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  1. a job that you do for somebody that involves going somewhere to take a message, to buy something, deliver goods, etc.

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" "But first, I need to run a quick errand.
I go out to run an errand at H Mart.
The goal of eliminating guns is ultimately a fool's errand.
"45 rooms" isn't a selling point, it's an errand list.
Precisely measuring somewhat irrational human behavior is a fool's errand.
She had come to the city on a family errand.
Trying to replicate the Obama victory is a fool's errand.
Busque founded TaskRabbit, originally called Run My Errand, in 2008.
But fundamentally, trying to justify kitniyot is a fool's errand.
It would be a fool's errand to project what follows.
At some point, Brett has to go run an errand.
When Chris Christie endorses Trump, he gets sent on errand runs.
Charting the trajectory of Jay Duplass's career is a fool's errand.
It's just too daunting a task; another errand for the list.
"It's a fool's errand," said Lucia Moses, senior editor at Digiday.
Before too long, Leah had a startup idea: Run My Errand.
It's a fool's errand to assign this to naked, blind racism.
Pinning our hopes on any government mandate is a fool's errand.
This is a fool's errand to try to find something else.
But trying to establish any narrative coherence is a fool's errand.
" Sondland, she said, "was being involved in a domestic political errand.
"Trying to time the markets is a fool's errand," he said.
Next on her errand list: a trip to the gas station.
Trying to time the stock market is considered a fool's errand.
Estimating the impact of the coronavirus sounds like a fool's errand.
I initially feared that would be something of a fool's errand.
Or suggest they join you on that evening errand to Target.
Busque founded the company, originally called Run My Errand, in 2008.
I grew up in a home where going to the framer's was an errand I occasionally ran with my parents on weekends, or an errand that they would return from with pieces wrapped in brown paper.
Now that we've asserted what a fool's errand this is, guess what?
Let's say you have to run an errand, a small-ish one.
But Huerta says this is a fool's errand, and she's not alone.
Errand paralysis, post office anxiety — they're different manifestations of the same affliction.
Getting your hopes up for fantastic hardware is probably a fool's errand.
So, it's really a fool's errand to try and predict right now.
In the meantime, timing those spikes "is a fool's errand," Sonders said.
Trying to use Facebook to take Facebook down is a fool's errand.
Unfortunately for the progressives, the data show this is a fool's errand.
"I think Bernie Sanders knows that it would be a fool's errand."
Providing a synopsis of Southland Tales may well be a fool's errand.
Consider the way the step-counting Fitbit turns every errand into exercise.
Of course, betting on boxing in 2017 seems like a fool's errand.
Writing Mourinho's — or his team's — obituary is a fool's errand, of course.
It's a fool's errand to try to predict the Democratic primary's outcome.
"He was being involved in a domestic political errand," Dr. Hill asserted.
"He was being involved in a domestic political errand," she testified Thursday.
Shutting down energy sources and growing by subtraction is a fool's errand.
In an age of populist nationalism, it risks being a fool's errand.
Calling peak oil has been a fool's errand for over a century.
Serious question, though ... couldn't she get a PA to run that errand?
But what if trying to re-decentralise the internet is a fool's errand?
"Lidar is a fool's errand," Musk said in April at a Tesla event.
At best, he's good for lurking around corners and the occasional easy errand.
The Dowgins began to suspect that expanding their home was a fool's errand.
Then on Friday, a teacher sent Hunt on an errand outside the classroom.
The introduction of a technological option robs the errand runner of that feeling.
At one point, somebody points out that I'm on a fool's errand. Duh?
Hinsley knows that shutting down the entire black market is a fool's errand.
It risks becoming a fool's errand on par with the Republicans' Benghazi boondoggle.
Ultimately, looking for answers in Murakami's work can seem like a fool's errand.
And lots of people knew and assisted him in this fool's errand. Why?
In the story, a mother takes her son, Eric, along on an errand.
The erotic errand becomes another item on her busy mom's to-do list.
He went on a global errand to poke holes in the Mueller report.
A typical errand for a lawyer, he averred, though many begged to differ.
Predicting the Democrats' nominee so early in the process is a fool's errand.
Democrats are trying to shift public opinion, which is probably a fool's errand.
But trying to predict what this court will do is a fool's errand.
Maybe it was telling the truth, and hoping otherwise is a fool's errand.
Whipping the new bill just after Trump spoke would have been a fool's errand.
And then back in the lobby, they load into charging docks between errand runs.
Perhaps you have an errand to run or a 30-minute meeting to take.
There are a few ways to look at this original problem of errand paralysis.
This is not about finding "backdoors" in current Huawei products — that's a fool's errand.
There's a point where making more money becomes a bit of a fool's errand.
They told me that trying to predict market bubbles is generally a fool's errand.
No one slides into treatment for a slightly overdue errand or long-held appointment.
Photo: Nude App/Melanie EhrenkranzFull disclosure, I sent this algorithm on a fool's errand.
But I did accompany her on that errand to the tailor on Clinton Street.
"I'm the floor manager, the errand boy, and the boss's right hand," he says.
Creating a third party in America is always a bit of a fool's errand.
One afternoon, a colleague stopped by her office to discuss running an errand together.
As any clear-thinking economist will tell you, trade wars are a fool's errand.
Searching for the perfect lifelong mate is a noble goal, but a fool's errand.
Many other Obama administration officials believed that seeking Putin's help was a fool's errand.
Today, Sanford's Freedom Caucus friends call his primary campaign against Trump a fool's errand.
Whipping the new bill just after Trump spoke would have been a fool&aposs errand.
Check out the video above to see why interviewing Conway can be a fool's errand.
"LIDAR is a fool's errand, and anyone who relies on LIDAR is doomed," he said.
Frankly, it's a fool's errand to determine the 10 best films of any given year.
That said, using math to explain what gold prices will do may a fool's errand.
It charged three New York police commanders with serving as errand boys for the businessmen.
"Trying to predict everything at hole No. 12 may be a fool's errand," he said.
Relying on self-reporting by those who are committing tax evasion is a fool's errand.
It's a fool's errand to try to make something truly good from something boringly bad.
Saturday is my true errand day since I work every other day of the week.
Of course, drawing broader lessons from the macro moves may well prove a fool's errand.
Of course, looking for more truth and honesty from politicians is probably a fool's errand.
" That errand, Johnson said, was to make Ukrainian officials "an offer they could not refuse.
The elder men left the room, knowing a fool's errand when they saw one unfolding.
Replicating it in the confines of your own home is, to be frank, a fool's errand.
The bottom line: Trying to halt the pace of progress is a fool's errand, Kasparov argued.
It's a fool's errand to try and be anyone other than the best version of yourself.
It's a fool's errand to predict the Oscars with any degree of accuracy this far out.
Pinning an answer for the opioid crisis on any one reason might be a fool's errand.
Trying to assign a political ideology that reflects or supports his actions is a fool's errand.
Predicting who will come out on top in the Trump White House is a fool's errand.
Summoning your car at the end of your trip or errand is supposedly just as easy.
But some scientists think it's a fool's errand that won't come close to solving the problem.
Calling the top of the bull market in bonds has for years been a fool's errand.
If meditation in this mental state was a fool's errand, napping was a fool's unpaid internship.
That is why trying to forecast the direction of the stock market is a fool's errand.
In the penultimate section, the chorus walk with glowing bags as if returning from an errand.
With Julio away running an errand, Henriquez makes a move on Leonora, rendering himself doubly loathsome.
We chose the location based on a special errand we had to run later that evening.
But since predicting earthquakes is a fool's errand, the U.S. generally goes with risk over expense.
Late one night, Jane was at her boyfriend Bob's home when he left on an errand.
Trump lawyer Jane Raskin: Giuliani was Trump's personal lawyer but 'was not on a political errand'
"An Errand for Emma" features a "slightly fictionalized" family history, according to a post from Daywell.
"Security personnel are not errand boys or girls and agency leaders are not royalty," he continued.
Which means that predictions about where he will go from here seem like a fool's errand.
The appointment rankled senior politicians, as if Ghani had given the post to an errand boy.
Finding deeper meaning in diss tracks and incendiary TMZ clips often seems like a fool's errand.
Unlike his Abstract Expressionist predecessors, he dismissed the search for an "authentic" self as a fool's errand.
But Steven was sent on an errand, and while he was gone, Applewhite persuaded her to stay.
First thing in the morning, Kate goes to "run an errand" to replace her dad's T-shirt.
Miami Beach, where that same water sends city officials on the fool's errand of building taller streets.
Restoring greatness has always been a fool's errand, as Justinian, and many other rulers have often discovered.
So for shorter-range emissions-free commuting and errand-running, the Smart Fortwo is an inexpensive option.
Predicting the short-term fluctuations of a multifaceted and sentiment-driven market is probably a fool's errand.
And that arbitrarily defining morality within the bigger picture of a violent sport is a fool's errand.
And second, bipartisanship just for the sake of chasing a few favorable headlines is a fool's errand.
You know, the kind of look that's on heavy rotation in your Sunday afternoon errand-running wardrobe.
There will also be a 10-minute parking area for shoppers heading in for a quick errand.
Perhaps he is hinting that to imagine we might be nurtured by art is a fool's errand.
Bringing fans backstage means being sure you can get them out, which can be a fool's errand.
Indoor plumbing is a fool's errand because of the frozen ground, so most toilets are in outhouses.
"It's called stepping out to do one errand- not dressing for your approval," Hadid replied on Twitter.
It's like telling yourself you can't keep chasing all those things because it becomes a fool's errand.
Trying to describe the plot of Gingerbread, the latest novel from Helen Oyeyemi, is a fool's errand.
Consider a quote that Gopnik employs in suggesting that appraising Buddhist philosophy may be a fool's errand.
And with a character as morally ambiguous as Jaime Lannister, it's practically a fool's errand to try.
The evidence is overwhelming: Trying to predict general election outcomes from primary results is a fool's errand.
Attempting to hold Trump to that bar of independence and integrity may sound like a fool's errand.
While working in a shared office space is ninth, and hiring someone for a task/errand is tenth.
To get to that errand-free satisfied state, though, you actually have to do everything on your list.
Ask any expert investor, and they'll tell you that trying to time the market is a fool's errand.
It might be a fool's errand, but I learned something I didn't know before giving it a go.
What they may not have known is that, historically speaking, reading Apple's tea leaves is a fool's errand.
That money wasn't free — Jahil knows he has to pay the piper by running a definitely illegal errand.
" Let go of the fool's errand of "try[ing] to fix people who don't want to be fixed.
Trying in September to predict who will play for the national championship in January is a fool's errand.
His intention was only to rattle Lester, to get in his head, and it was a fool's errand.
Putting controls on these platforms to solve the problems of the past few years is a fool's errand.
That effort is both a fool's errand for the country and a poisoned chalice for conservatives and Republicans.
My husband had asked me one day if I didn't mind going to run an errand with him.
On Election Day, children as young as 25 became "errand boys" for campaigners, transporting vital messages and news.
Now I'm retired, but today the weather is beautiful, and I have an errand in the University District.
Mr. Bannon argues that it would be a fool's errand to try to placate Democrats on Capitol Hill.
"I know they say it's a fool's errand, but Bernie's going to bring new people out," said Blake.
How about calling an old friend?' you might say, 'I'm going to the mall to do an errand.
It is thus a fool's errand to imagine, let alone seek, a modus vivendi without conflict or competition.
The girl's mother left Paxton alone with her daughter briefly to run an errand Sunday morning, police said.
Several months later, Ms. Rajput was out running an errand when her mother suffered a fatal heart attack.
But if you use your wiles to slip away, the "distraction" might send them on a fool's errand.
But fighting for programs without fighting to enhance the democratic rights of all Americans is a fool's errand.
But the vast majority of my 70 hours with Andromeda felt less like adventure and more like errand.
At age 17, he became an errand boy at Timely Comics, the company that would evolve into Marvel.
The two companies calculate their cloud revenue in different ways, so apples-to-apples comparisons are a fool's errand.
My husband ran an errand for me, and I didn't pay him back yet, so this is my treat.
Seeking answers is largely a fool's errand in Lynch's work, but finding complements is far more fun and informative.
Andromeda sticks close to the established recipe of mixing exploration, resource gathering, item crafting, habitual skirmishing, and errand running.
Janine has a cagey face-off with Shepherd errand boy Seth, who doesn't realize the story is already gone.
"On this particular day in L.A., what started as a simple errand took a rather heavy turn," they begin.
When prosecutors asked for a second trial, experts speculated that it might be a bit of a fool's errand.
They got to the conference and there was no cell service, which made promoting an app a fool's errand.
In fact, Google data reveals what a fool's errand it is to try to extinguish piracy with brute force.
