by Europeans.
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But over the course of the series, Nymeria, Lady, Grey Wind, Summer, Shaggydog, and Ghost become unfortunate pawns in their owners' journeys towards the throne.
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Both sides "appear to be operating in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law" as they attack civilian areas and use civilians as pawns, he said.
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Leisure | New Jersey There was no hurling of pawns or bishops at the second annual New Jersey All-Girls Chess Camp in Branchburg this month.
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Whether it's reproductive rights, gender identity, or race relations, there's a clear historical trend of using women as pawns in a game to maintain power.
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According to the lore of Dragon's Dogma, your companions ("pawns") are very much empty vessels, widely-known throughout Gransys to be absent of free will.
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Astute players learn that Gwynevere is merely an illusion and that they are simply pawns in a worldwide conspiracy to desperately jumpstart a dying world.
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They were lent out, things were negotiated for them, and they were really just pawns in whatever game the studio head was trying to play.
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But in Crowley's version, the cards are the habits and locations of real people whose data has been turned into literal pawns in the game.
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Young people are often critiqued for not voting or being interested, but when the government treats us like pawns in their manifesto, why should we?
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Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies accuse the Houthis of being pawns of Iran and have launched a military intervention to restore Hadi to power.
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It's not enough for a show like You to simply have black characters and love interests when those characters are pawns in their own narrative.
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What the President is talking about here is spending taxpayer dollars to use immigrant families—mothers, fathers and young children—as pawns for political retribution.
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"Cuba wants to use baseball players as economic pawns – selling their rights to Major League Baseball," White House national security adviser John Bolton tweeted Sunday.
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Most importantly, the Trump administration should stop using Central Americans as pawns for its anti-immigrant agenda, as this is highly destabilizing to the region.
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But both were players, or perhaps pawns, in the latest round of the 1400 year old tussle between so-called Islam and so-called Christendom.
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The Guptas have also routinely dismissed reports of their alleged influence, saying they are pawns in a political plot to get Zuma out of office.
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That is one point on which Israeli and its Arab neighbors agree, and it leaves the Palestinians in the middle, pawns in a geopolitical game.
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"Using human beings — including little children — as pawns in their warped game to perpetuate fear and demonize immigrants is despicable, and in some cases, criminal."
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"Everyone is using migrants and asylum seekers these days as pawns, so why wouldn't Morocco?" asked Judith Sunderland, an associate director at Human Rights Watch.
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Even though the performers were presented as individual characters, Mr. Beamish never showcased them as dancers: They registered as underpowered pawns in his inexplicable game.
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Refugees — who've been displaced from their homeland after years of civil war — are being used as political pawns to try to scare Europe into acting.
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The narrative in "Feud" — that the two of them were pawns in a male-dominated game — does a disservice to these fearless and pushy pioneers.
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It's an amorphous, somewhat secretive effort, partly because some participants fear Mr. Trump and his allies would brand Never Trump Republicans as pawns of Democrats.
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"How can we ensure that he is actually taking us into account and that we're not just going to be political pawns again?" she asked.
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"They're using transgender youth as political pawns to advance a particular agenda," said Alexis Chavez, medical director at the Trevor Project, referring to conservative politicians.
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The United States has long contended, since the Tehran hostage crisis four decades ago, that the Iranians use foreign prisoners as pawns for political leverage.
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"In Russia people are never used as pawns in a diplomatic game," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said of Whelan, according to a Russian news service.
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The Guptas, whose businesses stretch from media to mining, have denied offering government jobs and say they are pawns in a plot to oust Zuma.
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Despite attempts to vilify and demonize them as political pawns, asylum seekers from around the world continue to see the promise of the United States.
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Treating children like pawns, intentionally inflicting suffering on them to deter migration from overwhelmingly Latino countries, is not something that liberal democracies are supposed to do.
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Defense lawyers say the prosecution has not put forward a motive for the killing and argue the two women were merely unwitting pawns in the attack.
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Loughlin and her husband both entered not guilty pleas in April, alleging that they were simply pawns in a scheme orchestrated by Singer and his company.
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There's a catch, however, and various factions are fighting for control of the ship, and she and her friends are pawns in a much larger fight.
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How can someone care so little about children and families that they're willing to use kids — and separation from their parents — as pawns in immigration policy?
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He showed the same ability in his late January release "Rap Niggas," which used some of the genre's biggest stars as clever pawns for his wordplay.
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Jews have experienced the devastating consequences of hatred and intolerance throughout history and do not want to be used as political pawns in Trump's Twitter feed.
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You don't do that now, but to do that then, when they were literally pawns in the chess game of Hollywood, the women – she was tough!
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It has no lasting effect on federal workers affected by it, and they are mere pawns in a partisan showdown and a game of political chicken.
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Seeing the world as a chess game means he believes the board is filled with pawns rather than people, with agency and ideas of their own.
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Yet the first half of that run repeats the show's more impenetrable drawbacks -- playing three-dimensional chess, while spending too much time sadistically blowing away pawns.
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Three Canadian citizens being detained by China appear to have become pawns in a political impasse between the two countries and, by extension, the United States.
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"It will be clear throughout this trial, that the defendant knew he was preying on women without experience ... these women were pawns, pushed around," she said.
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The Houthis deny this and say Hadi and Saudi Arabia are pawns of the West bent on dominating their impoverished country and excluding them from power.
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The Garratts suspect they were unwitting pawns in a gambit by the Chinese government to prevent Canada from extraditing a Chinese spy to the United States.
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That is fine if their struggle and capitulation appear on the page; less so if they simply seem agentless, pawns in the author's private providential game.
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Under a former executive, Tim Armstrong, the phone company bought up Yahoo and other media brands as useful pawns in a strategic war against internet giants.
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"I, along with many others, was very critical of Russia and President Putin for using Russian orphans as pawns in a larger political fight," he says.
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Plus, another "Hannity" history lesson tonight you don&apost want to miss, revealing the blatant double standard surrounding the Democrats&apos use of women as political pawns.
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Mormon missionary work brought converts from around the world to Utah, and these immigrants were often viewed as alien and pawns in a sinister un-American theocracy.
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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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The Houthis, who deny they are Iranian pawns and say their movement is a national revolution against corruption, control the north of Yemen, including the capital Sanaa.
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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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Lawyers for Mr. Afghahi and Mr. Mechanic described them as pawns in a geopolitical game — language not unlike the descriptions used by the Americans freed in Iran.
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Many would-be Qatari pilgrims say they will not travel to the haj out of safety concerns, or because they fear becoming pawns in the political struggle.
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The heartbreaking thing is that it seems as if transgendered students are being used as pawns by this administration to further a broader political and legal agenda.
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The Guptas, whose wide range of business interests include media and mining, have denied the allegations and say they are pawns in a plot to oust Zuma.
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But by 2014, Ukraine—invaded and dismembered—was arguably the biggest victim of the Kremlin's new ideology, under which Russia's neighbours are pawns in a geopolitical game.
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When people become the pawns of a given agenda and are poorly informed of any other possibilities, they believe that they have everything — even when they don't.
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House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) on Tuesday went after Republicans for refusing to debate gun reform, suggesting they are simply pawns of the gun lobby.
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Meanwhile, Escobar's own children are pawns in his conflict with the government, with Gaviria ultimately deciding to sacrifice their safety for the sake of weakening his adversary.
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What Russian leadership doesn't understand is that the chess game of realpolitik, of pawns in the name of buffer states protecting the queen, is no longer necessary.
