Trump's potshots at China's currency miss mark Mussolini, Hitler, Trump?
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He was annoyed by a guy taking potshots at him.
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He's taken potshots at celebrity foes Meryl Streep and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Governments quickly lined up to take potshots at the commission's proposal.
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If you chose, you could take potshots galore at this ballet.
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Lindsey Graham has been taking potshots at his rivals all week.
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Twitter, by design, lets politicians trade potshots and circumvent traditional media channels.
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He is no longer an outsider who can take potshots at Democrats.
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The frigate Hetman Sahaydachniy, the pride of Ukraine's navy, takes the first potshots.
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Nobody is running around with six-shooters on hips taking potshots at streetlights.
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In his presentation, Bezos also took a few potshots at Musk's own space aspirations.
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They shift to harassing the Indians with snipers and taking potshots at resupply helicopters.
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And not take potshots at easy targets for marketing, political and personal career gain.
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After Mr. Trump won the election, he kept taking potshots at the Chinese leadership.
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But that doesn't stop Indians from taking potshots at Bieber or his brand of music.
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What remains unclear is why the British media took prosecco potshots at this particular moment.
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On Twitter, Joe Namath, the team's most famous alumnus, peppered away with potshots and criticism.
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Daniels enjoys taking potshots at people who insult her on Twitter — and, of course, at the president.
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And most entrepreneurs like to take potshots at big companies in a way that I think is disrespectful.
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The ad takes no potshots at Clinton, but instead shows Sanders as a leader who lifts the spirit.
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So far their relationship, aside from a brief blocking phase, has mainly consisted of King taking repeated potshots.
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Sadly, he routinely uses that attention to take potshots at his rivals and rarely takes the high road.
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Plus, in true Burger King fashion, executives are using the new sandwich to take potshots at the competition.
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Then came potshots at Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel, a strong leader who is facing a tough re-election.
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At the Iowa State Fair, Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang took potshots at Trump, tearing into his physical fitness.
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We're meant to regard the festivalgoers as harmless, overly avid fans, but the potshots are too broad and cheap.
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Aside from taking a few potshots at the 2010 law, the candidate has been effectively mum on the topic.
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The candidates should also not expend precious time bragging that they "believe scientists" or taking potshots at climate deniers.
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The personal potshots in particular have surprised some former colleagues who thought of Mr. Comey as relatively sober and serious.
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Mr Orban now sits supreme on top of the "illiberal" state he boasts of building, taking regular potshots at Brussels.
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Trump starting taking potshots last week, including when he smeared Yovanovitch in a tweet while she was testying before Congress.
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Salesforce and Microsoft have had a complicated relationship over the years, with executives taking occasional public potshots at each other.
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All the niggling and drunken potshots and catty banter aren't what keep the characters apart; they're what keep them together!
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So it's not surprising that some of his fellow tech moguls are taking Zuckerberg's moment of vulnerability to take some potshots.
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"You know they have nothing substantive to talk about when they are taking weak potshots at his writing style," he said.
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The potshots came from all directions; in their absence she could always count on a malicious relative to darken the doorstep.
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Who thought it would be a good idea for Alec Baldwin, of all people, to take satirical potshots at Harvey Weinstein?
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Eventually the militants holed up on or near the top floor of the hotel, taking potshots at those fleeing, he said.
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Media organizations -- the credible ones at least -- are hugely averse to letting people take potshots without their names attached to it.
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"President Trump took some potshots at my father and got the crowd at CPAC to boo him," McCain said on The View.
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Melee hordes are best for confronting the enemy head-on, while archers can take potshots while the boats are still coming in.
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Fox has certainly been home to more than its fair share of potshots at both the TV network and Fox News itself.
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The Trump base has never had much time for McCain -- even if taking potshots at a dead war hero might appear unseemly.
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Bill Cosby's publicist lashed out at Eddie Murphy after Murphy took potshots at Cosby while guest hosting this weekend's Saturday Night Live.
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Sure, potshots are still lobbed at the Queens of old, which periodically gets blamed for native sons Harvey Weinstein and Donald Trump.
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The clapping was especially loud when Trump said he would defend Christianity, and when he took potshots against President Obama and Hillary Clinton.
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Not long after Trump's inauguration, the cheeky Dutch used a parody of a tourism video to take potshots at the new U.S. president.
