Mocking, humiliating, and denigrating scapegoats is their stock in trade.
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At Simon & Schuster, best sellers were her stock in trade.
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"Ephemeral images are my stock in trade," she says in voiceover.
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And threats, both veiled and direct, have long been Trump's stock-in-trade.
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Now that Hunter is fifty-nine, mothers are necessarily a stock-in-trade.
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But Dubuffet frustrates distinctions among mediums; frustrating distinctions was his stock in trade.
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In other words, blackmail and intimidation are part of his stock in trade.
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His stock-in-trade was debunking gloomy stereotypes about poor countries and economic development.
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But awkward, energetic phrases are Allen's stock-in trade and they've become Axios's too.
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Without them, collective action for collective benefit, the left's stock in trade, becomes impossible.
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Eye-rolling about millennial fecklessness is a stock-in-trade of press and media.
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Doling out advice on money matters is the stock in trade of the financial advisor.
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Superficiality can be inherent in any visual medium, but it's television news's stock in trade.
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Misunderestimation has already been the political stock in trade of one two-term Republican president.
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After all, that is the stock-in-trade of the marketing maven that is Trump.
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Helping Republican presidents act with impunity is William Barr's stock-in-trade — it's what he does.
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Its stock in trade includes art, letters, photos and other personal items that belonged to infamous killers.
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PRETTY actors, a labyrinthine plot and high jinks are the stock-in-trade of South Korean dramas.
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That kind of attention to detail is the stock in trade of this three-year-old hangout.
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For me, an observer of politics and a numbers guy, these metrics are my stock in trade.
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Companies like Microsoft and Tableau (now a subsidiary of Salesforce) have made analytics their stock in trade.
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It seems, at times, diametrically opposed to the sort of analysis that is my stock in trade.
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But then they diverge: Richardson's stock in trade is the bluesy smear, bending one keening note into another.
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Not just the stock-in-trade five-ounce portioned fillets but also pinwheels and roulades and planked slabs.
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But the clergy's stock-in-trade is moral authority, and the sex abuse crisis has clearly corroded their credibility.
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Mr. Baker occasionally hammered at uncaring government or big business, but frontal attacks were not his stock in trade.
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Sam's stock in trade mixes country with mild rap, so it wasn't a total left turn, but it was fantastic.
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He was beaten to death by one of the rebel groups, for whom arbitrary killing is a stock-in-trade.
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What's more, fiery speeches against the forces of concentrated wealth, Ms. Warren's stock in trade, may not be what Mrs.
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Words and ideas are my stock-in-trade as a writer and teacher; this constant brain fog was enormously frustrating.
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But his stock in trade was the supporting role, and his rugged but bland looks were right for almost any part.
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What comes across is green paint slopped over broken dishes, Schnabel's stock-in-trade, punctuated by eddies of pink and white.
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At Sacai, Chitose Abe riffed on the remixes that are her stock in trade, clothes whose unalike elements she fuses masterfully.
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Dramatic religious scenes, as with the stricken subjects depicted in "The Sacrifice of Isaac" (1526/1533), were his stock in trade.
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Off the Menu ARATA The chef Matthew Kenney's stock-in-trade is vegan cooking, though he prefers the term plant based.
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She and three other artists make all costume decisions relating to fingers and toes — ostensibly the main characters' stock-in-trade.
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Shock was his stock in trade: Just as a song began to feel familiar, he inserted his crazy lyrics, to uproarious effect.
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Some fans wondered, and worried: would their new album be a departure from the group's stock-in-trade brooding baritones and ballads?
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It is heartless, ice-cold stuff — shockingly intimate information used against an artist for whom intimacy was long his stock in trade.
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He did apologize for his racist remarks but never came to terms with the poisonous homophobia that was his political stock-in-trade.
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Ms. Lagarde's credibility, a central banker's stock in trade, hangs on how she handles the crisis with the limited resources at her disposal.
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But that's the way it is with Grimes: Great characters who say and do the most unexpected things are her stock in trade.
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The outcome in Hanoi, Vietnam, demonstrated the hazards of the personal diplomacy with authoritarian leaders that has become Mr. Trump's stock in trade.
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Yet fighting was their stock in trade, and recreational pastime, and both men odd jobbed as nightclub bouncers, debt collectors and mob enforcers.
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"Jorge Ramos' stock in trade is identifying and trying to drive wedges between race," King told Iowa radio host Jan Mickelson on 1040 WHO.
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"Jorge Ramos's stock in trade is identifying and trying to drive wedges between race," King told Iowa radio host Jan Mickelson on 1040 WHO.
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And the bill advances the conventional stock-in-trade, pro-big business agenda that has and will always be the lifeblood of Republican politics.
