We have played up to expectations a few, certainly haven't played up to expectations more than we wish to count.
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It's played up in the media as — as me.
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She rather enjoyed it, and even played up to it.
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Cambridge employees played up the Trump association when pursuing customers.
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She played up her support for Trump and his agenda.
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McConnell played up his opposition to Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee.
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A campaign brochure released in December played up his lighthearted side.
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Movie studios played up the exotic setting and emphasized cultural stereotypes.
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The optical illusion masterfully played up the unnatural essence of "camp."
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LOCAL KNOW-HOW Other companies have played up their local knowledge.
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It played up an influential state lawmaker's endorsement in South Carolina.
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"We played up the softer corduroys, linens and cottons for comfort."
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I played up to it… 'Little Britain' was a very camp show.
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The first trailer, which debuted last E3, played up classic Western influences.
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The warnings were played up high on news websites and nightly newscasts.
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It's timeless, but can easily be played up for a more graphic approach.
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Some first ladies played up the decorum of the accessory; some, the glamour.
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As he moved to close his event, he played up his proximity again.
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M ike : Rauf was a kid who never played up to his ability.
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They also played up how both Trump and Strange are newcomers to politics.
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Every JRPG I had played up to that point followed the same structure.
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Warren has in recent weeks played up her ability to unite Democratic factions.
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Since 9/11, it's been really played up, that brown people are terrorists.
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The move was obviously a gimmick, and was played up by the announcers.
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One thing that Twitter played up in its pitch is the company's global scale.
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Siriano played-up the dreamy, fantasy world theme with big silhouettes and whimsical patterns.
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" During a call with Washington lobbyists, though, Gianforte played up the bill's "national significance.
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Quek said, however, played up the role of these straight-up e-commerce firms.
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First, he played up ambiguities as to what, precisely, his rival had done wrong.
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She called Rosen a "nice lady" and played up her own career in politics.
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Rebekah started a private elementary school and played up WeWork's community of tenant workers.
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I changed my beauty routine and played up my full brows and full cheeks.
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Ryan Murphy may have played up the Kardashian family's part in The People v.
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Her campaign ad went viral, in which she played up her working-class background.
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A BBC2 documentary titled Murder in Milwaukee also played up the same sensational statistic.
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Eyes tend to be played up with smoky shadow, lips are painted in bright shades.
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He has played up this element of his biography in Nevada, his best early state.
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Even if you've never played up a Persona game, there is no barrier to entry.
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It seemed that Trump intentionally played up this theme rather than trying to hide it.
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Chinese social media giant Weibo played up the debate, making it a recommended topic online.
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Emmanuel Macron achieved his success in France because he played up to a Napoleonic image.
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And Ms. Hoffman played up the looks of this already odd couple with exaggerated silhouettes.
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Sessions played up the false narrative of immigrants as criminals on his recent border visit.
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Trump played up the success of the bilateral meeting and the potential to resolve issues.
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The companies also played up the ways in which their online platforms support small businesses.
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That has since become the conservative line: The press played up the the wrong things.
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"What has been thus played up in form should not be let down in color."
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These troop movements have been played up by both the White House and the Pentagon.
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His announcement also played up two pillars of Trump's campaign: immigration policy and national security.
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Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban's spokesman, played up the protocol that Mullah Baradar received in Qatar.
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State media has played up coverage of his case following the deterioration in relations with Canada.
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On the other side, Phillips's lawyers played up the ruling in a conference call with reporters.
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Mr Erdogan's government has played up the idea that Syrians will eventually and voluntarily return home.
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It wasn't a popular thing yet, so we really played up that angle in the press.
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Some political observers note that none of the campaign ads have played up the healthcare bill.
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"In the cyber-world, intelligence has played — up till now — a less prominent role," said Hoh.
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Since Trump's election, automakers and other companies have played up their investments in the United States.
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In response, Tester has played up his willingness to work with the president on veterans' issues.
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Similar to how they played up diamonds, and now most people expect diamonds for an engagement.
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Gogoro also played up its swappable battery technology, which could hint at future products and services, too.
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"Bottom line is that we hadn&apost played up to our capability," general manager Brian Cashman said.
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But more than anything, I wish Baby Driver would have played up its musical aspects even more.
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In addition to sponsored messages, Facebook played up opportunities for businesses to communicate with customers through Messenger.
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He played up the benefits of the cash injection from the tax for the city's depleted coffers.
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Clinton played up her credentials on the issue, citing her work as a senator from New York.
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Trump had played up his experience in deal making and promised to deliver economic wins from China.
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It's how Waypoint ended up with pitches that played up the game's representation of Berlin's queer scene.
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Apple played up the speed of these new phones during its product announcement, and they are fast.
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The way Xi's invisible hand is being played up in state media would seem to support this.
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He played up the benefits of the cash injection from the tax into the city's depleted coffers.
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The ads appeared to come from domestic advocacy groups and played up controversial topics to sow conflict.
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Apple also played up its privacy features, addressing the U.S. technology sector's increased scrutiny over consumer protection.
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Sony also rushed to distribute new posters in theaters, replacing ones that played up Mr. Spacey's character.
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Matthew Stafford hasn't played up to expectations so far this season, disappointing fantasy players and Lions fans alike.
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He also played up the notion that the company would have enough spectrum to try some new things.
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Joswiak played up the iPad's strengths in schools, emphasizing the tablet has almost 200,000 apps made for education.
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Macron has tried to play down the importance of economic relations and instead played up the strategic partnership.
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Key features include: In a briefing ahead of the launch, Hauwei executives played up the camera and software.
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In its statement, the Fed noted risks are more balanced, and played up the strength in the economy.
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The overall theme was texture, which she also played up during her nationwide tour of the same name.
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While others pound Washington, Mr. Kasich has played up relationships forged on Capitol Hill, sometimes reaching far back.
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Most of the Republican nominees in the last two decades played up the culture wars, too—until Trump.
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While he has played up his Scottish heritage, most locals feel he has little in common with them.
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Night-after-night he always led with the big story and never played up or pandered to Trump.
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Her asymmetrical look played up two of the biggest trends of the day: blush pink and architectural headpieces.
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Democrats have played up the problems for TSA workers, seeing an opportunity to foment political damage against Republicans.
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They played up a 2015 interview with Hillary Clinton on the presidential campaign trail and pushed for awards.
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"When slashings have been played up in newspapers and on TV, the copycat effect comes in," he said.
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Russian state media have played up the intervention, presenting it to Russians as proof of their national greatness.
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House Democrats have long played up their diversity, saying that the variety of viewpoints strengthen the party's reach.
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As a politician, Mr. Suazo Córdova played up his rural origins, often wearing a wide-brimmed cowboy hat.
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Mr. Trump's aides played up their effort to discredit another of Mr. Bush's legacies, the World Trade Organization.
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Even Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas played up his racial victimization after he was accused of sexual harassment.
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During two of their hosting gigs, Poehler and Fey played up a mock rivalry with Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
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Critics say Prabowo's campaign message, much like U.S. President Donald Trump in 2016, played up potential threats to Indonesia.
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Trump has since played up his personal relationship with Xi, even when criticizing China over North Korea and trade.
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She played up her new Vogue-approved "rocker chic" look with a dark lip and her new platinum bob.
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But at plenty of other points, season four's time jumps are played up for comedic effect with smash cuts.
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Cornerback Sam Shields has played up to his big contract, as well, so Hayward might be better off escaping.
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Gimlet has always played up its pally, happy family vibe - cross-hosting shows and giggling about office high jinx.
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Meier played up his experience with Clinton in his announcement video and chided Sessions for supporting Trump's legislative agenda.
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He played up his success among Latino voters there, but acknowledged he need to do better among black voters.
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The show also played up the viral meme sparked by Trump lurking behind Clinton during the town hall debate.
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But the media has played up an untrue connection between successful leaders and their occasionally dysfunctional character and demeanor.
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Targeting young people, it has played up to a fun and hip image with its marketing and advertising campaigns.
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Questions about Ronald Reagan's health and John McCain's age were both played up by the other side, for example.
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So, in 2008, she played up her fortitude and tried essentially to run as if she were a man.
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Both candidates, ultimately, delivered on their key themes, played up their key strengths, and likely pleased their key supporters.
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Google once played up the nerdy antics of its founders, but now the company's leaders are almost unidentifiable ciphers.
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A wedding is all about the party, and several designers played up that festive mood with strapless, ruffled necklines.
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Known for his bookish, calm demeanor, Haddad has played up his orthodox positions on inflation, exchange rates and deficits.
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She played up issues like child care and equal pay that polling showed had cross-party, cross-gender support.
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He also played up his conservative principles and emphasized his evangelical faith, which helped insulate him from the mounting controversy.
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I'm sure he's seen images or porn where that was fetishized or played up to be this super romantic thing.
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By Chloe has even played up its appeal for bathroom selfies with fun wallpaper and sayings splashed across its mirrors.
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The FLN's allies have played up the army's fight against Islamist extremists and a potential economic crisis to mobilise voters.
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Indeed, a few on Saturday played up that aspect of his persona while dismissing those who sought to downplay it.
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Trailers for Netflix's new original film Mudbound played up the unlikely friendship that developed between two World War II veterans.
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As for the eyes, keep things simple with a subtle wingtip, played up with generous lashings of black mascara. 2.
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While the two legendary actresses had very different personalities, Davis and Crawford both played up their strengths to their advantage.
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The tone tended to be a little more relaxed than the usual Times writing and also played up visuals elements.
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I mean, I sort of played up to it I suppose to some extent playing these camp characters on screen.
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The company played up that contrast with colorful packaging and exciting products in an ad campaign launched earlier this month.
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Portman played up Kavanaugh's personal life and their relationship, including their work together for the George W. Bush White House.
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Cruz has played up the importance of Indiana, saying he relished the chance to go mano a mano with Trump.
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Gross. What do you think about portrayals of Irish drinking culture in general – is it played up in popular culture?
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At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in 1994, for example, the company played up a forthcoming modem for online gameplay.
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May, who played up the drama in her effort to herd the more rebellious elements of her cabinet into line.
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Trump has played up his desire to merge American business and government, and this gives him a chance to do that.