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He is one of at least seven U.S. captives in the Islamic Republic being used as pawns in a nearly 40-year secret history of hostage-taking.
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He is one of at least seven U.S. captives being used as pawns in a nearly 40-year secret history of hostage taking in the Islamic Republic.
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A deal, in other words, that actually does something about the system beyond cruelly using immigrants as pawns in political games and forever blaming the other side.
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" Schneiderman said he wouldn't let Trump use New York families as "political pawns in his dangerous, partisan campaign to eviscerate the Affordable Care Act at any cost.
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Defense lawyers argue the killing was politically motivated, with many key suspects linked to the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur, suggesting the women were mere pawns.
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We have a right to exist and be protected in the U.S. without becoming pawns in an agenda that has little to do with safety and security.
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Benjamin H. BloomPhiladelphia To the Editor: In President Trump's address to the nation, he stated that migrant children are being used as human pawns by vicious gangs.
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One of the women in the photos, Rita Ventura dos Santos, told the newspaper that she and her colleagues did not consider themselves to have been pawns.
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Defense lawyers say the killing was politically motivated, with many key suspects linked to the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur, suggesting the women were mere pawns.
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On Monday afternoon, they fumed at both political parties, and said they were once again being made into sacrificial pawns in a badly played game of chess.
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When the rank and file feel like the politicians don't have their backs and they have become political pawns, their performance suffers, just like any other profession.
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Such an approach not only dehumanizes Palestinians, it also assumes that they are nothing but mindless pawns of Hamas with no agency over their destiny and lives.
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These vessels are now pawns in a worsening crisis caused by America's decision to walk away from a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and impose crushing economic sanctions.
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We're all assuming some of the good guys will perish, and some pawns as well, but the best GoT seasons treat us to some real RAWR-level catharsis.
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" Comey said in a statement on Twitter that the clearances "should not be used as pawns in a petty political game to distract voters from even bigger problems.
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But Eugene Kaspersky was never able to overcome lingering suspicions among U.S. intelligence officials that he and his company were, or could become, pawns of Russia's spy agencies.
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" The senior Trump administration official suggested that the agreement would have subjected the players to "human trafficking" by the Cuban government, making them "pawns of the Cuba dictatorship.
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Zuma insists his relationship with the family is above board, while the Guptas have said they are pawns in a politically motivated campaign to remove Zuma from office.
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Tehran denies the charges and accuses Gulf Arab states of being pawns of Western powers seeking to dominate the region and advance the interests of its foe Israel.
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But Assistant U.S. Attorney Lee Cortes warned jurors not to accept the "preposterous" claim that Baroni and former Christie deputy chief of staff Bridget Kelly were unknowing pawns.
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There is no way the public sector workforce should be pawns in a political squabble that costs more in lost wages and revenue than the budget disagreement itself.
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Shutdowns quite literally turn federal civil servants, who do crucial work for modest pay (especially under budget sequestration and the current pay freeze), into pawns in congressional politics.
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"In Russia people are never used as pawns in a diplomatic game," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said when asked about Paul Whelan, according to Russian news agency TASS.
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Destined to serve as political pawns, they actually do more harm than good to their country, as they help to stifle meaningful review of military or government policy.
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He has made trans people into political pawns as he whips up animus against us in an attempt to energize the most right-wing segment of his party.
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Two women, an Indonesian and a Vietnamese, have been charged in Malaysia with murdering Kim by smearing his face with VX, though they say they were unwitting pawns.
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The result for many physicians is the feeling that they are pawns of a big organization that does not want to hear, let alone act on, their concerns.
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The Houthis, from a Shi'ite minority, deny being Iran's pawns and say they took power in a popular revolt and are defending Yemen from invasion by its neighbors.
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It also demands understanding that most Asian countries seek strong relations with both China and the United States, and are not interested in becoming pawns in dyadic competition.
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To many in power, the lives of the people who inhabit this corner of the world are mere pawns in their strategic machinations, posturing, and game theory experiments.
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On Tuesday, in a combative speech at George Washington University, Mr. Kelly took on his congressional critics, saying that Homeland Security employees have been used as political pawns.
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Defence lawyers say the killing was politically motivated, with many key suspects linked to the North Korean embassy in the Malaysian capital, suggesting the women were simply pawns.
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Defense lawyers have argued the killing was politically motivated, with many key suspects linked to the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur, suggesting the women were mere pawns.
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Take Back the Bronx made it clear that artists creating bullet-ridden cars and trash can fires are pawns helping developer Keith Rubenstein profit from their community's trauma.
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President Woodrow Wilson and the State Department encouraged Sisson to collect evidence that Lenin and his comrades were German pawns, which would support the administration's anti-Bolshevik policies.
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In this telling, white working-class Americans who once relied on a manufacturing economy that doesn't look the way it did in 1955 are the unwilling pawns of elites.
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Chapter Nine: The Gate All the pawns have fallen in place, so the finale actually doesn't have that much to do besides twiddle its thumbs until that gate closes.
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" New York Mayor Bill de Blasio: "He uses people like pawns ... New York City will always be the ultimate city of immigrants – the President's empty threats won't change that.
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Mathews also accused her of using their children as "pawns" and claimed Farley agreed to discuss their divorce on the upcoming season of Jersey Shore for an additional $70,000.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Wednesday that it has become "increasingly clear" that North Korea seeks to use U.S. citizens as pawns to pursue a political agenda.
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The Moon Door-obsessed kid was also briefly engaged to his cousin Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) and was used as one of Littlefinger's (Aiden Gillen) pawns throughout the series.
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"As an immigrant, I know the magnetic power of America's greatness… As an American, I know that kids shouldn't be pawns while the 'adults' figure it out," Schwarzenegger tweeted.
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"This bombardment...in Mali is a clear message from us to France and its pawns in the country that the war between us will not end," the statement said.
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They are run by the same self-interested billionaires who think of the rest of us as their pawns and turn us against each other for their own purposes.
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HERMÈS ARCEAU CASAQUE $3,400 In the Arceau Casaque, Hermès riffs on its equestrian past and the vibrantly colored horse-head pawns of a classic French board game for children.
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But even as older residents are pushed out, many new residents may feel like pawns, as they are themselves fleeing rising rents in other parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan.
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At that time, superpower rivalries between East and West meant that "we were used as pawns in Africa's entire decolonization process," Mr. Dabengwa wrote in a paper in 2015.
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Michigan is one of several states, red and blue, where regular citizens, tired of being the pawns of power-hungry lawmakers, are fighting to take back the mapmaking process.
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To the Editor: It is both patently unfair and flat-out vindictive to turn the Dreamers, who are innocent of any wrongdoing, into pawns for President Trump's venomous agenda.
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Caught up by a storm, the honeymooners become pawns in a chess game — at once ludicrous and unrelenting — between Lugosi's hysteria-prone Hungarian psychiatrist and Karloff's lisping Austrian architect.
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Today ordinary people are still pawns, it seems, in a system that is regularly rigged against them through gerrymandering, voter suppression, police brutality and collusion with nefarious foreign agents.
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That this group portrait of image-manipulating politicians and their pawns was presented only days before the latest American presidential election gave Mr. van Hove's production a searing timeliness.
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"Across the country, doctors are being used as political pawns in the attack on abortion," Marc Hearron, Senior Counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement.
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In Anne's court, men can be advantageous pawns, but to ask them to do much more than bicker, race ducks, and play stupid games will lead to nothing good.
