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  1. given or done unwillingly
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But tackling such issues can be slow or even grudging.
American intelligence officials describe their Chinese counterparts with grudging respect.
"We have grudging respect for A.O.C., I'll admit," Korzeniewski said.
It is a grudging concession by the online retail giant.
Some Republican senators voiced grudging admiration for the Democrats' presentation.
Well, I think ... Or grudging would be [a better word].
The jihadists were not conspicuously corrupt, say locals, with grudging respect.
Flynn has previously shown a sort of grudging admiration for Putin.
Critics also faulted Trump for his somewhat grudging tone on Monday.
But some environmental groups offered only grudging responses to the measure.
Still, he confessed a grudging admiration for Mr. Trump's political jujitsu.
Slowly, Sherman straightened and took one grudging step onto the pavement.
Grifters, for all our grudging admiration, rarely come to happy ends.
His interactions with the press, meanwhile, have been grudging at best.
Yet although some biased laws have changed, official support has been grudging.
Nixon sent a grudging letter to Brown congratulating him on his victory.
And they sort of gave me grudging praise or whatever, you know?
I could also see the grudging affection between Dr. McCoy and Spock.
Remember James's grudging response in May to Curry's unanimous selection as M.V.P.?
The agent displayed a grudging willingness to listen with an open mind.
Coming back down to earth felt a very grudging concession to necessity.
Zevin reveals it as a grudging response to democratic pressures from below.
Other Republican lawmakers also offered grudging praise of the Democrats&apos performance.Sen.
I mean, they do it in pieces, but it seems so grudging.
The thing is, it's hard not to feel a grudging respect for Pulis.
Mrs May has won the grudging respect, if not the affection, of voters.
But it has generally done so in a piecemeal and often grudging fashion.
He was negative on abortion, grudging on gay marriage, gaga for Antonin Scalia.
Grudging Respect Level High (but only after beating each other to a pulp).
"He stays up for me," she'd once said with a weary, grudging gratitude.
He even admits a grudging admiration for drug marketing, which is extraordinarily effective.
Still, more modest goals, like a grudging global acceptance, may be more feasible.
There was a grudging understanding that luxury was increasingly trickling up, not down.
He offered only grudging concessions, like loose change falling out of his pocket.
Delagnes, who was also at the funeral, keeps a grudging respect for Harris.
His grudging manner did little to quell concerns about his attitude toward the group.
Even if the bureaucrats give grudging approval, privacy campaigners find the Privacy Shield farcical.
Thornbury writes that he was met with curiosity and, in some cases, grudging respect.
Even so, Yang remains a grudging, and sometimes awkward, participant in art world rituals.
Still, what acknowledgment there's been has generally been belated, grudging and rarely self-reflective.
Mr. Tillerson's tenacity won a certain grudging respect from the Russians, Mr. Milov said.
What to watch: Warren has already received the grudging respect of many on Wall Street.
And it's not a grudging acceptance of her worldview but instead genuine support for it.
One was a last-minute, grudging endorsement by Verónika Mendoza, a defeated left-wing candidate.
After personal exposure to the resurgent pests, Borel, a science journalist, developed a grudging ­appreciation.
With time, the book itself has picked up a good deal of grudging respect, too.
The administration's use of the term "Palestinian state" has been grudging and qualified at best.
The report suggests a grudging respect for the scale and creativity of Russian influence operations.
I deployed my Bureau of Boyfriends mix-up line to a grudging but sweet reception.
Frankly, one suspects both men are a little grudging in sharing their accomplishments too much.
Despite their ingenuity, the 100-minute play moves like a kicked horse: fast but grudging.
Fortunately, most racetrack disputes end with even the defeated offering a grudging respect for the winners.
"It's possible to treat the out-group with mild dislike or even grudging respect," he said.
What they tend to have in common are responses regarded as too slow or too grudging.
I have grudging affection for its impractical streets and the unhinged ambition written into its architecture.
With the ballot proposal hanging over legislators' heads, the push for an alternative gained grudging support.
But Bryant's resilience meant that Nike embraced him again, and fans eventually yielded him grudging respect.
" On July 20, Pompeo said Iran's implementation of the nuclear deal has been "grudging" and "minimalist.
Hopefully, a grudging compromise can be reached here sooner than later, but don't hold your breath.
Over the past week, other delegates here described their slow, and sometimes grudging acceptance of Trump's candidacy.
It is a judgment, admiring and grudging at the same time, that others in the field share.
But they get their license, and "No Dress Code Required" chronicles the grudging advance of cultural change.
There is one place, however, where he has earned grudging respect over the past few weeks: Brussels.
Complicating matters, Mr. Mueller is seen as, if not a hostile witness, at least a grudging one.
And its grudging reforms and political bickering have deterred the investment that would be needed to create them.
At best, it extends to a grudging willingness not to take away things that were already in NAFTA.
"This guy just claimed political asylum in France on his layover to Russia," he said with grudging admiration.
He did propose paid family leave and backed vocational schools and job training, winning grudging applause from Democrats.
But you leave "Divide and Conquer" energized and incensed, and with a grudging admiration for Ailes's pugnacious instincts.
When I finally made my way to the outlet with grudging steps, I found that Mom wasn't there.
It was a stance that exasperated both secular lefists and Christian conservatives, but her integrity compelled a grudging respect.
And don't forget the danger of an armed confrontation between America and China, the North's neighbour and grudging ally.
This bias towards stability can enrage the party's left flank, whose members have a grudging respect for Republican intransigence.
While Mrs Clinton is seen as fiercely anti-Russian, she is a familiar figure, and even commands grudging respect.
All too often, contests don't yield accepted conclusions and a grudging acquiescence by those who didn't get their way.
I confess part of me has a grudging respect for the surreality of this kind of whackadoodle performance art.
Their condemnation of Mr. Trump is coupled with their tacit or grudging respect for and acceptance of Hillary Clinton.
He received a grudging apology, which Mother Angelica then obscured with a long on-air explication of her complaint.
But his walkback was so grudging — and he quickly undermined it — that it seemed designed not to be persuasive.
" It emphasized the authors' expectation that "the herpes counterrevolution may be ushering a reluctant, grudging chastity back into fashion.
With grudging permission from the developer, PMC Property Group, construction was halted whenever a backhoe turned up another body.
And there's a new scavenger hunt mode, which lets you (with Carrot's grudging help) find various locations around the world.
That skepticism gives way to grudging acceptance as more and more professionals, individuals and outright speculators push prices higher still.
But Donald Trump's grudging approval of new sanctions against Moscow shouldn't stop Trump from trying to get closer to Putin.
It took the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, four days to issue a rather grudging statement defending his chief of staff.
This summer you were asked that same question and the best you could come up with was muttering and grudging.
From you, he will accept some editorial suggestions, with grudging thanks; when others make suggestions, he becomes stony-faced, resentful.
Grudging though they seemed, Mr. Trump's comments were a marked departure from his lifelong resistance to any admission of fault.
McGregor was beaten, but not before hanging in for 10 rounds and drawing grudging respect even from many boxing fans.
He won a dozen re-election campaigns and the sometimes grudging respect of colleagues on both sides of the aisle.
That's why he was so grudging in granting a 30-day extension to FERC, to more fully consider his proposal.
