I think charade is classier, but charade is more grounded. Charade.
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Charade makes no sense Of course, this quadrennial charade makes no sense.
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The Nobel is a charade, in many respects, but it's the charade we have.
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"You just have to call a charade a charade," Julio Ricardo Varela, co-host of the political podcast In the Thick, said on Twitter.
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" She added: "There's a charade going on right now.
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"So it's a little bit of a charade," Donohue says.
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More importantly, it's a charade put on for our sake.
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"The whole process was a charade," Dr. Senie tells Hyperallergic.
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We're getting close to the end of this whole charade!
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Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World.
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But the medical exam has not been entirely a charade.
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She continues the charade, claiming she didn't sign herself up.
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Sure, but the whole charade wouldn't be nearly as sinister.
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"Somebody just should have stopped this whole charade," he said.
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His life was a lie, and his death a charade.
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So get it out there and give up the charade.
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Almost immediately after he begins this charade, he loses heart.
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The guy is getting $4 million to continue this charade.
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WARSAW — For six weeks, Jaroslaw Kaczynski kept up the charade.
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But we're not required to pretend the charade is real.
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But a tense dinner puts the charade to a test.
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At times, this whole situation feels like a charade of democracy.
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This elaborate charade ensured that Mr Boggs never sold his drawings.
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Contrary to Marx's claim, democratic politics was not a pointless charade.
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The trial was a charade, and the vote is a disgrace.
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Does she still need to keep up any of this charade?
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That explains why the hourlong episode was a self-serious charade.
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There's only so long that Jean can keep up this charade.
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Then all the world will see what charade is American democracy.
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How this charade protected anyone is debatable, but the gambit worked.
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"Rick has offered to step aside for this charade," McCarthy said.
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Democrats, meanwhile, have cast the effort as a politically-driven charade.
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He leaps out a window, repeatedly, to keep up the charade.
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Democrats, meanwhile, have cast the effort as a politically driven charade.
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Because at this point the 2016 presidential election is a charade.
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But Western aid officials said privately that this was a charade.
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His awkward charade is convincing enough that Nia finally notices him.
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But we can't help but get distracted by the whole charade.
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We were not going to be parties to a propaganda charade.
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"I hope that the American people will see though this charade. "
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History will judge you as you proceed with this impeachment Charade.
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Calling the hearing a "charade and mockery of our norms," Sen.
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"Judge Moore's latest charade is just sad & pathetic," Reed posted on Twitter.
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This shift exposes the Republican plan for what it is: a charade.
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It became increasingly taxing and emotionally draining to continue in this charade.
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But the notion of fault is often little more than a charade.
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"I will not be a part of the charade anymore," Palihapitiya said.
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The drama of March 22 was, it now appears, a bizarre charade.
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But even he appears to be hinting that it's all a charade.
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Could this person need, say, Rollins' fingerprint to keep up the charade?
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Okay, so there are more than two people involved in this charade.
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The charade fits Dr DisRespect's character, and look: it made me laugh.
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The scary thing is how many Americans have bought into this charade.
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Like swilling wine around in your mouth, the whole charade was pointless.
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A charade is an absurd pretense intended to create a respectable appearance.
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I realized that as soon as I got the crossing CHARADE/COMRADE.
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The political charade of an impeachment "investigation" is but the latest example.
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But that impeachment charade could harbor the greatest threat to Trump's presidency.
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But I say quit the charade and just own up to it.
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All they will have to say is that this is a charade.
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The whole preposterous charade of royalty was performed perpetually in her presence.
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Presumably Ali's ability to hear their thoughts would make that charade easier.
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And I hope that the American people will see through this charade.
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However, others argued it is a charade the opposition should steer clear of.
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And thus, Comey felt he could exonerate Hillary Clinton with essentially a charade.
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BLM staff 'charade' fills empty offices in new HQ, E&E News reports.
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It's his dedication to the charade that makes him a true internet hero.
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If no one is being fooled, what is the point of the charade?
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Congressional Democrats cover the charade branding any oversight as witch-hunts or racism.
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"Instead of participating in this charade, Democrats should begin impeachment proceedings," he added.
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The Obama Administration, for reasons of its own, allowed this charade to persist.
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Yet, behind Rosselló's veneer of tweets and countless TV appearances was a charade.
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Howard excused himself and moved on to begin the charade with someone else.
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That's a lot of personal self-hatred and public charade driving U.S. policy.
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"Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World," by Anand Giridharadas.
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After the impeachment charade ends, the task is left for the American people.
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House Minority Whip Steve Scalise believes the "impeachment charade" is exposing Democrats' weakness.
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"House Democrats have wasted enough of America's time with this charade," Cipollone wrote.
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To the Editor: The disgraceful charade in Washington has gone on long enough.
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Israel's courts are a charade of justice, clearly instruments of colonial, military occupation.
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She can no longer keep up the charade or keep her eyes dry.
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Alaskans deserve better than this political charade by Mark Begich and Bill Walker.
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This is a charade that will not be condoned by the American people.
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It would be a charade, though, to ignore the other part of Long's legacy.
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So why go on with the charade that this is still a negotiable issue?
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Better yet, cancel the whole charade and head out to your local comedy club.
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The businesses collectively said that they lost at least $667 thanks to Riddle's charade.
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Well, 3-year-old Hux is the embodiment of that innocent charade, times ten.
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Attacking her for what everyone does is the oldest political charade in the books.
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And I have no idea how they convinced Raven to do this embarrassing charade.
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But who would duck out in the chance to come to a date's charade.
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Then they start making this charade that I was asking immunity, blah blah blah.
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So far, Donald Trump is playing along with our Saudi allies in this charade.
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Democrats and the media need to end this charade and dial back their rhetoric.
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So, the new administration refuses to continue with the charade, and, very predictably, Pres.
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It was thrilling enough that Gulman was calling attention to the depressive's daily charade.
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Journalistic firebrand Anand Giridharadas literally wrote the book on the charade of philanthropic giving.
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Naturally, that charade in front of reporters helped Trump claim victory all over again.
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Similarly, the French peace initiative threatened to maintain this charade of the peace process.
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Philip quickly becomes invested in the charade and begins to help Frank maintain it.
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Why pull an incredibly complicated, high-risk charade that has little chance of working?
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This unconvincing charade culminates in one of the silliest birth scenes in recent memory.
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As the celebration continues, the charade to keep the truth from Don Salvatore crumbles.
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Part of the bonding experience is in maintaining the charade that nobody lives there.
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"House Democrats have wasted enough of America's time with this charade," Cipollone's letter said.
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The AP charade was chump change compared to the FBI's next media flim-flam.
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"History will judge you harshly as you proceed with this impeachment charade," he added.
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But underneath, to a lot of people it's just a charade and a nightmare.
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Do not use our music or my voice for your moronic charade of a campaign.
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And the whole charade could cast him as a novelty act, not a serious candidate.
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The EU is saying, We are not letting companies get away with this charade anymore.
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Harvey says the entire charade was part of a scheme for Dimmock to meet him.
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One European diplomat said the talks had been a "charade" because of the government's behavior.
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So I carried on the charade, even after knowing full well what I was doing.
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Since the entire purpose of this charade is to benefit "donors," it violates IRS rules.
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Senate conservatives, and ObamaCare opponents broadly, have panned the Senate healthcare bill as a charade.
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It was clear that I wouldn't be able to continue this charade for much longer.
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The charade continued and I acted perhaps a little too surprised to see the food.
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But the platform is a charade when everyone knows the party's leader is just pandering.
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We have also seen Trump pull off this charade many times over the past decade.
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"Charade," the finale, is a spirited dialogue between trombone and orchestra that turns slyly combative.
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"Once again, investment decisions made based on this charade are going to backfire," Cramer said.
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For Jimmy, "in" means a jailhouse charade with his new client, Domingo (Krazy-8) Molina.
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The system from top to bottom is failing with this charade of a nomination process.
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WINNERS TAKE ALL The Elite Charade of Changing the World By Anand Giridharadas 288 pp.
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The subtitle of the book says it all: "The Elite Charade of Changing the World."
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Mr. President, would love to have you as my guest during this partisan charade. pic.twitter.
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It also further discredits the Nunes memo and reveals what a complete charade it is.
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But the Times' list of falsehoods is itself a charade with gaping Montana-sized holes.
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Even the image's photographer, Roe Ethridge, seems to be in on this charade when pressed.
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Because Thor wants to protect Asgard, he returns there — and quickly sniffs out Loki's charade.
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He knows very well that the mileage has long ago run out on that particular charade.
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The charade only served to encourage unrealistic Palestinian goals and was therefore harmful to peace prospects.
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Anand Giridharadas is the author of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World.
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This type of lifeless charade is why people are over April Fools' Day AND gimmicky content.
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"She can go ahead and appeal and continue this charade of domestic violence," Rebecca tells PEOPLE.
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Joan's charade falls apart when Peter arrives back early from a trip to Palm Springs (whoops!).
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To her credit, Irina Bokova, UNESCO's Director-General, has been a consistent critic of the charade.
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You're asking a stranger to take you seriously and buy into the charade of your authority.
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Unfortunately, the long charade of talks followed by broken ceasefires suits Mr Assad only too well.
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Clearly, that was the beginning of the charade to be hatched later by the White House.
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Vassar's "Conversation about Israel/Palestine" was a charade contextualized by negative foundational assumptions of Western imperialism.
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Most Republicans, meanwhile, used the opportunity to criticize the Democrats' inquiries as a purely partisan charade.
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But with a year's worth of hindsight it is increasingly difficult to keep up this charade.
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The Russia-Trump collusion story is a total hoax, when will this taxpayer funded charade end?
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But it's nice to relax, too, to not have to keep up the tough guy charade.
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They could halt the whole charade, and alter the course of history, with a press release.
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She has continued with the charade of supposedly developing this product and keeping this company alive.
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But news outlets who cite John Lott as a gun expert are falling for a charade.
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It would be nice if we could find a way to let go of the charade.
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Out of fear or self-interest, corporate America appears to be playing along with the charade.
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State Senator Michael Gianaris called the advisory committee "a charade," reports The Times's J. David Goodman.
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In a Facebook post on Thursday, Mr. Nemtsov's daughter Zhanna Nemtsova called the investigation a charade.
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"House Democrats have wasted enough of America&aposs time with this charade," Cipollone&aposs letter said.
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The decision concluded with a final sentence that would lead to Mr. Newman's yearslong charade unraveling.
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Some French and German officials now think that the entire negotiation process was an elaborate charade.
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In fact, federal lawmakers have already been vocal in their criticism over the governor's charade. Sen.
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"I'm happy to come back... after the five or six-hour charade I went through" pic.twitter.
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Critics say his loyalists operate with impunity, creating nothing more than a charade of a democracy.
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Mr. Charade left the company early on, and Mr. Joyce became Mr. Horton's partner in 21975.
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It's Becky, who learns of Jesse's deception in the interview, who puts a stop to the charade.
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He also dropped the rodent charade and embraced the responsibilities he first took on as a gag.
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Even more warped is the fact that Dee Dee urged others to help her with the charade.
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" He continued, "Do not use our music or my voice for your moronic charade of a campaign.
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JARRETT: It appears to have been a sham investigation and a charade with a predetermined, preconceived outcome.
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Our mutual friends found the entire charade super awkward and didn't want to take sides — fair enough.
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Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, a former head of the SBU, said the "bizarre charade" should never have been authorized.
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Skarsgard was just trying to spare her son's feelings in playing along with the charade all season.
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But the question of Bree's true identity — and the point of the whole charade — remained a mystery.
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But as the charade continues, the lives of several people in the small town are irrevocably changed.
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Modern Supreme Court confirmation hearings are the most glaring examples of the charade of Capitol Hill hearings.
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Putin plays the people's savior from terrorism, in an election that has the hallmarks of a charade.
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Those dubious of hardliners like John Bolton suspect talks are a charade and a prelude to war.
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"City riders are sick of this charade," said Austin Finan, a spokesman for Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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Morning came, and he scrambled out of bed for baseball practice, forgetting all about the whole charade.
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At worst, it is a cynical charade of mediocre athletes playacting as tennis pros, vulnerable to corruption.
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And anyone who is paying attention and goes along with this perilous charade is complicit in it.
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A few feet away, Ms. Liou's partner stood alone, maintaining their public charade of being just friends.
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"Despite what the impeachment mob wants, the Senate doesn't shut down during their impeachment charade," Davis said.
