If I were currying favor, I would have moved our rooms, too!
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What they may not know is how deliberately he is currying their favor.
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Did they let the priest rub their back in hopes of currying favor?
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More counterintuitively, currying favour with Mr Trump's supposedly business-friendly administration is no picnic, either.
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The NED is hated by the very authoritarian regimes with whom Trump is currying favors.
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Currying favor with the president is a strategy that appears to suit Thiel's investments well.
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One can't blame a businessman for currying favour with customers and capitalising on fame and power.
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The mayor personally paid for floating billboards accusing Airbnb of currying favor in Tallahassee, the state's capital.
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Last week, for instance, he announced his intended "separation" from Washington while currying favor with Chinese leaders.
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"He was giving his time to voters and not just currying favor with politicians," Mr. Carter said.
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And they protected their autonomy by currying favor with, and amassing power in, the national Democratic Party.
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Now just so it's clear, Chappelle didn't go on "SNL" with the intention of currying favor with Trump.
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And so there are opportunities here for exploitation by the boss and for currying favor by the employee.
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The release was also likely aimed at currying favor with the court, given Fusion's otherwise weak legal case.
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The event was organized by Chinese-Australians and businesses intent on currying favor with the government in Beijing.
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Ms. Price has found it far more comfortable currying favor with a more nonconforming power broker: Willie Nelson.
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A Times spokeswoman, Danielle Rhoades-Ha, explained that currying favor with Trump is far from the column's aim.
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One cannot (help) but wonder, what do they get in return for currying favor with the United States?
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That makes sense when you're a billionaire worried about currying favor with whatever set of suits are in power.
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The exempt counties are reliably Republican outposts, so currying favour with constituents is a likelier explanation than outright racial animus.
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But when everyone is feeling the pain of decreased access and increased costs, physicians currying favors will only foster resentment.
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She had the gentle but firm, no-nonsense way of a woman used to brushing down big animals, currying manes.
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So, it is hardly a surprise that he would undertake actions currying favor with important interest groups and wealthy donors.
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I'm not suggesting Katyal is currying favor with a man who is almost certainly going to be on the court.
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The legislation eliminates the bonuses, known as "lulus," given to committee leaders — a traditional means of padding income and currying favor.
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Environmental groups accused Mr. Zinke of currying political favor with Governor Scott while pushing ahead with opening up coastal waters elsewhere.
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The Trump administration, currying favor with hard-liners in Israel, eliminates funding for the United Nations agency that aids Palestinian refugees.
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Maybe that industry uses some of those profits to buy corrupt political cover by currying favor with government and oversight bodies.
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Her critics insist she was currying favor with Wall Street plutocrats in the speeches, no matter what she says bout financial regulation.
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That's also an important reason why state and municipal subsidies for companies currying federal favor are a pure waste of taxpayer money.
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By opposing a $15 minimum, they are currying favor with corporations that keep wages low as a way to keep profits high.
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And thus, when China granted the Ivanka Trump company a host of trademarks, questions were raised about currying favor with the administration.
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There are good reasons not to take advantage of an opportunity to hamper the competition, ranging from simple compassion to currying favor.
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Ah Q, who is from a poor rural family, bullies those weaker than himself while currying favor with the powerful, who despise him.
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A spokeswoman for Mr. Boies, Dawn Schneider, said the hiring was not aimed at currying favor with the judge, who declined to comment.
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The situation practically invites foreign governments and businesses to try to influence American policy by currying favor with him through his business empire.
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To be honest (and currying no favor), my most compulsive reading these days is on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times.
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"I suspect the legislators who support these laws are just currying favor with the religious right wing," said Lupu, the GWU constitutional law expert.
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This in no way answers the problem of conflicts of interest arising from businesses and foreign government's currying Trump's favor by enriching his companies.
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The Republican Party has become a dysfunctional family: its members forever currying favor with the old man, enabling his vices and denying his transgressions.
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Bland-Ball has been active on social media, posting developments in the custody battle and on Noah's condition, and currying support among her followers.
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But that doesn't mean he's immune from a little presidential pique now and then, revealing the limits of currying favor with a mercurial President.
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S. traitors who are only keen on currying favor with their master and keeping their power even at the sacrifice of the Winter Olympics.
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They didn't anticipate the President's subordinates would begin serially staying at his properties or planning parties at them, potentially currying favor with their boss.
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I get it, it's not a big deal — she was most likely simply siding with the majority in the hopes of currying favor moving forward.
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A route to reach the base Currying favor with conservative outlets, particularly talk radio hosts, is thought to be essential to reach the GOP base.
