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Administration officials have dismissed proposals like Thornberry's as political ploys.
So it may be with Kremlin election ploys this year.
There were ploys to get you to open them, too.
Congress and consumer advocates must remain vigilant to these ploys.
Not sharing these engagement ploys makes me feel like a spoilsport.
For years, his repertoire has been well-stocked with these ploys.
But Hong Kongers are too smart to fall for such ploys.
OnePlus is no stranger to odd marketing ploys similar to this one.
Calls to return to "Regular Order" must be more than rhetorical ploys.
These relationships aren't just marketing ploys to double the attractions' potential audiences.
Donald Trump's ploys violate the core principles and spirit of our democracy.
Their games of Fantasy Inmate and ploys to encourage prisoners to fight?
But those disclosure provisions are also ploys to shut down political speech.
With many older bots, people soon noticed their repetitive ploys and lost interest.
There are plenty of privacy-invading marketing ploys to worry about in life.
Such superficial legal ploys are entirely representative of the remainder of his dissent.
I found most of its ploys lamely obvious: bullets whizzing past my head.
In the post-Cold War period, variations on these ploys became wildly lucrative.
Preventing the scam before it occurs is our best tool to combat these ploys.
The burger chain has been experimenting with more tech-focused marketing ploys of late.
America, known around the world for its military might, never needed such propaganda ploys.
But the government's devious election ploys suggest failure may have crossed Mr Najib's mind too.
Even the cuteness of babies has been diluted as they, too, become ploys for clicks.
The most common con involves fake weight-loss products, but some ploys are more ambitious.
Either way, she just validated one of Republicans' most cynical ploys of the Obama era.
Whatever one thinks of Trump, the ploys to take him down are not without cost.
Yet regular Facebook users remain vulnerable to the increasingly sophisticated ploys of malicious nation states.
But every attempt, from ordinary contact methods to "sweep and beep" ploys, was met with silence.
But, like most of Trump's supposedly clever political ploys, it's so obvious that it doesn't work.
In classical music, birthday celebrations and other anniversary observances sometimes seem strained, even ludicrous, marketing ploys.
However, there are alternatives to these unrealistic ploys, and they deserve a place in the conversation.
It's just the latest example in the NFL's long history of weird head coach motivational ploys.
The indictment pertaining to the Justice Department's recent convictions described other ploys used by the conspirators.
They also benefited from one of New England Coach Bill Belichick's favorite ploys: a trick play.
But the country's elected representatives have shown that they will not surrender democracy to populist ploys.
The elder Kim was a bit clumsy in his propaganda ploys as well as terrorist schemes.
Other booking ploys, surveyed below, may or may not get you into trouble with the airlines.
Every year brings devious new ploys at voter suppression in states previously covered by the preclearance requirement.
Pop that doesn't bash you over the head with obvious ploys, but instead sidles up and seduces.
Mr. Mueller is a by-the-book sort of prosecutor, not one to indulge in such ploys.
When it comes to manipulation, common ploys include inflating asset values, faking customers and overstating money owed.
We've seen countless examples already, but recent strategic ploys in Texas and Wisconsin make the playbook transparent.
However, foreign customers are quick to notice failed marketing ploys and point out where brands have erred.
By removing such procedural ploys, the rule change puts the debate over nominees out in the open.
The bill's foreign spending provisions are poorly disguised ploys for clamping down on public debate and dissent.
Certainly, condoms should be comfortable, but there is no need to buy into magnum marketing ploys (or excuses).
ISIS has long used sophisticated ploys to detonate IEDs, using light switches or even fridge doors as triggers.
Cynical political ploys like this may get the attention of the media circuit and the various players involved.
That bathtub scene, one of her last ploys to make up with Anne, is brimming with silent desperation.
Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland have launched social media campaigns to flag ploys.
He used legal ploys to eliminate opposition parties, and took control of most of the country's television stations.
The above features are strategic ploys to get more users interacting with the app on a more consistent basis.
There were some unsettling, if morbidly fascinating, ploys for turning social contact into a set-and-­forget robotized task.
