It may have been a fig leaf, but a fig leaf is better than no cover at all.
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They may have used a confidential informant tactic here as a fig leaf about the Russian connection as the fig leaf to do what they wanted to do.
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Dan "Fig" Leaf as deputy commander of US Pacific Command.
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These are Americans who no longer require a fig leaf.
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Antitrust concerns may, in any case, be a fig leaf.
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As a society, we provide only a fig leaf of support.
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A high name can be a fig leaf for low deeds.
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In routine news and feature stories, Trump's dishonesty carries no fig leaf.
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I really don't see what that fig leaf would be right now.
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We're frequently told Brits don't care a fig-leaf for online privacy.
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The fund-raising — for a children's hospital — was just a fig leaf.
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Directly arming the Y.P.G. with heavy weapons abandons the S.D.F. fig-leaf.
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They may seek the fig leaf of a civilian partner in government.
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But it might be said to give him the fig leaf wants.
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"Gods of Egypt," by contrast, doesn't bother with the fig leaf of respectability.
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But that fig leaf is going to be pretty hard to shake loose.
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Trump escapes from the shutdown with barely even a face-saving fig leaf.
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The fig leaf of "national security" works if you have a willing accomplice.
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Better to keep a fig leaf over it than to explore its underbelly.
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The fig leaf that this is merely about alleged computer hacking has been removed.
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The sycamore fig leaves behind a waxy substance that is called fig leaf extract.
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Reporters' questions are a fig leaf to cover what amounts to an hourlong presidential infomercial.
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Working group meetings continue in Minsk, but they are a fig leaf for real progress.
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Even the vague fig leaf Trump offered of donating foreign profits has been completely ignored.
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Two years since then, bias has only been amplified by the fig leaf of impartiality.
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Critics warn that the Greens risk becoming a fig leaf for Mr. Kurz's hard right agenda.
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They resent and they hate, and given a fig-leaf of rational self-interest, they act.
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Instead, Trump embraced a Democratic priority without even a fig leaf of concern for the deficit.
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EPA is not even putting a fig leaf over the fact that it has singled out California.
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On the accusation of wiretapping, Comey did not even provide a fig leaf for the White House.
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One key example is the Department of Energy's infamous grid reliability study, a fig leaf for subsidizing coal.
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As #NeverTrumps, they may claim some moral high ground, but those who add #NeverCruz have no fig leaf.
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You can compete, lose and still keep a fig leaf of dignity because nobody will see your face.
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But the fig leaf nudes and YouTube vids sound pretty tame and like they aren't eclipsing his life.
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It is then further extracted using an alcohol, which evaporates, leaving a purified form called fig leaf absolute.
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It existed only to provide a fig leaf for a handful of moderate senators to vote for Kavanaugh.
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"How are you going to know if that's real negotiation or if that's a fig leaf?" he said.
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"How are you going to know if that's real negotiation or if that's a fig leaf," he said.
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When you approach a certain level, where the legislator is basically a fig leaf, well, that's not the rule.
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Many of the white Zimbabweans in the albeit partisan crowd saw Mnangagwa's fig leaf as a major turning point.
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Not even a fig leaf of an effort to try and somehow suggest post-conflict reconciliation, stabilization, unity. Nothing.
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That fig leaf still has some utility — there's a reason that Judge Kavanaugh didn't sit down with Sean Hannity.
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Under the clause, mere peripheral connection to legislative acts cannot serve as a fig leaf to shield criminal conduct.
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Some have criticized the possible U.S.-Taliban agreement as nothing more than a fig leaf for American military withdrawal.
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Or were they just a democratic fig leaf indulged by a regime that had no intention of giving up power?
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"It's a fig leaf, but the KMT is going to be desperate for something to save face," Mr. Sullivan said.
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After 35 days of government shutdown, it was Trump who gave in without even a fig leaf for an achievement.
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Ray LaHood, a Republican who served as transportation secretary under President Obama, offered a fig leaf of bipartisanship for Democrats.
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To say it was a fig leaf would be a disservice to the comparatively full coverage this frond can provide.
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The inclusion of two countries that are not Muslim majority this time does not even qualify as a fig leaf.
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"This final deal has only a tiny fig leaf of funding for NIH and for the opioid crisis," Warren said.
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Its advice was to sell the businesses and not use family members as a fig leaf to hide continuing involvement.
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This denial motivates their spending habits, resulting in a preference for trauma porn that wears a social justice fig leaf.
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In other words, it was raw politics all the way down, without even a fig leaf of a nonpolitical rationale.
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What's interesting about lead, though, is that there is no fig leaf of rationality to explain its stratospheric take-off.
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"The rating system must not be a fig leaf for the industry to hide behind," said Lieberman at the hearings.
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Let Rachel Maddow do it too, if she does it as a pundit, not wearing a fig leaf of journalistic integrity.
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The Trump administration's justification for Comey's firing -- that he mishandled the Hillary Clinton email scandal -- is a transparently disingenuous fig leaf.
