Melania didn't have to choose cyberbullying as her pet project.
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"It's partially an experiment, partially a pet project," says Kracker.
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Weiner originally built Pocket in 22016 as a pet project.
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It's just a pet project for us in a way.
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The country became a pet project for the former mayor.
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The long-forgotten shelter was a quiet, pet project of Gov.
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Prayer on TV is sort of a pet project for me.
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Each pursuing a pet project: Build reusable rockets and ultimately colonize Mars.
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Sean Duffy (R-WI), is the president's latest pet project on trade.
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He took the witness stand several times to defend his pet project.
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Mr. Johnson soon turned his search for rice into a pet project.
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Nom is the new pet project of YouTube co-founder Steve Chen.
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You can see all adoptable dogs on the KC Pet Project website.
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Going by this model, KC Pet Project is having a great day.
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Department members feared that Malhotra's pet project would be a time sink.
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From its inception, the agency was more of a pet project of Sen.
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Dolan has been working on the pet project for more than a year.
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The railway was his pet project but it has been dogged by problems.
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This book seems like Ive's pet project, showcasing his own work at Apple.
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It's the pet project of an anti-porn crusader known as Chris Sevier.
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The cars went from being a pet project to a viable, sellable product.
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It's latest pet project could be its most audacious to date: electric vehicles.
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But in addition to tech, the venture community has its own pet project: coffee.
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Thus, wind energy cannot be viewed as the pet project of coastal, liberal elites.
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After they settled, Mr. Haegert reassembled his workshop and kept at his pet project.
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According to its website, the KC Pet Project cares for 10,000 animals a year.
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It started in 26 as a pet project of the Democratic leader Harry Reid.
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Although construction has already started on Trump's pet project, it's still being challenged in courts.
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It's nothing more than a sweet pet project, with a paltry 213,221 followers on Twitter.
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No wonder the president wants his pet project to be paid by our southern neighbors.
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Regardless, China is immensely proud of the BRI — it's considered President Xi Jinping's pet project.
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The techno icon's latest pet project, the new Play Differently DJ mixer is no different.
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"Tori Fugate, KC Pet Project chief communications officer told CNN that called Nnadi's donation "incredible.
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The KC Pet Project has cared for over 10,000 animals a year, its website says.
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A series of decorative objects blending rock crystal and hard stones is another pet project.
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Tom and Cyrus wanted their newest pet project, the Governor of Pennsylvania, to get national attention.
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He was, however, placed in charge of the voter fraud commission, a pet project of Trump's.
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Three years in the making, LMM was a pet project of Arthur Gerbi, Merci's managing director.
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It is the latest pet project from serial entrepreneur and ex-Ladbrokes Australia CEO Dean Shannon.
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Trump cannot declare a 'national emergency' whenever he wants, and spend money on his pet project.
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I was just doing my own little pet project and these guys were the real deal.
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"It was really difficult to watch," Tori Fugate, with KC Pet Project, told Kansas City's Fox 4 .
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Today, the raspy-voiced nationalist is suddenly rolling out the red carpet for Mr Erdogan's pet project.
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First, the timing of the sale – a pet project of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman – is awkward.
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Make it a pet project to develop stronger ethics around what you say and what you withhold.
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As a result, Select Start feels more like a pet project that you've been invited to experience.
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Perhaps she wanted to be treated as a socialite pushing a pet project, not as a politician.
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The initiative was first announced in 2013, and is seen to be President Xi Jinping's pet project.
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It was the pet project of Sheldon Silver, the former speaker of the New York General Assembly.
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But he never invoked emergency authority to divert money after Congress refused to fund a pet project.
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In GOP political consulting circles, Cambridge soon gained a reputation as the Mercers' somewhat odd pet project.
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Yet, he was still afraid that company boss Henry Ford II would kill off his pet project.
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The new railway was Kenyatta's pet project and it was a key pledge in his 2003 election campaign.
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A cultural ministry For Raed, the orchestra isn't a pet project -- he has grand ambitions for the group.
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It isn't clear whether LePage knew the order would not automatically initiate a review of his pet project.
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The KC Pet Project, an animal shelter in Missouri, made the announcement on social media after the game.
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It started as a pet project, but now Solomon has sold pieces to Rick Ross and Grantland (RIP).
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So Garro set out to develop a cat facial recognition system as a literal 'pet project' for Bobis.
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Pet project: Handy is one of several "gig economy" companies working together to push for portable benefits legislation.
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Feature The Players' Tribune, a pet project of Derek Jeter's, allows the stars to tell their own stories.
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A reminder that AWS is the most profitable part of Amazon, so this isn't just some pet project.
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Polls show ordinary voters care far more about bread-and-butter issues than about the prime minister's pet project.
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"His pet project right now is almost finished — he's opening up a big brewery over in Williamsburg," said Cole.
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The product seems more like some Amazon staff member's one-off pet project that somehow made it into product.
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Republican President George W. Bush signed the law, but it was also very much the pet project of Sen.
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The centerpiece of the dome movement is Holodome, which was a pet project of the late Microsoft co-founder.
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Still, it shows the company is attempting to scale up and move beyond the status of Musk pet project.
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But sometimes, he said, there's a show that the network takes on as its baby or special pet project.
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On the other they pander to them to spend more money in their district or support some pet project.
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So here's where we stand: Catherine's pet project is finally finished, as is (it seems) her mother's presidential career.
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Google has started to aggressively expand its enterprise collaboration tools like GSuite, which is no longer just a pet project.
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Some, such as GIFT City, a pet project of Narendra Modi, the prime minister, in Gujarat, look like white elephants.