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This week Ms McSally released a TV ad (pictured above) in which she played up her military service after 9/11.
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It played up race, urging black voters to see Mrs Clinton as an enemy and stay at home on polling day.
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The Sanders campaign has played up the photo, taken by The Chicago Tribune, as evidence of his Civil Rights bona fides.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has often played up Israel's potential as an economic partner with Sunni Arab countries in the region.
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At the same time, the tabloid played up positive stories about Trump and negative stories about his opponents on its cover.
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Lynne Cheney and Tipper Gore Eminem has often played up his fights with those in power as a point of pride.
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At the rally in Tennessee, Pam Rutherford, 57, from Jonesboro, said she thought the news media had played up the issue.
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Renduchintala played up the potential of machine learning and artificial intelligence in a recent blog post explaining his move to Intel.
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Pro tip: You can't look like the good guy when you have played up the bad-guy role for so long.
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Mr. Netanyahu also played up President Trump's recognition of the Golan Heights as Israeli territory, and his relationship with Mr. Trump.
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Under Mr. Xi, who has played up an image as an Everyman, the fight against poverty has become a national mantra.
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Trailers played up the combat scenes, but the film actually has relatively little action, at least by summer "tent pole" standards.
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On Election Day, the French-language version of Sputnik, the Russian news outlet, played up social media coverage of the leaks.
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China has played up free trade talks with Japan and with South Korea, which is not a member of the partnership.
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Sanders has played up his differences with the Dem front-runner, arguing that she'll leave green voters disappointed on key issues.
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While CNN's coverage of Acosta's credentials was initially muted last week, the network played up the lawsuit on-air on Tuesday.
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The Bulldogs played up to the No. 3 Duke Blue Devils' level in Indianapolis and it came down to the wire.
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Ilhan Omar of Minnesota made a series of comments in the past several weeks that played up longstanding anti-Semitic stereotypes.
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Breitbart, the right-wing website formerly run by Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump's chief strategist, repeatedly played up Dr. Bates's claims.
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They married in 2005, had a daughter in 2007 and have played up their marital strife for podcast listeners since 2011.
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Though Schellenberg was arrested in 2014, state media has played up coverage of his case following the deterioration in China-Canada relations.
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In recent weeks, Clinton has played up her experience and a broader number of issues that she stands for in her candidacy.
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However, for this list we're going to pick Alto's Adventure, which looks even more gorgeous when played up on a big screen.
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Hence, a quietly successful trip that can be played up to his domestic constituency is very much the order of the day.
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Tsai played up the territory's third-quarter growth, comparing it against lackluster GDP figures from peers Singapore, South Korea and Hong Kong.
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He played up his deep connections during his first, and only, debate against Morrisey, who is from New Jersey, earlier this month.
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McConnell on Wednesday played up possible action next year on immigration and infrastructure and downplayed the likelihood of taking up entitlement reform.
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The model certainly played up to the part by hissing and glaring at paparazzi, as seen on Amazon Prime Video's Instagram story.
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When he spoke with The Washington Post on Thursday, Giuliani played up his service in the Justice Department and ties to Mueller.
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Fact Check of the Day Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, played up the administration's sanctions against Russia during a Senate hearing.
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When it is finally played up by the flute, it seems to lift up, its inherent melancholy sublimated into a spiritual dimension.
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Stories that did appear played up local support for the now-shelved extradition law, and framed opposition to it as a minority.
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Gianforte has played up his ties to the White House throughout his campaign, saying he'd be another Trump ally in the House.
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Republican leadership in both chambers played up the increase in military spending, while Democrats emphasized the bump in spending for domestic programs.
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Also, Chinese state media recently have played up coverage of "island encirclement" exercises near the democratic island, including showing a Chinese bomber.
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Trump and other members of his administration have frequently played up gains in the stock market during Trump's first year in office.
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Braun has played up the outsider angle against the two congressmen in the hopes of painting the pair as fixtures of Washington.
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The marketing for The 4th Awakens really played up the Star Wars reference, even formatting its poster to resemble the Force Awakens one.
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He hasn't restocked his toolbelt as much as much as he's played up that tactful maneuvering in the absence of his former athleticism.
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To tempt cowardly voters, Sir Vince has played up the Lib Dems as a party of ideas rather than a government-in-waiting.
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It's not just that any discomfort caring for Haruto isn't played up for laughs, it's that it's rarely played in the first place.
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And she played up the gothic vibe with her beauty look courtesy of her glam squad — Kelsey Deenihan (makeup) and Kristin Ess (hair).
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Rubio played up his credentials as an insurgent upstart from Florida while flying under the radar with the light footprint of his campaign.
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In background briefings for reporters earlier this week, the White House played up the themes of unity that Trump hit in his speech.
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For all Ardiles played up to the idea that his new acquisitions were impulse purchases, though, the reality was a little more complex.
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Gomez played up the glamour at the 2013 MTV Movie Awards with a gold fringe Julien Macdonald dress and a long fishtail braid.
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In its bid, Morocco has played up its outsider status; unlike the United States and Mexico, it has never hosted the World Cup.
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Enforcement has been a priority for Mayor Bill de Blasio, who as a Democratic presidential candidate has played up his record on housing.
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Neither do most of the manufacturers in the field, it seems, as few — if any — played up their devices' compatibility with Apple Home.
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Thanks in large part to a marketing campaign that played up the hostility between its stars, the film was a box-office hit.
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Along the way he played up the notion that he was restoring his country's place as a world leader, thereby appealing to Russians' patriotism.
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Unlike Roderick, Jackson was actually an insider, a false populist and wealthy slave owner who played up his humble beginnings while simultaneously courting elites.
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When Barr didn't appear earlier this month over a dispute about whether staff attorneys could question him, Democrats played up the theatrics, with Rep.
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The article played up his close relationship with late President Hugo Chavez, who tasked Ramirez with leading oil sector nationalizations that began in 2007.
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His aides have also played up the reality that O'Rourke said he supported Trump's impeachment as far back as 2017, as a Senate candidate.
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"I think they&aposre definitely one of the most, if not the most, complete team we&aposve played up to this point," Riley said.
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While Trump played up support among Latino GOP caucusgoers, the electorate was primarily white—accounting for 84% of those who turned out to caucus.
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As she vocalized Lovato's part of "Echame La Culpa," Lopez cleverly played up their lyrical back-and-forth as if it were really happening.
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That this game will be played up into some sort of event is mostly a factor of the teams' proximity to New York City.
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At events in California on Thursday and Friday, Biden played up his relationship with former Democratic president Barack Obama, America's first African American president.
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Tarkanian has played up his support for Trump and has called on Heller to sign a pledge to oppose McConnell remaining as majority leader.
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Jenkins said Manchin had "changed" when he got to Washington, D.C., and the Republican lawmaker played up his support for Trump in his announcement.
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They played up their "quintessentially American" founding stories, in the words of Perault, and stressed the competition they do face, at home and abroad.
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Trump has since played up his personal relationship with Xi, even as he kept up his criticism of China over North Korea and trade.
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Mr. Siegel, a veteran civil rights lawyer, said that while the defense had not played up racial issues, they nonetheless hovered over the trial.
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But it antagonized Mr. Trump, who has played up his friendship with Mr. Johnson and urged him to reject Huawei on national security grounds.
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Subsequently, superimposed newspaper pages blurred, but a message had been delivered: alienation would be Mr. Cole's tonic note, played up and down the keyboard.
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A menu of trout and deer played up Patagonia's traditional ingredients; we added a couple of bottles of Patagonian wine, and at 11 p.m.
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In a tweet, Mr. Trump played up Mr. Mueller's assertion that the Russian operation had begun in 2014, well before he declared his candidacy.
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Both Afghan and Western officials at the time played up his case, and his arrest in a counternarcotics operation rather than a counterterrorism raid.
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In a video posted on her Twitter account, Housley played up her deep roots in the state as the daughter of Minnesota school teachers.
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Ahead of the summit, the German government has played up the fact that protesters will be allowed to voice their opposition to the event.
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In typical Apple fashion, the company played up improvements to the battery life, camera system and hardware under the hood of the new phones.
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Despite that fact, Fox's pro-Trump talk shows have played up the drama, especially in the run-up to the State of the Union.
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Bannon went on to dismiss the white nationalists who rallied in the college town as "clowns" who had been played up by the media.
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Background: Mr. al-Bashir had long played up his humble origins, but even for an autocrat, he had a low reputation in the West.
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Modi played up national security in his campaign for a seven-phase general election over April and May, which he won with an increased majority.
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The episode clearly played up the eerie feeling that the White Walkers won't just kill off our favorite characters, but totally erase their histories, too.
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I made her some clip-ins using Indique Pure Wavy hair in 32″ and Ariel did some beautiful makeup that really played up her eyes.
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His persona -- full of angst and uncertainty, like a sorrowful puppy dog -- played up his lack of success with women and embarrassment at his foibles.
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Grassley played up Wray's bipartisan bona fides in his opening statement -- an implicit nod to concerns lodged by critics in the wake of Comey's firing.
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He said he would prefer that this group of players turned things around and played up to the levels they had established in their careers.
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While several GOP political ads played up the dangers of immigrants crossing US borders, relatively few among even GOP experts consider immigration a critical threat.
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Biggest remaining holes: Defensive line, cornerback Hicks is an upgrade, but the youth on the defensive line has not played up to draft position yet.
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Clinton, Mr. Trump also played up his primary victories, including spending the first five minutes of his speech rehashing his battle over delegates in Colorado.
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Becket Adams went after the media outlets that played up the missed handshake as an intentional snub in an opinion piece for the Washington Examiner.
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And as Shona Ghosh reported, while Peloton played up its subscription business in its IPO filing, its hardware margins are actually more impressive than Apple's.
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But in 1996, Chicago came back to Broadway, in a new production that only further played up the idea of criminal defendants becoming glitzy superstars.
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Mr. Davis has also played up the findings of a 23-page report that summarized an internal investigation into the allegations published in The Times.
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To fill the gap, Mr. Davies and Mr. Bennett played up their (accurate) stereotype as dour fans of England's national team, always expecting the worst.
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In past elections, Mr. Modi played up his apparent bachelor status, arguing that he could not be corrupt because he had no family to support.