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As Jackson says, de Gaulle got exactly what any other French politician would have: a surrender with the barest fig leaf.
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And the myth is two conflicting myths: The first is the fig leaf that the sponsoring organization — Fidelity Charitable — maintains control.
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Other factions call clean coal a fig leaf to keep coal, with all of its environmental baggage, in the energy mix.
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It's also a reminder that just because something sounds unconstitutional doesn't mean it can't be given a nondiscriminatory legal fig leaf.
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But on social issues, Clinton and her party aren't even offering the fig leaf of her husband's "safe, legal and rare" formulation.
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From Russian influence-peddling to injustice at Justice, the episode's politics are so clear that the fiction is barely a fig leaf.
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"He spoke today sounding very combative and defiant instead of possibly offering a bit of fig leaf to the U.S.," said Franulovich.
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Legal experts widely dismissed the order as a pointless fig leaf, but, in a Rose Garden ceremony, Barr declared it a triumph.
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Richard McPherson, Reza Shokri, and Vitaly Shmatikov Pixelation has long been a familiar fig leaf to cover our visual media's most private parts.
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At worst, it suggests a man who understands how "irony" can be a thin fig leaf for spreading hate and activating real violence.
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But as the surveillance began capturing his extramarital sexual activities, that "fig leaf," as Mr. Garrow puts it in his article, fell away.
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And as it details, the changes proposed by the Republican tax bill that passed the House are little more than a fig leaf.
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Justice Elena Kagan's majority opinion — her most important since joining the Supreme Court seven years ago — pulled the fig leaf off that position.
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" Gurba describes American Dirt as "trauma porn that wears a social justice fig leaf," arguing, "American Dirt fails to convey any Mexican sensibility.
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It has been obvious for years that that number was likely deliberately inaccurate, a fig leaf to hide the shame of what occurred.
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But acting as a fig leaf was not the worst of his offences; rather, it is his legacy that is far more harmful.
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So a fig leaf was created -- a new name for the Syrian Kurdish fighting units, normally called the Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG.
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In some cases, this is a heterosexual fig leaf ("It's not sex, we're just being dudes"); in others, it's treated as an hors d'oeuvre.
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McCain and Graham followed up with a statement Monday calling the diplomatic effort a "fig leaf" to cover the Obama administration's failed Syria policy.
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But just as the utopian promises of Communism were merely a fig leaf for tyranny, the official face of orderism hides something much darker.
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However, the fact that they held an election suggests the regime is still convinced that a fig leaf of legitimacy is important to them.
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It seems that rather than a solution for the problems of patients with preexisting medical conditions, all they wanted was a rhetorical fig leaf.
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The third included North Koreans and government officials from Venezuela, a fig leaf of "neutrality" that the conservative-led Supreme Court accepted as nondiscriminatory.
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This arrangement is a fig leaf that fails to address numerous potential violations by Trump-branded real estate developments, golf courses and other businesses.
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Timothy Naftali, a former director of the Nixon library, said the notes "remove the fig leaf of plausible deniability" of the former president's involvement.
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The problem, though, is that NATO has become a fig leaf, a relic of the East-West conflict that ended over 25 years ago.
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This allowed them to make their faith more visible and assertive — but it is also a fig leaf for their insatiable lust for power.
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American adherence to that goal has become an exercise in mental laziness allowing leaders to do their worst behind the "peace process" fig leaf.
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Damian Collins MP, a vigorous campaigner to clean up soccer's corruption-plagued FIFA, described the TIU as a "fig-leaf" for tennis's governing bodies.
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In French discussions of integration, there is a tendency to dissemble questions of race, class and social discrimination beneath the fig leaf of religion.
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Shorn of its intended civilian fig leaf, the resulting all-military ticket was characterized by the White House as "a disaster" for public relations.
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The pedaladas charges are a fig leaf that gives the opposition a legal pretext for getting rid of an unpopular president they don't like.
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House leaders believed that to be politically viable, the AHCA had to retain a fig-leaf version of protections for patients with preexisting conditions.
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"Palestinian civil society overwhelmingly rejects fig-leaf gestures of solidarity from international artists crossing our peaceful picket line #Hatari," the campaigners said on Twitter.
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Or do they force agents to follow hard-and-fast rules for approving applications, and any talk of "discretion" is just a legal fig leaf?
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But this denunciation of Clinton, and support of Trump over the abortion issue, is a fig leaf many conservatives are using to hide their hypocrisy.
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There, corruption and incompetence, frequently hiding behind a fig leaf of revolutionary rhetoric, have essentially bankrupted what should be the richest country in South America.
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The use of the so-called "Section 232" provisions has been dismissed by most market analysts as a fig-leaf for good old-fashioned protectionism.
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The pre-election provisions on workers&apos rights were in reality only ever a fig-leaf for Labour MPs who wanted to back the deal.
