Rhode Island eased up, and Saint Joseph's seized the opportunity.
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Oliver being Oliver, he also seized the opportunity to mock Murray.
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Meanwhile, Lyft seized the opportunity to recruit disillusioned drivers and riders.
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Falzone seized the opportunity to come up with a business venture.
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Conservative Party seized the opportunity and gathered enough support to trigger
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Of course, Democrats also seized the opportunity to attack Donald Trump.
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Elected officials, both past and present, seized the opportunity to pile on.
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Fifteen days back, volunteers began distributing falafel scoops; he seized the opportunity.
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After Obama announced DACA in 2012, Garcia, now 34, seized the opportunity.
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Some countries have seized the opportunity; others have taken it for granted.
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Naturally, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick seized the opportunity to zing his competition.
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Charles Evans Hughes, fighting the excesses of the era, seized the opportunity.
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Bassist and vocalist Este Haim seized the opportunity to mess around on camera.
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The Socialist leader, Pedro Sánchez, seized the opportunity to file a censure motion.
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With some trepidation, she seized the opportunity and took him at his word.
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The training wheels were off, and the Lakers' lesser lights seized the opportunity.
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Each year, he seized the opportunity to roast as many stars as possible.
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Instead it seized the opportunity by launching its platform just six weeks after Facebook.
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Hardliners were given the powers to assert their authority and they seized the opportunity.
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It was a clumsy phrase and Blair seized the opportunity to lighten the mood.
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They seized the opportunity to stage romantic snapshots featuring the deer as a prop.
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The world of late-night television also seized the opportunity to joke about drugs.
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Democrats seized the opportunity to set the stage for Mr. Comey's testimony on Thursday.
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Kurdish groups seized the opportunity to carve out an autonomous statelet in northeastern Syria.
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Ho Chi Minh and his Communist-led Viet Minh nationalist front seized the opportunity.
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Tennell fell during her long program, and Liu, skating immediately after, seized the opportunity.
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As infighting has escalated in southern Yemen, ISIS has seized the opportunity to resurface there.
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At that point, the statement says, she seized the opportunity to flee and seek help.
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Diplo Diplo seized the opportunity to further confuse his and James Van Der Beek's identities.
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Singles Day wasn't only limited to Lazada's ecosystem — other e-commerce ventures seized the opportunity.
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Unlike Scary Spice, however, she often seized the opportunity to put on her serious cap.
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And so Ufo361 seized the opportunity by the dreadlocks and started talking with the trio.
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Right-wing leaders, she said, seized the opportunity to portray leftist governments as fiscally irresponsible.
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The Philharmonic had an unexpected opening in its schedule, and Mr. Stern seized the opportunity.
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On Tuesday, those opponents seized the opportunity to press the senators to return the funds.
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Matt Gaetz seized the opportunity to argue for a legislative priority of President Donald Trump.
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Arms controllers and leftists seized the opportunity and produced restrictive laws, regulations, and funding denials.
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Europe's telecoms industry has also seized the opportunity to lobby for tougher rules for internet rivals.
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Republicans, for their part, seized the opportunity to do some dramatic pearl-clutching about Democrats' questions.
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The Americans seized the opportunity, and, within a year, violence across the province had dropped dramatically.
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Community-activist groups in Philadelphia seized the opportunity, forming the Coalition for a Just District Attorney.
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Mr. Macron seized the opportunity to invite Mr. Trump to Paris for Bastille Day next month.
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Mr. Sanders immediately seized the opportunity to trumpet his past opposition to the war in Iraq.
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Trump seized the opportunity to pile on Cruz, whom he has repeatedly characterized as a liar.
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But McCain seized the opportunity for a little levity by making a playful jab about Kutcher's looks.
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Meanwhile, she has seized the opportunity to "gift" the Trudeau family a photo session, "promising total privacy."
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Only a few lucky passersby seized the opportunity to snap up Banksy originals for a cool $60.
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Trump, of course, seized the opportunity to blast the New York Times, who initially made the comparison.
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Cheah's fortunes started to change when he seized the opportunity to pursue a business degree in Australia.
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The United States seized the opportunity of being able to attack Mullah Mansour in a desert region.
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Kuwait doesn't have those same rules, so she seized the opportunity to slip away and seek safety.
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When he read about the event online, he seized the opportunity to fly home to take part.
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Moses seized the opportunity to trade his power to fix things for influence over the museum's affairs.
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After the main show, the club opened things up to the audience and Chance seized the opportunity.
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However, in the United States, shale oil drillers have seized the opportunity to ramp up output and exports.
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Some seized the opportunity to enjoy a festive moment without the hurdles of actually having attended the game.
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He saw a flyer for an audition in Los Angeles, where he was living, and seized the opportunity.
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Indianapolis reconsidered electric bus deployment, and natural gas vehicle makers have seized the opportunity to criticize the technology.