Perhaps, even, Mr Trump gets grudging admiration for reminding the world that Taiwan deserves more recognition as a peaceful, prosperous democracy.
" It implied that he was "petulant," said he was "grudging," and got David Gergen to call him a "grumpy old man.
Anderson and other intelligence and law enforcement officials I've interviewed speak of China with a spy's grudging respect for their adversary.
Its grudging cooperation was further incentivized by Washington's belated imposition of sanctions directly on Chinese entities doing business with North Korea.
Some will say they have grudging agreements of access with drug cartels, as long as trespassers stay far from their homes.
The boy held his own in the mismatch, prompting an onlooker to give grudging respect: Your son is one tough character.
As both artist and grudging representative of the Sudanese diaspora, Alsarah makes a music and tells a truth free of nostalgia.
After its gleeful metamorphosis into a Premier League fixture, there is now the grudging mutation from local institution into international concern.
Andrew M. Cuomo, a fellow Democrat, and other officials, and his almost-as-speedy, almost-grudging acceptance of his political fate.
Schiff earned praise from Democrats and grudging respect from Republicans for the way he handled his committee's high-profile impeachment hearings.
The plaintiffs' papers appeared to offer other examples of grudging or derogatory descriptions of Asian applications, but they had been redacted.
A society of unruly pluralism and grudging mutual toleration hammering out one bitterly negotiated compromise after another isn't anybody's idea of perfection.
And though Sandor had started out on Arya's "kill list," she gradually developed a grudging respect for him and removed his name.
It's the real reason that a movement with wide public support, bipartisan agreement and grudging Pentagon backing, nonetheless, hit a dead end.
More and more, the country appeared to be settling into the grudging realization that there was no cure, at least not immediately.
In "Showman" he comes to feel a grudging respect for Barnum, and upon a second viewing I too came around — a little.
He has often given grudging lip service to supporting NATO, even while complaining frequently about allies' military spending and unfair trade policies.
One of our art critics offered a grudging defense of the work, titled "Comedian," after a prankster ate the piece of fruit.
Twenty years from now, no one is likely to care that the gentlemen of Muirfield were grudging in their acceptance of women.
Alliances, they say, limp along at the pace of their most grudging member, and today NATO's most recalcitrant participant is unquestionably Turkey.
Even her most vociferous haters had to give her some grudging respect for her insistence on speaking out about the Armenian genocide.
I mean, he came on stage to almost no applause at all — and at the end of his speech, a little grudging applause.
John McCain warned Tuesday that the Obama administration's "grudging incrementalism" in the fight against ISIS risks a failure akin to the Vietnam War.
So far, almost all the conversation and policy-making around climate change has focused on austerity — some mix of sacrifice and grudging duty.
It also earned him grudging respect from Darryl F. Zanuck, the 20th Century Fox executive with whom he butted heads on the project.
The journey from denial and resistance to grudging acceptance, and even peace, with the Trump nomination may never be complete for some Republicans.
If 401(k)s were necessary to get such sensible measures a second look, then they deserve our grudging respect — at their funeral.
Einstein did have an affair with a secretary named Betty — Betty Neumann, to be precise — with the grudging permission of his wife, Elsa.
But earlier, he told Bloomberg News that he didn't think he had done anything wrong in his grudging response to his foe's death.
They prefer to maintain a kind of grudging neutrality through New Hampshire, at which point they'll be better poised to truly join the race.
Once excoriated as Europe's last dictator, he has won a measure of grudging respect from liberal-minded compatriots for standing firm against the Kremlin.
There's always room to criticize the league where criticism is due, and it's always a good idea to celebrate progress, however grudging it is.
The occasional display of grudging cooperation notwithstanding, Pakistan has repeatedly shown its unwillingness to sever ties with U.S. enemies in Afghanistan and South Asia.
We're reluctant to rank Portugal this highly, to be honest, but considering that they won the tournament we have to show some grudging admiration.
He has so lowered the bar that he won grudging praise for giving a mediocre July 4 speech where he politicized the American military.
I'm not sure we've ever witnessed a capitulation this grudging, a cynicism this grotesque, a reversal of regard this fraudulent and flat-out hilarious.
"His cooperation was not grudging or delayed," Mr. Flynn's lawyers wrote in a sentencing memo that included letters from supporters vouching for his character.
Eventually Ida makes grudging accommodation for Hildegard (who completes her takeover by marrying Ida's war-damaged son, Karl) and begins to look after Vera.
Mostly, fellow mayors from the population-100,000-or-so set have landed on a kind of grudging respect for the brazenness of the gambit.
When the recording finally showed he was wrong, Mr. Trump's reaction was grudging: He agreed to say he was sorry if anyone was offended.
Corey Lewandowski's grudging, impudent testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday may have wound up bolstering Speaker Pelosi's hands-off approach to impeachment.
I think when he got from the Supreme Court today was a rather grudging almost acknowledgment that, OK, you can do this if you insist.
"I think there is still a certain amount of cooperation, but ... it&aposs more grudging, more slow and therefore it&aposs less effective," Galeotti said.
This conflict allows for a dynamic relationship between Light and L. There's a grudging respect between them, and they recognize each other as worthy foes.
Meanwhile, her decision to make her own decisions also affects her relationship with Cyril, who seems to develop a grudging respect for the younger woman.
There are critics of this gradual deployment; Republican Senator John McCain, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, accuses the Obama administration of "grudging incrementalism".
And we're seeing real money flowing to the above, in grudging recognition that women have the financial power to want to see themselves represented everywhere.
Many of these insecurities had to do with the jealousy and grudging admiration for black culture white Americans hid behind layers of stereotype and insult.
"As the Government has made clear, his cooperation was not grudging or delayed," Flynn's attorneys Robert Kelner and Stephen Anthony wrote in the sentencing memo.
You need to enjoy the back and forth, recognize that it's all in the game, and have grudging admiration and mutual respect on both sides.
The Democratic maneuvers in the race reflect a sometimes-grudging consensus among many donors and strategists that a more liberal candidate would falter in Arkansas.
They are saying that this administration and this man are abominations and they will not sit silently by, thereby giving passive approval or grudging acceptance.
While the Palestinian government in the West Bank has become Israel's grudging collaborator, Hamas and the more radical groups in Gaza are pledged to fight.
That Mueller does not believe there is "substantial evidence linking [Trump] to the commission of a crime" would seem to merit some, albeit grudging, recognition.
While we will not go as far as to encourage this sort of behaviour, we must at least express a grudging admiration for Xhaka here.
For many ordinary Iranians, Rafsanjani, born into a wealthy pistachio farming family, has been a figure of suspicion and grudging respect for amassing a vast fortune.
After four rounds — and a grudging agreement to end things there — we can tell you there's a lot of exciting possibilities in VR-powered social gaming.
And there is a grudging acknowledgment that her brand of populist policymaking might be just what is needed to address the growing heft of big firms.
Jack and his young co-workers will soon bond and give themselves over to grudging respect, Jack will eventually become comfortable with technology, and then what?
Mr. Trump has at various times described North Korea's young leader, Kim Jong-un, as "a maniac," even while expressing grudging admiration for Mr. Kim's toughness.
