Trump had just won an unwinnable election against the establishment.
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To be different among the different is an unwinnable state.
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Or at least, they'll empathize with some of the unwinnable decisions.
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The current war, like the one that preceded it, appears unwinnable.
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Moreover, the US certainly doesn't need an unwinnable trade war with China.
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But that does not mean that we are fighting an unwinnable fight.
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All seem increasingly desperate in a war that seems unwinnable, analysts say.
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The war on terror, by definition, is both unwinnable and never-ending.
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A fair district centered on Delaware County would be unwinnable for Republicans.
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After more than fifteen years of failed counterinsurgency, Afghanistan is an unwinnable war.
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Trump declared NATO "obsolete," and criticized previous Presidents for starting costly, unwinnable wars.
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Both sides understood that a nuclear war would be unwinnable and, therefore, unthinkable.
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In effect, we declared an unwinnable war and then proceeded to wage it.
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President Trump is speeding us toward unnecessary conflicts and, perhaps, an unwinnable war.
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Mr Mercer won Plymouth Moor View, which the party hierarchy had dismissed as unwinnable.
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She hit the "unwinnable fights" theme a few other times this weekend as well.
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But many of his colleagues believe he picks unwinnable fights simply to promote himself.
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Then it was that he surely would lead America into an unwinnable nuclear war.
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The first of our wars to come from that nightmare has always been unwinnable.
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Women are still more likely to be nominated in unwinnable constituencies, Ms. Ryan said.
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Riding along with French troops hunting Islamist militants in France's unwinnable West African war.
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"I've been winning unwinnable fights pretty much all of my life," she said to cheers.
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Some of these battles are simply unwinnable for one side or another, and characters die.
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But critics say that putting more boots on the ground won't end an unwinnable war.
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His first book was Winning the Unwinnable War: America's Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism.
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" His first book was "Winning the Unwinnable War: America's Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism.
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Tostarena, as David Shimomura points out at Unwinnable, is a town constructed from Mexican caricature.
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Fighting Brett Kavanaugh's nomination is unwinnable and will only make the country's politics more toxic.
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So Democrats should go into the confirmation debate recognizing that it is almost certainly unwinnable.
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You are in an unwinnable situation, Mr. Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican, counseled Mr. Kushner.
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There is a broad consensus among professional historians that the Vietnam War was effectively unwinnable.
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Tough Guy got us into an unwinnable war, totally out of line with my administration.
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In both the Vietnam and Afghanistan conflicts, American political leaders increasingly saw them as unwinnable.
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Tepid "free market" messages, forever hoping to win over an unwinnable right, won't do that.
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Bin Laden sought to portray the U.S. as hopelessly mired in an unwinnable war in Afghanistan.
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More to the point, what does it mean to be a hero in an unwinnable war?
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And it should push for a reasonable deal to end the Saudis' unwinnable war in Yemen.
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As a result, he won the seemingly unwinnable "blue wall" states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
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Five American military veterans on why they see the war in Afghanistan as an unwinnable conflict.
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But just because the war against misinformation may be unwinnable doesn't mean it should be avoided.
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The way I look at this, I've been winning unwinnable fights pretty much all my life.
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The scene is later shown to be an unwinnable simulation, created as part of a training scenario.
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Women and communities of color would see previously unwinnable seats open to them, especially across the South.
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That gives Democrats hope that they could eke out some midterm victories in some heretofore unwinnable areas.
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"There's a sense that the fight to protect your data is unwinnable," says Acquisti, of Carnegie Mellon.
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It's a way to stay fit, yes, and a way to wage the unwinnable battle against aging.
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In short, top US officials consistently lied to Americans to hide the unwinnable nature of the conflict.
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Taxpayers in the states in question should not be forced to fund a frivolous and unwinnable lawsuit.
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But by exploding the rules that would have kept him out, he risked making the game unwinnable.
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Doing so may very well save numerous lives and prevent entanglement in unwinnable future conflicts as well.
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It's a stunning turnaround for Trump, who spent years railing against leaders who waded into unwinnable conflicts.
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The seat, said the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, would be unwinnable for Democrats if Moser were the nominee.
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Prey isn't as stingy as System Shock 2, where running out of supplies could render the game unwinnable.
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The momentum from the first day of battle continued and convinced the Germans that the war was unwinnable.
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This conflict is "unwinnable," as US veterans of Afghanistan reportedly told the president more than two years ago.
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" Soon those who picked unwinnable fights and bullied victims for the sheer sake of bullying them became "trolls.
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The general public is familiar with the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), whereby nuclear war is unwinnable.
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As Americans decided the war was unwinnable and its architects dishonest, policymakers responded by abandoning the war itself.
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Due to North Carolina redistricting, Walker's seat is now heavily Democratic and essentially unwinnable for the conservative Republican.
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They shouldn't let unwinnable or symbolic battles distract them from small, tangible victories that might still be possible.
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Recent US casualties in Afghanistan have underscored what's been clear for some time: The US war there is unwinnable.
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Plus, controlling what kids are exposed to on platforms like YouTube can feel like an unwinnable battle with algorithms.
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"I've been doing this too long to get cowed by the idea that any case is unwinnable," Lichtman said.
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Schilling, the former baseball star and prominent conservative, said Trump's comments made the election "unwinnable" for the Republican nominee.
