But things are no longer chill for these byword brands.
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"This American Life" has become a byword for oral storytelling.
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Many regard Yalta as a byword for compromise, even betrayal.
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He made Bayern, a byword for soccer best practices, better.
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Detroit would emerge smaller, but no longer a byword for decline.
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Even so, Sykes-Picot has become a byword for imperial treachery.
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For decades Surt was a byword for tribal cronyism in Libya.
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To use a Lucia byword, here there is no "tarsome" suspense.
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Bakkali, black cabs have become a byword for populism and racism.
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"Rocket science" has become a byword for complexity for a reason.
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Respectful disagreement is the byword of "The Argument," our new Opinion podcast.
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For Indians, Jallianwala Bagh became a byword for colonial injustice and violence.
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Global Sports Trust has hardly been the byword for the America's Cup.
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Among economists, Japan is a byword, a punch line, a horror story.
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But shamstep is more than just a byword for hipsterfied East-West fusion.
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To some New Yorkers, "City College" is now mostly a byword for nostalgia.
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But in general Zhongguancun, a byword for cheap knock-offs, was still a disappointment.
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The party's manifesto from that election has since become a byword for political irrelevance.
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It became a byword for wasteful Western aid—but far from the only example.
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He has entered the English language as a byword for hubris and unintended consequences.
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The EU's budget has often been a byword for mindless subsidy and unnecessary centralisation.
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Capitalism had won and socialism became a byword for economic failure and political oppression.
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There's a reason Chacos are a byword for sandals — they're the best sandals going.
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For many years, China was a byword for shoddy goods produced at mass scale.
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Rajasthan, in recent months, has become a byword for this kind of religious murder.
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In Britain, his name is almost a byword for giving the finger to authority.
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The journal flirted with the New Left and became a byword for radical chic.
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Take the case of Jumbo, the elephant whose name became a byword for the colossal.
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By the time Mr Dalziel went away to university, Corby was a byword for decline.
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General Electric used to be a byword for American innovation until a few years ago.
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"Winesburg" quickly became a cultural byword, a metaphor for the yawning emptiness of rural life.
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He did it by turning Barcelona into a byword for beauty, and sophistication, and style.
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In Silicon Valley, the geographical byword for the country's tech future, population growth has stalled.
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"Social Darwinism" has remained a byword for racism and a dog-eat-dog vision of society.
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The setting is Levittown, that Long Island suburb that became a byword for cookie-cutter uniformity.
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After January 2011, Tahrir Square became a byword for hope, defiance and the unpredictability of history.
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Today, transparency, in many ways the opposite of privacy, is the byword — as it should be.
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If the byword of platforms like Facebook is "stickiness," Mr. Zuckerberg's prepared, bland affect achieved the opposite.
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Goldman, however, did not become a byword for financial acumen without acquiring some acute self-diagnosis skills.
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The name of Vidkun Quisling, who led the collaborationist government, has since become a byword for treachery.
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"The Democratic Party and their constituents have decided their byword is going to be 'resist,' " he said.
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Cover the hell out of the story without fear or favor: That must still be our byword.
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That is why their pairing, more fusion than double act, has endured as a byword for togetherness.
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But he also had dreamed of doing all that while making Chelsea a byword for attractive soccer.
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Not on a Southern train, obviously: The company has become a byword for overcrowding, delays and understaffing.
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When I'm doing longer-form writing and I want a pretty, distraction-free editor, I open up Byword.
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In the campaign, the Conservatives had called him "just not ready," a byword for light, shallow and callow.
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Those with memories of the Obamacare website's disastrous start will confirm that it's become a byword for incompetence.
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Seemingly overnight, it has gone from being the darling of the Israeli economy into a byword for mismanagement.
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Davao City, of which Mr Duterte was mayor for 22 years, has been a byword for violent crime.
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For some Arabs, this has made the name Imru' al-Qays a byword for collaboration with outside powers.
