When police tried to arrest her, she fought back, scratching an officer.
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NO BACK-SCRATCHING The recent voting against pay plans is not new.
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Nearly all of the palm-greasing and back-scratching is ridiculously petty.
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But these seven examples show how the Murdoch-Trump back-scratching never stops.
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Without a little mutual back-scratching, the entire enterprise of politics breaks down.
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Mr. Hubbard's corruption was that of your traditional insider — deals, back-scratching, pocket-lining.
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Author Peter Schweizer revealed the back-scratching arrangement in his 2628 book, Clinton Cash.
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Dillon was in the kitchen cooking and Winston jumped on his back, scratching him up!
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That is compounded by another Spanish vice, amiguismo—a culture of mutual back-scratching among friends.
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Above all, she failed to build alliances in Congress, which need not always involve back-scratching.
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But extending that advantage to other Grand Slam nations is nothing more than mutual back scratching.
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There's always been a lot of mutual admiration and back-scratching between the two industries, after all.
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The problem, wrote Robert Putnam in his excellent book, Bowling Alone, is old timey, back-scratching, aka reciprocity.
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"There was a downside in terms of cronyism, mutual back-scratching and a hesitance to criticize," he said.
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Pecker acknowledges their personal closeness, and reports have documented what looks like a significant amount of back-scratching.
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But these are huge sums and represent a kind of DC back-scratching and influence-trading that voters dislike.
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Matt's latest creation is the back-scratching chair, which mimics what a massage chair in your home would do.
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The awards show has turned into a mutual back-scratching publicity opportunity thanks to a glitzy red carpet and presenter gigs.
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In a nearby tank, Annie the platypus, a longtime Taronga resident, rolled onto her back, scratching herself with a webbed foot.
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Then my colleague, who grabbed the boy to kick him out, suddenly had the girl on his back, scratching at his face.
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Three former Fiat Chrysler executives and several U.A.W. officers have already pleaded guilty in cases that revealed a cozy back-scratching culture.
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The back-scratching op-eds written in Kavanaugh's favor by his friends didn't prove anything other than his friends' connections at prominent publications.
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Others hire the wives, children or nephews of colleagues, according to some in Parliament — a mutual back-scratching that can profit both sides.
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These SEIU complaints make the constituent-service attack sound more like faulting Edwards for not back-scratching a special interest, in this case a union.
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New York (CNN Business)Experts say the back-scratching relationship between President Trump and Fox News is unlike anything in the history of American media.
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The Justices may not have engaged in the kind of back-scratching and dealmaking that legislators do, but they did practice the art of tactical persuasion.
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Back-scratching is essential to Indonesian politics, and the hardline Islamists and military generals through whom he has broadened his support will no doubt be feeling itchy.
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They can also put pressure on lawmakers to ensure that the rebuilding process is transparent and not a victim of the island's culture of patronage and back-scratching.
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Members of the New York State legislature are allowed to maintain outside businesses, although this was certainly the type of back-scratching that gives politicians a bad name.
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The clearest recent example that I have seen of such legal-elite back scratching is Akhil Reed Amar's opinion piece, "A Liberal's Case for Brett Kavanaugh," in the New York Times.
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For a president sworn to "drain the swamp"—that is, to attack the culture of insiderism, back-scratching and special favours that prevails in Washington, DC, Mr Price's travel tastes were embarrassing.
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"But he promises to be a source of disruption and discomfort to the privileged, back-scratching political elites for whom the nation's strength and solvency have become subservient to power's pursuit and preservation."
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The courtroom drama has nonetheless served as a stinging indictment of Albany, a city of back-room dealings and back-scratching, fund-raisers and favors, where money talks and Cuomo administration officials have listened.
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It's worth keeping stuff like the cardboard rolls at the heart of aluminum foil (back-scratching), those plastic thingies on the end of bread (for fiddling with), and if I may be bold: glasses.
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To Alabama voters, weary of decades of Democratic back-scratching and scandals, Mr. Sessions seemed a breath of fresh air when he emerged on the political scene in 1994, after 12 years as the top federal prosecutor in Mobile.
