Mr. Trump's bombshells might have landed harder without reality TV inuring us to all that lady-hate.
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With it, we can better see the often euphemistic and inuring specialized vocabulary we have developed to talk about war's atrocities.
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It is also psychologically debilitating—breeding constant anxiety about the near future, and inuring people to daily traumas, of hunger or violence or addiction.
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Clinton hatred played itself out in the interminable Whitewater investigation, which uncovered some wrongdoing and questionable dealings while inuring much of the country to murky presidential scandals.
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It conscripted local bureaucrats, doctors, and teachers, often on pain of death, and devoted enormous effort to radicalizing a generation of children and inuring them to violence, suffering, and loss.
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We are inuring ourselves to the constant presence of guns and the belief that they are the solution because the real reason for our problems is too difficult to confront.
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The artists' gaze emphasizes how, in a situation of extreme violence, documentary photography (and film) becomes not a tool to investigate or clarify past events, but rather a victim of reality, magnifying our sense of confusion and estrangement and also psychologically normalizing it as reality and inuring us to it.
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Trump came under near-universal criticism from both sides of the aisle for refusing to rebuke white supremacists in the immediate aftermath of the Charlottesville attack, when a white supremacist rammed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters at a white nationalist rally, killing one woman and inuring at least dozen others.
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None of these groups dispute that Pérez has brought Real considerable success; Steven Mandis, author of "The Real Madrid Way," even argues that the stability brought about by Pérez's infallibility has been a root cause of that success, inuring Real to the uncertainty — experienced by Barcelona, for one — brought about by executive power shifts.
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To them, if a single Saudi prince bought a Trump steak with royal money on the first day of the presidency, then the Foreign Emoluments Clause was violated and continues to be violated daily with every steak, hotel room or golf club membership purchased by a foreign government which is inuring to the benefit to the President.
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On a show where the female creator had been fired for being "crazy" and "difficult," she developed methods of self-preservation, inuring herself to the indignities—such as an executive saying, as he listened to her pitch a sex scene, that he was "getting hard already," and her male colleagues telling her to take it as a compliment.
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De Medicina In his youth, after the assassination of his father Mithridates V in 120 BC, Mithridates is said to have lived in the wilderness for seven years, inuring himself to hardship. While there, and after his accession, he cultivated an immunity to poisons by regularly ingesting sub-lethal doses of the same.McGing, p. 43 He invented a complex "universal antidote" against poisoning; several versions are described in the literature.
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Provincial and local governments have arrested journalists and closed newspapers that report on matters perceived as socially offensive or critical of the government or military. Journalists also have been victims of violence and intimidation by various groups and individuals. In spite of these difficulties, the press publishes freely on other matters, although journalists often exercise self-restraint in their writing to avoid inuring the wrath of the government or military. In 2001, citizens participated in general elections, but those elections were criticized as deeply flawed by domestic and international observers.
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In July 1966, the IRS sent the CSC a letter stating that the IRS proposed to revoke the tax exemption on the grounds that the CSC's income was inuring to the benefit of Scientology practitioners, that CSC was engaged in commercial activities, and that CSC was serving the private interests of L. Ron Hubbard. On July 18, 1967, the IRS officially revoked the CSC's tax exemption with retroactive effect. The Founding Church's case against the government went before the US Court of Claims in July 1969, where it argued that it should be exempted from federal income tax as it was constituted "exclusively for religious purposes." Its argument was rejected,The Founding Church of Scientology v.
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This show portrays the story of the Desai family and their firangi bahu Camili. Featuring key social issues like alcoholism, cultural prejudice, abortion and modern Indian family values; the plot follows the couple from their romantic university days in London to the not-so-ideal reality of a multi-generational household in India, The Desai's. Core changes in Hindustani culture, like the rejection of family-arranged marriages and modern romantic ideas promoting love-matches, serve to highlight the real-life adaptation of cultural views regarding family happiness in a more global India. The tension between traditional and modern family values divides the family as the couple tries and eventually fails to obtain genuine family approval without inuring deep-seated prejudice, personal injury and social conflict.
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