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He finds the entire Old Testament-inspired charade generally amusing, if a bit restrictive for his personal life.
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"The Russia-Trump collusion story is a total hoax, when will this taxpayer funded charade end?" he asked.
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She went on to cast positive votes for The Philadelphia Story, The Spirit of St Louis, and Charade.
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The problem is that too many parties in this conflict have an interest in keeping up the charade.
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For most of the last year, talks have been a stalled charade that provides cover for Pyongyang's advancements.
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That said, that doesn't mean we write this off as one big public relations charade and ignore it.
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Don't post about your relationship if you're worried it will lead to having to keep up a charade.
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"I hope the American people will see through this charade," he said, angrily addressing the panel's Democratic members.
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Occasionally, the charade would grow too burdensome, and the women would slip up, becoming, for a moment, themselves.
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Both funds effectively went belly up after Shkreli's purported stock picking acumen turned out to be a charade.
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" Anand Giridharadas is the author of, most recently, "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World.
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But it released a message on its Facebook page on Sunday night confirming its part in the charade.
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They are a taste of inauthenticity, perhaps, a heretical sham — lame supermarket Tex-Mex food, a whitewashed charade.
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"If you're like most Americans, you didn't watch today's impeachment charade," Fox's Sean Hannity said after Tuesday's hearing.
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Over the course of this trial — which Wilders called a politically motivated "charade" — the party's popularity has increased.
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It is hard to be part of a charade of justice, left to wonder where the truth fits in.
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Senator Richard Blumenthal then moved to adjourn the proceedings, calling them a "charade and a mockery of our norms".
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Instead several family members, angered the detective refused to review the paperwork prosecutors presented, called his testimony a charade.
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And McConnell, who appears to never have had any spine to begin with, is going along with the charade.
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"We are not interested in a charade by the Chargers if they continue to pursue Los Angeles," he said.
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And the end of the "charade" may mean the start of more war stories with women at their center.
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The 21995 budget process is looking more and more like another dysfunctional charade laying bare the internal party conflicts.
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The Gorsuch hearings have been a charade, but the results are far more ominous than non-experts would understand.
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That hearing, on "Facebook, Social Media Privacy, and the Use and Abuse of Data," was something of a charade.
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Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) called the committee's handling of the documents a "charade" and a "mockery" to the chamber.
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The regime led by President Nicolas Maduro kept up the charade, pretending to be a democracy while monopolizing power.
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But hey, after the charade is over, at least we can marvel about how far video editing has come!
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Yet so long as voluntary practice time can be anything but, both the charade and the cycle will continue.
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Mike Pence will reportedly call North Korea's participation in the Olympics a "charade" during his trip to the Games.
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The people see through this charade and refuse to back down until a civil transition government has taken over.
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When North Korea exploded its nuclear test site at Punggye-ri last month, it was likely all a charade.
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When you string two or more steps together in order, as we did for PING, you're solving a charade.
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Take 3D: "Sneer," in this case, is the definition of your entry, which your charade is trying to solve.
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Drinking diet soda is a charade in and of itself, but at least this tastes a whole lot better.
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The plaintiffs accuse Mr. Neuman and Mr. Gore of providing false testimony in their explanations for this whole charade.
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"The entire public redistricting process in the fall of 2017," Mr. Jones wrote, "appears to have been a charade."
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Their investigative skills are being called upon to help create the charade, making them complicit in their own deception.
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This charade that Washington, or Trump more particularly, is imposing on the border is nothing more than empty rhetoric.
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She enrolls in singing lessons to no avail, but her partner (Hugh Grant) keeps up a charade of improvement.
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According to one TikTok influencer, Gen Zers flock towards the app because of its authenticity; it's not a charade.
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The charade that has taken place since to steer Theresa May toward further compromise is what ended in Salzburg.
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Republican members accused the Democrats of going forth with "a charade" of impeachment proceedings without initiating a full investigation.
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" (1/10/18)"The Russia-Trump collusion story is a total hoax, when will this taxpayer funded charade end?
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Indeed, here's the tweet: The Russia-Trump collusion story is a total hoax, when will this taxpayer funded charade end?
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One is to embrace the charade of social media-era dating, where nothing is real and everything is a transaction.
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The farcical attempt to keep sports clean is a failure at every level, so it's time to abandon the charade.
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We MUST let them know that we are not stupid and that we absolutely won't put up with this charade.
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An election on November 6th, at which Mr Ortega will seek a third consecutive term, has thus become a charade.
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Their three-way domestic charade is constantly in danger of coming undone in ways that are both comical and heartbreaking.
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Valenti's father, Joseph Valenti, called the investigation into his daughter's death a "charade" in a conversation with The Mercury News.
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It appears the whole charade was a prank, but also a way to promote her song "Deja Vu." Well played.
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By trying to sidestep the Clean Water Act, it can promote the charade that Pebble mine is a worthy gamble.
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Charade is a term that comes from the game, and simply implies a sequence of actions that create your entry.
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The editorial board should end the charade that its opposition to Judge Kavanaugh is based on process, and not politics.
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However, the public flogging was largely understood to be a political charade meant to pacify growing outrage at Russia's oligarchs.
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But then why should the FAA or would-be commercial pilots go through the charade that is the 333 process?
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New Sentences — From "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World" (Knopf, 2018, Page 31), by Anand Giridharadas.
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Still, to critics at the time and to posterity this all looked like a hypocritical charade and a cover-up.
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At the same time, it had devices like the extended charade of the prison being rendered as Elliot's mother's house.
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The polls are swinging against Democrats, and this charade of an impeachment is simply benefiting the reelection campaign of Trump.
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Members of Congress need to give Americans reason to believe the Russia investigation isn't a charade with a predetermined outcome.
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A majority of my constituents in Wisconsin — a key battleground state — do not support the impeachment charade against the president.
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Pieters gave a speech to keep up the charade that included a nod to his real occupation as a YouTuber.
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And suddenly, the standard-issue foam covers he'd been wearing over his prosthetics seemed like a clunky charade — Potemkin legs.
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"The funny thing is, there's this charade of all these rules and the rules are designed against us," Sarah said.
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The crime rate in California is high enough, and the Federal Government will not be paying for Governor Brown's charade.
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Even when Tom Hanks tries to throw a few jabs at Meryl Streep, he can't keep up the charade for long.
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Unfortunately, it seems this woman — or her concerned date — actually called 911, which probably took the charade a little too far.
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She's convinced they'll end up together and this show is just a charade they must enact before they can be together.
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But here, in tiny, uncultured, uneducated St. Louis, lives a community of people who aren't standing for this charade any longer.
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Now she has tripped over her words once again, and it is time to recognize this charade for what it is.
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So now, 22 years after you remember meeting them for the first time, you play out this charade of lifelong friendship.
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Looking into how they did it -- and trying to prevent it from happening again -- doesn't feel like a "charade" to me.
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Trump also called investigations into his campaign's ties to Russia "a taxpayer funded charade" on Twitter the day before firing Comey.
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Why would she kill him when she could have just as easily kept up the charade and whisked the Eleven away?
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It was a charade, both offensive and totally in keeping with Trump's years of racist attacks on Obama's legitimacy as president.
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"Our supporters are incredibly fired up to help us fight this impeachment charade," said Mike Reed, a spokesman for the committee.
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"Our supporters are incredibly fired up to help us fight this impeachment charade," Mike Reed, an RNC spokesman, told the Times.
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The book itself has a manic chanting rhythm as Guy keeps up the charade of being years younger than he is.
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Only Ford clearly isn't going anywhere (and by extension neither is Bernard, probably, despite the charade with Clementine and his firing).
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She spent the rest of high school living on a friends couch, and maintaining her online charade understandably became too much.
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To Mr. Gardner, the entire hearing was a farce, another charade by Democrats determined to ruin the president and his candidate.
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"We are not engaging in some sort of charade; we believe this is a matter of life and death," Sarsour said.
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No lawmaker who cares about the health of low-income and middle-class families ought to fall for this awful charade.
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He expanded his lecture into a book, published last year, entitled "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World".
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Mr. Trump ended the charade on Monday when he tweeted that "it doesn't really matter" what the Iranian was up to.
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Vera Kobalia, Expo's former deputy chairwoman, said in an interview that the public account of Mr. Ermegiyayev's fall was a charade.
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You are literally a part of what is a charade that will live in perpetuity, that is ripping this country apart.
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"The Russia-Trump collusion story is a total hoax, when will this taxpayer funded charade end?" he wrote on Monday afternoon.
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She starred in a string of films in the 1950s and 1960s, including "Breakfast at Tiffany's", "Charade" and "My Fair Lady".
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We all know the real kid behind the mask, but students and teachers are forced to go along with the charade.
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As well as "Breakfast at Tiffany's", Givenchy clothed Hepburn in "Sabrina", ""Funny Girl", ""Charade", ""How to Steal a Million" and ""Bloodline".
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The advertised "love affair" between Blake and his female assistant was viewed as a cynical charade to "bring heart" to his magic.
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I interviewed Cohen over more than a year for my new book Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World.
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Not just us but to the American people, this charade has gone on for over a year, and they found absolutely nothing.
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The first time I saw that, I was stunned to consider the fact Midge has kept up her charade for 113 years.
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The young man told me he was only attending, like anyone else who could see past the populist charade, to make connections.
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This week, Democrats continued their charade by throwing a planned and coordinated disruption of Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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The charade resulted in a private dinner at the end of November and one humiliating photograph, which has since become a meme.
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These new attacks are a political charade to mask the deep governance and corruption problems that plague his government and Puerto Rico.
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"We fully expect the people of Alabama to see through this charade and to vote in the primary coming up," Moore said.
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In many ways, then, he is not beholden to Jackson or to his Zen mystique, which was a charade by the end.
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For those who waited with me, this hollow charade was more than enough to temporarily dull the pain of a Clintonless world.
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"The Russia-Trump collusion story is a total hoax, when will this taxpayer funded charade end?" he wrote on Twitter on Monday.
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Democrats fully own this impeachment charade and will be held responsible by the American people in the weeks and years to come.
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If Democrats fail to learn the lessons of their political impeachment hoax, we can only expect the charade to be repeated again.
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Young women learn -- absurdly -- that their value as human beings is tied to outdated ideas of sex and the charade of virginity.
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The whole time, you're plagued by the nagging feeling that none of it matters, that the security apparatus is all a charade.
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It is fully aware that the nuclear deal signed by the Obama administration is a charade and does not moderate Iranian behavior.
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I was resentful for my participation in the charade, the limits of my race, and the fact that any of it mattered.
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They break that charade to get business-like for a minute to talk about this cancellation Unfortunately, it doesn't work in their favor.
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"THE gold sector is like a charade," Mark Bristow proclaimed in 2016, deriding miners for having too much debt and too little discipline.
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Abu Omar, a Failaq al-Sham spokesman, accused Damascus of trying to create "a malicious charade" as a pretext to attack rebel towns.
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Richard Blumenthal of Illinois said the lack of documents "turns this hearing into a charade and a mockery of our norms," while Sen.
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In his most recent book, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, Anand trains his focus on elite do-gooders.
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"The Russia-Trump collusion story is a total hoax, when will this taxpayer funded charade end?" he wrote on Twitter on May 8.
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Viewers are both intrigued and confused by what they're seeing, and how she's going to keep up this charade for three more days.
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The threat now is that Putin will be further emboldened by the perception that he can continue the charade with another American president.
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And I'm not talking about Facebook handing over your personal data to the highest bidder or Amazon playing puppeteer in its HQ2 charade.
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At that point, Stewart had long given up the charade that her butt was "all natural" and admitted to regularly receiving butt injections.
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But say she isn't straight, and had to hide it to crack America in order to keep up the charade—that sucks too.
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The good news is that, according to a study by More in Common, two-thirds of Americans are exhausted by the partisan charade.
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Even if it was always a charade, I'll take it over the pro-Cold War Hollywood propaganda of the Rocky series any day.
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First of all, why had he participated in a post-facto charade to make Comey's firing look more carefully deliberated than it was?
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I just won't think too hard when I do, so the charade doesn't crumble before the wave of cinnamon-scented nostalgia kicks in.
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He tries to talk Timmy out of the charade by telling him a bedtime story about a boy who does too much pretending.
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To exclude Members of Congress from hearings confirms the American people's suspicions: this is not a legitimate "impeachment inquiry" — it is a charade.
