How to take existing circumstances and play them to advantage.
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The interrogators tried to turn Nashiri's imminent transfer to advantage.
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That would make more sense for them to advantage themselves.
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If we really want to change, we have to advantage them.
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It wasn't going to advantage any group over the current system.
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They were perceived as nepotistic — trying to advantage their own group.
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Ms. Haley also knows how to deploy her gender to advantage.
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"All the other routes to advantage have basically been exhausted," Laby said.
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They're not used as a weapon to advantage either side in partisan arguments.
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How will Putin use whatever Trump could be hiding to advantage Russia & hurt America?
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" - 72 percent agree "the American economy is rigged to advantage the rich and powerful.
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America's political system is structured to advantage sparsely populated areas over densely populated ones.
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Democrats had to make very clear trade-offs to advantage this older, sicker population.
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"But the White House did absolutely nothing to advantage or invite the Republicans," he continued.
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They have a nice two-sided market that they can subsidize one to advantage the other.
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For people in areas with limited or no access to Advantage Plans, this is a common route.
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Until then, the loopholes in our campaign financing laws will continue to advantage billionaires like Michael Bloomberg.
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Some at Amazon believe the administration may have changed the terms of the proposal to advantage Microsoft.
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Second, that he did so to demean Secretary Clinton, and third, that he sought to advantage Mr. Trump.
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" Almost as many, 297 percent, agreed that "the American economy is rigged to advantage the rich and powerful.
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For example, County Board member districts are often drawn to advantage rural voters over city voters, or vice versa.
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"We were playing this thing straight — we weren't trying to advantage one side or the other," Mr. Obama said.
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In contrast, changes to Bitcoin are likely to advantage one group while having potentially dire economic consequences for many others.
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"Chief Big Heart, no cigar-store Indian, used his 'tomahawk chop' to advantage," The New York Times related in 22013.
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Kushner used this to advantage—by many accounts, he was the source for many of the leaks that rocked his rivals.
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The fact is unless we stop them, local and state politicians will continue to advantage Big Tech over longstanding local businesses.
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The Constitution granted partial humanity to slaves, making them three-fifths a person only to advantage Southern lawmakers' representational head count.
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Private equity doesn't want Congress looking too closely at their industry, but some firms are willing to quietly lobby to advantage themselves.
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That data could point to cases of using a layering technique to advantage the option and interfere with the price in that market.
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Competitors have long claimed that Google is using its search dominance to advantage its own services and should be controlled by antitrust laws.
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New Jersey is a blue state, and President Trump's national unpopularity would seem to advantage the Democratic nominee in New Jersey next year.
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It improved benefits for Medicare Advantage enrollees, slowed the growth of payment rates to hospitals and offered preventive health care free to Advantage patients.
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Clichés about the black body as exotic, athletic and sexually powerful are turned to advantage, partly through the intense psychic connection between the figures.
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Will we focus on how to advantage those most similar to us while building barriers to separate us from the rest of the world?
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" Cheats, he said, "break and exploit parts of the game code to advantage the experience of one player at the disadvantage of other players.
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Republicans would say that the gerrymandering problem goes back even further, pointing to the many maps Democrats drew prior to 2011 to advantage themselves.
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Mobile carriers already use "zero rating" (whereby certain services don't count toward data caps) to advantage their own content (or that of their partners).
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Another potential problem for Democrats is gerrymandering, since many key states in the House of Representatives have their district lines drawn to advantage Republicans.
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Surely, other majority-minority groups have used state power to advantage — the Mormons in Utah, Hispanics in New Mexico, and Asians in Hawaii are examples.
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But in fact, the company appears to be using its market power and proprietary algorithm to advantage itself at the expense of sellers and many customers.
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Yet even prison, once he had accepted it, could be used to advantage: he discovered weights there, and trained with them for 12 hours a day.
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In this way, the President used official state powers—available only to him and unavailable to any political opponent—to advantage himself in our democratic election.
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"The president is entirely confident that Director Comey is not using his authority to advantage a particular political candidate or a particular political party," he added.
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If that scares you, there's another option in addition to Advantage plans — buying supplemental insurance to help cover health costs like copayments, coinsurance and deductibles, called Medigap.
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The Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday that it will hand a $1 million fine to Advantage Telecommunications for illegally switching customers' long-distance carriers without authorization.
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Ms. Wilkes is one of the leading lights of the white-hot Glasgow contemporary art scene, and her unprepossessing sculpture, installations and paintings are shown to advantage here.
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Russia is our adversary, yet Mr. Trump's strategy stubbornly refuses to acknowledge its most hostile act: directly interfering in the 2016 presidential election to advantage Mr. Trump himself.
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Apple came in, but also the idea of Kindle singles and that they were starting a publishing house where they would use their platform to advantage themselves. Remember?
