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Two fellow climate activists were sent as stand-ins for Thunberg.
These sensors act as simple stand-ins for our own senses.
Why use other women's bodies as stand-ins for your own?
Although no such magic pill exists, there have been stand-ins.
The foxes were stand-ins for Ms. May's son and his fiancée.
Often, as in the mouse experiment, scientists turn to animal stand-ins.
The stand-ins would rather attend weddings as guests than as proxies.
For Mulvey, male heroes also act as stand-ins for the audience.
Pop stars are always complicated stand-ins for an audience's desire and recognition.
When composing a picture, she enlists stand-ins and symbols to convey meaning.
The contestants' skeptical families in the show are stand-ins for the audience.
Neither Starr, nor her parents or brothers, are stand-ins for a cause.
I wasn't torn between two women/metaphorical stand-ins for lust and commitment.
Window ledges, rooftops and scaffolding serve as stand-ins for their cosmopolitan relatives.
Twenty-eight of the 33 were votes from stand-ins of exiled lawmakers.
"The other stand-ins and I set up all the shots," Streeter says.
We positioned digital stand-ins for my furniture, culled from the Macy's catalogue.
These creatures become stand-ins for our own battles over social and economic resources.
The stand-ins blasted each other with quotations from Latin America's liberator, Simón Bolívar.
That these are really just stand-ins for public borrowing is an open secret.
Because the hands are stand-ins for the viewer, any flair can feel alienating.
While Streeter acted in high school, a theater background isn't required of stand-ins.
Usually, stand-ins are used for Hollywood presenters, who prefer to hit the snooze button.
The delegates are just stand-ins for the formal process of picking that presidential candidate.
More interesting are Apostol's many women, stand-ins and doppelgängers whose stories intercut and complicate.
To force animals to serve and suffer as stand-ins for human evil is wrong.
"They exist as stand-ins for an internal monologue you have with yourself," he said.
A gallery in South Africa is currently populated with figures that are stand-ins for us.
And it's a safe bet he gets a bit more attention than most campaign stand-ins.
The TOS Klingons were basically narrative stand-ins for the Russians, during the actual Cold War.
I love how often horror-movie monsters can become allegorical stand-ins for what scares us.
The reason is that these dogs are but furry emoji: stand-ins for emotions and sentiment.
"The cowbells are stand-ins for pitched saucepans, which are not readily available," Mr. Zuber said.
As a result, these chefs used local ingredients as stand-ins and adapted their cuisine accordingly.
And historically, that's how celebrities have functioned: as stand-ins for larger cultural norms and expectations.
On those same streets, the shomrim are seen as quick-acting stand-ins for police officers.
There are the basketball hoops, which he uses as stand-ins for the black male body.
Ulf walked around behind each of his stand-ins and laid his hands on their shoulders.
The stand-ins, according to Waldman, include privacy policies, impact assessments, trainings, audits and paper trails.
The best journalists are stand-ins for citizens, paid to go up close and ask tough questions.
Ditch your one-and-done straws, spoons, and containers with this kit of affordable, reusable stand-ins.
And we have recommendations on affordable, reusable stand-ins for single-use plastic straws, spoons and containers.
The notion that my college friends should be stand-ins for my close relationships from home: impossible.
Most people think of card and electronic payments as conveniences, stand-ins for exchanging cold, hard cash.
The film even includes real photos of the couple and their children as stand-ins for family photos.
In other words, they're good stand-ins for political or economic turmoil, or anxiety in your personal life.
There are only stand-ins in these pics, but it's clear "Empire" is getting ready to shoot something.
Other auto makers have built trust with consumers, and earned the right to use visual effect stand-ins.
"Harry and Meghan, if you're looking for stand-ins @markruffalo and I are just hangin' around," she wrote.
The moral conundrum here is that descendants of slaves cannot be the deputized stand-ins for their ancestors.
Soon after college graduation, she started her first business, Stand-Ins, a home-improvement company in Westchester County.
And we have recommendations on affordable, reusable stand-ins for plastic one-and-done straws, spoons and containers.
Nationalized politics forces local candidates to act mostly like Trump or Pelosi stand-ins and less like themselves.
NASA is particularly interested in the health of the astronauts, often using animals as stand-ins for people.
The stand-ins could tell that I was worn out, I think, and unprepared for any new revelations.
So much of what the stand-ins had said seemed to strike a chord with the people listening.
In other words: AI systems are single-use tools, not flexible intelligences that are stand-ins for humans.
They are obvious stand-ins for the real-life men of privilege who have been revealed as predators.
The stand-ins formed the visual foundation for the animation, which technicians would then painstakingly layer into the scenes.
They are his research team, his partners, and his stand-ins for the listeners he is addressing at home.
Because of a deadline, however, his hedge fund's nominees are merely stand-ins until real candidates can be found.
One of the hallmarks of Marvel comics is the inclusion of real-world leaders, rather than fictional stand-ins.
In modern times, the field of prosthetics has turned to incorporating more technology into physical stand-ins for limbs.
Last year, his wife, Caroline, started buying alcoholic seltzers as convenient stand-ins for her favorite gin and tonic.
And we have recommendations on ditching one-and-done plastic straws, spoons and containers with affordable, reusable stand-ins.
Even when monster movies are marketed and sold around a creature, they're often just using those monsters as stand-ins.
They are real-life stand-ins for any number of campaign trail virtues: patriotism, national defense, antielitism, take your pick.
Homemade signs admonished those seeking "profits," and images of the U.S. dollar bill were stand-ins for greed and inequality.
And then a twelfth holds three porcelain pots, beautiful and frail, as stand-ins for the Jews who lived here.