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As we mentioned, the guy doesn't know what's "real" about him to begin with, so of course he gets lost in the charade.
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The Supreme Court is now in a position to reject the charade of over-regulation on the pretense of patient health and safety.
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It's a remarkable, if dodgy, achievement that the club has managed to maintain the private-public charade for as long as it has.
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His roommate obliges, and finds himself so caught up in the charade that he sheds prideful tears at his "son"'s test results.
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People who support this point of view and cheer the Trump charade forgave his failings because they believed so deeply in his mission.
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Lewandowski claimed he "actually spent a lot of time preparing" for the Judiciary Committee proceedings, which he dismissed as a "charade" on Wednesday.
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It wasn't until she read the Times article that she "pieced together that his whole act and request was a charade," she said.
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"New Mexico will not take part in the president's charade of border fear mongering by misusing our diligent National Guard troops," Grisham said.
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All Might is slowly dying, and can't maintain the charade that he's fine, so he decides to make Deku the successor to his powers.
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Fans and interested parties reacted quickly to the whole charade, just as they did back in 2014, when Swift's last album, 1989, was released.
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That's the main reason there's such a grudge against "Despacito," so I will begin by saying you can keep this bullshit charade to yourself.
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However, he admitted the photos made him appear "stupid and hammy," and has since said he regrets his decision to participate in the charade
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The rest of us, including the majority of voters in the USA, see through the charade: after all, the schtick is not exactly subtle.
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An announcement by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in March that he was pulling back from Syria appeared to be largely a charade.
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The fact that they don't want the public to see it makes you think they know this was all a whitewash and a charade.
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No weapons inspectors or nonproliferation experts were invited to witness the detonation, and now initial assessments indicate that the show was essentially a charade.
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The proposal amounts to a nuanced charade, socializing the costs of unprofitable power plants under the pretense of thwarting imminent threats to grid reliability.
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Invoking the Logan Act was Yates's flimsy pretext for deploying federal agents against Flynn, but the anti-Trump media went along with the charade.
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But during opening statements a federal prosecutor, Tanya Hajjar, told jurors that the image he projected as the guru of Nxivm was a charade.
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It is Jing who is set to duel an enemy general for control of the city — as long as the charade isn't uncovered first.
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It instead uses sloganeering and insults to blast the impeachment as a "charade" and claims that it is a "dangerous perversion" of the Constitution.
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"Bits of advice on teasing" is a charade, or two-part clue: "Teasing" is RIB; add "Bits of advice," or TIPS, to get RIBTIPS.
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Republicans objected to Thursday's vote, pegging the hearing as a "charade" and an opportunity for Democrats to try to influence the 2020 presidential election.
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It also will hopefully shame the few other free democracies that carry on the charade that takes place on the banks of Lake Geneva.
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"This desperate charade of an impeachment inquiry in the House Judiciary Committee has reached its shameful end," White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said.
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But in Battle Creek, besides raging against the "Democrats' phony, dangerous charade," the president fired up the standard Trump show — and played the hits.
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And so, as Iowa is mere days away, concerned Republicans will continue this charade and pretend Donald Trump will not be the party's nominee.
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And he's betting against Moore's Law — that the steady growth of technology won't empower Russia's youth to connect and collaborate, and see through his charade.
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Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) was speaking over Grassley, calling the hearing a "charade and a mockery of our norms," protesters in the room began shouting.
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They hope that, if they can keep up the pretence that it was not a coup, neighbours and donors will play along with the charade.
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The series is a warm, mustachioed version of your favorite crime thrillers, as if you took Charade and added a few ironic cable knit sweaters.
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James Orengo, one of Mr Odinga's closest allies, said that the announcement was a "charade" and that the commission was in cahoots with the government.
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A lot of encounters are darkly, absurdly funny because they involve characters acting out a charade of normal life in a practically post-apocalyptic landscape.
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Michael ends his charade when he goes to work, Jean's continues because she' — no surprise here — invites Sidney to come to the hotel for pancakes.
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"What happened today was a charade in order for the questioning not to be held", Jabouri said in a televised news conference following the session.
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Donald Trump has now broken with this careful charade by becoming the first US president to speak directly with a Taiwanese counterpart (at least publicly).
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Late-night spoofs aside, some political commentators say Trump's publicist charade – and his failure to come clean about it last week – is cause for concern.
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This is not a trial, it is a partisan political process — or to put it more accurately, a totally illegitimate charade stacked against the president.
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Responsible fiscal action can be taken without the need to go through this charade of budgeting that the White House is about to kick off.
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"This wave of trials against lawyers and activists are a political charade," Roseann Rife, East Asia research director at Amnesty International, said in a statement.
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For the sake of the nation, let's hope the left acknowledges the weakness of their case and ends the charade sooner rather than later. Rep.
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Trump had lashed out on twitter last May, saying "The Russia-Trump collusion story is a total hoax, when will this taxpayer funded charade end?"
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While the tour itself is a near-total charade, the cancelled 'Manchester derby' in Beijing is a reminder of the true absurdity of modern football.
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"This parade is a charade," Will Fischer, an Iraq war Marine Corps veteran and head of government relations at veteran organization VoteVets, told VICE News.
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As AT&T's morning missive makes clear, a core part of this strategy clearly involves assuming the public is too stupid to notice the charade.
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Mr. Smorodinov insisted that even as he fired the shots into Mr. Mamchur, he thought it was a charade, a way to test his mettle.
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The charade will then move to the Senate, where it will end with a failure to convict and an exoneration for Trump as it should.
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Based on Tuesday, they will paint Trump as a victim of a partisan charade while focusing less on challenging the specific evidence cited by Democrats.
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"Do not use our music or my voice for your moronic charade of a campaign," Stipe told Trump in an email to The Daily Beast.
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When their families suddenly land up at their house, they are taken in by the charade and hosts a big Indian reception for the couple.
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Brown is expected to be on the trade block after a Week 17 charade that included a reported temper flare-up during a walk-through.
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But if a report published today by Business Insider is to be believed, it was all a charade meant to distract from the company's impending implosion.
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Real talk: A birthday party is just a lot of unnecessary small talk that precedes the real reason for the whole social charade—the birthday cake.
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For months, Democrat talking heads portrayed Pelosi as a reluctant participant in this charade, someone who was restraining her party's most stridently anti-Trump elements. Poppycock.
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London (CNN)Talks to bring peace in Syria are a "charade" disconnected from the reality on the ground, a former top U.S. military official told CNN.
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Donen was also acclaimed for sparkling, sophisticated romantic comedies and thrillers, reteaming with Audrey Hepburn for 1963's Charade and 1967's Two for the Road.
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In other words, art is not and has never been pure, but the contemporary charade of social justice has attached a violent bewilderment to art-showing.
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"They're [the current EPA] going through an elaborate charade as if their purpose is to make sure the U.S. does nothing about climate change," added Goffman.
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The event was effectively a PR charade, designed to show off Trump's business prowess to the media scrum, with the usual level of hyperbole and bluster.
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But whether the hearing was seen as a partisan charade or a damning blow to President Trump depended largely on a person's pre-existing political sympathies.
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Sure, a Republican senator or two might flake out and join Democrats in their perpetual opposition, but it's time to end this charade and move on.
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The ultimate goal of this entire charade is to undercut the Mueller investigation's credibility and allege that it has been politically motivated from the very beginning.
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The day before you wrote your letter he tweeted that the collusion story was a total hoax and asked when will this taxpayer-funded charade end.
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We urge the Senate to reject this charade and develop a real healthcare bill that improves coverage and enhances Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act.
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Visibly sighing and rolling his eyes, Barron looked like he wanted the whole damn charade to be over so he can go the hell to sleep.
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Republicans have blasted Democrats, accusing them of putting on a political charade that aims to damage Trump ahead of 2020, particularly by replaying the Mueller probe.
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"Why are we going through this charade of an investigation when there's no evidence that Donald Trump had anything to do with the Russians?" he asked.
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It's a battle we've been winning recently, as more and more teams have dropped the charade and just started giving their fans the information they need.
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The only difference: Mr. Stumpf, who was named Wells's chief executive in 2007, has apologized to the customers his bank harmed with its account opening charade.
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Anand Giridharadas is the author, most recently, of the forthcoming "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World," from which this essay is adapted.
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On Sunday, the editorial page undermined the whole charade—and, really, the whole point of an endorsement—by choosing two diametrically opposed candidates: Warren and Klobuchar.
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Nelly, clinging to the charade of the love that she's lost forever, plays along with his "Vertigo"-esque scheme even after his betrayals become slowly evident.
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In this world, everything is public relations, and the more shameless the charade the better because people will believe whatever is in their interest to believe.
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That is all to the good — but it would be better if the state (and others) did away with the charade and repealed the law altogether.
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To Mr. Gulen's detractors, his good works have all been all a cunning charade, propaganda camouflaging a vast moneymaking enterprise that sought to overthrow the government.
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On Sunday, the editorial page undermined the whole charade—and, really, the whole point of an endorsement—by choosing two, diametrically opposed candidates: Warren and Klobuchar.
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Holmes also misled investors on how much revenue the company was going to make, and faked demonstrations of her lab equipment to keep the charade going.
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"Generally speaking, this agency has erred on the side of openness," said Pai, expressing an eager acceptance of the charade that has become the agency's rulemaking process.
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The United States called the elections a charade to give false legitimacy to Moscow-approved leaders already installed in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics.
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When the men were sparring over the airport, "I found it more like a sort of charade," said Ernesto Piedras of research firm CIU in Mexico City.
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And the required Senate confirmation of a nominee may well be a "vapid and hollow charade, " in Justice Elena Kagan's words, since partisan support matters over merit.
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I got the sense this wasn't some well-rehearsed charade and that this was how he interacted with players and their parents, assistant coaches, alumni, or faculty.
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The teacher explained to his class that the charade was an experiment to show how disadvantageous it is for women to have so little representation in Congress.
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He even comes to have a sort of respect for Gould's charade: "The Eccentric Author of a Great, Mysterious, Unpublished Book—that was his mask," Mitchell marvels.
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Anand Giridharadas's "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World" is an important and scathing re-framing of the "doing-good-by-doing-well" adage.
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As expected, 20th Century Fox sues Crawford for breach of contract to the tune of $100,000, but Joan is nevertheless determined to keep up the sickness charade.
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People thought Gregg and Bella had reunited when he started popping up all over her Instagram this summer after her Cannes charade with Scott Disick went awry.
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Then Trump decided to withdraw from Paris after all—the debate was "mostly a charade," Axios reported—and the president and Pruitt were denier-heroes once more.
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"This charade is a PERFECT example of the 'political elite' that real Americans hate... these swamp people are truly unrecognizable to the masses," Eric Trump also tweeted.
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His path to the presidency was based on selling the charade that he was a genius dealmaker who could outwit the Washington establishment and end partisan gridlock.
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"The independence of the judiciary, a pillar of Hong Kong, risks becoming a charade, at the beck and call of the Chinese Communist Party," the lawyers said.
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Sitting down with Jon Fortt to discuss: Anand Giridharadas, author of "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World" and CNBC Wealth Editor Robert Frank.
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And while the incumbent has urged for a high voter turnout in order to try to affirm his legitimacy, critics have dismissed the vote as a charade.
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Sometimes there would be a charade; sometimes games, of which he was particularly fond; sometimes a country dance with the servants brought in to take their part.
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"It's not dependent on how lenient or how harsh the grading standards are in a given high school," says Professor Daniel Koretz, author of The Testing Charade.
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Let the facts come out from the charade of people, most of whom I do not know, they are interviewing for 85033 hours each, not selective leaks.
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Our president and his party make themselves out to be moral arbiters and are right now using our most essential government functions to play out this charade.
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A career con artist who often pretended to be a military veteran while engaging in schemes across the country was convicted on Wednesday for a recent charade.
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Candidates' longstanding practice of releasing a doctor's note was effectively reduced to a charade in the last presidential race, when Trump allegedly wrote his own medical note.
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The paradox of eating beans and rice for dinner one night while attending a lavish fashion soiree the next turned from an enchanting mirage into a tiresome charade.
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Kavanaugh had clearly been wronged and smeared, Democrats shouldn't be trusted, the accusations were a "charade," and Ford ... well, best not to address what she said too much.
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Few people have captured the strange politics of the Davos class better than Anand Giridharadas, the author of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World.
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Rights group Amnesty International has condemned the trials of Morsy and others in the past, calling them a "charade" that demonstrated the "deplorable state" of Egypt's criminal system.
