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Anthony, Godbold said, responded with what she took to be anger.
But the chances he took to be a global star have faded.
She stepped in to fix what she took to be broken markets.
So when he first started, he didn't understand what it took to be successful.
What Trump took to be a promise of Brunson's release, however, ended in house arrest.
Quaytman was working with what I took to be a simple hard-edged cruciform shape.
I counted zero, which I took to be a sign of the book's bona fides.
They gave him a bump that he took to be cocaine but was actually meth.
What about the nixing of the minority provision, which people took to be referring to Christians?
Mr. Tighe heard a loud rumbling, which he took to be boulders crashing down the hills.
He heard what he took to be the sound of someone choking, a man in respiratory distress.
In the time it took to be released, it sits apart from a vast majority of new releases.
" Asked in a 2011 television documentary what it took to be a fighter pilot, he said, "Bad attitude!
They practiced, drank themselves silly, and worked shitty jobs as they learned what it took to be a band.
We all know how we got here, but what we don't remember is the sacrifice it took to be here.
Arthur was viewed as a sullen genius with no ability to communicate with those he took to be beneath him.
While she was giving him a massage, Epstein first asked a question that Araoz took to be more of a demand.
"You can recognize thoughts are productions of your mind," Dr. Singh noted, which I took to be a very Buddhist approach.
At his next visit in February, he was seen by another young woman, whom he also took to be a physician.
When I was a kid I felt he was one because of what I took to be his furious moral certainty.
The driver was recorded saying he had picked up the "black tulip bulbs," which police took to be code for the drugs.
Some have been pretty fierce in defense of what they took to be their prerogatives — Nixon and George W. Bush spring to mind.
Some current and former officials said that what an intelligence official took to be a troubling commitment could have been an innocuous comment.
Or a hundred other examples of squabbles Trump has started after watching what he took to be unfair coverage of him and his campaign.
Flying back from New York to London on the Concorde he found himself sitting next to a man who he took to be Previn.
Those who worked alongside Mr. Hancock at the time said that the pains he took to be upbeat and upfront helped shore up morale.
The first morning, while hiking through a cloud forest, Prum heard odd bell-like notes, which he took to be the murmurings of parrots.
Scientists from Harvard and the Smithsonian helped design the exhibition, which mirrored what they took to be humankind's racial progress from savage to civilized.
Instead, the week has been entirely consumed by the controversy surrounding what some Democrats took to be anti-Semitic remarks made by Minnesota Rep.
She had the moxie of what it took to be in a position of being the only woman in the firing room for Apollo 11.
Look at all the other pop stars: They just did whatever it took to be a pop star, whatever it is you have to do.
Koh added, "We will not be too late," which the paper took to be a suggestion that the Fold will begin shipping earlier than expected.
In the meantime, Badlands National Park tweeted and then deleted some facts about climate change, which some took to be a subtle dig at Trump.
On Saturday, Minaj plugged her album Queen on social media, which some fans took to be a statement about who emerged victorious from the ordeal.
"Had Einstein believed in the strengths theory, he would have assumed that he did not have what it took to be a scientist," Seppälä says.
For Smedley, the ideology of American individualism proved a bitter punishment, for Wilder the fulfillment of what she took to be a God-given promise.
Meanwhile, on Saturday, Minaj plugged her album Queen on social media, which some fans took to be a statement about who emerged victorious from the ordeal.
It doesn't help that Merkin was also the author of a New York Times op-ed that many took to be dismissive of the #MeToo movement.
Meanwhile, on Saturday, Minaj plugged her album Queen on social media, which some fans took to be a statement about who emerged victorious from the ordeal.
Personally, I really only strained to make out the middle emoji at 212.0A, which I took to be one of those building scenes, a little blurry.
On the wall, Jean spotted a portrait of a uniformed man she took to be the dead husband, plus a wedding picture of the two of them.
To wit: When she accepted her Democratic nomination at the DNC, she wore white, which the fashion community took to be another ode to the suffragette movement.
Instead, they got a grueling lesson in what it took to be a player on the local club circuit, performing six nights a week for low pay.
For example, Trump said "17" a lot in his speech Tuesday night, which they took to be an acknowledgment of Q -- the 17th letter of the alphabet!
On Tuesday, the two also fought over Trump's tweet over the weekend referencing the Women's March, which Cuomo took to be a "joke" at the march's expense.
