Trump's brazenness upended US political norms in last year's election.
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The scope and brazenness of his lies are genuinely unusual.
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But the brazenness of Thakur's candidacy has still stunned many.
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After all, such brazenness was not permissible in mainstream political discourse.
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Hawke describes Niccol as shyly secretive but capable of startling brazenness.
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Badger State Republicans seem to specialize in this kind of brazenness.
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But let's not conflate candor with brazenness or honesty with insults.
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Such brazenness is becoming a bit harder to get away with.
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But Mr. Nunes's conduct stands out for his brazenness and heedlessness.
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First, these events highlight the increasing brazenness of Russian defense policy.
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There's no sign yet that he'd have the brazenness to do so.
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Still, Russia's brazenness is raising the costs of being a Putin apologist.
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In this context, the brazenness of Liu's imprisonment appears even more chilling.
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That does little to detract from the apparent brazenness of the attack.
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This purported messaging scheme doesn't reach anything near that level of brazenness.
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Third, brazenness is not a defense to the abuse of constitutionally delegated authority.
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For Tversky, military service sharpened the brazenness that became crucial to their collaboration.
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For the regional elites, the FSB's new brazenness signals that the rules are changing.
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Trump, with characteristic brazenness, is conducting his coverup in full view of the public.
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The brazenness of the swindle only fueled suspicion of dirty dealings behind the contract.
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We've talked about the frighteningly effective brazenness with which Facebook copies its competitors before.
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This symbolic brazenness seemed like a joke; Mr. Isaac was probably in on it.
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The accused swear and spit, make obscene gestures and lie under oath with breathtaking brazenness.
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Everyone in the car was silent, stunned by the brazenness of what had just happened.
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" Roos said the charges against Cohen "portray a pattern of deception, of brazenness and of greed.
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As so often, the brazenness of Mr Trump's insidious comments helped him get away with them.
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The report should not be making headlines for its content but for the brazenness it exemplifies.
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I have to say, you almost have to admire the sheer brazenness of the dishonesty here.
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Carrying out such a mission on US soil would mark a new level of Saudi brazenness.
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The prosecutor also pointed out what he described as Epstein's brazenness and willingness to flout the law.
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President Obama is certainly taking the threat seriously, vowing to respond to the brazenness of Putin's actions.
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And yet, her brazenness in asserting that fake and real is a meaningless distinction is stunning. Truly.
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It may have been just the brazenness of putting a political appointee in charge of independent oversight.
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For the many Colombians who are ashamed to be associated with Escobar's memory, Popeye's brazenness is infuriating.
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Ewbank was aghast at Namath's brazenness, fearing it would ignite a fire under the perhaps overconfident Colts.
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" She continued, "If Mr. Cameron's own brazenness echoes that seen in his story, remember the essential difference.
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America should be aghast not only at the looting but also at the brazenness of its execution.
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Even reporters hardened to Trump administration lies seemed shocked by the brazenness of this bait-and-switch.
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I was slow to respond, failing to say, "Hey, stop that!" because I was fascinated by his brazenness.
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His brazenness is not punished, but taken as evidence of his willingness to stand up to elite power.
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The "cartel" that generic drugmakers are accused of creating is remarkable in both its simplicity and its brazenness.
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Yet Trump's sheer brazenness and shamelessness would make it hard to get very far with this sort of gossip.
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But the size, frequency and brazenness of Trump's are so off the charts that they have drawn considerable commentary.
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The Europeans also should be alarmed by the brazenness of Iran's actions and prospect for significant future oil disruptions.
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But he's still surprised by the brazenness with which Amazon has gone after one of its own portfolio companies.
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There's little doubt his power encouraged his brazenness and helps explain how he got away with it for so long.
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The brazenness of the crime gave the case special attention, as did the fact it took place in a third country.
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The Tesla infection shows not only the brazenness of cryptojackers, but also how their attacks have become more subtle and sophisticated.
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"The charges ... highlight the brazenness and the breadth of the defendants' lies and deceit," Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Robert Capers told reporters.