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The chaotic world around these kids has turned their adolescence into a sort of charade, because they've all had to grow up with death and destruction around them.
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Everything from annotated film scripts for Breakfast at Tiffany's and Charade to designer dresses will be sold in a flagship auction at Christie's King Street headquarters in London.
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Like I say in the book, meritocracy is the propaganda that's like a charade, and the weird thing is that one person ... it's not just a lottery, right?
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And then he goes through this, what appears to be a charade, where he comes out the next day and briefs the president before he tells the Democrats.
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How do we get closer to this place where people can just live as individuals and not have to continuously perform or keep up the charade of manhood?
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Unlike his March tweets baselessly accusing President Barack Obama of wiretapping him, Trump's tweet about a possible Comey tape hasn't plunged the government into a wasteful, humiliating charade.
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But the Obama administration was willing to accept that proposition, and now Trump administration has decided to call a halt to what has been, at best, a charade.
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"We are a country of laws, and this charade has gone on long enough," Burr, who heads the Senate Intelligence Committee, wrote in a USA Today op-ed.
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Thank God somebody's willing to shout, repeatedly, that the "emperor" has no clothes, and hold their brethren (uh, yeah, they're all boys) to task for enabling this charade.
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Neither has the Russia investigation into possible collusion tied to Trump, which they see as an increasingly transparent charade that's wasting tax dollars and distracting from his agenda.
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" Instead, O'Donnell said, she's witnessed Trump "do the 'Destroy Rosie O'Donnell' charade in the same way that he's been trying to destroy the character of everyone, from Rep.
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The Boltons are in on this charade, as are the Lannisters, so a Stark-Bolton marriage wouldn't be a shock to Cersei as it is in the show.
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Andrew M. Cuomo, suggesting that a planned truce among warring State Senate Democrats was a "charade" — a remark that triggered a childish back-and-forth between their aides.
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The process of applying for political asylum — a well-intentioned charade, since only a fraction of African migrants are entitled to that protection — takes at least 18 months.
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International human rights groups denounced Mr. Jiang's trial as a charade, because he had not been allowed his own lawyers, and was instead appointed lawyers by the court.
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For almost a century, the Soviet Union and now Russia have been telling the world that democracy is a charade, and America's democracy in particular is an illusion.
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Gaed Salah pushed for an election to replace Bouteflika - a vote that many protesters dismissed as a charade, saying that the army chief kept the reins of power.
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"This is about subverting the rules that have existed forever, and engaging in a charade that somehow Sinclair does not control what happens on these stations," Wheeler said.
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The real loser is the American public who get to experience yet another increase in the size of government through a charade that has no end in sight.
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The "trickle-down" system the quote paints designers, magazines, and retailers in a symbiotic relationship as calculated as the outfits those orchestrating the charade always seem to be wearing.
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And, by the way, prosecutors blew it by sending out a press release saying they plan to indict him ... so why the charade of pretending the investigation is continuing?
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I should have saw the change in my baby girl instead of the love that we instilled in her that she was showing us and putting on this charade.
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" While acknowledging that "DeVos did not distinguish herself during her confirmation hearing with her knowledge of the finer points of education policy," Dalmia called it a "galling ... confirmation charade.
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In both Trump and Moore, the GOP has taken the mantle of the worst form of patriarchy: an assertion of male dominance without even the protective charade of chivalry.
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They could be put to uses so much nobler than what he's doing now, which is the kind of charade that leaves so many Americans so cynical and sour.
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Nobody would bother with the whole charade if the Clippers didn't make a point of preceding their annual catastrophe with a period of brilliance in which they look unbeatable.
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The speaker of "In the Age of Los Zetas"—the poem that follows the well-choreographed charade of "Neomachismo," glaring at it from the facing page—is not pretending.
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The 46.9m Charade (now renamed to BG) which was sold in August 2014 at an asking price of $13,900,000 by Northrop & Johnson was also previously part of his fleet.
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Dispensaries were often in barred storefronts, and their employees had to engage in the charade of scolding their prescription-bearing customers if they talked about sharing purchases with friends.
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It would be tempting to find all this negotiating a purposeless charade if it didn't have the potential to hurt millions of people and wasn't already taking a toll.
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"If Speaker Ryan cares about the integrity of the House or the rule of law, he will put an end to this charade once and for all," Schumer added.
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"New Mexico will not take part in the president's charade of border fear-mongering by misusing our diligent National Guard troops," Ms. Grisham, a Democrat, said in a statement.
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The pranksters talked to a number of different news outlets and kept up the charade by pretending that they just happened to capture the image in a West Hollywood park.
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After all, why did the party go through the charade of a primary, costing tens of millions of dollars, only to thwart the wishes of the biggest block of voters?
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Mr Blumenthal called the hearing a "charade and a mockery of our norms", and a voice from the back of the chamber added, "a mockery and a travesty of justice".
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Trump took to Twitter on Monday after a Senate hearing on the subject, saying, "The Russia-Trump collusion story is a total hoax, when will this taxpayer funded charade end?"
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It's all a charade: The women cluster in the van, then head to the police station, where they snack on Chinese food with the officers until they can head home.
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His book Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World has triggered a conversation around the implications of our economic structure and what should be done about it.
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Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Director General Nela Charade Puno said on Tuesday registration certificates for Dengvaxia products have been revoked because of Sanofi's "brazen defiance" of the agency's directives.
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But historians say both groups developed an uncanny ability to obscure the role race played in transformative events and to persuade millions of Americans to go along with the charade.
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Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (2018) by Anand Giridharadas is published by Knopf Doubleday and is available for purchase on Amazon and other online retailers.
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The document was deemed dead on arrival, as Republican leaders are this year forgoing the traditional charade of even pretending to listen to the administration's budget director at public hearings.
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He's the author of a new book called "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World," and I've gotta tell you, it's so nice to hear from you.
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Perhaps pro cycling could model itself after [World Wrestling Entertainment] so that there is no doubt of the charade being played upon its fans and other members of the public.
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Committee Republicans have repeatedly declined to discuss their findings about Benghazi before the completion of their report, even as Democrats assert that the "charade" has failed to yield new information.
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It's time to cut the charade: Ivanka Trump is not the hero that will thwart the Trump administration's worst policies and rhetoric and no amount of pleading will change that.
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Beyond the stomps and soccer kicks, its 10-minute opening rounds gave methodical grapplers room to breathe, and the judges' holistic scoring system eliminated the charade of round-stealing takedowns.
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But for those predicting radical changes in how consumer-purchased cars and trucks are built, bought and used over the next few years, however, it's time to stop the charade.
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Olivia and Malek's relationship is jittery and loving, and watching them participate in the consensual charade (Olivia's parents think he's Indian!) was just classic teen shenanigans with a sartorial twist.
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Of course, the real proof of the charade will come the next time Mueller pulls out his pen to sign off on a new subpoena involving someone close to Trump.
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"House Democrats have wasted enough of America's time with this charade," White House counsel Pat Cipollone wrote in a letter to the Democratic chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep.
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In retrospect, "Indiscreet" feels like a warm-up for the later film "Charade," with Cary Grant cast in both as a diabolically charming cad who wins over a skeptical heart.
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And when USADA knocks on your door at an inconvenient hour, how can you smile when you've just very recently seen that that this whole charade might not even matter?
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But for others, the questioning of administration officials over Iran appeared to be a charade for political showmanship, a recitation of questions that had been answered repeatedly already in other briefings.
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Because we're on in the charade between Christine and her clients — it's business for her; it's more than that to some of them — Christine's work becomes a hypnotizing game of control.
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"If I can light the world up for just one day/Watch this madness, colorful charade/No one can be just like me any way," Pink sings in the power anthem.
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In a post on Twitter, Judge Steven L. Reed of Montgomery County Probate Court called the order a charade and said he would continue to process marriage licenses for all couples.
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While many in the media have apparently decided to play along with the charade, I, for one, will not allow myself to participate in this shameful gaslighting of trans youth worldwide.
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Chamath Palihapitiya, the outspoken Silicon Valley tech investor, called the start-up economy a charade on Wednesday, while also addressing the current the state of Social Capital, his embattled investment firm.
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But the relative absence of martial marches — when we know that we could, without trying, "top" a Bastille Day parade (or a North Korean charade, etc.) — symbolizes the best in us.
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At its best, drag exposes the charade of modern life, the idea that there are set rules to follow, and even if there are, that you can win by following them.
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We hope that by exposing the chamber's charade, courts reviewing the rule will understand that the alleged costs to small business are the imaginings of Washington's largest and most powerful lobby.
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Pence will meet with South Korean president Moon Jae In to stress his concern that Pyongyang's posturing is a "charade" to distract from its goal of developing a sophisticated nuclear arsenal.
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That charade ends with Japan's withdrawal from the whaling commission, which is good news for whales off Antarctica, since Japan said it would limit commercial whaling to its own territorial waters.
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But Mr. Agnifilo argued that the promises Mr. Raniere made to Nxivm members were genuine and suggested that it was the government's case that should be thought of as a charade.
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What we're witnessing now is the end of the charade, the political equivalent of what happened when graduates of Trump University tried to get some value in return for their money.
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Making sure the rich clientele never catch wind of this idiocy is a tumultuous charade, and each week brings a new maritime foolishness the crew has to somehow put up with.
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Why even go through the charade of seeking reasonable terms for the 28503st century if it's a foregone conclusion that the president intends to tear the deal up in the end?
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Tebboune, a former prime minister who casts himself as a reformer, was elected last week in a vote the opposition regarded as a charade intended to keep the elite in power.
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In his book Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, Anand Giridharadas explains the mindset behind Bezos's seemingly contradictory opposition to higher taxes and support for philanthropic giving.
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Then there's Trump's opioid commission, explained by the president as the vehicle for finding innovative approach to solving the crisis, has been called a "sham" and a "charade" by a former member.
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Thankfully, Disney is loosening up on the charade by reintroducing our favorite web head as he faces off against classic bad guy, Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal), who will not "pretend" to kill him.
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It suggests they are, in fact, a charade for the mayor to hide behind, implying his final decision was one that came from these appointed bodies when in fact it did not.
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Republicans derided the Democratic push for impeachment as a sham, a disgrace, a charade, a Soviet-style mock trial and an effort to overturn the 2016 election and impede the 2020 campaign.
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Keep up this charade that 20 years ago you were wise beyond your years, possessing such a refined palate that it would only allow for masterpieces like PJ Harvey's Is This Desire?
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If he wants to prove wrong all those who consider the affair a charade, he now needs to conquer public opinion as a whole and to turn conflicting proposals into coherent policies.
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It may not have been a movie for children, but a poignant reality shines through the farce, and there's a human onscreen for a split second, admitting a personal charade is unhealthy.
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The show focuses on Grint's character, Daniel, an insurance rep and compulsive liar who is misdiagnosed with a terminal illness and decides to keep the charade going with his friends and family.
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"But President Trump just fired the man investigating how Russia meddled in our election and whether members of his campaign were involved, an investigation President Trump called 'charade' only 24 hours ago."
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What's more, there are many agents, owners and chairmen who have no intention of doing business so late in the window, even if they are happy to play along with the charade.
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The president should end the international charade and withdraw the United States from the deal, and then go about the business of ensuring that Iran's radicals never achieve their desired nuclear capability.
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But the more I thought about it, the more I realized he was doing something else, and it was something quite powerful: He was calling attention to our culture's daily charade too.
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In these circumstances, Justice Ginsburg is to be commended for refusing to submit to the charade of normalcy and for telling the simple truth that the would-be emperor has no cred.
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"I can take out my phone and book a flight to Cuba, and yet I still have to go through this charade that I'm going down for a cultural experience," he said.
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As players, we can see through the charade, and understand how Charles has taken advantage of Chris' youthful naivety, a literal punching bag for a father's inability to rise to the moment.
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When you think about Canadian heritage moments, the push for the best health care from people like [father of medicare] Tommy Douglas, the issue of Hep C tears that whole charade down.
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The action that turns the platonic sleepover into a fucking sleepover is ultimately arbitrary, since the whole thing is a charade, but the line between them is widely agreed to be kissing.
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This means lawmakers need to end this charade, go back to the drawing board, and thoughtfully and deliberately develop a plan based on sound economic policies that actually help real small businesses.
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Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, denounced the hearing as "a charade and a mockery" and repeatedly moved to adjourn, while Mr. Grassley ruled him out of order over and over again.
