On Tuesday, Trump acted as if this group didn't exist.
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They acted as if Santa had fulfilled their Christmas lists!
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"They acted as if it did not exist," he said.
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State-run television acted as if nothing of note was happening.
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At times, though, Abiy has acted as if he is above it.
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They acted as if a god had just walked through the door [laughs].
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When White's corner protested, Cikatic acted as if he had done nothing wrong.
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Each day it acted as if taken by surprise by the virus's spread.
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She even acted as if she was sick... but they started throwing coins.
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Republicans acted as if he'd introduced an Act for the Poisoning of School Lunch.
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Cernovich's delivery was impeccable: He acted as if he were doing me a favor.
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He acted as if it was the first time he'd thought of the idea.
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Progressives acted as if this ruling would usher in a new Jim Crow era.
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"She insulted me and acted as if her underlings were subhuman," Mr. Ko said.
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Neither acted as if he wanted to be there for the too-familiar promotional exercise.
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Women railed against him, acted as if Woods was the first man to ever cheat.
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Adelman has no such claim of exemption but has long acted as if he did.
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"They seemed to know things, but acted as if they didn't know," Mr. Binder said.
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He believed in and acted as if Congress was a co-equal branch of government.
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Members of the brass section acted as if they were spectators at a peep show.
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But the weird thing was that because of this, he acted as if he owned me.
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But other outlets acted as if this was just your regular old State of the Union.
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The Democrats acted as if Obama would be our last president in abandoning core constitutional principles.
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Instead, the networks acted as if Cruz had just won the World Series and slain Godzilla.
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When the match ended, Evans acted as if he had won the gold and the lottery.
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When he made a surprise move, AlphaGo acted as if it had "a bug," he said.
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It was surreal, and cruel, but everyone at HubSpot acted as if this were perfectly normal.
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"They acted as if it wasn't in our power to break up with them," he said.
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The event was in Finland, but Putin acted as if he were playing on his home field.
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That wasn't necessarily a capital crime, but Father had always acted as if Gavin's case was different.
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When she was at their home, the family acted as if she never accused Nassar at all.
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The next day, I wasn't sure what to say, so I acted as if nothing had happened.
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In the interviews, agents acted as if "there's no smoke without fire," a former company official said.
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His films feel neither scripted nor acted, as if there were no lighting or make-up or extras.
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Jackson acted as if he'd never seen her before, but then made it clear that he probably had.
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" After the alleged attack, the woman says he contacted her again "and acted as if nothing had happened.
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" He adds, "He acted as if he had experienced God and come back to help others experience it.
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"At one point, he acted as if it's chump change, what am I bugging him about," Power recalled.
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She acted as if she was enjoying it, instead of paying attention to discovering what she actually liked.
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At the Rose Garden press conference, Trump and Ryan acted as if the bill had already become law.
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Collins "acted as if the law didn't apply to him," Berman said at a New York press conference.
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Mr. Menéndez acted as if he owned the lives of others, and from 1975 to 1979, he did.
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"They never acted as if they hated the Airstream or needed more space," Zach said of his children.
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He has never acted as if the rules applied to him and, so far, he's keeping up the practice.
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Imagine a world in which Dorsey believed, and acted as if, Twitter had to get every single thing right.
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He bounded back to his feet, acted as if he were fine, though his eyes were rattled and wide.
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I acted as if she really would be there no matter what, just like she'd always said she would.
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It was really unclear why they were there, but everyone acted as if the sight of them was normal.
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I despised the era when my generation acted as if we were the first people ever to have kids.
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Upon her arrival, Bathum started giving her money again, and allegedly acted as if she owed him sexual favors.
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"Lafarge acted as if it was above the law," said Marie-Laure Guislain, the head of litigation at Sherpa.
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Politicians have always acted as if health mattered politically — and as if ill health was therefore something worth hiding.
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Ferrell acted as if he got the message: "Keep the quid pro quo on the low-low," he said.
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Whether he was touting himself as Swedish or German, Trump always acted as if he was a most American fellow.
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The women gossiped about recent expats from the Philippines—who was single, who wasn't but acted as if they were.
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Until recently, however, investors acted as if they still expected a return to what we used to consider normal conditions.
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For a while I acted as if I were in San Francisco, as if there were flowers in my hair.
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The networks all awarded him 8s and 9s and acted as if Trump had finally figured out how to be president.
