Therefore let us act as if we were dead already.
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"And you have to act as if you're already there."
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We mustn't act as if the referendum did not exist.
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You can't just act as if it happened out of nowhere.
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They act as if all of them come home with PTSD.
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We act as if a divided church is normal, even healthy.
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He does not act as if he always knows the answers.
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We act as if identity is monolithic, when it's anything but.
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To act as if those are not even issues is fraud.
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Do social justice warriors act as if they are morally superior?
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He doesn't act as if everything is hunky dory between the two.
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But we can act as if each vote might be our last.
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Act as if the truth is real — do everything to reverse course.
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I want you to act as if the house was on fire.
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This government can continue to act as if the problem weren't there.
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Let's act as if we still deserve to be seen that way.
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If anyone speaks English, I will act as if I don't understand.
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One suggested that she act as if the person were seeing things.
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I want you to act as if our house is on fire.
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Act "as if you were transporting your own children," Mr. Huntington said.
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Although they're twins, the boys, 17, dress and act as if they weren't.
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And Mick Jagger is, at least act as if they are his buddies.
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While that is technically true, people don't act as if it were so.
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They act as if #NorthKorea would act different if he used nicer words.
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Act as if that's the case, even with the knowledge they may not.
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We cannot act as if Flint is an isolated case in either sense.
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They were trying to act as if they were pro-working with Russia.
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But you're supposed to act as if you're losing value, even in work.
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Mr. Putin might like to act as if Russia is a world unto itself.
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But they act as if abortion is the only thing the Supreme Court does.
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I tend to act as if I don't know his [dark and disturbing] thoughts.
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The conjuring trick is to act as if Mr Guaidó were running the country.
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People I thought were my friends now act as if I do not exist.
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It must have worked because he didn't act as if he saw anything strange.
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When Republicans act as if that's a sacrilege, they show us what they worship.
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"I decided to act as if I were stupid, pretending not to understand," he wrote.
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White Americans are starting to act as if they were themselves a minority pressure group.
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The Chinese government wants all other countries to act as if Taiwan belongs to it.
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We can all see it all, but we must never act as if others exist.
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If it helps, act as if his or her job is uncertain and prepare accordingly.
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I want you to act as if the house was on fire, because it is.
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Mr Peña's instinct is to act as if Mr Trump is more reasonable than he seems.
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"This president wants to act as if he's a king, as if he's a dictator," Gov.
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Advocates calling for more Fed oversight act as if there is no accountability for the Fed.
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Too often they act as if there were no problem that a tax cut couldn't solve.
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The difference now is that they no longer act as if they have anything to hide.
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"One thing about elections is you always act as if everything is in danger," Ryan continued.
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Sketch Guy We all like to act as if we're immune to the vitriol of haters.
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"People act as if science and technology have been outside of the food system," he says.
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To act as if this sort of thing doesn't happen in thousands of families is disingenuous.
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"Everyone needs to act as if they have the virus right now," Adams told NBC News.
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Maybe because I didn't act as if the penitentiary had swallowed a third of my life.
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And we are telling you to act as if you loved your children above all else.
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"People act as if the day you retire, you're going to spend it all," said Mendels.
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Democrats, meanwhile, act as if such displays are beneath them, and cede the stage to Trump.
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We insult ourselves as well as them when we act as if looks are most important.
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Rosenstein and his colleagues act as if companies like Apple are protecting criminals, and dodging legal warrants.
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They act as if they can talk and do and treat the police … as any white child.
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Even when they're all alone, the novel's characters and animals often act as if they're being watched.
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"This president wants to act as if he's a king, as if he's a dictator," Christie said.
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The acting solicitor's opinion in effect treats the Act as if it only prohibited hunting migratory birds.
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The media "seems to act as if this race is between all the white men," Howell said.
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If you don't like the price, act as if your heart has been broken, and walk away.
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There was a cravenness about the second act, as if everyone decided to shrug and look away.
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When you act as if an outcome has already occurred, it is much more likely to happen.
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Palin tried to act as if she was in on the joke and eventually appeared on SNL.
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And so for Secretary Pompeo to act as if there is no problem, that simply wasn't realistic.
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We need leaders who care about the future—our children and grandchildren—and act as if tomorrow matters.
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Why do I walk into a department store and act as if I've never seen a lipstick before?
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To China, which wants everyone to act as if Taiwan belongs to it, the new building is provocative.
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Only the Commander skates by, blithely indifferent, though he continues to act as if he's horribly put-upon.
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But in recent days, Twitter has begun to act as if it would take the problem more seriously.
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I tried to soldier on, to act as if I was going to be OK. But I wasn't.
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Despite feeling "powerless and scared," Delevingne said she decided to go and act as if nothing was wrong.
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"I don't think we should act as if we're going to be in the majority forever," he said.
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"I have had to act as if I'm someone else many times," channeling someone else's confidence, Galán says.
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Globally, authoritarians who act as if they rule by the divine right of kings are on the rise.
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Before the bodies start piling up, they act as if they're in a dark, perverse comedy about parenthood.
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James thought so, or that at least it would truly benefit us to act as if we could.
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Just act as if you are stirring a soup, you stir and you stir and then you punch.
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"I want you to act as if our house is on fire because it is," one sign read.
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As part of the prank, city officials initially were to act as if the name change was permanent.
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We had to act as if we were having our own millennial drought that would last 10 years.
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Emma tried to act as if it were a temporary parting, but she couldn't hold in her tears.
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But GRP may affect only "social" itching ― it makes a mouse act as if it's seeing another mouse scratch.
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My book concluded with this plea: We can no longer act as if each vote is our first vote.
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She is the man of her dreams, and unwilling to act as if any of them are viable replacements.
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They act as if the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, which disproportionately affected poor blacks, didn't happen on American soil.
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Carpenter's manager had long encouraged him and his team to act as if they were "world-class hackers" themselves.
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I wanted to reclaim my college experience, to feel, or at least act, as if I belonged there, too.
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Whether or not most Democrats actually cared about the deficit, their leaders tended to act as if they did.
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So, Mr. President, please stop trying to act as if you alone are the government, because you are not.
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"We are still telling you to panic, and to act as if you loved your children above all else."
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This is what happens when we act as if the humanity of vulnerable, marginalized people is up for debate.
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But to act as if Warren is inarguably the evolved form of the Vermont senator is simplistic at best.
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"Washington doesn't need to act as if it has been taken for a ride," wrote the nationalistic Global Times.
