And -- surprise -- the choices may involve political gamesmanship.
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The deal is certainly an intriguing piece of political gamesmanship.
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It's human drama — palace intrigue, political gamesmanship — that's not abstract.
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The move appears to have been a show of gamesmanship.
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Measuring THC in flower involves guesswork, sampling error and gamesmanship.
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But Tóibín is interested in more than mere literary gamesmanship.
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"Price avoided his April execution date by gamesmanship," they wrote.
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"I've always thought of it as psychological gamesmanship," he said.
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He's tried peaceful diplomacy political gamesmanship, brute authoritarianism, coalition building.
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The day began with gamesmanship before anyone took the field.
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GASPARINO: Yes, gamesmanship for the Korean thing CAVUTO: In what way?
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Later, Ellis wouldn't indulge any question of gamesmanship on the play.
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"We're not playing gamesmanship or whatever you call it," Baker said.
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Have political gamesmanship and ratings taken the place of responsible reporting?
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Kimberly, the pardon situation, legally that might have been some gamesmanship.
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Investors are obviously ignoring the political gamesmanship and watching the numbers.
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But immigration also excites his nationalist side and his political gamesmanship.
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That may seem a small and insular example of bureaucratic gamesmanship.
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But there is a chasm between constructive debate and political gamesmanship.
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It establishes the series' perspective on the personal toll of political gamesmanship.
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Congress's clarion call should usher in concrete steps to address Iran's gamesmanship.
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It seems the stare-down was playful gamesmanship more than anything else.
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Now, they are trying to find a way to match Republican gamesmanship.
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Unfortunately, political gamesmanship once again threatens to hold up desperately needed resources.
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"It seems like both sides are trying to engage in gamesmanship here."
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The increasingly heated gamesmanship has appeared to cool in recent weeks, however.
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Gamesmanship has crept into past conferences, with some scholars making small wagers.
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"Just a little gamesmanship on their part opened up a lane," Miller said.
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This leads to a lot of talk about gamesmanship between Kate and Lonnie.
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The smaller Doumbe was also able to throw Holzken off with some gamesmanship.
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The top-two primary "is really encouraging a lot of gamesmanship," he said.
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Americans want their leaders to immerse themselves in problem solving, not political gamesmanship.
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If we allow political gamesmanship to imperil the fund, it may never be.
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I don&apost like how they play the gamesmanship with the guest list.
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That leaves fiscal policy, where ideas are swirling and political gamesmanship has begun.
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They were full of competition and gamesmanship and verbal battles between the sexes.
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To hear the plaintiffs tell it, the court should not reward cynical gamesmanship.
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And if factors like feuds or gamesmanship were at play, so be it.
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I think when gamesmanship trumps doing the right thing, it's a sad day.
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And will Senate Republicans try to respond to Pelosi's procedural gamesmanship in kind?
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The State of the Union address is an elaborate form of political gamesmanship.
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But his relationship with the media is, yes, there is gamesmanship to it.
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It will take years, if not decades, of gamesmanship to determine a victor.
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Do I find the gamesmanship kind of lame after the Glenn shenanigans last fall?
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These gatherings are often criticized because of political gamesmanship and a lack of transparency.
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One player who risks being overshadowed in all this political gamesmanship is South Korea.
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Sinclair's regulatory gamesmanship was aided, Hylton writes, by its cultivation of relationships with influential politicians.
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There are still some things in baseball that even the cleverest of gamesmanship can't overcome.
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But shouldn't some subjects, like the awfulness of slavery, be too serious for literary gamesmanship?
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Procedural gamesmanship back in June nearly stripped away many of the bill's most important components.
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They cite the culture of fear and silence around book stuffing and Amazon gamesmanship generally.
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Importantly, Pluribus was also programmed to be unpredictable—a fundamental aspect of good poker gamesmanship.
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"No hypothetical advantage in global gamesmanship could possibly outweigh this pain and horror," he said.
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He said afterward that he never at any point felt Zverev was engaging in gamesmanship.
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The French are A246 at gamesmanship though, and they know exactly what they're doing here.
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Expect to see some gamesmanship with salary versus profits when it comes to S corporations.
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" That's "Bachelor" speak for "rudely interrupt a conversation at a critical moment for gamesmanship purposes.
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The attorney general's office described Williams' appeal as "procedural gamesmanship" to put off the execution.
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ST. LOUIS — Gamesmanship has been one of the big storylines in the Stanley Cup Final.
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"This makes me think there might be a bit of gamesmanship here," he told us.
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"There's a certain amount of gamesmanship going on here -- a little bit of chicken," GOP Rep.
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I understand all the legal gamesmanship, and I understand that that's how you make a living.
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Our narrative, with themes of gamesmanship, betrayal, and the Silicon Valley dream, picks up from there.
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Democrat game is more three hours of levity and gamesmanship than solution to any grand problems.
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How many future FISA applications will now be prepared with one eye on potential partisan gamesmanship?
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That has to hurt for Trump who is said to "relish" the gamesmanship with congressional Democrats.
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"I absolutely believe this wasn't gamesmanship; it's just that nobody remembered," Travers said by telephone Friday.
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These scenes hint at gamesmanship, but they're as ineffective as Mr. Miller's default slightly stricken expression.
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Garrett's hostility toward the Ex-Im Bank has been very much a part of that gamesmanship.
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Beyond policy disagreements and partisan gamesmanship, there is something much more fundamental hanging in the balance.
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If the Russian model is too reckless, the American model involves too much calculation and gamesmanship.
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If the Premier League had been known for its gamesmanship, Suarez took things to the next level.
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Such is the undemocratic gamesmanship at work in the legislature's systematic efforts to cling to partisan power.
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Asked whether he felt the competition on the racetrack was spilling into "paddock gamesmanship", he replied: Absolutely.
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The high-stakes prep and practice sessions have been cloaked in secrecy and wrapped in expectations gamesmanship.
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I might sound miffed at times, but I love the gamesmanship and mental play of other teams.
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Foley is just so all about pleasantries and rules and old-school elegance and brutal, brutal gamesmanship.
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Whatley Kallas has moved to dismiss that suit, highlighting Aetna's jurisdictional gamesmanship in the two-track filings.
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The EU's copyright plan was introduced in 2016, and has been bogged in confusing gamesmanship ever since.
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And a nonpartisan judicial review is far less likely to turn a blind eye to Sinclair gamesmanship.
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But when these candidates are pressed about whether they're confronting Mr. Biden, they only elevate their gamesmanship.
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The most overt show of gamesmanship that Hamilton said he ever experienced came after a warm-up.
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Occasionally, England has departed with cruelty, beaten by Argentine gamesmanship, or by German or Portuguese penalty kicks.
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Nor should those lawyers, Chipotle said, benefit from their gamesmanship once the employees' arbitration clauses are upheld.
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It turns out that corner-cutting and gamesmanship were largely responsible for record-setting DCPS graduation rates.
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My friends who are executives at large, established companies complain about how fixed budgets lead to gamesmanship.
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It's hard to solve public problems when even the smallest point is an opportunity for political gamesmanship.
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It opens up a way of thinking about how different electoral rules encourage different types of gamesmanship.
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The bill had a rocky start, with an early incarnation scuttled in committee thanks to ISP lobbyist gamesmanship.
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It was a sense of being worn down by the unrelenting boggling sense of gamesmanship in every direction.
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They see their representatives as too entrenched in gamesmanship to take a stand on what matters to constituents.
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Collier once again displays the gamesmanship needed to streamline such family portraits into linear, eminently readable multigenerational dramas.
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It was a marked difference from the cliquishness and gamesmanship that sometimes sets the tone at gay bars.