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So far, Democrats have largely acted as if Mr. Trump's personal defects are so well known that they require scant elaboration.
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Throughout almost the entirety of 2015, the Democratic Party acted as if it were terrified of having a real nominating contest.
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"Chad acted as if he didn't know Lori very well and stated he didn't know her phone number," the affidavit states.
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They acted as if they were in a delicate negotiation where Trump held all the cards and their profits were at stake.
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Instead of defending them, Mr Kumar has acted as if the university was indeed in need of more patriotic spirit and discipline.
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Again, Reddam and O'Neill took the hypothetical head-on and acted as if it were not only a possibility but their plan.
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When it came out, people acted as if the book had magically appeared on my pillow just because I'd slept with Dick.
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In promoting the Carrier deal, both the President-elect and his running mate acted as if the Trump administration had already begun.
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" But her parents quickly began issuing diktats about schedules and everything else, she said: "They acted as if it were their house.
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A hidden camera captured their bemused and irritated reactions as a straight-faced cashier acted as if nothing was out of the ordinary.
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In a statement, the company acted as if it bore no responsibility for the situation: Flight 3411 from Chicago to Louisville was overbooked.
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"Immigration has acted as if it was above the law for many years, and didn't behave like mature professional law enforcement," Wishnie remarked.
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By virtue of his position, Collins helped write the laws of this country and acted as if the law didn't apply to him.
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The forces of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, alongside their Russian allies, have acted as if the deconfliction system does not exist.
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After that trip, Trump acted as if a few non-binding agreements and repackaged old deals on trade and investment was some major achievement.
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When they saw two people who spoke different languages or acted as if they were unfriendly, the babies expected them to like different foods.
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Since then, its fishing vessels and coastguard and builders of massive artificial islands have acted as if might makes right, remorselessly ratcheting up tensions.
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Pruitt has acted as if he could write on a blank slate, seeking regulatory reversals before doing the congressionally required work to justify them.
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Bean acted as if the whole state belonged to him by virtue of that fact and chose to obey whichever laws he saw fit.
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But none of the passengers seemed to think anything of it; they acted as if they were at home in their own living rooms.
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The federal agents acted as if they owned the Diné, peering inside the eight-sided hogans with dirt floors that represented home and womb.
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And in his first stops in eastern Iowa, Biden acted as if he was already in a general election match-up with President Donald Trump.
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Trump acted as if these 19798,2119 jobs were new, but they were part of the 2119,211 jobs pledged weeks ago by Japan's SoftBank Group Corp.
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Each time, they acted as if they had never been missing, but to Humar, it felt as if they could disappear again at any minute.
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A desperate Ted Cruz cut a deal with John Kasich, who then put a bag over his head and acted as if he didn't know Cruz.
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Wealth Matters THE first time Chris Ludwig sold his refrigerant reprocessing company, he said he acted as if the deal was done long before it was.
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Instead, many of the women I've talked to said the military acted as if domestic abuse was an expected part of being married to a soldier.
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" Barnes told Today's Golfer magazine in 2012, "When we went to the press tent after the morning round, everybody acted as if I'd beaten Jesus Christ.
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" Barnes told Today's Golfer magazine in 2012, "When we went to the press tent after the morning round, everybody acted as if I'd beaten Jesus Christ.
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A lot of people had hypotheses for why they thought that was the case and we acted as if those hypotheses were fact without testing them.
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At a town hall here in Bedford, New Hampshire Sunday morning, less than 24 hours since the debate debacle, Rubio acted as if the performance never happened.
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None of the educators acted as if they had the perfect answer, and each commented on the value of having a forum to learn from one another.
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It's on Kate, who, like Tig, has been through a lifetime of men who crossed the line of consent, then acted as if there were no line.
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All in all, Mr. Greenberg spoke softly — inaudibly at times — and at certain points acted as if the whole issue and the trial were a minor inconvenience.
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But if the two people acted as if they were enemies, or if they spoke two different languages, babies expected that they would prefer two different foods.
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When Hercules Demetriou spoke to Day her heart beat loudly and her loins acted as if they didn't know what the rest of her knew about him.
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Financial markets, in short, acted as if Fannie and Freddie were still part of the government and sure to get a bailout in case anything bad happened.
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With the transfer from Davao to Quezon City, on the main Philippine island Luzon, Patay spoke and acted as if he and his men were entering enemy territory.