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The hero attacks windmills, believing them to be giants, making his name a byword for attacking imaginary enemies.
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And we have turned the "Resistance" into a byword for the hysterical and condescending ninnies of American politics.
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The grand project, however, was slowed by the economic crisis and became a byword for lucrative construction contracts.
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The city's sputtering economy hemorrhages jobs, and the mayor's name has become a national byword for urban disaster.
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HARLEM IS A neighbourhood in upper Manhattan that was once a byword for poverty, crime and urban failure.
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To Mr. Bratton, an early adopter, it is a byword for law-and-order's tactical victory over urban chaos.
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The European Commission, conceived as an agent of economic liberalization, became a byword for regulatory overreach and technocratic micromanagement.
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The FEC, which is evenly divided between Democratic and Republican appointees, has become a byword for gridlock and mismanagement.
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Yet Britain's utilities and services such as the railways were hardly a byword for efficiency in their state-run days.
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Then for a while, "school readiness" was the buzzword and the byword, so, not unreasonably, we talked about school readiness.
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After years of disturbing attacks in the district, Kasur has become a byword for the rape and killings of children.
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"This does not belong to me," he says of a fruit that has become a byword for casual racist stereotyping.
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Wade than Protestants, especially since former Justice David Souter, a Republican-selected Episcopalian, is a byword for betrayal in Republican circles.
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"The Sonic Cycle" has become a byword for the anticipation and disappointment fans go through prior to each new game's release.
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Racism is a byword for prejudice and interpersonal nastiness, but I want to look at the bigger picture of institutional bias.
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Now it's a byword for destruction, recently labeled "the apex of horror" by the top aid official at the United Nations.
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He very much wanted to make transparency a byword of his new regime, and he was as good as his word.
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The case has become a byword for the failure of Germany's postwar security apparatus to monitor and control far-right extremism.
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Genteel farmland, then a byword for urban blight, and now the apotheosis of hipsterdom and gentrification—Brooklyn has seen it all.
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In his remarks, Mr. Carranza repeatedly echoed the mayor in speaking about equity — a byword of Mr. de Blasio's educational philosophy.
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Instead, after considering more than six thousand names, it settled on one that has since become a byword for failure: Edsel.
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Like the Obama transition team before it — which was also overseen by Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta — secrecy is the byword.
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A byword for concentrated poverty, rampant crime, drugs, guns and gangs, Englewood seems to have taken everyone by surprise with its progress.
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On the campaign trail, Trump bragged about his "very dear friend Carl Icahn," the name functioning as a byword for boundless prosperity.
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Ever since it was formed in 1892, GE has been a byword for American innovation — that is, until a few years ago.
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Does he mind, for instance, the extent to which its title has become a byword for any remotely sinister event involving technology?
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Over the last eight years, Portsmouth has become a byword for the perils of English soccer's laissez-faire approach to foreign investment.
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For some, the verdict felt like a marginal footnote to a murderous history that has made Cambodia a byword for genocidal mania.
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Ruling Mexico continuously from 1929, the PRI had become a byword for corruption by the time it was voted out in 2000.
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These internal convulsions have rendered a country once a byword for stability into one seeking a refoundation of its national sense of itself.
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Ritz himself became not merely a byword for luxury but the actual word for it: the Oxford Dictionary defines "ritzy" as "expensively stylish".
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Mr. Zuma's nine years in office were a byword for obscene corruption, and he now faces corruption, racketeering, fraud and money laundering charges.
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This seems to be quite common across the industry as a whole, where diversity at is times simply a byword for gender imbalances.
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"Fast", the byword of the era, applied not just to Soho "flappers" and Jazz Age ballrooms, but to the country-house set, too.
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During the aughts, it was a key gathering space for the left wing of the Democratic Party — indeed, practically a byword for it.
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However, during the violence of the previous decade Ciudad Juárez became a byword for Mexican drug violence, predictably doing little to encourage tourism.
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It is what makes Brazil the world's most prestigious national team, a byword not just for taste and style but for success, too.