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Conservative apologists pretend this is all just standard political gamesmanship, but nothing like it has ever happened before.
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A telling photo also seemed to reveal Justin Trudeau practicing a little gamesmanship with First Lady Melania Trump.
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But the songs themselves worked directly and delightfully, with every bit of their gamesmanship making them more fun.
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In a single stroke, Mr. Bolton, the former national security adviser, elevated truth and transparency over political gamesmanship.
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"This president is impeached for life regardless of any gamesmanship on the part of Mitch McConnell," Pelosi said.
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But there was a touch of gamesmanship in that message and in Warren's answer during the town hall.
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READ: El Chapo's memory is fading because of solitary confinement "This becomes another layer of gamesmanship," Berman said.
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The complex gamesmanship among Venezuela's leaders is clearest in their competing appeals for the loyalty of the military.
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"They have 364 other days during the year for political messaging and the gamesmanship of politics," Winuk said.
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The way Scott's office framed the Zinke trip helped downplay the perception of political gamesmanship from the announcement.
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Not to do that whole rap fan fantasy league gamesmanship thing, but also kind of to do that.
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He was not averse to a bit of gamesmanship, and would make surreptitious efforts to put opponents off.
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Clinton and stave off complacency among donors and her field team here, a time-honored element of campaign gamesmanship.
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And it sickens me to my core that the healthcare I deserve is now a tool of political gamesmanship.
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The result, careful analysis of tax returns showed, was not an increase in investment or hiring, but pure gamesmanship.
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He also said an FBI investigation would take too long and he did not want to "reward" political gamesmanship.
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But for foreign-born voters and first-generation Americans, much more is at stake in Nevada than campaign gamesmanship.
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When Jeremy sits the entire tribe down and tells them to stop strategizing, it comes off as aggressive gamesmanship.
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Let's say for the sake of argument this is all just Devon's affable personality, rather than self-aware gamesmanship.
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So this makes me doubt that it's something in Latin American culture which makes a player turn to gamesmanship.
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The flub, they say, was neither "motivated by [n]or reflect[s] any intentional misconduct, bad faith or gamesmanship".
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Yet even among all this gamesmanship, voters still have a powerful tool to combat these overreaches: the November ballot.
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The episode was the latest in a string of threats, taunts and gamesmanship over the debates from both campaigns.
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People who attribute it only to his gamesmanship don't realize that it rides the tidal currents of our culture.
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The shutdown over the wall is political gamesmanship, and so is this showdown over the State of the Union.
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After days of intrigue, gamesmanship and partisan assaults, the Senate finally came together late Wednesday after nearly coming apart.
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When they sit down together, can they put aside the posturing and the gamesmanship and get something real done?
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It died in 1999 because of political gamesmanship in Albany, not because of any reasoned debate over fiscal policy.
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"The polarization and all the gamesmanship" can be grinding, Davis said, and the rewards aren't very sweet these days.
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But it has left open the possibility that some kinds of political gamesmanship in redistricting may be too extreme.
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But Google's reliance on third parties for facts is leaving it open to gamesmanship, particularly in an election year.
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Without going into a bunch of hypotheticals about how the info could be used, let's just stick to political gamesmanship.
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The distrust for Eastern political gamesmanship dates back decades, and flourished when Justin Trudeau's father, Pierre Trudeau, was prime minister.
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Other provisions in the amendment would be aimed at preventing gamesmanship by lawmakers who might try to abuse the process.
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Yang also proposes making this proportional Electoral College system mandatory through a constitutional amendment, which would solve the gamesmanship problem.
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And Mr. Eisen-Martin provides plenty to interest her, with his collegiate gamesmanship and boyish good looks, still slightly unformed.
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One could even argue that the addition was designed and the changes made to accommodate the gamesmanship that's now encouraged.
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In both cases, lower courts concluded that this gamesmanship violated the Constitution's First Amendment and equality guarantees, among other protections.
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The brief disruption to Seton Hall's pregame preparation was a form of old-school gamesmanship with a new-school twist.
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The court has, however, left open the possibility that some kinds of political gamesmanship in redistricting may be too extreme.
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There's also some gamesmanship — cities don't want to show their hands — and Amazon's determination to protect its own proprietary information.
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His early work was heavily influenced by the postmodern gamesmanship of American writers such as Robert Coover and Donald Barthelme.
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Political gamesmanship, an unwillingness to compromise, and a lack of resolve on both sides have led us to this point.
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The surprise Chinese offer to buy soybeans attested to their gamesmanship and attempt to sway Mr. Trump with big numbers.
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It is savvy gamesmanship, and an appropriately modern approach to pop superstardom in the age of social media and streaming.
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They said they were wary of Mr. Cuomo's gamesmanship, which they saw on full display in 2011 when Advantage was dismantled.
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And, I want discovery reform — making sure we're handing over discovery right away in cases, that we're not engaging in gamesmanship.
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That tendency — more than any self-conscious partisan gamesmanship — helps explain exactly why this zombified investigation has simply refused to die.
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Nobody can claim that Ramsey has been guilty of consistent gamesmanship at this tournament, and yet he has been punished severely.
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Sadly, some take up the worst habits of skilled bureaucrats; they dissemble, leak, and engage in the worse kinds of gamesmanship.
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Voters think that Pelosi is better than Trump at "Washington gamesmanship" by 6 points, according to the latest Fox News poll.
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But this sort of gamesmanship is certainly not what voters picture when they clamor for tax relief or a fairer taxsystem.
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Republican centrists will have to show their cards on immigration Tuesday after a month of gamesmanship within the House Republican Conference.
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These comments seem to reflect a kind of unthinking, partisan gamesmanship on Pelosi's part that people are justifiably fed up with.
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"This gamesmanship will keep voters and activists active through the 2020 election," said Gretchen Whitmer, who takes office on Jan. 1.
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Current and former government officials described the delicate calculations, and no small amount of gamesmanship, that go into making such decisions.
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All of the tieless coaches polled for this article said the look was primarily utilitarian: less fashion statement, more practical gamesmanship.
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"What you usually have is a pretty fair allocation, so I don't see a lot of gamesmanship being played there," Anuzis said.
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Errol Louis, a NY1 host and CNN political commentator, said on "Reliable Sources" that "there's a lot of political gamesmanship" going on.
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This all comes before the process of redistricting even starts in 2021, which itself is fraught with political gamesmanship in many places.
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The Indiana governor declined to accuse Yellen of political gamesmanship, but said he had a hard time figuring out the Fed's policies.
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Critics see no end to the insider gamesmanship of Canberra, and blame Mr. Turnbull and his party for a lack of leadership.
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For our two-writer household, the parents of an infant, it was a challenge — an exercise in logistical acrobatics, in budgetary gamesmanship.
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It was a brilliant bit of gamesmanship, but then again, the world didn't need any more evidence of Trump's insecurity and weakness.
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As we have seen in K–12, it is all too possible for simple metrics to yield gamesmanship, corner cutting, or manipulation.
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That's just good gamesmanship, and while it's not particularly illuminating, a front office with looser lips would be cause for greater concern.
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What results are the competitive bid and bureaucratic review processes we discussed earlier this week that ultimately lead to gamesmanship and misinformation.
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With mid-term elections right around the corner, even the most critical of issues can be undermined by distraction or political gamesmanship.
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"Ensuring that the office remains sacred and above the fray of shifting political winds and gamesmanship is of critical importance," they wrote.
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But it is impossible to argue that her claim isn't credible enough to demand a thorough investigation, regardless of the partisan gamesmanship.
