Until, on September 22nd, President Donald Trump seized upon it.
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American officials seized upon this as proof that sanctions work.
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Every misstep is seized upon as proof of his fallibility.
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Critics seized upon his mistakes and imperfections as a president.
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Murphy's campaign quickly seized upon the Ethics Committee's acknowledgment Monday.
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This slight difference was then seized upon by advertisers and exploited.
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Some critics seized upon the lack of women on Trump's panel.
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Coal boosters have meanwhile seized upon this mythology for cynical ends.
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That was seized upon by his detractors in the 2015 election campaign.
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Browder's detention was quickly seized upon by British politicians on Wednesday morning.
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But it's a memorable bark, and the internet seized upon it immediately.
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Their outrage has been seized upon by Álvaro Uribe, Mr Santos's predecessor.
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Animal rights activists have now seized upon SeaWorld's announcement about Tilikum's health.
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It will be seized upon by her otherwise not-very-credible opponent.
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Khamenei seized upon the widening gulf between Washington and its longtime European allies.
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Shariati's sort of liberation theology would be at various times seized upon by
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Mr. Trump seized upon them as proof of media bias favoring Hillary Clinton.
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Mr. Trump "seized upon some issues that the elite had ignored," he said.
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They got it, and a slip of the tongue Booker quickly seized upon.
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Not surprisingly, her mixed decision was seized upon by both sides as a victory.
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The senator believed he been traduced by those who seized upon his controversial comment.
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But some supporters have seized upon signs that Trump has chafed at Kelly's efforts.
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Reports circulated over the weekend that McCabe may retire soon, which Trump seized upon.
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In the debate's closing stages, she seized upon the water crisis in Flint, Mich.
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But Trump seized upon the dramatic worst-case projection to justify extending the restrictions.
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Many of those moments have gone viral and been seized upon by Democrats. Sen.
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Labour has seized upon recent failures to argue for the wholesale renationalisation of the railways.
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Pundits and politicians alike have seized upon the spectacular failure of the Iowa caucuses on Monday.
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Paine, of course, seized upon that as evidence that he's as well-sourced as he claims.
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Twitter quickly seized upon the insult-cum-homage as a rallying cry for Hillary's campaign. 14.
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Zhongxian seized upon the industry as one with great potential when considering new opportunities, he said.
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The possible emergence of an insurgency involving Rohingyas has already been seized upon by Buddhist nationalists.
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She seized upon an illustrated book titled "Shrubs and Climbers" and bought it for 2 pounds.
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Like so many other cool things, it was also seized upon immediately by discerning Japanese dudes.
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It was nonetheless seized upon by some in conservative media and compounded Rudy Giuliani's campaign against Yovanovtich.
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It is likely to be seized upon politically as a welcome victory for local manufacturing over imports.
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Actionable intelligence is fleeting, and the moment to strike is too easily lost if not seized upon.
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The Lighthouse Winmore was seized upon re-entering Yeosu on November 24, foreign ministry officials told CNN.
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But defense lawyers seized upon inconsistencies and unsavory details in Mr. Rechnitz's testimony to discredit his narrative.
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Aesthetic experience is one avenue to self-overcoming—an idea that the art-besotted Nietzsche seized upon.
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Aides to Mr. Trump seized upon that to suggest Mr. Coats was disloyal and should be fired.
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Despite an overall strong earnings season, investors have seized upon hints that corporate profits may have peaked.
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Erdogan and his staff view the current situation as a window of opportunity that should be seized upon.
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And, like any politician with a fast-rising profile, her mistakes (big, small and insignificant) are seized upon.
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He also seized upon ongoing investigations by Brazil's securities regulator, known as the CVM, to question their motivations.
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That decision continues to be seized upon by the committee as evidence of a lack of democratic accountability.
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But it was the photos of the inspection released by state media which missile analysts seized upon immediately.
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This is what Trump and other Republicans have seized upon to accuse Rice and others of political bias.
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The video clip has since been prominently featured in conservative media and seized upon by the president's allies.
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Even the slightest slip is seized upon as a sign of weakness, a harbinger of disappointments to come.
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Well, one Chicago Cubs fan seized upon the opportunity and took to the Cubs' dog pile with delight.
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India's national news media seized upon it, and for the first time Sameer Tiger was front-page news.
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But at the Kaplan Penthouse on Wednesday, Daniel Lozakovich seized upon a detail that made all the difference.
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Banking industry groups seized upon the results as proof that it was time to ease up on testing.
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This was predictably seized upon by far-right and conspiracy circles, who hyped the event into something massive.
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Critics seized upon the move as evidence of the app's censorship on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Obama's critics quickly seized upon the letter, which also calls for a political transition that would usher Assad out.
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PUAs seized upon his suicide as proof that "celibacy is walking death," weaponizing his "failure" to hawk their products.
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Equal pay was the hot topic at last year's ceremony, which Patricia Arquette seized upon in her winning moment.
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While Facebook would not directly link the influence campaign to Russia, several Washington lawmakers seized upon the potential connection.
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Data breach defendants, as you may recall, had seized upon the U.S. Supreme Court's 2013 ruling in Clapper v.
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The right-wing culture warriors have seized upon the incident, condemning students for inciting violence and stifling free speech.
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But, the British press has still seized upon conciliatory comments from Merkel in the wee hours of Friday morning.
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Kim seized upon the accommodating gestures from South Korean President Moon Jae-in and agreed to talks with Trump.
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But the Egyptian regime seized upon that sort of language in Abbas's posts to accuse him of fomenting violence.
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Both Barbosa and Martins have seized upon an opportunity that many barbers in Brazil wish they could have had.
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When United does not click, when United does not win, Pogba's failure to match that stereotype is seized upon.
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These properties give kava a social dimension that venues like the Kavasutra Kava Bar in Manhattan have seized upon.
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Use of the email alias was seized upon by environmentalists on Tuesday, who said it revealed a pattern of deception.
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So does her "nurse," who has instantly seized upon the opportunity as a way to further spy on the summit.
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What's happening: The company has disappointed investors and has been seized upon by short sellers, who are making a killing.
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That fact was seized upon by D.C. District Court Judge James Boasberg in June when he struck down the waiver.
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But he's seized upon revelations this cycle that Shuster is dating an airline lobbyist while chairing the House Transportation Committee.
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These sorts of controversies are typically seized upon by people who profit greatly from fueling the fears of their audience.
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FLARING RULES Some investors have seized upon flaring, which generates greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, as a measure of environmental performance.
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That's the thing that we've also seized upon with this, which is sort of another thing about this moment, right?
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"Hell yes, we're going to take your AR-15, your AK-47," he said, a comment Republicans seized upon afterward.
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Countless companies have seized upon the popularity of Starbucks' pumpkin spice latte and adopted the flavor for their own products.
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Her remarks were also seized upon by members of the far right in Europe, who have long advocated for reducing migration.
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I think it&aposs going to be seized upon by Democrats perhaps to obfuscate some of the other more important facts.
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The incident has been seized upon by members of both parties as an example of government mismanagement and America's aging infrastructure.
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The fact that such a terrible event could be seized upon as an opportunity in Trump's circle is all too revealing.
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Wright also stressed the need for a diverse set of equipment suppliers for 5G, something Zhang seized upon in his statement.
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Members whose districts include locally important industries, like tobacco and pharmaceuticals, have seized upon their disappointment with the deal's final terms.
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Republicans immediately seized upon the news that no more indictments are expected as a vindication of Mr. Trump and his campaign.
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Both incidents were immediately seized upon by the far right as examples of the inability — or refusal — of Muslims to assimilate.
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The offer was quickly seized upon by Walt Disney Productions, who planned to build a sprawling ski resort on the land.
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In 2001, George W. Bush came to office promising his own brand of "compassionate conservatism," an opportunity Mr. Sheridan seized upon.
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For some, Daenerys' turn was irredeemable, seized upon as an example of the show's shortcomings particularly in regard to its female characters.
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They're also being seized upon as a source of mutual healing for some of the most psychologically scarred members of both species.
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A century ago cars were seized upon as a solution to the drawbacks of horses, which were clogging city streets with manure.