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"I ad-libbed a joke, a classic Cary Grant line from 'Charade' or 'Philadelphia Story,' and that meant not at all that that was an action I wanted to take," Weatherly said.
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"I ad-libbed a joke, a classic Cary Grant line from 'Charade' or 'Philadelphia Story,' and that meant not at all that that was an action I wanted to take," he said.
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At its worst, it is a charade in which civic bonds erode, power accrues to the few, self-aggrandizement becomes the norm, and tolerance and restraint are consumed by the howling mob.
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An older Cary Grant indulges in some romantic intrigue with Audrey Hepburn in "Charade" (19513), a sort of Hitchcock homage directed by Stanley Donen with more emphasis on bubbly flirtatiousness than espionage.
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For a long time, I managed to keep most of them a secret, but then my symptoms got too severe to keep up the charade and I was forced to get help.
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"Democrats spent more time talking about President Trump's Twitter account and their phony impeachment charade than they did a positive vision for America," said Ronna McDaniel, chairman of the Republican National Committee.
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Ferolla's illustrations and retro fonts appear on embroidered bed linens, do-not-disturb signs and the menus in the lobby's Charade Bar, which hired the head barman from the Dorchester in London.
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Deals that are struck under the charade of a fictive friendship may have more forgiving terms, and the parties may throw in sweeteners to secure the other's loyalty and cement the relationship.
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If they don't, history will judge harshly those who are participating in this political charade and secret inquisition, and the future will be unforgiving to our constitutional republic as we know it.
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And since she appeared minutes into the series' second episode, one woman has been at the true center of this whole charade: Gerri, brought to life by the incredible J. Smith-Cameron.
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The ACLU took credit this week for helping to end Trump's voter integrity commission, calling it a "charade" and accusing the administration of trying to make it harder for people to vote.
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It was a charade meant to appear as a real investigation, with the purpose of giving Republicans a fig leaf to confirm Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court without paying a political price.
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Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico, a Democrat, denounced "the president's charade of border fear-mongering" and ordered the withdrawal of most National Guard troops stationed at the border in her state.
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" Before the hearing room was stormed, dozens of House Republicans appeared before reporters with some denouncing the impeachment process run by Democrats as a "joke," a "railroad job," a "charade" and "Soviet-style.
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State of the Union speeches are defined by a charade: The president gives his laundry list of policy priorities, and the lawmakers watching in the House chamber promptly forget about most of them.
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The ongoing negotiations between the U.S. and the Taliban are a "charade" designed simply to provide the U.S. a "face-saving way out of Afghanistan," former CIA deputy director Michael Morell tells Axios.
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Even if it's not as consciously manipulative and pernicious as juggling people, this whole charade—keeping communication open, at a distance, every so often—is what makes dating these days feel so meh.
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Syrians voted on Tuesday in an election expected to deliver an overwhelming victory for al-Assad but which his opponents have dismissed as a charade in the midst of Syria's devastating civil war.
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The skits—one about when to use or, rather, not use condoms and another about refusal to commit—play out with reckless candor; the songs hold up the honeyed side of the charade.
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Instead of acting as surrogates for the real Trump, administration officials are engaged in a massive charade to pretend that the president is a much more moderate and stable leader than he is.
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In a kind of legal charade known as a "simulation," the two will visit a notary and testify under oath that the borrower has, in fact, sold their land title to the lender.
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Stephen Kantrowitz, a former Yale classmate, said in a text message that, "No one who lived in Lawrance Hall (so far as I know) has been contacted by the FBI What a charade."
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"Republicans like Kris Kobach, who Trump hand-picked to run this charade, have spent years lying about voter fraud in order to keep African American and Latino voters from the polls," Perez said.
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Even though North Korea has shown some polite gestures — like posing for pictures with other world leaders, releasing detained Americans, and halting nuclear and missile tests — it could all just be a charade.
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Couched under the odd phrase "denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula" (there are no nukes in the South), Washington and Seoul have engaged in this charade since 2005, when the phrase came into being.
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Boris Johnson, the former London mayor who campaigned for leaving the European Union and is now foreign secretary, managed last week to maintain the government line while simultaneously making fun of the charade.
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To honor the French couturier Hubert de Givenchy, who died this month, Nitehawk Cinema is hosting two brunch-time screenings of Stanley Donen's "Charade," for which Mr. de Givenchy designed Audrey Hepburn's gowns.
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If the past day's outbursts have any upside, it's that they reveal just how false this charade is — and show that American Jews are yet another minority group threatened by the Trump presidency.
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"Given that the federal Department of Justice and the White House have a long history of utilizing this practice, perhaps the F.B.I. can investigate them when this is charade is over," he added.
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But as Vox's David Roberts explained, the idea is at best deeply flawed, and at worst a charade to obfuscate the robust agreement that scientists have on humanity's role in the global climate.
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The near-comprehensive program has untold riches, but the most underrated may be "The Truth About Charlie" (Wednesday), a remake of Stanley Donen's "Charade" and a loving homage to the French New Wave.
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I've always enjoyed a type of puzzle called charade puzzles, which break words down into smaller parts and provide clues to the smaller parts, so such puzzles may well have inspired this theme.
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"We are coming to Washington to support our president, to stand with him through this impeachment charade," Tea Party activist and Women for Trump co-chairwoman Amy Kremer told conservative news outlet Breitbart.
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" The final tweet in the sequence featured a tweet by Republican National Committee leader Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairmwoman), in which she wrote: "Voters don't support this impeachment charade & it's going to backfire come 2020!
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ALGIERS (Reuters) - Hundreds of people protested in central Algiers on Thursday against the presidential election hours after polls opened, with demonstrators calling for a boycott of a vote they regard as a charade.
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As Trump does potentially permanent damage not only to the Republican brand but the American brand as well, Ryan and McConnell have an opportunity to end this political charade once and for all.
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Mr. Trump was "taking historic action to make health care prices transparent for consumers, yet the coverage on all the cables remains on the impeachment inquiry charade," his press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, tweeted.
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Anand Giridharadas, author of "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World," said he found the criticism of the donations to Notre-Dame healthy and wanted to see more of it.
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Rubio didn't reveal anything new on Trump, and his debate charade, which had all the grace of a kid telling teacher that Donnie cheats, will do nothing but remind his own people to vote.
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"Rudy Giuliani has effectively admitted that [House Intelligence Committee] Chairman [Devin] Nunes' demand for information about the investigation is a charade designed only to obtain material for the Trump legal defense team," Schiff said.
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Then keep up the charade by pantomiming a camera with your hands, flicking your index finger up and down to trigger the drone to countdown to snap a picture with its 12 megapixel camera.
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Cohen's admission reveals that both Trump and the Kremlin downplayed the extent of their relationship at the time the campaign was already well underway — and kept up that charade long after Trump became president.
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Chief Justice John Roberts said it "would be a kind of a charade" to make the Frys go through administrative proceedings if money's not a remedy that's offered and called it an awkward situation.
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I was just too tired to keep up the charade and keep lying not only to others but to myself, about what I actually wanted in life, and who I was as a person.
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"I'm sure saying 'I was wrong' is one of the hardest things to do in politics, but continuing this charade at this point is just silly," wrote Richard Azzopardi, a spokesman for the governor.
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"Republicans continue to drag out this political charade closer to the 220006 presidential election, and the American taxpayers continue to pay the price," top committee Democrat Elijah CummingsElijah Eugene CummingsCan the Democrats unseat Trump?
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Some stunts in this vein—a brand selling salami made from celebrity tissue samples, for example—attempt to carry on the charade as long as possible before the media start to figure it out.
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So, again, the Venezuelan regime is following the communist Cold War playbook, using a charade of democracy to create a veneer of legitimacy, just as "elections" are still used by Cuba and North Korea.
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She often wears bright colors and childish prints in pinks and purples — which Gypsy also wore because her mother was selling a charade that Gypsy was a child when she was actually a teenager.
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But that she was allowed to take part in the meet was, as she later said, a "charade": a propaganda tool to show the world that Germany was unbiased in its Olympic team selections.
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On "Hot Ones" and "The Therapist," the celebrities come into the host's arena, whereas Mr. Henry takes his charade on the road, which, when he goes to a subject's house, feels like an invasion.
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Though the name sounds noble, its work is anything but, so it is entirely correct that the United States no longer plays along with this macabre charade and has officially withdrawn from the organization.
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ALGIERS (Reuters) - A big crowd of protesters marched through central Algiers on Wednesday to demand Thursday's presidential election be canceled, chanting that they would not vote in a poll they regard as a charade.
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On Fox News on Monday, he said Schumer should "quit the charade" that either party leader is an impartial witness and reiterated that any witness decisions would be left until after the trial begins.
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At the height of his popularity, publicists would dress him in tuxedos and parade him through airports or book him an interview with David Letterman, to keep up — and poke fun at — the charade.
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As Anand Giridharadas reveals in his bracing 2018 book, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, philanthropy is structured so as to leave the distinction between the giver and the receiver intact.
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Some residents see the wind farm as a political charade, arguing that they are bearing the burden of above-market energy costs to enrich private investors, and that the long-term savings will be minimal.
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The harder — and more impressive — thing to understand is how UnReal's storytelling managed to hit devastating truths by swapping out Walter White's drug cartels and dusty deserts for the Technicolor charade of reality dating shows.
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"When the Court determines the truth, it will become clear that this entire charade was nothing more than a smear campaign intended to cover up Ms. Brown's own conduct during the marriage," the statement read.
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If you watched his body language in certain clips that have also since been removed, you can see as he remembers he's putting on a show for his viewers and gets back to the charade.
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His title, The Testing Charade: Pretending to Make Schools Better, sums up his conclusion that the reform movement failed badly because of its devotion to high-stakes testing as the infallible measure of educational quality.
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"This whole charade is putting Israel at a huge disadvantage in peace negotiations, and needlessly tests our nation's relationship with a critical ally in a volatile part of the world," Scott added in a statement.
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This election may come to be seen as the point in which Israel embraced the reality of its circumstances, ended the charade of endless negotiations and became a "normal" state with enduring internal security challenges.
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This was a crude crackdown on the news media masquerading as "justice," a charade that Myanmar's authorities — including the once-respected Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the head of the civilian government — must immediately abandon.
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The move sought, in part, to end an often awkward charade in which the United States would not concede its responsibility for strikes that were abundantly covered by news organizations and tallied by watchdog groups.
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"I am keen to see the end of this faux consultation charade, an ugly 18-month, psychological public relations game that has become the defining feature of this project," Mr. Balsillie wrote in an email.
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The hilarious charade in the season 5 episode titled "The One with All the Thanksgivings" prompts Chandler to accidentally tell Monica that he loves her for the first time ever — and the rest is history.
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If I was to falsify the natural presentation of who I am in order to be "better" at dating, does that not suggest I'd have to keep up a charade until death do us part?
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As he neared the end of his hockey career, which was spent mostly with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Tim Horton founded the company that bears his name with Jim Charade, a Toronto businessman, in 22018.
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Assailing Mr. Cohen as a proven liar, they denounced the hearing as a "charade" and an "embarrassment for our country" orchestrated by partisan Democrats seeking a pretext to try to remove Mr. Trump from office.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called the impeachment of President Trump a "charade" and "political exercise" on "Fox and Friends" on Monday, but added that Senate Republicans "haven't ruled out witnesses" for Trump's upcoming trial.
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But now that I'm working at a real desk inside a real office at a company that hands out Magic Mice by default, I can no longer look the other way as Apple continues this charade.
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Two authors, Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano, just released a book about Gibson called The Woman Who Fooled the World which details some of the horrendous things that Gibson did to keep up her cancer charade.
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There's the familiar bunch who pretend to be people that they perceive as more attractive than themselves, but on Tinder there's a group of users whose charade is much more peculiar: they choose to personify food.
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Because Fox News has helped turn the national image of journalism into a charade, and that makes it harder for people who are trying to do real journalism and inform citizens about the world around them.
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The charade is intended to make you feel "special" for being let into their inner circle, but it's also intended to make you feel not just sorry for them but also responsible for their feelings. 6.
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Against the backdrop of such bloodletting, the Kremlin engaged in a charade of negotiating with Kremlin-backed Chechen leaders, largely to assuage the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe that was demanding formal peace talks.
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"This investigation is a political charade -- a platform to elevate far-right conspiracy theories and undermine the special counsel's ongoing criminal investigation of the President and his campaign aides," Nadler and Cummings said in that statement.
