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He's doing it under the pretext of saving American jobs.
He dismissed fears that political activists would be sought under the pretext of other crimes.
German paramilitaries — the Freikorps — rampaged through the Baltic States under the pretext of fighting Bolshevism.
The girls originally had contact with him under the pretext of giving him massages, authorities say.
According to the lawsuit, Butler invited her to his apartment under the pretext of talking about the team.
"Maroney said that she was repeatedly subjected to sexual abuse by Nassar under the pretext of being "treated.
In 2004, Weinstein lured the Russian TV host to his room under the pretext of a professional meeting.
She began to worry that she'd participated in a profiteering land grab under the pretext of environmental custodianship.
So her family have assembled in China to say their goodbyes, under the pretext of a last-minute wedding.
Instead, under the pretext of Syrian refugees' resettlement, his forces will move in to destroy Kurdish fighters and civilians.
But he said he is opposed to any actions taken by Google under the pretext of stopping fake news.
And he may be empowered by the haphazard political coalition that trampled democratic practices under the pretext of saving democracy.
In the meantime, we firmly oppose the interference in China's internal affairs by anyone under the pretext of human rights.
The report says prisoners are moved in the middle of the night from their cells under the pretext of being transferred.
Next, Abadi will order his military and police commanders to take back those heavy weapons under the pretext of repairing them.
He claimed that, under the pretext of having to send a secret commission to Bakai, Shyfrin diverted the money to himself.
What worried Seshu the most, she added, was that the government was ignoring "real news" under the pretext of combating fake news.
The militants reclaimed Azzan in 2013, but this time under the pretext of stopping thugs who had robbed and killed local people.
Although the order was signed under the pretext of protecting Americans from terrorism, it actually may have put us in greater danger.
Instead, since September, Prince Mohammed has sent hundreds of clerics, intellectuals and Islamic thinkers to prison under the pretext of fighting terrorism.
Amnesty's report, Human slaughterhouse, says prisoners are moved in the middle of the night from their cells under the pretext of being transferred.
In the current case, women and girls appear to have been lured under the pretext of spiritual guidance, said DCW chief Swati Maliwal.
The opposition has expressed fears government forces backed by the Russian air force will continue to attack rebels under the pretext of targeting Nusra.
After talking about films over breakfast, Headey said that Weinstein then led her to his room under the pretext of giving her a script.
At least eight of those cases involved pretextual car stops, when law enforcement stops someone considered "suspicious" under the pretext of a traffic violation.
"Certain external forces are swimming against the current and continuing to stir up trouble under the pretext of 'freedom of navigation,'" Mr. Geng said.
Chapman then allegedly convinced Feden to drive to the desert "under the pretext of participating" in a BDSM-themed photoshoot, the criminal complaint stated.
But TPLF chair Debretsion Gebremichael said on Monday the arrests ordered under "the pretext of corruption and human rights are being used to attack Tigrayans".
Gusinsky then fled Russia and NTV soon passed into the ownership of Gazprom, Russia's state gas behemoth, under the pretext of an undischarged financial debt.
"We understand that deploying them in Japan or South Korea would be done under the pretext of preventing the threat from North Korea," Putin said.
"Your offending glorifies and encourages the mass murder carried out under the pretext of religious and racial hatred," Judge O'Driscoll said, according to the RNZ report.
Those featured in the video describe children being taken away from their parents at the border under the pretext of being given a bath or food.
Under the pretext of 'fighting terrorism', the regime exiled, prosecuted and convicted several opposition leaders, community leaders, journalists, bloggers, and activists; paralyzing criticisms of any type.
The night before her first match, Steven Lopez visited her hotel room under the pretext of discussing the match and sexually assaulted her, the lawsuit claims.
The opposition has expressed fears government forces backed by the Russian air force will continue to attack rebels under the pretext of targeting the Nusra Front.
During the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, Weinstein led the French actress up to his room, under the pretext of retrieving a book he wanted to give her.
She brought it up under the pretext of: Here is why Frankel did not invite you to her Hamptons birthday party (because you are an embarrassing drunk mess).
In 1985, Roma invited Carrie Baker, then a 210-year-old undergraduate at Yale, to his apartment under the pretext of meeting up before joining others for drinks.