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The scene did show GG taking potshots at Janice, referring to her as an "old ass bitch" who died out with the Flintstones.
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Stamos also talked about the importance of the tech industry working together to meet shared goals rather than taking potshots at each other.
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But the two sets of tweets are the same in that social media potshots and taunts, regardless of racial insensitivity, feel normal now.
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Legacy directors like Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola rail against Marvel for cheapening cinema, while Marvel directors now take their potshots at Netflix.
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If Twitter really were in trouble and people felt like it really was disappearing, there'd be a lot less snide potshots and more alarm.
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You can chalk it up, in part, to today's hyper-partisan political environment, where taking potshots at the administration has become a popular sport.
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Tension reaches a boiling point Tension within the Democratic Party came to a head Friday night, following a day of reported potshots from congressional aides.
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Still, West's actions toward Swift and her impulse toward playing the victim (while, at the same time, taking potshots) makes you want to keep score.
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The two get in some potshots, Frank nearly chokes on a turkey sandwich while laughing over a joke, and they bond over a video game.
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They're not just watching people deliver monologues or weak parodies or easy potshots at the headlines, à la the current incarnation of Saturday Night Live.
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Recently, each has taken potshots at the other over data privacy, with Apple's chief executive, Timothy D. Cook, trading slights with Mr. Zuckerberg in interviews.
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They film the potshots in super-slow motion, model the movement using fluid dynamics equations, and produce their own simulations based on the hawk moths' shapes.
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The central figure is Biden, the progressives are taking potshots at him, and so far, he's holding them off in opinion polls and dominating in endorsements.
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President Trump is NOT taking homophobic potshots at Pete Buttigieg -- instead, he's saying the Democratic candidate's sexual preference won't be a factor ... for most Americans, anyway.
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Or they could Trump out, blame the damn immigrants, and fire off at a bunch of potshots at some political strawmen other than the One Percent.
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After hearing the chairman's remarks, California state Senator Scott Wiener, who introduced the legislation, responded saying that Pai's criticisms were "potshots" and wouldn't dissuade California legislators.
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But "Deadpool" was a triumph of budget filmmaking, costing 20th Century Fox only $58 million, garnering positive reviews and taking plenty of potshots at its own genre.
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As a budding young journalist in New York, he was known to take potshots at the etiquette and artifice of what he saw as an aristocratic pastime.
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At his "Lights Out" test show, Spade opened with a short monologue that took potshots at Lindsay Lohan, Kim Kardashian West, Travis Scott and the BET Awards.
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And this particular old uncle is also actively nasty, taking random potshots at Taylor Swift, mocking prostitutes who have a poor grasp of geography, and so on.
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Other prominent ConservativeTribune stories took potshots at Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, including a video of liberals who struggled to explain their love of the former president. Breitbart.
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While campaigning for president, Donald Trump took plenty of pleasure in taking potshots at world power China (even as he's walked back some of those statements a little).
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Here was a prime opportunity to trot out those dismissive one-liners and "Mississippi Goddamn" references, to take another round of potshots at America's favorite state to hate.
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The route into the valley followed an unlit, mile-long tunnel where, it is said, local racists once fired potshots at migrant black coal workers arriving by train.
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Dery, however, takes potshots at Brown and his co-trustee of the now very rich Edward Gorey Charitable Trust, especially for their handling of the immense Gorey archive.
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The First Amendment says he does despite it not being what traditional presidents have done in the past save for former President Obama's periodic potshots at Fox News.
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In a surprise cameo, Crenshaw appeared alongside Davidson to take a few humorous potshots of his own and then, more earnestly, to try to find some common ground.
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Silicon Valley largely put its weight behind his opponent, and the President-Elect has taken a number of potshots at big technology names from Apple to Amazon's Jeff Bezos.
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It isn't just the potshots at me that I'm avoiding at times like this; it's the way a negative review can bring out the torches and pitchforks on both sides.
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Cook's company has taken direct potshots at Google over privacy issues ever since, bashing its competitor in everything from its description of its Maps service, to its general privacy policy.
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On Thursday, after an unusually public series of potshots between Trump and Sessions, reporters repeatedly asked White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders whether the attorney general's job was safe.
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"One of the reasons we're doing so well is Oracle and SAP are doing so poorly in the cloud," said Benioff, who is known for taking potshots at the competition.