This sensitivity to initial conditions, later popularized as the butterfly effect, made predicting the far future a fool's errand.
It's a fair point: the police officer was on an errand to do a favour for his ailing parent.
I have a dear friend whose idea of a busy weekend is a game of Scrabble and an errand.
The marketplace is constantly evolving, and creating legal "silos" today to regulate tomorrow's new activities is a fool's errand.
The Republicans trying to save Moore are on a fool's errand -- defending a man who can't even defend himself.
The dog, named RJ, had earlier escaped from the home when its owners had left to run an errand.
That fight is a "fool's errand," according to Steve Phillips, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.
Asking art to fulfill the same role that religion and moral philosophy has traditionally filled is a fool's errand.
"I don't see Matt Whitaker ever playing the role of anybody's bag man or errand boy," Mr. Gustoff said.
She said she understood his concerns about racism, but called his actions "a fool's errand" that harmed national security.
The fool's errand of proposing a new tax aside, forgiving student loans would be political suicide for conservative policymakers.
"It made me feel like I was just another errand he had to run that night," Ms. Spiegel said.
"That's not an errand boy, that is somebody who's a member of a militia," said John Cummings, the prosecutor.
Greg Abbott is a fool's errand because the state isn't ready to put a Democrat in the governor's mansion.
For Trump, getting bogged down in the minutia and absurdity of Warren's various plans would be a fool's errand.
But that is a fool's errand, the writer argued, because there is no understanding people who don't accept facts.
Expecting my kids — Sam, 8, and Jack, 5 — to sit still while I do so is a fool's errand.
Even UNH pollster Andrew Smith said it's "a fool's errand" to try to nail the results with the final poll.
But when they head out on an errand together, the two women hold hands and spontaneously break into a duet.
I consider it an errand day, when I go grocery shopping and take care of what needs to be done.
It may seem like competing with Slack, the enormously popular enterprise communications tool would be a fool's errand for Keybase.
He has to run a quick errand, so I stop and grab a drink while I take the client call.
The advice still stands not to change anything in your portfolio; trying to time the market is a fool's errand.
But I wouldn't just go out on some fool's errand, chasing at windmills, on a suicide mission for no reason.
If you've ever tried to listen to "Edge of Seventeen" sitting in your designated seat, it's a goddamn fool's errand.
"I think it's a fool's errand to think you can stop the aftermarket," he told Reuters in a telephone interview.
Although current polling shows Clinton with an overwhelming edge, making political predictions seven months in advance is a fool's errand.
Desiring to be included in the event, Watson volunteered to serve as part cheerleader, part errand boy for Love's team.
The tragedy of the 2016 campaign is that Trump has mobilized a constituency with legitimate grievances on a fool's errand.
But given the limited hours scheduled for lunar EVAs, the men soon had to move on to the next errand.
It's probably a fool's errand to try to predict where it'll go, but you can't win if you don't play.
Once, on her return from a quick errand to a neighbor's, he hurls a machete, missing her by a hairbreadth.
Let me be candid: Only by banding together with a can-do attitude will we not abandon this demanding errand.
And the man most intimately acquainted with the fool's errand that is DeAndre Jordan shooting free throws, is DeAndre Jordan.
Following Tolkien on what seems a fool's errand is a boyish, worried, unfailingly loyal adjutant named, you guessed it, Sam.
And then he mused about not wanting to pursue "a fool's errand" in an appearance at the University of Delaware.
At 7,000 acres, Edmonton is one of the largest airports in the world, so this is not a quick errand.
As a cloistered order, aside from doctor visits and an occasional errand, the sisters' lives are confined to the convent.
He'd tag along on every errand and pick her up and drop her off from her job as a cashier.
Strindberg enlivened the plot by adding Casem's errand boy and a love story between the merchant's daughter and a prince.
The simple errand turned disastrous: Travaglia's flip-flops slipped on the recently cleaned floor, and he crashed down the stairs.
Fleeing what they considered tyranny, Puritan settlers adapted the Exodus narrative to justify their so-called errand into the wilderness.
Any Democratic presidential candidate or Democratic president who hopes to build a bridge to Republicans is running a fool's errand.
I stopped to collect myself, to figure out which way I needed to walk to get to my next errand.
Nevertheless, Lidar has been criticised by Tesla chief executive Elon Musk, who described Lidar in April as a "fools' errand".
TaskRabbit's buyer will not be Thumbtack, its chief rival in the home errand space, said several people following the proceedings.
Elodie tries to leave for her deposition, but Sabine offers to walk with her towards an alleged errand of her own.
He placed it in a cone along the road, ran an errand and discovered it was gone when he came back.
Leather boots are sturdy enough to take on those morning commutes and errand running, but still manage look pretty damn good.
New York City's first microapartments feature fold-out couches, extendable kitchen tables, and experiential perks like housekeeping and weekly errand-runners.
Stacy Brown-Philpot, the COO of TaskRabbit, has been named CEO of the San Francisco-based errand and personal services platform.
The Dutch version of the holiday was a "fools' errand" day, encouraging the unwary to go gather — for instance — pigeon milk.
IT HAS become a fool's errand to try to predict when the Republicans may give up trying to reform health care.
Anyone planning to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars (let alone millions) building a custom CMS is on a fool's errand.
It denies that I pray for my loved ones to come home when they leave the house for a routine errand.
Nation-building should not be our job, and it has consistently been a fool's errand for us, particularly in this region.
Mattis understands what this President is all about and that the notion of bringing him to normalcy is a fool's errand.
Businessman Donald Trump Trump's appeal is so unconventional that assessing the effectiveness of his debate performances can be a fool's errand.
Sometimes I hate-shop for jeans on the internet, even though shopping for jeans on the internet is a fool's errand.
Trying to decipher exactly what Trump means is often a fool's errand, but this response seems to have several possible interpretations.
Timothy Egan Wishing for supporters of Donald Trump to find their hearts, their brains or their patriotism is a fool's errand.
I think that would be a fool's errand, to invite the president of the United States to come down on you.
He might drive off and run an errand or something, but every morning that van was there in the parking lot.
Rides can be "paused" if the user wants to, say, run an errand and not have someone else nab the moped.
She was driving with her son into town to run an errand before all the stores closed for the Easter weekend.
For many families, the weekly or biweekly errand has turned into a nightmarish waiting game, peppered by acute fears of infection.
Only after our deployment exceeded half a million troops did our leaders seem to realize that this was a fool's errand.
"They owe me an apology, but frankly it would be a wasted errand to ask for one," Schiff said on CNN.
When it ends, I decide to run an errand that forces me out of the apartment to get my glasses adjusted.
"  She said Sondland seemed to be "involved in a domestic political errand," whereas she was involved in "national security foreign policy.
But as Jill Lepore pointed out in an excellent November 16 New Yorker essay, this is something of a fool's errand.
George Zimmerman, a volunteer with the neighborhood watch, spotted Martin while driving around for an errand, and he called the police.
To note them all is a fool's errand, but here are nine that we'll still be talking about months from now.
"There are more things I want to get done, and I also don't want to go on some fool's errand," Hogan said.
She needs macaroons for her party in the next hour, and Abbi and Ilana are forced to run the errand while tripping.
They had crossed over the border to run a quick errand and ended up both viciously murdered and the female sexually assaulted.
Today is an errand day, since we've been filling our weekends with fun things and we'll be out of town next weekend.
And it shapeshifts so frequently, and so deftly, that it's a fool's errand to guess at any moment what might happen next.
But the more I tried to figure out my errand paralysis, the more the actual parameters of burnout began to reveal themselves.
Taylor knows that they're being treated like an errand boy, and isn't taking the whole private jet to San Francisco perk seriously.
Last month, Yasso, a K-9 with the Twinsburg Police Department in Ohio had a very important errand to run at Starbucks.
We also learn about this other daughter, who disappeared from the car after Lee left her there to go run an errand.
His mother, Laura Perez, said it was "so difficult" when she returned home from an errand and saw him on the ground.
Exec It's hard not to compare Exec's initial strategy to today's TaskRabbit in that it promised delivering errand services at all times.
As troopers took positions around the property, suspecting Mason was hiding in the surrounding woods, Davidonis pulled up, returning from an errand.
She could have easily sent an assistant to run the errand for her, but who would pass up a trip to Target?
Today's errand is returning some stuff (-$28.41) and picking up spiked sparkling water, Coke Zero, and two boxes of Chai concentrate ($22.26).
Although it doesn't seem like a task, treating your messages like another errand to tackle can make the process seem less daunting.
According to the 2001 Antiques article, companies jumped on the bandwagon, publishing games like The Office Boy, The Errand Boy, and Cash.
Allo: Connects local parents and helps them help each other with things like babysitting and errand-running through a "Karma" point system.
"It would be a fool's errand to bet against a fully employed U.S. consumer," Jim Lowell, CIO of Adviser Investments, told CNBC.
Asking them to voluntarily declare themselves media companies seems more and more like a fool's errand and unlikely to inspire substantive change.
Uber drivers, TaskRabbit errand runners, Postmates couriers — they're all members of the gig economy that's behind half the apps on your phone.
Juul spent millions trying to mislead San Franciscans and rewrite the rules to benefit itself before realizing that was a fool's errand.
It's a fool's errand to predict exactly when and how much, but Dimon is almost certainly right to expect a cryptocurrency crash.
Or, do something: Take the deceased's pet for a walk, run an errand, offer to pick up a relative from the airport.
You can add a stop on your Lyft ride to help you easily run a quick errand or drop another passenger off.
In another case, they allege that they were asked to run an errand for an ex astronaut friend of the NASA commissioner.
While I believe that higher education is valuable, I also did not pursue a PhD because it seemed like a fool's errand.
Now his job, as he describes it, is "taking care of Olga," serving as chauffeur, errand runner, research assistant, and so on.
Fully predicting the effects of any rule change is a fool's errand—like Father Time and billable hours, unintended consequences remain undefeated.
They came in to pick up a loaf after an errand brought them to the old neighborhood, where Ms. Iadarola grew up.
While Elizabeth was in Ciudad Juárez, the shelter operators asked her if she could watch the door while they ran an errand.
Lots of people don't have the time to run errands daily, and a local errand service business could be a great solution.
But it's a fool's errand to try and ascertain meaning or assume any kind of linear, logical thinking from what Trump says.
All the way around continuing investments in fracked gas, fracked oil, coal, other fossil fuels and their infrastructure is a fool's errand.
Trump turned to Congress and now European governments to fix the deal but, as he likely understands, it is a fool's errand.
The next day, Khan and a different grandnephew left Bara early in the morning to run an errand in a neighboring town.
He tried to reduce the world to theory, to make it fit neatly into a conceptual box, which is a fool's errand.
Here is the Clinton errand boy, Alexander Downer, with the walrus, Stefan Halper, a week before both were sent to spy on me.
I tell her that I'm about to run an errand and that if she'd like, I can call her while I do so.
Don't worry about being the first with a technology — that's a fool's errand when you're competing against deep pockets like Apple and Samsung.
When I get into the car to run an errand, I am minimizing free energy by confirming my hypothesis—my fantasy—through action.
Brown's girlfriend, Brittany Powell, who was visiting from Ohio, told the station Brown had gone to run a brief errand before the crash.
Estimating compound political and economic effects out into the future and then properly discounting them back to the present is a fool's errand.
You can even schedule the Roomba 860 to patrol and deep clean your home when you're away at work or running an errand.
This emerges as the film's central message when Ray embarks on an extrajudicial errand to find the missing daughter of his former partner.
"I don't want to make this a fool's errand," he said at an event in Florida last month to applause from the crowd.
When I started LGBTrump — the largest Gays for Trump page on Facebook — in July 2015, many thought I was on a fool's errand.
Expecting fresh, clean clothes from a smelly washer or sparkling plates from a dishwasher crusted with hard water minerals is a fool's errand.
Andrews soon learns that he is on a fool's errand and sheds his starry-eyed Transcendentalism, along with other effete East Coast illusions.
It took place during a period when fans complained that Denino was turning into "Errand Andy": many streams featured him doing mundane tasks.
If the allegations are true, and Jamal has been murdered by the errand boys of Mohammed bin Salman, he is already a martyr.
Wali Tabasum, the Paktia police spokesman, said he had survived because he had been sent out on a work errand 20 minutes earlier.
Comparing eras is seemingly as foolish an errand as writing definitive lists until Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic are all done winning, too.
MONDAY PUZZLE — Most people typically do their shopping on the weekends, but sometimes you need to quickly cross an errand off your list.
His actions are appalling enough; parsing and puzzling over his words, though we must endure their effects, seems like an excruciating fool's errand.
Predicting whether a show will succeed or fail is a fool's errand, but several themes rose to the forefront during the week's presentations.