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There are now working streetlights and dry cleaners and cash machines, small miracles in a country that had become a byword for anarchy.
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" He added, using an acronym for "fear, uncertainty, doubt" that has become a byword for cryptocurrency critics, that there was "No need to FUD.
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Cicero, the Roman statesman whose talent for oratory was such that he remains to this day a byword for eloquence, has always divided opinion.
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To conservative foreign observers Germany is a byword for a reckless refugee policy; to others it is the country that bullied indebted southern Europeans.
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The leader of the White House's task-force on policing had even praised Oakland's force, which was once a byword for abuse of power.
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Ever since Bill Hewlett and David Packard set up in a garage nearly 80 years ago, it has been a byword for innovation and ingenuity.
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Once a stronghold of the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia, and the scene of two homicidal faide (feuds), it is a byword for peril and squalor.
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Iraq was a byword for civil war, sectarianism and the implosion of the Arab state order established at the end of the first world war.
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After several disastrous mergers and bail-outs, Triumph was moribund, no longer cool but more of a byword for oil leaks and trade-union militancy.
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Scrutiny over the terror attacks has dogged the Obama administration for the last four years, becoming a byword for scandal and a major motion picture.
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"Liberalism," in this sense, is not a byword for either left-of-center politics or the Democratic Party, both of which the right obviously opposes.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LONDON — Over the course of its 250-year history, the Royal Academy has often been a byword for traditionalism.
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Since "Jane Got a Gun" was shot, in 2013, it has become a byword for the thousand comical shocks that the industry is heir to.
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Cologne has become a byword for concern over how a large influx of Muslim men will affect the place and security of women in German society.
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MEXICO CITY — He became a byword for government incompetence, a figure who seemed invincible after he burrowed his way out of the country's most secure prison.
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Flying cars have kind of become this byword where people say there promised to be flying cars and all I got was fill in the blank.
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It has become a byword for the kind of bog-standard high street hedonism that sent the nation into the tabloid-hell that was Binge Britain.
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Davos is so synonymous with the international power structure that former White House Senior strategist Steve Bannon used the conference as a byword for his enemies.
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Sewing, an insider appointed in April, has sought to make a clean break after previous leadership became a byword for spiralling compensation and risky investment banking deals.
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Famous almost since it was founded in 1898 by César Ritz in collaboration with the chef Auguste Escoffier, the Ritz has long been a byword for luxury.
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Using FSOC as a vehicle to promote deregulation is a volte-face for the council, which under President Barack Obama was a byword for tough financial oversight.
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WASHINGTON — Six years after his mysterious death in a Moscow prison cell, Sergei L. Magnitsky has become a byword for brutality in President Vladimir V. Putin's Russia.
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SoftBank is practically a byword for huge investments — but the Japanese tech giant's recent outlay on UK fintech OakNorth is massive, even by its usual dizzying standards.
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In the early years of the 21st century, it recovered from a spate of spiraling gun crime — Madchester becoming Gunchester — to become a byword for urban regeneration.
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The murder solution in Orient is so elegant, neatly crafted and inevitable-feeling, and yet so surprising at the same time, that it has become a byword.
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Yet today ENA has become a byword for the elite, a disconnected technocratic way of thinking, and a system that fails to recruit enough people from modest families.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Under the once-vaunted "keiretsu" system of close, trust-based ties between manufacturers and suppliers, "Made-in-Japan" became a byword for industrial quality and reliability.
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Solidly triple-A rated until 2014, Finland was once a byword for fiscal prudence and took a hard line against sovereign bailouts during the euro zone's debt crisis.
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Throughout, the byword was integration: a steady process of harmonizing the policies of individual nation-states into common European ones, making collaboration easier and interdependence beneficial for all.
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The regime of President Bashar al-Assad had just recaptured the city after years of bombing and urban warfare that had made Aleppo a global byword for savagery.