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Secrecy, of course, is the N.S.A.'s stock in trade, and acknowledging authorship of stolen cyberweapons runs counter to everything the spy agency does.
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Foolishness, and the deflating sensation that a culture that once encouraged sublime beauty now only permits dopey jokes, is Mr. Cattelan's stock in trade.
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And Mr Drezner thinks that there is little appetite among either reporters or readers for the dispiriting structural analyses that are professors' stock in trade.
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It encompasses the race-baiting, the conspiracy theorizing, the flirtations with violence, and the pathological lying that have been his campaign-trail stock in trade.
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It encompasses the race-baiting, the conspiracy theorizing, the flirtations with violence, and the pathological lying that have been his campaign-trail stock in trade.
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And he released "War," the sort of in-between-hits song that's become almost as much a Drake stock-in-trade as the hits themselves.
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Such conventional emotional tropes as loaded brushstrokes and anguished gestures — Bacon's stock-in-trade — are entirely absent in Gironcoli's basement-level views of mankind's defects.
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In the South, good fried chicken is any restaurant's stock in trade, and the expression "if it ain't fried, it ain't food" is not taken lightly.
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Stagers range from graduates of two-day certificate courses whose stock in trade is room deodorizers, to fancy designers who do only high-end spec jobs.
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Biden's campaign kickoff, late last month, was a letter-perfect example of his old stock-in-trade: talking like a populist and walking like a plutocrat.
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But these vulgar populists exact an exorbitant price: namely, complicity in the degradation, conspiracism, thinly veiled bigotry and leader-worship that is their stock in trade.
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According to CNN, King made the remarks to Iowa radio host Jan Mikelson: Jorge Ramos's stock in trade is identifying and trying to drive wedges between race.
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But if we accept a manipulation of the facts, we are no different than white supremacists for whom manipulation of the facts is their stock in trade.
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Subtly layered guitars and keyboards, sky-high solos and earnest, searching lyrics are the stock-in-trade of Adam Granduciel, the leader of the War on Drugs.
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The Reno 2 was just announced for that country today, bringing with it some of the unique, boundary-pushing features that have become Oppo's stock-in-trade.
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"Professionals, their stock in trade has to be their integrity," said Laurie Levenson, a former federal prosecutor and a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.
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One big difference, though, was in 1992, nostalgia was the stock in trade of social conservatives pining for the supposedly idyllic families of the "Father Knows Best" era.
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Some believe North Korea, whose diplomatic stock-in-trade is brinkmanship and provocation, could resume its activities including missile tests or cyberattacks, fueling a renewed escalation in hostilities.
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Analysts said the move is not a total surprise — brinkmanship is North Korea's diplomatic stock-in-trade — and does not necessarily mean the talks will not go ahead.
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This was easier in the days when politicians frequently drank at lunch—and some drank a lot—but remains a stock-in-trade even in these abstemious times.
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At all locations, the stock-in-trade is citrus-marinated raw fish with sweet potatoes and kernels of chubby Andean corn, in both its soft and crunchy forms.
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Because his stock in trade is credibility, Spicer took a great risk when he agreed to be chief spokesman for a president with such a loose relationship with facts.
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"But building brands and raising performance is stock-in-trade for RB, and the growth potential for infant milk sales is exciting, especially in the emerging markets," Clayton said.
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And her ample frame, reviewers sometimes noted, cut an unpersuasive figure of the consumptive heroine — think of Mimì in Puccini's "La Bohème" — that is grand opera's stock-in-trade.
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Since we are collecting data 365 days a year, Ipsos' stock-in-trade in the polling world is to identify how election events, developments, and 'surprises' may affect the polling.
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"Unlike Mr. Yiannopoulos' stock-in-trade, the ads themselves were innocuous, and self-evidently not an attempt to influence any opinion other than which book to buy," the ACLU said.
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VCE's main stock in trade is known by the unsexy name "converged infrastructure," and it accounted for more than $2 billion in revenue in 2014 with a loss of $357 million.
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So while it may seem strange that Playboy is choosing to retreat from its stock in trade amid the flood of nudity online and elsewhere, that's precisely why it's doing it.
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It is easy, and maybe accurate, to dismiss this as the kind of self-contradiction and doublespeak that is the Republicans' stock-in-trade, but it is also more than that.
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Doctored photos are a stock-in-trade of the internet, but as far as experts know, AI has not yet been used by state actors or political campaigns to produce deepfakes.
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And via painterly bias-cut slip dresses, in a former fashion life Mr. Galliano's stock in trade, this time trimmed in what looked like plastic wrap, layered under rough-cut tulle.
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The "romantic, elitist, individual-glorifying, and monograph-producing substructure" that Nochlin described, remains the stock-in-trade of the art industry, especially in regards to the marketing of artists and exhibitions.