A rich Yankee with an unconcealable big-city accent and only a grudging genuflection toward religion should never have carried so many states in the South.
Today, it's often given classic status but under one grudging condition: that you clarify that it is classic within trap, not rap as a whole. Fair.
It was the first time that the 203-year-old railway worker had ridden the line since the 1980s, and he gave President Rajapaksa grudging credit.
However, the next day, Tesla's attorneys were back at the SEC requesting them for a second chance, this time with Musk's 'grudging approval', the paper said.
"You leave 'Divide and Conquer' energized and incensed, and with a grudging admiration for Ailes's pugnacious instincts," Ben Kenigsberg wrote in his review for The Times.
They'd have looked more like a young queen out for a stroll with the magician's assistant, the hobbling, gnomish guy who cast the minor, grudging spells.
But Ms. Gomez persevered, and though she had to buy the chairs herself, she gradually gained a following and the grudging admiration of the club's owner.
The semi-reversal suggested a grudging acknowledgment that, whatever the political fallout or economic prospects, Britain ultimately needs a thriving London all the more after Brexit.
Reparations authorized by elected representatives after democratic deliberation and a serious reckoning with the past would surely be more powerful than a grudging payment like Ward's.
As Stephen Holden from The New York Times wrote, "'Ma Mere' may be ludicrous, but its cast displays a commitment that deserves more than grudging admiration."
Joseph W. Stilwell expressed a grudging fondness for the damp, ramshackle capital deep in the country's southwest that would be his base for the next several years.
Indian journalists expressed grudging admiration last year when Dawn, a Pakistani English-language daily, published embarrassing details of a closed meeting between top military and civilian leaders.
Soon enough, Ezekiel meets a rapper/graffiti artist who goes by the name Shaolin Fantastic (Shameik Moore), forging a grudging if tentative collaboration of writer and artist.
During its recent eight-day losing streak, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had lost a total of just 1.9 percent, the definition of a grudging, orderly pullback.
But by the end of Mr Barnier's term he had won the grudging respect of many in the City who appreciated his conciliatory approach to the job.
And that look of grudging respect on Offred's face as Serena Joy starts in on her showbiz razzle-dazzle at the banquet is a lovely grace note.
President Donald Trump's grudging signature on new sanctions punishing Russia for alleged meddling in last year's US election sparked an explosive rhetorical response in Moscow on Wednesday.
Flynn said his cooperation with Mueller's special counsel investigation "was not grudging or delayed," according to a memo he provided to a federal judge before his sentencing.
News that Russia launched a (successful) cyber-espionage campaign to influence the American election has been treated with disbelief from Trump and only grudging interest from Republicans.
It was typical of Mugabe's ability to out-think - and if necessary out-fight - his opponents, a trait that drew grudging respect from even his sternest critics.
Larson stars as a struggling artist who moves back home with her parents and takes a job at a P.R. firm as a grudging concession to adulthood.
His allies — and grudging admirers — say that voters have come to expect Mr. Amash, who considers himself a libertarian and strict constitutionalist, to choose principle over party.
A muckraking classic, "Nickel and Dimed" exposed in unignorable detail the tolls of poverty on the working poor in America, land of scant and grudging social relief.
But Saint-Amans' ability to get previous tax reforms through the OECD, often contrary to what some EU countries had wanted, won him grudging respect in Washington.
But after Representative Adam B. Schiff's fiery speech Thursday night calling for the president's removal, Mr. Inhofe felt compelled to give his fellow lawmaker some grudging respect.
Mr. Goldman's prosecutorial performance drew grudging respect even from Republicans who privately conceded he was effective during the hearings, while Mr. Castor drew his share of criticism.
Eugene Volokh, an expert in First Amendment law at the University of California, Los Angeles, said Judge Gorsuch's commitment to free speech was not guarded or grudging.
As he's done so, he's actually made a name as a decent worker and great guy, with fan sentiment building from a grudging respect to genuine appreciation.
Trump was not involved in politics at the time and now says he opposed the Iraq war despite a 2002 radio interview in which he expressed grudging support.
He'll whip our lads into shape, beat some discipline into them, teach them to kill Frenchies with their bare hands and earn their grudging respect in the process.
Grudging buy-in for this still-shaky deal came from the Islamist militia-led government in Tripoli and the formerly internationally-recognized secular/technocrat government they ousted 2014.
It takes place 10 years after the original, which feels like a grudging necessity to account for Wichita's sister Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) aging from childhood to adulthood.
Morgan has always had a pretty pen, and here its grudging lyricism transforms something that might in lesser hands be a rote, if well-plotted, alpha-male fantasia.
As your little avatar struggles through the blizzard, you'll see your townsfolk express grudging satisfaction that you're gone, and now they can start putting things right without you.
They haven't sated our thirst for a really top-quality celeb wedding, but we can still offer our grudging respect for their Seal Team 6-level ninja secrecy.
His grudging, caveated acceptance of a finding the US intelligence community arrived at months ago put him closer to the position of most of those in his administration.
But Mr. Wenner has also earned a grudging respect for his pursuit of new business deals, which have included a partnership with Google for Rolling Stone's cover archive.
But it also took thousands of work-related emails out of the official record, exacerbating the State Department's halting — if not grudging — approach to public information requests. Mrs.
And, like the hero of "The Best of Enemies," Mike eventually forges a grudging alliance with an African American community leader who has every reason to reject him.
Sometimes it reflects a grudging acknowledgment that these days populism equals political effectiveness — so we, the liberal victims of its power, need to find our own "populist" message.
Mark Miller, the third-generation owner of Miller Brothers' lawn and garden supply store in Erie, is a longtime Republican who cast a grudging vote for Mr. Trump.
She's won the grudging respect of a group composed, largely, of people who have sparred with Warren as aides to her uneasy allies, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Zola undercuts his authority and refuses to play along, but she's still stuck in Florida, toeing the line between earning X's grudging respect and avoiding his violent wrath.
So perhaps these two can develop at least a grudging respect for each other that will allow them to agree on a mutually beneficial cease-fire in Syria.
However, as of Thursday, Jared Kushner, the President's son-in-law and adviser, may have resurrected the possibility of some grudging forward motion, even in the Trump era.
Last night, Donald Trump offered a grudging apology (after earlier offering a non-apology) for lewd remarks in which he seemed to be boasting about routine sexual assault.
Indeed, much of the far right's attraction to the Middle Ages seems to be driven by a grudging admiration for Islamic State's fusion of medieval motivation and modern technology.
Adrian's parents, whose frequent reunions tend to be grudging, ill-tempered and alcohol-fuelled in the books, get a heart-rending duet about how much they miss each other.
"This was a grudging hike - more of the same, with smoke and mirrors from the CBRT (central bank)," Timothy Ash of BlueBay Asset Management said in an emailed note.
Both men succeeded by giving Trump a tepid, almost grudging endorsement -- but refused to appear on the campaign stage with him or defend the billionaire's controversial stands and statements.
Mexico made a tit-for-tat counterproposal to one U.S. plan to limit Mexican and Canadian access to public tenders, earning words of grudging respect from the U.S. side.
"This is grudging, but a recognition of the politics," said a technology industry source, adding that the tech firms also understood the gravity of the sex-trafficking crimes involved.