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" In Spanberger's victory speech, she said, "We won an unwinnable district by doing exactly what every campaign should do.
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Beauty is an unwinnable game, but vloggers and brands have managed to sell us on the feeling of beauty.
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And so the question arises, if the war has become seemingly unwinnable, why doesn't the United States just leave?
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He has to be the hero of a race that supposedly everyone called unwinnable just a few weeks ago.
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In an online column titled "May the Best Meds Win," he called the sports war on drugs hypocritical and unwinnable.
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Their harrowing stories from the battlefield shed light on what they see as an unwinnable conflict in a foreign land.
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The country was stuck in a war in Vietnam, where 541,000 American troops were fighting a seemingly endless, unwinnable battle.
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"From early on, this was an unwinnable trial," Samson Costales, who retired from the Albuquerque PD in 2001, told me.
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He commissioned the Pentagon Papers, which documented decades of White House deception about an unwinnable war that he, too, pursued.
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And I think that no story is more dramatically interesting than to see someone fight a battle that is seemingly unwinnable.
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Theater owners should be focusing on making going to the movies worth it—rather than fighting an unwinnable battle against streaming.
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The first episode primarily concerns itself with the arrival of Kathleen Zellner, an attorney known for winning "unwinnable" wrongful conviction cases.
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He led an Arab coalition into an unwinnable war in Yemen against the Houthis, a Shia militia, creating a humanitarian disaster.
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President Donald Trump's former top economic advisor says the trade war with China is unwinnable and is hurting the U.S. economy.
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" Why it matters: "As those rights come due, the networks could enter an unwinnable bidding war with Amazon, Facebook and Alphabet.
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The beard became a marker of hard men who did their part to win the war, even if it was unwinnable.
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In the theology of nuclear deterrence, the point of this unholy trinity is to make nuclear war unwinnable and, therefore, pointless.
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The United States has long negotiated with Iran for hostages and has long argued over the unwinnable dilemmas such negotiations entail.
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But a generation of unwinnable Mideast wars shows us the idiocy and expense of social engineering in alien cultures and societies.
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Indeed, attempts to place an unwinnable trade dispute with the U.S. in a broader geopolitical context is a road to nowhere.
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Those battles are unwinnable: Publicly pressuring the president reduces influence with him and feeds into perceptions that agencies are irredeemably politicized.
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As a former prosecutor, including time as a narcotics prosecutor, I can only conclude that the war on drugs is unwinnable.
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A murky triangle arises—both romantic and familial—involving the protagonist, an experienced and entrancing older server, and an unwinnable bartender.
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Even though they were faced with a pretty much unwinnable battle with the dead, not that many major characters lost their lives.
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Without thinking through this correlation, America could find itself bogged down in unwinnable wars, something of which the generals are well aware.
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Donald Trump is now the Wild Card-in-Chief - and as a result, formerly unwinnable propositions now look promising to the GOP.
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You don't need to ask whether Italians should have been worried about Mussolini's authoritarianism or his tendency to blunder into unwinnable wars.
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It stands to transform Pakatan's chances by granting access to a broad swathe of rural constituencies that they had previously thought unwinnable.
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And widespread demoralization of base GOP voters could make dozens of currently unwinnable House seats competitive while guaranteeing Democrats a Senate win.
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Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states are bogged down in a brutal, unwinnable war in Yemen, where Iran backs the Houthi rebels.
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Its blue metal body lurches forward, only to be yanked backward again and again—a slapstick war dance for an unwinnable war.
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In a note, Wieser said its battle for key Twenty-First Century Fox assets has placed the company in an unwinnable situation.
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In late October, Maduro and his allies on the election commission, recognizing that elections have become unwinnable, suspended the recall process indefinitely.
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For Vietnam was not an unwinnable war for a country that had reduced the Japanese empire to smoldering ruins in four years.
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On the trail, Warren has told crowds to keep the faith -- that she's been in "unwinnable fights" before and overcome the odds.
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Important U.S. industries have responded with consternation to the increasing risk of a trade war with China, dubbing it an unwinnable situation.
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These are unwinnable wars, yet to listen to mainstream public debate you'd never know it; in the media, we're treated to silence.
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To an extent, it's a smart strategy that has prevented the company from becoming embroiled in often unwinnable and expensive regulatory wars.
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Matt: But checking the highlight reel, I see our fearless president is inching us closer to yet another unwinnable Middle Eastern adventure.
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Stop fighting unwinnable battles, be creative, amp up the exclusivity, shrink the industry, educate the investor base and change the conversation about benchmarks.
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In abandoning its past caution, it has waded into an unwinnable war in Yemen and split the GCC in a feud with Qatar.
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The move suggested that the Trump campaign saw Virginia as unwinnable and that they didn't have enough resources to cover every key state.
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There will be surprises for both Democrats and Republicans: that unwinnable district that's suddenly close or that "safe seat" that's suddenly going south.
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The prospect of Afghanistan again becoming a haven for the world's most dangerous terrorists overcame his aversion to fighting a seemingly unwinnable war.
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In light of the disturbing stories and statistics Dusenbery gathers, one could read Khakpour's approach as a refusal to play an unwinnable game.
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The war against the Islamic State is unwinnable without filling the political and security vacuum that now exists in too much of Iraq.