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The best way of doing a deal with Putin is to be nice to him, so I think what Trump is doing is currying favor.
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Mr. Bolton saw Mr. Pompeo as a politician more interested in currying Mr. Trump's favor to have his support in a future run for Senate.
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During the presidency of Bill Clinton, for example, congressional Republicans and others suggested that some donors to Mr. Clinton's legal defense funds were currying favor.
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If a company spends enough energy currying favor with the government, it starts to look like it's doing so at the expense of its own product.
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And if he simply allows his children to run his company, the potential for currying favor with the White House through them is obvious to all.
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One episode of currying favor is said to have involved hiring a security firm owned by the family of a police executive at One Police Plaza.
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"Currying favor with and providing good functional software to the developer community is fairly essential and becoming a big strategy for the cloud providers," Keirstead said.
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In truth, the press's current sycophancy rises from a hinterland of intimidation, trimming and currying favour dating back to Mr Modi's rise to national power in 2014.
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Opposition members were quick to accuse the ruling National party of currying favor with voters in an election year, without making reining in immigration numbers and unemployment.
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New research, however, suggests a third option: that those who get ahead are adept not at stimulating growth nor at currying favour, but at cooking the books.
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It's nothing to go from currying favor with a promoter or trainer to breaking the other wrestlers as best you can so they're no longer your rivals.
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They've been more about settling personal scores, undercutting geopolitical rivals, and currying internal support for a regime that presides over a stagnant economy and waning global influence.
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Qatar's neighbors cut off diplomatic ties and imposed a blockade after accusing Doha of a multitude of sins, from financing militant groups to currying favor with Iran.
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Barr's decisions and actions about what to do next will reveal whether he is a true public servant, or a wannabe, motivated by currying favor with the President.
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The problem of companies currying favor with the president by lining his pockets through his business is related to the emoluments issue Vox's Matt Yglesias detailed on Tuesday.
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Flynn's goal now is to try to explain how people currying favor with the president can affect the safety and quality of their water or food or healthcare.
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These deals might go a little way to currying additional favor in China, but it shouldn't be forgotten that Apple has also invested in Chinese tech startups, too.
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Shards of glassy harmonics evoked the flight of birds; the vocal writing captured both the sturdy insistence of the king's mother and Dimna's smooth-talking, favor-currying hypocrisy.
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Manafort's motivation here remains unclear — was he currying favor with oligarchs in hopes of future business, or was he sharing data that could inform Russia's election interference efforts?
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They invented this damaging portrayal, against which Scruggs, unlike Jewell, cannot defend herself, while simultaneously currying sympathy for a man unfairly accused of a crime he didn't commit.
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The problem of companies currying favor with the president by lining his pockets through his business is related to the emoluments issue Vox's Matt Yglesias detailed in January.
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Unencumbered by its obligations, the Peruvian government has spent recent months currying favor from the international community, intent on joining the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD).
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CES and MWC, for all their variety, ultimately boil down to mass-market companies currying favor with either fellow mass-market business partners or the eventual consumers of their products.
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But all that Angela is actually accomplishing is currying favor with the heads of the Naviti alliance – Wendell and Dom and Kellyn – and targeting a guy who's already an outsider.
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It means that the U.S. should not sell out small nations — whether it was Israel in 1973 or Kuwait in 1990 — for the sake of currying favor with larger ones.
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When Mr. Williams moved back into his apartment in Vanderveer after the first season, in 2002, the neighborhood men who had harassed him for years were suddenly currying his favor.
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While members of Congress currying favor with the president by patronizing his businesses is pretty close to the textbook definition of corruption, McCarthy has pretended to be oblivious about it.
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In a normal presidency, it would be very difficult to make large, secret cash payments to the president of the United States as a means of currying favor with him.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump may be a new face on the international stage, but visiting foreign leaders from around the globe have quickly embraced a strategy for currying favor: flattery.
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Trump's frustration with the media has resulted in alternate messages between attempts to appease the admonishing members of the Republican Party, while also currying the favor of a white nationalist base.
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How many lobbyists are booking its $22019 rooms and ordering its $100 cocktails in hopes of currying favors with the innkeeper, who also happens to be president of the United States?
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Investigators noted in 1971 that Mr. Sullivan had testified in three murder trials in the past, suggesting that perhaps he was prone to sharing jailhouse tips in hopes of currying favor.
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Only here, the politicos are consumed by "the Haitian vote" — a running gag of the season — and currying lunchroom votes instead of running one of the largest nations in the world.
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Last week, Apple disclosed that it was investing $1 billion in the Chinese ride-hailing app Didi Chuxing, a move that some technology experts said appeared aimed at currying favor with Beijing.