In popular culture, people sometimes act as though "exercising my First Amendment rights" should earn them a pat on the back and, if not agreement, at least grudging respect.
It's wrong to say that the broad investing public has fought this rally outright, but it's fair to observe the crowd has been late and grudging in accepting it.
A sublime volley against Cameroon and a classic back heel against Scotland won the respect of Coach Didier Deschamps but only grudging acceptance from the detractors in the crowd.
Op-Ed Contributor We finally got a grudging mea culpa from Mark Zuckerberg: an admission that fake news is a significant problem that his social network must help solve.
Nevertheless, the support of Beck—and the grudging acceptance of the union—gave the commission what it considered a crucial new oversight tool in adjudicating use-of-force incidents.
The president's grudging executive order, which took a shot at Congress for its "failure to act," is likely to be only a temporary respite in the standoff over immigration.
But while Mr. Trump expressed confidence about eventually reaching deals with Europe and Japan, he was far more grudging about China, saying it was too soon to begin talking.
Once you've got the reconciliation out of the way, even a grudging one, you'll be more willing to see in her what the people who loved her all saw.
His obeisance to the treaties, trade pacts, multilateral organizations and alliances that have advanced American interests in conjunction with the interests of America's friends has been grudging at best.
At the end of the day, one must give grudging respect to anyone willing to heist a toilet — it's honest labor in the midst of a dishonest day's work.
France regularly forces migrants back across the Italian border, deports dozens of others and gives only grudging aid to the relative handful who make it through the first filter.
Republicans who have spent dozens of hours with Mr. Goldman sequestered in the Intelligence Committee's basement offices conceded they had come to have a grudging respect for his work.
Asked to comment on the new study, a number of companies expressed a grudging acceptance of Chile's laws but called for additional studies to assess their impact on obesity.
The prosecutor had earned a grudging respect in the state, sending subpoenas to some of the state's most influential donors and scoring corruption convictions against a number of legislators.
The stories about Warren staffers in Iowa and how far they go to sell her candidacy regularly circulate among rival campaigns, eliciting both eye rolls but also grudging admiration.
"This was not a probing or profound Hammerklavier," he said of Yuja's interpretation, as if suddenly remembering himself and wishing that his praise of her had been more grudging.
And his long-suffering employees are unlikely to show sympathy: Ryanair's grudging recognition of unions last year was soon followed this summer by a wave of strikes for more pay.
"You have to give him some grudging respect," said Brian A. Clark, his cousin and also a victim, having had his identity stolen by Mr. Wilson in the early 270s.
An H.M.O. by any other name is still an H.M.O. Once emblematic of everything wrong with health insurance, the health maintenance organization is making a grudging, if somewhat successful, comeback.
The archconservative Breitbart found grudging sympathy from a wide range of mainstream outlets, including the Guardian and BuzzFeed News, which ripped Twitter for a lack of clear and consistent standards.
Others — after years of Facebook's slow, grudging admission of the truth going on behinds its walls — simply were not prepared to take Zuckerberg at his word (see below for more).
Summitry with North Korea is more likely to result in grudging recognition of it as a nuclear-weapon state than to lead to the dismantling of its arsenal of missiles.
By 21980, the magazine, which began with about 21990,21996 readers, had a circulation of nearly 193,219 and an ability to wrest coverage, however grudging, from mass-circulation magazines and newspapers.
Successive Liberian administrations have tried and failed to relocate West Point, in part because of poor planning and the grudging attachment of many residents who have lived there for decades.
" After reciting a long litany of problems and concerns, the platform makes a grudging acknowledgement that "openness to the world economy is an important source of American leadership and dynamism.
When you find yourself "grudging," acknowledge your feelings with compassion and bring your attention back to yourself––your experiences, your present, and what you hope to shape for your future.
He said he has received grudging support since then from the party, whose leaders he said discouraged him from running and did not call to congratulate him when he won.
But he was viewed by many in Mexico as a worthy adversary, with his playing prowess — and ability and willingness to conduct interviews in Spanish — earning him a grudging respect.
His speech on Thursday telling lawmakers they could "not trust this president to do what is right for this country" went viral — and earned even grudging respect from some Republicans.
"I don't want to complicate it," he said, in a grudging admission that he is so unpopular in Britain that a full-throated endorsement of the prime minister could backfire.
I wanted to be angry at him and his colleague, who was now shredding my girlfriend's Marlboros one pack at a time, but I felt a grudging respect for his integrity.
Read more: The Woody Allen interview (Which he won't read) Some reporters have drawn connections between the press' grudging evolution on Cosby and a painful chapter in my own family's history.
Donald Trump owns nothing; he believes he is flawless, appearing to make grudging concessions of regret (only once) as a feint when bringing on a new team to revive his campaign.
The Republican and Democratic presidential fields on Sunday reacted with deliberate nonchalance, ideological objections and grudging admiration to the specter of Mr. Bloomberg entering the 2016 campaign for the White House.
" When Barriss responded, he expressed what seemed to be a grudging sliver of remorse: "I cannot say that I don't feel a level of guilt for what happened to your brother.
In upcoming states with large numbers of black voters -- including South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana -- Clinton will need not just grudging acceptance but energetic mobilization if she wants to win.
I've never, ever believed that theory for a simple reason: Trump has spent his entire life clamoring for the limelight and the recognition -- grudging or otherwise -- that being president affords him.
Yet he also encounters the unsentimental, occasionally grudging kindness of ordinary Finns, and when he tells Mazdak that he has fallen in love with his new home, you can understand why.
Introducing himself and Ms. Davis as "vaudevillians of disparate age and vintage," Mr. Irwin grudgingly invited Ms. Dorrance to the stage — grudging because then he had to keep up with her.
Like many in the rest of the world, Americans have a largely negative view of Russian leader Vladimir Putin—albeit one that is tempered by a grudging respect verging on fear.
From his research and his battlefield observations he developed a genuine, if initially grudging, admiration for Ho and his fighters — for their tenacity, their fighting skill, their commitment to their cause.
While the Never Trump movement was paper thin and didn't last, much of the support from Republicans remains lukewarm, a grudging acceptance that he is the only choice that Republicans will have.
The grudging bond that Marshall and Friedman forge -- after no shortage of bickering -- bears a resemblance to "In the Heat of the Night," a movie about mismatched cops released 50 years ago.
" The blunt-speaking CEO, who once crossed a picket line of baggage handlers to help load a plane, also indicated a grudging respect for the pilots: "In fairness, their timing was good.
A world with no policeman—even an imperfect, grudging and inconsistent one—could leave no firewalls in place to keep local crises and conflicts from spreading into regional and even global conflagrations.
But by then, according to one negotiator, the deal was "cooked": The two sides had hammered out their lists, twisted the arms of their own judiciaries and secured each other's grudging approval.
The country benefited tremendously from the globalization system that the U.S. and its allies built since World War II, but Beijing has often been grudging about making any sacrifices to maintain it.
Donald Trump's statement today on Saturday's murder in Charlottesville — a grudging, teleprompted address that came only after days of foot-dragging and criticism — is the latest edition of a well-worn tango.