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As for what Chapman deserves for his behavior on the night in question, Manfred is faced with an unprecedented and probably unwinnable decision.
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His war in Yemen is unwinnable and causing widespread hunger and disease; it is hurting Saudi Arabia and its Western allies more than Iran.
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They structured their games so that players couldn't invisibly render the game unwinnable by trying the wrong thing, as was common in Sierra adventures.
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When Mexico introduced a 30% quota in 2002, its parties ran women in unwinnable districts, and put them at the bottom of party lists.
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The prospect of Afghanistan again becoming a haven for the world's most dangerous terrorists had overcome his aversion to fighting a seemingly unwinnable war.
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Snoop went after Irving during a conversation with Stephen A. Smith -- essentially saying waging a pot war with the NFL is unwinnable and stupid.
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It will continually present you with unwinnable situations with which other women can commiserate but which no one can tell you how to navigate.
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And it gives carte blanche to the military to pursue what is now an unwinnable war without end against a faceless and stateless enemy.
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Ultimately, Laurel may have been in a simply unwinnable position, destined to lose against Domenick and Wendell, but without a true alternate game plan.
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Only in the past few years have Republican members of Congress turned it into another hostage in an increasingly contentious and unwinnable partisan fight.
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He is also co-author of Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism, a contributor to Defending Free Speech, and editor of Winning the Unwinnable War.
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Mr. Rose, who happily answers to progressive, moderate, liberal — even "blue dog" — refuses to concede that the borough is inherently conservative, and thus unwinnable.
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It's one of the unwinnable games of both assembling and reviewing such a monolithic-looking collection to ask—what shouldn't have been left out?
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Sometimes, these cases would be completely unwinnable for the state if not for the defendant providing all the incriminating evidence against himself on social media.
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YouTube has tried to address the problem in part by introducing new parental controls, but history tells us that this may be an unwinnable battle.
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Cargill compares the Ancient One conundrum to Star Trek's "Kobayashi Maru," an intentionally unwinnable combat training exercise that tests the character of prospective starship captains.
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If the administration is not prepared, it may well find itself embroiled in messy, open-ended, and unwinnable conflicts with Iran, Russia and their proxies.
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That this argument delivered the coalition a stunning victory in what appeared to be an unwinnable election does not represent some new Australian political logic.
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A tweet praising a challenger to his critic, Jeff Flake, preceded the Arizona Republican's decision to quit a primary race that may have been unwinnable.
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At the same time, he suggested that the threat of full-scale cyberwarfare between governments was exaggerated and that any such conflict would be unwinnable.
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That's why it makes sense to invest American resources into other areas — like combating climate change — instead of continuously pouring it into an unwinnable war.
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In some instances, these ads will lead enthusiastic Democrats to waste money on unwinnable races; in others, they may help make a "red" area competitive.
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In some instances, these ads will lead enthusiastic Democrats to waste money on unwinnable races; in others, they may help make a "red" area competitive.
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By 1965, Johnson saw Vietnam for the unwinnable quagmire that it was, but he feared and ultimately bowed to the short-term consequences of withdrawing.
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Despite voter suppression and disenfranchisement and gerrymandering, which are significant barriers for black voter participation, black women flip districts and make formerly "unwinnable" races highly competitive.
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PARIS — On April 268, 220, Emmanuel Macron stunned the world by leading in the first round of a presidential election that had looked unwinnable by him.
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Beyond having no strategic utility, the gargantuan 28500,6900-pound bomb known as the "mother of all bombs" may have made the Afghanistan War even more unwinnable.
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He had become increasingly frustrated with the systematic deception of top U.S. leaders who sought to publicly escalate a war that, privately, they knew was unwinnable.
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They taught me when you should walk away because that particular argument with the government is unwinnable and when to stand your ground and argue back.
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Vietnam proved that despite a certain amount of patriotic naïveté, Americans ultimately wouldn't put up with a seemingly unwinnable war founded on lies and self-delusion.
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In reality, the Nixon administration negotiated a settlement and the withdrawal of US forces precisely because it knew America was in a pointless and unwinnable war.
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The bottom line: The landscape on California issues would shift overnight if a Democrat wins the White House — but Trump rightly sees the state as unwinnable.
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"The Post" is a docudrama about the Washington Post's decision in 1971 to publish the Pentagon Papers, leaked government documents acknowledging that the Vietnam war was unwinnable.
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Bannon, meanwhile, has told associates that he feels an extended battle with Kushner -- and by extension Trump's daughter Ivanka -- is "unwinnable" given Trump's loyalty to his family.
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"Less hopeless" is high praise so far as BOJ actions go, though their fight to try to effect rising prices as the population declines is likely unwinnable.
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But Mr Sanders is not doing himself or the Democratic party any favours by stoking illusions he could win an unwinnable fight at the convention in July.
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But an early cash advantage for one candidate can dissuade an outside group backing the other candidate from committing funds to what looks like an unwinnable race.
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Perpetual conflict in pursuit of an unwinnable war on "terror" has led to tens of thousands of casualties and more than a million veterans applying for disability.
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Be smart: This is yet another sign of growing anti-Trump energy pumping new money and new hope into Democratic campaigns that seemed unwinnable only months ago.
