Either the barbarians are at the gates or we ourselves are the barbarians.
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The true barbarians, in Mr. Coetzee's book, are not the insurgents; the barbarians are the men in power.
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"They believe the barbarians are at the gate, and when the barbarians are breaking down the gate, nothing else matters," says Belcher.
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For the auto industry, the barbarians are at the gate.
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He lost, and so the victorious barbarians inherited the party.
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And hope for civilization to win, even among the barbarians.
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The exiled Roman poet is attended to by kindly barbarians.
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Pattinson played Officer Mandel in "Waiting for the Barbarians" (2019).
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"Barbarians" from the north menaced outer borders and Rome itself.
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"Barbarians at the Gate" by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
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Far from expelling the barbarians, the new leaders embraced everything foreign.
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" Trump, again: "We are going to defeat the barbarians of ISIS.
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English novelists could save civilization from the so-called barbarians. The
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Mr. Trump is not sitting back and letting the barbarians in.
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The barbarians weren't at the gates—they were through the gates.
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And one that would forever mark the Romans as barbarians by historians.
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He is descended from the white barbarians, after all, he pointed out.
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It might justify their view of Americans as barbarians at the gate.
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The barbarians beyond the walls are the charismatic figures in Scott's book.
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The barbarians are not at the gates; they are in the gates.
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Quashing and ejecting barbarians not only failed but backfired with devastating consequences.
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Stubborn facts, the kind that bring down governments, usher barbarians to judgment.
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Her invasion of Libya handed the country over to the ISIS barbarians.
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SINCE ITS emperors first wrangled with distant barbarians, China has practised unsentimental diplomacy.
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The barbarians at the gate are unlikely to go down without a fight.
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He vowed to defeat "the barbarians of ISIS," the acronym for Islamic State.
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You don't want barbarians or an enemy civilization to capture or kill it.
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The Conservative barbarians are those who hate Britain's membership of the European Union.
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Hadrian built one to keep the Celtic barbarians from overwhelming the Roman Empire.
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These so-called barbarians settled in what we now know as Western Europe.
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The barbarians are at the gate, and they'll need to choose a stance.
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Many of these tourists, whom some call the "New Barbarians," brandish selfie sticks.
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The EVA International Biennial's Still (the) Barbarians continues throughout various locations through July 17.
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The leaders launched their coup with the slogan "Revere the emperor, expel the barbarians".
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Yeah, I spent a couple years playing with those guys in the New Barbarians.
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Some pundits believe that the "modern barbarians" are literally at the gate of Rome.
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If the barbarians are at the gates, best to dress up as a barbarian.
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His intention is to paint himself as the hero keeping the barbarians at bay.
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I had always wanted to give Trump a negative vs rebels, not all barbarians.
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The Olgiata, as this tangle of woodland is called, has been invaded by barbarians.
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You cover the Barbarians 1966 track "Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl".
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" It continued with Trump's fear-mongering about crime, and his promise to "defeat the barbarians.
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As for the second part, far from expelling the barbarians, the new leaders embraced them.
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The slogan with which they launched their coup was "revere the emperor, expel the barbarians".
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There were several types of characters to choose from in Diablo II—barbarians, paladins, amazons.
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The barbarians, so to speak, came into Rome and extended it another seven hundred years.
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"Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco" by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
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He would have faced down the wrathful online barbarians who vilified any perceived anti-Dylanite.
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KKR, the private-equity dealmaker that inspired Barbarians at the Gate, has a new love.
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"One Belt, One Road" resonates with the historical notion of bringing barbarians under the Chinese heaven.
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"We call ourselves civilized and them barbarians," Hugo wrote of the burning of the Summer Palace.
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The barbarians at the gate haven't just abandoned their siege, they're now building trade routes instead.
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Early on, the first non-barbarians you are likely to encounter are AI-driven city-states.
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The marauders from the Middle Kingdom may be more welcome than the barbarians at the gate.
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They taunt about the foods people eat in China, as if all Chinese people are barbarians.
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On horseback, ragged mirages in the dust, Coetzee's barbarians do not really need to do anything.
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An opinion is voiced, and a hoard of barbarians immediately descend to deem it insufficiently extreme.
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We'll just be over here, weighing and measuring and cooking our food like the barbarians we are.
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Someday generations will look back and say 'What a bunch of barbarians, you tried to drive yourselves?
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Part of what makes Scott's story novel is the central and esteemed place he gives the barbarians.
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The "New Barbarians" as some papers have taken to calling the tourists, are not limited to Rome.