Picking unnecessary fights with the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA), the National Endowment of the Humanities and PBS is a fool's errand.
Counting on lightning to strike twice by following the same playbook in the current business environment is proving to be a fool's errand.
His friends say he was long underestimated and treated as a glorified errand boy, even when he worked under Michael Eisner at Disney.
Given these numbers, pursuing impeachment seems, to Pelosi and Hoyer, like a fool's errand — all political downside with no practical chance of success.
He has to go and run an errand for work, so I get him to drop me off at the gym on his way.
Goldman argues that the dispersion of stock returns has risen, meaning that picking particular stocks to outperform may become less of a fool's errand.
"You'd send the person all over town with this stupid letter until they finally realized that they were on a fool's errand," Boese says.
LIDAR, the light beam sensor that practically everyone views as an essential ingredient for self-driving cars, is "a fool's errand," according to Musk.
He indulged in profanity-laden fits for the most insignificant reasons—if he dropped something, say, or if he forgot to complete an errand.
That said, the women report that you can slip some cash to a kindhearted production assistant to run an errand for you — within reason.
Trump has convinced himself he was duped by GOP leaders into repealing health care and blowing his first seven months on a fool's errand.
He exercised similar writing-directing-starring control over several successive films, including "The Errand Boy" (1961), "The Nutty Professor" (1963) and "The Patsy" (1964).
Inherent in the film is the question whether the search for closure is a fool's errand, one that only further feeds an unanswerable obsession.
With features to launch and customers to support, the idea of spending time fiddling with your title tags can seem like a fool's errand.
A trip to the coffee shop here, and an errand to a gift shop there, or even the occasional walk to the grocery store.
As I have learned over the past seven years as the SIGAR, predicting the future is often a fool's errand, doubly so in Afghanistan.
Continuing to help the Saudi war effort is a fool's errand with cruel consequences for Yemeni civilians and no benefits for the United States.
It may seem like a fool's errand to rely on Congress to do much of anything these days, especially in our hyper-partisan times.
If one of us had to watch the clothing while our mother went off on an errand, the other would take the trip alone.
Sobbing, Fergus relates to Claire that, while running an errand with Jamie in a whorehouse, he wandered off to find some pockets to pick.
The balance of the elemental and ethereal is present in the vocal lines, too, especially for Miles, the son chosen for the fatal errand.
"I think it's a fool's errand to stand up and say by 2030 we're going to be done with fossil fuels," Mr. Perry said.
He spoke of Mueller dismissively, like an errant errand boy who threw a silly snit after failing to complete the task he was given.
Sugar is addictive and alcoholism is a progressive disease, and so these shops represent an errand for some, a life-threatening lure for others.
He stops short, though, of proposing any one solution to the myriad issues at play on the water—that would be a fool's errand.
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump is on a "fool's errand" with his ongoing trade war with China, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said Sunday.
"Hunger in the United States doesn't make any sense," said Kevin Mullins, executive director of Food Rescue US, which organized my Trader Joe's errand.
I had to run the errand another day, and when I was in Campo Viera I told the story just like I'm telling you.
The errand boy was eventually convicted of larceny.) In 1942, a girl found a $500 bill (bearing President William McKinley's portrait) in Bloomingdale's mailroom.
The Democratic Party's fixation on pursuing those who voted for Mr. Trump is a fool's errand because it's trying to fix the wrong problem.
In 1929, Kahane published "Sleeveless Errand," by Norah James, a novel that had been banned in Britain solely because its characters lead bohemian lives.
Source: Brookings Institution analysis of Emsi data By Karl Russell Expanding the knowledge economy across all of America might indeed be a fool's errand.
With the world perched on the verge of multiple disasters, the battle to defend natural wine might seem to be an elitist fool's errand.
An errand exactly describes the essence of what happened: Trump tried to use the levers of the US government for his own political benefit.
Today, Mr. Sadat remains on the committee, but the experience has convinced him that championing human rights in Egypt's Parliament is a fool's errand.
To send a man off thirty miles, to the furthest edge of the diocese, on such an errand, and on a clapped-out horse . . .
Errand Running/Personal Assistant There are seniors and busy people who need someone to run errands for them, or even become their personal assistant.
Those requests, which Hill described as "a political errand" at odds with official U.S. policy, are at the center of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.
The very notion of organic teleportation was considered a fool's errand until 2109—technically impossible, owing to the fidget problem: living things are fidgety.
" Though Biden is confident his family is on board, "the second piece," he said, "is that I don't want this to be a fool's errand.
I can't decide if this represents a brilliant, potentially disruptive new set of contenders for the $70 billion ad market ... or a total fool's errand.
Targeting excess steel capacity was "a fool's errand", because measuring it was very difficult, and estimates of China's steel production capacity varied enormously, it said.
But without a proper bankruptcy code, which is only now coming into force and will take years to become effective, that is a fool's errand.
It's a great product for parents, who know leaving the house each morning takes as much time as whatever errand it is you're leaving for.
For at least six months of 2100, I attempted to contact Green, which I'll admit I knew was a fool's errand before I even started.
Independent-minded voters view support for alternative energy as a signal that a candidate is "not an errand boy for the party leadership," he added.
Bledsoe said he did not know his home was in danger when he left his wife and great grandchildren to run an errand on Thursday.
We're here to celebrate the ability to masticate food while explaining how it's a fool's errand to try to stop the Warriors with a zone.
Instead of barnstorming across Ohio and Pennsylvania to court these much-needed swing states, Trump is wasting valuable time and money on a fool's errand.
These tonal shifts and contradictions give the album its depth and make the attempt to hear it as a collection of singles a fool's errand.
And, let's face it, putting one's hopes in the basket of gaining leniency by virtue of a president's clemency power is often a fool's errand.
Rather than chasing the fool's errand of reshaping human nature, public policy ought to leverage the institutional designs that can protect against its worst impulses.
Her escape from New York to find happiness in Josh's arms is a fool's errand, and a part of her knows it despite her hopes.
Messenger is also experimenting with a personal-assistant service, called M, which is operated through a combination of human errand-runners and artificial intelligence (AI).
" She went on, "I was thinking a photo of my face that encapsulates the entire record—but maybe that's a bit of a fool's errand.
When she couldn't find them there, she thought that perhaps they had gone on an errand together—the farthest they usually drove was to Costco.
Shopping at Walmart also gives you the added benefit of being able to cross other necessities off of your errand list at the same time.
Typically, a caregiver plans to keep the child in the car for only a few minutes to run an errand and has no malicious intent.
You may be tempted to put yourself on mute and answer another phone call or even try to run an errand while on the line.
So if you're looking for ways to help curb climate change, hopping on your bike for your next errand is a great way to start.
Whether worn for a sunny, errand-running stroll or some fancy occasion (polo match, anyone?), this tried-and-true silhouette should be revisited this summer.
I needed to run an errand before our flight home to Chicago, and my son, then 303, didn't want to get out of the car.
When Mr. Erickson returned from his errand a few minutes later, he found Nakesha sitting motionless, her head tilted backward, her eyes open but empty.
Colin steals a car (for the chop shop where he works), flirts with a neighbor, Antoinette (Natalie Paul), and runs an errand for his grandmother.
But unless they're running an errand — trading in a phone or getting a device fixed — there is little incentive to go into the Apple Store.
That said, we could stand to be a bit more pulled-together in case we dare to run an errand or host an unexpected guest.
The errand boy was eventually convicted of larceny.) In 1942, a girl found a $500 bill (bearing President William McKinley's portrait) in a Bloomingdale's mailroom.
Europeans first heard of its existence in 1606, when a Portuguese navigator stopped through on a brief but violent imperial errand for the Spanish crown.
Predicting playoff failures for Coach Bill Belichick and Tom Brady has been a fool's errand, especially in the divisional round, where they are 12-2.
I was trying to figure out what the story of the year was besides Donald Trump, but that seems a bit like a fool's errand.
The idea that E20183 can be "won" grows more dubious every year, and comparing Nintendo with the likes of Sony or Microsoft is a fool's errand.
Predicting the future can often feel like a fool's errand, as anyone who's ever forecasted the continued smartphone domination of Symbian and Windows Mobile would affirm.
She turns down dog walks that are too far from her home and tries to pick up the ones that can be paired with an errand.
For the shopping errand, the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star sported a tan-colored sweatshirt, which he paired with jeans, white sneakers and dark sunglasses.
Delonda Walker was at work when her co-worker, Howell Emanuel Donaldson III, asked her to hold his bag while he ran an errand, officials said.
I decide to pay since I dragged BF with me to the Greek dance errand earlier (and also because again, I am the best girlfriend ever).
I think I said in another interview that it also examines how both people are flawed: the person running the errand and the person who died.
Whereas investing in the tail-end of a pitching staff used to be considered a fool's errand, these days it's an approved strategy of the intelligentsia.
Chasing smartphones is a fool's errand these days, though who wouldn't like to see a revival of the "Moonraker" smartwatch that Nokia once built for Microsoft?
What should have been a simple errand turned into a frenzied hunt for feminine products — and it ended with a young woman's denouncement of the patriarchy.
It appears a fool's errand to attempt to apply context to the Founding Fathers motives and their comprehension of late-eighteenth century weaponry and emergent threats.
Understandably, to assist us in this fool's errand, we've created terminology for every kind of club-ready weapon or beach-side bliss-out you'll ever hear.
Opinion Imagine that this is your daily life: While on your way to work or on an errand, every 100 meters you pass a police blockhouse.
Before, when I needed to pay a bill, update my cable package, or do some kind of errand, I used to have to make a call.
"Every time I'm out in New York, even when I'm running an errand or having lunch with a friend, I see the coincidences everywhere," he said.
The episode's plot is a distant relative of the original series episode, "Errand of Mercy," where Kirk and Spock encounter the evolved and pacifist Organians: 3.
He recalled being scolded by one of his grandmothers once when he became distracted on an errand by a newspaper he had found in the street.
"I think it is a fool's errand to think that our postponing or canceling exercises will cause a positive reaction from the North," Mr. Maxwell said.
The Steelers are good enough to make the spread a bit insulting, but betting against Brady and the Patriots in prime time is a fool's errand.
Looking for insights into Mr Almodóvar's life via the character of Mallo may well be a fool's errand, and perhaps it makes for a simplistic reading.
The entrepreneur admits that he internalized this doubt and eventually saw Musk's passion for colonizing Mars as a "fool's errand" that wouldn't happen in their lifetime.
Experts agreed that the biggest roadblock, though, will be gaining government approval, especially in an era when bipartisan agreement on anything is pretty much a fool's errand.
We typically make a weekly stop to Target anyway, but adding K-beauty must-haves to our errand list is a habit we can definitely get behind.
It seems like a fool's errand to try to evaluate Trump's policy positions, given that so much of his campaign is built on pure bluster and showmanship.
Specific Apple Watch models are able to connect via 4G LTE, enabling you to go on a run or an errand without needing to carry your phone.
Sadly for our country, I agree with Mr. Israel's conclusion that given today's makeup of Congress, any effort at substantive change is pretty much a fool's errand.
It's also handy because it allows you to pop out for an errand by showing how many stops or deliveries the driver will make before reaching you.
If you have to travel a short distance in a city — to run an errand or meet a friend for a drink — how do you get there?
No doubt encouraged by Tom's matchmaking, Henry turns up unexpectedly at Downton Abbey under the guise of it being on the way back from some imaginary errand.
You have to let your parent slip and fall on the playground when he is wandering there, lost, after setting out on an errand he can't recall.
Polls indicate that most New York City residents don't think that he should run and even many of his supporters feel his campaign is a fool's errand.
The sexual harassment tsunami and the almost 50/50 split in our upper chamber of Congress make almost all 2018 election prognostications a fool's errand right now.
The chaos does not seem to interest him, though I also think he believes that this last-ditch effort by the anti- Trumpers is a fool's errand.
And yet taking this approach to rising through the ranks of the Trump White House — or any workplace — is a fool's errand, and it takes a toll.
When Mr. Groberg walked out the door to run an errand, Ms. Zarin thought he had gone home, and she soon departed, more than a bit disappointed.
The user is given subtle hints about giving the protagonist what she needs to go about her day, like running an errand or even brushing her teeth.
Everything we've learned about Trump since he took office suggests it's a fool's errand to attempt to convince him to take more responsible action regarding climate change.
All political appointees, they proved to be more than willing to engage in what Dr. Hill later described as an improper "domestic political errand" for the President.
Even before the election, TPP didn't have the votes needed to pass on Congress, and attempting to revive it at this point would be a fool's errand.
Without even knowing which court will hear the case, speculating on the result is really a fool's errand—even if it adds some hope for net neutrality supporters.