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She seized the opportunity, stunning Cibulkova with a dazzling display of drop shots that few players would try.
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The SEC and DOJ seized the opportunity to subpoena records, employees, and root around in Tesla's inner workings.
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Intel seized the opportunity to poke fun at the conference's near-constant stream of product releases and announcements.
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Since older brothers simply can't help themselves, William seized the opportunity to call out Harry in his congratulations statement.
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Pro-life campaigners and right-wing politicians from both sides of the Atlantic seized the opportunity to chime in.
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General Sharif seized the opportunity to try and take control of security of Mr Sharif's home province of Punjab.
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But Ruffin's exit was final, and Edwards seized the opportunity when Motown approached him about replacing the outgoing Temptation.
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One, "Situated," is by a regular BalletX contributor, Matthew Neenan, who has seized the opportunity to make something uncharacteristic.
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Faced with freedom, some people seized the opportunity to advocate for themselves and the rights of people like them.
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With an estimated 200 journalists and 1,500 activists on hand, contenders seized the opportunity to flaunt their Iowa spirit.
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In the chaos of Syria's long-burning civil war, Iran seized the opportunity to build a military infrastructure there.
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Mr. Santana seized the opportunity with Barry Grodenchik, a councilman from Queens, to share observations about the foster system.
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After Wednesday's incident, Nigerians seized the opportunity on social media to express their disappointment with the country's aviation industry.
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So, with his moment in the Hollywood sun ... you'd think the duo could have seized the opportunity to meet.
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Nike has since seized the opportunity to keep him on its books long-term as well, signing another lifetime deal.
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Others seized the opportunity to highlight how they are forced to work two or three jobs to make ends meet.
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Taiwan's gay marriage opponents seized the opportunity to put forward a referendum asking voters whether they agreed with same-sex marriage.
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Facebook seized the opportunity to grow even bigger when it bought messaging app WhatsApp for a whopping $19 billion in 2014.
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Durant seized the opportunity, sinking a 13-foot jumper with 16.2 seconds left to tie the game for the 633nd time.
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Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus quickly seized the opportunity to whip up outrage on another powerful social media platform, Twitter.
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Loretta Bey is among more than two hundred local residents who have seized the opportunity since the program's launch in 2013.
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Although he adopted Syracuse as his second home, he seized the opportunity to become head coach of the Patriots in 1991.
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The Shias, who had been politically excluded under Hussein's Sunni rule, seized the opportunity and dominated the post-war Iraqi government.
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As state and federal prisons became overcrowded, private businesses seized the opportunity to build their own facilities and house the incarcerated.
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But when she was invited to be a cleaner at St. Louis Church for the papal visit, she seized the opportunity.
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After Hurricane Katrina severely damaged many public schools and displaced many students, Louisiana seized the opportunity to experiment more with charter schools.
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The generals seized the opportunity to order Voice TV, which is owned by Mr Thaksin's son, off the air for 15 days.
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After seeing Divine Draftsman & Designer, Michelangelo seemingly seized the opportunity to take an #EmptyMet spin around the museum before the public entered.
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Kasaktina seized the opportunity and shook her early nerves to reach the last 16 of a grand slam for the first time.
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"Maybe more than any of his predecessors, Mr. Obama has also seized the opportunity to become the ultimate tourist," our reporter observes.
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News Analysis The special counsel led an investigation that was disciplined, quiet, and by the book — and the president seized the opportunity.
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It was the Trump administration that seized the opportunity and accelerated the anti-ISIS fight so there would be no more delays.
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Largely drawn to the spirit for precisely these reasons, Taras and Sasha seized the opportunity to become legit once 2007 rolled around.
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Razer should have seized the opportunity to give the base model a leg up over the more expensive, vapor chamber-equipped Blade 15.
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Downie seized the opportunity to call on his prime minister for greater action in addressing Canada's troubled relationship with its indigenous First Nations.
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At a time when a liberal worldview shaped most media content, conservatives seized the opportunity to establish their own clubhouse on AM radio.
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Encouraged by warming relations between North and South Korea, President Trump readily seized the opportunity to do something none of his predecessors could.
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But now that he knew it was a question of mind over matter, he seized the opportunity to break free of his condition.
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After years on the sidelines, Obada played in his first NFL game last season as a Carolina Panther — and he seized the opportunity.
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A friend of Mr. Mariat, Léo Tullet, 27, who organizes contemporary-art exhibitions, agreed that Parisians had "really seized the opportunity" to attend.
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SNL seized the opportunity provided by the situation, with Baldwin returning to headline, despite having said he planned to retire his Trump parody.
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Toto also seized the opportunity to collect some cultural cache when keyboardist Steve Porcaro joined Weezer's Kimmel performance to kick in a solo.
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Another experiment had asked for accelerated xenon atoms, so the quark-gluon-plasma-studying physicists seized the opportunity to make measurements of their own.
