They emerge from the pot taut and pliant at once.
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His tone, as recorded, was also attractive, his delivery pliant.
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Pliant parliamentarians then selected the president from a shortlist of one.
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Then serve it with something pliant to soak up the sauce.
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Nassar had girls stretched out and pliant on his examining table.
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That might seem surprising for an enterprise associated with pliant storybook princesses.
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Something happens to Lukashenko and a pliant pro-Moscow regime is installed.
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A weak, divided opposition helps him, as does a pliant news media.
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North Korea has never been a particularly pliant or reliable ally for Beijing.
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Ladle the result over noodles cooked soft and pliant, then serve right away.
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An abused citizenry falls into "learned helplessness" and becomes more pliant and cowed.
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Mr. Trump's nominee to replace him is likely to be a pliant sycophant.
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Over multiple objections, Abbas has appointed a Constitutional Court, pliant to his will.
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But the new governor, Jaime Rodríguez Calderón, turned out not to be pliant.
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Or he may stack the courts with pliant judges, or ignore the courts entirely.
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Carlo Rizzi, the conductor, followed her alertly, eliciting plush, pliant playing from the orchestra.
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Mr. Perry is seen as a more pliant figure for the veterans affairs position.
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Perhaps corporate bosses are currently pliant because they expect that this storm will pass.
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And they are adaptable: able to turn to any job, they are "pliant like bamboo".
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It is the outcome of a symbiosis between a hugely profitable industry and pliant governments.
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Pumpkin spice exploits our suggestibility and relies on our conformity, pegging us as pliant lemmings.
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Pliant to his imagination, male characters are often torn between creative integrity and superficial love.
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She brought fiery life to the character and a rich, pliant tone to the music.
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It could always be fixed through a touch of Photoshop, or a pliant attorney general.
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"I can only warn people," Mr. Cohen said, singling out the pliant Republicans before him.
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Border collies, with their laser focus and pliant, quick-cut, low-slung bodies, tend to dominate.
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The kanburi was silky, pliant, yielding and tasted of a distilled, superclean essence of the sea.
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Pliant researchers provided shoddy science; deferential regulators at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) bought it.
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"You've caught me in a pliant conversational state," she said, tucking her long legs under her.
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My favorite was probably the big, soft kashkavalka, a pliant loaf of bread covered in cheese.
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In the world of the counterculture, round and pliant was good; sharp and angular was bad.
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His tone became dramatically warmer and more pliant in the scenes in which he woos Roxane.
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But lower down the table, teams were much less sophisticated, much less adventurous, much more pliant.
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In the sublime Adagietto, the string sound was glowing and plush; the phrasing urgent yet pliant.
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And it has long been the more pliant of the two former colonies under Chinese rule.
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He will be "completely pliant", reckons Vivek Dehejia of the IDFC Institute, a think-tank in Mumbai.
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Mr Trump's cabinet is getting less experienced, less committed, more pliant, and Mr Mulvaney's rise reflects that.
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On the one hand, Groove Music has Microsoft's very pliant coffers to keep it up and running.
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Congress can stop him from carrying out his threat to stuff the supreme court with pliant judges.
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A pliant court, by contrast, can provide a veneer of legitimacy for an authoritarian leader's power grabs.
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Ms. Molina may be sturdy one moment and meltingly pliant the next, but she's always musically sensitive.
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Pliant outlets loyal to the government receive preferential treatment and better funding from local and central budgets.
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To fulfill these requests, the government says, Mr. Reichberg relied on a stable of pliant police officials.
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Even a pliant institution, if it is seen as politicized, will struggle to enact Mr. Trump's policies.
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Fed up, Mr Sisi is now trying to neuter the courts, with the help of a pliant parliament.
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For him, fact is as pliant as that Play-Doh he handed out to flood victims in Louisiana.
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A pliant attorney general would allow the president to demolish the Justice Department's traditional independence, which Trump resents.
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The obscure young prince whom Washington adopted as a pliant ally is now fanning his volatile region's flames.
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Noodles are hand-pulled and beautifully pliant in lagman, a soup so heavy, it almost qualifies as stew.
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Russia's cyber activity seeks to confuse, destabilize and ultimately bring to power foreign governments pliant to Russia's aims.
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And she is obsessed with Tom, the ex-husband who left her for a pliant blonde named Anna.
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And in many ways, it sums up Johnson's pliant politics and penchant for political expediency that his critics deride.
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She is an artist whose work is political but not overwrought, small but not insignificant, gentle but not pliant.
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Its state and its pliant tech firms can control the flow of information to an extent never dreamed of.
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When we're young, after all, our lives are so much more pliant, can be joined without too much fuss.
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U.S. companies sometimes try to do the same, of course, but our government tends not to be so pliant.
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Blonde is, at first glance, soft; it feels pliant and yielding in a way that Ocean's past works haven't.
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Erdogan's critics say he will use the purge to create a pliant judiciary, eliminating dissenting voices in the courts.
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The rest is sponge, with more loft and spring than I've found elsewhere in town, while still nicely pliant.
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Iran worries that the next prime minister will not be as pliant a puppet as Abdul Mahdi has been.
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She rushed a bit here, lost the thread there, overindulged in displays of her beauty and her pliant back.
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He is emboldened by a towering majority in parliament, won in an election earlier this year, and pliant opposition parties.
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More pointedly, the firm accused Gigamon of striking a sweetheart deal with pliant shareholder firms looking for a quick payout.
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What remains is a more pliant, nationalistic staff, one much more aligned with Trump on trade, immigration and other issues.
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The trees' palm fronds and pliant trunks appear out of place amid the leafier deciduous trees native to the region.