From Bagel Bites to Toaster Strudels, we've found the perfect grown-up stand-ins for our once-beloved childhood treats.
All of these characters are plausible stand-ins for and conflations of people who float around in the film industry.
Aster may not be the only team forced to use stand-ins for the ESL One L.A. Major as Virtus.
These ugly-beautiful full-size human stand-ins aren't just lifelike; they can insinuate their way right to your core.
Kruger, whose company Sombrero Hydroponics has seen a spike in customer inquiries since September, used two artificial poinsettias as stand-ins.
In the end, Queen and Slim, and all the other composite characters in the film are archetypes, stand-ins, poor summaries.
Some were there to work through their family issues, others just to serve as stand-ins— Familienaufstellung junkies, people call them.
I imagined my stand-ins circling the room for hours, telling dismal tales about my ancestors until I finally broke down.
Her stand-ins — Gordon Ramsay, Rebel Wilson, Cardi B, and Anthony Hopkins — manage to insult, embarrass, unsettle, and ultimately fail their users.
"Harry and Meghan, if you're looking for stand-ins @markruffalo and I are just hangin' around," she wrote, adding the hashtag #congratulationsharryandmeghan.
The Meyers, in Suburbicon, aren't really characters at all, but ideas, symbols, stand-ins for their entire race, paragons of black respectability.
So if you ever want to switch up your spaghetti suppers, the following eight boxes are more than suitable savory stand-ins.
Consciously or not, they become stand-ins for fans — that is, Lady Gaga's Little Monsters, Beyoncé's Beyhive and Perfume Genius's Chowder Goblins.
His hair is Elvis-ish, black and combed up, with wisps falling in front of his ears, as stand-ins for sideburns.
Most great horror monsters are stand-ins for some cultural anxiety like fear in the atomic age or scientific overreach or racism.
They govern much of daily life for residents living in their areas of control, stand-ins for a corrupt and ineffectual government.
Their picture books feature peace-loving bulls, cookie-loving mice and oversize red dogs who make excellent stand-ins for little humans.
Those interim clearances became stand-ins for the larger Washington debate over links between members of the Trump campaign and Russian officials.
Cado: Yeah, that's what that's part of why I saw them as more as stand-ins for the concept of other people.
The mutual devotion of my mother and grandmother, for instance, and the eerie way that the stand-ins captured my three uncles.
Compared to the president's many strange and ineffectual stand-ins, Gaetz seems, even in his wildest flights and absurdist accusations, remarkably sane.
They borrow the aesthetics and drape them over simple stories about good versus evil where Elder Gods are stand-ins for malevolent forces.
State news outlets warn that the diminishing supply has attracted a flood of fake stand-ins for donkey gelatin, a popular traditional medicine.
When the camera focuses on individuals, they serve as emotional stand-ins, proxies for something else — that mystery is part of the appeal.
Homemade signs admonished those seeking "profits," and images of the U.S. dollar bill and Scrooge McDuck were stand-ins for greed and inequality.
Simple, terrifying, 3D doll models are used to perfect effect throughout the game, as stand-ins for game characters and representational symbols alike.
Those stand-ins were designed after Shigeru Miyamoto, the mastermind behind almost every iconic Nintendo franchise, and Breath of the Wild producer Aonuma.
But here, pieces are jarringly decontextualized of their historical circumstances, as if stand-ins for an experience of immigration, of a new home.
They have become stand-ins for good design, as the styles they loosely describe have endured and only become more popular over time.
A History of College Admissions Schemes, From Encoded Pencils to Paid Stand-Ins College admissions scandals have run the gamut through the years.
More important, they see them as stand-ins for middle-class viewers who are struggling to pay the bills, get ahead and stay sane.
But the cheese cube does work, and he uses different colors of pushpins as stand-ins for the colored squares on a traditional Cube.
In a way, Ring Pops are obvious stand-ins for diamonds and gold bands, (albeit, usually because the couple is still learning long-division).
If all local Republicans and Democrats are just stand-ins for the national Republican or Democratic Party, candidates themselves don't matter all that much.
She took to Instagram to quip about the resemblance, jokingly thanking Jonas and Chopra for being their "stand ins" for New Girl season 8.
For a lot of people, Lyft, Uber and other ride-hailing companies effectively act as stand-ins for public transport, biking or even walking.
As much as Murray's subjects seem to be domestic objects — tables, chairs, sneakers, coffee cups — I think of them as stand-ins for painting.
The two players seemed for a moment like nothing so much as stand-ins for their teams, and for the fickleness of October baseball.
The network brought in stand-ins and actors who are about the same height as each candidate to play them in rehearsals, Feist said.
Sometimes they're deployed as stand-ins for the cruel and privileged aristocracy, others for the marginalized, driven to the shadows under threat of violence.
Forensic scientists have long used dead pigs and other animals as stand-ins for humans to better understand how the body decomposes after death.
His broken plates are stand-ins for feelings: a smart if by now tiresome way to sell his awkward paint handling and inflated ego.
That's why she shows up herself for lighting and camera set up, though it is expected that hired stand-ins endure the technical rehearsals.
She said that although early roles gained her a reputation for often being nude on camera, in fact the skin belonged to stand-ins.
At our training session at the Davenport Public Library, we practiced navigating the chaos by using fruits as stand-ins for the Democratic candidates.
The intensity of the sessions seems to be addictive, and, according to the Heidelberg study, they're almost equally therapeutic for patients and stand-ins.
Goliath enlisted the aid of 19 women, recruited mostly through random interactions in public, to be photographed as stand-ins for her childhood friend, Berenice.
I'd say about 150 wigs total were used in season two, because every single one of our characters and stand ins had a wig, too.