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That Congress can fail to pass a budget with so little consequence — if anything, it boosted Republicans, by giving them two opportunities to try major partisan legislation — shows what a cynical charade the process has become.
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And yet, negotiations continued, with successive prime ministers making overtures to the Syrians, until the Syrian civil war — and the takeover of much of Syria by Iran and its proxies — put an end to the charade.
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THE TIGER HUNTER An Indian tiger hunter's son (Danny Pudi, from "Community"), having emigrated to Chicago, puts on a charade to pretend he's more successful than he is when the woman he loves pays a visit.
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But the president's story line left the White House struggling to explain his motivation for firing his F.B.I. director a day after calling the Russia investigation nothing more than a "taxpayer funded charade" that should end.
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What's perhaps most egregious about this latest Facebook charade is it seems intended to shift attention off of the thousands of people Facebook pays to labor daily at the raw coal face of its content business.
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I think that a lot of people play the kabuki theater, the charade, of a startup, but if you're just so preoccupied with your own happiness there's a general malaise that you bring into the office.
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He expressed staunch support for Mr. Sisi's latest counterterrorism drive in Sinai, and avoided even mild criticism of next month's presidential election — widely seen as charade to reinstall Mr. Sisi for another four years in power.
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In his new documentary about the fall of Theranos and its media-savvy CEO Elizabeth Holmes, director Alex Gibney had to wrestle with a question of motivation: Why did Holmes keep the charade going for so long?
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"I will answer my own question: the senior Democrats on the committee are out of touch, and willing to make themselves a party to a charade rather than take a tough stand," he said in a tweet.
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Read more: Trump used Mike Pence to tell Ukraine the US would withhold military aid while demanding they investigate corruption"This is a stunning indictment of this impeachment charade," tweeted Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel.
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The icon starred in dozens of films throughout her career, many of them still regarded as among the best cinema has to offer — Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Sabrina (1954), Charade (1963) and Funny Face (1957) among them.
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At a recent hearing of the standing parliamentary committee on public safety, Glen Motz, a Conservative member of Parliament from Medicine Hat, Alberta, called the idea of a ban "a charade" and that was just for starters.
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The diversion charade they orchestrated against me will be exposed As we reported ... Avenatti was arrested Monday for an alleged extortion scheme prosecutors in NY say played out over the course of a few days last week.
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In an online opinion piece last month, titled "What Obama's Town Hall Charade and Pam Anderson's Breasts Have in Common," Doug Giles complained of Obama's "rent-a-mobs" at a health care town hall in New Hampshire.
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Since the first days of the Newtown shooting, dark fabulists have grotesquely insisted it was all staged as an anti-gun-rights charade, even harassing a Newtown parent with demands to see proof of his child's death.
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Patrick Kennedy, who said that the Republican-led Congress had turned the work of the commission into a "charade" and a "sham," in part because there was no new funding made available when these recommendations were made.
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" But the ads clip her words, making it sound like the "potentially disastrous outcome" is referring to Mr. Trump's re-election, as a narrator intones "now it's crystal clear, their partisan impeachment is a politically motivated charade.
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Not Republicans, who are poised to "plow right through" to his confirmation no matter what (and will likely face consequences for it in November), nor Democrats, who have been so far largely powerless to derail this charade.
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Now the World Series team with the better record will host Games 1, 2, 6 and 73, a common-sense solution that ends the charade of tying the outcome of an exhibition to the sport's signature event.
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In a Fox News interview on Monday, McConnell described Pelosi's actions in holding up the articles as "absurd" and hit out at a political "charade" following criticism of Republicans who have already said they will acquit Trump.
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It appears to have discarded the Obama administration's "innocent passages" charade that purported to contest the Chinese claims but implicitly conceded Chinese maritime sovereignty by refraining from normal naval activities permitted under international law on the high seas.
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Fortunately, the side characters actually produce a handful of laughs, which is helpful, since Maya sports a pained expression much of the time, dealing with both the stress of her charade and a sensitive memory from her past.
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""How is it possible that they're all engaged in this charade of loving the ever-living hell out of mushrooms out of nowhere, in spite of the fact that they know you could die if you eat one?
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This matter should have been resolved months ago, but the continuing charade of negotiations between the Mueller and Trump camps has dragged on for months, bringing moments of truth about the investigation closer and closer to the midterms.
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Daniel Koretz, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the author of "Measuring Up" and "The Testing Charade," and one of the country's foremost experts on standardized tests, agreed that the question is, at best, ambiguous.
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Diana Buttu, a former legal adviser to the Palestine Liberation Organization, said it was important to "hold the (Arab) states who were part of this charade to account" but that it wasn't likely to strengthen the Palestinians' hand.
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They may conclude that, if you are going to have a liberal government, you might as will have a party in charge that admits to it — rather then one than parades about in a charade of tweeted hyperbole.
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Wasikowska and Helena Bonham Carter (as Red Queen Iracebeth) seem game to keep up the charade, as does Baron Cohen, who's quite compelling as the melancholy Time, once he stops bothering to try to sell the movie's lame jokes.
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While many Egyptians see the U.S.-allied former general, as vital to stability in a country where unrest since 2011 has hurt the economy, critics have dubbed the vote a charade after several credible candidates withdrew apparently under pressure.
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Conspicuously absent from Huckabee Sanders' announcement was any reference to the White House Counsel's office, which surely knew the claim of privilege was nonexistent, and wanted nothing to do with the charade the communications team is playing with Comey.
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Accordingly, it is easy to conclude that the environmental rationale for the Post's proposal is a charade, intended to mask yet another attempt by the political class to justify this latest attempt to extract resources from the private sector.
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Assad, who made the comment in an interview broadcast on Monday on Russian state-funded television channel RT, faced two challengers at the 2014 election which he won by a landslide, but which his opponents dismissed as a charade.
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Jerry Nadler, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, said the threat of holding Page in contempt was a "charade," arguing there was no reason why she couldn't review the documents and come in for an interview next week.
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I pleaded for U.S. leadership in stopping the democratic charade and warned that if Taylor were to be legitimized through a flawed election, he would be a cancer for the entire sub-region — Sierra Leone, Guinea and Cote d'Ivoire.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's legal team on Monday filed a lengthy response to charges he abused his office and obstructed Congress, decrying the attempt to remove him as a "charade" and calling on senators to quickly reject it.
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Chuck's hatred leads him to an elaborate charade centered upon a longtime claim that he is stricken with electromagnetic hypersensitivity, or E.H.S. The battery-in-the-pocket moment proves that Chuck has no genuine physical aversion to electromagnetic anything.
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Read more " _____ • Roger Parloff in New York Magazine: "The triptych charade employed to fire Comey — the Rosenstein to Sessions to Trump sleight-of-hand — is one of those grand and audacious lies that just leaves you shaking your head.
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"At that point, both the EU and Japan should face reality and terminate their financial and technical assistance to avoid lending credibility to what will be a charade of democracy," he added, speaking after a news conference in Bangkok.
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Speaking of turnout: While Biden needs to mull and put in place strategies to do better with young voters than he has done to date, he shouldn't get so carried away that the effort becomes an easily lampooned charade.
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The TSA serves one purpose and one purpose only: To create the illusion of safety, the perception that someone is in charge and taking care of things, even if any sensible person can see that it's all a charade.
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At the same time, I think winter is a harrowing experience that humans are still ill evolved to cope with, and that we deserve an elaborate charade to ease us into that and into the blinding horror of yet another year.
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After the charade unraveled and the Securities and Exchange Commision charged its Steve Jobs-imitating CEO Elizabeth Holmes and former president Ramesh Balwani with "massive" civil fraud, the company laid off nearly all of its 125 remaining staff in April 2018.
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Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, pointed to Democrats' impeachment inquiry as the justifiable reason, a ruling that further legitimized the probe into Trump's actions amid GOP claims that the investigation was a political charade rather than a legitimate inquiry.
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But all this is just a backdrop for Office Space's story about a bored cubicle-drone named Peter (Ron Livingston) who begins failing upward in his company once he decides not to participate in the "we're all friends here" charade anymore.
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"It's time for the Obama White House to drop the charade and admit it paid a $400 million ransom to the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism," Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus said in a new statement on Wednesday.
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Among his early notable films were 1963's "Charade," in which he played one of the criminal gang threatening Audrey Hepburn's character, and 1965's "The Flight of the Phoenix," in which he played a passenger on James Stewart's stranded airplane.
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In using climate denial to delegitimize any and all coverage and analysis of Irma, he's putting his listeners in very real danger for no other reason than to maintain the charade that has made him hundreds of millions of dollars.
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In his book Winner Takes All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, Anand Ghiridiras—who served as a sort of intellectual foil at this week's annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos—talks about this exact dilemma.
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As we see from the allegations about how antidoping tests at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics were an elaborate charade, it is only through the efforts of principled inside informants like Ms. Stepanova that the truth can come to light.
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Later that same day came the explanation of the press-conference charade, though hardly any U.S. news outlets carried it prominently: Israel bombed a storage base in Syria where Iran was keeping munitions, in an attack that killed at least 16.
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Whatever the merits of the legislation itself—and many of the provisions were worthwhile, including changes designed to reduce the power of money in politics, to close ethics loopholes, and to expand voting opportunities—Republican obstinacy turned it into a charade.
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"We want to expose the hypocrisy and corrupt representation that exists within our government, working not to serve the people but attack them for their choices and allow lives lost as collateral damage under a charade of well-intent," Griffith said.
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"The American public has seen this charade, has seen this dishonesty by the Democrats," Trump said, pointing out that a week-long FBI investigation, which Democrats have decried as a mediocre effort by the bureau, found "nothing wrong" about Kavanaugh.
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"It's a charade, practically, to say that we are isolating patients and going through these protocols when really we are putting them behind a fabric curtain and running short of masks or wearing masks that don't fit us," Ms. Udell said.
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NAIROBI, Kenya — President Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday was officially declared the winner of a bitterly disputed election in Kenya, but his opponent, Raila Odinga, refused to concede defeat, criticizing the vote as a charade and edging the country closer to violence.
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Sustaining the ruse eventually brings Veronica and Sierra together, at first in a symbiotic manner -- Sierra provides tutoring services in exchange for helping maintain the charade -- and gradually in what becomes an unlikely friendship that's actually more satisfying than the romance.
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It is long overdue that you, as Speaker, put an end to this charade and hold Congressman Nunes and all Congressional Republicans accountable to the oath they have taken to support and defend the Constitution, and protect the American people.
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" A "charade," wrote Frida Ghitis of the additional FBI background probe into allegations that Kavanaugh sexually abused women in both prep school and at Yale, "meant to give the GOP a way to confirm Kavanaugh without paying a political price.
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"I think the best way for Trump to secure Republican support is just stop the charade, recognize you've made a go of it, maybe some things in the agreement will be updated, but it's time to stand down," Mr. Ikenson said.
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But it may nonetheless be a turning point: It will mark the end of the charade of Palestinian leadership and autonomy by proving that even when Palestinians capitulate to and collaborate with their occupiers for decades, they remain shut out.
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He has kept up the charade ever since, avoiding the national spotlight and rarely making so much as a quip in public, determined to convince his constituents back in Anoka and Bemidji that Hollywood Al was a thing of the past.
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Nunes had to recuse himself from this investigation after his unmasking charade, but the rest of the committee's time would be well spent trying to salvage a credible investigation, particularly as we are nine months away from the 2018 midterms.
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Anand Giridharadas, the author of "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World," has argued that much philanthropy does far more to boost the reputations of the donors than it does to help create a more just society.
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If House Republican leaders really want to demonstrate fiscal discipline, they should end this charade and instead work to pass a rescissions bill to claw back tens of billions of dollars they never should have appropriated in the first place.
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The actor practiced and staged the charade and paid two co-conspirators — Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo — to carry out the attack, authorities say, because he was dissatisfied with his salary on the show "Empire," for which he has a starring role.
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For those who were already skeptical of the HQ2 spectacle, this felt like the final straw showing the whole thing was a charade designed simply to wring as much financial aid as possible from destinations Amazon had atop its list from the start.
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Don't tell Eve, but this whole presentation was a charade ordered by Carolyn to evaluate the rogue agent, particularly how Eve reacted to images of gore (barely flinched) compared to an image of Villanelle (she was barely able to peek at the screen).