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What's stunning is not the brazenness of Beijing's aggressive tactics, but Washington's apparent indifference to such wanton violations of trade law.
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But such works owned their raggedness, with a rip-roaring brazenness and glee that exploded gender and good taste into smithereens.
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When Arbus tells West, "You invented sex," it is with some ambivalence, ostensibly because the actress's brazenness is foreign to her.
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Walter saved him, relying on his usual mix of brazenness and ingenuity (and the help of a remote-controlled machine gun).
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It is nevertheless shocking to see the brazenness of the ethical conflicts and watch the first family celebrate its good fortune.
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With his typical brazenness, Trump agreed that nuclear proliferation is a major problem, while also advocating policies that would make it worse.
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The brutality and brazenness of Khashoggi's murder seems to have changed many senators' calculations about the value of the US-Saudi relationship.
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But it takes an extra level of brazenness to claim that China in fact gets Adam Smith better than the West does.
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They're high and remote enough that, unless perfectly favored by weather, timing, and brazenness, even several PCT thru-hikers never see them.
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Micha's brazenness was a welcome change from all the bougie rich people and moms gone wild I'd been dealing with all season.
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But he lacks the brazenness that made Sam Rockwell's racist cop someone we can all claim to have nothing in common with.
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But the brazenness of the U.S. attack has almost certainly reworked Iran's thinking on how far it can push America in confrontation.
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The brutality and brazenness of Khashoggi's killing seems to have changed many senators' calculations about the value of the US-Saudi alliance.
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The brazenness of the repression high-lights the extent to which Chechnya has become a fiefdom unto itself under its leader, Ramzan Kadyrov.
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Cummings had almost total control over the messaging of Vote Leave, which became notorious for its brazenness and its success with digital targeting.
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Even in a country that has become increasingly numb to Islamist attacks, the Holey Artisan Bakery standoff was particularly jolting in its brazenness.
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Lawmakers critical of Mr. Temer tossed fake bills in the air to denounce what they called the brazenness of corruption in Brazilian politics.
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Ofglen eagerly tries to help by garnering information for Offred and though she isn't able to find anything out, her brazenness is worrying.
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Parnas and Fruman's alleged scheme stands out primarily for its sheer brazenness (and its apparent connection to the president of the United States).
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Unlike other recent troubled start-ups, which at least had the decency to cover up their scandals, We stands out for its brazenness.
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Such is the brazenness of the technique that, when someone fails to score with a Panenka, they inevitably come across as an absolute prick.
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What should be provoking a visceral emotional reaction in me, one way or the other, just left me scoffing at Game of Thrones' brazenness.
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The couple's tactics are defined by their exaggerated brazenness, usually carried out with help from Frank's chief of staff/enforcer, Doug Stamper (Michael Kelly).
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But in this, as in so much else, Trump's brazenness serves as cover, a signal that it's still okay to cling to this myth.
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But there is something about the nakedness of this confession, the brazenness of it, the cavalier-ness, that still has the ability to shock.
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American Crime Story A half-hour into the second season of FX's "American Crime Story" comes a scene that is startling in its brazenness.
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Mostly, fellow mayors from the population-100,000-or-so set have landed on a kind of grudging respect for the brazenness of the gambit.
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I got arrested once for putting a sticker on a condo window, so I still don't do graffiti, but I definitely appreciate its brazenness.
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But scholars suggest that precedent might be less important than the brazenness with which Trump's all but daring the judiciary to rein him in.
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The bakery Even in a country that has become increasingly numb to Islamist attacks, the Holey Artisan Bakery standoff was particularly jolting in its brazenness.
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He has used all his brazenness and skill to make something that, once it leaves the ground, defies not only gravity, but time as well.
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"The killings of priests, prosecutors, former and incumbent officials in broad daylight and in full view of the public can only suggest brazenness," he warned.
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"The charges relating to these two schemes highlight the brazenness and the breadth of the defendants' lies and deceit," Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Robert Capers told reporters.
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The brazenness of Netanyahu's argument — that it would be undemocratic to prosecute him for his efforts to undermine Israeli democracy — is matched only by its danger.