"Comparing the safety of e-cigarettes to cigarettes in many ways is a fool's errand because the cigarette is the deadliest consumer product on the market," she said.
It's closing my eyes and imagining that I'm back in 2010, that I'm just running an errand for my mom at the grocery store, that she won't die.
In all honesty, though, to try and look out one year from now and tell people what the market will or will not do is a fool's errand.
If I decided to ride it anywhere else — to a friend's place or to run an errand — it would have about 30 percent left after just a day.
"Shopping is more than an errand – it's also about what you discover along the way," Instagram said in a statement when it first introduced shopping through the app.
Charlie Brooker's show is never what it seems, and so it feels like a fool's errand to even speculate based on a 50-second trailer with no dialogue.
And, of course, trying to speculate on the state of the economy and perceptions of national politics in two, four or six years is largely a fool's errand.
The Assistant also taps into location data to surface a reminder when a person happens to be in the vicinity of the errand that needs to be completed.
The Chicago-based preacher William Eugene Blackstone — who described himself as God's "errand boy" — visited the White House in 1891 to present President Benjamin Harrison with a petition.
The White House correspondent Michael D. Shear broke the news for The Times, as he happened to be at the White House that afternoon to run an errand.
On Tuesday, the social network announced the "Community Help" feature, where people can volunteer to pick up groceries, ask someone to run an errand or donate to fundraisers.
There's Edgar, the waiter's best friend, who leaves his young daughter in the waiter's care at the restaurant all afternoon while he goes off on some unspecified errand.
Read more " _____ • Andrew J. Bacevich in Commonweal Magazine: "To expend energy exploring the implications of the so-called 'Age of Trump' is to engage in a fool's errand.
Only during this extramural errand do Vollman and Bevins realize that Lincoln is the President, five or six chief executives after Tyler and Polk, the incumbents they remember.
While other companies have conquered car rides (Uber), bedroom rentals (Airbnb) and errand running (TaskRabbit), AirDine and services like EatWith and Feastly are trying to master shared dining.
It's nice to catch up with everyone, but we're all tired and still have another errand to run so I'm admittedly a little impatient and want to leave.
" Biden said during an event at the University of Delaware that his family wants him to run, but he's still weighing whether it would be a "fool's errand.
Jimmy, who rarely does subtle, ends up with his head in a garbage bin, rummaging for whatever Mr. Errand might have left behind as he exited the restaurant.
A messenger for Postmates and Uber Eats told me about an errand to pick up sex toys that ended in an invitation to try out the new acquisitions.
Fiona Hill, the former Russia expert at the White House, distilled the whole thing into what it was -- a domestic political errand rather than a genuine foreign policy.
I set aside money in my budget this month for a good waterproof coat, so I decide to take care of that errand and walk over to REI.
On Saturday morning, I spoke to a relative in Tehran who was trying to beat the city's notorious traffic, looking for the best route to run an errand.
Both the Bush and Obama administrations learned the hard way that declaring victory and withdrawing forces too early in a generational struggle against extremists is a fool's errand.
The errand and task outsourcing company also boasts diversity stats across the board — TaskRabbit's workforce is 58 percent female, 11 percent Asian, 11 percent LGBTQ, and 5 percent Latino.
This may be why root connections happen in the first place, but cannot explain their perpetuation, for trying to help a trunkless stump reproduce would be a fool's errand.
Engelbart began by displaying a pedantic list of groceries and errand locations, using the mouse to move the "bug" cursor to click on words to reveal hyperlinked layers below.
We would hook up in a way that always surprised me, a sudden kiss during a ride home or on the way to a quick errand that never manifested.
A taxi driver he often used, unbeknownst to Lula, subsequently sent Marisa Leticia, the widow of his deceased son, on an errand to the union office where Lula worked.
It was the summer after my freshman year of college, and the two of us were sitting in my mom's car waiting for her to run a quick errand.
Attempting to top that resolution is a fool's errand, but the company that also supplies displays to its chief competition happily made some tweaks to the screen's color accuracy.
In the rare moments when I forget my fears and forget the past, there'll be an errand to run and I'll find myself riding the subway downtown through Chinatown.
Maybe you've got a morning jog, coffee meetings, hours needed to sift through emails, office time, and errand-running — plus all the things that happen before, during, and after.
The fact that the Pearsons forgot to run an errand — buying batteries for the smoke alarm — allowed the fire to get out of control without the sleeping family realizing.
This offering isn't just for brunching and errand-running, though; everything Outdoor Voices makes is designed to sweat in, and it's brought that same technicality to the A.P.C.O.V. collection.
"The mistake we make is trying to call the absolute bottom" — a task Dwyer has come to view as a fool's errand, as well as a some irrelevant question.
For example, she's had a girlfriend for almost a year and a half now, and we went to go run an errand that's super close to a sex shop.
A New Yorker article from last June reported a story (which the governor's office denied) that Trump sent Christie on an errand to pick up Big Macs from McDonald's.
Each of us is in charge of different tasks, but if there is an unusual errand to be run, we'll do that together—like baking desserts on special occasions.
A music lover wouldn't be caught dead without a pair of headphones, whether they're just running a quick errand across the street or settling into a long-haul flight.
The industry argues that the idea of segregating securities in a portfolio on the basis of how many days it would take to sell them is a fool's errand.
She said that using Tinder to find other lactation fans is a fool's errand, and that even fetish sites aren't brimming with people who are interested in an ABR.
When I was 7, I began sneaking into my mom's room whenever I found an opportunity — like when she was doing work in the yard or running an errand.
Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-Ality answers this by assuring me that my only purpose in this virtual world is to be an expendable errand boy of minimal competence.
Their "crimes" included refusing to run an errand for a white woman, asking a white woman for a drink of water and rejecting a white man's bid for cottonseed.
It's not the language of our day-to-day errand-running and obligation-fulfilling, not the language with which we are asked to justify ourselves to the outside world.
Despite a pleading personal letter from McQueen, the family retained it and used it as an around-town errand-runner until its clutch gave out a few years later.
The report and its authors on the National Security Council are indeed correct that hoping to "turn [authoritarian governments] into benign actors and trustworthy partners" was a fool's errand.
The lack of success by mayors who have sought the White House might suggest that seeking the Oval Office from a foundation of city politics is a fool's errand.
The search for ideas that could improve the economic conditions of deprived areas, long derided by economists as a fool's errand, is now at the top of policymakers' lists.
With the chronic food shortages in Venezuela, that errand already is very complicated, but there's an extra layer of difficulty for me: I don't own bolívars, Venezuela's official currency.
In 1910, we reported on the furor after a Wall Street errand boy lost a $10,000 bill, which featured Salmon Chase, a Treasury secretary and Supreme Court chief justice.
The husband's statement: He left on an errand, came back, the door was locked, he saw "what appeared to be" his wife through the window and called the police.
Knotted- up T-shirt and boxers is a look that means errand day for me, but all off-white is for a Summer Friday when the direct deposit hits.
Perhaps not surprisingly to those with children, as a fair number these early risers had babies in strollers along on their shopping errand, already adjusted to the hours parents keep.
I make the kind of record that I want to hear and I don't think, "What does an audience want?" and try to deliver that, because that's a fool's errand.
On Sunday morning, the girl's mother left the house in Suitland, Maryland, to run an errand, leaving the baby alone with her daughter for a "very brief" time, police said.
Having been orphaned in that jumbled prologue, he washes up on the Romanesque mean streets of "Londinium", where he grows from an errand boy to an unusually virtuous brothel keeper.
That's when Donaldson walked into the Tampa McDonald's where he worked and asked his manager to hold onto a bag while he ran an errand, the Tampa Bay Times reports.
But Jennings's focus remains, happily, on the faintly madcap lesser-knowns who persuaded thousands of disciples to join them on an "errand into the wilderness," to borrow a Puritan expression.
Going forward, the question is what other esoteric right-wing talking head can Kristol try to cajole into his fool's errand: Ian Tuttle, John Fund, Kathryn Jean Lopez, Arch Puddington?
At best, this process may supplant the thing we brand evil for a time, but the notion that evil can be "destroyed" is an ethical version of a fool's errand.
Members from heavily Democratic districts will be reinforced hearing anti-Trump vitriol; those from swing districts that determine a majority will more likely be reinforced this is a fool's errand.
What was meant to be a short shopping errand at Walmart with his mother quickly turned into a situation of life or death for El Paso shooting survivor Christopher Grant.
"They view Hezbollah positively as the errand lackey of Iran in Syria and Lebanon, (and) they are backing the Shi'ite militia activity in Iraq and Syria," Dichter said of Moscow.
No one deserves to be treated like this, but Razieh has provoked Nader's anger by tying his father to his bed and locking him in while she runs an errand.
On Friday morning, Mr. Noorani was heading home after running an errand when his car was followed by men on motorcycles brandishing weapons, said Azaz Syed, a friend and colleague.
Rob Walker, the author of "The Art of Noticing," recommends going on a personal scavenger hunt, viewing things during a mundane errand or task that you wouldn't normally look at.
There will also be critics who believe the government does not have the ability to pick "winners" and that trying to re-create Silicon Valley elsewhere is a fool's errand.
Inside the List OM'S LAW: To the extent that Buddhism encourages its practitioners to cast aside the self on their way to enlightenment, it can seem like a fool's errand.
So far, not one has testified as part of the impeachment process or spoken publicly about what they told Mr. Trump about the potential consequences of his domestic political errand.
The slippers are easy to slip on and off and they have a sturdy, hard sole so you can wear them outside to run a quick errand if need be.
Barr has also tasked Durham with the inquiry into the origins of the Russia investigation, a move which Trump's critics view as a political errand on behalf of the president.
"They told me it was a quixotic fool's errand," he recalled, and that he'd never recover enough from a small operation like a carwash to make it worth his time.
To entrepreneurs like Shehmir Shaikh, who recently launched errand start-up Scooty Bhejo in Lahore, Uber is missing a trick over Pakistan's digital divide and its large, low-income transport market.
A skeptic might correctly point out that there's still much to discover about how the brain works, and then conclude it a fool's errand to hook it up to a machine.
"Oh, keeping up with 'Aunt Tatis'!" her teenage daughter said with a dismissive laugh when Clouthier introduced her to a reporter while running a family errand on a recent Friday evening.
Whenever Gisela Mota Ocampo left her home in the city of Temixco to run an errand, go to work or visit friends, she made a point of showing she wasn't frightened.
"Sondland, meanwhile, was one of Trump's handpicked agents in charge of running what witnesses characterized as the administration's "irregular" foreign policy channel that sought to carry out a "domestic political errand.
So, whether you're in the market for a new pair of "errand leggings" or need a workout top that can withstand your streaming boob sweat, there's something for you on sale.
While I would often swing by their house to check in or run a quick errand, I didn't always take the time to just sit with them, talk, and be together.
"Predicting turnout this far in advance of an election is a fool's errand," said campaign spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany, noting that there's no sure way to know which voters will turn out.
During a downtown errand to shop at the thrift store with Sister Kass and Sister Freya, Sister Kate gets pulled aside and high-fived by a young man on the sidewalk.
It would be a fool's errand to attempt to untangle the threads of a dense, layered Solange record mere hours after it fluttered into the world, so I'll keep it brief.
Jamie is providing them with actual feedback, while her designated A&R rep Julie (Max Casella) is treating her like an errand girl and telling the Nasty Bitz that they're terrible.
However, when the list of major oil exporters include Russia, Iran, and Venezuela, just to name a few, counting on long-term stability in the oil market is a fool's errand.
Transmission efforts (collectively known as Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligences, or METI) have been criticized by many in the SETI community as a fool's errand at best and an existential threat at worst.
Predicting a 10-year roll-out is a fool's errand and getting locked into a fixed contract will result in a deployment that could be out of date within two years.
"We came to realize that good-faith efforts to meet accommodation — with many different stakeholders involved — can be a fool's errand when political motivation overrides the rule of law," Mahmoud said.
On August 22, he arrived at the venue dressed in a suit with no shirt and, like your unperturbed father running an errand on a Sunday morning, wore socks with sandals.
Brooks was rushing to catch a flight with her two young kids; she let Felix stay in the car playing on his iPad while she ran into Target on an errand.
This was not war in the conventional sense of the term, but it was the ultimate reason the British Army was destined to discover that it was on a fool's errand.
Of course, savers shouldn't peg a Roth-conversion decision solely to stock-market gyrations — doing so would be like trying to time the market, which is a fool's errand, experts said.
And most Australian experts point out that calling Mr. Downer a "Clinton errand boy," as some did this week, denies the well-documented patrician conservatism Mr. Downer has exhibited for decades.