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We are going to defeat the barbarians of ISIS, and we are going to defeat them fast.
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Our barbarians have exchanged the animal pelts and spears of the past for designer suits and smartphones.
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If Something Awful was a governed online city-state, 4chan users were the barbarians at the gates.
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He'll next star in Waiting for the Barbarians, The Lighthouse, The King and The Devil All the Time.
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Gana Bayarsaikhan attended a screening of "Waiting for the Barbarians" in a dress that was simple and elegant.
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Eugène Green's "Waiting for the Barbarians" (on Tuesday and March 16) was made as part of a workshop.
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A man in traditional Germanic dress sits on horseback behind the barbarians attempting to topple the Roman statue.
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Until 2014 he played guitar with the Hanna Barbarians, a psychedelic rock band that was in Fort Worth.
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The couple were introduced in March 2009 in Fort Worth at a band practice of the Hanna Barbarians.
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Three years ago, the barbarians of ISIS held over 20,000 square miles of territory in Iraq and Syria.
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I happen to have grown up with water buffaloes and still think people who eat them are barbarians.
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Beyond it were the "western regions," the lands of largely nomadic people considered barbarians by the ethnic Han.
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Most evocative are sculptures of pavonazzo marble that show barbarians kneeling on one knee in an act of capitulation.
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The phrase attracted broad attention after an article titled "Barbarians at the Gate, Zhao Family Inside" began circulating online.
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The current mess is the result of the workings of democracy, which decreed opening the gates to the barbarians.
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Barbarians are the forces which mainstream politicians try to keep outside the walls; now, they have forced an entry.
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The scout is vital to Civ VI players, but he's expendable, dying a brutal death when ambushed by barbarians.
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She was the kind but steel-hearted "Breaker of Chains" who could broker peace with barbarians and slaves alike.
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We want to defend the great Christian civilization of your Scottish and German ancestors against barbarians from the southlands.
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"Billions" has no time for fantasies of foreign subversion; the barbarians have been inside the gates since the pilot.
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"If there are any barbarians in this series, they are the denizens of Europe," declared the Journal's Eric Gibson.
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But they also leave us wondering who or what the 'barbarians' were/are, and if that even really matters anymore.
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When the barbarians are already inside the gates, you don't tell the villagers to stay tuned for an algorithmic solution.
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If you can see it from their perspective, fighters are akin to barbarians playing with something they do not understand.
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They are portrayed as brutish barbarians, sexual predators, and vengeful delinquents who victimize former slave owners and rape white virgins.
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Sure, barbarians and warring neighbors can make the game stressful, but I can always pause and think over my situation.
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But the most serviceable apocalyptic scenario requires a belief that the barbarians have already set up camp within the gates.
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Ryan is not some corrupt functionary, some time-serving Roman official eating grapes while the barbarians come over the wall.
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"We protest against barbarians who destroyed wonderful monuments of world culture," Gergiev said in a speech before the concert began.
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The barbarians nearly destroyed a land that was meant to remain a place of wonder for our children's children's children.
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In another criticism of the insurance sector, China's insurance watchdog referred to local insurers as "barbarians" for their hostile takeover attempts.
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He said that these insurers had transformed from "strangers at the gate to barbarians, and finally to industry thieves," Nikkei stated.
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He preached a monastic retreat into high culture, where a "saving remnant" of the elite could rescue civilization from the barbarians.
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Fending off marauding barbarians, I'm sure you'll be aware by now, is a signature feature of any Black Friday doorbuster sale.
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They have chosen to vote for barbarians because the civilized people were not, they thought, caring, or at least not responding.
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Walls protect people not from barbarians, but from anxieties and fears, which can often be more terrible than the worst vandals.
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The Greeks held similarly disparaging views toward foreigners, called "barbarians" because they seemed to say "bar-bar-bar" when they spoke.
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Yet they are only hoping to succeed where it failed: They are trying to stop the barbarians at Hong Kong's gate.
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What do you think about the statement that "even nice people start to act like barbarians" when visiting crowded "tourist spots"?
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Under them, the wall became almost meaningless as a frontier border — after all, the Manchus were "barbarians" from beyond the wall.
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Wang Shi, Vanke's chairman, referred to Baoneng as "barbarians," and Vanke welcomed moves by another shareholder, Anbang Insurance, to increase its shares.
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The liberal center thinks it needs to be saved from right-wing barbarians—and maybe from some leftists whom liberals find alarming.
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"The disrespectful gossipers in the media there, narcissistic and baring their fangs, seemingly retain vestiges of the inelegance of barbarians," it said.