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Attack shocks nation Even in a country that has become increasingly numb to Islamist attacks, the Holey Artisan Bakery standoff was particularly jolting in its brazenness.
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I briefed him every Thursday morning and began to use the sessions to underscore Al Qaeda's growing footprint and brazenness in the tribal region of Pakistan.
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The brazenness of the assault, which lasted several hours, suggested a new brand of militancy in a country where low-level strikes on police are common.
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But even in an industry where building on others' successes is the norm, Instagram's copy-paste take on Snapchat stories stands out for its sheer brazenness.
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"What became clear from the tobacco industry documents: There was a brazenness in believing they could keep these documents from the public eye," Mr. Myers said.
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Even beyond that money laundering and financial fraud, the notion that Russians impersonated individual Americans by name to spout their targeted political messages shows a remarkable brazenness.
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It should worry all women (including affluent women in blue states who aren't used to worrying about reproductive health care), because brazenness is not characterized by moderation.
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The presence of bad actors using a derelict platform to traffic in child pornography is almost less surprising than the brazenness of their methods in doing so.
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" Meanwhile, Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicolas Roos, part of the New York prosecutorial team, said that Cohen's "charges portray a pattern of deception, of brazenness and of greed.
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The images in the video put on display the brazenness of the offenders who assaulted the victim and then broadcast it for the entire world to see.
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The Tesla infection is particularly noteworthy, though, because it shows not only the brazenness of cryptojackers, but also how their attacks have become more subtle and sophisticated.
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Later, I learned that Scalia and Kagan were friends, though I suspect she would have been as surprised as I was at the brazenness of Scalia's suggestion.
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With its brazenness and high-profile target, the killing seemed to hark back to an era of political violence in Cambodia that many had hoped was over.
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"Iran's brazenness in the region is increasing and even getting stronger in light of the absence of a response," he said at an IDF officer's graduation ceremony.
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It was a bracing reminder of the brazenness of his misdeeds and of the standards the public should be able to expect of those who serve them.
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That Russia had poured such unimaginable resources into providing its hit squads with the tools of undetectable murder made the brazenness of Litvinenko's killing even more perplexing.
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Yet even for that tumultuous time, the shooting of Officer McDonald was startling in its brazenness — a teenager callously opening fire on an officer in broad daylight.
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But in light of Cohen's testimony, it's worth revisiting Trump's on-camera April 2018 comments, and noting the brazenness with which he appears to have been lying.
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What struck me about this attack was the brazenness of it, and the fact that both cyber and social media tools have given Russia dramatically new opportunities.
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Some of these people were trivial to geolocate thanks to their sloppiness or perhaps brazenness—the images included a piece of paper with the hotel's branding, for instance.
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A recent blizzard of negative press coverage could have played a part in pressuring the firm to communicate and may also help limit the parent's brazenness going forward.
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But Trump's brazenness and his insistent "assertion of prerogative," the authors write, could teach us something by shining a klieg light on the shadowy corners of executive power.
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The assassination attempts in 228 were remarkable not only for their brazenness and persistence, but also because security and intelligence officials in the West initially did not notice.
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Nothing embodied the vulgarity and brazenness of Yanukovych's personal corruption like Mezhyhirya, a residence he built on three hundred and fifty acres of illegally privatized land outside Kiev.
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The poisoning of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal, his daughter, and 21 other citizens of the UK reveals the brazenness and vindictiveness of Putin's regime and the FSB.
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In the years since True Blood's finale, I've only grown to appreciate Alan Ball's big-hearted, daring supernatural show more — its brazenness, its sexual fluidity, and its memorable characters.
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But I do not expect that many of them will possess Glazer's unusual combination of brazenness in the way he expressed himself with modesty toward what he was expressing.
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That a person close to the campaign was allegedly involved raises the prospect of the unraveling of a conspiracy eclipsing Watergate in its brazenness and damage to national interests.
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But the selling of tax cuts under Trump has taken things to a whole new level, both in terms of the brazenness of the lies and their sheer number.
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But regulators need to consider what Facebook isn't suggesting if it wants to address its scope and brazenness, and what timelines or penalties would be feasible for smaller players.