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That sense of loss — of fighting in a war that felt unwinnable even at the time — was palpable to some veterans who have moved on from it.
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In Nevada, a surge in the last few days of early voting made the state, according to state politics expert Jon Ralston, all but unwinnable for Republicans.
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Pick unwinnable trade wars with other countries, with tariffs paid for by American consumers and with adverse effects on American farmers and the national and global economies.
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The documents showed that successive administrations had secretly enlarged the scope of American military action in Vietnam even as U.S. leaders became convinced the war was unwinnable.
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Nope. But no matter how cynical the tardy call for a quick peace may be, it's likely to be welcomed by both sides in an unwinnable war.
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As a journalist, and for the American forces, everything in 1967 proved its value in how to cover a very mobile, increasingly ugly and increasingly unwinnable war.
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The US is pursuing a peace deal with the Taliban and, according to recent Washington Post reporting, US officials knew that the war in Afghanistan was unwinnable.
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In just the last week, Trump entered into a unwinnable war of words over the weight problems of a former Miss Universe including a bizarre 3:00 a.m.
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But with its algorithm locked in a black box, and an opponent who views any media left of Breitbart with suspicion, it's going to be an unwinnable fight.
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Between a significant amount of money and venturing into both easy-to-win and "unwinnable" districts, the group learned what could work for Democrats in 2018 and beyond.
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An October Politico magazine profile of John Weaver, Kasich's chief strategist, presented an unflattering portrait of an operative who has enriched himself in the game of unwinnable politics.
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And now many Republicans are contemplating the possibility that states like Colorado or Nevada could soon become the next California: once competitive but now unwinnable in presidential contests.
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Even if Syria's war hurts everyone in the long term, guaranteeing more extremism and instability, short-term fears of defeat pull everyone toward maintaining a perpetual, unwinnable draw.
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Such criticism is not uncommon among outside experts as well as administration officials who believe that Mr. Kerry too often pursues unwinnable goals and settles for imperfect outcomes.
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Was it sane for Presidents Johnson and Nixon to prolong what they knew was an unwinnable war in Vietnam with massive bombing campaigns against North Vietnam and Cambodia?
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The other method was to fracture unwinnable Democratic districts, salting their Democrats among Republican-majority districts so that races there became closer yet remained out of Democrats' reach.
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CNN: I think some people could see that number -- $400 million -- and think, 'Oh my gosh, that's a lot of money that's being used to fight something that's unwinnable.
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We were even willing to pull punches in fights that seemed unwinnable because they centered on issues congressional leaders did not consider immediate priorities -- like safeguarding our financial future.
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He said many of his compatriots were veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who had become disillusioned with the American political system after fighting in unwinnable conflicts.
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His secretary of defense, Robert McNamara, had become convinced that the war was unwinnable and urged the president to announce a bombing halt to coax North Vietnam into negotiations.
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The protest movement was divided between moderates who wanted to end a commitment to an unwinnable war and radicals who wanted to tear down the institutions of democratic capitalism.
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It's painful to see American casualty numbers in Afghanistan rise while the White House refuses to acknowledge what has been clear for well over a decade: The war is unwinnable.
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And I was think about unwinnable fights, because I think they tell us a lot about ourselves, who we are, and the kind of country that we want to have.
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His own risk aversion has wisely led him away from nation-building and new military engagements and toward the difficult but necessary process of disengaging from old and unwinnable ones.
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As a general neurotoxin, chlorpyrifos poisons a vast swath of species — some harmless, many beneficial — that are the collateral damage in this unending and arguably unwinnable war against agricultural pests.
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Although the United States undoubtedly had the means to prevail in Vietnam, the war was unwinnable at the level of commitment and sacrifice that our nation was willing to sustain.
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For six years, Republicans have sought every possible way to kill the landmark health law — bringing failed lawsuits and waging unwinnable legislative fights that a Democratic president could always veto.
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He's trying to distract us from his conflicts of interest, or he's luring liberals into unwinnable culture fights, or he's turning his Twitter feed into a state propaganda outlet. Maybe.
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"There is no other character in Marvel history that is such a cultural landmine, that is absolutely unwinnable," Cargill said during an appearance on the Double Toasted podcast (via Screen Rant).
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" But the same source acknowledged it could also be "the logical choice in some ways if you want to take the issue off the table and avoid these unwinnable budget skirmishes.
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"Matthew's smart enough to not try to fight an unwinnable war against the brief attention span of millennials," said Mr. Maher, who recently narrated an animated Attn: video about Mr. Trump.
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Task & Purpose: Do you think the reason why the US keeps getting into these unwinnable conflicts, like Afghanistan or Iraq, is because sometimes the lessons from places like Vietnam are forgotten?
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"If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America," Lyndon Johnson is reputed to have said (perhaps it's apocryphal) after the CBS anchorman said in 1968 that the Vietnam War was unwinnable.
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There's a powerful sense of rootedness, a love of the landscape and the laid-back lifestyle, a selective affinity for the culture, and an Alamo-like pride in battling unwinnable odds.
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The industry it works in is highly reliant on trust, and the accusations coming from the US government coupled with paranoia surrounding the Russian government put Kaspersky in an almost unwinnable situation.
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David Cohen, Forward Majority co-founder and former Obama campaign senior staffer, said the races Forward Majority helped Democrats win in Virginia were "thought to be unwinnable" because of the Republican stronghold.