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That may be because the initiative is seen as Xi's pet project and people were extra cautious not to offend.
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More than 10 years later, he wants to turn that pet project, called HitRecord, into a full-fledged technology company.
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KC Pet Project now has 281 new safe spaces for pets caught in kill shelters hoping for a new start.
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But it is easier to complain about a menagerie of mandates than it is to kill any government's pet project.
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It had the ill-fated Apple Hi-Fi, a $349 iPod speaker that was a pet project of Steve Jobs.
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The hapless Chad finds himself the pet project of an aggressive, self-promoting publicist and journalist named Binky (Chilina Kennedy).
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Mike Clevinger, a lanky right-hander who had 23 strikeouts in 200 innings last season, has become Bauer's pet project.
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Now he is threatening to trigger a partial government shutdown on December 7th unless Congress stumps up for his pet project.
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SoundCloud began as pet project for Ljung, a Swedish sound engineer, and his KTH Royal Institute of Technology classmate Eric Wahlforss.
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The politicians can talk about changes in migration patterns and the need for more parks (or whatever pet project they favor).
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In a ploy right out of My Fair Lady, King Henry decided to take on Gonsalvus as his little pet project.
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He has expressed caution about Abe's pet project to revise the pacifist Article 9 of the post-war, U.S.-drafted constitution.
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"This has all the markings of a pet project of someone who says, 'Oh, we can do that,'" the strategist said.
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Every dog at the KC Pet Project animal shelter is free to adopt, thanks to the Kansas City Chiefs defensive tackle.
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Banners along the way proclaimed the promise of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a pet project of China's president, Xi Jinping.
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"These rulings critically stop President Trump's illegal money grab to divert $2.5 billion of unauthorized funding for his pet project," Becerra said.
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As one of the largest retail corporations in the world, Walmart surely has the capital to fund a pet project like this.
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With investors pouring money into companies like Blue Bottle Coffee, La Colombe and Philz, you'd probably think it's still a pet project.
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The mammoth aircraft inevitably brings to mind the Spruce Goose, the much-mocked giant airplane and pet project of tycoon Howard Hughes.
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Jahil is particularly pissed about Star's behavior — he doesn't want to die over his pet project, and Arlene is out for blood.
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A pet project of Brazil, it was designed to limit the influence of the United States and Mexico in South American affairs.
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On the flip side, Black has another pet project, one that seems to be achieving the kind of popularity that eluded Dawnbringer.
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Getting onto "Jeopardy!" was a pet project my whole life, so it was something I was willing to work really hard on.
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While the pickup truck has obviously been a pet project for Musk, it could also be a great opportunity for Tesla's business.
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If you have a pet project that you want to get money for, you have to offer your opponents something in exchange.
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On Halloween, Sam Prebble's teenage pet project, a horror idea he'd been playing around with for 15 years, was uploaded to the Internet.
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They can hobnob nightly with their party's stars, or maybe pitch their pet project to the possible next occupant of the Oval Office.
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But due to community opposition, it instead became the location of a sculpture garden, a pet project of the chain's founder, Frederik Meijer.
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Though the central bank still holds $500bn in assets, it is being eclipsed by the PIF, a pet project of the crown prince.
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Mehra says his film is not political or a tribute to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pet project – the Swachh Bharat (Clean India) Mission.
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Sources involved in the planning tell TMZ, Trump's pet project is the Big Apple Ball, which will be festooned with every NYC icon.
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His pet project, the Belt and Road Initiative was also enshrined in the document, signalling an all-out effort to realize the vision.
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Prime Minister Najib Razak is facing calls to step down over 21MDB, which was his pet project and whose advisory board he chaired.
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Mr. Cohn's other pet project — to develop a plan to rebuild American infrastructure — produced a shambolic proposal that is going nowhere in Congress.
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Trump, according to TMZ, has specifically adopted as a pet project his "Big Apple Ball," which is expected to include the city's icons.
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This pet project of China's leader Xi Jinping is supposed to be a 21st century version of the Silk Road on which Polo travelled.
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For Intel, however, Vaunt always felt like a pet project from a company that generates most of its revenue supplying components for other brands.
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That project generated troves of reports but little meaningful evidence, and has sometimes been characterized as a pet project of former Senator Harry Reid.
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Nnadi, who has now played two seasons in the NFL, will sponsor all adoptable dogs at the Kansas City Pet Project through his foundation.
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Requiring the nation's pipelines to be built and repaired with American-made pipes and raw steel has become a pet project for the president.
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Again from Zak at Popular Mechanics: Putin declared Vostochny his pet project, much as he did for the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014.
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The airline was a pet project of Mr. Mallya's; he examined the in-flight napkins and interviewed some of the prospective flight attendants himself.
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When Rupert Murdoch debuted a pet project of his, the short-lived iPad news project The Daily, he chose Mr. Angelo to run it.
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Nebraska's Public Service Commission gave the go-ahead Monday by a 3-2 vote in what had become a pet project for the president.
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Across the way, Gholghola is a pet project of a construction mogul, Hajji Nabi Khalili, the brother of Afghanistan's former vice president, Karim Khalili.
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And check out the little girl who engages Kim, asking her to follow her on Instagram to support her pet project, Child Hunger Sucks.
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The initiative, originally billed as a trillion-dollar venture though trimmed back as the domestic economy weakens, is a pet project of Mr. Xi's.
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Teen Vogue started in 2003 as a pet project of Anna Wintour, the longtime editor in chief of Vogue and Condé Nast's artistic director.