The Trump administration must muster up the fortitude to forgo pageantries and raise the cost of Pyongyang's peace ploys.
This is exactly what Kim seeks: Endless sequelization of his two-act play — provocations and post-provocation peace ploys.
These failed ploys are the more important story of a new generation of women winning races like this one.
But, the department added, similar ploys have worked before and are done with the intention of keeping people safe.
"They are protectionist ploys to exclude successful competitors in favor of domestic suppliers that don't exist," a spokesman said.
Matthew Lynley recently explained the brilliant ploys used by the creators of Pokémon Go to promote engagement, retention and virality.
Unfortunately, too many immigrant families buy into these ploys only to sink themselves and their loved ones into financial ruin.
These cynical ploys probably won't change many minds in a state that disapproves strongly of Trump and all his works.
Interest in these ploys has intensified in the past year, amid concerns about Silicon Valley companies' handling of private information.
"Grifter" captures the kind of person who takes up such ploys as a trade, an art, a way of being.
Still, in interviews with Cambodians, the Times found that the record-setting ploys did work for some people, especially younger generations.
And we need companies to stop hiding behind their green marketing ploys and actually deal with the plastic crisis they created.
Yet though he stands to benefit from such ploys, the incumbency effect in 2020 will probably be weaker than in the past.
Madame alleged that she did not speak English, which I believe was one of several ploys to avoid conversation with her lodgers.
It concerns a paroled convict named Leo (Mark Wahlberg), who becomes embroiled in corrupt ploys to get subway contracts, with murderous consequences.
The volume of emails is particularly dangerous because it is coupled with convincing counterfeit branding that disguises the ploys as official messaging.
One of her most successful ploys is a party she throws at Bar Boulud, where the food is — of course — to die for.
The sheer numbers of the Borg, and their ability to adapt to any weapons or ploys used against them, make them terrifying villains.
All those ploys are meant to destroy any beginning of a more positive relationship and have been very effective in subverting the process.
They see them as marketing ploys that give only the appearance of sportiness to a plain-vanilla sedan or a high-riding truck.
The marketing ploys tend to portray alcohol as cool and fun, seldom mentioning the risks and thousands of deaths linked to the drug.
Analyses like USA Today's may help Americans to recognize race-related and other ploys to stoke divisions, but combating meddling is an ongoing project.
Was setting up a Rube Goldberg-ian set of Stand Your Ground ploys really easier than say, asking a neighbor to phone the police?
Once Kim Jong Il rolled out his two-act play of provocations and post-provocation peace ploys, he reaped billions of dollars in concessions.
This tactic, called "spearphishing," is one of the most common ploys malicious hackers use to try to gain access to sensitive or private information.
Yet nothing of the sort has happened to Mr. Kagame or his administration despite its ploys to keep him in power basically unchallenged. Why?
Union dissidents, calling themselves "New Directions," insisted that cooperative programs were management ploys to force workers to take on more responsibilities and work harder.
A Nike consultant in the late 0003s, he devised one of the greatest marketing ploys ever: paying coaches to put their players in Nike sneakers.
All the while, the authoritarian government of President Nicolás Maduro maintains a tight grip on power through propaganda, strongman tactics, and increasingly desperate economic ploys.
Analysts said temporary pauses in drug price hikes will have little impact on consumers and are public relations ploys, according to The New York Times.
The Bodies Feud made people into ploys and signatures on bottoms of tank manifestos that would render earthwhilers doglike and sycophantic while Man reached upward.
A Times editorial called the attack "humiliating," and a prisoner drama — marked by fraught negotiations, forced confessions and propaganda ploys — dragged on for 11 months.
That sporting event will be the nation's biggest since the 2014 Sochi Olympics, where one of the most elaborate doping ploys in history took place.
Tokyo hopes to warn Trump of ploys the North Koreans have attempted in the past and "traps" they may seek to lay, the person said.
So infamous are Mr. Weinstein's ploys that awards watchers all but expect them of him, though his days of strongman campaigning might be behind him.