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Some sceptics will argue that feminism remains problematic because its true objective is not to achieve equality, but to advantage women at all costs, to the detriment of men.
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"These men deliberately undermined the integrity of the financial system for personal gain and to advantage the banks they worked for," said Lisa Osofsky, the head of the SFO.
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When one party controls the state House, state Senate and the governor's mansion, they have, historically, done everything they can to advantage their side and disadvantage their political opponents.
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"The president used official state powers — available only to him and unavailable to any political opponent — to advantage himself in our democratic election," Schiff said in his opening remarks.
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The bill would change the rules of the individual market to advantage people who are younger, healthier, and higher-income — but disadvantage people who are older, sicker, and poorer.
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As anyone who's ever attended fashion week will tell you, sometimes you have to put style before practicality, especially when trying to show off your very chic ensemble to advantage.
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But the real winning point of this dress has to be the folded, off-the-shoulder neckline that perfectly frames Gina's face and shows off her drop earrings to advantage.
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Still, I am rooting for the company to get it right, as the benefits from the success of such a system — and not only to advantage the company — are clear.
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Warren argues that today's tech giants—specifically Amazon, Facebook, and Google—stifle innovation and competition by buying up rivals and using their power as platforms to advantage their own offerings.
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But we are going to use the power of the government to advantage these companies in critical industries until we are the dominant power in the world in each of these.
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New York might look to San Francisco, which has experimented with rules requiring chain stores to apply for permission to lease retail spaces in districts that want to advantage homegrown businesses.
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"The president is completely confident that Director Comey has not taken any steps to try to intentionally influence the outcome of the election or to advantage one political party," Earnest said.
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From Uncertainty To Advantage Certainly, the Trump administration's first few days in office have brought a new level of uncertainty into the global data privacy regime — a precarious framework to begin with.
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Trump is known for his expansive body language and his flamboyant use of hand gestures in particular: he's used to using his large frame to advantage and dominating any space he's in.
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"(Bittar and Moryoussef) were senior figures who abused their positions for personal gain and to advantage the banks they worked for," said Mark Thompson, interim director of Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO).
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A recent study revealed that coyotes and mountain lions adapted their diets and used their smaller size to advantage, surviving as other, larger predators like dire wolves and saber-toothed cats went extinct.
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At the launch event for her new beauty product held at a private residence in Los Angeles, the Kimoji CEO kept her look super minimal to better show off her glam to advantage.
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Many internet providers now own content companies (see Comcast and NBCUniversal), and they may seek to advantage their own content in order to get more eyes on it, ultimately making it more valuable.
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But part of that is that Democrats are clustering in urban centers, they're clustering in big states, and the American political system is not built to advantage that; it's built to disadvantage that.
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Until now, Trump and his team have been able to lob claims with impunity or even to advantage — distracting the opposition and media, or adding to the rogue image that enthralls his voters. Terrible!
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I do not know what was revealed in these briefings, but they place a substantial responsibility on Republican leaders if they know about Russian espionage against American elections designed to advantage the GOP nominee.
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"When asked to verify if a change had been made at the request of Dave & Buster's or if their games were programmed with any nods to advantage players, an ICE representative said "no comment.
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Every opportunity latent in the tasting-menu format is brought out and turned to advantage by Atomix, where each course comes with a flash card that builds your understanding of Korean ingredients and culture.
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Now, as we lunge toward our third decade of engagement in Afghanistan, we're learning again how insurgents, unlike wearying Western countries, are patient at playing the long game to advantage, showing resilience and craftiness.
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But the European Commission does have the authority to shut down illegal "state aid" – subsidies of one kind or another granted by a member state and meant to advantage one group of businesses over others.
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"Over the past few years, Jay Alix has waged a relentless campaign based on false allegations to drive McKinsey out of the bankruptcy advisory space in order to advantage his firm AlixPartners," Mr. Pinkus said.
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They have a nice two-sided market that they can subsidize one to advantage [the other] and also, by the way, the advertising business is just so funky, which is sort of second priced auction.
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For years, the the GOP has used its advantage in the North Carolina legislature to seize as much power as it legally could, and redrew districts to advantage Republican candidates, a process known as gerrymandering.
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"The president is entirely confident that Director Comey is not using his authority to advantage a particular political candidate or a particular political party," press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters aboard Air Force One. http://bit.
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With just eight Republican-held seats on the ballot compared to 26 Democrat-held seats, the playing field seems overwhelmingly to advantage the GOP — especially because many of those Democratic seats were in states Trump won.
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Perhaps they understood that the presidency might be assumed by someone unmoored from the traditional limitations that have deterred other Oval Office occupants from illegally scheming to advantage themselves at the expense of the public interest.
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But they weren't just working off population changes — they were also drawing maps in ways to advantage their party and dilute the voting power of districts with a majority of Democratic voters, a practice known as gerrymandering.
