Now how about those "window-dressing" roles too — or maybe calling a close to the era of women as window dressing altogether?
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When he stripped away the intellectual window-dressing from conservatism, it turned out that very few voters cared about that window-dressing in the first place.
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The bright sparkly triangle belly tops and low-cut flares were just window dressing for a message that has stayed with me since then: You can be more than window dressing.
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" He added that such efforts are "just window dressing.
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And that's why design is now more than window dressing.
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But Abbott insisted the roundtables were not political window dressing.
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" Buscaglia pointed to two other forms of government "window dressing.
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Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson are nothing but window dressing.
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"Anything before that will just be window dressing," he said.
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Barr says these added sensors are more than window dressing.
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You want to have appropriate window dressing for quarter end.
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"All of this other stuff is window dressing," Wyden snapped.
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Some economists have dismissed Simsek's return as window-dressing for investors.
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" Andy Rubenstein, who represents 51 plaintiffs, called Tuesday's move "window dressing.
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But those actions are mostly seen as halfhearted, incomplete window dressing.
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Copying the European cool people will take more than window dressing.
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Copying the European cool kids will take more than window dressing.
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"The thing to understand is this is window dressing," he added.
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Unless you do those two things, all the rest is window dressing.
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When we're investing $10 million, you can't tell me that's window dressing.
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The bag of tricks and the spy shack were just window dressing.
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That makes all the other changes look a bit like window-dressing.
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As a choreographer, she lets the body speak without the window dressing.
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The "diversity" language 8/ was window dressing and branding to sell it.
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" Matt Gaetz told me that the task force "was largely window dressing.
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Reform has been little more than political window dressing in either country.
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"To an extent this is window dressing," CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said.
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As I have written elsewhere, those differences do not represent mere window-dressing.
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But Warren called those changes merely "window dressing" that don't address major concerns.
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Well, Mom did the hiking, Lea was just the super cute window dressing.
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A mute group of 13 children served briefly as window-dressing and stagehands.
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Ethical standards applied in inconsistent and self-serving ways are merely window dressing.
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Others are more worried that the move would be nothing but window dressing.
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Today's announcement is more window dressing around their decision to allow paid misinformation.
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Here, they've turned this very integral aspect of our lives into literal window dressing.
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Once again, the coolest physical part of the challenge served as mere window dressing.
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Stefan Ring, a military consultant in Stockholm, sees reinstituting the draft as window-dressing.
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It's often the case, however, that such characters are little more than window dressing.
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"Window dressing for our quarter end will probably happen more towards Thursday," Brenner said.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has no use for this kind of window-dressing.
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Neither of his books is really about food — "it's all window dressing," he said.
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Despite some window dressing, the second ban was basically the same as the first.
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"I can assure you that I am not there for window dressing," he said.
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She seemed to resent the "window dressing" role she would be asked to take on.
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They interpret the language of Schumer and Hoyer as window dressing, bereft of political punch.
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Plus, your whole room will instantly look fresher with a new set of window dressing.
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Markets could see some month-end window dressing as the third quarter ticks away Thursday.
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I just personally haven't seen that larger dystopian world established beyond (sometimes literal) window dressing.
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"Zarif and Rouhani have always been window-dressing for the Islamic Republic," Ben Taleblu said.
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This contract is window dressing to show the world that the government is doing something.
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"The establishment of a human trafficking court should be functional, not window dressing," Ong said.
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Instead, they said they were trying to protect the euro, but this was window dressing.
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A window dressing on a neurobiological process happening elsewhere that itself is reducing depression symptoms?
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After all, when it comes to music, technique is just window dressing for the ineffable.
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But if the music isn't propelling the drama, visuals will ultimately always be window dressing.
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Even in the text, the scientific window-dressing is at war with Tuft's aesthetic impulse.
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It is an early indication that Roberts views his role as more than window dressing.
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Unless we do that, all of this is going to be, I think, window dressing.
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This controversy is for the most part just the #BlackLivesMatter/#AllLivesMatter argument with different window dressing.
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Set against Zorn's playfully virtuosic music, the dancers are left looking a little like window dressing.
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Other members may be window dressing and not actually involved in the company's research and development.
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These songs are identifiably Martin, but with enough window dressing that they don't sound too familiar.
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Everything else, as Trump himself made clear in the interview with Holt, is just window-dressing.
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In point of fact, that $7 million of state support seems to be just window dressing.
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" But Pearce at Northwestern University said that efforts focusing solely on the party are "window dressing.
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Golf, burgers and hat signing with Abe it appears were the window dressing to deep divisions.
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Diane Simpson's Window Dressing continues at MCA Chicago (220 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago) through July 3.
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It's sort of window dressing and making Japan maybe feel better about itself, despite these statistics.
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But as window dressing, Mattis and all the other grown-ups were playing a destructive role.
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Women were mostly brought along as window dressing; they stood silently as their male companions spoke.
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Most of the rest of the court's opinion was mere window dressing, with a few exceptions.
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Just like the O'Reilly situation, no matter the window dressing, it all comes down to money.
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The trans option was window dressing to them, but it meant a great deal more to me.
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"Instead, he's using these serious digital inequities as window-dressing to sell his pro-industry ideological agenda."
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Letting him do so might provide useful window-dressing, making Mr Putin's inevitable victory seem less dodgy.
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The rebranding has been dismissed by many in the international community as little more than window dressing.
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But she was just a part of the window dressing – a temporary spruce to the unsavoury truth.
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The big question: Is Google really making a fundamental shift — or is it just applying window dressing.
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Patrols of soldiers in the cities in places likely to draw crowds were so much window-dressing.
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We read the first article in class, distinguishing between content that is "window dressing" and essential information.
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Things that may seem like simple window dressing carry a lot of weight by creating a history.
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With end of year window-dressing, any weakness is likely to be bought by professional portfolio managers.
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"These things have all the trappings of systems but instead are really just window dressing," he says.
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Whatever window dressing is given to the show, it remains a fantasy that love can win the day.
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If they do not also change their parking policies, such efforts amount to little more than window-dressing.
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All the sumptuous food and expensive wine merely acts as window dressing for the relationship turmoil at hand.
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But all that was window dressing for the ongoing Gladiator investigation into who shot Frankie Vargas (Ricardo Chavira).
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To become the nominee, Clinton need only retain her appeal to the elite; Democratic voters are window dressing.
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The whole system was penetrated by the spirit of boot-licking, persecution of dissidents, window-dressing and nepotism.
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Trump and his advisers have thus far signaled they will aim for more than just window dressing changes.