The answer is that the requested investigations were "a domestic political errand," as Fiona Hill, a Russia expert who worked for the Trump administration, testified before Congress during the impeachment hearings.
Rob Walker, the author of "The Art of Noticing," recommends going on a personal scavenger hunt, looking at things during a mundane errand or task that you wouldn't normally look at.
Bridesmaid services, which include wedding day errand running, wearing the bridesmaids' dress, toast making, walking down the aisle and general advice-giving, normally about $2,500, will be on sale for $2,000.
The woman's husband, Ed Bledsoe, told the station that he left them at home to run an errand on Thursday night and then got a call from his great-great grandson.
Tommy Chong says banning flavored vapes is a fool's errand, and the proper response to the recent spate of deaths has been right in front of us the whole time ... marijuana!!!
"It would be a fool's errand to pass such legislation which would directly conflict with the core campaign promises of President Trump to regain control of our border and immigration system."
And a mobile service called Book My Chotu — a chotu is an errand runner — allows people in Indian cities to pay someone to stand in line for them at the bank.
Russo also says he was an errand boy for the mob back in the day -- and had close mobster friends, including Gambino mob boss Paul Castellano, who was killed in 1985.
Perhaps only someone touched by the terror that is the Kim regime could provide the only actionable advice to the leader of the free world: trusting a tyrant is a fool's errand.
But being able to order a cocktail while running a routine errand like picking up milk or a pair of jeans, Grisel and others say, takes the trend to a new extreme.
This was the podcast that kept me laughing or breathless through every commute, every errand, and every household chore in 22015, and I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes in 215.
They lend their treasure-hunting, monster-fighting, errand-running prowess to their many friends and neighbors, and along the way, the complex backstory of Adventure Time's characters and their world is unspooled.
And since no two pundits can agree on what went wrong for him in 2015, trying to read training-camp tea leaves to see if everything is fixed is a fool's errand.
The last time we saw a celebrity so regularly photographed running an ordinary errand was Taylor Swift and her always-polished, always-camera-ready post-workout outfits from the summer of 2014.
By the end of the series, Nagata portrays an infant Martian colonization effort as a foolhardy errand put on by a select few as a way to escape the problems of Earth.
During the first weeks of finally giving up Adderall, the fatigue was as real as it had been before, the effort required to run even a tiny errand momentous, the gym unthinkable.
While the prospect of a constitutional amendment is mostly a fool's errand, I think in the area of guns, it might be one of those areas that such an amendment could happen.
"I would say that multi-touch attribution, for nine out of the 10 brands that we see, is a fool's errand because it measures such a small percentage of media," he said.
Henry enjoys nothing more than being in the throes of an errand or repair, a baseball game murmuring from the radio, his hands free to mend and his mind free to wander.
The best dialogue that we could have as a country would be how to stop sending our men and women in harm's way on what has proved to be a fool's errand.
While children might not be at increased risk running an errand, the purpose of social distancing is to protect those who are most vulnerable and to limit the severity of the pandemic.
As one might imagine, trying to accomplish all of these things simultaneously is a fool's errand, and, as a result, Modern Warfare has a hard time being much of anything at all.
She called President Trump's pressuring of Ukraine a "domestic political errand" and called out several GOP conspiracy theories, including the idea that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election to harm Trump's campaign.
Fiona Hill, the former top Russia expert on the National Security Council, testified that the pressure campaign on Ukraine amounted to a "domestic political errand" that diverged from U.S. foreign policy goals.
Sure, they might not be what you'd call "luxurious," but there's something delightful about being able to pick up some cotton balls, toilet paper, and a sex toy all in the same errand.
Of course, prognosticating anyone's future is a fool's errand in the current administration, but looking at which Cabinet secretaries have been fired and why could provide a guide to Pruitt's fortunes under Trump.
Their two-dimensional nature, reinforced through repetitive dialogue trees, portrays them as irremediable dumbasses whose sole function is to give you a bad errand with a bag of experience points at the end.
Working out a rationale within the British system of VAT is a fool's errand; products that enjoy the reduced rates are meant to be necessities, but the definition of a necessity is loose.
Instead of just posting an errand list on your News Feed, take it to the next level with lists of random thoughts, inspirations, funny overhead quotes, and other non-to-do list topics.
Political expediency and driving up base support may seem like a politician's tonic in the modern age of social media, but it is nothing more than a fool's errand that benefits no one.
The search for a big philosophic explanation for everything is a fool's errand, but we can gradually add to the practical wisdom of our species, and work out better ways to do things.
The essence of the industry's complaint is that the idea of segregating securities in a portfolio on the basis of how many days it would take to sell them is a fool's errand.
Her errand completed, Ms. Ullman piled into the black chauffeured car that was waiting outside and sped uptown to Blue Tree, a Madison Avenue treasure chest stuffed with jewelry, accessories and cheerful kitsch.
Moreover, and this is the critical mistake this article makes, the previous generation of web technologies (from Google forward) all uncritically tried to solve social and political problems with technology, a fool's errand.
If they are heading out to run an errand — say, to shop at the organic market in Príncipe Real — it's not uncommon for them to ask whomever they bump into to come along.
" He said he is always looking for where meaning can be found and how to define it, but he often comes to the realization that this attempt is "kind of a fool's errand.
I was just arrested and charged for "neglect" because I allowed my 2-year-old to nap soundly in a locked, air-conditioned car while I ran a quick errand in a store.
Mr. Cruz plainly paid a price for his derisive comments in the past about "New York values," and those remarks may have made the state a fool's errand for him from the start.
Fiona Hill, the National Security Council&aposs former senior director for Russian and Eurasian affairs, who witnessed and reported what she described as the "domestic political errand" that had hijacked US foreign policy.
"Babywearing" can reduce crying among infants, and sometimes it's just the trick to get your baby to calm down or nap long enough for you to complete a call or finish an errand.
When you say "Hey Siri, add an errand," Things will launch a new to-do with everything filled in, including the tags, so all you have to do is enter the title and save.
If I went back to the office now, it would already be the end of the day by the time I got back, so I decide to run an errand since I'm already downtown.
"If he has any grasp of scientific and legal reality, he would realize that it's a fool's errand to reverse the endangerment determination," said David Doniger, climate director for the Natural Resources Defense Counsel.
Startups, flush with funding from venture capitalists and eager to grab the attention of new customers, offer free food delivery, prepared meal kits, grocery-shopping, dog-walking, errand-running, moving, laundry and ride-hailing.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, brushing off new comments by Robert Mueller and 2020 Democratic hopefuls, feels as strongly as ever that impeaching President Trump would be a "fool's errand," a top ally told Axios.
Ed Bledsoe tells CBS News he did not know his home was in danger when he left his wife, Melody, and the 225- and 219-year-old children to run an errand on Thursday.
I decide to take my work car instead of my personal car (which is paid off but getting old), as this is primarily a work errand, so I have to move her carseat over.
If Trump is intent on a near-term tensions truce and a longer-term nuclear negotiation, he must convince the Supreme Leader that taking a chance on the US, again, isn't a fool's errand.
It justifies its length for a while, but towards the back half, when you're sent on an errand for the billionth magical McGuffin, it can feel it's spinning its wheels just because it can.
It provides a live video feed of any activity at your front door, so you can always keep an eye on your home — even if you're away at the office or running an errand.
"Spirit pilots are not prepared to embark on the fool's errand of accepting substandard pay and retirement based on the unenforceable hypothesis that the Company may grow more quickly," Morrison said in a statement.
But some advocates worry industry could use this process to weaken nutrition standards, and others think the difficulty of deciding which foods deserve the "healthy" label might be a fools errand to begin with.
It is a fool's errand to predict what will happen in the future, but it is a near certainty that the events that await us will seem unthinkable in foresight, and inevitable in hindsight.
Petersen—who, full disclosure, is a friend who has cited my writing on burnout—coins the term "errand paralysis" to describe her inability to perform the small, ordinary tasks we associate with functional adulthood.
The United States' well-remembered history of meddling in Iranian politics; our extensive and costly military interventions already underway across the greater Mideast; and Iran's size and wealth all make invasion a fool's errand.
As I recall all too well from my dating days, waiting for a man to change is a fool's errand, but in the case of Mr. Trump, it may be the fools' only choice.
What I did know — why I advised people to sit tight — is that it's a fool's errand to time markets based on transient events, whether these are major political upsets or surprising economic news.
So, trying to beat a radical right-wing populist insurgency by becoming one — or for that matter, by adopting its agenda and even inviting it into government — turns out to be a fool's errand.
That history suggests that Beijing's leaders are on what former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton once called a "fool's errand": trying to uphold a system of government that cannot survive in the modern era.
Instead, it testifies to the vitality of an archetype embodied in different ways by Toby, Gilliam and the Man of La Mancha himself: the fool who mistakes his blundering errand for a sacred quest.
Projecting adult success onto any 2000-year-old is a fool's errand, of course; hyped young athletes across all sports, both boys and girls, regularly fail as they travel seemingly preordained paths to stardom.
But the impeachment trial is about more than the fate of Ukraine — and whether Mr. Trump sold it out for a "domestic political errand," as his former adviser, Fiona Hill, put it so bitingly.
They had just finished up lunch, and set off to run a humdrum errand: a drive to the travel agency to pick up airline tickets for their annual visit to their beloved homeland Cuba.
This is not to say that the NBA should try to do something about this, and not just because Managing Parity is a fool's errand best left to the butterfingered managerial authoritarians of the NFL.
The former is trusty and reliable, providing us with everything we need for lounging around the house, errand days (worn under extra baggy sweats) and well, every other occasion we can possibly wear them to.
Whether you're running an errand, taking a short trip or heading back to work full-time, you'll need a good breast pump to get you through those times when you can't breastfeed your baby directly.
To be fair, this probably would've been a fool's errand anyway, since it's hard to imagine that an open-source community around Edge would've made much of a difference in solving the practical problems anyway.
Veteran Republicans, however, see Trump's Fairfield, Connecticut, campaign stop ares a fool's errand -- a prime example of what many worry is a political operation that takes Trump's proclivity for defying convention a step too far.
While it is often a fool's errand to predict the timing, size and consequences of a geo-political crisis, it does appear that the risks of one, or more, may be on the event horizon.
The young Canadian couple had been reported missing for nearly a week, after they failed to return to their home on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, from an overnight errand to buy furnace parts in Seattle.
A few weeks ago, I drove home after an errand and stayed in my car for a minute just to soak in the old-but-new joy I from a song I had recently discovered.
Just as a person might leave their front door unlocked to run a quick errand, a major league catcher may be inclined to simplify the sequences of signs he will ultimately flash to his pitcher.
Whenever you say that you have to do something, whether it's running an errand or going to dinner at Grandma's house, you imply that you're being forced to do things you don't want to do.
Markets dropped Friday on the solid jobs report — which reduced the likelihood of a Fed rate cut — and it would be a fool's errand to predict markets will definitively grow between now and November 220006.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie—the former Trump opponent turned errand boy—has reportedly received the official paperwork for the vetting process to be the likely Republican nominee's running mate, the New York Times reports.
" Obama called it a fool's errand to make "blanket promises to their base that it can't possibly meet," including "union bashing or corporate bashing without acknowledging that both workers and businesses make our economy run.
Wild innovation in prostate massagers also points to a willingness to abandon the old male toy quest to replicate sex—a fools errand sex writer Lux Alptraum argues harshly limits their possible forms and sensations.
I didn't like leaving her in the car, knowing she could forget entirely where I had gone and why she was there without me, but the errand was made so much easier by her absence.
" On the night Lil Peep died in Arizona, the suit alleges Mercer saw "that [Lil Peep] looked alarmingly unwell, but rather than seeking help or contacting authorities, Mercer instead elected to run a personal errand.
Danny (Callum Turner), who reluctantly helps his mother run a proxy bookie's office for her fellow Polish immigrants in their New York kitchen, is wheedled by his incarcerated brother into running a (probably) illegal errand.
Anyway, one afternoon I went out there in the small truck, just to run an errand was all, and as I was driving over the Yazá bridge I saw this woman run across the road.
Rosenberg is not one of them, saying "it's a fool's errand" to call an end to the bond bull because the drop in prices — and accompanying rise in yields — may not be here to stay.
Any attempt to connect the dots -- from a policy or strategic perspective -- between yesterday and today or even from month to month -- is a fool's errand; Trump does what he wants, generally speaking, every day.
"The child was left unattended in a car seat for several hours until Brooks realized the child was still in the car after running an errand," the Hobbs Police Department wrote in a Facebook post.
Other analysts, like Greenstein, think it's a fool's errand to do what Ryan is demanding, and evaluate the program reforms Ryan has put forward outside of the massive cuts that he and his allies clearly favor.