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In 1991, an unknown programmer named Linus Torvalds built on the work of previous OS devs and launched what looked to be a pet project.
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Working on Mr Trump's pet project is probably a good way to get a slice of a broader infrastructure splurge, if and when it comes.
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The Europa lander has been a personal pet project of John Culberson (R-TX), who is in a prime position to bring the mission back.
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"We're so honored to partner with @DerrickNnadi who is sponsoring the adoption fees of all our adoptable dogs at our locations," KC Pet Project tweeted.
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But despite a lot of venture funding flowing into this area, there doesn't seem to have been a splashy exit in Silicon Valley's pet project.
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Morrissette, who admits to preferring the term "soft drink," isn't just collecting these random images as a pet project anymore—it's incorporated into his research.
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In addition to three CubeSats, the rocket—with the revealing name Still Testing—delivered Humanity Star—the pet project of the company's CEO Peter Beck.
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You feel a rush to put finishing touches on your futuristic pet project on Wednesday, just before Mars moves into Taurus, aka your financial sector.
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This means re-introducing Grammar schools (free schools that select their pupils based on exams), her big pet project, and negotiating the terms of Brexit.
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But Thiem, the son of an Austrian tennis coach and the pet project of another one, has managed to muscle his way into the light.
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There's something about the sheer weight of the whole damn thing that makes it feel like more than just somebody's pet project or weird obsession.
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For a moment, it seemed the president would finally get his comeuppance here — a definitive and undeniable repudiation of his monstrous and unpopular pet project.
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The deal was the pet project of a (relatively!) moderate faction of the Iranian political elite, led by President Rouhani and Foreign Minister Javad Zarif.
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"Make in India" is Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pet project, which incentivizes companies to set up their manufacturing base in the country rather than importing goods.
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But what do about the first daughter's pet project could be a touchy subject for congressional Republicans who want to keep good relations with the President.
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KC Pet Project posted a video of the moment to Facebook, along with a message to the staff, volunteers and loving families who made this possible.
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" Fox News' writeup of the back and forth was titled "AOC bristles as GOP lawmaker blasts Green New Deal as 'elitist' pet project of rich liberals.
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For instance, he is proposing spending billions of dollars on his pet project of a southern border wall, though he has promised Mexico would pay for it.
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On both occasions, the testimony dealt with details of his pet project, a controversial drug interdiction program he created in LaSalle County when he was state's attorney.
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A pet project of Shinzo Abe, the prime minister, the casinos will be embedded in family-friendly resorts, partly in a bid to counter their seedy image.
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And it's clear that the President is willing to throw his team by the wayside if he has a pet project or a campaign slogan to fulfill.
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Richard Garfield, best known as the creator of Magic: The Gathering, is working with Hasbro to release a new version of his 1995 pet project Robo Rally.
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Apple, Steve Jobs' other pet project, has become a confusing morass of products that are individually beautiful but lack the definitive vision of the late great technocrat.
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In an attempt to force Congress to fund his pet project, a wall along the Mexican border , Trump shut down the government for more than a month.
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To begin, Ms. Trump needs to hunker down and focus if she wants to get anything accomplished on her much-ballyhooed pet project of paid family leave.
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Instead, these classes are taking place at one of America's largest public universities, Arizona State, courtesy of a pet project generously funded by the state's conservative leaders.
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Like Noah — who shows up briefly in a video chat with Alison and her daughter Joanie — Cole has adopted a troubled young man as a pet project.
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Then the conversation will turn to Infantino's pet project — the $25 billion offer from SoftBank, an issue that has created a contentious atmosphere among the game's leaders.
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The highway leads to his new administrative capital, a pet project costing tens of billions of dollars that is under construction in the desert east of Cairo.
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Beijing knows that, and Chinese leaders are thought to be looking for something themselves: an endorsement of President Xi Jinping's pet project, the Belt and Road Initiative.
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Declaring an emergency simply because Congress refused to fund the president's pet project is seen even by members of his own party as setting a dangerous precedent.
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It's helping them understand, too, that this is not just a pet project of ours; rather, it's something we feel really strongly about, and want to change.
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Since landing the contract in Las Vegas, TBC has ramped up its hiring as it starts to scale up and move beyond the status of Musk pet project.
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While it was a pet project, coffee may have made the most sense for a lot of funds like those putting money into coffee to test the waters.
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"I get a little bit frustrated when people call it a pet project," Trump told the AP as she spent a day shuttling between events in multiple states.
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Although a special program to subsidize housing prices for some first-time buyers was a pet project of Kahlon, Babad wants the program continued whoever is finance minister.
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The next major move that may nudge the world to use more of the yuan could be Chinese President Xi Jinping's pet project, the Belt and Road Initiative.
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Named the "PET Project," the boat will run regular trips along the river to fish out plastic rubbish, which in turn will be used to build more such vessels.
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The New York Times notes, however, that Carson's new pet project hasn't received much support from the Trump administration, getting just $2 million in funding over the next year.
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He announced the Moranbong Band, North Korea's state-run all-female pop band and Kim's pet project, would travel to China to perform a concert for Communist Party officials.
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She became an editor when her team's pet project, which combined Spotify's massive bank of data on users considered "tastemakers" with a human editorial check, got shared around internally.
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In that time, Dunham has established her pet project Lenny Letter, her show Girls wrapped up, and Antonoff started his next band Bleachers and began working with Taylor Swift.
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It's a fun little divergence from the standard Echo line — one that apparently started off as a bit of a pet project and somehow made its way to retail.