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"(Corbyn) has managed to shift from being someone who is absolutely unplayable and unwinnable to somebody who seems to have a chance," David Marsh, who co-founded OMFIF, told CNBC on Monday.
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The Democrats have also ignored outreach to their base -- including communities of color -- opting instead to chase the elusive suburban soccer mom and field bland, unwinnable candidates with weak and stale messages.
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I was opposed to the surge then, and for the life of me I cannot understand why we would allow one more American or allied soldier to perish in this unwinnable war.
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Unamuno believed that it was not Quixote but Sancho who was delusional, firm in his belief that windmills are not worth charging, and, more broadly, that unwinnable battles are not worth fighting.
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Warren may be the best debate athlete, but she's promoting unwinnable positions on health care, open borders and how to pay for all the trillion-dollar things she wants to make free.
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Warren may be the best debate athlete, but she's promoting unwinnable positions on health care, open borders and how to pay for all the trillion-dollar things she wants to make free.
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In the case of #HillarysHealth and #Pizzagate, it invented defamatory conspiracy theories, forcing the candidate into an unwinnable choice: stoop to address the fever swamp's claims or let them fester and gather steam.
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He holds an all hands meeting where he asks his people to think big, which was similar to the meeting Chuck had with his staff about finding an unwinnable case earlier this season.
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Trump is losing patience with the high number of U.S. forces assisting Afghan troops in what looks to some critics to be an unwinnable war that the United States cannot end or exit.
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It plays like an obtuse version of Five Nights at Freddy's, except with a theme song sequence that freezes the controls so you can appreciate it in full, thereby making the game unwinnable.
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"We created this grassroots movement that was very people-focused, and we took a race that most national folks thought was unwinnable, and we moved the needle 24 points," Scholten told CNN Sunday.
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The battle over numbers is binary—let in more or let in fewer—and unwinnable for liberals, as arguing for more immigration has now become a poisoned chalice in almost every part of Europe.
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The White House staff, too cowed to break their boss of the habit of making things up, is stuck cleaning up the President's misstatements, plugging leaks, and picking pointless, unwinnable fights with media organizations.
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Too skewed towards trying to win the unwinnable war on drugs by spraying coca fields from the air, and too compromised by giving money to an army stained by human-rights abuses, they said.
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He picks bar fights, reprograms an unwinnable training simulation so he can win it, and fakes an illness to get onboard the starship he wants, even though he hasn't graduated from the academy yet.
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"Recent wild, tariff-induced swings in the stock market concern every American with a 401(k), pension, or IRA, proving the folly of unwinnable trade wars," CTA CEO Gary Shapiro said in a statement.
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But it is, I think, fair to ask how committed they would be in practice, and also whether they would squander their political capital on unwinnable fights, which is my big concern about Sanders.
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In a recent phone conversation with me, DeMaio attributed this success to his record of "fighting the fights that some people think are unwinnable," on behalf of a put-upon middle class in California.
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He may want to use his moment to signal that he is not interested in playing by the rules of what increasingly seems, to many small and under-resourced independent designers, an unwinnable game.
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Trump insisted the two work out their differences and "cut it out," and Bannon reportedly told some staffers that he believes the war with Kushner is "unwinnable" because of the president's loyalty to his family.
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Perhaps GOP voters in those states will divide, or perhaps authoritarian-minded voters will nominate Trump-style candidates who alienate the rest of the state, thus allowing Democrats a shot at winning otherwise unwinnable races.
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Then we look at a gorgeous personal essay over at Unwinnable by Amanda Hudgins, "The Kentucky State Fair", which ends up providing a way of considering one way of practicing what Ryerson is alluding to.
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But senior party strategists have concluded that over a dozen districts held by Republicans may already be unwinnable, most in metropolitan areas where President Trump has alienated moderates and stirred volcanic resistance on the left.
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In this season of public transit discontent, Amandeep Saini, Alejandro Freiria and Alvin Lowe are subway foot soldiers, waging an unending and, seemingly, unwinnable battle against discarded Starbucks cups, wayward newspapers and tossed McDonalds wrappers.
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France's neighbors have shown little appetite for joining a fight that even some French officers say is unwinnable, and that appears to be gaining France few friends, especially in the territories where it is deployed.
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The Democrats are likely to run up the score in places they never risked losing like California, and to make big gains in all-but-unwinnable states like Texas, leading to a lot of "wasted" votes.
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But changing character can also break down problems your team had been having before — all too often fights feel unwinnable in Overwatch until one player swaps character to one better suited to the problem at hand.
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Despite its high-tech arsenal supplied by the United States, Saudi Arabia -- one of the world's richest countries -- has become bogged down in a bloody, likely unwinnable war in Yemen -- one of the world's poorest countries.
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From activists on the street to presidential candidates on the debate stage, a new consensus has emerged that the nation must shrink its military budget and restrain the executive branch's power to launch unwinnable foreign conflicts.
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It's part of a larger play by the president's team to contest not just Minnesota, but also New Mexico, Nevada and New Hampshire, states he lost in 28503 but are by no means unwinnable for Republicans.
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The best hope for Trump's Middle East policy is that his administration continues to avoid getting America into new conflicts and -- as in Syria and Afghanistan -- to think about how to disentangle it from old, unwinnable ones.