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Officers don't act as if they're above the law in our communities because of their training or community relationships.
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We can't act as if the president's Twitter feed doesn't have a real-time effect on our foreign policy.
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There are more significant people starting to break ranks, to tell the truth and act as if it is real.
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The more you act as if it is a part of you, the more comfortable you will feel with it.
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So, if I act as if I can keep myself intact, my face unchanged, maybe I won't have to go.
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There are more significant people starting to break ranks, to tell the truth and act as if it is real.
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"I want to make you panic, I want you to act as if your house was on fire," she said.
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The NFL does not care about any of this, and does not even care to act as if it does.
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She just happens to be running against somebody happy to act as if he doesn't really want it at all.
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They act as if they were right all along and other benighted critics held the views that they themselves propagated.
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It is not unreasonable to demand that men in workplaces act as if the year were 2017 and not 2003.
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Again and again, legislators asked Zuckerberg how he would like them to act, as if they were working in partnership.
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They're act -- they act as if they're just plain vanilla and the only real operators are Jeff Bezos and Zuckerberg.
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As the monk Evagrius of Pontus said, the monk should always act as if he were going to die tomorrow.
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"I had to act as if I were straight," said Mr. Oscar, who moved to the Hebrew Home in 2013.
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" The 17-year-old Swede exhorted the WEF audience to "act as if you loved your children above all else.
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They were forced to act as if facts and reality were still in place, even if only to subvert them.
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"We all talk about climate emergency but don't act as if there is any," Ugandan campaigner Nakabuye implored the summit.
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He also urged protesters to allow freedom of movement and not to act "as if you are masters of the roads".
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He also urged protesters to allow freedom of movement and not to act "as if you are masters of the roads".
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We may understand that the Twitter or Facebook audience is potentially limitless, but we often act as if it were bounded.
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" He climbed the ladder, he says, with that vision in mind, always thinking to himself that he should "act as if.
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They act as if love can protect the most vulnerable members of their family from the repercussions of their political choices.
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From the moment that the four girls land in Abu Dhabi, they act as if they're going on a cultural safari.
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We raise our daughters to believe they can do anything, and then we're terrified when they act as if they might.
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And it is "damaging to the cause," she said, to act as if the Parkland students are operating in a vacuum.
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" The 17-year-old exhorted the World Economic Forum audience to "act as if you loved your children above all else.
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America is perhaps the first psychopath nation: It does not act as if it has considered that other countries have interior lives.
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"Although politicians shouldn't make the debt their top priority, they also shouldn't act as if it doesn't matter at all," they conclude.
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In Matthieu Kassovitz's explosive La Haine (1995), three friends of different backgrounds — Jewish, Black, and Arabic — act as if under constant siege.
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In many states, a pipeline company can act as if it—the pipeline company—is the government, once it receives construction approvals.
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Liberals seem to hate such "millionaires and billionaires" and act as if they are enemies of the state because of their wealth.
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They act as if they're afraid you'll outshine them if they give you access to everything you need to do your job.
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The Western countries often act as if the Central Europeans are fortunate just to sit at the table with the grown-ups.
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A decade ago, the cat population was largely removed but the finches still act as if they are in danger, puzzling scientists.
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But her memoir should be read with a caution: If you act as if nothing's real, you risk ending up with nothing.
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Never before in the history of our nation have we seen a president declare and act as if he's above the law.
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Students who thrive in this environment may have stayed the same, but now, people are supposed to act as if they do.
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But with every broadcast, NBC seems to act as if those human interest elements are the only part of the games' appeal.
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Buzzing from their entrepreneurial success, the thieves began to act as if their operation was a legitimate startup, which they named Southeastern Two.
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While Trump preens and shouts, the Eagles act as if they can't hear him, because they have more important things to worry about.
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BILL HICKS, a much-mourned comedian, would pause in the middle of his act as if a thought had just occurred to him.
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They often act as if they're entitled to something they feel they deserve—high-paying jobs or sex with beautiful women, for instance.
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Blockchain enthusiasts often act as if the hard part is getting money from A to B or keeping a record of what happened.
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"We act as if it's all make or break for their future, and we need to be involved, to make sure," she said.
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We don't act as if we remember that fulfilling the responsibilities of "ordinary" citizenship is essential to sustaining that which makes America special.
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And why does Perry's mother act as if "it's this huge achievement that a not totally white baby popped out of her vagina"?
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When asked in interviews about the expected loss in coverage or cuts to Medicaid, administration officials simply act as if they don't exist.
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Why do they act as if Santa really exists and actually delivers presents to them — of course, only if they&aposve been nice?
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Never before in the history of our nation have we seen a president declare, and act as if, he is above the law.
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Apple finally understands that there will be leaks and that it's better to control the conversation than to act as if it isn't happening.
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Going further by training officers to act as if their weapons are insurance policies, rather than persuasive devices, will transform the nation's police work.
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The people who act as if this is only a matter of moving pieces around on a chessboard may be left with the spoils.
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Tokyo and Seoul act as if resigned to machinations of Pyongyang and Washington, with little our Asian partners can do to control their future.
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If we're out to dinner or happen to meet in the grocery store, we still act as if we're naked in the locker room.
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Everyone knows the chief of staff has the power, but it is important that he does not act as if he knows this too.
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They act as if they had all the time in the world, and sometimes the cooks do, too; don't expect food in a hurry.
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If we continue to think and act as if only the disengaged are burned out, we will miss many people who need our attention.
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That change happened without any public acknowledgement, and, to this day, Apple continues to act as if Flexgate is not a real or widespread problem.
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When first confronted with a mirror, animals initially act as if the individual they see in the reflection is another animal of the same species.
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The United States has dangerous enemies around the world but some in Washington act as if our greatest enemy is other Americans across the aisle.
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Healthy people in your home should act as if they could be a risk to the vulnerable, washing their hands frequently before interacting with them.
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Still, it's disappointing to see the publishing side of the industry continue to act as if what they are creating lacks a cohesive political message.
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Directing Ms. Sellam during a visit by two of the older woman's friends, Ms. Bohdanowicz instructs the three to act as if she weren't there.
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"If we continue to act as if it's business as usual, the virus will spread even more massively and aggressively," said Senegal's President Macky Sall.
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They will act as if they have been particularly looking forward to your arrival and had all the time in the world to greet you.
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So while I am not convinced that we have a lot of labor market slack, I actually favor policies that act as if we did.