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A different way of life, a vital and persistent alternative, and its people—the barbarians—receded into the story of the Encyclopaedia.
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He warned of the "barbarians of ISIS," conflated "brutal Islamic terrorism" in France with attacks in San Bernardino, Texas, Boston and Orlando.
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During the debates, New Mexicans were referred to as savages, barbarians, and a race unfit for self-government and unworthy of citizenship.
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It's equally absurd for Californians to talk of taking their Macs and walking out after Trump's barbarians move into the White House.
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In Coetzee's novel, the magistrate encounters a zealous officer, Colonel Joll, who has been dispatched to the frontier to crush the barbarians.
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The rest of the country has little sympathy for the "sunbaked barbarians," as an old friend in Seattle used to call them.
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Culturally, it has often thought of itself as the third Rome, preserving Christianity even as Rome and Byzantium fell to the Barbarians.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LIMERICK, Ireland — Still (the) Barbarians is the bold title for this year's EVA International Biennial in Limerick.
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In saying we are battling "terrorists" rather than "radical Islam," we reveal ourselves as better than the barbarians who wish to harm us.
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It follows a girl named Aoleyn who is forced to fend for herself in a tribe of barbarians after her parents are killed.
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Often stereotyped as tattooed barbarians, the Picts certainly had a talent for war – but also a talent for carving stone and shaping silver.
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For Morrisons, a tie-up with outside giants like Amazon might be described as "letting the barbarians in", said analysts at brokerage Bernstein.
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It is common practice to think of the Greeks as noble thinkers, and the Romans as barbarians, but that is far too reductive.
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For his critics, the wall is a simple piece of technology, maybe adequate against barbarians, but not up to the present moment's challenges.
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For Mr. Moreno, now 290, it brought back memories of G.I. Joe soldiers, plastic Master of the Universe barbarians and Star Wars figurines.
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The barbarians had flooded in; the party's unexpectedly good showing in the general election this summer confirmed they were inside the walls to stay.
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That was followed in 2014 by the smooth and sad Await Barbarians, a heartbreak record for those of us who've wasted our life online.
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Gerald Morse, named the battalion's three companies — A, B and C — Assassins, Barbarians and Cutthroats, hoisting the names on a sign over battalion headquarters.
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But the word, as President Trump and Fox News use it, is meant to conjure a threat: the specter of barbarians at the gates.
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"The pictures come from Russian television and they say the country is ... being flooded, now these 'barbarians' are coming from the Middle East," he said.
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The barbarians began to decline partly because they sold out to the state, becoming slavers and mercenaries, until the enhanced state made its borders universal.
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K.K.R. — a firm memorialized in "Barbarians at the Gate," a book that chronicled a defining 1980s Wall Street deal — also invested in public water services.
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Without a filter of decency or a shred of diplomacy, Trump gloated about how the latest mass murder by the Islamic State barbarians helped him.
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For example, the song "Waiting for the Barbarians," from their 2006 album Eschaton, shares its title with a novel by Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee.
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To some college administrators and instructors, it was proof that the barbarians were at the gate and that students needed safe spaces more than ever.
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They understood that holding the line against the Kaepernicks of this world means keeping the progressive barbarians at bay, something already baked into the game.
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It is the argument that corporate "activists" will use to justify themselves as creative destroyers and rebuilders of value, rather than barbarians at the gate.
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Still (the) Barbarians is a bold reminder that we can't take anything for granted, least of all history, and particularly what remains of the British Empire.
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Ovid meets and protects a feral child, of whom the barbarians are afraid, and who teaches the city poet to surrender himself to the natural world.
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People back east got this idea we're all barbarians out in the settlement, but I wager they don't get oysters like ours back in New York.
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Of course there was no water left, of course the trees were gone, of course women were chattel and men were mostly insane, tumor-engorged barbarians.
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And if you're bored of the base game, there's tons of expansions such as Seafarers, Cities & Knights, and Traders & Barbarians that can wildly change the game.
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The chattering barbarians get cut down by the advanced culture of the conquerors; the short is a few hokey-looking costumes away from a historical tableau.
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New owner AT&T (T) has pressed for an evolution of the network's strategy, seeking to meet the challenge from the streaming barbarians at the gate.
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William Howell, president of the Worldwide Barbarians Foundation, said World Rugby had been incredibly great supporters but he wanted them to take a more active role.
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He offers an inside look at how the Chinese really view America and its leaders – as barbarians who will be the architects of their own demise.