These ploys have cost 14,700 victims a total of more than $543 million since October 2013, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
Lastly, I feared that my motherland would be another example of United States intervention gone bad, another war that utilized innocent people as political ploys.
State-owned newspaper al-Gomhuriya ran an article on Monday with the headline "Khaled Ali and the ploys of dwarves", attacking him as an attention-seeker.
R: Well the key question is whether these bargaining ploys, threats of living tariffs et cetera result in real negotiation which create that win-win situation.
The U.K. Parliament is seeking to take back control using a variety of ploys and procedural devices aimed at overriding what remains a profoundly split government.
Second, be positioned to predict Korean ploys — for example, the "Korean comedy of errors" that was the first summit between Moon and Kim in April 2018.
If acquainting Western taste buds with insect food is a tall order, maybe it's time to try the time-honored ploys of advertising, new research suggests.
That said, Father's Day surveys purporting to know what fathers actually want are notoriously unreliable, and often function more as marketing ploys than useful sources of information.
For example, it began detaining students from the Darfur region and accused them of trying to foment civil war -- one of the ploys recommended by M-Invest.
This is part of what makes him so frustrating to his critics: It is difficult, and sometimes impossible, to distinguish his cynical ploys from his ideological commitments.
Schemes and ploys and would-be lovers multiply until, in the end, Ottone, who saved Claudio from drowning (and was thus promised the throne), instead wins Poppea.
But a lot of significant sexual and romantic TV moments between women happened along the way, some of them blatant ratings ploys, others more nuanced and complex.
This is another popular speculation: that all of these distractions we face are deliberate ploys, attention-grabbing tidbits meant to draw focus from even shadier goings-on.
Since the account is legitimately verified by Twitter, it's much more likely to be trusted than other scams, making people more susceptible to falling for its donation ploys.
But these familiar ploys -- which look more and more like anachronisms in the social media era -- have wilted in the shadow of the President and his Twitter account.
It was while working as an economist in the Truman administration that Professor Schelling became intrigued by the stratagems and negotiating ploys that he observed in international bargaining.
On Thursday, however, Foxconn announced its factories are slowly resuming work, and the company is trying some bold ploys to try and beef up its workforce once more.
But the industry is also pressing ahead, employing new loan models and a battery of technological and legal ploys intended to skirt the rules, both existing and anticipated.
Beginning in the 1930s, a Californian husband-and-wife team, Clem Whitaker and Leone Baxter, "turned politics into a business", with slashing, soundbite-driven ploys that remain in use.
Then he battered the system with the bluntest of ploys: submit a deluge of out-of-network claims, confident that insurers would blindly approve a healthy percentage of them.
Others suspect nefarious ploys to control shelf space and taps – and protect the market share of the biggest and most cheaply produced beers from any additional craft beer encroachment.
But 18 weeks into his five-year presidential term, Moon is caught between opportunistic ploys by both Donald Trump's White House and China using the crisis to redefine relationships.
Payday lenders, charging 260 percent interest or more, distort the consumer lending market by using deceptive marketing ploys to offer "quick and simple" solutions to short-term cash crunches.
But Metrecal, Sego, and their competitors hung on for a few more years, and in the end, it wasn't the bland products or the outrageous marketing ploys that killed them.
Some Sanders die-hards have alleged that Clinton got more votes by orchestrating a fraud scheme through some poorly identified mix of ballot manipulation, election rigging, and other dastardly ploys.
James Veitch hilariously plays along with scammers by giving them just enough hope that he'll fall victim to their ploys — so long as he gets a little something in return.
China's ploys are difficult to discern, and its plants are difficult to dislodge, especially when they take root in unsuspecting open societies, like the United States, New Zealand or Australia.
But this conspiracy has little to do with Taylor Swift, and there is nothing behind her new album but the same old manipulative ploys to attract your time and energy.
The DGCCRF said it had been receiving reports over several months about misleading ploys by retailers who are signing up clients and getting them to switch energy providers without proper consent.