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King Abdullah of Jordan then seized upon this partnership, leveraged the talent of young Jordanians, and launched the King Hussein Technology Park.
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In this case, three new disclosures were quickly seized upon, none of which were actually the most important disclosure in the document.
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If there is no clear frontrunner heading into Iowa or New Hampshire, any win will probably be seized upon by the press.
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"The media seized upon Navalny's information attack and began illegally republishing private photographs," the business publication Vedomosti quoted the representative as saying.
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Late-night hosts on Monday seized upon a bombshell story that they had been expecting, in some form or another, for weeks.
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Eileen Myles's decades-old poetry has been seized upon lately by readers newly curious about and sensitive to discussions of gender fluidity.
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Nor are costly designer clothes necessarily the most effective means of personifying the Everyman politicians of all stripes have lately seized upon.
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Disney seized upon the popularity of Pooh and over time pushed out numerous products associated with the gentle if dim-witted bear.
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The description was seized upon by colonial administrators who didn't want to extend citizenship to Muslims, the working class in French Algeria.
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Many of Farrow's detractors seized upon this as further evidence of her character, and maybe evidence that she was an attention seeker.
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Nonetheless, his opponents seized upon the timing of his speech, which will take place a day before Prime Minister Edouard Philippe addresses lawmakers.
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Clinton seized upon the perceived flip-flop, helping him oust Bush after a single term despite the Republican's major successes in foreign policy.
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Perversely, while not doing much to contain the virus, some House members have seized upon it as a pretext to weaken environmental regulations.
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The issue of "handoff" — whether a person can safely resume control quickly enough — has been a topic that Tesla's critics have seized upon.
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With the collapse of the collusion narrative, they've seized upon "obstruction of justice" as the accusation that will, they hope, get Trump impeached.
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This lack of judgment was seized upon by Amazon, which took discounting to the extreme by selling books below its effective operating cost.
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Earlier this year it was seized upon by speculators who pushed up the value of Monero significantly before the price fell back down.
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Kennedy's opinion was quickly seized upon by Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the main dissent and read major portions from it from the bench.
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When he failed to mention his previous hearings for the judgeship -- an omission seized upon by Democrats and opponents -- he immediately sent in supplements.
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Trump already has seized upon the label, saying during last weeks State of the Union address that America will never be a socialist country.
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Notions that Shambhala existed somewhere in Asia were seized upon by the chauvinist ideologues advocating a new pan-Asian new order, led by Japan.
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Bernie Sanders seized upon to attack the ties he claims powerful banks and other financial institutions have to Hillary Clinton and other establishment Democrats.
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The comments were seized upon by Zuma's opponents, who argue that his lack of schooling makes him unfit to lead a sophisticated emerging economy.
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The ruling, the first time the Court has endorsed EU air pollution rules, was seized upon by campaigners as a precedent for other cases.
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Only a handful of cases have been tried by the International Criminal Court, a detail seized upon by critics to characterize it as ineffective.
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Barrett had written the article that explored whether Jill McCabe's political ties had influenced the email probe — the article that Trump had seized upon.
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But Halvorson has seized upon the revelations that Shuster is dating a top lobbyist for Airlines for America, which advocates before the Transportation Committee.
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But the revelations about Mr. Weinstein and others, she quickly added, should be seized upon as a "real opportunity" to push for systemic change.
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Some falsely believe the Sandy Hook shooting was staged and seized upon a mysterious "man in the woods" as proof of an additional conspirator.
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Following David's grand paragon, the art of the nascent French Republic seized upon Ancient Rome for examples of artistic representations of virtue and heroism.
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Schumer this week seized upon a New York Times report detailing how top officials knew of the hold on the military aid to Ukraine.
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Politicians seeking to punish consumers for buying sugary drinks have seized upon a convenient scapegoat, but they have ignored principles of sound tax policy.
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Then the AIDS crisis hit and was seized upon by the likes of Anita Bryant and Jerry Falwell (among others) to do their worst.
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But it could be seized upon much sooner, by the president himself, and that would be even more significant for the country at large.
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And as is their tech-given rite, social media users have seized upon the black hole like cats to a cosmos-obliterating ball of yarn.
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In fact, throughout the address, Pelosi's facial expressions and reactions (which were, as Trump's political rival, naturally negative ones) were widely seized upon by viewers.
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Indeed, he approached the use of military force with extreme caution and seized upon areas of cooperation with the Soviet Union where advantageous and feasible.
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Critics seized upon those remarks to dispute Trump's assertion that an emergency exists on the southern border that requires unilateral action to build the wall.
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Some liberal groups seized upon the venue at Trump's hotel, a property that they say is part of how the President is violating the Constitution.
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Mr. Trump seized upon the news as vindication of his unfounded claim that Trump Tower in New York was wiretapped by former President Barack Obama.
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The flipside: The study shows virtually no illegal immigration to countries like Hungary and Poland, where political leaders have seized upon widespread antipathy to immigration.
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As trade negotiations with China dragged on last summer, Mr. Trump grew increasingly frustrated and seized upon China's weakening currency as another source of leverage.
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Mr. Affleck settled the civil sexual harassment lawsuits filed against him, something that his detractors have seized upon as tantamount to an acknowledgment of guilt.
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But soon, the tragedy was seized upon by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who placed it at the center of the party's mythology of martyrdom and aggrieved nationalism.
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Despite its relative mildness, the fight's aftermath was seized upon in the media as another example of the buffoonery that has long been the LNAH's domain.
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In the fantasy that is 30 Rock, though, even the stupidest, most blind-sighted behavior can be seized upon as an opportunity for learning, not burning.
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Orbis reportedly has an array of clients, including a firm representing Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska — which some Republican lawmakers have seized upon to question Steele's work.
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Republicans claim vindication for the President Some Republican allies of the President in Congress immediately seized upon the attorney general's initial announcement to claim exoneration. Rep.
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But on mobile with tiny screens, low quality app, poor connections, slow-loading sites, people seized upon Facebook's single app that pulled together content from everywhere.
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Hawkish members of the Russian elite have seized upon this trend, piling pressure on Mr Putin to give up hopes for co-operation with the west.
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They seized upon Feinstein's remarks last year calling for "patience" with the president to claim that she has lost touch with the modern-day Democratic Party.
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But, he said, "we must fight against the populisms that have seized upon disarray to divide, to separate, to stigmatize, to pit religions against one another."
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Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, who view Tehran as a threat, seized upon the U.S. presentation in calls on Thursday for international action.
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The other player accidentally hopped into a passenger seat, and Valensiakol seized upon the error, dropping into the driver's seat and taking control of the situation.
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Fontana seized upon that note of insolent suavity at a time in Italy of economic boom and cultural éclat—most brilliantly evident, of course, in film.
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The anger among farmers fed directly into the populism that helped drive Mr. Trump into office, and he has seized upon it as a rallying cry.
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The couturier seized upon a leaf brooch by Verdura at an auction preview, bypassing some of the more extravagant marvels on display for the graphic piece.
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Trump, taking cues from his favorite show, seized upon the note as a way to turn the allegation into a line of attack against the media.
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The Democratic Party has seemed to undergo a similar shift -- a factor seized upon by conservatives when Hillary Clinton blasted Trump's supporters as "deplorables" in 2016.
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Science fiction writers have seized upon the idea, serving up utopian visions ranging from Star Trek's Universal Translator to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's Babel Fish.
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I think that the national media have seized upon this debate here in Central Texas because we are perceived to be a harbinger of things to come.
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They ultimately seized upon some sloppy drafting that, taken out of context, made it appear as if the ACA prohibited the subsidization of insurance purchased on Healthcare.gov.
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What's most interesting about this is that SZA and Lorde both made two of 2017's best albums, which were critically acclaimed and seized upon by fans.
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The cost of accessing financial services exacerbates the gap between the rich and the poor, a source of rising anger among voters which Democrats have seized upon.
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But Ms. Nixon's campaign, which also accepted the invitation, quickly seized upon it to accuse the governor of trying to rig the debate in his own favor.
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Ms. Blackburn has seized upon the Central American migrant caravan as an issue, following President Trump's lead by using it as a way to alarm base voters.