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But you can't edit the wars out, first of all because they're still being waged, and second of all because self-destructive masculinity is the stock-in-trade of all armed conflict.
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He seemed to understand perfectly how the Doctor behaved, and his puzzle-like plots were a perfect match for the sorts of clever sci-fi that was Doctor Who's stock in trade.
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"Encore" is produced by Dave Cobb, who has made tactile, glossed revivalism his stock in trade in recent years; it is performed by an exceptionally sharp band that is unshy and enthused.
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But like the U.S.I.A. before it, the I.I.P.'s most tangible stock in trade is publications — in English and other languages — for global dissemination through U.S. embassies, consulates and, now, the internet.
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Its original stock in trade — landline telephone service — is now a shrinking share of its business compared to wireless, internet access and television via its U-Verse and newly acquired DirecTV service.
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Provocation is a stock-in-trade for right-wing writers in Washington, but former colleagues said Mr. Howley's behavior, in public tweets and private emails, went beyond mischief and into darker territory.
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Several people, liberals as well as conservatives, demanded that Ms Wolf apologise for mocking Mrs Sanders's appearance—though of course Mr Trump has made juvenile derision of people's looks his stock-in-trade.
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As talent agent Rick Peck, he repurposed his butter-smooth personality as something oilier and more unsavory, playing a knowing riff on the rascally-charmer type he'd originally made his stock-in-trade.
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These and other conspiracy theories are the stock-in-trade of Ancient Aliens, one of the longest-running and most popular programs on History, the cable network formerly known as the History Channel.
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Those whose stock in trade is racial identity politics pointed to the race of the shooter (he was white) and the different response the attack would have drawn had his skin been darker.
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"The composition and level of the stock-in-trade continue to improve, and we expect a decrease in markdowns again in the first quarter, for the sixth successive quarter," Karl-Johan Persson said.
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For bloggers, however, easy answers are our stock-in-trade, which is why I can confidently state that drafting tech executives into moderating their own sites is the best solution to this complex problem.
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Time & Space is Turnstile's most openly ambitious release, still peddling youthful exuberance as if it was their stock in trade, while baking in even more gleeful sections that will only further alienate their detractors.
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"My stock in trade has always been working harder than everyone else, and showing them how irrelevant they are," Karl Lagerfeld said of his competitors, and that was one of his kinder bons mots.
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Zac Brown is torn up over the pandemic ... he's broken up over temporarily saying goodbye to his stock-in-trade, and he's outraged that young people are hangin' out in beaches and other places.
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While beheading had been adopted by ISIS as their stock in trade, it would inevitably lose its shock value, driving jihadists to ramp up the levels of atrocity in order to continue capturing international attention.
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Our polymathic morgue custodian, Jeff Roth, who presides over tens of thousands of drawers of old photographs and yellowed, crumbling clippings, all the stock-in-trade of the obituary writer's work, was interviewed in situ.
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You don't need to be a psychiatrist to understand that the kind of hate and fear-mongering that is the stock-in-trade of Mr. Trump and his enablers can goad deranged people to action.
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Everyday Japanese fare — rice balls (onigiri), katsu (short for tonkatsu) fried cutlets, and sandwiches on white bread in bento boxes — is the stock-in-trade at this casual new spot on the Lower East Side.
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I loved the film, in no small part because of its perfect depiction of the everyday deceptions that are the stock-in-trade of my favorite fictional private eyes like Mars, Jim Rockford and Travis McGee.
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The aim was to find a theatrical language: Mr. Tiffany's stock-in-trade, be it the rough magic of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," or the explosive physicality of his "Black Watch," set in Iraq.
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Their stock-in-trade is comic versions of the great ballets, but their secret is that they are fantastic technicians, whose point work would give any principal dancer at a traditional company a run for her money.
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At times she managed to make Halep look like a clumsy club player with her clever re-directions and, of course, her stock in trade drop shots that landed as softly as butterflies on the lush Wimbledon grass.
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Dizzying plot twists and multiple surprise endings are this author's stock in trade, but she warms them up by establishing the close friendship between Sadie Loman, of the real-estate-owning Lomans, and Avery Greer, a rebellious townie.
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This approach tracks all the way down to Gaga's stage name, which references a Queen song ("Radio Gaga") and adds an honorific — "Lady" — that's most closely associated with drag and cabaret performers, whose stock in trade is pop interpretation.
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Youth Theater (Saturday) Evocative words and images — and a groundbreaking diversity in characters — were the stock in trade of the children's author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats (1916-1983), and this free annual event, part of the Celebrate Brooklyn!
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Because critics focussed on the ethics of "Missing Richard Simmons," not on its aesthetics, it was little noted that Taberski made use of the same arch humor and flamboyant pathos that had long been Simmons's own stock-in-trade.