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It's worth noting that friendly, back-scratching interviews are much more in the spirit of this tradition — like the one before the "Super Bowl Shuffle" Chicago Bears' win in 1986 in Super Bowl XX, in which Tom Brokaw asked Ronald Reagan about his own playing career.
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In order to save Eliza's chances, he ventures into the world of favor-trading and back-scratching that he had always disdained, turning to a high-ranking police officer (Vlad Ivanov, a guarantor of Romanian cinematic authenticity) and a local politician (Petre Ciubotaru) in an effort to rig Eliza's test scores.
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It would dishonour the wishes of 221m of us stupid, brainless, moronic, uneducated, gormless halfwits, who want our government back, who want to control our own borders, make our own laws, spend our own money, and who do not wish to be ruled by France and Germany and their back-scratching bureaucrats, manipulating a hopeless crony capitalism.
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Collaborations can seem like a hackneyed exercise by now, there are so many: high fashion designers working with mass market brands, musical artists signing on to do sneakers, celeb faces working with designers and demanding their own capsule line; all of it seeming, increasingly, like the most naked form of mutual back scratching, based on little more than money and marketing.
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The scratching hand was sometimes replaced by a rake or a bird's talon. Generally, the hand could represent either a left or right hand, but the Chinese variety usually bore a right hand. Although not specifically used for only back scratching, young Chiricahua men in training and women going through a puberty ritual traditionally had to use a ceremonial wooden scratcher made from a fruit bearing tree instead of scratching with their fingernails or hands. Young men who did not use the scratcher for scratching were reported to develop skin that was too soft.
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The Sileh khana showcases the many arms used by the Kachhwaha Rajputs of Jaipur and Amber. The gallery has a variety of swords, guns, powder flasks, shields, helmets, archer's rings, even ivory back-scratching tools! The collection features early 19th century swords with a variety of decorations on the handle as well as sword blade or Shamshir Shikargah. According to Robert Elgood, two of such pieces on display have chiselled animals down the length of the blade (a concept acquired from Europe that allows decoration to a greater effect) the blade has raised figures, buildings, animals and birds all highlighted in gold.
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Whatever the case, Henry's death was followed by a lavish hand-out of lands and honours to the new power group. The will contained an "unfulfilled gifts" clause, added at the last minute, which allowed Henry's executors to freely distribute lands and honours to themselves and the court,; David Starkey describes this distribution of benefits as typical of "the shameless back-scratching of the alliance"; G. R. Elton calls the changes to the will "convenient". particularly to Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford, the new king's uncle who became Lord Protector of the Realm, Governor of the King's Person, and Duke of Somerset.
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The will contained an "unfulfilled gifts" clause, added at the last minute, which allowed Henry's executors to freely distribute lands and honours to themselves and the court,; David Starkey describes this distribution of benefits as typical of "the shameless back-scratching of the alliance"; G. R. Elton calls the changes to the will "convenient". particularly to Seymour (then known as Earl of Hertford), who became the Lord Protector of the Realm and Governor of the King's Person, and who created himself Duke of Somerset. Henry VIII's will did not provide for the appointment of a Protector. It entrusted the government of the realm during his son's minority to a Regency Council that would rule collectively, by majority decision, with "like and equal charge".
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This defiant outsiderhood was grounded in his person; though he came from an upper-class background, Ekelöf had never felt committed to it – his father had been mentally ill, and when his mother remarried, Ekelöf strongly disapproved of his stepfather and, by extension, of his mother, who had let him in; he became a loner and a rebel already in his teens – and would never feel at ease with the mores of the established upper and middle classes or with their inhibitions and, as he perceived it, hypocrisy and back-scratching. Swedish critic Anders Olsson described Ekelöf's turn to poetry as a choice of "the only utterance that doesn't expurge the contradictions and empty spaces of language and of the mind".Olsson A, Ekelöfs nej ("Ekelöf's No") in Mälden mellan stenarna, Stockholm 1981; the point is elaborated in his 1983 Ekelöf monograph of the same name. Färjesång (1941), a finely expressed blend of romanticism, surrealism, and the dark clouds of the ongoing Second World War spelled a mark of maturity and would influence later Swedish poets, as would Ekelöf's debut over time.
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