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An Asian subsidiary of the company had hired the children of Chinese government officials in the hopes of currying favor with their powerful parents — a violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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Richard Nixon embraced the same strategy with Barry Goldwater (to whom Trump is frequently compared) in 1964, campaigning aggressively on behalf of the candidate and currying favor with his wing of the GOP.
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But Los Angeles defense lawyer Mark Geragos said he thought Downing might indeed have had a purpose in mind: currying favor with Trump in the hopes of eventually securing Manafort a presidential pardon.
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Panic mounting, Republican factions began looking out for themselves: Mr. McCarthy, currying favor with the right as he positioned himself to succeed Mr. Ryan, revived a push to fund Mr. Trump's border wall.
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Granted, currying favor with one presidential adviser won't suddenly clear a path through Congress, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and a host of other regulators, but every advantage helps.
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Although he has been assiduous about currying favor with Mr. Trump, Mr. Abe has also pursued a program of diplomacy throughout Southeast Asia, visiting countries like the Philippines and Vietnam in recent months.
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Some ethics experts have said this boosterism, coming from an elected official, is problematic, because people who seek to influence him could buy stock in the company as a way of currying favor.
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But currying favor with authorities who want to provide affordable housing to maintain stability in the property sector comes at a cost as the developers will make little, if any, initial return from renting.
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Like Bezos, many of Trump's harshest critics in tech touted American job creation, trotting tail between legs to the White House and currying favor with the administration, sometimes to the chagrin of their employees.
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Pundits have suggested that Ohio poll numbers showing Trump surpassing his national average in currying favor with Latino voters in the state (he's now at 22 percent) could be within the margin of error.
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Sanders and Clinton, a former U.S. secretary of state and U.S. senator, spent much of their second debate this week currying the favor of Florida's Latinos, and that of the Hispanic audience watching nationwide.
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But the sale to a consortium led by HNA Capital and RON Transatlantic raised concerns that HNA, which has close ties with China's political leaders, was currying favor with an incoming White House official.
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With the Senate relegated to a back seat, the Emperor's court rises to prominence, with people like Krennic and Tarkin jockeying for position, currying favor, and exploiting every possibility to ingratiate themselves with the Emperor.
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That policy eliminates "many of the concerns raised in" the 1993 advisory "about donors currying favors with employees benefiting from the donations," the memo released on Thursday says, though notes that some exemptions may apply.
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On Friday, the Braun campaign was calling the senator "Mexico Joe" — he apparently was using a Mexican-made ax in a recent ad — and accusing him of currying favor with "socialist Bernie" Sanders, the Vermont independent.
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In an opinion piece in The Guardian newspaper, Azriel Bermant, a lecturer in international relations at Tel Aviv University, suggested that, by criticizing Mr. Kerry and currying favor with both Mr. Trump and Mr. Netanyahu, Mrs.
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While Barr sought the advice of DOJ ethics experts, at a minimum this creates a terrible appearance of him currying favor with Trump -- the person who appointed Barr, and the only person who can fire him.
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For American readers his constant name-dropping and favor-currying may prove a little off-putting: The letters are crammed with mention of the rich and titled, who all seem to be marrying and divorcing one another.
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Meanwhile, foreign diplomats and trade associations are paying for rooms in Trump hotels, sometimes not even bothering to stay in them, presumably or at least possibly in hopes of currying favor or influence in the White House.
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His opponents say the move is aimed at currying favor with powerful religious leaders, with some, including opposition politicians, asserting he will seek to stay in power after a constitutional two-term limit runs out next year.
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Instead of supporting groups that combat these issues directly, those who displace us tell us to vote and enact change by currying favor with politicians whose real-estate interests will always trump the concerns of the community.
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For instance, he studied the decline of royal grants of monopoly in the 18th century, arguing that this helped propel British entrepreneurs away from spending their time currying favour at court towards more productive agricultural and industrial innovation.
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How would the public know if he or his Justice Department softened its stance because it involved a bank to which he owes money, or whether that bank cut him a sweetheart deal in hopes of currying favor?
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The local jurisdictions claim that in hopes of currying presidential favor, government officials are patronizing Trump-owned properties instead of hotels or convention centers that the District of Columbia or Maryland own or have some financial interest in.
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Facebook's whole business model hinges on collecting data and breaching users' privacy, so it comes as no surprise to learn that the company has been currying favor with politicians around the globe to stymie legislation that protects people's privacy.
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The way the First Policeman relates to Billy gives their scenes a new depth: is he an Uncle Tom, currying favor with the white power base he polices the town for, or does he truly despise Billy's shady ways?