In light of this critique, the people in his photographs become stand-ins for some universal crisis, essentially metaphors instead of complicated, difficult human beings.
Over the years, the theory has been tested in hundreds of peer-reviewed studies, with countless stand-ins for the chocolate, radishes, and the quiz.
Image: NASA/JPL-CaltechThe six wheels that were installed on June 13, it's important to point out, are temporary stand-ins for the real thing.
We rehearsed daily with our second team stand-ins, who performed the entire episode as actors as we learned the camera, lighting, and acting choreography.
Yeah. There were a few specific spare pickups, or shots that they needed to get, so they did have some guys who were stand-ins.
The first are the type that are just stand-ins for real-world sites and apps that would've cost the production company licensing fees otherwise.
Mainly in westerns, indigenous Americans were alternately nature's noblemen and creatures of untrammeled id, stand-ins for Chinese communists and the third world's oppressed masses.
In this way, the dueling attorneys don't merely represent two sides in the impeachment debate—they've served as stand-ins for the two parties themselves.
We can't reverse the clock, but we do suggest new structures, including some promising nonprofit initiatives, to act as stand-ins for failing business models.
Even though Peter Schlesinger appears in the film, we never see the real version of him, just various stand-ins for how Hockney imagines him.
The president accepted a meeting with top executives from six mining companies, but insisted they come to Kinshasa in person; no stand-ins would be admitted.
They have also been beloved as our stand-ins, infiltrating the stories we tell about ourselves, appearing as tricksters and fools, pompous kings and yearning commoners.
It's not just turkey, potatoes, and pecan pie anymore; herb-crusted tofu, quinoa with veggies, and gluten-free, vegan pies are becoming more regular stand-ins.
Baring's retreats usually last two days and include ten to fifteen patients, who take turns working with her and acting as stand-ins for one another.
Like the prequels, the blades of the lightsabers on-screen would be added digitally, with the on-camera fights taking place with plastic prop stand-ins.
Their company, San Gabriel Beverage Group, now also makes wine-based stand-ins for rum, gin, vodka and whiskey that are sold at a few thousand restaurants.
I found women that I had an emotional connection with or a physical connection with, or both, so they could be sort of stand-ins for me.
Using X and Y as stand-ins, snowclones are easy to spot: X is my middle name, a few Xs short of a Y, and so on.
So Junger and Paltrow are not sources women should trust more than their own health professionals, and Paltrow's suggestion that they are sufficient stand-ins is lunacy.
While we fully support either choice, it's hard to tell which booties are authentic — and which are the work of tight-assed stand-ins and seamless editing.
Emily: It's interesting how you describe the way the show frequently turned the characters of color into "stand-ins" for certain news stories or other sociopolitical moments.
The drug dealers are really just stand-ins for forces that are eating away at many American families: rampant gun violence and the cruel logic of capitalism.
" He recalls using his father's Super 8 camera to replicate the film's banquet scenes with the vain villainous Skeksis creatures, with his toys as stand-ins. "Now.
Most of them hardly have an ounce of imagination, though, mostly just retelling the same old story while replacing its original characters with in-universe stand-ins.
Windmills, as stand-ins for human activity, absorb and reflect Mondrian's masterful light – sometimes glowing red in direct sunlight, and other times cloaked in shade near sundown.
Most of the Thrombeys (with the exception of the alt-right teenager) have their own idiosyncrasies and don't feel like thin stand-ins for a political point.
After the revelation that Jake and Gemma are just stand-ins for Jimmy and Gretchen, Geere and Cash play Jake and Gemma for the rest of the episode.
If the original renders its emotional distress in hyperrealist 217K, the remix is an expressionist reworking—with violent streaks of color as stand-ins for form and action.
Beyond gyms, Transpose cabin modules can be stand-ins for spas, napping pods, gaming centers, dining areas, yoga studios, or even, as one traveler suggested, a karaoke lounge.
Bonet makes these images based on memories of her own fleeting moments within the city, using actors she hires as stand-ins for ongoing processing of the landscape.
The Saturday afternoon Oscars rehearsal is starry, but low-key, with stagehands, cameramen, actor stand-ins and production crew coming and going on stage at any given time.
Two stuffed pandas, meanwhile were the arm candy of Jackie Chan, stand-ins for the real pandas the action star adopted at a breeding facility in Chengdu, China.
This is the Season 4 episode when most people will be tempted to see the Underwoods as stand-ins for Bill and Hillary Clinton, assuming they haven't already.
The hosts of the first two seasons, fitfully struggling toward consciousness between occupational assaults and killings, were always stand-ins in a parable about free will and enslavement.
But with Poussey's death in season four, the showrunners decided to turn Litchfield into a reflection of modern politics and characters became stand-ins for trending Twitter hashtags.
Memes frequently operate as exemplars of larger trends, as well as stand-ins for cultural anxieties and ways to express and alleviate fears or other emotions through humor.
Morris "has an adroit hand for characterization and atmosphere; the people feel real even when they actually are stand-ins for the uncanny," our reviewer, N.K. Jemisin, said.
Thus, queer men's readings get projected onto these women performers who become complicated stand-ins for their own feelings of disenfranchisement, particularly in terms of mainstream visibility and desirability.
Brady, Davis, and Gallagher each engaged a wonder-team of six parental stand-ins, asking them for a set of instructions to outline the creation of a collaborative work.
Employees of the Panamanian law firm served as Simsbury International's "nominee" directors, stand-ins who controlled the company on paper but who exercised no real authority over its activities.
The Drunk History segment: Once again, Drunk History deigns to give proper credit for historical actions to the people who carried them out, rather than bland fictional stand-ins.