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"What if I made you an offer too extraordinary to refuse?" she entices her pawns, a San Francisco couple trying to climb the steep ladder of success in Silicon Valley.
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Despite her socialist leanings, advocacy for women's rights and defence of the poor, Sand never embraced women's suffrage—she worried women would be pawns of their husbands at the polls.
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One is that the rise of machine learning and improved data collection techniques has created a dystopian panopticon in which all of us have become helpless pawns of late capitalism.
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Plot-critical female characters in this series are often treated like pawns more than people, so the sincerity of the interactions you can have in the cabaret clubs is refreshing.
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Everyone physically there — including those in the audience, those behind the scenes, and those walking down the runway — had been pawns in a showdown between American money and Chinese might.
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The Thrones co-creators have tried to pare down extra stuff and move the show into an endgame, like a chessboard with all the pawns and minor pieces taken out.
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We've witnessed great men, modern gladiators who flirt with perfection, reduced to little more than pawns in The Based God's game, slipping, stumbling, struggling against the whims of the hex.
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"War Girls" provides invaluable insight into the devastation of war for the most vulnerable victims — the children who become soldiers, and pawns, with barely a way to separate the two.
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"I'm frustrated with leaders that don't value other lives, whether it's our own people, whether it's using military people as pawns in some chess game, or whole countries," she said.
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Whether President Trump uses DREAMERS as pawns in an effort to leverage funding to build his border wall, or ultimately cancels DACA, the consequences for young immigrants would be devastating.
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But as a surge of inter-Korean diplomacy unfolded last year, many of the 33,000 refugees from North Korea in the South say they feel like political pawns suddenly discarded.
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In his worldview, individuals are rarely to blame for society's ills; more often they are unwitting pawns in a chess game playing out on a scale they will never comprehend.
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"We were victims who got turned into pawns and captives," Silvertooth, 123, the last remaining resident of Antelope who lived through the commune's siege, tells PEOPLE in this week's issue.
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"He offered our brave men and women in uniform the bitter insult of using them as political pawns to push his radical right-wing, anti-immigrant agenda," Mr. Hammill said.
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But they need to be wary of the potential conflicts of interest that can arise from these collaborations, and of being used as virtue-signaling pawns for ethically problematic companies.
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But with his backing came a stark shift in culture and a rigid new command structure, one that left some activists feeling they were pawns in matching red T-shirts.
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They are pawns in a media game that deliberately blurs the lines between fame, fact and fiction until public interest in a character or event becomes almost a moot point.
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"Incineration does not solve the Defense Department's PFAS problems; it just pawns them off on already overburdened communities," Jonathan Kalmuss-Katz, a staff attorney with Earthjustice, said in a statement.
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DREAMers like Ana are hardworking, driven, and patriotic, so it's unfortunate that President Trump and Republican Leadership in Congress have chosen to use them as pawns in the legislative process.
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Time is short for the Americans held on wrongful charges in Iran and President Trump administration must find a way to secure the release of prisoners being held as pawns.
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Westworld hasn't engaged in much narrative debate about whether the Hosts are human; the AI angle is used largely to position them as narrative pawns in a system stacked against them.
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The Abbey and its Templars are just pawns in a greater game, and there's little doubt in my mind that a greater evil will be acknowledged and fought beyond just Artorius.
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They have been accused of being spies for the Chinese Communist Party, of shutting down freedom of speech on campuses, and of acting as remote-controlled pawns of the Chinese government.
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"With today's global supply chains, consumers and smaller companies often end up being the pawns and footing the bill of trade disputes," Cyril Ebersweiler, founder of HAX, a seed accelerator, says.
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The kids held hostage at the border are, in large part, pawns in a larger game by which Trump is trying to coerce Democrats into backing sweeping reforms to legal immigration.
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But Walmart and Visa's negotiations were unusually public, with Visa taking up ads in Canadian newspapers, saying Walmart was using its customers as pawns in its bid to get lower fees.
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Related: Pawns in Syria's Ceasefire, Three Boys Die in Landmine Explosion Some observers and combatants argue that regional powers — potentially including Iran, Turkey, and Qatar — are attempting to sabotage the ceasefire.
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Even when Trump pretends to recognize the importance of minorities and groups, he very openly uses them and their culture as pawns: I love Hispanics, because I'm eating a taco bowl!
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"Terror organizations and their pawns are targeting our innocent citizens in the most immoral and heartless way as they lose the fight against our security forces," Erdogan said in a statement.
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The two tankers have become pawns in the standoff between Iran and the West, their fate tangled up in the diplomatic differences between the EU's big powers and the United States.
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Step by step, the special counsel and New York prosecutors are showing that they regard Trump protégés as little more than pawns in an all-out effort to remove the president.
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But ordinary Ukrainians wouldn't go along with the plan — they refused to be pawns — and their revolution ousted Mr. Putin's allies in Kiev, turning his tactical victory into a strategic defeat.
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Hayden Panettiere better think twice the next time she pawns off a couple dogs for 6 years ... at least that's the takeaway after she settled up with her former dog sitter.
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Now, they have found themselves in the center of a perilous geopolitical battle, Canadian pawns in a larger contest between two of the world's biggest superpowers, China and the United States.
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Getty Sr. loses three of his Sutton Place pawns in this episode: First is Dennis the gardener, Bullimore's love interest, who leaves overnight, apparently fed up with the place's cold soul.
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We have seen a similar dynamic in the context of terrorism, whereby airlines, entertainment companies and other private-sector firms are basically pawns targeted by terrorist groups to achieve geopolitical objectives.
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Here's Fox's statement, which clearly shows how heated this situation is: Roku's threat to delete FOX apps from its customers' devices is a naked effort to use its customers as pawns.
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After Roku's email, Fox responded with a contentious statement that accused Roku of using its customers "as pawns" in negotiations and reminded viewers of other ways to watch the big game.
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"Roku&aposs threat to delete FOX apps from its customers&apos devices is a naked effort to use its customers as pawns," a Fox spokesperson told Business Insider in a statement.
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Long story short: Howard pawns the ring for cash, which he turns around and uses to place a bet on a Celtics game, which — well, just watch the darn thing unfold.
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But Dawn of War III, even more than other Warhammer (40k) games, seems to take the view that most of your units are, in the last analysis, pawns to be sacrificed.
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Socialist Correa during his decade-long rule attacked the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund as pawns of Washington and instead sought financing arrangements with China through oil-for-loan agreements.
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All nine of them are pawns in the diplomatic fight that's followed the murder of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's half-brother, who was killed in a Malaysian airport in February.
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But amid international efforts to reduce military tensions and improve ties with North Korea, many of the 32,000 North Korean refugees in South Korea say they feel like political pawns suddenly discarded.
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" Allen also included the following alleged quote from Moses, "Knowing that my mother often used us as pawns, I cannot trust anything that is said or written from anyone in the family.
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"I will not allow President Trump to once again use New York families as political pawns in his dangerous, partisan campaign to eviscerate the Affordable Care Act at any cost," he wrote.
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Trenton and Mobley were arguably the coolest characters on the show (more Trenton than Mobley, if we're being real), and now they're both gone, sacrificial pawns in the Dark Army's fiendish game.
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The Israeli government accuses Hamas, which controls Gaza, of using the protesters as pawns to penetrate the fence and attempt to return to their homes of more than half a century ago.
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Pacific countries have also been clear that they do not wish to be treated as pawns in a wider geopolitical game because they are acutely adept at navigating decades of geopolitical competition.
