I taught myself — French knots, satin, stem, and couching stitches.
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Surgical instruments, including a tourniquet, couching needles and amputating knives. Engraving.
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It's simple math, couching your social status in a numerical tally.
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No longer is the game couching your actions as "investigating" new monsters.
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Yet couching these achievements in a testament to Joseph Pulitzer's enduring genius seems trivializing.
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Razer is certainly couching the initiative as an altruistic method for bolstering the developer community.
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"She's the best of the two," insisted Bill, before couching his support with a caveat.
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For temporary departures from couching, you can just drop everything right where you were sitting.
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Now Ryan is couching his unwillingness to immediately support Trump on policy and agenda differences.
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The group uses a number of techniques, like the "laid couching" treatment to repair tears.
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Hence Facebook's white paper couching portability tools as "helping keep competition vibrant among online services".
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Mr. Veloso and Mr. Gil also share an ingenious gift for couching pointed lyrics in sweetness or uplift.
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Couching their practice as dance, the slaves trained in capoeira as a form of resistance and self-defense.
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That has the upside of couching the move in ideologically progressive language rather than in practical institutional politics.
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Memes like Pepe, Anglin writes, "embody the goal of couching idealism within irony" so that it can spread subtly.
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UConn players didn't make a big show of couching their 100 straight wins as a victory for women's sports.
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It also has the same unnerving childlike quality as "Mom and Dad's Pussy," further couching everything in a weird obliviousness.
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Instead of couching these sentiments in angry punk, Japanese Breakfast leader Michelle Zauner performs "Till Death" as pure 70s schmaltz.
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Without it, he said he suffers from couching, throws up and has a hard time breathing and has chest pain.
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Couching sexuality as a choice gives rise to things like conversion therapy, in which people try to pray the gay away.
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Younas says he's not worried about fresh faces entering the same matchmaking app space — couching it as a validation of the market.
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They're fiercely anti-immigration and particularly critical of Islam, couching their bigotry as a reasonable precaution and stoking fear about homegrown terrorism.
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Mr. Awda's critics consider him a wolf in sheep's clothing and accuse him of couching his calls for revolution in religious terms.
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With a folksy Pete Seeger-like appeal, Sanders proved adept at couching worn-out 1930's left-wing bromides into new-sounding pabulum.
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By couching prejudice and fear in the language of Article 9 exceptions, the court in effect uses human rights laws to limit human rights.
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It was a classic Obama construction — to recast a failure by couching it in a broader arc, with a win just around the bend.
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But he also took the high road, couching those attacks with a compliment: "I like Hillary Clinton and I respect Hillary Clinton," he said.
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The account seems to have a particular soft spot for memes about SpongeBob and the Avengers, couching them in captions about worship and youth groups.
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There was no caveating, couching, or restraint on the part of Rick Scott and Donald Trump when the Florida Senate election headed to a recount.
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Dr. Tanton came under sharp criticism for corresponding with white nationalists and for couching the fight to reduce immigration as a racial and demographic struggle.
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And in 2005, the experimental house musician King Britt put out an album of remixes, couching Morgan's recordings in hollowed-out beats and fibrous ambience.
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Uber lobbied against these proposed changes, couching them as a specific attack on its business and an attempt to "address the concerns of black cab drivers".
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It is unclear whether couching these proposals in secular terms would put them in a better light if they were adopted and then challenged in court.
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There has been no caveating, couching, or restraint on the part of Rick Scott and Donald Trump as the Florida Senate election heads to a recount.
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Unlike her normal demands to establish more bureaucracy, higher taxes and more government regulation, Warren and her allies are couching their arguments in the free market.
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So, couching their story in a rambling, romping murder mystery turns them into entertainment for us rather than us into cogs in the wheel for them.
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Still, Cheney made clear his views were personal and he took no sweeping political action, couching the question of same-sex marriage as a states' rights issue.
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However the watchdog also makes a point of underlining Uber's problematic handling of the incident, couching this as "inadequate decision-making", not merely censuring Uber's also "inadequate" security.
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The Richard Riots—a politicized event often linked to Quebec's Quiet Revolution of the 1960s—bookend the film, couching the player's biography within the province's socio-political history.