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Perhaps it's this underlying sense of childlike wonder that makes an encounter with Window Dressing such a joy.
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Sometimes, American idealism is in the right place; often it serves as window dressing for baser national designs.
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And I think to do the window dressing of having one reporter running around doesn't quite make it.
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Getting employers and organizations to steer business and jobs to North Carolina should require more than window dressing.
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They are worth talking and arguing about; the half-finished window-dressing currently surrounding them, however, is not.
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It's a well-told, even innovative story, but in spite of the gorgeous window dressing, it's still deeply conventional.
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It took a lot of books, and plenty of sci-fi/fantasy window dressing, to get it all out.
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That was very shocking to me, because my friend had done the same thing, just with different window dressing.
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The pizzazz was just window-dressing however, because his means of victory almost always came through devastating power punching.
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Mr. Rodriguez dismissed questions about the importance of Mr. Castro's succession, calling Mr. Díaz-Canel's selection political window-dressing.
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More than just aesthetic window dressing, these visuals provide unspoken context for the world of Ghost in the Shell.
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These expanded boundaries protected inflammatory language in the name of "telling it like it is" without rhetorical window dressing.
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The whole system was penetrated by the spirit of boot-licking, persecution of dissidents, clannishness, window-dressing and nepotism.
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Women's empowerment borrows the virtuous window-dressing of the social worker's doctrine and kicks its substance to the side.
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He dismissed the process for filing grievances as "window dressing," and said party officials had suppressed meaningful policy debates.
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And there was Michael Woodford, the former CEO of Olympus, who exposed the company for window dressing its accounts.
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Amendments likely under consideration amount to little more than window dressing that fail to address its core constitutional concerns.
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"They are a shallow attempt at window dressing to place the school in a positive light," Mr. Garabedian said.
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Although, in a community where many are dependent on food banks, residents doubt the window dressing will change much.
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But as the game goes on, that outsider perspective becomes less of a core theme and increasingly becomes window dressing.
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In fact, all of the bad romances were merely escapist window dressing, as is normally the case in real life.
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But if sold, Twitter's drive for disruptive innovation could give way to simple window dressing, such as cleaner user interfaces.
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Is painting a logo on a water bottle going to tap into these political issues or is this window dressing?
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But what really struck me while watching was how physical her performance is — the makeup is kind of window dressing.
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However, the residential housing association brushed off the plans seen by Reuters as "window dressing" which would not help tenants.
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"I think it will be interesting to see which [executives] cooperate — if it's more than just window dressing," Swisher said.
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Lynn LoPucki, a professor at the UCLA School of Law, called fee examiners mere window dressing on a broken system.
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"We're past the window dressing stage and now it's time to talk about accountability, consequences, promotions and retention," she says.
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She accepted, and soon after she started her first business — a line of window dressing accouterment — out of their house.
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The day before, BuzzFeed had posted an article suggesting that Conway was nothing more than window dressing for the campaign.
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We will see in the coming weeks whether the claim about taxing the rich is mere window dressing or real.
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The tariff threats are mere "window dressing from Trump," said Timothy Ash, senior emerging markets strategist at Bluebay Asset Management.
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"WINDOW DRESSING" Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz said last month that Alberta was still adjusting to weaker oil prices.
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Rather, it simply allows illegal actors to hang window dressing and creates a safe harbor that would bar law enforcement.
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If Mr. Jammeh stays in power, he will have to disfigure or remove the democratic window dressing that betrayed him.
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"Every country should try to improve their business environment and fix their problems, instead of window dressing themselves," he added.
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It's safe to say the bad-assery of these two were wasted in this film where they were merely window dressing.
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The company, of course, denies all of the charges, chalking it up to legal window dressing by the outgoing Obama administration.
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But so far, all of the solutions proposed have been unrealistic or ineffective window dressing, legal and ethics experts have said.
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"Regulations are really unnecessary window dressing" as industry is already reducing methane emissions, said Frank Maisano, a lobbyist at Bracewell LLP.
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Put simply, instead of focusing on the superficial "window dressing," startups should be developing products and selling them to real customers.
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Cardillo said end-of-the-quarter window dressing and an optimistic global outlook should make for a steady-to-positive session.
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Despite the excellent writing, the experience of playing them is simplistic and familiar, turning the game's great ideas into window dressing.
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Professional money managers tend to buy top-performing stocks to make their portfolios look good — a phenomenon known as window dressing.
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Women have only been part of the sport's current biggest stage (as more than window dressing) for a handful of years.
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Maybe this is just one little prick for the community that stimulates long-term, material change, and not just window-dressing.
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The movie contains ill-advised simulated scenes that recreate the crime and other stylistic touches that struck me as window-dressing.
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In many ways, however, these are relative window dressing for an annual deficit that is approaching $1 trillion and likely growing.
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Yes, it's a story about a superpowered kid, but the fantastical parts of Life is Strange 2 are just window dressing.
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Based on this dynamic, any plan that does not change the fundamental economic calculus for network providers is simply window dressing.
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Far from a solution to its "time well spent" initiative, the in-app calculator is little more than graphically enhanced window dressing.
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So that helped us get a little bit of depth to the shots, just a bit of window dressing in the background.
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But critics dismiss it as window dressing because it's confusingly presented, cumbersome to enable and not comprehensive, and does not stop tracking.
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Some end-of-quarter window dressing had also helped support prices ahead of the week-long Chinese national holiday from Oct. 1.
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"Debt capacity is driven off adjusted Ebitda numbers so you really have to look through the window dressing," the first investor said.
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Thanawut Wichaidit, a spokesman for the red shirt movement that supports Thaksin and his political party, said the contract was "window dressing".
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Rich countries are plundered, vestiges of democracy are used as window dressing, people lose their rights and eventually their freedom or worse.
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I think they will find that ethics and values in business are best understood as a competitive advantage than as window dressing.
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Continued U.S. membership in the HRC merely legitimizes HRC's global human rights grandstanding and window-dressing in promoting and defending human rights.
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Nonetheless, critics of the operation say that selling state assets to a publicly owned body amounts to no more than window dressing.
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It features some terrific character development, with Geralt's closest friends each much more than window dressing in the game's core plot line.
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In its early days, the Trump administration sought to eliminate most special envoys, seeing them mostly as window dressing on empty policies.
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Okay. Fundamentally, I think the changes have to go beyond window dressing to real changes to the ways that these platforms work.
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The game doesn't tell you what objects are useful and what objects are window dressing, leaving it up to you to experiment.
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Russia hailed the vote as an act of democracy, but the West viewed it as window-dressing for an unacceptable military aggression.
