His hair was just long enough to displease a priest.
|
|
It tries to do everything it can to really displease you.
|
|
This demonstrates that any threat to profit margins will ultimately displease shareholders.
|
|
The results will displease the purists and will pit venerable figures with new upstarts.
|
|
Will this displease the president — and Mr. Putin — and draw fire from the base?
|
|
Still, Mr. Jacobs acknowledged that the resolution's passage was unlikely to displease Mr. Cuomo.
|
|
Bannon has threatened to back primary challengers to Republican congressional incumbents who displease him.
|
|
Journalists can expect to be lambasted by the next president whenever their reports displease him.
|
|
But it's not in Norma's nature to try to do things that might displease others.
|
|
They will say whatever any crowd wants to hear and never deliberately seek to displease.
|
|
Players will watch as their responses please or displease their partners on the other end.
|
|
The desire to crush those who displease him is a defining characteristic of this president.
|
|
That's likely to displease Nissan, which wants France to sell off its stake in Renault altogether.
|
|
In her maneuvering on the issue, Ms. Pelosi has managed to displease some on both sides.
|
|
Can you imagine her in high-level meetings berating people who displease or disagree with her?
|
|
It discourages changes that could displease even a small number of workers, creating incentives to minimize disruption.
|
|
Firms may also displease customers, who can more easily complain about companies and organise boycotts using social media.
|
|
He said he would "loosen" libel laws to make it easier to sue news organizations that displease him.
|
|
Notably, that would include mainland China, a country that arbitrarily imprisons its citizens if they displease the government.
|
|
Occasionally, authors of pages change the information in ways that displease other readers, and those readers change it again.
|
|
Impeachment should be reserved for situations involving serious ethical or criminal violations, not for decisions that displease a political party.
|
|
The changes make it easy for the government to deny visas to free-lance journalists and correspondents who displease them.
|
|
The struggle of trying figure how to please yourself and not to displease your elders was due to cultural guilt.
|
|
" In the video, which has since been removed, he said: "It is never my intention to hurt or displease God.
|
|
She was keen, she says, to pick something that "will work for my business but not displease her majesty's government".
|
|
But it also has elements that may displease the Valley, like tighter regulation of over-the-top services and platforms.
|
|
Trump was delivering a lesson: anyone, no matter how powerful, can be humiliated and deprived of access if they displease him.
|
|
Could it be partisanship in favor of the Clinton campaign and a reluctance to trumpet a headline that would displease her?
|
|
That will displease Mr Cotton, as it will leave a bitter taste in the mouths of reform advocates who wanted more.
|
|
The suggestion that Hong Kong's people, should they displease the sovereign master, might simply be kidnapped makes a nonsense of this.
|
|
They are playing to an audience of one, and choosing tactics likely to displease other viewers, of which I was one.
|
|
The threat by the Chechnya leader is credible because of Ramzan Kadyrov's long history of allegedly murdering people who displease him.
|
|
And he also appears to believe that he has the right to deal out personal punishment to companies that displease him.
|
|
"A contest between Chris Froome and Tom Dumoulin, two riders with similar qualities, wouldn't displease me," Tour director Christian Prudhomme said.
|
|
Afraid to displease our investors, we hold ourselves captive to the promises we made at an earlier time in our company's history.
|
|
Relatives of those who displease the authorities are threatened, beaten, held hostage, expelled from the republic or have their homes burned down.
|
|
And his sizable conservative base is ready and willing to turn on elected Republicans in primary elections should they displease the president.
|
|
" Trump frequently rails against the media at the White House, campaign rallies, and on Twitter, dismissing reports that displease him as "fake news.
|
|
Then there are other once friendly countries which have felt China's economic wrath after making sovereign political or strategic decisions which displease Beijing.
|
|
Yet last week, worried a ban might displease some members of his loyal political base, Trump totally reversed himself and dropped the ban.
|
|
That reading has also been used to disqualify candidates to the legislature simply for holding political opinions that displease the government in Beijing.
|
|
Does Mr. Salvini want to claim plausible deniability should any of the deals Italy has signed with China go sour or displease voters?