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I had a nearly perfect bacon, egg and cheese burrito one morning ($4.60) packed into a beautifully pliant flour tortilla.
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Integral to Mr. Putin's governing style has been a pliant press that makes his government the main arbiter of truth.
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Odebrecht then took over construction for costly infrastructure projects like bridges, highways and dams, sending exorbitant bills to pliant officials.
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"It is just another way to suggest that women are only valid if they are sexually available and pliant," says Hatchet.
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It has packed the constitutional court with pliant judges, sparking a huge battle with the European Commission, the EU's executive arm.
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Nearer the election the generals helped pliant politicians with large local followings switch sides and bring their "vote banks" with them.
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Mr Sisi has the perks of incumbency: a pliant parliament, a repressive police force and an iron grip on the media.
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In response, China has become more paranoid, directing Hong Kong's pliant officials to nip any sign of separatism in the bud.
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India's government has replaced a capable central-bank chief with a pliant insider who has cut rates ahead of an election.
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Much will depend on whether Mr Hernández reappoints Mr Chinchilla, whose term ends in August, or opts for someone more pliant.
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It also wants a referendum on stripping the powers of the Supreme Court, which it accuses of being pliant to Hernandez.
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National interest groups have perfected the art of drafting cut-and-paste "model" bills, ready to be passed by pliant legislatures.
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Take back control – for a plastic and pliant world you can reorganise at will; for a world that works like Lego.
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In Mr Moreno, his vice-president in 2007-13, Mr Correa chose an electorally effective successor—but not a pliant placeholder.
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It also bankrolled regional groups like Unasur, a more pliant body that replicated jobs handled by the O.A.S., like election observing.
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The excellent, crispy yet pliant sour-cabbage pancake, topped with mayonnaise and fluttering bonito flakes, is an okonomiyaki by another name.
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It has faltered, sometimes badly, undermining leaders whose views did not fit its strategic objectives and replacing them with pliant despots.
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In the worst case, with a sufficiently pliant Congress, Mr. Trump could roll back a decade of progress on climate change.
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Labour bosses in Germany, home to over half Opel's employees, and Britain, where it has two plants, will not prove as pliant.
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The previous eight years, the media under Obama, talk about a cult, they were in a pliant coma, they were Obama-tosed.
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The state wants pliant banks, ready to lend to the rural poor and to infrastructure projects, and that will buy government bonds.
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Li Shengwu, a nephew of the prime minister, is currently on trial for calling the government "very litigious" and the judiciary "pliant".
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If you're patient enough, any rodent can be trained, but some are inherently more pliant and endearing and less prone to biting.
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It's as stretchy and pliant as Neapolitan pizza dough, its surface similarly taut and golden brown, glistening ever so slightly with oil.
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By failing to repudiate Trump, Ryan and McConnell have revealed themselves to be pliant men—figureheads rather than stewards of their party.
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And courts in Greece—where she is due to arrive on August 25th—will prove no more pliant than those in Gibraltar.
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Big companies, which had cut business-friendly deals with pliant officials, walked away with less, and workers and retirees took a softer hit.
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Refusing Mr Trump's demand, or resigning on principle, could well have let the president install a more pliant overseer of Mr Mueller's investigation.
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Yet he attracted voters angry about Mr Hernández's bid for re-election, which was waved through by a pliant supreme court in 2015.
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This system serves the United States, granting it generally pliant proxies in a region full of valuable resources but also anti-American ideology.
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The military needed a pliant broadcasting partner because it wanted to spread its vision of consumer capitalism and squelch the threat of communism.
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The most important and revolutionary tactic of the militant movement was to turn women's bodies—supposedly passive, pliant, and protected—into its battleground.
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Picking Macau would be a useful way for Beijing to shower favour on a pliant territory, while snubbing its restive neighbour, Hong Kong.
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It allows him to install subordinates who would not get Senate approval, giving him pliant department heads to enact his most contentious policies.
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The Crossing, led with unflappable poise by its director, Donald Nally, performed the Buxtehude cantatas accompanied by the pliant period-instrument ensemble Quicksilver.
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In a 2014 concert with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, out Friday as an album, "El Cantante" becomes a pliant musical zone.
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When those polls don't produce the representatives Beijing wants, it has used the tools at its disposal to create a more pliant legislature.
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It's baked to a crackle but left just pliant enough that you can roll it up or fold it in two to eat.
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Use warm, pliant roti bread to scoop up supple chunks of chicken or hearty goat curry brightened with Indian spices, both under $12.
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And that makes it harder for significant events — like Mr. Trump's extraordinarily pliant performance with President Vladimir Putin of Russia — to break through.
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Iran considers Iraq its own "near-abroad:" a pliant and vulnerable country upon which Tehran can project its power and protect its interests.
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You can also wear a plug in the lead up to anal play so that you're feeling more pliant when the time comes.
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If anything, Russia might be better served by installing a new leader who would be indebted to Moscow and thus more pliant than Assad.
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Now they manufacture obsequious multisyllabic reflexive pronouns with a letter quotient designed to aggrandize yourselves, and so render yourself pliant to opening your wallet.
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Officials are fearful of powerful interests, they said, especially given that organized crime has links to the industry, or bribes make the officials pliant.
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For all the time she spends making herself pliant and doll-like, what's really bubbling in Elaine's cauldron is rage against these fabricated polarities.
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First, by melting some leeks in a pan with some butter and white wine, then putting them, soft and pliant, onto a sheet pan.
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American unions have long argued that the old model encouraged companies to move to Mexico to take advantage of pliant unions and low wages.
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The decision did not come as a surprise — Mr. Sisi's supporters dominate the largely pliant chamber, which is openly manipulated by his security agencies.