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Critics have long argued that originalism and textualism are riddled with inconsistencies and can be used to provide a fig leaf for results-oriented judging.
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When corporate handouts cannot perform their basic function, adding job requirements to them is a fig leaf slapped onto a statue that is entirely risqué.
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"Passing an amnesty bill that continues chain migration and has only fig-leaf token efforts and border security would be a serious mistake," Cruz said.
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If the "country-based" stuff is really a fig leaf, the argument goes, then the public shouldn't let the Trump administration get away with it.
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His latest novel 'I Will Grow, I Will Bear Fruit… Figs' also has the Jewish emblem emblazoned across a fig leaf on its front cover.
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I hate what Rubio represents: the Beltway crowd who uses him as their pet rat, a wispy fig leaf to cover Trump's rise to the top.
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Or that Trump's abortion lip-service is simply a fig leaf to excuse the support of religious conservatives who are already loyal to the GOP nominee.
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The rise of gay people to leadership positions in the parties also serves as a kind of fig leaf for the parties' more extreme xenophobic policies.
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We're going to have Black Lives Matter and the DREAMers with not even the fig leaf of a person of color anywhere near the White House.
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It's a hard thing to know how this actually shakes out, what kind of fig leaf Donald Trump will claim in order to reopen the government.
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It's possible these new standards would just be a fig leaf, not demanding much more information than the (often intense) US visa screening process already requires.
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That he should give up one of his cards so that at least there's some level of accountability, even if it's just a fig leaf of accountability.
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Unlike in New York, where gentrification can don the fig leaf of bohemia, the march of money and white people into DC's black neighborhoods is unmistakably corporate.
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Many of us took these rationales to be disingenuous, a fig leaf of virtuous rhetoric jammed over the U.S. power elite's vulgar appetites for capital and commodities.
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In the case of "national conservatism," one of the biggest concerns is that their movement becomes identified with racism or, worse, a fig leaf justification for it.
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Later, during a meeting about Columbia's less-than-feminist academic practices, Rose recommends using a fig leaf to cover up any future "schlongs," as Abe would say.
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Ryanair had raised objections to the deal, with CEO Michael O'Leary telling Reuters it was a "fig leaf" to mask Lufthansa's acquisition of its main domestic competitor.
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Min Aung Hlaing, head of the army, which ruled Myanmar either directly or through its fig-leaf party since 1962, said he supports the country's democratic transition.
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"Come on, this fig leaf is so easily seen through, so easily blown aside that it leaves the constitutional pretensions of my Republican colleagues naked," he added.
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Notwithstanding the legal fig leaf of the Emergency Powers Act, the president's action constitutes a frontal assault on this principle and the values animating our political order.
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But several senior career officers have said those sessions amount to a "fig leaf" where Tillerson appears to take the opinions of foreign service officers into account.
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To return to Saul, this is the fig leaf that gives the Leavers the space to present something with xenophobic overtones but still deny charges of racism.
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Among other goals, the library was seeking to make its flagship more public friendly, a fuzzy term that can serve as a fig leaf for anti-intellectualism.
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" Mark Francois, a senior pro-Brexit Conservative lawmaker, told the BBC that the document was best described as a "fig leaf" and "26 pages of political camouflage.
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But he appeared to extend a fig leaf to protesters, saying he had heard their demands and would deepen his administration's "social dialogue" and fight against corruption.
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Barry Pollack, an attorney for Assange, said in a statement that the new charges removed the "fig leaf" from the government's previous indictment against Assange related to hacking.
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Instead of racking their brains to find a legal fig leaf for measures like collective expulsions, the European Council's members should have the courage to scrap the deal.
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They need a fig leaf so they can justify quickly returning to support their president, who is vastly more popular with Republican voters than any of them are.
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Its real use was as a starting point for talks and as a theoretical long-term solution to the border question — a fig leaf that could allow Mrs.
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The duck's flavor was less surprising, but there was some energy in its collision with sweet potato purée and fig-leaf yogurt tart enough to cause double-takes.
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He looked pretty euphoric, though, as he scampered past the beer pong tables and stacks of Domino's pizza, clutching a composition book in lieu of a fig leaf.
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It's a convenient fig leaf for harassers and bullies of all stripes to hide behind, one that is only interested in the enjoyment and consent of exactly one person.
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" "In such a context, the rule of law is nothing but a tool for their political ends and a fig leaf for their practicing hegemony in the international arena.
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It could be nothing more than Republicans trying to appease their base and their frustrated members with a fig leaf that suggests Obamacare repeal is still on the table.
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But "national security" is really just a fig leaf for subsidizing coal and nuclear plants that can't compete anymore against natural gas and renewables like solar and wind power.
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"I won't be a fig leaf for Nazis," a member of the A.C.L.U. of Virginia board, Waldo Jaquith, posted on Twitter, announcing that he was resigning from the organization.