|
|
"Alain Delon is not afraid to displease, he's not afraid to be wrong, and he doesn't really think like other people," Frémaux said.
|
|
If he did, it would be in line with his well-established pattern of seeking to penalize jurisdictions that displease and defy him.
|
|
The official acknowledged that doing so would displease Beijing, but noted that China has the option of helping constrain and pressure the North.
|
|
The story says he forces them into group sex — which he films — and beats them and deprives them of food when they displease him.
|
|
All speculation about his next destination is impossible without knowing the degree to which leaving the Cavaliers will displease or disrupt the former, though.
|
|
Still Processing Almost one week after Kanye West released his eighth studio album, "Ye," we wonder what to do with artists who displease us.
|
|
" According to the official website for Jehovah's Witnesses, followers of the church don't believe in celebrating birthdays "because we believe that such celebrations displease God.
|
|
According to JW.org, the official online resource for Jehovah's Witnesses, birthdays are thought to "displease God" in part due to their supposed roots in Paganism.
|
|
" According to the official website for Jehovah's Witnesses, followers of the church don't believe in celebrating birthdays "because we believe that such celebrations displease God.
|
|
Note how quickly she dropped her insistence of Britain withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights, a decision which will displease the Tory right.
|
|
Jehovah's Witnesses don't celebrate birthdays because they "believe that such celebrations displease God" and because Christmas has pagan roots, according to the Church's official website.
|
|
Designing the theme entries this way probably caused me to have a few more abbreviations than I would have liked, which may displease some solvers.
|
|
We're allowed to change our hair color, so by the same logic we should be able to alter our noses if our natural ones displease us.
|
|
That's because the politics of the courts involves a simple binary choice (a liberal justice or a conservative one) that will satisfy or displease Republican voters.
|
|
The Facebook CEO has been sounding the alarm against TikTok, criticizing the platform for censoring its users and scrubbing content that might displease the Chinese government.
|
|
Those minions would never have dared to gleefully inflict pain on a municipality if they believed for a second that doing so would displease the boss.
|
|
Critics fear that prosecutors who displease the governing party will be dismissed, and that those who remain will be intimidated from going after high-ranking officials.
|
|
It would probably also displease Gualtieri, who said the only sticking point on the ESM reform was a technical issue regarding procedures to facilitate debt restructuring.
|
|
"Some companies depend more on the federal government so they can't afford to displease the administration, but it's not really a presidential level of activity," said Gordon.
|
|
Another imagines a society in which citizens can block people who displease them, rendering them as mute blobs of static — a whole-body version of Facebook unfriending.
|
|
And, experts say, that gives lawyers reason to push for a fast resolution, skipping thorough investigations or motions that might slow the docket or displease the judge.
|
|
A homesick sociopath, Poppy has styled her Cambodian lair to resemble Eisenhower-era America, including a diner where those who displease her are churned into Hamburger Helper.
|
|
In an interview with The Times, TikTok's chief executive, Alex Zhu, tried to assuage Washington's fears: No, TikTok does not censor videos that displease China, he said.
|
|
China is taking a hard line against foreign companies that displease it, lashing out at their bosses and demanding obedience, much as it wields control over domestic enterprises.
|
|
With pleasing people and the culture of entitlement, you are only a step away from doing something that will displease them, elicit negative emotions, and the productivity plummets.
|
|
That may be difficult because details in the bill that may please moderate Republicans, such as lengthening the time to phase out enhanced Medicaid funding, will displease conservatives.
|
|
Still, the official said, Mr. Coats's newfound outspokenness could draw unwanted attention from the president, who has complained about other cabinet members who displease or publicly defy him.
|
|
He paid when we ate out; I never even offered, in part because I knew doing so would displease him, but also because I relished feeling cared for.
|
|
Like Mr. Trump, Ms. Ingraham is a strident critic of the establishment news media, and is often willing to scold the Republican party when its leaders displease her.
|
|
Of course, the Pope could grant a special dispensation, but his actions are sure to displease those who already think he might not be taking marriage seriously enough.
|
|
Then you have the empaths, folks who came out of that crucible who are empathetic to a fault, eager not to displease for fear of trolling or online attacks.