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And now in the face of the evidence that his policy was not even necessary, Bloomberg simply wants to act as if it never happened.
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Will he act as if nothing happened and let the bill sit between us until the very last moment, waiting to see what I might do?
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It is a scary and stressful thing to imagine that the world is ending, but it would be far worse to act as if it were.
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But in the wreckage of the Arab world today, many act as if the idea that Islamists can play a useful democratic role is broken, too.
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Campaigners have long lamented that, although the users of online platforms tell pollsters that they care about privacy, they do not act as if they do.
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But cities can no longer act as if workers and companies have no choice on location and are forced to accept suboptimal cities as a result.
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If I simply deny what I earlier affirmed and act as if nothing has happened, then you are left having to decide what I really meant.
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" Benenson said during the exchange that the Trump campaign won, but told them not to act as if they have a "popular mandate for your message.
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Yet he felt that he had to act as if he didn't care, or his viewers might suspect that he and Caroline hadn't actually broken up.
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"If it looks like it might be an opioid overdose you must act as (if) it is because you cannot hurt the person," McNeil told CNN.
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But Lucy's willingness to act as if neither their hook-up nor Kirsten's homophobia were a big deal—it made it seem O.K. to keep going.
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This polarizes public discourse and enhances their sense of belonging, so that even when they're in government, they act as if they were excluded from it.
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It's an almost incalculable insult for Trump and his enablers to act as if he's helping the Jews when he adopts the language of the pogrom.
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All directors should act as if there is a single absentee owner and do everything reasonably possible to advance that owner's long-term interest, Buffett advises.
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The Trump administration and its allies in Congress act as if they have a public mandate to terminate any federal support for improving access to contraception.
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And secondly, whether it is permissible for the president to obstruct Congress and act as if he is above the law and immune for constitutional oversight.
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Regardless of where you go on vacation and whether you've got Internet access or not, Knapp and Zeratsky suggest you act as if you're off the grid.
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It began to act as if it could "solve all of Brazil's problems", says Oscar Vilhena, the dean of the law school at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV).
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It made me think Democrats can no longer act as if older rules about norms and expectations and comity in the political arena effect when they're not.
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They act as if America is irremediably a fallen nation, as if the sins of the past have left indelible stains that no ameliorative efforts can alter.
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Yet when we look at the human condition, including the condition of women, we act as if we are driven by biology or some metaphysically absolute dogma.
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And yet, year after year, lawmakers in Congress and in statehouses across the country, all beholden to the gun lobby, act as if the opposite were true.
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Filmed in a massive Brooklyn warehouse, we constructed a papier-mâché painted universe where real actors could act as if they were inside a real-life cartoon.
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But there are some co-workers who either don't contribute or bring a single box of cookies per month and act as if they deserve a medal.
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And the members of the Counter-Terror teams, if not properly trained and supervised, might feel and act as if they had a license to commit murder.
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Mr. Trump's plan, aides say, is to act as if the report itself is extraneous to the attorney general's summary, which the president has said exonerated him.
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The flow of dialogue is all; no wonder that in directing the original production, Fornés told the cast to act as if they were in a film.
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For the university or the system's Board of Governors to act as if they made the best or only choice available to them is disingenuous at best.
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Even with the ups and downs, I've been lucky that I have not had to access it, and I've tried to act as if it does not exist.
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Talian speakers in Serafina Corrêa "act as if their variant is the correct one", complains Giorgia Miazzo, a linguist who has recorded speakers of Italian dialects across Brazil.
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Osman says that although Silicon Valley companies often act as if they invented the technical ladder, it's actually been in place for over 70 years at various companies.
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More people look like Lizzo and Kaling than Kendall Jenner or Gigi Hadid, so why do we still act as if they are leading some type of revolution?
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Would they just look at a smoking gun and act as if nothing was there, or would some Republicans finally feel compelled to speak out against this administration?
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"He is a white male so he came to school with his face painted and he tried to act as if he was the rapper," Kenney told KTVU.
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Over the past few years, investors have already begun to act as if they understand the importance of a broader set of interests beyond short-term financial returns.
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The joke suggests that people who wear AirPods act as if they're celebrities, detached and elevated from their environment, and too good to listen to those around them.
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Ms. Riley is correct that drug use is often a factor, but it is misleading to act as if most of these cases involve dangerous levels of abuse.
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While some see that attitude as a defense of liberty, others worry that it is simply license for sheriffs to act as if they are above the law.
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Having let Mr. Trump have his way for so long, they can hardly be surprised that he continues to act as if he is accountable to no one.
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Since people can be infected without showing symptoms, "we need to act as if everyone is a potentially an infected person coming from the disease areas," she added.
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Liberals can act as if they're not so certain — and maybe actually not be so certain — that bigotry motivates people who disagree with them on issues like immigration.
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"Donald Trump's latest gimmick to act as if he cares about the black community is downright shameful, insulting and cowardly," Clinton aide Marlon Marshall said in a statement.
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Historically, when Chelsea is presented with the choice of whether to fire a manager or not, it tends to act as if it has no choice at all.
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In fact, this Dumbo is so cute that it's hard to buy the initial reactions from Max and his cohorte, who repeatedly act as if he's an ugly monster.
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We wanted to act as if everything was normal so we could fully enjoy what was left of daily life; at the same time, most experiences seemed unbearably trivial.
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When the babies saw two people in the video speak the same language or act as if they were friends, the children expected them to like the same foods.
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Even if each individual voter is rational and knows what he or she wants, the electorate as a whole can act as if it were clueless and can't decide.
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Despite these and other rulings by the federal courts, politicians still act as if they are still operating before Heller in which any rational gun control is presumptively constitutional.
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"Before this last attack, the army would act as if nothing was going on — 30 or 40 workers would cross into Israel all at once," said Abu Ramzi, 34.
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"We are going to be down €10bn-12bn in our budget once the UK departs, so we cannot act as if it is business as usual," Mr Oettinger said.
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But too many major media outlets continue to act as if Trump is a normal candidate who will at least try to fulfill the expectations he set for himself.
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And he will rely on it again on Saturday, when he has told his players to act as if they have been here before, even thought they have not.
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Too many liberals are thinking with their emotions and not the rational parts of their brains, and this is causing them to act as if they are irrational teenagers.
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If there is someone with a compromised immune system in your home, the other family members should act as if they are a risk of infection to that person.