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When the barbarians arrive at our gates, as they seem to have already done, do we throw in our lot with the makers or the outsourcers?
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"I look at these situations as the behaviors of barbarians, thugs, fanatics who take people's lives for reasons we, we don't grasp," said Mokono, who is Muslim.
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While the "barbarians" in the article's title refers to Baoneng, "Zhao family" refers to Anbang, as a signal that the company has backing from Communist Party elites.
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I've invented planes, discovered medicine, and constructed wonders, but because I neglected to focus on military affairs, I'm being battered by a gang of barbarians with bazookas.
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Clark likes to present himself as an American hero, standing bravely astride the thin blue line that separates law-abiding citizens from the ravages of lawless barbarians.
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The great "Ovid among the Scythians" (1859), with the poet reclining amidst the barbarians at the Black Sea, is an extraordinarily original vision of what exile means.
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" The empire's walls, she argues, were scorned or ignored within China for much of their history; they were simply not that good at keeping out "marauding barbarians.
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They watered down the wine to keep their minds from going soggy too fast, and because it was well known that only barbarians drank their wine uncut.
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Mr. Louie published only one novel, "The Barbarians Are Coming" (2000), and one short story collection, "Pangs of Love" (1991), but his work won awards and acclaim.
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Our obsession with the city's destruction and the purported fall of the Roman Empire often speaks not to historical reality or the true identity of ancient barbarians.
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Major errors stemmed from the application of inappropriate European models to African societies — models that owed much to the heritage of classical learning about Romans and barbarians.
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"I remember reading about Babylon, which is now Iraq, and what the barbarians did there," says Idehen, as the cafe starts to fill with early-evening punters.
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Earlier books on Wall Street, such as "Barbarians at the Gate" and "Liar's Poker", describe the macho era of junk bonds and leveraged buy-outs in the 1980s.
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When cities declined or failed, their laborers might slip across the frontier and join the barbarians; such escapes from exploitation were probably a safety valve at all times.
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" The new agency became the bastion of a Wild West mentality in which patrollers easily imagined themselves as guardians of "frontier forts in hostile territory, holding off barbarians.
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"He died, heroically defending our motherland in the far reaches against the invasion of maddened barbarians," the group, the Baltic Cossack Union in Kaliningrad, said in the statement.
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"Through MILLENNIA of history, barbarians have come and ravaged our cities, razed our monuments and burnt our libraries," Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif tweeted in response Sunday.
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The "New Barbarians," as they've been dubbed by the local papers, are an especially acute problem at the 36 fountains of historic or artistic significance around the city.
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In his second novel, "Shardik" (1974), the title character was a massive bear, alternately worshiped as a divine avatar and brutalized by barbarians in an ancient mythical empire.
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To the residents of the capital, these calloused farmers, many from beyond the mountains that separated the East from the West in those days, seemed a horde of barbarians.
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It took awhile, but now instead of negative damage vs all barbarians, Trump has to deal with a small chance of rebels spawning at the start of the game.
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Ersatz natives of these and other regions, Eko and Iko were like captured barbarians in a Roman triumph—a model toward which the pioneers of the circus clearly aspired.
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The two are headed to the offices of K.K.R. & Co., the investment firm made famous by "Barbarians at the Gate," where Walker is scheduled to give a lunchtime talk.
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While we surely must control our borders if we wish to seriously combat the threat of Islamist terror in the years ahead, the barbarians are already inside the gates.
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Not the bit about the piss-pot, but the sense that things are wrong and can't be fixed, not really, without the aid of some barbarians at the gate.
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Sterling Lung, the protagonist of "The Barbarians Are Coming," is a Chinese-American chef who was trained in French cuisine but who is constantly asked to make Chinese food.
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If you love narratives like "Barbarians at the Gate," Mr. Carreyrou's tale gets awfully close to that feeling of being inside the room, and watching a spectacular fraud unfold.
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Salomon was, of course, a Wall Street bond titan at the time and would eventually help define the go-go 1980s "Barbarians at the Gate" era of leveraged buyouts.
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Kentridge's piece is a triumph itself, and testimony to the ultimately fertile impact of modern-day "Barbarians" — or, as they're now called, stranieri, anyone not born in this city.
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"The walls are a fortification, there is no question, but they were a fortification built at a time when armed invasions by barbarians and other forces were happening," she said.
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When KKR launched the first big private-equity takeover, of RJR Nabisco in 1988, it and its cohorts were described in a bestselling book as the "Barbarians at the Gate".