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The van is clearly a pet project for Ferren, who named the truck after his daughter Kira, but it's also a testbed for the team's latest vehicle engineering ideas.
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Last month, four recent M.I.T. graduates, engineers with a shared passion for robotics, gathered in a lab at a startup incubator near Boston, to show off their pet project.
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Twenty-times Grand Slam champion Federer has criticized Pique's involvement in the Davis Cup and has proven himself an astute businessman, who will fight to secure his pet project.
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The voting rights decision was a pet project of Chief Justice Roberts, an opponent of the Voting Rights Act since his days as a young lawyer in the Reagan administration.
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If you'd like to take this pet project of ours for a walk, go to 'settings' in the iGSA and change it to 'I'm feeling Woof or I'm feeling Meow.
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Calling the pet project "Robotic Falconry," the researchers say that their drone, equipped with a net shooter, can intercept and physically remove any intruding multi-rotor drone from private airspace.
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Mark Zuckerberg is pressing ahead with his pet project of creating an AI to control his home, and yesterday he asked for suggestions for who should provide the system's voice.
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Achieving a secure conservative majority on the Supreme Court has been the pet project of the Republican Party for exactly a half century, since Richard Nixon became president in 1968.
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First, because it is disaster funding, it is likely to get approved and thus provides an easy vehicle to get a pet project approved on the coattails of disaster funding.
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Considering the fact that all 16 of Petras' solo songs were written by Gottwald, you could make a case for the idea that Gottwald has finally found his pet project.
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Known as Defense Innovation Unit - Experimental, or DIUx, it's the pet project of Defense Secretary Ash Carter that he announced in April 2015 with a budget of under $2 million.
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A national scandal over several hundred thousand faulty vaccines broke while Mr. Xi was on a tour in Africa to sell his pet project, the One Belt, One Road initiative.
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Seems like every day there's a new dramatic development: The House passed a bill that would pony up nearly $1.6 billion for the first stretch of Donald Trump's pet project.
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Even Mr Macron's pet project, E2I, was last year cruelly dubbed "Erasmus for soldiers" by Nick Witney, a former head of the European Defence Agency, after a student-exchange programme.
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And there's also the rising issue of deepfakes, ultrarealistic fake videos, a deeply unsettling new way to manufacture misinformation, an issue even Marco Rubio has taken on as his pet project.
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No, the heart of Pugstagram is Hamilton the Pug, a spokespug for the Shelter Pet Project who loves his little bro, Rufus, and who loves his plush Grover but hates Mondays.
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The relentless dedication of fans often leads to the revival of games like The Matrix Online, which has been a pet project of one particular hardcore fan for nearly a decade.
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But if the money was earmarked for a specific project, like a new roof, and the board instead funneled it to a pet project, then the board has overstepped its bounds.
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They portray charters as the pet project of foundations financed by white billionaires, and argue that the closing of traditional schools as students migrate to charters has disproportionately disrupted black communities.
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And lobbyists peddling a pet project or policy recommendation do not have to disclose this, even though they may have just donated millions during the campaign to help elect the president.
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The agency's estimate of the cost of building the AirTrain to La Guardia, a pet project of New York's governor, Andrew M. Cuomo, has risen to $2.05 billion from $1.5 billion.
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Prince Mohammed's elevation gives him added authority to push ahead with his pet project, overriding the objections of traditionalists who argue that only the state should own natural resources like oil.
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"Thanks to his incredible support, more than 100 available dogs in our care will have their adoption fees sponsored starting today," Tori Fugate, KC Pet Project chief communications officer, told CNN.
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After his Kansas City Chiefs won Super Bowl LIV, Nnadi celebrated by paying the adoption fees of every dog at the KC Pet Project animal shelter -- more than 100 of them.
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While plenty of Presidents have utilized the National Emergencies Act since it was enacted in 1976, no other president has used it to circumvent congressional refusal to fund a pet project.
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The federal government isn't the only thing that President Donald Trump is fine with closing down over his pet-project border wall: He's content with shuttering the entire southern border, too.
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But shutting down the border entirely over the president's pet project would not only be a logistical mess, it would effectively spark an international trade issue over a domestic funding dispute.
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In fact, there were so many quotes that we're just going to go ahead and list them below: Bezos also has a pet project in Blue Origin, his foray into space travel.
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The creator behind Revive, a pet project aimed at breaking down exclusivity barriers for VR systems, confirmed Thursday that the big jump in donations per month on his Patreon came from Luckey.
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Like most privately funded space companies, Virgin Galactic was a pet project of the billionaire behind it, with the Journal estimating that Branson has put nearly $1 billion into the company already.
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"These rulings critically stop President Trump's illegal money grab to divert $2.5 billion of unauthorized funding for his pet project," California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in a statement late on Friday.
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Seen as a pet project of Governor Gyorgy Matolcsy, a strong ally of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the foundations have also come under fire from opposition politicians for some of their contracts.
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Congress has let funding for federal agencies lapse again because the president is demanding funding for a southern border wall, a pet project that doesn't have enough support in Congress to pass.
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She calls the pet project "Ultima Nostalgia," and she's using the rich custom server tools available in the "unlimited" version of the sandbox MMO Wurm Online to make the vision a reality.
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President Donald Trump, Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer openly sparred in the Oval Office, growing at times visibly impatient, over the president's pet project, the border wall.
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Kansas City Chiefs defensive tackle Derrick Nnadi celebrated his Super Bowl win by covering adoption fees for more than 100 dogs at the KC Pet Project animal shelter in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Ms. Lam's pet project is the very unpopular Lantau Tomorrow Vision, a gigantic development plan to connect and expand two islands in front of Lantau and house up to one million people.