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The protesters who toppled the longtime president say the vote is window dressing for the corrupt officials who still control the country.
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But in a way, it all seemed like just window dressing around one big question: Who has the best chance in November?
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"We were happy to see the move in the parliament, though we are concerned that this may be window dressing," Ghaemi said.
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But where Anderson's style sometimes feels like frosted window dressing, Babbit uses the trappings of wholesome suburbia to underscore the nightmare they conceal.
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There are challenges such as enforceability, a concern to many investors spurned by good intention turned window-dressing from their partners in governance.
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But the journey itself seems little more than window dressing, a chintzy narrative that almost undermines his innate talents and rightful mass appeal.
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"Fundamentally, I think the changes have to go beyond window dressing to real changes to the ways that these platforms work," he said.
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A new series set in one of their superhero universes just might be capeless, or bring in costumed crime fighters as window dressing.
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Instead, it's just a generic story about a badass antihero searching for the truth about her past, gussied up with pretty new window dressing.
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It "suffers from precisely the same maladies as its predecessor", he wrote, despite its window-dressing addition of a pair of non-Muslim countries.
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" It's obvious Frankie isn't thoughtful enough to understand why reducing a human women to profitable window dressing is a problem, responding, "Object-a-who?
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With fresh foot traffic in London's shopping arcades, shopkeepers were desperate to secure new clientele, thus birthing the creative marketing strategy of window dressing.
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However, criticism has been leveled that "efforts to retake Palmyra are merely window dressing, that it is more significant culturally than militarily," Chance says.
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"They've brought conservative media in to a small extent, but it's mostly been window dressing," said Lee Stranahan, a former investigative reporter for Breitbart.
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It's the window dressing for a bordello version of Britain that has made it the most stylish financial and social laundromat on the planet.
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Before L. Frank Baum published "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" in 1900, he published "Show Window" in 1897, the trade paper of window dressing.
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Of course, all of this is just window dressing for the fact that the coronavirus is continuing to reshape reality all over the world.
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"It's a kind of window dressing on the same practice," said Omar Jadwat, the director of the American Civil Liberties Union's immigrants' rights project.
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After dropping out of college at the University of Wisconsin/La Crosse, she launched her first business, a window-dressing kit called Kurtain Kraft.
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I hope they're addressed or at least raised in serious ways on Thursday, and not merely just the window dressing for a Trump pep rally.
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According to Ms. Naughty, who's been making independent feminist porn for women since 2000, mainstream porn's attempts to cater for women is just window dressing.
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"We showed up, only to find out we were going to be window dressing," said Kirsten John Foy, the northeast regional director of the Rev.
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"This is a double-edged sword for the tech C.E.O.s because they don't want to be window dressing and used for photo ops," he said.
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If London or New York audiences expect more from a production than mere window dressing, the influence of German directors is part of the reason.
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The show made Lindsay herself confront Garrett, as if it were her responsibility to be both the show's multicultural window dressing and its moral arbiter.
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Critics of the labor and environmental protections in the T.P.P. and other trade agreements consider them a political sop that amount to unenforceable window dressing.
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Legal arguments by the Chinese are mere window dressing to allow them to subvert our rule-of-law system while advancing their own economic interests.
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"The world cannot countenance a hasty window-dressing of these shocking atrocities," he said, "bundling people back to conditions of severe discrimination and latent violence."
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Greece's Humanist Union has denounced the changes as window-dressing and deplored the fact that humanists in other countries, like Britain, rushed to praise the deal.
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The thing is that like noted above, everyone is using Google mobile search, so the open source part is window dressing compared to its network effect.
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"The overall uptrend is due to some window-dressing in some of the blue chip counters," said Dimantha Mathew, head of research at First Capital Holdings.
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" Ronald Deibert, Citizen Lab's founder and director, said NSO Group should acknowledge and prevent abuse, instead of "putting window-dressing on their increasingly smeared public profile.
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Whether for the holidays or year-round, the investment of window dressing extends to suburban mall stores, as well as downtown flagships in other U.S. metropolises.
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According to multiple people familiar with the event, Bracken quit in December 2017 over concerns that the panel was more about window-dressing than genuine oversight.
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Redler said window dressing, or the process where fund managers put the best face on their holdings, played a role in the turnaround in Monday's session.
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But many career employees, environmentalists and congressional representatives didn't buy it, seeing Gorsuch's philosophy as window dressing for an industry-friendly agenda to neuter environmental laws.
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Ports aren't just window dressing to professionals, they're necessary connections that offer you freedom to plug-and-play with new tools no matter where you're traveling.
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Mr. Bernard has since stepped away from that role, he said, because he felt more like "window dressing," as he put it, than a genuine adviser.
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And really, realistically, all rhythm action games need to do is make their interfaces responsive and their music selection compelling—the rest is just window dressing.
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"This is a 'ban first, study later' approach where the study is nothing more than post hoc window-dressing for a predetermined outcome," the complaint said.
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Some Western diplomats and businesses have been quietly critical of the expo, arguing it is window dressing to what they see as Beijing's long-standing trade abuses.
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The most intriguing fashion pieces in A.Human straightforwardly appeal to our morbid fascination with unusual bodies, and they're stronger for minimizing glib, shallow social commentary window dressing.
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And while it's possible Mankind Divided picks up in the coming hours, there's not much to suggest it's going to be anything more than acceptable window dressing.
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That means, if you're willing to buy into the occult window dressing, a dead child's intrinsic, immortal essence is worth about the same as the new Madden.
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The latter looked like window dressing in what appeared destined to be an effortless Mets victory, their second in a row after a seven-game losing streak.
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"That is a risk, that it's just a piece of glossy window dressing on a standard budget," said Ganesh Nana, chief economist at economic think-tank BERL.
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"Window dressing" is a term for the final touches that managers give their portfolios to lock in gains and shift their holdings for the end of the quarter.
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Off the bench, Sefolosha and Jerebko may be confused with window dressing, but each allows Snyder to tinker with more like-sized lineups without sacrificing too much spacing.
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Kim Kardashian's star power isn't just window dressing, it's exactly what the prison reform movement needs ... according to activist Jason Flom, who's been doing the work for decades.
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Being part of a diversity coalition, in contrast, means that Palomarez will likely serve as window-dressing, designed to give Trump cover from charges of racism and bigotry.
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Fromm connected with Swift for a window-dressing 5-yard TD pass with 14 seconds to play, but it was far too little, too late for the Bulldogs.
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So, some Amazon skeptics have suggested that books are just going to be window-dressing and what Amazon really wants is a place to showcase its digital devices.