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The high-ranking official wasn't just setting these terms because he had little use for independent journalism, though he clearly preferred the pliant variety.
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To make matters worse, the country's media has become extremely pliant and is failing to hold the prime minister and his government to scrutiny.
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The point, then, is that Putin's brinkmanship has not yielded a pliant Europe, one willing to bend to Russia's interests in Ukraine and elsewhere.
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We ate them: a pliant, tender skin giving way to a smooth, creamy mash of potatoes, delivering the gut-level satisfaction of starch on starch.
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Additional bowls supply broth, sour from bamboo shoots, and curry, perhaps best with strips of sukuti, beef air-dried in-house into a pliant jerky.
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And when I see some in a pliant press turn that mild statement into what they call a denunciation, I cannot hold back any longer.
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They troll political, business and cultural waters in search of gullible or unprincipled individuals who become pliant in the hands of their Russian puppet masters.
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In an interview, Chen, claimed he believed that Amazon wanted to give away his routes to smaller, more pliant companies that would accept lower fees.
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The bread was soft and pliant and dusted with za'atar, better than the stiff pita I've had at much fancier Middle Eastern restaurants around town.
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But the authorities say that with the help of pliant experts, Mr. Lhéritier grossly inflated the value of pieces before he sold shares in them.
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As with the freeze-out of quarterback Colin Kaepernick, the owners rely on inaction, a mostly pliant sports media, and euphemisms to maintain reasonable doubt.
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Eventually the flesh loses its gloss, the sweet potatoes grow pliant and the cabbage leaves shrink into themselves, while still retaining a backbone of crunch.
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If Sanders were president and he had a pliant Congress, his carbon tax and investments in renewables would radically overhaul our energy system for the better.
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His doctoral thesis in military history was a coruscating takedown of the pliant Vietnam-era military leadership, later published as a book entitled "Dereliction of Duty".
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His doctoral thesis in military history was a ruthless takedown of the pliant Vietnam-era military leadership, later published as a book entitled "Dereliction of Duty".
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In China that is usually a sign that pliant state-owned banks are heeding the government's call to pump out credit, ahead of demand from borrowers.
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Schumer wants a pliant caucus, and with progressives fascinated by the shiny object of the presidency, he's been able to maneuver with a relatively free hand.
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Trump is poised to shuffle his Cabinet, hoping to replace officials he's deemed disloyal or ineffective, such as Attorney General Jeff Sessions, with more pliant replacements.
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"Hell's Windows" was the church's incendiary name for the fashionable open-sided tunics through which Chaucer's Troilus might first have glimpsed his seductive Criseyde's pliant form.
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Flush with funds from the C.I.A., or from its own competing drug-trafficking rings, the military employed systematic bribery to procure a pliant bloc of parliamentarians.
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That is what happened to Mr Thaksin's previous political vehicle, the Thai Rak Thai party, which was disbanded by a pliant court after the coup of 2006.
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Last year voters kicked out the thoroughly rotten prime minister, Najib Razak, despite blatant gerrymandering, a pliant election commission and lavish handouts to various categories of voters.
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In 230, tens of thousands of Indians took to the streets in the largest protest against the government by a community largely pliant and supportive since independence.
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But this critique rests on a false choice between an Electoral College that acts like a pliant, ceremonial relic, and an unprecedented but constitutional Electoral College coup.
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Turkish news outlets are speculating that the incoming administration would be more pliant toward demands for the extradition of the Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, after Lt. Gen.
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Mr. Appleby brought nervy physicality to the part, but could seem a little blank vocally, singing with smooth and pliant tone but few variations in tone color.
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The thick yet pliant rubber used in the construction of this hose remains flexible and resists cracking even in temperatures down to 25 degrees below zero (Fahrenheit).
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But Iron Prince Jimuro, heir to Tomoda's throne and hostage of Sanbu, is being secretly sent home to be a pliant ruler maintaining stability in Sanbu's favor.
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GIF: FestoThe Velox robot, designed and built by an engineering firm called Pliant Energy Systems, is reminiscent of Festo's BionicFinWave robot that was first revealed back in June.
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In 2015 Mr Zelaya condemned a decision by the pliant supreme court to allow Mr Hernández to run for re-election but did not stage protests against it.
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Most celebrities don't wield their physical attractiveness as a weapon to make us normies feel ugly—they let corporate sponsorships and pliant media entities do that for them.
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With Anbang, the Chinese government may have hoped to set an example, by seizing control rather than engineering a quiet injection of cash from a pliant state company.
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It comes with rough cuts of beef, only half-pliant, putting up gentle but firm resistance, and whole spinach leaves added at the end so they're still vivid.
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Jane Seymour, his third wife, as pliant as Anne Boleyn was petulant, at last produces the male heir that Anne, and Katherine of Aragon before her, did not.
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It was the way Bridget's children had hugged her when they were little, holding nothing back, and Angela's body felt like a child's, thin and pliant and eager.
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A single sheet from 1995 shows four irregular canvases; two feature assertive stick figures whose rigidity and angularity are a far cry from the usual stretchy, pliant limbs.
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The children grew as if blown by the wind,muscles and brains pliant from protein and ricein the years when Americansspent their dollars downtown,trickling support to mothers.
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Trump's relentless base-pleasing strategy has intimidated his fellow Republicans, further loosening checks on a presidency that until recently benefited from a pliant Congress dominated by the GOP.
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Mr. Erdogan will also have a pliant Parliament, with his conservative party and its allies having won about 20033 percent of the vote in legislative elections on Sunday.
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The infusion helped to keep his muscles loose and pliant before the game, and then at halftime he placed heat packs under his legs to warm his hamstrings.