The willingness of the Apollo 10 crew to serve as something like stand-ins instead of the stars of the show would in time be generously rewarded by NASA.
None of its main characters are meant to be stand-ins for the Dark Crystal's "chosen one" story, which saw one Gelfling fulfilling a prophecy and saving the planet.
Physicians and many other health professionals are allowed to bill for the work of "extenders" — stand-ins with less training who see patients and work under the supervising doctor.
I would go over with my stand-in how I thought I was going to play the other part, and the stand-ins did a great job performing that.
Here's a fact for you: When filming Jurassic Park, they used emus as stand-ins for the various two-legged dinosaurs, zoologist and emu expert Todd Green told National Geographic.
Adult entertainment site CamSoda announced today that they're rolling out a new feature called "Camoji," which allows users to create their own customized digital stand-ins — think Bitmoji but dirtier.
My guess is for Americans of a certain generation for whom Jackson and Farrakhan are stand-ins for black political activism in particular, Chicago and urban black power are entwined.
However, in this case, I think the Post (and I) are assuming that the nodes for Russian government and Russian business are stand-ins for individuals that are still unknown.
The Saturday night closer, Urban waded out onto the field to perform "The Fighter," rousing the throngs to be stand-ins for Underwood, his duet partner on the hit single.
These feeds show up on the display just below a driver's line of sight out of the cockpit, and act as stand-ins for the side and rear view mirrors.
Some artists, like Amelia Bauer and Cassandra Klos, use desert landscapes as stand-ins for imagined territories you might see in films like Star Trek, Flash Gordon, or The Martian.
They acted as stand ins for ordinary Americans and small business owners who are skeptical of the radical socialist policies on major issues such as health care and energy reform.
There's a cereal bowl filled with plushy stand-ins for sugary cereal, perfect for iconic ball-pit photos that were popularized by the Museum of Ice Cream and Color Factory.
He has written great female characters — given humanity by brilliant performers — but too many are ditzes, shrews and dewy young things gaga over uncomfortably older men and Allen stand-ins.
It depicts a police officer in riot gear standing in front of a crowd of long-haired, sneering young people with lighters and signs about fascism (seemingly antifa stand-ins).
It also adds a critical note of quasi-parental sympathy — picturing laser discs, cigarettes and Monster Energy drinks as so many teddy-bear stand-ins seems both apt and generous.
Beans are also excellent stand-ins for meat in certain recipes, like using chickpeas in a riff on Indian butter chicken, and filling tacos with black beans instead of pork.
Stand-ins rarely fit in as well as Maikelele did with the four other players and often don't have hours, days or weeks of practice with those players under their belt.
We've spoken to others in the industry who say their experience is, rather than using makeup, casting directors typically make a point of hiring stand-ins who match the actors' complexions.
The disparate recording sessions—and the fact this was the show's first serious attempt of real life caricature—meant the nine ringers were not playing themselves but true cartoon stand-ins.
The Harlem Groove Band includes four regular musicians in addition to Mr. Jones, but every session features familiar stand-ins, many of whom have been playing with the band for years.
The traditional high-fat, high-cholesterol foods that our grandparents enjoyed—like butter, egg yolks, and red meat—actually confer a host of benefits not offered by low-fat stand-ins.
His daily briefings have essentially become stand-ins for his campaign rallies that are on hiatus until the coronavirus recedes — his way to communicate with the public and rally his base.
Mr. Gonzales, who grew up in circumstances similar to his students,' directs folklórico at all three Porterville high schools, where cafeterias serve as stand-ins for dance studios with sprung floors.
After three years, Ms. Kavovit shuttered Stand-Ins, established a new company, Anchor, and moved her base of operations to New York City to take on corporate and retail construction projects.
Particularly in the US, racist depictions of fictional characters have often become stand-ins for the negative stereotypes they represent — the "Uncle Tom," the "Mammy," the "Stepin Fetchit," and so on.
Elsewhere on the campaign trail, President Trump's impeachment trial is keeping senators far from Iowa for the second week in a row, so their stand-ins have become the main attraction.
Bryan Cranston and James Franco are at odds in this comedy in which they play stand-ins for opposing generations: older, more proper men and the offensive whippersnappers of the future.
Instead, Burr's feelings about home are ventriloquized through a set of stand-ins, including the musician Jim Morrison, artist Anni Albers, philosopher Jean Genet, and former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
Along with a previous novelette called The Litany of Earth, it subverts Lovecraft's notorious racism by making his monsters — which were often thinly veiled stand-ins for people of color — sympathetic protagonists.
"Just in case Colton quits .. they brought stand Ins #thebachelor" Nick, 38, captioned the shot of the men smiling together outside, as Colton held a giant bouquet of roses in his hand.
This would matter, because mice are often used in medical experiments on the assumption that their reactions are similar enough to those of human beings for them to act as stand-ins.
DJ EZ was plucked from Freek FM by the newly-minted Kiss 100 in late November 1999 after a series of standout guest slots and stand-ins for garage pioneers Tuff Jam.
I was curious: If Roman or Hims had a hard time getting Outfront to approve words like "erectile" or visual penis stand-ins, the news hadn't made its way to the media.
They are also the viewer's stand-ins, fulfilling the fantasy of a life of passive control over a vast switchboard of political consequences, and the two-headed dragon of the fan base.
That's because it's accepted that she treats her models as mannequins instead of stand-ins for her ideal consumers, covering their faces with makeup, wigs, and garments, sometimes completely obscuring their identities.
Over the past week, people have been organizing their own events and bringing along cardboard cutouts and makeshift stand-ins of their lawmakers to use if their invited congressmen don't show up.