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If the two people featured acted as if they were friends, or if they spoke the same language, babies expected that the people would prefer the same foods.
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"Congressman Collins, who by virtue of his office helps to write the laws of our nation, acted as if the law did not apply to him," Berman said.
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As they approached the bottom of the staircase, Mr. Cheng, poking fun at his own flair for drama, fell and acted as if he had hurt his leg.
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"Congressman Collins, who by virtue of his office helps write the laws of our nation, acted as if the law did not apply to him," Mr. Berman said.
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"Certain researchers in my field have acted as if they invented something, although it was invented by other people whom they did not even mention," Dr. Schmidhuber said.
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G.B. lieutenant colonel — acted as if they were the result not of political mistakes, miscalculations and the inability of corrupt governments to contain discontent in those former Soviet republics.
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His name will also forever be synonymous with the worst excesses of the entertainment world, whose power brokers have too often acted as if they were above the law.
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"The problem was that, in the end, we (myself included) acted as if a coin-toss election were much more certain than it was," The Los Angeles Times's Lauter said.
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Although I find him reprehensible, Donald Trump has at least acted as if he cares about what happens to people in areas like Appalachia, the Midwest and the Deep South.
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Both could turn downright taut — eyes narrowing, jaws tightening, speech clipped — when reporters or broadcasters or fans or even Mets ballplayers acted as if these were the Same Old Mets.
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Yet, as Trump's trade rhetoric and his imposition of tariffs on trading partners ratcheted up this year, particularly since May, investors have acted as if a breaking point had been reached.
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He's rankled a slew of officials at Department of Homeland Security because he has often acted as if he can overrule them since the early days of the Trump White House.
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In the case of North Korea, which President Obama warned would be his most challenging problem, Trump has acted as if Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un is another rival to be bullied.
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Meanwhile, his family members who had joined him on stage as he accepted the award acted as if they were at home trying to get dad to focus on carving the turkey.
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But when Ms. Hamers put a harness on her later the same day, Ollie acted as if she had no interest in going outside, and even seemed freaked out by the snow.
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Two outrageous polymaths who left their kinky imprint on whatever they touched, Picabia and Polke acted as if painting were a prankster's task, cracking jokes and enacting wicked provocations through the medium.
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Well, Putin was vetted by the F.B.I., C.I.A. and N.S.A., and they concluded that he attacked our country's most important institution — and Trump has acted as if he could not care less.
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More gallingly, Trump acted as if his own unpopularity wasn't a major factor in the rise of Ossoff, who is as easy on the eyes as he is not a very good candidate.
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" And he acted as if his threat to leave NAFTA—an obvious bluff—was really a masterstroke of negotiation: "I get a call from Mexico yesterday, 'We hear you're going to terminate NAFTA.
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Trump supporters claim this confirms his "no collusion" mantra, and critics of the investigation from both the left and right have acted as if Mueller definitively declared there was nothing here at all.
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"Collins, who, by virtue of his office, helps write the laws of this country, acted as if the law did not apply to him," US Attorney Geoffrey Berman said at a news conference.
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With his poll numbers currently swamping the rest of the Democratic field, Biden has often acted as if his current opponent is Trump and not the other 23 Democrats vying for the party's nomination.
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Then, when Blasey and her lawyers balked at Republican terms — asking, entirely reasonably, that the F.B.I. first examine her story — Republicans acted as if she was being irrational and going back on her word.
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Pagan initially acted as if he would accept the offering — then grabbed the fan and executed a textbook body-slam to raucous cheers from the crowd as security guards closed in to apprehend the interloper.
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The vibe on the evening shift was more intense than the day shift, and the volunteers acted as if there was more gravity to what they were doing, perhaps because their leader was overseeing them.
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Thompson claimed in the complaint he tried and failed to force her to perform oral sex on him and later pushed her on the bed, raped her and then acted as if nothing had happened.
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In announcing the indictment of Mr. Collins, Mr. Berman said, "Congressman Collins, who by virtue of his office helps write the laws of our nation, acted as if the law did not apply to him."
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After Weinstein tried and failed to force her to perform oral sex on him, Thompson says in the complaint that he pushed her on the bed, raped her and then acted as if nothing had happened.
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The end of October used to be the traditional start to the NBA season, so Warriors coach Steve Kerr simply acted as if he were back in his playing days when he spoke to his team.
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" Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said at a press conference that Collins, who is responsible for writing the nation's laws, "acted as if the law didn't apply to him.