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Her 2016 album, "Early Americans," her first in a trio setting, played up the contrast between her horn and the pulsing bass of Mark Helias.
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Biden played up his faith in the military establishment and his place in the Obama White House, which negotiated the Iran nuclear deal in 2015.
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News media reports of the perfect game played up Larsen's personality; "Clown Prince ascends the throne," said a headline in The Star-Ledger of Newark.
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In a fundraising email last week, McCready -- who has not appeared alongside any high profile national Democrats -- played up the wider implications of the race.
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But in the last election, in 2014, Mr. Modi played up his humble origins — the son of a tea seller from a relatively low caste.
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Conservatives worried about increasing the nation's $20 trillion debt -- an issue Trump played up prominently during the campaign -- have been voicing their concerns around the Capitol.
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Jones said all four seem to have the necessary qualifications and played up the importance of the national security adviser helping coordinate across agencies without micromanaging.
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And she played up the economic credentials of her husband, Bill Clinton — the last Democrat to carry Kentucky in a general election, in 1992 and 1996.
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Brown also played up his success in Ohio, which like Iowa is a Midwest battleground state where Trump won decisively after Obama won both states twice.
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"I don't think we've played up to our capabilities in a while now," said Couture, who leads the league in playoff goals (13) and points (19).
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Ankara has frequently played up what it sees as the strong relationship between Erdogan and Trump as a way of overcoming differences between the two countries.
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He said the agency decided he should pull out after the event organizers released an invitation that contained problematic language, which played up his federal role.
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The Republican presidential field reacted to the attacks in Brussels on Tuesday, each sticking with his campaign message: Donald Trump played up fears around Muslim immigration.
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Amy Klobuchar, who is expected to qualify for September, played up her Midwestern bona fides but never landed a punch (or took one, for that matter).
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Even so, Russian media have still played up Turkish interest in the S-400 for many months, noting that China was a buyer of the system.
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Netanyahu, who wore a white shirt and red tie that matched Trump's, played up his closeness with the U.S. president as an important asset for Israel.
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Its dangers should not be ignored, but too often they are played up or misconstrued, contributing to bad policies and helping the terrorists generate more fear.
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Gartner's competitor, IDC, which does count Chromebooks and iPads, also recorded another decline last quarter, but played up the fact that it was less than expected.
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The posts from those accounts played up emotional political issues, including immigration, the conflict between Israel and Palestine, and Britain's vote to leave the European Union.
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Biden, meanwhile, played up his faith in the military establishment and his place in the Obama White House, which negotiated the Iran nuclear deal in 2015.
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The Texans have played up and down all season, as evidenced by their 16-point comeback and OT win over a beatable Bills team (at home).
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While developments on the North American Free Trade Agreement were expected, the event may have been intentionally played up more by the White House, he said.
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It played up members' praise for the president's leadership as well as early reports that some companies plan to offer employee bonuses because of the bill.
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It was always a part of ... The spirit of Nasty Gal was something I'm really proud of, but not something we necessarily owned or played up.
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Unfortunately, many newspapers played up the conflict as if the entire fight hinged on whether or not the sisters wore their traditional habits or street clothes.
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China has also played up the idea, officials said, that the threat is aimed at the 28,500 American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines on the Korean Peninsula.
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The overwhelming share of McKinsey clients are corporate, but the recruiters, knowing the mentality of young people like her, played up the social- and public-sector projects.
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While the rest of the fashion industry seems to be already abandoning the size-diversity "trend" they played up over the last few seasons, theCURVYcon is growing.
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Bareilles played up her devastation on social media by posting an Instagram of herself, alone, sobbing in a booth at what appears to be an Italian restaurant.
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Indeed, in Brexit talks ministers have at times played up this "security surplus" as if it were a bargaining card to be used to extract trade concessions.
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But he never really played up this side of his personality, choosing instead to work on boosting the self-esteem of the kids who watched his show.
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The Democratic aide in Congress we spoke to said the ISPs have played up the threat of Pai's action at the FCC to push a legislative solution.
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Though he's had some embarrassing gaffes when talking about faith -- quoting "Two Corinthians" at Liberty University, for example, Trump played up his faith in the final weekend.
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And there has been no shortage of incidents played up in local media designed to spark outrage and stoke anti-Muslim sentiment over the past several years.
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In a separate tweet, the president played up the importance of his one-on-one meeting with Kim following hours of meetings between diplomats from each country.
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Today, state media played up Trump's concessions to Kim on military exercises, a potential end to sanctions and the prospects for peace on the Korean Peninsula (Reuters).
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Heather Stevens, a video game designer who worked on the original Tomb Raider game, said Lara Croft's physical attributes were originally played up to market the franchise.
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But Trump has repeatedly played up what he sees as his close personal relationship with Kim, expressing confidence it will eventually help produce a landmark nuclear agreement.
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"Gabo" was not only a tremendous writer; he was an expert showman who once worked in advertising and cannily played up his Caribbean exoticism for foreign audiences.
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Many said they were troubled by past recruitment campaigns that played up the masculine aspects of nursing, like one that compared the adrenaline rush to mountain climbing.
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Uber has played up its forays into food delivery, freight shipments, and short-term rentals of electronic bikes and scooters to demonstrate that it can transport anything.
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The 200 became the star of an iconic Super Bowl ad in 2011 that played up vehicles "imported from Detroit" and became a symbol of Chrysler's comeback.
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The Wisconsin Republican offered effusive praise for Pence's performance in the vice presidential debate Tuesday night and played up the importance of the head-to-head matchups.
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In his interactions with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, for example, Trump, early on, taunted him with provocative remarks and played up North Korea's weapons testing.
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The films played up black stereotypes, but they also cast us as the heroes of our own stories, an exception in Hollywood, arguably both then and now.
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Here in our first episode of a two-part podcast, we played up until protagonist John Marston's journey to Mexico, and friends, what a journey it is.
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At the launch, Apple played up HomePod's audio specifications, signalling that it expects the device to compete with top-of-the-range speakers made by Bose and others.
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Last week, Chinese President Xi Jinping also played up his country's role as a promoter of globalization during his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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Some wore actual white pins, others played-up their tattoos and one singer had an important messages stitched onto the back of her dress for all to see.
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Once inside the ceremony, Stallone played up his role as the heavyweight boxing champ, jokingly sparring with Muhammad Ali as they took the stage to present an award.
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And indeed, with irresistible pop songs like "Love Story," and "You Belong With Me," Swift played up her agency, asserting her point of view as a young woman.
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But they have been misled by a media that has played up his hopeless fringe candidacy, in no small part because the media liked what Kasich was saying.
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Dressed in custom Carolina Herrera gown and delicate floor-length veil, Rossum played up the wedding white with a breathtaking archway of white roses and a simple bouquet.
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And while the interior shots were done on a sound stage in England, the Stanley has played up its place in horror history with a "Ghost Adventure" package.
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Trump and the Sanders bitter-enders had played up the possibility, pointing to what they called an "FBI convention" that would effectively block Clinton from becoming the nominee.
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She also shared a comment by Amy Swearer, a policy analyst at the Conservative Heritage Foundation, that played up the involvement of an off-duty border patrol agent.
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Germany's acting finance minister, Peter Altmaier, played up the chances of progress toward a banking union that is considered necessary to shield the euro zone from future crises.
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In May, Trump played up the water politics when talking about the lack of water pumped to local farmers and used the Delta smelt fish as a villain.
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State television, long controlled by hard-liners, has played up speeches by military officials and increasingly airs segments glorifying those who fought in the 1980s war in Iraq.
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Russia talk is FAKE NEWS put out by the Dems, and played up by the media, in order to mask the big election defeat and the illegal leaks!
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The show also played up the viral meme sparked by Trump lurking behind Clinton during the town hall debate as well as internet sensation and questioner Ken Bone.
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He also played up his strong ties to the president — something that his opponents seized on by arguing that it would make him unelectable against Warren in November.
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As for NRDC, Core News cited a GOP report saying the group had "unprecedented access" to Obama administration regulators, and played up her "dogfight" with Sanders over greens.
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Whether he appeared as a V.I.P. at Studio 303 or a rascal's dad in "Little Rascals," his character played up ruthless behavior toward wealth, business practices and women.
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Bradley Byrne, the first Republican to announce a run for the Senate seat, played up his loyalty to Trump when asked about Sessions' plans to enter the race.
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While Ms. Tanowitz played up the choppiness of the Taylor style, Ms. Gillis, whose "Rewilding" shared the third program with "Brandenburgs" (1988) and "Cascade" (1999), injected more fluidity.
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The tech giant played up the device as a simple way for youngsters to converse with Alexa, the company's voice-activated virtual assistant, and obtain age-appropriate apps.
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Several, he said, told him they had played down atrocities against the Rohingya and played up reports of Rohingya militancy, believing it was in the nation's best interests.
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Patrick, who retired in 2018, got plenty of sponsorship and media attention, but a healthy portion of it played up her sex appeal rather than her driving skill.
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The promotional run for the most recent season of the original show, which aired in fall 2018, really played up deck hand (and former stripper) Ashton Pienaar's accident.
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In both cases, the attorney general downplayed the most damaging aspects of the report for Trump and played up highlights that fit best into the President's political narrative.
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As outlets from CNBC to the New York Post to the U.K.'s Daily Mail played up Saturday's story, Bloomberg's campaign downplayed the report, but didn't deny it.
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Lots of reviews of Atlanta have played up how different it is from everything else on TV, which I've also tried to discuss in the four points above.
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The anti-immigrant fervor among voters that Trump has played up ahead of the mid-terms was what, in part, provided Brexit campaigners their momentum ahead of Trump's election.
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It was funny, and I played up to it, but I was still left wondering why I'd found it so challenging while others had seemingly breezed past without difficulty.
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Whatever role editing and self-aggrandizement played in her depiction, she leaned into — and played up — that villainous persona when she returned to the program a few years later.
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He was especially popular with Fox News, which played up the fact that Morgan headed up Border Patrol under Obama and was asked to resign when Trump took office.
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But that emerging Mormon alt-right community was kneecapped by a series of historic shifts within the church that played up its role as a diverse and centrist organization.