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg also gave international legislators zero facetime, with the company opting to send local head of policy, Kevin Chan, and global head of policy, Neil Potts, as stand ins.
Some 70 of those are part of the exhibition, while items collected in a similar fashion have been chosen as stand-ins for others that were lost or too fragile for display.
In the spirit of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco, the play uses its two characters more as flat stand-ins through which various ideas can be voiced than as rounded, human individuals.
Here, however, these diversions carry as much weight as the romance, which means that the focus finally remains as much on the Cuban people as on their two charmingly sincere stand-ins.
To Watchmen readers, it's clear that this is based on a true story: The superheroes in question are stand-ins for Nite Owl, Doctor Manhattan, and the power-mad Adrian Veidt a.k.a.
In a first, best world, we would have quick nominations, where vetting was good, and we would have pretty quick confirmations — and the need to have these stand-ins would be much less.
That system broke down one day in 2013 when she took a break to grab a bite at a nearby headquarters for peace advocates and her scheduled stand-ins failed to show up.
Scouring the best of these ersatz services, we compiled the best of these websites and apps, chosen for being either oh-so-obvious stand-ins or notable staples of their respective fictional worlds. 
The casting website Project Casting has released a listing for "actors, extras, stand-ins, photo doubles and other paid positions" for the Netflix series, which will start filming in California later this summer.
While that hatred of Clinton isn't universal among Democrats, vilification of the uber-wealthy and top 1% of earners is common in the party, making Epstein's rich associates easy stand-ins for ire.
A good way to reduce your waste contribution is by assembling a kit of reusable stand-ins and popping it into your commuting bag or office desk drawer so it's always within reach.
The same could be asked of fictional black soldiers in the 1989 film Glory, who were used as stand-ins for the real-life heroes whose shoes the actors attempted to walk in.
Naturally, allowing visitors to touch the rarer books would have destroyed them, but it would have been nice to at least have text descriptions or other stand-ins for some of the archived works.
There is a way in which he suggests that the people who have long been collectively regarded as stand-ins of oppression and exploitation also see all of what is happening all around them.
Thus accountants, or their stand-ins in this case, tax-savvy investment advisors, do good service and are perhaps more likely to deliver what they promise than the would-be Buffetts of this world.
Of course, these 20-year-olds in a new relationship become stand-ins for another broken relationship: the one between Richard Webber and Catherine Avery, whose marriage has been on the rocks for weeks.
My focus on pundits may seem narrow, but we're stand-ins for a much larger group of Americans, including politicians, many of whom denounced the Covington kids as prematurely and confidently as pundits did.
Letterman discussed Smith's dexterity on set, having to react to tennis balls, stunt men and sometimes nothing at all as stand-ins for the digital critters that were added to the shot in postproduction.
Embraces like that are crucial stand-ins for a whole people that includes slain teenagers, motorists, pedestrians and passengers, as well as dubiously convicted or harshly sentenced sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, cousins and friends.
Meanwhile, it's not unusual for presidents to use advisors or officials as stand-ins at key meetings—especially at a major summit like the G-20, where meetings and bilateral sessions overlap one another.
In reaching these findings, the study compared Maryland's hospitals with analogous ones in other states, which served as stand-ins for what would have happened to Maryland hospitals had global budgeting not been introduced.
Given their disparate career paths, Dempsey and Donovan long have served as convenient stand-ins for a broader debate within an American soccer culture still self-conscious about its place in the global hierarchy.
And some wealthy parents were willing to bribe their childrens' way in, either by hiring stand-ins to take or correct college entrance exams or through payments to college sports coaches to fabricate athletic credentials.
"Noisey," about music, and "Weediquette," about marijuana, both follow the Vice tactic of putting preppy hosts — stand-ins for the mostly young, male Vice audience — into environments where their presence is its own visual joke.
Medical science uses animals a lot—but almost always they are there to act as stand-ins for human beings, a role encapsulated in the word "model" that is often applied to such laboratory organisms.
Morgan rejiggered the script to account for Walker's absence and the production team used a combination of CGI and Walker's younger brothers as stand-ins to get the shots they needed to complete the film.
One interesting little anecdote that came up was that early on in development, before all of the non-player characters in the game had been designed, the team used stand-ins for all the characters.
Yet with President Trump's impeachment trial suddenly forcing the senators in the Democratic race off the campaign trail for the second week in a row, their stand-ins have become something else: the main attraction.
That means the candidates who can't be there themselves during the workweek are relying like never before on influential stand-ins to make their closing arguments before the all-important Iowa caucuses begin next week.
Usually on an unconscious level, to gain for ourselves attention and admiration from strangers — generally as anonymous stand-ins for parents who we think in one way or another failed to adequately recognize our specialness.
Two stand-ins are covered in disguises — including glasses, a beard, and a cardboard cutout of Lee's face — to complete the story of an action film actor who fakes his own death to seek revenge.
Such strategic productions prevented more nuanced and sincere ideas about queer women's pleasure, sensuality, and eroticism from entering the mainstream, rendering queer love invisible and offering straight, saccharine substitutes as stand-ins for the real thing.
Rieghardt "flexeeee" Romatzki, Gareth "MisteM" Ries and Josh "bLazE" Saunders, all from South Africa, lead the team along with South Africa's Rhys "Fadey" Armstrong and Canada's Tyson "TenZ" Ngo, who are both serving as stand-ins.
In an interview last week, Ms. Strout said she did not use her characters as pawns to make a greater point, nor as stand-ins for her own experiences, as readers often assume that writers do.
Bath lotion and other substances that contain ethyl alcohol are sometimes used as cheap stand-ins for regular alcohol in Russia, but this batch contained methanol, which is highly toxic and can be fatal when ingested.