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The fig leaf of democracy is so see-through that even Moussa Mostafa, the only contender who ran to meet the cut-off, is hardly taking the race seriously.
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Three is that by paying its volunteers, it essentially made them contractors — offering a fig-leaf defense of the move to include Facebook Research among the company's enterprise app deployments.
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Because I care deeply about violence against women in the NFL and beyond, I can no longer continue to be part of a commission that is essentially a fig leaf.
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The most British thing about "Very British Problems" is the way in which its overall air of self-deprecation is a fig leaf that doesn't hide a fierce cultural pride.
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Mr. Landis said the force could be less about a long-term commitment to the Kurds than a fig leaf for a continued American presence to counter Iran's forces there.
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Skeptics say the judgment allows the I.O.C. the fig leaf of talking tough, while at the same time making decisions that it knowingly knew could be successfully challenged on appeal.
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But in a tent settlement in the village of Souairi, Syrians made clear that neither a fig-leaf deal nor an outright government victory would send many of them home.
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Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said the House Democrats' move "looks like kind of a fig leaf" after sustained criticisms of their process and said the GOP resolution is still needed.
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The fig leaf to justify inaction was an agreement with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to remove Syria's chemical weapons, which Russia and Syria plainly violated from the outset.
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" Michael O'Hanlon, senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, agreed, adding that he was "hugely skeptical, even cynical" about the talks, which seemed "a fig leaf for a possible Taliban win.
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"Trump's announcement today is a wilted fig leaf to cover up his remaining conflicts of interest and his pitiful record of charitable giving," DNC spokesman Eric Walker said in the statement.
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But it's increasingly obvious that for some in charge of making and selling these policies, those justifications are just a fig leaf for an aggressive attempt to make America white again.
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" Despite attempting to hide behind the fig leaf of irony, he nonetheless seemed to acknowledge the violence faced by journalists, noting that "they are scum and I will not mourn them.
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"This fig leaf deal releases Facebook without requiring any real privacy protections—no restraints on future data use, no accountability for top executives, nothing more than chump change financial fines," Sen.
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Bob Corker, beat back the rumors that his hearing was targeted at any one individual, but that fig leaf of an excuse didn't cover much when other committee members started speaking.
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Without the fig leaf of a pro-Western government as their partners in Kabul, analysts have suggested, they will struggle to get the international aid the country needs to stay afloat.
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As hard as it is for the swamp dwellers to do, they must also fully close the carried interest loophole, not accepting fig leaf of the Brady compromise on the issue.
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"This removes the fig leaf of a divide between the party and the state," Carl Minzner, a Fordham University professor who studies Chinese law and politics, said of the draft law.
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In 2015 the military fig-leaf party was trounced at the ballot box by Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the National League for Democracy, who is idolised by the Burmese.
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The authors of the proposal are not seriously addressing anyone to the left of Lindsey Graham anyway, merely tacking up a convenient fig leaf for the talking heads of the Murdoch media.
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I first fixated on "fig leaf," several of which could also be helpful, but it's true, when all else fails, you've hopefully got your hands to protect at least part of you.
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"The Cornyn bill is kind of a fig leaf," said Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri, one of the Democrats up for re-election in a state that President Trump carried in 2016.
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But reading your letter, I wonder if you haven't been retained not as a fig leaf for this company's systematic ageism but rather because your work is indispensable or inexpensive, or both.
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Section 85033 of the act is essentially a fig leaf behind which Facebook, Google and other online giants continue to hide long after they should have been called out into the open.
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In one installment, Fig-Leaf Man (who later got a passing shout-out in "The Fortress of Solitude") battled Ed Koch, who was no hero to Mr. Lethem's left-wing bohemian parents.
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It was a charade meant to appear as a real investigation, with the purpose of giving Republicans a fig leaf to confirm Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court without paying a political price.
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For decades, Republicans have used the dubious "voter fraud" excuse as a fig leaf to cover up their true intent: to deny people of color their constitutional rights at the ballot box.
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Without that fig leaf, he risks going into the history books as the rare Speaker who in the honeymoon of his first year did not propose a budget, much less pass one.
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You constantly use "safety" as the fig leaf for why all these regulations are necessary (I guess saying, "because the other guys wrote a big check to my campaign" doesn't sound as good).
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But that modest goal will be breached shortly, which makes the agreement a kind of fig leaf, offering political cover to those who would soft-pedal the runaway climate crisis a while longer.
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In particular, those partners had perceived the Bush administration's emphasis on international cooperation in clean energy research and development (R&D) as a fig leaf covering its failure to make international climate commitments.
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"It's intolerable for the Indian government to hide behind the fig leaf of bureaucracy," said Karin Deutsch Karlekar, director of PEN America's Free Expression at Risk Programs, in a statement sent to Hyperallergic.
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British peer Lord Scriven, who is to meet Formula One management on March 13 to discuss Yusuf's case, was quoted by BIRD as saying the sport was happy to be "a fig leaf".