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Janot alleges that Calheiros received part of a donation of 800,000 reais ($240,000) in 2010 from an oil and gas contractor in return for keeping a senior Petrobras executive in the post, where he was later convicted of currying favors.
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The organization had her hobnobbing with some of the world's most powerful people; the ethical concern was that a donation to the charity might be seen as pay-for-play, currying favor with the would-be second President Clinton. Mrs.
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Os Keyes, a researcher at the University of Washington who joined hundreds of outsiders in signing the Googlers' petition protesting James' inclusion, says the episode suggests Google cares more about currying political favor with conservatives than the impact of AI technology.
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"Reporters were currying favor with Speakes and they were more focused on making fun of me then what I was actually saying, since I had a pretty controversial reputation among the press corps and I was considered an outsider," Kinsolving said.
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Bizarrely, Beto's improbable 2018 Senate campaign against Cruz almost proved a point about the power of white privilege, with a white man attacking a Latino son of a refugee, currying favor from the most tony estates in Williamsburg and Fairfax County.
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Over the past two years, Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales has been currying favor with Trump to shore up his own embattled administration, which has been under investigation by Guatemalan prosecutors and a U.N.-backed anti-corruption commission for illicit campaign financing.
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The American boyfriend was idealistic and political, always tutoring poor children and organizing rallies; Obinze had grown rich by currying favor with a Big Man, and was part of a society that was thoroughly cynical about both politics and love.
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But just a few hours after Pelosi's remarks, she and other Democrats — many of them first-time lawmakers — hustled off to receptions that are the epitome of the special-interest favor-currying system that has infected Washington for so long.
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Democrats have made it a priority to investigate whether foreign governments are currying favor with the administration by doing business with the President's family company in violation of the constitutional ban on such payments to the president, known as emoluments.
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There is no question this qualifies as "injury in fact": "Every dollar of government patronage drawn to Trump establishments by the hope of currying favour with the president is a lost dollar of revenue that might otherwise have gone to plaintiffs".
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"South Koreans may be eating well and have more material things, but that is only because they are depending on the American imperialists, currying favor with them and getting their leftovers," Ms. Kim said, describing a typical North Korean line.
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Likely to draw criticism The summit is also likely to draw criticism from the US President's domestic critics, who accuse him of currying favor with Putin after Russia, according to US intelligence agencies, worked to swing the 2016 presidential election in Trump's favor.
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But that won't matter unless the chair excels at the unsavory work of currying favor with donors — which is part of the reason some Democrats worry that Ellison may have trouble soliciting funding from the rich donors in the party's base who rejected Sanders's campaign.
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ETP is furious about the corps's decision, which it claims was "just the latest in a series of overt and transparent political actions by an administration which has abandoned the rule of law in favour of currying favour with a narrow and extreme political constituency".
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And all this will accrue to him when he hands off the presidency to someone else, which is why critics are concerned visitors and foreign guests to his properties are currying favor with the POTUS, potentially violating the foreign emoluments clause of the Constitution.
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He also got good reviews at the start of his Asia tour in Japan, which has been currying favor with Trump since right after his election when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe jetted off to Trump Tower with an expensive golf club as a present.
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But a more cynical view is that the tech giants were fulfilling their own political duty, currying favour with the government by supporting a state-owned bank whose business model, though important to China's rural past, will be less relevant to its urban future.
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We ran misleading politically-themed ads on Facebook to show how easy it isAmid the furor over fake ads, Facebook is currying favor with publishers by paying some of them $3 million a year or more to participate in its new Facebook News section.
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It appears now that the only thing Mr. Trump absorbed from this advice was that it is legal for him to keep his holdings — holdings that exist in many countries and in many industries with foreign partners who are already currying favor with him.
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"As these six EU member states are making much trouble to play the role of pet dog of the United States in recent months, one cannot but wonder what do they get in return for currying favour with the United States," Kim, the ambassador, said.
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Saccone is doing the exact opposite, currying favor from right-to-work groups via his reputation for authoring state bills trying to end paid union leave for teachers who were working for their unions outside of the classroom, and voting for other bills targeting unionized workers.
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The industry also appears to be currying favor with the Trump administration another way: This week, the Community Financial Services Association of America, which represents payday lenders, is holding its annual conference at Trump National Doral near Miami — a gathering that has been greeted by protesters.
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For now, Trump's response to decades of opaque real estate deals, massive debts to troubled entities like Deutsche Bank and an international business that stands to profit from foreign officials currying favor hasn't gone beyond tweeted promises that his children will take over the Trump Organization.