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"Images in the video put on display the brazenness of the offenders who assaulted the victim and then broadcast it for the entire world to see," Mr. Johnson said.
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Once you're inside a car, it becomes permissible to comment on those outside it, to remark on their appearance or demeanor, with a brazenness absent from most social situations.
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Of course, some of the branding and brazenness of making messages stand out might be intentional: This is proudly our means of communication, the people using this technology might think.
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While the Kentucky practice is shocking for its utter brazenness, it is a symptom of the larger problem of the child welfare system's disregard for the most basic constitutional rights.
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Donald Trump has accused the media of bias and dishonesty, but his newest attack on the press has broken new ground in its brazenness — and its complete divorce from reality.
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Yet it's the brazenness of the company's actions -- tampering with its device to "make it better at cheating" -- that really stands out, a theme that recurs across the different stories.
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They just had a detailed understanding of the prison's layout, ample brazenness, and, most importantly, a woman guard who was willing to help break them out — and run away with them.
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The firing of that missile "highlight the brazenness and provocativeness" of the Houthis and Iranian backers, the acting Assistant Security of Defense for International Security Affairs, Katie Wheelbarger, told reporters Wednesday.
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Such brazenness suggests that, although the Di Lauro clan has lost its grip on the city's drugs trade (switching to counterfeiting and more legitimate activities), it wields considerable powers of intimidation.
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The brazenness of a targeted killing by Saudi agents on Turkish soil not only violates international law but may also be seen by the Turks as a challenge to their authority.
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Not only were the new generation of Guzmans, collectively known as Los Chapitos, keeping alive their family's near-mythical outlaw reputation, they were doing it with a brazenness akin to open warfare.
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Manfred was clearly outraged by the Astros' brazenness in continuing to steal signs even after he had issued a warning to all teams in September 2017 about using technology to do that.
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FCC Chairman Ajit Pai released his proposal to kill net neutrality today, and while there's a lot to be unhappy with, it's hard not to be taken with the brazenness of his argument.
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In short: The same environment of chaos and mismanagement that encouraged Russia's brazenness is now ensuring that Trump will face months, potentially years, of embarrassing and potentially devastating discoveries by the Mueller probe.
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Some 2.7 million people fly on U.S. airlines every day; we'd rather not think about the brazenness of launching ourselves thousands of miles in a fragile tube, thirty thousand feet above the earth.
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Thankfully, in the case of North Korea, the Trump administration has not been as bold, but there have been a few flashes of Bushian-style brazenness that ought to make our skin crawl.
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The attack highlighted the brazenness of the extremist threat in a part of the world that made headlines in October with the killing of four U.S. service members in an ambush in neighboring Niger.
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When I was introduced to her by a friend, I told her it was my first time attending a workshop and half expected some ridiculous display of brazenness—perhaps a tousle of my breasts.
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The 41-year-old nurse and pastor first ran for office in 2016, vying for a seat in the Senate ("I went all the way up," she laughed, surprised now by her own brazenness).
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Something about quitting his steady job as a dentist and pumping $23,22 (a 210/2650 combination of his own savings and bank loans) into a "bunch of crazy ideas" gave him a certain brazenness.
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In an effort to explain rising homicide rates, some police chiefs have said that the publicity and backlash surrounding highly publicized episodes in places like Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore have increased the brazenness of criminals.
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Ms. Atwell is the daughter of parents who met at a Dale Carnegie seminar, and in person, she seemed very much "in process," her big-laugh, expletive-streaked brazenness punctuated by moments of wandering introspection.
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In the case of Horizon, the brazenness of its approach was even more astounding because it had previously been called out in media reports and in a 2016 congressional hearing on out-of-control drug prices.
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"I strongly condemn the killings, which were committed with brazenness as if the perpetrators were not afraid at all of being accosted by the police," said Mr. Colmenares, a vocal critic of Mr. Duterte's drug war.
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"The killing of priests, prosecutors, and former and incumbent local officials in broad daylight and in full view of the public may be suggestive of the impunity and brazenness of those responsible for such acts," Lacson said.
