It's totally possible Assange will still find some way to weasel out of this.
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It also has a tendency to weasel out of the conflicts it sets up.
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A cynic might accuse me of using my religion to weasel out of covering Kris Jenner.
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He then tried to weasel out of the backlash by incredulously claiming that he was being sarcastic.
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As we've reported ... Phaedra insists their prenup is ironclad, and Apollo's just trying to weasel out of it.
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Though with Homer's lightning sharp mind and his unflappable alibis, he should be able to easily weasel out of this.
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House lawmakers running for re-election can try to weasel out of their votes by saying they anticipated compromising with senators.
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Still, it was refreshing to have a CEO give us a clear-cut lie that was impossible to weasel out of.
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Convincing Josh McDaniels to weasel out of his agreement with the Colts at the last minute is just the latest example.
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Clinton implied that Mr. Trump would find a way to weasel out of paying his fair share of taxes for Social Security.
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Does it imply that he thinks the military's survivor benefits program is inadequate, or did he just want to weasel out of an awkward situation?
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Maybe we'll get to see some of that when the candidates actually meet—if Trump doesn't find a way to weasel out of scheduled presidential debates.
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" The pact, Salmon said, was "crafted in a way to allow Beijing to use creative interpretation to weasel out of further reprimand from the United States.
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Haven insists, in new legal docs, the girls are just trying to weasel out of the deal they made, so they're asking a judge for 2 things.
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The "burn or burn" technique works by binding us to a financially painful contract so we can't weasel out of it when the task needs to get done.
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When kettle logic is deployed by those with little power (the man who damaged the kettle in Freud's joke), it's a tactic to weasel out of a difficult situation.
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But another mouth to feed when you're a broke freelancer living in New York just isn't the kind of thing you can weasel out of on sheer luck or awkward charm.
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In this regard, your husband is correct: Without mutual sacrifice, his promise is not technically a contract but instead a simple, spoken agreement — one he could weasel out of with legalese.
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When you call back, you get a call center staffed with threatening non-English speakers who yell at you if you try to weasel out of paying them with iTunes gift cards.
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Politicians find it harder to weasel out of tough questions when they are hurled at them by a single mother working three jobs than a millionaire anchor with houses on each coast.
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Citing an anonymous source from Trump's transition team, Reuters reports that a major short-term priority is to weasel out of the Paris agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that went into force on November 4th.
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But now that Negan has come home to roost, Gregory will have to do what he does best and weasel out of a treacherous situation through deception, flattery, manipulation and a few well-placed back-stabbings.
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They will harass and abuse and oppress consumers, just to squeeze payments out of them, and hope and expect that if anybody ever tries to hold them accountable, they'll be able to, you know, weasel out of it somehow.
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If he's willing to do that, trying to weasel out of a commitment to veterans, our most revered group in our society and under the brightest spotlight we have, which is a presidential campaign, what was he doing before?
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But as I got older, and the men I'd date started calling me intimidating as a way to weasel out of the situation we were in, I realized that the opposite sex didn't always see intimidation as a positive thing.
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Those Republicans looking for a pretext to avoid confronting a president of their party — those accustomed to behaving like whipped dogs — may try to dodge behind Mr. Trump's clumsy attempt on Tuesday to weasel out of his most egregious comments.
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Earlier this summer, it tried to weasel out of a big chunk of its reunification responsibilities by asserting that it was the A.C.L.U.'s job to locate all of the parents who had been deported by the administration without their children.
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It would be easy to dismiss the possibility that Trump will do that — his ideas seem so extreme and outré, and he appears so allergic to any of the conventional techniques politicians use to weasel out of giving offensive answers.
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It assumes that Trump isn't making this up as he goes along, not even day by day but syllable by syllable, like a sitcom character inventing increasingly implausible and impractical lies in an attempt to weasel out of an embarrassing situation.
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Unfortunately for the first daughter, despite what her father has taught her, even the very rich do not have the right (yet) to redefine basic English words so they can weasel out of accountability for abetting the rise of Nazism in America.
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Here's an ugly but not unfamiliar look: A privileged young man from a wealthy nation seeks adventure in an exotic land, finds trouble instead, then tries to weasel out of that trouble by playing to negative stereotypes about the land in which he screwed up.
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When finally Russia did vote for UN Security Council Resolution 2254, calling for a political, not military solution and setting a time frame and process for Assad to end the war and transition from power, it seemed impossible the Russians could weasel out of their obligations again.
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Part of his appeal was that after eight years of Bill Clinton, who never found a scandal he couldn't weasel out of and never heard a word whose definition he couldn't quibble over—up to and including "is"—the idea of honesty seemed almost radical to many Americans.
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But perhaps no choice the show has ever made exemplifies both its canny foresight and its ability to weasel out of the traps reality lays for it as a new character introduced in season six, which is set in the 72 days between a presidential election and the inauguration.
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I have plenty of clothing and I knew that any excuses, such as a wedding to attend or a conference or a family reunion or pregnancy, would be nothing more than thinly veiled ways for me to weasel out of the ban, rush to the thrift store, and stock up on new-to-me clothes.