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WASHINGTON — For decades, spying on another team has been as much a part of baseball's gamesmanship as brushback pitches and hard slides.
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The gamesmanship captured the complex crosscurrents of the Brexit debate, more than three years after Britons voted to leave the European Union.
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He seemed to have to point — there was probably some gamesmanship behind the change — but either way, the day's tone was set.
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Perhaps an alternative definition might evolve: to relegate a respected and qualified nominee to legislative limbo in an exercise of political gamesmanship.
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If the fallout from the shutdown is any indicator, political gamesmanship in Washington may — at least temporarily — cause cracks in his popularity.
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Well look, I think a lot of people think about this from a gamesmanship perspective of like, someone's winning and someone's losing.
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Plus, the gamesmanship of the auction guarantees a starring role to those most capable of exploiting it (or passably claiming to, like Parscale).
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Zachary Carter at the Huffington Post argues that Clinton's jabs at Sanders amount to little more than "semantic gamesmanship" and mischaracterize the situation.
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Companies have four business days to announce important information after they learn it, according to SEC rules, creating a potential window for gamesmanship.
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This would also prevent a regular and annoying form of gamesmanship as the candidates try to interrupt each other to throw someone off.
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When the FCC's 2015 net neutrality rules banned this sort of gamesmanship, the entire contentious cross-industry battle suddenly and almost magically disappeared.
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Stealing signs is one of baseball's oldest bits of gamesmanship and is only considered dirty if teams use visual aids of some sort.
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Every citizen in every state deserves the opportunity to have their congressional district boundaries drawn without the influence and gamesmanship of hyper partisanship.
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The Russian government is notorious for deception, so there is little doubt in my mind he is simply caught up in international gamesmanship.
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It's the sort of typical gamesmanship you see all the time, but the player didn't appreciate it, and gave guy a little shove.
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"Unfortunately, we're looking at political gamesmanship, and trying to send ultraconservative messages for the Republican primary," said Senator Steve Henson, the minority leader.
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Their gamesmanship skills have to shoot sky-high as they try to stay one step ahead of the forces aligned to nail them.
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True, there has been plenty of gamesmanship on display, Italy being one of the countries most frequently reprimanded for breaches of European regulations.
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As the American subsidiary of the Venezuelan national oil company, Citgo is the object of international political scheming, legal maneuvering and financial gamesmanship.
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Instead, she and other Democrats have decried the criticism about the emails as simple political gamesmanship designed to drag down her presidential campaign.
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This can only work if, on this life and death issue at least, ideological blinders are removed and partisan gamesmanship is put aside.
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But the senator does try to explain why his fellow conservatives did, tracing the winding path of how "gamesmanship replaced statesmanship" in Washington.
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This kind of "… or is it?" gamesmanship can be a cop-out — a cheap means of surprise that turns story into jigsaw puzzle.
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Sometimes you'll hear a smoldering kernel of Albert Ayler; when he picks up the clarinet, the tonal gamesmanship of Jimmy Giuffre looms in.
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So to do what they did and jump ship like that... I don't know if it was good gamesmanship, but it was definitely unnecessary.
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The episode starts with some light gamesmanship between Trenton and Mobley, who meet for the first time while waiting for Darlene at Joe's Coffee.
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On the other hand, the bill's new special tax rate for non-corporate business income would add complexity and create opportunities for tax gamesmanship.
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But with Pai currently under investigation for corruption by his own agency, signing off on that sort of gamesmanship likely would have proven problematic.
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But the President's incessant political gamesmanship will make it difficult for many viewers to shed suspicion he was minimizing the situation for personal gain.
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Harris told the story as political gamesmanship — to underscore how wrong she thought rival Democrat Joe Biden had been on busing 50 years ago.
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That's a sketch of the plot, of course, but it gets us to the part of the film that I find most interesting: gamesmanship.
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But Ott offered a glimpse into the world of hockey's agitators, the habitual line-oversteppers whose knack for gamesmanship can affect a playoff series.
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"I hope the special counsel's testimony marks an end to the political gamesmanship that Judiciary Democrats have pursued at great cost to taxpayers," said Rep.
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"Most coaches think it's within the rights of gamesmanship to try to hide injury information," says Dave Richard, a fantasy football columnist for CBS Sports.
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But the gamesmanship in Mason City highlights the most consequential strategic fight underway: a neighborhood-by-neighborhood battle between two canny veterans of Iowa politics.
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But for investors, it could be clever gamesmanship, ensuring it gets the biggest possible payout if the German government decides to expropriate its coal mines.
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As is often the case when art becomes controversial, the discussion becomes less about the art in question and more about politics, hysterics, and gamesmanship.
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She dominates the next 200 pages in a bravura performance of raw ambition and ruthless gamesmanship, set in the second half of the nineteenth century.
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In addition, by reducing the tax bias toward debt and against equity, the proposal could eliminate some of the gamesmanship that occurs in tax planning.
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" Another wrote to say Franken resigned over "political gamesmanship being played by Gillibrand," who, as another reader put it, is nothing more than "an opportunist.
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She also indulged in what appeared to be blatant gamesmanship on Friday by calling for a new set of gloves immediately before Sweden's decisive penalty.
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Judging by the GOP gamesmanship clouding Barack Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland to replace Mr Scalia, it's clear no one is heeding Mr Roberts' admonition.
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As with any arms race, the danger is that threat inflation and gamesmanship on both sides could cause the situation to spiral out of control.
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They start a PC division from scratch at the electronics company where they work and bring the Giant to market with bravado, cunning and gamesmanship.
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Nixon's aides, including Haldeman and national security adviser Henry Kissinger were complicit in the gamesmanship, according to Haldeman's writings and recordings of Nixon and Kissinger.
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The subtleties of those traditions may well explain the wily rhythmic gamesmanship throughout the album, particularly from Eric Malu-Malu and Richard Kabanga on guitars.
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Moreover, there's certainly a lot of gamesmanship—there's a lot of psychology that you can use to try and force a throw from your opponent.
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The overall form — a vertical shaft that plays off a horizontal plane — echoes a dominant motif in "Psychedelic Dream (June)," minus that work's spatial gamesmanship.
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" Mr. Clune said that while attorney-client privilege prevented him from discussing his firm's fees, he called the note on fees in Florida State's statement "gamesmanship.
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Pressed at one point by a Republican to agree that a particular offense was not impeachable, Mr. Kent flashed some steely contempt for such political gamesmanship.
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President Donald Trump's attorneys were accused of "deceitful gamesmanship" following the release of video footage showing Trump embracing a campaign staffer at a rally in 2016.
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Ordinary citizens deserve better than such cynical gamesmanship, particularly from professional politicians who should be the most conscientious of all in protecting the right to vote.
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While gridlock plagues our system of governance, there are rare occasions when our elected officials rise above the partisan gamesmanship and decide to take bold action.
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"Beyond the procedure, beyond the gamesmanship, it is a life-and-death important decision to be made by this court on so many issues," Durbin said.
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Senate Democrats have brushed off the suggestion that impeachment, or 2020 gamesmanship on their part, is to blame for the chamber's small list of legislative accomplishments.
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Congress needs to take actions, or at least put forth proposals, that will resonate with folks who are not immersed in the gamesmanship of the Beltway.
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The letter is the latest attempt at gamesmanship between Trump and Pelosi, who have battled for leverage in the shutdown fight that has lasted 33 days.
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She is not a crime writer per se; her books just happen to involve deaths and detectives, whose talk and jockeying and gamesmanship she captures perfectly.
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Now, with Mr. Lamb gaining ground, they are doing everything they can to push Mr. Saccone over the finish line, including a bit of political gamesmanship.