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And it stars a glamorously bedraggled Chloë Sevigny, whose name has long been a byword for downtown cool, as a drug-glazed single mom of two sexy teenagers.
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And while 1,028 economists signed a petition imploring the president not to sign, he could not then know that "Smoot-Hawley" would become a byword for economic folly.
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In just over a decade, it had become a byword for modernity in design, a symbol of a progressive age across the world, from New York to Calcutta.
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The PRI ruled Mexico for more than seven decades continuously until it was voted out in 2000, by which time the party name had become a byword for corruption.
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"All this reinforces in the end a sense of impunity, which is the byword for more deforestation and more violence," they wrote, arguing that this perceived dismantling was unconstitutional.
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Scrutiny over the terror attack has dogged the Obama administration for the last four years and in the process has become a byword for scandal on par with Watergate.
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California, once a byword for get-tough-on-crime polices like its three-strikes law enacted in the 22006s, has let thousands of inmates out of prison or jail.
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The event has become a byword for the brand of high-minded globalism that Trump angrily denounced as a candidate and has found little place in his White House.
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In this case, President Moon deserves praise for now accepting the U.S.-backed THAAD missile defense system, which may come to be known as a byword for world peace.
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Untreated effluence The archipelago nation of the Philippines boasts well over 0003,000 islands, and among them Boracay had come to be almost a byword for white-sand beach paradise.
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Her failed 2016 campaign has not: Rather than a touchstone for a new crop of female candidates, it's become a byword for the fate that they hope to avoid.
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The national post office, once a byword for inefficient public administration, has turned into a conglomerate that offers banking and insurance services on top of traditional mail and parcel delivery.
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Of course, his ever-nimble lyrics — which have made his name a byword for verbal cosmopolitanism — abound in paradoxes, puns and declarations of uncertainty, all etched into deep-burrowing grooves.
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Newtown became a byword in the national discussion of gun violence after a 20-year-old man walked into Sandy Hook Elementary armed with several guns on December 14, 2012.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - He runs a company that is a byword for technological innovation — but Nokia's chairman had no qualms about going back to school to learn more about artificial intelligence (AI).
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In Sinclair Lewis' Main Street or Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio—to name just two famous literary examples of this critique—the communal spirit serves as a byword for provincialism, and bigotry.
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Long before police shootings and protests in Ferguson, Mo., or Sacramento focused America's attention on how the police treat black men, Los Angeles was a byword for police brutality and racism.
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Mr. Trump made the case of Kathryn Steinle, who was shot to death by an undocumented immigrant in San Francisco in 2015, into a byword for the dangers of unchecked immigration.
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But Baruch Spinoza, another revolutionary thinker of the seventeenth century, went furthest in reconceiving the idea of God, in ways so radical that his name became a byword for dangerous atheism.
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On his latest visit, Trudeau visited an outlet of Jollibee, a chain that has become a byword for Filipino fast food, chatting and posing for selfies, charming the people of Manila again.
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President Pena Nieto's party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), has been the dominant force of Mexican politics for the best part of a century, but has long been a byword for corruption.
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Since the #MeToo movement, his once celebrated film "Manhattan" has emerged as the archetypal work of male-chauvinist art, a byword, for some, for everything that's wrong with Hollywood and the patriarchy.
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For a variety of complex reasons—lack of upkeep, insufficient vetting of new tenants, endemic long-term economic decline—the high-rises became a byword for deprivation, poverty, and appalling social conditions.
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Achieving that goal, in a country that 30 years ago was a byword for famine, means realizing a plan of rapid industrial and agricultural growth modeled on the success stories of Asia.
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As one of seven children born to a family of lime farmers here, he is a fierce defender of his town and does not want it to become a byword for murder.
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The milestone confirms the renaissance of Sony, one a byword for technological innovation whose earnings peaked in the year ending March 1998 thanks to strong sales of its first PlayStation games console.
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Later, when he was a byword among both the moneyed class and the mass market, some of his customers had his "faux masterpieces," as he called them, incorporated into the real thing.