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And then -- to then kind of weasel out of this as this diplomatic guy that&aposs kind of come into the modern age and that allowed U.S. investment potentially in North Korea, but not have to answer for some of the heinous and atrocious acts he&aposs perpetrated on other people and his own people.
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Since the end of the Democratic convention last week, he has lobbed Islamophobic insults at the family of a Muslim soldier killed in Iraq; tried to weasel out of the presidential debates; encouraged women being sexually harassed at work to find new careers; attempted to delegitimize any election result in which he doesn't win—he even booted a crying baby from his rally.
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The absence of authorizations for other military operations—the bombing campaigns in Bosnia in 1995, Kosovo in 1999, Iraq throughout much of the 1990s, and Libya in 113, to cite a few examples—is more plausibly read not as criticism of the president's position, but rather a desire to preemptively weasel out of responsibility if a war went badly or of a belief that a military operation didn't require congressional authorization.
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This will certainly be the emphasis from the Republican Party, whose members are eager to weasel out of the position they've put themselves in, claiming to be aggressive defenders of the nation while looking away from the growing mound of evidence that our elections were compromised, that members of the Trump campaign, and possibly even the administration, may have been involved, and that the leader of their party is trying to squelch any probes.
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The one night stand seems, despite his toadish ways after the event, to be a genuinely kind and intelligent individual, even as he's trying to weasel out of a relationship.
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Any claims without first agreeing with above definitions are automatically dismissed. Example: Boss, you heard my side of the story why I think Bill should be fired and not me. Now, I am sure Bill is going to come to you with some pathetic attempt to weasel out of this lie that he has created.
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Stella's new husband, Frank, wants a family portrait. When Lynette tries to weasel out of it, Frank tries to bribe her, which doesn't work. However Lynette tells them that they are more than welcome to come over to the Scavo place for a family photo. As they all gather around for the picture they discover that Frank has died.
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Van Brugh removed as beneficiary of her godfather's will, he plans to commence proceedings to get what's his. Ruth is furious and announces that if he does so, she'll reveal the evidence of his past fraud. Smailey tries to weasel out of it, saying that "Mrs. Van Brugh would admit the justice of his claim", and he gets Ruth to agree that if Mrs.
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Introverted geek Clifford Skridlow (Dan Aykroyd) is a professor of comparative literature at the financially strapped (fictional) Monroe College in Chicago. Smooth Walker (Howard Hesseman), a pimp, owes $80,000 to "Mom" (Kate Murtagh), a gruff Chicago mob boss. Attempting to weasel out of his debt, Smooth invents a fictitious mobster, the flamboyant "Doctor Detroit", a ruthless chiropractor who allegedly is overrunning Smooth's turf. Clifford meets Smooth and his girls Monica (Donna Dixon), Jasmine (Lydia Lei), Karen (Fran Drescher), and Thelma (Lynn Whitfield), and has the best night of his life partying with them.
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He also held onto the deceased Chen's bank cards, but couldn't take the money because he didn't know the password. The attempted theft was detected by the authorities, and Ruiqin was arrested.The murderer Chen Ruiqin was asking to be executed Following his arrest, Chen confessed to the police about killing his two wives and three sons, but claimed that he had nothing to do with the disappearances of his two female friends. After his death sentence was upheld, he retracted his confession and offered to help the police in locating the missing women, but his bluff was called out, as the investigators understood that he was just trying to weasel out of his execution.
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George becomes engaged to Susan Biddle Ross, a wealthy executive at NBC who approved his and Jerry's show-within-a-show sitcom pilot. George and Susan date for a year, during which time commitment-phobic George is constantly trying to find ways to end their relationship without actually having to initiate the breakup with her. In "The Engagement", he proposes to her in a short-lived bout of midlife crisis, after he and Jerry make a pact to move forward with their lives. When Jerry breaks up with his girlfriend almost immediately thereafter for eating "her peas one at a time" and declares the deal over, George panics and again tries repeatedly to weasel out of his engagement.
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However, the pair are then kicked out of their hotel and discover Lorelei's letter of credit has been cancelled due to the information Malone shared with Esmond, Sr. When Gus shows up at their show, Lorelei rebuffs him, after which she performs Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend, the musical number whose lyrics explain why and how women need to pursue men with money. Meanwhile, Lady Beekman has filed charges regarding her missing tiara, and Lorelei is arraigned for theft. Dorothy persuades Lorelei to return the tiara, but the pair discover it is missing from her jewelry box. Piggy tries to weasel out of his part in the affair when Malone catches him at the airport.
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Alfalfa comes face to face with his wealthy lookalike Cornelius (also played by Carl Switzer). This fateful meeting provides a golden opportunity for both boys: By trading places with his double, Alfalfa will be able to weasel out of his yard work and live a life of luxury, while Cornelius will be able to escape the rigors of dancing lessons, baths, and the like, and briefly enjoy the benefits of being a "regular kid." But the consequences of the boys' identity-trading serves only to lend credence to the old saying "Stay in your own backyard." Alfalfa is not used to the dancing lessons, formal meals, having to behave like a gentleman, minding table manners (where his meal is taken away and replaced with an artichoke), reading lessons, and an afternoon nap.
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