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American diplomats say the Indians began to act as if they were being taken advantage of and refused to budge on even small things, like reducing tariffs on walnuts.
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It's hard for me, as someone who believes in loving and respecting all people, to put out the American flag and act as if I'm proud of my country.
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While Kalanick remains on the Uber board and is one of its biggest shareholders, to act as if what he did as its CEO was okay is, well, not okay.
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Mr. Shkreli, 32, has continued to take to Twitter, streaming videos and traditional news outlets to proclaim his innocence and act as if not much has changed in his life.
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"The worst thing somebody sad or grieving can do is immediately try not to think about it, or to act as if the event or loss never happened," she says.
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Ursula von der Leyen, Mrs Merkel's defence minister, told the Munich crowd that Germany must not act as if it occupies a higher moral plane than the British or French.
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Birx responded that it's important for Americans to take personal responsibility and act as if they may have come into contact with someone with the virus to avoid spreading it.
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For it has now reached down to every level, allowing people who are supposed to be societal pillars, or even role models, to act as if reality has no foundation.
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All the while, the federal government and much of the news media continue to act as if the same economic measures that made sense decades ago still make sense today.
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They act as if holes in a case brought by media-obsessed lawyer Michael Avenatti discredit the stories told by Blasey and Ramirez, whom he has nothing to do with.
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Mr. Weems said that in the decades after Emmett's death, people in the Mississippi Delta region wanted to forget about the crime and act as if it never had happened.
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But our brains act as if they have an easier way: They translate gut emotional reactions into what we believe are reasoned conclusions, even if hard data tells us otherwise.
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I think our best course is to act as if the March 5 deadline is the real deadline and stop playing with the lives of hundreds of thousands of Dreamers.
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Andrew Luck was never expected to be ready for Week 1, so to act as if his sudden retirement affected the Colts' chances in this game is a bit ridiculous.
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GOP leaders can't overrule the director of the FBI and other intelligence community bureaucrats and release this memo, and then act as if nothing in it is really worth prosecuting.
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But to act as if there's some global conspiracy among us underground-tunnel-dwelling bloggers to keep the rich and famous down, or to hurt their feelings, is paranoid at best.
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In the interpersonal debate, too, each side tends to act as if their preferred tactic will build a permanent anti-oppressive majority without a whole lot of sacrifice on anyone's part.
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" RELATED: Antonin Scalia's son will be the celebrant of funeral mass "To act as if the President is anything less than the President of the United States until January 20, 2017.
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They are pushed to work harder for longer hours and less pay, and at the same time they have to act as if they love their work—or pay the price.
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"Trump tried hard to make the 2018 elections about him, telling voters repeatedly to act as if he were on the ballot," the Wall Street Journal's Gerald Seib wrote last November.
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This argument allowed anti-abortion advocates to act as if they weren't really trying to restrict abortion, but instead trying to help women by making the (already relatively safe) procedure safer.
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When I asked Gelernt why she had been released, he guessed it was an attempt to act as if her case had nothing to do with a policy of family separation.
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There's even some reporting to indicate that some young people see an opportunity for travel deals -- unconscionable, given that experts say we should all act as if we have the virus.
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Her adoptive mother, Michelle Shields, said this was a theme: Devin Kelley would be controlling and abusive, and Danielle Kelley would either accept it or act as if it hadn't happened.
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The 2017 National Book Awards were not defiant or particularly mournful—instead there was a palpable exhaustion, as well as a valiant attempt to act as if everything was, well, normal.
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But by now we also know that dieting generally does more harm than good, and if you are trying to lose weight you're at least supposed to act as if you're not.
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On the one end of the spectrum, you have the 30 somethings, alleged teens who speak and act as if they've been deadened by years of layoffs, family troubles, and mounting debt.
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"We sort of joke about the five-second rule, but people act as if germs take some period of time to race to the item that fell on the floor," he said.
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As The New Republic's Matt Ford pointed out, government officials often act as if they are carrying out their own agenda, one that has nothing to do with the president's stated intent.
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So there's an effort to act as if they are observing the ceasefire, which we've seen in all previous cases of ceasefires: Both sides sort of say they're abiding by the ceasefire.
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"We can't act as if we can keep emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and just by tinkering around with corals in a lab we're going to solve the problem," he said.
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The intent of Republicans, poised to push through the most far-reaching conservative agenda in nearly a hundred years, is to act as if Obama never existed — the George Bailey of presidents.
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The group's second principle is "act as if the truth is real" — in other words, now that we know this catastrophe is around the corner, we must do everything possible to stop it.
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But to act as if their cultural background has "programmed" them to do so, while making all sorts of excuses and downplaying the crimes of white Germans, will always be racist rabble-rousing.
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While Paul Ryan tried to act as if the bill was a finished product when it was unveiled two weeks ago, it was immediately clear that it was both inadequate and incredibly destructive.
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Two months after assurances that the candidate would become "more presidential" and transition to a more unifying phase of his campaign, Mr. Trump continues to act as if the primary is still underway.
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"To try to act as if there is a difference between 'civil unions' and same-sex marriage is dishonest, cowardly and extremely disrespectful to the people of Hawaii," Gabbard said at the time.
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Run to the person, tear off your shirt, tie a tourniquet or push it against the bleeding wound, cover the person with a blanket, scream for an ambulance — act as if you care!
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"What I said was those who believe Palestinian leaders bear responsibility for the incitement of terrorism cannot then let US leaders off the hook and act as if words don't matter," he tweeted.
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A North Korean state-run newspaper reportedly threatened consequences on Thursday for anyone who would "act" as if they were revering the country's leader, Kim Jong Un, while secretly harboring desires for change.
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Yet the government continued to act as if none of the individuals who had previously been given permission to enter the United States temporarily — such as students and temporary workers — could come in.
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"They act as if it's secret," said Mr. Lykketoft, a champion of greater transparency who presided over a two-hour question-and-answer session for each candidate before the 193-member General Assembly.
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New to politics and rebuffed by many mainstream Republicans, he populated the White House with the people who labored in his campaign and then continued to act as if he was still running.
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"The original article included the following argument: "... it's a bit hypocritical for Sivan to act as if talking about his sex life is taboo when he wrote a whole ass album about bottoming.
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Plan of attack: As Mr. Barr prepares to submit a redacted version of the report, Mr. Trump, aides said, will act as if the report itself is extraneous to Mr. Barr's brief letter.