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"This is total capitulation in exchange for the fig leaf of a nonexistent development plan with no financial commitments by the U.S. and no timetable," said Jorge Castañeda, a former Mexican foreign minister.
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By pushing out Mr. Hariri, analysts said, Saudi Arabia could deny Hezbollah a credible Sunni governing partner — an attempt to isolate it and deny it the fig leaf of a national unity government.
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But just as importantly, it charges that the legal interpretation is a fig leaf — that the Trump administration is killing TPS because it has a broader agenda of restricting immigration into the United States.
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These phenomena—invoking "political correctness" as a fig-leaf for naked prejudice, and in spite of evidence to the contrary—find their most troubling embodiment in political figures like Donald Trump and Nigel Farage.
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"Trump's announcement today is a wilted fig leaf to cover up his remaining conflicts of interest and his pitiful record of charitable giving," said Eric Walker, deputy communications director of the Democratic National Committee.
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We should not just use the rhetoric of equality to mask American opportunism and supremacy, as when we invaded Afghanistan and used the plight of women there as a fig leaf for moral justification.
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But even that fig leaf has been stripped away during the Trump administration: As The New Yorker reported, the network killed a damaging story about Trump's affair with Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election.
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The pair also called the diplomatic effort a "fig leaf" to cover the administration's failure and said Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar Assad must be compelled by power to change course.
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"This notion that there's an absence of a legal framework to take in refugees, this is nothing more than a sheer fig leaf," said Sumit Ganguly, a professor of political science at Indiana University.
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Not even Michelangelo was spared from the great fig leaf campaign of the 16th century: After his death, strategically placed bits of drapery were added to his very fleshy rendition of the Last Judgment.
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This was obviously not the intent of the 18-year-old law, but enough of an argument can be put together for it to serve as a fig leaf for the president's preferred policy.
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The manner in which Bolton was dismissed — straight out the door, without even the fig leaf of resignation — is of a piece with the trademark nastiness that has distinguished this president all his life.
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There's a body stocking designed by Mary Quant in the 1960s, as well as a pair of mesmerizing sheer leggings from Vivienne Westwood, adorned with a fig leaf in a nod to Adam and Eve.
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Since the revolution of 1979, Riyadh and Tehran have become embroiled in a struggle to shape the Persian Gulf in their image, with religion a fig leaf to justify their activity in Iraq and Lebanon.
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"I take Rod (Rosenstein) at his word that be believed everything in that memo but he must know that it's going to be used as a fig leaf to fire Comey," one former official said.
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"I take Rod (Rosenstein) at his word that be believed everything in that memo, but he must know that its going to be used as a fig leaf to fire Comey, " one former official said.
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Richard Bitzinger, a security analyst at Singapore's S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, said North Korea's actions potentially provided a "fig leaf" rationale for Japan to buttress its defences against its bigger security worry, China.
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It is irksome that Putin was handed a convenient fig leaf for his efforts to silence opposition—but he knew full well how to suppress freedom of speech long before Germany regulated Facebook and Twitter.
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The trap he is trying to avoid is having too many faces from existing parties and having En Marche look simply like a fig leaf for the same old players from a discredited political establishment.
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And the ex-national security adviser might have succeeded in one of his final acts of killing of a deal with the Taliban that critics see as a fig leaf to cover a US surrender.
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As he did frequently over decades, Peres served as a fig leaf for Israel's hardline, pro-settler policies under Sharon's government, helping to perpetuate the claim that the Gaza withdrawal was a move towards peace.
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Trump has said lifting sanctions in return for curbs on Iran's nuclear program did not stop Tehran meddling in neighboring states or developing ballistic missile capabilities and Rouhani's outreach to the West was a fig leaf.
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"If this happened, the fig leaf would disappear and it would be a very serious, contentious issue between the two countries," said Soner Cagaptay, a specialist on Turkey at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
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That response — discussed in detail within the Commerce Ministry and other agencies — would have led to lower tariffs on American goods in dollar terms, which could be seen as a fig leaf to the White House.
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But to criminal-defense lawyers in New Orleans, all of that is a fig leaf: Most of the lawyers who represent inmates are badly overworked public defenders carrying 150 felony cases or so at a time.
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Like the rest of "conscious consumerism," eco-friendly furniture is pitched at the wealthy—a fig leaf, frequently, for an expansive lifestyle with a much larger carbon footprint than that of poorer individuals buying less sustainably.
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And if there is a lesson to be learned from Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation process, it's that Republican senators will accept a fig leaf over a full examination of the facts if it gets the job done.
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Mr. Cameron and others sold the 2016 referendum as handing power to the people (never mind that the prime minister, confident that the measure would never pass, was really just looking for a political fig leaf).
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Republican, I really think it was just a fig leaf to use other government agencies to introduce a Russian raison d&aposetre to explain why they could then go ahead, launch an investigation for two purposes Jesse.