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Buried low down in the earnings report, Redmond notes phone revenue "declined 49% in constant currency" — couching this as a reflection of "our strategy change announced in July 2015".
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That's not necessarily a bad thing, since letting arty concepts go down easier by couching them in inviting, well-made surroundings is a skill not many artists ever learn.
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I love scary movies, and the ones that are my speed are the ones that I feel are using it as a metaphor, or couching something important in entertainment.
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In the case of "Falsettos" (Ghostlight), this seems to result from the musical's deliberate couching of extremely serious material in the jaunty, sometimes snarky doodliness of William Finn's score.
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Instead of couching the problem in the anodyne language of software, proponents of action began to describe in concrete and frightening terms how the bug could alter modern life.
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Trump officials like Seema Verma, who oversees the program, have been defending these new requirements by couching them in language about the American dream and the dignity of work.
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The company confirmed a total of $330 million back in August, which should give it wiggle room, especially given the importance the company's executives place on couching expectations early on.
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By The Economist's count, the session's leader advocates at least five vote-rigging methods, couching them in banal terms such as "strategy" and "technique" and interspersing them with legitimate advice.
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The band has never been an outright political entity, but Halford has certainly never been shy about his opinions, often couching societal commentary within his grandiose, big-idea lyrical schemes.
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Asked to recount their lengthy love affair, they noted the absurdity of couching it — a romance incubated in the hell of the Holocaust — in the frilly trappings of Valentine's Day.
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Couching the GOP efforts in just that way will simultaneously delight the Democrat base and enrage conservatives just enough to undermine Republican Congressional agenda on this issue for a long time.
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It may not be intuitive to discuss how trying to demystify memetic messages instead works to amplify them, but that's precisely what couching the manifesto in memes allows it to do.
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While U.S. officials did not target China in their comments, couching freedom-of-navigation patrols as a "routine" assertions of international law, Beijing was quick to cast Washington as the provocateur.
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Couching characteristics in the language of astrology seems to make it easier for many people to hear, or admit, unpleasant things about their personalities—and to accept those traits in others.
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But even before it was adopted it faced fierce criticism — with data protection and privacy experts couching it as an attempt to put lipstick on the same old EU-law breaching pig.
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It's actually part of a time-honored culture war waged by right-wing extremists through the ages that helps them normalize their hateful ideas by couching them in familiar or appealing trappings.
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She speaks out about the Black experience, from the culture to her afro to Black girl magic, and doesn't give a shit about couching her experience in abstract terms the establishment could understand.
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In another, she explores of cultural fatphobia and the slippery language couching "health concerns" as a way to humiliate people into denying their bodies the sustenance they need and the pleasure they deserve.
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Even couching the language of fingerprint analysis in more uncertainty, as the new language standards do, doesn't change the fact that there haven't been any studies that actually prove that everyone's fingerprint is unique.
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The company is couching the significant price drop as the delivery on a promise to make the system more accessible, part of a discount planned to coincide with the release of its next device.
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" It's one of those fascinating moments when you can watch a star in real-time consider whether it's worth speaking about part of the hidden creative process, doing so, and couching it in "lols.
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Apple refused to do so, couching this as a request for a backdoor, and in the end the FBI managed to break into the device by purchasing an exploit from a third party company.
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Ever the keen observer, Grande flipped the moment to tout her latest music–as well as a new song from friend and fellow superstar Miley Cyrus—by couching it as a reclamation of spotlight.
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Ocasio-Cortez, too, has made a powerful case for issues she cares about, like a $15 minimum wage, by couching political discussions in her experience as a waiter and a member of the working class.
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A third co-founder, CFO Arvind Rao, tells us Siilo transplanted eBuddy's messaging dev team — couching this ported in-house expertise as an advantage over some of the smaller rivals also chasing the healthcare messaging opportunity.
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"We have massive competitors in the enterprise space, but none of them are startups," he argues, couching the team's software chops — two of the three co-founders are ex-Apple — as a key (ha!) disruptive advantage.
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Its plan for Brexit won't help As for Johnson, Trump called him "a very talented guy," lamented his resignation and, while couching his comment in regard to May, said Johnson would make a good head of government.