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With Democrats holding the gavel in the House, they've seized the opportunity — even if the bill is a dead man walking in the Senate.
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Investigators believe the pair had thought about committing such a crime, and allegedly seized the opportunity to abduct Kamille when they saw an opportunity.
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Investigators believe the pair had thought about committing such a crime, and allegedly seized the opportunity to abduct Kamille when they saw an opportunity.
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Part of the event involved Trump climbing into a 18-wheeler for a photo op, and he seized the opportunity to thoroughly enjoy himself.
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Apple producers, baking suppliers, and other produce growers seized the opportunity to portray their products as vital to upholding American identity — and it worked.
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But in recent years, the chefs of the city, realizing they've inherited a captive audience, have seized the opportunity and spiced up their menus.
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But Toronto, undaunted, seized the opportunity, trading away DeMar DeRozan, a long-time Raptor and local fan favourite, in a deal for Kawhi Leonard.
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Hizbullah seized the opportunity, sending weapons, night-vision goggles and advisers to help the Christians form a militia to keep the jihadists at bay.
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Federal Election Commission unleashed a torrent of outside spending by corporations and wealthy donors who seized the opportunity to buy unlimited influence in Washington.
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He seized the opportunity to reiterate his hatred for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which he is currently trying to renegotiate with Canada.
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The North Vietnamese, who had been fighting for nearly 20 years to see their homeland united under communism, seized the opportunity, launching a massive offensive.
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Tommy Thompson (R-WI), seized the opportunity, experimenting with work supports, time limits, work requirements, and other approaches that would inspire the latter federal reforms.
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Shortstop Luis Sardinas, 23, has seized the opportunity to play every day since the Padres acquired him from Seattle for cash considerations on Aug. 15.
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But Hanyu was far from flawless in the free program, and Fernández seized the opportunity, even if transcendence was necessary to make up the gap.
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A savvy politico who saw the potential political threat Renzi posed to Napolitano, Restaino seized the opportunity to pursue a Republican congressman along with Odom.
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Trained in clinical medicine, not basic science, Dr. Cavalli-Sforza seized the opportunity to learn what he needed to know to forge ahead in research.
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Meanwhile, an emboldened Mr. Putin has seized the opportunity to expand Russian influence over the oil-rich North African nation just 20123 miles from Europe.
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Mr. Avaei seized the opportunity to denounce what he called the domination and manipulation of international human rights mechanisms by countries like the United States.
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But on Thursday, while Mr. Biden and others engaged in cross talk about race relations, she seized the opportunity to inject herself into the conversation.
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To make matters worse, President Donald Trump and his allies quickly seized the opportunity to discredit their opposition and stoke further divisions among his challengers.
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Jeb Bush seized the opportunity to make fun of Trump on Twitter, pointing out that even his mother was able make it out despite the weather.
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"We seized the opportunity to sell the entire business in a value-enhancing transaction when it presented itself," Chief Executive Rob Sands said in a statement.
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In 2016, Republican primary voters seized the opportunity to choose a candidate who disdained his party's previous support of these pillars of an assertive foreign policy.
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Decades after the failed uprising, and as the Soviet Union began to crumble, Hungary's democratic opposition seized the opportunity to rehabilitate the former prime minister's image.
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By contrast, many of our competitors in Europe and Asia have seized the opportunity and grown their own share of that market in the same period.
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Unfortunately for Kory, a paid intern at the company's office in Atlanta, he took a little snooze while on the clock and his coworkers seized the opportunity.
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Our photog seized the opportunity and asked about the reportedly $87 million price tag on the weekend's Royal wedding ... and Amelia's bf put that in perspective too.
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A fellow Nigerian prisoner, who had spent so long in Libya he spoke almost fluent Arabic, seized the opportunity to escape by tricking their young prison guard.
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Gradually, as blogs grew in popularity, regular people seized the opportunity to steal the power of criticism once wielded exclusively by longstanding publications into their own hands.
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"I just seized the opportunity, (because) female perspective is lacking," she tells CNN, adding that it was important to her that her video content never offended anyone.
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Sources close to Josh tell us he feels Nick seized the opportunity to play the role as a "victim" and feels that he won over Amanda fairly.
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The Chinese company -- listed as Fujian Baby Network Technology Co. -- seized the opportunity by immediately filing trademark paperwork for the term "Yeezy Boost" for its clothing products.
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She found herself sitting next to none other than Prince Harry at the Invictus Games Toronto 2017, and she seized the opportunity to cosy up to him.
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With both the economy and politics stable for the first time in years, Mr Erdogan seized the opportunity to push Turkey's bid to join the European Union.
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Amie Parnes writes that O'Rourke seized the opportunity with his counterrally to Trump in El Paso on Tuesday night to the delight of his supporters (The Hill).
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With the concurrence of his deputy, Rod J. Rosenstein, Mr. Barr seized the opportunity to render a judgment — pronouncing Mr. Trump clear of committing any criminal offense.