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But the Conservatives are now a maimed party with a discredited leader — weaknesses to be seized upon and exploited by a now united and empowered Labour party.
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This picture has been seized upon with relief and delight because it reflects how Britons would like to see themselves in a crisis: cool, calm, priorities unchanged.
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Still, the human error was interpreted by some as a systemic problem with the measles vaccine — a fear anti-vaccine activists seized upon to sow vaccine doubt.
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His three passports — from France, Lebanon and Brazil — were seized upon his arrest in Japan, and as a condition of his bail were held by his lawyers.
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Bubbling dissatisfaction and anger have created a political situation ripe for disruption, one that has been seized upon by Bolsonaro, who vows to purge the country of criminality.
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Analysts said any such division within the bloc would likely be seized upon by Russia, whose ties with the EU have been badly damaged by the Ukraine conflict.
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The Massachusetts senator has rejected the label "democratic socialist" that her Vermont colleague has embraced and that Trump has seized upon to brand the Democratic Party as extreme.
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The Massachusetts senator has rejected the label "democratic socialist" that her Vermont colleague has embraced and has been seized upon by Trump to brand her party as extreme.
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They became an electoral issue as opponents seized upon her views to rally Catholic voters, said Michal Vasecka, a sociologist at the Bratislava Policy Institute, a think tank.
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Even after the poem was placed inside the pedestal, it was several decades before pro-immigrationists in the 1930s seized upon "The New Colossus" to promote their cause.
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The document included no specifics on how denuclearization would be achieved, a fact seized upon by critics who said the summit was little more than a photo op.
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This strategy has been around as long as carpets have turned into lava under a child's feet, but no candidate has seized upon it to trip up Trump.
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"It's a sad story and it wasn't of much interest to me," he said, a statement that prompted audible gasps and was seized upon by the Australian media.
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The document included no specifics on how denuclearization would be achieved, a fact seized upon by critics who said the summit was little more than a photo-op.
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" Trump's lack of compassion was seized upon by late night show hosts, including Stephen Colbert, who slammed Trump for giving this "very, very bad reason why he's innocent.
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The justices' decision to allow a constitutional challenge to Obama's actions was seized upon by Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Prosecutors seized upon the circumstances of Ms. Toscano-Percoco's departure as further proof of the corrupt bargain they said had led to the job in the first place.
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Even so, in a White House packed with officials who are hawkish on Iran, the intelligence was seized upon by some as likely indicating an attack from Tehran.
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As was done by European artists and writers in the 18th and then 19th centuries, the decline of the Roman Empire has been seized upon largely by reactionaries?
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Mr. Macron has yet to address the case directly, but political opponents have seized upon it to portray the president as a haughty ruler who flouts the law.
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Chris Christie enters the waning months of his tenure, he has seized upon the state of the State House, vowing to leave behind better conditions for his successor.
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Syria encapsulated the West's newfound impotence, a kind of seeping amorality; and, in its bloody dismemberment, Syria sent into Europe a human tide that rabble-rousers seized upon.
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The far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who makes no secret of his disdain for Mr. Macron, seized upon Sunday's televised "wrestling match," as one commentator called it.
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The Obama administration was criticized for reacting too slowly to those protests, something White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders seized upon during her Tuesday briefing with reporters.
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Sinn Fein have seized upon the 56% of the vote for "Remain" in Northern Ireland to raise the question of a referendum there too on the reunification of Ireland.
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Regulation AB II, which took hold on November 23, is being seized upon by top Wall Street banks as a reason to prune ties with the less prudent lenders.
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Against that backdrop, some of Ms. Warren's critics have seized upon her bankruptcy work for LTV and other big corporations to question the depth of her progressive bona fides.
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Those Republicans seized upon approximately 375 text messages, provided to Congress by the Department of Justice this week, exchanged by two FBI employees between August 2015 and December 2016.
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L has seized upon some contradictory facts during his research: "Now the EPA says the water is safe, but says citizens must continue to filter their water," he said.
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" And to those conservative commentators who have seized upon the Weinstein scandal as a sterling example of liberal hypocrisy, Meyers emphasized that "this should not be a partisan issue.
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In their match against Leicester today, Watford had found an early goal against the defending champions and seized upon their opportunity to double their lead in the 12th minute.
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It argued that the information it withheld, if released, could be seized upon by "hostile entities" that could develop their own countermeasures and interfere with the FBI's intelligence gathering.
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Mr. Macron's comments "will really damage NATO and could be seized upon by its opponents, including Trump," Thomas Wright, a senior fellow at Washington's Brookings Institution, wrote on Twitter.
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Its first product, in 2008, was a photo-editing app, also named Meitu ("beautiful picture," in Chinese), which young people seized upon as a means of enhancing their selfies.
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"It's an extremely important dynamic that ought to be seized upon", she said in Dinard where she was invited to talk about sexual violence as a weapon of war.
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Of course, instead of that straightforward approach, lawmakers, chiefly Republicans, have seized upon the wave of inversions as proof that corporate taxes are too high and must be cut.
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News of his retirement was even picked up by mainstream outlets like ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and Quartz, which seized upon his retirement to discuss how athletes treat brain injuries.
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Although the media have seized upon every Trump tweet as if it were a casus belli for more North Korean outrages, that instinct is the reverse of the truth.
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It has a look and feel of a selfie — though NBC says it wasn't a selfie — giving the impression of a chummy get-together, which critics have seized upon.
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Democrats have seized upon the tactic as a way to corner vulnerable Republicans into defending either the president's national security policies or Congress's constitutional responsibility to dictate government spending.
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In an interview with The Verge, Reynolds wouldn't comment directly on Lacuna, but praised the entrepreneurs that have seized upon the potential of scooter data tracking systems like MDS.
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Wednesday's ruling has already been seized upon by the usual anti-trans voices who are propping it up as the latest example of the alleged suppression of free speech.
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The main point of argument against independent candidates like Schultz that's being seized upon by Democrats right now is that he could spoil their chances in the general election.
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There's no doubt that these repeated discoveries make it seem as if two-headed sharks are becoming more common, and recent headlines have seized upon that clickbait-friendly assumption.
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Social media had seized upon Jordan Blue, a senior in the school, because of his obviously miserable expression in the photograph, and the fact that he hadn't raised his arm.
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Senate Democrats seized upon one obscure amendment late Friday night that they claimed would exempt a single Michigan liberal arts school, Hillsdale College, from a new tax on endowment income.
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Those pauses were of course a deliberate choice — he wanted the viewer to see Batman's intellectual processes, the way he thought through a puzzle and excitedly seized upon the answer.
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Cameo launched in April 2018, and has become another platform that the far-right has seized upon in an attempt to legitimize racist messages — this time with seeming celebrity endorsements.
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The confusion and apparent contradiction between the two men was quickly seized upon by the Clinton campaign, which mocked Trump, arguing the disconnect undercut his image as a great dealmaker.
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The CBO heavily emphasized the uncertainty around those estimates, but both sides immediately seized upon parts of the report as evidence to support their positions, while some criticized its methodology.
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The French press immediately seized upon Reichelt as a morality tale—the foolish Icarian inventor who disregarded warnings and became the broken embodiment of the cost of moving too fast.
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Hundreds of YouTubers have complained that videos with small snippets of music or copyrighted content have been seized upon by major companies, and creators have no way to fight back.
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"That's what people want," said the Golden State veteran Andre Iguodala, well aware that the Durant/Green fissures are already being seized upon leaguewide as a potential source of hope.
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But many lower courts seized upon the words in the opinion where Scalia wrote, "Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited," to uphold restrictions.
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The founder of Turing Pharmaceuticals, the smirking Mr. Shkreli seized upon a generic drug for treating a parasitic infection and summarily raised its price to $750 a pill from $13.50.
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The heritage fashion house, owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, has become one of several luxury companies seized upon by protesters as a potent symbol of inequality and elitism.
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Hillary Clinton and Democrats have seized upon the report, with the Democratic nominee's Twitter account posing a list of questions raised about potential conflicts of interests mentioned in the article.
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Mr. Manafort's lawyers seized upon that apparent admission of an error, telling Judge Ellis that the prosecutors' revised account of their evidence cast Mr. Manafort in a more favorable light.