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Basel said it also agreed on more detailed disclosure requirements to stop banks "window dressing" their leverage ratio and giving investors a misleading impression about their core health.
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Do they reason that American politics has reached a nadir of such fundamental hypocrisy and overweening partisanship that no one regards that pledge as anything but window dressing?
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Susan Fowler, the former Uber engineer whose blog post sparked the firestorm over the company's culture, suggested on Twitter on Tuesday that the recommendations were largely window dressing.
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" Norman Reimer, of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, insists that the Kochs' long-standing support for criminal-justice reform "is deeply principled and not window dressing.
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Jesse Spano herself, Elizabeth Berkley, continued her post-Showgirls anti-renaissance as Al Pacino's false love interest, while Lauren Holly is red-shaded window dressing as Cap's trophy wife.
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The far-left Economic Freedom Party, the EFF, which draws much of its support from the rural poor, describes ANC reforms as window-dressing to entrench "white monopoly capital".
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More than just patriotic window dressing, the designs are part of an ongoing partnership with the United Service Organizations (USO), a nonprofit that serves U.S. troops and their families.
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Ric Spooner, chief strategist at CMC Markets in Sydney, said Beijing's anti-corruption drive has turned out not to be the short term window-dressing exercise some had expected.
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Sometimes maximizing shareholder value happens to coincide with decent behavior such as advocating for immigration or LGBTQ tolerance, or throwing some token dollars at corporate social responsibility window-dressing.
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Window Dressing, an exhibition by Diane Simpson currently on display at MCA Chicago, sent a thrill right to the secret place where I keep theater design in my heart.
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This I suppose counts as restaurant window dressing, but because it comes from another era it also evokes a specific sense memory that gives meaning to the whole dish.
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Republican and conservative groups understand that "digital content is the point, not the window dressing," Lindsay Holst, director of digital strategy in the Obama White House, told Vanity Fair.
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Turkish markets the following day were relatively flat, with the country's lira actually firming against the dollar as analysts described the penalties as "not very serious" and "window dressing."
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It's window dressing that you can idly appreciate or deliberately ignore, whenever you happen to go to 511 Fifth Avenue with the already-set intention of buying some boots.
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Given what else employees have seen from him, such vows look like obligatory window-dressing, obscuring a broader intent of reducing the agency to a shadow of its former self.
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Investors often adjust their portfolios in moves known as "window dressing," an attempt to post profits and spruce up their portfolios before closing their books for the fiscal year-end.
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As a fan, however, this was all window dressing to the pure elixir heard in the show's 12th episode "Live Alive" (episode 26 in chronological 2009 broadcast order, it's complicated).
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But in closely studying this one movie I loved (largely because of the window dressing), I was able to start thinking about more than just character motivation and narrative themes.
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Opponents of Trump's decision to reduce the size of Grand Staircase and nearby Bears Ears National Monument feel the decision was preordained, and the public comment process mere window-dressing.
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Stewart's TD passes of 3 and 4 yards to Aston Walter in the fourth quarter allowed the Owls to get something on the scoreboard but it was just window dressing.
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No one is a bigger believer in transparency than I. But here, proposing 'transparency' solutions is window-dressing when Facebook needs to be putting out the housefire it has lit.
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President Kiir recently launched a national dialogue to engage with these groups, but the process lacks independent leadership and has been dismissed by critics as nothing more than window dressing.
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"This is a sign that the mess is being considered at a high level, but the merger will remain window dressing and there are still in fact two Hualongs," he said.
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Are there any protocols in place here that anyone actually follows, or is this all just window-dressing and PR spin so that we'll shut up and talk about something else?
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The insurance proved to be more than window dressing, as the Blue Jays stormed back with the ferocity of the thundershowers that had pelted away at the tarp during the delay.
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Yet the era's skinhead riots and striking workers — and Strummer's biting, pro-immigrant lyrics — are never more than window dressing in a movie that would rather scatter fairy dust than grit.
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But hold that thought, because when Waterford unveils the Rachel and Leah Center, Ofglen — one of the many handmaids posted outside the building, as literal window dressing — blows up the place.
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The problem on this occasion is that the recognizable references to today — tweeting one minute, videoconferencing the next — seem like window dressing that doesn't illuminate our view of a celebrated martyr.
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Since joining the Silicon Valley company in 22016 to repair its frayed relationship with the news media, many have considered the former CNN and NBC anchor as little more than window dressing.
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Nineteen small parties registered to challenge Hun Sen&aposs Cambodian People&aposs Party, but almost all are vanity affairs or vehicles serving as window-dressing to give the illusion of democratic choice.
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It feels typical — exploitative, like every other show using women's trauma for gruesome window dressing, surface level shock value or drama, and false stakes (yes, we're looking at you, Game of Thrones).
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The release of 2628 political prisoners by Cuba last January looks like window dressing to international human rights watchdogs who describe the reality of progress on Cuban human rights as a myth.
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It was suspected that safety concerns about the plant were merely window dressing to disguise the real motive behind the protests, which was to insure that India remained dependent on foreign investment.
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Unfortunately, the Goodlatte Amendment fails on this count, which makes it hard to view Thursday's vote as anything more than window dressing for members who wish to obscure Congress' actual spending record.
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"We think Newsom's objections are mostly political window dressing with little valuation impact, and we continue to believe current shareholders will retain about 20%ownership in PG&E," the Morningstar analysts wrote.
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It's an attempt to say Important Things about our technological future, but mostly serves as window dressing for nihilism, at the expense of viewers' common sense — and perhaps even our common decency.
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It's all fine, as far as it goes, but the features add up to little more than window dressing on an app that feels more like a strategic imperative than anybody's passion product.
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"This decision is just window dressing ahead of Thailand's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in front of the U.N. Human Rights Council later this month," said Sunai Phasuk, Thailand researcher at Human Rights Watch.
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"We're in the last two days of the quarter and most of the end-of-quarter window dressing has probably taken place already," said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at First Standard Financial.
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"The mayor's proposal doesn't embrace accountability and transparency, and really just seems like window dressing," said Sheila Bedi, a professor at Northwestern's law school and a member of one task force working group.
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While correction of U.S. election vulnerabilities may appear to be largely a simple matter of upgrading the election technologies, including voting devices and voter registration databases, that focus alone would be window dressing.
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Now, like everyone else in French soccer, it was trapped in a dead end, nothing more than window dressing for a Parisian parade, mannequins for Neymar and, later, Kylian Mbappé, to dance around.