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Now the former Shearson chief executive, whose role in putting RJR Nabisco in play was chronicled in "Barbarians at the Gate", believes he's found a solution: Chinese cash and connections.
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Technicians started assembling the fragmented figures of "Lapidarium, Waiting for the Barbarians" by Mexican artist Gustavo Aceves, and moving them by crane around the Italian capital's landmarks as darkness fell.
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But they would not be sharing power, and that means we would have two more years to try to figure out what to do with the barbarians at the gates.
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It has been a leading Republican theme for more than five decades that only muscle and armor can repel all the barbarians — those at the gates and also within them.
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To make life safe for all our citizens, we must also address the growing threats we face from outside the country: We are going to defeat the barbarians of ISIS.
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"Planet of Exile" (80) has 15-year seasons, barbarians invading from the north and vicious creatures called snowghouls, all of which might sound familiar to any "Game of Thrones" fan.
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And fairly or not, antifa violence feeds the "many sides" narrative, makes martyrs out of barbarians, and gives Fox News and friends the opportunity to further stoke far-right fanaticism.
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"Le sac de Rome par les barbares en 410" (The Sack of Rome by the Barbarians in 183), is part of slew of "invasion paintings" of the late 19th century.
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The Great Wall of China was originally built to keep barbarians out, and now the Great Firewall of China strives to do the same kind of thing in our digital era.
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Clement Greenberg's progressive history, which aimed toward Apollonian balance, and what Wood calls "Wilhelm Worringer's sympathy for the barbarians" — two sides of modernism — are 20th-century manifestations of the same dichotomy.
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Torchlight 3's steam-powered roles break from the typical cast of barbarians and wizards, and will each get their own Forts to build up, customise and cram full of loot.
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"The whole deal had an impact on millions of readers, in terms of their knowledge of business," he told the "Barbarians at the Gate" authors in an epilogue to their book.
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Buy it here >>A #1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, "Barbarians at the Gate" is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco.
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"In the Penal Colony" and "Waiting for the Barbarians" can be safely categorized as only for completists; "Appomattox," premiered in 2007 and later revised, has streaks of inspiration, but can drag.
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At the tail end of the last internet bubble, as everything was about to fall apart, big companies began to realize that technology was bringing hordes of new barbarians to the gate.
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Professionals in the industry, motivated by their rate of return and personal wealth accumulation, are commonly derided as vultures, barbarians at the gate, tax-sheltered, yacht-not-big-enough, plaid-clad mavericks.
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In between, full-length collaborations materialized alongside with his close friend, the late George Duke, and a stint in the New Barbarians alongside Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones.
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I guess they could be imagined as rebels or insurgents, but the game kept calling them barbarians, streaming well-equipped anti-tank soldiers out of primitive wooden encampments well into the 1980s.
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History&aposs club of barbarians includes Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu, who planned the destruction of hundreds of his country&aposs picturesque villages and churches before he was deposed and executed in 1989.
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They will speak of us as barbarians who trusted a painted yellow line to separate combustible materials traveling at high rates of speed, only to miss each other by a matter of feet.
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KKR gained widespread recognition early on through its $25 billion leveraged buyout of tobacco and food conglomerate RJR Nabisco in 1988, a battle that was immortalized in the bestseller 'Barbarians at the Gate.
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The real challenge though is that the raw story — for all of its fraud — lacks the sort of verve that makes business thrillers like Barbarians at the Gate or Red Notice so engaging.
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James Mayall, a British academic, points out that European powers could sustain empires only so long as they believed that their imperial subjects were barbarians who did not count as people with rights.
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Still, with its promises to "expel the barbarians" and let "Japan be Japan again," it may at this moment benefit more from Mr. Doyle's understatement than it would from a grosser, glossier treatment.
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Now Mr. Cohen, the former Shearson chief executive, whose role in putting RJR Nabisco in play was chronicled in "Barbarians at the Gate," believes he has found a solution: Chinese cash and connections.
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Perhaps the hoping for 'barbarians at the gate' or the zombie apocalypse can be explained quite simply: when else are you going to get away with carrying around a sword outside of your house?
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Despite blowing up half her city, Cersei positions herself as the protector of Westeros from a murderous madwoman in Daenerys, her treasonous partner Olenna Tyrell (whose family Cersei slaughtered) and hordes of foreign barbarians.
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The Middle Kingdom, as is the literal Chinese translation of the country's name, has long considered itself the center of the universe with periphery states, many of them formerly known as "barbarians", surrounding it.