Under the pretext of attending a United Nations event on climate change, Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff - currently undergoing an impeachment trial - will travel to New York on Thursday.
"Your offending glorifies and encourages the mass murder carried out under the pretext of religious and racial hatred," Judge O'Driscoll told Arps during sentencing today, according to RNZ.
"  China also warned that when the U.S. "willfully exits from groups based on its own interests under the pretext of 'American First,' it becomes an enemy to all.
But the Constitution was essentially a sham document, and Mr. Karimov's perceived enemies were brutally silenced, jailed, exiled or killed, often under the pretext of fighting Islamic terrorism.
Universities had began making deals with soft drink corporations, which were funding consumer research under the pretext of health studies, while grabbing exclusive access to campus vending machines.
As a group, we cannot stand by as our government, under the pretext of enforcing the law, violates it and traumatizes children and their parents in the process.
He warned that Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi had to placate an army with a history of pushing aside civilian leaders under the pretext of defending national sovereignty.
Two months later, the police ransacked the offices of the Korea Confederation of Trade Unions under the pretext of finding railway union leaders who had been protesting privatization.
Argento alleged she was brought to Weinstein's hotel by a producer under the pretext of a party; instead, she said, it was Weinstein's hotel room, and they were alone.
Under the pretext of reporting a stolen phone, the women walked into the police station on Saturday morning, a knife and petrol bomb concealed in their traditional Buibui robes.
Atrocities with "seemingly unconditional" Russian support Amnesty's report, Human Slaughterhouse, said prisoners are moved in the middle of the night from their cells under the pretext of being transferred.
Roy's crusades are validated by the various social injustices that are emergent under the pretext of economic development under Narendra Modi's India—she's right to rail against these injustices.
Given that Russian organizations that try to play public watchdog are often shut down under the pretext of being foreign agents, Dissernet was established with a purposely low profile.
"The Muslim ummah must become the eyes and the ears for the religious authorities when stumbling upon activities that are suspicious, disguising under the pretext of Islam," it said.
After the countless women who have come forward to tell their stories of sexual harassment and assault, the "hotel room under the pretext of official business" setup is sickeningly familiar.
Under the pretext of freedom of speech and the right to public expression of views -- values which mean nothing to them -- preachers of hatred are once again poisoning people's minds.
The abortion restrictions that the court is currently considering, which were passed in 2013 under the pretext of protecting women's health and safety, are really nothing more than unnecessary obstacles.
Turkey has also continued to crack down on the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which Ankara regards as a terrorist organization, under the pretext of fighting President Bashar al-Assad of Syria.
Rep. Devin Nunes is the author of a newly declassified document falsely insinuating the FBI misused US surveillance law to go after President Trump under the pretext of investigating Russia.
That the crook in question was a quack doctor who abused young women under the pretext of treating them for hysteria might seem unrealistically on theme — but it's completely true.
The infamous "milícias," in their current form, were established in Rio de Janeiro's favelas in the late 1990s and early 2000s, under the pretext of protecting residents from drug traffickers.
Clearly, the Armenian government, under the pretext of rendering humanitarian assistance to those affected by the conflict in Syria, pursues its well-documented policy of the resettlement of Azerbaijan's occupied territories.
Russia is concerned that Japan is allowing Washington to use its territory as a base for a U.S. military build-up in north Asia under the pretext of countering North Korea.
It's all done under the pretext of preparing for Liverpool's summer tour of the US, or something, but basically it's an excruciating exercise in public humiliation Look at Joe Allen here.
" Along with questioning the legal aspects of the travel restrictions, the South American country also felt the measure was an effort to "stigmatize our nation under the pretext of fighting terrorism.
"Haftar and (his armed groups) only want to control power in Tripoli under the pretext of war on terrorism and militias," he said, urging a "clearer stance" from Paris toward Haftar.
In a meeting with foreign ministers representing Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, Pompeo said Beijing sought to "erase" the Uighur minority under the pretext of fighting terrorism, according to Reuters.
The U.S. Navy has sailed close to South China Sea reefs, atolls and other areas claimed by Beijing several times in recent months, under the pretext of freedom of navigation operations.
Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (previously Jabhat al-Nusra), on the other hand, has been excluded, providing Russia with an excuse to bomb Idlib, a rebel heartland, under the pretext of fighting terrorism.