While other West African crime rings exist and often use these romance ploys, this ring also had two scams that were unique, one involving college textbooks, the other prepaid credit cards.
Vice began as an upstart, off-color magazine founded in 1003 using money from a Canadian government welfare program — and attracted millions in investment using sometimes disingenuous ploys with potential investors.
Trump tax scheme: One of the family's ploys to avoid paying taxes in the 1990s ended up allowing for inflated rents for thousands of residents of their father's real estate empire.
In 2015, Greenpeace found numerous cases of illegal Chinese fishing in West African waters, including ships that misreported their coordinates or underreported their tonnage: known ploys to fish in prohibited areas.
It's a callback to classic Trek that's far more effective than any of Abrams's empty nostalgia ploys, because it delivers what both Kirk and Krall are searching for: a reason for being.
Instead of pouring money into marketing ploys, or featuring expensive products with poor margins, Lemonis proposed a new strategy: Focus on selling products that yield at least 40 or 50 percent margin.
This law, like the numerous other medically unnecessary regulations on abortion in the state, are simply political ploys to cut off access to care and are not rooted in medicine or science.
Until token sales leave the internet ghetto and refuse to use get-rich-quick tactics and erection pill marketing ploys, more and more of these ridiculous token sales will end in failure.
Thanks to their individual quirks and calculated branding ploys, each boy quickly became an archetype for a different high school crush: Niall was the adorable friend, Harry the artistic boy next door.
Recent moves to send more troops to the US-Mexico border, possibly overhaul asylum policy and rethink birthright citizenship are political ploys with dangerous implications, immigrant and civil rights advocates warned Tuesday.
We engage with their ploys for our attention like Mr. Peanut's (well-deserved, if you ask us) death, and some people—or so I've heard—actually like it when brands beef on Twitter.
The actor and dancer teamed up with the alcohol delivery app to promote the launch of his new boozy brand, and honestly, it was one of the most funniest marketing ploys we've seen yet.
The author, clearly writing with commercial success in mind, has used as many other familiar genre ploys as the book can hold, to the point at which it has everything but a dead cat.
Xinhua said the Chinese film industry has been "blighted" by cinemas and distributors cheating to inflate box office figures through accounting ploys or other tricks, such as claiming ticket sales that exceed an auditorium's capacity.
Instances like these, however, are rare and function as public relations ploys to deflect from the fact that these CEOs are among the richest people in the world, no matter what nominal salary they're paid.
Unlike many other Chinese smartphone makers, ZTE's Android phones are also popular in the U.S, thanks to low-cost phones and savvy marketing ploys (the company's sponsored five NBA teams, including the Golden State Warriors).
So that when we are actually having a reaction to the high amounts of fructose in the body, people think it's the cleansing effect because the marketing ploys have led us to believe that way.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders pointed to Browder's Thursday testimony as vindication of Trump's claims that ongoing investigations into potential ties between his campaign and Moscow are political ploys to undermine his presidency.
And when one of Arkadia's cynical, youth-focused marketing ploys enables him to get hold of an as-yet-unreleased game, his obsession hits new heights and his life begins to skid out of control.
That's according to a senior U.S. official who has analyzed a series of highly sensitive intelligence reports detailing Russian deliberations and who says a Snowden handover is one of various ploys to "curry favor" with Trump.
But, believe it or not, it's actually the real-life story of Kat Cole, the 37-year-old business mogul whose creative ideas and marketing ploys helped Cinnabon accelerate into the mega-force it is today.
This is the state of a real estate market plagued by "black realtors," unscrupulous sales agents who use a variety of ploys to separate Muscovites from their money or property in the largest city in Europe.
Charles M. Blow One of the most brazen — craven even — ploys by Republicans in the wake of the Orlando massacre has been to suggest, incredibly, that they would be better for the L.G.B.T. community than the Democrats.
The main example of these purported ploys is the Hambantota Port in southern Sri Lanka: The government handed control over the port to a Chinese company in 2017 after struggling to make its loan payments to China.