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Everyone else around me acted as if it was all a normal thing—the dying we saw all too often, the abrupt transfers that take people away from friends and their community with little warning or care.
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Lillard leads late rally in Blazers' win over Heat MIAMI — The Miami Heat bench players, particularly Udonis Haslem, playfully acted as if they had fainted while watching a strong first-half shooting effort by teammate Wayne Ellington.
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"From the very beginning, Scott Pruitt has acted as if the E.P.A. is his own personal fiefdom," Representative John Sarbanes, Democrat of Maryland, who sits on the House committee that oversees the agency, said in a statement.
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Whenever they came upon resistance in the form of outright sexism or even more generic grossness, they either vanquished it or essentially rolled their eyes and acted as if it was just too stupid for them to acknowledge.
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Flor and Barney of the Bettencourters really seemed to be becoming ever more of an item; it was gross but the Wenches acted as if they didn't mind so as not to encourage a Romeo and Juliet complex.
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"To politicize the tragic shooting of a child is beneath the dignity of the office Matt Bevin has rarely acted as if he holds," the Kentucky Education Association, which represents 40,000 educators, said in a statement on Thursday.
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She told the police in Fort Worth that Manziel had struck her "several times" and that Manziel, the 2012 Heisman Trophy winner, acted "as if he were on some kind of drugs," but she maintained he was not intoxicated.
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Up until recently, some of the nation has acted as though lesbianism didn't exist outside of porn and Ellen Degeneres, and acted as if girls only turn to dating women if they had a bad experience with a man.
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For almost a quarter of a century, ever since Toni Morrison won the Nobel in 1993, the Nobel committee acted as if American literature did not exist — and now an American is acting as if the Nobel committee doesn't exist.
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"Congressman Collins — who by virtue of his office helps to write the laws of our nation — acted as if the law didn't apply to him," said Geoff Berman, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, at a press conference.
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The firm, Pepper Hamilton, said that people in Briles's program had acted as if they were "above the rules" and that unnamed members of Briles's staff had had improper contact with victims or witnesses and might have interfered with investigations.
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"Collins, who, by virtue of his office, helps write the laws of this country, acted as if the law did not apply to him," US Attorney Geoffrey Berman said at a news conference when Collins was first arrested in 2018.
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"The position is while it's acknowledged that both sons have certain rights, Sean has always acted as if he alone has the right to approve or not approve what is done with her image and likeness and name," Young previously told PEOPLE.
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"Congressman Collins — who by virtue of his office helps to write the laws of our nation — acted as if the law didn't apply to him," said Geoff Berman, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, at a Wednesday press conference.
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On the other hand, the United States has not acted as if the problem they are trying to solve is how to create a dynamic economy based on innovation that keeps the United States vibrant over the next 20 or 30 years.
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Plaisted hadn't been able to persuade CBS to cover the second attempt, so he sold the documentary rights, and the two sideburned Swiss cameramen hired for the job acted as if they were on a film set, not embarking on an expedition.
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"By virtue of his position, Collins helped write the laws of this country and acted as if the law didn't apply to him," Geoffrey Berman, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said outside the courthouse following Collins' guilty plea.
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But his campaign has occasionally acted as if its relationship to his base is totally independent of his relationship to black voters: that Trump can, with one hand, retweet an account named "White Genocide" and, with the other, tell black Americans they're Americans too.
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Gervais wasn't bad in some of his introductions of other presenters (as when he joked about how Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer acted as if they'd never had a friend before), but as the show went on, he became less and less of a presence.
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They acted as if they didn't have a young woman held prisoner in their guest bedroom, as if they weren't filling her body with heroine on the regular just to make sure she didn't know the difference between a drug-induced haze and reality.
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Her previous lovers had acted as if fingering was an unfortunate but necessary preliminary to the main event, but Letty found that she wanted to stay here all night, Toni's body hot against her hand, Toni's muscles clenching around her fingers until her bones hurt.
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The trio famously starred in the landmark millennial sci-fi trilogy, and while it's been 14 years since they appeared in the franchise's last outing, Matrix Revolutions, the pals acted as if no time had passed, chatting and posing for photos together at the party.
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Just as strangely, Trump acted as if Comey's testimony was a scandal that resulted from sour grapes over the 2016 election when, in fact, it is one of his own making—Trump fired Comey because he thought it would make the Russia investigation go away.