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Anand Giridharadas, a former McKinsey consultant and journalist who wrote a book about the way elites function throughout the world, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, said Saudi Arabia has little choice but to spend big on Washington lobbyists.
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His admission, on Twitter Thursday that he did not secretly record his conversations with fired FBI Director James Comey -- after earlier raising the possibility that he did -- capped a six-week charade that damaged his presidency and cast doubt on his personal credibility.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - The jailing of three Hong Kong democracy activists this year is a serious threat to the city's rule of law, a group of senior international lawyers said on Monday, adding the independence of the judiciary risks becoming a "charade".
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But Donen also excelled in other genres, directing the witty Faustian comedy "Bedazzled" (33) with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, the romance-thriller "Charade" (23) with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn, and the romantic comedy "Indiscreet" (21980) with Grant and Ingrid Bergman.
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Today, before this ridiculous "security" charade gains any more momentum, America's 9,600 international nameplate auto dealers are asking the president to pause and consider whether this trade war is worth the job losses and cost increases it will surely inflict upon American families.
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In capital cases where "the client wants [his lawyer] to pursue...a futile charade" that is highly likely to result in his execution, Ms Murrill claimed, it should behoove the attorney to set aside that strategy in favour of a wiser legal course.
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Real historians have thoroughly debunked the charade, which willfully ignores the parties' historic flip on racial issues in the mid-twentieth century over civil rights, but D'Souza remains unrepentant in his quest to paint Democrats as the real racists of the Trump era.
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Subtitled "The Elite Charade of Changing the World," Giridharadas's new-in-paperback book "Winners Take All" explains the practice of philanthropy as a kind of shell game disguising the sins of the top one percent behind an ostentatious facade of do-gooding.
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" In a separate article in the National Review Online, Mona Charen wrote, "Maybe [Kavanaugh's soccer dad persona] is all a charade, but we should be loath to draw that conclusion without at least one more woman stepping up to recount a similar experience.
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After avoiding some minor disasters threatening to expose him, Michael cut the charade and helped the four escape through the Bad Place and into a portal leading them to an almighty judge (Maya Rudolph), who agreed to send them back to earth.
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"It is long overdue that you, as Speaker, put an end to this charade and hold Congressman Nunes and all Congressional Republicans accountable to the oath they have taken to support and defend the Constitution, and protect the American people," Pelosi, D-Calif.
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White House counsel Pat Cipollone called the impeachment process a "charade" on Friday in a letter to House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, ahead of the House deadline for President Trump and his legal counsel to announce their participation in the impeachment hearings.
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Patrick Kennedy, the former Democratic representative who was one of six members of Trump's opioid commission, told CNN in January that Congress had turned the panel's work into a "sham" and "charade" by not putting more serious money forward to fight the epidemic.
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Lujan Grisham has called for a humanitarian response to the rise in asylum seekers, condemning a "charade of fear-mongering" by U.S. President Donald Trump, who has variously warned of a migrant "crisis" and "invasion" at the country's southern border with Mexico.
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"It is long overdue that you, as Speaker, put an end to this charade and hold Congressman Nunes and all Congressional Republicans accountable to the oath they have taken to support and defend the Constitution, and protect the American people," Pelosi wrote.
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It turns out it won't even take that show anywhere else and instead says it will simply double down on its other second headquarters in the Washington area, which pretty much tells you that this was all a charade from the beginning.
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Though Cohen was able to snooker people like Dick Cheney, Sarah Palin, and others, there was a Riverside, California, gun shop owner whom when Cohen walked in, his name was Norris Sweden, the gun shop owner, he saw through Sacha&aposs charade early on. Watch.
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"The Trump White House 'iftar' is a sham, a charade, and a mockery of both the sanctity of Ramadan and the ideals of a democratic government of the people by the people for the people," said Omid Safi, director of Duke University's Islamic Studies Center.
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Hard fact: the 490 five-star reviews of Skechers' Energy sneakers on Jet prove that while the hype on hideous shoes could be considered a fashion farce by some, it's no charade when it comes to the most-loved sneaker styles in the world.
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When Cary Grant found out he was cast alongside Audrey Hepburn in Charade, he asked for the script to be changed so that her character—Hepburn was 25 years his junior—would initiate all of the film's romantic advances, according to the screenwriter Peter Stone.
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First, think hard on basic logic: At what point between Vice President Pence's invalidation of Kim Jong Un's Pyeongchang Olympics outreach as a "charade" in early February and Kim's courting of President Trump in early March did the Dear Leader's intentions become not fake?
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" Balderas said he filed the lawsuit on behalf of New Mexico drivers who were deceived in a "seven-year charade in which Volkswagen-made vehicles were touted as being 'clean diesels' and as eco-friendly tools in the fight against pollution from motor vehicle emissions.
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Ice cream cone in Charade (1963) Stanley Donen's technicolor crime-romance is notable for the chemistry between Regina (Audrey Hepburn) and Peter (Cary Grant), exemplified in this scene where Peter buys Regina an ice cream cone, only to have her spill it on him immediately.
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While the federal response to the opioid crisis appears mired in an unclear strategy and lack of funding—a member of the president's opioid commission said the Republican-led congress has turned its work into a "charade" and a "sham"—city officials are taking action.
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At the start of the trial, the chief justice should therefore request, surely nothing more, that jurors refrain from making any public statements about the possible outcome of the trial so that the proceedings are not seen as a charade leading to a foregone conclusion.
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The year was 2017: Billy McFarland made up an expensive festival with the washed rapper Ja Rule, didn't plan anything, got a whole lot of people to pay for the privilege, and then spent the money on himself and influencers to promote the charade.
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"Now that Democrats have decided to go public with this charade, Mark is in a better position to defend President Trump from Capitol Hill and let the newly assembled White House team handle impeachment from that end of Pennsylvania Avenue," said a former Trump aide.
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Rather than make the honest claim that it actively pursues racial balance and that there are good reasons to do so, the school must engage in a charade that nearly everyone working in the proximity of a highly competitive college knows to be false.
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A lot of critics out there Jerry Nadler, lots of comments from him today said, "This investigation, a political charade, a platform to elevate far right conspiracy theories, Congressman Meadows and undermine the special counsel&aposs ongoing criminal investigation" And then there were others today Congressman.
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The resolution of their feud is twisty enough, I suppose, but the buildup to it (especially the scenes where Arya and Sansa are arguing with each other to keep up a charade solely for the audience) fatally undercuts everything else the show is trying to do.
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Ian Bremmer, an American political scientist and president of the global risk-assessment firm Eurasia Group, argues that Turnbull's charade shows that world leaders think Trump is the "least capable person ever to sit in the office" and are "appalled" that they have to work with him.
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They decided to put themselves in the spotlight and to play their "but he hit me first" charade on the international stage where, it seems, the Brazilian government has made extraordinary efforts to avoid the negative reputation that these four hooligans placed squarely on that country's shoulders.
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Both are known for popularizing the "pretty boy" look in the sport, and these posed, very nearly sexualized portraits blur the line between fantasy and real-life, between the theater of the whole charade and the intense physical shape these actors actually had to be in.
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The most galling aspect of this whole charade is the mental image of people from a different generation, with no vested interest in club culture, no desire to see it thrive, and certainly no wish to progress it, holding the sword of Damocles over these places.
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Some scenes play like spoofs of a cancer dramedy Joanne is oddly the supporting character in a dramedy about her own death, but when given screen time, Shannon makes the most of it, screaming and vomiting and fighting against her fate without becoming a belligerent charade.
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"Congress should be working on the issues the American people care about – passing the [United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement], creating good jobs, and securing our border – not getting bogged down in what is clearly a partisan impeachment charade," AAN President Dan Conston said in a statement.
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This is the neat trick of how Republicans have handled the North Carolina scandal: They don't actually have the facts to justify their anti-voting crusade, so they'll take evidence, any evidence at all, even of some other kind of fraud, to keep the charade going.
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While Republicans play petty politics and twist themselves into pretzels just to vent their petulant resentment against Barack Obama, millions of people's lives are being toyed with, and we watch in horror a charade of governing by people without the least idea of what they are doing.
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"The word 'research' may have been removed from the side of the factory ship, finally ending Japan's charade of harpooning whales under the guise of science, but these magnificent creatures will still be slaughtered for no legitimate reason," Beynon, based in Australia, said in a statement.
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"I think that job training keeps being promoted because it solves a political problem both for elected officials and for employers, but it doesn't do anything for the economics," Gordon Lafer, a University of Oregon professor and author of "The Job Training Charade" told Ohio Valley ReSource.
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These are the queries that lend the most credence to the opinion of Amazon HQ2 critics — like professor and author Scott Galloway — who say the HQ2 "contest" was nothing more than a giant charade to wring as much financial benefit from Amazon's preferred choices as possible.
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They display a confidence that, because of their heritage, because of their regality, because of their class, they are somehow more than, even as they are in the same boat as so many of the people who see their charade for the false front that it is.
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But, apparently we are: Given that the emergency is defined vaguely as constituting something like "terrorists might attack the country," it seems like we should consider dropping the charade of annual renewals and just admit that "emergency" 9/11 powers are now a permanent part of the landscape.
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Photo: GettyAt a White House press conference today, President Trump accused former FBI director James Comey of perjuring himself before the US Senate—a very serious charge—and further advanced the ridiculous charade that he can prove it all with secret "tapes" which almost certainly do not exist.
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Jerusalem has been the pulsating heart of the Jewish people for 3,000 years, and now comes an American President and fulfilled his promise to move -- to recognize Jerusalem as the Israel&aposs capital, which is common sense, but somebody had to say it to break the charade of hypocrisy.
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"I was overwhelmed by the historic level of support I received in Q22007 from my constituents in the North Country and from Americans across the nation who were stunned by Adam Schiff's utter mishandling of the impeachment charade in the House Intelligence Committee," Stefanik said in a statement.
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"The obscene potential payouts in the contract explain why Cohen Milstein got into the #ExxonKnew charade in first place and, more importantly, just how weak of a case they believed they had to withdraw from it so precipitously," Brown said, referring to the Twitter hashtag environmentalists use for investigations.
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"It seems that Putin is Trump's puppeteer, and that House Republicans have decided to join the charade," House Minority Leader Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Mueller report fades from political conversation Five key players in Trump's trade battles MORE (D-Calif.) said after the vote.
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Ben SasseBenjamin (Ben) Eric SasseThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump lauds tariffs on China while backtracking from more To cash in on innovation, remove market barriers for advanced energy technologies Feds face mounting pressure over Epstein's death MORE (R-Neb.) urged his colleagues to drop the "charade" around Kavanaugh's nomination.
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"This investigation is a political charade—a platform to elevate far-right conspiracy theories and undermine the Special Counsel's ongoing criminal investigation of the President and his campaign aides, which has already produced five guilty pleas and criminal charges against 23 individuals and entities," Nadler said in a statement.
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It's a charade we've grown used to: an MMA fighter tests positive for marijuana, gets subsequently punished because marijuana is classified as a performance enhancing drug, and we all wonder where we can find the super-charged plant that helps you knock out Vitor Belfort in the first round.
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Ms. Hepburn died in 1993, and many of the pieces — film scripts for "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "Charade" (personally annotated in turquoise ink), Valentino couture, an engraved gold cigarette lighter and instantly recognizable photographs by the likes of Cecil Beaton — have never been available to the public before.
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Better was "The Truth About Charlie" (2002), a well-paced remake of "Charade," the 1963 thriller set in Paris about a woman (Thandie Newton in the Audrey Hepburn role) pursued by men who are out to reclaim a treasure filched by her husband, who has turned up dead.
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In response to Benioff's op ed, Anand Giridharadas, author of "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World," tweeted Monday, "...I don't trust business to behave better voluntarily, any more than I trust cats with mice care," adding that he supports raising taxes on the wealthy.
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I'd like to say that I cannot believe we are having this debate again, except I can believe it, because we've gone through this incredibly stupid and unproductive charade dozens of times before, and we will probably repeat it over and over until one day, mercifully, we will die.
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Elsewhere in the city, the Autocratic for the People series at IFC Center continues this week with Ernst Lubitsch's "To Be or Not to Be" (Friday-Sunday), from 1942, in which Jack Benny — as the "great, great Polish actor Joseph Tura" — leads his troupe in a Nazi-foiling charade.