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Ultimately, the study shows how scientists and the media have seized upon the narrative that chocolate is a health food — even when only the thinnest evidence supports the wishful claim.
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The firing has been seized upon by the alt-right, including favorite son Jack Posobiec, who has mounted a campaign against the company with a possible protest later this week.
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Threads about sensitive topics such as Tiananmen Square, Huawei, or Falun Gong, the religious group classified by the Chinese government as a cult, are quickly seized upon by pro-China accounts.
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These games—and this idea of their ability to provide a relaxation space—isn't new, but it's been seized upon by indie game developers in a way that is worth exploring.
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But China and India, with their rapidly growing middle classes, have seized upon the uniquely American idea that bigger equals better: SUV and truck sales are surging in those two countries.
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But Democrats have seized upon the Jackson nomination, along with ethics questions surrounding EPA administrator Scott Pruitt and general concern about Pompeo, to push back against any limiting of debate time.
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Earlier this week, they seized upon state Republican party Chairman and Hogan campaign legal adviser, Dirk Haire, saying that Trump has been "successful" in his roughly first 14 months in office.
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She seized upon the social media platform's newest feature to tell her life's daily stories in all their untouched glory, and it accidentally made her a whole new kind of star.
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That would have appeared highly unlikely just months ago, when Democrats seized upon the issue of coverage for pre-existing medical conditions to capture control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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But the analysis includes new facts sure to be seized upon by the administration's critics and which are likely to serve as points of attack against Clinton during the general election.
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Democrats seized upon the report to criticize the work-requirements, which the Trump administration argued would help lift people people out of poverty and push them to rely on themselves. Sen.
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President Moon Jae-in of South Korea, who took office in May, has advocated dialogue, and seized upon the North's Olympic participation as an opportunity to ease tensions and promote negotiations.
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Speakers at the conference seized upon Sanders's self-identification as a democratic socialist as they sought to paint his policies as extreme and out of step with what's best for Americans.
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Brands and corporations seized upon the moment to provide X and Y thing that you can buy in the fruitless hope that it will make you happy and fix your life.
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Democrats on Capitol Hill have seized upon McGahn's prominent place in Mueller's findings on whether or not the president obstructed justice, and the House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed McGahn to testify.
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It's certain that it has been seized upon by those who support or sympathize with Black Lives Matter as a symbol of the struggle and political moment in which we find ourselves.
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Apple has seized upon a 1977 Supreme Court ruling that limited damages for anti-competitive conduct to those directly overcharged instead of indirect victims who paid an overcharge passed on by others.
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But they also could become a way to prove it's moving too slowly, and any signal of bias no matter how small is sure to be seized upon by the current administration.
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It's understandable that many have seized upon Trump's unusual speech patterns here, because voters don't have much other material to work with when it comes to his views about race in America.
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The story, according to Davidson's documentary, ImpossiBall, begins with Nicolaus Copernicus, whose theory of heliocentricity, which positions the Sun as the centre of the universe, was seized upon by the ruling elite.
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The U.S. president's decision in January to use an executive order to strip privacy rights from non-Americans under the US Privacy Act was seized upon by critics of the Privacy Shield.
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His mysterious absence in recent weeks, which started when he flew from Jordan to France to treat an undisclosed medical condition, was seized upon by critics who speculated on his possible replacement.
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Repeatedly criticizing his onetime antagonist, the banker seized upon Mr. Comey's admission during recent congressional testimony that he had caused the leaking of one of his memos to The New York Times.
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Hofstadter related how businessmen, free marketeers and opponents of efforts to uplift the poor seized upon Darwin's seminal work, "On the Origin of Species," to justify social inequality during the Gilded Age.
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I bought one of these cards for my wife a few months ago and my kids seized upon it, opening it all the time in a deliberate attempt to drive us nuts.
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And they provided Mr. Trump with a steady stream of fresh, anti-Clinton data points, which WikiLeaks fed out incrementally, creating a running story that the American news media voraciously seized upon.
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Republicans have seized upon the text messages as evidence that the investigation is stacked against Trump, and have publicly questioned if the FBI is at the center of an anti-Trump conspiracy.
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The unrest was seized upon by supporters of President Trump as validation of his claims — based on a Fox News feature — that Sweden had experienced a surge in crime linked to refugees.
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Another reason for the outperformance of these so-called investment grade bonds was that many companies with cash seized upon widespread recession fever to pay down more of their debt, Shah said.
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Democrats have seized upon those threats as a key part of their platform heading into the midterms, with health care showing up as a top issue for voters in poll after poll.
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In a 2014 climate change case, he made a comment about the limits of Clean Air Act authority that the Clean Power Plan challengers have since seized upon by citing in court papers.
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This is also why Mr Trump has seized upon late-term abortion, the most controversial dimension of an issue that has inflamed American politics for almost half a century, as a campaign issue.
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Oil prices have been gripped by bull-market fever, of late, with bullish events being seized upon and bearish elements, such as the continued rise in overall OPEC output, to record levels, ignored.
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Protesters have recently seized upon the widespread anger over the bill to draw attention to a litany of other issues, including the territory's relative lack of democracy and border traders from mainland China.
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The move is likely to be seized upon by British Prime Minister Theresa May's government as a sign of confidence in the country's economic prospects as it prepares to leave the European Union.
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Another allegation also was prominent — and seized upon by the defense: First responders at that trial testified they'd heard Chambers say a name that sounded like "Eric" or "Derek," possibly identifying her attacker.
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Trump's support for Brexit has been seized upon by U.S. political consultants advising the groups that oppose the referendum, including Jim Messina, who ran U.S. President Barack Obama's re-election campaign in 2012.
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The President also placed blame on locals for not working hard enough on behalf of their own recovery, statements that critics seized upon as racially charged against the Hispanic residents of Puerto Rico.
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The added legal drama served as a backdrop Thursday as members of the media and lawmakers across Washington awaited the release of the long-anticipated IG report, which Trump allies quickly seized upon.
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Luckily, us good people at Noisey clocked Nickelback were playing at the O2, so we seized upon this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to interrogate some of their fans and ask them: why?
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Or it can be seized upon in moments of crisis and uncertainty, as a hedge against despair — an act of faith that it may yet be possible to will another future into being.
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Mr. Johnson's team has seized upon a terrifying truth: that the old media, particularly the broadcasters, and the establishment that has decided its rules of operation, are no longer the gatekeepers to communication.
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Somehow, a commonsense push to protect frail LGBT seniors in long-term care facilities became yet another "bathroom bill," seized upon by a movement that is unusually obsessed with what goes on in bathrooms.
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Republicans in Congress have seized upon the lack of a formal vote as the foundation for their opposition to the inquiry, focusing on process instead of the substance of the allegations against Mr. Trump.
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Now, Zhongxian's government has seized upon another plan to reinvent its economy: a 13 billion yuan ($211.60 million) online gaming complex that it hopes will cash in on China's fast-growing e-sports market.
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It has been more than 400 days since North Korea conducted its last nuclear or missile test, a fact often seized upon by Trump when he touts the success of diplomatic efforts with Kim.
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Democrats have also seized upon four words uttered by Mr. Trump in the White House's reconstructed transcript of the call — "do us a favor" — to argue that an exchange of benefits was clearly established.
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ELLIOT GERSON Rabat, Morocco To the Editor: If I were Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, I would have seized upon President Obama's nomination of Merrick B. Garland as an opportunity to declare victory.
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Heedless to the after-effects of opium use, doctors had seized upon its sedative-like properties to develop it into a concentrated product they were sure would be a great boon to mankind: morphine.
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It is just mischievous enough to be adopted by your children in the schoolyard; and it's just menacing enough to be seized upon by actual dictators seeking to suppress critical voices in repressive regimes.
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Looking across the past 50 years, The Body Electric presents works by an intergenerational and international group of artists who have seized upon the screen as a place to rethink the body and identity.
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Little-used words in the piece -- "lodestar" was one -- were being cited as forensic evidence, and a mistaken tweet describing the writer with a male pronoun was seized upon to eliminate half the population.
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Mr. Trump, a presidential candidate at the time, seized upon the move as evidence that the alliance was responding to his criticisms, one of the few times during the campaign that he complimented it.