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FIFA's No. 143 ranked women's team, the U.S. played up to their lofty status as they blasted Mexico in the semi-finals of the CONCACAF women's Olympic qualifying championship.
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FIFA's No. 143 ranked women's team, the U.S. played up to their lofty status as they blasted Mexico in the semi-finals of the CONCACAF women's Olympic qualifying championship.
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Initial news reports played up Garcia's athlete status as a University of Florida linebacker, describing it as a positive change in the narrative surrounding college athletes and sexual assault.
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Stanton's heroics could not have come soon enough for the proud slugger, who has not nearly played up to his enormous 13-year, $325 million contract yet this season.
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Kasich played up his time as the House's lead budget-writer during the surpluses of the 1990s and his record in turning a deficit into a surplus in Ohio.
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CEO Reinhard Ploss, in a statement, played up Infineon's performance in the first quarter, which is traditionally seasonally weak, but said currency headwinds had to be taken into account.
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Putin has played up this cult of personality, doing things like taking phone calls from random Russian citizens on television to emphasize his personal role in solving people's problems.
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Larry David played up the parallels in a string of genius SNL sketches, and Sanders made a crack about it to Rachel Maddow—but now, the truth is out.
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On those teams, Odom played out on the wing when they wanted to go big, and played up, next to Bynum or Gasol, when they wanted to go small.
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As a selling point of their union, both United Technologies and Raytheon played up the fact that neither company has much overlap, hopefully insulating their deal from regulatory blocks.
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Republicans have played up the Senate's recent confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, Trump's second nominee to a lifetime seat on the Supreme Court, which cemented a 20103-4 conservative majority.
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But in Jessica the alienated edge of immigrant identity, which my mother and I both strove to hide, is played up and endowed with a kind of sideways charisma.
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President Donald Trump on Monday played up the prospects of his forthcoming Middle East peace plan, predicting that Palestinians will eventually back the proposal after it's released on Tuesday.
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When Dan Hurley, the University of Connecticut men's basketball coach, recruited Andre Jackson over the summer, part of his pitch played up the program's future instead of its present.
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He has also played up the cost of US military support for the Saudi regime to its leadership, seeking to generate an even greater financial windfall from the regime.
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During the third Democratic debate, Andrew Yang made a joke that played up an Asian stereotype: "Now, I am Asian, so I know a lot of doctors," he quipped.
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On Thursday in Beijing, the Chinese Commerce Ministry played up the U.S.-China trade benefits, but dismissed the notion that China has not done enough to protect intellectual property.
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"To be honest, this team has not played up to its potential," General Manager Jeff Luhnow said at Minute Maid Park a few days before the All-Star break.
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Today, when it comes to Syria, Trump talks a lot about the risks of military intervention, whereas Clinton has played up our obligation to try to end the conflict.
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On this swing, Warren played up her personal story over policy, talking about her family's struggles growing up in Oklahoma and the challenges she faced as a young mother.
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In hindsight, Trevor tells us he has no regrets or resentment about being booted -- although he acknowledges the Katy-Sierra "love triangle" being played up screwed with him a bit.
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In a splashy Vanity Fair cover story published one day before his 2020 announcement, the magazine played up O'Rourke's assessment that he was "just born" to be in the race.
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In theory, the work is not far off from the brothers' past installations, like Sex Room, that played up phallic imagery to startle and then confront how we approach sex.
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They played up a new agreement to bolster security at French border controls and for Britain to speed the process of bringing unaccompanied migrant children across the frontier from France.
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The humor I'm referring to, of course, was how the show played up the major height difference between the Williams and Christie, who People reports are 5'1" and 6'3," respectively.
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Both leaders played up their interest in cooperating in the fight against international militant groups, with Hollande saying France and its allies would strike "again and again" against Islamic State.
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At a rally Tuesday in a former steel town south of Pittsburgh, the billionaire businessman played up familiar themes, blasting free trade agreements and China as U.S. manufacturing job killers.
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Flash forward to 2017's Met Gala, where Zendaya stunned the world with her gorgeously-tousled natural hair — and played up her ultra-glowy makeup with that bright, matte lip.
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Enter Andrews' glam squad — makeup artist Lisa Ashley and hairstylist Ryan Randall — who played up the princess theme with a pretty pink lip and an equally romantic flower-adorned updo.
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Daniel played up his faux cluelessness way longer than anyone deserves, and the poor player who was just trying to help spent way too long putting up with his antics.
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Some Euroskeptics say the difficulties in clinching a deal at the summit are being played up to make an eventual agreement seem like a triumph - something British officials have denied.
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On the positive side, the executives played up the development of overseas revenue, which grew 44 percent year-on-year and now accounts for 48 percent of Twitter's total income.
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Meanwhile, some Republicans have played up the GOP tax law passed late last year, but many have instead taken a page out of Trump's playbook and heavily focused on immigration.
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Meanwhile private equity giant KKR played up the plant-based credentials of margarine when it snapped up the Anglo-Dutch food giant's spreads business for 6.8 billion euros last year.
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Clinton played up her credentials as a commander-in-chief and accused the Republican candidates of lacking either experience or the will to extend American leadership in the Middle East.
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Before crowds of thousands, Mr. Sanders has effusively played up his momentum, but privately his aides acknowledge a daunting mathematical reality: He must play catch-up in New York. Mrs.
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In his Senate campaign, he's played up his deep ties in the state, and like many Democrats this cycle, is focusing his messaging on health care and protecting Social Security.
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Back in early 2009, Apple's ads for the iPhone 3G played up the App Store that the company had added to the iPhone OS the year before (here's an example).
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Consider his path to the title—through the two most knocked out fighters in UFC history—and the way that the UFC has played up his punch as almost magical.
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Charles Koch has also been the more visible Koch brother as the public face and voice of the network, and the network's leaders played up his vigor and continued commitment.
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He said he had forgotten about a campaign round-table in which an aide played up his Russian connections and suggested arranging a meeting for Donald J. Trump in Moscow.
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Mr. Trump played up that report in a long riff, saying that the growth rate would have been "250 percent, maybe over 4 percent" if not for late summer hurricanes.
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During the patriotic war years, when the company placed eagles on its catalog covers, artwork that played up the wholesomeness of the countryside appealed to many Americans, Ms. Windisch said.
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To start, Trump was triggered by new illegal border crossing numbers and reports, played up on Fox News, of a migrant caravan headed north toward the US from Central America.
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The Iranian government has played up its work to protect the endangered Asiatic cheetah, which once roamed from Egypt to India but now only stalks a slice of Iranian desert.
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In Goffman's case, this extended both to discussions of criminality (her subjects, some critics suggested, played up their exploits to impress her) and to the various exigencies that shaped their lives.
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And on CEO Evan Spiegel's first ever earnings call with investors, he played up his company's focus on enabling the creativity of its highly engaged, if not as large, user base.
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ABOUT KENTUCKY (1-0): Fox played up to his potential Friday but that wasn't the case with 6-10 freshman forward Edrice Adebayo (five points), who was plagued by foul trouble.
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"Russia talk is FAKE NEWS put out by the Dems, and played up by the media, in order to mask the big election defeat and the illegal leaks!" the president tweeted.
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Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) played up reports that Vice President Pence is eyeing a 2020 presidential run on Sunday, warning that President Trump should be concerned about his second-in-command.
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When passing the ballot question for recreational use in 2016, advocates in Massachusetts played up the angle that purchasing from a store front will carry less product sourcing and quality uncertainties.
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Here, too, Mr. Beinfield played up the property's past, laying new trolley tracks that he commissioned from a rail construction company in West Virginia to connect the house to the cottage.
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While the show played up a love triangle between them and Godwin's other suiter, Blake Horstmann, the couple assured Glamour that her love for Barbour is just as strong as his.
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Solomon wrote about unproven attempts by Ukraine to interfere in the 2016 election and played up alleged corruption in Ukraine by former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.
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But it's been obviously played up a lot in terms of how Mitch McConnell feels about this, about how -- whether Paul Ryan, you know, looked askance at the way it went.
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She has often played up the sweetness inherent in the premise, as she did last season, when she staged a fashion presentation as old diner, with model-waitresses bearing French fries.
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In an interview with Cosmopolitan, Condor explained that the two purposely played up their electric chemistry to generate buzz about the original Netflix film – a practice they're obviously continuing this go round.
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The brash billionaire played up his home state advantage here on Wednesday night, reminding the crowd that he grew up in neighboring Queens and used to come play golf here in Bethpage.
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Larsen is depicted as dour and long faced, the sickly color of her skin played up by the emerald-green background and her serpentine red curls, which echo Munch's images of vampiresses.
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But the trip on Suarez, in the box—even if it was played up a good bit—was ultimately deserving of a PK. It was just a childish response from Valencia fans.
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The Winter Olympics opened with a spectacular ceremony on Friday, attended by several heads of state who witnessed the joint march of North and South Korean athletes, as Games systems played up.
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Clinton argued that her experience as secretary of State makes her better suited to be commander in chief and played up support from Republican military officials who are supporting her over Trump.
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The star of the film, Daisy Ridley, played up the celestial theme at the movie's world premiere in L.A. by wearing literal stars on her strapless Monse dress with carwash style skirt.
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When asked by CNN's Dana Bash how he squared his image with the large loan from Goldman Sachs, Cruz played up the hard decision to pour their income into the Senate run.
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"If you got a high publicity case which is being played up by social media, you absolutely have to sequester the jury, no if ands or buts, end of story," she said.
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In his latest campaign, Bredesen has played up his time as governor and Nashville mayor, touting that he still has a good relationship with "economic Republicans," or those in the business world.
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She opened her 2014 campaign with an advertisement showing her spinning a basketball on her index finger, Harlem Globetrotters-style, and played up an endorsement from the Boston Celtics legend Bob Cousy.
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Appearing subdued and distracted, he played up the strong economy and his trade policies, and charged without evidence that Democrats were putting the interests of undocumented immigrants before those of American citizens.
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In the first hour of the show, Apple played up its new brand identity as something other than a company that turned out hardware products by unveiling its news and gaming services.
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He also did not give a timeline when asked if the possibility of American military intervention, an option long played up by administration officials, was drawing closer as conditions in Venezuela worsened.