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At the heart of baseball's sign-stealing scandal is the sport's long struggle with technology and its inconsistent drawing of a line between gamesmanship and cheating.
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Congress looks like it's finally getting rid of one perk for former speakers, but not before a little partisan gamesmanship between Nancy Pelosi and Paul Ryan.
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Mr. Abraham and Mr. Patinkin, as his ever-hopeful C.I.A. colleague Saul, have perfected their partnership: Their scenes together are little masterpieces of gamesmanship and exasperation.
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Early in the first quarter at their home game against LSU, Texas Tech had already made off with a decent lead, and no gamesmanship seemed necessary.
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It is another instance where advances in science go ignored and though 55 percent of Americans support the legislation, a different order of political gamesmanship gets played.
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Leaving the paparazzi for the Belichick bunker, Brady did not speak to the news media at all last week, although his coach expressed reservations cloaked in gamesmanship.
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Patriots Coach Bill Belichick has been known for gamesmanship that some say pushes the boundaries of cheating, including a scandal that involved improperly taping opposing coaches' signals.
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It fanned accusations of gamesmanship from some tennis pundits but Djokovic, whose team delivered extra drinks to him during the match, said he was suffering from dehydration.
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There is an alternative model to such chaos, one that illustrates that even in the absence of political experience, leadership is more valuable than bluster or gamesmanship.
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At 69, Mr. Luskin, a cancer survivor, has cultivated a reputation for independence, hard work, a lack of gamesmanship and a series of tests for prospective clients.
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But an examination of this pledge provides a window into the political maneuvering, union influence and back-room gamesmanship that characterize the sausage-making of city government.
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And this time, gamesmanship: The platform would launch November 1 (11 days before Disney); it would cost $4.99 a month (less than any other major streaming service).
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In particular, the House Intelligence Committee's investigation of Russian interference stands out as an example of precisely the kind of partisan gamesmanship that Rood and Bean detest.
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There is a lot of intellectual gamesmanship, but that is part of the fun — figuring out what targets are worth going after and being willing to fail.
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So is there a chance that Amazon's decision was driven by more than what the public statement says — either some personal vendetta or some level of gamesmanship?
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In fact, the conversation around immigrants and the broader Latino community has never been more mired in political gamesmanship, filled with hatred and bigotry, resulting in absolutely nothing.
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" "It takes partisan gamesmanship to an entirely new level, and it undermines the integrity of our Committee," he wrote, calling the hearing "a political circus" and a "farce.
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If Stanton does play, he would join a Yankees team on the brink in a series that has seen a good deal of back-and-forth and gamesmanship.
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In the film, the Soviet "doomsday device," set to respond automatically to a nuclear assault by the United States, was, Mr. Schelling said, a poor piece of gamesmanship.
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His father, Peter, sharpened his mental strength in table tennis by using put-downs as a form of gamesmanship to see if his son could hold his poise.
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WAXAHATCHEE "Never Been Wrong" (Merge) A melodic blare of indie-rock guitars, pausing for brief sunbeams of vocal harmony, carries Katie Crutchfield's scathing indictment of someone's emotional gamesmanship.
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There appears to be a lot of gamesmanship in the most recent Flores filings, with both sides anticipating a battle over whether entire families must be released from custody.
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This puts some governments in a tricky position: should they overlook the political gamesmanship and violence, so long as Mr Mnangagwa shows he is willing to reform the economy?
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Republicans in Congress have rejected the efforts of Democratic-led House committees as political gamesmanship intended to appeal to the Democratic Party's voting base ahead of the 2020 election.
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I'll mention here that I don't have a theory about who got it in the end, mostly because I don't feel compelled to reward the gamesmanship by playing along.
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And he was the one — whether or not there was gamesmanship in the mix — who felt compelled to take two injury timeouts for those blisters in the final set.
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The bottom line: Trump needs to show political leadership, not gamesmanship, in coordinating with key stakeholders China and South Korea if he wants to make progress with North Korea.
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In the process, many places that want to style themselves as tech friendly innovation centers risk reverting to old style political gamesmanship that hurts business, consumers and residents alike.
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Harden got plenty of help in the second half from Paul, who finished with 27 points, while also showing some veteran gamesmanship by repeatedly baiting the Warriors into fouls.
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He later left the court for a medical time-out which prompted tennis pundits to accuse him of gamesmanship, not for the first time in the Serb's decorated career.
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"I encourage my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to trust each other, stop the political gamesmanship and put the healthcare needs of the American people first," McCain said.
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The challenges in the region are daunting, and the tests of the campaign show Clinton has the toughness to face a relentless assault and psychological gamesmanship of her prospective foes.
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These streetwise balletic set pieces have earned Iosseliani comparisons to Buster Keaton and legendary French actor-director Jacques Tati, who reimagined slapstick as a kind of high modernist formal gamesmanship.
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And while that's pretty fun, one certain Laker's cameo takes the cake during Miles's Clippers days: Apparently, Shaq made him late for practice—pretty good gamesmanship if you ask me.
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They pointed out that Gardner had intervened in both the Battaglia and Ramirez cases: "This is not abandonment; it is gamesmanship," the state said in its response in federal court.
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A vast majority of Americans are fed up with the partisan conflict and political gamesmanship between "the liar and the lunatic," as my "60 Minutes" CBS focus group called them.
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The initial forays into the messy world of presidential nominating calendars are only the first moves in what is likely to be years of gamesmanship between states for added influence.
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"There are all sorts of foundations for marriage," says a character in "Siracusa," Delia Ephron's taut, sun-baked novel of sexual and marital gamesmanship on the Ionian coast of Sicily.
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When Elliot is constructing alternate realities in his head, rather than fooling himself into believing certain things, there's an element of gamesmanship to the whole enterprise that can be fun.
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By not allowing us to be party to Sylvia's side of the story, he shows that his interest in the so-called "other" is strictly limited to his literary gamesmanship.
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Justice Kennedy, in his questions last term and in a 2004 concurring opinion, left the door open to the possibility that some kinds of political gamesmanship may be too extreme.
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The long wait for the trial to begin -- nearly four weeks pulsating with political gamesmanship after the House voted to consign Trump to historic ignominy -- finally looks to be over.
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It's probably inconvenient for the senators who are running for the nomination but beyond that, there's not a whole lot of gamesmanship that seems to be happening at this point.
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Despite Lasker's avowed goal of swapping pure abstraction for discursive subject matter, his works seemed stamped with a cerebral gamesmanship, purposefully steering clear of an emotional connection with the viewer.
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In a bit of a reversal of the usual political pattern, though, what began largely as an exercise in cynical gamesmanship and name-calling has evolved into a wonky policy dispute.
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Things may not have gotten quite that absurd just yet but, as the Diamondbacks' missive shows, in the world of sports business gamesmanship there's a fine line between stupid and clever.
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But the vague language Young Ford uses — "The game begins where you end, and it ends where you began" — gives the impression that there's more than trickery or gamesmanship in play.
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Suarez was hailed a self-sacrificing hero back home for the calculated decision, for which he was sent off and suspended, but derided everywhere else for an act of callous gamesmanship.
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I add my voice to those of all others calling upon the U.S. Senate to confirm Neil Gorsuch, without unnecessary delays or political gamesmanship, as our nation's next Supreme Court justice.
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As all of this unfolds before us, one must question how it is that the strategic imperative of rebuilding a credible deterrent capability could once again be subordinated to political gamesmanship.
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In the end, it's still pretty likely that Ledecky and Prokhorov will eventually make nice, and all this talk of Queens and Belmont will be forgotten as a bit of gamesmanship.