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The small-business health plan is similar to other Republican health policies in that it tilts the playing field to advantage healthier consumers and ask those with higher medical costs to pay a bigger chunk of the tab.
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Analysts later wrote in the President's Daily Brief that, "It may be that many have not had time to consider how the situation might be turned to advantage" after America's enemies appeared to not act immediately after Nixon's.
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One is an inability to carry Texas, which is far and away the largest of the deep red states but whose vast size tends to advantage fundraising and organization on a scale Huckabee and Santorum couldn't pull off.
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The head of the State Department's Global Engagement Center (GEC), which fights propaganda and disinformation intended to damage the US, told members of Congress on Thursday that releasing the non-classified reports could serve to advantage US adversaries.
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Recently discovered files showed that GOP strategist Tom Hofeller, who died in 2018, drew the maps in North Carolina Republican Party's headquarters specifically using prior election results to "construct the district boundaries to advantage Republicans," the court ruling outlines.
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Said, you know, we are in a digital age here and the bad guys will be able to use that to advantage and we shouldn&apost be tying the hands of the police when it comes to trying to capture them.
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"People see me as someone privileged who has used my position to advantage; that I don't really work, that I am a socialite — that word really irritates me —and that I'm a party girl without any substance," she told the site.
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The Supreme Court's action voided an order in April by a three-judge panel to rework 34 districts in the state legislature and U.S. House of Representatives whose boundaries were crafted purely to advantage Republicans, a practice known as partisan gerrymandering.
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"Overall, the inconsistencies in the search criteria do not seem to be linked to efforts to advantage or disadvantage any particular racial group, and it was unclear from the testimony at trial whether these variations were accidental or intentional," she wrote.
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"We cannot forget that the point of a free-trade agreement is to advantage those within the agreement — not to help outsiders," Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross wrote in an accompanying op-ed that was published on Thursday by The Washington Post.
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Recently discovered files showed that GOP strategist Tom Hofeller, who died in 2018, drew the maps in North Carolina Republican Party's headquarters specifically using prior election results to "construct the district boundaries to advantage Republicans," according to the court ruling.
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As Catalyst's exposure to Advantage through Funds III and IV has risen, so has its valuation of the company – even as larger rental car businesses have come under pressure from increased competition and the rise of ride-sharing outfits like Uber.
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One of Uber's biggest shareholders, Benchmark Capital, has sued co-founder and ousted CEO Travis Kalanick, claiming he has not honored the terms of his resignation and has been trying to change the makeup of the board to advantage himself.
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Others include a massive military build-up; an assertion of influence in areas such as the South China Sea; the manipulation of its currency to advantage its exports; and of course the orchestrated theft of intellectual property developed in other nations, especially the United States.
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"Manufacturers welcome the U.S.-China agreement announced today that terminates a substantial Chinese export subsidy program, which has sought to advantage a wide range of Chinese manufacturing and other industries," said Linda Dempsey, vice president of international economic affairs for the National Association of Manufacturers.
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Small state advantage extends through US government All these dynamics now intertwine to produce a Senate that is structurally tilted to advantage the portions of America least touched by -- and in many ways most hostile to -- the big social and economic changes remaking American society.
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I think that people — no matter what their race — to some degree want to advantage their own children, but in this country we are used to that advantage being bestowed upon a certain group of people who are not willing to give that up.
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"By the way, what President Trump has done on the record in terms of acting to advantage a foreign power to help him in his own election and the obstruction of information about that — the coverup — makes what Nixon did look almost small," she said.
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JERUSALEM/BEIJING (Reuters) - China's economy may be 35 times larger than Israel's, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hoping to use that to advantage during a three-day visit to Beijing as he looks to reorient Israel's economy toward Asia over Europe and the United States.
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While the NBA scout discussed the strategic calculus that high school athletes must bring to their college decisions—making sure they get proper playing time and exposure, in a system that will show them to advantage—he noted that none of those rules apply to Jackson.
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As the report explains, Mr. Comey decided to depart from Justice Department policy and announce the reopening of the Clinton email inquiry in part to counter any claim that the F.B.I. was acting in a way calculated to advantage Hillary Clinton by shielding her from additional scrutiny.
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In March, the music streaming service Spotify filed a complaint against Apple in Europe alleging that the iPhone maker unfairly stifles competition by imposing a "tax" on digital subscription services made by its rivals and otherwise seeks to advantage its own products over those made by others.
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The enrollment rules for Medigap policies are different from those applying to Advantage Plans and prescription drug coverage: If you didn't sign up soon after you turned 65, you could be subject to medical underwriting and your acceptance isn't guaranteed as it is during your initial qualifying period.
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So, listening to what you said about Norm McDonald saying it&aposs good versus good I was like, hmm, sometimes, I think, people who don&apost have good in mind, something want to line their pockets, or want more power for themselves, or try to advantage their friends are doing business.