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Escaping an assassination attempt by Lynette Alice (Squeaky) Fromme, the president acted as if nothing had happened and, later in the day, had to be persuaded by the Secret Service not to shake hands with all the people waiting for him at the airport.
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They'd never met, but Grohl acted as if they had—the old assumption that all celebrities know one another, or, at least, drummers from iconic Seattle bands who have gone on to have big careers of their own—while Tillman's nonchalance edged into indifference.
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Many of us spend the day after a party playing every moment over in our heads, wondering, Did I say the wrong thing, like when I acted as if I already knew my friend's new S.O., even though I had only stalked her on Instagram?
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Even though Clinton came from the Democratic Leadership Council, supporting market-based policies, welfare reform and being tough on crime, the Republicans acted as if he were further to the left than George McGovern, a former staunch liberal congressman and the Democratic Party's candidate in the 1972 presidential election.
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With polls showing a highly competitive primary race and no clear front-runner, the Democrats in Wednesday's debate acted as if they had decided ahead of time to avoid taking risks or doing much of anything that might cause them to lose momentum at this stage of the campaign.
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"The position is while it's acknowledged that both sons have certain rights, Sean has always acted as if he alone has the right to approve or not approve what is done with her image and likeness and name," Steve E. Young, a lawyer representing the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund, tells PEOPLE.
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I admired the way she acted as if she were fully invested in this drama unfolding at Taylor's parents' beach house even though, in my mental version, this fictional maid's fictional brother was one of the several thousand people who were lynched I.R.L. in the first half of the twentieth century.
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As a pure mining company that had endured over a century of commodity booms and busts, Freeport had long shunned debt and never acted as if it expected good times to last indefinitely — time-honored notions that Mr. Moffett and his allies appear to have discarded when they pushed into oil and gas.
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Yet, rarely mentioned was that Sharron Angle emerged from an extremely weak field, Joe Miller defeated a Lisa Murkowski campaign that did not take his campaign seriously, while in Delaware, Republican Mike Castle acted as if he should be appointed to the seat, seeming to look down on campaigning, and it showed.
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"Since 2000, both the Bush and Obama administrations have acted as if Europe as a task had been solved and that we no longer needed to 'tend the garden' as George P. Shultz used to say," said John C. Kornblum, a former American ambassador to Germany, referring to Ronald Reagan's secretary of state.
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But Obama at the meeting acted as if he hadn't known that there was an actual action plan to bring the Uighurs into the US until the Wolf letter broke out in the open, and he made clear, he was against the whole idea of bringing any detainees into the US to be released.
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"Collins, who, by virtue of his office, helps write the laws of this country, acted as if the law did not apply to him," US Attorney Geoffrey Berman said at a news conference discussing the indictment, which charges Collins, his son, and Zarsky with 13 counts of wire fraud, securities fraud, and making false statements to the FBI.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Last week, a food blogger called into question the Mast Brothers' artisanal chocolate's "bean-to-bar" reputation, and the controversy has continued, setting off, as reported by The New York Times, "an intense and at times vitriolic discussion": Some chocolate insiders acted as if the brothers had disgraced the craft.
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I can't understand whether Obama knew in advance of the plan, and turned against it when the politics Turned bad, and then acted as if he hadn't known – or – if he truly hadn't known there was an action plan, even though everyone from Hillary to [Secretary of Defense Robert] Gates to the FBI and CIA and DOJ had approved it.
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What is more troubling, and again this is part of the crux of her complaint and what started this whole thing, it wasn't that these folks were licensing these works to the public that they couldn't have gotten for free, but that they turned around and acted as if they were the copyright owner and now are threatening people and collecting money from people without her permission.
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This was of course partly a response to Sanders's own rhetorical strategy on economic issues, as Clinton writes: It was beyond frustrating that Bernie acted as if he had a monopoly on political purity and that he had set himself up as the sole arbiter of what it meant to be progressive, despite giving short shrift to important issues such as immigration, reproductive rights, racial justice, and gun safety.
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"Representative Collins, who, by virtue of his office, helps write the laws of this country, acted as if the law did not apply to him," said U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman, who was appointed to the post in January by Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE won the presidency, in large part, John Judis argues in The Washington Post, because Clinton's presidential campaign was counting on these demographic groups to "carry Clinton across the finish line, "and acted as if it could prevail by "appealing to the identity of the groups of the rising American electorate" and not worry about the white working class, which was a declining share of the electorate.
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