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And so the Cubs will return to Chicago with some momentum in the series, one that has had not only its share of plot pivots but a consistent dose of gamesmanship.
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"Treasury does not have the unilateral authority to take our tax code and expose it to widespread gamesmanship," said Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, the top Democrat on the Finance Committee.
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But Justice Kennedy, in his questions last term and in a 2004 concurring opinion, left the door open to the possibility that some kinds of political gamesmanship may be too extreme.
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Australia Coach Ante Milicic heaped praise on the Italians this week in what appeared to be less gamesmanship and false flattery than a genuine respect for the team Italy has become.
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In retrospect, it has become clear that Western countries complied with refugee rules, and pushed other countries to do the same, less out of altruism than because of Cold War gamesmanship.
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He would be saying to the country that he cared more about undiluted partisanship and pouting and gamesmanship than about his responsibilities and the proper functioning of the branches of government.
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The challengers have urged the justices to hear the case even so, saying that some elements of the revised law remain problematic and that the justices should not encourage litigation gamesmanship.
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Lawfare's Susan Hennessey, on the idea that the House would continue to delay sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate until Bolton testifies: I'm generally really suspicious of procedural gamesmanship.
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The procedural and partisan gamesmanship that allowed its enactment, he argues, signals that Republicans in Congress are more compelled by personal and political interest than representing the will of the people.
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This is a relatively minor bit of procedural gamesmanship on the Republicans' part, but it illustrates an important shift taking place now that they are about to take over the White House.
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In court papers, it called the decision by Healey, a Democrat, to sue now "gamesmanship" to distract its lawyers amid the New York trial and part of a "partisan" campaign against it.
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And of the 11 Democratic senators shown as the narrator talks about obstructionist gamesmanship, six are women: Elizabeth Warren (shown twice!), Patty Murray, Debbie Stabenow, Dianne Feinstein, Claire McCaskill and Heidi Heitkamp.
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OBJ appeared to throw a bit of gamesmanship into the mix, pretending to go up for a catch, when Norman found himself going in for a tackle, but instead held up OBJ.
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But this season also trained us to believe Margaery had a plan in place, a long con that would lead gamesmanship and family loyalty to triumph over blind devotion and unnecessary cruelty.
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Wolf is a faced-paced, frequently comic look at the enthusiastically awful behavior of a real-life huckster; Equity is a grimmer, darker, more even-keeled story about corporate politics and gamesmanship.
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"The American people should be outraged at the Obama administration's gamesmanship to protect someone who recklessly exposed classified information on more than 1,300 occasions, including highly sensitive top secret intelligence," he said.
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But that tradition seemed threatened by an effort to transfer the gamesmanship of the campaign to the live audience for the debate, which may reach a record-shattering 100 million television viewers.
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By pushing more radical shareholder proposals off the ballot, companies are engaging in "gamesmanship", said Rosemary Lally of the Council of Institutional Investors, whose members have combined assets of more than $3.5tr.
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"The American people should be outraged at the Obama administration's gamesmanship to protect someone who recklessly exposed classified information on more than 1,300 occasions, including highly sensitive top secret intelligence," he added.
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While Game 21 marked an intended cameo for Miley — Brewers manager Craig Counsell still was addressing his gesture of gamesmanship Friday — Miley's Game 20 outing was designed for a much longer haul.
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One proposal would limit justices to 18-year terms, which would create an opening on the court every two years, and reduce some of the political gamesmanship that surrounds open seats today.
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"There's probably some gamesmanship going on, to try and get in the heads of other candidates," said former Senator Rick Santorum, a Pennsylvania Republican who ran in both 2012 and in 2016.
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Instead of focusing on the protection of specific historic, cultural and scientific objects, the modern designation process is now driven by political gamesmanship, climate change, presidential legacies, corporate interests, and outdoor recreation.
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For generations, this process has been fraught with political gamesmanship as state politicians of each party try to maximize the number of districts that politicians of their party are likely to win.
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To parents of sick children, the gamesmanship in Washington was incomprehensible, especially as Congress was working to pass a $1.5 trillion tax cut with little worry over its cost to the Treasury.
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He probably masterminded a spying program to get a leg up on his competition and isn't exactly beyond other forms of gamesmanship to get the Patriots where he needs them to be.
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Having dispatched Croatia in the semi-finals – though not before some gamesmanship from Slaven Bilic had made sure Blanc would miss the final through suspension – France were pitted against the majesty of Brazil.
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For many prominent Republicans, a contested GOP national convention was the last hope for a nominee other than Donald Trump, and they were maneuvering to have a front-row seat to the gamesmanship.
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"So the scope for gamesmanship, I think, with some of these issues, and that's going to be where the U.S. does have to discipline the system, and ... police what's going on," Lavin added.
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LONDON, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Haas are appealing against Romain Grosjean's Italian Grand Prix disqualification but will not let off-track 'gamesmanship' distract them in Singapore next weekend, team boss Guenther Steiner has said.
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Screencaps acquired by The Verge show that parts of Bookclicker contain a bustling underground community marketplace of ghostwriting, SEO gamesmanship, and ebook exploits, which some in the industry worry is warping the genre.
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In truth, whatever gamesmanship and spin that Democrats used to pass the ACA was a sideshow to a banal, tortuous effort to make the text of the law match a few simple goals.
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In late October, the firm announced its decision to pull out of the agreement, which it said had become "replete with opportunities for gamesmanship and loopholes" as other firms allegedly bent the rules.
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The edit seamlessly brings the scene into modernity, with Bateman and his squad of hair-slicked elites taking turns showing off their cards in a not-so-subtle showing of finance culture gamesmanship.
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In any of these situations, the kind of gamesmanship that Ms. Bennett alluded to can be minimized, if not avoided, by limiting the personal contact and putting the selection process online, he said.
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The American people elected officials to the Senate to actually perform a job, not sit on the sidelines and engage in political gamesmanship — even if 2016 happens to be a presidential election year.
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Mr. Labrie's trial attracted national attention because it exposed a culture of sexual gamesmanship at one of the nation's most exclusive boarding schools, known for having graduates from hedge fund executives to senators.
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His sending off only seemed to goad and incite his team further, and their victory ultimately vindicated him and bolstered his reputation as a master of psychology, gamesmanship and the footballing hive mind.
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In fact, it would behoove France to take advantage of being on home turf during the 2016 Euros with some gamesmanship, as the two teams might cross paths—if only in the finals.
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Seth Levinson, who leads the ACES agency with his brother and has represented many Mets players, including David Wright, said his meeting with Van Wagenen on Tuesday went seamlessly and gamesmanship was absent.
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He finally met Mr. Xi in Beijing in March and then again in the Chinese port city of Dalian in May as part of the gamesmanship before his landmark meeting with Mr. Trump.
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The gamesmanship between the creative, tempo-pushing Laviolette and Randy Carlyle, the cerebral Anaheim coach who led the Ducks to a Stanley Cup in 2007, could provide an intriguing battle behind the benches.
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"We have confidence in our case that it's impeachable, and this president is impeached for life, regardless of any gamesmanship on the part of Mitch McConnell," the speaker said, referring to Mr. McConnell.
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In particular, there's potential for "gamesmanship" when it comes to trade concessions that will be "painful for China," involving the trickier intellectual property issues, according to Lavin, who was also U.S. ambassador to Singapore.
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The passage of AB-375 is just the latest chapter in a long fight to pass privacy protections in the state, after several previous attempts were derailed by some misleading gamesmanship by industry opponents.
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For Donald Trump, who leads the GOP race but has seen his advantage undermined by clever, effective (and totally legal) gamesmanship by Ted Cruz's campaign, the answer has been to attack his own party.