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Comparing the process of casting The Ancient One to Star Trek's "Kobayashi Maru" — an intentionally unwinnable training exercise for starship captains-in-training — Cargill contended that critics were bound to take issue no matter who was hired.
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I'm more concerned about (a) the electability of someone who says he's a socialist even though he isn't and (b) if he does win, whether he'll squander political capital on unwinnable fights like abolishing private health insurance.
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In unwinnable bright red districts, it may depress turnout, but in the absence of a criminal indictment or the incumbent representative being caught in bed with a copy of President Obama's autobiography, it won't change the outcome.
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Two of them have concluded the war is unwinnable, especially as Assad now has heavy military support from Russia and Iran that far outweighs the weapons shipped to rebels by the United States, Gulf Arab states and Turkey.
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Precisely because of the importance of Saudi Arabia—the world's biggest oil exporter and home to Islam's two holiest places—the West should urge restraint on the impetuous prince and help disentangle him from an unwinnable war. How?
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Indeed, the U.S. and other countries have recently challenged Europe's new regime on endocrine disruptors, a case that, if soon filed, will implicate countless agricultural exports from this country, and will be unwinnable without strongly relying on precedent.
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The photo "fed into a developing narrative in the wake of the Tet offensive that the Vietnam War was looking more and more like an unwinnable war," said Robert J. McMahon, a historian at the Ohio State University.
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To some in Washington, after eighteen years of unwinnable slogs in Afghanistan and the Middle East, the prospect of reprising the Cold War—the last major conflict that Washington won—offers the familiar comfort of an old boot.
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By winning what was seen as an unwinnable election, the unexpected leader has cemented his authority over the Liberal Party, giving him the muscle to end a decade of instability that has seen a revolving door of prime ministers.
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As Theo Farrell of Wollongong University in Australia puts it in "Unwinnable", his book on Britain's war in Afghanistan: money flows upwards; every government position is bought; even promotions in the army and police depend upon patronage and purchase.
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Selling weapons without congressional approval to a human rights-violating nation, which has yet to demonstrate full accountability for Khashoggi's death or for its part in a bloody and unwinnable war in Yemen, isn't a policy -- it's a travesty.
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Tree of Smoke, his giant novel about Vietnam, is animated by the figure of a magnetic, brutal, rule-breaking Irish-Catholic intelligence officer who loses himself in a paranoid and hate-filled obsession with victory in an unwinnable fight.
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Winning an unwinnable game or even two with this bunch is one thing; keeping it up for a whole season, leaving behind powerhouses such as Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea and Manchester United and City, is nothing short of a miracle.
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Born in Wales but destined for the vast snowscapes of the Canadian Atlantic coastline, Mr. Davies, founder of the International Fund for Animal Welfare ("Awful name," he says, grimacing), seems loath to believe that his fight might be unwinnable.
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It is almost as if formulating policy based on internal party politics, offering an apparently unwinnable referendum to poisonous Eurosceptics in the hopes of silencing them, might not be the best way to go about drafting an election manifesto.
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She has alluded to the "unwinnable fights" she has won in her life — transcending a working-class upbringing to excel in academia, flipping a Senate seat — as evidence of her viability as a general election option against President Trump.
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The risk, however, is that the predictions of economic chaos after a no-deal Brexit are borne out, making an election unwinnable for him (and, if things are bad enough, possibly for the Conservative Party for years to come).
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His time in office has also spurred a nationwide renaissance among the liberal grassroots, which, in their despair at Trump's election, got busy organizing and demanding the party engage in places the conventional wisdom had long dismissed as unwinnable.
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The risk, however, is that the predictions of economic chaos after a no-deal Brexit are borne out, making an election unwinnable for him (and, if things are bad enough, possibly for the Conservative Party for years to come).
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They should accept in advance that this fight, like others to come, may be unwinnable—but that losing a fight isn't the same as failing to rise to the occasion, and that picking only certain battles isn't synonymous with appeasement.
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Bogged down in an unwinnable war against the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, worried about the specter of growing Iranian power in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, the House of Saud views the once-sacred cause of the Palestinians as passe.
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Even for military hawks, the view took hold that something was profoundly flawed in the war effort, and that the president and Army General William Westmoreland had badly misled the American people and foolishly ensnared us in an unwinnable conflict.
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For decades, Democrats allowed the prize of an Electoral College victory to blind them to electoral opportunities elsewhere, staving off funding and failing to provide meaningful support for candidates, campaigns and local parties in places they had written off as unwinnable.
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Because for me, it's a distillation of what it means to be 20-something-year-old kid who's a little too preoccupied with figuring out what's 'real' and what's bullshit (in a world that's hurtling into unwinnable wars and ecological suicide).
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When, as more prudent Japanese officials had feared, the war degenerated into an unwinnable competition against overwhelming American industrial power, the militaristic leadership kept trying and failing to score one decisive battlefield victory — not at Saipan, nor Luzon, nor Leyte.
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After Iowa, Ms. Warren's staff made virtually no adjustments in New Hampshire to her messaging, other than a small addition to her stump speech about her history of winning "unwinnable fights," a nod to the difficult political moment she now faces.