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That said, at least in theory, directors are supposed to do something, and serving as window dressing for alleged fraud is the kind of thing that normally reflects poorly on a person's reputation.
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The whole objective of Prune is and always has been to cook the food of hunger and desire, strip it of the usual restaurant window dressing, and put it in front of you.
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In a superhero cinematic landscape where inspirational maternal figures are still far too rare, Marisa Tomei's Aunt May could be a welcome trailblazer in that regard, rather than just well-dressed window dressing.
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Holding window-dressing public meetings and soliciting public comments that never see the light of day have allowed government officials to assert that monument declarations have been transparent, but the facts show otherwise.
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Recent proposals to increase required public meetings and to help people through the cumbersome FERC process will not fix the problem – they are window dressing designed to hide rather than fix the problem.
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Increasingly, these electronics are less the window dressing and more the medium from which we view the fakery—whether on television or via a website, the marketing is increasingly happening through a screen.
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Talking to conservative tax experts, I was struck by how central the corporate tax cuts were to their thinking, and how much everything else in the plan was seen as politics or window dressing.
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That said, at least in theory, directors are supposed to do something, and serving as window dressing for a massive fraud is the kind of thing that normally reflects poorly on a person's reputation.
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"There's a whole debate: Are the people who are providing the treatment in SVP settings simply just doing it so that its kind of window dressing, so they can justify the commitment?" he asks.
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"Now no such window dressing will be allowed, which means that banks will no longer buy these state bonds, which will push up yields, even for central government securities and corporate bonds," said Vaidya.
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" Jonathan Little, an Indiana-based lawyer who has represented three gymnasts in lawsuits alleging sexual abuse as well as athletes from other Olympic sports in abuse cases, dismissed the USOC's move as "window dressing.
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"The HOO was never anything more than window dressing designed to keep the international community happy while the government bought more time," an unnamed former HOO adviser is quoted as saying in the report.
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Instead, I spent two hours talking to a thoughtful dude with a concerned look on his brow, who seemed contemptuous of the hedonistic window dressing surrounding Lemmy, heavy metal, and the Denver music scene.
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All the stuff about lives at stake, risks of war, and complex diplomatic issues are just window dressing for what really matters: the zero-sum competition for maintaining national pride or imposing national humiliation.
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Two of those justices often considered more moderate, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, signed onto a dissent that focused on indications that waiver provisions in Trump's travel ban order might simply be window-dressing.
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" What Ansari said he has seen a lot of is "window-dressing diversity" – "where someone looks at the cast and they're like, 'Damn that's a lot white people, ummm, what if Ludacris is the friend?
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With all the the window dressing of its social infrastructure stripped away, it was just a series of feedback loops and feeble reward systems laid bare — a pretty-looking gun game with nothing to say.
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As ever with such coordinated announcements by Chinese producers, there's an element of window-dressing previously scheduled maintenance work, but the real significance is what it says about the margin pain occasioned by falling prices.
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COLOMBO, March 21 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan shares rose for a second straight session on Wednesday, posting their highest close in nearly one week, helped by foreign investor buying and quarter-end window dressing, stockbrokers said.
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The Apple post spends a lot of time explaining its philosophy regarding the app store and goes on at length about empowering developers and creating a platform from scratch—window dressing arguments, in other words.
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Step back a bit, though, and it's the same formula with different window dressing: likable leads, quippy dialogue, forgettable villains, world-ending stakes, fake-out deaths, and a big, expensive CG battle in the sky.
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John Kasich (R) refused to back the GOP healthcare plan making its way through the House, casting aside the back-and-forth negotiations over the deal as "window dressing" and calling for a bipartisan approach.
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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - A unified women's ice hockey team from North and South Korea at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics is not just political window-dressing, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said on Wednesday.
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The list is almost identical to the ban issued in January — all are Muslim-majority countries with the exception of two additions, North Korea and Venezuela, both of which look a lot like window dressing.
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In questioning Neal Katyal, the attorney leading the challenge to the president's order, the justices focused on amicus briefs claiming the waiver process is nothing more than "window dressing" to make an unlawful proclamation lawful.
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But he said that, given the loss of unfettered public access under the Trump proposal for a new waterfront park on the eastern side, the public should expect more than window-dressing on the west.
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Brazil's deep political crisis — that seems likely to soon see a legislature full of allegedly corrupt politicians push President Dilma Rousseff out of office for window dressing the national accounts — is notably devoid of heroes.
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But given how dedicated the film's monsters are to treating people like wet tissue paper, any moral complexity in the film is just loud window dressing, with no sense that anyone cares about what they're saying.
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COLOMBO, March 2151.8500 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan shares rose for a third straight session on Thursday, closing at their highest in more than one week, helped by foreign investor buying and quarter-end window dressing, stockbrokers said.
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The cheaper ticket options and the Friday Forty are great to have, but they smack largely of PR window-dressing to draw attention away from the 1,100 seats per performance that retail at £85 or more.
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" Early-stage companies with bursting bank accounts spend exorbitant amounts on modern offices, high salaries to attract the best staff and new age perks for employees, which one billionaire VC investor scathingly described as "window dressing.
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The shared-universe idea isn't clever window-dressing in "Watchmen"; it is actively and increasingly important in explaining how this alternate reality came to pass and what role Alan Moore's original characters still have to play.
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" "But this new window dressing cannot conceal an unassailable fact: the words of the President and his advisers create the strong perception that the Proclamation is contaminated by impermissible discriminatory animus against Islam and its followers.
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Though critics dismissed the language as window dressing, it gave political dissidents within the Soviet Union and their allies on the outside all the ammunition they needed to launch a revolution that help destroy Moscow's empire.
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To the ban's critics, this is all window dressing: The policy Trump signed in March is still, to them, a clear descendant of the "Muslim ban" he first proposed on the campaign trail back in 2015.
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For all the high-minded window dressing that often attaches to secession rules, in the end, they "have more to do with what the powerful want," said Bridget L. Coggins, a political scientist who studies secession.
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WINDOW DRESSING: The Senate's subpoena directed at former national security adviser Michael Flynn was designed to be an aggressive maneuver, but Flynn has ways to evade the order and it is less powerful than it seemed.
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Yet misgivings about the Harajuku window dressing of the album were largely subsumed by discussion of the "true" question it raised, a favorite of the celebrity press: whether or not Stefani was going to have a baby.
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Several bankers told Reuters that banks which received dollars at the exceptional $1.5 billion sale on Wednesday were requested to deposit the same amount back at the central bank, in a process Khan described as window-dressing.