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But while the researchers were watching these rats, five feral cats took up residence at the plant, so the team seized the opportunity to study them, too.
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Since these jobs required much less physical work and offered a steady paycheck, millions seized the opportunity, resulting in urbanization and the domination of business over agriculture.
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Although she admitted that she didn't initially consider this as a possibility, as soon as a colleague suggested the move to all-women directors, she seized the opportunity.
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"Foreign intelligence organs and other hostile forces have also seized the opportunity to sabotage our country through political infiltration, division and subversion, stealing secrets and collusion," it added.
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The company is also now facing greater regulatory risk from U.S. lawmakers, who've seized the opportunity to question Facebook's legal obligations and ability to properly oversee our data.
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But Democrats and liberal watchdogs seized the opportunity to accuse Mr. Trump of practicing exactly the sort of corrupt politics that he rails against on the campaign trail.
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The island relies on imported fuels, but entrepreneurs seized the opportunity to showcase renewables and distributed power systems as ways to make Puerto Rico better withstand future outages.
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Encouraged by the Clinton administration, it entered the World Trade Organization in 2001 and quickly seized the opportunity — limitless export markets — opened by American insistence on free trade.
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Garnett seized the opportunity to deliver one such talk after watching the Celtics lose the first two games of their first-round playoff series against the Chicago Bulls.
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How Trump will impact venture capital: The future of QSBS As the #DeleteUber count increases, Lyft has cleverly seized the opportunity to distinguish itself as a beacon of goodwill.
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When magic hour hit during Agdal's recent date with her boyfriend Jack Brinkley Cook, the model seized the opportunity for a super sexy (and super naked) impromptu photo shoot.
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Her mom and sisters also seized the opportunity to relive their own twenty-fun days, baring plenty of perfectly-bronzed skin and documenting the entire night on Instagram (naturally).
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Romo lost his job as the Dallas Cowboys starting QB last season to Dak Prescott -- who seized the opportunity when Romo went down with an injury in the preseason.
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Now, thanks to the explosion of fascination with all things food, star chefs like Bottura have seized the opportunity to convert fame into lasting impact, both social and environmental.
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With three of his top rivals pinned down at the Senate impeachment trial, Mr. Buttigieg has seized the opportunity to camp out in the state, largely below the radar.
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The cast and producers had a good sense of humor about the situation, and seized the opportunity to draw attention a charity called Wateraid: Would you like to know more?
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That's partly why so many startups, easily numbering into the dozens, have seized the opportunity to ride the scooter wave as people around the world flock to the rental services.
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But when Chana begged Mengele not to separate her twin sisters he seized the opportunity for new guinea pigs and sent an SS officer to retrieve Laks from the crematorium.
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Democrats on the committee seized the opportunity to press for the bill's efforts to counter state tactics to remove voters from the rolls and require automatic registration for eligible voters.
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They seized the opportunity to have their own party-controlled legislature redraw the district maps instead of the courts, which take over in the case of a divided state government.
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And while none of these are for sale, unfortunately, he seized the opportunity to dress Barbie as a way to broaden his dressing-all-body-types vision into doll-land territory.
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Young Thug's third mixtape in his Slime Season series dropped at midnight last night, but before it did, Cohen seized the opportunity to tease fans with some track snippets on Snapchat.
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With Les Republicains' candidate Francois Fillon embroiled in a financial scandal and struggling to stay in the race, Le Pen seized the opportunity to call on to the Fillon's Christian supporters.
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That was partly because strong equity markets that year meant private equity firms seized the opportunity to float much of the backlog left in their portfolio following the global financial crisis.
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The rainbow reaction emoji was added in honor of Pride Month and the LGBTQ community and its allies have seized the opportunity to add rainbows galore to Moore's official Facebook page.
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Rudolph blinked, briefly, and Mayfield seized the opportunity, leading No. 5-ranked Oklahoma past No. 11 Oklahoma State 62-52 in a shootout that featured a combined 1,2653 yards of offense.
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Members of both parties, freed to direct money to favored initiatives, eagerly seized the opportunity and increased funding for agencies such as the National Institutes of Health rather than cutting it.
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Though there is still a week until Christmas, "Saturday Night Live" has already seized the opportunity to leave a lump of coal in the stocking of President-elect Donald J. Trump.
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Naushad Khan, a 37-year-old former sugar-cane farmer with a boyish smile and a boxer's physique, seized the opportunity presented by the construction boom to enter the entrepreneurial class.
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While Riyadh aims its fire at the Houthi rebels attempting to overthrow the internationally recognized Yemeni government, the local branch of al Qaeda has seized the opportunity to expand its reach.
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In his conversations with fellow Republicans, he said there is widespread regret that the party hasn't seized the opportunity to govern as a team, and that the president could make things worse.