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Republican lawmakers critical of the deal have questioned whether the FBI shared that information with other members of CFIUS before it was approved — an aspect of the controversy that conservative media has seized upon.
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Republican lawmakers have seized upon those analyses to assert that the tax cuts will not add to the $20 trillion national debt, yet some of the economists who signed the letter have said otherwise.
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A couple of hours later in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Trump seized upon news of the fabricated Kavanaugh allegation to make a case that all of the women who accused Kavanaugh of misconduct were lying.
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Not long after Uber's pugnacious founders first tested their app among San Franciscans, a pair of Harvard Business School classmates from Malaysia seized upon a similar idea: They wanted to build Uber, but for Asia.
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"For this reason, the bill would be a strategic mistake as its report would undoubtedly be seized upon by Iran as an international effort to discourage international investment," she said ahead of a committee vote.
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That line was quickly seized upon by Republicans who have long tried to paint Clinton's actions as illegal, though a lengthy FBI investigation ultimately determined there was not enough evidence to make any criminal charges.
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In turn, Mr. Beshear seized upon that weakness, putting teachers at the center of his campaign, including selecting a high school assistant principal, Jacqueline Coleman, to join his ticket as the candidate for lieutenant governor.
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Riggleman also said did not believe in Bigfoot, but added that he did not want to "alienate" the Bigfoot vote and said the entire thing was a joke that his opponent had seized upon unfairly.
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But an alternate narrative has been seized upon by some who insist arsonists lighting the fires in the first place, and not the conditions that make them near-impossible to contain, are the real problem.
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Giuliani and some of Trump's allies have seized upon some of the claims made by the former Ukrainian prosecutors, such as Shokin, who had said that his firing was related to a probe of Burisma.
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The four were summarily arrested, but not before one of the female protesters had time to high-five French soccer star Kylian Mbappé and the male protester was angrily seized upon by Croatian defender Dejan Lovren.
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The defense further seized upon a contested allegation of the investigation — that first responders heard Chambers utter a name that sounded like "Eric" or "Derek," possibly naming her attacker, but that name did not fit Tellis.
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Credit where it's due: the man has seized upon a look that he wears well, just as Steve Jobs did before him — and Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has tried to do each January at CES.
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While the dollar initially rallied after Trump's election as markets seized upon his promises for stimulus steps, tax reform and deregulation, it has tended to slump whenever he has talked about withdrawing from international trade agreements.
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NEWARK — Hillary Clinton on Wednesday seized upon revelations about Trump University, the for-profit institution started by Donald J. Trump, calling him a "fraud" who wants to rip off the country he is running to lead.
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It is this ideal of "integration" that right-wingers in particular seized upon in the aftermath of the Özil-Erdogan photo, citing it as an example of those with Turkish heritage failing to become fully German.
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The role of the lobbying groups, especially Podesta, has been seized upon by some Republicans who are trying to entice the special counsel to scrutinize the activities of the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
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Libyan authorities have stepped up efforts to stem the flow of migrants, with assistance from European countries, who are eager to slow a phenomenon that far-right wing parties have seized upon to gain electoral support.
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The work was soon seized upon to support various ideological agendas: a Marxist narrative of class struggle; an allegory of environmental degradation at the hands of rapacious industrialists; a multigenerational drama about a dysfunctional royal family.
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Jackson was also part of the chorus of voices denouncing "Blood Heir," an ironic twist that was seized upon by observers who claim the movement to police potential cultural appropriation in literature has gone too far.
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The deaths dominated prime-time television this week and were quickly seized upon by the hard-line interior minister, Matteo Salvini, who promised to stop the exploitation by breaking up the ghettos where many migrants live.
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It's mid-August, and we all know what that means: just a few meager weeks left to spend taking selfies in nature before we're all relegated indoors wishing we had seized upon the gorgeous summer weather.
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The community's critics seized upon an arrest, in 20083, of a 64-year-old man accused of stealing ammunition in nearby Johnson City, which led the authorities to find a storage locker stocked with powerful weapons.
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Today, a movie like The Room, which Wiseau advertised for years via a cryptic billboard and a bare-bones site, would be seized upon by Internet as soon as Wiseau's sleepy visage popped up over Los Angeles.
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Mr. Bloomberg seized upon Alphonza's killing as an example of the toll gun violence was having on the streets of New York and the role the Police Department's stop-and-frisk tactics had in stemming the violence.
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Op-Ed Contributor BEGINNING in the late 1990s, pharmaceutical companies selling high-dose opioids seized upon a notion, based on flimsy scientific evidence, that regardless of the length of treatment, patients would not become addicted to opioids.
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In Uzbekistan, the authoritarian government's failure to reform, coupled with its heavy-handed security approach, has been seized upon by terrorist groups like ISIS and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) to further their own recruitment agenda.
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Udo Bullmann, chair of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, said that Zuckerberg's lack of answers to those questions would likely be seized upon during Tuesday's meeting in Brussels.
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Ms. McSally, a former United States Air Force fighter pilot, seized upon the Taliban comment and charged in their debate this week that Ms. Sinema's stance amounted to "treason," a broadside so sharp it became national news.
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The profanity-filled tirade included references to the Yankees hitters being "savages" in the batter's box, a line that has been seized upon by fans and one that Boone has been using all season inside the clubhouse.
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After the Sussexes released their bombshell statement, this detail from the Sun's scoop was seized upon and reported by the tabloids ("Was THIS the photo that pushed Meghan and Harry over the edge?" asked the Daily Mail).
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The Biden campaign also seized upon a report in The Atlantic that Sanders had considered primarying Barack Obama in 2012, citing the article in an attack ad that ran on digital platforms in South Carolina, POLITICO reported.
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Focusing on the law's public accommodation protections allowing trans people to use bathrooms according to their lived gender, conservatives seized upon a narrative that trans women are really just creepy men who didn't belong in women's restrooms.
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Parties to the right of the political spectrum have seized upon Italy's unemployment rate and ongoing migrant influx in their manifestos, with parties across the board promising to restrict immigration or enact mass deportations of illegal immigrants.
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And Sweden faces a reckoning on the issue of assimilation, seized upon by the far-right Sweden Democrats, which have attempted to shed their neo-Nazi roots with a more traditional "law-and-order" focus, per the NYT.
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Democrats berated the president, and John Brennan, the CIA director under Mr Obama, called Mr Trump's performance "treasonous"—a line which was immediately seized upon by the Russian media as another proof of America's innate hostility towards Russia.
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The scale of bullshit jobs might still be unclear, but the glee with which you seized upon these examples, muddling efficiency with notions of usefulness and value, suggests that there might well be some bullshit involved after all.
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Ms Kim's modest if fetching outfit, her demure smiles, the touching deference to her (unrelated) nonagenarian travelling companion, Kim Yong Nam, the North's titular head of state: all were seized upon as evidence of a delightful charm offensive.
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Like all the emerging American bands of 2001-2003—The Strokes, The White Stripes, Interpol, followed by The Killers and Kings of Leon et al—Yeah Yeah Yeahs were seized upon outside New York in the UK first.
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And because of that, groups have seized upon the site to spread messaging campaigns that mimic early ISIS recruitment on social media; specifically sharing violent propaganda and creating covert highways of communication between the group and potential members.
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The Dayton Police department's tweet has already been seized upon by hundreds of Twitter users, many of whom are either ardent fans of Limp Bizkit, or keen to get a laugh out of this clearly very serious situation.
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The Turkish president, who has jailed critics and cracked down on free speech in his own country, took the comedian's bait: He seized upon a little-known German law, dating from 1871, to press charges against Mr. Böhmermann.
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Barr's letter said the investigation did not uncover evidence that the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government to interfere in the 2016 election — something Trump and his supporters seized upon as vindication for the president.
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Protesters have recently seized upon the widespread anger over the bill to draw attention to a litany of other grievances, including the territory's relative lack of democracy and mainland traders, blamed by Hong Kong residents for fuelling inflation.
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But it was seized upon and, just as quickly, thumped into the top corner of the net by a storming attacker's foot — hit with such zip that it seemed the goalkeeper couldn't see it, much less stop it.