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The evidence against the Skeloses, who were convicted of bribery, extortion and conspiracy, laid bare schemes that were remarkable for both their brazenness and their familial motivation: The father seemed willing to do anything for his son.
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While the Brexiters led a misleading and mendacious campaign that was disturbing in its brazenness, Prime Minister Theresa May's refusal to confirm unequivocally the acquired rights of EU citizens living in the UK is much more worrying.
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The outrageousness of this work was stunning then, and more recently I found myself craving its critical brazenness when viewing Jeffrey Gibson's exhibition of hard-edge paintings and beaded works that also challenge assumptions of cultural ownership.
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Della Donna said the technique and "brazenness" demonstrated in Anderson's killing were similar to that of the Golden State Killer, adding that the proximity to where she was almost abducted made her believe it was the same man.
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But since then his views have been increasingly amplified at home and abroad — most disturbingly by President of the United States, whose rank apologism for white-nationalist thinking makes King's brazenness feel so much more urgent and alarming.
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At a news conference on Wednesday, Mr. Wenzel added new details to a crime that has captured attention both in Germany and in Canada — where the coin, weighing about 4.53 pounds, was minted in 2007 — for its brazenness.
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Wong also uses this brazenness to unpack the double standards of childcare and gender writ large, opening a bit with, ""I love my baby girl so much, but I'm on the verge of putting her in the garbage.
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The resulting court documents provide further evidence of the brazenness of the scheme, the impunity that those committing ad fraud operate with, and why the global digital ad industry is unable to stop its ballooning, multibillion-dollar fraud problem.
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One special agent, who spoke with Insider on the condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the press, said officials were "rattled" not just by the nature of Trump's actions but also by his brazenness.
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Cox has seen the group evolve from its early days of extorting US medical centres, right up to its current campaign around the 9/11 documents, and how The Dark Overlord has adapted its strategy, and brazenness, over time.
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The brutality and brazenness of the killings has shocked many in this largely Catholic country, with Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch leading a campaign to help families of the victims take their case to the International Criminal Court.
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Despite how common this sort of abuse directed at women has become on Twitter, several people — including members of the opposition party — were shocked at both the brazenness of the vitriol directed at Swaraj and the response to her poll.
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Early in the novel, Rez travels with three white friends to Mexico, where they consume and surf and display their wealth with all the brazenness of boys who have never given thought to the struggles outside their affluent seaside bubble.
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Looking at the chain now, you might marvel at the brazenness of their conversation — what sort of numbskull would you have to be to write down, in an email, that you're offering a foreign government's help with a presidential campaign?
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Nevertheless, it was the first time the radical group has targeted the country with the world's largest Muslim population, and the brazenness of the attack suggested a new brand of militancy in a country more used to low-level strikes on police.
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Just seven people were killed in Jakarta despite multiple blasts and a gunfight, and five of them were the attackers themselves, but the brazenness of the assault suggested a new brand of militancy in a country where low-level strikes on police are common.
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In short: The same environment of chaos and mismanagement that encouraged Russia's brazenness during the 2016 presidential campaign is now ensuring that Trump will face months, and possibly years, of trouble — in the form of embarrassing and potentially devastating discoveries by the Mueller probe.
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The brazenness of recent moves — including claims that Mr. Rajapaksa's supporters offered hefty cash bribes to entice opposition lawmakers to switch sides — led some to complain that Sri Lanka's democracy was regressing to the strongman politics that dominated during Mr. Rajapaksa's decade as president.
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While the substance of news reports focused on the brazenness of the president's publicly calling on foreign governments to investigate a rival, their headlines and chyrons often communicated a simpler message: "Trump: Ukraine & China Should Investigate Joe Biden and Son," as CNN put it.
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The brazenness of Putin's attack could signal his willingness to use nerve agents in the future to send a clear message to any rogue agents and to signal to a global audience that he is willing and able to use chemical weapons wherever and whenever he pleases.
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It's not exactly new that Trump is rewriting history to make himself look like a hero gifted with incredible predictive powers — it pretty much means it's a day ending in Y — but we should never stop being angry at the brazenness with which the president regularly insults our intelligence.