A longstanding — if grudging — tolerance for homosexuality in the country began to erode in 2016, when the authorities, under pressure from right-wing Islamic groups, began arresting gay men in record numbers.
Where these decisions hurt the pockets or the job prospects of the governed – as they are bound to do, especially in times of low growth – will these ministers command assent, even if grudging?
Despite all the evidence against Mr Zuma, and the damage he has done to the ANC's electoral chances, much of the party remains loyal to him—even if that loyalty has been grudging.
One of the series' most satisfying redemption arcs has gone to Bronn, who started out as a purely mercenary sellsword and wound up developing a smidgen of grudging loyalty toward the good guys.
From Eliot and Waugh and Kipling to Michel Houellebecq, there's a reactionary canon waiting to be celebrated as such, rather than just read through a lens of grudging aesthetic respect but ideological disapproval.
The commission gave a grudging thumbs-up to a compromise plan which Giuseppe Conte (pictured), the Italian prime minister, had presented the night before to Valdis Dombrovskis, the EU's commissioner for the euro.
But before Mr. Trump got around to what was a grudging and terse admission, which itself included a falsehood about the provenance of so-called birtherism, he had some business to tend to.
You can read more about the retirees who got hosed in this story and more about the grudging settlement Peabody reached (about half of what it owed) earlier this year in this story.
I expected a state bureaucrat with a certain grudging efficiency, the type who is impatient with anyone who doesn't already know the routine, to lead the ceremony with one eye on the clock.
Mr. Brown, who works in sales and operations for an oil field services company, was feeling better — optimistic and increasingly satisfied with the grudging choice he had made to vote for Mr. Trump.
He won praise from veteran press secretaries from both parties and some grudging acknowledgments from reporters that he had eased some of the tensions he prompted with his easily debunked assertions on Saturday.
The Hound developed a grudging liking of his charge, whom he dubbed Little Bird, and he eventually offered to take her away from King's Landing in "Valar Morghulis," the show's season two finale.
But I&aposve seen the Kavanaugh story slip down the lineup on many MSNBC opinion shows, and that seems to me to reflect a grudging recognition that he is extremely likely to be confirmed.
The reconsideration of place-based policies can often seem grudging—something to be tolerated, in order to keep those on the losing end of regional inequality from embracing populism or killing themselves with drugs.
But let's remember to do so with a grudging respect, because there doesn't seem to be a whole lot else out there offering much in the way of alternatives to various flavors of dystopia.
In many respects, the climb has been grudging and joyless, pushed ahead by ultra-low official interest rates and pulled along by corporate borrowing, stock buybacks and the zealous defense of company profit margins.
And though partisans may be grudging in their praise, unwilling to give Giuliani, and his first police commissioner, William Bratton, the lion's share of the credit for the city's turnaround, they both deserve it.
So there we can begin to understand why Jackson zeroed in on Hornacek, preferring him to Frank Vogel, David Blatt and, in perhaps a grudging concession to external and internal pressures, Rambis as well.
Lee is drawn to borders of every kind; where the day surrenders to darkness, for instance, or where the town makes such grudging way for the country that you can't tell which is which.
The themes of redemption and forgiveness are both timely and timeless, but the connecting narrative proves a tad episodic, and the erosion of ill feelings and grudging respect, however admirable, doesn't feel entirely earned.
A fictionalized account of one of those teams, the Rockford Peaches, this blithely feminist film stars Geena Davis, Lori Petty and Madonna as athletes struggling for respect, and Tom Hanks as their grudging manager.
Labour is under pressure again, mainly because its relatively neutral policy on Brexit, and its grudging willingness to contemplate a second vote on Scottish independence, makes it sound fuzzy on the biggest two questions.
CIA Director Mike Pompeo, who Trump tapped to be his secretary of state, got the grudging nod of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Monday and will now likely be confirmed on the Senate floor.
This is going to be an election where the Democrat needs not just grudging acceptance from the party's core supporters — they are going to need to be wildly enthusiastic and turn out in droves.
DL: At the same time, it seems like you have — not quite a grudging respect, but a recognition that Trump has gotten where he is because he really is quite good at some things.
On the morning of Election Day, I thought President Clinton would end up pleasantly surprising a public that grudging accepted her as an alternate to a flagrantly unfit Trump — and I still think that's true.
Ward and Jakoby's banter isn't anything spectacular — it's mostly Smith insulting the orc to his face — but the pair do wade through their expected journey toward grudging admiration, and eventual acceptance, in a satisfying way.
While it goes without saying that the hitman and his reluctant protector will forge a grudging bond, the two run out of fresh insults and schoolyard taunts long before they exhaust their supply of bullets.
A successful fraud — even if it's ultimately uncovered — requires discipline, hard work and talent, and it's hard not to feel at least a grudging respect for charlatans who fool the public and especially the experts.
President Trump, disdainful of any success of his predecessor, has long been determined to destroy this agreement, even though it has served American interests and won the grudging support of many of its original critics.
He was smart and honest — he didn't know the answer but they needed to act fast — and you could see their grudging respect for the man who asked, in his diary, whether they were monsters.
Notwithstanding his recent and grudging admission of Russian intrusion, he still likes to make believe that the Russian investigation is a "witch hunt," and that anything Russia may have done did not affect any votes.
Perhaps that's why the Internet Association — which opposed an earlier, slightly broader version of SESTA — has now given its grudging support: because the bill, whatever its faults, would hit non-members harder than its members.
Israel has gone out its way to blame Islamic Jihad and other groups for the rocket and mortar attacks, rather than Hamas, and even gave grudging credit to Hamas for being mindful of Palestinian civilian needs.
While Trump certainly has to rely on Republicans in Congress and in his cabinet to protect him as Mueller continues his incisions, the grudging support of the leaders of an unpopular political party is not enough.
If Moscow achieved a breakthrough on the Kuril Islands, it could also use the deal with Japan as a wedge against the U.S.-led isolation and sanctions policy in which Japan has been a grudging participant.
That surrender, which follows weeks of resistance by Mr Ryan, was a bit grudging, with the Speaker writing that he is "confident" that Mr Trump can make the conservative policy agenda of House Republicans a reality.
It's an odd position Kalder finds himself in; even as he's denouncing these men—brutes, all of them—he still has to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to make grudging distinctions between his subjects.
Several who would probably have been finalists in another nominee's vetting process have withheld their support from Mr. Trump, as Ms. Martinez and Mr. Kasich have done; others have given him only grudging or limited support.
Donald Trump did none of those things, turning what should be a celebration of a life well lived in service of the country into a grudging and belated acknowledgment of a man who gave so much.
The package that will arrive on Mr. Trump's desk this week for what he has conceded will be a grudging signature contains a sizable increase for the military but few of the reductions he had sought.
Yet the effects of Mr. Mueller's grudging TV foray, as zesty as a slice of white toast, showed that coming to our houses and personally reading the report to us is precisely what he should do.
BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government presented plans to cut pollution from diesel vehicles by asking carmakers to offer owners trade-in incentives and hardware fixes, prompting objections from environmental groups and grudging concessions from the industry.
Some forensic scientists — at times grudging partners in the process of reform — even came to embrace greater professionalization, and one major professional organization recently declined to support the Justice Department's proposal to move forensics in-house.