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The standard story of 1970s art tells us that painting and experimental video were two discrete fields — that the artists who seized upon Portapaks and other new, time-based technologies found paint and canvas too conventional and commercial.
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An easy rendering of the piece might conclude that Nonas has seized upon the idea of the railroad as intrinsic to the museum's history, the connective tissue that allowed raw materials in and finished products to be sent out.
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Normally that would be an open invitation for the rest of the lineup to put the screws to the Cubs staff, but the Nationals seized upon it as an opportunity to fill their sports diapers to beat the band.
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And in Venezuela, Mr. Trump's threat that he might use a "military option" to restore democracy has been seized upon by President Nicolás Maduro to rally his dwindling number of supporters against the possibility of an American-led invasion.
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As the effort to criminally pursue Mr. Salvini comes to a critical juncture, just weeks after a defeat in an important regional election thwarted his attempted return to power, he has seized upon it as a political life raft.
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GOP lawmakers seized upon the tests as evidence Iran could not be trusted to uphold the nuclear deal, which lifted heavy sanctions on Iran in exchange for limits to its nuclear program, and blasted the Obama administration as naive.
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Elizabeth Warren, who built her political career railing against big corporations, already in the race, any perceived closeness to Wall Street will likely be seized upon in a crowded field of candidates looking to differentiate themselves from one another.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Global grain marketers have seized upon trade tensions between the United States and several of its top export markets, including China, to turn around struggling trading units following one of the toughest years ever for the industry.
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The Indian military has seized upon the Andamans that lie near the entrance to the Malacca Straits to counter the Chinese challenge, deploying ships and aircraft since Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office in 2014 promising a more muscular policy.
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Other claims seized upon by Hungarian media range from lobbying the German government to pressure Hungary into reversing controversial laws, to using the Soros-backed Open Society Foundation to "control the European Union," to suggestions of illegal activities in Hungary.
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Almost from the moment Reubens became famous, cultural-studies scholars, feminist writers and queer theorists seized upon and celebrated this quality: In 220 the academic journal Camera Obscura devoted a chunk of its May issue to essays analyzing Pee-wee.
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These projections from Credit Suisse's Global Wealth Report will be seized upon by proponents of the view that the wealth gap is narrowing, however slowly, and those who argue that the ultra-rich getting richer is no cause for celebration.
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"Our little cottage industry was seized upon by the Face and i-D and they were asking me to write articles about James Brown and Tito Puente, because no one knew about that stuff then, unless you were 60," Sullivan says.
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Donald Trump, a 70-year-old man who has described the act of giving a speech as "almost a form of exercise," has seized upon the incident as further proof of the former secretary of state's questionable fitness for office.
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CHICAGO, May 2 (Reuters) - Global grain marketers have seized upon trade tensions between the United States and several of its top export markets, including China, to turn around struggling trading units following one of the toughest years ever for the industry.
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French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said last month he was not opposed to introducing quotas for migrants, part of an effort by his government to heed voters' concerns about immigration that are being seized upon by far-right political rivals.
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Looking at a nation that was tearing itself apart over slavery, and at the demise of the nativist know-nothings, Lincoln, then a candidate for Senate, seized upon July 4th and the Declaration of Independence to drive his point home.
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Trump and his conservative allies have seized upon anti-Trump text messages exchanged between FBI agent Peter Strzok and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, who both worked on Mueller's team at one point, suggesting they have tainted the special counsel probe.
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The letter said the probe did not uncover evidence that the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government to interfere in the 2016 election — a point that Trump and his supporters seized upon as vindication for the president.
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Russia and Syria have seized upon these abuses and have repeatedly called for the United Nations to designate Ahrar al-Sham as a terrorist organization, but groups can only be designated upon unanimous consent from the 15-member UN Security Council.
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The French investment has been seized upon by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who is seeking re-election this week, as evidence that his pursuit of a nuclear detente and attempts to attract foreign money will pay off for the economy.
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While some of these items were found by Wurtz in the same manner Duchamp seized upon a urinal or a bottle rack, many are things Wurtz has used himself and found an artistic purpose for after their practical value was exhausted.
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It is a sign of how aggressively the country seized upon the idea of modernity that its earliest Modernist buildings, once symbols of a fierce debate over what the recovering country should look like, are now among its most serene structures.
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Friday's indictment did not include any accusations that the Russian efforts succeeded in influencing the election results, nor evidence that any of Mr. Trump's advisers knowingly coordinated with the Russian campaign — a point immediately seized upon by the president's allies.
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Denton's partner testified that Dennis had approached their patrol car shortly before the incident and asked how he could become a police officer—a detail that Dennis's lawyer disputed but which the local press had seized upon in its reporting.
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What is remarkable, he suggests, is that in the midst of the maelstrom of war and in the face of limited resources, both Whitehall and the military seized upon an unproven idea and quickly tried to put it into effect. Why?
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Trump Jr. was criticizing Hunter Biden for his history of business dealings in Ukraine, which have been seized upon recently by conservatives as achieved through nepotism since his father, Joe Biden, was vice president at the time of his hiring.
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We need serious, thoughtful people to grapple with the implications of innovation and help us recognize the ways that new technology, if placed in an unstable political climate and seized upon by malevolent actors, could result in harm and hardship.
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Republicans have also seized upon a recent New York Times account to accuse the whistleblower of collaborating with House Democrats, who say they merely connected him or her with an attorney and advised he or she to file a formal complaint.
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Matt Gaetz last week: "I said do us a favor, not me," Trump wrote, referring to the comment—"I'd like you to do us a favor, though"—that Democrats have seized upon as proof of an improper quid pro quo.
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A riot in an immigrant neighborhood in Sweden was seized upon by Trump supporters as validation of his claims — based on a Fox News feature — that the European country had experienced a surge in crime and violence linked to refugees.
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Nonetheless, the State Department found there "was no persuasive evidence of systemic, deliberate mishandling of classified information" by any officials while Clinton was serving as secretary of State, a conclusion that Democrats quickly seized upon to bemoan the campaign coverage.
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The phenomenal success of Pokemon GO and the surge in Nintendo Co's market value by $17 billion in just over a week has been seized upon by one of its most vocal investors to press for a change of strategy at the company.
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The friendship between the two riders could be tested earlier too, in the Tour de France where Froome, the undisputed king at Sky after his 2013 and 2015 wins, knows any weakness on his part will be seized upon by his lieutenant.
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Nevertheless, Jim Harithas, the Everson's director at the time, seized upon everything unconventional about its idealistic, participatory, ephemeral nature, and readied his staff for the inevitable media circus that would come with the arrival of a former Beatle and his art-making wife.
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" (CAIR was actually founded in 1994.) As Vox's Zack Beauchamp explained, Omar's words "some people did something" were quickly seized upon by members of the right "to paint [Omar] as an anti-American radical indifferent to those killed during the 9/11 attacks.
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Trump's comments echo those he made last month when he seized upon reports that the Obama administration could have done more to try to prevent the Russian hacking, seemingly acknowledging the Russian meddling in the process of blaming Obama for not stopping it.
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"It is such a dilemma, because if he had acted aggressively, in a way that he had gone public and said, 'This is why we're doing this,' it would have been seized upon as an attempt to bias the election," Merkley said.
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Chicago (CNN)Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is a weight on Hillary Clinton's candidacy, a political liability that Bernie Sanders has ferociously seized upon in hopes of pulling off what might once have been unthinkable: winning the primary Tuesday in Clinton's native Illinois.
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The viral moments starring Labrador and Blum — two members of the far-right Freedom Caucus — are being seized upon and circulated by Democratic operatives convinced that the GOP's healthcare vote will backfire and hand Democrats the House majority in the 2018 midterms.
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For more than a year, Trump's opponents had continually seized upon his foreign-made goods to call out the hypocrisy of a campaign centering on a pledge to repatriate jobs that, in Trump's telling, global trade had wrongfully taken from American workers.
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New York, California and other high-tax states would be hard hit by the removal of that deduction, a fact seized upon by Democrats to bolster their argument that Trump's plan is a gift to the wealthiest Americans and the corporate sector.
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Did companies like Sega, Microsoft, and Sony identify a population of hyper-competitive, angry gamers and market their online services toward them, or did the marketing of these platforms model an acutely toxic mode of interaction that gamers then seized upon and imitated?