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I will never forget how hard you felt against my pliant lips, or how my tongue longed to surround you, to take you until I could take no more.
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A 250-page FBI report into its investigation into the affair, describes Mrs Clinton inheriting an institution with shambolic communication procedures, which she and her too-pliant aides perpetuated.
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Under a lattice of mayonnaise, a salad of beef tongue in pliant strips and crunchy cucumber and matchstick potatoes was refreshing and lighter than the sum of its ingredients.
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Pliant yet protective, wind and water-resistant but breathable, handsome to start but grows a character of its own, waxed canvas strikes, for me, the perfect balance of attributes.
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There were more microtonal wobbles and slippery string glissandos in Gity Razaz's "Metamorphosis of Narcissus," which offered shimmering and pliant textures but also suffered from a lack of focus.
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All anyone has to do is knead the sachets until the paste is smooth and pliant, similar to agitating organic peanut butter when the oil separates from the base.
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Tech industries lobbied hard for the loophole to further indenture H-1B guest workers to their assigned employer and thus keeping them more pliant than uppity American tech workers.
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But it has been turbocharged in the Trump era, as cable news networks and pliant social media networks allow hastily assembled theories to spread to millions in an instant.
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Thin panels of long-stewed beef, agreeably pliant, overlap pork belly cut like bacon and thrust under the broiler until the edges are somehow crisp and chewy at once.
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Click here to view original GIFGIF: Pliant Energy Systems (YouTube)Copying one of Mother Nature's designs is a clever shortcut when building robots that need to navigate our complex world.
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One such, Pliant Therapeutics, also in Silicon Valley, is using Transcriptic to test treatments for fibrotic disease—the formation of scar tissue in places like the lungs and the heart.
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The latest protests erupted after a largely pliant parliament last month approved a tax bill widely seen as making few changes to the unpopular law scrapped after the summer demonstrations.
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Having to come clean about its cars' true emissions will make it harder to meet ever-stricter curbs being imposed in many countries (though pliant European officials recently eased theirs).
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Even the rule of law becomes a tool in their hands, with laws made at will by pliant legislatures, coopted and intimidated, to suit the purposes of the authoritarian leader.
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The pliant bara softens on contact with the channa, so this is not a neat sandwich, but it's a brilliant one, and it can be yours for all of $1.50.
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Mr. Kushner is also overseeing an ambitious effort to overhaul the federal government, and insisted on Monday that he had found the bureaucracy to be more pliant than others had.
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In City Journal on Wednesday, Kotkin wrote: She had it all — the pliant media, the tech oligarchs, Wall Street, the property moguls, the academics, and the all-around 'smart people.
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One complicating factor is that much of the money is siphoned off through "legal corruption", in business ventures that comply with local laws, often because of legislative tinkering by pliant parliaments.
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In 2008 Iftikhar Chaudhry helped to oust General Pervez Musharraf, a military dictator, overturning the Supreme Court's previously pliant reputation, which it had gained by rubber-stamping a series of coups.
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Financing conditions are profoundly favorable, too, with still-low government-debt rates but, more importantly, very low risk spreads on corporate debt and a pliant market for newly issued corporate paper.
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But as dependably pliant as congressional Republicans have been since Trump became the GOP nominee last year, there are many signs that Trump can't actually get what he wants this time.
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He noted that Mr. Cherkaoui's use of the upper body "isn't so far away" from the choreography of Frederick Ashton, which is characterized by (among other things) a pliant, bendy torso.
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Yet the nets' soft and pliant forms, which you're free to touch or sit upon, may put you in mind of fishermen or trapeze artists more than of guards and wardens.
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There, Colette labored in secret to produce novels under her husband's nom de plume, "Willy," but chafed at his controlling nature and expectations that she should be a pliant society wife.
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His defeat after his first term convinced him that he needed to make Israeli society more pliant to his interests — specifically, that he needed to bend the press to his will.
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By the time Donald Trump was elected — offering him a more pliant partner — M.B.Z. was drawing criticism from human rights groups and diplomats for his military's role in Yemen and Libya.
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Trump fired his first attorney general and secretary of state after he judged them to be insufficiently loyal, replacing each with someone who proved to be a more pliant foot soldier.
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With impeachment, the Iowa caucuses and the State of the Union all on deck, Mr. Trump will have a stage, and a famously pliant interviewer, that is unparalleled in American culture.
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Mr. Sadat's expulsion highlighted the lopsided balance of parliamentary power favoring the president and his security forces, which exert great influence through a deep bench of pliant and conspiracy-minded politicians.
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The party has been enabled by a pliant media ecosystem, one that actively separates Republican partisans from sources of criticism and comfortably reassures their voters that up is, in fact, down.
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America has been played for a fool by the generals who call the shots in Pakistan, either overtly or from behind a pliant civilian—such as the incumbent prime minister, Imran Khan.
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Though Dean forced a course correction on a Democratic establishment that had become a dangerously pliant enabler of the George W. Bush administration, he only moved his party to the left incrementally.
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The texture is sticky, pliant, and BENDY, and, at room temperature, its vanilla ice cream-colored insides achieve a "cheese pull" of which any grilled cheese or Instagram goblin would be envious.
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Borrowing from Vladimir Putin's playbook, Erdogan has gone through the alternating-office routine — in his case, prime minister to president — in order to render the Constitution pliant to his appetite for power.
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The cheese goes melty and soft inside the crisp-pliant tortilla, and the result is superb with salsa, pico de gallo or hot sauce, sliced avocado, a little sour cream, some lime.
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The charitable view of his removal—the day after the mid-terms, apparently because Mr Trump feared it might have cost him votes—is that the president wanted a more pliant attorney-general.