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The president has frequently played up in his tweets the idea that Democratic elites are conspiring to withhold the Democratic nomination from Sanders, an accusation Sanders's own supporters alleged occurred in 2016.
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By contrast, Ms. Merkel has played up her status as a world leader and savored two unexpected clear victories for her party in other state elections, last week and in late March.
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The league has played up its growth in recent weeks; it recently announced a television deal that will place one game each week on a national network, Lifetime, for the first time.
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They also played up the diversity of their cast, rounding out the cast of mercenaries with South Korean actor Byung-hun Lee, Mexican actor Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, and Native American actor Martin Sensmeier.
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Ellison knows opposition from Clinton- and Obama-aligned forces would put a hard cap on his potential support -- part of why his campaign played up the endorsement of Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer.
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It played up the drama of the secret documents, featured props illustrating the amount of information acquired, and included simple slogans ("Iran Lied") in big letters on a screen behind the prime minister.
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They seem to be playing the same game consumers have played up until now—waiting to see how the tech will pan out before jumping in with both feet and investing their dollars.
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Viacom also played up its $340-million purchase of Pluto TV and said it had high hopes to build an international advertising-supported streaming TV service that will include programming from its archive.
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According to a new report from the New York Times, the Trump administration will overturn that guidance, returning to Bush-era instructions that played up the limits placed on colleges when considering race.
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While Sanders' popularity with organized labor will make him competitive here, this should be Biden Country — he's a familiar face, visited frequently during the campaign and has played up his Catholic background here.
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Facing criticism from the right that his party is anti-American, Moon has played up Trump's apparent willingness to meet with Kim, saying he is on the "same page" as the US leader.
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Had this been a full-throated heel turn, by contrast, the commentary team would have played up their disgust at Reigns' actions and expressed a graver sense of concern for Strowman's well-being.
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Both this hyper-complex nature and the computer-like description of the brain are often played up in a way that makes the brain almost seem like it's not part of our body.
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The electronics giant previously played up its use of AI to match supply and demand and, on the payment side, it supports QR scans as well as an Uber-style cashless credit card.
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Candidates across the political spectrum have played up fears of immigrants in Italy, a country that has struggled with a wave of people arriving by the Mediterranean in search of a better life.
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On the Ryman stage, the three played up the humor of Monroe and a very pregnant Presley executing the scuffing dance steps of Appalachian clogging while Lambert scraped syncopated rhythms on a washboard.
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The earliest pitches for hand dryers played up their supposed ability when it comes to "preventing the spread of contagious disease," as a 1924 newspaper ad for the Airdry Electric Towel put it.
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In outlining the split on Wednesday, Delphi boss Kevin Clark played up the increased focus each of the two new management teams would have as separate companies more than the immediate benefit to shareholders.
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Facing these long odds, the Ossoff campaign is testing out a message many liberals had played up during the 2016 elections: a laser-like focus on talking about pocketbook issues for the Georgia Sixth.
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He said his government planned a massive upgrade of its physical and digital infrastructure, and played up a newly unveiled income-support program, saying it would help lift 5 million Italians out of poverty.
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I only played up to the four star-ranked quests, but the progression was smoother and more satisfying for solo play than any Monster Hunter yet, even with what felt like slightly reduced difficulty.
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According to the DJ/perfume mogul/entrepreneur's new interview with Ocean Drive, the person who played up the ditzy heiress role on reality television is a far cry from the Hilton we know today.
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Taraji P. Henson went super simple in a men's dress shirt that showed off a lace black bra underneath, but she played up her beauty look with a shimmery eye and bold purple lip.
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Didi has played up its homegrown status in China since it represents a clear distinction to Uber and could help curry favor in the regulatory battles that are inevitable with the ride-sharing business.
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The changes offer more (and simpler) lighting controls Philips has always played up the ability to set specific lighting "scenes," which tell a group of lights to switch to a certain set of colors.
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The administration, perhaps uneasy about the sheer breadth of Kushner's responsibilities and the fact that he has no diplomatic or political experience whatsoever, has also played up the connection: Kissinger is reportedly mentoring Kushner.
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These days, Amos 'n' Andy is remembered as a prime example of minstrel comedy: characters originally created on radio by white actors who adopted broad black dialect that played up a lack of education.
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Just prior to Utah police announcing that Autopilot had been in use according to the car's driver, Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted a series of tweets that played up the safety of his car.
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After the team got off to a rocky start this past football season, the media largely played up this narrative, with article after article asserting that Tom Brady was definitely, undoubtedly on the decline.
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Donnelly also played up his support last year of Trump's first Supreme Court pick, Neil Gorsuch, and noted that he had voted in favor of Trump's agenda more than 60 percent of the time.
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Part of Ms. O'Donnell's pitch for the job played up the possibilities presented by cross-pollinating podcasting with the theater; playwrights are studied in telling stories with dialogue that are laden with metaphorical opportunity.
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"Russia talk is FAKE NEWS put out by the Dems, and played up by the media, in order to mask the big election defeat and the illegal leaks," Trump wrote on Twitter on Sunday.
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I got to try the game at a preview event earlier this month in San Francisco, and Above and Beyond is among the tightest VR shooters I've played, up there with Epic's Robo Recall.
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Shakir also played up the importance of Massachusetts and, though he didn't mention her by name, conceded that Warren's presence in the race meant they expected an especially tight contest in the Bay State.
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Musk has played up the support Tesla is getting from Chinese authorities as the company invests in the country's first wholly foreign-owned car plant in Shanghai, due to come online later this year.
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Although Trump has played up Mattis' "Mad Dog" nickname and tough-guy image, Marines and others who served with him portrayed Mattis as a scholar and strategist who would seek to avoid open conflict.
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He touted in particular his efforts to crack down on illegal immigration — an issue he has played up in recent days as he tries to secure funding for his proposed border wall before Dec. 7.
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Beyond the connections he brings from his time as chairman of the Republican Governors Association, Christie played up his national security experience from dealing with terrorism cases as a U.S. attorney during his 2016 bid.
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Likely figuring some might have thought he played up this tragic scene for more drama, one of Chernobyl's creators, Craig Mazin, addressed the show's dog deaths on Twitter on the same day the episode aired.
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One of the first teasers we got about the seventh season played up the presence of the Night King, and this talk about uniting seems to point to a big battle with the White Walkers.
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Shah, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's closest adviser and top campaign strategist, played up the humble origins of Kovind, 71, who has served two terms in the upper house of parliament and is a practicing lawyer.
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In a 280 article in Computers and Automation titled "Two Electronic Computers Share a Single Problem," the fact that the computers shared differing capability levels, a fundamental feature of modern cloud computing, was played up.
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Mr Ryan played up the idea of the general election as a team effort, telling the convention that the best end for a year of "surprises" would be America voting for a "conservative governing majority".
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And in 20183, they instituted a nationwide patriotic education curriculum in schools that played up China's historic victimization at the hands of foreign powers and presented loyalty to country and party as a primary virtue.
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Another storyteller could have run with the juicy details dropped here, like the FBI's manipulation of a greedy press, or played up the parallels between Jean's predicament then and the state of our world now.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Benjamin Netanyahu, who is seeking a fifth term as Israel's prime minister, has played up his conservative, security-first credentials in the face of inexperienced rivals in the run-up to Tuesday's election.
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Mr. Johnson has played up his ties to reassure voters that if Britain leaves the European Union, he would be well-placed to hammer out a trade agreement with his friend in the White House.
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The Clinton campaign is giving no indications that Kaine will directly or indirectly address concerns from Sanders delegates during his speech on Wednesday, though multiple speakers have played up the convention's main message of unity.
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Even Van Der Beek's turn in the canceled-too-quickly ABC sitcom Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23 played up the iconic character, showcasing Van Der Beek's willingness to make fun of himself for comedy.
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We have played up her oddball-ness in juxtaposition to her glamour, which means that somewhere along the way, focus turned away from the thing that made her famous — standout acting — and toward her personality itself.
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The Brazilian leader visited the White House in March where he played up his admiration of President Donald Trump and their shared disdain for political correctness and "fake news," as they often call unfavorable press coverage.
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Rita Ora expertly demonstrated the trend at Monday night's British Fashion Awards, teaming her silky high-fashion Prada pajamas with a black satin headpiece featuring glittering crystal embellishments that played up her Lorraine Schwartz diamond earrings.
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Jessica Chastain also played up those breezy red carpet photo ops in a flapper-esque pastel purple gown featuring a fitted bodice with all over beading that changes into a fully fringed skirt at her thigh.
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The company's use of the investment visa financing came under scrutiny in May, after launching a Chinese marketing push that played up the firm's ties to President Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner.
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For one thing, Trump doesn't bank on the "professional common man" folksiness that Windrip exudes — it was George W. Bush, the favored Windrip analogue before him, who played up his image as an affable Texas cowboy.
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Over and over again during a tense Democratic presidential debate on Sunday, Clinton, who served as Obama's secretary of state for four years, played up her ties to the president and accused Sanders of undermining him.
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If the film had taken place more in Mary's head, and played up the textural drama behind those night sky shots, then Mary Shelley could have had a chance at living up to its subject's greatness.
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There was a report that we were disagreeing about aviation that was actually not true, so we definitely had some differences in what we thought the mountaintop was but it wasn't nearly what was played up.
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But most worryingly, Najib has played up the country's ethnic divisions, pledging to extend affirmative action benefits for the country's disproportionately poor ethnic Malay majority, and implicitly stoking tensions with a relatively well-off Chinese minority.
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Japanese officials played up the countries' relationship ahead of the visit, presenting Mr. Abe as a trusted interlocutor who can lend a sympathetic ear to Iran and convey its concerns to the rest of the world.
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Prominent Leave campaigners played up immigration fears and made promises about the UK reclaiming its sovereignty, taking control of its borders, laws, and trade, and securing more money for domestic programs like the National Health Service.
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The designer pushed the couple to embrace such juxtapositions, which they might never have considered themselves — although he played up the house's intrinsic Americana, he paired it with midcentury Italian lighting and vibrant wool Berber rugs.
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President Trump, who has a close eye on the stock market and has in the past played up its gains as a report card on his presidency, attributed Wednesday's decline to an impeachment inquiry by Democrats.