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Stefanik was "overwhelmed by the historic level of support I received in Q4 from my constituents in the North Country and from Americans across the nation who were stunned by Adam Schiff's utter mishandling of the impeachment charade in the House Intelligence Committee," she said in a statement to Politico.
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It's entirely about moving the locus of control for privacy to the user, rather than playing the classic charade of providing "control" to users in the form of long, obscure and hard to reject terms of services with onerous requirements for the user re: their data sharing by the service provider.
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Last year, in his valuable book "The Testing Charade," Harvard University's Dan Koretz aptly captured this tension, noting that tests provide valuable insight into how students, schools, and states are doing — but that testing has also been distorted by overuse, ill-conceived accountability systems, and a fixation on test preparation.
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And the writers have contrived a scheme that makes it logical for Liza to keep up the charade (here be spoilers): she is part of a brand-new imprint for millennials, launched by Kelsey, her best friend, played by the endearing and shiny-haired Hilary Duff, giving digital strivers a good name.
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"Is it better to go through a charade process to get you the job, or is it better for me to just give you the job, because I don't have to go through a bid process, I don't have to go through an application process," Watt is recorded saying, according to NPR.
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With even a quick peek beyond his bubble, the president could learn much about the legions of government employees and contractors who spent the holiday season agonizing over how to cover their next mortgage payment or electric bill or trip to the grocery store if this political charade drags on much longer.
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But Trump campaigned in 2016 as the guy who would get rid of this charade, who would actually identify as a free-spending populist rather than a movement conservative, who would enable the G.O.P. to be a "worker's party" in its self-conception rather than just in its compromises with political reality.
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RELATED: The many paths from Trump to RussiaAs for the idea of these investigations as a "taxpayer-funded charade," consider this: A foreign power attempted to influence the outcome of a presidential election in the United States and, according to many in the national security world, will try to do so again (and again).
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Reporter after reporter at the conference asked people like Gates about the journalist's contention—in his recent book Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World—that making a show of Doing Good while benefiting from late capitalism doesn't make you a some kind of change agent, but a kind of soft fraud.
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His remarks won a round of applause from committee Democrats, who accuse Republicans of a political charade designed to discredit the Russia investigation being led by special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE.
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There Judge Kavanaugh, President Trump's second pick for the high court, will endure what Justice Elena Kagan once described as "a vapid and hollow charade" — days of tedious, predigested speeches by senators followed by carefully scripted questions, either softballs the nominee can hit out of the park or changeups he won't bother to swing at.
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"I think you're going to see a lot of things happen on November 6 that would not have happened before -- the American public has seen this charade, has seen this dishonesty by the Democrats," Trump said at the White House as he went out the door on his way to an event in Florida.
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Lest the United States fret about Pyongyang's crimes against humanity (which, according to a U.N.-commissioned report, "do not have any parallel in the contemporary world"), or the North's upcoming military gala, or discourteously call its sports diplomacy a charade, Kim Jong Un is reassuring his audience by closing out the festive day on Feb.
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" It's a breathtaking piece ("voters deserve better than this," it says at one point, decrying that instead they're being offered "a one-sided, stage-managed charade of scaremongering, spin… and censorship"), with the arguable highlight coming midway through when it offhandedly states, "of course, by 'England', like Amery in 1939, we mean the whole of the United Kingdom.
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Pence will be present at the games not just for ceremonial purposes but to try to offset the "charade" he expects the North Koreans to put on when they send a team and also march in the opening ceremony with their South Korean counterparts, according to the official traveling with the vice president and speaking on condition of anonymity.
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Image: TheBigDataIn related news, students at Georgia Tech were duped into thinking one of their teaching assistants was an actual human named Jill Watson, when in reality it was an AI. The digital TA managed to answer the students' questions with 97 percent certainty in a charade that lasted for nearly the entire month of April.
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"I was as frustrated, concerned and disappointed as anyone with Director Comey's handling of the email investigation, but President Trump just fired the man investigating how Russia meddled in our election and whether members of his campaign were involved, an investigation President Trump called a "charade" only 24 hours ago," said Clinton's former campaign manager, Robby Mook.
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But Hollywood is always at its worst when it looks the other way to protect its own interests, so you have studios playing into the charade, scrambling for their films to earn as many awards as possible, trying to roll that forward into even more awards and prestige, and hoping that somehow, somewhere the attention can all be monetized.
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That's surprising, because even being forced to play dress up in a cruel charade of what might have been, raising the hopes of children over and over just to dash them on the cruel rocks of reality, and seeing sadness continually overcome the faces of the young...Well, even all that seems preferable to being free in Fresno.
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It'd be impossible to predict how the public — let alone Swift and West's friends and associates, many of whom have weighed in on Twitter — would react; there'd be a ton of moving parts to coordinate and keep secret; it's unlikely that Swift would threaten legal action contingent on California's consent laws just for the sake of maintaining the charade.
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" As the charade of Ali Bongo's "recount" unfolded and the reality set in that he would not accept the elections results, it was heart-breaking to hear Gabonese-Americans ask us, "What do we tell our young people when they say they have no pride in their country or confidence that they can make it better?
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Pence will be present at the games not just for ceremonial purposes but to try to offset the "charade" he expects the North Koreans to put on when they send a team and also march in the opening ceremony with their South Korean counterparts, according to the official traveling with the vice president and speaking on condition of anonymity.
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This is also a group of people perhaps especially primed to fall prey to object relations—even though most contestants acknowledged the show's conceit as crazy, they went into this experiment comfortable with the idea of getting married at the end of it, eliminating the dating charade of pretending like you aren't really even looking for something.
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Rand PaulRandal (Rand) Howard PaulSekulow indicates Trump should not attend impeachment trial Trump sets record for tweets as president on day House makes impeachment case Rand Paul invites Trump to see 'partisan charade' at Senate trial MORE (R-Ky.), the loudest advocate for a restrained U.S. foreign policy and a recent critic of Trump's action against Iran.
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Compare that to this week's baffling episode, "An Obol for Charon," directed by Lee Rose, which took us through this ridiculous charade of making it seem as if Saru would actually die — complete with a death bed scene and what were essentially Kelpien last rites — only to violate the audience's trust but having it all be for naught.
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The whole scheme seemed like a product of the exact system he detailed in his book Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, which depicts how the super rich use the aura of philanthropy and gifts to perpetuate a cycle of wealth in which only a few people have access to a quality life.
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Some, like the entire Bush family, have decided that their stomachs will not allow them to participate in this charade any longer; perhaps there will be enough of them to actually save the G.O.P. BROOKE MAGID HART Minneapolis To the Editor: Peter Wehner, in his thought-provoking article, urges the Republican Party to examine its values and heed the lessons of Abe Lincoln.
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Not by inspiring deep loyalty in the base, but rather by getting incredibly favorable treatment from journalists and centrists eager to show their bipartisanship by finding a serious, honest Republican to praise — or at least someone able to do a passable job of playing that character on TV. And as the latest from Fix the Debt shows, the charade is still going on.
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In this penultimate season — the show will only return for one more — Kim is learning a truth that Jimmy's in denial of: no matter how much you tell someone that they are capable of being honest or good, once they have decided that truth does not pay, it's only a matter of time before they stop maintaining the charade altogether.
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Rand PaulRandal (Rand) Howard PaulSekulow indicates Trump should not attend impeachment trial Trump sets record for tweets as president on day House makes impeachment case Rand Paul invites Trump to see 'partisan charade' at Senate trial MORE (R-Ky.) inviting him to attend the impeachment trial, shared promotional videos from his social media director and promoted clips that sought to undercut Democrats' case.
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A reliable Democratic poll last year gave him a 57 percent to 31 percent negative rating, considerably worse than his junior Republican colleague, Rand PaulRandal (Rand) Howard PaulSekulow indicates Trump should not attend impeachment trial Trump sets record for tweets as president on day House makes impeachment case Rand Paul invites Trump to see 'partisan charade' at Senate trial MORE.
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The Dead: Robert Baratheon, Joffrey Baratheon (illegitimate), Myrcella Baratheon (illegitimate), Renly Baratheon, Shireen Baratheon, Selyse Baratheon, Stannis Baratheon Season 5: The obscene charade of Jon Snow's "death" in the finale did a lot to overshadow the Lear-ian undoing of Stannis, last legit claimant to the throne, which registered precisely because there were no dramatic reversals or last-minute enchantments to save the Mannis from himself.
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Yet the issue of impeachment divides the country and, with the absence of any Republican support, now risks a reprise of the partisan 22019 Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson ClintonBen Shapiro: No prominent GOP figure ever questioned Obama's legitimacy The Hill's 12:30 Report: Trump tries to reassure voters on economy 3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 MORE impeachment charade.
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But from the early 19593s on, hardly a year went by without a Kennedy picture — often there were four or five a year — and he was memorable as the heavy in "Charade" (1963), with Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant; as an Army major in "The Dirty Dozen" (1967); as a regular in the "Airport" pictures, and later as Leslie Nielsen's dumbstruck captain in the "Naked Gun" comedies.
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Doug CollinsDouglas (Doug) Allen CollinsThe Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - House panel expected to approve impeachment articles Thursday Parties clash as impeachment articles move closer to House vote House passes bill that would give legal status to thousands of undocumented farmworkers MORE (D-Ga.), did a great job at Wednesday's hearing of pointing out how ridiculous the new phase of this impeachment charade really is.
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He won critical praise for the romantic comedy "Indiscreet" (1958), starring Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant; the Hitchcockian comic thriller "Charade" (1963), with Grant and Audrey Hepburn; the manic "Bedazzled" (1967), starring and written by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore; and "Two for the Road" (1967), a romantic comedy written by Frederic Raphael, which starred Hepburn and Albert Finney (who died on Feb. 7).
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Former New York City Mayor Michael BloombergMichael Rubens Bloomberg2020 candidates condemn Senate for acquitting Trump, set sights on election The Hill's Campaign Report: Democrats tout Obama ties as race shifts to New Hampshire Tlaib: DNC rules committee members working on Bloomberg campaign is a 'conflict of interest' MORE called the Senate trial a "charade" and the vote a "disgrace," before encouraging people to focus on the 2020 election.
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So before we go chasing people who may never vote for a Democrat, we need to do a better job to stand up to voter suppression, to stand up against the illegal gerrymandering that the Republicans engage in, to stand up to the phony commission that Trump has going to try to prevent "voter fraud" when it's just another charade and excuse for doing more to suppress votes.
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The protagonist endures muscle-strength testing on newfangled machinery, a blood test in a room that features high piles of stinking, blood-soaked cotton balls, a piss test that the men prepare for in a circle, "making beer," as they joke, and then finally, the doctor's examination, in which the protagonist, for the hell of it, seeing that the whole thing is a charade, announces that he is missing one testicle.
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Earlier this summer, an Irish reporter apparently made the mistake of asking Walsh about some of his opinions, and he responded by dragging couples who get married in churches just for the ambience ("It's a charade"); by dragging their non-believing friends who attend the weddings ("They don't even pretend to have faith"); and by dragging parents who let their kids run around during the service (fair enough).
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Reagan would be outraged by the behavior of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin NunesDevin Gerald NunesJuan Williams: Trump, his allies and the betrayal of America Trump expected to nominate Texas GOP lawmaker to replace Dan Coats: report House Republicans claim victory after Mueller hearings MORE (R-Calif.), who has turned the committee into a widely discredited partisan charade that spends more time undermining American counterintelligence than investigating the Russian attack against America.
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She'll ground him for sure, cut his allowance, probably report him to his father (who won't do much more than snarl over the phone from Oregon, where he's living with Jennifer and never coming back), and then go through the whole charade of taking away his phone and his games for a week, or however long she thinks is going to impress on him just how dangerous that kind of behavior is.
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"We are very much looking forward to Mr. Carrey finally being placed under oath next week and forced to answer the questions he has been dodging for years, such as why he provided illegal drugs to Ms. White, why he gave Ms. White multiple STDs and then lied about it, and why he has engaged in a public charade of innocence crafted by his handlers," said Sweetman and Burton's lawyer Michael Avenatti.
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Get the entire country to focus, for one brief moment, on the charade that is our political system, the outrage that the person who should be president is instead on a book tour explaining to all of us what went so horribly wrong, and that even in this moment she can still be targeted in a high-profile way by someone whose main claim to fame is raising prices on lifesaving drugs.
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At this point, it isn't just government ethics watchdogs who are pointing out the contrast between candidate Donald Trump's promise to "drain the swamp," and the charade taking place at President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's White House.
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