Ribbons of bright orange, which I took to be a show of health, turned out to be the opposite—a species of invasive sponge, introduced from Australia.
She realized afterward that she had internalized what she took to be an American notion, that having help with a newborn was something to be slightly ashamed of.
Most recently, they co-wrote Gomez's first No. 1 single, "Lose You To Love Me," an emotional ballad that many took to be about Gomez's ex Justin Bieber.
Dederer's comical, erratic storytelling is nuanced and unpredictable, dwelling on the recklessness of youth without ever selling short the courage and daring it took to be so reckless.
Religious tensions have been an undercurrent in the campaign, with Purnama on trial for blasphemy over comments he made last year that many took to be insulting to Islam.
A trophy of my weakness, and a sign that I did not have what it took to be one of the happy women carrying yoga mats on the box.
Trump spent the majority of his 17-month presidential campaign being told he could never win, that he didn't fit the mold of what it took to be president.
Wiz further incensed Kanye when he tweeted about hitting "this kk," which Kanye took to be the initials of his wife but Wiz claims is a strain of weed.
To me, the space race was more about the Cold War than about wonder, and I was immeasurably distressed by what I took to be a definitive American defeat.
She had been alone on a peak, until she was cast down by a sense of being seen—and sized up—by what she took to be unimpeachable authority.
One night in 1953, Abbé Glory, a French pre-historian, idly picked up what he took to be a piece of rubble on the floor of the Lascaux cave.
State legislators in 21980 devised what they took to be a simple fix: a bill that made carrying small supplies of marijuana a ticket-worthy violation, not a crime.
The former secretary of state went on to give what appeared to be a sparkling endorsement, claiming Biden had what it took to be successful in the White House.
"We knew he had the inflammation, the soreness, so we were going to take whatever time it took to be able to get him back on the mound," Renteria said.
Perry also included the geotag location of "Let's Be Friends" in the post, which some fans rightly took to be a sign that the pair were working on something together.
"When the models are getting overcomplicated, it's probably good to have more time to try to simplify them," he told me later, with what I took to be generous understatement.
Despite the care the authors took to be sophisticated, however, they offered a rollicking thrill that depended in large part on an intellectual tool that was quite simple: the list.
Trump himself has made offhand comments that some took to be comments about "Second Amendment people" shooting Clinton, and some of his supporters have given similarly grim statements to the press.
Mr. Ammar said that Salman Abedi was distraught after a friend, Abdul Wahab Hafidah, was killed in May 2016 in what the authorities took to be an act of gang violence.
No matter how I treated myself — and no matter what infinitesimal steps I took to be a better human citizen — we'd all end up in the same place in the end.
What Hersey and Wolfe had in common was a preoccupation with what they took to be fiction's superiority to journalism as a form of writing, or at least its superior prestige.
Mr. Wildstein said he was also told by Mr. Christie's spokesman, Michael Drewniak, that he had briefed Mr. O'Dowd on what New Jersey officials took to be Mr. Foye's meddling in their business.
The half-lit cathedral I first saw as a young man allowed for human error, like those revolutionaries after 1789 lopping the stone heads off biblical kings they mistakenly took to be French.
We were among a group of news media members, invited to see if we had what it took to be one of the Open's 277 ballpeople, ahead of the tournament's start on Monday.
I know what I was up to was a form of impersonation, but I also know that everything people took to be authentic from my profile is just as much their responsibility as mine.
"I think it's time to stop the tweeting about Department of Justice criminal cases," Barr told ABC, in comments some took to be a rare rebuke of Trump from one of his top officials.
SB: Well I guess it used to be, it used to be the mark of someone who was ... who had what it took to be the boss, but no longer is that the case.
The professor actually happened to be talking Donald Trump in class yesterday, specifically how the candidate made that weird allusion to "Second Amendment people" many took to be a jest about killing Hillary Clinton.
Throughout that year and a half [it took to be correctly diagnosed], I went from being a vibrant 250-year-old nurse with a promising career to a weak, pale fragment of my former self.
Mr Erdogan, resentful of what he took to be insincere expressions of support from the West (in contrast with Vladimir Putin's full-throated congratulations), has embarked on a brutal purge of anyone suspected of disloyalty.
When she and her husband, Felice, open their first restaurant in Queens, the menu is comprised largely of the red-sauce dishes and oozing slabs of cheese that most people then took to be Italian.