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Since 2017, the western state of Rakhine has turned into a global byword for ethnic cleansing, as members of the Buddhist majority unleashed a widespread rampage against the Muslim Rohingya ethnic group.
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It's not quite a secret that the Republican Party has largely become a byword for intolerance and science denial, and the start of that revolution predates the current primary season by many years.
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The story spun here is indeed that of the clan whose name became a byword for world-shattering Wall Street hubris in 2008, when the mighty firm of Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy.
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In a country that has long been a byword for efficiency, Deutsche Bahn faces criticism over late and overcrowded passenger trains, while freight is increasingly being moved by truck on Germany's overcrowded autobahns.
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He has bumbled his way from one government post to another, accused of making a hash of each, and becoming a byword for haplessness in a golden age of political blundering in Britain.
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Never a convincing intellectual, she makes a point of keeping these lyrics beyond basic—declaring "we" a trope, jumping on the byword "jump," riffing on every stupid bird rhyme she can think of.
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"Kasur" has become a byword for child abuse in Pakistan because of the grisly stories that have come out of there, but let's not pretend the problem is confined to that one district.
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Analysts say South Sudan has become shockingly similar to Darfur, the vast, western region of Sudan that plunged into conflict in the mid-2000s and became a global byword for atrocities against civilians.
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Even with its so far limited sales, Tesla has grown to be a byword for electric vehicles as a whole, much in the same way as the iPhone has been for the smartphone category.
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The party was so traumatised by the vote to leave the European Union—and so terrified that Brexit would tear it apart—that it turned to the person who was a byword for stability.
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Some companies are quietly equitable, but at this point, we all know that tech "culture" is most often a byword for the type of workplace meritocracy that functions only because everyone looks the same.
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As uncertainty remains the byword for markets, tell CNBC: The results of the poll will be used at an SGX-CNBC event, the Singapore Equities Dialogue 2016, hosted by the SGX on January 28.
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Even then, Flowstate may come off as extreme for most people, especially when you can fire up a Mac app like Byword in fullscreen mode and put on some headphones for distraction-free writing.
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In the media, it's a byword for liberal hypocrisy—a haven for olive oil-guzzling Blairites who talk about the plight of the working man from the safety of their second homes in Tuscany.
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Adaptability is the byword for authors in the technological age; to flip at warp speed from print to digital, bookstores to algorithms, while dealing with a flood of competing product not seen since Noah.
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Liveright; 288 pages; $27.95 and £20 The pogrom in Kishinev in 1903 became a byword for anti-Semitic violence for Jews everywhere, its victims blamed variously for their passivity and for having resisted their attackers.
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Maduro's approval ratings are languishing at around 20 percent in a country that was once a byword in South America for oil-financed opulence but now faces a collapsing economy, runaway inflation and rising malnutrition.
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Donald Trump grows more thuggish and mendacious by the day; "gaslighting," a term taken from a play about an abusive husband trying to drive his wife insane, has become a byword of our national life.
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The pope could even combine all these themes at once if he decides to meet with the families of 43 missing students, whose mysterious disappearance has become a byword for government incompetence and complicity with criminality.
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Elections in 2015 elevated Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate whose name was once a byword for acts of conscience, and seemed to usher in a chance for democracy to take hold.
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He is living proof that in Hollywood, you can be absolutely disgraced — a byword for moral bankruptcy, considered a violent bigot and a monster — and yet still claw your way back up to the A-list.
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Previously "K and C" had ranked as an unbreachable Tory citadel and a byword for urbane Conservatism, represented by such prominent MPs as the late Alan Clark, a political diarist, and Michael Portillo, a former defence secretary.
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Many on the left viewed it as a betrayal when Robles accepted a post under Pena Nieto, whose Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) ruled Mexico for most of the 20th century and eventually became a byword for corruption.
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Much more than a show on television, Game of Thrones has become (at least for those who have only seen the show casually, if ever) a byword for misogyny, gratuitous violence, and breathy monologues amid exotic climes.