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"The White House's directive today to the Corps for further delay is just the latest in a series of overt and transparent political actions by an administration which has abandoned the rule of law in favor of currying favor with a narrow and extreme political constituency," the statement reads.
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And while the National Enquirer and Michael Sanchez appear to have robust sympathies towards the president, it's still possible that this was all about a juicy scoop concerning the dalliances of the richest man in the world, rather than currying favor or embarrassing one of the president's enemies.
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While Trump the loser spent more than 20 years praising Clinton — as recently as 2012, when she was finishing her tenure as secretary of State, which he then praised with admiration — he now claims he did so because he was an influence-peddling businessman currying favor with her.
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The transactional currying of favor cuts both ways: China is eager to deflect U.S. pressure to do more on North Korea, and to avoid an escalation in trade tensions that seemed inevitable after Trump, during his presidential campaign, accused China of "raping" the United States with its trade practices.
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In contrast, if he were to endorse Mr. Cuomo, as he did four years ago, he would expose himself to criticism that he was cravenly currying favor with the man he has called an obstacle to progress on many issues — and it could seem a betrayal of his progressive values.
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A few hours after Donald Trump Jr. tweeted out an absurdly incriminating email chain in an apparent attempt to pre-empt a New York Times story about those emails, Assange tweeted this:Today's humble brag follows a slightly more veiled attempt at currying favor with the Trump administration that occurred earlier in the week.
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"The White House's directive today to the Corps for further delay is just the latest in a series of overt and transparent political actions by an administration which has abandoned the rule of law in favor of currying favor with a narrow and extreme political constituency," the developers said in a news release.
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Sensing a developing crack in the U.S.-Saudi alliance, Russian President Vladimir PutinVladimir Vladimirovich PutinThese 3 women are defining the race to unseat Trump The Russo-Chinese alliance emerges Russia's snub of Geneva Convention protocol sets dangerous precedent MORE wasted no time in currying favor with the Saudis and is visiting Riyadh this week.
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Nor will Cuban-Americans and Cubans move any closer to reconciliation and forgiveness, a process that is essential if for no other reason than to stop American presidents — Mr. Trump is only the latest in a long line — from using Cuba policy to gain political leverage in electoral-vote-rich Florida and from currying favor with Cuban-American legislators.
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"The National Mining Association or any other lobbying group has likely concluded that spending money at the Trump International Hotel in D.C. is a solid way of currying favor with the administration — and that spending money anywhere else runs the risk of offending our very sensitive president," Brendan Fischer, an election law expert with the Campaign Legal Center, told the Intercept.
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Such a state of affairs inevitably would lead to actions taken by the ruler that are not in the interests of the nation, like dishonoring treaty agreements, abandoning allies, impugning the independent judiciary and the free press, disregarding fundamental rights and liberties of the people, abrogating civic norms and virtues, pursuing acts of personal enrichment and currying favor with foreign despots and authoritarians.
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Watchdog groups have raised concerns over the propriety of Trump profiting off businesses as foreign governments and corporate interest groups currying favor in Washington book rooms at Trump hotels — including Trump's hotel in Washington, D.C. Attorneys general in Washington, D.C., and Maryland have sued the federal government, alleging the Trump International Hotel in Washington puts the president in violation of the Constitution's Emoluments Clause.
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The National Park Service had to redirect almost $2.5 million normally intended for the upkeep of community parks and green spaces for the celebration, while the Trump International Hotel -- at the center of an ongoing conflict-of-interest scandal of the Trump presidency -- will likely rake in profits from the many GOP high-rollers who choose to stay there as a means of currying favor with the President.
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In a furious 22012 editorial for the Toronto Star, Peter Howell alleged that HFPA members routinely steal time from other journalists at press events: At the press junket for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in December 22013, journalists who had flown to Los Angeles from around the world had to make do with interviews from secondary stars of the film, because stars Pitt, Cate Blanchett and director David Fincher were spending all their time currying HFPA favours.
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In the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Page says the agencies unlawfully released to the press text messages between her and Strzok in December 2017 for "multiple improper reasons," including currying favor with President TrumpDonald John TrumpThe Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - House panel expected to approve impeachment articles Thursday Democrats worried by Jeremy Corbyn's UK rise amid anti-Semitism Warren, Buttigieg duke it out in sprint to 2020 MORE after he publicly attacked the Department of Justice (DOJ) and then-Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsLisa Page sues DOJ, FBI over alleged privacy violations Sessions leads GOP Senate primary field in Alabama, internal poll shows Trump rebukes FBI chief Wray over inspector general's Russia inquiry MORE.
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