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Going back to basics makes sense: Appliances were a pet project of former CEO Marvin Ellison, who had previously run Home Depot and left last year to take the helm at Lowe's.
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Meanwhile, the Trump administration's election-integrity commission is focused like a laser on the phantom fear of in-person voter fraud, a pet project of Republican politicians for more than a decade.
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The resident Queer Eye hairstylist adopted a second kitten, Liza, when he brought home Bug the 2nd from the KC Pet Project, writing that the pets had brought him happiness through his grief.
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Najib's critics have demanded his resignation after reports claiming billions of dollars had been misappropriated through his pet project 1MDB, and that up to $1 billion was deposited into his personal bank account.
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In New Orleans, the CeaseFire program is run under the broader umbrella of NOLA For Life, which is Mayor Landrieu's pet project that he has funded through millions of dollars from private donors.
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Connecting homes to superfast Internet is a pet project of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi who is keen to close the digital gap between Italy and the rest of Europe and spur economic growth.
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Free Basics has been an important pet project for CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who visited India this year and also hosted the country's Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a public conversation at Facebook's headquarters.
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The concerts began as the pet project of two broken-beat D.J.s, Justin McKenzie and Adam Moses, who branched out and began presenting live acts like Mark de Clive-Lowe and Kaidi Tatham.
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December 2015: Kim sends a gift back: The Moranbong Band, North Korea's state-run all-female pop band and Kim's pet project, will travel to China to perform a concert for Communist Party officials.
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The Jefferson Davis Highway was a pet project of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), an association of Confederate descendants that has been trying to preserve (and rewrite) Civil War history since 1894.
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Since he was shepherding the company's interest in cloud computing, and Microsoft appears to be stepping in, it might not bode well for a cloud computing pet project like a purported game-streaming service.
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It has toughened up recently: since the start of November, Russia has been stripped of 11 medals it won when hosting the winter games in Sochi in 2014, a pet project of Vladimir Putin's.
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So disgusted was he by the perceived slight to the nation's pride, and indeed his own, that he cut off funding to his former pet project and left Zairean football in a parlous state.
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Telesur was a pet project of Hugo Chávez, the former Venezuelan president, who envisioned a strong socialist voice to counteract what he perceived as unbalanced news coverage from major broadcasters like CNN's Spanish service.
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As for Trump, he's now in his third government shutdown in as many years, this time over a pet project and campaign promise to build a wall that isn't necessary and few actually want.
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When you have a president who can't handle relatively banal problems like a disagreement over a $5 billion appropriation for a pet project, what's going to happen to us when a real crisis hits?
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Once a pet project of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, who chaired its advisory board, 1MDB is the subject of money-laundering investigations in at least six countries including Switzerland, Singapore and the United States.
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When she returned to Lanai after taking Toulouse to the vet, Carroll decided to make the thousands of stray cats that roamed the island — where the human population is an estimated 3,200 — her pet project.
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Celebrating the national victory in the heart of the "northern powerhouse" also demonstrates a willingness to commit to former U.K Finance Minister George Osborne's pet project, even if the former chancellor was shown the door.
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A U.S. military chaplain, recognizing St. Elijah's significance, kicked the troops out and the Army's subsequent preservation initiative became a pet project for a series of chaplains who toured thousands of soldiers through the ruin.
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As Samsung's electronics affiliate has lost market share to plucky smartphone-makers in China, the group has moved, among other things, into biopharmaceuticals, the pet project of the conglomerate's de facto boss, Lee Jae-yong.
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Malaysia's 1MDB, once a pet project of Prime Minister Najib Razak who chaired its advisory board, is the subject of money-laundering investigations in at least six countries, including Switzerland, Singapore and the United States.
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A dozen Republican senators have already split with the White House on an issue many saw as unconstitutional: voting to overturn Trump's emergency declaration used to raid military funding for his border-wall pet project.
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A month later, Trump signed the bipartisan First Step Act—a pet project of his son-in-law Jared Kushner—which was designed to reduce the federal prison population with a suite of sentencing reforms.
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Funding for the border wall was also included — $1.6 billion will be allocated for Trump's pet project, far less than the White House last minute as for all $25 billion, and with some strings attached.
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The French company has long said Telecom Italia has good prospects, especially in view of its plans to build an ultrafast nationwide fiber optic broadband network in Italy - a pet project of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
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"McLoughlin only made around $10 every couple of months when he first started, but back then "it was kind of a pet project to figure out how to edit and play games at the same time.
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What I'm left with instead is a real frustration at a director who feels so proud to disdain "comic book movies" when he was given $55 to $70 million to make one into his pet project.
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Theresa May, the prime minister, showed her disdain for his pet project by appointing a new minister for the Northern Powerhouse, Andrew Percy, but banning him from using the phrase, even on trips to the north.
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The fact that the list came about slowly, and that some cities felt moved to lobby to be included, underlines how the pet project of Chinese President Xi Jinping is as amorphous as it is ambitious.
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The public-service announcements come from ad agency J. Walter Thompson New York for The Shelter Pet Project, a collaboration between the non-profit Ad Council, the Humane Society of the United States and Maddie's Fund.
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The Shelter Pet Project, a collaborative effort between the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), Maddie's Fund and The Ad Council created to help shelter pets finds homes, has created a new campaign called #AdoptPureLove.
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The topic's likely to be something of a pet project for DiCaprio, too, who has become something of a Hollywood Captain Planet in recent years — minus the green hair, blue skin, and flight capabilities, of course.
