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"jujitsu" Definitions
  1. a method developed in Japan of defending oneself without the use of weapons by using the strength and weight of an adversary to disable him.
  2. the use of an opponent's strengths or one's own weaknesses to accomplish one's goals: That was a kind of intellectual jujitsu, the way she handily won the debate.
  3. to turn (a situation) to one's advantage by exploiting one's own weaknesses or another's strengths, as in a social or political relationship: He deftly jujitsued the conversation to make my knowledge of the subject seem pretentious.

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His skills at political jujitsu "are remarkable," Mr. Reed concluded.
" Gi "I practice jujitsu; that's how I stay in shape.
It took some bureaucratic jujitsu to get this thing through.
I've been training in Japanese jujitsu for nearly five years.
Stevie Wonder was a paragon of musicality and awards show jujitsu.
Mr. Flanagan, 49, is a black-belt instructor of Brazilian jujitsu.
Still, he confessed a grudging admiration for Mr. Trump's political jujitsu.
Today, Flanagan is 49 and teaches youth jujitsu in the city.
This tempting bit of legal jujitsu might just do the trick. Eric
" He said the group included "bodybuilders and jujitsu fighters who were hired.
It also made sense to move onto MMA because of my jujitsu training.
" In a sublime moment of conversational jujitsu, Stephanie said, "She is … but is she?
Mr. White enrolled them in jujitsu lessons, and the three became regular sparring partners.
Since he started doing jujitsu, three years ago, Bourdain has lost thirty-five pounds.
Calling Fox News "the establishment" is both accurate and a clever bit of rhetorical jujitsu.
This rhetorical jujitsu is his way of evading responsibility for the abuses taking place there.
Jujitsu players have praised training with blindfolds to heighten focus on one's movements and positioning.
Then I usually do jujitsu for about an hour and a half, then I eat salmon.
Though she worked out regularly and competed in team jujitsu tournaments, she continued to gain weight.
It definitely gives him incentive to use whatever psychological jujitsu necessary to nudge and manipulate Trump.
Later, Morris would study jujitsu in Okazaki's class during the remainder of his stay in Hawaii.
Neutrinos come in three flavors, morphing from one flavor to another by means of some quantum jujitsu.
Between the demands of his day job, he'd hold jujitsu and boxing matches at the White House.
Now that Bourdain trains nearly every day in jujitsu, he tries to eat and drink more selectively.
But Kaepernick's video performed P.R. jujitsu — a triumph of guerrilla "indie" filmmaking over the league's studio product.
He rode like a rocker with his gristly, tendony, jujitsu-honed body lean in jeans and T-shirt.
But by using women, ISIS can perform something of a jujitsu move, using the enemy's force against him.
Whether Republicans could have gotten the Freedom Caucus on board for this jujitsu approach is an open question.
There, at the age of 19, he began studying jujitsu as a means of cultivating his physical health.
Applied rationality is more practical, like, 'What if you went to jujitsu in the evening, rather than at lunch?
"One of the great awesome things about jujitsu, is that we're completely offensive from the ground," Ms. Piazza said.
"Depending on the day of the week, we'll do boxing, Muay Thai, ground fighting and/or Brazilian jujitsu," says Glazer.
Instead she would instruct the women on jujitsu-style moves, including how to break free when an attacker grabs them.
But Nunes is a Brazilian jujitsu black belt, and also has a background in judo, where Rousey got her start.
Benita's parents described their daughter as a happy child who excelled in school and at playing the piano and performing jujitsu.
While talking with Raszap, I began by asking why, if he truly wanted to go, he often skipped the jujitsu class.
Have a gap in your work history because you traveled the world, played chess, took a specialized course or learned jujitsu?
"I've been training traditional Japanese jujitsu for nearly five years and hold a shodan black belt," he told the MMA blog.
On the second floor of a local athletic complex, we found a mirrored, padded room that served as a jujitsu gym.
I'm not particularly passionate about lowering the voting age to 16 or requiring police officers to get purple belts in jujitsu.
Violent groups like ISIS use jujitsu-style strategies, exploiting the reaction of their adversaries to their advantage when they attack Western targets.
Judge Jackson's court ruling described the Trump administration's defense of the orders as an attempt to do "verbal jujitsu" with the law.
He explained that he and some co-workers go to a Brazilian jujitsu class during lunch, usually once or twice a week.
I've also trained in other martial arts like pencak silat and Brazillian jujitsu, but the one that I've studied most is kung fu.
That's Trump, who managed another feat of media jujitsu after having dominated headlines before the debate with drama about whether he'd show up.