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America's ongoing and unwinnable war with terrorism has inspired bad legislation that vastly increases the powers of the National Security Agency and has restarted a long-tired debate about law-enforcement access to encrypted communications that will shape the future of the internet.
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"The President has demonstrated a preternatural risk-aversion when it comes to use of military force and wants to get out of unwinnable old wars and not get into new ones," said Aaron David Miller, a senior vice president at the Wilson Center.
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Wobbled by the nefarious blow, Crosby stumbles into the waiting stick of Niskanen, the traitorous tag-team partner who left the Penguins to complete this coordinated attack on the skull of a former teammate in an effort to swing an unwinnable series.
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Yes. Perhaps I'd rephrase that a little: The war has become unwinnable and misguided because it's a war to affirm the notion of American exceptionalism, and of course that's a notion that many Americans and virtually everyone in Washington is deeply committed to.
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But the bigger problem is that McMahon — and, by extension, his commanding officers — feel caught between wanting to win an unwinnable war and following the orders of the commander in chief who inherited that war, and it seems their frustrations aren't being heard.
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In smaller conflicts and interventions, the American military withdrew from Lebanon in 1983 after some 220 Marines (and 20 other service personnel) were killed in a suicide bombing and the until-then hawkish President Ronald Reagan realized he'd stepped into an unwinnable morass.
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The stalemate with the Houthis, and the lack of a clear strategy or exit plan, have raised questions about whether Prince Mohammed and his ally, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed of the Emirates, have locked their nations in a costly and unwinnable conflict.
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The UAE seems to have concluded that the war is unwinnable and too costly to pursue and began drawing down its forces in Yemen in July -- though it remains committed to counter-terrorism strikes against the Yemeni affiliates of al Qaeda and ISIS.
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But Captain Medina and Lieutenant William L. Calley Jr., who was subsequently convicted of murder at a court-martial as the leader of the platoon that carried out the massacre, came to be viewed by many as scapegoats in an unwinnable conflict.
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Mr. Haynes, known as Racehorse — a nickname acquired when he was a high school football player — inherited the mantle of the legendary Texas lawyer Percy Foreman when he began compiling a spectacular record of acquittals in seemingly unwinnable cases, both small and large.
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Guided by these illusions, we drove our ship of state straight onto the rocks: We dismantled our industrial base, mired ourselves in unwinnable wars and tore apart the social fabric that bound city to country, worker to employer and soldier to civilian.
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Mr. Trump's emphasis on great power conflict and high-priced assets also solves, deliberately or not, a political problem that bedeviled both the Barack Obama and George W. Bush administrations: Fighting insurgencies is messy, costly and often unwinnable in any traditional sense.
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And the race holds risks for Democrats nationally, too: Fresh off a string of much-hyped special election races in red congressional districts that ended in failure, the Alabama Senate race threatens to waste Democrats' money and enthusiasm on an unwinnable campaign.
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The promise of Bill Clinton was that this guy, unlike the Yankees who lost the 1984 and 1988 elections for Democrats, could win over working-class whites, and, by combining their votes with black votes, flip Appalachian and Southern states that were otherwise unwinnable.
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Poll: Clinton leading Trump in critical battlegrounds Concerned Republicans say their worries go beyond the campaign's decision to send its greatest resource -- the candidate himself -- to chase one or two electoral votes in Maine, or to what they believe are unwinnable states like Connecticut.
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"The Zoo Story," a one-act about a successful, domesticated man accosted in a park by a man who is neither, introduced not only Albee's despairing vision of life as an unwinnable war for dominance but also the verbal exuberance that made that vision bearable.
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Meanwhile, Turkey is fighting an unwinnable three-front war in Syria: supporting rebel proxies in their battle against Mr. Assad's government, taking part in operations against the Islamic State and, most important for the Turkish government, trying to limit the gains of Kurdish groups.
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Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan returned to Indiana and Texas embittered at having lost their youth in unwinnable wars, while conservative pundits like Kristol kept demanding new ones—but their shared contempt for liberal élites kept them from noticing the Republican Party's internal conflicts.
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A Kansas race that the national party wrote off as unwinnable turned out to be unexpectedly close, while the Georgia Sixth primary, which national Democrats were very enthusiastic about, turned out to be one of the party's worst special election results of the whole year.
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The result is that protest movements are put in a kind of unwinnable situation: Viewers at home end up thinking most protesters are violent or dangerous, and protest leaders are forced into endless debates about tactics, rather than the issue they were protesting in the first place.
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His case should lead the Supreme Court to reinvigorate the "special care" doctrine it adopted long ago to protect kids like him, and me, from an unwinnable game of "gotcha" in the interrogation room -- and the unjust consequences that can so easily destroy those same children's lives.
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Trump took office at a time when the early promise of globalization had foundered; when the purpose of the American alliance system was in doubt; when glowing projections of liberal democracy in Russia and China had proved dead wrong; and when America was mired in unwinnable wars.
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With the stunning and sad "Afghanistan Papers," The Washington Post revealed what we knew in our hearts: We have spent 18 years and a trillion dollars in Afghanistan, with generals lying and hiding evidence that the war was unwinnable, just as the generals did in Vietnam.
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A month ago, Steve Bannon and friends thought they were winning their argument for a drawdown, rather than the increase advocated by SecDef Jim Mattis — with Bannonites contending that Americans in general, and Trump country in particular, didn't want to pour more America lives into an unwinnable fight.