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Two Midwest Republican senators are pushing a bill to cement changes made by the Trump administration to an Obama-era rule designed to reduce water pollution, bringing a pet project of the Trump administration to Congress.
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The $12-$15 billion that it would cost isn't beyond the fiscal capacity of the United States, but it is a lot of money to spend on what amounts to a pet project for the president.
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Nnadi told CNN that he paid off all adoption fees at the KC Pet Project animal shelter after Kansas City beat the San Francisco 49ers 31-20 in Super Bowl LIV in Miami, Florida, on Sunday.
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Of those, I really liked PET PROJECT, ADAM WEST (Na na na na na na na na, na na na na na na na na Batman!), NO PRESSURE, SECRET CODE, DIAL TONE, SERENA SLAM, and BONANZA.
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And in an infamous episode, an Assembly speaker, Sheldon N. Silver, demanded that a pet project be funded to a satisfactorily boondoggle-ish level, pointedly mentioning that he would soon be looking at the capital budget.
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Perdix is a pet project of the Defense Department's Virginia-based Strategic Capabilities Office, a small, secretive, team—numbering just a few dozen scientists, engineers and managers—that Defense Secretary Ash Carter set up in 2012.
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The hill, installed during the off-season, is the pet project of Matt Krause, the Yankees' strength and conditioning coach, who lobbied for it when he was hired away from the Cincinnati Reds after the 2013 season.
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That means that instead of just making A.I. your pet project, perhaps it's time to start advocating for people, against existential threats before we ever develop a smart enough artificial intelligence system that takes over the world.
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But bankers believe that the massive M$55 billion east coast rail link, a pet project of Najib, will be canned by a new government headed by Mahathir, who promised to shelve it during his election campaigning.
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The airplane, a marvel when completed in 1947 as a pet project of the eccentric business magnate Howard Hughes, flew just a single 1-mile flight before retiring to an Oregon museum—where Allen reportedly visited it.
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But there is nothing illegal about choosing Door No. 503, and going on a grand binge, as Jeff Bezos is doing to the tune of $1 billion a year on his pet project of outer space technologies.
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Moreover, Mr. Trump freely admitted that the purpose of using an emergency declaration was to get around Congress, which had refused to fund his pet project, a wall along the border between the United States and Mexico.
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After all, if the president of the United States wants a $5 billion appropriation for a pet project that's important to him personally and partially fulfills a campaign promise, then he ought to be able to get it.
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The media and the development world scorned, calling it a naked bid for good press and an attempt by world leaders, especially those in Saudi Arabia, to curry favor with the American president through his daughter's pet project.
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This (literal) pet project evolved into the new ABC comedy premiering on Wednesday, May 17, which follows the life of a Pittsburgh millennial, played by Fargo's Allison Tolman, through the perspective of her devoted and philosophical dog Martin.
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But as Republicans have surged to control of state legislatures and moved sharply rightward during the Obama years, what was once a pet project of the party's fringe has become a proposal with a plausible chance of success.
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Asgardia, the pet project of the Russian billionaire Igor Ashurbeyli that considers itself to be the world's first space nation (its "citizens" basically have to fill out an application), issued a statement on Wednesday criticizing Mr. Trump's plan.
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The rule, which is a pet project of social conservatives, is another step in what appears to be a strategy to broadly attack access to birth control and abortion via executive orders and the federal agency rule-making process.
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The presidential daughter and adviser, in a "full-blown sprint" as she sells the Republican tax overhaul plan and juggles other initiatives, has had it with all that talk about her "pet project" to increase the child tax credit.
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Before presidential candidate Warren starts peddling the "success" of her pet project on the campaign trail, she should consider how an agency that was formed under the guise of "consumer protection" has done more to hurt consumers than help.
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The OIRA has an incentive to move quickly: the overtime rule a pet project of President Obama's that stem from a two-year-old executive order, and agencies are rushing to complete rules during his last year in office.
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Canceling mandatory bundled payments for cardiac and orthopedic procedures was a pet project for Mr. Price, who had fought against what he saw as unnecessary government intervention since his days as a surgeon in the suburbs north of Atlanta.
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In a room packed with high-level officials from around the world, Trump answered admiring questions about her pet project advocating for women's economic development from a spokesperson for her own government, who is also working on the project.
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Trump also suggested in the meeting that members of both parties should look at bringing earmarks back to Congress — the pet-project spending long considered the swampiest of Washington creations, and banned by Republicans in 2011 under then-speaker John Boehner.
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The system, which started as a pet project for Trice, is able to gather and transmit data in real-time, offering up such useful contextual information as precise location (latitude, longitude, altitude), compass heading, and the pitch of the camera.
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They created a natural language processing algorithm that used tweets to aid in disaster relief; a program that used gene expression to detect cancer progression; and tackled AI's favorite pet project, navigating and routing self-driving cars for increased mobility.
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Collins's own pet project, precision medicine, is ongoing and just launched in earnest its effort to collect medical, genetic, and other data from one million patients that would provide the backbone for the project's vision of more personally tailored medical treatments.
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It may feel like you're trading your precious "free" time for another item on your to-do list, but a pet project you're passionate about is probably better than Netflix, and one that'll leave you feeling more energized and rewarded.
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Unveiling another economic plan on June 20th, Mr Bouteflika's latest prime minister, Abdelmajid Tebboune, spoke of the need to rationalise subsidies—and then committed $3bn for a social-housing scheme and work on the president's pet project, building the world's third-largest mosque.