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A snapshot posted Wednesday saw the sisters sharing a sweet embrace outside an ice-cream shop, where the actress seized the opportunity to express how excited she was to become an aunt.
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His team mate Egan Bernal seized the opportunity to win his maiden Tour de France ahead of defending champion Geraint Thomas, making it five in a row for Ineos, formerly Team Sky.
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Coffey seized the opportunity, and made an ambitious commitment -- to fast-track a stem cell therapy for AMD in human trials within five years, a process that might otherwise have taken 20.
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So, it's hardly surprising that Sarah Palin, Ted Nugent, and Kid Rock seized the opportunity to disrespect Hillary Clinton's portrait while attending a White House dinner with Donald Trump on Wednesday night.
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Morgan Freeman was a guest on Stephen Colbert's The Late Show last night and Colbert seized the opportunity to have Freeman record his smooth, smooth voice saying little snippets for future use.
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POST-CRISIS RULES In the past JPMorgan would have gladly seized the opportunity to lend cash in the repo market, where loans are backed by the best collateral, often U.S. Treasury securities.
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Lenin, who was transported across Germany in a sealed train with the High Command's acquiescence in the hope that he would help to knock Russia out of the war, seized the opportunity.
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Fraser Anning from Queensland put out a statement ostensibly condemning the attacks — but then seized the opportunity to spew incendiary and Islamophobic remarks that echoed the rhetoric of the suspected gunman's manifesto.
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With Trump in the White House and more business-friendly Republican-controlled Congress, banks seized the opportunity spending a record $66.7 million on lobbying last year, according to the political contributions database OpenSecrets.
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Last summer, she spotted a 71-year-old woman changing in a Los Angeles health club and Mathers seized the opportunity to unlawfully photograph the nude woman and post the image to Snapchat.
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American rival EVGA has seized the opportunity for some positive press off the back of the MSI and Asus news by reiterating its commitment for What You See Is What You Get gaming.
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That initial exchange set the tone as several Democrats seized the opportunity to make their frustrations known, drawing parallels between the Trump administration's shifting explanations justifying the strike that killed Iranian commander Gen.
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So when the studio launched a viral campaign encouraging people to upload their own images and captions into a meme generator, some fed-up fans seized the opportunity to make their displeasure known.
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Case in point, it seems that while his wife is in the midst of a major make-under, Ye has seized the opportunity to make a substantial upgrade to his simple gold wedding band.
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The Christian Democrat has been lauded as the statesman who seized the opportunity of collapsing Soviet power in Eastern Europe to win a prize few believed attainable: the reunification of East and West Germany.
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The London-Irish Abortion Rights Campaign said it seized the opportunity to spark a conversation about the fact that women must leave the island to have abortions in countries like Britain and the Netherlands.
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As long as rats have roamed the underbelly of New York City, mayor after mayor has seized the opportunity to act the general in a long-running war to turn back the rat armies.
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Given the chance to make her debut film in the land of the reigning cinematic genius Ingmar Bergman, Sontag seized the opportunity to direct in a foreign language while supplying her own English subtitles.
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It did not appear to have been in response to that event, raising the possibility that Israel had merely seized the opportunity to take out what it saw as a threat to its own security.
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McLaren's official reserve Vandoorne flew in from Japan on Friday, after Spaniard Fernando Alonso failed a medical, and he seized the opportunity with the double world champion remaining at the track to give him advice.
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But the anti-Trump wave that put Northam into office also energized progressives, who seized the opportunity presented by a Democratic governor to advance their interests and build power ahead of the next election cycle.
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His schedule has been relentless: He did not have a day off until last weekend, and he seized the opportunity to take his family to San Miguel de Allende, a colonial city popular with tourists.
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After a terrorist attack killed 44 soldiers in Kashmir in February, Modi seized the opportunity to portray himself as India's Chowkidar, or 'Guardian' that was the best fit to address the threat of Islamic terror.
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Britain also seized the opportunity of the summit to bring forward plans to introduce a criminal offense for companies that fail to stop employees facilitating tax evasion, pledging to introduce legislation to that effect this year.
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Electronic payments providers such as market leaders Paytm and MobiKwik, and smaller players FreeCharge, Citrus, ItzCash and Oxigen, seized the opportunity, snapping up millions of customers and merchants caught out by the sudden shortage of cash.
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Previous American presidents would have seized the opportunity to use lessons of the past to promote actions to address problems of the present – and in so doing support America's overriding interest in global peace and prosperity.
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The former mayor seized the opportunity to call out Klobuchar for not being able to name the President of Mexico in a recent interview with Telemundo, arguing that misstep was proof that Washington experience is overrated.
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But not before President Trump seized the opportunity to hammer a favorite target, tweeting that "California has been forced to cancel the massive bullet train project," and saying that the federal government wanted back $3.5 billion.
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Gleeson, who'd been working on a series of political artworks protesting Trump, seized the opportunity: The next day, he flew to Des Moines and purchased this "nice piece of raw material," as he calls the vehicle.