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The letter addresses related issues, such as fighting (relatively few concussions come from fighting, Mr. Bettman said) and the league's history of concussion oversight and protocols, which have been widely criticized as little more than window dressing.
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Nakamura front-loads his narrative with tantalizing strangers and enigmatic acquaintances from Yurika's distant past, yet the novel's initial allure gives way to a surfeit of existential window dressing and brooding meditations on that old devil moon.
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"This is a double-edged sword for the tech C.E.O.s because they don't want to be window dressing and used for photo ops," said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a professor and associate dean at the Yale School of Management.
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The Democratic Unionist Party's Brexit spokesman Sammy Wilson cast as "window dressing" British proposals to give the Northern Irish assembly the power to vote against new EU rules if the border backstop comes into force after Brexit.
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"Even if this was window-dressing, it would mean they feel the need to dress the window in a certain color, and that is something one would not have said 30 years ago," Mr. de la Fuente said.
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The revisions might be mere window-dressing, but given the latitude presidents enjoy in matters of immigration and foreign policy, they may be all Mr Trump needs to defend his new travel ban once the lawsuits start flying.
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The company had a legal duty to make sure the funds were used properly, but instead used the settlement as "window-dressing" to "stem the immense criticism over Yahoo's complicity in egregious human rights violations," the lawsuit says.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's military government said on Monday it will prosecute cases concerning national security and royal insult in civilian courts instead of military courts, a change a rights group said was "window dressing" before a U.N. review.
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" He said the "religious condemnation" of the earlier executive order is not dissipated Trump's new order, "which — despite some new window dressing — continues to relay a message of disparagement to the plaintiffs and other members of their faith.
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"We just had [the] tax year end for mutual funds end of October, we have some reverse window dressing ironically coming into the winners of this year — more defensive, more low-volatility and some growth names," he said.
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"Since there is zero evidence that a measure of the sort actually reduces overdose, diversion, or other problems, this is nothing more than window dressing," said Leo Beletsky, associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University.
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"There's a lot of window dressing that goes on, and portfolio managers that have to make up for the fact that they underestimated the rally since basically Brexit," said Paul Christopher, global market strategist at Wells Fargo Investment Institute.
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" The lawsuit, however, alleges that Microsoft knew about the "adverse impact" its promotion process had on women, but did not address it, choosing instead to publish "two misleading 'pay equity studies'" and create gender diversity programs as "window dressing.
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The tradition has been around for quite a while: Window dressing dates back to Georgian times (that's the 1700's, FYI), when women were first given the freedom to escape the domestic sphere for some good, old-fashioned shopping.
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Citing multiple brackets as evidence that the tax code is too complicated is window dressing for ideologues who support huge, regressive tax cuts, but don't want to own up to it because huge, regressive tax cuts are very unpopular.
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The NSW Council of Civil Liberties president Stephen Blanks told the outlet there is every possibility these proposals are just "window dressing," as the general public will not be told when terrorists the Government is concerned about are released.
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As a test case to determine if Mexico's new reforms are more than just window dressing, Mexico should focus on worker rights in the auto industry, which accounts for 270 percent of the country's exports to the United States.
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Since he came to power four years ago, Mr. Kim has begun a series of what outside analysts call window-dressing projects: amusement parks, ski resorts, high-rise apartment buildings in Pyongyang — still suffering from electricity shortages despite being the capital.
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"Positive self-talk is a good pain coping strategy, and it actually has a lot of evidence behind it to say it is not just window dressing, but people who engage in those behaviors do report less pain," Eakin said.
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Much has been made of Foy's gritty, distinctly un-Queen Elizabeth-like look for the film, but it's all window-dressing, a rebellious veneer for a character that's pretty much as square as they come, even if she does — gasp!
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James McGlew, executive director of corporate stockbroking said that window dressing was supporting the gains and the biggest stocks are all going to finish marginally higher as ASX has had a good quarter given the volatility that's coming from overseas.
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Sessions was apparently enlisted to this task on the direct orders of President Trump, who has since admitted that the review was window dressing for Trump's main reason for firing Comey, his frustration with Comey's handling of the Russia probe.
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Despite being a visual marvel for stoners and shroom heads, the trippy effects and mind-bending fight scenes are merely window dressing for a refreshing, yet recognizable journey of a superhero that isn't a household name for non-comic geeks.
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For West, Coates' focus on white supremacy has become an intellectual obsession, window-dressing that disallows for a wider critique of American empire and lets President Barack Obama off the hook for his complicity in the continued oppression of black people.
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But in our political times, it appears to many Christian conservatives that this is only window dressing and what the Supreme Court decides, however hostile it may be to dogma and the orthodoxies common to all world religions, will dominate.
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Historically, quotas for women could be pure window dressing, as, for example, in the Soviet Union, where for decades women made up a fixed 26 percent of the Supreme Soviet, the country's highest legislative body, an institution that had no power.
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"The president manufactures a crisis, galvanizes his base around the challenge, leaves the definition of success undefined, pretends to play hardball and, lo and behold, finds a solution that entails little more than window-dressing, if that," Mr. Price said.
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"It's long been clear to those who follow Saudi politics that MBS' recent overtures to the West with art projects and magazine covers have been little more than window dressing," civil rights advocate Lyndal Rowlands told the Middle East Eye.
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"President Trump offered little more than window dressing to combat the rising cost of drugs — a problem that is pinching the pocketbook of far too many Americans," Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, said after the speech.
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Despite her window dressing, Ms. Chiuri has never really tried to expand her concept of what female empowerment in fashion could be by forcing Dior beyond its own borders; despite her literary touchstones, she has never tried to rewrite the terms.
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Liberal U.S. Supreme Court justices sought assurances on Wednesday that the Trump administration's policy for granting medical or other exceptions to a ban on travelers from several Muslim-majority countries amounted to more than window dressing.
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The truth is, a woman could do it, but picking her as some kind of window-dressing exercise only hurts us all in the long run by using them as props to masquerade a reluctance to address deep internal issues.
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Reactions have ranged from Merkel's statement being a game changer to the statement being meaningless window dressing because, even if there were a guarantee of additional transit, Russia and the Russian-owned gas giant Gazprom could not be trusted to comply.
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"The indices continue to hover near the very high end of the recent ranges, suggesting this week's end-of-the-quarter window dressing is likely to see more sector rotation," Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at First Standard Financial, wrote in a note.
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To critics, though, the Parliament is no more than window-dressing for his authoritarian rule — a fractured and toothless institution that marks the culmination of five years of sometimes bloody political tumult, and that represents the dashed hopes of a truly representative democracy.