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A college degree is empirically more valuable than it's been in decades, but if higher education becomes a proxy for the unwinnable war over American political identity, Congress will never pass comprehensive legislation, the country won't solve the student debt crisis, and, most critically, our institutions will languish.
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At some point, so-called establishment Democrats should stop trying to win the far-left's love -- unwinnable because they are not part of the movement -- and tell them this: If you didn't come to ultimately work for the party, you entered the party's primaries for the wrong reason.
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Let's take a look at a few recent examples of this "Trump first" approach at play: Withdrawal of US troops from Syria No one likes the idea of putting US troops in harm's way, especially in the midst of what seems like an unwinnable war thousands of miles away.
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The cycle is born of the infeasibility of conservative goals, especially the American right's attempt to reverse the growth of the welfare and administrative state (which even the world's most right-wing parties accept) and its tendency to start unwinnable culture wars against inevitable change (a typical conservative foible).
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In a 2011 post on Unwinnable, Olivia Noel Davis -- who made it clear that she did not want to be classified as a feminist despite sharing many of the qualities of one -- chastised Final Fantasy creators for making battles more difficult for female characters to win and defaulting to male characters.
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While Andrade won the fight convincingly and looked good doing it, this fight never looked unwinnable for Hill and when she used the right tools—her jab, the step up knee, long low kicks, the odd front kick—Andrade had a hard time defending and a hard time getting to her.
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In the Afghanistan document trove, as in the Pentagon Papers, you can see military and civilian officials feeding the press over-optimistic assessments of a likely unwinnable conflict, conducting clever statistical manipulations to create illusions of success, telling hard truths in private while lying subtly or baldly in their public statements.
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We did little to prevent the environmental destruction of our planet; we watched as our country plunged headlong into unwinnable wars, despite the lessons of Vietnam; we let this country drift into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, with no one held accountable; and oh yeah, we elected Donald Trump.
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So, when the referendum turns out to be not so unwinnable as previously thought -- or at least by the wrong side -- the result is a rush job of an exit plan, as May tried to do the impossible, working her way through the 700-plus EU treaties that will exclude Britain after Brexit Day.
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But instead of writing a record dedicated to that explanation, or even to her own grief over being locked in an unwinnable war for the last five years with the very people tasked with developing her career, Kesha made an album where her anguish was just one part of the narrative, instead of the whole story.
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And also, I mean, not to repeat age-old feminist points, but it's like you know, any male actor her age who's going out and dating is applauded and to just have a perfectly normal amount of romantic partners but be held to impossibly high standards by the press, like it's just an unfair and unwinnable game.
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And President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE has committed himself in a way neither of his two predecessors did to getting out of costly and unwinnable wars.
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Trump, who ran on a platform of withdrawing from the Middle East and would just as soon get out of these unwinnable wars, faces a genuine conundrum: how to avoid looking weak but avoid triggering a messy conflict with Iran and deeper involvement in Iraq that would be certain to alienate his base and energize his opponents.
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And the group appears unlikely to fulfill the criteria that, over the past century, led many other terrorist organizations, revolutionaries, and rogue states to improved relations with the US. Dominic Tierney is associate professor of political science at Swarthmore College and the author of the book The Right Way to Lose a War: America In an Age of Unwinnable Conflicts.
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" And this is the lead of the Post's main story about the Afghanistan Papers Monday: "A confidential trove of government documents obtained by The Washington Post reveals that senior US officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable.
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Yet say this for Kasich: Despite having lost every single Republican contest except on his home turf of Ohio, despite having finished behind Marco Rubio in Arizona after Rubio dropped out, despite running a campaign that has failed at signature gathering and filling delegate slots and made pointless forays into unwinnable states, when this dust of 2016 settles he will have one claim to bragging rights.
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In a 2006 article in The New York Times, Professor Fromson wrote the final chapter in a story that had begun in 1967, when both he and a Times reporter, R. W. Apple Jr., had produced attention-getting reports quoting an unnamed general as saying that the Vietnam War was unwinnable — a startling statement at the time and one that enraged President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Talking to me for an interview with Unwinnable, Walt Williams explained how they didn't originally set out to make The Line in this cynical, nihilistic manner, but it came from a point of frustration at the genre they were tasked to work with—how military shooters have long depicted warfare as 'fun:' There was this point where the pain of the product began to show itself within the project.
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It's hard to remember the last time anyone in the GOP expressed regret about the disastrous binds their party has led the country into, over and over again, in recent years: the endless, unwinnable wars; the cataclysmic deregulation of the financial system; the massive intelligence failure that allowed September 11 to take place; the pathetic inability to rescue the people of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina; the scheme to build a model, laissez-faire state in Iraq; and so many other self-serving, crack-brained, feckless projects.
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As Ms. Ardern was announcing that she would push through measures to ban semiautomatic weapons and assault rifles, her counterpart in Canberra was picking needless and unwinnable fights: Prime Minister Scott Morrison reportedly threatened to sue a journalist (and New York Times contributing opinion writer), Waleed Aly, for defamation, because on the evening of the massacre, Mr. Aly had referred to reports that the prime minister had spoken in a 2010 meeting about how his party could capitalize on concerns over Muslim immigration. (Mr.
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