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The floor shows that Fred and Ginger enjoyed in those films must have been a lot like "The New Yorkers," a musical steeped in the energetic world weariness for which the name Cole Porter became a byword.
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Its very absurdity is the joke, and the fascist jagoffs who find themselves subjected to this creamy deluge are rendered powerless; if they react aggressively, they've been successfully "triggered," that beloved byword of the worst kinds of people.
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That similar conditions exist in Italy, however, and facilitate the production of some of the most expensive wardrobe items money can buy, may shock those who see the "Made in Italy" label as a byword for sophisticated craftsmanship.
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More likely GDPR is being used by Huawei as a byword for creating consensus around rules that work across an ecosystem of many players by providing standards that different businesses can latch on in an effort to keep moving.
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Don't put them anywhere just yet — use a program like Ulysses, iA Writer, or Byword that allows linking (and publishes to a variety of platforms) to cut down on steps (and to get yourself a distraction-free writing environment).
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In a nation where the government is a byword for incompetence, why not let a businessman have a go -- especially one with an ability to talk honestly about the country's challenges and with an almost unlimited sense of possibility?
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BACK IN 1980 when Harlem was still a byword for poverty, criminality and the decline of New York City, black men in the neighbourhood had a worse chance of living to the age of 65 than men in Bangladesh did.
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Sicily is one of the poorest regions in Europe, ranking 20183 out of 22018 in European Union competitiveness rankings, and has become a byword for bloated public payrolls, wasteful administration and the ever-present scourge of corruption and organized crime.
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"BBC English" was once a byword for the poshest British accent, the one that featured all the old vowel gliding (hee-eh for hair), along with the bits and bobs that many of us forget when trying to simulate classy British.
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Hammond said the talks would continue the "golden era" of cooperation - a phrase used repeatedly since Xi's state visit to London in 2015 which has become a byword for Britain's pitch to tap the investment power of the Chinese state.
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The army's clampdown on civilians and the opposition's allegations that the vote was rigged revealed the deep fissures in Zimbabwean society that developed during the four-decade rule of Robert Mugabe, when the security forces became a byword for heavy-handedness.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Cardinal Bernard Law, the former Archbishop of Boston who resigned in disgrace after covering up years of sexual abuse of children by priests and whose name became a byword for scandal in the Catholic Church, died on Wednesday.
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Instead of the much-hoped-for staging post, the Salzburg summit has become a byword for a sharp deterioration in the atmosphere of the talks, when British government officials felt May was ambushed by the other EU leaders over Brexit.
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The humanist founders of Esalen were genuinely dedicated to the expansion of consciousness; that the Big Sur retreat should become a byword for trendy spiritual day-trippers (and an ambivalent punch line on "Mad Men") is a sign of its importance.
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Joyce is a byword for difficulty and obscurity, Lawrence for weedy crypto-fascism and misogyny, but Woolf's work, while densely lyrical and complex, has such apparent availability that it prompts near universal adoration in critics, writers, students and book clubs.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LONDON — Since the passing of Lucian Freud, David Hockney has come to be regarded as the UK's greatest living painter, his name a byword for extraordinary draftsmanship and an altogether less "passionate" style of painting.
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But Pakistan's army, which fought a 000-month campaign from 21 to evict militants from North Waziristan, is trying to transform the town from a byword for extremism into a showcase of the stability to which the generals say the country is returning.
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PARIS (Reuters) - High-end French department store Galeries Lafayette will open a new outlet on Paris's Champs Elysees this week, aiming to lure big-spending tourists and trendy Parisians back to the tree-lined avenue that was once a byword for style.
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Then, Falluja became a byword for the United States' failure to pacify a growing insurgency, and it was not until seven months later, in November, that Marines moved in and cleared the city in a battle that cost nearly 100 American lives.
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Long a byword for stability and consensus politics, the country has been without a new government since elections in September left the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats - with whom neither the centre-left nor centre-right wants to deal - holding the balance of power.