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Perhaps most concerning is that, on an internet engaged in a constant information war, the Democrats' technology failure created an information vacuum that was quickly seized upon by trolls and political operatives alike to cast doubt on the electoral process and sow division.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Monday he was not opposed to introducing quotas for migrants, part of an effort by his government to heed voters' concerns about immigration that are being seized upon by far-right political rivals.
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Senate Democrats seized upon another response from Dershowitz, the Harvard law professor emeritus on the President's legal team, who argued that a quid pro quo to boost a president's reelection chances cannot be impeachable because the politician is acting in the national interest.
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His death in a rocket attack in December in Kirkuk, where he was working as a translator for the American military, was quickly seized upon by President Trump, touching off a chain of events that for several days set the world on edge.
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The second set went on serve with neither able to get a break point opportunity until the 10th game, which Del Potro seized upon to send the match into a decider when Bautista Agut hit a backhand into the net after a cagey baseline rally.
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"[Lopez] seized upon Rella's fresh grief and began making exorbitant fraudulent charges with Rella's credit cards that she unknowingly paid off, effectively stripping her of retirement funds, much of which came from Holocaust reparation checks from the German government," Micah writes on the GoFundMe page.
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But M5s's record running 16 small local administrations has been blotted by a rubbish crisis in the Tuscan city of Livorno and mafia allegations in a district of Naples, which were seized upon by opponents as a sign it is not fit to govern.
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Shortly afterwards comes this reassuring passage: Some opponents of website blocking have seized upon reports of governments misusing intellectual property enforcement measures for unrelated means, such as the Russian police raid on advocacy groups and opposition newspapers in the name of searching for pirated software.
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Mr. Sommer claims that investigators seized upon a possible motive — his chance to collect on a business partner's insurance payout upon Mr. Silver's death — and false circumstantial evidence to bring about a conviction, despite never gaining a second indictment, for the fatal pipe attack.
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" The North has also seized upon General McMaster's line and declared on Sunday that as the military exercises begin, "the Korean People's Army is keeping a high alert" and "will take resolute steps the moment even a slight sign of the preventive war is spotted.
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Mr. Chagai has a hard time keeping up with all the calls and emails from coaches all over the world, and in previous years some players, who were seized upon by dubious American scouts, ended up at schools that were little more than athlete factories.
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The White House released an account of the call between the two leaders on Wednesday that revealed Trump did indeed ask Zelensky to "look into" Biden's actions while vice president with regard to Ukraine, in language that was immediately seized upon by Democrats in Congress.
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" Conservatives seized upon the answer as proof that Mr. Northam approved of killing an infant even after it was delivered, even as Mr. Northam's office said the reply was taken out of context and called the idea that he would support such a proposal "disgusting.
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In wrapping up the show, Filoni and his team seized upon a facet of "Star Wars" that makes Disney's ambitious expansion of the franchise possible -- namely, that it's a very big galaxy, with room for all sorts of stories in the past, present and future.
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" Why it matters: It's the biggest sovereign wealth fund in the world, and, as the Financial Times points out, "the move is likely to be seized upon by environmentalists as a template for other big global investors and marks the biggest proposed divestment of fossil fuel assets.
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But the analysis includes new facts sure to be seized upon by the administration's critics and which are likely to serve as points of attack against Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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Trump and his Republican allies have seized upon the disclosure last month that law firm Perkins Coie paid for the dossier on behalf of its clients, the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, arguing it shows the dossier is a Democratic effort to undermine Trump.
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Last week, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lijian Zhao seized upon a statement by Robert Redfield, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), that some influenza deaths in the US were later identified as cases of Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
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As a result, the film — which won't even arrive in theaters until mid-October — has become the latest grenade to be lobbed into the culture wars alongside burning Nikes, Twitter bias, and practically anything else that can be seized upon for political and personal branding and gain.
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Democrats also seized upon a line buried in the more than 400-page report that they viewed as a direction from Mr. Mueller to pursue the obstruction case against Mr. Trump that the special counsel decided he could not bring — though he couldn't clear the president, either.
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For example, the Trump administration's decision to relocate the US embassy to Jerusalem was seized upon by al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri when he called for continued confrontation with the United States in a message posted on the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 attack.
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Although there is ample evidence that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S. citizens, the president seized upon the attack as an opportunity to crack down on immigration and to reinforce a link between immigrants and crime that is not substantiated by the evidence.
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Yet drastic economic predictions that the U.K. economy could enter recession after the Brexit vote in June 2016 have failed to materialize, with solid employment data and wage growth seized upon by Brexiteers as evidence that leaving the EU will not be as disastrous as opponents believe.
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After so many crushing disappointments (for example, Trump's political opponents were not, in fact, arrested en masse and sent to Guantanamo on December 903, as predicted by Q), the QAnon community has gleefully seized upon the Epstein case to argue that they were right all along.
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After so many crushing disappointments (for example, Trump's political opponents were not, in fact, arrested en masse and sent to Guantanamo on December 21, as predicted by Q), the QAnon community has gleefully seized upon the Epstein case to argue that they were right all along.
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Actually gold, often worn for its associations with winning, mostly stayed in the background this evening, as did silver — though the veteran actress Charlotte Rampling, besieged after comments seized upon by some as racist, appeared in what amounted to armor: a modest chain-mail caftan by Armani Privé.
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All of a sudden, a 123chan obsession, a hazy relationship with the truth, and an utter lack of shame are all that's required to become internet famous, and lesser-known alt-righters have seized upon the movement's instability, jockeying for media attention and attaboys from their God Emperor.
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After the Brexit vote went bad for David Cameron in June, it is the second time in half a year that the leader of a major EU member state tied his future to a referendum and lost, a development that was seized upon by the region's anti-EU firebrands.
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Robert J. Kovacev, a tax lawyer with Steptoe & Johnson who previously worked at the Department of Justice, said the scrutiny that Mr. Trump's returns would face could add years to the audit because the I.R.S. would be pressured to examine details that critics of Mr. Trump seized upon.
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The investigation — focused on those in the inner circle of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, then the prime minister and now president — became a national sensation, and it was seized upon by the many critics of Mr. Erdogan and his Islamist Justice and Development Party as evidence of abuse of power.
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In his work, Foucault seized upon the metaphor of the Panopticon, a design for a prison by 18th century philosopher Jeremy Bentham that allowed a single guard in the center to be able to see all prisoners at all times, without the prisoners knowing if they were being watched.
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In the Aleutian Islands town of Unalaska, so many eagles have seized upon its fishing industry waste it's since become the nation's "eagle attack capital," wrote the New York Times; an estimated six to ten people are treated for talon gashes and other eagle-related injuries per year.
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The news that a missing Iowa college student, Mollie Tibbetts, had been found dead, and that a man the authorities said was an undocumented immigrant was charged with her murder, was seized upon by Republicans, who had already been sounding dire warnings about spreading violence and insecure borders.
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Most notably, Rick and Morty co-creator Dan Harmon deleted his Twitter account entirely after Daryl, a short parody pilot he made almost a decade ago, was seized upon as further evidence of many people in the entertainment industry using comedy to mask their underground support of pedophilia.
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While his compatriots, the so-called Mannerists, seized upon isolated aspects of Michelangelo's style like the fabled blind men and the elephant, most notably the exaggerated musculature of his male nudes, Pontormo seems to have understood the totality of his achievement without being coerced or intimidated by it.
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" Explaining her position on coal Clinton's coal comments in March led to a frosty reception in West Virginia earlier this week, and Trump seized upon the remarks in his victory speech on Tuesday night when he said, "I watched her talking about the miners as if they were just numbers.
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You'll never see as many armed children as the ones sauntering down Tweetsie's main street with orange-tipped revolvers clutched in each hand, and there are endless varieties of toy guns for sale at Tweetsie's endless souvenir shops, delightedly seized upon by kids who unfailingly take aim at their parents.
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Though the video is an emotional one – and the fact that a black woman is singing to another woman who is currently running for president about police brutality is hugely important and shouldn't be understated – Twitter doesn't take anything seriously, and quickly seized upon the video as a source for memes.