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Boston University law professor James Bessen is notable for demonstrating that about half the increase in U.S. corporate profits can be traced to political and regulatory gamesmanship, particularly in highly regulated sectors like telecoms.
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After a brief period when it wasn't certain that president Donald Trump would get to deliver his second State of the Union Address at all, thanks to government shutdown gamesmanship, the day has come.
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Phillips said the criticisms of his group are merely "political gamesmanship" and that other Democratic contenders are eagerly accepting max-out $2,800 checks — and "not from waitresses or bus drivers," as Phillips put it.
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That makes the gamesmanship harder but far from impossible: Such taxpayers might combine their brands with just enough other business activities that the IRS can no longer claim the reputation is a principal asset.
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Animated by a kind of Victorian religiosity, Mr. Bleckner's cannily postmodernist yet unabashedly sentimental art would seem to be equally far from Mr. Fischl's earthy tragicomedy tragic-comedy and Mr. Salle's bitter semiotic gamesmanship.
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In this regard we might infer a parallel to the gamesmanship and whimsy of Melotti's close friend, the writer Italo Calvino, who was twenty-two years younger but predeceased the artist by nine months.
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The hunt here for a 47-character password yields the niftiest feat of gamesmanship in the book, as does Langdon's self-important analysis of what looks like an exotic symbol on a car's window.
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For some, this will be a big, important weekend of college football, a pageant of violence and gamesmanship perhaps best accompanied by game-day nachos and one eye closed against the specter of concussions.
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Given the "Spartacus" gauntlet and political gamesmanship that has taken place, I wonder if it's because the courts in recent years seem more populated with reasoned thinkers rather than theatrical politicians of all political persuasions.
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"Senate inaction and political gamesmanship should never have cost Commissioner Rosenworcel her seat at the FCC," Todd O'Boyle, Program Director for Media and Democracy at Common Cause, a DC-based public interest group, told Motherboard.
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The gamesmanship continued before the match — another move straight out of Mourinho's playbook: appearing in his dugout with 10 minutes to go before kickoff, a defiant message of calmness and control — and during it, too.
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Designer after designer over the past several days alluded to the sorry state of the world (Britain's exit from the European Union looming, nuclear gamesmanship foreboding, hurricanes devastating) as they went on their charted course.
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Since his election, critics across the political spectrum have frequently cited the failure to end the insider-driven gamesmanship of Canberra, the capital, and the lack of clear leadership from Mr. Turnbull and his party.
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And the politics of constant crisis will mean even more gamesmanship, more partisan aggression, more rule-bending and norm-breaking, and—in a worst-case scenario—fewer guardrails on the country sliding into actual authoritarianism.
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For many, the process is emblematic of what critics across the political spectrum describe as the insider-driven gamesmanship of Canberra, the capital, and the lack of clear leadership from Mr. Turnbull and his party.
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But to its critics, the gamesmanship required for the Naval Academy to be able to play football competitively with the likes of Notre Dame has hurt its ability to turn out the best officers possible.
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Look, the problem is that he's had to win at so many things, more things than any person should expect themselves to win at, that he uses gamesmanship instead of performance to reach his goal.
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But when the strikes had ended, less than an hour later, many Syrians in and outside of the country reacted with resigned despair over the use of their country as a bargaining chip in political gamesmanship.
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Most states that have moved to redistricting commissions in hopes of dampening the political gamesmanship in electoral map-making have got there via ballot initiatives: amendments to their state constitutions approved by voters at the polls.
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"Despite some of our policy disagreements, I believe General Mattis' qualifications and experience merit thoughtful consideration, but this dangerous procedural gamesmanship only serves to undermine his legitimacy leading our Armed Forces," she said in a statement.
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In a deft move of political gamesmanship, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (who has become the subject of speculation related to several corruption investigations) has pushed his right-wing agenda through the country's parliament with relative ease.
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" And he wrote his "because we as conservatives -- and conservatism itself -- are in crisis" in a time when "gamesmanship replaced statesmanship" and Republicans "stopped speaking the language of freedom and started speaking the language of power.
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A 35-year-old man, who has an unparalleled amount of experience on a dating program that hinges on emotional manipulation and melodramatic gamesmanship, will play with a cast of younger, and almost completely inexperienced players.
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When it comes to heroin and opioid abuse, lawmakers have put aside political gamesmanship, departed from business as usual, and reached across the aisle in bipartisanship in order to serve the best interest of this nation.
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But the fact is, there's very little within the playacting and gamesmanship that hasn't been voiced more expressively by, among many others, Jean Genet, whose play "The Maids" was a recent stage vehicle for Ms. Blanchett.
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The gamesmanship between Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Gantz since the election last month has resembled a chess match in which Mr. Netanyahu's position was weaker than after the April election but the conclusion was hardly foregone.
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The show's 35th season comes to a close with five contenders still in play, including Ben, a former Marine who has narrowly escaped the last two weeks by using some cunning gamesmanship and an immunity idol.
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"The narrowness of the numbers and the gamesmanship that brought us to this point wouldn't strike me with any great confidence that this government will last until 2018," said Gary Murphy, politics professor at Dublin City University.
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Republicans in Congress have rejected the efforts of both Democratic-led committees as political gamesmanship intended to appeal to the Democratic Party's voting base ahead of the 2020 presidential election, in which Trump is seeking re-election.
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And now, gamesmanship is the order of the day: The state prosecutors have brought a case they otherwise never would waste time on — not because the case should be done, but to try to block a pardon.
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But this season had fleeting moments of promise and poetry too, suggesting that next year's potential adventures in the hinterlands could paint a very different picture of how the petty gamesmanship of our leaders affects us all.
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In addition to creating and implementing a blueprint for fiscal recovery, a Control Board will end the gamesmanship that is aimed at nothing more than giving the governor a free pass to avoid paying the Commonwealth's debt.
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The Lebanese official said no Arab could accept that kind of gamesmanship, adding that no one could propose that to a Palestinian unless a person lacking experience was trying to flatter the family of the American president.
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The authors The Verge spoke to were careful to stipulate that there's nothing wrong with erotica — and the SEO gamesmanship is certainly driving up erotica-forward books — but they were concerned that the genre was becoming artificially misogynistic.
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As we grabbed a drink at the bar, it came out that she had been flirting with a fellow senator — all in the name of political gamesmanship, she said, but a warning sign for a struggling marriage nevertheless.
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"I think it is hard to believe that there won't be some gamesmanship the next time that we gather in Vienna in June," Andy Critchlow, head of EMEA energy content at S&P Global Platts, told CNBC Wednesday.
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Last Sunday's edition was just like many of the ones that came before it: not so much a race, complete with a bit of starting-line gamesmanship, but a showcase of hard-working, river-churning power and tradition.
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During Ms. Merkel's first official visit to Moscow in early 2006, Mr. Putin demonstrated his style of gamesmanship, presenting her with a stuffed toy dog even though the Kremlin had been alerted that she was uneasy around dogs.
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Growth that weak would leave the United States with little buffer against an unexpected round of bad news — an escalation in the trade war with China, for example, or another round of fiscal gamesmanship around the debt ceiling.
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BREAKING: Politicians like the CBO when it says things they like and think it's stupid when it doesn't But the procedural gamesmanship is far and away the least important aspect of the CBO's role in the legislative process.
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WASHINGTON – After a week of hard-nosed negotiation, diplomatic gamesmanship and no shortage of theatrics, President Donald Trump announced Friday that the historic nuclear-weapons summit he had canceled with North Korea&aposs Kim Jong Un is back on.