"The Beauty & Pin-Ups brand is a celebration of the empowerment of a woman and what it took to be a pin-up in 1935, and carrying that message in a modern sense," Kahn tells PeopleStyle.
He also dropped what investors took to be a hint that a pause may come soon, pointing out that interest rates were just below the broad range of estimates that would be neutral for the economy.
Kitson sheds light on other recesses; what I always took to be a glass of water, for instance, turns out to be vodka, left on a table, as tradition requires, for forty days after a death.
It's hard to pinpoint a specific reason why, but the breaking point was when Internet Explorer decided to set Do Not Track as on by default, which ad networks took to be a violation of the agreement.
But one got the feeling from listening to Mickelson that he would have hitchhiked if that were what it took to be there for his daughter (his third child, Evan Samuel, is two years younger than Sophia).
In a statement, China's air force described as "unreliable" reports that the J-20 had appeared in training exercises, following a weekend state television broadcast that showed grainy pictures of what some viewers took to be the aircraft.
The pro game lagged, but by the 249s, when all it took to be a professional basketball team were uniforms and someone to collect money from the few paying spectators, hundreds of teams were scattered throughout the country.
It was your typical rich guy's retreat: stunning mountain views; reclaimed wood from the homes of people who had been bankrupted by serious illness; the heads of what I took to be trophy wives in the game room.
Tension between the two was rumored to be part of why Fukunaga didn't return for True Detective's second season — which, under Pizzolatto's sole vision, featured an abrasive film director character that many observers took to be a potshot.
With only a few days left in power, the 62-year-old May railed against the coarsening of politics in what her audience took to be words aimed at Britain's probable next leader Boris Johnson or U.S. President Donald Trump.
Gold has set the play in what I took to be a contemporary universe, but I have no idea why the great hall where Lear (Glenda Jackson) meets with his family to divvy up his kingdom is covered in gold leaf.
But its focus is much wider than the still-potent debate over "Eichmann in Jerusalem," which was widely and fiercely attacked for what critics took to be its trivialization of Eichmann's deeds and its lack of sympathy for his victims.
"My father had a very strong view of what it took to be successful, and he in effect brainwashed all his children to think that we could do anything," Mr. Frazier said in a 2011 interview with the Harvard Law Bulletin.
All eyes were on the two after last year's State of the Union address, when, in response Trump's comments about "cooperation, compromise, and the common good," Pelosi rose to applause enthusiastically in what many took to be a shady gesture.
Although members of the public heard "what they took to be a shot," the police played down the incident at the time, telling reporters in the area and those covering the Queen's visit that it was the sound of a sign falling.
Sure, she had some ups and downs — there was the time Mitchum Huntzberger told her she didn't have what it took to be a journalist, so she stole a yacht and dropped out of school — but becoming a reporter was her dream.
Katie Cox, a New York freelancer, put up a game fight, improvising in what she took to be the manner of Cage, mostly abandoning long lines in favor of fragmentary phrases, using extended techniques to produce everything from mere hoarse breaths to yelps.
He craned his neck and brought his own eye closer and closer to the photo, squinting, straining every muscle until he found something he took to be a sign, an invitation—a single red pixel in the darkness of the boy's right pupil.
" Tan writes that upon hearing Giles read the story, she felt she didn't yet have what it took to be a writer but she "also knew — as deeply as you can know something about yourself — that it would be worth a lifetime to try.
LONDON — Two weeks before the anniversary of a nerve-agent attack against a former Russian spy in Salisbury, England, someone unfurled a large Russian flag on the city's cathedral overnight, in what residents took to be a mockery of the ordeal they suffered last year.
During a month when some of the biggest headlines have been about a billionaire's extramarital affair and a politician's tweet that many took to be anti-Semitic, PEN America has announced a festival that aims to address the narrowing gap between public and private life.
"Both of my girls have got me through so much but Sailor is what turned me into a man and made me not just want to be better but to make the commitment I'd do whatever it took to be the best dad ever," he wrote.
Ms. Berrin's first-person account in The Jewish Journal this month did not name Mr. Shavit but described him as "an accomplished journalist from Israel" with dark eyes and black hair who had just published a book — a description that many quickly took to be Mr. Shavit.
It's no coincidence that the only ads that get talked about these days are those that ignite some kind of social-media outrage — Pepsi's strange Kendall Jenner commercial, for example, or the Budweiser Super Bowl ad that some viewers took to be a pro-immigration political statement.