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" In the email sent to supporters on August 22, Sanders also took issue with the fact that Bezos intends to spend his wealth on a pet project: space travel through Blue Origin, his secretive aerospace company that he's called his "most important work.
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Every few years, a small number of Washington legislators privately debate a large number of potential Army Corps projects for a new WRDA bill — and a powerful member of Congress can often push a pet project to the top of the list.
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As Pulis sees it, Traoré had become something of a managerial pet project: Every coach wanted to prove he was the one who would be able to marshal his talent, to show that they were the one he had been waiting for.
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President Trump's long trumpeted pet project, the creation of a new branch of the military called the Space Force, is now finally on the cusp of becoming a reality, thanks to a new bill that may be voted on today by Congress.
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So the debate within the Pentagon now is not so much about pitting the services against one another to see whose pet project will survive as it is about determining how much money is needed to keep all the big projects going.
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President Donald Trump's supporters are hoping to give him a very special Christmas gift: At least $1 billion in donations to kick off construction of his border wall, since the self-proclaimed master dealmaker hasn't been able to secure funding for his pet project.
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Anyone who takes a short walk along the banks of the Seine from the wreckage of Notre Dame will soon see a boldly modernistic structure, topped with onion domes: this "spiritual and cultural" centre, opened in 2016, was a pet project of President Vladimir Putin's.
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Prime Minister Najib Razak has battled calls to resign over the last 18 months, as a scandal at his pet project, 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), drew the anger of the public, opponents and members of his own United Malay National Organisation (UMNO) ruling party.
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Within three months of assuming office he had convinced the state legislature and Governor Sam Brownback to sign off on his pet project, the Kansas Secure and Fair Elections Act (SAFE), which requires voters to prove their citizenship before they can cast their ballots.
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A lush and productive plot of land deep on the South Lawn grounds, the garden was the pet project of the former first lady, who planted it in 2009, just prior to announcing her platform of helping to prevent childhood obesity and promote healthy eating.
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But the latest move by billionaire Packer to sell 19.99% of Crown, nearly half his 47% stake, to Melco Resorts & Entertainment Ltd plunges into uncertainty Packer's pet project - the 75-floor tower-to-be on the Sydney waterfront aimed at luring wealthy Chinese gamblers.
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In pushing this policy from the White House, Ivanka Trump has had to contend with a skeptical chief of staff, John Kelly — who's described the plan as a "pet project" — and a myriad of other skeptics on Capitol Hill and inside the conservative movement.
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"The courts have already once rejected the president's unlawful attempt to shift funds to his hateful pet project, so as long as this Administration continues down the path of illegally subsidizing an ill-advised border wall we will not hesitate to take action," James added.
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Matolcsy has come under fire from the leftist Egyutt and several other parties, including the far-right and the green liberals, over the activities of six educational foundations set up in 2014 by the central bank in what was seen as his pet project.
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The notion of installing Mr. Romney at the campaign committee was a pet project of his longtime family friend and adviser Spencer Zwick, who raised the idea with donors as a way of carving out a leadership role as an unusually prominent freshman lawmaker.
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Rous, an Apartheid sympathizer, had spent much of his energy during his 13 years in charge trying to arrange for South Africa's all-white team to be allowed to compete internationally, before finally being strong-armed by the other African federations into dropping his pet project.
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Naim hopes his literal pet project, which also features new music from the director/writer, resonates with those who know the deep friendship dogs can provide, and teaches a few things to viewers who might not know much about the inner workings of Brooklyn and pet ownership.
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Another zone leads to a trek through the snowy Himalayas, where you chance upon the Abominable Snowman, the discovery of which was the pet project of Tom Slick, a Texan billionaire whose privately funded adventures in the mountain range were thought to be covert CIA operations.
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As home secretary, she deported up to 50,000 students simply for having taken a test in conversational English, and her pet project was a fleet of vans painted with slogans borrowing the language of the National Front, to be sent to ethnically diverse areas of London.
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But alas — Robert Rodriguez directed James Cameron's pet project, and instead of a complex, vibrant female character, Alita (Rosa Salazar) is reduced to a wide-eyed young woman (literally, her CGI-avatar eyes are huge) who feels more like a male fantasy than a woman's idea of a hero.
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It was sort of a pet project for us, but we knew... We had these guys still playing this old busted game six years later, and we knew we wanted to make them a new version that was modern and kept up with multi-player games of today.
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I can't help but imagine a future where Facebook decides to turn Zuckerberg's pet project into an outward-facing product (FB does need an Alexa/Siri/OK Google competitor), and if that product ends up having the voice of Iron Man, that's got to count as a competitive advantage.
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Instead, Trump is heeding the advice of some of his most ardent allies in Congress, the House conservatives in the Freedom Caucus, who have put aside their own qualms about excessive executive power to get Trump a win on the border wall — a pet project that Congress has repeatedly rejected.
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This turns out to be more fraught than expected, especially once the venture catches the eye of town grande dame Violet Gamart (Patricia Clarkson, viciously cutting in the most elegant way), who seeks the historic premises for her own pet project, and does whatever she can to thwart Florence's ambitions.
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In fact, Facebook's sour grapes fermented into one giant, steaming crater of w(h)ine: Throughout the DeepMind challenge, during which Google's AlphaGo machine faced off against human world champion Lee Sedol, Yann LeCun, Facebook's director of artificial intelligence research, lobbed a number of pointed barbs at Google's pet project.
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Despite its success, his brand of confrontational (some would say "dirty") politics was always publicly rejected by the conservative mainstream, though with the shocking ascendancy of his longtime pet project Donald Trump (interviewed in the film), Stone -- the ultimate political trickster -- would likely say he was just ahead of his time.