But DWR was banned in Germany last November for radicalising youngsters and "propagating extremist ideologies and supporting terrorist organisations under the pretext of Islam", according to German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere.
Reaching out to a thankless regime under the pretext of shared nationhood may contribute to an immediate reduction in tensions, but he is alienating a large segment of the South Korean electorate.
"The United States has tried to justify this aggression under the pretext of the Syrian Arab Army using chemical weapons in Khan Sheikhoun, without knowing the reality of what happened," it added.
On May 28th Yeo Bee Yin, Malaysia's environment minister, complaining that "garbage [was] being traded under the pretext of recycling", announced that her government would be sending back 3,000 tonnes of foreign plastic.
Trumpcare would slash Medicaid spending by $834 billion over 10 years, according to the C.B.O. The president's budget would take a further $2003 billion from the program under the pretext of reforming it.
Given that there was no Shiite community on the island before Iran began proselytizing, Iran could not have made inroads with the communist regime in Havana under the pretext of serving local Muslims.
Some historians estimate 22007,22015 to 20153,22015 Korean women were forced into prostitution during Japan's occupation from 216 to 21945, in some cases under the pretext of employment or to pay off a relative's debt.
"Some illegal groups who want to damage the peace and safety of our people attempted illegal marches and demonstrations primarily around Taksim square ... under the pretext of May Day celebrations," the governor's office said.
Hurtado said his abuser, 50 years his senior, touched his genitals under the pretext of telling him masturbation was wrong, and tried to tongue-kiss him, which left him "petrified, without knowing what to do".
Forced technology transfers: If foreign firms refuse to hand over tech secrets, the government will often carry out police raids of their offices under the pretext of investigating a violation of Chinese law, Wilder says.
Instead of looking into fraud claims, the bank would instead "save money by simply closing accounts under the pretext of a 'business decision,'" Mr. Valles said in his complaint, filed in Oregon's Multnomah County Circuit Court.
"Civil society, media and the political opposition are suffering increasingly under state repression, which often takes place under the pretext of the so-called fight against terrorism," said Rene Wildangel, an Egypt expert at the advocacy group.
Under the pretext of clearing the overcrowded prisons, the PSD had passed an emergency decree paving the way for amnesty for hundreds of politicians and CEOs across the country who had been indicted and imprisoned for corruption.
"Whatever the intention behind her remarks, they were highly regrettable, a gift from a major Western leader to every authoritarian figure around the world who shamelessly violates human rights under the pretext of fighting terrorism," Hussein said.
"At some point on or about September 25, 2019, the suspect convinced the victim to drive into the desert under the pretext of participating in an S&M (sadomasochistic/bondage) themed photo shoot," the complaint alleges, reports WTAE.
Many still argue that conscientious objectors must be punished for the sake of national security, and that the option of alternative civilian service will lead many young men to evade the draft under the pretext of ethical principles.
The plan, however, excludes the Islamic State and Nusra Front militant groups, which Syrian rebels fear will allow government forces backed by the Russian air force to continue to attack them under the pretext of targeting the militant groups.
"There is a lot of progress that has been made on that front (countering terrorism financing)... but of course there is always room for improvement," he said, describing the sanctions as illegal steps under the pretext of fighting terrorism.
The details: Giuliani, who has continued to represent foreign clients while working for the president, wrote that Romania's National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) had gone too far in its operations by violating certain rights under the pretext of law enforcement.
Rob Goldstone, the publicist behind the meeting, said Veselnitskaya arranged the meeting under the pretext of information about Clinton but instead discussed the Magnitsky Act, which imposed sanctions on Russia for the death of whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky in 85033.
Determined to partake in some casual sex, Issa, the winsome, bumbling protagonist of HBO's half-hour comedy Insecure, heads to her neighbor Eddie's apartment under the pretext of returning his phone charger in "Hella Open," the third episode of Season 290210.
GENEVA, Aug 30 (Reuters) - United Nations human rights experts voiced concern on Thursday over Chinese political "re-education camps" in Xinjiang province for Muslim Uighurs, and called for the immediate release of those detained under the "pretext of countering terrorism".
GENEVA (Reuters) - North Korea said on Tuesday it had a "powerful and reliable" nuclear deterrent to thwart any attack and accused the United States of deploying military assets nearby under the pretext of ensuring security at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
They are trying to radicalize the country's policies in an effort to eliminate their political rivals under the pretext of national security; the domestic violence undermines Rouhani's efforts in the region at large to bring Iran out of its relative isolation.