Mr. Ludke told an undercover F.B.I. agent that he had training in jujitsu and computers, which he believed would benefit the Islamic State.
The subpoena is the latest round of legal jujitsu between the Trump campaign and Zervos, who's represented by high-profile attorney Gloria Allred.
He can hit the ground anywhere in the world, from Kathmandu to Kiev, and find a gym where people train in Brazilian jujitsu.
During his Tuesday show, Carlson performed political jujitsu and held two of the president's principal Democratic adversaries responsible for exacerbated tensions with Iran.
They couldn't find the 50 required, a lower threshold created by some legislative jujitsu called "budget reconciliation," to unwind Obamacare despite months of trying.
Savvy Democrats should respond to Trump's hyperkinetic attack with jujitsu, using his own furious momentum to expose yet another example of his constitutional clumsiness.
Finally, his parents saved up enough money for him to learn Taekwondo which, as was the case with Jujitsu, he became a black belt in.
And when she hits the gym, she does mixed martial arts, including kickboxing, Muay Thai boxing and jujitsu, in addition to cardio and lifting weights.
"I've been so happy to be home and to be settled and I've just been sailing and skateboarding and golfing and [practicing] jujitsu," Young says.
"I stand in awe of the pharmaceutical industry's jujitsu magic to have gotten their prime antagonists to become the focus of the problem," said Sen.
"A buddy of mine in jujitsu has this—where you can see his six-pack, but he still has loose skin below it," Church says.
CROM Physical Culture offers Muay Thai kickboxing, jujitsu and CrossFit programs led by Chris Romulo, a World Kickboxing Association super-middleweight champion, and his wife, Sarah.
She sat cross-legged on a mat, wearing a black T-shirt that said, "In Jujitsu We Trust," and leggings that were decorated with cat faces.
When it's time to work out, she focuses on mixed martial arts — from kickboxing and Muay Thai boxing to jujitsu — as well as cardio and lifting weights.
In a masterstroke of jujitsu, you can use the power of the free press Trump attracts to highlight all the ways you think he'd be a disaster.
For Spicer, who vowed not to lie after a rocky performance Saturday where he made false claims about Trump's crowd size, it was a gymnastic verbal jujitsu.
It will teach you about the power of Socratic Jujitsu, or ways you can start asking questions — rather than arguing back — to persuade others to see your perspective.
Busia first tried martial arts after giving birth, hoping to lose some weight, but she soon became consumed by jujitsu, and induced Bourdain to take a private lesson.
Before the lunch break, Briana Twigg, a self-defense instructor, demonstrated some jujitsu moves, including one that she called the hitchhike, designed to shake off a grabby aggressor.
Sanders, in a bit of red-baiting jujitsu, threw back in Bloomberg's face the former mayor's own pro-China comments, which he similarly reiterated on stage when asked.
There's the tension between the subtle jujitsu of sanctions -- a policy tool that's most successful when it's not actually used -- and political demands for visible action against Russia.
I was pleased to work in entries like BEAR PIT, JAKARTA, JUJITSU, OOH LA LA, PROSPERO and SISYPHUS, and I think the puzzle is pretty clean over all.
He quickly introduced Bruce into his orbit of talented and progressively-minded colleagues, which included innovative jujitsu master Wally Jay and early American kenpo karate pioneer Ed Parker.
Lamont has competed in MMA, trained in boxing and jujitsu, and was the first woman in 15 years to gain a Taekwondo black belt classification at her gym.
Busia is also a jujitsu fanatic, and, when I contacted her, she suggested that we meet at the school where she and Bourdain train, not far from Penn Station.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, said that drug manufacturers had performed a remarkable act of "political jujitsu," shifting the blame for high drug prices to the middlemen.
Kelly Ayotte, on May 4, was among the first to employ some rhetorical jujitsu, as her own campaign said she planned to support the nominee, but not formally endorse him.
Actor Paul Kaye delivered the eulogy, recalling tales from Flint's years on the road and his love for motorbikes, animals and jujitsu, to name but a few of his passions.
It's all in a day of the life of Spencer Pratt – guess he has to fill the tea between his Zip Zinger espresso and post-jujitsu tequila on ice somehow!
In a kind of regulatory jujitsu, the bureau would cite Mulvaney's own decision to reconsider the Cordray rule as an excuse to stop the clock on the August 2019 implementation.
If he continues to progress in M.M.A. (where the fighters compete in a cage, utilizing a combination of boxing, wrestling, judo and jujitsu), life could take a more lucrative turn.