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After his retirement, Cartwright again signed a "Classified Information Non-Disclosure Agreement," which included warnings "that unauthorized disclosure ... by me could cause damage or irreparable injury to the United States or could be used to advantage by a foreign nation," according to the government's court filing detailing the charge against him.
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The web, and in particular social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, were supposed to make information easier and freer to share, to advantage the citizen at the expense of governments, to provide access to more information and viewpoints and more vibrant debates than residents of democracies had ever experienced before.
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You can see the influence in his still lifes from the 1960s: The watercolor "Nine Jelly Apples" (1964) depicts the candied fruits to advantage from a high angle, while the pencil drawing "Ice Cream Cone" (1964) places the titular treat front and center, its edges as carefully teased as a model's coiffure.
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You can see the influence in his still lifes from the 1960s: The watercolor "Nine Jelly Apples" (19703) depicts the candied fruits to advantage from a high angle, while the pencil drawing "Ice Cream Cone" (1964) places the titular treat front and center, its edges as carefully teased as a model's coiffure.
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You can see the influence in his still lifes from the 1960s: The watercolor "Nine Jelly Apples" (1964) depicts the candied fruits to advantage from a high angle, while the pencil drawing "Ice Cream Cone" (33) places the titular treat front and center, its edges as carefully teased as a model's coiffure.
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You can see the influence in his still lifes from the 5703s: The watercolor "Nine Jelly Apples" (1964) depicts the candied fruits to advantage from a high angle, while the pencil drawing "Ice Cream Cone" (1964) places the titular treat front and center, its edges as carefully teased as a model's coiffure.
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You can see the influence in his still lifes from the 1960s: The watercolor "Nine Jelly Apples" (18933) depicts the candied fruits to advantage from a high angle, while the pencil drawing "Ice Cream Cone" (1964) places the titular treat front and center, its edges as carefully teased as a model's coiffure.
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You can see the influence in his still lifes of the 1960s: The watercolor "Nine Jelly Apples" (1964) depicts the candied fruits to advantage from a high angle, while the pencil drawing "Ice Cream Cone" (1964) places the titular treat front and center, its edges as carefully teased as a model's coiffure.
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The company's main claim to advantage over other existing solutions is that it can offer connectivity for as little as $1 per seat, along with hardware that sells for less than $100, which it says adds up to a cost savings of as much as 95% versus other satellite IoT connectivity available on the market.
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"While we know the instances of matches extending deep into the final set are rare, we feel that a tie-break at 12-113 strikes an equitable balance between allowing players ample opportunity to complete the match to advantage, while also providing certainty that the match will reach a conclusion in an acceptable time frame," Brook said.
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"This is an approach that cuts across the government to try to take advantage of the fact that the cost of renewable technologies has come down dramatically during President Obama's tenure, and we want to advantage of that a try to encourage more homeowners to actually benefit directly from that dynamic," Brian Deese, a top adviser to Obama, told reporters.
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Ackermann is the CEO and founder of Advantage PR. She launched the company in 2015, and previously to Advantage she was a partner at the firm Persona PR.She works in helping digital talent break through to the traditional media landscape, with previous clients like Ingrid Nilsen, Gigi Gorgeous, Eva Gutowski, and Lauren Riihimaki, as well as media companies including Beautycon Media and Stylehaul.
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In it, they argued that the electoral map would come to advantage the Democratic Party not only through demographic change, but also through the rise of the postindustrial economy, in which even the auto industry in Michigan would be reinvigorated by "research and development and engineering" and white working-class voters would return to the Democratic fold in a diverse coalition with upwardly mobile professionals.
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Whether she's wearing one combined with equally giant sweatpants à la her sister Kim, paired with one of her arsenal of thigh-high boots to craft a lampshaded look, or simply balled up in her fist for a patented Kylie Jenner Shirt Hold designed to show off her abs to advantage in one of her myriad of mirror selfies, the teen can't get enough of this oversize look.
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She may still see a strong result in that state — more than 24.4,22 Minnesota Democrats have already turned in their absentee ballots, but her exit looks to advantage Sanders, who was second in those polls, with 25.6 percent support in the Star Tribune's work (with a 4.5 percentage point margin of error) and 21 percent in a UMass Lowell poll (with a 6.4 percentage point margin of error).
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How this win affects Biden's overall standing in the race remains to be seen — the Super Tuesday races feature a number of states that would appear to advantage Biden demographically, and his total delegate haul from the 52 at stake in Alabama and the other 1,292 from Tuesday's other contests will become clearer in the days to come — but this win in Alabama will only bolster his claim that he is the race's most electable candidate, and will lend credence to his assertion that he is uniquely able to rally Democrats' diverse base in November.
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