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Republican Singer's stance towards the party's current leadership has meandered in recent months with the Elliott Management founder's initial vocal rejection of President Donald Trump replaced with an apparent wholesale change in attitude, accompanied by a visit to the White House which was gleefully seized upon and trumpeted by the president.
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But for two years now, the Nederlander Organization and AEG, which own and maintain operations of U.S. Bank Arena, have been begging for public cash as part of a $200 million renovation, and now they've seized upon the NCAA's dangled carrot as an opportunity to put the squeeze on the local pols.
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The anonymous right-wing Twitter user who first unearthed the old video—calling her a "nitwit"—was clearly playing off a report published by disreputable right-wing rag the Gateway Pundit, which seized upon the fact that Ocasio-Cortez attended a public high school in Yorktown, New York, rather than the Bronx.
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Because this is 2019 and everything immediately devolves into partisan warfare, these good results are immediately seized upon by Trump partisans who view the good news as a result of the president's policies, and by opponents who give credit to the already-improving economy that President Obama handed over in January 2017.
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He channeled anger at Mr. de Blasio that was present in many neighborhoods, especially among white residents in less dense areas of the city, and seized upon local discontent over homeless policy that helped lead to the ouster of a long-serving state assemblywoman, Margaret Markey, in a Democratic primary in 2016.
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However, according to Robert FitzPatrick, president of Pyramid Scheme Alert, who has consulted on The Dream podcast and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver's episode on multilevel marketing, using the novel coronavirus as a recruitment strategy wouldn't be the first time MLMs have seized upon a crisis or trend to recruit new members.
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Indeed, the memo Rosenstein prepared last year that the White House initially seized upon to justify the firing of FBI Director James Comey sharply faulted him for publicly revealing and assessing the evidence found in the course of the probe into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email account while secretary of state.
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Wednesday's meeting came in response to a June complaint from a group called Make Integrity Great Again, which has seized upon DC regulations to assert Trump is not of "good character" and therefore should not be able to sell alcoholic beverages at the Trump International Hotel, located blocks away from the White House.
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Invoking the Ghailani case, Mr. Chesney said of Mr. Khattala's trial, "If it were to go wrong in some way for the government, it will certainly be seized upon by critics of the criminal justice process as a tool for counterterrorism — notwithstanding the endless number of successful Justice Department terrorism prosecutions that have already occurred."
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Zuckerberg tried to have it both ways in the hearings, but Republican lawmakers seized upon his ambivalence, pointing to alleged bias against conservative views and citing the work of former Gizmodo reporter and current Mashable Deputy Tech Editor Michael Nuñez, where he uncovered an anti-conservative slant in Facebook's (now defunct) trending news team back in 2016.
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Pirates LH Jeff Locke (1-3, 25.40) The 21-year-old Foltynewicz has seized upon his chance to solidify a spot in Atlanta's rotation, giving up four runs in the first inning of his first start of the season May 22 against the New York Mets but only two in his next 21 21/23 innings.
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Hose declined to comment on Western Union payments — which are routinely seized upon by startups that look to offer more transparent and cheaper overseas transfers — but, in theory, moving money digitally could pave the way for retail-based remitters, like Western Union, to reduce operational costs and potentially make their service cheaper for consumers in the future.
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In a May 2017 letter that the president seized upon as justification for his decision to fire James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, Mr. Rosenstein severely criticized Mr. Comey for announcing during the previous year that Hillary Clinton, then a presidential candidate, would not be charged with a crime for mishandling classified information as secretary of state.
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While symbols and references to the Crusades still hold religious and historical significance -- the Crusader Cross is included on the flag of the country Georgia -- far right groups have seized upon them, using them to represent an anti-Muslim ideology, according to the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center, two organizations that study hate groups.
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"The authorities have seized upon her weakest point, which is her and Liu Hui's total dependence on one another, so they may agree to her leaving, but only if Liu Hui stays as a hostage," he said in reference to the pressure that the Chinese authorities can put on the China-based relatives of dissidents overseas.
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The comment during the Brooklyn Democratic presidential debate was quickly seized upon by Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE, who has introduced legislation to set a $15-an-hour minimum wage.
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It makes intuitive sense, then, that print artist John Gutoskey seized upon this idea to create "visual elegies," in the form of 49 unique monoprints, as a way of processing the Pulse nightclub shooting, an attack by a murderous gunman on a gay club in Orlando, Florida, that claimed the lives of 49 victims and wounded 53 others.
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Though the Justice Department's inspector general concluded that political bias did not play a role in the department's decision not to charge Clinton over her use of a private email server while she served as secretary of state in the Obama administration, many Republicans seized upon the report's most critical sections to renew sharp criticism of investigators involved in the probe.
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The government has seized upon a Beijing plan to integrate the former British colony into the Pearl River Delta to create the Greater Bay Area, a region comprising nine cities in China's Guangdong province, plus Hong Kong and Macau, that would have the equivalent of the fifth-largest economy in the world by 215 and a population of nearly 2000 million.
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Trump and his Republican allies have seized upon the disclosure late last year that law firm Perkins Coie paid Fusion GPS -- which in turn hired former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele -- for the dossier on behalf of its clients, the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, arguing it shows the dossier is a Democratic effort to undermine Trump.
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But that's perhaps exactly why this shared "feral hogs" prompt was seized upon by so many people in the wake of tragedy: This "dumb" stuff allows people to resonate on a shared frequency in a way that is deeply reassuring, that shows we are not alone, that we are seeing the same thing, that even as we suffer we're still able to share an understanding.
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My main issue was that Mr. Lepage seemed to have scant interpretive insight into a work that, since its 1876 premiere, has been seized upon by generation after generation as an allegory about roiling issues of the time: a Marxist narrative of class struggle; a cautionary tale about the corrupting influence of power; a warning about environmental destruction; an absurdist reflection of nihilistic leadership.
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Just as A/V technology not only employed creative professionals in the making of mainstream videos, but also fostered a cohort of video artists who seized upon this new medium as a forum for experimentation, pushing against and advancing the form, video games (both mainstream and indie) are at a creative peak, as fine artists respond to and play with video gaming culture, visuals, and communities.
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THE MURDER in the early hours of June 12th of at least 50 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, apparently by a 19963-year-old American-born Muslim wielding an assault rifle and handgun, was swiftly and loudly seized upon by political partisans as a vindication of everything that they already believe about Muslims, the fight against terrorism and the exceptional prevalence of private gun ownership in America.
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THE murder by shooting in the early hours of June 12th of 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, by a 29-year-old Afghan-American who dedicated his act of evil to Islamic State (IS) was seized upon by partisans as vindication of everything that they already believe about the fight against terrorism, the presence of Muslims in America and the prevalence of powerful guns in private hands.
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Republican presidential front-runner Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE on Thursday seized upon news that the White House would be raising the height of its fence, to promote his plan to build a wall along the southern border.
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North Korean state media seized upon author Michael Wolff's new book "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" on Thursday, saying its popularity predicts President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's downfall.
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This was a sort of tribute, too, as anyone that ever cared about the NBA seized upon the opportunity to drop one last what-are-those on the most style-averse superstar athlete of his era; when Enes Kanter, a man whose personal aesthetic could be described as Henchman Who Gets Kicked Through A Window In An Early Van Damme Movie, is getting in on the joke, something more than consensus has been achieved.
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Beginning as a painter and muralist, Jenkins was introduced to video just as the first consumer cameras were made available to individuals, and he quickly seized upon the television technology as a means to broadcast alternative depictions of African and Native American cultures — his own heritage — citing the catalyst of Melvin Van Peebles's Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1917) and its call to black filmmakers to control their subject-hood by controlling the media depicting them.
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"Democrats, too, have seized upon this idea that the government has grown too much," she said, pointing to the Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson ClintonThe magic of majority rule in elections The return of Ken Starr Assault weapons ban picks up steam in Congress MORE-Al GoreAlbert (Al) Arnold Gore2020 Democrats release joint statement ahead of Trump's New Hampshire rally Deregulated energy markets made Texas a clean energy giant Gun safety is actually a consensus issue MORE 'Reinventing Government' program in the 1990s, which aimed to shrink it.
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