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Your leader endorsing Hillary Clinton ("America's best hope", November 5th) was full of this stock-in-trade derision, even though many see Mrs Clinton as the queen of a corrupt consortium of big government, unions, media, academic and Hollywood interests.
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She highlighted a 30 percent increase in inventory compared to a year earlier and the company warned of a risk of increased mark-downs impacting its gross margin if that stock-in-trade is not sold down over the months ahead.
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While griping over journalistic credit is stock-in-trade in the media industry, the disagreement is an illuminating example of the ambiguous world of international reporting, where foreign correspondents often depend on local outlets to pave the way for their work.
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But he only fitfully comes by the visceral attack that was Osborne's stock in trade and that, as Robert Lindsay proved when he played Archie at the Old Vic in 2007, can make both the play and the character live anew.
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For operators, though, 5G is more about finding new ways to use sensors to generate exponential increases in volumes of data - the industry's stock in trade - to offset the deflation in prices that is now capping revenue growth and squeezing margins.
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Quentin Tarantino's second film was also his breakthrough into the mainstream, with a story that mashed up the best of pulpy crime stories with the sorts of long, rambling (but entertaining) conversations that have become the director's stock in trade.
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It's no coincidence that a tiny crucifix on the proposed coat of arms for 1630 New Amsterdam is dwarfed by the oversized initials of the Dutch West India Company and no fewer than three large beavers — the company's stock in trade.
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Colescott's stock-in-trade was the skewering of racial stereotypes through politically trenchant satire, often using shockingly racist imagery long before Kara Walker, who is represented in the collection but not in the show (Colescott died in 2009 at the age of 83).
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But dealers in the European Union, who can trade in worked ivory dating from before 1947, courtesy of an exemption in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, also have problems with this controversial stock-in-trade.
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I spend a lot of time thinking about recipes, since recipes are my stock in trade, but the truth of the matter is that they aren't always necessary, at least if you cook a lot, and understand the importance of balance and ratio.
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Splitting his show into two parts, he first presented a series of active sports clothes in the XXL proportions that are his stock in trade — think super-roomy shorts and sweat clothes emblazoned with an inverted AMERICA logo or an upside-down American flag.
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Clinton's allies berated Mr. Woodward for what they viewed as a gender-based critique of her impassioned tone on the campaign trail, pointing out that the stock in trade of her Democratic rival, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, were his rousing remarks delivered in forceful tones.
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"Their stock-in-trade has always been to press the edge of the envelope and see what they can get away with," said Vann H. Van Diepen, a top official on weapons of mass destruction in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence until 2009.
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Disagreement is Kirk's stock-in-trade and the foundation of his YouTube stardom, his Twitter fandom, and his frequent stints on Fox News, where he shares the gospel that liberals — with their campus protests and calls for deplatforming — are in fact the least tolerant actors in the American political landscape.
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Just a few years ago, in a 2015 review of an R. Kelly album, for example, USA Today's Elysa Gardner confided to readers that Kelly had "made sexual healing his stock in trade" — with no mention of the forms of sexual healing he'd accomplished on videotape with a 14-year-old.
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The Post went on to report that "among a growing group of Macedonian teenagers who see fake-news sites as a way to make easy money from American gullibility, the most successful can make about $5,000 a month ..." I would argue, however, that regardless of its profits, fake news' stock-in-trade is terrorism.
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The project, directed by Stephanie Laing, whose credits include "Veep" on HBO and "Dollface" on Hulu, is also a bid by A.B.G. to update its image and court women who may be too young to remember the balconette bras, split-crotch panties and lavishly padded girdles that once were the company's ribald stock in trade.
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Nonetheless, the Zenker Brothers are currently in the midst of an exhausting European tour that will see them DJ in 35 cities, accompanied by a close group of pals, many of whom have been traditionally rooted in the brothers' musical stock in trade—an unusual parallel of ambience and breakbeat ahead of hands in the air breakdowns.
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A 2017 Groupon study found that, over the course of a woman's lifetime, she'll spend over a quarter of a million dollars more than a man on her appearance — spurred on by a vast fashion and beauty industry whose stock in trade is the canard that a woman's worth is tied directly to how good she can make herself look.
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Lest you think a comedy staple that's been around for more than a century was a boring or safe choice for McCarthy, think again: The pie sketch was a reminder that physical and sight gags are still a cathartic part of modern comedy — and a necessary break from political comedy, which has become SNL's stock in trade under the Trump administration.
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Trump, who is skeptical of the statistics that are the current Fed's stock-in-trade, also has not indicated whether he is inclined to stick with an economist like Taylor to run the central bank or will turn to a Wall Street figure like Warsh, as he has done for other top economic appointments While attending a two-day conference, neither Warsh nor Taylor referred publicly to whether they want to be Fed chair.
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