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Echoing Mr. Salvini's remarks a day earlier, Mr. Di Maio also took a disdainful tone toward the foreign news media (The Financial Times this week compared the new alliance to "barbarians" inside Rome's gates).
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We, the barbarians at the gate, the descendants of Caliban, the ones who have no choice but to speak in the language we have — we come bearing the experiences and ideas the workshop suppresses.
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A lawyer who grew up in the former communist East before fleeing to West Germany to go to university, Gauland once compared refugees coming to Germany with barbarians who brought down the Roman Empire.
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The New Republic — which Ta-Nehisi Coates has asserted had perhaps two black staff writers or editors in its heyday and was certainly overwhelmingly white — is now being edited by the leftist multicultural barbarians.
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In 1986, Rolf Michael Schneider illustrated this point in a seminal study on the Roman use of colored marble to represent barbarians with his book, Bunte Barbaren: Orientalenstatuen aus farbigem Marmor in der römischen Repräsentationskunst.
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Malouf's novel, a beauty, is about Ovid after he was banished from Rome to live in the wild among barbarians, who speak with ghosts, impale their dead and seem on the verge of becoming animals.
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Once the first city is founded, each civilization starts out on its own path, whether that means arming up to pursue early conquests and fend off barbarians or focusing on cultural and scientific development first.
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This swamp thing of oursNot all corruption in the US comes from Donald Trump, of course, but he has let the barbarians through the gate in a way no other president has in modern times.
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While Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google may be the barbarians at the gate looking to disrupt traditional media, the NFL probably isn't ready to sell exclusive rights to streamers, according to people familiar the matter.
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Diluted wine was the thing to drink in ancient Greece, as it was believed that only barbarians consumed pure wine, which would then make them drunkards who would then go on to rape and murder.
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But it also meant he wasn't working to provoke fear and anger of a black-masked crowd of barbarians waiting beyond the gates — the sort of thing that might have provoked more violence after the rally.
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Despite widely held ideas about the entomology of the word itself, barbarians do not hail from the Barbary Coast, nor do they speak in "bar, bar, bar" sounds (which is where the Greek word comes from).
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Bethany Haines, whose British aid worker father David Haines was killed by the group, told ITV: "No punishment is enough for these barbarians, and in my opinion they should be sentenced to a slow painful death."
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Clearing the map of barbarians is a rite of passage for a nascent civilization, but my game of Civ VI kept popping them back into existence, long after my opponents and I had developed atomic weapons.
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Whether you do or not (I didn't), it is a steep price to pay for a movie that advocates tolerance, community and other virtues yet views its audience members as barbarians in need of regular schooling.
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" The Democrats — who overtly pitched to moderate Republicans unnerved by Mr. Trump's end-times, barbarians-at-the-gate rhetoric — were saying: "We will keep things on track; we're levelheaded; we're broad-minded, but so are you.
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We might also use this moment as a rallying cry to artists and archaeological illustrators: It is time historians worked more closely with illustrators to depict the sacking of Rome and late Roman "barbarians" more accurately.
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But to the extent that the Americans are meant to be hooknosed barbarians — as the Reciter, played by a stately George Takei, calls them in his narration — a great deal more vulgarity and verve are needed.
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Calling the Islamic State's actions in the Middle East "savage" and "nihilistic," he said that the celebration was "in solidarity with the people of Syria" and in "defiance of the barbarians" who destroyed the original arch.
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Those inclined to vote against it might well consider if they truly want to keep company with the likes of post-Soviet cretins, Chavista barbarians, and Western enablers who've done nothing but profit from this corruption.
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She describes it as her "own migrant story," and the silhouettes, as "cyphers" that stand for "Everyman," especially at a time when migrants and refugees in Britain are reviled, perhaps just like the 'barbarians' in Cavafy's poems.
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Alexander Gauland, a trained lawyer with a penchant for tweed jackets who leads the AfD in Brandenburg, has compared refugees to barbarians who invaded the Roman Empire and said Germany should not be "blackmailed by children's eyes".
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Five additional players - loose forward Dillon Hunt, prop Atunaisa Moli, scrumhalf Mitchell Drummond, flyhalf Richie Mo'unga and lock Dominic Bird - will play for the Barbarians and join the All Blacks squad for the two matches in France.
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Genteel barbarians who predicated their lives, lined their pockets, and staked their honor upon the right to own other humans—to breed them like cattle, sell them like stocks, rape and beat and kill them at will.