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Live video chatting isn't as informative as meeting in person, of course, but it's the next best thing technology can deliver for now — hence Badoo couching the feature as a way to "audition your date" before you meet.
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For that matter, is it just reinventing the wheel — taking a practice we already know is good for us and giving it the sheen of cool by couching it in neuroscientific terms, then marketing it back to us?
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The thing that made the first Wedding such a monster sleeper hit was that Vardalos was very smart about couching what seemed like a very specific story about her actual family in one that was much more universal.
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" In Iowa, Buttigieg spoke about those issues in what he called the "vocabulary of the Midwest," couching health care, marriage equality, voter suppression, and economic opportunity in the three things he said he valued most: "Freedom, security, and democracy.
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"Prostitution can't be made 'a little better' any more than domestic violence can be made 'a little better,'" the campaign's FAQ argues, couching sex work itself as a fundamentally exploitative industry in which women are preyed on and trapped.
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Ralph Abraham (R-La.) introduced the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, Assessment, and Auditing Act of 2017 earlier this week, couching it as a response to recent high-profile cyber breaches like those at the Office of Personnel Management and IRS.
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And though writing what she least wants to write is a better policy than writing what people least want to see, there's a slightly ambivalent quality to this one, a couching of its subject that becomes the subject instead.
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" When the panel was asked about the President's handling of escalating tensions over the nuclear threat in North Korea, supporter Daphne Goggins laughed, then suggested the US preemptively strike the nation before couching her apparent joke with a follow-up: "No.
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From here, we have Asher Roth couching his ode to American Pie frat house antics in the aching strums of "Say It Ain't So" (or is it John Mayer?) and Machine Gun Kelly bombastically covering that acoustic Rise Against song.
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But choosing Mr. Cotton as C.I.A. director would be the latest in a string of appointments by Mr. Trump that reflect his preference for loyalists who are unapologetic about couching their hawkish stances on national security issues in sharply partisan terms.
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When most candidates initially responded by couching their condemnations of the attack with reminders of Soleimani's own bloody rap sheet, Sanders skipped straight to warning against a military escalation and calling for congressional action to arrest any push for war.
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"But if the person is couching de-extinction in terms of conservation, then she or he needs to have a very sober look at what one could do with those millions of dollars with living species — there's already plenty to do."
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In a blog post published last month after the leak, Google product manager for search, David Monsees, claimed manual reviews of Google Assistant queries are "a critical part of the process of building speech technology", couching them as "necessary" to creating such products.
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Facebook's announcement of an intention to increase UK headcount follows Google's UK-focused publicity last week when the company re-announced a long planned expansion of its London campus — couching the move as a continued commitment to the UK in spite of Brexit.
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Openly borrowing civil rights tactics of mobilizing local political supporters, cultivating influential politicians, and crafting a sympathetic media narrative, racial segregationists found that by couching their advocacy of white supremacy as "anti-busing" protests, they were able to successfully halt racial integration in public schools.
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A tipster, Ali Duff, reported finding the new feature to us after updating the iOS app today — sending a few screenshots, including this splash screen promoting Messenger Day: Facebook confirmed Messenger Day has arrived for some users in Australia, couching it as "a small test".
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The initial declaration document on ethics and AI is intended to be just the start, she said — warning that "if we can't act we will not be able to collectively control our future", and couching ethics as "no longer an option, it is an obligation".
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I tried couching it with some marriage material, and I tried talking about other societal woes and fun stuff—but there was just no way to segue out of lighter fare into race, so for me the only choice was to dive right in.
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The company is couching the news as part of its planned evolution from "the number four handset manufacturer in North America to a tier one portfolio brand," an update that apparently involves a lot of BlackBerry branding, in a deal that echoes HMD's forthcoming Nokia-branded smartphones.
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Earlier in the day, Mr. Trump told reporters that he was open to accepting the help — but not before couching it by saying "we'll see what happens," a rhetorical device he commonly uses as a way to extend his decision-making timeline on pressing geopolitical matters.