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As the prevailing winds have changed, the same people on the left who rightfully told us how immoral it was to use LGBT people as political pawns now gleefully do the same.
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"In the end, they will be pawns of whatever politics the government of China wants to enact," said Higgins, when describing the relationship between Chinese drug enforcement agencies and central government leadership.
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In "The America We Deserve," his book published in 2000, when he was exploring a bid for president under the Reform Party, Trump accused Republicans of being pawns of the gun lobby.
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But the 800,000 workers he is stiffing now through the shutdown he forced — many of whom are being required to work — are being used as pawns in a game in our names.
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"We're all pawns in a grand experiment to be manipulated by digital stimuli to which no one has given explicit consent," Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin, told us.
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They pretend to be raising money for scholarships or sports teams, but really they're the pawns in a grim little scam, the main point of which seems to be their own exploitation.
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Those less willing to let his confirmation hang on that slender reed have instead suggested Ford (and Ramirez and Julie Swetnick) are pawns in a conspiracy to upend Kavanaugh's life and career.
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As tensions between Tehran and Washington have escalated in recent months, the fates of foreign prisoners held in Iran — which American officials believe are used as political pawns — have become increasingly complicated.
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As tensions between Tehran and Washington have escalated in recent months, the fates of foreign prisoners held in Iran — which American officials believe are used as political pawns — have become increasingly complicated.
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From Bernie's revolutionaries to Trump's rally-goers to Black Lives Matter activists, from moms against gun violence to libertarians against Big Brother -- citizens are no longer accepting being small pawns of big players.
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Yet there is no exploration of whether the old model of the fearless journalist chasing the story at any cost needs to be re-examined when groups like ISIS use captives as pawns.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Crises in the Middle East will not be resolved if terrorists are used as pawns in geopolitical games, RIA news agency quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying on Thursday.
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"I've heard of people being forced at gunpoint," said Fife, who points out that even those who aren't used as mules or pawns by the cartels face immense dangers in the open desert.
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"Many of these nations and terrorist groups want to use our citizens as political pawns and leverage ... but I'm so hopeful that we can now find them and bring them home," Foley said.
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This game encourages its players to steal their friends' pawns to sabotage their chances at a win, with the added bonus of "Not Sorry!" cards to bring in a "Have you ever?" twist.
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This event, an open-ended game called Paradise Now where human beings are pawns following a list of abstract instructions for points, is the creation of Baltimore-based artist and publisher Kimi Hanauer.
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"Terror organizations and their pawns are targeting our innocent citizens in the most immoral and heartless way as they lose the fight against our security forces," Erdogan said in a statement this week.
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She had fooled Ali, the doctors, and the court into believing that she was reformed, but she had every intention to treat all of the Liars like pawns in her own game again.
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The problem is that Trump isn't simply spinning up some conflict for sweeps week: 800,000 federal workers, and millions more who depend on their work, are pawns in Trump's display of presidential ego.
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And still the valley's 7m people, who speak their own unique language, are nearly all Muslim and generally disdain India and Pakistan alike, remain hapless pawns in a vicious game between those rivals.
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The alliance of Arab states led by the UAE and Saudi Arabia has been fighting since 2015 to restore Hadi's government, and describes the Houthis as pawns of Iran, which the Houthis deny.
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And then you're stuck touring around until one of you inevitably loses it and beats the shit out of the rest of you or pawns everyone's instruments and runs off with everyone's MacBooks.
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But Professor Boddie condescends to the plaintiffs in the suit by depicting them as pawns of the conservative activist Edward Blum, who has spearheaded several other challenges to affirmative action and voting rights.
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While the Trump administration has pointed to security and legal concerns to justify its actions, some analysts have worried that Huawei and other Chinese tech companies were becoming pawns in the trade negotiations.
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Maybe Mark Light understood this better than we do: How could you possibly address a suit and admit that people who were the beneficiaries of the thing you sold were also its pawns?
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Master P is full of it when he says he's broke, and even worse -- he's turned 3 of his kids into pawns in his divorce war with Sonya Miller ... according to Sonya, anyway.
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These immigrant children crying out for their mothers and fathers are collateral damage, pawns in a political battle to wring strict legislation out of Congress — medieval torture displays meant to serve as deterrents.
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Defence lawyers have argued the killing was politically motivated, with many key suspects linked to the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur, suggesting the two women were merely unwitting pawns in the attack.
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Presented with Colectiva Infancias, a group of social scientists, the show demonstrates that migrant children are more than the pawns of adults; some leave to escape gang violence or to find their parents.
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"We do not want to see our citizens used as pawns, or be made to suffer because of political battles in Honduras or the United States," the Honduran government said in a statement.
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If Judge Gorsuch and Mr. Bannon accomplish their goal, they will turn the clock back 100 years, to a time when corporations could treat workers like pawns and the environment like a sewer.
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The military, which has worked so diligently to eradicate terrorism in Pakistan, could crack down on groups like Tehreek-e-Labbaik that make ordinary Pakistanis pawns in their game of blood and terror.
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In a letter sent in August to John R. Bolton, the national security adviser, Ms. Liu said she and her brother were being used as pawns in China's investigation into her estranged father.
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Instead, many lawmakers in recent years have been doing the opposite, treating judges like political pawns who are, or should be, more beholden to a partisan platform or public pressure than to the law.
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Before newcomers can even begin to start learning how the various chess pieces move around the board, they have to know what squares the pawns, bishops, rooks, knights, kings, and queens all call home.
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American prisoners have previously been released after high-profile visits or communications from the US. Even if the individuals are merely pawns in a wider political game, the impact on their lives is great.
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They see technology as a force facilitating inequality rather than growth, destroying jobs, especially for manual workers, turning consumers into corporate pawns rather than information-savvy citizens and destroying the planet in the process.
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Whether that broadened responsibility will negatively impact Hood's defense is something to watch, as will Jazz head coach Quin Snyder's willingness to field smaller units that widen driving lanes for his perimeter-oriented pawns.
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Or the roughly 3m residents of Britain—who work, pay taxes and contribute to society like everyone else—who by dint of their foreign EU passports may soon be pawns in Ms May's negotiation.
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"There is a rise in xenophobia in the US, and a flood of Venezuelans from across social strata into the country risk local backlash and becoming pawns and scapegoats of US politicians," he said.
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In his emotional Instagram videos, Mathews accused his wife of using their children as "pawns" and claimed Farley agreed to discuss their divorce on the upcoming season of Jersey Shore for an additional $70,000.
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With the Trump Foundation, according to New York's attorney general office, he allegedly exploited veterans as political pawns by taking the charity donations of well-meaning patriots and used them for his own gain.
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Describing the atrocities committed by the communists, she lamented the plight of her country, the fate of all Vietnamese who found themselves pawns in the power play between the communist and anti-communist blocs.
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But it was also a badly played political chess move that saw David Cameron making pawns of us all, in the context of a campaign marked by xenophobia and petty nationalism on both sides.
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Feature Hua Qu is fighting to save her husband — one of at least seven U.S. captives in the Islamic Republic being used as pawns in a nearly 40-year secret history of hostage taking.
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"This strategic option, of course, entails lack of public scrutiny of the debates and decisions, which is a problem and involves treating people as 'pawns' or 'human botnets' acting under your direction," he adds.
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"We have now become political pawns, and only with the forceful advocacy and involvement of the United States government will this nightmare be able to end," she wrote in a letter obtained by CNN.