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There are many things that are truly shocking about the Harvey Weinstein story -- the brazenness of the overtures, the sheer number of women he allegedly harassed, intimidated and forced himself upon -- but the mind reels at realizing just how many people had to have known something for so long.
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"The scope of the Amazon deal [in New York] and its brazenness has created real political momentum for the first time that I can recall," said Stacy Mitchell, co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, which researches and criticizes the way large companies like Amazon use government subsidies for corporate gains.
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The scale and brazenness of the assault threatened to further subvert a nominal and often violated cease-fire that had taken hold in parts of the country since Mr. Assad's forces retook the northern city of Aleppo in December with Russian help, emboldening the Syrian leader to think he could win the war.
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Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture: House always seemed less ridiculous to international viewers whose governments have been corroded or dismantled by goons whose brazenness is another source of power; but the show's warlord's-eye view of governance seems less ludicrous now that every day brings new reports of abuse of executive power, naked corruption, boastful cruelty, and bottomless greed.
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And such acts are not only increasing in frequency but in brazenness, with open calls for the boycott, and even expulsion, of Jewish and pro-Israel students and student groups from campus jumping from 3 incidents in 2015 and 4 in 2016, to 14 incidents in 85033 and 18 in the first half of 2018 alone.
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But I will say that the brazenness of Insys and the fraud they were committing — masquerading as people in a doctor's office in order to create prior authorization of a fentanyl product — that surprised me, that they would be that bold, that they would actually call and pretend they were with the doctor, calling from the doctor's office.
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The courts summarily threw this legislation out — Chapter 9 of the bankruptcy code does not allow territories to avail themselves of bankruptcy protection so this outcome was never in doubt — but the sheer brazenness of the legislation and its utter disregard for existing law acted as a clarion call to financial markets to stay away from the island.
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" Indeed, Kasparov's point cuts to the core of what is so scary about a Trump presidency: Trump is what The Economist has called "the leading exponent of 'post-truth' politics — a reliance on assertions that 'feel true' but have no basis in fact," and, sadly, "his brazenness is not punished, but taken as evidence of his willingness to stand up to elite power.
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But perhaps Myanmar is different, because of the vulnerability of its struggling economy, in addition to the sheer brazenness and transparent fabrication of the case against Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, which is closely linked to the outrageous abuses against Myanmar's Rohingya minority in the Rakhine State, where about 700,000 have been forced to flee to neighboring Bangladesh, and at least 10,85033 killed.
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" The one silver lining of this week's events, argues Jonathan Chait of New York magazine, is that Senate Republicans' brazenness makes it easier for House Democrats to justify continuing to investigate Trump: "They can keep digging into Trump from next week through fall, keeping public attention not only on his corruption and abuse of power but also on the Republican conviction that abuse of power is permissible.
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But to describe the soundtrack as naive would be to downplay how impeccably-crafted and meticulous it is; how the tracks are melded and shaped around each scene like buttons on a coat; how the simplicity and brazenness of the music feels so purposeful; and how, fifteen years after the film's release, it feels like one of the only mainstream films to ever properly capture what it is to be young, sad and confused.
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The special counsel investigation into the 2900 presidential election bolstered Schiff's brazenness, until Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerSpeier says impeachment inquiry shows 'very strong case of bribery' by Trump Gowdy: I '220006 percent' still believe public congressional hearings are 'a circus' Comey: Mueller 'didn't succeed in his mission because there was inadequate transparency' MORE testified on Capitol Hill over the summer and failed to "bring to life" the pages of his more than 2202-page report.
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There is an exuberance in inflicting torment and suffering that goes beyond the traditional and practical zero-sum politics of exclusion in the Middle East, whether it is the Orwellian joy of launching military operations with monikers like "Operation Olive Branch" and "Restoring Hope," the enthusiastic and vindictive mass murder or incarceration of political opponents in countries like Egypt and Turkey, the brazenness of chopping up a journalist inside a consulate, or the vulgarity of a political discourse in which every day is a witch hunt.
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