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WASHINGTON – After a week of hard-nosed negotiation, diplomatic gamesmanship and no shortage of theatrics, President Donald Trump has announced that the historic nuclear-weapons summit he had canceled with North Korea&aposs Kim Jong Un is back on.
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Put another way, traditional market makers have largely withdrawn from the business of equity market making, leaving the business predominantly to high frequency traders who are able to succeed amid the high-speed gamesmanship that defines today's equity markets.
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"When the other side essentially learns about it for the first time in the press, which was last night, it is invariably messaging and gamesmanship," Senator Ron Wyden, top Democrat on the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, told reporters.
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"Partisanship and political gamesmanship have no place when it comes to the Internet, basic principles of freedom, and the right of individuals in our great nation and across the globe to speak online free from censorship," the senators said.
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The moment is a brilliant bit of gamesmanship from Reeve, who can now be sure every official in this series will hear her words in their heads on every borderline call concerning Ogwumike for the remainder of the series.
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Chair of Korean Studies at Stanford University, Gi-Wook Shin, wrote at Axios: "Trump needs to show political leadership, not gamesmanship, in coordinating with key stakeholders China and South Korea if he wants to make progress with North Korea."
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In 2012, Mr. Baroni went to Washington to testify at a committee hearing led by Senator Frank R. Lautenberg of New Jersey, a Democrat who was looking into his suspicions of political gamesmanship in recent Port Authority toll increases.
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And the centralization of power in Congress has weakened it as an institution and frustrated the rank and file as it swoops everything it does into the maw of zero-sum partisan gamesmanship in service of the next election.
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AMERICAN ANIMALS Continuing the truth-or-fiction gamesmanship that distinguished his documentary "The Imposter," Bart Layton weaves real interviews into an otherwise dramatized true-crime heist movie, about the planning and unraveling of a robbery of a university library.
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Officials and ordinary Mexicans alike have come to view most of Mr. Trump's threats and hostile rhetoric as little more than bluster and political gamesmanship aimed as much, if not more, at his base as it is at Mexico.
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"Like it or not, it's political gamesmanship, and the mayor has to play that game," said Paul Steely White, the executive director of a pedestrian and bicycling advocacy group, Transportation Alternatives, who attended Mr. de Blasio's event on Monday.
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The meat-and-potatoes satisfaction of that scene — two great actors, Ewan McGregor and Carrie Coon, going toe to toe, with the highest of stakes — calls attention to the conceptual gamesmanship of "Fargo," which can get a little cute.
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While we can pin some of the difficulties to misaligned incentives, gamesmanship, or outdated business models, some of the friction in infrastructure development exist purely as a result of the deep complexity that underpins any project of such immense scale.
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Others believe a more unusual reason, claiming it could be some gamesmanship on the part of Bezos intended to send a message to Wall Street, as well as Walmart leadership, that Quidsi co-founder Marc Lore cannot build profitable businesses.
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"The Mydentist portability provision would allow for gamesmanship with the leverage ratio calculation that could allow the issuer to use portability even if leverage is above the specified threshold at the time the change of control transaction closes," the analysts said.
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At a time when everyone expects health care to go in one direction -- with fewer people getting more expensive coverage -- voters stood up with one voice and said "no" to political gamesmanship and insisted on taking care of the most vulnerable.
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" In his tweets, Trump claimed that his red-ink bookkeeping was all real estate gamesmanship, even though the Times' story pointedly declared, "Depreciation cannot account for the hundreds of millions of dollars in losses Mr. Trump declared on his taxes.
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"Senator Shelby is telling everybody in this chamber what they need to know, that we need to get out of partisan gamesmanship and get focused on governing the country: moving Approps bills, taking care of the debt ceiling," he said.
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James Bessen, of Boston University School of Law, argues in a paper published in 2016 that about half of the rise in profits and valuations since 1980 is traceable to political gamesmanship, involving influencing and arbitraging regulations to inhibit competition.
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ARE THERE ANY OTHERS YOU WOULD EXPAND – CHANOS: WE'VE BEEN LOOKING AT THE RENT-SEEKING COMPANIES, COMPANIES THAT WE THINK HAVE EXISTED ON THE PERIPHERY OF THE HEALTH CARE ECONOMY THAT BASICALLY HAVE WENT AFTER THESE PRICING SORT OF GAMESMANSHIP MODELS.
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James Bessen, of Boston University School of Law, argues in a paper published in 2016 that about half of the rise in profits and valuations since 1980 is traceable to political gamesmanship, involving influencing and arbitraging regulations to inhibit competition.
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For all that, the movie depicts the appalling political gamesmanship that conspires to keep Seretse and Ruth apart (including, in a shocking twist, a betrayal by a historical figure who's almost exclusively lauded in pop-culture portrayals) with consistent clarity.
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In the perverse logic of North Korean signaling and gamesmanship, this actually was an indirect overture: a suggestion that Mr. Kim might now agree to an invitation that he halt tests of both nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).
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While most of the contemporary men of pop seem to shy away from pop gamesmanship — like crafting social media narratives around their identities or relationships — Styles' willingness to play the game (and laugh at it) has helped him stand out.
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Aside from providing ultimate consistency and fairness to both pitchers and batters (and fans), the electronic strike zone would eliminate the hidden, time-consuming gamesmanship practiced by pitchers, batters, catchers, and bench jockeys as they try to influence the umpires' calls.
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Aside from providing ultimate consistency and fairness to both pitchers and batters (and fans), the electronic strike zone would eliminate the hidden, time-consuming gamesmanship practiced by pitchers, batters, catchers and bench jockeys as they try to influence the umpires' calls.
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"Sadly, just like in Washington, it looks like political gamesmanship is winning the day & preventing a bipartisan compromise led by the Governor to help our educators & public employees, fix our PEIA system & get students learning again from becoming law," Manchin tweeted.
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Conaway won't seek reelection: report MORE (R-Utah), the chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, said the review "smacks and smells of political gamesmanship," and contended that if Indian consultation is on the table, other environmental processes should be, as well.
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The royal family, thanks in part to a raft of projects with business, academia, the arts and charities, has implanted itself at the center of Thailand's cultural and social life — apparently far from the messy, brutal realities of capitalism and political gamesmanship.
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In the end, the defense lawyers argued, the affair was nothing more than the rough and tumble of political gamesmanship, likening it to a mayor directing his public works department to plow the streets of his political opponents last during a snowstorm.
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In the end, the defense lawyers argued, the affair was nothing more than the rough and tumble of political gamesmanship, likening it to a mayor directing his public works department to plow the streets of his political opponents last during a snowstorm.
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The Senate GOP's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is being sold as a permanent fix to our tax code, but because of the gamesmanship and contortionist gimmicks the bill includes, it is setting us up for yet another era of tax extenders.
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" It went on to argue against allowing internet providers to offer some services at faster speeds, saying that doing so would create "an internet that looks more like cable TV, one characterized by legalized discrimination, carriage disputes, gamesmanship, and content blackouts which harms consumers.
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While those claims may in part be gamesmanship — an attempt to build up Mr. Cruz's expectations here — more revealing is that neither Mr. Rubio nor the well-financed outside group allied with his campaign has spent money on television advertising in Iowa assailing Mr. Cruz.
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To her, what matters after 50 years of hostility between the countries is not political gamesmanship but the chance to help her relatives and the everyday Cuban who hustles to put food on the table and find a job that pays more than a pittance.
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It is the culmination of roughly two decades of alarms, investigations and political gamesmanship in which remarkably little voter fraud has been documented, but the conviction that it is widespread has gone from a fringe notion to an article of faith for many Republicans.