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And the medical aid charity Doctors Without Borders announced that it would pull out, calling the conference a "fig leaf of good intentions" and saying that countries in conflict were ignoring "systemic violations" of international humanitarian law.
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But even with this added authority, the FBI investigation has all the makings of a fig leaf for Republicans to get on with Kavanaugh's nomination, while leaving the crucial question of his guilt or innocence determinedly unresolved.
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Both Ryan and Romney have stepped forward with high-minded soliloquies about the G.O.P.'s values and future, and while that may well be a reflection of conscience, mightn't it also be a fig leaf over ambition?
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But by 2014 he had recanted, issuing a blistering dissent in a Wisconsin voter ID case that called ID laws a "fig leaf" for disenfranchising citizens, and specifically rejecting the claim that bolstering voters' confidence justified them.
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We make fig leaf ice cream; we grill fig leaves, which brings out a kind of coconut-y quality in them, and then we steep milk with the fig leaves and make ice cream out of it.
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Freddie's friends are taken with Sparsholt; one, an artist, persuades him to pose in the nude and makes a chalk sketch of his torso, putting "a little slur, conventional as a fig leaf," where the genitals should be.
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In a two-artist show at Locks Gallery, Joseph Cornell overshadows Thomas Chimes, but don't miss the latter's small fine paintings, including one based on the famous photograph of Marcel Duchamp as Adam, in fig-leaf and wristwatch.
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The archive includes a number of hand-drawn comic books Mr. Lethem made as a child, featuring invented superheroes like Fig-Leaf Man, whose origin story included an ill-fated attempt to start a nudist colony in Alaska.
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Today she wonders whether all the support she thought Afghan women had from America was just a fig leaf, a way to make military intervention more palatable to the American public via photographs of girls going to school.
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The Immigration and Nationality Act has a legislative fig leaf warning the government not to discriminate against immigrants on the basis of country of origin or country of residence — but in practice, the government does it all the time.
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" Crisis pregnancy centers get away with this kind of deception, Oswalt said, because they "hide behind the fig leaf of the First Amendment, which I guess gives them the right to trick scared teenagers into not seeing a doctor.
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However the ICO report sends a very chill wind rattling towards that fig leaf, noting "there is a concern that by placing users into categories, Facebook have been processing sensitive personal information – and, in particular, data about political opinions".
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A decade later, in 1956, Duchamp went back to Rainford to work with him on the first issue of Le Surréalisme, même, which featured on the cover Duchamp's "Female Fig Leaf" (1950) manipulated and refigured by Rainford and Duchamp.
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But the idea that it and the US were equally committed to addressing the "root causes" of migration, and developing the region so that Northern Triangle residents no longer felt the need to leave, was an important fig leaf.
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I dearly hope they do not follow the cynical tactics of a few of their colleagues who have made a show of opposing a Trump-backed bill only to change positions after being offered a fig leaf of change.
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Well, there are still naked ladies, as the New York Times has pointed out, but they're the sort of naked ladies who might live in GQ or Esquire, their most provocative bits hidden behind some equivalent of a fig leaf.
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Given all this, Roberts found, the VRA rationale was "pretextual" — it was clearly a fig leaf added after the fact to defend against lawsuits like this one, rather than the underlying reason Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross wanted a citizenship question.
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The fig leaf of college amateurism rests on the following bargain: a young person gives their time and their body so that the university can try to make money, whether by pure revenue sports, or by knock-on 'brand' enrichment.
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Across the world, autocratic leaders are engaging in increasingly brazen behavior — rigging votes, muzzling the press and persecuting opponents — as they dispense with even a fig leaf of democratic practice once offered to placate the United States or gain international legitimacy.
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Although Uber has said it intends to award cash bonuses to more than 1.1 million drivers — with those in the United States having the option to buy the company's stock in the I.P.O. — drivers have called that a fig leaf.
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Five Star candidates have threatened to "burn alive" a political opponent, accused the center-right candidate of being a fig leaf for an "unpresentable" rogue's gallery of corrupt politicians, and called for international observers to prevent the buying of votes.
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"I think many policymakers and analysts have forgotten that the idea that the YPG is different from the PKK is basically a fig leaf that the U.S. invented so it would not be giving weapons to a terrorist group," he continues.
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If no Republicans defect from Kavanaugh, it would be nice if the Democrats denied them the fig leaf of "bipartisanship" and mounted a unanimous dissent, something to make their grandchildren, their party and maybe one day even their country proud.
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The conversation has done a lot of valuable work, encouraging more scrutiny of charitable activity, pointing out where philanthropy is a fig leaf for misconduct, and forcing institutions to grapple with when it's wrong to accept money that was unethically acquired.
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Collins, probably the most moderate senator, told me a month ago that she was worried about people with preexisting medical conditions — and now McConnell is giving her a fig leaf, by preventing states from waiving a key protection for those people.