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Mine was named Dwork, a slime-green monstrosity with hooded eyes, and for years thereafter it remained my physical reference point for bogs, a land type whose very name, with its double plosive, became a byword in my mind for murk and monsters.
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"We told my grandpa 100 times that the bar is not open because of the Spanish flu, to make him understand," Toniolo told Reuters, referring to the deadly disease that killed millions after World War One and remains a byword for pandemics.
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Beset by strife and chaos since the dictator Siad Barre was ousted in 1991, Somalia has become a byword for chronic state collapse, torn between a stew of rapacious, heavily armed militias and, for a time, linked to piracy on the high seas.
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Despite efforts to revamp its image, Goldman has remained a byword for elitism, something that Trump tapped into during the election campaign, releasing a television ad that characterized Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein as part of a "global power structure" that had robbed America's working class.
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After a year, the Green Zone had acquired another connotation, as a byword for disastrous flaws in the invasion: the failure to stop looters or to restore Iraq's electricity; the decision to disband the Iraqi Army; the blindness to a growing resistance to the occupation.
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Long a byword for luxury and a bivouac for deposed monarchs, politicians, writers and film stars, the hotel became a particular haven for the fashion cognoscenti after Coco Chanel chose to make the Ritz her address for 35 years, until her death in 1971.
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Ethiopia, Africa's second most-populous country and one that 30 years ago was a byword for famine, is more organized, ambitious and centrally controlled than many other governments on the continent — the ruling coalition intends to transform it into a middle-income country by 2025.
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To many, the New Order government that Suharto led from 2500 to 19653 is a byword for corruption and repression on a grand scale, including a brutal campaign of anti-Communist purges that historians describe as one of the worst atrocities of the 21965th century.
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"Those who split the country will be doomed to leave a stink for 10,000 years," said Wang, one of whose previous roles was head of China's Taiwan Affairs Office, using an expression that means to go down in history as a byword for infamy.
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And over the last two weeks, lulus have become a byword for Albany's political self-dealing, after news that eight senators — all members of a ruling coalition led by Republicans — had received tens of thousands in such payments for jobs they did not hold.
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The chancellor's record is seemingly one of contradictions: the centre-right politician who let in 1.2m immigrants, the "new leader of the free world" whose name is a byword for inaction (literally, in the German neologism "to merkel"), the liberal hero who voted against gay marriage.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A suicide bomber struck a hospital in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Monday, officials said, killing at least 74 people in another devastating attack on civilians in a city that has become a byword for massacre and struggle over the past decade.
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The consequences were apparent in 1972 when George McGovern, the first Democratic presidential candidate to champion the new politics of diversity, got clobbered by Richard Nixon—winning only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia—and became a byword among conservative Democrats for the dangers of excessive liberalism.
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The 750 tons of asbestos imported over all last year by the United States was still nowhere near the 803,303 tons consumed in the United States in 1973, before a tidal wave of lawsuits and health warnings made asbestos a byword for death and financial ruin.
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There probably isn't much if any truth to the story — among other things, Catherine was too smart and tough-minded to be that easily deceived — but never mind: the legend has become a byword for the general idea of prettifying reality to please a tyrannical ruler.
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It has since become a byword for the bulk of Neo-Conceptual art, but its experiment in painting, as manifested here, feels as hermetic as it did when it first hit the scene — despite its aim to reopen art to mass media and the breakneck speed of contemporary life.
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Over the course of six studio albums, Sade—and here I'm referring to the collective unit of musicians who record and release under that name, rather than just Adu herself—have hovered in and out of collective consciousness, their eponymous frontwoman a byword for their understated, quiet cool.
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Leslie Knope refuses to be beaten by Jeremy Jamm (spoiler alert: it is strongly hinted that Knope becomes President after the end of Parks and Rec.) Even Election's Tracy Flick, whose name has become a byword for precocious, fastidious, no-fun politicking, is a winner in the end.