The center issued a scathing report on Thursday on the police practices those documents revealed — including celebrity photographs being used as stand-ins when culprits caught on camera were too blurry to run through the database.
Natural sounds — like the blast of city clamor that greets Aila upon leaving the doctor's office — become stand-ins for visual information, while Rosie's unexpected gusts of foul language signal the bitterness of long-endured humiliations.
German is using suckling pigs, for example, as stand-ins for swallow-challenged newborns to better understand "silent aspiration," in which the body makes little or no attempt to eject food or water breathed into the lungs.
In our current moment, the phrase "big game hunter" brings to mind the Trump sons posing with their kills, holding dead leopards and detached elephant trunks as sublimated stand-ins for wealth, privilege, and supposed masculine strength.
"Photographers have long used similar strategies to speak of the unphotographable, showing something — spaces or people's possessions — as stand-ins for, or reflections of, people's inner worlds," states photography writer Jörg M. Colberg in a book essay.
In his sewing with thread or copper wire on crepe, velvet, cotton or voile, stitching takes the place of brush strokes and the works become stand-ins for objects in everyday life: satchels, handkerchiefs and embroidery samplers.
While the game's "Battle Royale" mode is free to play, "Fortnite" makes millions of dollars each day on in-game purchases where players buy new costumes and tools (like a pick-axe) for their virtual stand-ins.
Aiming to demonstrate this second theory at home tends to involve a small spotlight, a globe, and some kind of ball on a stick— not exactly sound stand-ins for our massive sun and the comparably puny moon.
On a night when speechmaking was kept to a minimum, both singers acted as political stand-ins and activists (for fighting AIDS, in the case of Mr. John, and championing women's rights, in the case of Ms. Perry).
She's usually hired for her hands, which have grasped a Chanel No. 5 perfume bottle, held a Christian Louboutin shoe, revealed a Dior Rouge lipstick — and have been stand-ins for those of Penélope Cruz and Katy Perry.
In all, parents spent $25 million in bribes to fake their kids' athletic abilities and Photoshop photos of them playing sports, convince coaches to designate them as recruits, and get stand-ins to take their college admission tests.
By saying that the white men we use as stand-ins for all of humanity are off-kilter, it's as though we can trick ourselves into thinking that our ideals are intriguingly subversive, rather than monolithic and unvaried.
Many of her novels and stories face the risk that's encountered by all philosophically and politically inclined literary endeavors — a feeling that the characters are stand-ins for particular ideas, that plots are schematic frameworks for particular arguments.
Potential Workers Party stand-ins, former Sao Paulo Mayor Fernando Haddad and former Bahia state Governor Jaques Wagner, only have 1 percent of voter support, Datafolha said, and 61 percent of those polled said they would reject Lula's candidate.
It has maaaaybe the suggestion that the robots will become sentient at some point down the line, and possibly the idea that the theme park employees are stand-ins for modern entertainment creators (more on that in a moment).
But the reality is there is nothing safe about partial automation, and in the rosy glow of what could be, these unproven technologies are being allowed on city streets, using real people as stand-ins for crash-test dummies.
South Africa's ATK announced their new Counter-Strike: Global Offensive roster on Monday, and the new-look squad features two stand-ins to go along with three signed players as ATK return to action after a month away from competition.
The world's most cyberpunk-y businesses, the ones busy developing virtual reality headsets while enmeshing humanity in massive data networks that track our every move, didn't ready their salaried assassins and killer viruses as their sci-fi stand-ins would.
By treating animals with existing cancers, it hopes to dodge a problem with modern animal research, which is that the "model" animals and diseases that are used to test drugs are not always good stand-ins for the natural illness.
The genre has excelled at big wish-fulfillment metaphors about empowering marginalized people, from awkward, bullied teenagers like Peter Parker to the ever-evolving X-Men, whose persecution has made them stand-ins for everything from AIDS patients to gay kids.
Photo: Getty ImagesThe image of a lab rat is an iconic symbol of scientific research, and for good reason: These rodents are remarkably good stand-ins for human subjects because of how closely their physiology and genetic make-up resemble ours.
Part of what defines these teams is the versatility of their rosters—almost every Rocket can hit a three; almost every Spur can bust up a pick-and-roll—but for our purposes the stars serve as fine stand-ins.
It tried an unusual method of sticking it to the man: It opened a shell restaurant called the Blue Donkey, registered it for orders through unwitting food delivery services and created fake menu items that were stand-ins for campaign contributions.
Ceb and Omar "Madara" Dabachach will get the nod as stand-ins for Yeik "MidOne" Nai Zheng or Topias "Topson" Taavitsainen, who are unable to join their teammates for the European region of the tournament due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
The pair was the show's comic relief, sprinkling witty banter and double entendres throughout each episode, and their lack of baking expertise let them act as stand-ins for home viewers who may not know a dampfnudel from a dacquoise.
MIAMI (Reuters) - Football players from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the scene of a horrific mass shooting that left 17 dead, acted as stand-ins for the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs during dress rehearsals for Sunday's Super Bowl.
"If Lizzo is an artist who supports body positivity, feminism, and an unapologetic being in the world, then all of those things become stand-ins for what those particular candidates support," says University of Virginia professor of hip hop A.D. Carson.
Even the movie's white characters — who are clearly stand-ins for ways affluent white people often tend to think about race — feel less like the cardboard cutouts they could have been and more like real people, by dint of good writing.
Woods' usual caddie Joe LaCava, meanwhile, is expected to still in attendance at Hero World Challenge, but like last year, will be taking a break from his caddie duties and solely be there to provide tips and jokes to the temporary stand-ins.