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Surrounded by God-awful family and friends who act as if Cathy's only duty is to wait on them, she never ceases to rise above their petulant behavior and put on a smile.
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No wonder people increasingly act as if the truth is something you choose from a buffet rather than a fact that will eventually bite you, hard, if you refuse to believe in it.
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Now, though, it feels downright bizarre for a movie to act as if the same audience that turned Avengers: Infinity War into a $2 billion juggernaut might need a refresher on what Superman is.
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Women are suffering, but feel that they have to act as if everything is fine, says Sarah Verbiest, a public-health expert in North Carolina who runs a research project on the fourth trimester.
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"Let's be honest, don't act as if you have some popular mandate for your message," said Hillary Clinton's chief strategist Joel Benenson, citing Clinton's more than 2 million-vote lead in the popular vote.
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The 350-cover restaurant is swarming with staff—I've never experienced this style of attention in Argentina, a country where most in the service industry act as if they are doing you the favor.
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Put simply, deconstruction proceeds on the assumption that literary texts, like people, have an unconscious that often betrays them: they may say one thing, but they act as if they believe another thing entirely.
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Let's not act as if that thing released on Wednesday, whatever it was, was something like, say, the 2001 Bush tax cut; I strongly disapproved of that cut, but at least it was comprehensible.
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They use negotiation to distract from their military maneuvers -- and to provide a space to complete them -- while diplomats act as if their due process and fine language translate into change in the rubble.
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" However, growing up seeing "parents act as if they were superheroes" can also be a bad thing, Beyonce told Elle, because it teaches women to "focus on taking care of everyone else before themselves.
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There is also an exoskeleton that children can climb into and, with a little help from a computer screen, act "as if they were a superhuman-strong robot on a factory floor," she said.
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While your virtual OS will act as if it's installed as normal, albeit a little slower, everything is lost as soon as you close down the application, just like any other program on your system.
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She would try to listen for her father&aposs footsteps and then flip on the light and act as if she was studying Scriptures to have an excuse for him to go away, she said.
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I still pick, though, and she tries to help break me of the habit by clapping her hands when she catches me in the act, as if I were the cat, scratching at the furniture.
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One of the most disorienting parts of today's geopolitical information warfare is that all sides feel and act as if they're winning, and it's not hard to know who or what has the most influence.
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Shows like Marvel and Netflix's Jessica Jones or Syfy's The Expanse — both of which I really like overall — sometimes act as if the hour-long episode format is a drag on their larger narrative ambitions.
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People begin to act as if it's the end of the world as they know it and are forced to leave the country in masses after they discover other popular black actors — even Kerry Washington.
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We've got to dust ourselves off and step up, and not just roll over and act as if we don't have a very potent role to play in our democracy, particularly at the city level.
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" On being a man "This one is just for guys: When you go on dates, act as if every woman you're talking to is a reporter for an online publication that you are scared of.
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The Row, and by extension the Olsen twins themselves, use Instagram not only as free advertising, but also as a way to act as if their world is transparent — here are the artists we love!
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As the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt is technically a government employee, but he tends to act as if he's on the payroll of whatever corporation has rented him for the day.
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This rule is apparently not meant to encourage customers to act as if they're in the Nathan's hot dog eating contest; our server said the restaurant just hadn't found takeout cartons it was happy with.
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If women wish to seize power, they must compete ruthlessly with one another, but if they want to be seen as good feminists, they must act as if they are not in competition at all.
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Now, as Mr. Barr prepares to submit a redacted version of the report, Mr. Trump's plan of attack, aides said, is to act as if the report itself is extraneous to Mr. Barr's brief letter.
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If the Israeli government is going to treat a Palestinian state as a ridiculous pipe dream, the rest of us can't act as if such a state is the only legitimate goal of Palestinian activism.
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Despite all the structural forces aiding companies' bottom lines and stock prices, boards continue to act as if C.E.O.s have unique powers to deliver better returns — and have gone to great lengths to compensate them.
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Okay: Then when black people are obviously victims of local institutions, are you willing to elevate and defend them, to make them a cause célèbre, to act as if their concerns are yours as well?
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It is this culture that allows people like Secretary Mnuchin to act as if they are not concerned with whether their actions conform to ethical norms, but only with what they can get away with.
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Now those cities are the frontline of the anti-Trump movement, and Uber is at risk of alienating its core customer base by continuing to act as if Trump is someone who can be reasoned with.
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Wan and the writers vastly overestimate how interesting it is to watch people deny the evidence of their own eyes, or to act as if nothing is wrong after facing down one snarling apparition after another.
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"Investors have sent a clear message that meaningful 2-degree stress testing is the new normal, and companies like Exxon and Chevron can no longer act as if nothing has changed," Logan said in a statement.
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Unmarried and fond of casting himself as a man who values his solitude, Mr. DeRossi may act as if his accidental success makes him the opposite of Danny Meyer, but lately his ambition has been showing.
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"Privacy matters to Americans — it's a classic American value — yet when they're online and doing other things, they act as if their personal information is O.K. to harvest and analyze," Mr. Rainie said in an interview.
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What Chuck has done to her is a grotesque violation, and his failure to act as if it were anything more than a spat that can be patched over is indicative of his deep moral shortcomings.
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"There is things happening with the climate in the world that is unprecedented," McCain said on CNN's "State of the Union" when asked a question regarding why Republicans act as if climate change is not real.
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I can imagine an America, though, where we act as if our children's lives are worth more than our guns, where we decide that we can no longer tolerate living within a raging epidemic of violence.
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The people around Mr. Trump surely know this history, yet they act as if they were the descendants not of these poor immigrants but of the American nativists and Know Nothings who slandered and derided them.
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"They feel like the limited amount of knowledge that they have at this age, they act as if they're masters of that knowledge, and use it consistently in a matter [of] like, 'You're stupid, mom,' " she said.
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Clara doesn't understand why he wants to act as if nothing's happened, and her older sister Louise (Ellie Bamber) and younger brother Fritz (Tom Sweet) are just trying to hold on to what family they have left.
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But there are plenty of people who continue to act as if critics of the camps are explicitly saying they're as bad as Nazi death camps and that sentiment is constantly bleeding into the discussion on Wikipedia.
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Given Ryan's resume -- vice presidential candidate, chairman of key committees and now, speaker of the House, Stivers said, more often than not donors at any event Ryan shows up to act as if they're long lost friends.
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We looked at the indefensible ways in which economists still act as if it were a man's man's man's world; what we learned of Nadia Savchenko and Virginia Raggi made us doubt it (Run the world (Girls)).