SoftBank is considering an IPO for its $100 billion Vision Fund, which would require some regulatory jujitsu to avoid U.S. regulatory prohibitions on non-accredited investors buying into alternative investment funds.
The brothers took private jujitsu lessons in the early 5003s, and at the end of each they were given the chance to try new moves in a dojo in Las Vegas.
The very fact of showing this footage in the spirit of "full disclosure" performs a jujitsu move with the weight of Emily's words, redirecting her attack to serve in the show's defense.
Any mention of Ottavia these days is likely to be focused on her passion for Brazilian jujitsu, which she progressed into after starting kickboxing to get fit again after Ariane was born.
The political jujitsu at work here is that cuts would be delivered a few years from now, with the blame falling on governors and state legislators rather than the president and Congress.
Shortly before the Olympics, Jason Lee, a jujitsu champion from New Zealand, said that he had been briefly kidnapped by police officers and forced to withdraw about $800 from his bank account.
Despite its flaws, I still can't really wrap my mind around the simple, stunning fact that the camera, with all its moving parts and software jujitsu, worked any time I clicked the shutter.
Dinesh D'Souza's "The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left" is a jujitsu exercise that argues that only Donald Trump's G.O.P. can "denazify" a U.S.A. in thrall to liberal totalitarianism.
Some M.M.A. fans, meanwhile, pointed out that the sport, which was brought to the United States by a Brazilian family that had studied jujitsu, is not only creative, but also more diverse than Hollywood.
Featuring sports like billiards, tug of war, water-skiing, jujitsu and "dance sports" — including salsa and rock 'n' roll divisions — the World Games take place every four years, a year after the Summer Games.
This is both a surprise and a relief, because I'd found myself apprehensive about "Full Frontal," whose ads in the subway joked, "Watch or You're Sexist"—a jujitsu joke with a glint of anxiety.
Unlike Vera, a heavyweight who bears a striking resemblance to the actor Vin Diesel, Lee has lightning speed that she uses to tackle opponents before forcing them to submit with her wrestling and jujitsu skills.
He once described his body as "gristly, tendony," as if it were an inferior cut of beef, and a recent devotion to Brazilian jujitsu has left his limbs and his torso laced with ropy muscles.
There were alumni of the N.F.L. and the N.H.L., a two-time Olympic gold medallist, a vegan superfoods hunter, a couple of M.D.s, and a jujitsu black belt who keeps the riffraff from Oahu's North Shore.
He grew up in extreme poverty in the city of Curitiba, Brazil, and his first foray into martial arts was learning Brazilian Jujitsu from other children in his area because he was too poor to take lessons.
While teaching her how to do jujitsu, he would allegedly have her sit in a position known as "mounting" – straddling him while sitting on his lap – which is "not the usual beginning position," the court records state.
That's what sets up the episode's thrilling bit of political jujitsu as Selina sidles up to each of her backstabbers one by one, letting them know just how badly she could hurt them if they disappoint her.
The European Union has used similar political jujitsu to restrict the entry of refugees, brokering a deal with Turkey in 2016 to bar asylum seekers from passing into Europe thereby successfully paying billions to keep refugees out.
When Chuck admits to kissing a woman from his jujitsu class while their marriage was on the rocks, Wendy cannot bring herself to disclose her one-night stand with the Elon Musk-type in the hotel room.
And he helped bring martial arts into the Hollywood mainstream, so that nearly every American action hero, from Jason Bourne to the Black Panther, now boasts elements of karate or jujitsu in their repertoire of ass-kicking skills.
Bruises, welts, cuts, a shiner around the left eye: It's bad enough that even though he has come out of the kink closet, he still has to pretend he has taken up jujitsu just to avoid further embarrassment.
In contrast, Dr. Scherer's miniature vacuum tube switches perform a jujitsu move by using the same mechanism that causes leakage in transistors — known by physicists as quantum tunneling — to switch on and off the flow of electrons without leakage.
Almost every thriller has a lead who's a master of jujitsu, but this one, in some of its finest scenes, actually traces Livia's slow acquisition of the art, the appeal of the power and surprising friendships it brings her.
She perfected that self-effacing jujitsu a long time ago, when she became so reviled in some corners of the food world that blogs were devoted to how much she was hated and Rachael Ray jokes became cultural currency.
It's something that requires neither lawyers nor money, highlights the hypocrisies of the NCAA system, is far less risky than a playing strike, and turns the overwhelming economic power of schools against them in a nifty bit of protest jujitsu.
John Carmack—co-creator of Doom, literal rocket scientist, and jujitsu expert—is leaving his position as chief technology officer at Facebook's virtual reality company Oculus so he can work on artificial general intelligence (AGI) at home with his son.