The level of concern has heightened over the last few days as Russia has increased social media activity claiming the US and its allies are preparing to carry out airstrikes under the pretext of chemical weapons use by the regime.
In a phone call, a captain with the Monroe County Sheriff's Office told a deputy that he should wait outside for the man, Rory Wilson, to leave on his bicycle, and then stop him under the pretext of a traffic violation.
NSHR "was surprised by some countries' incitement of some Saudi female delinquents to rebel against the values of their families and push them out of the country and seek to receive them under the pretext of granting them asylum," Qahtani said.
Epstein, 66, is accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls from 2002 to 2005 after they were brought to his luxurious residences on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and in Palm Beach, Florida, under the pretext of giving him massages.
Leopold needled the panel's moderator, CIA Deputy Director David Cohen, saying that the agency was "resistant to transparency," that it sought to protect embarrassing information under the pretext of national security, and that a "cultural change" was needed in how the agency operated.
Maxwell, 58, long has been named by Epstein's accusers as a woman who recruited underage girls so that he could sexually abuse them under the pretext of getting massages at his luxurious properties in Manhattan, Palm Beach, Florida, and the Virgin Islands.
Despite the fact that the government outlawed accusations of witchcraft against minors in 2005, up to 50,000 children are still thought to be imprisoned in religious buildings awaiting deliverance ceremonies, where they may face abuse, torture, and potential death under the pretext of spiritual cleansing.
The police report says Khajuria then also showed up at Ram's house under the pretext of looking for the missing girl, demanded money to pay off investigating officers, and asked Ram's nephew to prepare the girl for his arrival with a fresh round of drugs.
Hua said China "respects and safeguards all countries' freedom of navigation and overflight" in the area "but definitely opposes certain country's show of force in the South China Sea under the pretext of navigation and overflight freedom, challenging and threatening China's sovereignty and security".
"The organization brings Islamic jihadists together under the pretext of the harmless distribution of the Quran," Mr. de Maizière told reporters in Berlin, stressing that the authorities were acting against the group because of its work to foster violence, not because of its faith.
"I trusted in the fact that I was at a top program, a top Division I school," added Cate Hannum, a rower who said Dr. Nassar regularly massaged her breasts under the pretext of medical treatment during some of her years at Michigan State.
" A recent report from the Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee shows that Butina tapped her GOP political operative boyfriend Paul Erickson to help her convince a top NRA official to come on a visit to Moscow under the pretext of improving "future bilateral US-Russia relations.
Whether owning a gun should even be legal and the ramifications that come with putting something on the other side of the law, people agreeing under the pretext of "a perfect world," and how whatever policy is put in place should be equally applied to every person.
The fake Mr. Le Drian, under the pretext of national security, pressed the targets for millions of euros, often saying that France was negotiating a delicate and time-sensitive release of hostages in Syria and could not publicly use taxpayer money to pay the ransom to terrorists.
A Geneva-based international arbitral tribunal ruled that Serbia had breached its obligations to Greece and Mytilineos under an international treaty by taking a series of legislative measures from 2004 to 2012 which granted RTB Bor immunity from enforcement under the pretext of restructuring which never occurred, Mytilineos said.
"If this is a ceasefire that is up to the mercy of Russia, which has brutally attacked the moderate opposition and aligned with Assad under the pretext of fighting Islamic State, we fear that the fire pouring over innocent people will never stop," Erdogan said in a televised speech.
"Unfortunately there are politicians ready to burn Iraq for their own interests and ambitions under the pretext of reforms," said Ammar al-Hakim, a prominent Shi'ite cleric who has ties to Iran and heads the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, one of the main components of the National Alliance.
Speaking at a press conference, local authorities described how Subhash Batham invited the children to his house in Kasaria village in Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh on Thursday evening under the pretext of holding a birthday party for his 1-year-old daughter, but then locked the children in his basement.