I heard the sound of rain in the background, which got louder when my mind jumped to an errand I needed to run after work (the louder the rain, Muse told me, the busier the mind).
When they spent money in the Wisconsin and Michigan in 2016 and sent their candidate there, many thought it was a fool's errand, until Trump turned those states red for the first time in a generation.
REDDING, California — Ed Bledsoe was running a quick errand Thursday night when he got a frantic call from his 5-year-old great-grandson, James Roberts, crying that a blazing wildfire had reached their home here.
And while Petersen's article discusses "errand paralysis" at length and describes not being able to take her shoes to the cobbler, I clench up and freeze every time I see a cop car driving behind me.
Bikeshare programs in the US have mostly consisted of kiosks, or stations, where users can unlock a bike, take it off the rack, use it and return it once their errand or joy ride is done.
Expecting responsibility from Trump is a fool's errand, but others should reflect on the precedent and message they are sending to Russia or others that would use these methods to attack the foundations of our democracy.
If there's one thing family's good for, it's helping each other out in times of need, so when mother Claudia Sorhaindo needed to run an errand, her 15-year-old-niece offered to babysit her daughter.
Your friend weighs her options: "Run an errand" and find solace in a McDonald's single stall or wait to poop until she's in the comfort of her studio apartment where only her dog can judge her.
He wrote that he would run a quick errand at the 24-hour store near us to get milk and the newspapers, and come home in time to drive me to high school in the morning.
There may be scads of labels scrambling to keep apace with the retailing empire these days, but its beginnings are humble: Zara was started by a former shirtmaker's errand boy, himself with a working-class background.
The show introduces its main character Tiuri, played by a very charming Amir Wilson (His Dark Materials), and sets him on a postal errand without once explaining why he or anything else going on is important.
Ms. Zavala, a single mother of two, had been visiting family for the holiday and had been out running an errand when her vehicle was struck, ABC13 Houston reported in a tweet shared by the sheriff.
His contact, Ellie (Grace Van Patten), desperate to escape from Pittsburgh, has taken on a job as the driver on this errand, at the behest of a very ineffectual low-level criminal played by Mike Birbiglia.
He didn't go directly in, but walked by the place as if he were on an errand elsewhere, then stripped off the mask and stuffed it in his pocket, doubled back, and pushed open the door.
Mr. Exson, out on an errand in his neighborhood on the west side of Chicago and anxious to start a construction job with full benefits the next day, was rushed to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital.
We must, therefore, encourage our fellow citizens — teachers, students, scientists and explorers alike — to treat failure as a way to foolproof a solution, not as a fool&aposs errand or an error only a fool would make.
Hervey told TMZ, which was the first to report the news, that he had a prescription for Ambien and took a pill before getting behind the wheel to run an errand, but he had not been drinking.
Of course, trying to plumb these statements for actual commitments is a fool's errand, since ISPs have a long history of lying, throttling applications they claim consume too much bandwidth, or blocking competitors and things like BitTorrent.
What's become clear this week is that Pruitt sees the security detail as a kind of all-purpose group of errand boys whom he can dispatch on weird tasks like tracking down a used Trump hotel mattress.
He was living on the streets of Toronto and checking pay phones for change when a bookmaker named Bertie Mignacco took Mr. Bozic under his wing, enlisting him as an errand boy and, later, a debt collector.
The idea is your autonomous vehicle is docked to your home via some sort of portal, becoming a cool extension that just detaches when you're ready to be whisked across town for an errand or road trip.
Another defendant at Monday's hearing testified that he had been on an errand to a pharmacy but was arrested by security forces when he stopped his car to watch as protesters set fire to the embassy building.
Assigning rhyme or reason to the location choice in a way that makes it possible to predict where it'll hit next seems like a fool's errand at this point, but some interesting fan theories have popped up.
By midmorning, Morales said, the agents caught up with him while he left to run an errand, persuading him to allow them to search the house to look for a fugitive Morales said didn't live with him.
ANTI is so jam-packed with incredible songs (the record took two years to make, and came out four years after Rihanna's previous album, 2012's Unapolagetic) it would be a fool's errand to try to choose.
The playwright's father, along with his mother, Luz Towns-Miranda, 65, a clinical psychologist, had exposed the Miranda children early on to Broadway musicals and their soundtracks, and he was happy to help with such an errand.
Explaining why the stock market does what it does is largely a fool's errand; a former colleague used to say that the only inference from a rising stock market was that there were more buyers than sellers.
All: 5-10% Jon and Dany -- After eight seasons, it's probably a fool's errand to believe that anyone at any time in this savage, volatile land is "off the table" when it comes to violent, untimely death.
Gamby swears in front of kids, openly lusts after teachers, forces his driver's ed students to chauffeur him around on errand runs, and generally behaves like a gigantic baby with a mustache and a clip-on tie.
Photo by Lester Cohen/WireImage/Getty Enshrining popular music—an art form based on youth and rebellion, on evading the rule-makers while on the hunt for what's next—might be a bit of a fool's errand.
"We don't detail internal or personal meetings," Mr. Phillips said, raising the possibility that Mr. de Blasio had been engaged in a personal errand that delayed him enough to necessitate air travel over the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
"A 40-year-old trend of capitalism without conscience—corporate elites and their errand boys in government— have created the inevitable blowback in the form of a political revolution," Williamson wrote in a statement shared on Twitter.
Release date: TBASynopsis: A veteran D.C. journalist loses the thread of her own narrative when a guilt-propelled errand for her father thrusts her from byline to unwitting subject in the very story she's trying to break.
Hill outlined the emergence of two divergent policies in Kyiv: one advancing official U.S. policy designed to help Ukraine fend off Russian aggression; another she described as a "domestic political errand" aimed at helping Trump's reelection prospects.
With a Bosch motor and a 55-mile range, as well as hydraulic brakes and a useful walk mode to help you push the bike, you should be able to get through just about any daily errand.
As a symbolic battle with a male beast, the number resembles Martha Graham's "Errand Into the Maze" (just as the stand-alone dress recalls Graham's "Episodes"), but the choreography (here and elsewhere) is patchy, the triumph unearned.
"It has become a huge errand and a huge part of my life having to get all this stuff back to where it came from," said Ms. Nicolas, a stay-at-home mother and former fashion buyer.
They worry that Mr. Sanders, as president, would exhaust his political capital on what they call a fool's errand, at the expense of other initiatives on education, infrastructure, climate change, worker benefits — and the Affordable Care Act itself.
Whether you believe they're acceptable to wear as pants or not (we're team #LeggingsArePants, by the way), they're easy to throw on when you need to run a quick errand, and can easily be dressed up or down.
" Kirk Hartman, president and global chief investment officer at Wells Fargo Asset Management, said playing today's market was all but a fool's errand: "I think if you try to trade this market, it's an opportunity to lose money.
The mystical and poignant folk harmonies of Fleet Foxes reach a stirring apex on "Fool's Errand," one of the best tracks on the band's latest album, "Crack-Up," and one of the most affecting in the group's catalog.
EV drivers will welcome, it is thought, the ability to top up by using a smartphone to locate, reserve and rent charging pads while parked for a quick errand or overnight, without needing to fuss with a cord.
Kylie shared the adventure on her Instagram Story, and it sounds like she was the driving force behind the big errand ... because she says she had to drag him out of the house to finally get it done.
While there are many parables about her mercurial ways—according to legend, she once killed the friend of her sister Hiʻiaka for taking too long to run an errand—the goddess never had it out for greedy tourists.
In other words, the Clinton campaign and its top allies are running a fool's errand trying to make the American people feel worse about a threat they don't really know that much about and probably don't want to.
"Ultimately, this is a fool's errand, because the government fails to address the major economic issues facing Venezuela, " said Jason Marczak, director of the Latin America Economic Growth Initiative at the Atlantic Council's Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center.
To try to predict violent behavior in individuals is a fool's errand, since when and how violence occurs is almost accidental, depending largely on situational factors, state of mind, social support, the immediate environment and access to weapons.
Nah. It'll bring back a chunk of players who dropped off because they ran out of things to do, for sure — but striving for that same degree of ubiquitous and game-breaking popularity would be a fool's errand.
Getting phone manufacturers to build this fairly expensive functionality into their products was a fool's errand for Google, which only succeeded in getting the Tango platform running on a few gimmicky devices over the course of three years.
The errand completed, Mr. Stickells soon became part of rock 'n' roll history as the roadie, and then tour manager, for Hendrix, the transcendent electric guitarist who was about to release his first single, "Hey Joe," in Britain.
The quest begins promisingly enough, with Mike's tailing a man who seems to have the job that, because of "Breaking Bad," we know Mike will eventually inherit: errand man for the meth wholesaler and chicken retailer Gus Fring.
Edwin Frese, 32, an electrician who lives in Harrisburg, Pa., said he had followed the impeachment hearings on the radio at work, but was not persuaded that the president had pressured a foreign leader for a political errand.
I'll use them for an errand or a quick meeting, or just to do a few laps around the park in front of our office while waving to all my colleagues standing in line at the food trucks.
Former errand boy Chris Christie may have slunk away to lick his wounds back in his New Jersey lair after being booted from Trump's transition team, but apparently the governor isn't out from under the president's thumb yet.
There's a widely held idea (espoused in the film "When Harry Met Sally" and elsewhere) that taking someone to the airport is an impractical errand usually undertaken in the throes of early infatuation, and that idea isn't wrong.
A former errand boy, Ortega built his empire in the mid-25.05s from a Zara store in his hometown, the rainy fishing port of La Coruna, to a network of over 253,22005 stores that employs tens of thousands globally.
Since we're totally aware of just how divisive leggings can be, we racked our brains to come up with nine ways this year-round wardrobe staple can be styled — and not just for your usual errand-running outfits. Nope.
Rather than revisiting the hilarity of a mother of three moonlighting as an errand girl/body disposal expert, Shadows opens up room for a new kind of wannabe: an Antonio Banderas-obsessed familiar with truly excellent taste in sweaters.
While guessing how the app and its uses will evolve in the future is a fool's errand, the current protocols and functionality of Instagram have turned the platform into the perfect breeding ground for these types of internet users.
They succeeded in boosting the role of Mexican cartels from mere errand boys, who received a small cut of the Colombian cartels' profits on cocaine smuggled through Mexico, to full partners that received an equal share of the profits.
He considered its remoteness an antidote to the everyday drudgery of civilization, a vital means of "[c]utting the bloody cord" of briefly abandoning our homebound lives, our sunup-to-sundown errand running, for the thrill of the wild.
Much has changed since then: The show's fourth and final season, which comes to a close Thursday night, has focused largely on the idea that sorting humans into a "good place" and a "bad place" is a fool's errand.
In that sense, it feels like a fool's errand to rely on Byton alone to say whether we should put tech like this in our vehicles when that's really the kind of question we'd be better off answering ourselves.
It's basically a fool's errand to determine what's going on in Trump's head that he keeps on trying to make that happen, but we're all going to have to live in a world shaped by the consequences of his actions.
At any point, you can choose to change delivery locations or "block access" to the car in the Key app, if you need to run a quick errand or your car won't be immediately accessible to the delivery person, for example.
Speculating on the lifetime sales of something like the PS4 at this point is a fool's errand because there's a good chance the next wave of console announcements disrupts what we've traditionally come to expect from new PlayStation and Xbox reveals.
One key piece of evidence came from a parish census from 1605: Caravaggio was living with a young man named Francesco, listed in the register as his garzone, or boy (in the sense of pool- or errand-; Caravaggio had no children).
In fact, the broker responsible for selling 4,400 tickets per show for 20 dates of the tour wasn't able to sell them all, and attempted to keep much of the slim profit for himself as recompense for a fool's errand.
In A Separation, for instance, he'd try to fit an unrelated man into a domestic scene, to fix the satellite or do some errand, so that it wouldn't seem strange for the women to have their hair covered at home.
While they are happy in Venice, Mr. Higgs admits that sometimes, if they're running an errand together, such as getting something notarized at a bank, he'll wait outside, just to keep the tellers from asking suspicious questions because he's black.
A constant truant, he dropped out of high school and went to work as an errand boy at the Stix, Baer & Fuller department store, picking up decorating knowledge that he applied when he opened his own design and furniture store.
On an errand to buy hydrogen peroxide to clean the bathroom grout, I sprang over a pool of melted snow—and rocketed to the far sidewalk, passing in front of a car that was making a turn from York Avenue.
"There's a pool of theatergoers in the tristate area — some people say it's 300,000 or so, but it's obviously kind of a fool's errand to put a number on it — who have shown an affinity for seeing plays," Mr. Greenwald said.