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After all, several of them once led high-handed campaigns to open markets in far-off lands by working in cahoots with pliant local despots, only to learn hard lessons about colonial hubris.
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Some think that Silicon Valley denizens unlike Hollywood and New York celebrities are not used to a questioning and critical press corps and expect the press to be pliant advocates of their agenda.
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On February 9th Mr Gui resurfaced at a detention centre in the eastern city of Ningbo, where pliant journalists had been assembled to hear him give a statement and answer a few questions.
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Iran, convinced that the United States and Saudi Arabia would install a pliant Iraqi government — and remembering the horrors they had inflicted on Iran in the 1980s — raced to fill the postwar vacuum.
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Ms. Tanowitz has long been one of the finest inventors of footwork — but here, in ways no living choreographer has matched, she makes her dancers' feet look marvelous and delectable: strong, pliant, nuanced.
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In those 10 years, the dancers have grown conversant with his style, which combines a pliant use of legs with a mobile and free upper body; crisp, rhythmic attack coupled with melodic sweep.
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Imagine, further, that 43 million Americans had risen in protest, only to be met by tear gas and rubber bullets while Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan rushed the bill through a pliant Congress.
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Now under more pliant leadership, it promptly reduced the buffer to the bottom of that range, enabling it to hand over 526bn rupees in addition to a bumper dividend of over 1.2trn rupees.
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This risk was amplified at the Venelle-2 well, which aimed to breach the K horizon, a poorly understood boundary between the hard rock near the surface and the more pliant rock below.
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With a pliant new cabinet in place, Mr Zuma hopes to be in a stronger position than ever to ensure that his preferred successor, his ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, takes over from him.
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Some have asked the president for permission to stay on for the rest of their six-year terms, but critics fear the only judges to be granted that permission will be the pliant ones.
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With pliant knees and lifted chests, they fill out the spine of the dance as they come and go from the wings or take solo turns that extend Mr. Brown's spiraling streams of movement.
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In Japan, Canada and Latin America the trade commissioner has found like-minded interlocutors who share the EU's commitment to free trade and are smaller than the EU (and therefore relatively pliant negotiating partners).
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In his first year, helped by a pliant majority in Congress, he has upended Mexican politics, dismantling the policies of his predecessors to chart a leftist course intended to correct the country's yawning inequalities.
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And the mere act of defying Mr. Trump foreshadows potential new difficulty for the president as he seeks to push his agenda through a Democrat-controlled House and a less pliant Republican-controlled Senate.
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In fact, justification for murder is so pliant that the TV series Dexter (2006-13) flirted exquisitely with the concept: a sociopath who kills villainous people as a vehicle for satisfying his own dark urges.
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His goal is to be able to smirk and shrug and say "it wasn't me" — even if you don't believe him, even if he's standing next to a pliant American president whom he helped elect.
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Shirtless Trudeau is the face of a liberalized personality cult, packaged for a pliant media and sold to a generation of shallow, narcissistic Millennials who love selfies more than the noble customs of Western civilisation.
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The ensemble also includes Mary Lou Rosato (as council members of several successive generations from one family), Elizabeth Kenny and, as the variously pliant women in these men's lives, an admirably understated Sam Breslin Wright.
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They are better than most Australian tacos in that the tortillas are freshly made and pleasantly pliant, but are nonetheless wildly disappointing thanks to bland, dry meat and salsa that tastes of cumin and water.
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The upcoming departure of White House counsel Don McGahn, which Trump announced without fanfare on Twitter, will deprive the West Wing of a rare official who has defied a President known to prefer pliant aides.
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Emerging democratic groups tell me they are all too familiar with unaccountable government, corruption at the highest levels, abusing judicial power to go after political rivals, and pliant legislators unable or unwilling to cross party heads.
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Seen in these suits the performers are both wild and pliant: photographed sitting on a bench or lying on a garden's ground, interacting with a group of children, or standing among a copse of topiarian trees.
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Hungry City 10 Photos View Slide Show ' On one side lie eggs scrambled with lox over a drape of injera, the sour, springy Ethiopian flatbread as thin and pliant as a crepe and perforated like coral.
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Acting through pliant prosecutors, judges and the secret police, the Maduro administration has used arrests to feed conspiratorial narratives about plots to overthrow the president, sow discord among opposition factions and, more recently, as bargaining chips.
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Michael Stiller's pliant lighting and James Lo's playful soundscape — sampling from Prokofiev, Ruth Draper monologues and the soundtrack to "La Dolce Vita," among other sources — also shift abruptly, as if sweeping us through portals, between dimensions.
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According to the deputies and people close to the Socialist party, Maduro wanted to take advantage of Guaido's diminished popularity to place a new pliant opposition in congress that could pass legislation required by his government.
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In many accounts of the maneuvering after Ayatollah Khomeini's death in 1989, Mr. Rafsanjani was credited with promoting Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as supreme leader, possibly in the mistaken belief that he would prove a pliant figure.
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Today the idea of America, empty if stripped of ethical foundation, is under assault from a man who envies the pliant courts, the adoring media, and the license to kill of dictators across the world. Ethics?
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If she is willing to flip her views to fit better with Mr Trump's agenda, might she be pliant while he is in power, only for her own eccentric views to re-emerge under a future president?
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When they are finally given data about the summit and the overall direction of affairs, it will be via the Korean Workers' Party and such thoroughly pliant organizations such as the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League.
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Amano was first elected by the IAEA's 35-nation Board of Governors with the support of Western countries looking for a more pliant successor to Mohamed ElBaradei of Egypt, who frequently clashed with U.S. officials over Iran.