If you want to know where anti-immigrant right-wing populism can go if left unchecked, you should take a look at Hungary — which, under the pretext of cracking down on illegal immigration, passed a bill that gives the Hungarian government extraordinary powers to jail its political opponents.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York says say that from 2002 through 2005, Epstein arranged for dozens of underage girls to visit him under the pretext of giving him massage at his New York and Florida mansions, where he engaged in sex acts with them.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is opposed to the militarization of Asia under the pretext of countering North Korea and is concerned by U.S. plans to deploy part of its global missile defense system in the region, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday Lavrov was speaking after talks with his Japanese counterpart Taro Kono in Moscow.
Two sources "familiar with the matter" told the Post that the FTC is preparing accuse Facebook of collecting phone numbers from users under the pretext of security and then allowing advertisers to use that information for ad targeting, as well as trying to hide settings allowing users to opt out of its facial-recognition database.
"Pokémon Go is the latest tool used by spy agencies in the Intel war, a cunning despicable app that tries to infiltrate our communities in the most innocent way under the pretext of entertainment," said Hamdi Bakheet, a member of Egypt's defense and national security committee in Parliament, according to a report on Al Jazeera.
"We must end the page of the so-called international coalition, which controls the Iraqi airspace, under the pretext of tracking terrorist cells, which made the Iraqi aviation authorities do not know the entry of aircraft into our international airspace and Iraqi air bases, that American soldiers located in some of them," Zamili said.
"The Americans spent $3 trillion in the war in Afghanistan under the pretext of fighting al-Qaeda but they are still wandering lost in the region," Ismail Qaani, deputy commander of Iran's elite Quds Force said during a speech earlier this year commemorating the role of the Fatemiyoun Brigade, the mostly Afghan militia fighting for Iranian aims in Syria.
"What Syrians need is a cessation of attacks on civilians, and there is no evidence that this agreement effectively addresses the bombing of civilian facilities such as hospitals, which have been repeatedly targeted by Syrian and Russian forces under the pretext of attacking terrorist groups," Widney Brown, director of programs for the doctors' group, said in a statement.
"I believe that sending a large number of armored vehicles and assets to Makhmour, under the pretext of the Mosul battle, is a betrayal of the battle for Falluja," he told Al-Sumaria TV. Iraqi army officers confirmed a brigade had arrived on Sunday night in Makhmour, a staging point for a future assault on Mosul.
When she speaks of "dark times" and warns of the "exhortations, moral and otherwise, that under the pretext of upholding old truths degrade all truth in meaningless triviality" we can hear not only a critique of the horrors of 20th-century totalitarianism, but also a warning about forces pervading the politics of the United States and Europe today.
"What we do know is that it is at least being done under the pretext of putting American business first, and it feels good as an American business owner to have an administration that is at least trying to fight on your behalf, globally," said Thomas, who is not registered as either a Republican or Democrat.
The decree was published days before deputy foreign ministers from the two countries are due to hold talks about co-operation on the disputed islands and at a time when Russia is concerned that Japan is allowing Washington to use its territory as a base for a U.S. military build-up in north Asia under the pretext of countering North Korea.
But it will harass and punish them for what amounts to petty crimes — drug offenses, traffic violations, loitering, and so on — through police tactics like "stop and frisk" and "pretextual stops," in which police stop someone under the pretext of a low-level crime, like speeding or failing to signal on a turn, to look for drugs or illegal guns.
For some, it triggered wider existential conversations about the ways authorities try to control and contain our fundamental human impulse to congregate in public and express ourselves through music and dance—usually under the pretext of keeping us "safe," but too often with the effect of depriving certain communities of the only real-world spaces where they feel safe to begin with.
Despite claims that Kushner was unaware of the meeting's purpose before it took place, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are demanding clarity about why he and other top campaign officials agreed to meet with an individual tied to a hostile nation -- especially under the pretext of receiving potentially damaging information about a political opponent following previous blanket denials from Trump associates about a willingness to collude with Russians during the 2016 campaign.
In President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's State of the Union address he floated a proposal to allow corporations to exploit our natural resources by gutting vital environmental protections under the pretext of short-term jobs.
Kim referred to North Korea as a "nuclear and military power in the east that formidable enemy dare encroach on" and said "unless the US and its vassal forces stop nuclear threat and blackmail and unless they stop the war exercises which they stage right at our noses under the pretext of annual exercises, the DPRK would keep increasing the military capabilities for self-defense and preemptive striking capacity with a main emphasis on nuclear force," according to state news agency KCNA.

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