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"Kevin has always shown that he can be a really good defender, and perhaps has played up and down in that regard because of the offensive load he's had on him over the years," Adams said.
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Google played up its strengths in artificial intelligence by showing a smart voice recorder, facial recognition and gesture control technology that lets can wave their hands a few inches above the Pixel smartphone to control it.
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Thursday's meeting could also help Netanyahu in the closely contested election, in which he has played up his statecraft and security credentials in the face of the politically untested challenger Benny Gantz, a former military chief.
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Andersen was already collapsing because it had shredded its own reputation, but the business community and the corporate defense bar played up the idea that an overzealous prosecution had put thousands of people out of work.
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Toyota brought its factory-team NASCAR drivers Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch on stage to drive home that point, and Toyota played up the fact that it is the company that builds most cars in America.
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Where Ally's politics and experiences with the rest of the world are played up as extreme, Beverly's rage is her defining characteristic even though the circumstances of her life warrant at least a lit bit of anger.
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Meanwhile, Reagan played up the incident to rally anti-Soviet sentiment internationally, leading to a flurry of tit-for-tat diplomatic reprisals in the United Nations and the deployment of Pershing II nuclear missiles in West Germany.
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While the company is contracting in Europe, it also played up new initiatives in France and Germany, which include a membership loyalty program in the former and new low-cost commission program for merchants in the latter.
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Entering the final stretch in Iowa, where evangelicals are a key portion of the Republican primary electorate, Trump has played up his Christianity and turned to supporters like Jerry Falwell Jr. to boost his religious bona fides.
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Scholz played up the SPD's achievements in coalition negotiations with Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) and her Bavarian allies, at which the centre-left party won the powerful finance ministry to the frustration of many in the CDU.
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Euronet, which is also based in the U.S., offered $1 billion and played up concerns around the potential for MoneyGram to be acquired by a Chinese company — Ant Financial, which operates Alipay, China's largest online payment provider.
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On Tuesday, Mr. Obama played up the racial undertones that have driven the criticism of him as president, noting that critics have questioned his birthplace, said he was a Muslim and even alleged that he and Mrs.
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Meanwhile, the news media dutifully played up the Clinton server story, which never involved any evidence of wrongdoing, but merged in the public mind into the perception of a vast "email" scandal when there was nothing there.
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READ: Netanyahu's desperate campaign promise would "bury any chance of peace" Netanyahu's campaign has also played up his close relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump, plastering pictures of the two leaders together on billboards around the country.
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That fingerprint also reminds me of how The Americans' first season really played up the irony that Philip and Elizabeth had to be model citizens, because they couldn't have their fingerprints on file or anything like that.
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The most impactful change of all, one Bungie played up back in May, is that you no longer have to jump back to the waiting "orbit" screen to change activities, a massive hurdle the original Destiny never fixed.
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WATCH: The Sexiest Looks From the 2016 Met Gala in Under 2 Minutes Last year, Kendall wore a custom piece from Calvin Klein's Francisco Costa and he also played-up her amazing body through the lace-up detail.
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While it might not be a household name to those outside financial markets, Grab president Ming Maa played up Invesco as "one of the smartest investors in developing markets" in a statement released alongside news of the investment.
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By failing to give his officials the time and freedom to do the hard work needed for such a summit, Trump has both played up his role in negotiations and undercut those working on his behalf, experts said.
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Its strong marketing campaign, which played up the film's cultural relevance with a series of billboards stamped with Daniel Kaluuya's tear-strewn face, is an example Black Panther can learn from when Oscar season rolls around next year.
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Lawrence — who started dating Aronosfky during filming, a relationship that ended as the film bombed — played the young, nurturing muse to Javier Bardem's broody artist, a role that went against everything she had played up until that point.
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Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has played up the support Tesla is getting from Chinese authorities as the company invests in the country's first wholly foreign-owned car plant in Shanghai, due to come online later this year.
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His single life was an obstacle course of misery and humiliation, which Man Seeking Woman played up with surrealist sketches that took cues from series creator Simon Rich's collection of absurdist essays about dating, Last Girlfriend on Earth.
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He and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu played up their friendship during a joint appearance, even as questions continued to swirl about Trump revealing classified information to the Russians that was reportedly given to the United States by Israel.
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Some Senate Republicans have played up the idea that their plan will differ significantly from the House bill that was projected to lead to 23 million fewer Americans having health insurance and an $830 billion cut to Medicaid.
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A hand down by Duhamel on the throw triple Lutz incurred a deduction but it was in the side-by-side spin that Radford's hip really played up as he went completely out of sync with his partner.
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No longer will we hear the virtues of "forward guidance" being played up by Fed officials; it has been replaced by the false modesty of claiming to be "data-driven" when they jerk the lever of government intervention.
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Lawyers for Samantha Elhassani, the only American woman repatriated from Iraq so far and who now awaits trial for supporting ISIS, have played up "victim" narratives, pointing to an abusive husband and saying she was "duped" into joining.
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The hairstylist Paul Hanlon also played up the sense of unaffected youthfulness, with center-parted locks that appeared air-dried and imperfect: "Those little bits of hair that stand up a bit from static — that's O.K.," he said.
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The moment was part of a bizarre afternoon in Texas, where the president played up a six-year-old factory as evidence of his three-year-old presidency's success in bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States.
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Refugee officials said the Shabab fears could be real, but that some refugees also played up such concerns in an attempt to delay or stop their return to the camps, which can be depressing on a good day.
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Film-makers might have played up how commercial interests were already encroaching upon the Amazonian peoples during Fawcett's time; a brief and forgettable reference to the rubber trade does not do justice to the wrenching social change it caused.
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As important as the ruling was, Schrems said he felt that the media reaction to the Safe Harbor case had been largely played up, with some perhaps focusing on him as an individual rather than the issue at hand.
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A band played up-tempo reggae while buses and lorries festooned with fern fronds and draped with campaign posters for Gabriel Igaso, the would-be parliamentarian whose rally this was, drove slowly through the crowd, packed with cheering supporters.
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Ryan and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, another Wisconsinite, played a critical role in cracking the fabled "Blue Wall" that Hillary Clinton in the Rust Belt and subtly played up his own role in helping Trump Wednesday morning.
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WAIT-AND-SEE The state-controlled media has so far played up China's capability to tackle both internal and external challenges, including the trade war, saying there are ample policy tools available to keep growth on an even footing.
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It's a defense chock full of future NFL stars—Myles Garrett, Justin Evans, and Armani Watts, to name a few—that now won't be known for underachieving on a team that should never played up to its talent level.
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Zendaya's played up the unnatural, "anti-serious," and performative aspects of "camp" by poking fun at her Disney past in a Cinderella-style ball gown that changed color with the help of a fairy godmother (her stylist Law Roach).
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But in a district with high numbers of college-educated voters, Porter has drilled Walters for supporting Trump's agenda much of the time and has played up the California-specific downsides of the Republican tax bill, which Walters supported.
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These were pretty abominable examples of cultural appropriation; the white performers stole slave songs, which popularized African-American culture and music with mainstream audiences, but they played up ignorant stereotypes, portraying blackface characters as dumb, buffoonish, lazy, and superstitious.
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In the case of CBS, it has played up gains in its streaming effort, CBS All Access, which has over 2.5 million paying subscribers and is on pace to hit four million by next year, according to the company.
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He has also played up his role in getting Mr. Trump to back a $13 billion capital increase for the World Bank last year, which came with a caveat that borrowing costs for wealthier countries like China would increase.
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Major Free Agents: LT Russell Okung, DT Brandon Mebane, OLB Bruce Irvin, WR Jermaine Kearse, P Jon Ryan Okung has been injury-prone over the past few years, and hasn't played up to the potential his tools would suggest.
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He often pointed out that the population of Los Angeles is larger than that of some states in the US. A star in activist Democratic circles, he also played up his roots as the grandson of a Mexican immigrant.
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" Members of other minorities, on the other hand, appeared to catch the officers' interest if they played up their backgrounds: A native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander received the comment, "Were there a touch more cultural flavor I'd be more enthusiastic.
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In contrast to Jackson's first biographer, Judy Oppenheimer, whose 1988 book, "Private Demons," somewhat played up Jackson's alleged occult powers, Franklin argues that Jackson's sorceress persona was mostly shtick: a fun way to tease interviewers and to sell books.
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Orban has also played up the idea that "external forces and international powers" like the EU, which Hungary joined in 2004, and the United Nations want to meddle in internal Hungarian affairs and force the country to accept migrants.
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Most polls have shown O'Rourke trailing, but after swearing off all political action committee donations, he has proved to be an online fundraising phenomenon, and on Friday night, O'Rourke played up his visits to all 254 counties in Texas.
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He's an immediate learner with a voracious appetite for information, and the older he gets—Anthony has played up a level in the AAU's 225-and-under division for the past couple years—the more complete his game looks.
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Sanders played up his Brooklyn roots as he campaigned in New York City and throughout the state, highlighting his childhood as the son of working class Polish immigrants and his time at James Madison High School in South Brooklyn.
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Roseanne played up other campaign themes, too, by criticizing the Affordable Care Act and including a brief opioid storyline, in which Roseanne appears to be hooked on prescription pain medication to treat her knee (they're initially unable to afford surgery).
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Britain's banks have largely played up the resilience of businesses since the June 13 referendum decision to leave the EU, but senior executives speaking to Reuters say that in recent weeks they have seen a dip in firms' activity levels.
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Rocko's style of humor, which played up the human dynamic of its manic and out-of-control anthropomorphic animals, heavily influenced later animated shows that would rely heavily on pop culture references and layered themes aimed at both children and adults.
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Similarly, Republicans in recent months have played up Kavanaugh's life as a community servant and family man, and were quick to highlight that he volunteered to serve food to the homeless within 48 hours of being nominated to the high court.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin NetanyahuBenjamin (Bibi) NetanyahuMORE has played up his personal relationship with President Trump to shore up support among his political base and promised to annex the West Bank and Jordan Valley if he secured the premiership again.
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"While generals and politicians in Kyiv played up the Javelins, in my own experience, soldiers in the field talked more about getting insufficient quantities of the nonlethal aid that they really needed — secure communications, armored vehicles, counterbattery radars," Oliker said.