Even among Russian hard-liners, there is a grudging admiration for the fact that the United States is likely to whack anyone who intervenes too openly in its back yard, with the Monroe Doctrine cited frequently.
It's a system that especially a city like Chicago — with its competitive, overlapping and diffuse constituencies — could use to both prove that everyone is receiving representation and provide clarity on who has true versus grudging support.
The federal German government this week outlined plans to cut pollution from diesel vehicles by asking carmakers to offer owners trade-in incentives and hardware fixes, prompting objections from environmental groups and grudging concessions from the industry.
As National Review's recent output shows, Never Trump is giving way to a grudging anti-anti-Trump—of not quite giving full support to Trump, but spending more time challenging his liberal foes than the president himself.
As the first deputy mayor for finance, Mr. Axelson profoundly influenced the administration's grudging response to what Mayor Beame himself acknowledged were years of "fiscal gymnastics" that had burdened the city with a $21977 billion cumulative deficit.
It has the tourists, more eager than ever to see the celebrity candidate in his natural habitat; it has won the fleeting, semi-grudging attention of New Yorkers, who now regularly pause outside the doors for selfies.
In the era of the "popular front," as American Communists stressed the need for anti-fascist unity, they began to win grudging respect in labor and liberal circles, as useful allies in the struggle for social change.
It remains to be seen if this is going to lead to some sort of party unity — or even grudging acceptance of Clinton's place as the party nominee on the part of Sanders's most die-hard supporters.
"Over the course of 20 minutes, skepticism among the group was replaced by a grudging admiration and enjoyment of the playful and challenging nature of a painting in which there is ostensibly nothing to see," Boag wrote.
While most of us spent the intervening days in varying states of denial, disbelief, and Twitter-rampaging anger; before settling on a kind of grudging acceptance (Brexeptance?), Scotland's food and drink industry has taken a slightly different stance.
Mr Obama relies on technology and modest air campaigns to constrain the West's enemies while refusing to commit the forces on the ground needed to defeat them (his partial U-turn on Afghanistan is typically grudging and insufficient).
As much as we Irish recreationally hate on Britain, scratch some hidden part of our psyche and you might find a grudging, silent sense that the British were, if nothing else, outwardly consistent and slow to lose face.
That framework, alas, encourages bravado, bragging and bluster, as the four ensconced performers look on -- with reaction shots ranging from concern to grudging admiration -- while insisting they would like nothing better than to face off against the upstarts.
In an endnote she says that his representation of her has been too negative, but any reader who is a parent will recognize in his depiction the grudging admiration you feel for a child who regularly outwits you.
Mr Macron may seem less liberal in the Netherlands or Sweden; Mr Salvini's continued if grudging commitment to EU membership and to sticking with the euro (at least for now) would make him a firm Europhile in Brexit Britain.
An intriguing cast siphons through Moore's orbit, from Wesley Snipes (a little too over the top) and Keegan-Michael Key as the grudging actor/director and writer, respectively, that Rudy enlists, to Chris Rock and Snoop Dogg as deejays.
By the end of the film, Mildred and Dixon have reached a kind of understanding, one that joins them together in a grudging alliance; they may not be friends, but their rage is now pointed in the same direction.
Most important was the grudging endorsements he received from left-wing leaders—above all that of Verónika Mendoza, the candidate of the left-wing Broad Front party, who finished third in the first round with 19% of the vote.
Trump's grudging efforts Tuesday to quell a boiling political crisis over his dismal performance at Monday's summit with the Russian leader only caused more controversy and may not have done much to repair his personal prestige and international reputation.
Eric Cantor was defending his seat against David Brat, a conservative economics professor who had mounted a challenge inveighing against Cantor's Wall Street ties, his inattention to his district and his support — grudging as it was — for immigration reform.
Over the years she earned the grudging respect and acceptance of her peers in the Georgia legal system, becoming the first female president of the Savannah Bar Association in 20153 and a Georgia Superior Court judge the next year.
May's acknowledgment that Brexit could be delayed (the union would have to agree to that and would want to know why) and Corbyn's support for a second referendum (a grudging move from a lifelong Euroskeptic heading a pro-E.
But while we may have some level of grudging respect for people who manage to get free stuff just by pouting in front of murals, the truly special ones put in the effort and take it to the next level.
Even the beautification feature, whose very existence offends me, earned my grudging respect by removing facial blemishes without destroying other detail like stubble or pores (unless you crank it up to the max) or making the subject's skin look waxy.
It was the culmination of a rocky and unpredictable day for Mr. Trump, and diverted attention, for a moment at least, from his grudging admission of error when he finally conceded that President Obama was born in the United States.
Johnson had been grudging in his praise of Fallingwater, but after seeing Wright's lily-pad columns at the headquarters for S.C. Johnson & Son in the mid-'40s, the younger architect was forced to re-­examine his devotion to Miesian purity.
Other pro-Trump voices give Pelosi grudging praise for — as they see it — acknowledging the political reality that an impeachment effort could easily backfire on Democrats, much as the GOP drive against then-President Clinton harmed congressional Republicans in the 6900s.
Moreover, many right-wingers in her CDU and the arch-conservative CSU have signaled the definitive end of their grudging acceptance of Merkel's lurch to the center, which they blame for enabling the far-right AfD to enter the Bundestag.
Mr. Trump's grudging embrace only highlighted the degree to which a president who portrays himself as the ultimate dealmaker has been sidelined by congressional leaders in both parties when it comes to striking compromises to fund the core functions of government.
Yet what's striking is how little the formula has varied from the genre's old days, where grudging friendships are forged through shared dangers, but only after exhausting the topic of just how much the leading men can't stand each other.
Mr. Stantzos, the mayor, said the Greek government promised him the camp in Samos would close and won his grudging support for a new camp for 1,500 migrants, which many have characterized as a detention center, about three miles inland.
Combined with statements and actions by the president and numerous associates, Trump Jr.'s grudging acknowledgment fills out an extraordinary, on-the-record picture of the U.S. president's financial entanglement and political deference toward Russia, one of America's oldest adversaries.
You can feel the crosscutting energies of that conflict at the wild heart of his greatest works, which are full of rage at punitive elders but also a grudging respect, because their restrictiveness is what forces the child's imagination to flower.
Voters are developing a grudging respect for the 72-year-old, less-than-fit Trump who each day weathers unprecedented vitriol and yet does not give up, in the Nietzschean sense of whatever does not kill him, seems to make him stronger. 7.
The coming together reflects growing, if grudging, acceptance of government oversight by the faithful, as the Vatican pushes for a reconciliation with Beijing and many of the older generation that had expressed staunch opposition to the party are either silenced or dead.
They should invest in you, with accurate and engaging headlines that lead to quality journalism, good use of media and a friendly UX, rather than trying to trick you into giving a single, grudging click (the Internet's equivalent of a one-night stand).
Conte sacked Siri at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, earning the applause of 5-Star leader Luigi Di Maio and the grudging acceptance of Salvini, who said the government would carry on with its agenda despite the friction over his close aide.
Volkswagen's response to its diesel emissions scandal has been grudging throughout — slowly announcing multiple recalls, running oblique ads — and now the Environmental Protection Agency is slamming the company with a lawsuit in part for its obstructive approach to cooperating with the agency.