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As I came to terms with Mr. Trump's threats, my mind kept flashing to a novel: J.M. Coetzee's spare allegory "Waiting for the Barbarians," which the South African writer published in 1980, during the years of apartheid.
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In order to have a fruitful conversation about immigration, we have to set aside antiquated ideas about barbarians at the gate and thoroughly rethink our approach to the inevitable displacements that will take place in our lifetimes.
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Most bear little resemblance either to what the Romans or the "barbarians" actually looked like at the time and must be understood on their own terms if we are to continue to use them to illustrate ancient events.
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We are invited to see the Trojan enemy not as barbarians at all but as people very much like us (that is, like Greeks): laughing and joking, loving their children, kindly, fearful and in awe of their gods.
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Lost empires were on the brain apparently, and that's how Dreher ended up making this sweeping, provocative, and dubious claim: The massive migration of barbarians into the Roman Empire, in the 4th through 6th centuries, changed European civilization permanently.
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Scott ends on an elegiac note, suggesting that the golden age of the barbarians ended about the year 1600—that is, at roughly the same time that early-modern state-building began and legal discourses of sovereignty were developing.
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"We cannot have terrorist groups, barbarians, massacring whole peoples, destroying civilizations and cultures, because all people must be able to determine their own lives and nobody should seek to impose their ideas on anyone else," she told the lawmakers.
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The Baltic Cossack District said in a statement that Loginov was a Russian citizen who was killed in an "unequal battle" while "heroically defending our Fatherland in its far reaches from crazy barbarians" when he died on February 7.
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"He did the biggest deals, had the biggest mouth and enjoyed the biggest perks," Bryan Burrough and John Helyar wrote in "Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco," a detailed 1990 examination of Mr. Johnson's signature gamble.
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Most of the readers of the Saturday Evening Post agreed with Didion on this point, the letters unusually full of praise for her insight into the barbarians of the hippie cult, as it was popular to call them at the time.
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At the unveiling ceremony, London Mayor Boris Johnson said the replica was an arch of "technology and determination" and the people gathered in Trafalgar Square were "in defiance of the barbarians" who destroyed the arch in Palmyra, according to the BBC.
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Honestly, it does make sense that a character who probably spends his days hacking fellow barbarians to death would get down with Dying Fetus and Bloodbath (a little on the nose, there) so kudos to whatever mortal assembled this playlist.
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Wang Shi, 65, who founded Vanke as an office equipment company in 1984 - and is as well known for being the first Chinese man to climb the highest mountains in all seven continents - has called Baoneng "barbarians" with no credibility.
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Pieces include the choreographer Jefta van Dinther's "Protagonist," a piece for 14 dancers; "COKE," which the German choreographer Arco Renz developed with dancers from the Philippines; and "barbarians," an evening of work by the popular British group Hofesh Shechter Company. julidans.nl
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Key players Kieran Read, Dane Coles, Wyatt Crockett, Samuel Whitelock, Anton Lienert-Brown and Sonny Bill Williams, who all played in the 23-18 loss to Australia last Saturday, will be rested for the Barbarians match and join the squad late.
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Her problems with Hollywood — she went over schedule, shooting miles of film — are legendary but rarely, if ever, are they framed as a matter of her auteurist prerogative, as they often are when male artists take on the Hollywood barbarians.
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The first match of the IGR's International Inclusive Challenge Weekend saw World Barbarians RFC take on the Beijing Devils, with the game played less than 40 kilometres from where England beat Argentina at Tokyo Stadium in the Rugby World Cup.
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As the Obama administration has taken the ability to coerce such extractions from merging parties to an art form, it should come as no surprise that the barbarians are already at the gates in the AT&T/Time Warner deal.
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In the United States, the invasion is led by Donald Trump: his barbarians are those who take seriously his calls to "drain the swamp" (of Washington) and "put America first" (by de-linking it from much of what is understood by globalization).
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President Trump will not silence the progressive Left eager to delegitimize his presidency, but he has certainly thrown down the challenge that the West is best and the U.S. will defend the interest of God and country against the barbarians at the gate.
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Smuts and Botha were unable to persuade the Peace Conference to allow Germany's former colonies in the Pacific and Africa — which Smuts caricatured as "inhabited by barbarians, who not only cannot possibly govern themselves" — to pass directly to New Zealand and South Africa.
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When the barbarians, emboldened by the many problems that in time began to corrode the Empire, finally crossed the borders with which Rome for so long had kept at bay all foreigners, the Eternal City collapsed both in myth and in reality.