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She's Gotta Have It, Lee's first feature, closes with an unfortunate scene in which Nola is raped by Jamie, who growls "Whose pussy is this?" during the act, as if punishing her for refusing to choose him.
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They act as if they are a politicized coalition defending a vulnerable person, without the awareness that they are now the tenured, the published, the well-off, the powerful: precisely the demographic that #MeToo proposes to investigate.
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If you are a cynic you could say we live in a culture in which people say they believe (i) and teach their children to say (i) when asked, but always act as if they believe (ii).
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"Where the two sides act as if in an unpleasant divorce ... the market response could be more long-lasting, with obvious pressure on the British pound and large UK listed companies with significant European activities," Amey said.
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Trump has rightfully noted that the criminal conflict of interest statute does not apply to the president, though Shaub said the executive branch has always held that the president should act as if he is bound by it.
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Calls for the president's impeachment grow louder from the self-styled Resistance – increasingly strident folks on the left, some proudly calling themselves socialists – who act as if they are fighting a tyrannical enemy nation occupying the White House.
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But despite his polling lead, it's commonplace among progressives to act as if Biden's early strength is nothing but a consequence of name recognition and that he will inevitably fall by the wayside once actual campaigning gets underway.
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Virtually every Republican with a job more elevated than zoning commissioner thinks the best thing to do with any Supreme Court nomination is to act as if it isn't there, like a wad of gum on the sidewalk.
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Even if the finding was well grounded, he argued, the wise clinician should still act as if were false—"for you will never identify that one in twenty, and in the attempt, five in twenty will be ruined".
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"The impulse was to act as if this was something unfair being done to her as opposed to looking at she did this thing that was ill-advised, that she herself has acknowledged was ill-advised," Haberman said.
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Indeed, "unless it can be shown conclusively that your data was NOT compromised, it would be prudent to act as if it were," security researcher and former Cloudflare employee Ryan Lackey wrote in a Medium post on Thursday.
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"I think while they may talk about (that), that they may act as if they're having conversations, we have a corner store location for their supply," said Perdue, touting competitive and logistical advantages of the U.S. agricultural sector.
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"So despite the best efforts of the White House staff to act as if this decision was about protecting classified information, President Trump made it clear it was actually about punishing one of his fiercest critics," Tapper said.
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The Republican response has been to act as if the modest benefits that working people have experienced—the $1.50 paycheck increase, to give one example—are no different than the millions and billions being pocketed by the richest.
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But Congress, controlled by Republicans who act as if they are controlled by Trump, who acts like he is controlled by Russia, refuse to lift a finger to defend the most basic element of democracy, namely clean elections.
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In Schnitzler syndrome, according to current thinking, the most primitive part of the immune system — a type of white blood cell known as the macrophage — goes wild and instructs the body to act as if it is infected.
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"What is most remarkable is the extent to which his senior officials act as if Trump were not the chief executive," Jack Goldsmith, a top Justice Department official under President George W. Bush, wrote last weekend on lawfareblog.com.
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New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has urged everyone in the city of 8.6 million to act as if they've already come into contact with the contagious respiratory illness that's sickened more than 153,000 globally.
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She'll have to act as if she's the horrible person she knows she is, whom Young Hee never suspected her of being, even though she technically only seems to have slept with Don (though drugging him is bad enough).
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Of course, it will turn out these investments were planned years ahead of time or totally unaffected by Title II. But all the same the companies will act as if a great weight has been lifted from their shoulders.
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"The media and opportunists act as if the two factions in Charlottesville represent the attitudes of the whole country," he tweeted on Thursday of Saturday's headline-making protests by white-supremacist groups in Charlottesville, Virginia that left one dead.
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Those in the Nyquist camp, led by the trainer Doug O'Neill, act as if they are already halfway to New York — as if the final mile of their journey were the mile and a half of the Belmont Stakes.
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After all—whether or not you would enjoy eating with a doe-eyed idol who is happy to act as if she is wholly enamored with you—we can all agree on how much actual people can suck IRL.
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While many act as if Trump's actions will start a massive trade war that will destroy the United States and the world economy, they ignore the fact that doing nothing to punish unfair trade will hurt the world economy.
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Like most working lunches, the event had the taint of the obligatory, where both of you act as if you're doing something social and fun by choice when in fact you're doing something vaguely dreary because it's your job.
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"We can't expect the Church to clean up its own act, as if this were just its own affair... A number of bishops took part in this conspiracy of silence, in hiding these crimes," Wiosna leader Robert Biedron told Radio Zet.
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We don't want to scare you into thinking people are pouring over your every move on social media—they're probably not—but it's a good idea to act as if they are if you want to be as safe as possible.
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" Despite all that, as recently as September Corker was telling reporters he remained committed to Trump's agenda, saying, "for people to try to act as if there is daylight between us as a result [of the spat] is just not true.
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It's so strong that a worker from one colony can be plucked up and deposited into another, hundreds of miles away, and she will act as if she's right at home, surrounded by family, which, in a way, she is.
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"If you limit yourself, if you say your objective is 2% but you really act as if it's a ceiling, that reduces the monetary policy space when you need to provide more monetary policy accommodation during a downturn," Evans said.
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After all, we're already dependent on one another: If we were used to the idea that we belong to each other, we might act as if the crises that threaten the most vulnerable also posed a danger to the most comfortable.
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"They act as if name-calling is an acceptable substitute for thoughtful debate, as if anger and intolerance should be our default state, rather than the optimism and openness that have always been the engine of our progress," she said.
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"We cannot afford, suddenly, to treat this like a reality show — we can't afford to act as if there's some equivalence here," Mr. Obama told thousands of people at an afternoon rally in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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On Technology In a series of studies published in 2012, two psychologists, Ara Norenzayan and Will Gervais, set out to test a simple question: When people think about God, do they feel or act as if they are being monitored?
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" Indian men in particular "tried to act as if they were different," though "they were very much the same": "Their responsibilities were to provide for their families an Americanized sense of material wealth while still sticking to the Indian courtesies.
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But it's obvious that Trump sees the probe as so unfair and a conspiracy against him that is damaging his presidency -- a factor that may be inducing him to act as if he has something to hide, even if he doesn't.
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In his often impromptu sermons, he has condemned sexual abuse of children by priests as being tantamount to a "Satanic Mass", said Catholics in the mafia excommunicate themselves, and told his own cardinals to not act as if they were "princes".