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Britain's banks have largely played up the resilience of businesses since the June 2016 referendum decision to leave the EU, but senior executives speaking to Reuters say that in recent weeks they have seen a dip in firms' activity levels.
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She also played up her more than three decades of service in the party, which included a stint as interior minister and more than six years governing the tiny state of Saarland — proof, she said, that she can win elections.
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In a direct sense, Mr. Trump's elevation was made possible by the F.B.I.'s blatant intervention in the election, Russian subversion, and the supine news media that obligingly played up fake scandals while burying real ones on the back pages.
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FRANKFURT, July 25 (Reuters) - Telefonica Deutschland reported a decline in revenues and a net loss in the second quarter, but played up underlying growth in its core profits and said it was on track to hit its targets this year.
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Musk said in 2014 that AI is "potentially more dangerous than nukes," and when OpenAI was introduced in December 2015, Musk and other organizers played up the organization's intent to develop technology that could help people and focus on safety.
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In part to lure these investors, the kingdom has played up reforms like the end of a ban on women drivers (even as it conducted an absolutely horrific military intervention in Yemen and launched an ever-intensifying campaign to root out dissent).
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Friends often played up Phoebe Buffay's goofy side with airhead lines to make her the butt of jokes, and leaned on her "weirdness" for comedic relief, like the running gag of signature song "Smelly Cat," performed regularly during her gigs at Central Perk.
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Although he once played up the scene in a spoken word performance, saying that it took him almost two hours to get the take right, there's actually little to no dong to be seen (not sure how closely you're willing to look).
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For every glossy cover that played up her girl-next-door image — say, GQ (in just a men's shirt) or Rolling Stone (in a tank top and denim jacket) — there were just as many tabloid headlines that reduced her to a mere girlfriend.
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Throughout the 1950s and even the '60s, when the company began advertising in publications like Ebony, the Avon lady was still widely depicted as a model of white womanhood, and the sales model played up the post–World War II ideal of domesticity.
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Although the plea deal doesn't involve his cooperation, it leaves the door open for Cohen to talk with both special counsel Robert Mueller and prosecutors in the Southern District of New York — a possibility that was played up on his fundraising page.
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Later that week, Hunter's campaign played up the attack in an ad calling Campa-Najjar a "security risk," tying him to his grandfather, who was part of the Munich massacre terrorist attack and who died 16 years before Campa-Najjar was born.
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The reasons of the crackdown are unclear, and perhaps surprising, given that Go originated in China 3,000 years ago, and the world champ, Ke, is Chinese – the games easily could have been played up to the benefit of both China and Google.
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Even former House Speaker Paul Ryan, who has often played up the summer he spent "flipping burgers" at McDonald's as a teenager, seems not to realize that it's much more difficult to work fast food in 2019 than it was in 1986.
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The attacks ran the gamut from suggesting Kasich was eschewing his responsibilities as governor to campaign for president to knocking the Ohio governor for not dropping out after placing third in neighboring Michigan's GOP primary, where Kasich played up his regional appeal.
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Modi has played up his record on national security after he sent warplanes into Pakistan in late February in response to a suicide bomb attack by an Islamist militant group based there that killed 40 Indian police in the disputed Kashmir region.
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He downplayed the importance of empirical estimates of the neutral policy rate and played up the importance of data-dependence — the aforementioned "wait and see" strategy by which officials would take their cues from realized data and, in particular, realized inflation data.
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Phil Bredesen, like other red-state Democrats, has played up his support for border security as Trump has hammered on the issue in the closing days of the campaign, even releasing an ad touting his decision to send military personnel to the border.
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He has played up to the image, stoked it, encouraged it: the carefully scripted boastfulness, the absurd aphorisms, the artwork in which he is depicted as an angel, the fact that he referred to himself as a God on Twitter just this week.
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Lady Day's concertizing was played up in the listing, and, according to Dan Douglas, a Corcoran Group associate broker, it was the story of that special night that drew the new owners to take a look at the apartment in the first place.
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NASHVILLE — President Trump delivered an economic victory lap during a speech to farmers on Monday in which he vastly overstated the size of the tax cuts passed by Congress late last year and played up a rollback of regulations on American businesses.
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That poll was conducted mostly before Trump's endorsement of Donovan, which the incumbent played up at the first debate on Monday, reminding GOP voters they don't want to have another Alabama situation where the GOP hands over a winnable race to Democrats.
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According to Todd Bliwise, the owner of the New York City travel agency An Avenue Apart and an airline specialist, the recent focus on creative cocktails is a shift from the last decade when carriers played up their high-end wines and spirits.
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It was not immediately clear whether the suggestion would prompt a review by the defense ministry, which has played up the benefits of sharing a fleet of transport planes with France as part of a broader push to increase European defense cooperation.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Patrick Reed played up to his role as pantomime villain at the Presidents Cup on Friday when he made a shoveling gesture during his foursomes match in a defiant reference to his controversial bunker penalty in the Bahamas last week.
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And for her most recent look at the season 6 premiere in Hollywood Sunday, Williams played up her feminine side with a black-and-white bandeau top, teaming the itty-bitty cropped shirt with a high-waisted orange-and-white floral embroidered midi skirt.
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And Swift's first single off Reputation, "Look What You Made Me Do," had a song and video that was an ode to all her haters and played up a lot of her biggest rivalries, including those with Katy Perry, Kanye West, and Kim Kardashian.
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To the chagrin of her progressive supporters, she has played up this centrism during her campaign, dropping her party affiliation from her ads, telling press it's "hard" for her to say she's a "proud Democrat," and declining to endorse Democratic gubernatorial candidate David Garcia.
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But mostly, these scenes were a tremendous reminder of how Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Lena Headey have taken an element of the books that was mostly played up for its "ew, gross!" factor and turned it into one of the show's tragic, beating hearts.
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Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, played up the meeting, calling it a success, but Peña Nieto said later he had made clear to Trump that Mexico would not be paying for a border wall, which has been a major talking point of Trump's presidential campaign.
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These dramatic moments, instantly distilled into YouTube moments, quickly spread online, transforming Franken in the blink of an eye from a relative political newcomer to someone who must be buzzed about, played up, shot down, and speculated about as potential presidential candidate in 2020.
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However, it wasn't until 1990 when Big League Chew started printing the now-iconic exaggerated caricatures of baseball players onto the gum packs and really played up the baseball angle that Big League Chew became a major gum brand for athletes and non-athletes alike.
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Once it was announced as the summit's venue last week, the world's media quickly played up the island's "pirate" heritage, inspired perhaps by Singapore's bygone days of fleshpots and opium dens or, more likely, its occasional appearances in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" films.
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During the 20133 campaign, Mr. Stone played up his role as a conduit to Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, suggesting they had spoken and that he had advance knowledge of the website's publication of hacked emails from John Podesta, the chairman of the Clinton campaign.
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Women are severely underrepresented at Davos, an elite shoptalk gathering that has been played up as the best networking event of the year, where heads of state, central bankers, chief executives and billionaire investors meet to talk about foreign and economic policy, among many other things.
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Alluding to Dole's statement to the New York Times interview that Trump has the "right personality" to work with Congress, Trump played up his reputation as a deal maker as the underpinning of his electability argument: "We've got to be a little establishment," he said in Vegas.
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Over at the Interior Department last year, the secretary, Ryan Zinke, and top aides, in their crusade to downsize various national monuments, withheld data pointing to the benefits, both economic and archaeological, of keeping protections in place while they played up the benefits of removing the protections.
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Like Pamela MacKinnon, who brought something unique and unexpected to Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," in the memorable 2012 Broadway revival—she played up George and Martha's sexual attraction—Buckhurst, an actor himself, lets us see how deeply necessary Sweeney is to Mrs. Lovett.
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A fading Cruz would have little room to expand his appeal beyond right-wing purists (his concession speech tonight once again played up his "consistent conservative" bona fides), and his campaign would serve barely any purpose other than to deny Rubio a chance to challenge Trump one-on-one.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Boeing played up the prospects for a potential new mid-market jet on the eve of the Singapore Airshow on Monday - but the war for sales has already begun in this area of the market worth hundreds of billions of dollars over the next 2330 years.
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One other thought: While Shazam has played up its ability to do more than just recognize a song that's playing — it has a "visual Shazam" capability that lets you use your camera to ID objects — my hunch is that Apple is interested, first and foremost, in Shazam's core utility.
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The French leader may have failed to defeat Marine Le Pen's far-right party on Sunday - a duel Macron had played up ahead of the vote - but he now has a troop of European lawmakers he can call his own, giving him more leverage on the European stage.
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In one 2002 stunt, WWE tag team duo Billy and Chuck publicly announced that they were gay, planned a marriage in the ring, received an official endorsement from GLAAD, and then revealed the marriage was a sham—a homophobic gimmick played up for ratings and an embarrassment for GLAAD.
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But even as the White House and Republican leaders repeatedly played up Trump's engagement, there was often a suspicion -- voiced quietly but repeatedly by senior congressional aides involved in the process and at times by many of the rank-and-file lawmakers themselves -- that he was not all in.
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In a statement confirming receipt of a slate of candidates from Broadcom today, Qualcomm also played up regulatory uncertainty around the transaction, and urged shareholders to support the existing board of "world-class directors" — emphasizing that nine are independent and four have been added in the last three years.
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" The White House website made the mandate even starker as it played up the president's speech: "Earning a post-secondary degree or credential is no longer just a pathway to opportunity for a talented few; rather, it is a prerequisite for the growing jobs of the new economy.
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Nichole M. Bauer, an assistant professor of political communication at Louisiana State University, found that when women played up stereotypically masculine qualities, voters — regardless of party — rated them better in terms of leadership ability, but voters in the opposing party rated them significantly lower in terms of likability.
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The directors of the DC films have played up the cinematic rivalry, with Batman v Superman director Zack Snyder dismissing Marvel films as "flavor of the week" and Suicide Squad director David Ayer joining the crowd in a chant of "fuck Marvel" at an early screening of the film.
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Amazon has been experimenting with brick-and-mortar operations even as it continues to fine-tune more futuristic efforts like drone delivery and robot-powered warehouses, and the company has played up just how little customers of Amazon Go would have to interact with anyone or anything other than their smartphone.