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The piece also took nasty potshots at the length and lavishness of the celebrations, believing that they were a Chopra special rather than the usual traditional stuff that they were.
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You'll laugh at a sequence where Wick and one rival take sly silenced potshots at each other in a crowded public area, like kids playing cops and robbers with their fingers.
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It has been that way through much of the election cycle here, where domestic issues have dominated the discourse, and Mr. Trump's potshots have long since become background noise for voters.
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Wendy's has been taking potshots at McDonald's since 1984, but this jab was perhaps one of its most successful one, helping the fast-food brand boost its revenue 31% that year.
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As Sarah Menkedick reminds us, the continual potshots taken at the personal essay form — as the lazy, nonliterary exposure of trauma and identity — are reductive, and arguably just symptoms of condescending reading.
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Relocating Dürrenmatt's tragicomic fable from middle Europe to a dying factory town in upstate New York in the mid-1950s has allowed him to take uncharacteristically crude potshots at all-American consumerism.
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Usually it's only when a candidate is sinking in the polls that he starts aiming potshots at the-real estate mogul, as Jeb Bush did over the protracted slow death of his campaign.
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He has taken Twitter potshots at Mexico while Tillerson was in meetings with Mexican officials meant to repair damage to the relationship inflicted by the President's comments about the country and its people.
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In its filing, Johnson & Johnson maintained it did nothing wrong and said the state took "potshots at stray promotional statements plucked from three decades" of material to create a wild public nuisance theory.
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Chandler was doing what writers often do, making a case for his own brand of art — while taking potshots at writers who did it differently, such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.
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In other eye-opening moments at the G20 summit in Japan and in South Korea, Trump took potshots at the press while alongside Kim and Putin -- ignoring murders of scores of journalists in Russia.
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The multicultural milieu lends an initial boost as Mr. Kwek's jokes and plot entanglements take potshots at life in Singapore, but all the air seeps out of this attempt at zippy, tabloid-nutty storytelling.
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The message is that it can no longer so easily hide behind its nuclear deterrent, and global fears of escalation, while allowing its proxies to take potshots at a much bigger and richer neighbour.
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We took some potshots from the sidelines going all the way back to 1940, but we officially clicked "going" on WWII's Facebook event invite on December 7, 1941, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
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She did sort of effusively compliment him on the way up, but then someone else who's here in Washington told me that what she's going to do then is take potshots from the sidelines.
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In its filing Wednesday, Johnson & Johnson maintained it did nothing wrong and said the state took "potshots at stray promotional statements plucked from three decades" of material to create a wild public nuisance theory.
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Although AWS boss Andy Jassy snuck in a few potshots at competitors Google, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle, he spent more of his stage time touting existing and new capabilities before an audience of 65,000.
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" By morning, however, Trump was taking potshots at the Democratic process, calling it an "unmitigated disaster" and claiming that the "only person that can claim a very big victory in Iowa last night is 'Trump'.
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"I told him I'd miss the back-and-forth that we had between us, and that I appreciated that he didn't take any potshots at me, out of respect for my family," Carton told me.
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Probably just where we were four years ago, the last time Gervais hosted the Globes: with Gervais taking potshots at various celebrities and pet progressive issues, then retreating into a defensive stance on social media.
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A few potshots rang out in the darkness from the closer village as the men jumped out, sporadic fire aimed at the helicopters in the rice field, and then the machines lifted off and flew away.
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Yes, but: This document also serves as a political vehicle to stump for conservative hobbyhorses — like short-term plans, health savings accounts, lifting the repeal on physician-owned hospitals, and potshots at the Affordable Care Act.
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Sometimes it might make sense to move your scout forward a second time, though make sure you've got one or two soldiers in Overwatch — meaning they'll take potshots at any enemy that appears — before you do.
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After two rounds of picking at Lima with potshots along the fence and then dropping in on the Brazilian's hips to avoid counters, Koreshkov lost his mind in the third round and decided to swing haymakers.
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PC mods and Ghost Dog aside, there's nothing trippier than flying a jet upside-down through Raton Canyon (Canyon Dreams), or taking potshots from an indestructible freight train that the cops can never catch (Train Dreams).
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So he has turned his daily White House coronavirus briefings, like the one on Sunday, into a kind of special spinoff of the familiar Trump Show -- replete with all the usual misinformation, self-promotion and potshots.