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But the militants of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, have seized the opportunity to take root in the country, making it a potential springboard for terrorist attacks elsewhere in Africa, and in Europe.
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Particularly if you seized the opportunity to read some of the fresh explainer articles written for the occasion on why the Duke of Edinburgh isn't the king, or what would happen if the Queen abdicated her throne.
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But maybe more than any of his predecessors, Mr. Obama has also seized the opportunity to become the ultimate tourist, methodically setting aside time to marvel at the world's most spectacular sights, seemingly soaking up every experience.
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As the novel coronavirus swept through Europe in early March, President Donald Trump seized the opportunity to criticize the response of the European Union and boast of the success of the policies he had put in place.
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The antidoping regulator seized the opportunity on Friday to restate another request: that Russia accept the findings of Mr. McLaren's inquiry, which confirmed that top government officials and Russia's Federal Security Service had helped with coordinated cheating.
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Not only were tourists not heeding his call, but, as Covid-19 cases were blooming across the US almost overnight, many more seized the opportunity to "escape" the new pandemic by isolating in paradise as airfares plummeted.
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In addition, the four French global systemically important banks seized the opportunity to issue non-preferred senior notes in December 2016 and early 2017 totalling EUR12 billion at mid-March, to build their total loss-absorbing capacity buffers.
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Reddit user gordontrue's 7-year-old daughter saw an outlet to express her views and proudly seized the opportunity to wear something that so many of us believe: Bought my 7 year old daughter a bracelet making kit.
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Historical evidence suggests that Stadler had built such an instrument and that Mozart seized the opportunity it afforded for writing extended downward tumbles that maximized the contrasts between the sunny heights and gurgling depths of the clarinet's register.
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Because Hollywood's Oscar films are typically dominated by men, TIFF's red carpet was too, and for decades the women headlining TIFF films, including Nicole Kidman, seized the opportunity to play down the glamour and turn up in trousers.
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She suggested Faith Holland, who now has a page, but Nichole also seized the opportunity to promote another project she's involved with, the Current Museum, which will, in her words, "reboot" in 2018 as a completely online museum.
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Then they spiked the ball for internet points: When Stein memorialized Harambe on Twitter—something she later revealed to be some sort of point about the media—PPP seized the opportunity to tweet its poll result at her.
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It began in the late 1950s under strongman prime minister Field Marshall Sarit Thanarat, who seized the opportunity to commandeer the then young, extremely Westernized and not-yet politicized King Bhumibol to give legitimacy to his government's own plans.
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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn seized the opportunity to criticize Johnson's leadership when the administration officially lost its majority on September 3: "This is a government with no mandate, no morals, and, as of today, no majority," he said.
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Tax policy analysts also argue the Trump administration could have seized the opportunity two years ago to make further adjustments, but ultimately didn't making them skeptical whether the White House would turn to it again as a potential tool.
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Gang leaders and members who had once destroyed and divided their community joined together as the Concerned Brothers of Benning Terrace and seized the opportunity for productive engagement, ranging from graffiti removal and landscaping to serving as peer mentors.
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"It doesn't appear that the administration fully seized the opportunity to differentiate between the potential security risks targeted by [Trump's latest immigration] order and the legitimate business and leisure visitors from abroad who support 15.1 million American jobs, " said Dow.
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In fact, lawmakers seized the opportunity of Facebook's CEO testifying before the House Financial Services Committee to ask Zuckerberg about everything from Facebook's diversity numbers, the millions of child abuse images on the platform, and how the platform handles political ads.
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Republican White House contenders, whose debate in New Hampshire coincided with the rocket launch, seized the opportunity to criticize Obama's strategy toward North Korea, and by extension Democratic presidential front runner Hillary Clinton, his secretary of state during his first term.
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While it would've been more than understandable if you decided to spend April 1 well out of range of the internet's expected onslaught of deceptive jokes, Cartoon Network's Adult Swim seized the opportunity to play a kind of reverse prank.
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The W has been referred to as "a real blue collar train" by its conductors, but in 2010 its demise was co-opted by white twenty-somethings who seized the opportunity to turn its final journey into a booze-soaked party.
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Rio de Janeiro Congressman Jair Bolsonaro, nicknamed the "Trump of the Tropics," has seized the opportunity presented by Brazil's political and economic crisis to assume the role of the tough outsider, who will fight a corrupt political establishment and mainstream media.
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" "While other actors might balk at the thought of playing an aging stripper with a near-savage hunger for money," Thomas wrote, "Lopez not only seized the opportunity, but suggested the now-legendary pole dance scene which was her character's introduction.
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As the U.S. has withdrawn, Russia has seized the opportunity to cement its position as a key powerbroker in the region: abandoned by the U.S., Kurdish forces have turned to the Russian-backed Syrian regime of Bashar Al Assad for support.