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They will join about 200 other decoys who will be paid to act as if they live on the street during the Homeless Outreach Population Estimate, the city's annual census of unsheltered homeless people, as a way gauging the count's accuracy.
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My new protocol will depend on if we want to act as if I am disease-free or if we want to continue as if I am still in treatment and we are targeting any microscopic disease that might be left.
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A simple example is, if you were a therapist who had lost your license because you berated a same-sex couple or engaged in conversion therapy, under FADA, the federal government would act as if you still had a license, Warbelow says.
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It's the people who diagnose me via photo, who wring their hands over my upper arms, who "just want to help" me and everyone else who dares to act as if their body is acceptable for normal activities, like working out and swimming.
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Washington (CNN)CIA Director Mike Pompeo said the United States has to act as if North Korea is on the verge of being able to strike it with a missile and act accordingly -- and that President Donald Trump is ready to do so.
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For the current study, Schoenfeld and colleagues trained volunteers to act as if they had common acute medical problems and then sent them to virtual doctors provided by companies including Ameridoc, Amwell, Consult a Doctor, Doctor on Demand, MDAligne, MDLIVE, MeMD and NowClinic.
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In short, it's not only irresponsible and out of touch, it is downright offensive to continue to act as if the love lives and dating habits of women of color aren't as captivating to The Bachelorette's audience as those of white women.
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The Republicans then act as if they don't really need to hold Trump accountable — for his betrayal of American interests, for his bizarre Putin affinity, for his racism or for any number of other issues — because Trump cleaned up his own mess.
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But his famous "1 percent" quote — "if there was even a 1 percent chance of terrorists getting a weapon of mass destruction … the United States must now act as if it were a certainty" — still helps define the way we think about terrorism.
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"Right now we're telling people to act as if this is a severe flu season," White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said in an interview with Fox News from West Palm Beach, where President Donald Trump spent the weekend at his Florida resort.
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The trick of doing this well, of course, is to act as if you aren't doing it at all — as if this is simply how you like to unwind in the evening, by sharing your views on pasta sauce with your 567,000 followers.
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In a stage of life where you are expected, even encouraged, to be focused on yourself and your own accomplishments, my university friends and colleagues overwhelmingly act as if by choosing to marry I have surrendered my ambitions for a different cause.
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Writers here don't live enslaved in a totalitarian police state, and it would be unwise to act as if we did, unless—or until—there is a genuine assault on our rights and the country is drowning in Trump's river of lies.
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If Republicans act as if they're not concerned about middle-class Americans' retirement savings — or at least, are a lot less concerned about retirement saving than about tax cuts for corporations and very high earners — voters may opt for the other party's options.
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To call this movie unwatchable would be inaccurate, though the scenes featuring Mike Tornabene and Yousef Erakat, portraying frat brothers who act as if they are dying to reassemble a group of Dead End Kids for Sidney Kingsley's play, are pretty painful.
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To make matters worse, some passengers act as if their preferences are more important than everyone else&aposs by ignoring their seat assignments, keeping their headphones in when flight attendants ask for their drink order, or clipping their nails at their seat.
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Humans are already seeing the effects of global warming, so it's hard to imagine what could be less respectful to the scientific community than to dismiss copious peer-reviewed research on climate change and act as if this is a matter of debate or opinion.
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The night Cash got the news she got the part, she celebrated backstage with the cast of the play she was in, then proceeded to have to act as if her head was being smashed into a wall and play out an attempted rape scene.
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"Where the two sides act as if in an unpleasant divorce ... the market response could be more long-lasting, with obvious pressure on the British pound and large UK listed companies with significant European activities," PIMCO portfolio manager Mike Amey said in a note.
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What deflates these concerns today is the widespread belief that most countries already act as if Jerusalem is Israel's capital, and that the U.S. is so far from seeming unduly biased in the long conflict that there is no real peace process in any case.
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But at the same time, he's clung to the faith he found as a child, one that was strengthened in the death of his parents, and he's tried to act as if that answer should be everybody's answer in the face of gigantic, terrifying uncertainty.
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What I learned was that even though few if any of the small banks were affected by the law, they were getting legal advice to act as if they were and were spending scarce time and money to show that they were in compliance.
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The two chairs had publicly argued over what the proper protocol was when presented with hacked campaign materials, with Luján insisting that such materials should never be used and Stivers stressing that candidates couldn't act as if hacked material that ended up in the 'public domain' — i.e.
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While sitting on her bed, laugh so hard that you let out a shriek of a fart that reverberates through the open door, throughout the open-plan apartment and back in as an echo … Only to have her act as if she didn't even hear it!
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But President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE doesn't act as if he is president of the whole country.
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He wants the Fed to act as if we were still in a deep depression; he wants it both to cut rates and to resume the emergency policies it pursued — and he denounced — when we had more than twice as much unemployment as we do today.
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If such an embrace had happened with his son, Gerald would have had to suffer a series of violent thumps on the back, since young men who were affectionate in this way tended to act as if the other person were a baby in need of burping.
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Right, it's this classic thing where they act as if they have no ego, and it's all about the client, and they always make sure the client's name is first, but of course they want their name in the press, and of course these guys have enormous egos.
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"I think clarifying what we mean by symmetry is importantIf you say our objective is 2% but you really act as if it is a ceiling, that reduces the monetary policy space you have to provide more accommodation," he said, adding that raising inflation expectations is also key.
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"The U.N. talks are still locked in this finger-pointing dynamic, where people act as if tackling climate change as a zero-sum game," said Alden Meyer, the director of policy and strategy for the Union of Concerned Scientists, who had flown to San Francisco from the Bangkok talks.
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With either choice, Trump would affirm the pattern of his administration so far, jettisoning people who act as if they were accountable to the public and replacing them with people who above all are loyal to Trump, willing to go in the "tougher" — and possibly illegal — direction he demands.
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Director Lisa D'Apolito forges a contemporary connection in part by bringing those who came after Radner -- including "SNL's" Bill Hader, Cecily Strong and Amy Poehler -- into the mix, and they act as if they've been made privy to the Ark of the Covenant while perusing Radner's innermost thoughts.
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But during this Obamacare repeal and replacement process, the insurers have more than secured their financial position — they've assumed such a supreme level of undeserved importance in America that politicians on both sides of the partisan aisle act as if propping them up is of the greatest national importance.