|
|
She may tread softly on human-rights issues, though surely not as softly as her predecessor—her early promise to press for gay rights will displease many African members.
|
|
Beyond his regular Twitter blasts against reporters or commentators or outlets that displease him, he is accumulating a lengthy blacklist of news organizations banned from covering his campaign events.
|
|
In doing so, the president has sent the message loud and clear — your past loyalty to Donald Trump will mean nothing if you displease him about something later on.
|
|
Trump has developed a reputation for venting against those who displease him, allowing them to twist in the wind with their futures in doubt rather than firing them outright.
|
|
Such editing-suite sleights of hand may displease purists, and so will an insistent score by Philip Glass, whose melodious montage glue has become something of a documentary cliché.
|
|
Her arguments will displease both Muslim conservatives who see feminism as an immoral, unnecessary foreign import and those who believe women's subjugation is a unique and unchangeable feature of Islam.
|
|
He says Mr Ratcliffe's job would be to "rein…in" the intelligence services that have "run amok", by which he seems to mean that they offered views that displease him.
|
|
" Latinos took to social media to share their displease with the mockery with one Twitter user saying, "These videos of Justin Bieber not knowing the words to Despacito are just unacceptable.
|
|
While the president may appear unconstrained, intoxicated with escaping the net of those who displease him by telling him "No," he is getting ever more enmeshed in another net — Robert Mueller's.
|
|
She denigrates those who displease her on cosmetic grounds: So-and-so used to be a 9 but, with that male-pattern baldness and desperate comb-over, is down to a 6.
|
|
But since I don't speak Swedish and haven't seen his acting chops, I can only judge him on the merit of his Instagram bio: "I exist to displease • Necessary Narcissist • Swedish "actor.
|
|
Phillips claimed that decorating cakes is a form of art, that he can honor God through his artistic talents and that he would displease God by creating cakes for same-sex marriages.
|
|
Like most great stars, he retreats to a chill corner of his brain to make his basketball decisions and he has not hesitated to cast out coaches and players who displease him.
|
|
Mr. Bloom's character, the contract-killing police detective of the title, is literally slaying those who dare to displease him in this 1993 noir portrait of duplicity and carnage in a trailer park.
|
|
It pains me to say this, but I have a hunch that, much like the no-opening-the-Magic-packs policy at my local game shop, this month's Zoolander sequel is going to displease me.
|
|
But it is certain to displease nearly everyone else, especially as there is no guarantee that a squabbling Congress, which failed to address immigration under President Obama, will come up with a long-term solution.
|
|
His targets include the Russia investigation, a Federal Reserve that won't bow to his whims, previous administrations, entire cities that are led by Democrats, and adversaries from outspoken athletes to chief executives who displease him.
|
|
Many in Hong Kong worry that if the bill is passed, mainland Chinese officials might use it to demand the extradition, for trial on the mainland, of citizens and visitors alike who displease the Communist Party.
|
|
Some point to China, where it is reported that more than 2m moderators, most employed by social-media firms, scour the networks, erring on the side of caution when they see something that may displease official censors.
|
|
According to the news release, the "La Luz Del Mundo" (The Light of the World) founder coerced victims, including at least one who was underage, into performing sex acts, claiming that to do otherwise would displease God.
|
|
"I am not going to judge the folks who are steeped in the tradition of crinkle-cut, but I will say we all need to get a grip on being angry with changes which displease us," he wrote.
|
|
Meanwhile, it's anyone's guess whether Saudi Arabia will go through with previously proposed production cuts to offset global oversupply, given the kingdom's reluctance to displease President Donald Trump, who is adamant to keep a lid on oil prices.
|
|
As he sets to work, Kelly for his part will undoubtedly seek to end the deception and bumbling that have characterized the White House under a President whose impulse is to deny and distort whatever facts displease him.
|
|
Despite TikTok&aposs claim that the Chinese government submitted no requests for content removal, it was accused in September of advising its moderators to censor content likely to displease Beijing after The Guardian obtained and published leaked documents.