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Enter The Eye: a pet project of a man who calls himself the Archivist, whose obsession with cataloging the ever-shifting, impermanent history of the internet has ranged from archiving a petabyte of porn and the entirety of Instagram to preserving 80 gigabytes of old Apple videos deleted by YouTube.
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In his first public comment on the two tragedies Saturday, Trump tied the deaths to the political impasse over funding for the federal government, saying in a series of tweets that Democrats are to blame for refusing his $5-billion pet project to build new walls along the southern border.
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He has repeatedly rejected deals that do not include funding for Trump's sad, xenophobic pet project Mexican-border wall, and he's blamed the shutdown on Democrats, framing the wall as a border-security issue even though there is no reason for it to be the be-all and end-all of immigration policy.
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Deadmau5, today shared a six-minute mini-mix of his upcoming compilation Stuff I Used to Do. Zimmerman has previously described the release on Twitter as a "little pet project album" consisting of remastered songs created between 1997–2008; it follows the December 2 release of his eighth studio album, W:/2016ALBUM/.
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They can stroll through the Genome Garden or dine in the Chromosome Cafe, yet when Clark was first starting her pet project in 2005, Genome Island was little more than an interactive cell model housed in a crude rendition of St. Thomas' Abbey, the old haunting grounds of renowned geneticist Gregor Mendel.
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He rattled off a series of other projects and interests, including an untitled TV series for Anonymous Content, the production company behind Mr. Robot and True Detective; a collaboration with A24, the film studio behind Moonlight, Ex Machina, and upcoming James Franco pet project The Disaster Artist; and an open-ended partnership with Apple.
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Newsletters distributed only through the "phone tree" friend-to-acquaintance-to-friendly-stranger model were wildly popular in the days of early email and early blogging, took a nearly two-decade break, then reappeared thanks to a Miranda July pet project, the buzzy 2012 email community Listserve, and most notably, the 2013 founding of TinyLetter.
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Najib, who also chaired 1MDB's advisory board and launched 1MDB as a pet project to promote economic development, has repeatedly denied wrongdoing and, under pressure from the outcry caused by the report, said the funds were a private donation from a Middle Eastern country he declined to name at the time, but was later identified as Saudi Arabia.
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A recent piece by journalist Ernest Owens reminds us that, despite having a writing room filled with black women (including Eisa Davis, Lynn Nottage, Radha Blank, and Joie Lee), this series is ultimately a pet project of Lee's that almost feels like an attempt to make up for the tragically anti-feminist rape scene in the original.
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Dr. Hawking, along with Brian May of the band Queen, who earned a doctorate in physics from the Canary Islands astrophysical institute sometime after recording "Another One Bites the Dust" and other rock anthems, the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, and several astronauts, were among the headliners at the second Starmus Festival in 22016, the pet project of Dr. Israelian.
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The buzz around the conservative blogosphere trying to justify the reasoning behind the pick is that Pence's presence on the ticket will reassure evangelicals and other social conservatives who have reason to question Trump's dedication to their pet project of making sure every uterus in the country has at least one fetus inside it at all times.
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Budget Director Mick Mulvaney — who once called Social Security a Ponzi scheme — questioned the legitimacy of Social Security Disability Insurance — and wouldn't promise a Presidential veto of legislation to privatize Medicare (a pet project of House Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE).
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It does promise to "provide maximum flexibility to the states" in choosing what to fund, though, which sounds great if you're a governor with a pet project that could use an infusion of cash, and significantly less great if you're a taxpayer concerned about LeRoy's sledgehammer being used to jar loose your tax dollars for anything and everything under the sun.
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Similarly blessed by karma is the Berluti customer who can indulge in one of the double-breasted suits with high-cuffed trousers that Mr. Ackerman sent onto a plywood runway in his first outing since taking over from Alessandro Sartori as creative director of a label that is the pet project of Antoine Arnault, son of Bernard Arnault, reportedly the richest man in France.
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Trump says he's considering sending migrants to sanctuary cities 'A wall is not going to fix this': Cindy McCain says Trump's pet project won't curtail human trafficking Lobbyist sentenced to probation for funneling money to Trump inaugural from foreign nationals The Ways and Means Committee first sent a formal request to the Treasury Department for Trump's tax returns on April 3, giving the department a deadline of April 10 to produce the documents.
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"If you feel your sentiments are going unheard, you may still proactively demonstrate your more strategic skills on a current project and propose them to your boss; contribute new ideas to your boss' pet project; get more specific with how your background and credentials could specifically be better tapped for XYZ initiatives; or, with your manager's permission, offer to volunteer on a related department's project where your skill set applies, building on your existing credentials," says Taylor.
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Facebook is working to bring its controversial Free Basics program, which promises to get more low-income users onto the internet by providing free access to a curated and limited set of online resources, to the US. In October, the Washington Post reported that Facebook has been courting White House favor for CEO Mark Zuckerberg's pet project in hopes of avoiding the public furor that led regulators in India and Egypt to ban the platform over concerns it violated principles of an open, equal internet.
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But when she conceived the idea almost a decade ago, it was purely a pet project "Four years ago, I decided actually it is time to really devote more time and make it grow big and that's when we launched central innovative technology and we started with animation and gaming and edutainment content," Lo said Although she was strongly advised to stay out of the very competitive Chinese entertainment market, "Bodhi and Friends" launched in prime time on CCTV Kids during the Chinese New Year of 2014 and has aired on over 70 channels nationwide.
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