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In the following scenes, viewers watch as Ratner pawns Garnett&aposs diamond-encrusted championship ring, which he gave Ratner as collateral for the gem stone, and enter a series of other high-stakes bets.
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Some commentators and officials have dismissed the protesters as mere pawns of a pro-Iranian militia, who attacked the embassy in Baghdad in retaliation for an earlier airstrike that killed at least 25 people.
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It's no longer a series of abstract platforms, but a lush, thriving world that recontextualizes and endears the aliens I spent the last 10 hours shooting as innocent pawns in a much larger game.
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But instead of liberating Europe from evil fascists, politicians like Hillary Clinton use their long, worn croupier rakes to move their pawns about with the singular goal of advancing their own personal political careers.
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They wanted to document their political grievances, another legacy of the self-worth instilled by Evo in the local residents, whom many Bolivians write off as rabble-rousing pawns in the global drug trade.
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Characters who thought they were smashing capitalism, winning back their family, bringing back their dead parent or fighting the good fight against cyberterrorism, learned that they were essentially pawns being pushed around a chessboard.
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Even those who don't know their rooks from their pawns will be biting their nails during competitions as young, inexperienced Phiona stares over the chess board at her older and more well-trained opponents.
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When announcing three of his nominees to the appeals court in Washington at a White House press conference in June 2013, Obama rejected any notion that they were political pawns, emphasizing their strong credentials.
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The U.S. State Department called the sentence "unduly harsh" and White House spokesman Josh Earnest said it was "increasingly clear" that North Korea sought to use U.S. citizens as pawns to pursue a political agenda.
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But we were also victims of Qatar's policy of using the Arabic arm of Al Jazeera's network to support the Brotherhood against Egypt's rulers, which made me and my colleagues pawns in Doha's geopolitical game.
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As many as 15 percent of Twitter users may not be users at all, but unthinking robotic pawns in a sinister plot to boost Leguizamo's career, the Times writes:The actor John Leguizamo has Devumi followers.
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And now the Maduro camp has a couple of special political prisoners to deploy as diplomatic pawns: Mr. Márquez has American and Venezuelan citizenship; Mr. San Miguel is a national of both Venezuela and Spain.
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A Kremlin spokesman on Wednesday said that Russia does not use people as "pawns in a diplomatic game," while addressing the case of an American citizen who was detained in the country on espionage allegations.
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"We will continue our fight against the pawns that carry out such attacks, which know no moral or humanitarian bounds, and the forces behind them with more determination every day," Erdogan said in a statement.
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" Comey said in a statement posted to Twitter on Wednesday evening that in a democracy "security clearances should not be used as pawns in a petty political game to distract voters from even bigger problems.
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And though that has been true, in part, the didactic, often body-focused framing of those stories and the gender-war timing of that visibility has also rendered us into symbols, metaphors, pawns and boogeymen.
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Knowing any more about these characters would spoil the ending of their respective movies, and so these movies turn their characters into vapid pawns, moved from setup to red herring to twist to final reveal.
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They want to be a part of Serbia but feel like pawns in the bigger game as Serbia seeks membership in the European Union, and expect to be forsaken by Belgrade if that day comes.
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He often played against Mr. Biyiasas, at one point beating him in 17 straight blitz games, but he also played Ms. Haring, removing one of his pawns at the start to give himself a handicap.
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In my many conversations with James Comey, the F.B.I. director, in the summer of 2016, we talked about the potential for American citizens, involved in partisan politics or not, to be pawns in Russian hands.
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The directors Bush Moukarzel and Ben Kidd have eliminated the play's three most interesting characters — Prospero, Caliban and Ariel — and concentrate instead on the supporting cast that Shakespeare moves around like pawns on a chessboard.
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Gibraltarians, who voted overwhelmingly — 96 percent — to stay in the European Union in last year's referendum, now find themselves potential pawns in a larger game involving various frontier issues in the wake of that vote.
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LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Britain cautioned Russia on Friday that individuals should not be used as diplomatic pawns after a former U.S. Marine who also holds a British passport was detained in Moscow on espionage charges.
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In the postwar decades, Taesung and Kijong became pawns in a propaganda war between the two Koreas, with both sides investing in their own model village to extol the virtues of their respective political systems.
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The alliance of Arab states led by the UAE and Saudi Arabia has been fighting since 2015 to restore Hadi's government and describes the Houthis as pawns of Iran, accusations the Houthis and Tehran deny.
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For example, the women who have accused Roy Moore of harassment and assault have been portrayed as political pawns, whose alleged experiences are either trivial or who should be criminally prosecuted for not reporting sooner.
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Lim and many other South Koreans say their country has been reduced to pawns in a superpower game of chess as the United States and China seek to tackle North Korea's advancing nuclear and missile programs.
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Malaysian prosecutors have charged two women - an Indonesian and a Vietnamese - with killing Kim Jong Nam, but South Korean and U.S. officials had regarded them as pawns in an operation carried out by North Korean agents.
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In his emotional Instagram videos, Mathews accused his wife of using their children as "pawns" and claimed Farley agreed to discuss their divorce on the upcoming season of Jersey Shore for an additional sum of money.
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In an interview last week, Ms. Strout said she did not use her characters as pawns to make a greater point, nor as stand-ins for her own experiences, as readers often assume that writers do.
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When two pandas were brought to Edinburgh Zoo a few years ago, Ross Minett, the campaign director of a local animal-welfare charity, said the bears were "being exploited as diplomatic pawns in a commercial deal".
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"We will continue our fight against the pawns that carry out such attacks, which know no moral or humanitarian bounds, and the forces behind them with more determination every day," he said in a written statement.
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Succession, like Billions or Veep or Game of Thrones, confirms the unpleasant yet persistent suspicion that most of us are just pawns in a game played between kings, and that those kings are mostly terrible people.
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Only one of the three Pawns you can travel with is ever really yours, too—the rest are just empty warrior vessels you borrow by logging into the void and finding the perfect one to borrow.
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Eventually, you learn that they've been infected with a monstrous little creature that turns them into zombie-like pawns to a greater evil figure, someone who wants to take control of people's minds around the world.
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I remember once heartlessly doing a photo essay on consumers, lurking outside of a Kmart and taking pictures of innocent people coming out with their carts, trying to frame them as miserable pawns mindlessly hording goods.
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"Our phones and emails are being flooded by citizens who are enraged by this president's attempt to use our children as pawns in a liberal agenda," said Representative John Bennett, a Republican, in an emailed statement.
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I recall intelligence officials going to Congress at one point to brief them on what the Russians were doing, and we were warned to not allow ourselves to be used as pawns by the Obama administration.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Caitlyn Jenner, America's best-known transgender celebrity, said on Thursday that she had been wrong to support President Donald Trump, saying he had insulted the transgender community and turned them into political pawns.
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Both the Wichita police and the man in the house were pawns in a hoax called "swatting," in which people report made-up crimes in hopes of creating a spectacle and getting a SWAT team deployed.
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With the help of two pawns — Issa (Grigoriy Dobrygin), a Chechen political refugee, and Annabel (Rachel McAdams), an immigration lawyer — Bachmann delicately arranges the pieces of his puzzle but struggles to keep American officials at bay.
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Presented by the museum with Colectiva Infancias, a group of social scientists, the show demonstrates that migrant children are more than pawns shifted by adults; some leave to escape gang violence or to find their parents.