When she runs away with Elfo and Luci, who act as stand-ins for Fry and Bender, respectively, she gets some advice from an old fairy sex worker voiced by Tress MacNeille, who also voiced the recurring elderly prostitute Petunia on Futurama.
A litany of fourth-wall-breaking meta-jokes served as mouthpieces for criticisms that a subset of fans waged against the last season, with others serving as stand-ins for co-creator Dan Harmon's response to those criticisms (to paraphrase: "fuck off").
It's clear that teens are being exposed to more anal-related content than before, but their scope of knowledge about butt play Illustrates the extremes of accessibility to sex ed (and the cultural stand-ins for sex ed, like porn and other media).
We are used to seeing that civil rights leader, or his pseudonymous stand-ins, fictionalized and anatomized in plays like "The Mountaintop" by Katori Hall, "The Good Negro" by Tracey Scott Wilson and "The Man in Room 306" by Craig Alan Edwards.
State party officials also argued that the networks that were hacked were not good stand-ins for the virtual caucus systems they are building; they claim, for instance, that their telephonic caucuses cannot be compared to the teleconference system the security firm breached.
But it was also a reaction to Guyvilles everywhere: the male-dominated indie-rock scene she strived to be a part of; the boyfriend who said she could never make an album; and, for those of us listening, our own stand-ins.
When Billy goes up onstage with Destiny's Child (sadly, played by obvious stand-ins), Lee films most of Billy's march around the stage and behind it in long, unbroken shots that flash between a Thanksgiving Day football game and the horrors of Iraq.
I understand that this is a very personal story for Nanjiani, and one of my biggest frustrations is when people of color (POC) are tasked by white people with being stand-ins for their entire culture rather than simply being allowed to tell their stories.
The invitees are stand-ins for victory laps Trump intends to take on tax cuts and the economy and symbols of the agenda he's pushing, such as a crackdown on undocumented immigrants — all topics likely to be covered in his State of the Union address.
Accompanied by a soundtrack of traditional Arabic and Western music, the enigmatic Cheshire cat in "Gone Down the Rabbit Hole" (2010–12) and the crow in "I Come From the Land of Ideology" (2010–12) serve as stand-ins for ominous figures in Iran.
During the 2700-18 flu season, one of the deadliest in 40 years, with more than 61,000 flu-related deaths across the country, overwhelmed hospitals in some parts of the country pitched tents outside ERs and used ambulances as stand-ins for patient rooms.
Two of The Authority's male heroes, Apollo and Midnighter — who were essentially stand-ins for Superman and Batman — were lovers, and the book was built on the question of where its heroes would derive their authority from in the absence of a UN mandate.
That means that Wu can perform lots of his own stunts and fights, and, equally as important, lets the camera take a wider approach to actually allow viewers to see the action instead of trying to hide stuntmen stand-ins through close camera work and rapid cuts.
Rhys and Russell's stand-ins — people who literally stand in place for the show's actors in order to help the crew set up when the actors themselves can't be there — hang out and chat while lighting techs and camera operators arrange their equipment before the cameras roll.
On social media, the Atlanta Falcons were not just the N.F.C. champions, they were stand-ins for anti-Trump ferment, coming from a staunchly Democratic city and facing a Patriots team whose owner, head coach and starting quarterback are all friends with the president, to varying degrees.
The strength of True Blood's early seasons (things got very weird around season 4, even for a show that casually tried to introduce the concept of were-panthers) lays in the framing of supernatural beings as "the other," stand-ins for all marginalized people, particularly the LGBTQ+ community.
Like the instantly memorable coffee cup that mistakenly appeared in a scene during this same episode, Jon's treatment of Ghost, and Nutter's response to criticism of that treatment, seem to have become stand-ins for some fans' growing dissatisfaction with Game of Thrones' last season as a whole.
Films like Almost Famous and Velvet Goldmine were among many to cover worlds that overlapped with Vinyl, but they hedged by focusing on fictional stand-ins for their real-life inspirations, freeing them up to speak more to the effect these figures had on their fans and followers.
Because of an ongoing vacancy in the final Senate-confirmed Justice Department post on the agency's own succession list — assistant attorney general for the Environmental and Natural Resources Division — the list of potential stand-ins to oversee the Mueller probe would next go to federal prosecutors scattered around the country.
He and his band of pranksters — a mix of real figures, like Phil Ochs, and stand-ins for real figures, like Sy Neuman (Jerry Rubin) — drop dollar bills on traders at the New York Stock Exchange, haul tenement trash to Lincoln Center, mail joints to establishment bigwigs and nominate a pig for president.
Destiny (Constance Wu) and Ramona (Jennifer Lopez), in particular, are stand-ins for real-life hustlers Roselyn Keo and Samantha Barbash, respectively, the two women at the center of a 2015 New York Magazine article, "The Hustlers At Scores," about their exploits swindling hundreds of thousands of dollars from rich Wall Street men.
Mr. Barrows and his first wife, Billie, a pianist and singer, were on their honeymoon in North Carolina in 22008, arriving from California, when they were recruited to join a Graham event, a Youth for Christ rally, as last-minute stand-ins for Mr. Graham's regular song leader, who had been summoned to Chicago.
Howard Wolfson, a veteran Democratic strategist who entered Bloomberg's orbit in 2009 after working on Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential race, is playing the role of Sanders; Julie Wood, Bloomberg's national press secretary, is portraying Elizabeth Warren; and senior advisers Marc La Vorgna and Marcia Hale are stand-ins for Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar, respectively.
For de Chirico, the style gelled in 43, during the heyday of Analytical Cubism, when he managed to fuse the dark Symbolism of Arnold Böcklin, the innocent eye of Henri Rousseau, and the radical critiques of Friedrich Nietzsche into a vision of desolate piazzas, vertiginous perspectives, and mannequin stand-ins for a soulless humanity.