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It can be played up a little much at times (and the ending tie-in to the rest of the DC universe is rough, to say the least), but the constant, simple ways the film plays with understanding are enough to pull it all together in a way that really works.
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By mid-December, the two teams will have played up to eight games against each other — including one on Wednesday — in the span of two months, plotting their final moves of a four-year buildup to an expected meeting in the gold medal game in Gangneung, South Korea, on Feb. 22.
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It has always carried the thrill of seeing something illicit, from the days when the reveal of the Phantom of the Opera's face caused viewers to shriek to when The Exorcist played up the fact that some theatergoers couldn't handle it as a way to almost dare people into going.
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Instead he played up the benefits of shared housing, imagining a future where homes are built to be shared and those with an extra room are connected with those needing one, such as efforts being undertaken in Seoul, South Korea, where empty nesters are paired with college students in need of affordable housing.
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In the coverage of the story, outlets like the Guardian have repeatedly played up the notion that he may somehow be connected to Russia, he said, by pointing out a short research stint at St. Petersburg State University and the fact that he was born in Moldova in the former Soviet Union.
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Throughout the film, the trappings of Christmas are played up to hilarious effect, like when we get a brief glimpse of a sorority member's Jewish boyfriend clad in a Santa suit, or when one of the sorority girls serves alcohol to one of the local children who've come to the house for a Christmas party.
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Not that it was the internet that made Weiner: He was the youngest member ever elected to the New York City Council, when at age 27, in 1991, he played up his rivals' ties to black politicians in the aftermath of the Crown Heights riots to win the Democratic primary in a heavily white district.
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Candidates played up their progressive credentials and aligned themselves closely with Sanders, who defeated Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE by a few points in the district.
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Into this final basket can be counted his role on the not-impeccable Muslim Council of Britain, his defence of Recep Ergodan's Turkey and even those unproven suggestions that he played up his Liberal Democrat opponent's Ahmadi (a persecuted minority within Sunni Islam) identity when fighting to keep his south-London parliamentary seat in 2010.
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McSally played up her military service, while casting Sinema as an ultra-liberal to the "left of the Pelosi Democrats," referring to House Minority Leader Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiWhy President Trump needs to speak out on Hong Kong Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Pelosi warns Mnuchin to stop 'illegal' .
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He played up his work in the Senate with Republican Susan CollinsSusan Margaret CollinsCook Political Report moves Susan Collins Senate race to 'toss up' The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy Trump crosses new line with Omar, Tlaib, Israel move MORE (Maine) on a bill that would tackle ending Alzheimer's disease.
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Tom played up to the image of the desolate figure he'd created for himself—his live album Nighthawks at the Diner was named after the famous Edward Hopper painting and he drops a line from Casablanca into a Jack Kerouac-inspired song called "Bad Liver And A Broken Heart (In Lowell)" to drive it home.
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While the early incarnation of the Ultimate Fighting Champion trafficked in dive-bar-brawl-on-steroids aesthetics that played up the peep-show unseemliness of no holds barred fighting, PRIDE made mixed martial arts into a comic book come to life, with tens of thousands in the audience at the Saitama Super Arena reading along.
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Later in the day Monday, he played up Trump's lawyers' efforts to accuse Biden and his son Hunter of corruption in Ukraine on Monday night in Iowa City -- emphasizing that he is clear-eyed about the political tactics he'd face in a general election while insisting he would remain committed to uniting the country afterward.
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While the Saudis played up the more than $0.43 billion committed to its economy, primarily from U.S. institutions, at the conference in Riyadh that many global business leaders and politicians pulled out of after the Khashoggi killing, regional experts are questioning whether the foreign investment sought by Saudi Arabia from global institutions ultimately will flow into the kingdom.
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Over the past few days, the North&aposs official media have chastised Japan for discriminating against its large ethnic Korean community and played up South Korean reports that protesters in Seoul threw eggs at the Japanese Embassy over Tokyo&aposs alleged attempts to take control over a disputed island that is a cause celebre for both North and South.
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Whether you believe the affair actually happened, was orchestrated and played up to as part of a marketing tactic, or a combination of the two, Jay Z has taken blow after blow, meme after meme, in total silence while the image of him literally groveling at his wife's feet plays on loop exclusively on his own streaming platform.
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MIKE TOLKIN (SMART CITIES) Tolkin's longshot campaign for City Hall largely came to an end when he lost the Democratic primary in September, but the Millennial—who really played up his young, tech-savvy bona fides throughout his campaign's short existence—has kept on, labeling his candidacy as the self-created "Smart Cities" line on the ballot.
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While Gault makes the great point that "pop culture [has busily played] up the fragility of white women," she seems to suggest that her blackness itself has protected her from the worst of postpartum woes—ironic given postpartum depression and psychosis are actually more common in women of color; they just happen to be grossly under-diagnosed.
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David Mitchell describes working backstage at a theater, and he watched this actor do a very natural gesture, which got a big audience reaction—so the actor played up to it every night, and by the end of the run of the play, he did it in such a big way that it wasn't very funny anymore.
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In the BBC DocumentaryHawkwind: Do Not Panic, the Mik and Dettmar played up the fact that they had no experience, but sought to use the synthesizers not as an intellectual exercise (a la Karlheinz Stockhausen), or device to showcase their musical expertise, but rather as a device that would be what it was itself that could harm the audience.
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And when two of ex-president Teddy Roosevelt's sons went to the remote jungles of Sichuan in 215 with the promise of "bagging" a panda — a dead one — they played up the danger of the trip and the elusiveness of their prey, before finally killing a male panda by shooting it in the hindquarters as it walked away.
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The revival of her show has been a ratings blockbuster — and although she rated nary a mention during a recent Disney earnings call, perhaps because of her inconvenient politics, the ABC-TV executive Ben Sherwood played up her contribution to the network's recent turn in fortune before the audience of advertisers and members of the press.
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Though another one of Weinstein's lawyers, Damon Cheronis, assured jurors during opening statements on Wednesday that the defense would not shame any of the victims — only "question them thoroughly" — Rotunno's line of inquiry on Thursday played up old myths about rape, as she asked Sciorra a series of questions about her behavior following the alleged assault.
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Aberdeen's chief executive Martin Gilbert decried as "grossly exaggerated" certain weekend press reports that suggested the firms' combined headcount of around 9,000, mostly based between Edinburgh and London but with smaller outposts in scores of countries globally, would be whittled down by up to 1,000 employees and instead played up the cost efficiencies resulting from technical and operating platform rationalization.
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Proportion play, asymmetry and contrast are signature tools of this designer, and here he paired supersize hooded denim trench coats with billowing denims; placed shrunken canvas work wear jackets atop rib-hugging leather vests; and presented armoring (yet luxurious and lightweight) lab coats reminiscent of early Yohji Yamamoto in a lineup that also played up the fragility of the body beneath the clothes.
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" Official news agency Xinhua played up comments by an official in Hong Kong that the city risked sliding "into a bottomless abyss if the terror atrocities are allowed to continue," while an editorial in the nationalist tabloid Global Times said "raging mobs" must be "receiving support through nefarious political gain or financial stimulation" and were "without any doubt, similar to terrorists.
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He did keep enough landmarks to summon the pop pleasure of familiarity, like the "ta-na-na" singalong in "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" (which also played up the intertwined guitars of Biodun Kuti and Mark Stewart) and the pristine guitar introduction to "Homeward Bound" (which, suiting a farewell tour, featured a video montage of Mr. Simon's half-century-plus career).
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McConnell played up his collaboration with Trump at the start of the trial, telling Fox News host Sean HannitySean Patrick HannityThe Hill's 22020:30 Report: Biden leaving New Hampshire early as voting underway Senators, bruised by impeachment, hunt for deals McConnell displays mastery of Senate with impeachment victory MORE in a December interview that he would be "in total coordination" with the White House on strategy.
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While Iger has played up the launch as part of his strategy to bring Disney products directly to consumers, ESPN executives have privately worried that the service will underwhelm consumers, since it won't have any of the big-ticket sports ESPN runs on linear TV. It also won't have any of the lesser-ticket sports ESPN currently carries on its ESPNWatch digital platform, which it provides to pay TV customers.
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Since Mr. Trump emerged as the likely Republican nominee on Wednesday, there has been a steady trickle of mea culpas from those — including Nate Cohn of The New York Times — who had declared Mr. Trump's nomination was most likely a no-go, or who had pronounced big inflection points in which the Trump candidacy would go poof, or who had played up "pivotal states" that weren't even close.
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Matt DrudgeMatthew (Matt) Nathan DrudgeTrump lashes out at media after border criticism Trump takes hit from conservative commentators on border wall Drudge launches rare criticism of Fox News: 'Check your soul in the makeup chair' MORE The conservative founder of the popular Drudge Report website has played up Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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Mr. Yildirim played up his experience of 25 years in government, but to many that epitomized the cronyism that critics say has ruined the image of the ruling Justice and Development Party, or A.K.P. While Mr. Yildirim's businessmen sons have been accused of corrupt dealings, he batted away a question about them in a TV debate, saying that they had won several lawsuits and that others were still underway.
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But ever since 20073's The Producers, based on Mel Brooks' 22007 film, the Broadway musical had been fair game for self-parody, and this combination proved to be killer: Disney couldn't effectively parody its existing brand, but it could create a new sub-brand of musical films that played up its tropes and targeted self-aware Disney fandom, all while marketing itself around performers who doubled as pop singers.
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What's more, the Justice Department claimed, GSK selectively and misleadingly released information about three studies it had conducted of the drug: It hired a consulting company to write a journal article that played up evidence from one study that the drug worked better as a treatment for pediatric depression than a placebo, played down (better) evidence from the same study that it hadn't, and soft-pedaled the side effects.
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Trump has played up traditionally close ties with Britain, distancing himself from his predecessor Barack Obama who said the country would be at "the back of the queue" for a trade deal with the United States if it left the EU. And London has made a strong play to court Trump after an initial diplomatic glitch when, soon after his U.S. election victory, he irritated UK officials by meeting British anti-EU campaigner Nigel Farage, a critic of May, and saying he would be a good choice for Britain's ambassador to Washington.
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