In grudging deference to papal concerns, it is agreed that although the Greek-Catholic church emerged in strange historical circumstances, whose repetition would not be desirable, such "ecclesial communities" do have "the right to exist and meet the needs of the faithful".
The former First Lady was always more admired than loved by her party (a dirty secret that even the slickest Clinton-style stage-management of her rallies could not conceal), and her defeat by Donald Trump eroded much of that grudging regard.
She veers from instinctive revulsion ("to be humiliated in public then walk around smiling all the time") to grudging admiration for how a woman not unlike herself, overshadowed by a cheating spouse, has emerged as powerful, independent figure in her own right.
Mr. Gorbachev gives grudging respect to Mr. Yeltsin for intervening to stop the right-wing coup that sought to overthrow his presidency in 1991, but low marks for the rest of his chaotic tenure, which gave democracy a bad name in Russia.
But even among some of those who dislike Mr. McCabe, he earned their grudging respect when he stood up to Mr. Trump and defended the F.B.I. and Mr. Comey's tenure during a heated congressional hearing in May while he was acting director.
His Hobbesian take-no-prisoners approach to trade and foreign policy — sowing conflict with allies as well as rivals and foes — will threaten the underpinnings of global peace and prosperity, which still depends on a grudging acceptance of American economic and military power.
Happily, "Kids" has the feel of something steeped in Doyle's recollections but that's universal in many respects, owing a debt to shows like "The Wonder Years," where the parents' grudging affection masks deeper feelings that their generation wasn't inclined to openly share.
The Clintons' grudging, day-late, dollar-short concessions to the viewpoint that the foundation is an unacceptable conflict of interest prevent them from mounting a coherent argument in its favor while also failing to conform to modern ideas about proper political conduct.
There is an emerging consensus, they add, that the party has been too focused on winning national races and has not invested enough in local campaigns, along with a grudging admission that Republicans have done a better job of competing on the ground.
The end of The Magicians' previous episode featured the death of Penny (Arjun Gupta), the surly magician who had found love with Kady (Jade Tailor) and a grudging friendship with just about everybody else on the show, but especially protagonist Quentin (Jason Ralph).
Despite his grudging acknowledgment of Russian hacking, it is clear that the President-elect neither trusts, nor is trusted by, the very men and women whose jobs it will soon be to provide him with accurate and timely assessments of world politics and national security.
Says one grudging fan of Kalanick who didn't invest in Uber but still wishes he had: "I think most founders, if they built Uber and got fired as its CEO, it would be the greatest professional achievement of their career by several orders of magnitude."
Participation in the equities seven years after the start of the bull market remains grudging and shadowed by macroeconomic worry, and so investors have a strong preference for perceived safety and decent dividend yields — stocks that act somewhat like corporate bonds, in other words.
WASHINGTON — As his party splinters and his policy agenda faces peril, Speaker Paul D. Ryan will enter his meeting with Donald J. Trump on Thursday increasingly at odds with a growing, if grudging, Republican congressional majority willing to embrace Mr. Trump as their candidate.
"  "Reagan wasn't perfect—no president is—but he earned the grudging respect (and later even the votes) of many who did not originally support him, because he put his country before himself and tried to reason with, not viciously malign, those who disagreed with him.
By the time the show's first stasis ended and the episodes made their way across the Atlantic, sometime in the late 1990s, I had gone off to college, bringing with me a certain grudging patience for my own slobbiness, cowardice, obsequiousness, and self-obsession.
Under Ben Smith, a star political reporter at Politico before joining BuzzFeed as editor in chief, Mr. Kaczynski and a team of reporters aggressively covered the 2012 presidential race, elevating the company's reputation and drawing respect, some of it grudging, from established news organizations.
The Republican Party now finds itself in a situation remarkably similar to the one it was in last year with Mr. Trump: grudging acceptance of a nominee facing repeated allegations of inappropriate conduct with women because the conservative electorate shows no inclinations of walking away.
He ignored questions about the legislation at an unrelated event and instead relegated his comments to two written statements, one meant for Congress to describe caveats in his approval of the bill and the other issued to reporters to explain his grudging decision to sign.
The connection between these two lonely people, made up of necessity that becomes a kind of grudging love and then an expression of cruelty, suggests a national sadness, one that in 1963, when the musical is set, was just beginning to crack into upheaval.
He spent hours building the House's case by laying out the central themes and then delivering impassioned closing statements that drew grudging praise even from Republicans who disagreed — along with his share of criticism from those who said they were insulted by his sharp assertions.
The author could have made Bush's international AIDS initiative, which ultimately directed tens of billions of dollars abroad, into a grudging footnote, but he instead gives a full chapter to what he calls "an amazing achievement," perhaps the most lasting one of the Bush Presidency.
She's mighty reminiscent of The Force Awakens' Rey: a tough survivalist with endless mechanical aptitude, a grudging truce with the other indigenous scroungers, a weapon that's more or less a quarterstaff spangled with tech scraps, and a chip on her shoulder about the fate of her family.
Any support for a Labour government would be both grudging and on a case-by-case basis, particularly as the Liberal Democrat ranks have been bolstered by former Labour MPs such as Chuka Umunna, who partly left the party because they feared Mr Corbyn in Downing Street.
Clinton can be fiercely protective of her role and prerogatives — at times grudging in admitting error and, during Bill Clinton's presidency, blaming a "vast right-wing conspiracy" for allegations against her and her husband that began early in his tenure and continued on through the impeachment scandal.
When I won the prize for top marks in Spanish at the end of the year, there were grudging congratulations from boys who believed that I shouldn't even have won—compared to their five or even 13 years, I'd barely been at the school for a year.
It's also difficult to overstate how important the possibility of multiple Supreme Court openings was to the grudging acceptance of Trump's candidacy by a Republican establishment that worried, at least initially, that his nomination could destroy their party for years (and maybe even decades) to come.
Both the grudging respect of a political opponent of democracy and the inspired rhetoric of its champion reveal that Athens had created a network of common interests among its citizens and with its allies, all of which it was able to manipulate to its own advantage.
Then of course there's Mr. Bloomberg, who responded to the beat-down by turning peevish and evasive, stumbling through grudging non-apologies for past misbehavior on matters of both policy (stop-and-frisk) and character (his reputedly sexist and demeaning treatment of women who worked for him).
It seemed grudging and annoyed, looking down without seeing, stranded somehow way up in the black, where it was frustrated by something it couldn't understand but had to contend with nevertheless, a puzzling, incessant pressure that would not reduce either its constancy or its impenetrable, insolent obduracy.
This is a grudging and significant switch for Facebook, which until now has tried — for ideological, business, and legal reasons — to argue that the best way to deliver what its users want is to simply stand aside and let those users, plus algorithms, figure it out for themselves.
That may be why Berlin and Paris are abuzz with rumours of a looming grand bargain: German concessions on the euro, and perhaps slightly less grudging support for Mr Macron's military plans, in exchange for French agreement that the EU can negotiate with America before the tariffs are lifted.
The auto industry's slow, somewhat grudging acceptance of government policy on renewable fuels and bumper car sales will ultimately challenge the petroleum industry's concept of a "blend wall" - a 20013 percent saturation point for ethanol in motor fuel if there is no overhaul in vehicles and at the pump.