"We want the downtown crowd to get to know us," said the founder Lily Kunin one afternoon as she sent an associate on an errand a few blocks north to the Farmer's Dog pop-up at Showfields at 11 Bond Street.
And when he has to run an errand while still in costume, going through a McDonald's drive-through or running into a Walmart on his way to or from work, he tries to keep his interactions lighthearted and professional, he said.
Over the past week or so, chief market strategists at BMO, Oppenheimer and Canaccord Genuity have all suspended their year-end targets on the S&P 2500, blaming the unprecedented economic uncertainty that makes projecting the market a fool's errand.
Trying to get a child to sit on a hard desk chair for six to eight hours a day is a fool's errand, so offer at least a couple of choices — a desk chair, for example, along with floor pillows.
But the movie remains so associated with Linda Blair's head spinning around, as the possessed 12-year-old Regan she is playing battles a demon within, that it seems a fool's errand to transcribe this particular title to the stage.
I know that it is a fool's errand to try to convince these people that honesty, valor and character are fundamental requirements of the American presidency, and when they are lost from the office, the country itself is in peril.
His challengers were all defeated in their last races and have little to lose in taking on what appears to be a fool's errand: challenging a president whose approval rating in his own party ranks consistently in the high 80s.
Hill told lawmakers during her House impeachment inquiry testimony that US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland was involved in a "domestic political errand" in Ukraine, while she and others were trying to stay involved in "national security foreign policy."
They soon realized they had a mutual friend, and on the third day of the convention Mr. Fairfax suggested she get "some fresh air" by accompanying him on a quick errand to retrieve documents from his room in a nearby hotel.
You had Harry Reid go to the unusual length of having Bernie Sanders putting out a "unity statement" the night before the convention — it was a fool's errand, but it was a sign they knew something was going to happen.
And as a bonus, it's sold at the chicest Brooklyn boutique, Catbird, so it never feels like an errand when I have to stock up on a refill for that flat lay (seriously, see here) that's guaranteed to get all the likes.
"If you are actively trading, you can't worry about what the market might or might not do because that is totally out of our hands and trying to predict it on a day-to-day basis is really a fool's errand," Batnick said.
Whether we're rocking a casual, errand-ready look, trekking to the office, or hitting a trendy cocktail spot for a nightcap with friends, it's a safe bet that our everyday wardrobe hero is coming along (not to mention, totally elevating our look).
"The feature of being able to reroute idle cars makes this particularly well suited for autonomous vehicles, since they can be even more easily rerouted than human drivers that may decide to end their shift or do a personal errand elsewhere," Rus said.
When Nooyi asked why her mother hadn't sent her husband on the errand, she said he was tired and that Nooyi best not forget that president or not, she would always be the wife, the daughter and the mother when she came home.
At any point, you can choose to change delivery locations or "block access" to the car in the Key app, if for some reason you need to run a quick errand or your car won't be immediately accessible to the delivery person.
Colin has created numerous successful games and is the primary force behind Tuckersoft's success, but Thakur still snaps at him to take his feet off the office furniture and sends him out like an errand boy to check up on Stefan's progress.
A typical morning's work done, she set off in her white Peugeot 108 to run an errand, but barely made it past her front gate before a bomb tore through the car, throwing it into an adjacent field and killing her instantly.
Predicting what Trump is going to do is a fool's errand, but there's reason to believe he will push for greater cooperation in the fight against ISIS—and perhaps even make a (rather convoluted) deal to firm up a unified strategy in Syria.
Daehee Park, a co-founder of Tuft & Needle, said that if I had spoken up about the van rental bill and the time-consuming nature of the potential donation, the company might have hired a errand runner from Taskrabbit to handle it.
Samantha Vinograd: Summit as a new model for dictators While we wait for the history books to mark whether this was another's "eyes wide shut" fool's errand -- or a historic breakthrough toward increased stability and nonproliferation, we know one thing for sure.
After the months of negotiation to repeal and replace ObamaCare with a simple majority vote in the Senate failed this summer, trying to do so again in an election year with a smaller GOP majority strikes many Republicans as a fool's errand.
Getting into whether or not they do or do not move the weights they say they do is a fool's errand, but it's always cool to meet someone who's got a legitimate story to tell and a banging aesthetic to drape it in.
Whatever motivated him – and, honestly, it's a fool's errand to work out what motivate Tyson Fury – it is a recorded fact that he bought a round of drinks for England fans in France ahead of the Three Lions' Euro 2016 clash with Iceland.
And while trying to predict a recession is as much of a fool's errand as, well, trying to predict the end of a government shutdown, the thinking is to get the company onto the markets now before the IPO window closes for good.
And with that, a 15-minute errand turned into a nightmarish entanglement in the toughened-up immigration policies of U.S. President Donald Trump – an experience that tore apart the life she had spent more than two decades building for herself and her family.
On the night Lil Peep died, Mercer and others associated with FAE saw him on the bus and noted "that he looked alarmingly unwell, but rather than seeking help or contacting authorities, Mercer instead elected to run a personal errand," the suit claims.
The national security efforts, the efforts to drive our foreign policy in ways that the entire national security infrastructure believed was in US interests, that may have become irregular in a presidency that was driven by the president's personal political errand, his interests.
Instead of working in the best interests of the United States, the officials said, Trump's lieutenants were dispatched around the world to carry out what a top Russia expert at the White House called, "a domestic political errand" on the president's own behalf.
Dr. Tyson, in a statement released last Wednesday, said that she became friendly with Mr. Fairfax at the convention and one day he asked her to walk to his hotel room with him on a quick errand to pick up some documents.
" Hussein didn't make it far "among the powerful," winding up as a minibus driver and an errand boy for local toughs while his brother, Bolbol, "was no good as a replacement: His weakness and anxiety had never exactly endeared him to Abdel Latif.
Artwork by Grimoire Trying to navigate all the speculating, cryptic messaging, spotty reporting, and lurid insinuations that have flooded the Internet since UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor announced to the world yesterday that he has "decided to retire young" is a fool's errand.
In this Ride Along, Max takes us on an errand with his dogs and dishes on how he became a pitcher, what he thinks of scouting and advanced statistics, and why he and his teammates pour chocolate syrup all over one another after big wins.
Republicans contend that Democrats are on a fool's errand to try to change the fundamental DNA of these districts — that whatever might have happened in 2016, when these districts voted to elect Hillary Clinton and also their Republican House representatives, these are Republican strongholds.
Errand paralysis happens to me, but it also impacts the errands I have to do for my mom as part of my filial duty (which I embrace) since she left her family, work, and friends in China to raise me as a divorced single mother.
Related: Mayoral Candidate Is Beheaded in Guerrero Ahead of Mexico's Local Elections Season Whenever Gisela Mota Ocampo left her home in the city of Temixco to run an errand, go to work or visit friends, she made a point of showing she wasn't frightened.
The last errand you ran at Target likely resulted in an impressive haul of everything you didn't need, like new stationary (although you haven't written a thank-you card in years), 12 bags of candy because it was BOGO, and your fifth initial mug.
Driving on, I mulled over these questions without resolving them, but when I'd finished with the errand that had taken me up to the northern reaches of Springs, I decided that on the way back I'd stop at that Fireplace Project to verify my intuition.
In 2011, Clinton said China was on a "fool's errand" to try to halt the march of freedom, while in 2012 she was deeply involved in efforts to get blind dissident Chen Guangcheng out of China after he fled to the U.S. embassy in Beijing.
It's a fool's errand to search for method in Donald Trump's campaign tactics, but if you were tasked with ascribing method to his behavior in recent weeks, you'd have to conclude his aim is to further divide his own party and unite the opposition.
She had moved to an apartment outside the convent with another nun and began teaching at Western High School in Baltimore on November 19, 1969, when she left her apartment to run an errand at Edmondson Village Shopping Center in Baltimore, according to Armacost.
While it's true that video game storytelling has come a long way since these 90s relics, both games recognized that FMV sequences were not the equivalent of a Hollywood production, so instilling them with drama or gravitas was difficult, if not a fool's errand.
Most media watchers at the time suggested that taking on CNN would be a fool's errand, not to mention a giant waste of money — not that Rupert Murdock didn't have plenty of it sloshing around, especially after the success of the film "Titanic" in 1997.
If you're looking for a sports bra that can take you from the road, to the yoga mat, and then go the extra mile with you on your weekly errand running, this is the "must have" that can help you do it all in comfort.
For people who live in cities where gun violence is not some incomprehensible abstraction in the news but a heart-shattering reality in their community, trying to ban assault weapons increasingly seems like a fool's errand—or at least a waste of political capital.
Perhaps the best testament I can give to these shoes is that 9 out of 10 times, if we're headed out for an errand, a casual meal, to a relative's house, or any of our dozen everyday destinations, my kid always chooses his Plae shoes.
Debby TeplinNew York To the Editor: Regarding Kim Brooks's story about leaving her young child briefly in a secure car while she ran an errand: The woman who submitted a video of the child left alone to the police could have opted to behave differently.
In the memoir, titled "A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama and Trump," Bunch reportedly wrote that Trump's team reached out to the museum to arrange a tour for the then-president-elect.
To do so, Lang bought a sprawling former cattle farm in 2001 and set about on what appeared to be a fool's errand: to bring the golf world to a windswept public course on a two-lane country road in the small hamlet of Erin.
"Fiona Hill, the National Security Council's former senior director for Russian and Eurasian Affairs, testified that it wasn't until she heard Sondland's testimony that she fully understood what was going on when she served in the White House:Sondland "was being involved in domestic political errand.
Sorting through all the revelations in "The Well-Tempered Clavier" on one viewing is a fool's errand for your humble recapper, given the multiple timelines, the tricks of memory, the Arnold unveilings and the other narrative loop-de-loops attempted in this bewildering hour.
In one round, Ms. Whillans and her colleagues surveyed nearly 4,500 people in the United States, Denmark, Canada and the Netherlands on well-being and timesaving purchases, such as ordering takeout food, taking a cab, hiring household help or paying someone to run an errand.
But project Track Down the Tracker begins to go awry when Mike enlists the help of Jimmy, whose job is to keep an eye on Mr. Errand when he makes his daily visit to Los Pollos Hermanos, the fast food restaurant chain owned by Gus.
The search for ideas that could improve the economic conditions of deprived areas, long derided by economists as a fool's errand — why spend money on improving the lot of places rather than people, many experts argued — is now at the top of policymakers' lists.
A walk up to Target to buy groceries and a new coloring book isn't just an errand, it's an adventure where you can easily stop along the way to pet a dog, check out a street musician, and practice matching car brand names to logos.
Hill testified that Sondland claimed to be reporting directly to the president and other senior White House officials to pursue a "domestic political errand" — investigations linked to the Biden family's business dealings in Ukraine — while National Security Council staff focused on traditional foreign policy.
According to her testimony, Sondland claimed to be reporting directly to the president and other senior White House officials to pursue a "domestic political errand" — investigations linked to the Biden family's business dealings in Ukraine — while National Security Council staff focused on traditional foreign policy.
A big part of the underlying reason is that China is still very much an autocratic nation with a strong central government that is attempting to manage both large and small aspects of the economy, an ambition any central banker would tell you is a fool's errand.
In the first incident, which took place in December, a strike killed the wife and three young daughters of a man named Hassan Ali Hassan in their home after he stepped out to run an errand, leaving him to collect their body parts from the rubble.
Case in point: Joe decides to enlist Paco (Luca Padovan) to go shopping for things needed to disintegrate Benji's body, and when Paco's stepdad (who is convinced Joe is up to no good) learns that Paco is on this disturbing errand run, he calls the cops.
Predicting who will slip from cultural memory and who will be enshrined in it is a fool's errand, but if justice prevails the reputation of Joan Wasser, one of the outstanding musical artists of the 21st century, will surpass that of many of her more famous contemporaries.
And with all due respect to Breslin, whom I loved in Little Miss Sunshine — another film I wouldn't dare have remade — and this Prattes guy, who seems to have legit dance skills, trying to ape Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze's on-screen chemistry is a fool's errand.
Movie Auteur On his own, Lewis scored at the box office with a series of comedies he wrote, directed and starred in, including 1960's The Bellboy and Cinderfella, The Errand Boy (1961) and, the one considered the best of the bunch, The Nutty Professor (1963).
This is a big part of Moderne's strategy for building its portfolio, which includes services like Hello Alfred, which provides housekeeping and errand-running for building residents; Baroo, a pet-care service targeting luxury apartment dwellers; and Hello Tech, which helps people set up their home electronics.
And as perhaps should be expected in this era, when web-based services are springing up to handle everything from dog walking to errand running, and especially in a city known for its entrepreneurial spirit, a fledging stroller-cleaning industry is emerging to deal with the mess.