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The Tohoku region where the tsunami struck has always been known, in his ripe telling, as "a notorious frontier realm of barbarians, goblins and bitter cold," a place where blind female shamans still gather every year at a volcano called Mount Fear.
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" While nomination speeches are traditionally optimistic and personal, full of hope and revelations that cast candidates in the best possible light for voters, Mr. Trump sounded like a wartime president, using the word "threat" seven times and promising to "defeat the barbarians of ISIS.
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Paul urged Jewish and Greek Christians to consider that even the uncivilized nomads of the steppe frontier were valid and legitimate partakers at the Lord's table — brothers and sisters, not foreigners or barbarians (or "illegals," Paul might have added, if he were writing today).
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Many of these marriages fell apart right after Alexander's death; Persians, along with Asians and Trojans, were still considered to be barbarians by the standards of Greek society, and the men of the hetairoi did not want children they perceived as half-barbarian heirs.
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In an article on "Barbarians Ancient and Modern," he notes: Nineteenth-century knowledge about the precolonial societies or Southern Africa was generated by methodologies and assumptions now known to be flawed, with many of them reflecting the legacy of classical studies in the West.
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Of course, "realism" is not the yardstick by which to judge every novel — and an allegorical one, like J.M. Coetzee's "Waiting for the Barbarians," tells us more about society than any reporter's notebook — but Hill's relentless historicizing sets the terms in which he fails to deliver.
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For me, Civ 6 has been the first game in the series where I've prioritized scouts for investigating as much of the map as early as I could, in order to know where those barbarians are and to benefit from encounters with friendly villagers along the way.
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And the sad thing is that the barbarians rejecting the values that made America truly great aren't at the gates — they're inside the gates, in fact in the Oval Office, because they're basically home-grown (with an assist from Russia, of course.) It's a terrible story.
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We lose out on anything near a seven-figure deal, effectively punished for not wanting to do what Cummins did, which was treat ourselves like the pitiful emblems of pain liberal whites see us as, or bloodthirsty barbarians Donald Trump has made us out to be.
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He believes that Western civilization is locked in an existential battle with the barbarians at the gates, that nationalists must wrest control from the aloof and corrupt globalist elite, and that America is a once great nation shackled by welfare for both the poor and the wealthy.
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Private equity's lobbying arm is trying to make the case that the iconic Wall Street industry — once dubbed "Barbarians at the Gate" from a bestselling book for its no-holds-barred corporate raids — is good for America and that it is everywhere, including in fast food.
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You'd pass hallways hung with stories by legends like Wayne Barrett, Tom Robbins, or Michael Musto, to attend staff meetings where you'd learn that your colleagues and friends were being laid off because of a bunch of Barbarians at the Gates–like corporate raiders who said so.
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Shortly after IS was driven out in March, Russia displayed its own understanding of the ancient city's symbolic value when it flew in the Mariinsky Orchestra from St. Petersburg to play a concert in the amphitheater, a grand gesture meant to trumpet the triumph of civilization over barbarians.
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There is a discussion thread about this, but the short [version] is after getting feedback, I did some more research and decided Trump's removing oversight for his generals and his "bomb the hell out of them" mentality was enough reason to remove the negative damage vs all barbarians.
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S. Kurdish fighters from northern Syria; ISIS remnants; various pro-Saudi and pro-Jordanian anti-Syrian regime Sunni rebels and — I am not making this up — pro-Syrian regime Russian Orthodox Cossack "contractors" who went to Syria to defend Mother Russia from "crazy barbarians" — all rubbing against one another?
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Once the media folk were all settled and the doors were opened for the rest of the attendees, I couldn't help but think about what Rome must've looked like when the barbarians arrived at the gates: waves of people galloping forth and gnashing their teeth, their eyes wild with Musk frenzy.
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An accompanying textbook caused rancour: the British were upset that Sir Francis Drake, whom they see as a hero for sinking the Spanish Armada, was dismissed as "a pirate"; Germans found accounts of Gaul being raided by "barbarians" from across the Rhine degrading, and had the term replaced by "Germanic tribes".
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Explicitly anti-European Union forces across the continent could win up to a third of the seats, a possibility that has pro-Europeans officials frantic that the far right, long thought of as the barbarians outside the union's gates, could now be in a place to demolish it from within.
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Nothing dry and scholarly here, though: Presented by this Queens museum as part of the series Summer Matinees: Fantastic Worlds, the tale also includes a beguiling fairy, a subterranean monster and barbarians nearly at the abbey's gate as it follows the adventures of Brendan, the boy novitiate, in a mystical forest.
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