Surprised at the amount of detailed policy Labour had prepared, some in May's campaign team also expressed a grudging admiration for Labour's strategy, which they said had managed to speak to many of those who voted for Brexit last June - just the electorate that the Conservatives wanted to target.
Mr. Biden's awkward and at times grudging responses to questions about the hearings illustrate a larger dilemma for his campaign: He and his advisers have wrestled for months with the question of how to address Democratic concerns about his record without transforming his candidacy into a protracted apology tour.
The frieze at Aux Belles Poules — The Beautiful Hens — as the brothel at 32 Rue Blondel was called, is a unique survivor, protected by indifference, crude wooden boards, a Chinese emporium, a busy wholesale clothing business, and finally, in 1997, grudging admission to the adjunct historic monuments list.
Britain has every good reason to bring the White House round to at least a grudging recognition of the benefits of a continued alliance: if Trump really does want to see May as "his Maggie", he might accept the advice from her which he would scorn from any other European leader.
There are clear cultural touchpoints for most millennials who spent their childhood playing games—Zelda, Mario, Pokemon, illicit copies of GTA 3 bought by grudging adults—but Kopas does not set out to trace a universal "internet childhood," not least because back then the internet was a less predictable place.
There is unanimity in agreeing that it is better for City to win the league than Liverpool — "Fans of my generation know who we don't want to win the title," Chilton said — a feeling rooted largely in decades of hatred, but tinged, ever so slightly, with the most grudging respect.
While Americans may enjoy a good grifter story, those who game the lottery don't seem to inspire the same grudging admiration — perhaps because the odds are so long to begin with that for those who do play by the rules, it feels a lot more personal when someone profits by flouting them.
The WNBA has often been treated like something of a kid sister to the NBA—our very site published a piece in 2013 that struck somewhere between joking sexism and grudging respect for the actual athletes, and that tone has been pretty par for the course, if you'll excuse a different sports metaphor.
" JESSE GREEN Though he thought of himself as a composer first, or at any rate liked writing music more than lyrics, Sondheim served a grudging apprenticeship as the word man to three musical geniuses: Leonard Bernstein on "West Side Story," Jule Styne on "Gypsy" and Richard Rodgers on "Do I Hear a Waltz?
These are voters who dislike Trump but give him some grudging credit for the solid economy and the absence of new foreign wars, voters who don't support his policies but don't share the educated-liberal revulsion at his style, and voters whose reluctant support is contingent on Trumpian chaos seeming confined to Washington.
He went on instead to argue that culture and history are crucial factors in Jewish achievements and that, as he put it, &aposAt its best, the West can honor the principle of racial, religious and ethnic pluralism not as a grudging accommodation to strangers but as an affirmation of its own diverse identity.
Despite the show's Shakespearean overtones, "Succession" profiles what has been a common scenario among the privileged media class -- namely, a self-made patriarch (and it has almost always been men) who ostensibly wants to keep control of the company he built within the family, but who appears exceedingly grudging when it comes to relinquishing power.
He has hoisted a gutted cod in a fish market in the port town of Grimsby, weighed boxes of tea bags at a Tetley Tea factory in Eaglescliffe, in the northeast, and mopped a floor in the flood-damaged Derbyshire town of Matlock — drawing japes for his janitorial skills but grudging affection for the effort.
But after a hot, dry summer, a 2000-mile canoe trip to Fryeburg, Me., from Center Conway, N.H., this month was interrupted, time and again, by the scrape of boat on sandy riverbed, and the grudging acceptance that the only way to get the canoe across certain stretches of shallow river would be to drag it.
She is more adept here than in "NW" at mapping the inner lives of her heroines, though the radical sympathy she evinced for her characters in "White Teeth" and "On Beauty" has given way to a somewhat more grudging attitude — perhaps accounted for by the fact that the story is told from the narrator's decidedly subjective point of view.
Ross Douthat With Marco Rubio's grudging, painful statement this week that he intends to support "the nominee" (for many Republicans, He Who Must Not Be Named), and with Paul Ryan possibly contemplating assimilation, it's a good time to take one last look back at what I got wrong — oh, so very wrong — about the Republican Party's leadership in the age of Donald Trump.
It documented what Wallace called the "grudging move toward maybe acknowledging that this unromantic, unhip, clichéd A.A. thing — so unlikely and unpromising ... this goofy slapdash anarchic system of low-rent gatherings and corny slogans and saccharine grins and hideous coffee" might actually offer hope, in its simplicity and its slogans, in its church-basement coffee and its effusion of anonymous and unqualified love.
But as someone who has long been a devoted theatergoer (and can knowledgeably debate, for instance, the finer points of the Angela Lansbury versus Tyne Daly versus Bernadette Peters productions of "Gypsy"), I have a grudging admiration for someone who once had four shows running simultaneously on Broadway, tying a record that had been held by the legendary Rodgers and Hammerstein.
When Little Adventures in Hong Kong helps you decode the tome of a menu at a Cantonese restaurant — so "you don't repeat dishes with the same ingredients or cooking methods," said Daisann McLane, the company's founder — you may earn a grudging nod of approval from the waiter and a deeper understanding of the society in which these feasts are central.
But the crucial thing about Trump is that while he gives all appearances of being a catastrophic presidential candidate — not supported by either of his party's two living past presidents, endorsed by zero major newspaper editorial pages, routinely decried as a liar by mild-mannered, non-ideological campaign reporters, and enjoying only grudging backing from the GOP congressional leadership — he's not performing that badly.
Or, if he really wants to bring his formidable experience and skill to the task, he can clamber into the trenches and become a full participant in Britain's domestic political contest once more: joining the melee in such a way that he gradually remakes his public image, wins credit (however grudging) for re-engaging and builds the case for a change of course on Brexit, week-by-week, battle-by-battle.
After years of almost daily contact — Degas never took a day off, not Sundays or even Christmas — the artist seems to gain a grudging respect for his model, while she takes as much control of their relationship as she can, seeing through his bluster and strategizing over what she could say to him to lighten his mood or gain the upper hand in a dispute over working conditions.
Mostly, the average Austinite's relationship to SXSW is kind of a grudging Cold War—it's cool to complain about the traffic, it's cool to be annoyed at all of the people in the tech and music industries who showed up ten minutes ago to treat the city like a toilet, it's cool to laugh at them for waiting around in line for Austin's most mediocre food (yeah, bro, it's totally worth standing in line for fucking Torchy's Tacos).
Many seem to feel this way despite themselves: voters who have despised her Conservative Party all their lives, including, privately, a number of opposition Labour members of Parliament, admit to a grudging admiration for her calmness and stoicism in the face of extreme provocation — or if not that far, then at least empathy for the raw humiliation she's endured over the past two years combined with, on occasion, appreciation of her willingness to take responsibility while others fled.
Founder-worship and the devaluation of investors essentially means, as Bloomberg's Matt Levine wrote: The company is not a joint venture between the founder (who provides the vision and the work and the name) and the investors (who provide the money); the company belongs to the founder, and the investors are hired providers of a relatively low-value input (money), who can expect only a grudging economic share, not any sort of say in running the business.

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