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J.P. Depending on the tune, the interwoven triple-guitar gamesmanship of Empyrean Atlas can run in few different directions: toward the mathy post-punk of Horse Lords or Battles, toward warmly anesthetic ambience (say, Pink Floyd meets Bradford Cox), or toward West African high life.
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But while the question of who will run the agency in the near term is a critical one, the last thing that American consumers need right now is for the very notion of financial malpractice protection to become yet another staging ground for partisan gamesmanship.
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"Sadly, just like in Washington, it looks like political gamesmanship is winning the day & preventing a bipartisan compromise led by the Governor to help our educators & public employees, fix our PEIA system & get students learning again from becoming law," Manchin tweeted earlier in March.
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Up until today, 2018 had seemed the low water mark in the House of Representatives, where we saw such political gamesmanship as the declassification of information about sensitive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act applications regarding a counterintelligence investigation of Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser.
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The Game Groups supported: World Vision, Food Bank of Eastern Michigan, The Robin Hood Project In what might have been a little charitable ... gamesmanship, Los Angeles' The Game last year mocked singer Madonna's and comedian Jimmy Fallon's $13,000 donations to help with the Flint, Michigan, water crisis.
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"I think this is a bit of poker playing, or gamesmanship, that's going back and forth and it wouldn't shock me if a week from now, the meeting is back on," said Joe Saluzzi, co-head of equity trading at New Jersey-based Themis Trading LLC.
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That sounds meta, and GLOW certainly thrills to show-within-a-show gamesmanship: The core drama of the first season is an emotional duel between Ruth and her actress friend Debbie (Betty Gilpin), and how a personal betrayal leads to their professional animosity inside the ring.
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Evolution in MMA borders on cliché, mainly because it's true: the last decade has layered flash and creativity and gamesmanship on top of the hardnosed wrestler with a gas tank—Jon Jones, Sanchez's teammate at Jackson Wink MMA in Albuquerque, is a better exemplar than most.
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The motion asserted that the suit was moot because Ann Marie Cellino and her daughters - who "have no interest in engaging in Mr. Barnes's frivolous gamesmanship," - decided to change their firm's name to The Law Offices of Anna Marie Cellino and would change their phone number and marketing materials.
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In addition to problems caused by leaving key executive branch and judicial seats empty, this procedural gamesmanship is unfair to good-spirited, patriotic Americans who are willing to serve the public yet have their lives, businesses, and careers put on hold while they wait, and wait, and wait.
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"The total lack of transparency and accountability among senior FBI and DOJ officials has devolved into a constant wheel of behind-the-scenes gamesmanship, with anonymous leaks left and right, each seeking to create their own narrative and save face with the public," Meadows said in a statement.
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But one thing is for sure: while both parties jockey for political advantage and people outside the beltway grow weary of the partisan gamesmanship they see on their televisions every day, there is still a realistic chance of bipartisan compromise on an issue of profound importance to many Americans.
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"During his backstage Q&A, Pitt said that he included the political joke about President Donald Trump's impeachment trial because he "was really disappointed with this week and I think when gamesmanship trumps doing the right thing, it's a sad day and I don't think we should let it slide.
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The judge's squeamishness about Uber's litigation gamesmanship is nowhere near the top of the company's long list of legal problems, which already includes a criminal investigation of its alleged use of software to help drivers evade transportation regulators as well as this case and class actions by drivers and passengers.
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Although he knew that leaders of art movements can abuse their power and, in the fashion of André Breton and surrealism, become immersed in incestuous internal gamesmanship, Higgins did regard himself as a spokesman for a "new mentality" and was comfortable making pronouncements ex cathedra, even as he was wary of didacticism.
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After all, the World Cup is littered with incidents of cynical behavior from European players—in the 1990 World Cup final Rudi Voller dived to win West Germany a decisive penalty against Argentina, while a study of gamesmanship at the 2010 World Cup found Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo to be among the worst offenders.
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But the opposition Labour Party reacted coolly to Mr. Johnson's proposal, which he will bring before Parliament on Monday, viewing it as an act of political gamesmanship rather than a serious effort to find a path out of the morass that has enveloped Britain since it voted in 2016 to leave the European Union.
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There will be no coaches' challenges in the replay rules — according to the rules board, players and coaches interviewed strongly opposed them for fear they would be used for gamesmanship or to bring about intentional breaks in play — and for now there is also no time limit on how long a review should take.
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John CornynJohn CornynThe Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy O'Rourke says he will not 'in any scenario' run for Senate MORE (R-Texas), however, accused Democrats of "gamesmanship" and temporarily "killing" the legislation after they rejected an offer from Sen.
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Troy Price, the chair of the Iowa Democratic Party, said that the party made the change, in part, because past realignment processes have taken hours and they have been rife with gamesmanship from other campaigns; supporters from certain campaigns would go to another campaign to deny yet another campaign the ability to grow their support or gain viability.
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Thanks to a bit of television gamesmanship, many shows that would otherwise be contenders — including The Crown, Stranger Things, and The Handmaid's Tale — did not air during the eligibility window (June 1, 2018 through May 31, 2019), either because they wanted to avoid competing against Game of Thrones' final season or because they simply couldn't finish a new season in time.
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But in this case, according to analysts and lawmakers who watched the Monday news conference between President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, the ball was a metaphor for the gamesmanship that Mr. Putin's many critics say he is well-versed in — and for how he has scored points against an ill-prepared American leader in this high-stakes diplomatic exercise.
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The unprecedented summit thrust Russia back as a bona fide player in global gamesmanship as Putin tried to check the George W. Bush administration's intention to withdraw from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty and build a Theater Missile Defense in East Asia, war campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, and bolster ties with former Soviet-bloc states by their accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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"Based on what creative people might do in conjunction with the materials scientists, if the regulations are not done right there is going to be an ongoing cat and mouse game similar to what we see in golf and especially auto racing where the regulations are a starting point for tweaks, workarounds, and gamesmanship of the highest order," said Michael Joyner, a physiologist at the Mayo Clinic.
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The move is a reversal from his position from earlier in the day, when the White House said it would proceed with plans for an address — either in the House chamber or at an alternative location — and it capped a day of public gamesmanship between the two leaders in which each sought to use the event to pressure the other to give ground on the shutdown, which has extended more than a month with no end in sight.
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Director: Whit Stillman (Metropolitan, Damsels in Distress) Cast: Kate Beckinsale (The Last Days of Disco, the Underworld series), Chloë Sevigny (HBO's Big Love, FX's American Horror Story), Emma Greenwell (Showtime's Shameless, Pride & Prejudice & Zombies) Distributor: Amazon for streaming; Roadside Attractions for theatrical A quarter-century after Stillman made his reputation with the Jane Austen–inspired Metropolitan, the writer-director makes an actual Austen adaptation, turning the obscure novella Lady Susan into a witty, bubbly tale of romantic gamesmanship in 1790s England.
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That's because one of us is the patent chief at a global smartphone maker (and an influential critic of patent licensing abuses); another is the former licensing chief at Apple and current chief executive of a non-practicing entity (NPE) patent licensing company that has been a target of criticism from product manufacturers; while the third is president of a patent pool operator, who has criticized companies on both sides of the patent wars for their gamesmanship, lack of transparency, and litigiousness.
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The episode opens with "Two Weeks Ago" and then continues pressing forward with other time stamps as Axe and his people lay the foundations for Chipotle-level public health disaster on the day of Ice Juice's highly anticipated I.P.O. When Koppelman and Levien return to the same structural gamesmanship after Axe has seemingly won the day, it's like the reveal of a "how did they do that?" magic trick: Now all the earlier events, the ones that seemed so deviously clever on Axe's part, are upended piece by piece.
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