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Markets interpreted the move as a sign that higher spending could be on the way under a more pliant chancellor, with Johnson pushing for big infrastructure outlay to address economic imbalances and pay for public service upgrades.
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In every case, little of what Fusion GPS proffered was accurate or based on fact, but all of it was used by pliant media, more often than not friends from Simpson & Co.'s days in legitimate journalism.
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There may be a time when societies can digest radical structural change, when they are young and pliant, relatively small, containable, and readily understandable; when men can watch the scenery shift without losing their sense of direction.
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For the time being, Velox serves as a proof-of-concept for its technology and novel drivetrain system, and Pliant Energy Systems has no plans to start churning them out for rescue personnel to add to their toolset.
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In August, the Singapore attorney-general's office began court proceedings against Li Shengwu, the grandson of the country's founder, over a Facebook post in which he said the government is "very litigious and has a pliant court system".
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But this time they are directed not at apartheid but against a reckless attempt by Jacob Zuma, a president who faces 783 charges of fraud and corruption, to tighten his grip on power and install a pliant successor.
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The attorney general's office (AGC) began proceedings against Li Shengwu, an assistant professor at Harvard University, in 2017 over a Facebook post in which he said the Singapore government is "very litigious and has a pliant court system".
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Traffickers will trick out spaces, rig some simple lighting, play some music, and make sure to have a supply of drugs for clients but also for their girls and boys, to ensure those kids are pliant and dependent.
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Ng told him about Project Marvin, an internal effort (named after the celebrated A.I. pioneer Marvin Minsky) he had recently helped establish to experiment with "neural networks," pliant digital lattices based loosely on the architecture of the brain.
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Singapore's Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC) began proceedings against Li, an assistant professor at Harvard University, in 2017 over a private Facebook post in which Li said the Singapore government is "very litigious and has a pliant court system".
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She was beautiful — blonde and creamy-skinned, a marble Aphrodite witched into pliant softness — not to mention unapologetically vain (her books also incorporate a smattering of unfortunate remarks about dieting and her efforts to lose negligible amounts of weight).
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That's what gives Electric Dreams an edge and separates it from the de facto comparison to Black Mirror (for which we apologize): Dreams are far more nebulous than technology, and therefore forgivably pliant in how the show uses them.
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In addition to a stable of political allies who would likely agree with him, the president also enjoys a mostly pliant Republican establishment that's unwilling to rein him in and a powerful media apparatus that reifies his every decision.
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President Trump will be in control of a smaller but more pliant Republican caucus to carry out his agenda, while Democrats will have to demonstrate more than hypothetical proposals and define their policies beyond stark opposition to the administration.
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Then finally, among men who were promised pliant centerfolds and ended up single with only high-speed internet to comfort them, the men's sexual revolution has curdled into a toxic subculture, resentful of female empowerment in all its forms.
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Sisig, typically a hash of pig face (snout, jowls, ears), is here all pliant pork belly, reduced to juicy rubble, baked and then half-charred on a hissing skillet in a lacework of onions, whose sweetness cuts the fat.
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He cited Russia's efforts to cultivate relationships with people within the US. "They troll political, business and cultural waters in search of gullible or unprincipled individuals who become pliant in the hands of their Russian puppet masters," he wrote.
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Opposition parties quickly denounced the appointment of Youssef Chahed, an agricultural science specialist and junior minister under Essid, saying he lacked the credentials for the job and had been chosen simply because he was a pliant ally of the president.
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Mr Li, an economist at Harvard University (and a former intern at The Economist), had described the Singaporean government as "very litigious" and the country's court system as "pliant" by way of explaining the cautious international coverage of his father's allegations.
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He obsesses over details, whether training employees to cook the rice noodles — thicker than in southern-style pho — to the exact point of chewiness, or finding the right kind of rice paper, pliant and barely there, for nem ran, spring rolls.
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Duane, in comparison, seemed human and heady but pliant, wanting to please and be pleased; he had been visibly hurt when his eight-year-old daughter had snapped at him, and it had not occurred to him to snap back.
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With roots in Tijuana, Mexico, the cheerfully crowded taco stand in a nondescript strip mall between downtown and the Strip features a row of meat carvers behind the counter, ready to shave spit-marinating pork into pliant corn tortillas ($2.60).
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It is almost certain that none of the congressional scrutiny that will play out over the next few days would have happened during the previous, pliant GOP-led House majority, which had no inclination or incentive to check the President.
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And it is exactly what Sinclair is doing, even as the company is trying to use a regulatory loophole and the President Trump-pliant Federal Communications Commission to acquire 42 more broadcast properties in a $3.9 billion merger with Tribune Media.
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The experience is less about the specific flavors and textures, although those are pleasing enough — pliant flesh, rugged crust, punctuations of salt and pepper — than the festive comedy of snipping and catching tubes and tentacles, to dole out around the table.
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Under Mr Najib and, to a lesser extent, his predecessors, the press was cowed, the electoral system was rigged, the judiciary and bureaucracy were pliant and critics, whether within or outside the government, were harassed or imprisoned, often on trumped-up charges.
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In interviews, lawmakers, security sources and people with links to Egyptian intelligence described how Sisi's supporters rewrote key passages of the constitution to give the president and the military greater power, then pushed the changes through a pliant parliament and the public vote.
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Ms. Warren is one of several potential candidates who have crusaded against the influence of wealthy donors and corporations, even to the point of calling out fellow Democrats for taking a more pliant approach to big-dollar fund-raising and business regulation.