The response of the White House under the second Bush was troubling — issuing what the Chinese took to be an apology and offering a compensatory payment — and almost surely encouraging Beijing to believe it no longer had to respect norms of conduct in the global commons.
Even so, they, too, are subject to American immigration law — despite what the Chaldean community took to be an ironclad promise from a president whose election many of them saw as a miracle from God, helped along by their donations, their prayers and blessings from religious leaders.
An image of what I took to be the artist's face—Walker's studio later informed me that it was in fact made from a copy of a bust by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux titled The Negress—had been pressed into the soft material and looked up at us, assessing.
One accusation came from Ashley Watson, his assistant on "Cosmos," who said that during a visit to his apartment, which she took to be a work visit, he made her feel uncomfortable by holding her hands and looking into her eyes in what he called a Native American handshake.
Sirleaf did not endorse either man running to succeed her, though in a speech in September at the United Nations she spoke of the need for "the next generation of Liberians to lead the country into the future," a comment some Liberians took to be favorable toward Mr. Weah.
Sri Lanka's long and tragic civil war (1983-2009), for example, involved a great deal of specifically Buddhist nationalism on the part of a Sinhalese majority resentful of the presence of Tamil Hindus in what the former took to be the last bastion of true Buddhism (the "island of dharma").
Some saw the results as sullied by what they took to be violations of practice, but the Nevada Republican Party tweeted that it was not against the rules for volunteers to wear a candidate's gear, and insisted that there were "no official reports of voting irregularities or violations" at caucus sites.
The world — and most middle-class Italians — credited Mussolini with preventing a Bolshevik-style revolution in Italy and was prepared to overlook what it took to be a little residual violence that it assumed would fade away after Mussolini started wearing the bowler hat and spats of a respectable politician.
" Kushner went on to say that Trump has "cycled out a lot of the people who didn't have what it took to be successful here and a lot of the people who have come in and been excellent are not out there complaining and writing books because they're too busy working.
When called upon to distance herself from Farrakhan, Mallory refused, and tweeted, "If your leader does not have the same enemies as Jesus, they may not be THE leader!" which some took to be a less-than-subtle reference to the persistent, insidious anti-Semitic myth that Jews were responsible for killing Jesus.
When Alexis de Tocqueville, the author of Democracy in America, toured the United States in the 1830s, he was struck by what he first took to be the contradictory nature of the American personality—individualistic and independent-minded on the one hand and yet irrepressibly prone to forming multiple associations of wildly varying kinds.
Following the controversy of a co-main event, which was called off after Gegard Mousasi hit Chris Weidman in the head with legal knees that referee Dan Miragliotta took to be illegal only to be told by ringside officials that they were in fact legal, Weidman, through his manager, has already stated his intention to appeal his TKO loss.
The faux transcripts were shared on the social network as if they were real by unsuspecting readers, including Rupert Myers, a political correspondent for British GQ. By injecting his satire into a global conversation many participants took to be entirely factual, Mr. Spicer inspired imitators, like Hayes Brown, a Buzzfeed editor, who offered a note of postmodern self-reflection.
" He continues of what he hopes viewers take away from this documentary: "It just opens up the new generation and gives some history on what it took to be a successful artist in our era, and even though we had a lot of issues that we went through we still ended up on top as one.
All I wanted was to go home, just that, but then the shroud of rain fell back a moment and something up the beach caught my eye, something substantial I at first took to be a heap of kelp washed up in the storm, and yet it was lighter in color than kelp, almost tan, like jute, a big pile of jute.
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She had to swerve carefully around a stack of crates full of onions, apparently trundling along under its own power, and then found herself stuck for a few frustrating seconds behind what at first she took to be a puzzlingly tall mech, but when it finally moved she realized it was actually a human in an environmental support suit, someone from a low-gravity habitat, to judge from their height and need to wear the suit.
The historians who study baseball's early days have been unable to figure out why the New York version triumphed — John Thorn, the official historian of Major League Baseball, attributes it in part to an extended lobbying campaign that asked men if they truly wanted to be savages throwing balls at one another — but as the professional leagues consolidated over the next 20 or so years, the original rules of the Knickerbocker Club were adjusted: Hits caught on one bounce were no longer considered outs; the number of balls it took to be awarded a walk went from nine to four; pitches hit out of the park went from fouls to home runs.

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