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But the election marks a significant milestone for a region that has been a byword for unrest since before the days of the British rulers of India, who generally left tribal elders to administer their own justice in a system that continued after Pakistan gained its independence in 1947.
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When Senator Joseph McCarthy died in 1957, he was one of the biggest failures in American political life, an alcoholic wreck censured by his fellow legislators and treated as a pariah by most in his own party, with his very name a byword for demagoguery and character assassination.
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That's why I was excited to try out the new coffee dripper from Blue Bottle, a roaster in Oakland and byword for third-wave coffee, which promised that through the miracles of modern science even a coffee dilettante like me could manage to brew a damn good cup.
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Google, whose privacy infringements and what many perceive as tax avoidance have earned the ire of European Union lawmakers, has become a byword among Europeans for Silicon Valley greed—particularly for Kreuzberg's electorate, over 75 percent of whom voted for far-left candidates at the most recent poll.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed on Friday to close the troubled jail complex on Rikers Island, which has spawned federal investigations, brought waves of protests and became a byword for brutality, in a move he said was intended to end an era of mass incarceration in New York City.
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But here are some approximations: Baby Boomers: 21945-21965 Generation X: 21981-26 Millennials (sometimes called Generation Y): 213-218 Generation Z: 203-present Keep in mind that while some high school students fall into Generation Z, they are frequently also described as millennials — a contemporary byword for young adults.
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Everything, from the perfervidness of the country's electronic manufacturing, the proliferation of its pop culture, the aggressiveness of its building booms — even as a three-decade-long economic decline strips these characteristics of their sheen — seems to serve as a reminder that throughout the postwar era, Japan was a byword for the future.
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Read More EU Referendum: Official campaigns kick off Luke Johnson, chairman of Patisserie Valerie and one of several business leaders who are backing a "Brexit" (for the U.K. to leave the EU), told CNBC that he was worried that Brussels – a byword for the EU's institutions – was a threat to the U.K.'s sovereignty.
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Rakhine, like Sarajevo or Darfur, has become a global byword for ethnic cleansing, a place where in 20183 members of the country's Buddhist majority carried out the mass expulsion of the Muslim Rohingya ethnic group, an act accompanied by widespread rape, killing and the burning of entire villages that United Nations officials called genocide.
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Above all, I want to know how science, a byword for all knowledge, and mathematics, the great harmonies of the universe—two august disciplines that have defined education since antiquity—yoked themselves to the vocational field of engineering and, worst of all, to "technology," which could mean almost anything from space mirrors to VSCO girls.
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Thanks partly to Robert Halfon, its energetic Conservative MP, that Essex town has become a byword for upwardly mobile but financially insecure voters—often the first generation in their families to hold white-collar jobs—who dislike government meddling but think the state should make it easier for people like them to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
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A byword for modern opulence when this part of the Balkans was still part of the now defunct Yugoslavia, the state-owned Grand has gone into such a steep decline that even Kosovo's president, Hashim Thaci, usually an eager booster of everything his country has to offer, struggles to find anything nice to say about it.
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In 2013 thousands of protesters gathered in central Istanbul, in demonstrations that became a byword for opposition to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party, or A.K.P. Four years on, the two hunger strikers have become the nearest contemporary equivalent — a sign of the extent to which the right to free assembly has been eroded.
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Rik Coolsaet, a terrorism expert and professor at Belgium's Ghent Institute for International Studies, described the situation in the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek in a paper that was published two weeks ago: More than a decade and a half before it became a "global byword for jihadism," it was the scene of some widespread rioting (similar to the rioting in English or French suburbs).
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I traveled here to see them in part to consider whether museums can make sense of war, and in part because, like most Americans, I felt I knew too little about World War I. Passchendaele may be a byword for suffering in Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, but in America it is hardly known, and the larger war, which killed more Americans than Korea and Vietnam combined, has long been overshadowed by subsequent conflicts.
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