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Both present us with the spectacle of anthropic humanoids who look good enough to desire sexually, and that's a win-win for those of us who'd secretly like to screw a VR headset to our groin, because these ficto-bots are, initially, pliant to command.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin will step up Russia's campaign to end European Union sanctions with a visit to Slovenia on Saturday, encouraged by signs his tactic of lobbying what he views as more pliant southern and eastern European states is starting to pay off.
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They have peddled myths and stereotypes through pliant media networks — and have been teaching these versions as history in schools run by the Rashtriya Swayemsevak Sangh, the parent body of Mr. Modi's party, which he served as an outreach worker and organizer for numerous years.
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Seen in hindsight, the firings amounted to a bookend of Trump's "celebration" speech at the White House on Thursday, where, with a rapt and pliant GOP audience, the President attacked the "evil" and "corrupt" people who "want to destroy our country" by opposing him.
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A country that regards itself as the foremost exporter of liberal democracy around the world is also now a country whose leader goes around making illiberal, undemocratic requests of its apparent allies—and has a pliant crew of partisans back home to defend every move.
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The world was generally pliant to American will in the 1990s, but the defiantly anti-American Iraq stood out as a glaring exception; neoconservatives simply had few other examples to justify their view of a dangerous world that had to be subjugated by American power.
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A long zipper makes strapping this infant swimsuit onto your child easy even when the baby is too young to stand or even sit up, and the soft and pliant nylon and elastane fabric blend provides plenty of range of motion for those wriggles and kicks.
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Whether in the 1970s in the era of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, or in the 1990s during Mr Sharif's earlier terms, the army's "jeep-wallahs" first endorsed and promoted pliant civilian leaders, then squeezed them when they grew too independent, and in the end got rid of them.
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Like the originator of the role, the terrific Mark Setlock (who helped create the characters, drawn from his own experience), Mr. Ferguson has a wonderfully pliant voice that allows him to change personas within seconds — sometimes less — as he gives us both sides of tense, terse conversations.
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Talks with North Korea present a long list possible pitfalls for the U.S. Since Kim Jong-un's offer, President Trump has exacerbated the risks by accepting the invitation outright, issuing overconfident statements and replacing the cautious Rex Tillerson with the pliant Mike Pompeo as secretary of state.
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We witness how street beggars play a role: the victim with indomitable pride, or the poor wretch who seemingly has no other resources beyond the public's good will, or the pliant servant who will help those in the social echelon above them get what they need.
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The city has an ever more strident police force, pliant judges, fraying institutions and political prisoners from an opposition movement that is increasingly in favor of independence, a scenario that was rarely even discussed before Beijing started tightening its grip on the city three years ago.
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Trump has even complained in recent days that Biden indirectly derailed his trade talks with China, claiming that a comment from the Democratic front-runner signaled to Xi that he'd be a more pliant negotiating partner than Trump (Biden's team says the candidate's remark was taken out of context).
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As they're now testing the fences using this new propaganda technique — an intrusive and impotent straw ban today with promises of follow-up bans tomorrow — it's time to stop being pliant and start issuing warnings: You can have my straw when you pry it from my cold, dead mouth.
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"Let's be clear: industry-backed state laws to block municipal broadband only exist because pliant legislators are listening to their Big Cable and Big Telecom paymasters," former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, who now serves as Special Adviser to public interest group Common Cause, said in an emailed statement.
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Or as one former FCC commissioner puts it, "Let's be clear: industry-backed state laws to block municipal broadband only exist because pliant legislators are listening to their Big Cable and Big Telecom paymasters," says Michael Copps, who's now an advisor for the nonprofit watchdog group Common Cause.
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It's the same sense of scandal that led to the first significant G.O.P. revolt against Trump since John McCain turned his thumb down on Obamacare repeal in 2017: The suppurating disgust even pliant conservatives like Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham feel at Trump's cavalier betrayal of the Kurds.
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It's dreamy, tense, and anxious all at once, and colored by the band's willingness to play with textures and language; vocalist Mel switches from Spanish to French to English and back again, her pliant vocals effortlessly skipping from a sweet, poppy coo to a hoarse bark and rabid howl.
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Mr. Polenzani was a worthy foil, singing with pliant strength and clarion tone while tracing his character's shifting moods and dispositions, from love-struck, clumsy confusion to puffed-up confidence, owing to what he thinks is a love potion when he is in fact getting drunk on cheap wine.
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The ingredients of Zuma's methods will be familiar to Americans in the Trump era: policy as personal whim, contempt for democratic institutions and the rule of law, entanglements with Vladimir Putin, attacks on a free press, enrichment of pliant friends, and governance as an exercise in values-free narcissism.
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Hungry City 8 Photos View Slide Show ' Three and a half millenniums ago, the Mayans figured out the trick for turning hard dried corn into supple dough, soaking the kernels with wood ashes, burned lime or charred mollusk shells until they shed their hulls and grew soft and pliant.
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Naming and co-founding the Electronic Frontier Foundation with Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet developer Mitch Kapor in 1990, the EFF simultaneously became the ACLU for the digital world and gave the pre-web internet one of its more pliant analogies (and certainly more romantic than Al Gore's "Information Superhighway").
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Mr. Vucic, by far the most popular political leader in the country, will choose his successor as prime minister, most likely a pliant one, and he is expected to exercise unchallenged control over all of the country's main political institutions: Parliament, the executive branch, the ruling party and now the presidency.
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Within this cohort, several chefs revel in the juxtaposition of Japanese and Italian cuisine — the latter long beloved in Japan, where it is fondly called itameshi, and where local chefs obsess over perfecting Neapolitan pizza with kerchief-thin, pliant crusts and cooking spaghetti to the exact second of al dente.
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Word of the Day adjective: moving and bending with ease adjective: (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely adjective: (used of personality traits) readily adaptable verb: make pliant and flexible _________ The word supple has appeared in 125 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Sept.