Scott's film is full of female characters who are all replicants, yet their literal objectification is barely explored; East Asian aesthetics pervade its vision of dystopian LA, yet Asian characters are largely background players; its cyborgs are meant to be stand-ins for oppressed minority groups, but few, if any, minorities are actually present on screen.
In Us, the Tethered – who can be interpreted as stand-ins for exactly the kind of oppressed and marginalized people that Hands Across America was intended to help – decide to stage their own version of the event, and it's actually somewhat successful: The final shot shows a long line of red-jumpsuited figures winding through the mountains.
Their stand-ins here, the Ain't Rights, from Arlington, Va. — Mr. Saulnier grew up in nearby Alexandria — are on a doomed West Coast tour, desperately in need of gas money, when they are offered a last-minute show in the backwoods of Oregon for an audience of "skins" they're warned are right-wing but hospitable enough.
When I read Bishop's "12 O'Clock News," for instance, in which the objects arrayed on the writer's desk — the gooseneck lamp, the typed sheet, the envelopes, the ink bottle — become stand-ins for a mythical landscape, I can't help thinking of the still lifes of vases, jars and books that Ghirri photographed in the painter Giorgio Morandi's studio.
Grossman's books are available, but not widely, in a regime that legitimizes itself by glorifying the Russian past and especially the Soviet Union's victory in World War II. Popoff's book has its flaws: Its writing can be labored and she too often assumes that characters in Grossman's novels and stories can be considered stand-ins for him.
It appears many have decided that gritty realism — however twisted to serve some goal that requires they do marginally more work — for games where you run around shooting people in the face and magically come back to life isn't really a good reason to not include half of the human population as proper player stand-ins.
The tweet capturing the moment, showing Ivanka sandwiched between the UK Prime Minister Theresa May and Chinese President Xi Jinping, moved with the speed of social media's outrage at the unconventional decision of the U.S. president to place his daughter at the table with heads of state, when presidential stand-ins are traditionally ministers and other senior government officials.
Soloway's truly smart call rests in how the finale introduces a few stand-ins for Maura, in the form of a young trans girl who represents the life Maura might have had if she had transitioned during puberty, and an older, bald trans woman who takes on the role of Maura in a play staged by Shelly (Judith Light), Maura's ex-wife.
But the TPP and "trade" — the quotes are necessary because the most economically important features of the TPP agreement are not tariff reductions, but rather rules that give corporations and patent and copyright holders new rights and privileges — are mostly stand-ins for a larger set of neoliberal policies that have hurt the majority of Americans over the past few decades.
Both Crissman and Poe emit a spirit of unflagging optimism, which may make them viable stand-ins for Ross, and the weeklong active portion of the Trinosophes exhibition, 'The Alla Prima Institute' and/or 'Alla Prima All 'a Time', involved many lively conversations with visitors of all ages, some of whom also chose to drop-in on the painting sessions.
"One can no longer claim that Amazons were nothing but fantasy figures to be killed by mythic Greek heroes; that Amazon myths were invented to discourage Greek women from admiring strong women; that Amazons in Greek art were simply stand-ins for Persian men; and that there was nothing in the historical world shaped or influenced the images of Amazons in literature and art," Mayor says.
While, last year, the UK parliament got so frustrated with Facebook's evasive behavior during a timely enquiry into online disinformation, which saw its questions fobbed off by a parade of Zuckerberg stand-ins armed with spin and misdirection, that a sort of intergovernmental alchemy occurred — and the International Grand Committee on Disinformation was formed in an eye-blink, bringing multiple parliaments together to apply democratic pressure to Facebook.
In a line from the movie referring to Mr. Sulzberger's bold decision, the fictional stand-ins for the Times editor A. M. Rosenthal and his first wife, Ann Marie Burke, tell Ms. Graham that The Times's publisher took the risk only after his Washington bureau chief, James B. Reston, threatened to print the Pentagon Papers in the Vineyard Gazette, the small Martha's Vineyard paper he had bought a couple of years earlier.
"Darkcloth (_2000142)," displaying Sepuya's hand and the clip, appears in a row of other small photographs, each roughly 2½ x 2 feet, featuring the lush black curtain (or similar black screen) as a fully immersive backdrop for tableaus ranging from the sexually explicit — as with a close-up of Sepuya's face and camera flanked on either side by erect penises — to the suggestive — several show stand-ins for orifices, including the camera lens and a hole cut into a black screen.
Two Hollywood stars, some CEOs, doctors, lawyers and several other powerful parents face charges in an alleged fraud-and-bribery scheme that spotlights "how hollow the ideology of meritocracy in American higher education is," wrote Shan Wu.  Actors Lori Loughlin ("Full House") and Felicity Huffman ("Desperate Housewives") were the best known of the 33 parents accused of paying William Singer millions for scams that included photoshopping kids' faces onto athletes' bodies, faking disability, getting stand-ins to take the ACT, and bribing test proctors.
The list of things that Tingle's narrators have had sex with includes, but is not limited to: the state of California; glazed donuts; the Dress; Bigfoot pirates; a gay unicorn biker and a gay unicorn colonel, though not simultaneously; Donald Trump's attempt to avoid plagiarism accusations; Starbucks Christmas cups; a billionaire triceratops; a T. rex comedian and a clan of triceratops rappers (stand-ins for Bill Murray and the Wu Tang Clan); ghost boats; velociraptors from outer space; a secret-agent brontosaurus; the White House; the British pound; a plane; a train; a vampire night bus; his own books; press about his own books; existential dread; his own concept of linear time.

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