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As exit polls rolled in showing a landslide victory for Boris Johnson's Tories, particularly in former Labour strongholds that had backed Brexit, centrist Democrats seized the opportunity to argue that a moderate must be nominated to defeat President Donald Trump.
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In April, Shaw Jr. was hailed a hero after he seized the opportunity to wrestle a gun away from a shooter at a Tennessee Waffle House, saving countless lives during a rampage that left at least four people dead and several others injured.
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Two luxury menswear retailers testified in court on Wednesday about Manafort's lavish spending habit — including the crucial tidbit that Manafort was the store's only customer to pay using wire transfers from foreign accounts — and, naturally, Twitter seized the opportunity to roast him.
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Case in point: Trump supporter Kid Rock, who you may recall seized the opportunity to disrespect Hillary Clinton's portrait during a recent White House visit, has officially announced that he's running for the Michigan U.S. Senate seat currently occupied by Democrat Debbie Stabenow.
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In fact, Trump chose in Davos to affirm that "America is open for business" because it was in these same Alpine heights, three days before Trump was inaugurated as president, that China seized the opportunity to claim leadership of the global economy.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator John McCain, recently diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer, was given a hero's welcome on his return to the Capitol on Tuesday, but quickly seized the opportunity to blister his party and his president for partisan politics.
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When Chaumet told her that it wanted back the space she had been renting above its New Bond Street store, she seized the opportunity to move her seven-year-old business, VanLeles Diamonds, to the new location and add a business office.
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Even in the wake of Otieno's tragic death, some Kenyans have seized the opportunity to shame her, and other women, who engage in sugar daddy or sponsor relationships, going so far as to suggest that they deserve whatever happens to them as a result.
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"Singapore seized the opportunity for working with the Chinese ... in terms of friendship it blossomed very quickly, not just because of of the economic opportunities but linguistic similarities that made it a bit easier for them to enter the Chinese market earlier," Chong said.
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He's merely a successful businessperson and a libertarian who happily seized the opportunity to speak at the Republican National Convention, and who has now donated an amount of money to a failing presidential candidate that's basically meaningless when taking Thiel's net worth into account.
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Deckelman didn't just survive the chaos — including Bank of America's takeover of Merrill and the culling of thousands of jobs — she seized the opportunity and vaulted her career forward, working long hours trading the firm's debt book as a junior staffer amid the fallout.
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A women's world title fight had never even been staged in Toronto—with only a handful ever taking place anywhere in Ontario at large—before promoter Lee Baxter seized the opportunity and made Tsagouris-Torres happen, despite neither being a member of his roster.
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And with Mr. de Blasio's attention diverted, Mr. Johnson, 37, has seized the opportunity to use his personality to bring attention to Council issues — and offer New Yorkers a glimpse of an elected official who seems to genuinely enjoy his job and all its trappings.
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Now the Kurdish forces that have been the United States' closest allies in the fight against the Islamic State have seized the opportunity to attack these US-backed rebels, in an attempt to seize what's left of the territory they control in north Aleppo.
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Two visiting senior Chinese officials also seized the opportunity to warn publicly that a trade war between the world's two largest economies would end up hurting both sides and to call for keeping channels of communication open to resolve an issue that has unsettled global financial markets.
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Atlanta seized the opportunity to stake a claim on premium space, the FX network, to not only tell stories about poor black people trying to make it but also force the white people watching to reckon with the biases they may not even understand they have.
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Two visiting senior Chinese officials also seized the opportunity to warn publicly that a trade war between the world's two largest economies would end up hurting both sides and to call for keeping channels of communication open to resolve an issue that has unsettled global financial markets.
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PARIS — They have had their differences, but when President Emmanuel Macron of France and President Trump spoke by telephone on Tuesday about the threat of a new chemical weapons attack by Syria, Mr. Macron seized the opportunity and invited Mr. Trump to Paris for Bastille Day.
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" In 1863, Abraham Lincoln seized the opportunity to make Thanksgiving a holiday, calling on his fellow citizens to "heal the wounds of the nation and restore it as soon as may be consistent with the divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility, and union.
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Civil rights groups have been pushing Democrats to reject the Alabamian who lost a confirmation fight in 1986 for a federal judgeship over those claims, and lawmakers seized the opportunity over two days of hearings to question him about his remarks as well as his record on voting rights.
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The turmoil at Deutsche Bank has left the firm vulnerable, and competitors have seized the opportunity to snatch more than 15 managing directors from the firm&aposs investment bank in the US. Barclays and Lazard have also been fertile poaching grounds as they deal with shakeups of their own.
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On April 19, when the Army general selected to lead U.S. forces in South Korea testified before the committee, McCain seized the opportunity to undermine Trump's suggestion that the U.S. withdraw its forces from the South because Seoul isn't paying enough to cover the cost of the American military presence.