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Kubitschek does not hesitate to provoke in the service of his New Right cause, but he also has a talent for couching his illiberal ideology in innocuous-seeming, even liberal-sounding precepts that keep him within the bounds of acceptable discourse even as he expands them.
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" Most insidiously of all, Cross defends the male cast members for disregarding Walter for crying during the NYT interview, couching this disregard in the language of concern because: "Whenever there's an occasion that somebody cries, it doesn't matter how many times they've cried before, that's a bad thing.
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Turning to China, the story last year was flat smartphone sales, and Gartner is expecting "little growth" in the region in the next five years — couching it as a "saturated yet highly competitive" market — and noting that sales of smartphones represented 95 per cent of total mobile phones sales last year.
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After some discussion around Trump stating Wednesday that he held Putin "personally responsible" for the 2016 hacking, co-host Ainsley Earhardt introduced a montage of four past Trump statements on the issue, which all included the president couching his statements by noting others apart from Russia may have also meddled.
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Nonetheless the Commission is couching the concession as a win for consumers, trumpeting the forthcoming changes to Facebook's T&C in a press release in which Vera Jourová, commissioner for justice, consumers and gender equality, writes: Today Facebook finally shows commitment to more transparency and straight forward language in its terms of use.
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In July Airbnb agreed to work with Barcelona to remove listings "that could affect long-term housing availability in Barcelona", as well as to eject illegal commercial operators using the site — couching this as a rapprochement in relations between it and the local government, and claiming it will have "zero tolerance for bad actors".
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"One idea here is that he simply was drinking more than he was saying over this time period and that he didn't remember what happened, and so I was just simply trying to get at that and really couching it in the fact that I had alcoholism in my own family," she told Tapper.
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American Vandal approaches high school with empathy and genuine insight, couching it all in a humor that sets it aside from any other show about teens on TV. Watching it feels like going back in time to the most wild day in English class, minus the horrific task of actually having to be a teen again.
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Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham welcomed the bill when it was introduced in November, couching it as neither a Snooper's Charter nor mass surveillance — although he subsequently wrote to the Home Secretary saying the party wanted to see stronger safeguards put in place in the legislation, especially around the issue of judicial sign off for authorizing interception warrants.
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" (He runs, basically, a creative studio, called Exit 7A.) He believes the narrative of two dueling pork roll festivals is a tired one—the media constantly couching him and Nelson against each other—even if he "can't think of a place in the world that has, like, two things going on at the same time with the same name.
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The thing about Daryl or South Park or even James Gunn's tweets is that even if you don't think the jokes work, even if you believe they're couching truly terrible things in irony while failing to consider the potential irresponsibility of those tactics, they're all, on some level, coming from a place of thought and craft.
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Perhaps that's why so many of the critics who documented her rise in the late 80s/early 90s were prone to couching Amos' piano-jamming sex-positive genius in terms of madness: she was "100 percent crazy"; a "weird chick"; a "Grade A, Class One, Turbo-driven Fruitcake", not unlike the Bob's Burgers parody of her from a few years back.
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A president who took to a public platform to chip away at some of that disparity—even if it was just to relate personal, emotional statements rather than polished political narratives—might have helped the public believe that the government was acting out of a genuine interest to lead, rather than couching specific, ideological goals in a language meant to obscure them.
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The ship date for the Vive remains this coming April — albeit HTC-Valve are now couching this as "early April," likely aiming to encourage consumers who might be tempted to pick up the Oculus to hold on a bit for the Vive instead — and get a VR headset with two controllers… Also included in the Vive $799 bundle for "a limited time" are two free games.
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Bernie Sanders as another apt comparison to Paul, said he had seen a lot of interest in Gabbard in libertarian circles, but it was short of real support, with people couching their admiration in terms of who they would vote for if they had to vote for a Democrat — which Gabbard still is, after all, supporting Medicare for All and other social policies that are anathema to anti-government libertarians.
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Sex is merely one of the interesting and valuable human activities that add up to any given life experience; I'm just pointing out that Steve Rogers has never done it once, not even a little bit, not even on his birthday and that is OK. I'm couching this argument in the assumption of the MCU proper that Steve Rogers is a heterosexual man, which conflicts with his depiction in fandom and many valid interpretations of his on-screen desires.
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