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For some time now, President Trump has somehow resisted the impulse to open up his Twitter account and take potshots at "Saturday Night Live," the NBC late-night comedy series on which he is frequently lampooned.
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The humor is largely mordant — Zeke in a convenience store, maneuvering to hide bloody evidence from the police, is a physical comedy highlight for Abbott — mixed with random potshots at millennial rednecks who listen to Nickelback.
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India's politicians take the social network seriously, and, just like their counterparts in larger markets like the US and the UK, they use it as their bullhorn for everything from official announcements to taking potshots at rivals.
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Declaring that the "shackles" of moderation had been shed, Trump on Tuesday unleashed a barrage of angry tweets denouncing the party that made him its presidential nominee, while taking potshots at its leader, House Speaker Paul Ryan.
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Speaking alongside White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, he framed the media as part of a global war against the president's agenda after Priebus accused the media of taking potshots at Trump over the summer of 2016.
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Twitter fanatics openly salivated over Scalise's shooting, with the most scorching of hot takes bandied about the internet: If the shooter has a serious health condition then is taking potshots at the GOP house leadership considered self defense?
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" In a filing submitted to the court in response late Tuesday, Kraft's lawyers used similar language, saying that prosecutors were taking "unfounded potshots at defense counsel in an effort to distract from its own longstanding, demonstrated pattern of misconduct.
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Flying us into hot landing zones, flying medevacs to "dust off" the wounded and just getting potshots from all over when they were in the air meant there wasn't much in the way of a routine day for them.
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"I never thought it would be as controversial as it turned out, although I remember saying when we were writing it that some religious nut case may take potshots at us," Jones told the Radio Times magazine in 2011.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Angry crowds took potshots at police, slightly injuring six, in an overnight standoff over the death of a young man at a police station in the Val d'Oise area north of Paris, a local official said on Wednesday.
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Instead, Weekend Update and the cold opens are the two spaces where SNL gets blatantly political, and the show keeps leaning on smug, self-congratulatory liberalism, taking easy potshots at Republicans that make conservatives righteously angry and are stupidly one-dimensional.
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This should, in theory, make it easier for centrist and independent candidates who appeal to both right and left, like Mr. Schwarzenegger, who has never neatly fit into the Republican Party and is often the target of potshots from Mr. Trump.
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I didn't laugh, the jokes are mostly easy potshots at Trump (would you believe Murphy calls him "orange" in the first episode?!), and the live studio audience is so over-mic'ed that every little utterance they make sounds like wild laughter and applause.
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He did not hold a high-profile campaign launch on Monday, but his rivals lined up to take potshots at him and his pledge to raise the point at which workers begin paying a 40% income tax to 80,000 pounds ($102,000) from 50,000.
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"His public potshots are not good for our associates, they are not good for the clients and they are not good for anyone," said the CEO, who has a goal of improving margins by 500 basis points over the next three years.
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Ghosn also took a few potshots at Tesla and other carmakers, saying Renault-Nissan will focus on electric and self-driving cars for the mass market, not electric vehicles that cost six figures nor those that are just "beta testing" their autonomous software.
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Ms. O'Donoghue and Ms. Bowers create a believable sisterly rapport, which is to say they take frequent passive-aggressive (and sometimes just aggressive) potshots at each other, but also manage to suggest an emotional alliance that runs deeper than their snarky exchanges.
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War tourists with a criminal blood lust, mostly Orthodox Christian fanatics from Russia and Greece, used to go there to take potshots, for a fee, with sniper rifles and even antiaircraft guns at Muslim residents scurrying for cover in the city below.
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You come out, do a few practice rounds on a shooting range, and then they load you into a open-topped bus with a wire cage and run you out into the countryside and you take potshots from the comfort of a vehicle.
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"If you are arguably the front-runner or a front-runner and you go into a debate where everyone is taking potshots at each other and you can kind of rise above the fray, you get to come out the winner," he said.
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The jokes are mostly easy potshots at Donald Trump (would you believe that Murphy calls him "orange" in the first episode?!), and the live studio audience is so over-mic'ed that every little utterance they make sounds like wild laughter and applause.
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From China and Japan to the smaller nations of southeast Asia, the region's leaders want to know whether Trump will make good on his campaign promises and potshots, which have the potential to shake up alliances, upend the geopolitical map and risk all-out conflict.