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Since the day the Trump administration unlawfully terminated DACA, we have repeatedly been used as pawns, like our lives are pieces that could be easily moved to negotiate whatever policy seems most convenient at the moment.
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The Houthis, from a Shi'ite minority that ruled a thousand-year Yemeni kingdom until 1962, deny being Tehran's pawns and say they took power in a popular revolt and are defending Yemen from invasion by its neighbours.
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"The Obama administration has a track record of using our military men and women as pawns in their political game, but this memo makes clear they have no shame in doing so," he said in a statement.
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If Trump is truly a friend of the LGBT community, he will stop using transgender individuals as political pawns, and instead, allow them to be full, participating members in all of our society's institutions — including the military.
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Without question, the threat of lynching was a major tool for what we now call voter suppression, so insisting that mobs formed because black men were rapists who targeted white women made white women important political pawns.
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Maduro insists opposition leaders are U.S. pawns intent on sabotaging the economy and bringing him down through violence as part of an international right-wing conspiracy led by Washington and fanned by private domestic and foreign media.
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Consequently, staggering numbers of people in the South, mostly minorities, are disenfranchised from the right to vote, while the same disenfranchised bodies in the justice system are used as the political pawns for gerrymandering and redistricting efforts.
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In an act of pretentious cringiness, he "revealed" that his whole blog had been nothing more than a "social experiment" the whole time, and we were all pawns for his research into the world of micro-blogging.
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"Cult leaders think nothing of using people like pawns to get their way, and it doesn&apost matter if there are people on the staff saying this is a bad idea, which apparently Bolton did," Hassen said.
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In addition, they have been accused in absentia by conservative sections of the Pakistani media and right-wing trolls as pawns of foreign powers (read India, the eternal enemy) who are waging an information war against Pakistan.
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"Chicago will not let our police officers become political pawns in a debate," said Mr. Emanuel, a Democrat, whose city received $2.3 million in law enforcement grants last year from the program that is now at risk.
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"We have career people who did their jobs, followed their instructions, served their country loyally, and they are being treated as pawns in a political struggle," said a senior U.S diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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Let's not forget that much-respected UFC stars like Chris Weidman, Frank Mir, and Alexander Gustafsson have all visited Chechnya as guests of Kadyrov: all of them perfect, well-paid pawns in the dictator's propaganda chess match.
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"The NBA should be ashamed of itself for using North Carolina—particularly its young girls—as a political pawns for an out-of-touch agenda that compromises both dignity interests and privacy rights," Fitzgerald said in a statement.
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"Certain people in Hong Kong have been relying on foreigners or relying on young people to build themselves up, serving as the pawns and lackeys of foreign anti-China forces," the ruling People's Daily said in a commentary.
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And so the powerful ending to Dragon's Dogma really does hinge on the potential for Pawns to become people, for Chosen One stories to eradicate themselves in their telling and prevent those like them from gaining ground again.
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STEPHEN KINGFarnham, Surrey "Knights become pawns" (December 1st) suggests that the minimum level of competence for an MP to hold a government job in Britain has fallen below the one outlined by Sir Humphrey Appleby in "Yes, Minister".
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The problem is that since they're so easily re-shareable and don't require people to leave Facebook to view them, they can get viral distribution from unsuspecting users who don't realize they've become pawns in a disinformation campaign.
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On a local news talk show last week, Ms. Tsai rejected an assertion that Taiwan was being helplessly drawn into tensions between the United States and China "Many people say we are pawns of other people," she said.
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He said he was in touch with supporters and allies in Bolivia, but that it was impossible for him to organize protests from Mexico, saying unions and groups that back him were not pawns he could order about.
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" 'We're like pawns' In an address from the Oval Office Tuesday night, Trump appealed to Americans for a wall at the US-Mexico border, saying the country is facing a "humanitarian and security crisis at our southern border.
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It's the core of the myth of voter fraud — that nonwhite voters don't have any agency or investment in the election of their own, and that they're instead being used as pawns by Democrats to create illegitimate majorities.
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That only intensified in the final weeks of the show as the lines between fantasy and reality blurred, with Bousman, Sears, and the actor Sabrina Kern herself all introduced as characters (and potential pawns) within the larger storyline.
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It is particularly precarious now, in what the Premier League has become: a two-tier competition in which, every week, six elite teams demonstrate their superiority over what are in theory their peers, but their pawns in practice.
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Prosecutors portrayed Mr. Covlin as a heartless schemer who would stop at nothing to collect his wife's money, who used his children as pawns in his machinations and even took steps to frame his daughter for the murder.
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The government spun other stories: that the Rohingya were terrorists or else their pawns, and that, rather than being the victims of what much of the world has called ethnic cleansing, they had burned down their own homes.
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MELBOURNE, March 20 (Reuters) - Sydney Kings centre Andrew Bogut has slammed Australia's National Basketball League (NBL) for its handling of the coronavirus situation, saying the administration had failed to be proactive and had left players feeling like "pawns".
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Which sums to governance not by established democratic processes but via the interests of a privileged elite with the wealth and expertise to hack the system and create new ones that can mobilize citizens to act like pawns.
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And I keep crying because a new truth emerged for me that has amplified the feeling of death: Not only are we political pawns, we are inconsequential to most of the U.S." She added: "What else is different?
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What followed in Zinoviev's speech was an elaborate characterization of the White generals and Russia's neighbors as pawns of French, British and American capitalists, a cabal of imperialists determined not to tolerate a workers' state in their midst.
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Those who were awaiting trial or appeal in the U.S., and the Iranian-Americans held by Iran, have all asserted their innocence and portrayed themselves as political pawns in the often-contentious relationship between the U.S. and Iran.
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Officials such as Pruitt and those entrusted with serving in powerful positions that warrant personal protection must respect the decisions, wishes and sacrifices of those doing the protecting, and should start treating them like professionals rather than pawns.
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Our men and women who were tasked to keep us safe in the aftermath of 9/11 -- our military and our intelligence warriors -- are heroes, not pawns in some liberal game being played by the ACLU and Senator Feinstein.
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That's a pattern that suggests the show is essentially treating its supporting characters of color as pawns who can be killed off whenever the stakes need to go up, while the white supporting characters who surround June remain untouched.
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But part of what makes Annihilation truly remarkable is that while it acknowledges that groundbreaking aspect, it also allows its characters to transcend their gender, avoiding turning them into token pawns in the fight for broader female representation onscreen.
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And while adding a bit of spectacle to a storyline is great for viewer engagement, it's time that we treat female characters as more than just lust-thirsty pawns willing to tear each other down to get the man.
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So it seems like all Chuck is really doing in this episode is sacrificing pawns (and maybe knights, too) and while that can be a good strategy, it's starting to feel like Chuck doesn't really have a smart plan.
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He has made trans people into political pawns as he whips up animus against us in an attempt to energize the most right-wing segment of his party, claiming his anti-transgender policies are meant to 'protect the country.
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TANKER PAWNS Erik Hanell, CEO and president of the owner of the Stena Impero, Stena Bulk, said "any event which contributes in any way" to getting the crew of its ship free in Iran "must be viewed as positive".
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Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, said that it was "increasingly clear that the North Korean government intends to use these citizens as pawns," and that Mr. Warmbier's arrest demonstrated why it was hazardous to visit North Korea.
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"Transgender people are frequently used as political pawns; they say we're monsters and we go into bathrooms and commit crimes and whatever else," said Bryce Celotto, 26, a middle-school teacher and Army National Guard veteran in Oakland, Calif.