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She placed handmade, brightly colored lawn chairs or pieces of pottery near her paintings to relieve the pressure on the individual artwork, but the whole thing still functioned as painting; it didn't turn into installation or window dressing, while being only mildly ironic.
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A recent announcement from Eli Lilly that the company will offer a discounted generic insulin product is little more than window dressing, since Eli Lilly maintains control over the pricing of the new product – and can therefore raise its price at any time.
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Many of these new series have people of color and women as lead characters, in turn pushing minorities and women to the center of the writing staff, a major step forward for writers who say they have long felt like window dressing.
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"It is my sincere hope that this commission will be more than mere window dressing, a delaying tactic, or a platform for ineffective, NRA-approved proposals that place the interests of the gun lobby above the protection of our families," Murray wrote.
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But a good video game also invests time and effort in those bits of dialogue and drama, so that players get interested in its story and themes as more than just window dressing for the parts where they solve puzzles and shoot at stuff.
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Historically, the first lady was thought to be little more than "feminine window dressing to the office of the presidency," wrote Robert P. Watson, a former US representative and commentator, in the 2000 book The Presidents' Wives: Reassessing the Office of the First Lady.
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"It's clear the corporate wing of the Democratic Party wants the window dressing of populist language — Bernie Sanders language — but are not serious about it," Cornel West, a Sanders appointee to the platform writing committee, told the Wall Street Journal after their effort failed.
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Like many parts of the DAU exhibition — the underground "sex bar" installed beneath Châtelet; a shaman stationed in Théâtre de la Ville's garret; or lightless rooms vibrating with Brian Eno's equally dark scores — these publicized attractions are only window-dressing for the films to come.
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We spoke to former Tennessee judge Kevin Sharp Wednesday in D.C. after his White House meeting with Kim, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and, eventually, the President -- and he says the haters are way off base if they think Kim's only there as window dressing.
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These included the Pentagon's failed train and equip program — whose rebel groups famously ended up fighting with the groups the CIA was secretly training; half-hearted threats and ineffective rhetoric about the Assad regime; and window-dressing diplomatic efforts aimed mainly at placating humanitarian concerns.
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What's been missing is a sense among Republican politicians that these proposals — even something with as much support as a larger child-tax credit — should be the center of their agenda rather than just window dressing for the usual upper-bracket or business tax cuts.
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John Kasich told a group of reporters today that he doesn't support the House Republican health care bill, believes it's time for the GOP to start working with Democrats, and thinks the latest changes were "window dressing" that were "designed to get votes," the Washington Examiner reports.
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In truth, this advisory committee could be little more than an attempt at bi-partisan window-dressing for a Trump administration that has shown itself to have little regard for issues Silicon Valley holds dear when it comes to cabinet-level appointments for any number of departments.
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Observers had hoped things would improve following one of Japan's largest corporate window-dressing schemes that came to light in 2011, when British-born Michael Woodford, the first foreign CEO of optical equipment maker Olympus, revealed years of falsified financial statements in a $1.7 billion fraud.
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If neither the statutory restriction on nationality-based restrictions nor the Constitution's prohibition of religious discrimination restrain the president's authority to ban classes of aliens, then Trump could add all Muslim-majority countries to his travel ban list, perhaps adding some other countries as window dressing.
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But such optimism has given way to a kind of stagnant waiting game, filled with more questions than answers: Is the sudden explosion of private businesses (like Airbnb) on the island a sign of things to come or merely window dressing on what remains a totalitarian regime?
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Ms. Cook Lee, of the Black Interpreters Guild, said that how stories of the enslaved are told matters because when black children hear about slaves as "window dressing" or accessories to the lives of white families, the children's own perceptions of blackness can be negatively affected.
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"The E.U. side knows perfectly well that this is a matter of window dressing, largely, for Boris Johnson and saw no great difficulty, because it did not require the E.U. to move any of its red lines," said Michael Leigh, a former senior European Commission official.
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If we just let them do it voluntarily, they'll come up with some window dressing — a nice thing here, a nice thing there — but they won't fundamentally reform, and things will get worse before they get better for thousands and thousands of athletes and their families.
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But so long as society continues to require the presence of people like me — unelected, unpaid spouses — as some sort of vital window dressing to the affairs of state, we are obliged to re-examine our expectations and preconceptions of these all-too-often-female companions.
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The rest of the video isn't worth describing, but it throws out any notion Agony wasn't crafted as a power fantasy, in which the notion of "hell" and "demons" are sheer window dressing, a way to mask what the game is actually about: forced domination and submission of women.
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Mr Orban's depiction of himself as the defender of Christian Europe against enemies from without (hordes of criminal migrants) and within (NGOs, effete EU bureaucrats and George Soros), wrapped up in his "illiberal democracy", may look like a challenge to European values, but it is largely window-dressing.
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It's not exactly rare for members of a corporate board of directors to serve as window dressing with no actual involvement in or knowledge of a company's operations, so the mere fact that the whole company was a giant scam doesn't necessarily reflect any action on Mattis's part.
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"Last-minute window dressing and the prospect of the trade war ending in the very near term is giving a boost to investor confidence, and in turn, we're closing the quarter with some pretty good gains," said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Spartan Capital Securities in New York.
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Photos suitable for an encyclopedia entry—that is, photos that accurately captured the subject in an unfussy, documentarian manner—were being replaced with sun-dappled photos of models standing around wearing fancy backpacks in the foreground while the actual scenery was relegated to the status of window dressing.
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China's leaders also face resistance from activists and rights-minded scholars, who dismiss the civil code as nothing more than window dressing and a means for Mr. Xi, who has pushed hard-line policies during his more than four years in power, to further restrict free speech in China.
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"Or if they try to play games and promulgate ridiculously weak or ineffective rules as window-dressing for supposedly complying with the statutes, we'll go in and demonstrate on the record, with robust scientific evidence and legal discourse that the Trump administration is breaking the law with the rules," he added.
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Yet at the same time, it leaves me feeling like certain characters who seemed like they might be important are just window dressing, perhaps none more notably than James Marsden's Teddy, who mostly gets to stand around and watch as Evan Rachel Wood monologues a few times in his general direction.
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It's not exactly rare for members of a corporate board of directors to serve as window dressing with no actual involvement in or knowledge of a company's operations, so the mere fact that the whole company seems to have been a giant scam doesn't necessarily reflect any action on Mattis's part.
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Tim RyanTimothy (Tim) John RyanBiden, Buttigieg bypassing Democratic delegate meeting: report Tim Ryan jokes he's having 'dance-off' with Andrew Yang The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape MORE (D-Ohio), the ranking member of the legislative branch appropriations subcommittee, said the amendment was nothing more than window dressing.