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The new resolution allows for the supply of ballistic missile technology and heavy weapons such as tanks and attack helicopters to Iran with Security Council approval, but the United States has pledged to veto any such requests and to continue to act as if Iran's ballistic missile program were banned.
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It's presented as a cheery team-building exercise, and it's clearly symbolic to them, but there's endless discomfort in the scenes where people act as if it's perfectly normal to pull on a rope that disappears into inky blackness, with a sense of a monumental unseen presence on the other end.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump, in perhaps his most unorthodox statement yet on monetary policy, called for the U.S. Federal Reserve to act as if the country was back in the throes of recession, with sharp interest rate cuts and renewed "quantitative easing" to pump trillions of dollars into the economy.
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Every wrestler had to live their character's persona in their everyday public life; if they were playing a larger-than-life character, they'd have to act like that out in public, or if they saw their rival in public they'd have to act as if they were at odds with each other.
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What's even weirder about this is that it presumes you're already familiar with the story of Pinocchio, so the characters will act as if this is a loose sequel to that story, then immediately dive into scenes straight out of it, as if the characters have never done any of this before.
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People act as if we're just out randomly shooting people for no apparent reason, and kind of lose sight of the fact that even though some shootings are unjustified, every time an officer has contact with someone that winds up resulting in the officer resorting to using their firearm doesn't make it wrong.
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In a cramped campaign office here in California's Central Valley, filled with young, exuberant volunteers — and a crush of reporters craning their necks to see whatever they can see from a makeshift pen several yards away — Mr. Ryan is free to act as if this is the policy-driven election he craved.
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Where the NFL considers itself to be, and behaves like, a swaggering authoritarian petro-state that shares a military and a flag with the United States, baseball's elite act as if baseball is the United States, and their discourse has the same sort of fussy, dour tone that the country's political discourse does.
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Trump's latest attacks on four Congresswomen, and his repetition of age-old racist tropes about crime and decay in Baltimore, have only cemented a familiar pattern: commentators on the left and in the center describe his behavior, accurately, as racist, while Republicans, save a few outliers, act as if his statements never happened.
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Even though Brussels and Berlin were wrong again and again about the economics — even though the austerity they imposed was every bit as economically disastrous as critics warned — they continued to act as if they knew all the answers, that any suffering along the way was, in effect, necessary punishment for past sins.
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" After the election of Donald J. Trump, which even to many on the left made the George W. Bush presidency seem deeply traditional, even boring, Roth told The New Yorker in January: "Writers here don't live enslaved in a totalitarian police state, and it would be unwise to act as if we did.
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He and other experienced members challenge the beliefs that enable abuse ("paedophiles are very good at deluding themselves that a kid is coming on to them") and share tips: always act as if a child's parent is in the room; avoid situations such as children's birthday parties; never fantasise about a child you know.
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But in New York, despite making much more than she ever has (she is hired at a hundred and thirty thousand dollars, the equivalent of about three hundred thousand today), she frets about it constantly, feels that she never has enough, and finds herself obliged to act as if she had more than she does.
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David Brooks and his holier-than-thou ilk are not only unfair in their assessment of her, but they also act as if they are unaware of the consequences of this dismissive, condescending portrayal, which is to actively encourage those who will either sit this election out or vote for a third-party candidate.
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Ettel Edshteyn, a certified trainer at Karen Pryor Academy and owner of New York City's Poodles to Pit Bulls Clicker Training, says the easiest way to teach your dog to potty in your apartment (something you probably spent a long time teaching it not to do) is to act as if you are going outside.
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This story is in effect, though not explicitly, the narrative underlying actual economic policy: the Fed and other central banks, which are the real actors in macroeconomic policy under current conditions, don't act as if they're very worried that a future recession might depress the economy not just in the short run but permanently.
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"In our 20 years of covering tech stocks on the Street we view this quarter as one of top debacles we have ever seen while Musk & Co. in an episode out of the Twilight Zone act as if demand and profitability will magically return to the Tesla story," Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives said in a note to investors.
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" Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE's campaign quickly responded to the report, calling the church visit a "gimmick to act as if he cares about the black community.
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My whole approach to the Trump era is to act as if reality matters, facts matter, the basic political gravity of whether you make people's lives better or worse matters, rigorous thinking, nonconspiratorial thinking, logical skepticism — all of these things, these principles I hold as a journalist, as a thinker, as a writer, as a citizen, they all matter.
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In my abandonment of these things, she perceived some exercise of freedom that she refused to underwrite: If I was going to go, then the whole material world I had created was going to go, too; I couldn't just act as if I were invisible and then leave other people to deal with the concrete facts.
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Please don't act as if not getting a cake made by a single baker is a commensurate harm to the pervasive and systematic discrimination faced by African-Americans under Jim Crow, when traveling through required using the Negro Motorist Green Book to figure out which businesses would serve them and which towns would run them out at sundown.
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While the death of painting — as a model of looking at and thinking about art — has been refuted, those who propagated it have never really reexamined their original position, preferring either to ignore painting or act as if the construction of their canon needs only some minor tinkering — a bit more inclusivity here, a few cosmetic touches there.
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"Hi," I said, feeling sheepish, feeling guilty (I'd never strayed before and didn't know why I'd done it now, except that I'd been so furious with my wife and so strangely moved by Allison in her grief, though I know that's no excuse), but trying, like all amateurs, to act as if nothing were out of the ordinary.
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The idea of wanting, of striving, of hoping for something better is too often coded in a way that benefits rich, white, straight, cisgender men, who can sit back and act as if they don't want the power they've been born into, because they're conditioned to act like reaching for the cup they've been offered is gauche.
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The publishing industry is filled with Eeyores who act as if the sky is falling because major chains are dying, because grifters get too much money for novelty books, because e-books are grabbing a specific market; and with all that doom and gloom, book clubs feel like a singular joy because they shine attention to books that have something of value about them.
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Children would usually try to perform the walk for a minute or so before giving up, while most of the adults I noticed while sitting in these three darkened rooms would type a few words into their phones, look up for a moment at Nauman's hesitant balancing act, as if worried about missing some pertinent plot point, and then return without expression to their texts.
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At a time when we have a president who doesn't act as if he's read the Constitution — and we have a growing perception and reality that college campuses are no longer venues for the free exchange of ideas and real debate of consequential issues — Coleman and Sanford concluded that it was essential that every student entering college actually have command of the First Amendment, which enshrines five freedoms, not just freedom of speech.
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