The bout was a farce, but in a way it was a precursor to the modern spectacle of mixed martial arts in which practitioners of boxing, wrestling, judo, jujitsu and other combat sports can mix it up under unified rules.
The fidget spinner is nothing but nervous energy rendered in plastic and steel, a perfect metaphor for the overscheduled, overstimulated children of today as they search for a way to unplug between jujitsu lessons, clarinet practice and Advanced Placement tutoring.
Bourdain had explained to me the complex protocols of jujitsu—describing how a blue belt can ask a white belt to spar, and a black belt can ask a blue belt, but a white belt can't ask a blue belt.
The subtle media jujitsu through which Hilton was turned into memeworthy content by Kim and Kanye this winter is part of a long trajectory of Hilton not controlling her celebrity, or understanding what is most interesting about her image to the public.
I think it&aposs a beautiful irony that the left wing media invented the phrase the fake news and the president has turned it around like jujitsu and he&aposs using it against them every day and they never learn their lesson.
He had always loved the kitchen because it was a tribe, and in jujitsu he had found another sweaty, gruelling activity with its own hierarchy and lingo, a vocabulary of signs and symbols that would be impossible for an outsider to understand.
But given Conway's laser-sharp smarts, alongside her boss's now notorious statements about women — correction: about our parts — it's obvious her accusations are part of her successful political jujitsu, a clever spin from an expert who knows how to throw her critics into a tizzy.
With the notable exceptions of Future and a few others, many of the major label Great Trap Hopes of the last few years have found themselves either floundering at retail, locked in inexplicable record label jujitsu, unceremoniously relegated back to the minors, or worse.
"He was already a fixture on the scene as 'the 21986-year-old drummer' who could get into all the clubs and hang with all the current punk gods," said Mr. Bourdain, whose daughters are now students of Mr. Flanagan's at the Brazilian jujitsu academy.
For Alexandra Munroe, the senior curator of Asian art at the Guggenheim, who put together his 2008 retrospective there, this role is a natural extension of the way Mr. Cai "leads a project and imbues it with a certain almost jujitsu-like spirit," she said.
At the time of his arrest, he was traveling to Japan, his former wife Malin Sandell told The Associated Press, for two weeks of jujitsu training — one of the few hobbies he indulged in outside of his all-consuming work as a code developer.
The audience is puzzled, then horrified, then delighted, and right before our eyes Tommy (James Franco) has to perform a tricky bit of emotional jujitsu, jettisoning his delusions and accepting that if the public loves his film, it's only because it is so terrible.
For example, Dejdamrong, 37, a three-time national champion with more than 200 victories in Muay Thai, had been in semiretirement as a kickboxing instructor in Singapore before he took an interest in jujitsu and started a new career as a mixed martial artist in 2014.
The New York Times reports that an athlete faced an ordeal similar to the one that Lochte and his teammates described: Shortly before the Olympics, Jason Lee, a jujitsu champion from New Zealand, said that he had been briefly kidnapped by police officers and forced to withdraw about $800 from his bank account.
A grand jury in Harris County, Texas, investigating whether Planned Parenthood officials broke the law by selling fetal body parts not only cleared the officials of wrongdoing, but also, in a stunning act of legal jujitsu, indicted two pro-life activists who created the video that led to the grand jury investigation in the first place.
The idea that fertility clinics should be allowed to end "life" in the pursuit of resolving infertility is wholly illogical; the notion that an in-custody stillbirth at 27 weeks is not a death, but that an abortion at six or eight weeks is a murder punishable by up to 99 years in prison, requires wild feats of mental jujitsu.
He spent the next twelve years of his life not just practicing jujitsu (of which he mastered three different styles), but any martial arts that he could seek out on the islands: kung fu with a 78-year-old Chinese master in Kohala, karate from an Okinawan, Fillipino knife fighting, western wrestling, and the native Hawaiian martial art of lua.
The Clinton campaign is trying its own political jujitsu with the hacks, arguing that they are more evidence that Mr. Trump is in the pocket of Mr. Putin, whom the Republican candidate has declined to denounce for his annexation of Crimea, his intimidation of former Soviet states that are now part of NATO, or for its abandonment last week of a nuclear arrangement with the United States.
Look, I get it: You and your student loans scratched and clawed your way to a position that pays well enough and doesn't make you totally miserable and perhaps even sounds a little impressive to your mom's friends, and now a stranger on the internet is telling you that you've been duped into believing that any of it matters, and that the real path to happiness involves macramé or jujitsu or intensive Torah study.

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