When you use language like "find your true self" and "unforgettable experiences", you're falling for the marketing ploys that college admissions offices use to lure students into paying high tuition and taking on illogical amounts of debt.
So many advertising ploys, and yet none of them could save "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" from becoming the first colossal fail of the summer movie season and a hall-of-fame misfire for Warner Bros.
The author interrogates his own "depressing view into the future of work," informed by the accounts of people who spend hours performing digital tasks that net tiny amounts of money in setups that appear to be marketing ploys.
In the broader scheme of telecom marketing ploys that may violate net neutrality, AT&T did something similar last year when it announced it would begin zero-rating its new DirecTV Now streaming service for AT&T mobile customers.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plans to annex the Jordan Valley and his frequent accusations against Tehran were ploys to win re-election, the semi-official news agency Tasnim reported.
Then the criminals — using a variety of ploys, like phony job offers, "overpayment" for an item bought online or bogus sweepstakes — persuade the victims to send some of the money back, often by wire transfer or a gift card.
So, in the spirit of see-through marketing ploys, below are some suggestions the Academy should consider if it really wants to get more people to watch: I don't know about you, but my mom rarely goes to the cinema.
The Canadian airline — famed for its holiday gift-giving ploys since the breakout viral success of a 2013 ad — decided the Alberta community of Fort McMurray could use some love this year after a wildfire destroyed 2,400 homes there in May.
Grigory Rodchenkov, who was head of the country's antidoping laboratory at the time, tells The Times that he developed a drug cocktail of banned substances, which NYT describes as "the most elaborate—and successful—doping ploys in sports history."Wow.
One of the favourite ploys of pro-gun lobbyists in America is to claim that Australia and Britain have been plagued with violent crime since each of those countries endured a big gun massacre and responded by tightening gun laws dramatically.
Abe most recently traveled to the US in April to meet with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate, where he warned trump of North Korean negotiating ploys and urged him to closely coordinate with Japan ahead of the summit.
Screenshots of the post, now-deleted, have gained traction on social media, where users are making fun of Bieber&aposs transparent ploys and listening to the single&aposs competitor, "The Box" by Roddy Ricch, to prevent "Yummy" from hitting No. 1.
Sally Baker, a London-based hypnotherapist, doesn't mince words, calling the rise in plastic-surgery freebies on Instagram "cynical ploys from the morally-bankrupt plastic-surgery industry playing on the physical insecurities of young people," especially those that are living with anxiety and body dysmorphia.
Liman has more potent ploys at his disposal, like the cinematography of César Charlone, who shot " City of God " (2002), and who endows the new film, especially in its early patches, with the hot-but-faded glow that you get from an old transparency.
A wide range of experiences has emerged in court: women set aside for disabled soldiers, militiamen spying on couples to confirm they were having sex, people corralled into group weddings who engaged in desperate ploys to be paired off with vague acquaintances rather than strangers.
"It is imperative that this administration sit down with leaders in Congress on both sides of the aisle who want real solutions to our immigration challenges, rather than using political ploys to fire up President Trump's base and distract from growing controversy," Carper said.
In practice, it's much uglier, and by no means did the Founding Fathers intend for patents to be utilized toward incremental monopolization ploys, but rather a means to serve the public as an incentive to share knowledge for the progress and benefits of science and commerce.
Consisting of ads and images from print publications during that era, the tenuous link to the cigarette is in a photograph of a woman holding one pushed against her breast—an interesting memento of objectification in marketing ploys intended to persuade both men and women to smoke.
What does it mean when two DJs who embody everything wrong with mainstream dance music culture—who've achieved a level of fame through marketing ploys and pay-to-play schemes instead of hard work and talent—resort to spinning vinyl in an attempt at gaining some credibility?
Though I have developed an allergy to overt marketing ploys, there is something considerate and very deliberate in the way Taylor's history is being brought back into the spotlight by the cognac company Hennessy, which commissioned a short documentary about Taylor that was released earlier this year.
In the meantime, we as customers are stuck with silly ploys like the imposed AT&T 5G E logo which, if you recall, is not actually real 5G, but yet another trick aimed at making AT&T look like it's arrived at the future faster than its corporate rival.