The endless hours of testimony all pointed to the same conclusion: Trump sent his private attorney and senior officials on a "domestic political errand," to quote Fiona Hill, Trump's former top Russia adviser in the White House, to convince a foreign country to investigate his political enemies.
The hours of testimony were best summed up by British-born Russia expert Fiona Hill, who said Thursday that the President replaced national security foreign policy with a "domestic political errand" -- a move that has left the US exposed to further Russian interference in its democratic process.
But while Kelly's daughter compartmentalized it quickly, Kelly replayed it in her head for weeks, enumerating to herself all the ways that trouble had nearly missed them: She did not normally stop at that branch, but had taken a different route home to run an errand.
A pilot program called Lincoln Chauffeur lets owners of new Lincolns (starting in Miami and San Diego) hire a chauffeur through a special Lincoln app to handle the driving for a night out on the town, to pick up the kids, or even to run an errand or two.
Jason, who played Wayne Arnold on the show, tells us he has a prescription for Ambien and stupidly took one before hopping in the truck for a quick errand, he had no alcohol in his system ... he's thankful cops got him off the road before anything really bad happened.
Apple's basically increasing the available use cases for Watch by as many as a few hundred moments per day, depending on how often you'd run out to grab something, head to a meeting or run an errand without taking your phone with you if that was a practical option.
"While the Assad regime, together with Russia, Iran and their proxies, has slaughtered Syrians with impunity and changed the military facts on the ground, the administration has been on a fool's errand pleading with Vladimir Putin to negotiate a political solution to the very hostilities he perpetuates," McCain said.
John McCainJohn Sidney McCainMcCain's family, McCain Institute to promote #ActsOfCivility in marking first anniversary of senator's death Arizona poll shows Kelly overtaking McSally 3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 MORE (R-Ariz.) at the time called the shutdown a "fool's errand," while Sen.
" On foreign policy especially, Mr. Meyer said, "Obama's great insight is that you don't have to interfere in every bloody situation around the world to maintain your position as most powerful nation, and that nation-building is a fools' errand — let's all learn something from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The logic is simple: With more users, especially city-dwellers, tapping ride-sharing and on-demand services in place of owning a vehicle, it's more likely they'll want some flexibility in how those trips are routed, since a multi-errand excursion is a pretty common occurrence for most.
Washington (CNN)Fiona Hill's extraordinary answer about her relationship with the American ambassador to the European Union was ultimately a finely distilled description of what the impeachment hearings are all about: President Donald Trump's pursuit of a "domestic political errand" that came at the expense of American foreign policy.
You also heard her explain why she was troubled to observe Rudy Giuliani and Gordon Sondland undermine the normal course of US foreign policy in Ukraine in pursuit of a "domestic political errand" for President Donald Trump — namely, leveraging the government there to do political favors for him.
Given that AT&T and Verizon have both spent over $100 billion on building up their own networks in the past decade and that networks need to be open to work economically, "achieving competitive advantage in an adjacent business on the basis of one's network is a fool's errand," they wrote.
Predicting what's going to happen when perhaps the most unhinged mainstream presidential candidate sits behind a keyboard and preaches to his most fervent fans is probably a fool's errand, but given what we know about Trump and about the r/the_donald subreddit, we can at least make a few guesses.
When Chen took over the company in November 2013, it seemed he was on a fool's errand trying to save a company that had little chance in the handset market, but one thing the company had was some cash on hand from its glory days as a popular handset maker.
In an interview, Mr. Reid said he doubted he could have ever persuaded his fellow Democrats to go on a "fool's errand" such as stonewalling the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Merrick B. Garland, refusing to schedule hearings and in multiple cases deciding against even a courtesy meeting with the nominee.
Politically stained leaders of the FBI, CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), in concert with politicians bereft of principle and a flaccid press, grabbed onto an obvious Russian intelligence propaganda operation hook, line and sinker and ran with it like they were Vladimir Putin's errand boys.
" Semantic arguments are generally a fool's errand, but I think we can all get on board with the idea that after you have long since watched "one mistake" disappear in the rearview mirror as you continue on to "sociopathic thing you did that you now regret because you got caught.
Molly Mitchell was running an errand in New York City on March 12th when she got a text from a friend: The mayor was going to shut down the subway system and only allow emergency vehicles on the road in order to help prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.
The plain fact is that the noisy group that goes by the blandly inane moniker of the Freedom Caucus was never on the team to begin with — neither Team GOP, nor Team Trump — and it's becoming more and more apparent that it's a fool's errand to get caucus members to join.
The finishing blow added on Thursday by Fiona Hill, a former national security adviser—in which she characterized Trump's actions toward Ukraine as a "domestic political errand"—left Republicans with little else to do but enter their own wan, frustrated monologues into the congressional record in an act of surrender.
My justification for leaving the office to pick up lunch nearly every day is as much about the errand as it is the meal: Between deadlines and meetings, I need a reason to force myself to stand up, pry my eyes from the computer screen and take a walk outside.
Trying to find some kind of 9/11 message in every early-00s album is a fool's errand; at the same time, how could a song title like "And You're Wondering How a Top Floor Could Replace Heaven"—the name of City of Caterpillar's opening track—not resonate that way?
Each employee is automatically granted one hour of flextime a week and can ask for more, so that if he needs an hour (in addition to lunch) to run an errand, or meditate, or see a therapist, he can freely do so and make that time up at whatever point is most convenient.
I'm happy with the way this puzzle turned out, but to tell you the truth I would rather write about my recent ping-pong showdown with Will Shortz: I happened to find myself in Pleasantville recently (the city, not the state of mind), running an errand for the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament.
And in her first remarks during the trial, Trump lawyer Jane Raskin offered a robust defense of Rudy Giuliani, saying that House managers did not provide "any direct evidence" incriminating the former New York City mayor and insisting he was not on a "political errand" for Trump, but rather defending his client.
He mused on how the country came to this moment because of the president's decision to trade an issue of huge geopolitical gravity — Ukraine's security, and thus the United States' — for a "domestic political errand," as Mr. Trump's own former top Russia adviser, Fiona Hill, put it so searingly in testimony last month.
"It was important for the president to build this massive operation for his re-election to demonstrate that it would be a fool's errand for anyone inside the party to try to primary him, and because we don't know what's going to happen in the House with a possible impeachment," Mr. Nunberg said.
In private and then in publicly televised hearings — and all in defiance of White House orders — they outlined a wide-ranging attempt by Mr. Trump and his allies to bend American policy on Ukraine toward carrying out what one former White House official called "a domestic political errand" on the president's behalf.
This convinced many Republicans that pursuing centrism is a fool's errand, and the subsequent losses of candidates like McCain and Romney, who were both distrusted by conservative activists, have only strengthened the belief among Republican elites that they win when they nominate conservatives, and lose when they nominate moderates, spurious though the claim may be.
During one conference call at an investment bank last week, discussion on whether the deal represented a major opportunity or a fools' errand degenerated into a shouting match, according to one of the bankers who provided the details on condition that neither he nor the bank, which decided not to pursue a role, are disclosed.
Letters To the Editor: Re "Moving On From Farm and Factory" (Economic Scene column, April 27): Eduardo Porter's article on the futility of trying to bring back manufacturing jobs to the United States from abroad makes it clear that our presidential candidates are embarking on a fool's errand when they claim they can do it.
That is, officials had halted him in the middle of his run, because the previous racer had fallen and was still on the course, which meant that Maple had to be helicoptered back to the start to begin again—a fool's errand, as his adrenaline, strength, and ski prep were by then all basically shot.
There are a surprising number of people across the Inter-webs who have gone to bed cat-less only to wake up with a kitty snoozing beside them, or have left the house to run an errand and returned to find a feline waiting for them, prompting them to say 'but I don't have a cat.
This is the errand on which Cersei and Jaime attend the small council, to wrest power Never-Trump-style from the Sparrow's "dirty peasant hands" in a scene that is as full of intrigue as a meeting of the Park Slope Food Co-op directors, and which results in the same level of skullduggery usually reserved for amaranth.
"Inmates can receive eyeglasses and books from outside but should buy other things at the commissary inside, such as snacks, coffee, instant noodles, detergent, razors, and towels," said a man surnamed Sohn who runs a private errand service for detainees at the centre and requested that his full name not be used due to the sensitivity of the matter.
They passed know-how over chats in the park, sent their errand boys across the Place for a piece of ground glass or advice on a calendar design, and puzzled out the future of timekeeping and, ultimately, the discovery of new ways of thinking over cafe and croissants in this small square not far from Notre Dame.
But eventually you start to realize that breaking down which elements of the show are thanks to which of its co-creators is a fool's errand, because Poehler is just as willing to tell a dark joke, and Headland's terrific Sleeping with Other People is one of the most beautifully optimistic rom-coms of the decade.
"What we found is that people who spend money on time-saving services like grocery delivery, housecleaning, sending a TaskRabbit to run some annoying errand, and skipping cooking for delivery reported greater overall life satisfaction than people who did not spend money on time-saving services," explains the study's author, Harvard Business School professor Ashley Whillans.
" Instead, Fischer said, these troops will be tasked with supporting border officials in a way that means "we're going to spend a tremendous amount of money and a tremendous amount of resources to have these troops act as errand runners, act as go-fers, act as camouflage-wearing Uber drivers for [homeland security] and border patrol personnel.
It's a robust life simulator, sure, but there isn't monthly rent, student loan debts, a shared laundry room, lack of parking on a busy Los Angeles street, parking tickets, childhood trauma, emotional baggage, fear of intimacy, or any of the other countless human variables that can make building a lasting relationship feel like a fool's errand.
She's made a name for herself thanks to her sarcastic and quick-witted sense of humor, undying love for Chipotle, and epic YouTube videos on Shay's channel giving viewers a BTS tour of the Pretty Little Liars set or going on some ridiculous errand for Shay (like finding human hair to scare off rodents in her garden) in the "Send Sammy" series.
Nest is including a feature it calls Quiet Open, that lets you tap a button on the Detect itself to disarm just a single door, in the event you'd like to leave the house early in the morning for, say, taking a jog or running a quick errand and you don't want to wake the house by disarming the whole system.
Perhaps it's a fool's errand to expect more from the candidate who consistently demonstrates that he doesn't value women as anything more than trophies, but by shutting women and people of color out of positions of power he excludes from his team points of view that reflect more than half of our country's population and the very people who most need a voice.
In the tight community of bibliophiles and antique book dealers, the theft is viewed not as an audacious heist, but as something of a fool's errand: Whenever books are stolen, the antique book world springs into action, activating informal email trees to alert sellers, libraries and book lovers of the stolen titles and employing the aid of databases that log every pilfered text.
As with any such amorphous, non-state actor, it would be a fool's errand to predict when ISIS will cease to be a major player in Mideast chaos, and with about a third of Mosul and all of Raqqa still in the terrorist group's hands, it is far too soon to declare this chapter of the war on terror complete.
While both suspects in the mailing of bombs nationwide and the murders in Pittsburgh were caught alive and are therefore able to be examined and questioned -- perhaps leading to some understanding of how they got to the point of wanting to kill others -- it may ultimately be a fool's errand for rational human beings to seek to understand the irrational mind.
Republican senators say there are no grounds to impeach Trump and are daring Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiWhistleblower complaint declassified on eve of high-stakes testimony Ocasio-Cortez on impeachment: 'I think the ground has shifted' Democrats ask Pentagon to probe delayed Ukraine aid MORE (D-Calif.) to embark on what they dismiss as a fool's errand that will turn off swing voters.
I was only 14 but could recognize the signs: the ambiguous errand that required us to drive into Chicago from our suburb; the unusually tight grip on the steering wheel; the uncomfortable sigh as he turned off the tape deck (Talking Heads if I was lucky, Bob Seger if I was not); and — more than anything else — the acute sensation that I was going to vomit.
In "The Ride of a Lifetime" Mr. Iger recounts how when he started at ABC, in 229, the anchor Harry Reasoner sent him on an errand to check with the producers of the evening news to see if Mr. Reasoner needed to make any updates or if he could enjoy a second double extra-dry Beefeater martini on the rocks with a twist at Hotel des Artistes.
Social classes came together in the millinery shops, with wealthy women spending up to 234 francs for a hat while an errand girl in the shop made maybe two francs a day The show opens with a section on the emerging consumer culture in 224th-century Paris, with department stores opening competing millinery shops on the Rue de la Paix, near where Degas worked.
Instead, Zinke behaves like an errand boy for the coal and petroleum industries, a faux cowboy who made his showboat debut as interior secretary by riding a horse to his first day in office, where he got right to work ransacking national monuments and pillaging Native American shrines, all to further the president's war on America's natural legacy and ingratiate himself to Utah's quick-dollar Senator Orrin Hatch.

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