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Confronting these dynamics as an artist working today must have been daunting, and I can imagine that Mutu would not want her project to be perceived as either a recuperation of these problematic histories, or a contemporary fig leaf for current realities.
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However, as the prosecution made its final appeal to the jury they focused on emails and Skype chats between the defendant and Alptekin, arguing that they showed Alptekin was not the firm's client but a "fig leaf" to cover up their activities.
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Democrat Robert Menendez of New Jersey said Collins's proposal would apply to so few people "that it would be be fig leaf" covering just a sliver of the roughly 800,000 people—both Americans and foreign citizens—on the larger terror watch list.
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And no one could have predicted the two nutty and deceptive last-minute amendments that successfully arranged the marriage of far right and middle Republican representatives: a quality insurance opt-out option to delight red states and an $8 billion fig leaf.
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While the bill's backers have highlighted a number of fig leaf protections—most notably the ability to temporarily freeze one's credit for up to a year—these are overshadowed by the bill's regulatory rollbacks, which disproportionately benefit banks and put consumers at risk.
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"all the world's problems can be solved just by making markets freer" and "the social responsibility of businesses is to increase their profits" are indeed examples of robotic thinking, either profound intellectual laziness or a very flimsy fig leaf for greedy narcissism.
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This could precipitate a race to the bottom with China, in which the Zuckerbergs of the world use free speech as a fig leaf while exploiting their users more than ever; corporate overreach in the US would mirror state overreach in China.
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Europe cannot survive as a free-for-all, everyone for themselves, or as an Austerity Union built on de-politicised economic decision-making with a fig leaf of federalism in which some countries are condemned to permanent depression and debtors are denied democratic rights.
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We need to avoid the worst of all worlds for privacy, in which a few companies collect and traffic in our data, with a fig leaf of consent, while researchers and journalists who are trying to grasp the dimensions of their actions are locked out.
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They quickly criticized the election results -- which have yet to be finalized -- as a fig leaf over the true nature of the regime, which they claim is left unchanged by a vote in which many of the most moderate candidates were disqualified from running.
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Her reason, and I'm paraphrasing here but I feel I've captured the gist, is that Diversity & Inclusion have become to the tech industry as Human Resources is to a big company; a fig leaf there to protect the status quo, not to improve it.
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The last thing they should want is for Mr. Trump to use the Republican establishment as a fig leaf for his own failure, dumping on it the responsibility for blocking the popular reforms that he promised during the campaign and probably never intended to pass.
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I don't want to run the risk that my past criticisms of Omar are used as a fig leaf by her bigoted critics, and so I'm going to be crystal clear: I don't think Omar is an anti-Semite, despite her handful of troubling comments.
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Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics, said it could end up in the situation where the U.S. gets "a deficit-financed tax cut that is dressed up as supply side, and given a fig leaf that it will be funded by economic growth."
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So if Paul and Heller are "no" votes, my Scenario 2 where it passes is Portman and Capito get their opioids funding and maybe a little less drastic Medicaid cuts, while Lee/Cruz/Johnson get some kind of fig leaf on insurance regulations that brings them around.
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By using the military's Joint Special Operations Command rather than the C.I.A. to carry out the attack, the United States denied Pakistan the fig leaf of a covert operation, which in the past has given the Pakistanis the ability to claim they had been consulted beforehand.
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The fact that then-Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen had met with the "plaintiffs" in connection with what was supposedly a civil action brought by minibus and taxi operators strongly suggests that Yuen was using the suit as a fig leaf to conceal the suppression of peaceful protest.
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To his detractors, Jabari is a lone actor not to be trusted for his close ties to pro-settlement Israelis and, intentionally or not, serving as a fig leaf for plans to extend Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank and thereby nullify the decadeslong struggle for Palestinian rights.
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Thursday's Supreme Court ruling gave the agency the chance to offer a more honest explanation of why the Commerce Department decided to ask about citizenship on the census, rather than saying it was necessary to enforce the Voting Rights Act (which the justices dismissed as a fig leaf).
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"More than anything else, Trump's embrace of implausible deniability (both for himself and those he prefers not to hold accountable) has offered bad actors around the world exactly the kind of fig leaf that emboldens and encourages them to do more and worse," tweeted the Brookings Institution's Susan Hennessey.
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"Secure the border first" can be used as a fig leaf for a legalization program — as the Senate "Gang of Eight" originally proposed in 2013 — or it can be a way to ensure that immigrants are never legalized because the standard for a secure border is unattainably high.
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While other Republicans were hiding behind the fig leaf of a bogus institutional precedent to explain why they wouldn't hold hearings on President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Trump simply told the truth: that he didn't want a liberal majority on the court, and Republican senators had the power to prevent it.
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Reactionary forces abound, not least within the sprawling royal family, some of whom Prince Mohammed locked up in Riyadh's Ritz-Carlton hotel in November, with not a fig leaf of due process, in a display of Shakespearean anti-corruption theater that was also a shakedown and a ruthless assertion of power.