"Enemy forces abroad do not want to see China rise and many of them see our country as a potential threat and rival, so they use a thousand ploys and a hundred strategies to frustrate and repress us," according to the book, titled the "China United Front Course Book".
The Chinese film industry has been "blighted" by cinemas and distributors cheating to inflate box office figures through accounting ploys or other tricks, such as claiming ticket sales that exceed an auditorium's capacity, state-owned Xinhua news agency said in its report on the Ip Man 3 fraud last week.
These none-too-subtle ploys encourage you to focus on audio rather than visual cues to succeed, but while it's incredibly satisfying when you're able to tune out the distractions and nail the rhythm, it's almost as good when you screw up, because something funny is almost certain to happen.
"The issue with the work of Tyler Shields isn't so much that he's copying so many artists' work—though his shouldn't be an artistic model to aspire to—but that his appropriations replace the unique vision of the original with the cheap ploys of shock or nostalgia," she said in an email.
The director, Grigory Rodchenkov, who ran the laboratory that handled testing for thousands of Olympians, said he developed a three-drug cocktail of banned substances that he mixed with liquor and provided to dozens of Russian athletes, helping to facilitate one of the most elaborate — and successful — doping ploys in sports history.
In Britain, those ploys include the tax-minimization schemes of companies like Starbucks and Amazon and are symbolized by the corrupt officials — Nigerian ministers, ex-Soviet insiders, deposed Middle Eastern politicians — who launder their stolen cash and besmirched reputations through British institutions, spending their dirty money on high-end real estate in London.
Almost all his disruptive foreign-policy moves, the rows with allies, withdrawals from international agreements, tariffs and threats of worse on every front, can be viewed primarily as tactical ploys intended to push his self-image as a decisive leader, honour ill-considered campaign pledges or stoke the partisan, nationalist and xenophobic sentiment from which he draws strength.
And yet despite his bluster in both conversations on the building of the border wall that Mexico is going to pay for and the agreement to take a limited number of refugees from Australia, it's stunning how quickly the master of the "Art of the Deal" backs off his opening positions and implicitly concedes that they were just ploys.
When his fear of a changing America manifests in an ornery disdain for millennials' pathological laziness, unabashed admiration of Walmart's marketing ploys or public displays of affection for Carly Fiorina, Ben Carson and Donald Trump's kids, Schilling's retrograde beliefs are almost quaint: He's the clichéd right-wing uncle I've never known but my white friends all claim to have.
Mr. Ngaujah, who had sympathetic roles as black men mistreated by whites in the Signature's revivals of Mr. Fugard's "The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek" in 2015 and "'Master Harold' … and the Boys" in 2016, is a shock here, totally renouncing all the ploys, the winks and smiles, that actors sometimes use to soften harsh characters.
Unless the team of President Moon Jae-in of South Korea has the fortitude to stand up to such ploys and has a solid game plan of its own, there is a serious risk that the South, its allies and much of the international community will come out of these apparent peace overtures even less secure than before.
The elder Kim was able to pocket billions of dollars in aid from South Korea, the United States, Japan and China by playing this game of provocations and post-provocation peace ploys, while the younger Kim, after going on a bluster-barrage last year with unprecedented ICBM tests and a thermonuclear test, has undergone in recent weeks a dramatic image makeover.
This means that the line being crossed by legal ploys to gain access "just this once," or naive pseudo-technical arguments about the need for a lawful bypass to strong encryption, is a line that is pushing beyond the realm of the privacy of a person's communication, and toward a truly obscene intrusion upon an individual's most private data and even thoughts.
If Rousey's appearances in The Expendables and Furious 7 were bits of stunt casting, ploys to cash in on the growing popularity of MMA (popularity made possible by Rousey) and bump up those films' combat bona fides, and if Road House was just a grindhouse lark, then Mile 22, helmed by true a Hollywood player like Berg, would be designed to push Rousey into that rarefied air above the title, where stars live.

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