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Perhaps leveraging the public's expectation that the Petro token would be on Ethereum, at least three different Ethereum tokens calling themselves the "Petro" (two of them—one on Twitter and one on 4chan—actually pretended to be Venezuela's Petro) seized the opportunity to ask people to send them digital coins.
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Nasty Gal did, however, experience an unexpected boost a few weeks ago from an otherwise unfortunate situation: When President-elect Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton a "nasty woman" during the third and final debate, the attempted jab was quickly reclaimed by the Democrat's supporters online — and Nasty Gal seized the opportunity.
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He seized the opportunity to talk about his immigration plan and highlight how he's shifted the conversation about people who enter the United States without papers, gave a nod to reproductive justice and the trans community, and delivered a moving response about police brutality when he listed victims' names onstage.
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The woman writing about the travails of assisted reproduction, on the other hand, is in a somewhat curious position: She has seized the opportunity to document a new chapter in female experience, but at the same time she is in a sense putting into reverse the evolving contemporary discourse around motherhood.
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A few years ago, when the watch industry was enthralled with China and its seemingly limitless appetite for luxury timepieces, Cartier, flush with cash and perhaps some hubris, seized the opportunity to court men with the introduction of several inventive and highly complicated watches, each priced at more than $100,21.
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On the online front, online stores like Amazon have leveraged the model of personalization and seized the opportunity to use data to offer it in their own style: by recommending products to you when you come to their virtual storefronts, based on what you've bought or browsed for already online.
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When it became clear that the full weight of the Guardia Civil was being brought to bear on us — or, at any rate, that we wouldn't be going anywhere for some time — Farhadi seized the opportunity, as he often did during the days we spent together, to step outside and have a cigarette.
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The bitterness that has long marked the fight intensified as Republicans seized the opportunity to make good on a central campaign promise to get rid of the law, a pledge reinforced on Wednesday by Vice President-elect Mike Pence, who met with House Republicans not far from where the president gathered with Democrats.
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As soon as the prosecution pulled the charges, the judge lifted the suppression order and out split weeks of evidence painting the cardinal as an arrogant "madman," who seized the opportunity to attack two boys so bound by their faith to the Church and his authority, they would never dare tell anyone about their ordeal.
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After the city's stop-and-frisk police tactics became an issue in the first presidential debate between Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton, the mayor seized the opportunity to emphasize his opposition to the overuse of the tactics during the administration of former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, doing so on national television and local radio.
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Israeli politicians nonetheless seized the opportunity to underline what they have called the "absurdity" of recent Unesco resolutions condemning Israeli actions in and around the East Jerusalem holy site revered by Muslims as Al Aqsa Mosque, or the Noble Sanctuary, and by Jews as the Temple Mount, the location of their two ancient temples.
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I seized the opportunity and with glowing colors painted a love bungalow in California, with mild weather all the year around and Cosgrove coming up the path to supper and romantic old missions nearby and Cosgrove coming up the path to supper and the Golden Gate in a June twilight and Cosgrove and so forth.
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Consumer contracts have long been the source of draconian restrictions on plaintiffs' rights, and as commerce has moved online, large corporations have seized the opportunity by popularizing "clickwrap" agreements—those pop-up contracts asking you to agree to terms and conditions before you make an online purchase or start using a new app on your phone.
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She seized the opportunity and won a parliamentary seat in 19973, casting herself as a faithful daughter on a mission to rebuild the nation and restore the honor of her father and his generation, whom she credited with fighting Communism and creating a vibrant, world-class economy from the ashes of the 1950-53 Korean War.
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O'Keeffe first visited the restaurant in the 2155s, using money he earned as a waiter at a Schrafft's on Fifth Avenue.) After graduation from Fordham University and a hitch as an Army intelligence specialist in Massachusetts and South Carolina ("I spent my time watching the Russians"), Mr. O'Keeffe seized the opportunity to purchase an undistinguished bar on the Upper East Side for $22012,403.
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Once, we both took part in a fund-raiser at the Four Seasons in Austin, and the writer Kinky Friedman—who is also the lead singer of Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys—seized the opportunity to tell a story about going to the beach with a family friend, who wore a swimsuit that was so tight it squeezed one of his balls into view.
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With three of Mr. Buttigieg's top rivals pinned down at the Senate impeachment trial, and a nasty skirmish between Senator Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. over Social Security grabbing headlines, Mr. Buttigieg has seized the opportunity to camp out in Iowa, largely below the radar, exuding the nonaggressive vibe he embraced at the recent Democratic debate in Des Moines.
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Asked about that during the interview, the Facebook PR seized the opportunity to argue that if Western society imposes too stringent regulations on platforms and their use of personal data there's a risk of "throw[ing] the baby out with the bathwater", with Clegg smoothly reaching for the usual big tech talking points — claiming innovation would be "almost impossible" if there's not enough of a data free for all, and the West risks being dominated by China, rather than friendly US giants.
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