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His cachet in Republican circles means that when he sees old friends taking potshots at Islam, he can confront them, as he did recently when he asked a buddy running for sheriff to scrap a campaign line about keeping "Sharia law" out of Smith County.
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The careful and complementary language from Trump, his team, Republicans and gun control opponents stands out at a time when the White House and top GOP officials in Washington have taken increasingly frequent potshots at each other over everything from health care to foreign policy.
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It may well be that the feuds and the potshots aren't so much a by-product as an integral part of the entertainment, a subplot to amplify and mirror the foreground arguments over the actual games and the people who play and rule them.
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"Being perceived of as 'the one' means there are 15 million people ready to take potshots," said Dr. Harris, an authority on the food of the African diaspora, who encouraged Mr. Edge to court the poet and artist Blair Hobbs, who would become his wife.
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And predictably, the anger they've elicited gave way to pure mockery, potshots replaced critique, and the realization that these pundits were almost always wrong, and were indeed cynically all but programmed to be so, took a back seat to how dopey and half-baked their work was.
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Because the journey of—I think we admitted during that podcast, who has not taken a potshot at the Kingdom Hearts community in the same way you take potshots at anime fans because they get overly protective of it and then get mad and that's funny.
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He did not hold a high-profile campaign launch on Monday, but his rivals lined up to take potshots at him and his pledge to raise the point at which workers begin paying a 40% income tax to 80,000 pounds ($102,000) annual pay from 50,000 pounds.
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And though watching grown men at the heads of some of the most powerful organizations in the world bicker with each other in the press is typically not very fun, it would be nice if these potshots kept fueling an arms race to be the least invasive tech company.
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But while Samsung's peers appear to mostly be done taking potshots at the company for the time being, and it hasn't done much to impact the company's bottom line, the issue lingers large in the public's mind, as cab drivers and flight attendants were more than happy to remind me on my trip to Barcelona.
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It's no surprise that President Trump, an ardent critic of the press, declined for the third consecutive year to attend Saturday's White House Correspondent's Dinner, an annual gala for the White House press corps that "celebrates" the First Amendment's protections of free speech — often by taking comical potshots at the commander-in-chief himself.
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His emergency motion for stay was quickly denied and in several places in the suit Taylor makes points that don't seem more-or-less to be potshots at the agency and its explanation for starting the program (namely that it needed to get started before Christmas and that it was starting the program to educate pilots about flying safely).
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During the first two weeks after hurricane struck, Trump's Twitter feed featured a maddening mix of exhortations to vote in the Alabama special election primary, best wishes to the people caught in Maria's path, jabs at Republicans who opposed another failed Obamacare repeal push, tributes to FEMA and first responders, and repeated potshots at pro football players.
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"That this administration feels the need, nearly a decade later, to take potshots at an effort to identify common ground between the Arab world and the West speaks not only to the Trump administration's pettiness but also to its lack of a strategic vision for America's role in the region and its abdication of America's values," it said.
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"That this administration feels the need, nearly a decade later, to take potshots at an effort to identify common ground between the Arab world and the West speaks not only to the Trump administration's pettiness but also to its lack of a strategic vision for America's role in the region and its abdication of America's values," the group said in a statement.
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Meanwhile, in Houston, Democratic presidential candidates took a few potshots at each other and, of course, at Trump — but they also got deep into the weeds of policy and outlined their respective visions of an America where immigrants are treated with respect, the climate crisis is taken seriously, and claims about health care proposals are backed up with actual plans.
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There's some justice to that: As Baffler's Brendan James put it in a rundown of Gervais's career, "Gervais's only real claim on the public's attention in the past ten years has been his epic, renegade, no-holds-barred Golden Globes roast-a-thon," in which he's known for taking potshots at other celebrities and their failings, from Mel Gibson's alcoholism to Robert Downey Jr's drug abuse.
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For good measure, "Weekend Update" concluded with Pete Davidson taking potshots at various people associated with the Trump administration, including the White House adviser Stephen Miller ("He tries to project strength," Mr. Davidson said, "but he looks like Fredo Corleone had been even sicker as a child") and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the deputy White House press secretary (whom Mr. Davidson called "one of those sweet Southern girls that you marry if you're gay").
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