|
|
If Garland were to accept, he would still serve under a president who has shown himself to be willing to fire FBI directors who displease him for whatever reason, and to manufacture a pretext that such a firing is for cause.
|
|
What are you really doing to yourself, when—via not wanting to shoulder your way out of a crowded movie theater aisle, or displease your sadistic boss, or because of some kind of medical condition—you put off what badly needs doing?
|
|
If it can leverage the first half of its brand name seamlessly, then the Annex will multiply, but it will have to be careful not to displease its devotees, who might not like the idea of a second option in a specialty space.
|
|
In a move sure to displease China, South Korea's Defense Department said hours after the launch Sunday that it would start formal discussions with the United States about the deployment of a missile defense system known as Thaad, for Terminal High Altitude Area Defense.
|
|
And with no general election due until 2020, and Labour hobbled by an unpopular leader, she can afford to displease voters in the marginal constituencies under Heathrow's flight path (as it happens, planes using the new runway will fly directly over her own constituency).
|
|
WASHINGTON — Three weeks from now, in New York, President Trump will find himself in the setting he most relishes: seated at the head of a polished table, calling on those seated around him, rewarding those he likes and cutting off those who displease him.
|
|
The unrest was triggered by a proposed law that would allow the extradition of criminal suspects from Hong Kong (where the rule of law still more or less prevails) to the Chinese mainland (where those who displease the ruling party have little chance of a fair trial).
|
|
Given how much space the report gives to the testimony of students who feel marginalized and targeted on campuses, the report will surely displease certain free speech absolutists, who might be inclined to argue that today's college students need to get over their addiction to hurt feelings.
|
|
"The Church does not have preference among its children and it's clear that the Vatican does not want to do anything to displease Catholics on Taiwan" said Agostino Giovagnoli, a history professor at Milan's Sacred Heart Catholic University and the author of two books on Catholicism in China.
|
|
While U.S. authorities had pushed Ukrainian leaders to pursue the money-laundering case against Zlochevsky, Ukrainian law-enforcement officials became concerned, because Hunter Biden was on the Burisma board, that any steps they took might displease powerful people in Kyiv and Washington, and they slowed down their efforts.
|
|
"Notably, that would include mainland China, a country that arbitrarily imprisons its citizens if they displease the government," writes Vox's Jen Kirby: Critics worried that China would take advantage of this law to arbitrarily detain Hongkongers — such as those who openly dissent against the Chinese government or advocate for human rights.
|
|
LIESMAN: UNFORTUNATELY, WITH YOUR BRIEF, I'M GOING TO DISPLEASE HALF THE AUDIENCE WHEREVER I START BUT I AM GOING TO START WITH WHAT IS THE NEWS OF THE MORNING WHICH THERE IS TWO NEWS STORIES ON THE BANKING FRONT ON THE REGULATORY FRONT, WHICH IS, OBVIOUSLY, THE OTHER HALF OF YOUR BRIEF.
|
|
The threat — reported by a Chechen television journalist after a private meeting with the close political ally of Russian Vladimir Putin — was immediately taken as credible in Russian media circles because of Kadyrov's long history of crushing political dissent, and allegedly murdering people who displease him since he took near-total control of the region in 2005.
|
|
Businesses are not supposed to be this brittle, but American companies continue to approach the mirage of the Chinese economy as if it is open for the taking, and that the American consumer (and their representatives in Washington) are going to continue to ignore the "authoritarian straddle" these companies have to undertake to appease Beijing while trying to not displease Washington.
|
|
The hacked e-mails also reveal wrangling about how to minimise negative publicity around Mrs Clinton's use of a private e-mail server to send and receive secret government information; internal discussions about how to handle touchy Democratic grandees (including at the Obama White House); the uselessness of sundry reporters; and how to finesse moderate policy positions liable to displease the party's leftish activists.
|
|
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Italy clashed with Germany and France on Friday over exactly what was agreed hours earlier at a European Union summit to ease disputes over migration threatening the foundation of the EU. Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said the deal did not foresee that Rome would take back migrants who had moved onto Germany from Italy, a remark likely to displease Germany's Angela Merkel who needed clear commitments to do so from EU partners to stave off the collapse of her governing coalition.
|
|