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Supposedly the creatures are there to be protected from a cruel re-extinction policy, but actually they are pawns in a diabolical scheme to breed super-weapons that can be auctioned off to a gathering of international bad guys.
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They are pawns on a technical chessboard that are impossible to invest in because it&aposs so obvious that their moves have been manufactured and pre-mapped out for them with no room to suspend the audience&aposs disbelief.
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For months, the kidnapped hunters were held as pawns in a complex regional game pitting Iranian proxies against those working on behalf of Qatar, armed groups in both Iraq and Syria, and ransom negotiations involving many millions of dollars.
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And the fact that there are two of them means he kind of rips a hole in the screen when his scenes end, leaving the members of the crew with too little time to become anything but shallow pawns.
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"Certain people in Hong Kong have been relying on foreigners or relying on young people to build themselves up, serving as the pawns and lackeys of foreign anti-China forces," the ruling Communist Party's official People's Daily said in a commentary.
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Jones agrees that the VA conducting official research is a good first step, but he&aposs also concerned that his fellow vets are becoming "pawns" in what is quickly becoming a multimillion-dollar game of chess between lawmakers and lobbyists.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - President Hassan Rouhani cast his hardline clerical opponents as power-hungry pawns of Iran's security forces on Friday, going far beyond the traditional bounds of Iranian political discourse in a blistering final TV debate a week before an election.
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The current crisis in the Strait of Hormuz has put a spotlight on the murky world of international shipping, where shipowners can register and re-register their vessels within minutes, turning their crews into pawns in a game of diplomatic chess.
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Perhaps it's because it evokes the idea that everything we think of as "normal," the choices we think we're making, are actually just things we do because we're pawns in the game of someone bigger setting us up for something.
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During their cross-examination of Mr. Foye and the mayor on Wednesday, lawyers for the defendants tried to steer blame above and away from their clients, portraying them as well-meaning pawns in a political game they could not control.
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It is time that LGBT people stop being used as political pawns, it is time that we end the farcical bathroom wars and, most importantly, it is time to focus on the real threats to the lives of LGBT people worldwide.
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No one with a brain believes in this day and age that women are defenseless pawns of men — in fact to continue to perpetuate this myth about women is in and of itself denigrating of the strength of modern women.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's fight against "pawns" carrying out attacks and the forces behind them will grow more determined, President Tayyip Erdogan said in a statement on Wednesday, after a car bomb killed at least 28 people in the capital Ankara.
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The Jewish refugee issue was swept into the dustbin of history, undoubtedly because ultimately those Jews who fled Arab lands as a result of the war were not left to rot in refugee camps as political pawns the way Palestinians were.
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After two protesters confronted Senator Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona, inside an elevator on Capitol Hill in late September and urged him to vote against Mr. Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court, Mr. Trump dismissed the protesters as Soros pawns.
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This brand of anti-abortion activism is ready and willing to use disabled populations as political pawns but is not yet equipped to imagine futures in which disabled people are autonomous individuals deserving of the full span of human rights.
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As for management…well, I would like to start off by saying that, as someone who's been driving for some time now, I have always felt that I, and my fellow operators, are just pawns in their game of political chess.
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At 20, Yasmin (Dina Shihabi) has only recently awakened to the forces that have shaped her life — men fighting over land, men making pawns of girls and women, men deciding what makes a woman a treasure and what makes her trash.
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Gary Shigenaka, a NOAA marine biologist, emailed Mr. Jacobs urging him to address "this crisis of moral leadership our agency is facing" and asking for reassurance that "we are not mere pawns in an absurd game" pitting science against politics.
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Time's up on using black and brown women as pawns (on the 282st century red carpet or the 22015th century lecture circuit) to advance the equality of our white sisters at the expense of our own well-being and equality.
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Leading up to Ms. Tolokonnikova's trial, Russian news reports carried suggestions that she and her bandmates were pawns of Hillary Clinton's State Department or witches working with a global satanic conspiracy — perhaps linked to the one that was behind the Sept.
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Though polls show the opposition has majority support and his foes repeatedly call for a free and fair election as their No. 1 demand, Maduro insists they are U.S. pawns intent on sabotaging the economy and bringing him down through violence.
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"It's time to send a message to President Trump and Senate Republicans: federal and contract workers are the backbone of our economy and their livelihoods should never be used as pawns in Republican political games," Warren said in a statement.
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Key U.S. agencies rejected the Saudi court's findings, saying the men sentenced to death were low-level pawns and that two acquitted senior security officials were far more intimately involved, according to Reuters, citing a source familiar with U.S. intelligence estimates.
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The billionaire couple who hosted a December fundraising event for South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg in a California wine cave expressed their frustration with how they are being depicted, saying they are just political "pawns," The New York Times reports.
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But as long as Netflix continues to use its films as pawns — refusing to let them even play out of competition — then filmmakers who get funding from the company will have to give up the boost that Cannes can give their career.
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Groups overseas who claim to speak for Uighurs are nothing more than "running dogs and pawns" of the same hostile Western forces, the official said, adding his mission as a Uighur himself is to tell the real facts about Xinjiang to the world.
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After Mathews, 43, posted a series of videos on Instagram accusing his wife of using their children as "pawns" and keeping them from him, Polizzi shared security footage of the Jersey Shore star speaking to police about the incident inside her home.
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This myth of the "flying squadron" – Catherine's legendary crack team of sexual pawns – is, of course, nothing more than a heterosexual male fantasy that reduces her tireless negotiations for peace to a tired notion of powerful women using "sex as a weapon".
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If the Academy Awards red carpet has become a polished marketing event with celebrities as pawns in a high-fashion game, the pink version at the Billboard awards revealed rock stars and those who aspire to be them dressed, well, seemingly by themselves.
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"Unlike prior administrations, the Trump administration seems perfectly willing to use immigrant children as negotiating pawns, no matter how much harm it does to the children," said Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the Immigrants' Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union.
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But Lieutenant Crowell lamented how "the progression from publishing a benign book on leadership to becoming immediate pawns in a political debate shows the slippery slope that awaits SEALs who market their identities and pursue public personas in the wake of SEAL fame."
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What the people in the covered wagons did not grasp was that to a large extent they were pawns in the hands of political and business interests—especially those of the railroads—that needed to see ground broken across the entire continent.
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Arab governments who have used innocent Palestinian refugees as pawns by which to demonize Israel will recognize they will never be migrating to Israel to demographically overrun the Jewish state and Palestine will never be liberated from the river to the sea.
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Keanu Reeves plays Jack, a gum-chewing Los Angeles detective who foils an attempted domestic terror attack by jaded ex-bomb squad member Howard (Dennis Hopper) and ignites a rivalry of wits, with the citizens of LA as pawns in Howard's games.
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He said that the presidential election season, during which Muslims were used as political pawns by candidates on both sides, and an uptick in anti-Muslim rhetoric, and the election of Donald Trump, has been a wake-up call for the community.
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The two men and three women — who have been incarcerated on weapons charges since August, after the authorities raided the compound — stand accused of running a terror training camp and using malnourished children, who lived on site, as pawns in their plot.
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His character touches at the curdled heart of modern misogyny — the pickup-artist mind-set that gamifies sex, the grievance that "nice guys" are entitled to women's attention, the craving by poorly socialized men to interact with programmable pawns rather than complex people.