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It is of such singular importance to Trump that newsroom budgets on and around his 100th day be filled with stories about legacy-defining issues, rather than the absence thereof, that he and pliant Republicans in Congress have staged a frenzy to obscure just how idle the GOP-controlled government has become.
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The New York Times Magazine just profiled one of the president's deputy national security advisers, Ben Rhodes, reporting how he and his aides boasted of using social media, what the writer called a "largely manufactured" narrative, and a pliant press to, in essence, dupe the country into supporting the Iran nuclear deal.
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Any realistic assessment of the policy victories achieved by the Kochs shows that the public is firmly opposed to much of what the Kochs have gained from the Trump administration and a pliant Congress — and the public is opposed to much of what the Kochs still want and have not yet achieved.
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Trump wanted Comey to show "loyalty,'' by which he meant pliant subservience; he wanted him to shelve the F.B.I. investigation of Flynn; he demanded that Comey "lift the cloud" of the Russian investigation by declaring that Trump was not being personally investigated; and then fired Comey for his refusal to obey the "boss.
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In the study, written with Catherine M. Coles, Mr. Kelling, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, argues for a new and considerably more pliant framework to evaluate policing, one that borrows largely from the concept of the "balanced scorecard," first introduced in the Harvard Business Review in the 1990s.
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That Hillary Clinton believes her last, best hope to win the office of the presidency is to blow the same dog whistles again and again illustrates a subpar candidate who with all the advantages of a pliant press, cultural institutions in her pocket and flush campaign coffers is hanging on for dear life.
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In effect, Mr Modi has implanted a new, RSS-friendly nomenklatura nationwide, ranging from Yogi Adityanath, a far-right Hindu priest who is now chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, to the pliant heads of state universities, friendly judges, army officers, boards of state-owned firms and bosses of private news networks.
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In a plot that could hardly be better timed with the release of the redacted Mueller report, Sunday's campaign-themed fourth episode featured past and possibly future president Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus, brilliant as always) engaging in back-channel negotiations with the Chinese government, who approach her campaign through a dimwitted if pliant surrogate.
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As opposition leaders were quick to point out, they do not even touch some of the main sources of the PAP's electoral magic: its public-housing programme; a pliant mainstream press; an election commission that is under the prime minister's office; and a political climate, even now, where dissent seems a terrible career choice.
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Although versions of the piece continue to be produced by a Barolo, Italy-based company called Gufram — which pioneered Guflac, a pliant yet sturdy varnish — this one was from an early production, designed in 1971 by Studio 65, one of several radical design collectives that formed in Italy during an era of tumultuous student protests.
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Keen observers of Washington, they were deeply disturbed by Mr. Trump's difficulty finding a pliant national security adviser to replace Michael T. Flynn, and by Mr. Trump's long and rambling news conference on Thursday, which was followed on Saturday by a campaign-style rally where he suggested, wrongly, that something terrible had happened in Sweden.
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One Spin profile chided reviews "that have taken her fondness for cosmetics and navel-displaying stage wear as compelling evidence to impeach her as the sort of pliant, submissive fuck toy of which we should have long been rid," underlining that it was just who Stefani was: "Maybe I should be more of a tough chick," she said.
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"Islamabad seeks a weak Kabul government dominated by a pliant, supportive Taliban so that Pakistan can maintain 'strategic depth' against an Indian invasion, guarantee safe haven for Islamist proxies that it supports, prevent Delhi from projecting power in South Asia, and obstruct India's ability to support separatists in the Pakistani province of Balochistan," the report said.
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How lucky, then, that we have the Azimovs to introduce us to Dungan food, which here unravels in noodles upon noodles, manifesting as pliant coils stretched long and thin; wide floppy sheets; raggedy drops made by rubbing the dough swiftly between the palms; and two-feet long lariats, looped in on themselves and fried to a snap.
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Poached, it leaves its brooding ghost in a rich broth reserved and used for bamia — a faintly sour stew of tomatoes and okra gone pliant, with great teardrops of garlic cloves bobbing at the surface and meant to be eaten whole — and fosoulia, white kidney beans simmered and served with hunks of lamb still on the bone.
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Poached, it leaves its brooding ghost in a rich broth reserved and used for bamia — a faintly sour stew of tomatoes and okra gone pliant, with great teardrops of garlic cloves bobbing at the surface and meant to be eaten whole — and fosoulia, white kidney beans simmered and served with hunks of lamb still on the bone.
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After suffering a defeat when he tried to install a pliant finance minister in December, Mr Zuma appeared to have been held in check, not least because one court then found that he had breached his oath of office for spending state money on his own home, and another ruled that prosecutors should not have dropped corruption charges against him.
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The sheer brute force of the good news that it's taken to squeeze the S&P 500 to its 8.3 percent gain this year — that 20 percent profit eruption, a Fed stressing patience, tame Treasury yields, pliant credit markets and a $1.5 trillion pace of combined cash dividends and stock buybacks handed to shareholders of S&P 500 companies — is notable.
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I'm convinced televised golf is just a government ruse to keep dads quiet and docile—cheaper and less dangerous than lacing their water supplies with bromide, and if you hit a dad with a golf tournament and then an F1 qualifier on the same day, he will basically be quiet and pliant for up to and including a week—and so by extension it is exceptionally uncool.
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Other recent examples of the new "unleashed" version of Trump bypassing a more pliant West Wing operation after a staff purge include his shocking snap decision to meet North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un -- a move that threw his top foreign policy advisers for a loop -- and his brusque firing of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin last week and announcement of his presidential physician, Ronny Jackson, as a replacement.
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