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Wilbur Ross was on CNBC today and he said there's only two things that happen ultimately with the trade conflict with China, which is either they get some sort of deal — and very few people seem to think they're gonna get one that's beyond window dressing, and if I'm proven wrong, fantastic.
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Two hallmark American postwar initiatives, the Fulbright Program and the Peace Corps, were created in response to fundamental national security threats and were grounded in the public principle that "people to people" exchanges are not simply diplomatic window dressing, but can play an important role in helping advance American strategic interests abroad.
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Policies that could have prevented sites like The Daily Stormer from using these services have, in most cases, existed for many years—and even now, the half-hearted purge of a few specific aggressors involved in the Unite the Right rally look a lot like half-assed window-dressing designed to satisfy public opinion.
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So, although moves like a hiring freeze or axing the N.E.A. and legal aid would have no real impact on the deficit, Trump's supporters don't see these moves as trivial—let alone as window dressing designed to distract them from other, less populist measures, like a tax plan that would benefit mainly the rich.
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The move drew sharp criticism from ethics lawyers, who said the move was window dressing because Mr. Trump, as sole beneficiary of the trust, still owns the assets, benefits financially from any money they might make and will quite likely get updates, Eric said, roughly every quarter on the financial health of the company.
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Here is where I should point out that a satirical image of a "reporter" eating a much criticized world leader's poop chute after he interviewed said leader in a interview so soft it looked like Jimmy Fallon gave it, is not the same thing as scantily clad women being paid pittance to serve as window dressing.
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But the Institute for Justice, which opposes civil asset forfeiture, argued that the protections are insufficient, amounting "to little more than window dressing of an otherwise outrageous abuse of power": The supposed "safeguards" implemented by this policy directive offer little or no substantive protection to property owners as they depend primarily on self-policing rather than judicial oversight.
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"If we're going to be serious about addressing these issues we need to make sure that these conviction integrity units are not just window dressing for the state's attorneys to get press and goodwill in the community," said Sharon Fairley, a former federal prosecutor who most recently overhauled how civilian complaints against Chicago police officers are handled.
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In exchange for a commitment to accept migrants sent back from Greece and seal off a smuggling route used by over a million people since the start of 2015, Turkey has wrested a string of concessions from the EU. One, a promise to inject some fuel into the country's stalled membership talks with the EU, is mere window dressing.
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In "Window Dressing: Background 4, Apron VI" (2003/07), the central garment is as reminiscent of a stylized samurai jinbaori as it is an apron, and the background, which features a circular opening and white gridded wallpaper, equally suggests the vintage linoleum tiles of an American kitchen or the sliding paper screens of a traditional Japanese house.
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Even if we recoil at the technocratic perspective that reduces "user-generated content" to so much interchangeable window-dressing or surface cosmetics, it's important to be aware that, in VR, "content" is only the tip of the iceberg, and that there's an enormous scaffolding of engineering and programming that undergirds everything we experience on its platform.
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But following the acid trip of hallucinogenic confusion, fake memories, and melodramatic plot twists that the rest of "The Final Problem" offers, the episode feels like window dressing on a completely different story — the haunted, lonely opium dream of three Holmes children who will never be fully able to tap into different, more authentic versions of themselves.
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The Yankees managed five singles, one of them an infield hit by Judge, in five and a third innings, and after Greg Bird's run-scoring single in the second inning, did not get a runner to second base until the ninth, at which point Bird launched a three-run homer, window dressing on an awful day at the ballpark.
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"If Republicans think they can get away with offering workers window dressing in response to huge problems like the astronomically high cost of child care or the fact that so many parents still can't take a day to care for a sick child without losing pay, they are sorely mistaken," said Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington.
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Details: As part of its preparations, in the past week the government has awarded a $17.5 million ferry service contract to a company with no ferries, as well as conducting an exercise — dismissed by truck drivers who took part as "window dressing" — to test whether Britain could handle a no-deal scenario's expected snarls for cross-channel trade.
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More troubling however, is last album cycle, Miley was twerking and working with famed hip-hop producer Mike WiLL Made It. So her whiplash-like return back to her country "roots" feels jarring and stirred many to believe her dalliance with hip-hop was, in line with many pop acts past and present, window dressing to be edgy and cool.
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This isn't just window-dressing: You're running a business as much as you are aiding a rebel army against an authoritarian regime, so the goal isn't just to win these bloody battles, but to win them cleanly enough that you're not spending all your money replacing broken equipment, and all your time waiting for wounded soldiers to return from months-long convalescence.
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There are a few places where these themes are touched on, and BOTW flirts with something like depth and complexity—there is a classroom where Vai (Gerudo for "women") learn about men and dating, and a secret shop where men's clothing is sold—but I was ultimately disappointed in the ways Gerudo town and culture just felt like window dressing.
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But many art experts argue that Christie's used marketing window dressing to mask the baggage that comes with the Leonardo, from its compromised condition to its complicated buying history and said that the auction house put the artwork in a contemporary sale to circumvent the scrutiny of old masters experts, many of whom have questioned the painting's authenticity and condition.
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The report also suggests that colleges discourage manic résumé padding by accepting information on a sharply limited number of extracurricular activities; that they better use essays and references to figure out which students' community-service projects are heartfelt and which are merely window dressing; and that they give full due to the family obligations and part-time work that some underprivileged kids take on.
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Since then, we've learned that former FBI Director James ComeyJames Brien Comey3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Barr predicts progressive prosecutors will lead to 'more crime, more victims' James Comey shows our criminal justice system works as intended MORE's highly suspect public announcement that Clinton would not be prosecuted was just window dressing designed to fool the American people.
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To enable support for graphical apps, the team opted to integrate the Wayland display server; from the user's perspective, the actual window dressing will look the same as any other Android or web app on Chrome OS. Most regular users won't necessarily benefit from built-in Linux support, but this will make Chrome OS machines even more attractive to developers — especially the more high-end ones like Google's own Pixelbook.
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But this window-dressing can't hide the obvious disdain for public lands that Interior Secretary Ryan ZinkeRyan Keith ZinkeNew policy at Interior's in-house watchdog clamps down on interactions with press Overnight Energy: EPA proposes scrapping limits on coal plant waste | Appointee overseeing federal lands once advocated selling them | EPA lifts Obama-era block on controversial mine Latest appointee overseeing federal public lands once advocated to sell them MORE and 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 have displayed repeatedly over the past year.
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