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The Chamber's Pawns In 2016, a handful of small business owners became the public face of Wall Street's opposition to the U.S. Department of Labor's proposed fiduciary rule, guaranteeing that financial advisers provide retirement savers with investment advice in their best interest.
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But the spasm of violence has raised questions about whether radical Muslims here — who have largely confined their activities to pushing for Islamic laws, persecuting religious minorities and ransacking bars that they consider affronts to Islam — are becoming pawns in Indonesia's secular politics.
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Sometimes, American presidents decide to expel Russians who are thought to have done real damage with their espionage, and sometimes the expulsions are intended to send a warning shot to Moscow, with the expelled officials serving as pawns in a chess match.
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And Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary has portrayed his opponents as pawns in the billionaire philanthropist George Soros's supposed scheme to use refugees to subjugate his country (a claim that is increasingly being echoed on the farther reaches of the American right).
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Beijing's liaison office in Hong Kong has called on residents not to be used as pawns by foreign forces amid the U.S.-China trade war, and said more than 60 statements issued by overseas powers had fueled tension over the controversial extradition bill.
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An orphaned boy in a children's home who "could not tell anyone his pain", but finds comfort from a kindly cleaner, matters as much to Grossman—or rather, infinitely more—than the generals and leaders who sacrifice millions of pawns on their strategic chessboards.
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Its depictions of space colonists ("pawns") trying to eke a life out for themselves on a hostile planet—beset upon by invasions, plagued by extreme weather, and torn apart by their own procedurally-generated psyches—make for compelling micro-narratives ready for the telling.
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The sudden prominence of fringe, hardline Muslim groups during the campaign has also raised questions about whether they are being used as political pawns and destabilizing Indonesia, a secular nation with the world's largest Muslim population, often exemplified as a model of religious pluralism.
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Let's for a moment set aside that an announcement was made on the prisoners' release that had not yet even transpired and focus on the fact Giuliani used the fate of three prisoners, held captive by a brutal and authoritarian regime, as political pawns.
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GAZA (Reuters) - The Palestinian Authority cut salaries for its staff in Gaza by 20 percent on Thursday and failed to make up for skipping the previous month's pay, leaving civil servants in the impoverished territory fuming they were pawns in a factional power struggle.
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They've sought refuge in cities, fleeing the oppressive straightness of the suburbs and the rest of the US. But they've also directly benefitted from gentrification, and been used as pawns by real estate developers to help kick off the gentrification of neighborhoods and entire cities.
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" It just so happened that the women Republicans could most directly affect were poor women; in the words of the Guttmacher Institute's director of public policy, Heather Boonstra, "Poor women have been pawns in the congressional debate over abortion since the procedure became legal nationwide.
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The other is a demagogic bigot with a puddle-deep understanding of national and international issues, who openly courts white nationalism, is hostile to women, Mexicans and Muslims, and is callously using black people as pawns in a Donnie-come-lately kinder-gentler campaign.
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By 1972, the idea that Vietnam posed a threat to Cold War America was so discredited, it sometimes sounded as if America's only remaining war aim was to get back its P.O.W.s (President Richard Nixon bizarrely claimed that Hanoi was using them as "negotiating pawns").
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As it tried to grapple with public outrage over meddling in the 2016 elections, its leaders sought to mask the extent of the problem, lobbying extensively in Washington and aggressively battling its critics — even painting them as pawns of the liberal billionaire George Soros.
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They echo the old fundamentalist charge against the Social Gospelers: that Christians who focus too much on trying to reform the unjust institutions of this world risk playing down the call to salvation in the hereafter — and also become pawns of godless social engineers.
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All the while, Mr. Trump is trying to hammer out a trade deal with China, and Canada is concerned that its citizens have become pawns in a geopolitical and economic battle between the United States and China in which Canada is paying a heavy price.
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I cannot say whether I believe in climate change or not, but I do think that schools should allow children to make their own opinions, rather than making them pawns of the government and indoctrinating them with the ideals of politicians on both sides.
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"It should not have taken stories about UAW GM workers who faced losing their cancer drugs, or postponing their surgery dates for GM to see their workers as humans beings not pawns on a chess board," Jason Kaplan, a representative for UAW, told The Hill.
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Burger King is the latest brand to use depression as a marketing tool Maryland just elected its first black female House speaker Exclusive: Civil servants say they're being used as pawns in a dangerous asylum program How SpongeBob memes came to rule internet culture
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Some commissioners said that they had been restrained in what they could discuss while the hearing was going on because it was a personnel matter, and that a well-orchestrated campaign by Mr. Lester and his supporters had unfairly portrayed them as being pawns of developers.
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It pits a team of "hunters" against "the cartel," as one group collects intelligence and deploys pawns representing law enforcement across a map of western Mexico, while the bad guys try to evade capture and keep their boss happy by playing certain cards and rolling dice.
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In fact, we're told by the president that the invasion on our border has become such a dire issue that it's a crisis worth shutting down the government over, leaving a trail of 800,000 American families as political pawns along the path of this game of chicken.
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" Trump has long railed against "sanctuary" policies, and in response to reports of the latest considered moves, a spokeswoman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused the Trump administration of "using human beings -- including little children -- as pawns in their warped game to perpetuate fear and demonize immigrants.
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But the rise of right-wing WeChat fake news may usher many first-generation immigrants down a dark road, leading them to be pawns of larger conservative forces eager to pit immigrant groups against one another — and helping prop up increasing official bigotry back on the mainland.
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The experience of using either service would be considerably poorer if your direct neighbours were split across two competing platforms, something Boyes concedes, noting that the last thing both companies wanted to do was treat its users as pawns in a battle between Streetlife and Nextdoor.
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While "Succession" shares certain attributes with that show, its closest cousin might actually be "Weapons of Mass Distraction," a brilliant and prescient 1997 HBO movie -- written by Larry Gelbart -- about a feud between two media moguls, who wielded their far-flung assets like pawns on a chessboard.
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Artists are pawns of a higher rank…bestowed with the illusions of freedom…the castle weakens when the artist rejects the role of the rook…this requires artists who, not waiting their turn, ignore the laws of the grid and break the rules of the game.
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What we have yet to see is how the rest of the characters in this world will react to the idea that the people they trust are using them as pawns — and whether this world allows for the possibility of breaking free of your complicity all together.
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The Economist takes a close look at the civil war in Yemen, which the magazine calls "the worst humanitarian crisis in the world," and the kingdom's role in it: As a result, Yemenis have become the pawns in the regional power struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
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What's more, it tracks the era in which Korea is sliced into halves, in which Koreans lose control of their own destiny, in which they are treated as pawns by the Americans and as subhuman by the Japanese, and is thus powerful context for today's geopolitics.
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It is up to these wise men to set things right, and Paul in particular succeeds in engineering, in the novel's last pages, a dizzying series of machinations to institute an order on the disorder he sees, moving characters around likes pawns on a chess board.
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I came to the conclusion (correctly, I think) that the movie is actually about an economic and social system that turns everyone into parasites because it itself is parasitic, attaching itself to people's humanity and turning them into pawns in a game of its own devising.
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"It should not have taken stories about UAW GM workers who faced losing their cancer drugs, or postponing their surgery dates for GM to see their workers as humans beings not pawns on a chess board," Jason Kaplan, a representative for UAW, told The Hill last week.
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"It should not have taken stories about UAW GM workers who faced losing their cancer drugs, or postponing their surgery dates for GM to see their workers as humans beings not pawns on a chess board," Jason Kaplan, a representative for UAW, told The Hill last week.
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