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"What you've got there is a classic fig leaf by the Democrats to explain their ineptitude and lack of focus and ultimate lack of ability to convince the voters they have a plan to move forward," said Matt Walter, president of the Republican State Leadership Committee, which focuses on statehouse races.
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"We are glad to hear that somebody at the M.T.A. has come around, and the real test will be whether they then make the investment in the signals, in the cars, so that they don't have to use this fig leaf any longer," said Danny Pearlstein of the Riders Alliance, an advocacy group.
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" Leah Pisar, president of the Aladdin Project, a Paris-based group that works to counter Holocaust denial, and whose late father, Samuel Pisar, escaped Auschwitz and advised John F. Kennedy, said she found it "inconceivable that Jared could stay affiliated with the administration after Pittsburgh" and called Mr. Kushner the president's "fig leaf.
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As Vox's Dara Lind explained: Thursday's Supreme Court ruling gave the agency the chance to offer a more honest explanation of why the Commerce Department decided to ask about citizenship on the census, rather than saying it was necessary to enforce the Voting Rights Act (which the justices dismissed as a fig leaf).
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" In a blistering statement explaining his withdrawal, he said: "Let the authorities take away the fig leaf of 'democracy' and present themselves as they are: an authoritarian and undemocratic order that has usurped power for a clan of big bourgeoisie that has no connection with the interests and views of the working people.
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And while the Tango is most prominently used on racial controversies, Trump's also deployed in several rounds of Russia-related controversies — going as far out of his way as possible to indicate that he isn't actually mad at Russian hacking, while trying to give Republican Russia hawks a fig leaf of cover.
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"There's a lot of things wrong with this, and I've been waiting until the last minute to find an alternative, a possibility I could latch onto, a fig leaf of some kind, but I have yet not seen it," State Representative Clay Aurand, a Republican who supported the override, said, according to The Associated Press.
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However, in addition to being unrealistic, this idea that the electors should simply choose to make Hillary Clinton president would be tremendously dangerous for American democracy if it ever gained real steam, despite the fig leaf that it seems to be technically possible and that Hillary Clinton appears to have won the popular vote.
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DEMS SLAM Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE POVERTY PLAN: House Democratic leaders are hammering Speaker Paul Ryan's newly created anti-poverty task force, calling it a fig leaf designed to mask the GOP's attacks on the poor.
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At the foot of a copy of Michelangelo's "David" — given as a diplomatic gift to Queen Victoria, who was allegedly so scandalized by the statue's nudity that the museum was forced to add a fig leaf — our guide regales us with tidbits from Renaissance art history that would undoubtedly have shocked the museum's famously prudish namesake.
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The morality, the environmentalism, and interest in First Nations philosophy—which he adorns on his stupid movies like a headdress at a music festival—is a fig leaf meant to cover the long existential howl of men's agency, which the myths of masculinity had promised was always ours to assert but denied by the complexities of co-existing with fellow humans.
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But it requires a very different policy approach: Instead of "Gang of Eight"-style bills that hide instant legalization and higher levels of low-skilled immigration under a fig leaf of border toughness, Republicans should make any path to permanent legal status conditional on steady year-over-year cuts in the pace of low-skilled immigration, both legal and illegal.
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Facebook has once again eschewed a direct request from the UK parliament for its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, to testify to a committee investigating online disinformation — without rustling up so much as a fig-leaf-sized excuse to explain why the founder of one of the world's most used technology platforms can't squeeze a video call into his busy schedule and spare UK politicians' blushes.
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Photograph by Cole Wilson for The New Yorker I loved the "pot-au-feu"—a salty, sweet, buttery mélange of tender maitake, trumpet, yellowfoot, and oyster mushrooms in a rich umami broth, topped with chips of dehydrated mushroom purée and wisps of parsley—and the crackly-skinned medium-rare wedge of duck, accompanied by Tokyo turnips, a quenelle of whipped sweet potato, and a pale-green spoonful of yogurt flavored with fig-leaf oil, which tastes slightly of coconut.
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It could pass this bill, flaws and all, and then use the projected cost savings for a tax reform that doesn't just use, say, a small child tax credit as a fig leaf for huge upper-bracket tax cut, but that's actually organized around payroll tax cuts, refundable child tax credits, a larger earned-income tax credit, and other measures that would make up for the thinning of working-class insurance coverage with more cash in paychecks and bank accounts.
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Not forgotten by Palestinians and others in the region is the role that he played arming the Israeli forces that expelled some 750,000 Palestinians during the establishment of Israel in 1948; the regional nuclear arms race he incited by initiating Israel's secret atomic weapons program in the 1950s and '60s; his responsibility for establishing some of the first Jewish settlements on occupied Palestinian land in the '70s; his public discourse as a minister in Likud-led coalitions, justifying Israeli violations of Palestinian rights and extremist ideology; and his final role in Israeli politics as president, serving as a fig leaf for the radically pro-settler government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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